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THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS.
THE CONGRESSES OF THE UNITED STATES.
L — XLV.
2:24618
COPTBIQHT, 1878,
Bt BEN: PERLEY TOORE.
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■ • ••• •• • * •• a • • • •
SUrtalyt*d and Printtd
Bf Rand, Avtry, &• Comfany,
iij Franklin SIrttI,
Bc*ton.
DEDICATED
HENRY B. ANTHONY,
EDITOR OF "TBE PROVtDSSCB JOORSAL,"
Ain>
UNITED-STATES • SENATOR PROM RHODE ISLAND,
WITH
%^t (Cratitttlie attn Zsteem
OF
THE COMPILER.
PREFACE.
The pnbKc favor with which the official " Ck>ngTessional Directory " has been received
since it has been under the editorial chaise of the Bubscriber prompted the preparation of
this work, which contains sLmilar authentic statistical information, with many other facts
concerning the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial branches of the Federal Government of
the United States, from its conception down to the present time. It is hoped that tliis mass
of political statistics, obtained from official sources, will not only be of interest to politicians,
but generally serviceable to all other citizens who may seek clear and accurate information
concerning the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial officials since the formation of our govern-
ment. A brief outline of what the work contains may facilitate its use.
Hie First Part is a series of registers of the different sessions of the Continental Con-
gress, and of the forty-flve successive Congresses since the adoption of the Federal Constitu-
tion. The register of each Congress contains a complete list of the Senators,- Representatives,
and Delegates who served in it, with their homo residences, and with the date of commence-
ment and termination of their respective terms when they did not serve throughout the
Congress. This information has never been given heretofore, as the lists of members pub-
lished in the journals and elsewhere contain only the names of those serving at the date of
their publication. It wUl enable any one interested in the congressional career of any mem-
ber to see at a glance who were his associates in either House during any session in which he
served, and it will also show who were in Congress when any law was placed on the statute-
book.
The Second Part is a record of the successive Administrations, with the prominent
Executive officials, fVom the organization of the Federal Government. It also contains a
carefully-prepared schedule of the duties of these officials, which can but be useM to all
desiring a knowledge of the practical operation of the Executive Departments and of their
respective Bureaus.
The Third Part is devoted to the Supreme Court of the United States, with its attendant
Marshals, Clerks, and Reporters, with the Judges of the Circuit and District Courts, and of
the Conrt of Claims.
The Fourth Part contains Statistical Sketches of the Delegates to the Continental Con-
gress, and of the Senators, Representatives, and Delegates who have been elected or appointed
to the Forty-five successive Congresses under the Federal Constitution. While the Republic
has preserved with commendable pride the histories of her martial defenders, it is well that
the memories and services of her legislators should also be honored and cherished. Posterity
should have accurate information concerning those who, " in Congress assembled," have
enacted the laws under which the United States have advanced from feeble infancy into the
vigor of maturity, and have sncoessfblly combated attacks from foreign and domestic foes.
VI
Preface.
The iulbrmation given has Ixien condensed into the smallest space coasi stent with placing'
on ri'i-onl in so methodical and clear a manner that all can understand and use it. Wheneir
it has been fKissihle to obtain the desired information concerning a Congressman, there
been given his name, his relationship to other legislators, the jilace and time of his birth,
education, his occupation, the public otfices which he ha.s held (with the dates of boW
tliem), his politics when elected or apiK>intcd to Congress, the name and politics of his oppo-
nent, and the vote received by each. Great care has been taken to jjerfect the political
feature of these Statistical Sketches, whicli has been studiously ignored by the compilers of
other biM^aphical dictionaries ; but comments and criticisms have been dispcnsinl with,
likelj' to encumber and vitiate a work designed to present for reference an autheivtic recoi]
of the public serNnces and the ixilitics of those who have sat in our Federal Councils.
Six years' labor has failed to produce a perfect work, and to obtain much desired infoi
mation concerning some Congressmen, while there has been a suix'rfluitj- of facts about othe
not easily compressed within the limited available space ; but the compiler trusts that he sti
not be charged with negligence in collecting material, nor with carelessness in arranging
The fact that works rcganlcd as authorities often differ in the sjK'Uing of names, the dates
birth, and other facts concerning many Congressmen, while not a wonl of information can
found anywhere concerning others, is a proof of the necessity for such a publication
this. The names of Congressmen have been si)ellc(l in the First Part as they appear
the Journals of the two Houses, although the orthography is not always the same in differ
sessions. There arc authenticated accounts of Congressmen who would not correct the
spelling of their names in the printed Public Docmnents ; and there was one Ucpresentati'^
who heard the tally-clerk give him .in initial which !iad never belonged to him, on every ;
call during a long session, without attempting to contnidict the mistake. In the Statistic
Sketches it is believed that the names have been correctly spelled.
The arrangement of the entire work being chronological and alphabetical, no index Is
necessary.
The compiler is under great obligations to many gentlemen for the kindness with whi^
they have res])onded to requests for information concerning themselves ; while others ocenpy^
ing otDcial positions have taken a degree of trouble in aiding researches, for which he
thanks make an inadequate return.
BEN: PERLEY
IiTDiAM Hii.1. Pabm, near NBWiirRn>OBT, Sept. 1, 1878.
THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS.
PLACE AND TIME OF SESSIONS.
lThfladelphia,Ponn.. from Sept. B, 1774, to Oct. 2fi, 1774
^l"-' ■' ■■'■■Ilia, Pcnii..from May 10, 177.'i,to l>cc. 12. 1770
. Mil from Dec. 30, I77t>, to Miircli 4, 1777
liii, Penn. .f mill Mar. 4, 1777, to S«|it. IS, 1777
J^aiiL.L-li r. Pcnu. . . .fruiii Supl. 27, 1777, to Scjit. 27, 1777
[ y.irk. Ponn. fniiii Sent. .10, 1777, tn .lunn 27. 177.S
I I'hiladeliiJiia, PooiL . f rom July 2, 177s, to .liiuu 21. iT.s:*
Princeton, N.J from Juno .TO, 1783, to Nov. 4, 17S3
Annapolis, M<1 from Nov. 2fi, 178.'!, to .luiie .t, 1784
Trenton, N..r frnra Nov. 1, 1784, to Due. 24, 1784
Now York City from .Inn. 11, 178.'>, to Nnv. 4, 1785
Nuw York City from Nov. 7, n.S.'i, to Nov. ;(, 178(1
Now York Cilv fnim Nov. ((, 178<;, to Opt. .'W, 17H7
New York City from Nov. fi, 1787, to Oct. 21, 1788
PRESIDENTS OF TIIE CONGRESS.
on Itjinilolpli of VirEinin eU'ctrd Sept. ."i, 1774
• Miihlli-tun of .S, Ciiriilina. . .elofteil Oct. 22, 1774
on Ilauilolpli ' of Virmuia . . . .clcctcil May 10, 177"i
!in Hrtiu-<Mk nf Ma.^.ini-liiMK-tt.s . .elected May 24, 177.1
Ijiiir<"ii« of 8. Carolina elected Nov. 1, 1777
- ' . w York elected Dec. 10, 1778
(ii rton of Conn elected .Sent. 28, 177!p
in of Delaware elected July 10, 1781
> Died Oct. S, ITn. ' Realgnod Mmjr 29, 1T86, neTor liBrlng nnred, owing to oouttnned UliK
.Tnhn Hanson of Maryland eloctod
Kliiw'* lliiudinnt of New .Jersey.. . .eleeted
Tliotna.s Mifllin of Ppnnsylvauia. .elected
ICiclianl Henry I^eo of Virginia clecte<l
,Iolin Hancock'' of Ma.t.<< elected
Nathaniel trorliani of Moiw eleeted
Arthur .St. Clair of I'enu«ylvanla.elected
Cynis t-iritliu of Virginia elected
Nov.
B.
1781
Nov.
4,
1782
Nov.
;t.
1783
Nov.
:m.
1784
Nov.
St.
1785
.fune
«,
178(t
feb.
1787
Jau.
2i.
1788
CLERK OF THE CONGRESS.
Chu-Ios Thomson of Pennsylvania elected Sept. 6, 1771
DELEGATES TO THE CONGRESS.
CONNECTICUT.
, Asdrow Adams 1777-'flO
L Andrew Adnnui 1781-'82
^J(»*pli P. Cook 17»4-'88
"■" il)eane 1774-'7ii
»l«t Djer 1774-'7»
■ ; Dyer 1780-'8,H
awards 1787-88
bworth. 1777-'84
llUhousc 17ai-'S<!
r Tittw Ilosmer 1775-'7i!
Titus Hunmor 1777-'7!»
Beujamiu Huntington 1780-'84
Benjamin nnntington 1787-'88
8amuel Huntington 177i»-'84
William S. .Fohuson 1784-'87
Richanl I.nw I778-'78
riii'lmnl I.OW 1781-84
Stephi^n M. Mitchell 178.1--84
.Slepliun M. Mitchell 178.V8<;
Steplieu M, Mitchell 1787-'88
Jes.to I toot 1778-'S.'l
Hogor Shennan 1774-'84
Joiwipli .Si)encer 177.S-'7U
Jodedlah Strong 1782-84
Jonathan Stnrges ITJt-'SfT
John Trend wen 178ft-'8<t
Joseph Truinhiill 1774-'75
Jnines Wndswnrth 178:(-'84
.lumes Wttdsworl h 1783-'8<«
.lereminh Wnd.sworth 1787-'88
Willi.'tin WilliniK.f I77l!-'78
Wllliiini Williams 17aV84
Oliver Wolcott 1 77r>-'78
OUverWolcott 1780-"84
C,nr.i.ii,... Ttp.lfnrd 17a3-'SS
rd, Jun 1785-'8«
a 177r>-'77
I'l.icni'.m 177!»-'8<l
nion l>irkin»on 17.S2-'8.1
I Kviiiis lT7(»-'77
.J Keiimcy 178r,-'88
[KleazcrMcComb 1783-'81
DELAWAHE.
Nntlinnlel Mit-'holl 17a(;-'88
Tliiimas McKean 1774-'7fi
Thomas McKean 1778-'8.T
John Pntt I in 1785-'.8(i
William I'eovy 17Hj-'.sii
George I!e!vl 1774-77
(".1'Biir Kodiiey I774-'7lI
Ca'Snr liodncy 1777-78
C.-csar Rodney 1782-'84
Thomas liiKluoy 178l-'83
Thiuuas liodney 178,')-'87
.lames Svkes . .' 1777-'7fl
James Tillon li8,V8.5
Nicholas Vnn Dyke. 1777-82
John Vinlnp 1784-'8(J
Samuel Wharton 17K3-'83
CONGBE8SIOKAL DIBBOTOBT.
Abraham Baldwin .l788i'88
Nathan Brownson .;,. 1W6-78
Archibald Bullock ■w\M7T5-'76
Joseph Clay ^•.. ."/jlTTS-'SO
WUliam Few *...•:•. .1780-'Hi
"William Few ; .*.• 1785-'as
"William Gibbons v -•.,»•. 1784-'8»>
Button Gwinnett..- 1776-'77
Eobert Aleiapder 1776-77
"William-Cannichael 1778-'80
CharfeT-CfaToU in6-78
DajHe'KC*ToU J780-'84
Jeremiah T. Chase 17a3-'84
Samuel Chase 1774-'78
, Sadinel Chase 1784-'85
'.Benjamin Contee 1787-88
•.James Forbes i ]778-'80
Uriah Forrest 178(i-'87
Eobert Goldsborough 1774-75
John HaU 1775-70
JohnHaU 1783-'84
John Hanson 1780-'83
GEORGIA.
John Habersham 1785-'86
Lyman Hall 1775-79
John Houston 1775-77
WilUam Houston 1784-'87
Richard Howley 178ft-'81
Noble Wiraberly Jones 1775-76
Noble Wimberly Jones 1781-83
Edward Langworthy 1777-79
MARYLAKD.
"William Harrison 1785-'87
"William Hemslay 1783-'84
John Henry 1778-'81
John Henry 1784-'87
"William Hindman 1784-'87
John E. Howanl 1787-"88
D. Jenifer of St. Thomas. ...177«-'82
Thomas Johnson 1774-77
Thomai Sim I.«e 1783-'84
Edward Lloyd 1783-'84
Luther Martin 1784-'85
James McHenry 1783-'8C
William Paca. 1774-79
George Plater 1778-'81
> Died Uaich 25, 178a
"WUliam Pierce 178R-'87
Edward Telfair. 1777-79
Edward Telfair. 17H(>-'83
George "Walton 1770-79
George "Walton 178ft-'81
Joseph Wood 1777-79
JohnJ. Zubly 1776-76
Richard Potts 1781-'R3
Nathaniel Ramsay 1785-'87
Richard Ridgely 1785-'86
John Rogers 1775-76
David Ross 1786-'87
Benjamin Rumsey 1776-78
Gustavus Scott 1784-'«3
Joshua Seney 1787-88
William Smith 1777-78
Thomas Stone 1773-79
Thomas Stone 1784-'86
Matthew Tilghman 1774-'77
Turbett Wright 1781-*82
John Adams 1774-' 78
Samuel Adams 1774-'82
Thomas Ctishing 1774-7(i
Francis Dana 1770-78
Francis Dana 1784-'84
Nathan Dane 1785-'«8
Elbridge Gerry 1776-'81
Elbridge Gerry 1783-'85
Nathaniel Gorbam 1782-'83
Nathaniel Goiham l78&-'87
Joslah Bartlett 1776-70
Jonathan Blanchard 1783-'84
Nathaniel Fulsom 1774-75
Nathaniel Folsom 1777-78
Nathaniel Folsom 177!)-'80
Abiel Foster 1783-'85
George Frost 1777-79
John Taylor Gibnan. . . . . . . .1783-'83
JohnBeatty 1783-'85
Elias Boudmot 1777-78
EUas Boudinot 1781-84
WilUam Burnett 1780-'81
Lambert Cad waUader 1784-'87
Abraham Clark 1776-'83
Abraham Clark 1787-88
Silas Condict 1781-'84
John Cooper 177G-76
Stephen Crane 1774r-7G
Elias Dayton. 1787-88
Samuel Dick 1783-'84
John Alsop 1774-76
Egbert Benson 1784-'85
Egbert Benson 178(J-'88
Simon Boenim 1774r-77
George Clinton 1775-77
Charles DoWitt 1783-'85
James Duane 1774-'84
William Duer 1777-78
William Flovd 1774-77
William Floyd 1778-'83
Leonanl Gansuvoort 1787-88
Alexander Hamilton 1782-'«3
Alexander Hamilton 1787-'88
John Haring 1774-75
MASSACHUSETTS.
John Hancock 1776-'80
John Hancock 1786-'86
Stephen Higginson 1782-'83
Samuel Helton .• 1778-'80
Samuel Holton 1783-'83
Samuel Holton 1784-'85
Samuel Holton 1786-'87
Jonathan Jackson 1782-'82
RufusKing 1784-'87
James LoreU 177&-'82
NE'W HAMPSHIRE,
Nicholas Gilman 178(V-'88
Jolin Langdon 1776-77
John Langdon 1786-'87
Woodbury Langdon 1779-'80
Samuel Livenuore 1780-'83
Samuel Livermore 1785-'8G
Pierce Long 1784-'86
Nathaniel Peabody 1779-'80
NEW JERSEY.
Jonathan Elmer 1776-78
Jonathan Klmer 1781-84
Jonathan Elmer 1787-88
.John Fell 1778-'80
Frederick Frclinghuysen. . .1778-7!)
Frederick Frolingluiysen. . .1782-'8.T
Thomas Henderson 1779-'80
John Hart 1774-76
Francis Hopkinson 1776-'77
Josiah Hornblower 1785-'86
William C. Houston 177!>-'82
William C. Houston 1784-'85
NEW YORK.
John Haring. 1785-'88
John Jay 1774-77
John Jay 1778-79
John Lansing. 1784-'88
.John Lawrence 1785-'87
Francis Lewis 1774-79
Philip Livingston 1774-78
Robert R. Livingston 1775-77
Robert R. Livingston 1779-'81
Walter Livingston 1784-'85
Isaac Low 1774-76
Ezra L'Hoinme<lieu 1779-'83
Ezra L'Hommedieu. 1787-88
Uouveiueur Morris 1777-80
John Lowell 178»-'83
Samuel Osgood 1780-'84
Samuel A. Otis 1787-88
Robert Treat Paine in4-78
George Partridge 1779-'82
George Partridge ]783-'86
Theodore Sedgwick 1785-'88
James Sullivan 1783-'82
George Thachor. 1787-'«7
ArtemasWard 178fr-'8X
John Sullivan 1774-75
.John SulUvan 1780-'81
JIatthew Thornton 1776-78
John Wentworth, jun. 1778-79
William Whipple 1776-79
Phillips White 1783-'83
Paine Wingate 1787-' 88
James Kinsey 1774-78
William Livingston. 1774-76
John Neilson 1778-79
James Scheurman 1786-'87
Nathaniel Scuddcr 1777-79
Jonathan D. Sergeant 1776-'77
Richanl Smith 1774-76
John Stevens 1784-'84
Archibald Stewart 1784-'85
Ricliard Stockton. 1776-'77
JoIinC. Symraes 1785-'86
John Witherspoon 1776-'83
Lewis Morris 1776-77
Alexander McDougall 1781-'82
Alexander McDougall 1784-'85
Ephraim I'aine 1784-'85
Zcplianiah Piatt 1784-'86
Philip Schuyler 1776-77
Philip Sclmy ler 1778-'81
John Morin Scott 1780-"83
Melaucthon Smith 1786-'88
Henry Wisner 1774-76
Abraham Yates, jun 1787-88
Peter W. Yates 1786-'8T
THE CONTINENTAIi CONGBB8S.
8
John B. Ashe 1787-88
Timothy Bloodworth 17«6-'87
William Blonnt 1783-'83
"William Blount. 178f;-'87
Thomas Burke. 1777-81
KobertBniton 1787-'88
Richaid Caswell 1774-76
William Commisg 1781-'84
Cornelius Harnett 1777-'80
Benjamin Hawkins. 1781-81
NORTH CABOLINA,
Benjamin Hawkins. 1786-'87
Joseph Howes 1774-'77
Joseph Hewes i 177i)-'79
WhitmiU HiU 1778-'81
William Hooper 1774-'77
Samuel Jolinaton 1780-'82
AUen Jones 177i>-'80
WiUie Jones 1780-'81
AhnerNash 1783-'84
AhnerNash* 1786-'86
I Died KoT. 10, 1779. * Died Deo. 2, 1788-
John Penn 1776-'76
JohnPenn 1777-'80
John Sitgreaves 1784-'86
Williamliharpe 177»-'82
Eichard D. Spaight 1783-'85
John Swan 1787-'88
John WUliams. 1778-'79
Hugh Williamson 1782-'85
Hugh WUUamnon 1787-'88
Alexander White 178ff-'88
Andrew Allen 1776-'76
John Armstrong 177l^'80
John Armstrong 1787-88
Samuel Atlce. 1778-'82
JohnBavaid 1785-'87
£dward Biddle 1774-'70
£dwardBiddle 177a-'79
William Bingham 1787-'88
Matthew CUrkson 1785-'8G
William Clingan 1777-'7!)
George Clymer 177G-'78
George Clymer 1780-'83
John Dickinson 1774-'76
Thomas Fitzsinmions 1783-'83
Benjamin Franklin .1775-'7e
Joseph G alio way 1774-'75
Joseph Gardner 17Sl-'85
Edward Hand 17M-'85
Jonathan Arnold 1782-'84
Feleg Arnold 1787-'8.0
John Collins 1778-'83
Ezekiel Cornell. 1780-'&3
WUliam Ellery 177(>-'81
William Elleiy. 178^'85
Thomas Bee 1780-'82
Richard Beres£onI 1783-'85
John Bull 1784-'87
Pierce Butler 1787-'88
William Henry Drayton i . .1778-79
Nicholas Eveleigh 1781-'82
Christopher Gadsden 1774-7«
John L. Gervais 1783-'83
Thomas Keyword, jnn. 1776-78
Daniel Hngor 1786-'88
Kchatd Hutaon. 1778-79
PENNSTLVAOTA.
William Henry 1784-'86
Charles Humphreys 1774-76
Jared Ingersoll 1780-'81
William Irvine 178G-'88
Dnvid Jackson 178r>-'8»5
Timothy Matlack. 1780-'81
James McCIene 177U-'80
Samuel Meredith 1787-'88
Thomas Mifflin 1774-7()
Thomas Mifflin 1782-'M
Charles Morris 1783-'84
Robert Morris 1776-78
Joseph Montgomery 1780-'84
John Morton 1774-77
Frederick A. MulUunherg . .1778-'80
Richard Peters 1782-'83
Charles Pettit 17a'5-'87
J. Read 1787-"88
KHODB ISLAND.
Jonathan J. Hazard 1787-'80
Stephen Hopkins 1774-'80
David Howell 1783-'85
James Manning 1785-'8G
Henry Marchant 1777-'80
Henry Marohant 1783-'84
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Ralph Izaid 178a-'83
Jolm Kean 178&-'87
Francis Kinloch 1780-'81
Henry Laurens 1777-80
Thomas Lynch 1774-76
Thomas Lynch, jnn 1776-77
John Matthews 1778-'82
Arthur Middleton 1776-78
Arthur Middleton 1781-83
Henry Middleton 1774-76
Isaac Motte 1780-'82
> Died Sept. 3, 1779.
Joseph Reed 1777-78
Samuel Rhodes 1774-76
Daniel Roberdeau 1777-'79
George Boas 1774-'77
Benjamin Rush 1776-'77
James Searle 1778-'80
William Shippen lT7fr-'80
James Smith 1776-'78
Jonathan B. Smith 1777-78
Thomas Smitli 1780-'83
Arthur St. Clair 1785-'87
George Taylor 1776-77
Thomas Willing 1775-76
James Willson 1775-78
James Willson 1782-83
James Willson 1786-'87
Henry Wynkoop. 1779-'83
Nathan Miller 1785-'86
Daniel Mowry 178()-'82
James M. Varnnm 1780-'82
James M. Vamum 178(i-'87
Samuel Ward 177^76
John Parker 1786-'88
Charles Pinckney 1777-78
Charles Pinckney. 1784-'87
David Ramsay. 1782-'84
David Ramsay 1786-'86
Jacob Read 1783-'86
Edward Rutledge 1774-77
John Rutledge. 1774-77
John Rutledge 1783-'83
PaulTiBpier 1777-78
Thomas T. Tncker 1787-88
ThomiM Adams 1778-'80
John Banister. 1778-70
Richard Bland 1774-75
Theodoric Bhknd 1780-'H3
Carter Braxton 177()-7(>
.Tobn Brown 1787-88
Edward Carrington. 1785-'86
William Fitzhugh 177!>-"80
WilUam Fleming 177f>-'81
William Grayson 1784-87
Cyras Griffln. 1778-'81
Cyrus Griffln. 1787-'88
BomnelHardyl 1783-'8B
Benjamin Hanlson 1774-78
VIRGINIA.
JohnHarrie 1777-'79
James Henry 1780-'81
Patrick Henry 1774-76
Thomas Jefferson 1775-'77
Thomas .Jefferson. 1783-'86
Joseph Jones 1777-78
Joseph Jones 1780-'83
Arthur Lee 1781-'»i
Francis Lightf oot Lee 1776-'80
Henry I^e 1785-'88
Richard Henry Lee 1774-'80
Richard Henry Leo 1784-"87
James Madison, jun 1780-'83
James Madison, ]un. 178G-'88
> Died Oct. 17, 1785. > Died Oot 23, 1776.
James Mercer 1779-'80
JohnP. Mercer 1782-'85
James Monroe. 1783-'8G
Thomas Nelson. 1776-'77
Thomas Nelson 1779-'80
Mann Page 1777-77
Edmund Pendleton. 1774-76
Edmund Randolph 177»-'82
Peyton Randolpfii 1774-75
Merewether Smith 1778-'82
George Washington 1774-76
George Wythe 1776-'77
OONOBBSSIONAL DIBBCTOBY.
THE FIRST CONGRESS.
First Setsion, from Marck 4, 1789, to Sept. 29, 1789. Second Session, from Jan. 4, 1790, to Aug. 12
1790. TTiird Session, from Dec. 6, 1790, to March 3, 1791.
Viee-Preitdent. — Joma Adaxb of Massachusetts. President of tin Senate pro tempore. — John IiAnoooxv qI
Kew Hampshire. Secretary of the Senate. — Samuix All ynb Oris of Massachusetts.
Speaker of the Bouse.— V. A. Muhlsnbebq of Fennsylvania. Clerk of the House.— Jobh BscKLEYof
Vligiiila.
CONNECTICUT.
8EKAT0BS.
Oliver Ellsworth.i | WUIiom S. Johnson.*
BEPRESHaJTATlVJES.
Benjamin Huntington. | Jonathan Stnrges. I Jeremiah Wadaworth.
^Bogei Sherman. I Jonathan TrumbnlL |
> Term expired March 8, 1781 ; re-appolnted. * B«algned In 1791.
DELAWAKE.
SENATOBS.
Bichard Bassett. | George Bead.*
BEPBESEKTATtVE.
John Vining.*
> IennexiiiradHansh3,1791; te-sppolnted. > Took hla seat May 0, 17W.
6E0BGIA.
SENATOBS.
'WUUam Few. | Jamee Oann.
BEPBE8EKTATIVE8.
Abialiam Baldwin.^ | James Jaokson.i | George Matthews.*
> Took bia seat April so, 1789. > Took Us seat Jane IT, 1789.
MARTLAND.
SENATOBS.
Chades CarrolLi | John Henry.
BEPBESENTATIVES.
Bayld Carrolt I Oeoige Gale. I 'William Smith. ,
Benjamin Contee. | Joshua Seney. | Michael Jenifer StoB*
* Tetmezplradlilaroh 3, 1791; re-appolnted. ' Took his seat Jane 8, 1789.
MASSACHUSETTS.
8ENAT0BS.
Tristram Dalton.* | Caleb Strong,
BEPBESENTATIVES.
• Theodore Sedgwick.*
George Thatcher.
Fisher Ames. I Jonathan Grout.
Elbridge Gerry. I Goorge Leonard.
Benjamin Gooohne, | Georgo Fiirtridge,
1 Took his seat AprU 14, 1789. > Took bis seat June 16, 1789.
THE PIBST OONGBBSS.
NEW EAHPSEIBE.
SENATOBS.
Jolm langdon.! | Taine Wingate.
BEPBESENTATITES.
Al>iel Fo6ter.< | Nicholas Gilman. | Samnel Ureimoie.
* zasetad Pnaldent of the Senate April S, 1T89, for tbe porpoie of opening end counting the rotes tot Fmldent and VIo^
freddent of the United StiOes. > Took his MM Aug. 14, im
Jonathan Elmer. I Philemon Dickinson.*
NEW JEBSEY.
8ENAT0BS.
WUiUm Fatteisoa *
REFBESENTATIVKS.
Ellas Boadinot. | Lambert Cadwalader. | Thomas Sinnlckson. | James Schuniman.
> Berigned In 1780, h«Tlng been elected Qorenior of New Jeney. > Elected in place of William Fattenoa, and took Us seat
UdCa Of 1790*
NEW TORE.
SENATOBS.
Bufos King. I Philip Schuyler.
BEPBESENTATIVES.
Bghcrt Benson. I John Hathom.i I Peter Sylvester.*
Willlua Floyd. | John Lawrence. | Jeremiah Van Bensselaer.*
> Took htanM Apia 23, ITSSl ' Took Ms seat April 22, 1789. • Took bla seat May 9, 1780.
NORTH CAROLINA-
SENATOBS.
Benjamin Hawkins. j Samuel Jehnston.
EEFRESEKTATITEa
John Baptist Ashai I John Sevier.* I Hugh Williamson.*
Timothy Bloodworth.* | JohnSteele.* |
> Took hla leat Uarah 2(, 1790. > Took his seat April 6, 1790. • Took hb seat June 16, 1790. * Took his seat April 19, 1790.
• I%okhlaautlfaiohl9,17g0.
PENNSYLVANIA.
SENATOBS.
WOliam Maclay. | Bobwt Morris.
BEFBESENTATITES. *
George CHymer. I Daniel Heister, I Thomas Scott
Th<nnaa Fitzsimona. Frederick AuKuatus Muhlenherg.! { Henry Wynkoop.
'Ttiwm.M Hartley. | Peter Muhlenberg. |
> Elected speaker April 1, 1780.
RHODE ISLAND.
SENATOBS.
Theodore Foster.i | Joseph Stanton, Jan.*
BEFBESENTATIVE.
Benjamin Bourne.*
* Tann ezplrad Haveh 8, 1791; tMwpointed; took hia seat Jane 2S. 1790. > Took his seat Jane 28, 1790. • Took Us seat
— K.~- Dec 17, 1790.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
SENATORS.
Pleroe Bntler. f Ralph Izaid.
BEPBESENTATIVES.
XdannsBnrke. I William Smith.1 I Thomas Tador Tacker.
Daniol fiogar. | Thomas Sumter.*
> Beetion onioooeaifally oonteated by Darld Bamsay. * Took Us seat Kay 2S, 1780.
OONGBESBIONAX DIRBCTORT.
VIBQINIA.
SENATOB&
Wniiam GToyetm.^
John Walker.*
Richard Heniy Lee.
James Monroe.*
Theodorlok Bland.^
John Brown.'
Isaac Coles.
William B. OUes.*
BEPEESENTATIVES.
Richard Bland Lee.
James Madison, jiin.
Andrew Moore.
John Page.
Josiah Parker.
Alexander White.
' Died In 1T90. > Appointed by ths eoTernor In place of WUliun OnyBon, deoeued. > Elected by the leatelstare fai
place of WllUam Onyson, ueceauied; took hla Beat Deo. 6, 1790; tenn expired Marah S, 1791; le-appolnted. * Died Jane 1.
1780. * Elected in place of Xheodorick Bland, deoeaaed.
THE SECOND CONGRESS.
First Session from Oct. 24, 1701, to May 8, 1792. Second Session from Nov. 5, 1792, to March 2, 1798.
Vke-PretUlent. —John Adaus of Massachusetts. PresideiUs of the Senate pro teropore. — Richabd BDsnbt
Lbs of Virginia, elected April 18, 1792. JoBX IiAITodon of New Hampshire, elected Kov. 6, 1792. Secretary
of the Senate. — Saitoel Ali-ykb Otis of Massachusetts.
Speaker of the House. — Jonathan Tbumbvix of Coanecticat. Clerk <if the Bouse. — Jobs 'Bsckisy of
Virginia.
COMIECTICUT,
SEKATOBS.
Oliyei Ellsworth. | Roger Sherman.^
BEPBESENTAT1VJS9.
James HUIhouse.
Amasa Learned.
Jonathan Stnrges.
Jonathan Trumbull.'
Jeremiah Wadaworth.
> Eleotod In plaoe of William S. Joluuon, resigned. > Elected speaker Oct M, ITOt
DELAWARE. .
8ENAX0B8.
Richard Bassett | George Read.
BEFBESENTATIVE.
John Vinlng.
Abraham Baldwin.
GEORGIA.
SEITATOBS.
William Few. | James Gnnn.
REPBESENTATIVES.
I John Milledge.i | Anthony Wayne.* |
Francis Willis.
> Hected In place of Anthony Wayne; took bin seat Nov. 22, 1792. > Election contested by James Jackson, and seat declared
by the House to be vacant March 21, 1782.
THE SECOND CONOBESS.
John Blown.
Chiistopber Greenup.
KENTUCKY.
SENATORS.
I
KEPBESEETTATirES.
John Edwards.
Alexander D. Orr.
Charles CarrolL^
John Henry.
MABTLAND.
SENATORS.
I
EEPEE8ENTATIVES.
WUliam Vans Murray.
WlUiain Pinkney.'
Joshua Seney.*
Bichaid Fott8.>
William Hindman.* I William Vans Murray. Upton Sheridine.
Philip Key. I WlUiam Pinkney.' Samuel Sterrltt.
John Francis Mercer.^ |
> Berigned In 1792. > Elected In place of Charles Carroll , reaisned ; took his seat Feb. 4, 1793. • Elected In plaoe of
Joi>bua Seney. resigned ; took bU seat Jan. 30, 1793. * Elected In {daee ol WUllam Ptnkney, resigned; took his seat Feb. 6,
ITU. • Resignedin 1791. • Bealgned In 1792.
George Cabot.
Fisher Ames.
Sheariashnb Boome.
Elbridge Geity.
MASSACHUSETTS.
SENATOB&
I
BEPKESENTATTVES.
Benjamin Goodhue.
Theodore Sedewlclc
George Thatcher.
Caleb Strong.
Artemas Ward.
John Longdon.i
Nicholas Gilman.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
SENAT0B8.
Paine Wingate.
EEPRESENTATIVES.
I Samuel lirermore. |
> Elected President pro tan. Nov. 0, 1792.
Jeremiah Smith.
Philemon Dickinson
Eliaa Boodinot
NEW JER8ET.
SENATOBS.
I
BEPBESENTATITES.
Abraham Clark. | Jonathan Dayton.
John Butherfoid.
I Aaron Kitohell.
Aaron Burr.
Hgbeit Benaon.
James Gordon.
NEW YORK.
SENATOBS.
I
SEPBESENTATTVES.
John Lawrence.
Cornelius C Schoonmaker.
BnfusKing.
Peter Sylvester.
Thomas Tredwell.
Benjamin Hawkins.
John BsTrtist Ashe.
William Bury Grove.
NORTH CAROLINA.
SENATOBS.
I
REPEESENTATrVES.
Nathaniel Alacon.
John Steele.
Samuel Johnston.
Hngh '^K^iamson.
PENNSYLVANIA.
SENATOR.
Robert Morris.
■'AntitaatKuwMju yfasexnsiz.
2ai.CE 2HUja
»p*r ■'■iiii»
tMi^rr Atm<«>>a. 'Viliam '•mini. '"^— ^ 'Hifi.i-
jjciaBii.3.
Bdi&iwi KeoTT'IdK.-
W.HUw ft '•«i«i.
THB THIBD OONOBE88.
THE THIRD CONGEESS.
f v«t Setnonfrom Dec. 2, 1793, to June 0, 1794. Second Session from Nov. 3, 1794, to March 8, 1795.
ViM-PreildeiU. — Joma Adams of Manaohnsetts. President of ihe Senate pro tempore. — Bai.pr Izabd of
Booth Carolina, elected Hay 31, ITM; Hbnbt Tazbwsix, elected Fob. 30, 1T05. Secretary of the Senate. —
BAinTXi. AiXTNB Otib of Massacliusetts.
Speaker of the Bnue. — Fbxdkbick AocroTUs HcHuufButo of PeniuylTania. derk of the Bau»e, — Jomr
' of Vliginia.
JoshoACoU.
James HiUhoiue.
tl/eamed.
CONNECTICUT.
BENATOBS.
Oliver EUswDtth. | Stephen Kix MitohelLi
KEFBESENTATTVES.
I Jeremiah Wadawortli.
Zephsniah Swift.
DnabTracT.
Jonathan TtumbuU.
ibTracT.
athan Ttu
'Beotedinplaioeof Boger Sherman, deceaa«d, in 171)3 ; took hla Mat Deo. 2, 1TS3.
DELAWAKE.
SENATOBS.
Henry Latimer.i | John Tinlng.
BEPBESENTATTVES.
Henry Latimer.*
I
John Patton.*
> Took his MM Feb. 98, 1795, In place of George Bead, resigned in 1793. > Took his seat Feb. 14, 17M. • Election snooea*.
fully contested by Heniy I«tlmer.
James Gonn.
Abrafaam Baldwin.
^ John Btown.
Christopher Greennp.
John Heniy.
Gabriel Christie.
George Dent.
Gabriel Dnraai
GEORGIA.
SENATOBS.
I
EEFEESENTATTVES.
I
KENTUCKY.
SENATOBS.
I
EEPEESENTATIVE3.
I
MAKTLAiro.
SENATOBS.
I
BEPRESENTATIVES.
TTriah Forrest.
■William Ilindman.
John Francis Mercer."
James Jackson.
Thomas P. Games.
John Edwards.
Alexander D. Orr.
Bichard Potts.
t Samuel Smith.
Tlioraaa Sprieg.
iVai "
William Vans Murray.
in plaoe of John Fiancis Mercer, resignod ; took bis seat Not. 11, 1791 > Beelgnod April 13, 1791.
^H' 10 ^^^^^^B DIRECTOBT. ^^^^^^^^H
^^^f XASSACnUSETTS.
^^H
^^^^P SEKATOKS.
^^^H
^^^^V George Cabot. ]
Caleb Strong. ^^H
^^V^ BEPRESENTATITES.
1
^^^1 Fisher Anicn.
^^^1 8)i0Hr;n.shub Doume.
^^B Dnviil Colib.
^^H Tolcg CuOin. jiin.
^^H Uoury Dearborn.
Samael Dexter, jiin.
Itwiplit Foster.
Ik-'iijuuiin (ioodhue.
Sftiniiel Holten.
William Lymun.
Tlicraloro Scdprlctl
(ieorge Tlintcliur. 1
Peleg Wadswurtb. 1
Anemas Ward. ■
^^^H NEW HAMPSHIRE.
J
^^^^1 SENATORS.
^^^^^P John langdon.
Samuel Livermore.1 ^^H
^^V BEFRF.SEVTATn'ES.
■
^^H Nicholas Gilmaa | Jolin S. Sherbnmo. | Jeremiah Smith. | Paine WingatC^^I
^^H > Elocled Pnwi<leiit;nv tern. Feb. 20, 1T9S,
but declined. ■
^^^ NEW JERSEY.
J
^^^^^ 8EMAT0B8.
H
^^^^^^M Frederick FrcUngliujiien. |
John Rutherford. ^^^
^^^^P REPRESENTATIVES.
■
^ John BoattT. Lnmiiert Cmlwalader.
^^■^ EliiM Boudinot. Abruluim Clark.^
Jonath.in PaylnB. 1
Aaron Kitthel.' 1
^^^^^ 1 Olsd In ITDL 'EleetedlDpliMeof Abrabuu Clark, doeeuod; took his Mat Jan. 2), 170S. M
^^^H' ' NEW YORK.
M
^^^^H SENATORS.
S
^^^^^^B Aaron Burr Now York. |
Bu/us King. ^^1
^ REPRESENTATIVES.
n
^^H Tliemloms Ilailoy.
^^H Peter Van Ga)i«tjeck.
^H Kzekiel Oilb<!rt.
^^H Jamea Gordon.
^^^B > ElOOtlOD
Hpnrv Olonn.
Silas Talbot.
Thomas Tnidncll.
John E. Van A lien. 1
unsucoeMf ally conUioUid by Henry K. Van
Philip Van CorUonM
Julm Watts. ■
Bennelaer. 1
^H NORTH CAROT.mA.
m
^^H SENATORS.
H
^^M Benjamin Hawkins. |
Alexander Martin. ^^M
^^M REPRESENTATIVES.
■
^^H Thomna Binuiit.
^^^1 AVilliitiii .liiliimton DawBon.
^^^1 Janies Gillespie.
^H William Barry Grove.
Mattlicw Locke.
Nnthani<'l Macon.
Joseph Jk'Dowell.
AJuxandor Mebane.
Benjamin WmiSl
^^b PENNSYLVANIA.
m
^^F^ SENATORS.
■
^^B Albert Gallatin.!
^^H Robert Morris.
James Ross.' ^^H
^^H RETRKSENTATIVES.
V
^^H James Armstrong.
^^1 ^VUIiam Kindle.r.
^^H Thomas Fit/.iiinonB.
^^^1 Andrew Crc^e.
^^H Thomua Uanlcy.
^^m > ElecUon declared void Feb. 2t
Daniel Heister.
William Irvine.
Joim Wilkt's Kittora.
William Montgomery.
Frederick Au^ustua Muhlenberg.*
1, ITM. • Took Uis scat April U, t7H.
Peter Ktuhlcnbor^ ^
Thomas Srott. 1
John Smilie. 1
> Elected speaker Doe. 2, ITgS. ^H
^H RHODE ISLAND.
■
^^B SENATORS.
^^P William Bradford. I
Theodore Foster. i^^H
^H REPRESENTATIVES.
■
^^B Benjamin Bonme. I
Francis Malbc^H
J
THE THIBD OONOBESS.
11
Fierce Butler.
Iiemnel Benton. I
Alexander GUlon.* I
Bofaert Goodloe Harjier.* |
1 Hasted Fmldent^n) lem. Utj 31, vm.
SOUTH CAKOLDTA.
BENATOBS.
I
SKPBESENTATIVKS.
John Hunter.
Andrew Pickens.
'William Smith.
Balphlzard.^
Bichard "Wjan.
> Died In ITM. * Elected In place of Alexander amon, deeeaaed; took his
•eat Feb. e, 1795.
Stephen B. Bradley.
Kathanlel MUee.
VERMONT.
BEirATOBS.
I
BEPBEgENTAIITBS.
I
Moaea Botiinson.
Israel Smith.
James Monroe.
John Taylor.i
laaac Coles.
Thomas Claiborne.
-William B. Giles.
Samuel OrlfHn.
Geon^ Hancock.
Carter B. Harrison.
John Heath.
t BMlgned ia IIM.
VIRGINIA.
SEKAXOBS.
BEPBESEMTATtVES.
Bichard Bland Lee.
James Madison.
Andrew Moore.
Joseph NerUle.
Anthony New.
John Nicholas.
JohnBage.
Henry Tazewell.*
Josiah Parker.
Francis Preston.*
Bobert Rutherford.
Abraham Venable.
Francis Walker.
' Elected In place of John Taylor, resigned : took hb seat Dee. 29, ITM ; eleeted Fieaident jnv tem.
S^b. 2D, ITIK). > Electtoo DnsuooeiBf ully contested by Abiam Trigg.
TERRITORY SOUTH OF THE OHIO RIVER.
DELBQATE.
James White.!
> Took his seat Not. 18, ITM.
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CWNGBBSSIONAL DIBEOTOBT.
THE POURTE CONGRESS.
Pint SesHon, from. Dec. 7, 1795, to June 1, 1796. Second Session, from Dee. 6, 1796, to March 3, 1797.
Vice-President. — John Adahs of Massacbasetts. Presidents of the Senate pro tempore. — Samuel IjIVKRIIOKI
of New Hampshire, elected May G, 1796; Wiljjah Uinoqax of Pennsylvania, elected Feb. 16, 1797. Secretary
of Vie Senate. — Bauuei. Ai.lykk Otis of Massachusetts.
Speaker of the Zbuse.— Jonathax DArroir of New Jersey. Clerk of the Btnae.— Jobs Bbcklbt of Vto-
ginia.
CONNECTICUT.
SEKATOBS.
OU-rer Ellsworth.!
James lilllhouae,'
TTriah Tracv.*
Jonathan Xrumbnll.*
Joshna Colt. -
Samuel Whittlesey Dana.*
James Davenport'
Chauncey Goodrich.
Bogor (iriswold.
James Hillhouse.'
BEPRESENTATITES.
Nathaniel Smith.
Zephaniah Swift.
Urtah Tracy.*
> Beslgned in 179C. > Elonted In placo of Oliver Ellgworth, rexlirned ; took bis sent Dec t, 1706. ■ Elected in plaee at
Jonathan TnunbuILrealgned; took his seat 1)00.6, ITOe. « Iteslipieil In 1796. ■ Elected in plitco of Uriah Tncy; took Us
■eat Jan. S, 1797. • Eleoted in place of James UUlhouae; took bis scat Deo. B, 1796. * Elected senator. • • Blacted
senator.
DELAWARE.
SEKATOKS.
Heniy Latimer. | John Vinlng.
BEFBESEKTATIVE.
John Patton.
James Onnn.
James Jackson.*
Abraham Baldwin.
iBedsDedinl79l).
GEORGIA.
SEITATOBS.
I
BEPBESBNTATIVES.
Josiah Tattnall.'
George Walton.*
* Electedin place of James Jackson, nslcned : took Us teat ApiH 12, 1796.
James Jaokson, leslgned; took bis goat Dea 18, 179B.
John Maiedge.
• Appointed in place ot
John Brown.
ChriBtopher Greennp.
KENTUCKT.
SENATOBS.
I
BEPBESENTATIVES.
Humphrey 1Vlar«hall.
A1a»»ndnr D. On.
MARYLAND.
SENATOBS.
I Blchord Potts.*
> Eleoted In place of BicbaidFotts, resigned; took his seat Dee. 27, 1796. • BeslsnedlnlTSe.
John Henry.
John Eager Howard.!
THB FOXTRTH C0N6EESS.
la
jGnfy
>■^ rhristie.
' riilk.»
.• Lit-nt.
REPllKSENTATIVES.
ttnbripl r>nvall.»
ArV'illiitiM Hinilruan.
SiimiK'l SiiiiMi,
KIcliiiril Sjirigg, jiin.*
Thomas Sprigi;.*
William Vuun Murray.
It<9iiniF<] In 1796. « Elootwl In nliiee or .Jcroiiilnh Crati(>. n.-i(rn«l; look liU «eat Do«. B, 1706. • RckIkticiI Marcli 28,
), .1 ;..'. h...',i |ipno|nie«l jnili^ of Uiu Suprenw Court of Miio'IaiiiL * Eloctotl lu pU(M) of Uabrlol DuvoU, rcsignud : look
Je. < Xbok lib seal Fob, 7, 1707.
MASSACHUSETTS.
ullmry.
1 ■ ra.
Tathauiel Freeman, jua.
BENATOBS.
Oeorgo CaJmt.i
Bvnjumiu Goodhue.*
Thooiloro R«(lgwiok.*
Caleb StroDj;.*
BEFRESENTATIVES.
Bciijiiraiii noixlhue.
(!iM)r"„'<" IxHinniil.
Haniiii^l J^viimii.
William ^.ymaii.
Johu Itcod.
Tlieodorp Seilgwlrk.'
TlioiiiMnii .1. Skiuiier.'
G<!<)r(fu TIiukMkt.
Joiii^pli 11. V»riiiim.'
Peleg Wudaworth.
f G«)ivo Calx't. rofslgnoil; tn<>k hU »*^t Poc. 6| 1790. • Eloclod in ninro of
• Ktv.l|ni-il In 17m;. » KlcotuJuvnator. • lUMtedbiidawot 'Jlxxxloro
:iuu uiuucet^Mfully cuiiUetoil.
I'Foster.
KEW HAMPSirmE.
8ENAT0HS.
John liSngdon. |
KEPKE.SENTATrVE.S.
I Nioboloa Gilm:iii. | John T. Sherburne. | Jeremiah Sniith.
> Elected pmidioitpra tan. May t, I70G.
Somuel Livormote.*
NEW JERSEY.
SENATORS.
Fredpriok Fri'linghnysen.'
John Uuthorford.
Richard Stockton.'
Jonathan Das-ton. '
I UenderiKia.
EKPKESENTATTVES.
Aamn Kifchell.
Isaac Smith.
Mark ThonipBon.
I BoriBned in 1T9G. ' Eluoted In pbwo of Frudeilck rrrUnglmyrcn, resigned ; look hbi seat Doo. 6, 1796. • Eloctod «pealMr
Deo. 7, >7I)3.
Aaron Ilurr. . .
Rufug Iviiig.i
NEW YORK.
SENATORS.
.New York. I
KKPRESENTATIVES.
•Tohn Hnthom.
Jonathan N. Harens.
Edward lyivingston.
John K. Van Allen.
John liOTrrenco.*
Philip Van Oirtlaiidt.
Jolm \Villinma.
lB«fle7.
ioot>er.
Gilbert.
[Henry Olou.
' < Boalgnetl In 1790, luring been appointed mtnlstui tu Enelaml. < Elected In place of Rufua King, nwigned; took bla aeat
l>oa. », 1700.
NORTH CAROLINA.
BENATOBS.
Timothy Bloodworth. | AJexaudor Martin.
REPRESENTATIVES.
L Jtaae i'ruuklin.
.Tamtw r.illespio.
William U. (inivo.
Jamos Holland.
Muttliew Loi'ke.
Nnthaniel Mnrnn.
William .S( rudwick.l
Absalom Tatom.'
> Kleetad In plaoo of Absalom Tatoni, rusignol ; took hia aeat Doe. 13, 1790. • Beeigned In 1790.
PENNSYLVANIA.
SENATORS.
William Blngliam.1 I James Bom.
> Elected preaident pro Urn. Feb. 10, 1797.
14
CONGBBSSIONAL DmECTOBT.
David Raid.
George Ege.i
William Findley.
Albert Gallatin.
Andrew Gregg.
KEPBESENTATlViCS.
Thomas Hartley.
Daniel Heister.*
John Wilkes Kittera.
Samnel Maclay.
Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg.
John Bichaids.*
Samuel Sitgreaves.
John Swauwick.
Bichard Thomas.
> Electedin place of Daniel Heldter, mtgrned; took hliaeat Dec. 8, 1706. > Resigned In 179S. > Sncoeaifiilly contested t
electkni of James lloirl*, who had leoelTcd certificate ; took his seat Jan. IB, 1796.
Benjamin Bourne.^
> Beslgned In 1796.
RHODE ISLAm>.
SENATOBS.
William Bradford. | Theodore Foster.
SEFBESENTATIVKS.
I Francis Malbone. | Elisha B. Fottar.*
> Elected in place of Benjamin Bourne, resigned; took hia seat Deo. 19, 1798.
Pierce Butler.i
John Hunter.*
Lemuel Benton.
Samuel Earle.
SOUTH CAKOLINA.
SENATOBS.
I
BErRE.SENTATIVE3.
Wade Hampton.
Bobert Gooaloe Harper.
Jacob Bead.
William Smith.
Bichard Wynn.
I Berigned In 1796. > Elected In place of Pierce Butler, resigned; took bis teat Jan. 27, 17IIT.
TENNESSEE.
SEKAXOBS.
William Blonnt.i | William Cocke.*
BEFBESENTATIVES.
Andrew Jackson.*
'Took Us seat Deo. 5, lT9e. > Todc his seat Deo. S, 1790. ' Took his seat Deo. S, 1T9&
VERMONT.
SENATOBS.
Elijah Faine.
Moses Bobin8on.t
Isaac Tichenor.*
BEFBESENTATITBS.
Daniel Buck.
Israel Smith.*
> Besigned in 1T96. > Elected in place of Hoses Boblnson, resigned; took his seat Dec 6, 1796. • Election I
fully contested by Matthew Lyon.
VIRGINIA.
SENATOBS.
Stevens Thomson Mason.
Henry Tazowell.i
Bichard Bront.
Samuel J. OalMlI.
Thomas Claiborne.
John Clopton.i
Isaac Coles.
William B. GUes.
George Hancock.
EEPEESENTATITES.
Carter B. Harrison.
John Heath.
George Jackson.
James Madison.
Andrew Moore.
Anthony New.
John Nicholas.
John Page.
Josiah Parker.
Francis Preston.
Bobert Rutherford.
Abraham Venable.
> Elected president ;»v tern. Deo. T, 1795. ' Election onsacoetsfolly oontested by Borwell Baasett.
THB FIFTH CONG BBSS.
ib
THE riFTH CONGRESS.
I
Firtt Sesnon,/rvat May 15, 1797, lo July 10, 1797. Second Se.ision, from Noo. 13, 1797, to July 10, 1708.
Third Se.tsion,/r«m Dec. 3, 1798, lo March 3, 1799.
Vtoe-Presidenl . — Tuomas jKrmusos of Virginia. Prmidentu nf the Srmntt pro imi/jorr. — William Rkad-
VORD of Rbixle Inland, elected July 0, 17W; .Iacoh Read dI South Oruliun, elected Nov. 22, 17'.I7; TiiKnixiuB
MtxfWKK of MosKU-busetts, elected June 27, IT'.W; Jons Lawrentk of New York, elected Dec. (J, 1*118; .Iameh
of I'enasyh-Biua, oleirted March 1, 17^19. Secretary of lite Seivate. — Samitel Allvitb Otis of Mjusa-
oselts.
Sprtiier of the Hotae. — Jowatitan Dayton of Now .Jersey. SiM-nkrr n/ the Unimc pro titnimre. — Geobob
iKKT of Mitrjrland, elected April 20, lTi)8; and again elected, May 28, 17iW. Clerk q/ tlm Uuuk. — Jovktoax
ni.uin Coirur of Pennaylrania.
Jiunoa Hillliouse.
I John .\Ilen.
I Jiinullioii llrace.i
[ vIosJiuu C-oit.'^
COXNECTICUT.
8ENAT0B3.
REPRE-SENTATrVES.
SntniicI W. Dnna.
.lames Davenport.'
Willioni Edraond.*
Uriah Tracy.
Chaunccy Proodrich.
IloRcr (iriswolil.*
Nathaniel .Smith.
• KloPt^t in f.l''^ "f .Tmhim Coil. •lr....i».«l ; Uwk lil« *oat I)iw. 3, ITW. • I>li'<l In ITot. " Died In 1797. « Elootod In
[ ^laMi of .Iaiii«.» l»:iv.M<iKjrl. ilL'^'fiiisfti; l4.«»k his »t.itt Nov. li, 1TV7. * (JiisucotfHsful niulJon nioda to oxpol after hli perMJual
' •nevuultfr wilii MjUlliuw Lyon of V<.'Xinfint, Kub. Iff, ITtlK.
DELAWARE.
SENAXOBS.
I
RErnESENTATn'E.
John A. Bayard.
> Eloetod In place of Johu Vlnlng, rralenod; took hl« M»t Vo\>. 19, i;'.)S; died In ITW. * Bealgned In 1706. * Eloetod in
pUco o( Jookaii Clii)'i<>u, decoBMNl ; took hia aoal Fob. 4, 17W.
Jo«him Clayton.*
Henry Luti'iuer.
John VinlnR.*
William Ilill Wells.*
James Gaon.
Abraham EEoldwin.
John Brown.
Thomaa T. Davis.
John Henry.'
John E. Howard.
GEOnOIA.
SENATOnS.
I
EErRESENTATIVES.
I
KEKTUCKY.
SENATORS.
I
REI'RESENTATIVES.
I
MARYLAKD.
SENATORS.
Josioh TattnalL
John MtUedge.
Humphrey MarshalL
John Fowler.
I Juinos Lloyd.*
In 1797, baving btxui uleetod govomor. ' Elcotod in pliico of John Henry, rcaignwl; took Ub Boot Jan. II, 1708.
16
CONGBESSIONAI. DIBECIOBr.
George Baer, inn.
William Craik.
Jobn Dennis.
BEPBESENTATiVES.
Geoige Dent.
William Hindman.
William Matthews.
Samnel Smith.
Bichaid Sprigg, Jan.
Benjamin Goodhae.
Bailey BartleU.i
Theophilua Bradbury.'
% Stephen Bullock.
Dwlglit Foster.
Natminlel Freeman, jon.
i Elected president pro tern. June 27> 1798.
MASSACHUSETTS.
aZNATOBS.
I
BEPBESENTATIVES.
Samuel Lyman.
HarriB(m Gray Otis.
Isaac Parker.
John Reed.
Samuel Sewall.
Theodore Sedgwick. >
William Sbepard.
Thompson J. Skinner.
Geuree Thatcher.
Joseph Bradley Vamnm.
Peleg Wadsworth.
> Elected in plnce of TheophOus Biadborr, resigned: took his seat Kor. ST, ITVT.
'BealguedlnlTilT.
John Langdon.
Ahiel Foster.
Jonathan Freeman.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
SENATOES.
Samuel LiTermore.
BEPBESENTATIVES.
William Gordon.
Jeremiah Smith.^
Peleg Sprague.*
> Beslgned in 1797. * Elected in place of Jeremiah Smith, resigned; took lUa seat Deo. 15, 179T.
Franklin DaTonport.i
John liutherforu.>
NEW JERSEY.
SEKATOBS.
BEPBESENTATIVES.
James Schureman.
Thomas Sinuicksou.
lUchanl Stockton.
Jonathan Dayton.* I
James H. Imlay. |
1 Appointed in idaoe of John Buthsrtoid, resigned; took bis seat Deo. 19, 179S.
May IS, 1797.
I Mark Thompson.
> Beslgned In 1798. ■ EleotiBd spaakar
John Sloss Hobart.i
John Lawrence.*
William North.*
NEW YORK.
SENATOBS.
PhUlp Schuyler.*
James Watson.*
David Brooks.
James Cochran.
Lucas Elmendorph.
Henry Glen.
BEPBESENTATIVES.
Jonathan N. Havens.
Hezekiah L. Hosmor.
Edward Livingstun.
John E. Van Allen.
Philip Van Cortlandt.
John Williams.
Uobart, resigned; took Ills seat Dec. 11, 1798.
'Inted
plaoe
Sloss
Thomas Blount.
Natlian Bryan.i
Demsey Burgcs.
James Gillespie.
Timothy Bloodworth.
NORTH CAROLINA.
SENATOES.
I
BEPBESENTATIVES.
William Barry Grove.
Matthew Ixicke.
Nathaniel Macon.
Joseph McDowell.
Alexander Martin.
Richard Dobhs Sj
Ricliard Stanfo;
Rol)ert Williams.
> Died Jane 4, 1798. * Elected in place of Matliaii Biyan, deceased ; took his seat Doc. 10, 1798.
THE FIFTU CONGBE88.
17
WillUm Bingham.
ird.
■■.wn.=
......vOl.
PEKNSTLVANIA.
SKNATOKS.
I
EKPRESENTATIVES.
Anilrew flreije.
John Anrlni Hanna.
Thiiiniux ITiirllfy.
Joseph JIti.itor.*
John Wilkos Kittero.
Blair M'Clenaehun.
James Roes.'
Sarauol Ritffreave*.*
John Swaiivviclt.*
Kirliarfl Thomas.
Bobert Wain.'
Elected praslileot pro tern. Mardi 1,-1797. ■ ElfcUxl In |>lno« of Samuel SltareaTM, resigned ; took Us seat Deo. 4. ITW.
• Elected In place of Geoi;ge E(t", pwlcni^d; took his seat Den. I, 1797. < Resigned
a Besigned In 1797
^een ap{Kiint«d commisaioDer to Uroat Britain.
hi* Mat Dec. 3, 17Mt.
Williftm Bradford.'
Theodore Foster.
Chxistopber O. ChampUn.
• l>l<id lu hM.
-. „ — In ITM, Iiavtns
' Xleeted In plaoe of John Swanwlok, ratlgDOd; took
RHODE ISLAND.
SENATORS.
I
BEPRESENTAT1TK3,
Elisha B. Potter. >
Boy Gr«aiifl.*
Thomas Tillinghast.*
* Elected proddent pro tern. Jnly 0, 1797; resigned In 1T07. ' Elected In place of wnilam Bradford, reslmed; took bU neat
Kov. SO, 1797. • Bedgnod in 1797. ^Beotod hi plaoe of EUilia B. Fetter, roalgned ; took bk leatKov. 13, 1797.
John nnnter.'
Charles Piockney.'
SOUTH CAROLINA.
SENATORS.
I
REPRESEXTATIVES.
Jacob Bead.*
XiPmuel Benton.
Kobert Goodloe Harper.
Thomas Ilncknoy.*
John UutlwlRC, inn.
William S^miih, Charleston District.
William BmiUi, Pincknev District.'
Tliomas Sumt«r.
■ Resigned in IT9R. > Elected In pU«o of John HiinU^r, roMgnod; took bla seat Feb. 18, 17OT.
(TM. Kuv. :l-, I7»7. • Elected In place of Wnilmu 8mll1i, ruidgiiad; look his seat Nor. iS, 1707. •
been appolntud iiunlster to Portugal.
TENNESSEE.
SENATORS.
' Eleoted picridmt ora
Resigned In 17B7, baring
Joseph Anderson.'
■William Blonnt.a
William Cocke.
Andrew Jackson.*
Daniel Smith.*
> Ejected is plaoe of Will
ITW. • Took bis seat No>
Dee. 1, 17M. • Took bis »m i
REPRESENTATIVE.
■William C. C. Claibfirne.*
<^x)ieTlpd ; took liia scat Not. 23, 17l>7. • Expolloil fur " high misdemeanor " Jnly 8,
-ii^iud lu 170tii. * Apjiolnted iii place of Amlrow JnckBou, resigued; took his seat
Nathaniel Ohipman.^
Elijah Paine.
VERMONT.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATXTES.
Umo Tiohenoi.*
rZiTon.*
I
Lawia B. Morris.
^^•ri pteee of Isaae Tiebennr, resigned ; took his seat Not. SS, 17!)7. ■ Resigned In ITIR; batin
* Unmoeasaful moUoa made to expel after bis peraonal encounter with Roger Qriswold of Connec
I been elected governor,
lent, Feb. U, 1798.
BteTens T. Mason.
ISichanI Brrint.
' ' -'nCabiU.
. .,^ u.->ton.»
I Died Jan. 21, 17W.
VIRGINLA.
SENATORS.
I
REPRESENTATIVES.
Thomas Evans.
William II. Giles.*
Carter H. Harrison.
Dn^id Holmes.
Walter Jones.
Jaiuci Muchir.
Daniel Slorgnn.*
Henry Taiowell.i
Anthony New.
John Nicholas.
Josinh I'iirker.
Abraui Trigg.
John Trigg.
Abraham Venable.
• Elected Inplaco of 'Williain B. Qiloa. rvol-nieil; took his seat Dec. 3, 1798.
• Election uusuooessf ally oonlesuid by Bobort Rutherford.
• Bedgned in 1788.
18
OONGBXSSIOKAL DIBEOTOBY.
THE SIXTH CONGRESS.
Pint Session, from Dee. 2, 1799, to May 14, 1800. Second Session, from Nov. 17, 1800, to Mardk 8, 180L
Kice-ZVecident. — Thokas JxirBBSoir of Virginia. Presidents of the Senate pro tempore. —Sawosl "Lmm-
XOBB of Kew Hampshiie, elected Dec. 2, 1799; Ubiau Tbact of Connecticut, elected May 14, 1800; JohvK
HowABD of Maryland, elected Nov. 21, 1800; Jaueh HiLuionaE of Connecticnt, elected Feb. 28, 1801. Seeretaif
of the Senate. — Saxuzl Aixtxe Otis of Massachnaotti.
Speaker of the House. — Tbbodobe Sedgwick of Massachusetts. Clerks of the Bouse. — Jonathait Wd
CoxDY of FennsylTania; Jobn Holt Oswau) of Pennsylvania, elected Dec. 9, 1800.
James HiUhonse.^
CONNECTICUT.
SENATOBS.
I Uriah Tracy .»
EEPBESENTATTVES.
WlUiain Edinond. I
Chatmcey Gt)odrlcli.
Blizur Goodrich. I
Rojier Orlswold.
John C. Smith.*
Jonathan Brace.*
Samuel W. Dana.
John Davenport.
> Eleoted pnddent pro (on. Feb. 28, 1801. > Electod president ;)n> fern. May 14, 1800. • Beslgned In 1800. <
place of JonaUuui Biace, resifpiiKl ; took hia aest Kor. 17, 1800.
Heniy Latimer.
Abraham Baldwin.
James Jones.*
DELAWARE.
SEKATOBS.
I
EEPHESESTATTVE.
James A. Bayard.
GEORGIA
SENATORS.
I
BBFBESENTATTVES.
I
• Died Jan. 13,1801.
William Hill Wells.
James Gonn.
Benjamin TaliaCt^^xn
John Brown.
Thomas T. Davis.
KENTUCKY.
SENATOBS.
I
BEFBESENTATIVES.
I
Himiphrey KarshalL
John Fowlsr.
William Hindman.1
John B. Howard.*
MARYLAND.
SEKATOBS.
George Baer. I
Gabriel Christie.
WilliamCralk. |
*ElaetadIn nlaeeaf James Uoyd, reslsnad; took hia seat Dec. 15, IMO.
— •- algnedlnUOO.
BEPKESENTATIVES.
George Dent
John Dennis.
Joseph U. Nicholson.
James Lloyd.*
Samuel Smith.
John Chew Them**
* Elected president pro tern. Nov. 21, UOOi
i0»
THE SIXTH CONOBBSS.
19
HASSACHUSETTS.
SEKATOBS.
Somnel Dezter.i
Bwlght Foster.*
Benjamin Goodbae.*
Jonathan Mason.*
SEPBESENTATIVKS'.
Ebenezer Mattoon.'
Harrison 6. Otis.
Kathan Read.'
John Reed.
Theodore SeflRwlck.*
Saiuuel Sewall.^"
William Sbepard.
Geoige Thatcher.
Joseph B. Vamum.
Pelef{ Wadsworth.
liemael Williams.
Bailey Bntlett.
Phanael Bishop.
Dwigbt Foster.*
Silas Lee.
Leri Lincoln.'
Samuel Lyman.*
> Bedgned In 1800. > Elected nnator In place of Samuel Dextar. resigned; took his aest Not. 21, 1800. * Bmlgned (n
1800. • IGected in plaoe of Benjamin Qoodhne, resigned : took hU seat Deo. 19, 1800. • Elected In place of Dwight^oeter,
elected aenator: took his aeat Feb. 6, 1801. • Hevlgned In imi. * Elected In place of Samuel Lyman, tealgned; took his
•eat Feb. 2. 1801. • Eleelad In plaoe of Samuel Sewall, resigned; took his seat Not. 25, 1800. < £leoted speaker Deo. 2,
ITW. » ttedgned in 1800.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
SENATORS.
John Langdon.
AU«1 Foster.
Jonathan Freeman.
s Beeted pnsldentiirD tan. Deo. 3. 17S>.
Samuel Uvennore.^
BEFBESBNTATXVJBt.
William Oordon.*
James Sheafe.
Samael Tenney.*
> Besigned In 1800. > Elected in place of William Qoidon, nrigned; took Ills
■eat Deo. 8, 1800. ^
Jonathan Dayton.
Aaron Ogden.^
NEW JEHSET.
8KNAT0BS.
James Schuremon.*
BEFBESENTATIVES.
James H. Imlay.
Aaron Kitchel.
John Condlt I James H. Imlay. | James Lynn.
FHmklin Darenport |
* Osetedtn nbwe of James Schoieman, nsioned; took Us seat March 3, ISOL • Elected in plaoe of John Botheiford,
KrignedbilTSe: tookhlsscBtDeo.8,lTg9; redgnsdlnUOL
NEW YORK.
SENATOBS.
John Armstrong.i
John Laurence.*
Theodorra Bailey.
John Bird.
William Cooper.
Lucas Elmendorf.
' Elected In place of J<dm Ijiwrenoe, resigned; took his seat Jan. 8, 1801.
James Watacm, rwlgned; took his seat Hay 3, 1800.
BEPBESENTATrrXS.
Henry Glen.
Edward Livingston.
Jonas Piatt.
John Smith.
GkjuTemenr Morris.*
James Watson.*
John Thompson.
Philip Van Cortlandt
• Besigned in 1800.
« Besigned in 1800.
• Elected In place of
^nmothy BloodwoTth.
Willis Alston.
Joseph Dixon.
William Barry Orove.
Archibald Henderson.
NORTH CAROLINA-
SENATOBS.
I
EEFEESENTATTVES.
WilUam H. Hill.
Nathaniel Macon.
Bichanl Dobbs Spaigbt.
Bichard Stanford.
Jesse Franklin.
David Stone.
Bobert Williams.
•WTlllam Bingham,
Bobert BrDirn.
Albert Gallatin
Andrew Gregg.
John A. Hanna.
Thomas Hartley, i
PENNSYLVANIA.
SENATOBS.
I
BEPBESENTATTVES.
Joseph Heister.
John Wilkes ICittera.
Michael Leib.
Peter Muhlenberg.
John Smilie.
James Boss.
John Stewart.*
Bichard Tlioma*.
Bobert Wain.
Henry Woods.
i Died In 1800. * Elected In ^aoe of Thomas Hartley, deceased; took bis seat Feb. 3, 1801.
OOHeBE88IOVAI. DIRKCIOBY.
HiMdam Foster.
BHODE ISLAND.
SENATOBS.
I
BajOcaena.
Joan Brawn*
ChdabogbjBt &, C>i^»wpHii
CharlM Fbudcney.
BolMrt Goodloe Hnpec
Benjamin Hnger.
SOUTH CABOLDTA.
SEKATOBS.
I
BEPBEBKinAIlVJCB.
Abnham Kott.
TbomaB PincknQ;^.
Jacob Bead.
JohnBofledge, jnn.
Tbonuui Snmter.
JoM^ .Andenon.!
TENNESSEE.
SEKATOBS.
I 'WSUam Cocka.
BEFRlfSKNTATIVJC
'Waiiam Charles Cole ClailMme.
^ *Sla«ladinplaeea(Aiidrair Jaekaoii,naigiiad; feMkUaMatDee.linW.
TEKMONT.
SmrATOBS.
Kathanlel Chipmaa. | Eli jali Falne.
HEFBSSKRTAHVES-
Katthew Lyon. I Ijewls B. Mozxta.
YIBGINIA.
SEKATOBS.
Stephana Thompson Mason. |
BEFRESEHTATIVJSS.
David Holmes.
Oeoige Jackson.
Henry Lee.
JohnllaishaU.*
Anthony New.
John Nibholas.
Bohert Page.
'Wilson Caiy Nicholas.^
Samnel J. OabeU.
Matthew Clay.
John Dawson.
Joseph Esgleston.
Thomas Evans.
Bamnel Ooode.
Edwin Giay.
I Elected In plaea of Hamy TasewSn, deoesaed; took hla seat Jan. S, UOO.
Jabn Mamhall, ndgned; took Us aeat Nor. 26,
Joslah Faiker.
Levin PowelL
John Bandol^
Littleton W. TkaewelL*
AbiamTiigg.
JohnTiigg.
in UOO. ■ Bleoted in plaes a<
TEBEITOET NOKTH-WEST OF THE OHIO RIVER.
DELEGATES,
'^raiiam Heniy HaiilBon.1 | William M'MiUan.*
inUOO. * Eleeted in flaee of William Hamy HarriMn.iedgned; took bl* seat Nov. M|UOIk
THB SEVENTH OONQBESS.
21
THE SEVENTH CONGEESS.
Pint Se$tion,Jr(m Dee. 7, 1801, to ifag 8, 1802. Second Session, from Dec 6, 1802, to March 8, 1808.
7i(»-President. —AAaox Bubr of If ew York. Presidents <tf Om Senate pro tensors. — Abbawaij Baiswut of
G«oigia, elected Deo. 7, 1801, and again elected April 17, 1802; Stkphkk B. Bsaslkt of Vennont, elected
Dec. 14, 1802, and again elected Feb. 2B, 1803, and again elected March 2, 1803. aeeretary of the Senate.—
Sawtzl Au.m Ons of Massachosetts. ,
Speaker of the Bouse. — Naxsahisi. SIaooit of North Carolina. Clerk <if the JSEmts.— Johk BwiKMrf of
Vliginia.
James HQIhonse.
Banrad W. Dana.
John Darenport.
Boger Odswold.
COBTNECTICUT.
SEKAIOBS.
I TTilahTraoy.
SEPBSSESTATITXa.
Calvin Qoddard.
Ellas PerMns.
John G. Smith.
Benjamin Tallmadge.
'VraUam Hm Wells.
Abraham Baldyrln.1
Peter Early.*
DELAWABB.
SENATOBS.
I
BEFSESENTATIVIL
James A. Baywd.
•
6E0B6IA.
SENAIOBS.
I
BXPBESEN'X'ATIVKS.
Samnel'WhftQ.
James Jackson.
I David Meriwether.* | John MUledge.*
I Benjamin lUlafetto.*
> Qectad nrarident era tern. Deo. 7, 1801, and April IT, 1802. < X3ected In pUtoe of Jobn MUMm, ledgned; took Us leat
Aii.10,1803l • laeetod in iOww of Benjamin Ti]lafein>,Tealgned; took hte seat Deo. 6, 1802. « BMlgned In 1802. • Be-
rifBadtnUOS.
John Breokenxldge.
naiaas X. DaTis.
KENTUCKT.
SENATOBS.
I
BEFBESENTAHnSS.
I
JohnBroiWB.
JohnTowler.
'VmiUun Hlndman.
John s, Howard.
UARTLAKD.
8ENAT0BS.
BobtafWtigbt.
OONGBESSIOITAL DIBBCTOBT.
John Aicher.
Walter Bowie.
John Campbell.
BEPBBSENTATnnES.
John Dennis.
IHmiel Helster.
Joseph H. Nicholson.
Thomas FUter.
Samuel Smith.
Bichaid Bpiigg.
Dwlgbt Foster.
John Bacon.
Phanuel Bishop.
Hanasseh Catler.
Bichaid Cutta.
William Eustis.
MASSACHUSETTS.
SENATOBS.
I
BEPBESENTATIVJSS.
Jonathan Mason.
^BsdcMdlnUdSL
Seth Hastings.
Bilaa Lee.^
Ebenezer Mattoon.
Nathan Reed.
William Sfaepaid.
■ Xaeeted in plaoe of SUaa Loe, raisnad; took Us sast Deo. 6, 1802.
Joslah SmiUt.
Samuel Thatcher.*
Joseph B. Vamnm.
Peleg Wadsworth.
Lemuel Williams.
Abiel Foster.
Buiiuel Hunt.^
Simeon Olcott.^
William Flomer.s
NEW HAMFSHIBE.
SENAIOBS.
James Sheafe.*
Joseph Pierce.*
Samuel Tenney.
Oeoige P. Upham.
< Xlected In place of Samael LlTennore, resigned in 1801 ; took his seat Dee. T, 1801. ' Eleoted In place of Jamae Sbeafa,
leslgned; took his aeat Deo. 6, 1802. > Sealgned In 1802. • Elected In place of Joseph Piaroe, lealsned: took Ua aaai
DeOL 6,1802, • Bealgned In 18(0.
Jonathan Dayton.
John Condlt.
Ebenezer Elmer.
NEW JEBSET.
I
HEPBESENTATlVJBi.
William Helms.
James Mott.
Aaron Ogden.
Henry Sonthaid.
John Armstrong.!
DeWitt Clinton?
NEW YOBK.
8ENAT0BS.
Ooavemeor Morris.
BEPBISSNTATIVJB.
John Smith.
David Thomas.
Philip Van Cortlandt
John P. Van Ness.*
Eillian K. Van Rensselaer.
Benjamin Walker.
Theodoras Bailey,
liucas Elmendon.
Samuel L. MitohilL
Thomas Morris.
> Baalgned In 1802. > Elected In place of John Armstrong, resigned; took his aeat Feb. 23, 1802. ' Seat dedaied
forfeited Jan. 17, 1803; he hariiig accepted and exeiclaed the oflloe of major of rniliUa, under authority of tlM United Stataa,
within the Terrlbny of Columbia,
NORTH CABOUNA.
8ENAT0BS.
Jesse Franklin.
David Stone.
WUlis Alston.
William Barry Grore.
Archibald Henderson.
William H. HIU.
BEPRESENTATTVES.
James Holland.
Charles Johnson.l
Nathaniel Macon.*
Richard Staaf ord.
•Died in 1802.
> Elected speaker Dee. 7, 1801. • Tnok bla loat Jan. 22, 1802.
deceased; took his seat Dec T, 1802.
John Stanley.
Robert WilUams.*
Thomas Wynn.*
> Elected in plaoe o< Cbarlss Vofanaon,
PENNSYLVANIA.
SENATOBS.
George Logan.i I
Peter MoUenbeTg.* |
' Elected io plaoe of Peter tfuhlenbergiTerigned; to(dc bis seat Dee. 7,1801,
James Rosa.
> Bealgned hi ua.
THE SETENTH OOSTOBBSS.
23
Boteit Brown.
Thomas BondA.
Asdnw Oieggi*
John A. TTnTini^,
Jowph Heister.
BEP3EIE8JSNTAT1VJSJ,
Joseph Hemphill.
William Hoge.
William Jones.
Michael Leib.
John Smilie.
JohaStewtat.
Isaac Vanhome.
Hsnry Woods.
Ohiistophei EUeiy.i
Theodora Foster.
BHODE ISLAND.
SEKATOBa
Bay Greene.*
BEFSESENTATTTES.
Joseph Stanton, Jnn. | Thomas Tlllingbast
*Eleetedbiplaoeof Bay Oreene,nslgned; took his aeat Deo. T.UOl. ' Beslgnsd In UOL
SOUTH CABOUNA.
SENATOBS.
John living Calhoun.
Charles Finckney.i
Thomas Stimter.*
BEFBESENTATTVES.
Thomas Moore.
John Bntledge.
Thomas Sumter.^
WflUamBntler. | Thomas Moore. | Bldiard Winn.*
Benjamin Hnger. I
Thmnas Lowndes. , |
« WoilgiwiiHn IBM. •ZleetadMnstorlnpIaaeofChwleeFlnekner.mlEned; took Ua seat Deo. 19, UOL * Xleatad In plaee
of Xbomai Sumter, elected MDator; took Ii]i seat Jan. at, Vm.
Joseph Andeisoa
Stephen B. Bradley.^
TENNESSEE.
SENATOBS.
t
BEPBESENTAxiVJE.
Wniiam Dickson.
VEBMONT.
SENATOBS.
William Oodka.
Nathaniel Chlpman.
befbesehtahves.
Lewis BHorxla. I Israel Smith.
>Zl*otadini>laoeotEli]ihFaine,ndanedlnU01i took his seat Deo. T, 1801; eleotsdpreddentjirola>.Dea,14,Ua^ Kb. m
Ua3,andUaich2,U(S.
BteTens Thompson Haaon.
VIRGINIA.
SENATOBS.
I
Wilson Oaiy inch<daa.
Richaid Brent.
Samuel J. CahelL
Thomas Claibomai.
Matthew Clay.
John Clopton.
John Dawson. 1
William Bw Qilea
BEPBESE2ITATI VEB.
Edwin Gray.
David Holmes.
George Jackson.
Anthony New.
Thomas Newton, Jon.
John Bandolph, jun.
John Smith.
> Took Ui sMt Jan. U, UI&
John Stratton.
John Taliaferro, Jon.
Fhillp B. Thompson.
Abram Trigg.
JohnTdgg.
u
OOKGBESSIONAIi DIBBOTOBT.
THE EIGHTH CONGRESS.
First Session, from Oct. 17, 1803, to March 27, 1804. Second Session, from Nov. 6, 1801, to March 3, 1805.
Vb»-Pres(dent.—AjLBOX Bubs of New York. Presidents of the Senata pro temport. — John Bboitk of
Kentucky, elected Oct. 17, 1803, and again elected Jan. 23, 18(M; Jxsnc FaAmcLZir of North Carolina, elected
March 10, 18M; JosKpa AssssaoN of Tennessee, elected Jan. 16, 1806, and again elected Feb. 28, 1806, and
again elected March 2, 1806. Secretary of the Senate. — Sakitei. Alltub Otis of Massachnaetts.
Speaker of t/te Houw.— Naihasiki. Maook of Korth Carolina. Clerk of the Bouse.— Jobs BBOKLBr of
Virginia.
Jamea Hinhonse.
Simeon BaldwitL
Samuel W. Dana.
John Davenport.
CONISECTICUT.
SENATOBS.
I
bxfbesemtauvxs.
Calvin Ooddaid.
Bccer Griswold.
John C. Smith.
ITiiabliMy.
Ben jamln Tallmadga.
Jamee A. Bayard.^
William HiU Wells.*
DELAWABE.
SENATOBS.
Bamnel White.
BEFBESENTATTTE.
Cssar A. Bodney.
> Eleoted In plaoe of William Hm Wells, radgned; took his Hat Jan. 15, 180S. ' BedgnedinUOt,
Joseph Bryan.
Ahraham Baldwin.
I Peter Early.
GEOBQIA,
SENAXOBS.
I James Jackaon.
BEPBESENTATIVES.
I Samuel Hammond. | David Meriwether.
John Breckeniidge.
EENTUCKT.
SENATOBS.
John Brown.^
Oeoige Michael Bedlnger.
John Boyle.
BEPBESENTATIVES.
I John Powler. I
I Matthew Lyon. |
i Elected president jiro tem. Oat. 17, 1803, and Jan. 23, 1801.
Thomaa Sanford.
Matthew Walton.
John Archer.
Walter Bowie.
John Campbell.
John Dennia.
Samnel Smith.
HABTLAKB.
SENATOBS.
I ■
BEPBESENTATIVES.
Daniel Heister.i
William MoCreery.
Nicholas R. Moore.
Roger Nelson.^
Bobert Wright.
Joseph H. Nicholson.
Thomas Plater.
>IMedlnl80L > EleotMl In place of Daniel Hetoter, deoeowd; took hla seat Nor. 6, 1801.
4
THE EIGHTH OOKGBESS.
26
John Qoincy Adams.
Pbwmel Bishop.
Jacob Ciowmi»hieId.
Manasseh Cutler.
Blchard Cntts.
Thomas Dwight.
MASSACHUSETTS.
SENATOBS.
I
BEPBESENTATl VIS8.
Beth Hastings.
Simon Lamed.'
Kahum Mitchell.
Ebenezer Seaver.
Tompaon J. Skinner.*
William Stedman.
Timothy Plokering.1
Samnel Taggart
Samuel Thatcher.
Joseph B. Vamnm.
Feleg Wadsworth.
Lemuel Williams.
* 'KUtrUA In place of Dwight Foster, resigned In 1803; took his aest Out. 17, 1803. ■ Elected in place of Tompaon J. Bldnner,
lesigsed; took bia aeat Not. 6, 1801. • Seaigned in 1801.
Simeon Olcott.
ISIlaB Betton.
Clifton Claggett
NEW HAMPSHIEE.
8EKAT0B8.
I
BEPBESENTATIYES.
David Hough.
Samuel Hunt.
William Flumer.
Samuel Tenney.
John Ciondlt.
Adam Boyd.
Xbeoezer Elmer.
John ArmstroDg.i
Theodorus Bailey.*
DeWitt Clinton.'
NEW JEBSET.
SENATOBS.
I
KEFBESKRTATIT2S.
William Helms.
James Mott.
NEW TORK.
8ENAT0BS.
Jonathan Dayton.
James Sloan.
Henry Southard.
Samnel L. MitchiU.*
John Smith.!
BEPEESENTATIVXS.
John Patterson.
Oliver Phelps.
Samnel Riker.'
Erastus Boot.
Joshua Sands.
Thomas Sammons.
John Bmith.s
David Thomas.
George Tibbits.
Philip Van Cortlandt.
Killian K. Van Bensselaer.
Daniel C. Verplanck.
Geoijp Clinton, Inn.*
Gaylord Oriswold.
Josiab Hasbrouclc
Henry W. Livingston.
Andrew HcConl.
Samnel L. MitchiU.*
Beiiah Palmer.
> Appointed In place of De'mtt Clinton, resigned; took his aeat Dee. 7,1803; elected Inplace of Theodonu Bailer, realgned:
to(A hlH aeat Feb. 2S, 1804 ; resigned in 1801, baring been appointed mlnlater to France. ' Resigned Jan. 16, 1801. • Besigned
tn 1808. < Elected aenator tn place of John Arnvtrong, realgned ; took bia seat Nov. 23, 1801. • Elected aenator In place of
DeWItt Clinton, resigned ; took bia aeat Feb. 23, 1801. ' Elected in place of Samuel L. Mitchlll, elected senator; took bia sea*
FMk. U, 1806. ' ElocteU in place of Jolm Smith, elected aenator; took lila aeat Nor. S, 1801.
Jesse FranUin.^
ITathaniel Alexander.
Willis Alston^ iun.
William Blackle<lge.
James Gillespie.'
NOBTH CAROLINA.
SENATOBS.
I David Stone.
BEPBESENTATIVES. '
James Holland.
William Kennedy.
Nathaniel Macon.*
Samuel D. Porviance.
Bichaid Stanford.
Marmadiike Williams.
Joseph Winston.
Thomas Wynns.
>EiaetedpnsldeDtjiro(an.lfarehlO,1801. > Died Janmuy, 1806. * Elected speaker Oct. 17. 1803.
OHIO.
SENATOBS.
JohaSmith.1 | • Thomas Wortfaington.*
BEPBESEMTATTVE.
Jeremiah Morrow.*
>!tbok Us seat Get. 28,1803. • Itook hia aeat Oct. 17, 18Q3L • Took his seat Got. 17, ISOS.
PENNSYLVANIA.
SENATOBS.
Oeoi^e LogML
Samnel Maday.
26
CONQEESSIONAIj dirbctoet.
IsaAC Aiiilerson.
David Uunl.
llobert IJmwn.
Josepli Cl»v.
Frederick ('onrad.
'Williani Kiiulley,
Andrew Gregj;.
BEPaESBatTATIVES .
John A. Hanna.
Joseph Heister.
Wilhain Uoce.»
John Hogo.*
Mir'harl £eib.
Joiiii K. C Liicaa.
John Itea.
Jacob Richards.
John Sniilie.
John Stcwiirt.
Isaac \'au Home.
John WhitehiU.
> Bealtpied In 1801. > Elooted In plaoo ot WUliun Hoge, rosigiied ; took his leat Not. 27, 1804, eleodon uniaooeaafuUr iwii<ititfl.
BHODE ISLAlfD.
SEXATOBS.
Christopher EUery.
Beujaiuin Howland.!
Samael J. Potter.*
EEPRESENTATIVES.
Nehomlah Knight. | Joseph Btanton.
> ElaotedlnplaoeofSamaalJ. Putter, (looeaaod; took hU scat Oofi. 3, 180L i Died In IBOi.
William Butler.
Levi (laHcy.
John B. ]i.arle.
Picpte Butlor.l
Jolin UaillardL*
SOUTH CABOLINA,
SENATORS.
I
KEPRESENTATIVES.
Wado Hampton.
Heujamin Um:er.
Thomas Lownilo3.
Thomas Siuuter.'
Thomas Mnore.
lUchard Winn.
> Eloctnl In place of John E. Calhoun, deoemicd In 1803; took his Mat Out. 18, 1803, mtgned In 1801. ■ Elected in
Fleroe Bullor, resigned; took his seat Jan. 31, 1805. • Took bis seat Feb. 6, IBOL
plaes ot.
Joseph Anderson.!
George Washington Campbell ]
TENNESSEE.
SEKATOBS.
I
KEPKESENTAXrVES.
WUliam Dickson.
William Cocke.
I John Bhea.
t Elected president pro tern. Jan. 15, 1806, Fob. 38, 1806, and Uaroh 3, 1806.
VERMONT.
SENATOBS.
Stephen R. Bradley. | Israel Smith.
EEPRESENTATIVES.
William Chamberlin. | Martin Chittenden. | James Elliot. | Gideon Olin.
VIRGINIA,
SENATOBS.
William B. Oiles.i
Andrew Mooro."
WilMon Gary Nicholas.*
John Taylor.*
Abraham B. Venable.*
EEPEESENTATIVES.
Thomas Claiborne.
Christopher (Jlork.*
Matthew Clay.
John CIniiton.
John Dawson.
John AV, IOji[K!^.
PclerKon ( ioodwyn.
Edwin Grav.
Thomas Griffin.
Tliomas tl. Randolph.
John Smith.
James •Stephenson.
I'hilip IS. Thompson.
Aliraiii Trigg.
John TricK'
Altixander Wilson.*
David Holmes.
John 6. Joukson.
Walter Jcmes.
Joseph Lewiti, jiin.
Thomas I^ewis.'
Anilrpw Moore.'
Anthony New.
Thomas Newton, jun.
John Bandolph, jim.
> Eloctod In place of WllKin Gary XlchoUa, ra>igned; took bU seat Dec 17, ISOI: Appointed in place of Abraham n,
Vcnnble, re^l^eu ; took his itoat Nov, 5. 1801. * Siirce^Miully contested the election oC TboiniM Lewis ; took his (tont Alnrvh 5.
1804; ap|iolnt«<l ««nalor In place of Wilson Gary Klcliolns, realKnod; Umk Ills seat Nnv. 6. 180I; elected senntor In place of
Abnibnm B. Vonnliln. i(>l|4m-<l ; took bis seat Dec. 1*. IHOt. > RcslKnud In 1804. < Appoiiiti-il in pLico of SU-vcns T. Mason.
diH-cucil hi iy');i ; lonk his ocnt Oct. IT, 1803. • £liH'ti><l in jilnco of Stevens T. Mason, deceased In 1803, John Tuvlor Imvlnc been
aii|Kiliitcil pro rtni.; to<.>li bi.i seat Dec. 13, 1803; roniuiipd in 18IM. " Elected lu place of John Trlsg, diicensed ; took Ids seat
Nov. 5, 1804. ' Elcolion tuccesfrully contestcil by Andrew Moore. • Died in 1804. • Elected In pbioe of Andivw
Moore, appointed senator ; look liiti teut Due. 4, 1804.
MISSISSIPPI TERRITORY.
DErj:OATE.
Williaiu Lattimore.i
> Took bis seat OcL 17, 1803.
TH£ KINTH CONOBESS.
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THE NINTH CONGRESS.
Pint Settion, from Dec. 2, 1805, to AprU 21, 1806. Second Session, from Dee. 1, 1806, to March 3, 1807.
Ytn-President. — Grobof Clinton of New York. President of the Sienate pro tempore. — Samitei. Smith of
Maiylanil, elected Deo. 2. IRa'); ami ngnin olcote<l Slareh 18, 180C; and again elected MiUcU 2, IHOT. Secretary of
tJie Settale. — SxntrxL Allymis Otis uf Massachusetts.
Sprak^ of l/ie /fouM. — Natuamibl Macok of North Carolina. Clerk of the Ibutt.—Joan Bkcxi.bt of
Vitgiuia.
James Sillbouse.
Samuel W. Dana.
John Davenport, inn.
Tbeodoro Dwigbt.i
> ElMtad in pl<ea of John Cotton Smltli, rMlgned ; tools hli
COIWECTICUT.
SENATORS.
I
REPRESENTATITKS.
Jonathan O. Moseley.
Timothy Pitkin, jun.
John Cotton Suiith.^
TTriah Tracy.
Lewis B. Stnrees.
Benjamin Tollmadgfl.
1 D«c. 1, 1606. > BodKDed in 1800.
James A. Bayard.
DELAWARE.
8ENATOK3.
I
REPRESENTATIVE.
James AL Broom.
Somoel White.
GEORGIA.
SENAT0B3.
Ahrahnm Baldwin.
James Jackson.'
REPRESENTATIVES.
Cowles Mead.'
David Meriwether.
Dennis Smelt.*
John MUledge.*
Thomas Spald!ng7
•Wnitain W. Blhb.»
Joneph Bryan.*
~ •Early.
> Dl«d Uarch 18, liKM. ' Elooted In place ot .Tamra Jackson, deneJiMd; took bis a«at Deo. 11, 1806. ' Elected in place
Thomu Smldlng, rolcnnl; took tils Kat •Ian, 1:0, 1K07. * Rcslgnol In IKO)!. ■ Election Buocetsfnlly contcoted by
Tiionias Spalding. > Cle<;t<:<l In placn or Joseph Dnran, ro(il|rne<l; took his seat Deo. 26, IMM. > BiMWeaatully ouutaaUHl the
•leetiaa of Cowlaa Mead; took bis seat Deo. 25, ItJOS; reslgiiodin 1806.
KENTUCKT.
SENATORS.
John Adair.i
Henry Clay.'
Buckner Thruston.
Georso tUi-haal Bedinger.
John Uoyle.
REPRESENTATIVIS.
John Fowler.
Matthew Lyon.
Thomas Sanford.
Matthew Walton.
k
' Bleated In plaee of John Breckonridge, rcrlgnod In 180.t; took hb seat Dee. 0, IMS; ivslgned in IMMw
John Adair, nalgnod ; took his seat Deo. 29, 1806.
> Elooted in place of
MARYLAND.
BEMATOBS.
Pliillp Reed. I
Baniiiel Smith.*
Robert Wright."
lEIseCad hi plaoa of Robert Wiliiht, realgned; took his {test Deo.
T«aiehlg, UOO, and MareU 2, ISOT.
29, ime, ■ Elected preeidoDt pro tern, Deo. S, UOOl
» Baaigned Ui 1800.
28
OONQBESSIONAI. NKBOTORY.
John Aiclier.
John Campbell
Leonard Covington.
Charles GoUsboroogh.
RKKKKHEtnfATITEB.
Edward IJord.i
Patrick Hagmder.
'William M^Jreery.
Nicholas B. Hoor&
Boger NeteoD.
Joseph H. Nichobon.*
<Elaetedin^lagea(JdniihH.indK)kan,iad(ned; toakU«M«tDae.^l8aS. » Ifwignwi In IgWL
John Qnincy Ailftuna,
Joseph Barker.
Barnabas Bid well
Phannel Bishop.
John Chandler.
Orchard Cook.
Jacob Crowninshield.
MASSACHUSETTS.
SEITATOBS.
I
BZFBESEMTATlViai.
Bfehaid CnttB.
'William EI7.
Isaiah L. Green.
Seth Hastings.
Jeremiah Kelson.
Josiah Quincy.
Tfmothy Pickering.
Kbenezer Searer.
"William Stedmui.
Samnel Ta^art.
Joseph B. Vamom.
FBleg 'Wadaworth.
mcholas QUman.
SflaaBetton.
Caleb Ellis.
HEW HAMPSHCBE.
SENAT0B3.
I
KEFBESENTATXVJStL
David Hongh.
Samuel Tenney.
'William Plomer.
Thomaa 'W. Thompoon.
JohnOondlt
Ezra Darby.
Ebenezer Elmer.
NEW JEBSET.
SENATOBS.
I
BSPKESENTAUVZS.
"William Helms.
John Lambert.
Aaron EiloheL
James Sloan.
Henry SontlMid.
Samoel I<, latchin.
John Blake, jon.
GeorsB Clinton, Jon.
SUasHalsey.
Henry W. LiTlngston.
Josiah Masters.
Gordon S. Homford.
MEW YOKK.
SENATOBS.
I
BKPBBSENTATIVE3.
John Bnssell.
Peter Sailly.
Thomas Sammons.
Martin G. Schnneman.
David Thomas.
Hrl Tracy.
John Smith.
Philip 'Van CorUandt.
KilUan K. Van Rensselaer.
Daniel C. Verplanck.
Eliphalet Wickes.
Nathan 'Williams.
David Stone.1
Evan Alexander.*
'Willis Alston, iun.
'William Blacldedge.
Thomas Bluiiiit.
NOBTH CAROLINA.
SEKATOBS.
I
BEFBESKNTATrVBS.
James Holland.
Thomas Keenan.
Nathaniel Macon.*
Duncan McFarland.
James Tumec
Bichard Stanford.
Marmadnke Williams.
Joseph "Winston.
Thomaa Wynns.
1 ButisaeA Ui im.
> Elected In nlaoe of Nathaniel Alexander, elected gorsnior by the legUatme In U06; took hla
Feb.ai,1806. • Elected speaker Deo. 2, UOB.
John Smith.
Gooige Logon.
OHIO.
SENATOBS.
I Thomaa WoitUngton.
BEFB3ESENT ATI V E.
Jeremiah Morrow.
PENNSTLVA2«A.
SENATOBS.
I Samoel Madsy.
k
THS KIirXH OOHOSBSS.
29
BEFBESEKTATXVJSS.
Isaac Andenm. Andrew Gregg.
David Baid. John Hamilton.
Bobert Brown. Jamea Kelly.
Joamh Clar. Michael Iieio.*
Frederick Conrad. John Porter.*
William Flndley. John Pugh.
> Baetkm mmmMaBfally oonteated by John Douglas; resigned in 1806.
seat Dec. 8, 1806.
John Bhea.
Jacob BichaTds.
John Smilie.
Samuel Smith.
John WhitehilL
Bobert Whitehill.
> Eleoted in idaoe of lOobael Lalb, nslgnedi took hi*
James Fenner.
Kebendah Enig^t
John Oaillard.
WOUam BnQer.
LerlCasey.i
Ellas Sarla.
BHODE ISLAND.
SEKATOBS.
I
BEFBE8ENTATIVZS.
I
SOUTH CAKOLINA.
SENAXOBS.
I
BEPKESENTAnVES.
Bobert Marion.
Thomas Mooie.
O'Brien Smith.
'Died Feb. 1,1807.
Benjamin Howland.
Joseph Btanton.
Thomas Snmtw.
David B. WUIiams.
BichardWinn.
Josopli Asderson.
GeoigeW. Campbell. |
Stephen B. Bradlej.
Martin Chittenden. | James Elliot.
TEITNESSEE.
BENATOBS.
I
BEPBESENTATIVE8.
'William Dickson.
VEEMONT.
SENATOBS.
Daniel Smilih.
I JohnBhea.
I laiael Smith.
BEPBX83SSTATIVZS.
I James nsk. | Gideon Olin.
'WnUam B. ones.
BorweU BoasetL
William A. Bnrwell.1
John Claiborne.
Chri.itopher Clark.*
Matthew Clay.
John Clopton.
John Dawson.
JdhnW. Eppes.
VIRGINIA..
SEKAXOBS.
I
•p.TiiPHHmf.N'1'A'i'i yuM.
James M. Gamett.
Peterson Goodwyn.
Edwin Gray.
David Holines.
John G. Jackson.
Walter Jones.
Joseph Lewis, }un.
John Morrow.
Andrew Moore.
Thomas Mewton, Jan.
John Bandolph.
Thomas M. Bandolph.
John Smith.
Philip B. Thompson.
Abram Trim.
Alexander Wilson.
^Zlaetadinplaoeof Christopher CHazk, resigned; took Us seat Dee. 1,1806. ' Beslgned in 180(L
INDIANA TEKRrrORT.
DELEGATE.
Benjamin Patke.'
> Took Us seat Deo. 12, ISOISw
MISSISSIPPI TEEEITOBT.
DELEGATE.
William Lattimore.
ORLEANS TERRITOBT.
DIXEOATE.
Daniel Clark.i
t Took Us seat Deo. 1, 1806.
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CONOBESSIOKAL DlfiEOTOBY.
THE TENTH CONGEESS.
Pint Sestion, from Oct. 28, 1807, to April 25, 1808. Second Setsion, from Nov. 7, 1808, to March 3, 1809.
Viee-PretUtent. — Obobox Oloiton of Kew York. PrettdetUi of the Senate pro tempore. — Sajcuxi. Skitk of
Karyland, elected April 16, 1808 ; Stephsx B. BsASLX-r of Vermont, elected Dec. 28, 1808; John Miu:.ei>oe of
Georgia, elected Jan. 90, 1809. Secretary of the Senate. — SAunici. Au:.tkis Otq of Massachusetts.
Speaker of the Ebute. — Joseph B. YABircM of Massachusetts. Clerk tf the Bouie. — Paxbick Maosudeb
of Maryland.
Ohaonciey Ooodrioh.1
Epaphiodltns Champion.
Samuel W. Dans.
John Davenport, jnn.
CONNECTICUT.
8ENAT0BS.
I
BEPKESENTATTVES.
Jonathan O. Moseley.
Timothy Pitkin, jun.
Lewis B. Btoiges.
James Hillhouse.
Benjamin Tallmadge.
> Eleoted In idaoe of TTiiali 'Tnoy, deoeaaed In 1807; took his leat ITot. 2T, 1807.
James A. Bayard.
DELAWAKE.
SENATOBS.
I
BEPEESENTATIVE.
Nicholas Van Dyke.
Samuel White.
"William H. Ciawfoid.^
Oeoige Jones.'
William "W.Blbli.
I Howell Cobb.
GEORGIA.
8EKAT0BS.
JohnMiUedge.*
BEPBESENTATIVES.
I Dennis Smelt
I George H. Ttonp.
< Eleeted In plaoe of Abniliam Baldwin, deceased in 1807, Oeoi^ Jonas having been appointed on) fern. ; took his seat
Dee.9,1807. > Appointed in plaoe of Abnham Baldwin, daoeased In 1807; took his seat Oot. 28, UOT. • Electad praeidant
pro tern. Jan. 30, 1800.
John Boyle.1
Joseph Desha.
John Pope.
KENTUCKY.
SENATOBS.
I
BEPBESENTATIVES.
Benjamin Howard.
Bichard M. Johnson.
Buckner Thmston.
Matthew Iiyon.
John Bowan.*
<3\>okhi8aeatNoT.21,1808. > Took Us seat Jan. S. 1800.
Philip Beed.
John Campbell I
Charlesi Ooldsborongh.
Philip B. Key.' I
> Elected ineaident pro ten. AprU 16, 1808.
MARYLAND.
SENATOBS.
I
BEPBESENTATIVES.
Samuel Smith.*
Edward Lloyd.
William McCreery.»
John Montgomery.
I Election unsuccessfally contested.
Joaboa Barney.
Nicholas B. Moore.
Boger Nelaon.
Arcnibald Van Home.
• Elsotlon nnsacoeaafolly o(mteated by
THE TBNTH OONOBE8S.
81
Xb^Uel Bacon.
Joseph Barker.
John Chandler.
Orchard Cook.
Jacob CiDwninshield.*
KichardCntta.
HASSACHUSETTa
SENATOSa
John QnincT Adams.^
Jamea Iloya, Jan.*
Timothy Fiokeriag.
KEFRESEirTAIIVES.
Joslah Deane.
William Ely. .
Isaiah L. Qreene.
Daniel Ilsley.
Edward St. Ijoe LivermoTe.
Joslah Quincy.
Ebenezer Beaver.
WilUam Stedman.
Joseph Story.*
Samuel Taggart
Jabez XTpham.
Joseph B. Vamnm.*
-^ In 1808. > Elected In place of John Qolncy Adams, resigned : todc his seat Nor. 7, 1806. • Died April 15, 1808.
Sleeted in place of Jacob CtDwninshisldidisceased; took his seat Deo. 30, 1808. ' Eleoted speaker Oot. 26, 1807.
Klcbolaa Oilman.
Fbter Carlton.
Daniel M. Dnisll.
NEW HAHPSHIRE.
SENATORS.
I
BE2PRE8ENTATIVES.
Francis Gardner.
Jedediah Smith.
Nahnm Parker.
Clement Storer.
JohnCondit.
AdamBoyd.!
Ezra Darby.*
'WilUam Helms.
NEW JEBSET.
SENATOBS.
I
BEPBESENTATITE8.
John Lambert.
Thomas Newbold.
James Sloan.
Aaron KltoheL
Henry Soathard.
• ZleotedlnplaoeotExraDub;, deceased; took hU seat April 4, 1808. • Died Jan. 28, 1808.
Somnel L. HitohilL
NEW torb:.
SENATOBS.
John Smith.
John Blake, jnn.
George Clinton, jnn.
Bamet Gardenier.
John Harris.
Beuben Hnmphreya.
WilUam Kirkpatzick.
BEPBESENTATTTEB.
Joslah Masters.
Ourdon S. Momford.
Bainnel Riker.
John BnsselL
Peter Swart.
David Thomas.!
John Thompson.
James J. Van Allen.
Philip Van Cortlandt.
Eilllan K. Van Bensselaw.
Daniel C. Verplanok.
Nathan Wilson.*
> Basl|ned In 1808. > Elected in place of David Thomas, resigned ; toA his seat Nov. 7,1808.
Jesse FranUin.
Xvaa Alexander. .
WiUis Alston, jnn.
William Blackledge.
Thomas Blonnt.
NOBTH CABOLINA.
SENATOBS.
I
BEIPRESENTATIVES.
John Cnlpepper.i
Heshack Franklin.
James Holland.
Thomas Kenan.
James Tnmer.
Nathaniel Macon.
Lemuel Sawyer.
Bichard Stanford.
Harmaduke Williams.
< Seat eootested t^ Daneaa MdlfMaod, and dedsied vacant Jan. 2, 1808, on Bcooant of inequallttea In alaotiOD: ha ^
' sntseqnenfly rxleeted at new election, ana took his seat Feb. 23, 1808.
OHIO.
SENATOBS.
Betnm Jonathan HeIgB.i
John Smith.*
Edward Tiffin.
BEPBESEMTATl VE.
Jeremiah Morrow.
inidaeeof JatmSinitb, lartmed; tookhlsseat Jan. 6, 1808. > Tried tw senate fOreampHdtjr with Aanm Bur; bat
rssMtttion of ■zpaUon negsBved April 0, 1S06: he nsigned his seat April 25, 1806, In a letter to the governor.
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C0N6BBSSI0NAL DIRECTORY. ^^^^^^^^H
V
PENNSYLVANIA.
SENATOBS.
^H
^^^^^p Andrew Oreeg.
^^F Midiael LeibJ
EEPRESESTATTVES.
Ramael Manlay.* ^^H
^^B David Bard.
^^H i:<:>l>ert Ttri>wn.
^^H .T(>:t>!{>li Clay.*
^^H William Fiudley.
^^H John IToiRtcr.
^^H William Ilogo.
^^H Hubert Jenkins.
James Kelly.
William minor.
David Montgomery, jnn.
John Porter.
John Pugh.
Jolin Ilea.
Jacob Riohards,
Matthiiu Richards. J
Ilpnjamin Say.* B
John Smilie. 1
Samuel .Smith. ■
IU>bcrt WhitehilL fl
^^1 > Kleotod in plaoo of Samael MocInT, imlgnevl: took bi« nM Jan. 1«, IMIO. ■ lUwIgned In 180ft. * Bolgned in ISH
^^^k t £leot«d Is plnoe of Jotgh CHay, nelgnatl; tuok hl« seu Not. IS, IDUe. ■
^^P
RHODE ISLAND.
^
^^^T
SENATORS.
■
^^H^ Benjamin Howland. |
Elisha Matthew8on> ^^H
^^f
BEPRE8ENTAT1 VES.
■
^^H Bichard S. Jaokson.> |
Nehemiah Knight.*
1 Isaao 'WUbour. ^^1
^^1 > Etooted In plaoe of Juno* Fanner, elected Rovomor In laoT ; took bla aoat Mot. 2n. ism. > Elected in plooe of Kiit illB
^^^^^ Knight, duooaaod; tookUisaoatNoT.il, MOe. > Died in 1808. fl
^^H
SOUTH CAROLINA-
J
^^^^M
SENATORS.
■
^^^^^1 John GaiUard.
1
EEPKESENTATIVES.
Thomas Snmter. ^^^^
^^1 Leninel J. Alfitoa, jun.
^H WiUiam Duller.
^^H Joecpb Calboiin.
Robert Marion.
Thomn.1 Moore.
John Taylor.
TENNESSEE.
David R. WUlianis. ^H
^ J
^^^^
SENATORS.
^M
^^H Joaeph Anderaoi
t 1
HEPRESENTATtVES.
Daniel Smith. ^^H
^^B George W. OampbelL
John Rhea.
VERMONT.
SENATORS.
.^1
^^^^P Stephen R Brad
ey.i 1
REPRESENTATIVES.
Jonathan Robinson.* ^^^|
W Martin Chittenden.
^^^ Jamcsi Elliot
•Jamew Fisk.
Samuel Shaw.*
1 James Withenill.< ■
^^H > Elected president pro tan. Dee. 28, 160
^^H • Elaoted in place of Jomoa
8. ' EIwtP.1 in |iliw> of I»racl .Smith, reeignod In 180T ; took hl» seat Got. 38, *■
WlUierall, RHlgned; look lila leat Nor. 8, 1808. < Buniniuid In 1808. ■
H
VIRGINIA.
J
^^^
SENATOBS.
s
^^H WlUiam B. One*
1
REPRESENTATIVES.
Andrew Moore. ^^H
^^H Bnrwell Baoitett.
^^M William A. Burwell.
^^H .Tolm (Jlailximo.i
^^M Matthew Ciny.
^^H Juljn Cliiptun.
^^H John Dawxon.
^^H John W. Kppes.
^^H Jamea M. Gamett.
Thonin.s Crholson, jun.'
rctcrson Goodwin.
Edwin (Jra.v.
l>aviil Holmes.
John (;. .liirkson.
AValtor .lones.
.Toscpli Lewis, jun.
John Love.
John Morrow. ^^^|
Thomas Newton, Jua^^B
Wilson Carey Nicholas. 1
John I^ndolph. 1
John Smith. ■
Alirnm Trigg. H
Alexander WUson. ^^M
^^L 1 Died fai 1808. • Elec
ted in place of John Cloibomo, deceased ; took his seat Nor. T, 1808. ^^^|
THB ELEVENTH OONOSBSS. 88
INDIANA TERRITORY.
■ DKIiEOATES.
Benjamin Parke.* | Jesse B. Thomas.*
>ItekUiHatOaLaB,18(ITizeilgnedinl80e. • Zleeted In place of Benjsmlu Faike, nrisned; took Us a«at Deo. 1, U08.
MISSISSIPPI TERKITORT.
DELEGATE.
George Poindexter.^
1 TO<dc his aeat Oct. as, 180T.
ORLEANS TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Daniel Clark.
TIE ELEVENTH CONGRESS.
Pint Sanon,from May 22, 1809, to June 28, 1800. Second Session, from Nov. 27, 1809, to Uay 1, 1810.
Third Session, fiim Dec. 8, 1810, to March 3, 1811.
Ti^-fnrident. — OxoBas Clinton of New York. Presidents of the Senate pro (smpors. — Asdbxw Gbsoo
of Pemuylvania, elected Jane 26, 1809; Jobn Oailuuid of South Carolina, elected Feb. 28, 1810, and again
elected April 17, 1810; Jobn Popk of Kentucky, elected Feb. 23, 1811. Secretary of tKe Senate. — &jatxna,
Aum Om of Hassaohnsetts.
Speaker of the Bouse. — Josxph B. Vabmuii of Hassachosetts. Clerk of the House. — Faxbiok Maobusib
o(lbi7land.
CONNECTICUT,
SENATOBS.
Samuel VT. Dana.> I James Hillhonse.*
Channoey Goodrich. |
BEPSESENTATIVEH.
ZpipkiDditns Champion. I Ebenezer Huntington.* I Lewis B. Stniges.
Sunul W. Dana.* Jonathan O. Moseley. Benjamin Talunadge.
Jolin Davenport. | Timothy Pitkin, jun. |
'BtcMnnatarlnidMeafJamnHnilioase.mlgned; took his seat Dec. 3, 1810. > Battsned In ISIO. • Eleoted la plaoe
at Samoal W. Dana, eleoted aenatoi; took hu seat Deo. 8, MO.
DELAWARE.
SEKAT0B8.
James A. Bayard. I Samnd White.*
Onterbridge Horsey.* I
BEPBESENTATIVE.
liTicholas Van Dyke.
• Eleoted in plaoe of gamnd White, deceued; took hia aeat Jan. 29, ino. «DledlaU(W.
TEE mSEVJSSTU COKGBESS.
85
Obadiah Gennan.
James dnott.
Jonathaa Fbk.
Bareut Gardenier.
Thomaa R. Gold.
Herman Knickerbocker.
Bobert lie Koy UTingstona.
NEW YORK.
SENATOKS.
BEPRESENTATITES.
Vincent Matthews.
Samuel L. MitcbiU.t
Gordon S. Mumford.
Juhn Nicholson.
Peter B. Porter.
Brastus Koot.
John Smith.
Ebenezer Sage.
Thomas Sammons.
John Thompson.
TJri Tracy.
Killian K. Van Bensselaer.
> Eleoteil in plaoe of WSlUm Denning, vho was eloctwl a member, but nerer qualified; took Us teat Deo. 4, 1810.
Jesse FraakUn.
WWa Alston, jnn.
James Cochran.
Meahack Franklin.
James Holland.
NORTH CAROLINA.
SENATOBS.
I
EEFBESEKTATIYES.
Thomas Kenan.
■William Kennedy.
Nathaniel Macon.
Archibald McBride.
James Tnmer.
Joseph Pearson.
Jjemnel Sawyer.
Richard Stanford.
John Stanley.
OHIO.
SENATORS.
Alexander Campbell.^
Stanley (Jriswold.*
Return Jonathan Meigs, jnn.*
Edward Tiffin.*
Thomas Worthington.'
BEPBESEOTATTVE.
Jeremiah Morrow.
I Eleeted In place of Edmud TUBn, resigned, Stanley Grtswold having been tppobitoA pro ten. ; took Us nat Jan. 12, 1810.
* Appointed In place of Edward Tlffln, resigned; took his seat June -i, 1809. ■ Beslgned In 1810. • Beelgned In 1808.
• BeiBtad in place of Betum Jonathan Uelgs, jun., resigned ; took his seat Jan. 8, 1811.
Andrew Gregg.^
'Wniiam Anderson.
I>aTid Bard.
Bobert Brown.
William CrawfoitU
William Findley.
I>aniel Heiater.
Robert Jenkins.
> ghicted iireddant jira (on. Jane 26, 1809.
PENNSYLVANIA.
SEITATOBS.
I
BEPKESENTATIVES.
Aaron Lvle.
William Milnor.
John Porter.
John Rea.
Matthias Richards.
John Boss.
Benjamin Say.'
Michael Lelb.
Adam Seybert*
John Smuie.
George Smith.
Samuel Smith.
Robert Whitehill.
* Beslgued In 1809. • Elected in plaoe of Benjamin Sav, redgned; took his seat
Not. 27, 1809.
RHODE ISLAND.
8ENAT0BS.
Christopher G. ChampUn.^
Francis Malbone.'
EUsha Matthewson.
BEPBESENTATTVES.
BSchatd Jackson, jnn. | Elisha B. Potter.
>IEIeetedinpIaeeotFnnobHatbone, deceased; took his seat Jan. U; 1810. • Died Juie 4, I80B.
John Gaillard.1
Thomas Sumter.*
SOUTH CAROLINA.
SENATOBS.
BEPBESENTATTVES.
John Taylor.*
Lemuel J. Alston. Langdon Clieves.* I John Taylor.*
William Butler. - Robert Marion.* Richard Winn.
Joseph Calhoun. Thomas Moore. | Bobert Witherspoon.
> Elected prcfldent pro tern. Ffeb. 28, 1810, and April 17, IMO. ' Took his seat Not. 27, 1809 ; resigned In 1810. > Elected
■enatur in placa of Thomas Sumter, resigned; took his seat Deo. 31, 1810. < Elected in place of Bobert Morion, resigned;
took his laat Jan. 21, 1811. • Bedgnedln 1811.
OONG&ESSIONAL DIBECIOBT.
TENNI8SEB.
SKSAxaaa.
Joseph ABdenon.
el Sziiith.1
Jenkin 'Whiteaida*
BEPBESENTATTTES.
neaaant U. mUer. | John Rhea. | Bobert WeaUey.
» Bailgnwd In MM. • Elseted in idMS of Daniel Smith, ndgned; took Idt teat HaraS, 1809.
VERMONT.
8ENAT0BS.
Stephen B. Bradley. | Jonathan Bobinaon.
BEPBESKN T ATI V KU.
WaUamChambedln. | Martin Chittenden. | Jonathan H. Hnhbaid. | Samuel Bhaw.
Bichaid Stent.
VTRGnnA.
SEN-ATOBS.
Bnrwell Baasett
James Breckenridge.
WUliam A. BnrwdL
Matthew Clay.
John Clopton.
John Dawson.
John W. Eppes.
David S. Garland.^
> Elected in place of Tniion C. Nlcholaa, migned ; toolc bl< test Jan. 17, IttlA.
John G. Jaeluon, redjpied; took bia seat Deo. 21, 1810.
KEPKESKNTATIVES.
Thomas Oholson, jon.
Peteision Goodwin.
Edwin Gray.
John G. Jackson.*
Walter Jones.
Joseph Lewis, Jan.
Juhu Love.
William McKinley.'
William B.GiIeB.
Thomas Newton.
Wilson 0. Nicholas.*
John Randolph.
John Roane.
Daniel Sheffey.
John Smith,
James Stephenson.
Jacob Swoope.
> Seelsned In 1810.
«Besignedlnl809.
• Elected In place of
rNDIANA TERRITOBT.
DELEGATE.
Jonathan Jennings, l
> TookhisieatlfOT. 27, 1806; eleetioniiiisnoceMtally contested on tbagroand of iUspdlty.
MISSISSIPPI TERRITOBT.
DELEGATE.
George Poindexter.
ORLEAITS TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Julian Poydras.!
> Took Us seat Kay SI, 180*.
THK TWELFTH OONGSBSS.
87
THE TWELFTH CONGEESS.
F^nt SemoHtfrom Nov. 4, 1811, to Jvly 6, 1812. Second Settion, from Nov. 2, 1812, to March 8, 1818.
Tiee-Pn$ideiU. — Qw)vam Ctunox^ of Nev York. iVsftrleat of tha Smote pro tonpore. — Wiluax H.
CaAwroBB of 0«oigls, elected March 21, 1812. Searetarv qf the Senate.— ButxjXL Aixtmb Ona of llaaaaclia-
t&
speaker of Que Bou»e. — Hmr OtAT of Kentncky. Clerk of tA« JEToute. — Faxbiok Maobddxk of Ifaiyland.
iDiedJlpiUaO,18U.
Samnel W. Dana.
Epsplnoditiu Champloii.
Jobn Davenport, Jan.
IjymanLaw.
COlfNECTICTJT.
8ENAT0BS.
I
BEPRE8ENTATITES.
Jonathan O. Moeeley.
Timothy Pitkin, jnn.
Lewis B. Storgea.
Ohannoay Goodiloh.
Benjamin Tallmad^Ob
Jamea A. Bayard.
DBLAWABE.
SENATOBSw
I
BEFKESIQITATlVJi.
Henry M. Bidgely.
Oaterbridge Hozaey.
"WnUam Baniett.<
-William W.Bibb.
GEORGIA.
KESk-TXiBa.
Wmiam H. Crawford.! |
BEPBESEKTAXrVBS.
Howell Cobb.*
Charles Taifc
I Oeoige M. Uoap.
BolUngHaU. |
* ine«><a pnridont no Umu Ibrah SL UU. * Ileetad In jdaoe of Homll Oobb, nrigned; took bli aaat KoT. tT, UU.
• BadgneaiixISU.
QoofgelC Bibb.
Henry Clay.!
JoaephDeaha.
EENTUCET.
BENATOBS.
I
BEFRES£irrATlViS8.
Bichard M. Johnson.
Samnel MoKee.
> lOeetad apeakar Not. 4, UU.
John Fop*.
Anthony Kew.
Stephen Oimaby.
LOUISIANA.
BENATOBS.
James Brown.!
Allan B. Hogmder.*
Thomas Foaey.*
SEPBESEKTATl VK.
Thomas Boiling Bobertson.*
I rial li Ml fai plaea of Jdm Kod Daatnhan, reaJsned In 1812, havliig naror taken hla aaat; took Ida aaat Kb. B, UUL
• ItookUa aaat Kor. 18,1812. • Appolntad In plaoe of John Noel DeatnUum, lealgnad in 18U, faaTiag nsrai taken hia aaat;
laekkiisaatI>ae.T,lML « Tboklda aaat Dae. 23, 1813.
38
CONGBESSIOKAL DIBBOTOBT.
fliiUpBeed.
Stevenson Archer.
Charles Ooldsboroogh.
Joseph Kent
HARYLAin}.
S£NATOBS.
I
BEFBESENTATITKS.
Philip B. Key.
Peter Little.
Alexander McKim.
Samuel Smltli.
Samnel Binggold.
Philip Stnart.
Bobeit Wright
Jamealloyd.
EzeUel Bacon.
Abijah Bigelow.
Elijah Brigham.
Francis Carr.*
Blchard Cutts.*
William Ely.
> ElMted pmidant piv Mm.
MASSACHUSETTS.
SEKATOBS.
I
BEFRESENTATTTZS.
Joseph B. Yamnm.^
Isaiah L. Oreen.
Josiah Qnlncy.
William Heed.
William M. Kichardson.*
Ebenezer Seaver.
Samuel Taggert.
•Hook Us Mat Jme 3,1812. • Took Ui Mat Jone 8. lai.
Peleg Tallman.
Charles Tomer, Jnn.
Laban WheatoD.
Leonard White.
William Widgtty.
« Twdc Us Mat Jan. 29^ UUL
Charles Cutts.
Joaiah Bartlett
Samnel Dlnamoor.
KEW HAMPSHIRE.
SENATOBS.
I
JEmFBESENTATlVKH.
ObelHaU.
John A. Haii>er.
Kioholas Oilman.
G«oTge SoIliTan.
John Condit.
Adam Boyd.
Lewis Condit
MEW JEB8ET.
SENATOBS.
I
BEPBESENTATIVES.
Jacob Hoi ty.
George 0. Maxvrell.
Johnlambert
James Morgan.
Thomas KewboUL
Ohadlah Qeiman.
Daniel Avery.
Harmanns Bleecker.
Thomas B. Cooke.
James Emott
Asa Fitch.
Thomas B. Gold.
NEW YOBS.
8ENATOBS.
John Smith.
BEFBESENTAT1VE8.
Thomas P. Qrosvenor.*
Bobert Le Roy Livingston.*
Arunah Metcalf.
Samuel L. Mitchill.
William Paulding, jim.
Benjamin Pond.
Peter B. Porter.
Ebenezer Sage.
Thomas Sanunons.
Silas Stow.
Uri Tracy.
Pierre Van Cortlandt, jnn.
1 meoted In plaoa of Bobert Le Boy LiTlngiton, resigned; took his seat Jso. 29, ISU, • Bwilgnnil In 18U.
Jesse ExaokliiL
Willto Alston.
William BlacUedge.
Thomas Blount^
James Cochran.
Meshack Franklin.
NORTH CAROLINA.
SENATOBS.
1
BEPBESENTATXVES.
William Kennedy.*
WUliam B. King.
Nathaniel Macon.
Archibald McBryde.
Joseph Pearson.
James Tnmer.
Israel Hckena.
I<emael Sawyer.
Blchard Btaudf ord.
>I>ledFetitT,lS12. * Elected in place otTbomaaBloont, daoeued; took Ui seat Jan. S0bl81&
THB TWELFTH OOKOBESS.
89
Alezsnder CampbeU.
omo.
SENATOBS.
I
BEPKESENTATTVE.
Jeremiah Moitow.
Thomas Worthington.
Andiew Gregg.
TTilUam Anderaon.
David Bard.
Robert Brown,
"wailam Crawford.
Bcger Davis.
-WaUamFindler.
PENNSTLVANIA,
SENATOBS.
I
BEPKESENTATIVES.
John M. Hyneman.
Abner I.iacock.
Joseph Lefever.
Aaron Lyle.
James Milnor.
'William Figer.
UichaelLeib.
Jonathan Roberts.
William Rodman.
Adam Sevbert.
John Smuie.
Oeorge Smith.
Robert Whitehia
Jeremiah B. HoweU.
Sioliazd Jackson, Jan.
RHODE ISLAND.
SENATOBS.
I
BEPBESEKTAT1VE8.
I
William Hnnter.1
Elisha B. Fotter.
> Eleetsd in plaoatf Christopher O.Chami>Un,raslgnad In UU; took Ills aeat Not. SS, Ull.
John Chdllaid.
Wmiam Butler.
Jotin G. Calhoun.
LAngdon Chares.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
SENATOBS.
I
EEPBESENTATTVES.
Elias Earle.
William Lowndes.
Thomas Moore.
John Taylor.
David R. WillianiB.
Richard Winn.
Joseph Anderson.
reUx Orandy.
TENNESSEK
SESAIOB&
I
BEPBESENTATTVES.
John Rhea.
George W. CampbelL^
I
John Sevier.
< Elsotedinplaoaat JanUnWUtwIdairndgnedinUU; took bliaaat Nor. 4,1811.
VERMONT.
SENATOBS.
Stephen R. Bradley. | Jonathan Robinson.
BEFBE8ENTATITES.
ICaitin Ohittoiden. | JamesSisk. | SamuelShaw. | WHUam Strong.
BiobaidBzent.
John Baker.
BorweU Bassett.
James Biecfcenridge.
William A. BorweU.
Matthew Clay.
John Clapton.
John Dawson.
Tliamas Gholson.
VIRGINIA.
SENATOBS.
I
BEPBESEKTATIVES.
Peterson Goodwyn.
Bdwin Gray.
Aylett Hawes.
John P. Hnngerford.1
Joseph Lewis, jun.
WiUlam McCoy.
Hugh Nelson.
Thomas Newton.
Wniiam B Giles.
James Pleasants, Jon.
John Randolph.
John Roane.
Daniel Sheffey.
John Smith.
John Taliaferra*
Thomas Wilson.
> HaetJon iiinninifiilly oootested by John TsliafeiTa.
> SncceBKfally oontaitad the deotton o( John P. Haiigeifonli took bis
■eat Dec 2, Ull.
40
OONOBESSIONAL DIBEOTOST.
ILLINOIS TEiaOTOET,
DELEX2ATK
Shadiack Bond.^
< Took bis seat Dee. 3, 1812.
INDIANA TERETTOBT.
DELEGATE.
Jonathan Jennings.
MISSISSIPPI TERRITOET.
DEI^EQATE.
G«oige Poindexter.
MISaCURI TERBITORT.
DELEGATE.
Edwaid Hompstead.!
> Took his seat Jan. 4, 18U.
THE THIETEENTH CONGRESS.
Firtt Session, from May 24, 1813, to Aug. 2, 1813. Second Session, from Dec. 6, 1818, to ApnL V&, 1814.
Third Session, from Sept. 19, 1814, to March 2, 1815.
yice-Prettdent. — Biarisqk OekbtI of Massachnsetts. Presidents of the Senate pro ten^mre. — JoovH
B. Vakkuh of Massachusetts, elected Dec. 6, 1813; Jonir Oailijibd of South Carolina, elected April 18^ 1814;
and again elected Nov. 25, 1814. Secretaries of the Senate. —Baxoxl Axlthx Otis of Masaachnaetta; Chabu*
COTTS of Now Hampshire, elected Oct. 11, 1814.
Speakers of the Iloute. — Hemst Cuiy of Kentucky; Lavodon Chbvim of Sonth Carolina, elected Jan. 19^
1814. Clerks of One ^mss. — Paxkick Maobudeb of Maryland; TaoKAS DonOHXBTT of KentuekTV ftlwctfld
Jan. 30, 1818.
> Died Not. 23, 1814.
David Daggetti
XpaphrodltiM Champion.
John Davenport, jon.
Lyman Law.
CONNECTICUT.
8EKAT0BS.
I
Samuel W. Dana.
I Benjamin Tallmajgau
BEPBESEMTATTVES.
Jonathan O. Moaeley. I
Timothy Pitkin. I
Lewis B. Sturges. |
> Elected In place of C3uuuioej Goodrich, raidgned In 1813; took his seat Hay 91, 18U.
DELAWABK
8ENAT0BS.
Onterbildge Horsey. | William H. WeUa.>
BEPBESENTATITES.
Thomas Cooper. | Henry IC Bldgely.
> Elaetedtnidaeec< Jamw A. Bayard, nrigDod In 1813; tO(* Us seat Jose 10, 1813.
THE THmTBBNTH COMQRESS.
41
GSOBOIA.
MCWATOIM.
•WillUm Wvatt Blbb.>
"WiUmm B. BuUocIc'
"William Bamett.
WUliam W. Bibb.l
AUred CuUibert.'
RErRESENTATIVES.
John Forsyth.
Boiling Hall.
Tbomaa Tulfair.
Charles Tait.
George U. Tronp.
> Elected penator in place ot WUliAm H Crawford, mlgne<l in J 813, William B. Bnllocic having boon appoint«d pro trm. ;
- his MU IXoc 8, 1K13. > Appointed In place of William U. Crawford, migned in 1813: toolc hi* aeat Ma; M, 1813.
In iiljue ot waiiam W. Bibb, appohited senator; took bia seat Feb. 7, 18U.
■WlUlnm T. Barnr.»
Getirgo M. Bibb.*
Jesse Bledsoe.'
James Clark.
Henrr Clny.«
Jo(«>ph Desha.
WUliam P. DuvalL
KENTUCKY.
8ENAT0BS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Joseph H. Hawkins.'
Samuel Hopkins.'
Biclmnl M. Johnson.*
Samuel McKoe.
laham Talbot.*
George Walker.'
Thoiiia."« Montgomery.
Stephen Ormsby.
Solomon P. Bbiup.
> Bected In place of Qeorn H. Bibb, resisned; tooii iiLi !ieat Feb. 3, 181S. > Rcdgncd in 1811. • Redlrned in UU.
* Deetedln place ot Jeue Bledsoe, resigned; Ux>lc his scat Fob. 2, IH15. > Appolntol in pliico of Qeorgo M. BInb, resigned;
took bis seal Oct. 10, Ul*. • Elected spoaltor Maj 24, 1H13: resigned Jan. III. IHI4. ' Elected in place ot Uoiiry Clay,
ratlgned; took his seat March 2t), 1814. • Took his seat June 26, 18l£ • Took his scat March 7, 1814.
James Brown.
LOmSLAJTA.
8EMAT0BS,
BEPRESENTATITE.
Thomas B. Rolwrtson.
MARYLAND.
SUglus Fromentln.
Bobert Henry Goldsborough.
SENATORS.
I
Samuel Smith.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Joseph Kent.
Alexander McKira.
Nicholas R. Moore.
MASSACHUSETTS.
Baniiipl Ringi^ol)],
Philip .Stimrt.
Itobcrt Wright.
duistopher Gore.^
Portland.
Bath.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
I/Cvl HnbbBrrt.
John W. Hurlbert.'
Joseph B. Yamum.*
C'ynis KiiiK Saco.
James I'arker.
Timothy Pickering,
.lohn Keed.
WiHiam Keed.
William M. Richardson.*
Nathaniel Rugsles.
Samuel Taggen.
Artemns ward.
Laban Wheaton.
John Wilson.
Abiel Wood Wiscasset
> Aptintnted in place of James Uoyd, rerlgn«l In 181.^ ; toolc bit sent May 28, 181.1.
ins. ' Kinged In plaoe of William H. Rlcbardmn, nvlgncd ; took^ sost Sept. 22, 1814,
fas place ot Daniel Dewey, resigned; took his seat Sept. 26, ll>14.
Elected president pro lem. Dee. 9,
* Re^iencd In IsM. • ElflStad
• Took tils seat Juiie Z2, 1813; resigned AprU 8, U14.
Charles Cutts.i
Nicholas Gilman.'
NEW UAMPSHIBB.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Bomiiel Smith.
Roger VoRo.
Jeremiah Ma.<ion.*
Thomas W. Thompson.*
Dnnicl Webster,
Jeduthan Wilcox.
> App"Intrd to (IB vacancy during reccus of the Ipgii-Ifttiire; took his seat May M, 1813. • Died May 2, 1814. • Elected
fbrsdx years from Msivh 4, 18i:i, Charles Cutis having Iwcn appoUited pro lem.; took his seat June 21, 1813. • Elected la
' t of Ncfaola* OUnuui, deceased ; look his scat Sept. 19, 1814.
XHB THIRTEENTH OONOBESS.
43
Jeremiah B. HoweU.
Blcbazd JaokBon, }(m.
BHODE ISLASD.
8ENAT0BS.
I
KEPBESENTATIVES.
I
William Hunter.
Elisha B. Potter.
John Qaillard.!
John 0. Calhonn. I
John J. Chapell. I
Isngdon Cheves.* |
> Baeted piaaldeiitpn) lem. AprQ 18, ISl^ andKoT. 25, 1814, on the death of the Tloe-{
Jan. U, 1814, in place of Ueniy daj, leeigni
SOUTH CABOLINA.
SEMATOBS.
I
BEPBESEKTAT1VJS8.
Elias Earle.
David B. Evans.
Samuel Farrow,
John Taylor.
Theodore Gonidin.
John Kershaw.
William Xiowndes.
Vz.QwTj. > Elseted ipaakor
TEI7NESSEE.
SEKATOBS.
Joseph Anderson.
George W, Campbell,^
BKFBESENTATIVES.
Thomas K. Harris.'
Perry W. Humphreys.
John Rhea.
Jesse Wharton.*
JobnH.Bowen. I Thomas K. Harris.' | JohnSerler.
Xewton Cannon.* I
Felix 6rundy.4 |
> Beslgnedln 1814. ' Appointed In place of OeoiKe W. Campbell, reelsned; took hia nat April 9, 1814. • Elected in
IilaeeofFeUxaTund7,n*lgned; took his wat Oct. IS, 1814. < Besigned In 1814. • Seat Dnsuoceasfiillrcontaatedbj William
Dndley Ohace.
William C. Bradley.
Ezra Butler.
VERMONT.
BENATOBS.
I
BEFBESENTATTVES.
James Fisk.
Charles Bich.
Jonathan Bobinson.
Bichard Skinner,
William Strong,
James Barbonr.t
Bichard Brent.*
Philip P. Barbour.*
Thomas M. Bayley.*
James BreckenridKe.
William A. nurweU.
Ilacb Caperton.
Jiihn CloptoB.
John I>awson.*
Jolm W. Eppes.
VIRGINIA.
SEKATOB&
BEPBESENTATTTES.
Thomas GhoLson.
PeterMin Goodwin.
Aylett Hawes.
John P. Hnngerford.*
Johu G. .lackson.
James Johnson.^
John Kerr.
Joseph Lewis, jnn.
William B. Giles.
William McCoy.
Hugh Nelmn.
Thomas Newton.
James Pleasants, jnn.
John Boane. ■
Daniel Sheffey,
John Smith.
Francis White.
> Elected in place of Bletiard Brant, deceaied; took his seat Jan. U,181B. ' Died Deo. SO, 1814. • Elected in place of
Jabn Dawson, deceased; took Ills seat Sept. 19, 1814. • Election nnaocoeaafally-conteeted by Bonroll BaMett. • DIad
lIaRhaDbl814. « Eleetion nnsuuiessf idly contested by John Taliaferro. ' Took his seat Dec IS, 1813,
ILLINOIS TERRITORY.
DELEQATES.
BhadrackBond.! | Benjamin Stephenson.*
' Beslgned in 1814. > Elected in place of Shadrack Bond, resigned; took his seat Kor. 1^ 1811
INDIANA TERRITORY.
DEIiEQATE.
Jonathan Jennings.
44
OONOKK88IOHAL DHUBOIOBT.
MISSISSIPPI TEBEITOBT.
DELEGATE.
'WniUuD Lattimoie.1
> I«x>k hii MHri; Deo. 8, 1813.
MISSOURI TEKRITORT,
DELEOATES.
BafasEaston.! | Sdwaid Hempatead.*
> Took hkiMt Hot. 16,1814. > Took UimtJniia 10^ 1813.
THE FOUETEENTH CONGRESS.
Pint Settim,Jrm, Dec. 4, 1815, to April 80, 1816. Second Sestion, from Dec. 2, 1816, to March 8, 1817.
yie»-Pre$ldenL^ PretJdent of the Senate pro tempore. — Johk Gatt.t.art>; again elected Dec 2, 1816. Sear»-
tary of the Senate.— CoASLsa Cctts of New Hampshire.
Speaker cf the JSoum.— Hxket Clat of Kentucky. Clerk of the Houm.— Thoxas DouaHxarr of Ken-
tucky,
> EDnidse Geny, V]o»-Flcatdent of the United Statai, died KOT. 23, mi.
DftTid Daggett
Epaphroditua Cbampioii.
John Davenport, jnn.
Lyman Law.
CONNECTICUT.
8ENAT0BS.
I
BEFBESENTATTVES.
Jonathan O. Moseley.
Timothy Pitkin.
Lewis B. StoTges.
SamnelW. Dana.
Benjamin TallmadgOu
Outorliridge Honey.
Tbonaa CIa7toii.
DELAWABE.
SENAX0B8.
I
BEPBESENTATrVES.
I
> Took his sMrt Jan. 10, 1813.
William H.'W«na.>
Xliomaa Cooper.
WUliam W. BIbb.»
Cliatlea Tait.
Z«dMikCook.>
AAtrA Cut bbert.^
John I'oraytlL
' Setlcnod la IBIS.
GEORGIA.
SEKATOBS.
I
BEPBESEIITATITBS.
Boiling HaU.
"Wilson Lumpkin.
Thomas Telfair.
Oeoige M. Tionp.*
Bicbard Henty Wilde.
■ Elected In place of WQliam W. Bibb, realsned; took hla MSt Deo. 12, 181S. * Eleotad in phrm eC
.AltredOaadMit,i«8ign«di tookhlaeeat Jiu>.»,UlT. • Bosigned in 1813.
THB SOTTBTEENTH OONaBESB.
46
mOlAJXA.
SENATOBS.
JantflsKoUa^ | Waller Taylor.^
BEPBESENTATIVJS.
William Hendricks.*
iIboklitaimtDea.12,1816. > Took bis Mat Dec. 2^ ISIS.
KENTTJCKT.
"Vnniain T. BaiTy.i
Maitin D. Haidin.*
James Claik.*
Hemy Clay.*
Joseph Desha.
Benjamin Hudin.
SENATOBS.
BEPSBSEKTATlVJtS.
Thomas Fletcher.*
Bichard M. Johnson.
Almy McLean.
Samuel McKea
Isham Talbot
Stephen Ormsby.
Solomon P. Shafpe.
MicahTanl.
* Bedgned in 1818. * Appobitad in plaoe of William T. Barry, teaignad: took hi* aeat Deo. 5, 1616 ; Bnhaeqnently elected
brlefialataTa. ' Bedgned ia UlS. * Elected speaker Deo. 1, 181S. • Elected in place of Jamai Clarlc, leajgnedj took
Jsmes Broim.
LOUISIANA.
SENATOBS.
I
BEPBESENTATTTE.
Thomas B. Bobertson.
MAKTLAND.
SENAaX)BS.
EUgltiB Tiomentin.
Bobert H. Gktidsborongh.
Alexander Contee Haniaon.!
Bobert O. Harper.*
Sterenson Archer.
GeoieeBaer.
Charles Ooldsborongh.
Alexander C. Hanson.^
BEPBESENTATTVES.
John C. Herbert.
Peter Little.*
Georse Peter.*
'William Pinkney.'
Samnel Smith.*
PhiUp Stnart.
Bobert Wright.
> Elected aenator in place of Bobert O. Harper, resigned ftook Ills seat Jan. 3, MIT. * Elected from Jan. 29, 1816, to
MarebS, 1821; took bis seat Feb. 8, 1816: resigned In 1816. > Elected in place of wnUam Pinkney, resigned; took bis seat
Dec 2, 1818. * Elected in place of Alexander C. Hanson, elected senator; took his seat Dec. 2. 1816. * Took bis seat
Jan. 8, 1816; resigned in 1816, uavlng been appointed minister to Biuaiik • Elected in place of mcuolas B. Hoore^ resigned
hiUU; todElilsseBt7eb.4,1816. ^^
Ell P. Ashmmti
CihiiBtophet Owe.*
Benjamin Adams.*
William Bavlies.
George Bradbnty.
Elijah Brisham.*
Benjamin Bro-wn.
James Carr.*
8amnel& Ckmner.
' Elected in plaee of C ,
Etyah Brlgbam, daeaaaed; todc I
Jan. 18,1816.
MASSACHnSETT&
SENAIOBS.
SEPBESENTATITE8.
John W. Hnrlburt
Cyrus Kinir.
Elijah H. Mills.
Jeremiah Kelson.
Albion K. Parris.
Timothy Pickering.
John Heed.
Joseph B. Vamnm.
rOore, resigned; took bis seat Deo. 2, 1818. *
I seat Dee. 2, 1816. * Died Feb. 22, 1816. 'Took
Thomas Bio*.
Kathaniel Bngj^ei.
Asahel Steams.*
Solomon Strong.
Samuel Taggen.
Artemas wud.*
Iiaban Wheaton.
In 1816. • Elected in plaee of
aeat Dec 2, 1816. • Took Ua aeat
JoTBiniah Mason.
Chailas H. Athertan.
Ba^uy Clllay.
NEW HAHFSHIBE.
SENATOBS.
I
BEFSESENTATITES.
WUliam Hale.i
Boger Vose.
Thomas W. Thompson.
Daniel Webster.*
Jonathan Wiloox.
>TbokhhM«tJaa.U,1816. • Took Ua aeat Feb. T.UU.
■H^^^^HPHH^^^^^H
■ 46 ^^^^V CONGRESSIONAL, DIRECTORY. ^^H
^^^^B NEW JERSEY. ^^M
^^^^^B ^^H
^^^^^^ John Condit. Jomea J. Wilson. ^^H
^^^^^ BEPRESENTATTVES. ^^^|
H Ezra Baker. Benjamin Hcnnett.! Henry Snnthard. ^^^|
■ Ephraim Batoman. Lewis Cundict. Thomas Ward.* ^^^B
H^ iTookhliHat Jw. IS, 1816. • Took Ilia aeat Jan. ST, 1810. ^^H
^^H NEW YORK. ^^1
^^^H ^^^1
^^^H BufusEing. Nathan Sanford. ^^^|
^" EEPRE8ENTATIVE8. ^^^^
Am Adeate.
Daniel Avery.'
Samuel K. Belts.
James BirdsnII.
Victory Birdseye.
Jlicali Bnioks.
Danli'I Oadv.
Archibald 6. Clark.*
Oliver <l. Comstock.
Henry Urocheron.
Tliomoa R. Gold.
Thomas P. Grosvenor.
Jabex I). Uammoud.
William Irving.*
Mobs Kent.
John Lovett.
Hosea MnfUlt.
Peter B. Porter*
Erastua Boot.*
John Savage.
Abraham H. Schenck. M
John W. Tavlnr. ^^^1
EnosT. Throop.) ^^H
Gcort;e Tuwusend. ^^^H
Jonathan Ward ^^^H
Peter H. Weu.b.ver. ■
James W. Wilkin. ^
Westel Willoughb7, iaa.t
John B. Yates.
> Elected in plaoe of Enon T. Tbroop, n»iened ; took hteaokt Dee. S,ISie. > Elected In place o( Peter B.Porter, rerigned:
tnr>k bi* aeat Doc. 2, 1816. • Took bla aeal Jan. 23, 1810. • Bedgned tn 1818. • SacooMf uU; contcetnd the election o^
John Adams; took hUi seat Dee. aD,18US. • Beslgned in 181& ' SucooMfolly contested the leM of William S. Smith; to«B
bis seat Deo. 13, 1B1&. J
^^^1 NORTH CAROLINA. ^H
^^^^K SEKATOBS. ^^M
^^^^^H Nathaniel Macon.i James Turner.* ^^^|
^^^^^H Montfurt ^^^B
^^^^^ REPRF.SENTAT1VES. ^^|
H Joseph H. Bryan.
■ James W. Clark.
H John Culpcpor.
H Bamiiol Dickens.*
■ . Weldon N. Edwards.*
B Daniel M. Forney.
William Gaston.
Charles Honks.*
Willinin It. King.'
William C. Ixive.
Nathaniel Macon.'
WiUiam H. Murfee.
Israel Picken.s. ^^H
Richard Stanford.* ^^^H
Bortlett Yancey. ^^^
^^^L > Elected senator In place of Francis Loclce, reslgneil In IRIS, lUTiiig never taknn Ills seat; took his seat Deo. U, VSIS.
^^^B > Elected In nUoe of .Inines Tumor, rmigned; took his wmt Dev. U\. I)<ir>. • Ih.'xleiicd in 1816. < Elected tu plaee ot
^^^ Blcbanl Stanford, deceased; tnokblsseat l>ec. 2. 1810. ' £locu»t iu place of Natlianiol.Macon, elected senator; took tab seat
V Fob. T, 1816. • Elected tu pUco of William B. King, resigned; took bis seat Dec. 2, IblO. ' Bealgned in 1816. • Oled
^^ April B,18ia
^^^^ ^^M
^^^^^H ^^^1
^^^^^^V Jeremiah Morrow. Benjamin Buggies. ^^^H
^^^^^B REPRESEKTAl'lVES. ^^^|
^ John Alexander. William CreiRhton, Jan. John McLean.' ^^^|
^^^H JameN Cnldwoll. William Henry HarriBou.l ^^^H
^^^m David Clendenin. James Kilboum.'' ^^H
^^H > Elected in phioe of John HcLean, resigned; took bis scat Dec. 2, 1816. > Took bis seat Jan. 29, 1817. • Resigned In l^fl
^^^^B PENNSYLVANIA. ^^H
^^^^^B ^^H
^^^^^^K Abner LbcocIl Jonathan Roberts. ,^^^H
^^^^^ KEPBESENTATIVES. ^^|
H Thomas Bumsidc.i
H William Crawford.
■ William Dnrlington,
■ William Fiiidley.*
■ Uvieh (:ln.><);ow.
H I.vBHc (iritlin.
H Jolin Uahn.
H Joseph Ueister.
Joseph Hopkinsnn.
Samuel r>. Ingham.
Jared Irwin.
Aaron Llvle.
William Maclay.
WiUiiim P. Mnchiy.»
William Milncir.
William Piper.
John Ross. ^^^1
John Sergeant. ^^^H
TliomaR »mith. ^^H
James Wallace, ^^^H
Jciliii Whiteside. ^^^H
Thnnian Wilson. ^^H
William WUson. ^^*
^^^B I Iteslgnod In 1816. > Took Ills seat Dec 2, 1A16. > Elected in place of TbomnsBuraiide, resigned; took bis seat Dec. 3, IS1&
THE FOTIRTE£NTH C0NQBES8.
47
RHODK ISLAND,
SENATORS.
Jeremiah B. Howell. | WUliam Huntor.
REPnESENTATITES.
Jolm Ij. B<3ss, Jan. | James B. Mason.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
SENATORS.
John Oaillard.i
William Smitb.l.
.Charleston. !
RKPIUCSENTATI VES.
William Mayrant.*
Henrv XliddlMon.
SU'phon 1). iMiller.*
Thomas Moore.
John Taylor.*
Jcihn Taylor.
William Woodward.
John C. Calhoun.
John J. CliappcU.
Benjamin Huger.
Williaiu Lowndes.
> n«didrat pm trm.; re-el«ct«I Dro. 2, If>16. > Elcctud in place of John Taylor, radoncd; took his seat Jan. 10, I81T.
* Bcslgiwd In 1SI6, • Ueci^ixl In lUO. • Eiocted in plnuo o( WlUiam Uojnnt, restgned; look his seat Jaa. 2, IHIT.
George W, Campbell.
Willlajn O. Blonnt.*
Meitou Cannon.
TENNESSEE.
SENATOUS.
ItEPHESENTATIATS,
Bennett H. Henderson.
Samuel Powell.
John Williams.'
James B. Reynolds.
Isuno Thomas.
> Beeteil tn place of Qeozge W. Campbell, rcolKned In 1R14; took his seat Deo. 4, 18U, > Took lils seat Jan, 8, 1810.
Dudley Chaoe,
DAiiiel Chipman.
1/iitliur Jewetu
James Barbonr.
Philip B. Barbour.
Btirwell Bassett.
Jam"« BrfV'kruridBe.
WVA
T'um
J.,1
i J
T)i
-,,n
IV
Uv<
A>
Jul... 1 . i i
,..K..i
VERMONT.
8ENAT0BS.
REPRESENT.\TIVES.
Chauncey LangdoiL
Asa Lyon.
VIRGINIA.
SENATORS.
I
REPRESENTATIVES.
John G. Jackson.
James .loknson.
Jolin Kerr.
JoHpjili I>ew1.s, jun.
William .McCoy.*
niigli NelBon.
TliiiniiLS M. Nelion.*
Tlioiii.Ts Nowton.
James Flcusuiit.s, jun.
Isaac Tichenor.
Charles Marsh.
Jolm Noyes.
AxnUsteadT. Mason.*
John Randolph.
Willinm n. Koane.
Duuiul SliefTey.
Ballnrd Smith.
MaKiiiii) Tate.
Henrv St. George Tucker.
John Tyler."
> Electeal In pliice of Wtlliiun B. Oiloc, teslEnod In 1815; took Ula neat Jan. 22, Ifllff. > Died in 1816. • Died In IMS.
* BocUon unsueoawfully contoatol by Itnbert P6rt«rfleld. • Elaoted In plaoe of Thoma* Oholson, dooiaMd; took bia seat
D«e.4,UlS. • Elooted In place ct John OloptOD.deoeaaod; tookhissealDco. 17, 1816.
Nathaniel Pope.'
ILLINOIS TERRITORT.
DELEGATES.
I
< Took hia aent Deo. S, IS16.
Benjamin Stephenson.
INDIANA TERIUTORr.
DELEOATE.
Jonathan Jennings.
48
OONGBESSIONAIi DIBBCTOBT.
MISSISSIPFI TEBBITOBT.
DELEGATE.
'WiUiam Lattimoie.
MISSOUBI TEBKITORT.
DELEaATES.
BofiiB Easton. | John Soottl
> Took Ui Mat Deo. 3, 1816: his deotJon waa oontastad I? BoAii EactOD, kad dedand Olaial, aod feat neamt Ju. U, UlT.
THE FIFTEENTH CONGRESS.
Pint Se**um,Jrom Dee. 1, 1817, to April 20, 1818. Second Se»*wn,fiom Nm. 16, 1818, to Metrch 8, 1819.
Vb»-Pmident. — DAMim. D. ToxPKim of New York. PretidenU of the Senate pro tempore. — Jomt Qaiulabb
of Sonth Carolina, again elected March 31, 1818; Jamss Basbodb of Virginia, elected Feb. 15, 1819. Secrelarg
<lf ike Senate. — Chabuis Cutts of New Hampshire.
^peahar of the Botue.—Bxsst Clat of Kentucky. Clerk tf tht BbuM.— Thomas Douohkbtt of
tncky.
David Daggett.
Brlvester Gilbert.*
Uriel Holmes.'
Bbenezer Hnntingdon.
CONNECTICUT.
8ENAT0BS.
I
BEPRESESTATIVES.
Jonathan O. Moseley.
Timothy Pitkin.
Samuel B. Sherwood.
Samuel W. Dana.^
Kathaniel Tetir.
(.WilUams.
Thomas S. '
> Took his seat April 9,1818. • Elected In plaoe of Uriel Holmca, raaigned; took his seat Kor. 16,1818. » Hsalgimil In mt
"VnUaidHaU.
Onterbridge Horsey.
DELAWABK
8ENATOBS.
I
BEFBE8ENTAT1VES.
I
Kicholas Van Dyko.
Iioais HdLHie.
John Forsyth.!
Charles Tait.
Joel Abbott.
Thomas W. Cobb.
Zadock Cook.
GEORGIA.
SENATOBS.
I
BEPRESENTATIVE8.
Joel Crawford.
John Forsyth.i
Bobert Itaymond Reed.'
George M. Troup.*
WmiamTerrOL
senator In plaee of Geom M. Troap, revlgnol ; took his seat Kot. 23, 1818; resigned Febnuur, ISU. *
In 1818. > Elaoted in plaoe of J(3uiFonytli, elected senator; took bis seat Feb. 18, 1819;
THR FIFTEIONTH CONQBBSS. ^^^^^B 49
1
I
ILLINOIS. J
M
SENATOBS. ^H
^^1
mniaa Edwaids.^
1 Jeese B. Thomas.^ ^H
EEPnESEaiTATIVE. ■
John McLean.i 1
> Took hi* loiu Dee. 4, 1818. 1
INDIANA. 1
SENATOBS.
1
James Noble.
1 WaUer Taylor.
BF.PRKSENTATITE.
William Hendricks. j
1
J
KENTUCKY.
SENATOBS. _
1
John J. Crittenden.
1 Uham Talbot. ■
REPHESENTATIVES. |
H
Richard C. Asdeison, Jan.
Henry Clay. >
Joeeph Desha.
Bicbaid M. Johnson.
Anthonv Now.
Tua'itallQuarles, jiin.
G«orgo Robertaon.
Thomas Speed.
David Trimble. ■
David Walker. ■
1
L
> Elsctod apeaksr Deo. 1, 1817. ■
H
I
LOUISIANA.
^
■
SENATOBS. M
^^1
^F Eligins Fromentin.
^ 1 Henry Johnson. 1 ^
BEPBESKNTATIVE8.
^
Thomas Bntler.*
• 1 Thomas B, Robertson.*
> Eleeua In place of William C. C. Cliitbonie, deeeaied in 1817, haTlng norer taken hi* leat; took hi* (eat Fob. 96, 1818.
^^ > Xlecled In place o( Tluuna* B. BoixutMio, reilgned; look til* *eat Nov. 16, 1818. • lBa«i(ned in 1818.
^^^a
MABTLAND.
^^^^^^P
SENATORS.
^^^^^^ Sobert H. Ooldsborongh. | J^Iexander 0. Hanson.*
^^^r
BEPBESENTATrVES.
^KThoxnaa Barley.
■Vhomaa Cnlbreth.
Hjohn U. Herbert.
Peter Little. Samuel RiniKold.
GeoiKO Peter. Samuel Smith.
Philip Reed. PbUip Stuart.
> Took bla seat Nor. IT, 1818.
MASSACHUSETTS, •
SENATOBS.
^^^^^^^ "EU P. Ashman.i
^^^^^^ Prentiss Mellcn.*
Harrison Gray Otia.
REPRESENTATIVES.
'Waller Folgwr, jnn.
■ «n»othr FSilet.*
■■^KiiaGage.
^^■bUotanes.
I^^Kch IJnoobi.«
Jonatlmn Mnson.
Elijnh n. .MiUs.'
Mnrcii.'* Morton.
.Icrcminli Nelson.
Beniniiiin Orr.
Albion K. Pnrris.«
Thomas Kire.'
Nathaniel Rufa;Ies.
Zabdii'l }>«iiip8on.
Henry Slri«w.
Natiiiinit'l Sil.sbee.
Bolonidii Strong.
Ezokiel Wliitmon.
John Wilson.*
> Bmlgnad In 1818. • Boeted In place of EU P. Ashmiin, nsslgned; took hi* seat Nor. 16, 1818. • Took bia leak
Jan. t, insT « Klaetad In pUm of Albion K. Fanin, rralgned; took Us seat Nor. 10, 1818. • Took his Mat Feb. 3, 18Ub
• BaigMdlnUU. • Tookhl* M»t Jan. 21, 1818. • Took bis seat Jaa 36, 1818.
^
MISSISSIPPL
^H
SENATOBS.
^ Walter Loake.i
1 Thomas H. WUliama.'
REPBESENTATIVB.
Georgo Potndexter.
1 Took bia leat Dee. U, 1817.
^*
-4
W^50^^^^^^^^^
CONORBraiOSAL DIBECTOBT. ^^^^^^^^H
^^^^^^B
NEW H.VMPSHIBK.
SESATOhS.
^H
^^^^^H Jeremiah Maaon
^^^^p I)»Tid I.. MoitUI
.1
Clement Stoter.* ^^H
^H Jndah BaUer.
^B GUftaDClaBa*U.
SalnuBale.
ArtboT Ldvcnoor*.
Xathaniel Upham. ^^H
^^H >B«|p*dbiUIT. • Eleded In pUu of Jeremiad XMOn,mi|iiad; took hbMrt Dee. 1, KIT. ^^|
NEW JFRSEY.
■
SilSATOBS.
^^B Kalilon DIckenon.
James J. WUion. ^^^^|
BZPBESEXTATI VES.
^H
f Eplualm Bnteinan.
L Benjamin Uennctt.
1 Jo«cnh Bloom Arid.
1 Charlea Kiusejr.
NEW YOBK.
8EX.VTORS.
1 John Linn. 1
^^^^K Bnf OS King.
1
BEPRESENTATIVES.
Nathan Son/onL ^^H
W Oliver C. Omstock.
V Daniel Cnigcr.
1 John P. Cushman.
1 John U. L>mke.
^^^ Bonjaniin Kllloolt.
^^K Juriiitli Ilasbrouck.
^^H Julin llcrkiiiier.
^H Ttioiiia!) U. Hubbard.
^^M WUli.tm Irving.
Dorrani.e Kirtlond.
Tboiiii»« I„-»wver.
r ■ • "..Ion.!
.1 r
,1:: i ■r.
Ji'liii tiii\iige.
J'hilin J. hchiiyler.
Trcailwcll Siudiler.
Juliu C. Silencer.
Henry B. Stom.
Jame^ Tallmailge, jun,
John W. Taylor,
f.'ali'b Tnuipiaus.
GootBe TnwnsenJ.
Peter IL Wcndover.
r.ensiteLier Uc^ierlo.
Jumes \V. W'ilkius,
1 Took bl* teat Jan. e, 1818.
^
•
NORTH CAROLINA.
■
SENATOBS.
^^H Kathoniel Maoon.
1
EEPBESENTATITES.
1 Joitpnh n. Bryan.
^^^ Williajii I)aviil.<iin.'
^^K WeMen N. Edwards.
^^1 Charles I'iiilier.'
^^H DaJiiul &L l''orDoy.'
Tlioniat n. Hall.
Ocorgo Miimfonl.*
JauiLM Owen.
I>ciniiol Sawyer.
Tbuuias hettle.
Jeiwe .Slnonmb. ^^H
Jaues .S. .Smith. ^^H
JaineH Stewart.' ^^H
Felix \Valker. ^H
Louis Willioma. ^^H
^^H > Eleetetl In pUoo of Daniel M. Fhmoy, ra
^^^^ toiik hi* aeoi Feb. 11, ISIil.
signnl; t>j<>k lih «eat Dw. 3, 1818.
BecigneU Ui 18U. « Died Dm. SI,
OHIO.
SENATORS.
■ Elected In place of Oconie Mnmtord,d*^^^H
" """""""1
^^^^^H Jeremiah Monxn
*. 1
nEPRESEXTATIVEa.
Benjamin Bnggles. ^^H
^H^ Ixivi BacbCK.
^^B I'bilcnum BeealMT.
John W. Campliell.
AVilliam ficiiry Uarrison
BamucI HorricLi ^^M
I'etei Ultchcock. ^^B
^^^B 1 ElMtloD luuacoetHfuUjr eootestod b; C HamiiKnid. ^^^B
PENXSrLVANTA.
■
8EX.VTORS.
^^^H Abner Lacock.
1
REnUSENTATIVES.
Jonatlian Boberts. ^^H
^^^^^^ ' ^^^^un AllnSXBOIl*
P Henry llnldwin.
1 An.lrew ISinlen.
■ I.Hu-'ic lJailins:t.on.
1 iFitiK-pli Ileiiilcr.
■ Jiwenli lliipkiuson.
■ Jnenb Ho-.tott<-r.i
1 t'anjiirl i>. Inch.tin.l
^^^ 'Williaiii Miiday.
Willi-im r. Maolny.
Dnviil Slarohaud.
llolicrt Mixiro.
Samuel M<iore.»
John Miuray.
Alexander t')gle.
Thunia.H Patterson.
Levi I'awliHi,'.
Thomas J. l:ii)(er8.<
John Boss.* ^^H
John S«'rgeiuit. V
Adam Seybcrt. 1
Jai'iib Spun;;lcT.* 1
Christian Tarr. 1
James M. NVallace. M
John ^VhitPsido. ^^M
WUIioin WUson. ^H
^^^B > nio«t«t] In place of Jacob Sponj^lcr, i
^^^1 Barnaul U. Iiiekiun, rmlznol; u»k bin h.i
^^V ims. • Ru>!piod In l»ll«. • B«Bi((iiod
■mlimod ; t<v,k bU wit Nov. 10, imft. • Befigned fai IKia. • Eloctod bi jp^^H
I Nov. ic, lbl8. • CiucUid 111 ploue of John Boh, nslgncU ; took bla Mat Mi^^H
THE FIFTEENTH COKGBBSS.
61
James BuniU, Jan.
JdisL. Boss,. Jon.
RHODE ISLAND.
SENATOBS.
I
BEPICBSEKTATIVES.
I
> Took bis aeat Jan. 9, 1818.
"William Hnntar.
James B. Bfason.^
Jolm Oaillard.!
Joseph Belltnger.
£liasEarie.
Junes Errin.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
SENATORS.
I
REPEESENTATIVES.
'William Lowndes.
Henry Middleton.
Stephen D. Miller.
William Smith.
"WUson Nesbitt.
Eldred Siinklns.*
Sterling Tucker.
* Flealdent jm) tern. > Took his aeat Feb. 9, 1818; ra-elaoted Uareh 31, 1818.
George W. Campbell.^
John Henry Eaton.*
'Waiiam O. Blonnt
Thomas Claibomei
TENNESSEE.
SENATOBS.
I
REPEESENTATTVES.
Samuel Hop^.
Francis Jones.
John WiUiaroB.
George W. L. Mair.
John Rhea.
iBeslgnedlnUM. > Appointed in lAaoe of Oeoi^ W. Campbell, nilgned; took his seat Not. 18, ISIS.
Dndley Cfaaoe.i
James Fisk.*
Heman Allen.*
Samuel C. Crafts.
iBtrignedlnlSlT.
VERMONT.
SENATOBS.
I
BEPRESENTATlViSS.
William Hunter.
Orsamus C. MerriU.
William A. Falmer.*
Isaao Tichenor.
Charles Rich.
Hark Richards.
> Elected in place of thidleyChaoe, resigned; took hii seat Dee. 1,1817; resigned in 181S. ' Eleetad in
placeof James Fisk, resigned; took Ills neat Not. 18,1818. « Beslgned in 1818.
James Barbonr.i
Arehibald Austin.
^Villiam Lee Ball.
Philip P. Barbour.
Burwcll Bassiett
WUliam A. Bnrwell.
Edward Colston.
John yioyd.
Bobert a Gamett
VIRGINIA, •
SENATOBS.
I
BEPBESENTATTVES.
Peterson Goodwin.*
James Johnson.
WiUiam J. Lewis.
William McCoy.
Charles F. Mercer.*
Hugh Nelson.
Thomas M. Nelson.
Thomas Newton.
John W. Eppes.'
John Pegram.*
James PindaU.
James Pleasants.
Ballard Smith.
Alexander Smyth.
George F. Strother.
Henry St. George Tucker.
John Tyler.
■ BaetMl piesklant BTS tarn. EM>. IS, 1819. > Sled Feb. 21, 1813. • Election nnsnooaasfaUy oontested by Annistead T.
* « Elaoted in plaoe of Peterson Ooodwin, deceased; took his seat Mot. 18, 1818.
nt BTS (a
Mason.
ALABAMA TERRITORT.
OELEOATE.
John CrowelLi
I IMk his seat March 9, 1818.
ILLINOIS TERRITORY.
DELEQATE.
Nathaniel Pope.
MISSOURI TERRITORT.
DELEGATE.
John Scott.
52 OONGBESSIONAL OIBKCIOBT.
THE SIXTEENTH CONGEESS.
Pint SeM*um,Jrom Dee. 6, 1819, to May 15, 1820. Second Se*tion,from Nov. 13, 1820, to March 3, 1821.
yico-PreMimt.—T>iinm, D. Tokpkins of New York. PreOdentt <if the 8enai» pro tempore. — Zkxoi
Babbocb of Viig;iiiia; Jomr GATT.i.ARn of South Carolina, elected Jan. 2S, 1820. Stcrttary of tha Senate.—
Chablbs Cotts of New Hampshire.
Speaken of the ffoiue.— Hkmbt Cijit of Kentucky; Joan W. Tatijob of Kew Todk, elected Not. 18, 1820.
CUrk of the Bmue. —Thomas DouoHXBxr of Kentucky.
AT.ABAMA.
SENATORS.
WinUun B. Eiiig.1 Cahawba. | John W. Walker* Hnntsrllle.
BETRESEMTATIVK.
JohnCrowell* St. Stephen's.
> Took hliMiU Deo. 22, 1819. > Took Ua MiU Deo. 14, UU.
CONNECTICUT.
SENATOBS.
Samuel W.Dana Middletown. | James Lanman. ...Norwich.
BEPEESENTATl V J£8.
Heniy W. Edwards. . .New Haven.
Samuel A. Foot Cheshire.
Jonathan O. Moseley, East Hartdam.
Elisha Phelps Simsbory. I Gideon Tomlinson Fairfield.
John Boss Hartfora. I
James Stevens Stamford. I
DELAWARE.
SENATOBS.
Onterbridge Horsey Wilmington. | Nicholas Van Dyke Newcastle.
BEFBESENTAnyXS.
WUlardHall Dover. I lionis HcLane Wilmington.
OEOBGIA.
SENATOBS.
John EUiott Sunbnry. | Freeman Walker^ Angasta.
BEPBESENTATIVES.
Joel Abbott Washington. I Joel Crawford KilledKeville. I BobertB^ Beid Augusta.
Tbomaa W. Cobb Lexington. | John A. Cuthbert Eatonton. | William Terrill Spaitai
1 Elcctal In plaoe of John Foiqrth, resigned in 1819; took bis seat Deo. U, 1819.
ILLINOIS.
SENATOBS.
Kiiiittn Eilwartls EdwaiOsville. | Jesse B. Thomas Edwardsville.
BEFBESENTATIVB.
Daniel P. Cook KsBkastia.
Ik
THE SIXTEENTH CONOBE8S.
68
INDIANA.
SENATOES.
James KoUe BrookTille. | Waller l^lor Vlnoennes.
BEPREaENTATrVE.
■William Hendricks Madison.
KENTUCKY.
SENATOBS.
BichardM. Johnson > Great Crossinfr. I LOiam Talbot'..
WDliamliOgan*
REPRESENTATIVES.
Francifl Johtifwm' . .Bowling Green.
Alney McLean Greenville.
Thomas Metcalfe Carlisle,
Thomas Montgomery <■ Stanford.
.Frankfort
Kichard C. Anderson, jr. .Lonisville.
'William Brown Cyntbiana.
Henry Clay* liexington.
Benjamin Hardin Bairdstown.
Tnnstall Quarles '>
GeoTse Kobert.son. liancaster.
Daviil Trimble Montsterling.
David Walker*
> Elwted In place ot John J. Crittenden, resimed in 1810 ; took hta seat Jan. 3, 1820. • Benlgned in 1820. • Elected in
— "• - - — ■— ■ ' speaker Dec. 6, 1819: and redgned Oct 28, 1820.
• Elected in Place of TonstaU Qiurlea, rea^ned;
— -----.-, , , .--Jcuia seat dan. 3,1820. •
place of WHUam Lq«n, resigned; took bla seat Nov. 27, 1820. < Elected speaker Dec. 6, 1819 j and resigned Oct 28, 1820.
iBeetedinplaceofDsTld Walker, deceased; took hi? seat Nov. 13,1820. ' •" ~ .■-...-. ' -
took Ui seat Nor. 13, 182a > Resigned In 1820. • Died Uaich 1, 1820.
LOUISIANA.
SENATORS.
James Blown.....,, ., New Orleans. | Henry Johnson..
.DonaldsonviUa
REPRESENTATIVE.
Thomas Bntler. St. Francisville.
MAINE.
SENATOBS.
JohnCbandleri Monmouth. | John Holmes^.
.Falmouth.
REPRESENTATIVE.
Joseph Bane '. Kennebunk.
I Took his seat Nor. 13, 1820. • Elected tn place of John Holmes, elected senator; took his seat Dee. 11, 1820.
Kdward Lloyd .
MARYLAND.
SENATOBS.
.Easton. | William Pinkney i .
.Baltimore.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Srevenson Archer Belle Air. I Joseph Kent Bladensburg.
Thomait Bavley — Princess Anne. Peter Little Freedom.
Thomas Oolbreth. Denton. | Raphael Neale. Leonard Town.
Samuel Biii(»old Hagerstown.
Samuel Smith Baltimore.
Henry K. Warileld Middlebury.
> Eleoted in plaee of Alexander C. Hanson, died in 1819; took his seat Jan. 4, 1820.
Prentiss Mellen I
Elijah H. Mills* Northampton.
MASSACHUSETTS.
SENATOBS.
Harrison Gray Otis..
.Boston.
BETBESENTATIVES.
Mark L. Hill
Aaron Hobart<
John Holmes '
.Tonas Kendall Leominster.
Martin Kinsley
Samuel lathrop . . . . W. Springfield.
Enoch Lincoln
Jonathan Mason '. . .
Benjamin Adams TTzbridge.
Samuel C. Allen Northfleld.
Joshua Cushnian
E<Uraid Dowse *
William Enstis * Boston.
Walter Polger, Jnn. — Nantucket.
Timothy Fuller Boston.
Tteujamiu Garham *. Boston.
■ ReiHmied in 1820. > Elected tn place of Prentiss Hellen, resigned; took his seat Dec. 1, 1820. ■ Resigned In 1820.
' Klected in place of Edward Dowse, resigned ; took his seat Nov. 13, 1(S). • Elected tn plnce of Jonathan Mosou, rosignod:
tnnk his teat Nov. 27, 1820. • Elected in place of Zabdlel Sampson, resigned; took his seat Dec. 18, 1820. < BesTgned
ia UaO. • Bedgited In 1820. • Resigned in 1820.
Marcus Morton Taunton.
Jeremiah Nelson Newburyport.
James Parker.
Zabdiel Sampson *. . .
Henry Shaw Lonesborongh.
Nathaniel Silsbee Salem.
Ezeklel Whitman
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OOMOBESSIONAL DIRBOIOBT.
MISSISSIPPL
aSSATOBS.
David Holmes I Washington. | Thomas H. Williams Washington.
Walter I«ake >
EEPKESENTATIVE.
Christopher Rankin Katchez.
1 Elected In plaoeo{ Walter Leake, Teslcned; took hb seat Kor. 13,1830. • Bealgned in 1820.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
SENATOBS.
David L. MorriL Goffstown. | JohnF. Farrott. Portsmouth.
REPEESENTATIVES.
Joseph Buffum, jr. .Westmoreland. I Clifton Clafjgett Amherat. I William Flumer, jun £pping.
Josiah Butler S. Deerfleld. | Arthur Livermore Plymouth. | Nathaniel Upliain Rochester.
NEW JERSEY.
SENATOHS.
Mahlon Dickerson Sadcasnnny. | James J. Wilson* Trenton.
Samuel L. Southard'
REPRESENTATIVES.
Ephraim Bateman Codarrille. I Charles Kinsey* Patterson. I Bernard Smith New Brunswick.
Joseph Bloomlield Burlingtou. | John lann* Monroe. | Henry Southard Baskingridge.
> Seeted In place of James J. Wilson, raclgned; took hU seat Feb. IS, ISSO. > Bwlgned In 1821. * Took taia aeat
Feb. 16, 1820. • Died Jan. 6, 1830.
Rnfus King.
Nathaniel Allen.
Caleb Baker.
Walter Case.
Robert Claik.
Jacob H. DeWitt.
John D. Dickinson.
John Fay.
WUliaiu D. Ford.
ISxraC. Gross.
NEW YORK.
SEKATOBS.
I
REPRESENTATIVES.
James Onynn, jnn.t
Aaron Hackley, jun.
George HalL
Josie^ S. Lyman.
Henrv MeigB.
Robert Morrell.
Harmanus Peik.
Nathaniel lltcher.
Jonathan Richmond.
> SiiiiiiKufiillj eoatuted the election of Khnnemr Sage
took bis eeat .Ian. 14, 18201
of H«iuy Clay, reaigned.
Nathan Sanf ord.
Henry R. Storrs,
Randall A. Street.
James Strong.
John W. Tavlor.*
Caleb Tompkins.
Albert H. Tracey.
Solomon Van Rensselaer.
Peter H. Wendover.
Sihks Wood.
> Beeted speaker Nov. 15, 1820, In place
Nathaniel Hacon.
William a BlacldedgeLt
Hntchins O. Burton.
J. ».^ <•,.■., ■ . -.
Wtidoll N, lljAitvlSw
NORTH CAROLINA.
SENATORS.
I
REPRESEN'TATIVES.
Charles Fisher.
Thomas H. Hall.
Charles Ho<^ks.
Lemuel Sawyer.*
Thomas Settle.
Kountfort Stokes.
Jesse Slocmnb.*
Janies S. Smith.
Felix Walker.
Lewis Williams
In fi^m at Jease Skvxunbt deeessei;
took his seat FM>.
I>ec20.18L'O.
T, Ua. > Tsok Ul seat Mardi », ISU. > DM
Rngg^ea.
OHIO.
SEKATOBS.
I
BEPRESEXTATIVES.
John W. CampbeU.
Samuel Herrick.
PENNSYLVANIA.
SENATORS.
William A. TiimltleL
Thomas R. BoM.
John Sloan.
WaUtf LowiiaL
Jonathan Roberta.
THK SIXTEENTH CONGRESS.
55
Henry Baldwin.
Andrew Botlen.
'VS'iUiam Darlington.
George Dennison.
Samuel Edwards.
Tboiiias rorrest.
David Fiillerton.1
Samuel Gross.
Joseph Heister.*
> Badgned In 182D. ■ Badir
BEFTtESENTATTVES.
Jos<eph Hemphill.
Jacob Hibohinan.
Jacob HoHtetter.
WiUiam P. Maclay.
Darid Man^hand.
Thomas C}. McCullougb.*
Bobert Moore.
Samuel Moore.
John Murray.
Tbomas Patterson.
Robert Philson.
Thomas .T. Rogers.
John Sergeant.
Christian Tarr.
Dauiel Udree.*
James M. Wallace.
led In 1829. > Elected In place of David FuUerton, resigned; took his Mat Nor. 13, 1830.
eeted In place of JooepU Heister, resigned; took his aoat Jan. 8, 1821.
Samuel Eddy.
KHODE ISLAND.
SENATORS.
James Borrill, jaii.1
WiUiam Hunter.
Nebemiah B. Knight*
BEPBESENTATIVZS.
I
Nathaniel Hazard.*
'Died Dec. 25,1820. > Elected in placeof James BurriU,]nn., deoeaaed; tocdi bis seat Jan. 20, 1820. ' Died Deo. IT, 1820.
Joseph Brevard.
Elias Earle.
Jainea Errin.
SOUTH CAKOLINA.
SENATOBS.
John Gaillaid.! |
KEPBESENTATTVES.
I William Lowndes.
John McCreary.
James Overstreet.
> Eleoted preeideutpra ten. Jan. 2S, 1820.
WiUiam Smith.
Charles Pinckney.
Eldred Siiakins.
Sterling Tucker.
John Henry Eaton.
Robert Allen.
Uenry H. Bryan.
TENNESSEE.
SENATOBS.
I
BEPRESENTATIVES.
Newton Cannon.
John Cocke.
John Williams.
Francis Jonea.
JohnBhea.
'William A. Palmer.
VERMONT.
8ENATOB3.
I
BEPBESENTATIVES.
RoUin C. Mallory.*
Charles Rich.
Mark Richards.
Isaac licbenor.
Samuel C. Crafts. RoUin C^^Mallory.* | WUUam Strong.
Ezra Meech.
Orasmns U. MerriU.1
> Qeetkm neeeastnlly contested by BoIUn C. Halloiy. > Successfally contested tbe election of Onsmns C. Henlll; took Us
seat Jan. 14, 1820.
James Barbour.^
Mark Alexander.
AVilliam 8. Archer.*
William Lee Ball.
I'hilip P, Barbour.
Williani A. Burwell.<
John Floyd.
r.»l«rt B. Gamett.
John (;. dray.*
Edward B. Jackson.*
VIKGINIA
SENATOBS.
I
BErBESEMTATTVES.-
James Johnson.^
James Jonen.
WUliain McCoy.
Charles K. Mercer.
Thomas L. Moore.*
Hugh Nelson.
Thomas Newton.
Severn E. Parker.
James PindalL"
James Keasants.*
James Pleasants.!*
John Randolph.
Ballard Smith.
Alexander Smyth.
George F. Strother."
George Tncker.
John Tyler.
Thomas Van Swearingen.
Jared Williams.
> Praddent pn> tern. * Elected in place of John W. Eppcs, reslf^ncd In IMO: took hia seat Dec. 14, 1819. ' Elected in
plMV of James Pleasants, resigned: took Ids seat Jan. IN, WM. * Died Fob. 10, 1821. • Elected In iilaoo of James JohnsOR,
x^isiKxl ; took bis seat Nov. 13, 1820. • Elected in place of James PinUall, resigned ; took his seat Nov. 13. 1820. ' Keslgned
to lice. • Elected In place of Qetaga F. Strottaer, resigned ; took UU seat Nov. 13, 1810. • Beslgned In lb20. x> Beslgned iu
un. uBesigDOdiuU20.
56 OOKGBBSSIONAL DIBBCTOBT.
AKKANSAS TERRTTOBT.
DELEGATE.
James "Woodson Bates.^
> Took hb anal Uarch 2, 1830.
MICHIGAN TERRITORY.
DELEOAXES.
Solomon Sibley.^ | William W. Woodbridge.*
> EleotedtnpIaoeotWmiamW. Woodbridge,ra8)8nad; took hte mat Nor. 20, 1830. > Ibok hi* aant Deo. U, UU; tolcnel
in 1820.
MISSOURI TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
John Scott
THE SEVENTEENTH CONGEESS.
Pint Seision, from Dee. 8, 1821, to May 8, 1822. Second Sestion, frvm Dec. 2, 1822, to Monk 8, 1823.
Viee-PresUent. —Hatxieij D. Toxpkiss of New York. President of the Senate pro tenvore. —Jobs Oail-
I.ABD of Sonth Carolina; again elected Feb. 1, 1822; and again elected Feb. 19, 1823. Secretary (/ the Senate. —
CHABLB8 CuTTS of New Hampshire.
Speaker of the JBcmte. — Philip P. Babbous of Viiginia. CUrkt of the Boute. — TaoitAa Dooshxbtt of
Kentucky; Hatthkw St. Clads CiiAbkb of Pennsylvania, elected Deo. 3^ 1822.
ALABAMA,
SENATOBS.
William Kelly! 1 John W. Walker* Hontsrille.
|, WiUiaiii n. lUng Cahawba. I
BEFRESENTATIVE.
I Oabiiel Mcpoie
1 ElecteHapluQ of John W. Walker, resigned; took hia seat Jan. 21, 1823. * Besigned in 1S2S.
CONNECTICUT.
SENAXOBS.
Elijah Boonlnuui Utchfleld. | James Tinnman Korwich.
BEPBE8ENTATIVE8.
Gideon Tomlinson. Faiifleld.
Noyea Barber. frroton.
Llnjiiol Burrows .ITi liron.
Heury W. ifidwarde... New Haven.
John Buss Hartford.
Ansel Sterling Sharon.
Ebenezer Stoddard Woodstock.
DELAWARE.
SENATOBS.
Cnsar A, BcKlney 1 Wilmiogton. | Nicholas Van Dyke .....Newcastle.
REPEESENTATTVES.
Loiilii MtLane WUniingtoo. | Caesar A. Rodney > — Wilmington. | Daniel Bodney *
' Heotiid sensltiir, iiul took hin teai Jan. 24, 1S22; refrtgned in 182.% bavliig been appointed minister to Buenoa Ajms.
i EliBteil Lu place of Ctwar A. Bodnoy, elected senator; took bis seat Dec 2, 1823.
THK 8EVENTBEKTH OONOBESS. 57
GEORGIA.
SEKATOBS.
John Elliott Snnbuiy INioholasWaiei Bidmond.
BEPBESENTATITXS.
Joel Abbott Washington. I George B. Gilmer Lexington. I Edwaid F. Tattnall Savannah.
Alfnd Cnthbeit. | Bobeit B. Beid Angusta. | Wiley Thompson Xaberton.
> EleetedinplaMafTneiiUHi Walker, leslgDed in 1821; took bii Mat Deo. 11, 182L
ILLINOIS.
SiaTATOBS.
Nislaa Edwazda EdwardsriUe. | Jesse B. Thomas EdwarisTillet.
BEFBESENTATIVE.
Daniel P. Cook EdwaidsTine.
INDIANA.
BEMATOBS.
Jamas Noble. Brookrille. I Waller Tajrlor Vlnoannfla.
BITBESENTATiyES.
WiUiam Hendrioiksi Madison. | Jonathan Jennings'
'BealgDedlnUSa. ' Sleeted In place of WUllam Hendricks, reclgned; took Ub seat Dee. 2, IfflS.
KENTUCKY.
SENAXOBS.
UehajdM. Johnson Great Crossings. | Isham Talbot Frankfort
BEPBESENTATtVES.
Thomas Metcalfe Carlisle.
Thomas Montgomery Stanford.
Anthony New Elkton.
John 8. Smith Richmond.
James D. Breckenridge- . .
Benjamin Hardin. Bairdstown.
Francis Johnson. . .Bowling Green.
John T. Johnson Georgetown.
David Trimble Moont Sterling,
Samuel H. Woodson . . . Lexington.
LOUISLANA-
SENATOBS.
James Broiwn ...New Orleans. | Henry Johnson DonaldaonvlUe.
BEPBEBENTATTVE.
Josiah 8. Johnaon. Alexandria.
MAINE.
SENATOBa
John Chandler Honmontb. | John Holmes Alfred.
BEPBESENTATIVES.
Joshua Coshman Winslow.
Joseph Dane Kennfibnnk.
UarkHarrisi Portland.
Ebenezer Herrick Lewiston. I EzeUel Whitman* Portland.
MarkL. Hill Fhipsbnrg. William D. Williamson.... Bangor.
Enoch Lincoln Paris.
>EleotedinplaoeafEnkiel'WIiltinan,raslgned; took Ua seat Dec. 3,1822. > BeilgDed In US.
MARYLAND.
SENATOBS.
Edward IJoyd Easton. I Samuel Smith* Baltimore.
William Finkneyi Baltimore. |
BEPBESENTATIVES. ■
ThomasBaylr. Princem Ann. IsaaoMcKim* SamnelSmith* Baltimore.
Jeremiah Causden* Elktoa Raphael Neale Leonardstown. Henry R. Warfield. . . -Middleburg.
Joaeph Kent Bladenibarg. John Nelson Frederick Town. Robert Wright Queenstown.
PeterUttle Freedom. Philip Reed »
■ DM reb. 2S, 1822. > Elected aenator In place of William Pinkner. deceased; took hla seat Dee. IT, 1822. ' Election
ntatrnttOj eonteated by Philip Reed. * Elected la place of Samuel Smith, elected seiiatot; took bis seat Jan. 8, 18IS.
' MweaafuDy eoptested the election of Jeremiah Causdeu; took lUs seat March 20, 1822.
58
CONGRESSIONAL DIBECTOBY.
James Lloyd * . .
Elijah H. ilills .
MASSACHUSETTS.
SENATORS.
[ Harrison Gray Otto « .
Samnel C. Allen Northfield.
Gideon Barstow Salem.
FranCM Baylies Taunton.
Loiiia I^olow PeterRham.
Eenry W. D wight Stockbridge.
> . . .Northampton. {
REPRESENTATIVKS.
William Eusti.4 Boston.
Timothy Fuller Boston.
Benjamin Gorham..- Boston.
Aaron Hobart Hanover.
Samuel Iiathrop . .West Springtield.
.Boston.
Jeremiah Nelson Nevrburyport
John Reed Yariiionih.
Jonathan Russell Slcnilou.
< Elected in plaoe of Haniaon Qnr Otlx, resigned; took hia seat Dec. 2, 1822. > Resigned In 1822.
MISSISSIPPL
SENATORS.
David Holmes Washington. I Thomas H. Williams Washington.
REPRESENTATIVE.
Christopher Rankin Natchez.
HISSOURL
SENATORS.
David Barton. St. Louis. | Thomas H. Benton St Lonis.
REPRESENTATIVE.
John Soott St Genevieve.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
SENATORS.
David L. HorrilL Qoflstown. | John F. Parrott .
REPRESENTATITES.
Josiah Butler. S. Deerfleld. I Aaron >f atson Keene. I
Matthew Harvey Hopklnton. | William Plumer, jun Epping. I
.Portsmouth.
Nathaniel Uphara Rochester.
Thomas Whfpitle, jun. . Wentworth.
NEW JERSEY.
SENATORS.
Mahlon Dickerson Snckasunny. j Samuel L. Southard Trenton.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Ephraim Bateman Lendsville. I Lewis Condit Morristown. I
George Cassady Hackensack. | George Holcombe Allentowu. |
James Matlack Woodboiy.
Samuel Swan Somerville.
RnfusKing.
Charl&s Borland, ir.i .Wardsbridee.
Churchill C. Cambreleng. .N. Yoric.
Samuel Campbell Columbus.
Cadwallader D. Colden*. .N. York.
Alfred Ooiikling Canajoharie.
John D Dickerson Trov.
John Gebhard Scohaiie
John Hawke» Ricliileld.
Thomas H Hubbard . . . .Hamilton.
Joseph Kirkland Utica.
> Elected In place of Selah Tuthill,
Peter Sbarpe; took liia seat I>ec. 12, 1821
1822. • B«lgued Jan. 14, 1822.
NEW YORK.
SENATORS.
New York. | Martin Van Buren .
REPRESENTATIVES.
Elisha Litchfield Delphi.
Richard M'Carty CoxBacliSe.
John J. Morgan New York.
Walter Pattei-aon Livingston.
Jeremiah H. I'ierson ...
Natlianiel Pitcher Sandy Hill.
William 11. Rochenter Bath.
Charles H. Uuggles Kingston.
Elijah Spencer
Micah Sterling Watertown.
.Albany.
John W. Tavlor. . .Ballston Springs.
Albert H. Tracy Buffalo.
Stephen Van Rensselaer*. .Albany.
Solomon Van Bensseiaer* . Alban.v.
William W. Van Wy(-k . . .Fishkill.
Reuben H. Walworth . . Plattibunr.
Silas Wood Huntingilon.
David Woodcock Itnaca.
leceased in 1821; took his mat Dec. 3, 1821. ' Sucoeanf ally contested the election of
> Elected in place of Solomon Van Rensselaer, resigned; took Us seat Uaich 12,
Nathaniel Macon .
NORTH CAROLINA
SENA1X)US.
. . . .Monroe. | Moutfort Stokes..
.Wilkesborongh.
William S. Blackledge . . .Newbem.
Hutchins G. Burton Halifax.
Henry (/onner Falls Town.
Joftiati Cnidup Raleigh.
Weldon N. Edwards. . .Warrenton.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Thomas H. Hall Tarboroneh.
Charles Hooka Duplin C. M.
John Lims Iiimll v's Store.
Archibald McNeill.. .M'Nills Store.
Ilomulns Sanders Milton.
Ijemnel Sawyer Elizabeth City.
Felix Walker Waynesvillo.
Lewis Williams. . . . .Pauther Creek.
THE SEVENTEENTH CONQBESS. h9
OHIO.
SENAIOnS.
Ethan Allen Brown » I WllUam A. Trimble*
Benjamin Buggies St. ClairsviUe. |
REPRESENTATIVES.
Levi Barber Point Hariner. | David Chambers Zanesville. I John Sloan Wooster.
John \V. Campbell. . . .West Union. | Tbouias K Ross Lebanon. | John Vance Urbana.
* Eloetad In place of WllUam A. Trimble, deoeased; took his seat Jan. IS, 1822. * Died Deo. 13, 1821.
PENNSYLVANIA.
SENATORS.
William Findlejr Fraoklinton. | Walter Lowrie Batler.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Walter Forward ». .
Henr7 Baldwin » PittsbniK.
John Brown LewL<4town.
James Buchanan Ijancaster.
William Darlington .West Chester.
Geoi):e Denlson Wilkesbarre.
Samuel Edwards Chester.
Patrick Fenelly Meadville.
John Findley Cbambersburg.
Thomas Forrest'
Samuel Gross Trap.
Joseph Hemphill Philadelphia.
Saiiinel T>. Ingliaiii *
James M'Sherry Petersburg.
Williaiu Milnor' Philadelphia.
James S. Mitchell Rossville.
Sainnel Moore ' Doylestown.
Thomas Murray, jun Milton.
Thomas Patterson .W. Middletown.
John Phillips Hummelstown.
George Plumer Bobbstown.
Tlioiiios J. Itoi^rs Easton.
Joim Sergeant. Philadelphia.
Andrew Ste ivart UniontX)wn.
John Tod Bedford.
Daniel Udree '
Liid wig Worman > Potstown.
> Beslsned in 1822. > Elected In place of WUliain Mllnor, resigned; took bt> Beat Dec 2, 1822. > Elected In place of
Heiuy Baldwin, roeiened ; took his seat Dec. 2, 1822. ' Elected In place of Snmnel Moore, resigned; took h\» Beat Dec. 2,
1K22. * ReeUnied hi 1822. • Reaigned in 1822. ' Elected hi place of Ludwlg Worman, deceased: took his Beat Dec. 23,
Ua • Died^Ui 1823.
RHODE ISLAND.
SENATORS.
James D'Wolf Bristol. | Nehemiah B. Enight Providenoe.
REPRESENTATIVES.
JobDoifee. Tiverton. | Samuel Eddy Providenoe.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
SENATOBS.
JMraOaUIatdi Pendleton, j William Smith Ptnckneyrllle.
REPRESENTATIVES.
James Blair*. Camden.
John Carter*
Joseph Gist Pinckneyrllle.
Andrew B. Govan* .
James Hamilton, jun.' . . .
William Lowndes •
George M'Diiffle Edgefield.
Thomas li. Mitchell . . .Georgetown.
James Overstreet* King Creek.
Joel R. Poinsett Charleston.
Sterling Tucker . .Mountain Shoals.
John Wilson Golden Grove.
■ Elected president pro tan. Feb. 1, 11)22, and Feb. 19, 1823. > Resigned in 1822. * Elected in place of James Blair,
nsicned; tookbtaaeatD«R.II,lg22. * Elected In place of James Overstreet, deceased ; took lila seat Deo. 4, 1822. 'Elected
to lOace of WlUiam losmdea, reiilgued ; took his seat Jan. 6, 1823. • Resigned in 1822. ' Died iu 1822.
TENNESSEE.
SENATOBS.
John Henry Eaton ■. NashvlUe. | John Williams KnoxvlUe.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Kohert Allen Carthsf^. I Newton Cannon Harpeth. I Francis Jonea Winchester.
HeniyH. BryaD^ Palmyra. | John Cocke Butledge. | John Rhea Sulivan.
■ Bapoited to hare been duly elected b; the committee on eleetions Feb. IT, 1823; but appears never to hare taken his seat
VERMONT.
SENATORS.
William A Palmer Danville. | Horatio Seymour Middlebury.
REPRESENTATIVES.
femnel C. Crafts Craftsbnry. I Bollin C. Mallory Poultney. I Charles Rich Shoreham.
EliasKeyes Btockbtidge. | John Mattocks | Phineas White Putney.
t
THB EIGHTEENTH CONQCESS.
61
COITNrECTICUT.
SEKATOBS.
Benzjyf. Edwardsi Kew Haven. | James Lanimui Korwlch.
BEPRESENTATIVES.
Ko7e8 Barber Gioton. I Ansel Sterling Sharon. I Gideon Tomlinson Fairfield.
Samuel A. Foot Gbeshire. | Ebenezer Stoddard. . . . .Woodstock. | Samuel Whitman Fannlngton.
> Appointed In plaoe of Elijah Baaidiium,deaeaaed in 1823; took hla seat Deo. 1,1823; labgeqaenUy eleoted by the legiilatara.
DELAWARK
8ENAT0BS.
Thomas Clayton 1 | Nicholas Van Dyke*
KEPBESENTATITE.
Louis McLane Wilmington.
> Zlected In plaee of CoMr A. Bodnoy, resigned in 1823; took his seat Jan. 16,1821. ' Took lUs seat Jan. 14, 1824.
GEORGIA.
SENATOBS.
Thomas W. Cobb^ Greensborongh. I Nicholas Ware*..
JohnJBlliott Sunbury. |
BEFKESEMTATIVES.
Alfred Cuthbert Eatonton.
John Forsyth Augusta.
Edward F. Tattnall> Savannah.
.Blohmond.
Wiley Thompson EUerton.
Richard Henry Wilde *...
Joel Abbott Washington
George Cary Applina
Thomas W. Cobb^.Greensborough
> Elected lenator In place of Nicholas Ware, deceased ; took hLi aest Deo. 6, 1824. > Took his seat Jan. 19, 1824 ; died »
KA. ' Took Ilia Mat Match 27, 1824. • Elected in place of Thomas W. Cobb, elected senator; took his Best Feb. T,
ILLINOIS.
SENATOBS.
Jesse B. Thomas.
Nhiian Edwards* Edwardsville. l Jesse B. Thomas Edwardsvllle.
John McLe&n *. |
BEPBESEITCATIVE.
Daniel P. Cook Edwardsville.
> Betlgnad in 1824, baring been appointed minista to Mexico. > Elected in plaoe of Nlnlan Edwards, resigned; tooklilsseat
Dec 20, 1824.
INDIAKA.
SENATOBS.
Jamas Noble Brookville. | Waller Taylor YinoennflS.
KEPBESENTATIVES.
Jonathan Jennings CharleatoiL
William Ftince > FrincetoiL
I John Test Brookville.
Jacob Call * Princeton.
tDledtnU24. • Elected in place of WUllamPrlnoe, deceased; took Us seat Deo. 23, 1824.
Biebaid U. Johnson.
Kicbard A. Bnckner.. .Greensburg.
Henry Clay ^ Lexington.
Robert P. Henry Hopkinsville.
Fiands Johnson . . .Bowling Green.
KENTTJCKT.
SENATOBS.
.Great Crossings. | Isham Talbot ....
BEPRESENTATIVES.
John T. Johnson Georgetown.
Robert F. Letcher Lancaster.
Thomas Metcalfe Carlisle.
Thomas P. Moors . . . .Harrodsbnrg.
* Elected speaker Deo. 1, U2S.
.Frankfort
Philip Thompson Yellow Banks.
David Trimble Mount Sterling.
David White New Castle.
Charles A. WickliSe. . . .Bardstown.
LOUISIANA.
SENATOBS.
, I Henry Johnson* Donaldsvilla.
I Josiab S. Johnston*
BEPBESENTATIVE8.
'Wniiam L. Brent. .St Martinsvllla | H. H. Gnrley Baton Ronga | Edward Livingston. . .Netw Orleans.
Dominique BouUgny >
James Brown*
* Elaetad in place of Henty Jofanaon, rsali
-' — - t to nance. •Bedgnedinl
ned; took hto neat Dec. 21, 1R24. • Beelgned Dec. 10, 1823, havlne been appointed
Bl. tEleotedlnplaaeof James Blown, raslgiied; took bis Mat March 12, 1824.
62
0ONORE8SIONAL DIBBCTOBT.
John Chandler .
'William Burleigh S. Berwick.
Joshna Cusliman Winslow.
Bbenezer Uerrick. . . .Bowdoinliam.
MAINE.
SENATORS.
Monmouth. | John Holmes Allied.
EEPKESENTATITES.
David Kidder Norridj^wock. I Jeremiah O'Brien Mjy>><i^iff
Enoch Lincoln Paris. I
Stephen Longfellow Portland. |
Edward Uoyd..
MARTLAKD.
SEKATOBS.
.Easton. | Samuel Smith .
"WUliam Hayward, jnn Easton.
Joseph Kent Bladenshurg.
John Jjee Pe tersviile.
HEPRESENTATrraS.
I Peter Little Freedom. I
Isaac McKim.., Baltimore.
I George £. MitcheU. Klkton. |
.Baltimore.
Raphael Keale Leonatdstown.
John 8. Spcnce Ponlartown.
Henry B. Wartield Middlebnrg.
James Lloyd f..
MASSACHUSETTS.
SENATOB&
. . . .Boston. I Elijah Hunt Mills .
EETRESENTAXrVES.
.Korthampton.
Timothy Fuller Boston.
Aaron Hohart Hanover.
Samuel Iiathrop . . . .W. Springlield.
John Locke A-sliby.
Jeremiah Is'elson Kewburyport.
Samuel C. Allen Green.
.Tohii Bailey ' Canton.
FrancLi Baylies Taunton.
Benj. \V. Crowninshield Salem.
Heiuy W. Dwight Stockbridge.
> Seat declared Tacant March Ig, 1824; elected, and took Us seat Deo. 13, 1SZ4.
John Beed Tarmouth.
Jonas Sibley. Worcester.
Daniel Webster. Boston.
MISSISSIPPL
SENATOBS.
David Holmes Washington. | Thomas H. Williams Washington.
BEFBESEKT ATI V E.
Christopher Rankin. Katchez.
David Barton .
MISSOURI.
SENATORS.
.St. Louis. IThomasH. Benton St Loots.
BEPBESENTATrVE.
JohnSoott St Genevieve.
.Portsmouth.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
SENATORS.
Samuel Bell Chester. | JohnF. Farrott.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Ichaboil liartlett Portsmouth. I Arthur Liverraore. Plymouth. I WiUiam Plumer, jnn. Epping.
Matthew Ifarroy . . . Hopkinton. | Aaron Matson Stoddard. | Thomas Whipple, jtin. . WentwortE.
NEW JEKSET.
SENATORS.
Malilon DIckeraon Suckasunny. | Joseph M'llvatne ' Burlington.
REPRESENTATIVES.
GeoTRe Ca».<iady . ...... Hackensack. I Daniel Garrison Salem. I James Matlack Woodbury.
ewia
Lewis Cunilitt,
.Jlurristown. | George Holcombe AUentown. | Samuel Swan. SomervUle.
> Einted in place of Samael L. Southard, resigned in 1823; took his seat Deo. 1, 1823.
Bufus King.
NEW YORK.
SENATORS.
.New York. | Martin VanBoren Albany.
THE EIGHTSBNTH COKOBESS.
63
REPRESEHTATITES.
John Herkimer Danube.
.Tames L. Hogeboom Castleton.
Lemuel Jenkins Bloom ingburg.
Sam'l Ijiwrence. Jolinson'«Settrmt.
Klisha I.itelifield Delphi
Henry C Miirtindale. . .Sandy Jlill.
Dudley Marvin Canandaigua.
John J. ilorean New York.
John Richanls Johnsbuig.
Kobert R. Kose Genera.
Peter Sharpe New York.
Henry R. btorrR Whitestown.
Farmpnio Adams > Batayia.
John W. Cady Jolmstown.
Cbnn'hill C. Cambreleug. .N. York.
Lot Clark Norwich.
Ela Collins Lowville.
Hector ('raig Cheater.
Kowland Day Simpronius.
Jn.stiu Dwiuell Cazenovia.
Lewis Eaton Schoharie Bridge.
Charles A. Foote. Delhi.
Joel Frost Cannel.
Moses Hayden York.
> SuooMsfally contested the election of Isaac WUlianu; took his seat Jan. 7, 1824.
Parmenio Adams.
James Strong Cit.v of Hudson.
John W. Taylor . .Ballstoii Springs.
Egbert Ten liyck Watertown.
Albert H. Tracy Buffalo.
Jacob Tyson Castletown.
Stephen Van Ronsselaer ..Albany.
William Van Wyok FishkilL
Isaac Williams Cooper-itown.
Lsaac Wilson * Middlel)urg.
Silas Wood Huntingdon.
William Woods. Bath.
a Election saccessf ully contested by
John Branch.
NORTH CAROLINA.
8ENAT0BS.
— Enfield. | Nathaniel Macou. .
.Monroe.
Hatchins O. Burton > Halifax.
Henry W. Conner. .Sherrill's Ford.
John Culpeper. Lawrenceville.
Weldon N. Ixiwards . . . Warrenton.
Alfred M. Gatlin Edentou.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Thomas H. Hall Tarborongh.
Charles Hooks Duplin.
John Long Lindley's Store.
Willie P. Mangiim.. ..Hillsborough.
George Outlaw "
Romulus M. Saunders Milton.
Richanl D. Spaight Newbem.
Robert B. Vance Nashville.
Lewis Williams Panther Creek.
Beaigned in 1824. > Elected In place of Hutohlns Q. Bnrton, resigned ; took his seat Jan. 19, 1825.
Benjamin Boggles.
HordecaJ Bartley Mansfield.
Philemon Beci'her Lancaster.
John W. Camptiell. . . .West Union.
James W. Ga^y Cincinnati.
BuDcwi M'Arthur Chiliicothe.
OHIO,
SENATORS.
.St Clairsville. | Ethan Allen Brown.
REPRESENTATIVES.
William M'Lane PIgna.
John Patterson St. Clairsville.
Thomas B. Boss Lebanon.
Joseph Sloane. Wooster.
Joseph Vance TTrbana.
.Cincinnati.
Samuel T. Vinton. GallipoUs.
Ellaha Whittlesey Canfield.
William Wilson Newark.
John C. Wright Steuben ville.
William Findley.
PENNSYLVANIA-
SENATORS.
■Franklinton. | Walter Lowrie.
REPRESENTATIVES.
.Butler.
.Tanies Allison Beaver.
tjamnel Breek Philadelphia.
.lohii Brown Lewistown.
James Bnchanaii Lancaster.
Saimiel Edwanis Chester.
William Cox Ellis Muncy.
Patrick Farrelly Meailville.
John Findlay Chamhersbnrg.
Walter Forwanl Pittsburg.
Bobert Harris Harrisburg.
> Eeslgnsd 1B2(. • Elected In place of John Tod, leslgned ; took his seat Dec. 6, 1821. • Resigned in 1821
place of Thomas J. Rogers, resigned ; took his seat Dec. 9, 182i.
Joseph Hemphill Philadelphia.
Samuel D. Ingham New Hope.
George Kreaiiier Lewisburg.
Samuel M'Kean Burlington.
Philip S. Markley Norristown.
Daniel H. Miller
James S. Mitchell Boseville.
Thomas Patterson, W. Middletown.
George Flumer liobbstown.
Thomas J. Rogers > Easton.
Andrew Stewart ITnlontown.
Alexander Thompson ' Bedford.
John Tod « Bedford.
Daniel Udree Readhig.
Isaac Wayne Warren.
Henry Wilson Allentown.
James Wilson Fairtield.
G«orge Wolf ^ Easton.
< Elected In
RHODE ISLAND.
SENATORS.
Junes D'Wolf. Bristol. | Nehemiah B. Knight Flovldenoe.
REPRESENTATIVES.
JobDnrfee. Tiverton. |SamaeIEddy Providence.
John Gafllard >.
Roliert B. Campbell. . .Brownsville.
John Carter Camden.
Jineph Gist Pinckneyville.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
SENATORS.
, Pendleton. | Robert Y. Hayne.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Andrew R. Govan Orangeburg.
James Hamilton, jun.. .Charleston.
George M'Duflie Edgetield.
> Piealdentpro tern. ; re.eleated May 21, 18S4.
.Charleston.
.Toel R Poinsett Charleston.
Starling Tucker . .Mountain Shoals.
John Wilson Golden Grove,
THIS NIKEnEBNTH CONOBBSS. 65
THE NINETEENTH CONGRESS.
Pint Settion,Jrom Dee. 6, 1825, to May 22, 1826. Second Session, from Dee. 4, 1826, to March 3, 1827.
Tiee-PrexidenL—JoHS 0. CaXiHouit of Sonth Carolina. PTuidenis <^ tAe Senate pro tempore.— Jobx
Gaillakd of Sonth Carolina, elected March 9, 1825, in special session; Kathaitcel Macok of Korth CaroUoa,
elected Hay 20, 1826, and again elected Jan. 2, 1837, and again elected March 2, 1827. Secretaries of the Senate. —
Cbables Cuttb of Ne-w Hampshire; Waltsb Lowbie of Pennsylvania, elected Dec. 12, 1825.
Speaker of tiie Bouse.— JoBK W. Tatix>b of New York, derto of the ffouM.— Matthbw Si. C1.AIB
Clabeb of Fennsylvanla,
ALABAMA.
SENAT0B8.
HeniyChambeigi Madison. I John MoEinley* HimtsvlUe.
William B. King ...Cahawba. | Israel FickenB<
KEPKESEKTATIVJSS.
JohnMcKee. Toacaloosa. | Gabriel Moore Hnntsville. I OeoigeW. Owen Cl^bome.
> DM Jan. 25, 1836. > Elected In place of Heniy Chambers, deceased, Israel Pickens baying been appointed pro tern. ; tcxdc
bit aest Dec. Zl, 1836. < Appointed In plaoe ot Henry Clumbers, deoeaaed; took bia seat April 10, WO.
COKNECTICUT.
SENATOBS.
HeniyW. Edwards New Haven. | Calvin Willeyi Toland.
KEPBESENTATTVES.
John Baldwin Windham. I Balph J. IngersoU New Haven. I ElishaFhelps Slmsbnry.
Koyes Barber Groton. | Orange Merwin Kew Milford. | Gideon Tomlinson. . . . .Farmington.
■ Bsetsd In plaoe o< James Tianman, ^^pointed dniing reoesa of legtelatare, bat whom the senate declared not entitled to a seat.
DELAWARE.
SEKATOBS.
Jliomaa Clayton Dover. I Henry M. Bidgelv* Dover.
Daniel Rodney 1 | Nicholas Van Dyke* Newcastle.
BEFBE8EKTAT1VE.
lAoisMcLane Wilmington.
' Appointed in pitoe of NIcholaB Van Dyke, dcoeased; took his seat Deo. 4, 182B. > Elected in place of Nicholas Van Dyke,
deoeaaed, Daniel Bodney having been appobited ;>ro tem. ; took his seat Jan. 23, 1827. • Died In 1826.
OEOROIA.
SEKAXOBS.
John UePheiaon Berrien Savannah. | Thomas W. Cobb Greensborongh.
BEPKESSENTATTVES.
9<fKB Carey Appling. I Charles E. Haynes Sparta. I Wiley Thompson. Elberton.
Alfied Cothbert Eatonton. James Merriwether Athens.
JohnFonyth Angosta. | EdwardF. Tattnall Savannah. |
ILLIKOIS.
8EMAT0BS.
ZUasBLEane Easkaskla. | Jesse B. Thomas EdwardsviUo.
BEFBESENTATITE.
D»nWlP.Cook Edwardtvflle.
LoiUfvilltL
Thomas P. Moore nurrodstinij
Dav-iil Trimhle Mount Sterlini
Charles A. Wickliffo Bardstoiri
William a Yonng . EUiabetb Town.
• Elected in plaoeoCJ
LOUISIANA.
SENATOBS.
Domlnlqao BouligDy New Orleans. | Josiah 8. Johnston .Donaldirllla
EEPRESENTATIVE8.
William L. Brent . .St. Martinsvllla | Henry H. Gnrloy Baton Bonge. | Edward liTiugston . .New Odem.
MAINE.
8ENAT0B8.
.Monmouth. | John Holmes
r>a\'irl Kidilur Norridgowock.
Enoch Lincoln i Paris.
Jeremiah O'Brien Machias.
Pel eg Spragne Hallowdl
James W. Ilipley * Fijebmi.
> Elooted In pUoe of Enoch Unoolu, raslgnad : took hi* aaat In OeooMi
1838.
MARYLAND.
Baltimcn
JolmO. We«nw< Wateitoo.
Thomas O. Worthington.
Froderidcwwu-
SENATOBS.
Ezekiel F. Chambers > Cbestcrtown. | Samuel Smith ,
Edward Lloyd ' Easton.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Peter Little Freedom.
llolwrt. X. Martin Princess Ann.
George E. Mitdioll Elkton.
George I'eter Daniestown.
> Elootod ill plAce of Edwanl Uoyd, resigned ^took Ills mat Feb. 22, 1826. • Rflrigned In 1626. • Bnlsned Ju. f I
having lieen elooted governor. < Eleoted in place o( Jooeph Kent, restgnod ; took his aeat Feb. T, UBO,
MASSACmrSETTa
SENATOBS.
Jnme.t Lloyd > Boston. I Nathaniel Silsbee*.
Elijah Hunt Mills NortJiamptoii. |
Somnel C. Allen Oreonfield.
John Bailey , Canton.
Frouris Baylies Taunt/m.
Benjamin w. Crowninshiold, Salem.
John DaviH Worcester.
KEPRF.SEXTATIVES.
Henry W. Dwight Stookbridgo.
Edwanl Kvorett t'ambridso.
Aaron Hobart E. Bridgowater.
Samuel I.iallirop W. Spnngliold.
John Ivocko Ashby.
John Reed Tani>i«|^
John V'arnuin nuTertiUl.
Daniel Webster. ft««*
> BMlgned In 183(1. • Eleotod in plaoo of James Lloyd, roslgned; took Ills aoat Deo. 4, 18SS.
THS mNEIBENTH 0ONOBB8S.
67
HISSISSIPPL
SENATOBS.
Powhatan EIUsi Winchester.
DbtU Holmes*. Washington.
Thomas B. Beed* Katchec
Thomas H. Williams Washington.
EEPBESENTATiyES.
WniiamHaile*. Woodville. | Christopher Bankin < Natchez.
> Af|iaibitedte]flaMof Dnld Holinn, ndgjtied lnJI.Si5;_took bia aeat Dee. 12,1825. > Bealmed in 1826._
[Uarah 1*, 1828.
• Elected in
iboa of BtswiA Holmea, Tesigiied in 1825, Powhatan Ellis having been appointed pro tern.; tooE^ liia smt Harsh 11, IBSJis.
> Bactad In plaroa of ChrlMopher BanUn, deoeaMd; took bia seat Deo. 4, 1826. •Died]' *- "
MISSOURL
SESAIOBa.
David Barton St Lonis. | Thomas H. Benton .' St LonJa.
BEFBESENTATIVE.
JohnSoott , StGeneTieTa.
NEW HAMFSHIBB.
8ENAT0BS.
BamselBalt Chester. | LbtI Woodbory .
KEPBESENTATITES.
Ichabod Bartlett. Fortsmonth. I Kehemiah Eastman... Farmington.
Titos Brown Fzanoestown. | Jonathan Harvey Button.
.Portsmoath.
Joseph Healey Washington.
Thomas Whipple, jnn. . Wentworth.
MXW JEBSEY.
SEKATOBS.
Ephndm Bateman 1 I Joseph HonTaiiM* Bnrilngton.
Mahlon Dickeison. Snckasnnny. |
BEPBESEKTATIVES.
I Daniel Garrison Salem. |
I Gkorge Holcombe Allentown.
> Elao(edlnidaoe<tf JoseidiMoIlTatne, deoeaaed; took his seat Deo. 7, 1825.
Geone Cassedy Haokansaok. ]
I^wuCondict Horristown.
I Samuel Swan SomerviUe.
I Ebenezer Tucker Taokerton,
•Died in UK.
Nathan Santotdt..
Parmenlo Adams Attica.
William O. Angel Burlington.
Henry Ashley CatakilL
Luther Badger Janesvilie.
CUurehill C. Cambreleng. .N. York.
William Deitz Court House.
Xiooll Foedick Morristown.
Uanlel O. Oamsey Fredonia.
John Hallock, jun. BidgeiMrry.
Abraliam B. Uasl>roack..Kusston.
Mates Harden .York.
Micliael Hoffman. ...... .Herkimer.
NEW TOKK.
SENATOBS.
Albany. | Martin Van Boren.
BEPBESENTATTVES.
Daniel Hngunin, jnn Oswego.
Charles Humphrey Ithaca.
Jeromns Johnson New York.
Charles Kellogg KellogsTille.
William McManos Troy.
Henry Markell Palatine.
Henry C. Martindale. . .Sandy Hill.
Dudley Marvin Gananoaigna.
John Miller Truxton.
Timothy H. Porter Olean.
Bobert S. Boee Geneva.
Henry H. Boss Essex.
.Albany.
Joshua Sands Brooklyn.
Henry B. Stons. Whitestown.
James Strong City of Hndson.
John W. Taylor'' .Ballston Springs.
Egbert Ten Eyok Watertown.
Stephen Van Rensselaer . . .Albany.
Gulian C. Verplanck — New York
Aaron Ward Mt Pleasant.
Barton White SishkiU.
Elisha Whittamore . . .
Silas Wood Hnntingdon.
> Took Us seat Jan. SI, 1825. > Elected speaker Daa 5^ 1826.
John Branch.
NOBTH CABOLIKA.
SENATOBS.
Enfield. I Nathaniel Macon >.
.Mbnzoe.
yniis Alston Hyde Park.
Y^el U Barringer< Baleigh.
JohnK. Bryan Newborn.
Bomnei P. Caison. Pleasant Garden.
Henty W. Conner . .Sherrill's Ford.
< BmM pMUantjiio Urn. May 20^ 1828.
KEFUESENTATrVES.
Weldon N. Edwards Warrenton.
Bichard HineM Edgecombe.
Gabriel Holmes Clinton.
John Loni; Long's Mills.
Archibald McNeiU-McKeiU's Store.
WUlie P. Mangum*.Bed Mountain.
Bomuliis M. Saunders Milton.
Lemnel Sawyer Elizabeth.
Lewis Williams. . . . .Panther Creek.
> Elected in place of Willie P. Mansum, lealcned; took Us seat Dae. 4, 1828.
• Beaigned March 18, 1828.
68
00NOBBS8I0NAL DIBECTOBY.
'WBUvn Bbniy HanisQii .
Monlec«i Bartley Mansfield.
Philemon Beecber Lancanter.
John W. Campbell. . . .West Union.
James Findlay Cincinnati.
Davitl Jennings i ... .St. ClaiisTiU^.
OHIO.
SENAT0B8.
Cincinnati. | Benjamin Boggle*..
KEPRESENTATl V ES.
William McLean. Piqna.
Thomas Shannon* BamesvUle.
Jolin Sloane Wooster.
John Thompson ChilUcothe.
Joseph Vance XJrbaoa.
.St ClaiisTille.
Samuel F. Ylnton. Oallipolis.
Elisha Whittlesey Canlield.
William Wilson. Newark.
John Woods Hamilton.
John C. Wright SteabenviUa
Bcalgned in uas. > Eketed in j^aee of Darld Jennings resigned; took Uawst Dae. 4, 18M.
WnUamFindlay.
William Addama. Beading.
James Buchanan I^tncaster.
Samuel Edwards. Chester.
Patrick FarreUy ^ Headrille
Jcdin Findlay Chamlieisburg.
ChaoDceT Fonraid * Somerset.
Bobert Harris Harrisborg.
Joseph Hemphill*. . . .Philadelphia.
Samuel D. Ingham New Hope.
Thomas Kittera * Philadelphia.
PKimSTLVANIA-
SEKATOBS.
nttsbntg. I William Marks..
BKPRESESTATTVES.
I JacobKrebs* Orwipbnrg.
I Geom Kreiner Lewisbnrg.
I .Toseph Lawrence. Washington.
I Samuel M'Kean ...Burlington.
I Philip S. Harkley Korristown.
I Daniel H. Miller Philadelphia.
I Charles Miner West Chester.
' James S. Mitchell Boseville.
I .lohn Mitchell Bellefonte.
I Bobert Orr Kittanning.
.Plttsboig.
Oeoige Plnmer. Bobbsto wn.
Thomas H. Sill' Erie.
James S. Stevenson PittebuTX-
Andrew &ewart Uniontown.
Alexander Thomson ^ Bedford.
Espy Van Home.. . . .Williamsport
Henry Wilson * Allentown.
James Wilson FairHeld.
GeorgeWolf Easton.
John Waits Philadelphia.
> Died Jan. 13, 1836. ' Elected in place of Alexander Thomson, nvlgned; took his seat Dee. 4, 1828. • Badsned bi
1<C6. • Ek-cud in place of Jo>.eph Uemnhill. re>>ipird; took his seat Dec. 4, 183S. • Elected in place of Henry Wilson,
deceased; Uxik Ids &6U, Dec 4, 18;S. • I:Uecled lu place of Paoick FureUr, deoeMed; took bia MM April 3, 183S. ' B«-
signed in 1S36. 'DiedinlSaS.
BHODB ISLAND.
SEKATOBS.
James lyWolft Bristol. I Asber Bobbins* Kewpoit
Kehemiah B. Knight Providence. |
KEPitESEXTATrVES.
Tristam Barges Providenoe. | Datee J. Pearoe Kewpoit
■ BedgnsdUB. > Sleeted b> place of James D' Wolf, raigned; took his aeat Dee. S,ia&
SOUTH CAROLDfA,
SEKATORS.
John Gaillaid 1 Pendleton. I Robert T. Havne Chailestoa.
William Harper* | WUliamSmi;h< Charleston.
JoknCart«T Casidea.
Williaiu Dnytcn Charf wm »■.
JoMfikaist Pin^kDeyrUte.
BEPBESEJCTATITES.
Aihlrew R. t";oTan OrMuzeburjj.
,T.-unes II:uu;i;on. fb.irleston.
George McLtume K(lg\:licM CH.
Thomas B. Mitchell . ..Georgetown.
Si.irlini; Tncker . .Monntain Sboals.
John Wilson Golden Grove.
Mv^i. 9, ISS, special session: .li.'J FoN, 35, 1*38. « Aprrnnted in plaee of John Oalllaiil,
iBTb f.. yjt. • Elected in |>Uce of tk>lui Gaiilanl, deceased, William Haiper laiTii^beenappoistea
TKXKESSEE.
SEXAIX^RS.
JWkaR. Earai y.ishTir.o. , Hugh Lawson White* KnoxriHe.
AadiT^Ji'fcsoM *...... Xi^^uviUe. |
RErRE«ENT.VTlVE&
Aiaaifi. Alrsaalw Jarkspo. I -Tohn 0.>-k,> Ratlelw. ! 'ohn H. M.inible Yellow Creek
fcfc««An»« C^jthaiv. I ;si:.::ol Hoi-..'- >a. N.i<..\ ..V. .i.i:;:i^C. M;-..lielL Athens.
Jota Blair ..Jtianhutooih. i J.»Co!>C. Is.kkii Wm,.htst<:r. 1 .>ai;iesK. IVnt. Columbia-
■ k^pal !■ Its. > nr^-b-d in place of Andrew J*rk>OD, rasigaed ia tSS: tixA his teat Dee. IS, '— f
THE TWENTIETH OOKOBESB. 69
VERMONT.
SENATORS.
Dudley Chase Bandolph. | Horatio Beymonr SOddlebnry.
BEPKESENTATIVES.
• *
'William C. Bradley.. Westminster. I John Mattocks Pearham. I OeoigeE. Wales Hartford.
BoUiu C. Mallary Foultney. | Ezra Meech Shelbum. |
VIRGINIA.
SENATOBS.
Junes Barboori BarbonrsvUle. I littleton W. Tazewell Norfolk.
John Bandolph 3 Charlotte. |
Mark Alexander Lombardy.
William S. Archer Tnntilston.
William Armstrong Bomney.
Jolin 8. Barbour. . . . .Cnlpeper C.H.
Burwell Bat-sett Williamsbnrg.
Nathaniel H. Claiborne .Rocky Mt.
Geoiife W. Crump •.Cumberl'd C.H.
Tbomas Davenport Meadsrille.
BEPRESENTATIVES.
Benjamin Estill Abinedon.
John Floyd Newbem.
Robert S. Garnett. Lloyds.
Joseph Jolinson Bridgeport.
William McCoy Franklin.
Charles F. Mercer. Aldie.
Tbomas Newton Norfolk.
Alfred H. Powell Winchester.
William C. Rires Milton.
William Smith LewisbutK.
Andrew Stevenson Richmond.
Jolin Taliaferro Fredericksburg.
Robert Taylor Orange C.H.
James Treziant Jerusalem.
1 Berigned in ISZSi ' Eleetad In plaoe of James Barboar, reslgied in 182S; Uxik. his aeat Deo. 36, 18SB. • I!aok Us seat
ARKANSAS TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Henry W.Conway Little Book.
FLORIDA TERRTTOBT.
DELEGATE.
Joseph M. Wbite Penaacola.
MICHIGAN TERRITORY.
DIZJBGAIE.
Anstin E. Wing Detroit.
THE TWENTIETH CONGRESS.
Pint Stmim,fnm Dee. 8, 1827, to May 26, 1828. Second Settion, from Dee. 1, 1828, to March 8, 1829.
Yiet-PreMent. — JoHir 0. Cai^houx of South Carolina. Pretidents (tf CAe asaaU pro tempore. — Naxbamibi.
Maooh of North Carolina, elected May IS, 1828, and declined; Baxttbl Bvitb of Maryland, elected Maylii,
IfflS. Secretary of the Senate.— Wai/tkh Lowbis of Pennsylvania.
Speaker of the fibuM.— Aitdbbw SrxvxNBOir of Virginia. Clerk Of tAs Bbttie. ^Matthew St. Claib
CiABU of Fennsylvaniik
ALABAMA.
8ENAT0BS.
WmiamB. King Belma. | John McEinley. HnntsrOle.
BEPBESENTATIVES.
JofanMcKee Tuscaloosa. | Gabriel Moore Huntsville. | George W. Owen Claiborne.
70 COKOSBSSIOKAL DIBEOTOBT.
CONNECTICUT.
SENAT0B8.
Samnd A. Foot Cheshire. | CalTin TVlUey Toland.
BEPEESENTATIVES.
John Baldwin 'Windham. I Balph J. Ingeisoll New Haven. I Eliaha Fhelpa. Simsbniy.
Koyee Barber Oroton. | Orange Herwin KewMUfoid. | David Plant Stzatford.
DELAWARE.
SKNAXOBS.
Iionls MclAne Wilmington. | Henry M. Bidgely. Dover.
HEFKESEMTATIVB.
Kensey Johns, jon. New Castle.
GEORGIA.
SENATORS.
John McPherson Berrien Savannah. I Oliver H. Prince*. Haoon.
Thomas W. Cobbi Greensborough. |
John Floyd • Jefieison.
Tomlinson Foot MUledeeville.
George B. Gilmer Lexington.
r
EEPEESENTATIVES.
Charles E. Haynes. Sparta. I BichardH. Wilde.
Wilson Lumpkin Madison.
Wiley Thompson Elberton. |
> BMigned in 1828. > Electea in plaoe of Thonuui W. Cobb, reslcned; took bis seat Deo. 1, 1818.
ILLINOIS.
8ENAT0B8.
BUa8K.Eane Kaskaskia. | Jesse B. Thomas Edwardsvaie.
BEPBESENTATTVS.
Joseph Duncan BrovnsYills.
INDIANA.
SENATOBS.
William Hendricks Madison. | James Noble Brookville.
BEFRESE^ITATIVES.
Thomas H. Blake...,. Tene Haute. | Jonathan Jennings Charleston. | Oliver H. Smith Conneisville.
KENTUCKY.
SENATOBS.
BlchardM. Johnson Great Crossings. | JohnBowan Louisville.
BEPBESENTATIVES.
Richard A. Buckner.. .Greensbnrg.
Jobn Cliambers ^ Washington.
Thomas Cliilton. . . .Elizabethtown.
James Clarke. Winchester. Kobert M'liatton Georget
Heniy Daniel Mount Sterling. Thomas Metcalfe < Carlisle.
>EIeotadinpl«aeofIhoin>8HetcaUe,i«Blgned; took hb Mat Deo. 1,1828. > Bedgned in 1828.
Joseph Ijecompte New Castle.
Robert P. Letcher Lancaster.
Chittenden Lyon Eddy ville.
Robert M'Hatton Georgetown.
Thomas P. Moore — Harrodsbnrg.
Charles A. WicklifFe . . .Bardstown.
Joel Yancey Glasgow.
LOUISIANA.
SENATOBS.
Dominique Boollgny New Orleans. | JodahS. Johnston. Alezaadria.
BEPBESENTATIVES.
William L. Brent. .St Martinsville. | Henry H. Gurley Baton Bonge. | Edward Livingston . .New Orleans.
MAINE.
SENATOBS.
John Chandler Monmonth. I Albion K. Furis* PotOand.
John Holmes > Alfred. I
BEPRESENTATIYES.
John Anderson. Portland. I Jeremiah O'Brien Machias. I Joseph F. Wingate Bath.
Samuel Bntman Dixmont. James W. Kipley Fryebure. I
Bofna M'Intire Paisonsfield. | Peleg Sprague HalloweU. |
>EleetBdlnpIaaeof Albion K.Fanis, resigned; took his Beat Jan. as, 1828. • Bedgned In 1828.
THE TWENTIETH 00KOBB8S.
71
MAKTLAND.
SEKAT0B8.
XzeUelF. Chamlwn Chestertown. | Samnel Smith i Baltimote.
Jobn Barney BaltiinoTe.
flement Dontey Chaptico.
Levin Gale. EUctou.
BEPRESENTATTVES.
John Iieeds Kerr. Easton.
Peter Little Freedom.
Michael C. Sprigg Frostburg.
OeoTge C. Washington . .BockriUe.
John O. Weems Waterloo.
Ephraim E. Wilson Snow HilL
* Elected pnaideot j>r(> feat. May US, 1828, In place ot Nathaniel Maoon, resigned.
MASSACHUSETTS.
8ENATOB8.
Kathaolel Silshee Salem. | Daniel Webster .
KEPBESENTAXrVES.
Samael C. Allen Greenfield.
John Bailey Milton.
Iiaac C. Bates Korthampton.
Benjamin W. Crowninahield,
Salem.
John Davis Worcester.
Henry W. Dwight Stockbridge.
Edward Everett Cambridge.
Benjamin Gorham Boston.
James L. Hodges Taonton.
■Boston.
John Locke Ashby.
John Keed Tarmontn.
Joseph Richardson ..... .Hingham.
John Vamom Haverhill
MISSISSIPPL
SENATOBS.
Powhatan Ellia Winchester. | Thomas H. Williams Washington.
BEPBESENTATl V J5S.
William Hailei WoodviUe. | Thomas Hinds* OieenTilla.
> Bedgned In 1828. > Eleotad In plaoeot William Hails, resigned; took hiaaeat Deo. 8, 1828.
AOSSOUBL
SEKATOBS.
David Barton. St. Lonis. | Thomas H. Benton.
.St. Loula.
BEPBESENTATTVE.
Idwazd Bates St. Louis.
NEW HAMPSHIKE,
SENATORS.
....Chester. | LeviWoodbnry .Pottsmooth.
EEPRESENTATTVES.
Sunael Bell-
David Barker, jnn Bochester. 1 Titns Brown Franoestown. I Joseph Healy Washington.
IchabodBaztlett. Portsmouth. | Jonathan Harvey Sutton. | Thomas Wliipple,'jan..Wentworth.
NEW JEKSET.
SEKATOBS.
Ephraim Batemoni Cedarville. | Mahlon Dickerson* .
.Snckawinwy.
Lewis Condict Morrlstown.
Geoige Holcombe * Allentown.
Isaac Fienon. Orange.
REPKESENTATTVES.
James F. Bandolph,^
New Brunswick.
Thomas Sinnicksou ' Salem.
Samnel Swan Somerville.
Hedge Thompson* Salem.
Ebenezer Tucker Tuckerton.
> Elaeted by his own vote in joint session of the leslslatnre ; resigned January, 1829.
placeo(EphralinBat«man,resiebed; took his Beat_Feb. 9,1829. -~^'^ - -■
oombe,de«ca9ed; took his seat X>eo.l, 1828.
•Died In 1828.
> Beslgned Feb. 9, 1829; elected in
, »"bied Jan. 14,1828. « Elected in place ot George Hol-
* Elected In place ol Hedge Thompson, deceased; took bis seat Dec 1, 1828.
NEW YORK.
SEKATOBS.
Charles E. Dndtey» > Albany. I Martin Van Buren* Albany.
Kathan Sanford Albany. |
^Electedln place ol Martin Van Biuen, resigned; took his seat Jan. 28, 1829. > Beslgned in 1828.
■-J
Daniel D. Bamfurd. Rochester.
Goorce O. Ileldon MonticoUo.
EtuI'.iIpIi Bii liner Onwogo.
C. C. Cnml'reletig New York.
SaiuQcl Clinse Coof)cr<to\vn.
Jolin C. Clark Ifaiubrliliro.
.Joliii T. iJedraff ScbouwtJidy.
John I). Iiii'knrxou Troy.
Jonn-S Earll, jiiii OnondaKn.
Daniel E. (iarn.sey Krcdonia.
Natliniiiel Oarrow Anbiim.
Jobn Uolluck, jun. Ridgebury.
OONGBESSIONAL DXBEOTORY.
REPBESENTATIVES.
Solah R. Hobble Delhi.
Michael Hnftinan Herkimer.
Jeroinua Johusou New York.
Richard Kceao Kecsoville.
John Majree naMi.
llfnrv MaikolL Paluliuo.
Heury C. Murtimlale. . .Siuiilv Hill.
Diulli'v Marvin CananilaiKua.
Jobn Maynnrtl Ovid VUlage.
Thomas J. Oakley >..l'oiichkoepsle.
Henry R. Storrs Whitettown.
Jubn G. Sto wer Hamilton.
Jiunes Strong City of Hadsoo.
Thonuw Tabor, 2d« iinv.-x
Jobu W. TavloT-.Ballston Sprine;^
rhineas L. Tracey liuiav x;^
Sfppbon Van Ronssolaer. ..Albativ"
nulian C. Verplanck Now VocW
Aaron Wanl Mt. Pie
John J. Wood Clark
Slhw Wood Huntin
I>a^id Woodcock K^ui
Silas Wright, jun Ou\.x.
Botlgned In 1B28. > EleoUsd in place of Thonua J. Okkley, realgiMd; took bU uat Deo. 1, 1KB.
NORTH CAROLINA.
SENATORS.
John Branch Enfield. I Nathaniel Macon >. .
James Iredell > Edouton. |
."Warren
Willis Alston Hyde Park.
Daniel L. liarringer lialeigb.
John H. Bryan Newhem.
Samuel P. Carson .1'Iea.Mant Garden.
Henry W. Conner . .Sherrill's Ford.
> ig»«n»<rt in plaoe of Nathaniel Uaoon, reatgned; took his seat Dee. 23, 1838.
decUnod ; redgned in 1B2B.
REPIUCSENTATIVES.
John Culpopor Beanl's Store.
Thomas H. Hall Tarborough.
Gabriel Holmes Montpelier.
John Long Long's Mills.
Lemuel Sawyer Elizabetb.
Augustine H. Sheppcrd,
GermsDio^ *
Daniel Tiimer Warrentoa.
Lewis Williams Panther Cro***'
> Elected president pro lem. May U, UM,
Jaoob Bomet 1
William Henry Harriaon>. Cleves
omo.
SENATOBS.
Benjamin Riiggles St. Clainril
Monlocai Bartlcy Mansfield.
Philpnion li<'i'ilii>r Lancaster.
William Crcigliton, jun.,'
Cliillicotho.
John Davenport Bamesvillo.
James Fiudlay Cincinnati.
> Kleoted in ploou of WHlUm Ui
1828, ■ ~ ■
KEPIIESENTATIVKS.
William M'lioan Piqua.
Frcdorii-k F. Miiblonbure*. .
William Uusaell Went XTnion.
John .Sloano Woo.'iter.
Williani Stanbery Newark.
Joseph Vance. Urbaiuk
Raniiiel F. Vinton n
Elisha Whitt lexey
Jolm WihkIs I;
John C. Wright Steubenviil
m Henry Harrison, rMlgncd ; took his seat Dee. 29. 1
Elected m plaoo of WUlwni Crel^bton, Jan., rwlgnea;
1828. 'RealK
took bis seat C
led in 1828.
M. 19, 1828.
PENNSYLVAKU.
SENATORS.
Isaoo D. Baroard West Che.ster. | WilUam Marks Pittsi)
William Addams Reading.
Sajiiuel Anderson Pmvirtenee.
Stcplion Ikirlow Mcadville.
James Huihanan Lancaster.
Richard Coulter Greensburg.
Chuunccy Forward Somerset.
Joseph iVy, jun. Frybiirg.
James Gr«en Dauphin.
Samuel D. Ingham. Now Hope.
Nehemiab R. Knight.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Adam King York.
(Joorge Kremer LewlsburK.
Joseph Ijiwrence Wasliin^rton,
SiiuniL'l McKeau Burlinstou.
Daniel H. Miller Philadelphia.
Charles Miner West Chester.
John Mitdmll nellefonto.
Roliert Orr, jun Kittanning.
Willium liamsay Carlisle.
RHODE ISLAND.
SENATORS.
.Providence. | Asher Robhins. .
John Sergeant Philndclpt-a *^
Johu B. SteriuorB .. .Upper I)ul»l-i^
.lames S, Stuveuson IM't.Hbuc-jJP
Andrew Stewart Unionlo"*'* *■
Jool I». Sutherland ...Phil ' '■• '■!»-
Espy Van Horn. Wil ! ^
James Wilson i ■ *»-
Goorgo WoU iiji=.t>c:>»-
J
.Newport
stam Burgos .
REPRESENTATIVES.
.Providence. | Dutee J. Pearce.
TBX TWENTIETH CONGBBSS.
78
SOUTH CAEOLDTA-
SEMATOBS.
BobeitY. Hayne Charleston. | William Smith TodcO. H.
BEPBESKNTAXiVJSS.
John Carter Camden. I James Hamilton, jun. . .Charleston. | Thomas B. Mitchell. . .Geor^town.
Warren R. DaTis. .Pendleton C. H. Oeorae McBuffie Edgefield. William T. KuckoUs.. Spartanburg.
'William Diayton Charleston. | William D. Martin Barnwell. | Starling Tocker. .Mountain Shoals.
John H. Eaton .
TENNESSEE.
SENAT0B3.
.Nashville. | Hugh Lawson White.
.Knoxrille.
John Bell Nashville.
John Blair Jonesborough.
David Crockett. Tzenton.
BEF£ES£NTATiVJSS.
I Bohert Desha Gallatin.
Jacob C. Isacks Winchester.
I FryorLiea • Knoxville.
John H. Marable . . . .Yellow Creek.
James C. Mitchell. Athens.
James K. Polk Columbia.
VERMONT.
BEMAT0B8.
Dudley Chase Bandolph. | Horatio Seymour Middlebnry.
BEFBESSNTAIIVES.
Daniel A. A. Bock. Chelsea. I Bollin C. Mallary Ponltney. I George E. Wales Hartford.
Jonathan Hunt. . . .Brattleborongh. | Benjamin Swift St. Alban^ I
littleton W. Tazewell .
Huk Alexander .Ixnnbardy Grove.
Bohert Allen Mt. Pleasant.
William S. Archer. ElkhiU.
William Armstrong, iun. .Eomney.
Jiilin S. Barbuur . . . .Culpener C j&.
Philip P. Barbour GoruonsviUe.
Bunvell Bassett Williamsburg.
2iatbaniel H. Clairbome,
Bocky Mount.
VIRQINIA.
SENATOBS.
Norfolk. I John Tyler.
EEPEESENTATI'VES.
Thomas Davenport Meadsville.
John Floyd Newbem.
Isaac Leffler Wheeling.
Lewis Maxwell Weston.
Charles F. Mercer Aldle.
WiUiam M'Coy FrankUn.
Thomas Kewton Norfolk.
John Bandolph Charlotte.
William C. Blvea Milton.
> Eleoted speaker Deo. 8, 18Zr.
.Charles City.
John Boane — Bnmford Academy.
Alexander Smyth Wythe C. H.
Andrew Stevenson > lUchmond.
John Taliaferro. . . .Fredericksburg.
James Trezvant Jerusalem.
ARKAITSAS TEKRITORY.
DELEQATE.
AH.Bevler UttleBock
FLORIDA TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Joseph M. White Fensaoola,
MICHIGAN TERRITORY.
DELEQAIB.
AiiitinE.Wlng Datrolt
74 OONGBBSSIONAL DIRBCTOBY.
THE TWENTT-FIEST CONGEESS.
Ffrst StaiMfJrom Dee. 7, 1829, to Maf SI, 1830. Second Session, fiom Dee. 6, 1830, to Marck 3, 1831.
Fies-Pnstidtnt— Josx G. Caiachtk of South CaroUiUL Presidentt of the Senate pro (onpors.— Saxukl
BmiR of Mainland; LiTTurro<[ W. Tazkitku. of Vuginia, elected Uaich 1, 183L Seentarf of Oie Senate. —
TValteb Lowbik of PeoiuiTlrsiua.
c^wdter o/ <^ M>uH. — A^iJtBEw SzKTXSsos of ViigiiUa. C^i; <tf tk» Bomb, — Hatzhew Si. Ci.ais
AT.ARATJA
SESATOBS.
'Wmiun R. TTtwg SebiiA. | John McKlnlwy. Fknenoe.
BEFBESENTATITES.
BobertE-B. B^Ioe....Ta9caIcKisa. | CO. Clay JSontsrillfl. | Dixon H. I«wia. Hon^meir.
COJOfECnCUT.
SENATOBS.
Sftmnel A. EVaot. Cheshire. | Calvin TTilley Tolland.
BEPBESEXTATIVKS.
Koi«9 BartHT Omton. I JahexW. Hantin^on...Iitchfldd. I "William I.. Stona. lOddletown.
William W. ISSi&wsath. ..BmiUot^ [ Ealph J. In^isoU....Nevr Haven. | Ebmie»r Toong Killinglf.
DELAWABE.
SEXA30BS.
John M. CIa.Tton t>oTer. I Arnold Kandain* •WDmington.
Xijuis JIcLaiM '... Wilmin^u>n. |
BEPBESESTATTVX.
Kcnsey Juhns^ jun, New Castle.
> K«ieMaiiiI£3. >I>««edtnplac«o(U>tusXcLuM,nrifned; »oaktalsantAa.l3,USti
GEORGIA.
SKSATVRS.
McTlicnioo Henieo 1 SaTTuanah. i George M. Tloap ~ Dublin.
iWsjih* Arj:»s*ul I
REPKtSESTATTVES.
ThMMsF. I\iner. .GnMi«}w<nv9ch. TT-'son Lr.r-pk-n Mohivxl | Bichard H. "Wilde .Augusta
CKiJiei£.Uar»«......... i^^ir*.!. Wi'.ov Thor.'vxa E;ber:ca. I
lUnQGuLanar >la.,va. aam«» M. AV^yce Savannah. |
•Ba^piaaiBlsa. >BMKdia|aM«otJ.McriMf»wBenKa,iesi£aed; took Ui seat Dee. t,lfi>.
ILUXOIS.
SEXATVRS.
narUJ IWnrt ShawT^.wwr. : .' V.a M-Tjp>a» ShawneetowB.
tK. Kaae Ka>"k*<i.ut. |.l,;.uM. l;^ ".iiisoa.*
KirKi^r-KTAnvE.
Brownsville.
lteJikM<<JMsl*rl..«,Jb>n«.«<^t: ux<k^-<'^: tvv- <^:vv • IV«<»»1 «>c4. It. l<aa. « Dertedln^eoeet
THE TWENTY-FIEST CONGBESS.
75
INDIANA.
SESATOBS.
Wmiam Hendilolcs Hadison. | James NoUe ^ Biookvflle.
BEFRESENTATIVES.
Bailiff Boon Boonevflle. | Jonathan Jennings Charleston. | John Test lAnrencebnigh.
s Died Feb. 26, 1831.
GeoigelLBibb..
Thomas Chilton XHizabethtown.
James Clarke Winchester.
Nicholas D. Coleman.. Washiueton.
Heniy Daniel. Mount Sterling.
KENTUCKY.
BEKATOBS.
...Tellow Bonks. | JohnBovan....
•Rlf.Pk'RgHK'I'A'I'H/HI*.
Nathan Gaither Columbia.
Klchard M. Johnson . .6t. Crossine.
John Kincaid Stanford.
Joseph Lecompte New Castle.
.LonlsTille.
Bobert P. Letoher. Lancaster.
Chittenden Lyon Eddyville.
Charles A. 'Vviukli£Ce....Baidstown.
Joel Yancey. Glasgow.
LOUISIANA-
SENATOBS.
Josiah S. Johnston..... Alexandria. | Edward Livingston New Orleans.
BEPBESENTATTVES.
Henry H. Gniley..... Baton Bonge. | Walter H. Overton.... Alexandria. | Edward D. White. .Donaldsonville.
John Holmes .
UAINE.
SENATOBS.
Alfred. | PelegSpiagae...
iprPRUaKN'I'A'I'l V Hfl.
JohnAnderson Portland. Comellns Holland ^ Canton. I
Samnel Butman Dixmont. Leonard Jarris^ Ellsworth.
George £^T'ans Gardiner. Bufus M'Intire ..Parsonsfield. {
> Elected In plaoe of James W. Blpley, resigned: took hie eeat Dec. 6, 1830. > Took his seat Deo. 6, 1830.
Uarch 12, 1830; electioii unsaooesefaUy oonteated by Beuel Waebbani.
.Hallowell.
James W. Blpley • Eiyebuijj.
Joseph E. Wingate Bath.
•Bedgned
Ezekiel E. Chambers.
Elias Brown Freedom.
Clement Dorsey Howards Bace.
Benjamin C. Howard. . . .Baltimore.
MAETLAND.
SENATOBS.
. . . .Chestertown. | Samnel Smith K .
EEPBE8ENTATIVES.
Geor!;e E. Mitchell EBcton.
Benedict L Senunes . . .Piscataway.
Bichard Spencer. Easton.
.Baltimore.
I Michael O.Spiira; Erostbnrg.
George C. Washington. . .Bockville.
EphniimK. Wilson SnowHiU.
> £]satedpiealdeutj)rofa)n.Marohl3,1829, BpacUlaea<Ion,andHay28, 1830.
Kathanlel Slabee .
MASSACHUSETTS.
SENATOBS.
Salem. I Daniel Webster .
.Boston.
JohnBaUey Milton.
Isaac O.Bates Northampton.
Benjamin W. Ctownlnshield, Salem.
John Davis Worcester.
Henry W. Dwight.. . . .Stockbridge.
BEPBESENTATITE8.
Edward Everett. Charlestown.
Benjamin Gorham Boston.
George GrenneU, jnn. . . .Greenfield.
James L. Hodges Taunton.
Joseph 0. Kendall Tieominster.
John Beed YannoTith Port
Joseph Biohaidaon. Hingham.
John Vamum Haverhill.
HISSISSIPFL
SENATOBS.
SobettH. Adams*. Natchez. I George Poindexter*. Natchez.
Powhatan Ellis Winchester. |
BEFBESENTATIVB.
Thomas Hinds Greenville.
' Elec^td In place of Tbomas B. Beed, deceased In 1829; took his seat Feb. 8, 1830, and died July 2, 1830. > Appointed in
Iuiu90ofBobettH.Adama, deceased; took his aeat Deo. 8, 1830; suMequently elected by the leglslatara.
J
76
CONGRESSIONAL DIBECTOET.
MISSOTJIU.
SENATORS.
DaTld Barton St. LoaLi. | Thomas H. Benton.
• St. Lonii,
EEPEESEKTATIVE.
Bponcer Fettis Far
NEW HAMPSmRE.
SENATOnS.
BamnelBell Chester. | Levi Woodboir Fottsnooth.
EEntESENTATTVES.
John Broadhoad Now Market. I Joseph Hamnion.i FarminRton. I Henry ITnhbard Charlnjto'im.
Thomaji Chandler.... Hillsborough. | Jonathan J larvey Sutton. | John W. AVeeks .'..Loucailei.
NEW JERSEY.
SENATORS.
MaUon Dickoison Suckasunny. | Theodore Frelinghuysen. KinnLzk-
EETRESENTATITBa.
Lewis Conillot Morristown. I Thonins H. Hughes Cold Spring. I James F. Randolph . N. BmMwicli-
Richard M. Cooper Camden. | lAuao Pierson Orange. | ScunuolSwon Bound Uioo^
Chades E. Dudley.
William O. Angel Biirlinpton.
Bcneilict Arnuld Am.storil.iiii.
Thomas ISnckiiian rcterborcniRh.
Abraham Bockee. . . .Federal Store.
I'ctpr I. Borst JIMdloburp.
C. C. Cambrcleng New York.
Timothy Cliilds liochester.
Henry B. Cowlos Camiel.
Hector Craigi CraiCTillo.
Jacob Crocheron Smithlield.
Charles G. DoWitt Kinc'<ton.
John I). Dickinson .Troy.
NEW YORK.
SEBATOBS.
Albany. | Nathan Sonford.c
KEPRESENTATTVES.
.TonnR Karll, jon. Onondaga.
Isiuic FiiK:li Jay.
Ik'orco I'isher* Osweeo.
Jpliicl U. Halaey Looi.
.loBC'pli Hawkins Henderson.
>Iichacl HofTman Herkimer.
Terkins King Freeliolil.
.lames I>ciit Ne%vtowTi.
.John Mageo Batli.
Hcury C. Mart jndale... Sandy Hill.
Thomas MaxwoU tUnira.
Robert Morrell ♦ Greene P.O.
Ebenezcr F. N orton Buffalo.
.AUniB.^'
Ocrsliom Powers Anbnr""*^
1 iobtrt S. Rose Genuv^ ]
Jnnrih t^anfonl ' O-w.-cr"*^-
Ambrose Spencer
.Tiiraes Strong City of >
Henry B. Stons Wluu,....^ .
John \V. Taylor . .Ballston Spri
Pliineas L. Tracy Bata^,
(Jiiliiin C. Vorplanck Now Yoi
Campbell P. Wiito New \oc1
Silas Wright, jun.«
8. W. Eager ' Jlontgomery.
> Bwlgnod tn I8.t0. > Eleotod In place of Hoctnr Craig, rerifned; to<dc hi* lent Dec. 6, IBX. > Election i
oontMtedbT Siliw Wright, liui. • KMlgned Feb.ZI, IBSl. • Eleoted in place of Silas 'Wright, Jan., who decllaed to I
U* seat. • DecUnod to talu his seat after soooenf ally oontestliig the eleottbn ot Oeoigo Ftsher.
NORTH CAROLINA.
SENATORS.
John Branch i Enfield.
Bedford Bro^m^ Brown's Store.
I James Iredell. Edont<
WillU Alston Fortune's Fork.
Daniel ]j. Barringer Uiileigli.
Samuel T. Carson . Pleasiint ( lardcn.
Henry W. Conner . .Sherrill's Ford.
Edmund Dcberry LawrencevUle.
REPRESEXTATmS.
I Edward B. Dii.Uey WUmington.
Thoiniis II. H.iU Tarborough.
Uobert Pott er O.xfonl.
Abraham Heuchcr Plttsborougli.
William B. Shepanl. Elizabeth City.
Augustine H. Shepperd. German;
Jetsu Kpeicht S[K'i;,'lit's ISn
Lewis Williums.. . . .Panther V,
' Bcalgnod tn 1820. ■ Elected in place of John Branch, roalgiiad; took his seat Deo. 28, ISIS.
Jacob Burnett. .
Mordecal Hartley Mansfield.
Joseph U. Crane Dayton.
William Creighton Cliillicj^itlio.
James Findlay Cinciunali.
John M. Goodenow >. .Steubouvillo.
omo.
SENATORS.
Cincinnati. | Benjamin Rogglea.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Willi.ara W. Irvin. Lancaster.
William Ivennon St. ClairsviUo.
Humphrey H. Leavitl'-'.Steubonv'le.
William UuftsoU West Union.
James ShieMs Dick's Mills.
.St Chkiwvilla
Willinm Stanberry Newark-
John Tliorasou New Li3t»on.
.Tosepli Vance Urt>*rMi^
Samuel F. Vinton GaIUpoI»*
Elisba Wliittlesey Cauilelo-
> Beslgnod April », \B30. ' Uuctod in place ot John M. Qooduaow, resigned ; took his scat Deo. t, U30,
J
THB TWKNTT-BTRST COKOBB8S.
77
laaao D. Banaid .
James Bnchanan lAncaster.
]:ichaid Coultei Greensburg.
Tliomas H. Crawford. Chambeisb'g.
Hamiar Denny Pittsburg.
Jmhua Evans Paoli.
James Ford Lawrence ville.
Cliaoncey Forwaid Somerset.
Joseph F17, Jan. FrvbuTg.
JohnGilinoTe Bntler.
PENNSTLVANIA-
S£NAIOBS.
. . .West Chester. | William Marks . .
HEPBESENTATIVES.
Innis Green. DanpUn.
Joseph Hemjihill Philadelphia.
Peter Ihrie, jnn. Easton.
Thomas Irwm Uniontown.
Adam King. York.
George C. Leiper Leiperrille.
AlanMarr l3anyiUe.
William McCreery,
Briceland'8 Crossroads.
.Fittsboig.
Daniel H. Miller Philadelphia.
Henry A. Mohlenburg. . . .Keading.
William Bamsay. Carlisle.
John Scott Alexandria,
Thomas H. Sill Erie.
Samuel A. Smith Doylestown.
Philander Stephens Montrose.
John B. Sterigere Norristown.
Joel B. Sutherland... .Philadelphia.
HHODE I8LAKD.
SENATOBS.
Kebemlab B. Knight. ProTldenoe. | AsherBohliins...
EEPKESENTATIVIS.
Tiistam Barges. Froridence. IDntee J. Peaioe..
.Kewport.
.Kewport.
SOUTH CAKOLDTA.
SENATOBS.
KobertT. Hayne Charleston. | William Smith...
KEPKESENTAT1VK3.
Sobert W. Barnwell. Beanfort. | Warren R. Davis. . .Pendleton O.H.
James Blair Camden. I William Drayton Charleston.
John CampbelL Brownsville. | William D. Martin. .]Bamwell C.H.
.York O.H.
George McDnffle Edgefield.
William T. NuckoUa.Hancockville.
Starling Tacker . .Mountain Shoals.
TENNESSEE.
SENATOBS.
.Tohn H. Eaton 1 Nashville. I Hngh lawson White.
FeUx Grundy". Nashville. |
.Knozville.
JolmBeU Nashville.
John Blair Jonesborongh.
I>avid Crockett Crockett's P.O.
HEPHESENTATIVES.
Kobert Desha. Gallatin.
Jacob C. Isacks Winchester.
Cave Johnson Clarksville.
I PryorLea Knoxvllle.
James E. Polk Columbia.
I James Standi£er Mt. Airy.
> Bealgnod In 1829. > Elected in place of John H. Eaton, leelgned; took Us seat Deo. 7, 1829.
VERMONT.
SENATOBS.
Dudley Chase Bandolph. | Horatio Seymonr Middlebnry.
BEPBESENTAXrVES.
^Vin)am Cahoon Lyndon. I Jonathan Hunt. .. .Brattleborongh. | Benjamin Swift St. Alban's.
Horace Everett Windsor. | Bollin C. Mallary Foultney.
littleton W. Tazewell.
VIRGINIA-
SENATOBS.
Norfolk. I John Tyler
REPRESENTATTVES.
Robert Craig Montgomery.
Thnma'4 Davenport Meadsvilla
Philip Doddridge Wcllsburff.
Joseph Draper *. Wytho C. H.
William F. C}<inlon.Limlsey'H Store.
George Ijoyall ' Norfolk.
Lewis Maxwell Wo itoi>.
William Mc(!oy Franklin.
Charles F. Mercer Leesbnrg.
.Charles City.
Mark AlPxander.Lombaidy Grove.
Itobert Allen Mt. Jackson.
William S. Archer Elkhill.
William Armstrong Romncy.
.I"hn S. ISiirbonr Culpppor C.ll.
Philip P. ItartMmr ' . . .Gorilonsvillo.
Tlioma* T. Boulilin. .Charlotte C.H.
Nathaniel H. Claiborne.. Roi-kv Mt.
Richani Coke, jun. . .WilUainsburg.
' Rat(;Ti«il tti 1830. * Elected In place of Aloxnndcr Smyth, deoeiwRdj took his seat Doc. 6, 1830. • Snccessfnlly
wntMtotl the election of Thoniaii Nowton ; took bU neat Mnrch 9, l&ll. • Election successfully contested by George Ix>yau.
■ HertAl In plaea of rhlllp P. Barbour, resigned; took bis seat Doo. 6, 1830. • Died April 17, 1830. ' Elected apeaker
Des.7, 1829L
Thomas Newton * Norfolk.
.Tohn M. Patton*. ..Fredericksburg.
John Roane. . . .Rumfoni Aciuleray.
Alexander Smyth • Wythe C.flL
Andrew Stevenson ' Richmond.
.Tohn Tnliaferro Fredericksburg.
James Trezvant Jerusalem.
78
OONaBSSSIONAI. DntEOIOST.
ABKAKSAS TEBBTTOBT.
DELEGATE.
AmbroaeH. Serler. UtUaBodL
FLOBIDA TEBBTTOBT.
DELEQATE.
Joaeph 11 'White. Montioello.
HIOHIGAN TEBBTTOBT.
DELEGATE.
JohnBlddlei Dettoit
> BMl«nad Feb. ai. USL
THE TWENTY-SECOND CONGEESS.
Firat S««nim, from Dee. 6, 1831, to July 16, 1832. Second Setsion, from Dee. 8, 1882, to March 2, 1833.
Vie«-Pntidl»at.—Jomi( O. OJkiaomt^ of South Caiolina. Pretfdenta <^ tht BenaU pro ten^iorg.— IdxruBiox
Vr. Tazkwku. of VlrglnU, elected July 9, 1832; Hdoh h. Wbixx of Tennessee, elected Deo. 3, 1832. Seeretarf
^ the Senate.— Waixxr Iowbib of Pennsjlrania.
Speaker of Qyt ZfouM.— Axdbbw STmoraoN of Vbginia. Ctitrk of ike Boum.— HArcBKir Sx. Cuib
OiABKB of fennaylTania.
> Badsnad Dee. S8, U3S.
AT.ABAMA.
SEKATOBS.
'WilUam R. King Sehna. | Oshiid Moore Hnntsrille.
RKPRFSKNTATl V K3.
Clement 0< Qdf ..HnntarUle. | Dixon H. liewia MontgomeiT. (Samnel W. Kaidis Monteralla
.lUifield.
CONNECTICUT.
SENATOBS.
Cheshire^ | Gideon Tomllwiow, ,
BEPRESEXTAXmS.
Qtvtcn. I Jabex Vr. Hiintinfffton . . .litrhfldd. I 'WOUam L. Stom mddletown.
Oantonl. | Ralph I. Ittgcrsoll New Uaven. | Ebeneaer Young. .EBlingly Centra.
DEL-VWARE.
SEXATV^RS.
...DoTcr. I Antold Kaadaln lUddletown.
BErRESEXT.VTITK.
....,.., .Wilmingtoo.
THB TWENTX-SECOND COKGBBSS.
79
JohnFoisytli.
Angostine Smith Clayton. .Athena. I
Thomas F. Foster. .Gieensborongh.
Ueniy Q, Xamar. Macon. |
6EOBOIA.
SEKATOBS.
Aiign8t& I Gtooige M. Troap.
bepbesentauvjbs.
Daniel Nennan McDonough. I
Wiley Thompson Elbeiton.
James M. Wayne Savannah. |
BiQhaidH.WiIde.
...DnUin.
•Angostai
ILLINOIS.
SENATOBS.
£llasE.KaiM Kaslraalria. | John M. Bobinson CaimL
BEFBESEN7AX1 VK
Joseph Doncan JacksonvlQe.
INDIANA.
SENATOBS.
BobertHansa'
William Hendilcka Madison.
I John Tipton*.
BatliSBoon.
HEFBESENTATl VES.
.Boonerllle. | JohnCair Charleston. | Jonathan McCarty .
.Conneisyille.
> Appotaited In place of James Noble, deeeaaed In 1831; took his aest Deo. 6, 1831. < Elected in place of James Kobia, deceased
In 1831, BobeitHaoua baving been appointed pro («m.; took his seat Jan. 8, 1832.
Geoise M. Bibb .
.Lexington.
John Adair Harrodsbnrg.
Cliilton Allan Winchester.
Henry I>anlel Mount Sterling.
Ksthan Qaither .Columbia.
• KENTUCKT.
SENATOBS.
...Tellow Banks. | Henry Clay
BEPBBSENTATIVES.
Albert Ot. Hawes HatresTllle. Chittenden I>on Eddyrille.
Kichard M. Johnson . .Gt. Crossing. Thomas A. Autrshall Paris.
Joseph Lecompte New Castle. Christopher Tompkins. . . .OlasROW.
Bobert P. Letcher Lancaster. Charles A. Wlckilffe . . .Bardstown.
LOUISIANA.
8£MAXOB9.
Josiah 8. Johnston Alexandria. | George A. Waggamani New Orleans.
EEPHESENTATiVJSS.
Heuy A. Bollard. Alexandria. | Philemon Thomas. . . .Baton Bonge. | Bdwaid D. White. .Donaldsonville.
>Eleetedlnplaceof EdwaidIiTln9ton,tesignedlnl831; to<dc his seat Jan. 3, ISSX
John Holmes .
MAINE.
SEKATOBS.
.Alfred. | FelegSpragae.
.HallowelL
EEPRESENTATTVES.
John Anderson Portland.
James Bates Norridgewock.
George Evans Gardiner.
Cornelius Holland Canton.
Leonard Jarvls Ellsworth.
Edward Kavanagh Damariscotta Mills.
RufusMcIntire Parsonsfield.
Ezekiel F. Chambers .
MABTLAND.
SENATOBS.
.Chestertown. I Samuel Smith .
.Baltimore.
Benjamin C. Howard Baltimore.
I>aniel Jenifer Allen's Fresh.
John L Kerr Eaton.
George E. Mitchell > Elkton.
BEPBESENTATIVES.
Bene<lict I. Semmes'.. .Piscataway.
Charles) S. Sewall ' Klkton.
John S. Snence. Berlin.
Francis Tnomas Frederick.
George C. Washington. . .Bockville.
J. T.ll. Worthington Golden.
* DM June 2S, ISS.
> Itook bis seat Feb. 13, 1832. > Elected In place of Qcoise E. Mltcben, deceased; took his seat
December, 1832.
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CONQEESSIONAL DIRECTrOBY.
Katbanlel Silsbeo.
MASSACHUSETTS.
3EKAT0BS.
Salem. | Daniel Webster. .
John Quincy Adama Qulncy.
Nathan Applcton Boston.
Imuu) C. Bates Northampton.
George N. Briggs Laouaboroti(;b.
Bufu3 Cboato Solom.
REPRESENTATIVES.
John Darts "Woroertef.
Henry A. 9. Dearborn. . .Brookline.
Edward Everett Churleatown.
GeorKo Gronnell, jun Ureenfield.
James L. Hodges Bristol
t Took his scat Dec t, 1632.
Joseph G. Kendall..
Jereraiali Nelson'..
Jolin Reed
.lieomln
E
..VazmomlL
lOSSISSIPPL
SENATORS.
John Black ' Monroe. I George Poindoxter WilldnMB.
Fowbatau Ellis' Winchester. |
REPRB3ENTAIIVE.
Franklin E. Flnmmer Westrille.
> Appointed In place of PowhAtan EUis, mignod ; tonk his sent Dec. 12, IMS.
Judge of Uultod SUtoa Contt.
I Besignad In 1832, baTing been appotatsd
MISSOUBL
SENATORS.
Thomas H. Benton St Louis. | Alexander Backner Jm
REPRESENTATIVE.
William H. Ashley BL .
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
SENATORS.
Bamnel Belt Chester. | Isaac Hill
REPRESENTATIVES.
John Bro(lhea<I Kc^ Market. I .Toseph Hammons Formlngton. I Henry Hnbhard Charlestowa, J
Thomas Oumdler Piscataquog. | Joseph M Uurper Cauterbuiy. | Jolm W. Weeks TonrwWfi '
NEW JERSEY.
SENATORS.
.Snckasnnny. | Theodore Frelinghnysen. Keiraiki
REPRESENTATIVES.
Malilon Dickerson. .
Lewis Condiot Morristown.
Silas Condit Newark.
Biclionl M. Cooper Camdun.
Thoina-s H. Hughes Cold Spring.
James F. BaQ(&lph,
<ew Brunswick.
* . NEW YORK.
SENATORS.
Charles E. Dudley Albany. I Sihis Wright, Jon. «.
Wiiliiuii L. Murcyl Albany. |
William O. Angul Burlington.
Williiiui lliilK^.(k Pennvrin.
Ganialiol H, ilarstow NiclmlH.
Pamui'l Doanlslo\' Uticii.
h-rBcr
Miok .
Jonepli Rouok Middlebury.
John O. UriHllicJid New York.
Cbunliill C <',unl<rulenK.Ni'W Yorlc.
Jolin A. Collier BiiiKhimitim.
Bntet Ctxik Lcwiston.
Cliarlo-s 1 >aynn Lo\rvillo.
John Diuksuu West Bloomlleld.
REPRESENTATIVES.
tnysscs F. Doubleilny Auburn.
Mlcliaf'l Hoflfrnan.... HorklMier.
Williiim Hiiguu llo^iinsliurg.
Freeborn C. Jowett Skancntelet.
.lolin King. N. Lebanon.
Cerrit Y. Lansing Allmuy.
JaiucH Lent Newtown.
Kdraund H. Pendleton. Hyde Park.
.Tub Pierion Sehacbtii'iike.
N.-ithiiuifl PiKlier Samly Hill.
I'xiward C. Kead Homer.
Erastus Uo<it Delhi.
> Roalgncd lii 1£3:£. > EioctoJ in plncu of WUliiua h. Marcy, malgnod ; look h>-
Nathan Sonle Fort 1
John W. Tavlor . .Ballston f
Pliincas L. '^racy.
Gnli.'in C. VerpIaniJc. . . .Kt'w '
Aaron Ward Mt. I'l«»a*
Dnniul Wnrdwell Mur n.nllf
Oratlan IL Whwl»>r..
Canipbell P. Whim N
l-'redorick ^^Tiittlosrr
Samuel J. WUkln. «»
THB
Sediord Brown.
50£TB CABOUXA.
^1 T T>„
rrin^r.
)une Fii
Tbomas Evriiig .
BaniuclP. Caison.FleaswitG.n
Hent7 W. Ckjnoer. . .SbenUl's i
Tlioiuiii Corwin T^(«^»|^f^
Jovfpb U. c'nuia DsTUn.
WillUni CreiKbton, jniL.Chniioal^
nFindlajr.
|G«a(ge M. IliaUaai
IHob^rt AJUson. . HantinetoD
't • •■ k-. .....Ifanat.
■nrher Hanfahmn.
ir<l IfaiSiicd.
> liitr< i C<>iilt«r Grmi»)iiu)^
lias. IL Cruwf onl . . CluunlieniniTi;
fr Denny Htl»l>--
I Devrart 8hi)<i
i £vuu iv
.am B
1 1835.
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n8.
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< 'lailiomo.
■■rd.
—iry.
!:tre.
' iiiMd
I l.,.UMl
I .:uod ;
tC. ColhouQi
iY. HajTie*....
.wlImiogtoL
WUmlngton.
^Robert W. Damwell.
J[«TDe« Blair,
^-"arren R. Duri» . .
*■ Beetodtaplaetol
. AitKuita.
82
00NQBB8SIONAL DIRECTOBr.
VEEMONT.
8ENAT0B8.
Samuel Frentias MontpoUer. | Horatio SeTmour Mlddlobai;^.
REPRESENTATIVES.
HemanAUen^ FroDklln. I Horace Everett VTlndsor. I Jonathan Hnnt.
William Coboon Lyndou. | Hiloud Uall .
I Took bit Mat Jane 23, U33,
Brattlclxironsh.
Williaiu Slade Middleboxj'.
*
William O.Biveal
littloton W. Tazewell* Norfolk.
VIRGINIA.
SENATORS.
John Tyler Gloacester C. H.
4
Mark Alexander..Lombardy Grove,
Robert Allen Mt. Jackson.
Williams. Archer Elklim.
William Armstrong llomiiey.
Jobii S. Darbour Culpeper C. H.
Thomas T. UimUiin.Charlotto C. K.
Joseph W. Chinn Nnttsville.
KathaniolH. Claibomo..Bocky Mt.
REPRESENTATrVTES.
Richard Coke, jtin. ..Williamsburg.
Roliert Cmij; MnntRomery.
Tliomafl r>uvL'ni>ort Moitlsvllli},
Philip Uoiiilriilgo* Woibburg.
Joscpli Draper
William K. ( lordou. . Lindseys Store.
Joseph Johnson *. . .
Charloa C. Johnston' Abingdon.
4
John Y. Mason.. Hlckafottl
T>ewis HaxwelL Weston. .
Charles Fentou Mercer ... Leesbuig
William McCoy Franklin. J
Thomas Nen-ton Norfollt. (
Julrn M. Patton Fretlericksburg. J
John J. Roane. .Rumfonl Academy,
Andre vrStevenaon.'Bicbmcmd City.
> EleotedinplAaeotLlttJeton W. TuewelLraaiffned; took hi< aeat Jan. 4, 1833. > Elected j
redgned In 1832. • Died Nor. 10, U32. • Elected in place ot RiiUp Doddridge, de
• oGxlJone 17, 1S32. • Eleolad(peakerI>ao.5, 18U.
trm. July 9, 1«»:
took hi* teat Jut. 21, 1833.
ARKANSAS TERRITORY.
DELEQATE.
Ambrose H. Serier. little Bock.
FLORIDA TERRITORT.
DELEGAIB.
Joseph M. Wblte Montioello.
MICHIGAN TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Austin B. Wing .
. Jfonioe.
Fice-PrMident. — Maktw Vau Bctbem of New York. PnMentt of the Senata pro tempore. — JIvoa
XitMsog Wbitb of Tennessee; Geohge Podtdextkk of Mississippi, elected June 28, lS3i; Jotm Trixu of
Vliginia, elected March S, 1839. Seeretary of the Senatt:, —"Walter IiOwius of Pennsylvania.
Speaker! of the Bouie. — Axsutw Stxvknson of Virginin; JoRX Bell of Tennessee, elected Jnne 2, 18^
JE^teaJcer of the Uoiue pro tempore. — HsiWT Hdbbauo of Now Hampsliire. Clerk of the Uoute. — WAX.T«a» 8.
I'jiAKKUM of PeunsylTania.
P ALABAMA.
SENATORS.
lamB. King Selma. | Onbrlel Moore.
EEPRESENTATrVES.
dement C. Clay HnntsvlUe. I John McKinley Florence. |
Dixon H. Lewis.. Lon-ndeaboroiigli. I
Gldoou Tomlinson
Koyes Barhcr Groton.
"Wiiljain W. Ellsworth '..Hartford.
Samuel A. Foot' Chenhiro.
.Tahe?! W. Hujitinffton '. .Litchfield.
Kbcnezer Jaclcsou • . . .Middletown.
Phlneas Miner <> Litchlleld.
> B«alKned in 18.14. ' > B^elgnDd In 1834, liRTln^ IxMrn oIotUhI goTemor. * Rofltf^tHl In 1S3K hnvlni; boon appointed
Indtfe uf tlie Supreme Conrt of Eirorv. * Elocto^l in plAco of SaiuiHil A. Foot, reaiffuetl : took Uli* bcaL Dec. 1. IBCfri. ^ Kliwtcd
In Maoe of Jabex W. nanUnstoa, toalgned: Uiolc his seat IMo. 1, 1831 • Elootedln plaoe o( WUliiuu W. EUawortb, migned:
took his seat Doo. 1, 1834.
DELAWARE.
SENATORS.
John M. Clayton. Dover. | Arnold Kandain. .
BEFKESENTATIVE.
John J. !tliIligTui Wilmington.
GEOHGIA.
SENATORS.
Alfred Cnfhbert 1
John Porsyth > Columbus
lobn P. King Augusta.
.\ngnstlno S. Clayton Athens.
John ColTee. Joclcsouvillo.
Ihoiuaa S. Foster. .Greensborougli.
REPRESENTATtTES.
R. L. Gamble Loui'ivlllo.
G. It. Gilmer Lexington.
Seaborn Junes Columbus.
William Schloy AuKusta.
Jatuea M. Wayne*. Savannah.
Kichard II. Wilde. Augusta.
' Beetad In place of John FortjrUi, rpslir"^! ; t'vik hU aoat .Tiin. 12, 1835. ' Roslgned In 18^, having boen appointed
•ouniUry of nUito. > Rtnlgnetl Jun. 13, 1B33.
ILLINOIS.
SENATORS.
Easkoskia. | John M. Bobinson..
84
OONOBBSSIONAL DmBOTOUY.
Zodok Casey. Mt Vemon. I
Joseph LhiDcani JacksonTillo. |
REPRESKNT ATI V ES.
"WnUara Xj. May ' Springfield.
John Reynolds' Bellerille. |
Charles S1ade« C«rlyla.
> Bealgned in IKH, baring been olwtuil govenior. > Elflotod In pUoe of Jomph Dunean, ml^ncd; took hia gaot
Ooc 1,1831 • iUwtMllnpUcootUlUkrIoaSlildo, <Iecc««od; tookhlaMiatOiM. 1, USi. • OUxTjuly, IKH.
INDIANA.
SENATORS.
'William Hondricka Madiaon. (John Tipton .
BEPRESKSTATTrBS.
■Ticiganwpoit
Ratliff Boon Boon«vlUo.
John Carr Charleston.
John Ewing Vinconuos.
Edwani A. Hnnnegan . .CoTinRton. I Jonathan McCar^.,. .fort Wajne.
(icorge L. Kinnani . . . Iudiannt>oIi:). I
Ainos Lano La%rron(:eburg. |
KENTUCKY.
BENATOBS.
0«oige>L Bibb Yellow Banks. | Henry Clay.
EEFUESENTATIVES.
.TiffTrngtoii.
Chilton Allan Winchester.
JLirtin r(o:Hy South Fork.
Thoiiirks Chiiton Elizabothtown.
Aimis Davi.s Mount Sterling.
Benjamin Hardin Banlstown.
I Election nnaaoooHtiiUy oontaited by Thomas P. Uooro ; took his seat Deo. 1, UM.
Albort fr. Hnwos Hanresville.
Rk'lmnl M. Johnson ..Gt. Crossing;.
Robert P. Letcher' Lancaster.
.lames Imvo Barlxmrx'ille.
Chittenden Lyon Eddyville.
Thoran.'" A. Manholl Paris.
I'. II. Pope Lotiisrille.
Christopher Tompkins. . . .Glaogoir.
LOUISIANA.
8ESAT0HS.
Alexander Porter t New Orleans. | Geor)^ A.
Waggoman. New Orleans.
llEPRESEJfTATrVES.
Henry A. Bnllard * Alexandria.
Hice Uarlaud < Opolouiiaa. |
Henry Johnson ♦. .Thlbodoauxrillo.
I'liilumon Thomas baton Rouge.
Edward D. WhiteS.DonaldsonTiUe
■ Elcct«<l in phice of .Tosei>b B. .Tnhnrton. dooraiml In 18X!: took bb toot Jiin. 0, UM. > RmioDed tn 1834, hnTliic bsMl
•|>pnhit«<l judge of the Bniiraina Court of louldona. > ideotsd In plaoe of Henry A. BulUnl, rwi^nsil: took hu aaal
AprU 28, I8:>l. ' Elected in place of Kdwanl D. White, resigned; took his aoat Uco. 1, 1834. ' '* ' '
baun ekictod goretnor.
Be«lgued In lKU,tiaTlii(
MAINE.
BEKATOBS.
John Rugglest
Kther Shepl«y..~ Saoo.
I Peleg Spragne' Hallow«IL
i
GoorRo Erans ... .Gardiner.
Joseph Il.iU ( 'umtloii.
Leonard Jar\-is Eliswortli.
KEPRESENTATIVra.
Edward Ka\-nnagh . .Damarlscotta.
Mnses Ma.'Min, jun Bethel
Rulus Mclntire Parsonsfleld.
aoifaam Parka
Francis O. J. Smith PortludL
' Elected in plsoe of Feleg Spragne, nulgnod ; took his Beat Feb. S, 1833. > Resigned in 1S3B.
MAKTLAND.
SENATOKS.
Ezckicl P. Cham bow I Oharlestown. | Joseph Kent.
Robert U. Goldsborough*.
Richard B. CarniichacLCenterville.
Littleton P. Denni«».l'rlncc8s Anne.
Jiunes P. Heath Baltimore.
I
REPRESENTATIVES.
■William Cart Johnson . . .Jefferson.
Isaac McICim. Bali imore.
John N. Svoolo * Vienna.
.Btedenslmx^
.Tohn T. Stoildert Harris' Lot.
Kraii CIS Thomas Frwlftick.
Jauiea Turner Wisebuig.
> Rerigncd hi 18M.
> Elected in pinco of E»<kiol F. Chambers, rmlffned ; took lib iwat .Tan. 23, U35.
* Eluctfid in [iliica ef Llulctuit 1'. lAiuiiis, duwMmd; look his wat lu UOL
• OlodhiUM.
i
THB TWENTY-THIRD 0ONORES3.
86
IfathimielSiljtiea..
MASSACirUSETTS.
SENATOBS.
— Salem. | Daniel Webater. ,
.Boaton.
Jnlni Oiiinpv Adams Onim-'v.
J= .■■< N'.- I
V lie8..W. 1'.;
Cjt^'Tgf ,>. iiiicgs.. ..Lain-'sifi'iii^ii.
£uXiis Choat« ' Suluin.
RHTRESENTATIVES.
•Tnhn Pavig' Worcester.
lC<lwaril Everett Charlestuwu.
Boiijftiiiin trorham IVistoii.
(Jporj!« Orennell, iun OreenUcld.
Williaiii Juckson' Newton.
Levi TJncoIn * 'Worcester.
na.vt'>ii 1*. Of»pM)(l .North Andover.
Stephen C. Phillips' Salem.
John Keed Yarmontli.
> Borimed tn 18M. > Realenpd in IKH, having bwn olooted goTemor. • Took hia wat Hnreb IT, 1S34. < Eleetod
Is place of John Oavla, ledgnod; took lila seal March S, 1834. • Elooted hi place of Bafa* Ghoota, rad^tnod; took hla a«at '
X)ee> 1« 1S94>
MISSISSIPPI.
SEKATOBS.
John Block Monrue. | Oourgo Poiudexter> Wilkinson.
EEPHPSENTATIVES.
Henry Cago Woodvillo. | l!>aiiklin E. Plumnjor WeatTiUa.
* Eleotod proaldunt pru Icm. Juno 25, ISM.
MISSOUKL
SENATOBS.
Thomas H. Benton St. I/onia. | Lewis F. Linn* St. I<oais.
EEPEESENTATIVKS.
"WUlUm H. Ashley. St. Louis. | John Bull Chariton.
' Appointed In place ot Alexander Backner, doeaaaedto 1883; tookhisaeatOeo. 16, 1833; latinxiaontly elected by the legiihitiueL
SManelBell..
Benning M. Ilcan.Moult«nl>oTou(jh. I
BobertBuTus Uebron.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
SENATOBS.
Chaster. | Tsooc Hill
BErRESEXTATIVES.
Joseph >L Harper Cantorbnry.
Ueury Hubbard Charlostowii,
Franklin Pierce.
Concdd.
.HiUsboroogh.
NEW JERSEY.
SENATOBS.
Tfaeodore Frelinghnyson. Newark. | Samuel L. Southard Trenton.
REPKESENTATIVES.
Philemon Dickorson Patorson. I Thomas Lee Port Elizabeth. I Ferdinand 8. Schenck.SixMlle Ron.
Samuel Fowler Hamburg. | James Parker Perth Amboy, | William N. Shinn.... Mount Holly.
NEW YORK.
SENATOBS.
ITothaniel P. Tallmadge Foughkcepsie. | BUaa Wright, jtm. Canton.
J..' - Cat«kilL
8^1 Islcy rtio.i.
A ! -keo Federal Store.
Cl BlooininubiirK.
Ji i .vn. Newbnr:;.
Cl I 'iimbrclcng. N. York.
8ui u Waterloo.
J' WaterfoML
R V Sciiii>rouiiit.
Ji ... ..West P.loomrield.
Cli'ii' -- > . 1 (.■nis' New York.
Milliinl mimore Buffalo.
ITiilo ('. Kiiller (icnGsoo.
Willium ii. Fuller ChiMenaogo.
BEPRE9EKTAT1VE8. *
Ransom U. Gillol Ocdeasburg.
Nirholl Hiil.scy Truuiausburg.
Gideon lliiid Albion.
Suuiuel I T. H.ilhan'uy Solon.
.\Im('r IIf(7oltine Jamestown.
I'M' .11 Bnfh.
Al" Ion E. Hampton.
No I ! iison Uclhi.
Gerril Y. Liiunin;; Albany.
Comollns W. Ija\vrcnc«''. .X. York.
George W. Lay Data via.
Abijah .Munn. jiin t'ainield.
Ilenry C M.irtindale . ..Snnily Hill.
Heury Mitchell Norwich.
John J. Moraan ' New York.
Ch.irles Mi-\ ean. Cannjolmrio.
.Sliennan Page Uiiiulilla,
.loh Piersou Schaghticoke.
Dudley Selilen* New York.
Williim Tnylor ManliiL<<.
Joel Tiirrill Oswego.
.\aron Vandernoel Kindorliook.
Isaac R. Van Honten. .Clarkstown.
Aaron WnnI Mt. I'leiwaiit.
I innlel Wanhvell Mnim.sville.
Heiilieu Wh.iUon Split Rock.
Cauipliell P. White New York.
Frederick Whittlesey . . .Rochester.
* Electe'l In ploco ot Dudley SoUlon, redgnod; took hU scat Uea I, I8AI. ■ Rotlgned Ui 1834, having tjoen cliH-t«d niaynr ot
Nev-Yoilt City. • Eioetad hi place of Con>oUu« W. Lawnmoe, taalgned; took hi* aeat Due. I, iKit. • It«iii||M«d tn leM.
86
OONORESSIOKAL DIBEOTOBT.
Bedfoid Brown..
Daniel L. Barringer. Balelgh.
Je»se A. Bynam . .' Halifax.
Henry W. Conner . .SherrlU's Poid.
Edmund Deberry . . .LawienceTllle.
James Giaham. Bntbeifoxd.
NOBTH CABOUNA.
SENA3X>BS.
.Brown's Store. | Willie P. Mangam.
BKPKKSKNIATIYBS.
Thomaa H. Hall Tarboroanli.
Micajoh T. Hawkins . . .'Warreuton.
James J. McKay . . .Elizabethtown.
Abraham Bencher. . . .Pittsborougfa.
William B. Shepard .Elizabeth Cuy.
.Bed Hoomtain.
A. H. Sheppetd. Germantown.
Jesse Speignt StantonHbiire.
Lewis Williams Panther Creek.
Thomas Ewlng.
William Allen. Chilllcothe.
James M. Bell Cambridge.
.Tohn Chancy Court wrignt.
Thomas Coru-in. Iiebanon.
Joseph H. Crane Dayton.
ThoiiiaH L. Hamer Georgetown.
Benjamin Jones. Worcester.
OHIO.
SENATOBS.
Lancaster. | Thomas Monis..,
KEPBESENTATTVZS.
Daniel Kilgotei. Cadiz.
Humphrey Learitt^, . .Steubenville.
Kobert T. Lytle » CinuinnatL
Jeremiah MuLene Columbus.
Itobert Mitchell Zanesville.
William Patterson Mansfield.
Jonathan Sloane Bavenna.
.BetheL
DaTld Spmigler. Coshocton.
John Thomson New Lisbon.
Joseph Vance nrl>ana.
Samuel F. Vinton Gallipolis.
Taylor Webster Hamilton.
Elisba Whittlesey Canfield.
> Elected in place of Hmnpluey H. Leavltt, resigned ; took his seat Dec. 1, 1831. ' Beslsned in 1834, having been
appointed jndge o{ the United States District Ooort. * Elected to supply the vaoancy caused by iiis own resignation; assin
took his seat Daa. 27, 1834.
PENNSYLVANIA.
SENATOBS.
James Bnchanant Lancaster. {William Wllkins*,
Samuel McKean ....Burlington.
Joseph B. Anthony. WilUamsport
John Banks Mercer.
Charles A. Bamitz York.
Andrew Beaumont. . . . Wilkesharre.
Horace Rinney Philailelphia.
George Burd Bedford.
George Chambers... Chambersburg.
William Ciark Dauphin.
Bichard Coulter Oreensburg.
Edward Darlington Chester.
> Qeoted in place of WQllam WUUns,
BEFBESENTATIVES.
Hanuer Dennv Pittsburg.
John Galbraitu Franklin.
James Harper Philadelphia.
Samuel S. Harrison Eittanning.
Joseph Henderson . .Brown's Mills.
William Hiester New Holland.
Heury King Allentown.
John Laporte As vlum.
T. M. T. McKennan. . .Washington.
Joel E. Maun Jenkentown.
resigned; took his seat Dec. US, 1834. ■
minister to Russia,
Fittsbnig.
Jes.se Miller. Landisbnrg.
Henry A. Muhlenbnrg. . .. .Beading,
David Potts, jun. Pottito wn.
Robert Ramsay Hartsville.
Andrew Stewart TTniontown.
Joel B. Sutherland... .Philadelphia.
David D. Wagoner Easton.
John G. Watmough . .Philadelphia.
' Beslgned in 1834, having been appointed
RHODE ISLAND.
SENATOBS.
Kehemiah B. Knl^t Providence. | Asher Bobbins* Newport
BEPBESENTATIVES.
QMstam Biirges Providence. | Dutee J. Pearce • Newport
> Beat unsnceeastuUy contested by E. B. Potter.
John C. Calhoun.
•SOUTH CAKOLTNA,
■^ SENATOBS.
......... Fort HiU. I William C. Preston .
.ColnmUa.
BEPRESENTATTVES.
James Blair' Lynchwood. John M. Felder Orangeburg.
Robert B. Campbell*. .Brownsville. William J. Grayson Beaufort.
Williaiii K. Clowney... Union C.H. John K. Griffln Milton.
Warren B. Davis >. .Pendleton C.H. Bichard J. Manning * Fulton.
> Died April 1, 1834. > Elected in place of Thomas D. Singleton, deceased In 1833; took his seat Feb. 27, 1834. • Died
Jan. 29. 183fi. < Elected in place of James Blair, deceased : took his seat Deo. 8, 1834. ' Beaigned In 1834. • Elected la
place of Oeoige HoDnffle, resigned; took his seat Dec. 8, 1834.
George MoDnlBe » Willlngton.
Francis W. Pickens • . . . .Edseheld.
Henry L. Pinckney Charleston.
Felix Grundy.
TENNESSEE.
SENATOBS.
.Nashville. | Hugh Lawson White >.
> President pro tern.
.Knoxvllle.
r
XHB TWKNTK-THIBD CONaBESS.
87
JohnBeni KashylUe.
John Blair Jonesboroiigh.
Samael Bmicb Butledge.
David Crockett Crocketr s.
David W. Dickinson, Muifreesboro'.
REPRESENTATIVES.
William 0. Dnnlap BollTar.
Jolin B. Forester McMinnsville.
William M. Inge Fayetteville.
Cave Johnson ClarksTille.
Luke Lea. Campbell's Station.
BaUePe^Inn Gallatin.
James K, Polk Columbia.
James Standif er. Mount Airy.
> Eleoted apeaJtei June 2, 1834, in place ol Andiew Stevenson, laalgned.
VERMONT.
SENATORS.
Gamnel Pxentias Montpelier. | Benjamin Swift StAIban'a.
REPKESENTATIVES.
Heznan Allen. Borlington. I HoTEice Everett "Windsor. I Henry F. Janes * Waterbnry.
BenjuninF. Deming i. .. .Danville. | Hiland HalL Bennington. | William Slade Middlebury.
>IMedJal7U,U3i. > Elected In plioe ol Benjamin F. Demlng, deceased; took his teat Deo. il, 183(.
VIRGINIA.
SENATORS.
Benjamin W. Leigh 1 I John Tyler*..
WnUam C. Bives > Lindsay's Store. |
.OloaoeBter O.H.
REPRESENTATTVES.
John H. Fulton. Abingdon.
James H. Gholson Percivals'.
William F. Gordon. Lindsay's Store.
G«orge LoyaU. Korfolk,
Edward Lucas Charleatown.
John Y. Mason Hickaford.
William McComas Oreenbriar.
Saml. McDowell Moore .Lexington.
Charles F. Mercer. Aldie.
John M. Patton. . . .Fredericksburg.
John Robertson* Richmond.
Andrew Stevenson '' ... .Richmond.
William P. Taylor .Fredericksburg.
Edgar C. Wilson Morgantown.
Henry A. Wise Onancock.
John J. AHen Clarksbniv.
William S. Archer. Elkhifl.
Jamas M H. Bcale. . ..Kew Market.
James W. Bonldin^. Charlotte C.H.
ThomasT. Bouldin'. Charlotte C.H.
JoHcph W. Chinn. Nuttsville.
Kathaniel H. CUubome .Rocky Mt.
Thomas Davenport Meadsville.
> Bected in place of William C. Rives, resigned ; took his seat March 6, 1834. > Resigned In 1834. • Elected president
pro ten. Maich 3, 1836. ' Elected in nloce ol Thomas T. Bouldln, deceased ; took bis seat March 28, 1834. •Died Feb. 11,
1134, in bb seat, while addreaaina the Hoase. • Elected in place of Andiew Stevenaon, raslgned; took his seat Deo. 8, 1834.
' Beeted ipeakei Deo. 2, 1833; and leelgned bla leat in Congress June 2, 1834.
ARKANSAS TEBBITOBT.
DELEQAIE.
AmbnaeELSerlsr UttteBoek.
FLORIDA TERRTIORT.
DELEQATE.
Joseph M.WUte MontlceUo.
UIOHiaAN TEBBnX>BT.
SELEQATB.
ladtujjfcai.
.Bronson.
OOirOSBSSIONAL DIBECTOaT.
THE TWENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS.
Fint Session, from Dec. 7, 1835, to July 4, 1830. Second Session, from Dec. 5, 1836, to March 3, 1837,
Vice-President. — JiAStXTS Vax BuRKt of Kow York. President of the Senate pro tempore. — 'WiiuAll
B. Kda of Alabama, elected July I, 183G, and again elected Jan. 28, 1S37. SeeretaritM of the Senate.— 'Vura
LowniE of Foniuylvania; Asbukt Dickkns of North Carolina, elected Deo. 12, 1836.
Speaker of the Boute.—JjotEa K. Bolk of Teauossee. Olerk nf the House. — Waio'KH B. Flussux U
Fennsylvania.
ALABAMA-
BEJfATORS.
WDIiamll. King! Selma. | Oahriel Moore HaDttrJOi.
BEPKESEST-iTlVES.
Reuben Clinpman Somcrvillo. I Dixftn H. Lewb'.lowndesbnrnneb. I Joshua Ia Martin Adieal
Joab LAwlei MaidUville. | Francis S. Lyon Deinopolla. I
• inillnil|iiiiili1iiiil Jim run Tiilj 1. imn. mil Tin TH. imT > Took hla Mat Uorch g, 1836.
ARKANSAS.
SEXATOItS.
Williams. Fnltoni Little Rock. | Ainbroae H. fierier > l^eFort.
REPRESENTATIVE.
AichibdldTeUi^ IkyMtarfk
1 Took hla Mat Deo. 8, 1838.
JohnM.NIIe8l.
CONNECTICUT.
SENATORS.
.Hartford. | Gideon Tomlinaon..
BSP&ESI^'TATrVZB.
.FaitfieE
Elisha Haley Mystic.
Orrin Holts WUlinKton.
fiamuel Ingham. Saybrook.
Tbomaa T. Whinlesey • . .DanbwT.
Zaioion Wildman*
Andrew T. Jod-tun Canterbnry.
Lancelot Plieli)S. HitchcockvUIo.
Isaac Toocey UartlonL
> AppnlnUHl In nUco of Nathnn Smith, doceiued Doc. 6, IKIS ; took hb seat !><<«. '.», 1833 ; snbmqnenllj eleeted br UwhJ^
loturo. > Took hU Mat Deo. 6, 1836. • Eleotod in plnoe of Zalmon Wlldioon, docosMd; took bis Mat AacO % »*
< Died Dec 10, 183S.
DELAWARE.
SENATORS.
Richard H. Bayardl Wilmington. I Thomas Clayton • D«'"'
JohnftL Clayton* Dover. | Arnold Naudain < WUmiBgW''
REPRESENTATIVE.
John J. Milllgan ■Wilmingt""-
< Eleeted in plooe of Arnold Nnndain. rmlgned ; took hli Mat Juno 30, 1838. • Renitined In 1838. • Elected in place of Jo"
M. Clajnon, rBtigned; took hla seat Jou. 19, 18JT. • Rcslguod Jtmo 18, 1836.
GEORGIA.
SENATORS.
.MontloeUo. | JohnF. King AagnA
Alfred Cnthbert.
THB TWUNTT-FOUBTH CONGBBSS.
89
JnlinsaAIfaidi.
Jeaae Tf. Cleveland Decatnr.
John Coffee *. JacksonTille.
William 0. Dawson * . .Gieensboio'.
BfcPRESENTATi V KS.
Thomas Olaaoook Augusta.
Seaton Giantland . . . .MUledgeville.
Charles E. Haynes Sparta.
Biopkiiia Holsoy Hamilton.
Jabez Jackson Clarkesville.
George "W. Owens SaTannah.
GeoTge "W. B. Towns* . . .Talbotton.
> meetad In plaoa of Q. W. B. Towiu, radgned; took his aeat Jan. SI, ISST. > Died In 1836.
CoSeSideoeased; tookUsnatI>M.iM|18M. < Bestgoed In 1836.
> Elected In place of John
ILLINOIS.
8ENATOB3.
WQUamD. Swing 1. Vandalia. I John M. Boblnson CazmL
Saias Kent Kane ^ KaairttMiria |
BEFBXSXNTAUVJfS.
Zaddk Casey Mt. Vernon. | John Reynolds BeUevlUe. | William L. May Spiingfleld.
° > Eleeted in place of Ellas KentXaaa,deoeaKd; took bis seat Jan. 2S, 1838. > Died Deo. U, 183IL
INDIANA.
SENAT0B3.
WDllam Hendzloks Hadison. | John Tipton. Logansport
BEPBESENTATTVES.
Batliif Boon .Booneville. I Edward A. Hannegan . .Covington. I Amos Lane lAwienoebntgh.
JohnCair Charleston. William Herod > Golnmbos. I Jonathan McCarty.... Fort Wayne.
John W. Davis CarUsla | George L. Kinnaid^.. Indianapolis. |
> Xotdilil* seat Jan. as, 183T. > JNed Not. 2S, 1836.
Henry Clay..
Chnton Allan Winchester.
Lynn Boyd, New Design.
John Calhoan Hardinsbnrgh.
John Chambers Washington.
BiehazA Ftenoh .....^.HLStaAiog.
KENTUCKT.
SENATOBS.
.Lexington. | John J. Crlttonden.
BEPBESENTATTVES.
.Frankfort
William J. Graves New Castle.
Benjamin Hardin. Bardstown.
James Harlaa .Harrodsburg.
Albert G. Hawes Hawesville.
Biokard M. Johnsoo . .Gt Crossing.
J. B. 'Crnderwood...Bowlins Green.
John White Bichmond.
Sherrod Williams Monticello.
Alexander Monton^.
Bobert Carter Micholaa '. .
LOmSIANA-
SENATOBS.
Alexander Porter* .
BEFBESEMTAXIVES.
Bice Garland Omlousas.
Henry Johusoa ..- .-......'..•... Di
....Opel
losabtto]
inville.
W. Bipley. Jackson.
> Eleeted in plaee of Alexander Porter, resigned; took Us seat Feb. 2, 1837.
nsrer took his aeat; took ilia aeat Uarch 4, 1838,
* EleetedlnpIaoeofChailes]!!. AGNjaiiBiirlio
• Beslgned Jan. 6, 1837.
MAINE.
SENATORS.
JndabDanai Fryebnrg. I Ether Shepley*. Saoo.
JolmBogglea. Thomaston. |
BM*BBSXNTATIVES.
Jeremiah Bailey Wlscasset. I Joseph Hall Camden. I Gorham Parks Bangor.
GeoiBB Evans Gardiner. Leonard Jarvis Ellsworth. Francis O. J. Smith Portland.
JofanlTBtefleld. Saca | Hoses Maacm, Jan BetheL |
> Apptdnted In plaoe of Ether Shepley, nslgnedi took Us leatDeo. 21, 1836. > Berigned in 1886.
MABTLAND.
BENATOBS.
BobeitS. G<)lMNmnigbi Eaeton. I JobaS.
Joseph Kent. Bladensburg. |
.Berlin.
Benjamin C. Howard Baltimore.
Daniel Jenifer Harrison's Lots.
uaacMcKim Baltimore.
BEPBESENTATTVES.
James A Pearce Chestertown.
JohnN Steele Vienna.
Francis Thomas Frederick.
James Tnmer. Wlsebnrg,
G. O. Washington Bockville.
I OladlnlSSS. > Elected in plaee <« Bobert BE, Ooldshoront^ deceased; took his seat Jan. U,USr.
90 OOITQBESSIONAL DIBBOIOBY.
MASSACHUSETTS.
SEKATOBS.
John Davis 'Worcester. | Daniel Webster. Boston.
BEPKESENTAXIVJS.
Jobn Qnln^ Adams Qnlncy.
Nathaniel B. Borden Pall Biver.
George M. Briggs. . . .Lanesborongh.
Will&m B. Calboun. . . .Springfield.
Caleb Cashing. Newburyport.
George Grennell, jun. . . .Greenfield.
Samuel Hoar. Concord.
William Jackson Newton.
Abbott Lawrence Boston.
Levi Lincoln Worcester.
Stephen C. Phillips Salem.
JohnBeed. Yarmouth.
MICHiaAK.
SENATOBS.
XocitisLyont Bronaon. | JohnNorveUi .'..Detroit.
BEPKESENTATIVK.
Isaac E.Ciar7* •M-f^fhiiii
< Took his laat Jan. 36,1837. > Took hi* feat Jan. ST, 18ST.
mSSESSIPPL
SENATOBS.
John Blade Monroe. | Bobert J. Walker > MadisonvQle.
BEP&ESENTATl VKS.
John F.H. Claiborne. MadisonyiUe. | David Dickson >. Jackson. | Samuel J. Gholson*.
1 Took hli seat Feb. 22, 1838. > Died In 1836. • Eleoted in pUuw of David DlckMn,daaeMed; took Us seat Jan. T,183r.
MISSOUEL
SENATOBS.
Thomas H. Benton St Loois. I Louis P. liim. St. Oenevievsi
BEPBESENTATIVES.
-WiUiamja. Ashley St Louis. | Albert S. Hairisoo. FnltoD.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
SENATOBa
Isaac Hill> Concord. I John Page* HavediiU
Henry Hubbard. Charlestown. |
HEPRESENTATTVES.
BenningM. Bean....Monltonboro'. I Samuel Cushman. Portsmouth, t Joseph Weeks Bichmond.
Bobert Bums Plymouth. | FranicUn Pierce HillsborougtL f
t Bcelened Ma; 33, IBSSituLTtnE been elected goremor. ' Elected in plaoe of Isaac Bill, lesignsd; took Us Mat June 13, 1831.
NEW JEBSET.
SENATOBS.
SamnoIL. Boathard Trenton. | Garret D. Wall Bnrlington.
BEPRESENTATIVE3.
WtIMm Chotwooili.Elizahatlitown.
Philemon Dicfceraon ^ l*aterson.
Biuuuel Fowler Hamburg.
Thomas Lee Fort Elizabeth. I William N. Shiim Mt. HoUy.
James Parker Perth Amboy.
Ferdinand S. Schenk.Slx Mile Bun.
1 Took liLi iaa% Dec. 9, ISSffi, baving been elected in place of PhUemon Diokenon, resigned. • Beslgnnd in 1838.
NEW YORK.
SENATOBS.
M. F. TallinadgB Poughkeepsie. | Silas Wright, jun Canton.
THE TWBNTy-FOTJRTH CONOBE3S.
91
Samnel Barton Btchmond.
Samael Beanlsley > Utica.
Abraham Bdtkee Federal Store.
Matthias J. Borea Ainnterdam.
John W. Brown. Newbiirg.
Churchill C. Cambreleng. .N. York.
(i. H. Chapin Rochester.
Timothy Childs Lyons.
John Cramer Watenord.
U. F. Doubleday Aubom.
Valentine £Sner Jefferson.
Duilley Farlin Dudley.
Philo C. Fuller' Geneseo.
'William K. Fuller Chittenango.
> Bedoned Hanh 29, 1838.
U3S.
BEPBESENTATTVES.
Bansom H. Gillet Ogdensburg.
Francis Granger Canandaigiia.
Gideon Hud Albion.
Abner Hazeltine Jamestown.
Hiram P. Hunt Troy.
Abel Huntington E. Hampton.
Gerrit Y. Lansing Albany.
George W. Lay.... Batavia.
Gideon Lee New York.
Joshua Lee Penn Yann.
Stephen B. Leonard. Oswego.
Thomas 0. Love Buffalo.
John McEeon New York.
Abijah Mann, jun. Fairfield.
> Beaigned In 1836. > Elected In place of Samuel
< Elected In place o{ PbUo C. Fuller, realgned; took
William Mason Preston.
Rutger B. Miller* Utlca.
EU Moore New York.
Sherman Page TTnadlUa.
Joseph Reynolds Virgil.
David Russell Salem.
William Seymour Binghamton.
Nicliolas Sickles Kingston.
William Taylor Manlius.
Joel Turrell Oswego.
Aaron VanderpoeL . . • .Kinderhook.
Aaron Ward Mt. Pleasant.
Daniel WardwelL Mannsyille.
John Young* Geneseo.
Beaidaley, resigned; took his teat Dec 6,
his seat Deo. 6,1836.
NORTH CAKOLINA.
SEKATOBS.
Bedford Blown Brown's Store. I Robert Strange >..
Willie P. Manguml Bed Mountain, j
BEPEESENTATIVES.
James J. McKay . . .Elizabethtown.
William Montgomery. . . .Albrights.
Ebenezer Pettigrew.. . .Cool Spring.
Abraham Bencher Pittsborougfi.
William B. Shepard. Elizabeth City.
.I^yettOTillO.
A H. Shepperd Gcrmantown.
Jesse Speignt Stantonsburg.
Lewis Williams Panther Creek.
Jesse A Bvnnm Halifax.
Henry W. Conner . .Bherrill's Ford.
£dmnnd Deberry . . .LawrencerUle.
James Graham * Butherford.
Micajah T. Hawkins . . .Wairenton.
> Baslgned ta 1836. > Elected in place of Willie F. Mangum, resigned ; took his seat Dee. 16, 1836. > Seat declared
Tieant Uarch a>, 1838, on aoooont of iiregnlaiitlea In election ; subsequently elected at new election, and took his seat Deo. fi,
U36.
OHIO.
SENATOBS.
Lancaster. | Thomas Morris. . .
KEPBESENTATIVES.
William K. Bond Chillicotho. William Kennon . . . .St. Clatrsville.
John Chaney Courtwright. Daniel Kilgnre Cadiz.
Thomas Corwin. Lebanon. Jeremiah McLene Columbus.
Joseph H. Crane Dayton. Samson Mason Springtield.
ThomasL. Hamer.....QeoiKetown. William Patterson Mansfield.
£lias Howell Newark. Jonathan Sloane Bavenna.
Benjamin Jomes Worcester. David Bpangler Coshocton.
Thomas Ewing..
.Bethel.
BellamT Storer Cincinnati
John Thomson New Lisbon.
Samuel F. Vinton Oallipolis.
Tavlor Webster Hamilton.
Elisha Whittlesey Canfleld.
James Buchanan.
Joseph B. Anthony. .Williamsport.
Michael W. Ash. Philadelphia.
John Banks i. . . , Mercer.
Andrew Beaumont . . . Wilkesharre.
James Black *. Newport.
Anilrew Buchanan . . . Way nestburg.
Geor^ Chambers. ..Chamoersburg.
William Clark Dauphin.
£<lwanl Darlington Chester.
Uarmar Denny Pittsburg.
Jacob Fry, jun Trappe.
PENNSYLVANIA.
SEI7ATOB3.
Lancaster. | Samuel McKean. .
REPBE8ENTATIVES.
John Galbraith Franklin.
James Harper Philadelphia.
Samnel S. Harrison . . . .Kittanning.
William Hiester New Holland.
Joseph Henderson . .Brown's Mills.
Ed waul B. Hubley. . .Orwigsburgh.
Joseph B. Ingersoll... Philadelphia.
John Kilgen.smith, jun.,
StewartSTille.
John Laporte Asylum.
Henry Logap Dillsburg.
.BniUngton.
Thomas M. T. McKennan,
Washington.
Job Mann Be^ord.
Jesse Miller ' Landisburg.
Mathias Morris Doylostown.
Henry A. Muhlenburg. . . .Beading.
John J. Pierson * Mercer.
David Potts, jun Pottstown.
Joel B. Sutherland . ..Philadelphia.
David D. Wagener Easton.
'Baslgnedlnuae.
•EleotedlnplacaotJease Miller, resigned: took his seat Deo. 6,1836. • Bedgned lnl836. « Elected
Inplaoeot John Banks, resigned i took his seat Deo. 6, 1836.
RHODE ISLAND.
SENATOBS.
KehemJaliB. Knight. Providence. | Asher P. Bobbins Kewpoit
BEPKESENTATIVES.
l>ntee J. Peaxoe Newport. | William Sprague, jnn. Katiok.
John C. Calhoun.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
SENATOBS.
. .Fort Hill. I William C. Preston.
.Oolambia.
92
OONGBSSSIOKAL OIBBCTQST.
L
Bobert B. CampbeU. ..BrownsTille.
lYanklin H. Elmore ^. . . .Columbia.
William J. Grayson Beaufort.
JotrnKGriffiQ Hilton.
BEPKKSENTATrVES.
James H. Hammond ^.... Silveiton.
Blchard J. Maniiuig ' Fulton.
Francis W. Picken.s. Edgefield C. H.
Henry Xl Pinckney . . . -Charleston.
John P. Hichardson * Fnlt<HL
James Boeers Jl..YorkriUe.
Waddy Thompson, inn.,
Greenville C. H.
> Elected in plaoe c< J. H. Hammond, reaisped; took his mat Deo. 19, 1836. > Beslgned in IgM. > Died May 1, 1831
• Eleotsd in plaoe of Bictaard J. Maoning, deceased; todc bis seat Dec. 19, 1836.
Felix Ginndy.
John Bell Kaahville.
Bamuel Bunch Rutledge.
William B. Carter. . . .Elizabethton.
William C. Dunlap Bolivar.
John B. Forester. . . . .Mclfinnsville.
TEITNESSEE.
SIEKATOBS.
.KaahviUs. | Hngh Lawaen White.
TimTtTBnintTA tiv us
.Ejiozville.
Adam Huntsman Jackson.
Cave Johnson. Claiksville.
Luke Lea XTampbell'a Station.
AbrahamP. Maury Franldin.
Bailie Peyton. Gallatin.
• Baeted speaker Dec T.USBb
James K. Polki Columbia.
Ebenezer J. Shields Pulaski.
James Standiler Moont Aiiy.
VEKMONT.
BENATOBS.
Samuel Prentiss. Montpeliar. | Benjamin Sirtft St Alban'a
HEPKraENTATIVES.
Heman Allan BniUneton. IHHaodHall. Bennlnoton. i William Slada Middlebory.
Horace Everett Windsor. | Henry F. Janes Waterbury. |
YHtOINIA.
SENATOBS.
Benjamin W.Lelgb>. Eiohmond. I William O. Blves* Lindsey's Store.
BichardXi. Parker > Sniokersville. | JohnXyler*. Gloucester C. H.
James II. H. Beale . . .Kt. Jackson.
James W. Bouldin. .Charlotte C. H.
Nathaniel H. Claiborne. .Kocky Mt.
Walter Coles Robertson's Store.
Bobert Craig Cbristiansburg.
Greorge C. Dromgoole.GholsonviUe.
James Garland. Iiovingston.
> Bealsned in 1836. ' Elected in place of Benjamin W. Leigh,
John Xyler, resigned; took bis seat Uarch 14, 1838. <
BEFBESENTATIVJSS.
GeorM W. Hopkins Lebanon.
Joseph Johnson Bridgeport.
John W. Jones Petersburg.
George Loyall Norfolk.
Edward Lucas, jun... .Charlestown.
William McComas CabeU C. H.
JohnT. Uason* Hicksford.
led; took his
,ed Feb. 29,
Charles F. Mercer. Aldia
William 8. Morgan. . . . .White Day.
John M Patton Fredericksbarg:
John Boane Bumford Academy.
John Robertson Bichmono.
John Taliaferro. . . .Fredericksban.
Henry A. Wise Acoomac C. H.
seat Dec 15, 1836. • Elected in plaoe ol
1836. • Bestgned Jan. U, 1837.
FLORIDA TEBRITORT.
DELEOATE.
Josepli M. White MonticeQa
WISCONSIN TEERITOBT.
DELEGATE.
Cteotg/i W. lsmm,.,.t SinaiiunrB Honnd.
IHK XWJSM'XK-inrTH 0OHOBB88.
THE TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS.
Pint Semm,firM Sept. 4, 18S7, to Oct. 16, 189T. Seamd Sation, fiam Dec. 4, 1837, to July 9, 1888.
Third Session, from Dee. 8, 1838, to March 8, 1889.
yii»-Pretldent. — Kicrabo M. Johxroit of Kentncky. President of the Senate pro tempore. — 'Wnxux B.
Enra of Alabama, elected March 7, 1837, at special session; again elected Oct. 13, 1837; again elected July 2,
1838; and again elected Feb. 25, 1839. Secretary of the Senate. — Asbubt Dickens of Korth Carolina.
Speaker nf the Bau»e. — Jaxss K. Polk of Tennessee. Clerks ttf (A« Bmie. — Waliixs 8. Fsaxkloi of
Pennsylvania; Huoh A. Qabulnd of Virginia, elected Deo. 3, 1838.
AT.AHAMA
SENATOBS.
Qement C. Clay. HontsTille. IWilUamB. Kingi Selma.
BEFBXSIOITATIVKS.
Beaban (Aapmaa 8(Hn«rville. | JoabLawler*. Hatdi«yllle. I FraaciaS. Lyon DemopoUB.
George W. CJrabb ' Tnscaloosa. | Dixon H. I^wis. .Ijovrndesborongh. | Joshua L. Martin Atliens.
>Baeted oresideDt BTO <ai>. Jaly2,1838. < Elected In place of JoabLavler, deoeaaed; took Ui seat Deo. S,U38. > Died
Hay 8, 1838.
ABEAKSAS.
SEafTATOBS.
Winiam 8. Futton UttleBock. | Ambrose H. Sevier. Lake Port
BEPKESZNTATITE.
ARhilMldTaU. FlkyetteiTm*^
CONNECTICUT.
8SKAT0BS.
JohnlLNlIea Hartford. | Perry Smith Newldfoid.
KEPBSSEirrAZiyES.
EUsha Haley. Mystla I Samnel Ingham Saybrook. I IsaaoToQcey. Hartford.
OnioHolt WiUlngton. | Lancelot Phelps Hitchcockvill& | Thomas T. Whittlesey.... Danbory.
DSLAWABE.
SENATOBS.
BiehaidH-Bayaid..... 'Wilmington. | Thomas Clayton. Dover.
BEPBX8XNTAHTK
John J. MmigMi Wilmington.
GEOBOIA.
SENATOBS.
AUicd Cnthben Montioello. I Wilson IinmpMn* Athens.
JuhnP. Kingi Augnata. f
Jene F. Cleveland Decatnr.
Jfm. C. Dawson. . .Greensboroiigh.
Thomas Glascock Augusta.
HEPBESEMTATIVKS.
Seaton Orantland . . . .Milledgerille.
Charles E. Uaynes Sparta.
Hopkins Holsey Hamilton.
ialSSr. • Etooted in plaoaof John P. King, NaigMd; took bia seat Daa 1^1837.
Jabez Jackson Clarkesrille.
George W. Owens Savannah.
George W. B. Towns. . . ..Talbotton.
94
. OONGBBSSIOKAIi DIBEiCITOBT.
ILLINOIS.
SEKATOBS.
JohnM. Bobinson C«nni. | BichardH. Young Qnincy.
KEPBESENTATTVES.
Zadoo CasQjr MtVemon. | WlUiam L. May Sptingfleld. | AdamW. Snyder. BeHevilla.
OliTor H. Smith .
INDIANA.
SENATOBS.
Connerayille. | John Tipton
BEPBESEirrATIVBS.
BatllffBoon BoonoTille. I WOliam Giaham Vallonia. I
George H. Dann. . . .Lawienceburg. I Williain Herod. Colombua.
Jobn£wlng Yincennes. | James Bariden CentrerUle. |
Albert S.'WUte..
.Ijogansport
. . .Lafayette.
Heniy Clay.
KENTUCKT.
SENATOBS.
.Lexington. I John J. Crittenden.
.Frankfort
John ^alhonn Hardinsbnrg.
John Cfaauibeis Washington.
William J. Graves New Castle.
James Harlan Harrodsbnig.
Bichard Hawes Winchester.
BEPBESENTATIVXS.
Bichard H. Menefee...Mt. Sterling.
John L. Murray .. ..WadesboroiigE
John Pope Springfield.
Edward Bumsey. Greenville.
William W. Southgate. .Covington.
J. B. Underwood . .Bowling Green.
John White Bichmond.
Sherrod Williams Monticella
LOUISIANA.
SEMATOBS.
Alexander Moaton yenniUonTill& | BobertC. Nicholas Donaldaonville.
BEPBESENTATIVKS.
Bice Garland Opelonsas. | Henry Johnson Bringieia. | Meazer W. Blpley Jackson.
John Buggies .
.Angnsta.
Edward Bobinson * Thomaston.
Franda O. J. Smith Portland.
MAINE.
BENATOBS.
Thomaston. | Benel Williams.
BEPBESENTATIVES.
Hugh J. Anderson. Belfast. George Evan« Gardiner.
Timothy J. Carteri Paris. JohnFairfleld Saco.
Jonathan ClUey *.... .Thomasto wn. Joseph C. Noyes Eastport.
Thomas Davee Blanchard. Virgil D. Farris * Buckfield.
1 Died Uuch 14, 1838. > Died Feb. 21, 1838 ; kffled In a duel bjr William J. GraTOa of Kentucky. • Elected in pljiee ci
Timothy J. Carter, deoeued; took hla seat May 29, 1838. • Elected In plaoa ol Jonstbaa CUley, daoeMed; took Ola seat
April 2^ 1838.
MABTLAND.
SENATOBS.
Joseph Kent! Bladensburg. I John S. Spenoe..
WlUiamD. Merrick* Allen's Fresh. |
BEPBESENTATIVES.
John H. Dennis Princess Anne. I William C. Johnson Jefferson.
Benjamin C. Howard Baltimore. John P. Kennedy » Baltimore.
■TV » T — 1* — TT..«j-»«*« T ..4. ( Isaac McKim*. Baltimore.
.Berlin.
Darnel Jenifer Harrison's Lot.
•Died Nov. 24,1837,
James A. Pearce Chestertown.
Francis Thomas Frederick.
John T. H. Worthington. . .Golden.
■ Elected la place of Joseph Kent, deceased ; took his seat Jon. 6, 1838. ■ Elected in |tlaoe of laaso
McElm, deceased; took his seat April 30, 1838. < Died April 1, 1838.
John Davis .
John Quincy Adams Qulncy.
Nathaniel B. Borden. . . .Fall Biver.
George N. Brises Lanesborough.
William B. CalEoun Sprinpfield.
Caleb Cushing Newbury port.
MASSACHUSETTS.
SENATOBS.
, Worcester. 1 Daniel Webster .
EEPEESENTATIYBS.
Bichard Fletcher Boston.
George Grennell. jim Greentield.
William S. Hastings Mendou.
Levi Lincoln Worcester.
William Parmenter. .E. Cambridge.
.Boston.
Stephen C. Phillips i. Salem.
John Beed.
Leverett Saltonatall *. Salem.
> Besigned In 1838. > Elected in place of Stephen C. Fhillips, resigned; uwk Us seat Dec 6, 1838.
THE TWXNTT-FIFia OONOBBS8.
95
MICHIGAIT.
SENATOBS.
Jjodialjyaa ;....; Bronson. | John Korvell. .
.Detioit.
KEPEESESTATTVB.
baaoXLCrary ....KarabalL
MISSISSIPPL
BENATOBS.
JohnBlack^ Monroe. IBobert J. Walker Uadiso&TiUe,
James F. Hotter* | Thomas H. Williams* Pontitoo.
BEFBESENTATITES.
JohnF.H. Claiborne* MadisonTille. ISergeantS. Prentiss*. Yicksburg.
Samnel J. OholBon<. Athens. | Thomas J. Word* Pontitoo.
> Boitened In 1838. ' Elected in place of John Bli^^k, resigned; took his seat Feb. 19, 1838 ; resigned in 1838. > Appointed
in place of Jame* F. Trotter, radmed ; took his aost Dec. 13, 1838. < Declared to bare been duly elected Oct. 3, 1837 ; decision
nbeeqoentlT rereiMd, and aeat luclared racant Jan. 31, 1838. • Elected at new election, and took his seat Umj 30, 1838.
MISSOUHL
SENATOBS.
Thogoaas H. Benton St. Lonis. | Louis F. lilnn. St Generiere.
IXPBESENTATIVES*
Albert O. Hatrison Fulton. | JohnMUler BoonTHlei
NEW HAMFSEIRB.
SENATOBS.
HeoiyHabtetd Oharlestown. | Franklin Flense HJllsboronglu
BEPKESENTATIVES.
Charles G. Atherton Nashna. I James Farrington Bochester. I Jared W. Williams. Lancaster.
Samuel Cnshman. Portsmonth. | Joseph Weeks Bichmond. |
NEW JEBSET.
SENATOBS.
8aniiMlL,Soatbard Trenton. | Garret D. Wall Burlington.
BEFBESENTATIVES.
John R A7ckTlgg.....Haokensack. I John P. B. Maxwell Belridere. I Charles 0. Stratton.Swedesboroagh.
William dalstraa Trenton. | JosephF. Bandolph Freehold. | Thomas Jones Torke. Salem.
Hathaalel P. Tkllmadge.
John T. Andrews. . .Korth Beading.
Cyns Beers > Ithaca.
fiennet BickneU. MoTrisTille.
Samnel Binlsall Waterloo.
John C. Brodbead Modena.
iKiac H. Bronson Watertown.
Andrew D. W. Bruyn!' Ithaca.
Cbuivliill C. Cambrelcng. .N. York.
Tiiiiuthf Childs Rochester.
John C. Clark Balnbridge.
Mwanl Curtis New York.
John L DeGrafl Schenectady.
John Edwards Bphratah.
MaUid Fillmore .Buffalo.
NEW YORK.
SENATOBS.
...Ponghkeepsie. | Silas Wright, jnn..
BEFBESENTATIVES.
Henry A Foster. Borne.
Albert Ghillup East Berne.
Abraham P. Grant Oswego.
Hiram Gray ElmCa.
Ogden Huffman. New York.
Thomas B. Jackson Newtown.
Nathaniel Jones Warwick.
Qouverneur Kemble . .Cold Spring.
Arphaxed Lourais Little Falls.
RicharJ P. Marv-ia ....Jamestown.
Robert McLellan Miildleburg.
Charles F. Mitchell Lockport.
Ely Moore. New York.
WUliamH. Noble Cato.
.Canton.
John Palmer Plattsbnrg.
Amasa J. Parker. DelliL
William Patterson » Warsaw.
Lnther C. Peck Pike.
Zadoo Pratt Prattsville.
John H. Prentisa Cooperstown.
Harvoy Putnam * Attica.
DaridUnssell Salem.
Mark H. Sibley Canandai^ua.
JainiiS B. Spencer. .Fort Covington.
William Taylor Manlins.
Obadiah Titu.<i Washington.
Henry Vail Troy.
Abraham Vanderreer.. . .Brooklyn.
■ Eketad In plaoeot Andrew D.W.BmTn, deceased; took bis seat Dec. 3, 1838. > Died July 27, 1838.
•Elected in plaoe of William Fattsnon, deceased ; took bis seat Dec 8, i^
• Died Ang. 14, 1838.
[96 "^
OONGEBSSIONAL DIKBCTOBT
NORTH CAROLINA.
SENATOBS.
^B
^1 Sodfonl Brown >....>
...Brown's Store 1 Robert Stranm ..
FayettCTiQft
EEPUESENTATl VKS.
^^H Jesse A. Bynnra Halifax.
^^m npiiry W. C.innor . .SlicrrilVs Font
^^H Edwarrl Doberry I^wTpnccville.
^^^ft Jaiues Graham Butlicrfordton.
^^H MiR«JBh T. Hawkins . . . WarroQton.
James J. McKay. . ..EUjiabethtown.
William Montgomery. . ..Albrights.
Abraham Ueucber. . . Pittslxirough.
Samuel T. Sawyer Edonton.
Angnstine H. 8beppenl..Bet]ianifc
Edward Stanly Wanhliigioa
Lewis WilUamo. . . . .Panther Creek.
Ohorlea UheponL Kewbeni.
H
omo.
^^m
SENATORS.
^H -wmiam AUen
Oliiniootho. 1 Thomas Morris. . .
KEPHESEMTATIVES.
Bellid
Jas. Alexander, jun. .
JohnW. Allen
Wniiam K. Boud....
John Clianev
Charlo I). Coffin"...
St. ClaiTSTille.
. . . Clovoland.
..Chillicotba
.Courtwright.
.N. Lebanon.
Patrick G. Oooile Sydney.
Thomas L. Hanier Georgetown.
Alexander Hart'er Zanesville.
William H. Hunter Sandusky.
Daniel Kilgore^ Cadiz.
Daniel 1'. tA-.-wlbetter. .Miiiersburg.
Andrew \V. UKimiji*. .New Lixtion.
Samson Mason Springfield.
Calvary Morris Atboni
Jame.s Ridgway Columhu.
Matthi-is Slicplor Betlilellem.
Henry Swe-inngen » STiiitlilicU.
Taylor Welwter. Hamilloo.
Elisha Whittlesey • CiinflaU.
Alexander Duncan . ■
Joshua R. Giddings '
...Cincinnati.
Jofforson.
RifanMd; took bis aoat IXk. 3, 1S38. • IteslKiml <n uag. < Hwtened iu 1837.
Mil|M<l; t4X>klu8M»t Deo. 3,1X18. • Resigned July 9, 1838.
• Eleotod in pUee of EHtbs WbittlnT,
• Elected hi plao* «< OsuU SUfO,
^h
PEXNSTLVAOTA.
^^^H
SENATORS.
~ Jiunes DuclianAn ....
Tj|]kmRt.eT 1 Sasnuf^l MrKenn
Bnrlingtofl.
REriiESENTATI\TS.
William BoaM;^
Riclmnl Biildlo
Andrew niu'linnnn..
Edwurd Diirlin^.'toll..
ICdwnril Havies
Jacob Fry, un
Robert H. Hammond
Tliomn-i Hcnrv
F.ilward B. Ifuliloy..
George M. Kulm '
Butler.
Pittsburi;.
Wavnosburg.
.....'.Chester.
.Churchtnwn.
Trappo.
Milton.
Beaver,
.Orwigsburg.
Beading.
.Tohn Kiljtenstuith, jr.Stewansrllle.
David Potrikin DtiiTill*
Arnold Plumer f'ninklii.
William W. Potter BellefonUs.
David Potts, jun rott.itoMTL
Luther Rclly Harrtilraif.
t'harips jfiCiu re Carlisle.
Tli(.«s. M. T. McKennan.Wa.'iliiugtn.
Mathias Morris Doylestown.
Samuel W. Morris. . .Welislionmgh.
Henry A. Muhlenberg*. . .Reading.
Charles Naylor" Phiiii.ieipl.itt.
Charles Ogle Somerset.
Lemuel Paynter Philadelphia.
■r. ihii .Sergeant Philailf IpWi-
Daniel Shoffor ^ork.
Ge->rne W. Toland. . . .Philaddpliu*-
David D. Wagener KslCon.
^^^1 ■ JiJeoted in place of Hcnnr A. Malilonberi
^^^B placq ol Fnuuds J,
?, rosigned ; took hlo font Maroh 17. 1K». > RofrtgDed P>9b. 9, MSB, • D«e»* «*■
Ouft, dseeMoa Matvli 18. Ib37, huvliig never tsken bis MM, ■
H
BHODE ISLAND.
^J
^^m
SENATORS.
^^1
^^B Noliemlah B. Knight.
I*rovideiicG 1 Aiilier Robbiiu. . .
V0in]9^=9
REPRESENTATIVES.
1
^^H Bobert B. Oranston. .
Newport. | Joseph L. Tilling!
SOUTH CAROLINA.
SENATORS.
last ProvideaO^
^^H John C. Callionn
^^H John Cainj>bell
^^^1 Williiim K. Clira-npy
^^^1 Franklin H. Elmore.
PortHilL 1 WiUiamO. PresU
REPRESENTATIA'ES.
.Tohn K. Grimn Milton.
ITngti 8. Ixjearo Charli'sion.
FninclB W. Picken.s.Edgolleld C.IL
. . .Pamasms.
..Union C.n.
Columbia.
Robert Barnwell Rhett. . .Bem**^
John P. Richardson Fnll«
W. Thompson, jr. . .GrecnTille C. -^
^B
TENNESSEE.
^H^
SENATORS.
^^ EpTiraira H. Foster'.
Naohville. Hng^ Lawson W
hlto .....i.i Kw«»*^
vm.^ iBeslcnsdluUat.
^^^B I Appolotod In plaos of Ftt
Ux Onrady, nrignwl; took Ui Mat Dwi. S,
98 OONOBBSSIONAL DISEOTOSY.
THE TWENTY-SIXTH CONGRESS.
Pint Set*ion,Jrom Dee. 2, 1880, to July 21, 1840. Second Session, from Dee. 7, 18M, to Marek 8, 1841.
AT.AWAMA,
SENATOBa
Clement 0. Clay Ho&tayille. | WUUom B. Klngi : Selsia.
BEFKESSNTATTVBS.
Beuben Chapman. Somerrille. I James Dillett ClaHMme. I Dixon H.Iiewls..Lowndes1xnongjh.
Geoige W. Crabb Xnsoalooiia. | David Hubbard Coartland. |
I VttMtaltproUm.
ARKANSAS.
SENATOBS.
William S. Fnlton litUeBock. | Ambioee H. Sevier. Lake Port.
BEFKESENTATiVJS.
Edward Croes Washington.
COKNECTICUT.
SENAT0B8.
TbaddeniBetlai KonraUc. I Perry Smith KewUilfoid.
Jabez W. Hontington* Norwich. |
BKPEESENTATIVES.
Wm. W. Boardman*. .New Haven. ITmmanSmith Litchfield.
John H. Brockway Ellington. William L. Storrs < Middletown.
Thomas B. Osborne. Faitfleld. | Joseph TrombolL Hartford.
> Died April T, UMi * Elected In plaee of Thaddeos Betts, deoeiMd; took bis Mat June a,184A. • Eleotedln^aMaC
WI]liamIuBtain,mlgiwd; tookblaHMl>eo.T,1840. < Beaignad In IMO.
DELAWABE,
S£NATOBS.
Bichard H. Bayaid. Wilmington. | Thomas Clayton Newcastle.
TtKKkTiynrTJTA'ri v K.
Thomas Boblnson, jnn. Georgetown.
GEORGIA.
SB27ATOBS.
Alfred Cnthhert Honticella | WUson Iinml>ldn. Athens.
BEPBESENTATIVES.
Thomas W. WiUiama.NewIiOndon.
Jnllns C. Alford La Granm.
Edward J. Black . Jacksonboron^
Walter T. Colqnitt» Columbus.
Mark A. Cooper. Columbus.
Wm. C. Dawson Oreensborough.
Bich'd W. Habersham .Clarkesville.
HinesHolti"
Thomas Butler King.. Way nesville.
Engenlns A. Nisbet Maoon.
Ix)tt Warren Palmyra.
% > Itorigned In ISM. • Elaoted In pluoe of Walter T. Colquitt, lealgned; taxdc bis iMt Fab. 1,18(1.
r
Viea-Pnildent. — Biohabd H Jomraoir of Kentucky. President t^f th» Senate pro tendon. — Wnxux B.
Knro of Alabama, again elected July 20, 1810, and again elected Hanh 3, 1841. iSscretory o/tAe¬e.—
AsBimT DiCKXNs of North Carolina. \
£it>eaterQ/'tAe J}bu«e.—B. H. T.HnrrEB of Virginia. C^t o/tAefibuse.— Huoa A. GABi.Aim of Tlrginis. i
THB TWJENTK-SIXTH CX>NaBESS.
99
ILLINOIS.
SEKATOBS.
John M. Bobinson. Caiml | Richard M. Young Quincy.
BEPRESENTATIVES.
ZadokCaseT' Mount Vemon. | John Beynolds BeUevUle. | John T. Stuart Spdngfleld.
INDIANA.
S£NATOBS.
OliTerH. Smith Indianapolis. | Albert S. White Lafayette.
BBPEESENTATIVZS.
JohnCarr Charlestown.
John "W. Daris Carlinle.
lilghman A. Howard ^ . .Bockville.
• BeBignedlnlSM. > Eleoted la place otTUgbnuui A. Howard, lestgned; took bia Mat Deo. T, 1840.
Henry S. Lane*... Crawfordsvllle.
Oeorg^e H. Proflit Petersburg.
James Bariden Centrevilla
Thoiuas Smith Yeisailles.
William W. Wick . . . .IndionapoUs.
Henry day.
KENTUCKY.
SENATOBS.
.Lexington. | John J. Crittenden.
.Frankfort
Simeon H. Anderson i. ..Lancaster.
LaudaS W. Anilrews .Flemingsb'g.
linn Boyd Belleview.
WiUiam O. Butler Carrolltoa.
Garrett Davis Paris.
BEPRESENTATITES.
William J. Graves New Castle.
Willis Green Greens.
Bichard Hawes Winchester.
Julin Pope Springfield.
John B. Tbomi)Son'. .Harrodaburg.
Philip Triplett Owensborongh.
Joseph Underwood. Bowling Oreen.
John ^Vhite Kicmnond.
Sherrod Williams Monticello.
< Died Aug. 11, 1840. ' Elocted In place of Simeon H.Andenon, deceased; took his seat Dao. 7, 1840.
LOUISIANA,
8ENAT0BS.
Alexander Monton Yermilionvillo. | BobertC. Nicholas ...Donaldsonyille.
EEPEESENTATIVES.
Thomas W. Chinn. Baton Bougo. | John Moorei" .^......Franklin.
Bice Garland > Opelouaa s. | Edward D. White Thibodeauxville.
< Bealgnedlnl840. > Elected in place oIBloe Garland, resigned; took his seat Deo. IT. 1840.
John Buggies .
Hash J. Anderson Belfast.
Nathan Cliftonl Newfield.
Thomas Davee Blanohard.
MAINE.
SENATOBS.
Thomaston. | Renel Williams. .
EEPHESENTATIVES.
George Eyans Gardiner.
JoMliua A. I.iO\veU. . . .Kast Machias.
VirgU D. Parris Bucklield.
.Augusta.
I Benjamin Bandall. Bath.
Albert Smith '. Portland.
MAEYLAND.
8ENAT0KS.
John Leeds Keri Easton. I JohnS. Spenoe'..
William D. Merrick. Allen's Fredh. |
EEPKESENTATIVES.
JsmesCarroll Baltimore. Daniel Jenifer Milton Hill.
John Dennis Princess Anne. William Cost Johnson . . .Jefferson.
Sulomon Uillen, jnn Baltimore. Francis Thomas Frederick.
> Elected is place o( Johns. Spence.deceiued; took his seat Jan. 13, 1841. <Dledlnl840.
.Berlin.
Philip F. Thomas Easton.
John T. H. Worthington. .Shawan.
MASSACHUSETTS.
SENATORS.
Itaai; C. Bates> Nortliampton.
lluliu Cbuate' Boston.
I John Davis » Won-ester.
Daniel Webster * Boston.
' Owtsd in plaoa of John Davis, resigned ; took hU seat January, 1811.
bis seat Much 1, lii-U. • Bmigned iu l»ia.
> Elected in place of Dnnlel Webater, roalgned; took
« Busi^sned Fob. 22, 1811.
100
CONOBESSIOITAIi DIBEOTOBY.
BEFBESESTTATnTES.
John Qolnoy Adanu Qnincy. William S. Hastines. Mendon.
Osmyn Baker i Amheist. Abbott Lawrence^ Boston.
Oeoise N. Briegs Lanesboroneh, Levi Lincoln Worcester.
WiUiam B. CEOhoun Springfield. William Parmenter. .£. Cambridge.
Caleb Gushing Newburyport. JohnBeed Yarmouth.
i Election munccewfoIlT contested: elected in place of June* C. Alvord, died Sept SO, 1839, havfaig never taken his BeaL
I Bedgned In ISM. > Elected in place of Abbott lAwianoe, realgned; took bis seat Dec T, 1840.
Leveiett Saltonstall Salem.
Henry Williams Taunton.
Bobert O. Winthrop *. Boston.
JohnSTorvell ..
Isaac E. Craxy .
MICHIGAlf.
8ENAT0B8.
..Detroit | Augustas S. Porter. Detroit
BEPBESENTATTVE.
HISSISSIPPL
SENATORS.
John Henderson Pass Christian. | Bobert J. Walker. Madisonville.
BEFBESENTATTVES.
Albert J. Brown... Oallatln. | Jacob Thompson Pontotoa
mSSOUBL
8ENAT0B3.
St. Louis. I Louis F. Linn St GenoTiere.
BEPBESENTATIVES.
John Jameson Fulton. I John Miller Conner's Hills.
Thomas H. Benton.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
SENATORS.
Henry Hubbard! Gharlestown. | Franklin Pierce Concord.
BEPBESENTATIVES.
Charles O. Atherton Kashna. I Ira A Eastman Oilmanton. I Jared W. Willianis liancaster.
Edmund Burke. Newi>ort | Tristram Bhaw Exeter. [
NEW JERSEY.
SENATOBS.
Samuel L. Southard Trenton. | Garret D. Wall Burlington.
BEFBESENTATIVES.
Wm. BCooperi...Swede8borongh. I .Toseph Killed Salem. I Daniel B. Byalli Freehold.
Philemon I>lcker8on>v....Pater8on. | Jos. F. Bandolph.Kew Brunswick. | Peter D. Vroom^ Somerville.
< Election nnsaccesBfally contested; took his seat I£areh 10, 1840.
Nathaniel P. Tallmadge.
Judson Allen Harpersville.
Daniel D. Barnard Albany.
David P. Brewster 0.swego.
An.<ion Browni Ballston.
Thomas C. Chittenden. Adamii.
John C. Clark Bainbridge.
Edward Curtis New York.
Amasa Dana Ithaca.
Nicholas B. Doe" Waterfonl.
Andrew W. Doig Lowville.
Neheiniah H. Earl Syracuse.
John Ely Coxsackie.
Millard Fillmore Buffalo.
John Fine Ogdensbnrg.
NEW YORK.
SENATOBS.
. . .Ponghkeepsie. | Silas Wright, jnn. .
BEPBESENTATIVES.
John D.Floyd TTtica.
Seth M. Gates Leroy.
FranciB P. Granger.. .Canandalgna.
Moses H. Grinnell New York.
Augustus O. Hand. .EUzabethtown.
Ogden Hoffman New York.
Hiram P. Himt Troy.
Thomas B. Jackson. Newtown.
Charles Johnston Pouglikeepsie.
Nathaniel Jones .Warwick.
Gouverueiir Kemble.. .Cold Spring.
Thomas Kenipshall. Roclie-iter.
Stephen B. Leonard Owego.
Meredith Mallory. .Hammondsport.
.CantoB.
Bichard P. Marvin Jamestown.
Charles F. MitoheU. Lockport
James Monroe New \oik.
J. De La Montanya. . . .Haverstraw.
Christopher Morgan. Aurora.
Buf us Palen FaUsbuig.
Luther C. Peck Pike.
John H. Prentiss Cooperatovra.
Edward Rogers Madisoa
David Russell Salem.
Theron R. Strong Palmyra.
Aaron Vanderpoel Kinderlioot
Peter J. Wagner Fort Plain.
> pled June 14, 1840, * Elected in place of Anson Brown, deceased; took his seat Deo. T, 1840.
THE TWENTY-SIXTH (X>KOBES8.
101
KOBTH CABOLIKA.
SENATORS.
Bedford Biown> Brown's Store. I Willie P. Man^im*.
WiUiam A. Graham'. EOllsboroagh. | Sobert Strange*....
.Bed Mountain.
. .-.Fayetteville.
Je«M A. Bynnin Halifax.
Henr; W^ Connor. .SherriU's Ford.
Edmund Debeny. . .LawTenceville.
Charles Fisher Salisbury.
James Qraham. . . .Butherf oidtown.
SEFKESESTATlYEa.
MicajaU T. Hawkins. . . . Warrenton.
John Hill Gerinantowu.
James MuKay EUzabethtown.
William Montgomery. . . .Albrights.
Kenneth Bayner Winton.
Charles Shepard..
Edward Sttuily . .
Lewis WiUiams. .
K«>wbem.
. . . . Waah'ngton.
.Panther Creek.
>BMi|ii«l In 1S40.
' Elected In place ot Bobert Stnuige, resigned; took hia seat Deo. 10, 1840.
Bedfoid Brown, realgned; took hia seat Deo. 9, IMO. • Bmilgned in IMO.
■ Elsoted in pbuie of
William Allen.
John W. Allen Cleveland.
William Key Bond Chillicothe.
Thomas Corwin ^ Lebanon.
William Doan Withamsville.
Alexander Duncan Cincinnatt
Joshua B. Giddinga Jefferson.
Pfttiick G. Goode Sidney.
OHIO.
SENATOBS.
Chillicothe. | Benjamin Tappan. .
•RF.PRIISICKTATI VKM.
John Hastings. Salem.
Daniel P. Leadbetter . .MUlersburg.
Samson Mason Springtiela.
William Medill Lancaster.
Calvary Morris Athens.
J. Morrow > Twenty Mile Stand.
Isaac Farrish Cambridge.
.Steube&Tille.
Joseph Bldgway Columbus.
David A. Starkweather Canton.
Henry Swearingen Smithfiold.
George Sweney Bucyrus.
JonaUian Taylor Newark.
JohnB. Waller Hamilton.
i Baalgoed in IBM. ' Elected in plaoe of Thomas Corwin, tedgned; took his seat Dec. T, IMO.
Jamea Buchanan .
William Beatty Butler.
Biihard Biildle i Pittsburg.
Hen'yM. Breckenridge^.Tarentum.
James Cooper Gettysburg.
£dward Davies Churchtown.
John Davis DavLsville.
John Edwards. : Ivy MUls.
Joseph Fomance. Norristown.
John Galbraith. Erie.
James Gerry Shiewsbnry.
PENNSYLVANIA.
SEKATOBS.
Lancaster. | Daniel Sturgeon .
BEPBESENTATIVKS.
Bobert H. Hammond Milton.
Thomia.<i Henry Beaver.
Enos Hook Wayne.sburg.
Francis James West Chester.
George M. Keim Beading.
Isaac Leet Wa8hinp;ton.
Albert G. Marchand. . .Greensburg.
Charles McClnre » Carlisle.
George McCiiUoch*.. . .Centre Line.
Samuel W. Morris. . . Wellsborough.
.UniontowiL
Charles Navlor* Philadelphia.
Peter Newuard Allentown.
Charles Ogle .- Somerset
Lemuel Favnter Philadelpliia.
David Petrikln Danville.
William S. Bamsey *. Carlisle.
John Sergeant Philadelphia.
William Simonton..Hummelstown.
George W. Toland Philadelphia.
David D. Wagener EastoiL
> Barisned in 1840. < Elected In place ot Richard Blddle, reaigned : took liia aeat Dec 10, 1840. • Elected In place of
VQUam g; Banuey, deceased; took hla aeat Dec 7, 1840. * Elected In place of William W. Potter, deceaaed in 1838; took
kit teat Dec 3, 1838. ■ Seat nnaaooeeaf all7 contested b; Charles J. Ingenoll. • Died la 1840.
BHODE ISLAND.
BENATOBS.
Kaihan F. Dixon. Westerly. | Kehemiah B. Knight Providence.
BEPBEBENTATl V JSS.
Bobert B. Cisnstan Newport. | Joseph L. Tillinghast Providence.
John C CaQionn .
SOUTH CAROLINA.
SENATOBS.
...Fort Hill. I William 0. Fieaton.
.Colnmbiik.
BEPBESENTATIYES.
Samson H. Bntler. . .Barnwell C.H. I Isaac E. Holmes Charleston.
John CampbeU. Pamassns. Francis W. Pickens. Edgefield C.H
Johns. Griffin..... Newberry C.H. |B. Barnwell Bhett Blue House.
James Bogeis .Maybinton.
Thomas D. Sumter Slatesbunt.
W. Thompson, Jon. .Greenville C.H.
TENNESSEE.
SENATOBS.
Alexander Anderson > Knoxville. I A. O. P. Nicholson* Columbia.
*«UxOmndy» Nashville. | Hugh Lawson White* Knoxville.
* Bacud In place of Ho^Iamon White, resigned; took his Beat Feb. 26,1840. > Died Deo. 19, 1840. > Ajipotnted In place
oTFalix Qrundf, deoaaaed; took tJa aeat Jan. 11, 1811. < Bealgned Jan. 13, 1840.
•••. • SENATORS.
SamWs. Phelps Hiddlebury. | Samuel Prentiaa.
KEPRESENTATIVES.
Qorace Everett Windsor. I Hiland Hall Bennington. I John Smith .
'Isaac Fletcher Lyndon. | William Slade Uiddlebcuy. |
MoDtpella:
8t Albu'i
William 0. BiTBS>.
VTRGINIA.
SENATORS.
.Llndaey'B Store. | William H. Boone .
EKPRB8KNTAT1 VES.
.John Hill Buckinsham O.H.
JoelHolleman' Burwcll Bay.
fJeorge W. Hopkin.i Ijebanoa.
Robert M. T. Ilunter' Lloyd's.
Joseph Jolinson Bridgeport.
Jnhn W. Jones Petersbiirg.
Willi urn LUC418. Charlestown.
Francis Uallory* Hampton.
■RirhiaCTd.
Linn Bankn Madison O.H.
Andrew Beimo Union.
John M. Botts Rirhmond.
Walter Coles Bobcrtson's .Store.
Bobert Craig Christian sliurg.
George C. Droomgoole Gaston.
James Garland lioringston.
William L. Goggin. Liberty.
> Took bin Mot Jan. 30, IMl. * Rmlgned in IMO. • ElaoCed speaker Dec. IS, 1839. « Eleeted hi place of Joel Rollii-
man, rmigned ; took bla scat ISU. • Resigned Dee. 26, 1839. • Elactod In place ot Charles F. Uarcer, nalesed; took Ui
•eat Jan. IS, 1S40.
Charles P. Mercer* Aldia
William M. McCarty*. .Alcxandiii.
Francis E. Bires. Littletoa
Grtien B. Samaels Woodstock.
Lewis Steenrod Whtellag.
John Taliaferro FrederickiboK
Henry A. Wise AocomooCJL
FLORIDA TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Chaxlea Downing St AogntlMk
William W. (Xiapman.
IOWA. TERRTTORT.
DELEGATES.
.Burlington. | Augostns 0. Dadge> Bnili
> Took his aeat Deo. e,18iO.
WISCONSIN TERRTTORT.
DELEGATE.
James D, Doty .AshO
THE TmssrxsEvmFxa oongbess. 108
THE TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.
Fim Smion, Jrom May 81, 1841, to Sept. 18, 1841. Second Se$»ion, from Dee. 6, 1841, to Aug. 81,
1842. Third Session, from Dec. 6, 1842, to March 8, 1843.
Fke-Prai(bnt— JOHX Ttuer> ofVIiginla. Presidents of the BencUa pro tempore.— SaxuilIl Sovtbabo
ofNewJeisey; WnxaiF. Maitoux of North CaioUna, elected May 31,1812. SecreUuTiitftht Senate.— Aamar
DicKBm of Koith CsroliiuL
Speaker of the Bause.—ioBn WBrn of Kentucky. Clerk of the Bouse.— ilArraxw St. CiiAib Culsmm
«l FennsylYMiia.
> Baoame Fnddant br tba death of 'WUUam BsBiy BiniMiB.
AT.ABAMA,
BENATOBS.
ArtiraiP. Bacbyi I WlUiam B. King Selma.
Clement CCfiqr* HnntsriUe. |
BEFKESENTATIVJJS.
Reuben Chapman Someirille. I Dixon H. Lewis. .Lowndesbaronsfa. I Benjamin D. 8hieIda....I>emopoli8.
Geoi^ 8. Houston Athens. | William W. Payne 6alne8vill& |
> Elected In place of COement O.Clay, mlgnad; took bis Mat Oao. ST, IMl. ' UntgtmA in 18*1.
ABKAITSAS.
BSNATOBS.
Wmiam S. Fnlton little Bock. | Ambiooe Sevier Lake Fort
BEFBESENTATIVJS.
Edward Oroaa Waahlngton.
CONNECTICUT.
SENATOBS.
JabeaW. Hnntingtoin. Korwlch. | Ferry Smith New ItUf end.
n.npttaMmj'i'ATi viwi-
'Wniiam'Vf.BoaTdman.Ifew Haven. I Thomas B. Osborne. Fairfield. I Joseph TnunbnU. Hartford.
John H. Bn>ckw«y Ellington. | Truman Smith. litchfleld. | Thomas W. Williams.New London.
DELAWARE.
SEKATOBS.
BicbatdH. Bayard. Wilmington. | Thomas Clayton. Kew Castle.
BKPBESENTATl V K.
OeotgeB. Bodney. New Castle.
GEOBQIA.
SZNATOBS.
JohttK. Benien. Savannah. | Alfred Cntbbert .' Uontioello.
BEFBESEITTATirES.
Jolins C. Alford La Orange.
£<lvrinl J. Black i. Jackson Iwrough.
■Walter T. Colquitt* Columbus.
Jiarit A Cooper*. Colmnbns.
GeoigeW. Crawford' Augusta.
William C. Dawson.OreensborouKl>.
Thomas F. Foster Columbus.
Roger L. Oamlile LonisvUle.
Bichard W. Uabeialiam,'
ClarkesTiUe.
Thomas Butler King. .WaynesviUe.
James A. Meriwether.. . . .Bdenton.
Eugenlus A. Nisbet Macon.
Lott Warren Falmyra.
■TMkhiiantMBnb9^U42. > Took his Mat Feb. 1, 1842. • Took hia seat Feb. 1, 1842. < Eleoted in plaoe of Bkifaaid
W.Hab«diam,deoeand; took his seat Feb. 1,1843. * Died Deo. S, 1842.
104
OONOBUSSIONAX. DIBECTOKY.
ILLIK0I8.
SENATOBS.
aoel Mdtoberts Danville. | Blohaid M. Young. Qniocj.
BEPKESENTATIVES.
Zadook Caaey > Mt. Vernon. | John Boynolda> Bellovillo. | John T. Stnart* Spilngfieli
I Took Ub mt Sept. 1, IBU. • Took hU aeat Aug. S, U41. • Took hla aoat Aug. U, 18U.
Oliver H. Smith .
INDIAXA.
SEI7AT0RS.
Indianapolis. | Alberts. White
EEFUESENTATIVES.
James IL Cravens Marion. | 0«orge H. ProfUt Petcrehnrg. I Joseph I4. White .
Andrew Kennedy Muncietown. Riclmnl W. Tlioiiipson ISedford. I
H«niy 8. Lane Crawfordsvllla | David Wallace Indiauapolia, |
.lAtayetttL
..MadiMO.
KENTUCKY.
SEKATOBS.
Henry Clay 1 Lexinston. I James T. Morehead.
John J. Crittenden^ Frauklort. |
..Aankfcst
lantlofC W. AndrewK,
Fleminraburtjli.
T^inn Boyd Belle vie «•.
William O. Bntler Carroll on.
Garrett Davis Paris.
REPUESENTATTVEa.
Willis Oreen Greene.
Thomas l'\ Marshal ..... Vorsolllea.
Bryan Y. Owsley Jainestowu.
•folm Pope Spriniflield.
James C Sprigg BholbyiTllo.
.Tolm B. Thompson. . .HarnxbbtiM
Philip Triplett Owcasborougli.
Joseph Underwood. BowlingGnen.
John Mill te« Kidunond.
> Badgnod Horali 31, IMS.
• Elooled In plaoa of Henry Clay, realgnsd: took his seat March 31, l&O.
llaySlilMl.
• Eketed
LOUISIANA.
8ENATOE3.
Alexander Barrow Baton Rouge- I Alexander Mouton* VermilionTill'
Charles &I. Conrad * New Orleans. |
REPItESENTATTVES,
John B. Dawson. . .St. Francisville. I John Mooro Franklin. | Etlward D. Wliito.ThibodeaniTil*^*-
> Electod In plitoe of AlnTunilnr Moaton, rorlgned; took hU seat April 14, 1843. ' Beslgned in 1M2.
KAIXE.
8ENAT0K3.
George Evans Ganliner. | Rctiel Williams .
REPRESENTATIVES.
Elisha H. Allen Bangor.
Daviii Broriflon 1 Anson.
Natbau Cliilord NowOeld.
William P. Fcssenden. . . .Portland.
Nathaniel S. Litrlelteld. .Bridgeton.
Joshua A. Luwull '' Matthias.
I Alfred Marshall...
Benjamin Randall.
Elected in plaoo of Goorge Enuu, eloctod souutor-, took Lis seat May 31, 1841. > ElMtlon ansaaoanfally oonlMtad.
4
itad. I
MAKYLAND.
SENATORS.
John Leeds Ker Easton. | WiUiam D. Merrick Allen's Fwst=:^*'
REPRESENTATIVES.
John T. Mn^on Hagorstowti.
James A. Poiin'e Chestertown.
Aluxunilur llamlall Annapolis.
> triiKl Deo. 2, 1842.
William Cost Johnson . ..Jefferson.
Isaac D. Jonas Princess Anne.
John P. Kuunudy BolUmoro.
Augustus B. Boilers,
Prince Frcdcricl
Jauioa W. Wllliama '. .Churcbvlll
MASSACHUSETTS.
SENATORS.
IsaaoC. Bates Northampton. | RufusChoate .
J
...Bos«o«'
TH£ •XWEISTX-BEYSSTB. CONOBESS.
105
BEPBESZNTATiViSS.
Barker Bnmell Kantacket.
William B. Calboan. . . .Springfield.
Caleb Gushing Newburjrport.
William 8. Hastings ' Mendon.
Charles Hudson Westminster.
William Parmenter. .E. Cambridge.
Leverett Saltonstall Salem.
Kobert 0. Winthrop • Boston.
John Quinoy Adams Quincy.
Nathan Appleton > Boston.
Osroyn Baker. Amherst.
Nathaniel B. Borden. . . .Fall River.
George N. Briggs. . . .Ijanesborongh.
* Eleeted in place of Bobert C. 'Winthrop, resigned; took his seat June 9, 1842; resigned in 1842. ■ Died Jons IT, 1843.
• B«Bigned M*; 28, 1842 ; sabaequent^ tieoted in plaoe ol Nathan Appleton, resigned, and took his seat Deo. 6, 1842.
MICHIGAK.
SENATOBS.
AagoBtaa a Porter. Detroit. | William Woodbridge Detndt
BEFBESENTATIVB.
Jacob M. Howard Detroit.
MISSISSIPPL
SENATOBS.
John Henderson Paso Christian. | Bobert J. Walker MadisonyiUe.
BEPEESENTATIVES.
William H.Gwin I Yicksburg. | Jacob Thompson > Oxford.
ilbok his seat Deo. 23, 1841. > Took his seat Deo. 9, 1842.
MISSOURL
8E17ATOBS.
St. Louis. I Louis F. Unn St GeneTieve.
BEPBESEMTATIVES.
John C. Sdwards Jefferson City. | JohnBfiller Goooh'sHlUs.
Thomas H. Benton.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
SENATOBS.
Franklin Pierce 1 Concord. I Levi Woodbury Portsmouth.
Leoiianl Wilcox > e Oxford. |
BEPBESENTATITES.
Charles O. Athorton Nashua, lira A. Eastman Gilmanton. I Tristram Shaw Exeter.
Edmund Burke. Newport. | John B. Beding. HaverhlU. |
' Bedgnsd In 1842. > Appointed In iilaoe of Franklin Pierce, resigned; tookhii seat HaiehT,1842; sobseqoaatljr eleeted by
the legiglatuie.
NEW JERSEY.
SENATOBS.
William L. Dayton ^ Trenton. I Samuel L. Southard*. Trenton.
Jacob W. Miller Morristown. |
BEFBESENTATIVES.
JohuB. Aycrigg Pvramus. I John P. B. Maxwell Belvidere. I Charles C.Stratton.Bwedesborongh.
William luUstead Trenton. | Jos. F. Randolph. .New Brunswick. | Thomas Jones Yorke Salem.
> Appointed In plaoe of Samael S. Soathard, deceased; took his seat Deo. T, 1812; •nbeeqnently elected by the legUatme.
> Fngsldsntim (em.; resigned May 31, 1842; died June 28, \Si2.
Nstbaaiel P. Tallmadge .
Alfred Babcock Gaines.
Ilaniel U. Barnard Albany.
Victory Binlseye Poiupey.
llamard Blair. Salem.
Saiimel 8. Bowne Coopcrstowu.
I>;»vid P. Brewster. Oswego.
Tiiimthy Child!) llocliester.
Tlioiiias C. L'tiittemlen Adams.
J''lin 0. Clark Bainbridce.
Staley N. Clarke EUlioitaville.
•lameM G. Clinton. Newburt?.
Rifliard 1>. Davis Puughkeepsie.
Andrew W. Doig Luwville.
Joseph Egbert Totupkinsville.
NEW YORK.
SENATORS.
. . .Poughkeepsie. { Silas Wright, ]un.
BEPBESENTATITES.
Charles O. Ferris New York.
Millard Fillmore Buffalo.
Charles A. Floyd Commar.k.
John G. Floyd Utica.
A. I.ia\vrence Foster Morrisville.
Seth M. (Jatps . .• I^^roy.
Samuel Gordon Dellii.
Francis ( iran^jcr > Oauaniluigiia.
•lolm Un^ig^ Cauandaigim.
Jacob Hoiiclc, jun Scliuliarie.
Hiram P. Hunt Troy.
Arcliibald L. Linn . . . .Scheuectiuly.
John Mavnard Seneca Falb.
Itoben McClellau Hudson.
.Canton.
John McKeon New York.
Christopher Morgan Aurora.
William M Oliver Penn Yan.
Samuel Fatridge Elmlra.
Lewis Rigi^ Homer.
James 1. lloosevelt New Yorlc
.John Sanford Amsleidam.
Thomas A. Tomlinson . .Keoseville.
Juhn V^an Biireu Kingston.
Itciiry Van Rensselaer. Ogdonsburg.
Aaron Ward Mt. Pleasant.
Fernando Wood New York.
John Young Genesee.
> Elected In plaoe of John Qtelg, resigned; ta<dL bis seat Deo. T. 1841. • Berigned In 1841.
106
OONGKESSIONAIi DIRECTORY.
'Wllli&m A. Graham.
Aicliibald H. Arrington,
HiJIiardston.
Green W. Caldwell Clmrlntte.
Jolm R. J. Daniel Halifax.
£dmand Deberry . . .Lawrencerille.
NORTH CAROLINA,
HENATOKS.
.HUlsborongli. | Willie P. UangtnnK
.Bed Moantabk]
UEPIU-SEXTATIVES.
Jame.s Graliaiu Rntherfordton.
JainuB ,1. McKay Elizalietlitown.
Atid<;r»nn MitilicU'. . .Wilkeiboro'.
KeiiUfth IJaynor NViiiton.
Abraham Bencher. . . .Pittsborough.
RonmloaM. Saanders Baleful
Augn ■*( lis H- Sbeppenl Salens I
Edwaril Stanlv Waslilneton.]
William H. \\'aslimKton. . Ncwbem. j
LewiH Williams ' . . . Panther Creek, f
■ Elected proeUlent pro tan. May 31, 1842, In nli>«0 of Snmael L. Soathard, real
deceased ; took liUi scat AprU 27, 1M3. > IHcd]
rnod. ' Elected In place of liOWlaWilllia^ J
' ob. 23, 1842. '
William Allen. .
Shorloflc J. Andrews. . . .Cleveland,
lieujaniiu 8. Cowen..St. CUirsville.
Ezra Doan Wmmter.
William Uoan Witham^<ville.
Joxhtia R. 0 iddings ' Joffersun.
Patrick O. Goode Sidney.
John Uustlngs Salem.
OHIO.
SENATOBS.
ChiUlcothe. | Benjamin Tappan. .
EEPllESENTATIVES.
RamsoD Mason Snrlnijfield.
Jaiiica Mat lie ws Coiihocton.
Josliiui -Mnthiot Newark.
William Mo<liU Lanca-ster.
Calvary Mtirrin AthuDB.
Jeremiah Morrow,
Twenty Mile Stand.
.Steubenrillo.
Nathaniel O. Pendleton. Cinoinnali
Josejili Kid;rway Colmnliiu.
Wilbain Russell Porttmoulh.
Samuel Stnkcly StealwDville.
(»e<>rge Sweney Bucvrai.
JohnB. Wellor Hamuun.
James Buchanan.
> Beilcned March 22, 1842; ro-eleoted, aod took hi* seat Deo. 6, 1842.
PENNSYLVANIA-
SENATOBS.
....... lAncaster. | Daniel Sturgeon..
BEPRESENTATIVES.
Thomas Henry Beaver.
Charles .1. Ini;«rsoll. . .Pliiliulclpliia.
Joseph R. IngersoU*. .Phihidfljihia.
James Irvin Milcslmrg.
William W. Irwin Pittalmru.
William Jack Brookeville.
Francis Jan i es West Chester.
Gonr^e M. Ketm Reading.
Joseph Lawrence •• Washington.
Thomas AL T. McKcmiiin,
Washington.
.UnioDtow.
H(?nry W. Beeson Union town.
r.i-njiimin A. Ilidlack..WiIkesbarre.
lieiir.vBla.ki
Charles llrown PhiUulelphia.
Jeremiah llrown Goshen.
James Cooper Getty. Hburg.
Davis I )iiiiock, jun." Montrose.
John Edwards Ivy Mills.
Jo»ei)li Komanoe Norristowu.
.1 allien (Jerry ShrewHlniry.
AmosGustine Mifllintowh.
■ Electeil In place of Charles Ogle, deoaased May 10, 1841 ; dlnd Nov. 28, 1841. > Died .Jan. 13, 1842. • Elected Is pl*e«
of John Semeant, nseigned; took his seat Deo. B, 1X41. < Died April IT, 1S42. • Electe<l In place of Davis Dimock, Jo^
deeeased; took his seat March 18, 1842. • Elected In place of Joseph Lawienee, deceased: took hla seat Jan. S, 1»<*
t B«slguod in 1841.
AlV)ert O. Man-hand. . .Giwn«biint
Pcidr Nowlianl AllsiiKnni
AriioM riiimer FnnikUi
Robert Ram.sey Harlsvllle.
Alinon H. Rcatl* Monttwe.
■laiiies M. Russell* tloilonl.
Jolin .Scrncaiit' Phlla<Icipliia
William Simunton. .HniiiinelsKum.
John Sny<ier ^Uq'k fimrs.
GeorRo W. Toland Pliiladelpliia.
John We.stbrook . Dingman's fonr-
BHODE ISLAND.
SENATORS.
Nathan F. Dixon> Westorly. I William Spragne* Kai
James F, Simmons , Providenoe. |
KEPRESENTATIVES.
BobortB. Cranston Ne>i-port. | Joseph L. Tillinghast
> Died Jan. 29, 1842, • Elected la place of Nathan F. Dlion, dcoeased; took his seat Feb. 18, 184X
SOUTH CAROLINA.
SENATORS.
JohnC. Calhoun .' Fort Iliil. j William C. Preston*.,
QooiKeMcDuaie' Edgefield C. H. {
Samson H. Butler*. .Barnwell C. H.
William Butler . . . .Greenville C. H.
Patrick C. CaldwclLNowberry C. IL
Jolm Campbell Parnassus.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Isaao E. Holmes Charleston.
Francis W, Pickens.EdKotiehl C. H.
Robert Barnwell Rbett.IJluc House.
James Rogers Maybington.
Thomas D. Snmt«r Statesb
8. W. Trotti* BamweUUl
> Elected In plaeo of WiUlnm n. Pnxtnn. roalened ; took bis seat Jannnry, 1843. • Rodsned in 1842.
• Elected In place of Samaou IL Bailor, resigned ; took his seat Deo. 17, IMS.
THE TWKirCY-SEyZNTH CONGBESS.
107
TENNESSEE.
SEKATOBS.
Vacant. Spencer Jamagan did not take bis seat till I Al&ed O. P. Klcholson .
next Congress. |
./..Columbia.
Thomas T. Arnold OreenTille.
Aaron V.Brown PiUaskl.
Milton Blown .....Jackson.
Thomas J. Campbell Athens.
William B. Campbell Carthage.
KEPBESENTATIVES.
Bobert L. Caruthers Lebanon.
Meredith F. Qentry Hari>eth.
Cave Johnson Clarksyille.
Abraham McClellan . .Blountsville.
Hopkins Ii, Tnmey. . . . Winoheeter.
Harvey M. Watterson. .Bhelbyrille.
Christoph'r H. Williams.Xiexington.
JosephXb Williams. Knoxrille.
TEKMONT.
SSNATOBS.
Samuel C. Ciaftsi Ciaftsbury. I Samnel Prentiss ■ Montpeller.
Samuels. Phelps Middlebury. |
EEFBESEMTATIVES.
Horace Everett Windsor. I John Mattocks Peacham. I AngnBtoa Tonng. .Johnson.
HilandHall Bennington. | William Blade Middlebury. |
> Appointed In plaoe of SamnelPientlas, resigned; took bis seat April 30, 1813. ' Beslgned In 1842.
'VmUam a Archer.
lizmBanksi Madison C. H.
Richatd W. Barton Winchester.
John M. Botts Bichmond.
George B. Gary . . .Bethlehem C. H.
Walter Coles Bobertaon's Store.
Thomas W. Oilmer. .Charlottesville.
William L. Ooggin Otterbridge.
William O. Goode Boydton.
VIE6INIA.
SENATOBS.
Elk Hill. I William CBiveB.
BEPKESENTATTVES.
William A. Harris Lnrav.
Samuel Ll Hays. . . .Stoard's Creek.
George W. Hopkins Lebanon.
Edmund W. Hubard. . . .Curdsville.
Bobert M. T. Hunter Lloyd's.
John W. Jones Petersburg.
Francis Mallory Hampton.
Cttthbert Powell Upperville.
.Bentivoglto.
William Smith * Cnlpeper C. H.
Lewis Steenrod Wheeling.
Alexander H. H. Stuart. Staunton.
George W. Bummers . . . .Kanawha.
John Taliaferro. . . .Fiedericksburg.
Henry A. Wise. Accomac C. H.
* Best nooassfally contested brWQliam Smith. ' Bnooessfnlly contested the election of Linn Banks; took bliaeat Deo. 8, IMU
FLOKIBA TEBBITOBT.
DELEGLATE.
David Levy St. Angostino.
IOWA TERRITORT.
DELKQATB.
Angostoa C. Bodgs Bndlngtan.
WISCONSIN TEBBTTORT.
DELBOAIB.
Heuy Dodge 1 Dodgevflla.
> Took his seat Dea T, IStl.
THE TWSNTY-XIOHTH 0ONOBES8.
109
ILLINOIS.
SENATOBS.
SidnerBretse Carlyle. | James Sample ^ Alton.
EEFRESENTATIYES.
Joseph F.Hqge ...... ^. .. . .Galena. | John Wentworth Chicago.
Stephen A. DouKlao. Qnincj.
Orlando B. FickUn Charleston.
John J. HftTTllTi. Jacksonville.
John A. McClemand .Shawneeto'n.
Robert Smith Upper Alton. {
> Aiipainted in pbMM at Samael HoBoiiertB, dsoaaaed Haixdi 2T, 1813; took bli seat Deo, 4, 1MB; iidiMqnsntlr deotsd bj the
* leglalataie.
Xdwaid A Hannegan*
Vvuiiam J. Brown. . . .Indianapolis.
John W. Davis Carlisle.
Thos. J. Henley. .New Washington.
Andrew Kennedy . . . .Hondetown.
INDIANA-
SENATOBS.
Covington. | Albert S. White.
KEPKESKNTATIVES.
Bobert Dale Owen .New Harmony.
John Pettit Lafayette.
Samuel C. Sample. . . . .Sonth Bend.
Caleb B. Smith Connersvllle.
.Lafayette.
Thomas Smith Versaillea.
Joseph A. Wright Bockrille.
John J. Crittenden.
KENTUCKY.
SENATOBS.
.Frankfort. | John T. Morehead
LinnBovd. BeUeview.
George A. Caldwell Colombia.
Garrett Davis Paris.
Bichaid Fienoh . . ..Hoant Sterling.
Willis Oreen Green.
Henry G rider Bowling Green.
James W. Stone Taylorsville.
William P. Thomasson. .Loui8TiU&
Frankfort,
John W. Tibbatts Newport.
John White Biohmond.
LOUISIANA-
SENAXOBS.
Alexander Barrow.... Baton Bonge. I Alexander Porter >
Henry Johnson > New Biver. |
Peter E. Bossier *..... Natchitoches. | Alcee Labranche New Orleans. I JohnSlidell New Orleans.
John B. Dawson. ..St. Francisville. | Isaac E. Morse*.. .St. Martinsville. |
>Elaeta<ltopbM)eof Alexander Porter, deceased; took Mb Best MftRih 4, 1844. • Died Jan. 13, 1844. * Died Apiil 84, 1844.
• Elected in place of Peter E. Boaaler, deoeaud; to<dl hii seat Deo. 3, 1S44.
MAINB.
SENATORS.
George Evans. Gardiner. | John Fairfield i Saoo.
BEFBESENTATIVES.
Joshna Herrick . . . Kennebnnkport. I Benjamin White*. Montvllle.
Freeman H. Morse Bath. I
Luther Severance. Angnsta. |
< BKtMlto place of Bend 'Wmiama.iealgned in 1843; took his Best Deo. 4, 1843. • Took Us seat Hay 10^ 184*. * ZOok his
■eat Deo. 2, 1844.
Sliepard Cary* Honlton.
Bobert P. Dimlap Brunswick.
Hannibal Hamlin Hampden.
MARYLAND.
SENATOBS.
WflUamD. Ifeniek Allen's Fresh. | James Alfred Fearoe „ ....Chestertown.
BEPBESENTATIVES.
F^aDdsBren|de....Frederlcktown. I John P. Kennedy Baltimore. I Thomas A Spenoe Snow Hill.
J. U.& Can^ii Leonardtown. | Jacob A. Preston.. Perrymansville. | John Wethered Franklin.
iHMaBatw.
HASSACHUSETTa
SENATOBS.
.Northampton. | Bofns Choate..
.Boston.
no
OOKGBBSSIONAI. DIBBOTOBT.
Amos Abbott 1..... Andoyer.
John Quincy AdamH Qnincy.
Osmy n Baker * Amheist.
Joseph Giinnell New Bedfoid.
^EPBESENTATTVES.
Charles Hndson Westminster.
Daniel P. King South Danvers.
William Parmenter..£. Cambridge.
Jnlius Bockvrell * Pittefield.
Henry Williams
Bobert C. Winthrop.
.Taonton.
...Boston.
> Took bb seat Fsb. 18, UM. ' ToOk Ui ant Jan. 22, 18U. > Took Ua seat Fab. i, 18M.
MICHIGAN. .
BENATOBS.
Angostos S. Porter. Detroit | William Woodbridge DetroiL
SEFBESENTAHVEB.
James B. Hnnt Pontiao. | LaflbuLyon Grand Bapids. | Bobert McClelland Monroe.
John Henderson.
MISSISSIPPL
8EMATOBS.
.Pass Christian. I Bobert J. Walker .
.Madisfmville.
BJEPKESESTATIVES.
William H. Hammett Princeton. I Jacob Thompson Oxford.
Bobert W. Boberts. Hillsboroagh. JTilglunanM Tucker Colombna.
Missomu.
SENATOBS.
David B. Atchison 1 Platte City. | Thomas H. Benton. StLonis.
WHfltllSirWTATIVHM
GuBtavusM Bower Paris. I James M. Hughes Liberty. I James H. Belfe Caledonia.
James B. Bowlin St. Louis. | John Jameson Fulton. |
> Appointed in plaoe of IioalaF. linn, <leoaaaedOotS,tB43i took hia aeat Dee. 4, 1843; snbaaqoantlj elected by tbe lagblatare.
NEW HAMPSmSE.
BESATOBS.
Charles O. Atherton Kashua. | Lievl Woodbury .
KEPEESENTATlVlfiS.
.Portsmontli.
Hdnmnd Burke Kewport.
John P. Hale. Dover.
Moses Korris, jun. Pittsfield.
John B. BediDg, Haverhia
NEW JERSEY.
SENATOBS.
William !>. Dayton..* Trenton. | Jacob W. Miller Mordstown.
BEFRESENTATrVES.
Lucius Q. C. Elmer. Bridgeton. I L. Kirkpatrick New Brunswick. I William Wright. Newark.
IsaaoG. Farlee Flemington. | George Sykes Mt. Holly. |
NEW YORK.
SENATOBS.
Daniel S. Dickinson > Binghamton.
JohnA.Dix»
Henry A. Foster*. Borne.
Nathaniel P. Tallmadge * Ponghkeepsie.
Silas Wright, jun.' Canton.
Joseph H. Anderson.White Plains.
DanfelD. Bamanl... Albany.
Samuel Beardsley * TJtica.
Charles S. Benton Mohawk.
Levi D. Carpenter ' Watervllle.
Chas. H. Carroll. Groveland Centre.
Jeremiah E. Gary. . .Cherry Valley.
James G. Clinton Newbnrg.
Amasa Dana Ithaca.
Bichard D. Davis. . . .Ponghkeepsie.
Chesselden Ellis waterford.
Hamilton Fish New York.
BEPRESENTATTVES.
Bvram Green Sodns.
WUliamS. Hubbell Bath.
Orville Hungerford. . . .Watertown.
Washington Hunt Lockport.
Preston King Oeclensbure.
Moses G. Leonard New York.
William B. Maclay New York.
William A. Moseiey Buffalo.
Henry C. Murphy Brooklyn.
Thonia.1 J. Paterson Bochester.
J. Phillips Phoenix. New York.
Zadoc Pratt Prattsville.
Smith M. Purdy Norwich.
George Bathbun. Auburn.
Orville Bobinson Mexico.
Charles Bc«ers Sandy HilL
Jeremiah Bussell Saogerties.
David L. Seymour Troy.
Albert SmitL Batavia.
Lemuel Stetson Keeseville.
Selah B. Strong Setauket.
Asher TWer EllicottaviUs.
Horace Wheaton Pompey.
> Appointed in place of Nathaniel P. Tallmadge, rexlgned: took Us seat Deo. 9, ISM; anbseqnently elected by tbe
leglslaturo. • Elected lii pLice of Silas Wright, Jan., resigned, Henry A. Foster having been appointed mv tern. ; took hli
aeat Jan. 27, 1845. • Appointed in place of SUaa Wright, ]an., resigned; took Ma seat Dec 9, 1844. * Bealsned In lS4t.
• BeslguedialMi. • Bailgned Uaich 6, 1844 ' Elected in place of Samuel BeanUley, realgned; took hla aeat J3eo. :i, UM.
i"
THE TWBHTT-BIGHTH OONGBESS.
Ill
NOETH CAKOLINA.
SENATOBS.
"WUliain H. Haywood..
JL H. Arrington QOIiaidston.
Daniel M. Barringer Conoord.
Thomas Lk CUi)giiian....A8heTiUe.
..Baleigh. | WUUe P. Mangomi..
EEPEESENTATTVES.
.Bed Moantabu
I John B. J. Daniel Halifax.
Edmnnd Deberry. . .LawrencevlUe.
I Jamea J. McKay. . .EUzabethtown.
* FnaUent lira (am.
Kenneth Barner. Winton
David S. Reid Beidsvllle.
Bomolos M. Saunders Raleigh.
"William Allen.
OHIO.
SE2TATOBS.
.Chillicothe. | Benjamin Tapitan..
.StenhenTille.
HemyB. BTitikeThoSi..Flynionth.
Jacob BrinkerhoS Mansfield.
Ezia Dean Wooster.
Alexander Duncan Cincinnati.
Elias Florence CirclesTiUe.
Joshua R. Giddlngs Jefferson.
Edward 8. Hamlin « Elyria.
Alexander Harper- Zanesville.
REPRESENTATIVES,
Perley B. Johnson. McConnellsville.
James Mathews. Coshocton.
William McCauslen. . .Steubenville.
Joseph J. McDowell .Hillsborough.
Heman Allen Moore ■ . . .Columbus.
Joseph Morris Woodsfield.
Emery D. Potter Toledo.
Bobert C. Schenok Dayton.
Henry St. John Tiffin.
Alfred P. Stone * Columbus.
Dauiel B. Tilden Bavenna.
Joseph Vance ITrbana.
John J. Vanineter Piketon.
Samuel F. Vinton. Gallipolis.
John B. Weller Hamilton.
'Died Apis ao, ISM.
> Elected in place of Henry R. Brlnkerholl, deceased; took Ilia Beat Dec. 2, ISM.
* Elected In place of Heman Allen Moore, deoeaeed; took his seat Deo. 2, VMA.
• DledAprU3,lSU,
James Bochaoaii.
Benjamin A. Bidlack .Wilkesbane.
James Black Newport.
Bicbard Brodhead..... Easton.
Jeremiah Brown Goshen.
Joseph BnSngton Kittannlng.
Cornelius Darragh ^ Pittsburg.
John Dickey Beaver.
Henry D. F^oster Greensburg.
Henry Prick ». Milton.
PEIWSTLVAKIA.
SENATOBS.
Lancaster. | Daniel Sturgeon .
REPEESENTATl VE8.
George Fuller >. Montrose.
Samuel Hays Franklin.
Charles J. Insersoll... Philadelphia.
Joseph B. IngersolL . .Philadelphia.
James Irvin Milesburg.
Michael H. Jenks Newtown.
A. B. McllTalne Brand .ywine.
Edward Joy Morris . .Philadelphia.
Henry Nes York.
.XJniontown.
James Pollock*. Milton.
Alexander Ilamsey. . . .Harriaburg.
Almon H. Bead ". Montrose.
Charles M. Beed Erie.
.Tohn Bitter Beading.
John T. Smith Philadelphia.
Andrew Stewart XJniontown.
William Wilklns « Pittsburg.
Jacob S. Yost Pottstown.
> Elected in place of WnUam Wilkliu, lesigned: took his aeat March 26, 1844. > Died March 1, 1844. > Elected tn place
of Almon H. Bead, deeoaaed; took his aeat Deo. 2, 1844. < Elected iii place of Henrv Filck, deceased; took bis seat Apiil 23,
1M4. 'Died Jane 3, ISM. • Beslgned In 1844, having been appointed secretaiy of war.
BHODE ISLAIH).
SENATORS.
John Brown Francis >. Proridence. I William Spragne* Naticic
James F. Simmons. Providence. |
REPRESENTATIVES.
HsnryY. Cranston Newport. | EUsha B. Potter. Kingston.
> Beeted In place of WOliam Spragne, resigned; took his seat Feb. 7,1841. > Baslgned Jan. IT, 18M.
.Edgefield C. H.
SOUTH CAEOLINA.
SENATOBS.
I>siiIeIE.Hnger> Charleston. | George MoDoffle
REPRESENTATIVES.
Jas. A. Black. Cherokee Iron Wks. Isaac E. Holmes Charleston. I Jos. A. Woodwaid.'Winnsborough.
Annistead Burt. Abbeville. B. Barnwell Bhott Blue House.
JohnCwapbelL Parnassus. BichardF.Simpsou.Pendletonville. |
> Beotedinplaoeof JohnO.Calhoan, redgnedlnl843; took his seat Dec T, 1843.
E^uatmH. Foster.
TENNESSEE.
SENATORS.
.Kashvllle. | Spencer Jamagln .
.Athens.
112
CONOBES8IONAI. DtBECTOBY.
John B. Aaha .... -Brownsville.
Jiili ua W. Bbickwell Athens,
Aiiron V. Btowh PuJoski.
MUtan Brown, Jacluon.
BEFBXSENTATITKS.
Alvan CoUom Llyingstoii.
D. W. Dickmson.MnifreesborouKh.
Andrew Johnson Greenville.
Cave Johnson Claiksville.
6«oTge W. Jones Fayetterille.
Joseph H. Peyton Gallatin.
Wm. T. Senter . . . Panther Springs
VERMONT.
SENATORS.
Samuels. Plieli» IDddlebory. | William TTpham. Montpeliei.
Jacob CoUamer , Woodstock. I Solomon Foot Bntland.
Paul Dillingham, Jon. Waterboiy. | G«oige P. Hanh. Biulington.
Williams, A»ch6t.
Archibald AtkioAon . . . .8mlthflelil.
Thomas H. BbwI.v '..Axjcomae C, H.
AujO^^tus A. Chapman Ciuon.
Sam lie I Chilton Warreuuiii.
Walter Colea . . , .Robertson's Store,
George C Dromgoole Sammit.
VIBGINIA.
SENATOBS.
Elk HiU. I William 0. BiTes.
BEPBESENTATTVZS.
Thomas W. Gilmer*. CharlottesTine.
William L. G<^gK:in* ..Otter Bridge.
George W. Hopkins*.... Abingdon.
Edmund W. Hubard.. . Cnrdsville.
John W. Jones ». Petersburg.
William Lucas. Charlestown.
.BeatiTOglia
Wlllonghby Newton Haf^e.
Lewis Steenrod Wheelmg.
Geo. W. Summers. .Kanawha C. H.
William Taylor Lexington.
Henry A. Wise •. Acoomac U. H.
> Election nnsaeoenf nil; contested by WUliam
. uio <si<^uuii ui' Tboma* W. Oilmer; BuMequenUj elected a|iao
tlio ri'^it^uittlon ot Mr. Uiliuur. and Uwit LUs aest Deo. 2. 1M4. • Chosen speaker sro (on. Feb. 28, IMS. • Bectirai assac-
oaafuUjoiuUflUed liyJcibu U.Bota, dsoted speaker Deo. 4, UU. • Bedgned Feb. U, Ut&
> ElKtfd in rilnfe ot Ilearr A, \tl»e. resigned: took his seat Mb7 6, IMi.
I.. Goz^n ; rstl{;neil Feb. 18, 1^*44. * UnsnoceasfoUy contested theelection ofTbomas W. Oilmerj subeeqnenU;
TLONDA. TERBITOBY.
DELBOAIE.
DaTidLeryi
.St Angostliie.
I Baetton aameeeastnll; oonteatad.
IOWA TEBBITOBT.
DELBOAIB.
AngostoaO. Dodgs • Bmliiigtao.
WISCONSIN TEBBTTOBY.
Ben^Dodga ■ ..•••• DodgeriUs.
THB IWENXZ-HINTH OONOaESS. 113
THE TWENTY-NINTI CONGEESS.
Firtt Settion,Jrcm Deo. 1, 1845, to Aug. 10, 1846. Second Sesfion, from Deo. 7, 1846, to March 8, 1847.
Vie»-PreMeaL — Gxobos M. Daujui of Fennsylysnia. Preiidmt qf the Senate pro tempore. — Dayid B.
AiCBisoir of Hiaaooii, elected Ang. 8, 1816. Seeretaty of the Senate.— Aasasg DwEXsa of North GaioUna.
Speaker oj (A« lEniw.— JoBK W. Datu of Indiana. Ckrk oj (Ae HbtMe.— Bxnmxih B. Fbknch of
Kew Hampahiie.
AT.ARAMA-
8EKAT0R8.
ArtlraxP. Bagby Tuscaloosa. | Dixon H. Lewis. Lowndesboioogh.
BEPBESENTATIVES.
Franklin "W. Bowdon ^ . .Talladega. I Edmund 8. Dargan Mobile. I Felix O. HoConnell ■. . . .TalladMS.
Renlten Chapman Wanenton. HeniyW. Hilliard.. . .Montgomeiy. William W. Payne Gainesville.
James Ii. F. Ck>ttrell>..Hayneville. | GeoigeS. Houston Athens. | William L. 'S'ance7*...Wetmnpka.
> Boeted In place ot Felix O. McConnell, deoeaaed; took bis seat Dee. 7, 1846. 'Elected in plaoe at WQUam Xu TaoceT,
zedpted; took his seat Deo. 7,1846. • Died Sept. 10, 1846. • Bodgned In 1846.
AKEAirSAS.
8EKAT0BS.
Chester Ashley UttleBock. | Ambrose H. Sevlei Lake Fort
BKFBESENTATIVISS.^
Thomas W.Kewton^ (Archibald Yell i. Fayetterille.
'BaetadinpIaeeofAnhibaldTeUiiealgned; took Us seat Feb. 6, 1847. ' Bflslgned in 1846, hsTing been wpolnted ookmel
In the aimy In Hezloo,
CONNECTICUT.
SENAT0B3.
JabezW. Hnntingtoa Norwich. | JohnllNOes lOartford.
iniipRicHnwrA'i'i V Wf.
James Dixon Hartford. I John A. Bockwell. Norwich.
Bamael D. Hnbhaid Middletown. | Truman Smith litchfleld.
DELAWABE.
8ENAT0B8.
JohnlLOagrtoa Newcastle. | Thomas Clayton Newcastle.
BEFBESENTATITS.
John W. Houston Georgetown.
FLOBIDA.
SENATOBS.
JamesD. Wesoottijan.! Tallahassee. | David Levy Ynl«e>... St. Augnstlna.
BEPRESENTATTVES.
B. CanlBgton Cabell* Tallahassee. | William H. Brockenbxough* Tallahassee C. H.
'XookUsieat Dee.l,lMtk ■ Election sneoeastullT contested by WlllUm H. Brockenbnnudi. » Bncooasfiiny eontested
the election at S-CaidngtonCabeUi took Us seat Jan. 24, 1846.
114
OONGBES8IONAL DIBBCTOBT.
GEORGIA.
SENATOBS.
John MoPhenoa Benien Bavannah. | Walter T. Colqnitt Colomlnu,
KEPBESENTATIVES.
Howell CobU. Atliens. I Thomas Butler King Frederica. A. H. Stephens..... CiawfordsTille.
Hash A. Hnralson . .1^ Oninge. 1 .1 1 iliii H. Lniupkin Borne. Robert Toombs. Washington.
Seaborn Joiie:) ...Coltuubns. | Wn.'ihington Foe' Geoige W. Towns' Talbotton.
1 BMisind tn ISiS, hnlng DOTor takaa hii MAt, > Elected in place <^ Wuhlngton Foe, redgnsd; took bla Mat Jib. ZZ, UH.
8JdiKi7 Bnteie .
Edwaid D. Bakerl SpringfleltL
StppheH A, Dou(tIas Qiiuipy,
OrlLndo B. Fidklin Cbatlestou.
ILLIKOIS.
SENATOBS.
Carlisle. | James Semple...
BEPBESENTATl VES.
JohnHenrr*
JoapphP. Hoge Galena.
Joba A. McClemand.Shawneetown.
■Alton.
I Bobert&nith. TTpper Alton.
John Wentworth Chicago.
1 Ba&tgnad Deo. 30, IMa. > Elsctod la place of Edward D. Baker, ndgned; faxdc bis Mat Feb. B, 1M7.
Jesse D. Bright ' .
INDIANA.
SEtrATOBS.
, .Madison. | Kdward A. Hannagan..
BEPBESENTATIYES.
.Covington.
Charles W. Cathcart. lApone.
John W. I>3vi3 1 Car)L«le,
Thi>9. J. Henley. .New Washington.
Andrew Keuufitlir MuncietQwn.
Edwaid W. McGaoghej,
Oreencastle.
Robert D. Owen. . . .New Harmony.
John Pettit Lafayette^
Caleb B. Smith Connenville.
Thomas Smith Versaillea.
William W. Wick ....Indian^iolis.
> ![V»kMsHiMDte.2T,18«& > Beeted cpeaker Dae. 1, 184&
IOWA.
SEKATOBS.'
BEPBESE^iTATTTES.
S.Cliiitonna.^ngB* Bloomlngton. I Shepherd LafSer*
> No HD&ten from iim tben noentl; ot^EB^iiicil State of Iowa took their aeata in thla
Barlington.
* Took hia aeat Dee. », 18«e.
John J. CiitteoJen.
JoshnaF. BaB.. Danrille.
Uiin Boy J Cadii
Garrett IMvl* — Twna.
Hemy Odder. Bowling Gieem.
KENTUCKY.
SESATOBS.
.Frankfort. | James T. Morehead.
BEPBESENTATl VES.
.Covington.
John P. Martin Prestonbiusfa.
J,.} II H. Mo'Ienry Uartf.nl.
WUUiun P. Thomasson. .LouisviUek
John W. Xibbatis Newport.
Andrew Tmmbo <
Bryan B. Yoong.
Owing9Till<
..Elizab^towi
let
itown.
A loxatider Barrow t .Baton Bo<i$>e.
Ucnr}' J obssoii. New Birer.
LOUISIANA.
SENATORS.
Pierre Soolf* New Orleans.
J. B. Hamiaiisan. ..... .Simmvport.
EtBJle Ljt^^sru*. Ji«w Orlifsuis.
BEPBESENTATl V ES.
I Isaac E. Morse St. Martinsrillei I
JohnSUd«ll« New Orleans.
& O. ThibodeMiz Tfaibodeamc
> DlMt Dee, », IMS.
' EliVCvd IB pUw ol A]?.tan<Ior Banow, dov-eo-^tM ; took tiis srat FWi. 3, IMT.
JotuiSiUell, re4c»«li tuok hid Mat Jan. S), 1>K. < Besicned in l»i&.
SLUNE.
SEKAIOKS.
.Gardiner. | John Fairfield..
sBeelad in plaea of
BEPBESEXTATITES.
CnUen Sawrelle Norridgewtx-k. |
Joho F. ix-ammon Sava
lAitber Severance Aogost^ {
Henkiah Williams .
....Saoa
.CastiiM.
THE TWBNTY-NINTH COITOBESS.
116
MABYLAOT).
SEKATOBS.
BaltimoTe. | James Alfred Fearce
KEFEESENTATTVES.
Jobn G. Chapman . . .Port ToTmcoo. I William F. Giles Baltimore. I Edward H. Long. . .Frincess Anne.
Albert Constabla FenyriUe. | Thomas W. Ligon. .Ellicott'a Mills. | Thomas Ferry Camberland.
Bflvttrdy Johnson ■
.Chestertown.
JohnDavla^.
Amos Ahliott Andover.
John Quincy Adams. Qaincr .
Geoige Ashmnn Springfield.
Joseph Giiimell New Bedford.
MASSACHUSETTS.
SEKATOBS.
Worcester. | Daniel Wehster..
EEFRESENTATTVES.
Artemas Hale ' Bridgewater.
Charles Hudson Wes&iinster.
Daniel F. King South Danvers.
Julius Bockwell. Fittsfield.
.Boston.
Benjamin Thompson.. Charlestown,
Bohert O. Winthrop Boston.
* Eleoted In i>laoe<tfIiuo a Bates, daoaased Much 16, ISiS; took hla seat Dec 1,1815. • Took Us seat Deo. T, 18«.
mCHIGAlT.
8EITAT0BS.
Lewis Caas Detroit. | William Woodbrldge Detroit
BEFBESENTATIVES.
Johns. Chipman. CentrerilleL | James B. Hunt Pontiao. | Bobert MoCleUand Monroa
MISSISSIPPL
SBNATOBS.
Joseph W. Chalmers^ HoUv Spring. IBohert J. Walker*.
Jesse Speight. FlymoutE. |
.Madiaonville.
REPEESENTATl VE3.
Stephen Adams. Alierdeen. I
Jenenon Davis * Warrenton.
Henry T.Ellett*...
Bobert W. Koherts. . .HUlsborongh. |
I Jacob Thompson Oxford.
> Appidntsd In place of Bobeit J. Walker, resigned ; took his seat Dec 7, 1846 ; subsequentlT elected by the leglslatare.
■Igued in IMS. • Boslgned in ISM. « Elected in place of Jellenon Davis, resigned; took his aeat Jan. 36, 1S47.
>B*.
mSSOUKL
SENATOBS.
BsTidB. Atchison 1 Platte City. | Thomas H. Benton St Louis.
eefeesentahyes.
James B. Bowlin St. Louis. I JohnS. Phelps Springfield. I James H. Belfe Caledonia.
William HcDaniel^ Palmyra. | Sterling Price > Eeytersvllle. | Leonard H. Sims Springfield.
>£leetedinealdentjm) fast. Aug. 8,1848. > Elected in place of Sterling Price, xeslgned; took Ui leat Deo. T, 1848. • B»-
Blgned in 1MB.
NEW HAMPSECIRE.
SENATOBS.
Charles G. Atherton Kashua. I BenningW. Jenness* Strafford.
Joseph Cilleyi Nottingham. | Levi Woodbury'. Portsmoutii.
BEPRBSENTATIVBS.
James H. Johnson. Bath. I Moses Morris, jnn. Fittsfield.
llace Monlton Manchester. |
* Eketedin place of Levi Woodbniy, resigned, Benning W. Jennoss having been appointed jira (em. ; took hli seat June 22, 184S.
' Apptduted in place of liSTiWoodbiu;, resigned; took his aeat Deo. 1,1846. • Beslgned in 1840.
NEW JERSEY.
SENATORS.
William L. Dayton Trenton. | Jacob W. Miller Morristown.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Joseph K EdsaU Hambnrg. I .Tohn Bunk Kingwood. I WiUlam Wright Newark.
James G. Hampton. Bridgetou. | Qeoi^ Sy kes. Mt Holly. |
116
CONG&BSSIONAL DIBBOTOKT.
Daniel S. DtcUnscm..
Joseph H. Aodeison .WMte Plains.
Cliarles S. Benton Mohawk.
William W. Campbell.. .New York.
Clias. H. Carroll. Groveland Centre.
John F. Collin. Hillsdale.
£ra.stas D. Culver Greenwich.
Samuel S. Ellsworth . . . .Penn Yan.
Charles Goodyear. Schoharie.
Samuel Gordon Delhi
Martin Grovcr Angelica.
Richard P. Herrick ^. . . .Greenbosh.
Elias B. Holmes. Brockport.
>I>ledJime2a,lUB. >
NEW YORK.
8ENAT0BS.
....Bing^iamton. | John A. Dix....,
KEPBESENTATTVES.
'William J. Honeh. Cazeuovia.
Orville HuncCTtord Watertown.
Washinf^ton Hunt Lockport.
Timothy Jenkins Oneida Castle.
Piestou King Ogdensbnrg.
John W. Lan-rence Flushing.
Abner IiewL<i Panama.
William B. Maclay New York.
WUliam S. Miller. New Y^ork.
William A. Moseley Buffalo.
John DeMott Ixxli.
Archibald C. Niven Montioello.
.Albany.
George Rathbnn Anbtmi.
Thomas C. Ripley*. . .Schaghticoks.
Joseph Ru.sseU Warrensboig.
Henry J. Seaman. Bichmonl
Albert Smith Batavia.
Stephen Strong Owego.
Horace Wheaton Ponipey.
Hugh White Coboei
Bradford E. Wood Altianv.
Thomas M. Woodruff... .New York.
Wm. W. Wood worth. . .Hyde Parii.
Eleotedinplaaeof BlohaidP. Heirick,deeeMed; took bis aent Dea 7, ISU.
KORTH CAIIOLIKA.
SENATOBS.
Geoi^e E. Badger 1 Raleigh. I Willie P. Mangnm.
William H. Haywood 3. Raleigh. |
.Bed Monnt^n.
B£FBE8ENT.fTIVES.
John B. J. Daniel Halifax.
James C. Dobbin. Fayette ville.
Alfred Dockery . . .Dockery's Store.
1 Elaotedtn place of WUliam H.Hiyin)od,rasl(;ned; took his seat Dee. 14, laiB.
Daniel M. Barringer. Concord.
Asa Biggs Williamston.
Henry 8. Clarke. Washington.
James Graham Bntherfordtoo.
James J. McKay . . .EUizabethtown.
Davids. Beid BeidsviTle.
• Bedgned Ja]725, ISiS.
William Alien..
Jacob BrinkerhoS Mansfield.
J. D. Cummins. .New Philadelphia.
K, A, Cunningham Katon.
Columbus Delano Mt. Vernon.
James J. Faran Cincinnati.
George Fries Hanoverton.
Joshua B. Giddings Jefferson.
OHIO.
SENATORS.
ChiUicothe. | Thomas Corwin. .
SEFBESENTATIVES.
Alexander Harper Zanesville.
Joseph J. McDowelL.HilLsboroueh.
Joseph Morris Woodsfleld.
Isaac Parish. Parish's Mills.
Augustus L. Perrill LitbopoUs.
Joseph M. Root Norwalk.
William Sawyer St. Mary's.
.Lebanon.
Robert C. Schenck Dayton.
Henry St. John. . . .McCntchenTille.
D. A. Starkweather Canton.
Allen G. Thurman ChiUicothe.
Daniel R. Tilden. Barenna.
Joseph Vance Urbanak
Samuel F. Vinton.. . .... .Gallipolis.
PENNSYLVANIA-
SENATORS.
James Buchanan 1 Lanca<!ter. I Daniel Stnigeon..
Simon Cameron* Middletown. |
KEPRESENTATTVES.
Henry D. Foster Greensbnrg.
WillMun S. Garvin Mercer.
Charles J. Iugcr.soll.. .Philadelphia.
Joseph R. Ingersoll. . .Philadelphia.
Owen D. Leib. Catawis-sa.
Lewis C. Levin Philadelphia.
Moses McCleaa Gettysburg.
A R. Mcllvaine Btandywine.
.TTniontowa
James Black Newport.
John Blanchard. Bellefonte.
Richard Brodhead Easton.
Joseph Bufflnfrton. Kittanning.
Julin H. Campbell Pliilailelphia.
CoraeliR'4 t>.irragli , Pittsburg.
Jaciili Eril:iiiin , (.'oupersbnrg.
John II. EwiJig. Washington.
> EkKlgtuid lliroh, 1MB. •
James Pollock HUtoa
Alexander Ramsey. Harrisbnrg.
John Ritter Reading.
Andrew Stewart Uniontown.
John Strohm New Providence.
James Thompson Erie.
David Wihuot Towanda
Jacob S. Yost Fottstown.
Elected In place of Jamee Buchanan, reslipied; took his seat Deo. 1, IMS.
RHODE ISLAND.
" SENATORS.
Albert C. Oroeoe Providence. | James F. Simmons Pio'videnoe.
BEPBESENTATIVES.
LwDuoia. Arnold Wakefield. | Henry Y. Cranston Newport.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
SENATOBS.
Andrew r. Rutlcr' Edgefield C. H. I George MoDufBe'
John V. CJullitiiiii ■',... Pendleton. |
1 ElmtMi In iitiuw ut OeorgQ MclHiffle, realgnerl ; took hla Beat Dec. 2T, ISW. • Elected in idaoe of Daniel E. Hnnr, rceigneil
ta 184S; took his scat Doc 22, 184>. » Resigned In 1846. ^^
.Cherry Hill
^
THE TWENTY-NINTH CONORESS.
117
James A. Black,
Cherokee Iron "Works.
Aimistead Burt WUlington.
KEPKESENTATIYE8.
Isaac E. Holmes Charleston.
B. BamweU Bhett Ashepoo.
Bichard F. Simpson Pendleton.
Alexander D. Slm8.DarllngtonC.H.
Joseph A. Woodward. . . Winsboro'.
Bpencer Jamagln .
MUton Brown Jackson.
Lacien B. Chase Clarksrille.
William M. Cocke Butledee.
JohnH. Cioder KnoxviUe.
TENNESSEE.
8ENATOBS.
. . .Athens. | Hopkins L. Torney .
SEPBESENTATlVJiS.
.Winchester.
Alyan Cnllom XiiTingston.
Edwin H. Ewing Nashrille.
Meredith F. Gentry Franklin.
Andrew Johnson Qreenville.
Oeoise W. Jones Fayette-rille.
Barclay Martin Colambia.
Fredeiick P. Stanton Memphis.
TEXAS.
SENATOBS.
BamnelHonstoni BaTenHiU. | Thomas J. Bnak* Nacogdoches.
BEPBESENTATIVX8.
Davids. KanfmwTi » Lowes Ferry. | Timothy Pillsbury* Brazoria.
>SodEhlanatHaTch30,lMS. > TbokhlaaeatMu«]ia6,18«. > Took Us seat Jimel,Ig4fi. • Took his seat June 10, 1M6.
VEBMONT.
SENATOBS.
William B. Fhelpa Middlebnry. | William TTpham HontpeUer.
KEPRESENTATIVJSS.
Jacob Collamer Woodstock. I Solomon Foot Bntland.
fanl Dillingham, jnn. .^. . . . Waterbury. | QeorgeF. Marsh Bnrlington.
VntGINIA.
SEKATOBS.
William & Archer. Lodore. I Isaac S. Fennybocker* .
James M. Mason^. Winchester.
.New Market.
Archibald Atkinson. — Smithfield.
Thomas H. Bayly. . . Accomac C. H.
B«Dry Bedinger Charlestown.
William G. Inown Kinswood.
Aa^ustna A. Chapman Tunlon.
Oeoige C. Dromgoole Summit.
* Beeted in plaoe of laaao S. Peimvbacker, deoeamcT; took his leat Jan. 29, 1S4T.
William Taytor, deoeaaed; took liis seat March 6, 18M.
BEFRESENTA'i'iVKS.
George W. Hopkins. Abingdon.
Edward W. Hubard . . . .Curdsville.
Bobert M. T. Hunter Lloyd's.
Joseph Johnson Bridgeport.
Shelton F. Leake. . .Charlottesville.
James McDowell ' Lexington.
John S. Pendleton . .Cnlpeper C. H.
James A. Seddon Bichmond.
William Taylor « Lexington.
William M. Tredway Danville.
•Died Jan. 13, IMT.
•Died Jan. 17, 1848.
* Elseted in plaoa o<
IOWA TERRITOBT.
DEX£OATB.
Aognstna O. Dodge BntUngton.
WISCONSIN TEKRITORT.
DELEX3ATB.
HoigaaLu Martin OieenBay.
118 OONGBB88IONAI. DIBKOTOBT.
P
THE THIBTIETH C0NGBES8.
Fvtt Semon,jTom Dec. 6, 1847, to Aug. 14, 1848. Second Soman, from Dee. 4, 1848, to March 3, 1849.
FU»-FretidefU. — Gkougb M. Daixas of PennsylTaiUa. PresSdeiU <^ the Senate pro tempore. — David B.
Atcbibon of MissoorL Sccrttary of the Senate. — Asburt Diceems of Korth Carolina.
Sp&sixT o/ {Ae Hoiae. — ItOBXitr C. WcrrHBOP of Masaachnsetta. Speaker of the Boute pro tempore. —
Abmisted Bust of Booth CaioUna. Clerk* of the Ilouae. — Benjajon B. Fbkhce of New Hampshire; iBoiua
jKFiZBBoir Oamfbbu. of Tennessee, elected Deo. 7, 1817.
ALABAMA.
S£NATOBS.
ArthiirP. Bnghy i. Toacaloosa. I William R. King* Selma.
Benjamin Fitzpatnck'. AVetompka. | Dixon H. Lewis*. Benton.
BEPBESENTATIVES.
Sampson W. Harris — Wetnmpka. I SamnelW. Inge litTingstaD.
Franklin W. Bowdnn . . .Tallndega.
■Willioiiiiifjn K, W. Cobb.BcUifonto.
Jolm Gaylc. Mobile.
Henry W. HUliaitl . . .Montgomery.
George S. Honston .Athens. |
1 Rwlpied Jane 10, IM^ ■ Appointed In place of Dixon H. t«wb, deceaaed; took hia Beat Deo. 11, 184S. • Appointed
bi pliu!« of ArttiiiT P. BaiAj, ralgnad: took bl« seat July 13, IMS: uibaeqoently elected by the leelBlatare. ' Died
Oct, ZS, ISU.
ABKAirSAa
SENATOBS.
Chester Ashley 1 lattleBock. I William If. Sebastian* Helena.
Solon Borland 1 Little Bock. | Ambrose H. SeTier< PineBlnit
BEPBESENTATIVE.
Eobert W. Johnson UttleEock.
> IMrd April Z), 1A4S. i Appointed in place of Ambrose H. Sevier, resigned: took his seat April 24, 1848; snbeeqaentlr
eleeted by ibe logUUtmra. * Appointed In place of Chester AsUey, deoMsed: took bis seat Hay 31, 1&18. < BeelgoM
Kaicli 15, 1B48.
COITNECTICUT.
SENATOBS.
BogerB. Baldwin! Kew Haven. IJohnHKiles Hartford.
EEPKESKNTATIVES.
James Dl^on.... Hartford. I John A. Rockwell Korwich.
Bamnel D. Hubbard. Hiddletown. I Truman Smith. Ijtchfield.
1 Appointed In plaoa of Jabea W. Hmittngton, deceased Nov. 2^ 1847; took Ua aeat Deo. 7, ISCT.
DELAWABE.
SENATORS. •
JohsM. CTAyton> Kew Castle. I John Wales* Wilmington.
Presley Sprmuioe Smyrna. |
BEFRESENTATIVE.
John W. Houston -. GeoigetovB.
■ Bcelgnod In ISia. > Eiectedlnplaceot John H. Clayton, resigned; took his seat Feb. 26, 1849.
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THE THTBTIETH CONOBBSS. 119
FLORTOA.
'SENATORS.
James D. Wescott, jnn. Tallahassee. | David L. Ynlee , St Angnstiiie.
BEPEESENTATIVE.
E. Canington Cabell , TaUaliasBee.
GEORGIA.
SEKATOBS.
J. McPherson Berrien Savannah. I HerachellY. Jolmson* HUledgeville.
Walter T. Colquitt 1 Columbus. |
Howell Cobb Athena.
Hn^h A. Haralson. lia Orange.
Alfied Iverson Columbus.
KEFBESENTAXX VKS.
JohnW. Jones Griffin. I A. H. Stephens Cra'wfordsville.
Thomas Butler King. Frederlca. I Bobort Toombs Washington.
John H. Lumpkin Borne.
> Besignedln 1848. > Appointed In place ot Walter T. Colquitt^ resigned; took his seat rO). 14^ 1848.
ILLINOIS.
SKSTATOBS.
Sidney Broesa Oarlyle. | Stephen A Douglas Qnlncy.
BEPBESENTATIVJSS.
Orlando B. Ficklin Charleston. I William A. Richardson.. Bnshville. | John Wentworfh. Chicago.
Abraham Lincoln Springfield. I Bobert Smith Alton.
J. A. McCleinand...8hawneOT0wn. | Thomas J. Tomer Freeport. |
ESDIANA-
SENATOBS.
JesaeD. Bright '. Madison. | Edward A. Hannegon. Covington.
BEPBESEMTATi V JS8.
Charles W. Cathcart. La Porte.
George O. Dunn Bedford.
Elisha Embree Princeton.
Thomas J. Henley. N. Washington.
John Pettit Lafayette.
John L. Robinson Ruslrville.
William Rockliill Fort Wayne.
Caleb B. Smith Conners-mle.
Bloh'd W. Thompson. Terre Hante.
William W. Wick . . . .Indianapolis.
IOWA.
SENATOKS.
AngostosC. Dodge' Bnrlington. | George W. Jones i.... .....Dnbuqae.
EEFRESENTATIVES.
Shepherd Ijeffler. Burlington. | William Thompson Mt. Pleasant.
1 Took his seat Dec. 2S, 1848.
KENTUCKY.
SENATOBS.
John J. Crittenden! Frankfort. I Joseph B. Underwood. Bowling Green.
Thomas Metcalfe* Forest Retreat. |
EEPEESENTATIVES.
Gamett Duncan LoulsviHe.
Richard French Ut. Sterling.
John P. Gaines Walton.
Charles S. Morehead . . . .Frankfort.
Samnel O. Peyton Hartford.
John B. Thompson. . .Harrodsbnrg.
Oreen Adams. Barbonrsville.
Unn Boyd Cadiz.
Aylett Bnckner. Greensbnrg.
B«rerly L. Clark Franklin.
> Balgned in 1848. > Appointed In place of John J. CMttenden, resigned; took hli seat July 3, 1848; anbaeqaenUy elected
by tho legialatuie,
LOUISIANA.
SENATOBS.
Solomon W. Downs Monroe. | Henry Johnson. NewBlvet.
BEPRESENTATIVES.
JohnH. Hormanson. Siramsport. I Isaac E. Morse St. Martinsville.
EmileLaSire New Orleans. | Bannon G. Thibodeanz. Thibodeanx.
120 OONOBBSSIONAI. DIBBOTQBT.
MAINE.
SEKATOBS.
James W. Bradbmy Angnsta. I John Fairfield* Sae&
Hannibal Hamlin ^ Hamixlen. | WymanB. 8. Moor* Bangor.
KEFKESENTATTVES.
Hiram Belcher Farmlngton. I Darid Hammons I<oTell. | Hezekiah Williania Castiiia.
AsaW. H. Clapp. Port&nd. Epbraim K. Smart Cunden.
Franklin Clark WiscaBset. [James 8. WUey Dover. |
> Eleotedinidaoeof John FaiifleId,de(»ued,WvnuuiB.S. Moot having been appointed mo tern.; tookhli aeat JnnB ISLUtt.
> Died Deo. M,1MT. • Appointed in place of John Kaiiileld, dsoeMed; tocA hla Hia Jan. IT, 1848.
MAKTLAND.
8ENAT0B3.
Barerdy Johnaon Baltimore. | James A. Fauce. Chestertown.
BEPRESENTATIVES.
JohnO. Chapman .. .Port Tobacco. I Alexander Evans Elkton. I Robert U. HcLane BaltimoTe.
John W. Cii8fleId...Frinoe88 Ajone. | Thomas W. Iiigon EUcton. | J. DizonBoman Hagerstown.
MASSACHUSETTS.
SENATOBS.
JohnDayls Worcester. | Daniel Webster Boston.
KEPRESENTATl ViS.
Amos Abbott Andover.
John Qulncy Adams ^ Quincy.
Georg» Ashmun SprinKfleld.
Jose^ Grinnell. New Bedford.
ArtMmoM Hale Bridgewater.
Charles Hudson Westminster.
Daniel P. Kincr Sonth Danvers.
Horace Mann> West Newton.
John O. Palfrey Cambridge.
Julias Rockwell Pittstleld.
Robert C. Winthrop • Boston.
> Died In the ■peaker'a room at the Ciqiitol, Feb. 23, 1848. ■ Elected in place of John Qninay Adams, deoeaeed; bxA hit aaat
April 13, 1848. > Elected speaker Dec. 6, 1817.
MICHIGAK.
SENATORS.
I/ewisCassi , Detroit. I Thomas Fitzgerald*. St Joseph.
AlpheosFelch Ann Harbor. |
BEFBESENTATXVISS.
Kinsley S. Bingham .. .Kensington. | Robert McClelland Monroe. | CharlesK Stnart KaUunazoo.
> Becl^ed May 28, 1848; anbaeqaenUy elected to AH the Taosncy oooadoned by his own resignation, Thomas Iltsgenld
having been appointed pro tern. ; took his seat March 8, 184B. > Appointed In place of Lewis Caaa, rea^ned; took bis seat
Jane 30, 1848.
MISSISSIPPI
SENATOBS.
Jefferson Davis 1 Warrenton. | Henry S. Foot« Jackson.
BEPBESENTATIVES.
Alberto. Brown OaUatin. I Jacob Thompson Oxford.
WinfleldS. Feathenton. Houston. | Patrick W. Tompkins Yicksburg.
* Appointed in place of Jesse Spdght, deceased in 1847; took his seat Deo. 6, 1847; stthaeqnently elected by the laglalatan.
MISSOURI.
SENAT0B8.
David R. Atchison 1 PUtteCity. | Thomas H. Benton St liooia.
BEPBESENTATIVES.
James B. BowUn St Louis. I Willard P. Hall St Joseph. I John Sw Phelpa Springfield.
James S. Green MonticeUo. | John Jamieson Fulton. |
' Preddentjpro test.
NEW HAMPSHIRK.
SENATOBS.
Charles G. Atherton Nashua. | JohnP. Hale. Dover.
RRPltlgRTCTfT ATI Vlf-H,
James H. Johnson. Bath. I Amos Tuck Exeter.
Charles H. Peaslee Concord. James Wilson. Keene.
THE THIBTIETH CONOBBSB.
121
NEW JERSEY.
SENATOBS.
WilUant Ii. Dayton Trenton. | Jacob W. HUler Monistown.
BBPBESENTAl'XVKS.
Joseph E. Edsall Hamboi^g. I James O. Hampton Bridgeton. I John Van Dyke. . .Kew Biusswiok.
Dadby 8. Gregory.. . . .Jersey City. | William A. Newell AUentown. |
Daniel S. Dickinson. .
Ansbom Birdsall BlnKhamton.
Esbon Blackmar > JNe wark.
WUliam CJoIlins Lowrllle.
Harmon B. Conger Coiirtland.
William Duer Oswego.
Dauiel Oott Fonipey.
Horace Greeley » Kew YorL
KathanK. Hall Buffalo.
John iL HoUey » Lyons.
Elias B. Holmes Brockport.
Washington Hnnt Lockport.
DaTidSi Jackson* Kew York.
' Eleeted In place of John M. Holley,
Mat was declared Tacant: took his aea
dwlaied vaeant April 19, 1848.
NEW YORK.
8ENAT0BS.
....Binghamton. | JohnA.Dix
lEtBPBJeSENTAXrVES.
Timothy Jenkins Oneida Castle.
Orlando KelloRg. . . .Elizabethtown.
Sidney I^awrence .Moira.
William T. Lawrence. .Cayutaville.
Frederick W. Lord.Greenport, L. I.
William B. Maclay New York.
Dudley Marvin Kipley.
Joseph Mullin Watertown.
Henry C. Murphy. Brooklyn.
William Nelson FeekHkill.
Henry Niooll New York.
George Fetrie Little Falls.
.Albany.
Harvey Putnam Attica.
Gideon Reynolds Hooslck.
Robert L. Rose Allen's Hia
David Rumsey, jun. Bath.
Eliakim Sherrill Shandaken.
•John I. Blingerland Bethlehem.
G. A. Starkweather. .Cooperstown.
Daniel B. St. John Alonticello.
Feter H. Sylvestor Coxsackie.
Frederick A. Tallmadge .New York.
Cornelius Wanen. Cold Spring.
Hugh White Cohoes.
deceased ; took his seat Dec. 4, 1848. > Elected in plwse of David S. Jackson, vhose
t Deo. 4, 1S48. • Died Uansh 8, 1848. < Seat contested by James llonioe, and
George E. Badger..
NORTH CAROLmA,
SENATOBS.
....Raleigh. | Willie F. Hangum..
..Bed Monntain.
Daniel H. Barringer Concord.
Nathaniel Boyden Sallsbnry.
Thomas L. Cllngmiui .
BEPHESENTATTVES.
John R. J. Daniel Halifax.
Richard S. Donnell Newborn.
AshevilTe. | James J. McKay. . .Elizabethtown.
David Outlaw .Windsor.
Augustus H. Shepperd ^lem.
Abraham W. Yenable.Brownsville.
William Allen..
Richard S. Canby Belief ontalne.
John Crowell Warren.
John D. Cummins. N. Philadelphia.
Rndolphos Dickinson,
Lower Sandosky.
Daniel Dnncan Newark.
Thomas O. Edwards. . . . .Lancaster.
Kathan Evans Cambridge.
OHIO.
SENATORS.
Chillicothe. | Thomas Corwin .
BEFBESENTATl VE8.
James J. Faran Cincinnati.
David Fisher Wilmington.
George Fries Hanoverton.
Joshua R. Giddings Jefferson.
William Kennon, jun.8t. Clairsville.
Samuel Iialim. Canton.
John K. Miller. Mt. Vernon.
Jonathan D. Morris Batavla.
.Lebanon.
Thomas Richey Somerset.
Joseph M. Root. Norwalfc.
William Sawyer St. Mary's.
Robert C. Bchenck Dayton.
John L. Taylor Chillicothe.
Samuel F. Vinton OallipoUs.
Simon Cameron .
John BUnchani Bellefonte.
Jasper E Brady. . . .Chambeisburg.
8amael A. Bridges > AUentown.
Richard Brodhead Easton.
Charles Brown. Philadelphia.
Che-ster Butler Wilkesbarre.
John Dickey Beaver.
Geoigs N. Eckert Pottsville.
John W. Farrelly Meadville.
I I3eeted in place ot John W.
PENNSYLVANIA.
SEKATOBS.
Middletown. | Daniel Sturgeon. .
BEPEE3ENTATIVES.
John Freedley Norristown.
Moses Hampton Pittsburg.
John W. Hombeok*. . . .AUentown.
Charles J. Ingersoll.. .Philadelphia.
Joseph R. IngersoU. . . PhUadelpbia.
Alexander I^n. Cleartield.
Lewis C. Levin FhUadelphia.
Job Mann Bedford.
A. B. McUvaine Brandy wine.
Hombeck, deceased; took his seat March 6,1848. > Died Jan. 16, 1848.
.TTniontown.
Henry Kes York.
James PoUock MUton.
Andrew Stewart TTniontown.
John Strohni N. Providence.
William Strong Reading.
James Thompson Erie.
David Wilmot Towanda.
RHODE ISLAND.
SEKATOBS.
JdmH. Clark Providence. | Albert C. Greene. Providenoa.
BEFBESENTATl VES.
Bobert B. Cranston Newport | Benjamin B. Thurston Hopkinton.
THE THIBTT-IIBST OOKGBESS. 123
THE THIETY-PIEST CONGBESS.
Fatl Settion, frtm Dee. 3, 1840, to Sept. 80, 1860. Second Session, from Dec. 2, 1850, to MarOt 8, 1851.
F?ee-Preri<fenf. — Mn.T.AHn FiloiorxI of New York. President of the Senate pro tempore.— 'WasAAX E,
Kiso of Alabama, elected May 6, I8B0. Secretary of the Senate. — Asbubt DicKEifg of North Carolina.
S^ieaker of the Souse. — Howztx Cobb of Georgia. Speaker of the House pro tempore. — Eobkbt 0. "Wrs-
TSBOP of MassachoaettB. CTerifct of the fouw.— Thomas JximEBSoir Cakpbell of Teimesaee; Biohabd iS.
Yomsa of Blinois, elected April 17, 1860.
> Beeame President b]r the deaOi of ZadhaiyTlVlor.
AT.A-RAMA,
SENATOBS.
Jeremiah Clemens Huntsyille. | William B. King' Selma.
BEPEESENTATIVJSS.
'VTilUara J. Alston Linden. I Sampson W. Harris. .. .Wetiunpka. I Samuel W. Inge livlngston.
Franklin Vf. Bowdon . ..T&Uadega. Henry W. Hilliard . . .Montgomery.
Williamsm R. W. Cobb.Bellefonte. | David Hubbard KinlooL |
i Elected president pro tem. Hay 6, 1860.
ARKANSAS.
SEHATOBS.
Solon Borlaod Hot Springs. | William K. Sebastian Helena.
BEPBESENTATXVK.
Bobeit W.Johnson Little Bock.
CALIFORNIA.
SENATOES.
John C. Fremont I San Francisco. | William M. Gwin* San Francisco.
KEPEESENTATIVES.
Sdwaid QQbeit* San Francisco. | Qeoige W. Wright* Son Francisco.
>T0(dLUi seat Sept. 10, ISSa > Took bis seat Sept. U, ISSOk
CONNECTICUT.
SENATOBS.
Boger a Baldwin. New Haven. | Tnunan Smith Litchfield.
BEFBESENTATIVES.
'Walter Booth Meriden. I Chauncey F. Cleveland Hampton.
TbomasB. Butler Norwalk. | Loren P. Waldo. ToUand.
DELAWARE.
BENATOBS.
Fi«Iey ^manee Smyrna. | JohnWalea Wilmington.
BEFBESEKTATIVE.
JobnW. Houston Georgetown.
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THB THmxr-FIBST C0NQBE8S. 125
MAINE.
SESAXoaa.
James W. Bradbozy .' Angosta. | Hannibal Hamlin Hampden.
KEFEESENTATrVES.
Thomas J. D. FiiUet Cali^.
Klbridge Gerry Waterford.
Hufug K. Goodenow PoriB.
Nathaniel S. littlefield. .Bridgeton. I Cbadee Btetson Bangor.
John Otis. Hallowell. I
CuUen Sawtelle Nonidgewock. |
MAKTLAKD.
SENAT0B8.
James A Pearoe. Cbestertown. I David Stewart*
Thomas Q. Pratt 1 Annapolis. |
BEPEESEKTATTVES.
BichardL Bowie Boclrville. i William T. Hamilton .Hageistown. I JohnB. Ker. Easton.
Alexander Evans Elkton. | Edward Hammond. Ellicott's Mills. | BobertM. McLane Baltimore.
> Qeeted in place of BererdT Johnson, resigned in 1849, David Stewart harlne been appointed pro tan. ; took hla seat Jan. 14,
UfO. > Appointed In phuw of Beretdy Johnson, reelgned in 1849 ; took his seat Deo. 8, 1848.
MASSACHUSETTS.
SEXATOBS.
John Davis Worcester. I Daniel Webster > Boston.
Bohert Bantonl, ]nn.i Boston. | Bobert O. Winthrop* Boston.
EEPEESENTATIVES.
Charles Allen Worcester.
George Ashinun Springfield.
James H. IVuncan Haverhill.
Sanmel A. Eliot* Boston.
Orin Fowler. Pall Kiver.
Joseph Grinnell New Bedford.
Daniel P. King* Danvers.
Horace Mann West Newton.
Jnlins Bockwell FIttsfield.
Bobert 0. Winthrop «. Boston.
< Elected In place of Daniel Webster, resigned. Bobert G. Winthrop having been appointed pro tan.; took his seat Feb. 22,
1851. • Resigned July 22, 1850, having been appolnte<l secretary of state. • Appointed senator in plaee of Daniel WelMter,
n-~i^ed; took his seat July 30, IKSO; retired from senate Feb. 7, 18S1, < Elected La place of Bobert O. Winthrop, appointed
Miiuor ; took his seat Aug. 22, 18S0. • Died July 25, 1650.
MICHIGAN.
SEKATOBS.
lewis Cass Detroit. | AlphensFelch Ann Arbor.
BEPBESENTATITES.
Kingdey S. Bingham. .Kensington. | Alexander W. Bnel Detroit. | William Spiagne Kalamazoo.
MISSISSIPPI
SENATOBS.
Jeffenon Davis Palmyra. | Henry S. Eoote. Jackson.
BEPBESENTATl VES.
Albert O. Brown Gallatin. I William MoWilUo Camden
Winfield S. Featherston Houston. | Jacob Thompson Oxford.
MISSOUEL
8ENAT0K&
DsTld B. Atchison Platte City. | Thomas H. Benton St Louis.
BEPBESENTATITES.
^Tilliam y. N. Bay Union. I James S. Greene Canton. I John S. Phelps Springfield.
James B.BowUn St. Louis. | WiUard P. HaU St. Joseph. |
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
SENATOBS.
John P. Hale Dover. | Moses Norrls, jun. Manchester.
EEPEESENTATIVES.
HMTyHibbard Bath. I Charlas H. Peaslee Concord. I James Wilson* Keene.
"^utije W. Morrison!. .Manchester. | Amos Tuck. Exeter. |
■ Bected hi place of James Wilson, resigned: took his seat Dec. 2, 18S0; election ansuooessfallT contested by Jaied Ferkbis.
> Beaigned Sept. 0, 1850.
126
CONGRESSIONAL DIBEOTOBY.
NEW JEBSET.
SENATOBS.
^raHaiiiL. Dayton Trenton. | Jacob "W. inner ,
BEFBESENTATIVIS.
Andrew K. Hay Winslow. I 'William A. Newell Allentown.
Jamua G, lilag Iloboken. | John Van Dyke. . .New Brunswick.
•••••••■.IfoiristowiL
Wildriok Blaiistown.
Daniel S. Dickin.<)on.
NEW YORK.
SENATOBS.
.Binghamton. | William H. Sewaid..
.Aabnm.
Hoary P. Alexnndar. . .Little FaUh.
G&tirge U. Androwa. . .Ticunderoija.
Huiiry Ueunt'tt Kow Berlin.
Daviil A. Bnkee Brooklyn.
QeiirKP Briiapi N ow York.
Jaines Brni ikft , Now York.
Jjorpn ?jj U 1 1 rrowa Albion.
Cliarle:4 K. (.'birko Great Bend.
Harmon tj. Cougor,
Coanland Villaf^.
William Dticr. .Oxwego.
Daniel Ciott Pompey.
Oeo^e E. Badger. .
BEPKESENTATTVES.
Herman D. Gould, Delhi.
Ransom Halloway Beekman.
William T. Jackson Havana.
John A. King Jamaica.
Preston King OgdensimrK.
Orsamus B. Matteson Utica.
Thomas McKissock Newburc.
William Nelson Peekskill.
J. Phillips Phoenix. New York.
Harvey Pntnara Attica.
Gideon Rernolds HSosick.
Elijah Bisley Fredonia.
NORTH CAROLINA.
SENATOBS.
Baleigh. | Willie P. Mangnnt
Robert L. Rose Allen's HilL
David Ramsey, jnn. Bath.
William A. Sackett. . .Seneca Falls.
A. M. Schermerhom Rochester.
John L. Schoolcraft Albany.
Peter H. SQvester Coxsarkia
Elbridgo G. Spaulding Buffala
John K. Thurman Chestertown.
Walter Underbill New YurlL
Hiram Walden Waldensville.
Hugh White. Cohoea
Witliain S. Ashe Wilmington.
JcMiipli p. Caldwell Stsitesville.
Thtimas L. Cluigiiian . .. .AshevlUe. {
BEFBESEMTATIVES.
John B. J. Daniel Halifax.
Edmnnd Deberry Mount Gilead.
David Outlaw Windsor.
BedHountain.
Angnstlne H. Shepperd Salem.
Edward Stanly Washington.
A. W. Venable Brownsville.
OHIO.
SENATOBS.
gahnoD P. Chose Cincinnati I Thomas Ewing*.
Tbomiis Corwiu' Lebanon.
.lancaster.
BEPBESENTATl V ES.
Joshua R. Giddings Jeffeison.
Moses Hoagland Millershurg.
William F. Hunter Woodatteld.
John K. ililler Mt. Vernon.
Jonathan D. Morris. Batavia.
Edson B. Olds Circleville.
Emery D. Potter. Toledo.
Joseph M. Root Sandusky.
John Bell* Fremont.
Jo^i.'jih LVible CnrroUton.
Lewis I>, l^iuajitxiU . . Ilamilton.
Dnvid K. Cnrtter Massillon.
JIiFSeR II. Cunvin Urbaua.
John Crowell. Warren.
Daviil T. Disuey Cincinnati.
Nathan Evans Uumbridge.
1 Ilcetgiiod July 22, Itsn, liaving been appointed s<!cretarrof the treasorj, > Appointed in plaoeof IliomuOonri%re-
■Ignol; tuolt mt iwat July 2^, 18S0. • Elected in place of Amo« £. Wood, deoeued; took hi* seat Jan. T, USU * UN
lioT. 1U,4IJ£().
Robert C. Scbenck Dayton.
Charles Sweetser. Delaware.
John L. Taylor Chillicoth&
Samuel F. Vinton. Gallipolia.
WiUiam A. Whittlesey . . .Marietta.
Amos E. Wood* WoodviUa.
James Cooper .
JohaBrlibini
Oiicater Hutleri' Wilkesbarre.
Samuel (Jul\iii. ..... IltillkUyRburg.
Jtiwph Casey .NevT Berlin.
JoEW[ih II, (.'Iiimdlor ..Pbilmlelpliia.
Jtn'l II. l)aiiiit;r' Ucttysbtirg.
Jcs,^o V. Dickey New London.
Mill) M, IMmniick Struadsburg.
John 1' reeillL-y N orristowu.
PENNSYLVANIA.
SENATOBS.
Pottsville. I Daniel Stnigeon .
EEPRESENTATI\'E9.
Alfred Gilmore Bntler.
Moses Hampton Pittsburg.
John W. Howe Franklin.
Lewis C. Levin Philadelphia.
Job Mann Uedtord.
Jas. X. McLanahan. Chain bersburg.
Henry I>. Moore Pliilatlelphia.
Henry Nes * York.
Andrew J. 0"rle Somerset.
.TJnlontown.
Charles W. Pitman Pottsville.
Robert R. Reed Wasliiugtou.
John Robbius, jun Philadelp)ii&
Thomas Ross DoylestowD.
Tbaddeus Stevens Lancaster.
William Strong Rea>ling.
James Thompson Erie.
David Wilmot .' Towanda
ElcclcHl In pliHW ot Cluster BiUlcr, deceiucd; took IiLs seat Jan. 13, 1851.
Kes, deoeaaed; took UU iwiat Dec. 2, lb60t.
• I)i«l Oct. 8, 1«10.
« Died Sept. 10, IbM.
• Elected in place of BeniT
hi
RHODE ISLAND.
SENATOBS.
John H. Clarke .,, Providenoe. | Albert C. Greene Ftoridenoa
BEPKESENTATTVES.
NatlisnF. Dixon. Westerly. | George G. King Newport.
THB THCBTY-FIBST CONGBEBS.
127
SOUTH CAROLINA.
SENATORS.
Eobert"W. Bamwelli I
Arthur P. Butler Edgefield 0. H.
John C. Calhoun > Pendleton.
Franklin H. Elmore*
B. Barnwell Bhett*. Charleston.
BEFBESENTATIVKS.
John McQueen BennettBYille.
James L. Orr Anderson C. H.
Daniel Wallace. Union C. H.
Jos. A. Woodward. 'Wlimsborongh.
Armistead Burt Willington.
William F. Colcock... Graham ville.
Isaac £. Holmes Charleston.
> Appobitedln place of FtanUin H. Elmore, deceased; took his seat June 24, ISSO. > Died March SI, 1850. •Appointed
1q place of Jolin C Calhoon, deoeased : took his seat Ma; 6, 1850 ; died Hay 29, 18G0. * Elected in place of John 0. Callunm,
deoeawd, Franklin H. Elnune and Bobeit W. Barnwell bavlug Iieen appointed .pro (em.; took bis seat Jan. S, 18S1.
John Ben.
TENNESSEE.
SEKATOBS.
.Kashrille. | Hopkins L. Tnmey .
.Winchester.
Josiah M. Anderson. .Coop's Creek.
Andrew Ewing KashTiUe.
Meredith F. Gentry f^rankliu.
Iiham O. Harris. Paris.
REPRESENTATl VES.
Andrew Johnson Greenville.
George W. Jones Fayetteville.
John H. Savuje. Smithville.
Frederick P. Stanton Memphis.
James H. Thomas Colmnbia.
Albert G. Watkins .PantherSprings.
Ghristop'r H. Williams. .Lexington.
TEXAS.
SENATORS.
Samuel Honston. Hnntsville. | Thomas J. Bosk Nacogdoches.
REPRESENTATl VES.
VolneyK Howard San Antonio. | David S. Kaufman* Brazoria.
1 Died Jan. 31, 1851.
VEBMONT.
SENATORS.
Samuels. Phelps Mlddlebur?. | William Upham Hontpelier.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Wniiam Hebaid Chelsea. I James Meacham Middlebury.
William Henry Bellows Falls. | Lucius B. Feck Montpelier.
BobertM.T. Hunter.
Thomas H. Averett . .Halifax C. H.
Thomas H Bayly. . . Accomac C. H.
James M H. Beale Ft. Pleasant.
Thos. S. Bocock. Appomattox C. H.
Heniy A. Edmontfion Salem.
VIRGINIA.
SENATORS.
Lloyd's. I James M. Mason..
BEPRESENTATTVES.
Thomas S. Haymond *. .Fairmonnt.
Alexander B. HoUaday. .Mansfield.
Jamea McDowell Lexinffton.
Fayotto McMuUen Rye (>'ove.
Richard K. Meade Petersburg.
.Winchester.
John S. Mfllson Norfolk.
Jeremiah Morton. . . .Baccoon Ford.
Biohard Parker Berryville.
Panlus Powell Amherst C. H.
James A. Seddon. Bicbmond.
> Elected in place of Alexander Newman, deceased In 1849, having never taken his seat.
WISCONSIN.
SENATORS.
Henry Dodge DodgeviUe. | Isaac P. Walker. Milwaukee.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Onamos Cole FotosL | James Dnane Doty Menasha. | Charles Dorkee Sonthport.
MINNESOTA TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
HeniyH. Sibley Mendota.
OREGON TERRITORY.
DELEaATE.
fiaiDDelB. Thoiston. UnnOity.
128 00NOSB88IONAL DIBBOTOBT.
THE THIBTY-SECOND CONGEESS.
Firtt Session,/Ttm Dee. 1, 1851, to Aug. 81, 1852. Second Seuion,Jrtm Dec. 6, 1852, to Morel 8, 1853.
Fiee-Prouina. — WiujAM R. Koro^ of Alabuna. Pretidentt of th» Senate pro tempore.— "Wnuxx B.
Kino* of Alabama; David K. Arcmsoirof Missoori, elected Dec. 20, 1852. Seeretay of (Ae &nate.— Ajsubt
DtCKKss of North Caiolina.
Sfoaker of One Baute. — Limr Botd of Kentucky. Clert of Ote Bourn.— Jobs "W. Famxr of FennarlTania.
>Die<lA|afll8.18S3. > Badgnad Dae. 10^ IBSL
\
ALABAMA.
SENATOBS.
Jeremiah Clemena. Hnntsville. I William R. King*............. Selma.
Benjamin Fitzpattick* Wetumpka. |
BEFBESENTATITES.
James Abercrombie Otiaid. I Sampson W. Harris.... Wetnmpka. I Alexander White. Talladega.
John Bntfo;. Mobile. I George S. Houston. Athens. I
WilUamson R. W. Cobb.Bellefonte. | William B. Smith Fayette C. H. |
> Appainted hi pboa ot Williun R. Kin«:, msigiKd; took hla saat Jan. 3D, I8SS. > Baalgned as pnatdent pro tern. Declt,
issa; aabaaqnenUf naigned Ua aaat, baring bea aleetad Tio»-Fnaidant.
AKEANSAS.
SENATOBS.
Solon Boriand .Hot Springs. | William K. Sebastian Helena
SEFBESKKTATIVK.
Bobeit W. JohnaoB little Bock.
CAUFOBNIA.
SEKATOKS.
William K. Girin. San Francisco. | John B. WeOer^ Ban Fiandaoo.
BEPBESESTATIVIS.
EdvwdC. UaisbaU Sonon. | Joseph W. McOoikla UaiysTilla.
> Took hb wat Mardi IT, ua.
COKSECnCCT.
SENAtVOtS.
IkVBUiSHdtli .Utchfield. lIsaaoTooeeyi Hutfoid.
BErRESEKTATTTES.
OhMlwC^pBiaii... Haitfoid. I Colin M. Inseisoll Kew Haven.
Oaiilgey >. Cl«T«l«nd JIampton. I Origen S. Seymour. litcbfield.
< Took his aaat Kay >«. nss.
DELAWARE.
SEXAIV^tS.
Jaaa A. B«3P«>d ............WilminstvoL | Pmley ^naaea Smyrna
RETRESE^rrATlTS.
, ,.,.,......,.. .Wilmington.
THE THIBTY-SECOND OONOBB8S.
129
ITLOBIDA.
SENATOBS.
Stephens. MaUoiy^ JTaoksonTille. | Jackaon Morton Fensaoola.
BEPBESENTATIVJC
£. CuringtiHi Oabell Montioello.
I Elaetloin misaooeaafiilly oontested by David I>, Tnlae.
OEOB6IA.
SENATOBS.
J. HcFbeiaon Berrien 1 Savannah. I William 0. Dawaon
BobeitM. Charlton^ Savannali.
Darid J. Bailey Jackson.
EiqahW. Chastaln Tacoah.
JiuuQg Hillyer. Honioe.
HEPBESENTATI7ES.
Joseph W. Jackson Savannah.
James Johnson Columbus,
Charles Morphy. Decatur.
Alex H. Stephens . .CrawfordTllle.
Robert Toombs Washington.
' BadgnedlbgrSi^Ua • Appointed In plaee of J. MdPbanon Benlen, mlgned; took hb seat Jane XI, 1863.
ILLINOIS.
SENATOBS.
Stephen A. Donglaa Chicago. | James Shields
REPBESENTATIVES.
'Nmils Allen. Marion. I Orlando B. Ficklin .Charleston. I Biohard Tates.
"William H. Blssea Belleville. Biohard S. Molony Belvidere.
Thompson Campbell Galena. | William A. BioliaidBon....Qniiic7. |
....BelleTiUe.
.JaoksonvUle.
INDIANA.
SENATOBS.
Jesse D. Bright Madison.
Charles W.Cathcarti La Porte.
John Petit*. Lafayette.
James Whitcomb* Indianapolis.
BEFBiraENTATlVES.
Willis A. Gorman Bloondngton.
Thomas A. Hendricks. .ShelbyTlIle.
James Lockhort EvansvlUe.
Daniel Mace Lafayette.
Samuel W. Parker. . . .Connersville.
John L Bobinson Busbvilie.
Bomnel Brenton Port Wayne.
JohnG. Davis Bockville.
Cynu L Dunham Salem.
Graham N. Fitch Logansport.
> Affatatai In place of James WMtoomb, deoaased: took his seat Deo. 6, 18B2. * Eleoted In plaoe of James Wbitoomb,
doeMMod, Charlae W. Oathort h«Tlng been appointed pro tern. ; took hla seat Jan. 18, 18SS. • Died Oot 4, 1852.
IOWA.
SENATOBS.
AogastnaO. Dodge. Burlington. | George W. Jones Ihibnqne.
BEPBESENTATIVES.
Lincoln Cladc Dnbnque. | BemhartHenn ...Fairfield.
KENTUCKT.
SENATOBS.
Henry day 1 ..Lexington. I David Meriwether*
Archibald IMxon* Henderson. | Josephs. Underwood. Bowling Green.
BEPBESENTATIVE.
Humphrey Marshall *. .New Castle.
John C. Mason Owensville.
Willlain l^reston » Louisville.
Kichard H. Stanton Mayaville.
James W. Stone. . . .EUzabethtown.
William T. Ward Greensburg.
Addison White. Bichmond.
Unn Boyd * Padncha.
John C. Breckenridge. . .Lexington.
Presley Ewins BussellvUle.
Benjamin E. Grey. . ..Hopkinsville.
' Died June 29, MK; baTtng prarioaalT tendered his nslgnaUon, to take effect on ttie ilnt Mondav of SeMember, ISU.
" Bect«d In idiMje of Heniy Cilay, deceased, David Meriwether having been appointed pro tan.; took his aeat Deo. 20, 1882.
' Appointed Inplace of Henry ClaVideceased; took his seat July 15, 1852. * Elected apeaker Deo. 1, 1851. • Bealgned
Aug. 4, UBS. • Klaeted in j^aoe of HumpIiieyMarahaU, resigned; took hla seat Deo. 6,1810.
130 0QKOKBS8I<»TAI. DXBBOIOBT.
L0TJISIA3TA.
SENATOBS.
Solomon W, Downs. Monroe. | PiemSoalf Keir Orleana.
BEFBESENTATXVKS.
J. Aristlde Landiy DonaldBonville. I AlexanderO. Penn Covington.
Jofan Mooie New Iberia. | LonisBt. MrtHh .New Orleans.
MAINE.
SENATORS.
James W. Bisdbory... Angnsta. | Hannibal Hamlin. Hampden.
BEPBEBENTATITES.
Oliarlee Anrlrows i. rails. I Bobert Goodenow. Farmineton.
John Appleton Portland. Moses McDonald Biddeford.
Thomas J. D. Fuller. Calais. | Isaac Beed> Waldoborough.
> IHisd April 30, l§Si. • Eleoted in plaoe of Charles AndrawiideoesMd; to(dc Us nrt June 25, Ua.
'Ei^nann K. Smart .Camden.
Israel Washbnm, }nn. Onma
MAKTULND.
SENATOBS.
Jamoe A. Teaxoe. Chestertown. | Thomas G. Piatt Annapolia
BEPBESENTATTVES.
Ricbaid I. Bowie BockvIDe. I Alexander Evans. Elkton. I Edward Hammond.EIlicotf s Mills.
Josepli S. Cottman . . Upper Trappe. | William T. Hamilton .Hageistown. | Thomas Yates Walsh. . . .Baltimore.
MASSACHUSETTS.
SENATOBS.
John Davis Woicestei. | Charles Somaet ....^..
BEPBESKNTATTVES.
Ohnrles Allen Worcester.
William Appleton lit p?iton.
George T. liavia .Green lielil.
JameN Et. Duncan ....... Uavurhill.
FiuicisB. Fay 1.. Chelsea.
OrinFowler> Fall Eiver.
John Z. GofKlrich Glendale.
Edward P. Little • Marshfleld.
Horace Mann West Newton.
Bobeit Bantonl, ]tin.< Beverly.
Loienzo Sabine * FntTnlngham.
Zeno Scndder Barnstable.
Ben]. Thompson* Charlestovo.
■ Elw-lPflin (>lnms or RnlwrtEivntoal, Jan., deoe«ied; took hto seat Doe. »,18S2. • Dted Sept. 3, 1882. » Elected hi phM
ot Oiii> t'u<KliT. clocijt(K»l; tor>k iiiit seat Doc. 30, 1S52. < Died Aug. 7, 18S2. • Elected in place of Benjamin ThompoBi,
deoaued: took tdt leat Dse, 2S, Ua2. • Died Sept. 34, 18B2.
MICHIGAN.
SENATOBS.
Lewis Cass Detroit. | AlpheosFddh .Ann Arbor.
BEPBESENTATTVES.
James Ll Conger. . .Motmt Clemens. | Ebenezer J. Penniman . . Plymonth. | Ghazlea E. Stoart Kalamazoo.
MISSISSIPFL
SENATOBS.
Stephen Adnms^ Aberdeen. I HenrrS. Foote* Jacboa.
Wiilter Brooke 3 Lexington. | John L McBae^ Enterprise.
EEPBESENTATrVES.
Albert O. Brown. Gallatin. I Benjamin D. Nabers Hickory Flat
John D. Freeman... Jackson. | John A. Wilcox Ab^een.
> Elwtod ill ploec of JolTenon Davis, resigned Id 1851, John I. McBae having been appointed pro tern.; took his sest
tf nrrli IT, \^,2. > Elechxl In plnoo of Honr; S. Footo, roxlpied ; took his seat Mai«b 11, 1862. • Bedgned In 18G2. < Ap-
poiiitiiU ill place at JcUtuiitiu LNivis, leaigDed; took bis seat Deo. 19, 1851.
MISSOUBL
SENATOBS.
IMiVid E, Atcbisoni , Platte City. | Henry 8. Geyer. St. Louis.
BEPBESENTATIVES.
JoIinF, Darby St. Louis. I John G. Miller Boonville. I Gikhiist Porter.... Bowling Qtssb.
Waiaid P. Hall St. Joseph. | John S. Phelpx Springfield. |
t-
> Elected president jiro (on. Deo. SO, KiE3.
XHE TSISTT'SBCOlfD OOKONiSS.
Ul
SENATOBS.
JolmP. Hale. ^... .Dover. | Moses KonU. ^HancbestBE.
BEPKESENTATTVES.
HanjBibbard Bath.
CbaamH. Pwwlee .Oonoord.
Jared Fetkina 'Wlnchestec
Amos Tack Exeter.
KEW JEESEY.
SENATOSa.
Jacob W.MiUer Morriatown. | Robert F. Stockton > Bdnoetol.
BEPKESENTATrVEB.
George 3EL Blown. SomervUle. I Charles Bkelton Trenton. I Xsaao VTildzlok Blaizstown.
Bodmanllfiice Hoboken, jKafihanT. Stiatton . . .MuUioa HiU. |
'BaiisDediiiiess.
Hamilton Slab.
■NEW YCatK.
SENATORS.
.New XaA. | WiUiam H. Seward..
.Anbnm.
I<esnder Babcock..... Osweeo.
Uenry Bennett New Berlin.
Obadiah Bowne Richmond.
John il. Boyd...... Whitehall.
George Brifm:'*., ...'..... .New York.
James Brooks NewTork.
Alexander H. BueU i Fairfield.
l^renzo Burrows. Albion.
Gilbert Dean Poagbkeepsie.
John G. Floyd. rMorichet.
Eniaonel B. Hart New Yorlc
AagostoaP. Haanall. IjeRoy.
SEFBaSSENTATI ViSS.
Solomon Q. Haven BnSalo.
J. H. Hobart Hawes New York.
Jerediah Horsford Moscow.
Thomas Y. Howe, jun Auburn.
"Willaid Ives Watertowu.
Timothy Jenkins. . . .Oneida Castle.
Daniel T. Jones BaldwinsvUle.
Preston King. Ogdensbuig.
Frederick 8. Martin Olean.
William Murray GJoshen.
Reuben Robie Bath.
Joseph Russell.. Warrensburg.
> Died Jmu 29, 1863.
William A. Sackett. . .Saneoa Balls.
Abraham M. Schermerhom,
Rochester.
John L Si^oolcraft — Albany.
Mariuu Sohoonmaker Kiu^tou.
David L. Seymour rxroy.
William W. Snow Oneonta.
Abraham P. Stephens, Nyack.
Joaiah Sutherland Hudson.
HenryS. Walbridge Ithaca.
John WellB. Johnstown.
NORTH CAROLINA
SEKATOBS.
George E. Badger. Raleigh. | Willie P. Mangnm
KEPKESENTATIVES.
William S. Aahe Wilmington. I John R J.Daniel Halifax.
Joseph F. OaldweU. Statesville. AUred Dockery ...Dockery's Store.
Thomas L. Clingman Aaheville. | James T. Morehead . . .Greensboro'.
,.. RedMonntatn.
David Ontlaw Windsor.
Edward Stanly Washington.
Abraham W. Tenable. Brownsville.
BalmonP. Ghasa. ^...v
K«l«on Banere HiUsboronsb.
Hiram Bell Greenville.
(^rgeH. Basby Marion.
Joseph Cable Carrollton.
Lewis D. Oampbell Hamilton.
Daviil K. Cartter. MaasiUon.
David T.Usney Cincinnati.
omo.
SENATOBS.
.Cincinnati. | Benjamin F. Wade.
.Jefferson.
Alfred F. Edgerton HicksvUle.
James M. GayloriMcConnellsvUle.
Joshna R. Gi'ddings Jefferson.
Frederick W. Green. Tiffin.
Alexander Harper ZanesvUle.
WiUiam F. Hunter. . . . . Woodafleld.
John Johnson Coshocton.
Eben Newton Canfleld.
Edson B. Olds. Circleville.
Benjamin Stanton. . ..Belief ontaine.
Charles Sweetser. Delaware.
John Ii. Taylor. Chillicotlie.
I Norton S. Townshend Avon.
John Welch Athens.
BichaidBrodhead..
John Allison. Beaver.
Thomas M. Bibtchans. . . . .Lebanon.
Jiweph K. Chandler . .Philadelphia.
Carlton B. Curtis Warren.
John U Dawson. Brownsville.
Miln M. Diintniek StroiidsbiirR.
Ttiiimas B, Florence. .Philadelphia.
Henry M. Fuller » Wilkeabarre.
PENNSYLVANIA-
SZaiATOBS.
..Easton. | James Ooopnr.....
BEPBESENTATlVlffi.
James Gamble Jersey Shore.
Alfred Gilmore Butler.
Galiisha A. Grow Glenwoo<l.
John W. Howe Franklin.
Thomas M. Howe. Alleghany City.
J. Glanry .Jones Reading.
Joseph U. Kiiiins Greensburg.
WiUiam H. Kurtz York.
.PottarUle.
Jas. X. McLanaban.Chambersbnrg.
John HcNalr. Nonistown.
Henry D. Moore Philadelphia.
John A Morrison CochransvUle.
Andrew Parker Mifflintown,
John Bobbins, jr.Kensinfpon, Phil.
Thumas Ross D<^leatown.
Thaddeus Stevens Lancaster.
A Election unBoooaaaf ulljr oonteeted by H. B. Wi1<ht.
SxfilOPuu
Frederick P. Stanton MempUi
AJliertO. Wattdnfl.FaDtberSpniwi
U. H. WmiAma. Lexjogtos.
TEXAS.
8EXAT0B3.
.nuntsviUo. I Thomas J. Bosk. ...JTMOgdocba.
KEPRESENTATIVB8.
Volney E. Iloward San Antonio, t Riclmrdson Souny. ClarloriUt.
VERMONT.
SENATORS.
BolomonPoot nntljind. I Wililam tTpham*. MontlxllW'
Tbomafi Bartlott, jnn. Lvndnn. I James Meacbam Middltbi'T'
■William Hobard Clietsea. | Aliimau U Minor MunclMW*'
> Appointed in plooo of William Dptuun, deoeaaod; took bia seat Jan. 19, 18S3. ■ Died Jan. 14, 18S3.
VIRGINIA.
SENATORS.
.Lloyd's. I James M. Mason.
KEPItESENTATIVBS.
nonry A. Ediniiad<ion Salem.
Charles J. Fun lienor . . MartinsburK.
Alexander R. Uollnday. Mansfleld.
.loliii I/Ctcher Lexington.
tichiird K. Mn.nde PotcrsburK-
Fayette McMullen Uye Core.
John S. MUlson KorfoJ
Paulus Powell Amheirt C-"*
James F, Strother, ^
Rappahannock O *
0«orge W. Thompson*. ..
Elected In plaoootOoorgoW.Tbompaon, resigned; tookbls scat Deo. 6, Uta. > Besignadtsmi
WISCONSIN.
SENATORS.
Henry DcKlgo Dodgeville. | Isaac P. Walker Milwai**'
REPRESENTATIVZ3.
James Boano Doty M«"'"«l'a | Charles Uorkeo Kenosha. | Benjamin G. BasUnan . .Flstf"'^
THE IHIBTY-THIBD 0ONOBE8S. 188
MINNESOTA TEKRITOBT.
VEUEQAXE.
BmijS.BOHtj Mendota.
TEBETTOBT OF NEW MEXICO.
DELEOATE.
SlebsrdF. 'Weightnum*... , Santa V&
1 Xocdc Us nat Deo. 1, ISO.
OBEOOK TEBBITOBT.
SELEQAIE.
joM]^I«M Oregon aty.
UTAH TERRrrOBT.
VELBGATB,
JohnlLBenililaeli. Salt Lake City.
> Took bii H«t Dm. 1, 18BL
THE THIRTY-TIIED CONGRESS.
Pint Setsion, from Dec. 5, 1853, to Aug. 7, 1854. Second Setsion, from Dec. 4, 1854, to March 3, 1866.
t
fiee-PrttldentA Pruldentt of fha Senate pro tempore.— Datid B. ATcmgoir of Mlssonil ; LnriB Cabs of
Michigan, elected Deo. 4, 1861, for one day ; Jbssie D. BaiaHT of Indiana, elected Deo. 6, 1804. Seeretary </
Ou Smote.— Abbobt Dicksns of North Carolina.
Speaker qf tKe Bnue. — Lcnr Botd of Eentncky. Clerk qf the Boiue. — Jobs W. Fobhxt of Fenusyl'vanla.
1 Wmiam B. King, yio»^Frasldent of the United SbUes, died April 18, 1853.
ALABAMA,
BENATOBS.
Clement 0. Clay, Jon. Huntsville. | Benjamin Fitzpatrloki. Wetompka.
KEPBESENTATIVES.
Jjmee A1>ercnnnble Glrard. I Sampson W. Harris — "Wetnmpka. | WHliam B. SndtJb Fayette O. H.
Willianuon B W. Cobb.Bellefonte. George 8. Houston Athens.
Junes F.DowieU.OhambetsCH. | Philip Phillips UobUe. |
< Eleeted In jdaoe of 'WUliam B. King, leaigned; toolc Us seat Dee. 19^ 1808.
ABKASrSAS.
SENAT0B8.
Bobert'W.Jolinsoni UtUeBock. | WiUiam K. Sebastian* Helena.
KEPBESENTATIVES.
Alfred B. Greenwood BentouTille. | Edward A. Warren Camden.
' Afininisd In jdaoe of Solon Borland, appointed minister to Centml America; took Isis seat Dee. S, 186S; sabsequenti; elected
by tbe leglalatoie. > Took Us seat Uarcb *, 1883.
Sii 00NOBB8«0NAI. iaBEOTOB.T.
GAXirOKSriA.
SEmaaaa.
WQUam M. Ghrin.. BanFraneisoo. | JobnB. WeUer .
BEPBESENTATIVES.
Milton S. Latham USMNmoito City. | Jamas A. MoDoagall San Fnadgoo.
CONNECTICUT.
SENATOBS.
Francis Giltetti Hartford. I laaaoTouoef Haitfotl
Tnunau Bmltli> .Utehfleld. |
BEPBESBNTAITVES.
Nutlifin Belcber ICetr London. I James T: Pratt BockrESn.
CoUn M. IxigeraoU New Haven. | OrigenS. Seymonr. Litchfleld.
' rinntnil In flnrn rf Tnimiii flmlth mUgnnil: tnnlrliti nintWrirW. 1W11 > Beaigned Aiaa 11, U6^
DELAWABB.
SENATOBS.
Jamei A. Bayard ....WUmiogton. | John K. Clayton ^ Cbippevft.
BEFBESENTAT1V£.
George BoM BiOdle 'VramingtoD.
1 Took his nM Hsrch 4, USS.
FLOBIDA.
gSNATOBS.
Stephen R. Mallory. Jaoksonville. | Jackson Ilorton FenaaooU.
BEPBESKNTATIVK.
Augustua E, Maiwell TallahanM.
GEORGIA.
SSNATOBS.
WiUiam 0. OftwBoa.... Greensborough. | Bobert Toomhs i Washington.
BEFBESENTATIVJSS.
David J, Bafley Jackson. I "WHllam B. W. Dent Nevnan. | JameeJL Seward. Thomaarffls.
"W, ChiuitaiiL TiK-oah. JuniuB Hillyer Monroe. "
LH. Colquitt..... ...Kewton. | Da'Tid A. Beeee Uonticello.
< XMk his aeat Kueh 4, 1853:
ILLINOIS.
SENATOBS.
Stephen A. Donglas Chicago. | Barnes Shields BdlSTille.
KEPRESENTATIVES.
Jatnea C. Allen Palestine. I James Knox Knozyille. I Ellihu B. Washbome Galeoi.
'WiUtH Allen Morion. I Jesae O. Norton Joliet. John Wentworth. Cbicaeo.
'William H. BiaselL Bellerills. |William A. Bichardsoa....Quinoy. | Bichaid Tates J'ackBonTiUa
INDIANA.
SENAIOBS.
JTeaseD. Brightl Madison. | JolmPettlt lafaTette.
eb:peesentatives.
Ebonezar M. Cbaraberlaln .Goshen.
Jfjlm (}. Davis RockriUe.
Cyrus L. Dimham, . . .Valley Farm.
Konaaa Kddy South Bend.
William H. EngUsh Lexington.
Andrew J. Harlan Marion.
Thomas A. Hendricks.. Shelbyville.
James H. Lane — Lawrencebnrgh.
I Eleeted president pro tan. Deo. 5, 18M.
Daniel Mace Laf a7«tt4.
Smith Miller Patoka.
Samuel W. Parker.. ..ConneisTiliB.
THS THXBTT-THIRD COKOSBS8.
186
IOWA.
BS3XATOBB.
Avgoatiis G. Bodgoi BorUngton. | Oooiga W. Jonw DaTmqae.
Joha P. Gook.. Dsvenport. | Bemhait Benn lUxfleUL
AnldlMlId Dlzon .
BOENTtrCKY.
SBNATOBS.
.Hendenon. | John B. Thompson 1.
.Hanodaboig.
REPBESENTATTTES.
Unn Boyd*. Fadncah.
John C. Breckinridge... Lexington.
FianoiBM. Bristov*. BlEMm.
James S. Chriamon Monticello.
Leander H. Cox Flemingshnig.
John M. Elliott Prestonburg.
Ptesley Ewing* BuBaeliTlIle.
Ben £uwards Qrey . . Hopkins ville.
'Took lite seat March 4, UBS. • Bleated ipaaker Dee. S, 1«SS. ' ZaectedinpIaoeofPnaleTEwbiAdeoeaaed: tookhlinat
Dea4»1864. «Diedlnl8M.
Clement S. Hill..... Lebanon.
William Pieaton Louisville.
Bichaxda Stanton UayariUa
LOUISIANA.
BENATOBS. '
Jndah P. Benjamin I ^KewOtleans. | JohnSlidell* .ITflw Orleans.
BEPBESE^TFATI V J&8.
William Donbar Kew Orleans.
Theodore O. Hunt. New Orleans.
Boland Jones. Bhreveport.
John Perkins, jnn. Aahwood.
> TboklilaMatItorah4,18S3. > Xleotad in plaoe of Fleire SonU, ledgned 18S3i took bis seat Deo. (It ISBX
MAINE.
8KKAT0B8.
^mUamPittFeasendeni Portland. | Hannibal Hamlin. Hampden.
BXPBBSKtrTATmS.
SamnelP. Benson Winthrop. I Thomas J. D. Fuller Calais. I Moses McDonald Portland.
El Wilder Farley Newcastle. | Samuel Mayhall. Gray. | Israel Washbam, Jan. Orono.
1 Took Ua Beat E<eb. St, 18SL
MAETLAND.
BENATOBS.
James A. Feaioe Chestertown. | Thomas G. Pratt Aimapolis.
EEPKH3ENTATIVES.
John B. ftanUin Snow HUL I Henry May Baltimore. I A. B. Sollers.PrlnoeFiedericktown.
William T. Hamilton. Hagerstown. | Jacob Shower. Manchester. | Joshua Vansant Baltimore.
MASSACHUSETTS,
BENATOBS.
Edward Everett I. Boston. I Charles Sumner .
JulinsBoekweU*. Pittstield. | Henry Wilson <..
EEPBESENTATTVES.
Edward I>icl(in.son Amherst.
J. Wiley Eilmaiuls. Newton Comer.
Thomas D. Eliot *. . . .New Bedford.
JohnZ. GkKidrich. Glendale.
.Boston.
.Nutick.
William Anpleton Boston.
Nathaniel P. Banks, jon. . Waltham.
Samuel L. Crocker. Taunton.
Alexander DeWitt Oxford.
Zeno Scndder* Bamstabla
Charles W. Upham. Salem.
Samuel H. Walley Roxbuiy.
Tappan Wentworth Lo weU.
> Berisned June 1, 1854. > Appotnted In place of Edward Ererett, resigned; took hi* nat Jane Ut, 1861 • Elected in
W»ee of Edward Everett, reslgneiL Julioa Bockwell having been appointed pro tern. ; took hie seat I^eb. 10, UBS. < Elected
i& place cf ZenoSeodder, redgned; Uxdchla seat April IT, 1864. • Beelgned In 1861.
MIOmGAN.
BENATOB&
I<ewisCaasi. Detroit. | Charles E. Stuart* Ealamazoa
BEPBESENTATIVSB.
Samuel Clark Detroit. IHestorL. Stevens Pontiao.
David A. Noble Monroe. | David Stuart Detroit
> Elected prestdant pro (em. Dee. 4, 1864, for one day. ' Took hie aeat Harsh 4, 1863L
186
OOKGBESSIOKAI. DIBEOTOBT.
r
MISSISSIPPL
SENATOBS.
Stephen Adams ..Aberdeen. | Albeit G. Brown*
BEFBESENTATIVES.
William BarkacEale Golnmbus. I Wiley P. Harris Monticello. I Daniel B. Wright .
"WUluinS. Barry Oreenwood. | Otho B. Singleton Canton. |
> Took his Beat Jan. 28, IBM.
•IfewLowiL
Salem.
Da-rld B. Atchison* .
MISSOUBL
SEKATOBS.
.....Platte City. | Henry S. Geyer
REPBESENTATIVBS.
Thomas H. Bentoa St. Lools. I James J. Undley Montloello. I John S. Phelps.
Samuel Canithers . .Fradericktown. I John O. Miller Boonville. I
Alfred W. Lamb Hannibal | Monlecai Oliver. Bichmond. |
> Preaident pro (at.
...SfcLonia.
.SjniDgfield.
NEW HAMPSHIKE.
SENATOBS.
CharloaO. Atherton* Nashua. I JohnS. Wells"
Mcraes Nonis'' ,.. Manchester. | Jared W. Williams* Lancaster.
EEPRESENTATIVES.
Harry Hibhard, Bath. jGeorgeW. Kittredge .New Market. | George W. Morrison... Manchester.
> Took ltlaft»itMiu«h4, tFiKI; UadNoT. 15, 1853. > Died Jan. 11, 1855. > Appointed hi place of Hoses KorrlB, deceuel;
took lib sent Jim. 22, ISIiS. ' Appointed In place of Charles U. Atherton, deoeaaed; took his seat Dec. 12, 18531
NEW JEESET.
SENATORS.
John B. Thomson. Princeton. | William Wright * Newark.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Samnel Lilly Laml)ertTiIIe. I Charles Sfeelton Trenton. I George Vail Moiristown.
Alex. 0. M. Fennlngtoii. . .Newark. | Nathan T. Stratton . . .MuUica Hill. |
1 Took his seat Uaroh 4, 18S3.
Hamilton Fish .
NEW TORK.
SENATOBS.
.New York. | William H. Seward.,
.Anhom.
Henry Bennett .... New Berlin.
Davi^ Carpenter! Drockport.
GeorjjG W. Chase Bchenerus.
Thomna W. Curaiulng Brooklyn.
Fran els B. Cutting Now York.
Gilbert !)esn*. Pou^likeepsie.
Reuben R. Fenton Frewsburg.
Tluuiias T, Flagler Ijockport.
Honrj" C Goodwin*. Hamilton.
Gcnrgo Hastings Mt. Morris.
Sobimnn (7. ITaven Buffalo.
Clmrlaii Iliigbes Saudy Hill.
> In place ot A. lioodv, reilgncii October, 1853.
Us seat Deo. 1, IBM. ' Beslgned in 1854.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Daniel T. Jones BaldwinsTllle.
Caleb Lyon. Lyonsdale.
Orsamus B. Matteson Utica.
James Maurice Maspeth.
Edwin B. Morgan Aurora.
William Murray Goshen.
Andrew Oliver Penn Yan.
Jared V. Peck Port Chester.
Rufus W. Peckham Albany.
Bishop Perkins Ogdensbnrg.
Benjamin Pringle Batavia.
Peter Bowe Schenectady.
Bossell Sage T»y .
Georjje A Simmons Keeseville.
Gernt Smith * Petersborough.
John J. Taylor Oweg>'.
Isaai; Teller^ JIattawan.
WiUiam M. Tweed New Yorlt
Hiram Walbridee New Yoric
William A. Walker. New Yorli.
Mike Walsh New Yorlt
Theodorio R. Westbrook .Kingston.
John Wheeler. New York.
> Resigned JuIt 3, 1854. > Elected in place of Gertlt Smith, resigned ; took
• Elected in plaoe of Gilbert Dean, reeljgnedi took his seat Dec. 4, 1864.
i
George E. Badger,.
NORTH CAROLINA.
SENATORS.
. . . .Raleigh. | David S. Beldt .
•Wentwortli.
Wniiam 3. Ashe ..... .Wilmington.
Tiiomas L, CISogman Aitheville.
Burton Craige Salisbury.
REPRESENTATIVES.
John Kerr. Yancey vllle.
Richard C. Puryear . . . . Hunts ville.
Sion H. Rogers Raleigh.
> Took bfi seat Dec. 11, 1854.
Thomas Baffin Goldsborough.
Heniy M. Shaw Indian Towa
THB THIBTT-THUtD OONGBESS.
137
Salmon p. Chase.
EdwaidBall Zanesyille.
Ci«orgB Bliss Akion.
Lewis D. Campbell Hamilton.
HoseiiB. Corwin. Urbana.
David T. Disney CinoinnatL
Allied P. Edgorton. HicksriUe.
Andiew £lliaom Geoigetown.
OHIO.
SEKATOSa.
Cincinnati. I Benjamin Wade,.
BEPKESENTATIVJSS.
Joshna R GiddlngR Jefleison.
Frederic W. Oreen Tiffin.
Aaion Harlan Yellow Sprini^
John Scott Harrison Cleves.
Harvey H. Johnson. Ashland.
William D. Lindsley Sandusky.
Matthias H. Nichols IJma.
.Jefferson.
EdsonB. Olds Ciicleville.
Thomas Kistchey Someiset.
William R Sapp. Mt. Vernon.
Wilson Bliannon St. Clairaville.
Andrew Stuart Stenbenville.
John L. Taylor GhilUcothOk
Edward Wade Clevelaiid.
James Cooper.
Bamnel A. Bridges. AUentown.
Joseph R. Chandler.. .Philadelphia.
Carlton B. Curtis Warren.
John L. Dawson Brownsville.
John Dick Meadville.
AufTostus Dram. Indiana.
^ViUiam Everhart ....Westchester.
Thomas B. Florence. .Philadelphia.
James Gamble. Jersey Shore.
^ Elected hi iilaoe of Heur A.
PENNSTLVANIA-
8ENATOBS.
PottsTille. I Richard Brodhead.
TtHrPRHaKiKTATI VKS.
Galnsha A. Grow Glenwood.
Isaac K. Hiester Lancaster.
Thomas M. Howe. .Alleghany City.
J. Glancy Jones ^ B^kding.
William H.KurU York.
John McCuIloch Shaver's Creek.
Ner Micldleswarth Beavertown.
John McKair. Norristown.
Henry A. Muhlenberg ' Berks.
Hnhlenb«iB,decea<ed; took his aeaf^b. 13,1884. > Died Jan. 8, 18E4.
.Easton.
Asa Packer Maach Chunk.
David Bltchie PittsboiK.
John Bobbins, jun. . . . .Kensington.
Samuel L. liussell Bedford,
Christian >L Straub Pottsville.
Michael C. Trout Sharon.
William H. Witte Richmond.
Hendiick B. Wright . . Wilkesbarre.
BHODE ISLASro.
FhHip Allen Providence. | Charles T. James ■
BEFBESE2ITAT1 VJfii.
Thomas Davis Providence. | Benjamin B. Thnnrton.
.Providence.
.HopUnton.
SOUTH CAKOLINA.
SENATORS.
AodiewP. Bntlar EdgefieldO. H. | Josiah J. Evans^ Society HUL
EEPBESENTATTVES.
William Aiktn. .'. Charleston. I Preston S. Brooks Ninety-Six. I John McQueen.. MarlboronghO. H.
William W. Boyce..Wlnnsl>orongh. | L. M. Eeltt Orangeboigh C. H. | James Lu Orr Anderson.
* Itook his aoM Much 4, 1863.
JobnBeU,.
Robert M.Bogg Lynnville.
■William M. Cnurchwell..Enoxville.
■William Cullom Carthage.
Emenon Etheridge. Dresden.
TENNESSEE.
8EKAT0BS.
Nashville. | James O. Jones.,
BEPKE8ENTATIVIS. •
George W. Jones Fayetteville.
Charles Ready . . .Murfreesborongh.
Samuel A. Smith Charleston.
Frederick F. Stanton Memphis.
.Memphis.
Nath'l G. Taylor i . . .Happy Valley.
Felix K. ZolUcofler Nashville.
> Elected In place of BnxddnsCuapbeU,dsaaaaedDea 25, 18B3,haTbig never taken Us Mat; took hla seat Hanh SO, 1854.
TEXAS.
BENATOBS.
SsmnelHooston Hnntsville. | Thomas J. Sosk...
mcp^tTgiFiKTA'i'i vna.
^teTH.BeU Austin. | George W. Smyth ,
.Kacogdoohes.
, Jasper.
VERMONT.
8E1TAT0BS.
lawTeneeBraineidi St Alban's. I Samuel S. Phelps* Hiddlebary.
Solomon Foot Rutland. |
■BMttdbiplaeeofWniUin Upham, deceased, Samuel 8. Phelpa hmixia been appointed pro fern. ,• took his seat Dec 4, 1854,
> Appolntad In plaoe of William Upham, deoaased; to<di hb seat Jan. 10, 18S3.
138 OOKCaeBBBIONAL DCBEOTOST.
BEFKESBNTATTVES.
James If eacliain. MMdlebury. I Andrew Tracjr 'Woodstock.
AlrahSabin ......Geoigia. |
VIRGINIA.
SENATOBS.
BobeitliC T. fitmter. ..» Uoyd'a. | James U. Mason.. .^ .^..^Winehestat.
BKPBESENTATIVES.
tiuunaa H. Bayly.-. .AooomairO. H.
Thoa. 8. Bocock. Appomattox G. H.
John B. Caskie Richmond.
Henrj A. Edmnndson. Salem.
Charles J. Faulkner . .Hartinsbnrg.
>iaeetedlniiIaoeafJoImr.Siu)dgrus,deoeaaed; took his aaat Deo. 4,1851. ' Died Jmu S, 1S5L
William O. Goods Boydton.
Zedekiah Kid well Fairmont.
John IJetcher. Leziiigton.
Charles 8. Lewis ^ Claiksburgh.
Fayette McMollen Bye Cove.
John S. Iflllson JifotfoOc.
Paulns FowelL Amhem.
William Smith WarrentoiL
John F. Snodgrass '. . .Patkeisbuig.
WKCONSra.
Henry Dodge .«~ JJodgeville. | Isaac P. Walker. ........ ....».« ...Jdtrankaa.
SEPBSSENTATIVZS.
BenJaBilnO. X!aBtiiian...natt«vme. | JoImB.MaQy SbndduLao. | Daaiel Walls, Jus. SOIwankeei
KAlffSAS TBBRITOBT.
DELEOATE.
J. W.Wliltfleldi Tecomseh.
> Took his seat Dae. SO, ISSt.
msunsaoTA. tebbixoby.
DELEOATB.
HeiuyM.Bloe. BLTanL
TERSTTOBT OF TsCEW MEXICO.
DELEGATE.
Jes^ManuclGallAgoBi. ^ .ADiaqnerqna.
> Took his saatDeo. 5, usa^
OBEGON TERRITORT.
DEIiECLATE.
Joseph Lane • WInchestat:
UTAH TE^tlTOBT.
' DELEGATE.
JohnM-BernWaoI 8d*lBkaCtty.
WASHnrGTOX TERBITOET.
DELECU.XB.
OolmnUatoncasteii .*. *. % Helena.
> Tbok hia seat Ai^ 12, USi.
r
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THB TEEBTT-FOinCTH OOKQKBaSS. 189
THE THIRTY-FOURTH CONGRESS.
Pint SesMonjfrcm Dee. 8, 1855, to Aug. 18, 1856. Second Session, from Aug. 21, 1360', ib Aug. 30, 1866.
nird Session, from Dec. 1, 1856, to March 8, 1857.
TiM-PrttUhnt.^ PreildenU of the Senate pro tempore. — Jsass D. Bbioht of Indiana, again elected June 11,
t85S; Chablxs E. Stitast of Michigan, elected June 9, 18S6; Jakes M. Masok of Virginia, elected Jan. 6,
1857. Secretary of the Senate. — Abbubt Diokens of Korth Carolina.
Bpeaktr of the Bouse. — Naihaioxi. P. Baiks of Maasachuaetts. Clerks of ihA Bouse. — JcuDt W. roBBXY of
PumaylTWala; Wqjuaii Cuuxjh of Tennessee, elected Feb. i, 18S6.
i WniiwnB. King, Tlofr-Freatdent of aw TTnited States, died April 18, U6S. ,
ALABAMA.
SENAIOBS.
Clement O. day, Jan. HantsriUe. | Benjamin SlbEpatriok 'Wetnmp&a.
'Rin>RTi»'P!?rPA'ri y vn.
'WmiamsonB.'W. Gobb.Bellefonte. I Oeoige S. Houston. Athena. Percy Walker Mobile.
James F. DowdeU . Chambers C. H. Eli S. Shorter ■> Eufaala.
^mesoa W. Harris. . . . Wetompka. | WiUiam £. Smith. . . .Fayette C. H.
ARTTAVSAa.
BENATOBS.
BobertW. Johnson ....FiaeBInfEs. | William K. Sebastian ^^.......Belona.
BEFBB8KNTATIVX&.
Alfred B. Greenwood. BentonTiUe. | Albert Bust El Dorado.
CAUFOBNIA.
SENATOBS.
'WmiaaiW. Owln>. Sam Ftsadsoa t John B. Weller San Fianoisoo.
BEPBBSENTATIVIS.
James W. Denver Weaverville. | Philemon T. Herbert Mariposa City.
1 Took his seat Feb. 16, 18S7.
coknecticCt.
SKKATOBS.
litfayatteS. Foster Konrich. | Isaac Tonoey Hartford.
EEPKESENTAimS .
BzniCIaA, jus. Hartford. I William W. Welch ..KozfoUc:
Sidney Dean ^.......Patnam. | John WoodrofL .....< »HawHwraiL
DELAWABEL
SEaVATOBS.
Jamflg A. Bayard Wilmington. I Joseph P. Cometh* Htm
John U. Clayton 1 Chippewa. |
BBPBESSMXAUVS.
Uiba D. Cnllan. • • Georgetown.
>I>ladKaT.»,UB6. » AiipolatodlBplaseof JbhnK.Chgtan,daoe>iadi took his aest Dee. 4, 1886.
^
140
OOKOBESSIOKAI. DIBECTOBT.
FliOBIDA.
SENATOBS.
Stephen B. HalloTy Key West | David L. Yulee. Hamaaaasi.
EEPBESENTATIVJS.
Angostna £. Maxwell TaDabauee.
Alfred lT«taon .
GEORGIA.
SENATOBS.
.....Colnmbns. | Boliert Toombs WasUngtoa.
BEPBESENXATTVZS.
Howell Cobb. Athens. I John H. Lumpkin. Borne. I Bobeit P. Trippe Foisyth.
Martin J. Ciawfoid. Colnmbna. I James Ii. Seward ThomasTille. Wxtaa Warner Greennlle,
Nathaniel 6. Foster Madison. | Alex. H. Stephens . .Crawf ordville. |
Stephen A Donglas .
ILLINOIS.
SENATOBS.
..Chicago. I Lyman TnunbnUi. Attoo.
EEPBESENTATTVES.
James C. Allen * Palestine.
Jacob C. Davis' ....Warsaw.
Thomas L. Harris PeteisbniK.
James Knox Knoxvllle.
S. S. Marshall *. . .McLeansborongh.
James L. D. Morrison <..BelleviUe.
JesseO. Norton Joliet.
William A. Bichardson ■ . . .Qoincy.
Lyrntm Tmmbnil i Alton.
Ellihn B. Wasbbame Galena.
James H. Wood worth Chicago.
> Eleetedwnator.wid took his Mat Deo. 3,1865. > Election contwted byWIIUam B. Aroher, and seat declared naut;
snbaeqoenthr elected at new election, and took hia Beat Dec. 1, 1886. > Elected In plaoe of WUUam A. Bichardaon, rarigned;
took tUa seat Deo. 4, 1856. < Election muocoeesf ally contested by Q. Ja(T S. Tan>». • EUntedlnplaoeof I^manTrumbulL
elected aenatOTi took bis leia Deo. 1,1856. • Bed^ied Ang. 26, 1856.
Jesse D. Blight >.
INDIANA.
SEETATOBS.
..Madison. | Graham N. Fitob*..
BEPBBSENTATTTES.
.XiOgBnsport.
Lncian Barbonr. Indianapolis.
Samnel Brenton Fort Wayne.
Schuyler Colfax South Bend.
William Onmback Gieensburg.
George G. DnniL Bedford.
William H. English Lexington.
David P. Holloway. Blchmond.
Daniel Mace Lafayette.
Smith Miller. Fatoka.
JohnU. Pettit Wabash.
Harvey D. Scott Terre Haute.
>Pnaident,protsm. ' Took hla gest IU>. 9, 1887.
IOWA
SENATOBS.
James Harlan Mt. Pleasant. | George W. Jones
BEPBESENTATTVES.
Augustus Hall 1 Kessanqua. | James Thorington
> Eieotkni nnaaooeeafally contested by B. Q. B. CSaike.
...Dnbaqae.
.Dareiqwrt
John J. Crittenden.
Henry C. Burnett Cadiz.
John P. Campbell Belleview.
Leander M. Cox Flemingsburg.
John M. BUiott Prestonbuig.
KENTUCKY.
SENATOBS.
.Frankfort. | John B. Thompson.
BEPBESENTATl V JSS.
.HatTodsbarg.
Joshua H. Jewett . .Elizabethtown.
Alex. K. >&irshall Nicholaaville.
Humphrey Marshall Springport,
Samuel F. B wope Falim)nth.
Albert O. Talbott DanviUe.
Warner L. Underwood,
Bowling Graen.
LOXnSIANA.
SENATOBS.
JndahP. Benlamln New Orleans. | JohnSUdell «... New Orleans.
EEPRESENTATIVES.
Thomas G. Davidson Livingston. I JohnM. Sandidge Pineville.
George Eustis, jun.i New Orlemis. | Miles Taylor Donaldaonvills.
1 Eleetion nnsaooeaafully contested by Albert Fabre.
IHB THIBTT-FOnKTH OONaBBSS.
141
'WmiaxaHttreaaenden... Portland.
TTnnnihttl TT^^ltin X,,.^,, .••••••.•. .HiUUpdeZl.
MAINE.
SEKATOBS.
AmosKourse*. Bath.
Bamnel F. Benson Winthiop.
Thomas J. O. Fuller* Calais.
> RwlgniMl Jan. T, IMSt, baTlng been elected
Jaii.M,]Wr. •
SEPEESEirrATIVES.
I Ebenezer Kuowlton. . .8. Montrllle. I IsTael Washbtm, ]an Orono.
I John J. Ferry Ozfoid. | JohnH. Wood Portland.
▼emor. > Appointed in plaoe of Hannibal Tr^mHn^ redlgned; took bis seat
•n ansuooeigfully contested by Jamas A. Mlllllfnii.
JamesA-Fearoe..
Thos. F. Bowle-ITpper Harlboroo^
H. Winter Davis Baltimore.
MAKTLAND.
SEKATOBS.
....Chestertoint. | Thomas Q. Ftatt.
BEPRESENTATIVES.
J. Morrison Harris Baltimore.
Henry W. Hoffman. . .Cumberland.
.Annapolis.
James B. Bioand Chestertown.
James A. Stewart Cambridge.
Charles Sumner .
MASSACHITSEXTS.
SENATOBS.
, . . .Boston. I Hemy "Wilson .
.Natlck.
Xathaniel F. Banks, jan.> . Waltbom.
James Biifflnton Fall Birer.
Anion Bnrlinsame Cambridea
Calvin C. ChaSee. Springfield.
BEPBESEMTATTVZS.
Unns B. C'Omins Boxbnry.
William S. Damrell Dedham.
Timothy Davis Gloucester.
Alexander DeWitt Oxford.
> Elected speaker Feb. 2, UB6.
Bobert B. Hall Flymonth.
Channcey Ik Knapp Lowell.
Mark Trafton. Westfield.
MICmGAN.
SENATOBS.
Lewis Cass Detroit. | Charles E. StoattV
BEPBESEKTATiyES.
William A. Howard. Detroit
OeoigeW. Feck Lansing.
> Elected pnaident pro tern. Jane 9, 18G6L
.Kalamazoo.
David S. Walbridge Kalamazoo.
Henry Waldron Hillsdale.
MISSISSIPPL
SEKATOBS.
Stephen A<1ams. Aberdeen. | Albert G. Brown Kewton.
EEPBESENTATIVES.
William Barkadale Columbus. I William A. Ijake Yicksbiirg. I Daniel B. Wright Salem.
Hendley S. Bennett. Orenada. (John A. Quitman Natchez. |
Missouia.
SEKATOBS.
Hen^Sh Oeyer. St. Louis. | James Stephens Oreeni Canton.
REPBESEKTATTVES.
Thomas P. Akers * Lezinii^n.
Samuel Canithers.Cape Olrattlean.
UuberMKennett St Louis.
James J. Lindley . ..... .Monticello.
John G. MiUer • Boonville.
Mordecai Oliver. Bichmond.
I John S. Phelps Springfleld.
GUc-hrist Porter. .Hannibal.
■ Took Ui seat Jas. 21, USr. ■ Elected in place of John Q. Miller, deceaMd; took Ua seat Ang. 18,1856. • Died Hay U,18S6.
NEW HAMPSmSE.
SEKATOBS.
Junes BeQ Laconia. | John P. Hale Dores,
BEPBESENTATiVJSS.
AaioiiH.CiagIn Lebanon. | Jamas Pilce.... South Kew Market | Mason "W. Tappaa Bradford.
WEW JERSET.
S£NA.T0Ii8.
iB^ThomsoQ Trenton. | WiUiam Wright. Kewiik.
BEPKESENTATITES.
I Bishop. . . . .New Brunswick. |
iX>, Clawsoii.....Wou<lfllowa.
Alex. C. M. Ponnjiigton. ..Novriirk. I Oaorge Vail MatdMowa.
Q<Mi. £. Bobbiiu .liumilton Squ^uu. |
NEW TOnK.
lamllton Fish .
SENATOKS.
.Now York. I William H. Bewaid.
' Henry ncnnctt New Berlin.
Tliomas Cliilda, jun.i Now York.
Ha yiiril Clark Ne w York.
8aiiiu<'l Diikson Now Scotliinil.
Ktlwanl l><nl(l Ari^-la
yruDcis 8. Kdwards^ FtecUmio.
Thomas T. Klimler Look port.
"William A. Gilbert* Adams.
Amo« P. r.mtit.'cr SjTUi'iino.
SdIomioii G. Haven. rtuffalo.
Tbuiuas It. Uurtou Fultonrille.
KEPRESENTATIVES.
Jonaa A. ]Iuglist<m DcUU.
John Kcllv Now York.
■\Villinm ll. Kcliey Oenosen.
lliifus H. Kiiie Catskill.
Omaiuiis B. .\latt<»on* Utii'a.
Aniircw Z. McOurty Pnlaskl.
K iUiun Miller Hmlson.
Kilwlii U. Morgan Aurora.
.\mbro.'*o 8. Murray..^ Goshcu.
An(lrc«' Oliver I'enn Yan.
John M. I'arker Owego.
over took hli leat, owing to prolongod Ulnow.
> liMlsnod Fob. 28, 18S7.
Fob. 27, 1837.
UORTH CAROLINA.
SENATORS.
Biggs WilIiam.ston. | David S. Reid
lAwrence O'B. Branch Ralciirh.
Thomas L. Clingnmn Axlicvlilo.
BiirloD Craige Salisbury.
George £. Pngb.
EETEESENTATIVJS.
Robert T. Taine Edenton.
IMebard C. Purj-ear. IIiintAvillu.
Edwin O. Ileaae Rozboroiigh.
OHIO.
SENATORS.
Cincinnati. | Benjamin F. Wade..
Ony B. Pelton New T^n
DenjamiB PringleL &it.'< i
Russell Snpp I
George A
FiancL-
.Jaiues b i L_ .^ • ^'
William W. Viilk l-ln.l.m jg-^
Abnini Wakemau. New Ynii*'^
.l.ilm Wlieelcr
Tliouia'* K. \\Tatnoy...
John Williams .
• Baiignad Fob. 27, 18S7.
Thomas Rnffin OoldybonnuEh.
Warren Winslow FayvtteriUe.
.JoffetaodL
harle^ J. Albright. Cainbridgo.
Kilw anl It.iU Zauesvillo.
John A. Itin^;hnia Cadiz.
I'liilrMiinu BliSH Elyrla.
I^ewis D. CaiiipbeU Hamilt^m.
Timotliy C. Day Cincinnati.
Jonas B. Emrie Hillsborougli.
BEPBE8ENTAT1 VES.
Bamnel GalUiway Coliimbu.i.
Jimliua K. < llddings Jefferson.
Aarciu Harlan Yellow Springs.
Joliii S.iitt linrri.<)on Cleves.
Valentine B. llortnn. Pomeroy.
Benjamin K. Lelter Canton.
Oscar F. Moore Portsmouth.
Richard Mott T. 1 -i. ■
Mattliia,s U. Nicliob* I .
William IJ. Sapp Mt. \'. :
John .Slicnnan '
Ikinjaiiiiii Stanton . . . Bi' ;
Edward Wade c, ^l
Cooper K. Watson llflin.
_jfH
»c<>
m
William Biglor .
PENXSTLVANIA.
SENATORS.
.Philadelphia. | Riehonl Brodhead Easton.
r<3ii.
ohn Allison New Brighton.
David Itarclny Punxntawney.
Sajniiel *■',. l!mdshBW..Quakertown.
Jacob l!roi>Mi Philadelphia.
John Cadwnlader. Phihuleljiliiii.
Jaraes H. Campbell I'ottuville.
Jolni Covolo Lockp<-)rt Station.
John Dkk Moadvillo.
[ohn R. £die Somcisol.
I ohn R. £die
Itflip Allen .
REPRESENTATIVES.
Thomas B. Florence. .Pliilndelphia.
nenry M. Fuller WilUcsbarrc.
Galufiha A Grow GIciiwixkI.
.lolin Ilickiium. We.nt Clic iter.
J. ( ;ianry Jones Rea<Ung.
J<mntlinii Kniglil. .East Betlileliem.
John C. Kiiiikel llani.«burg.
William Millward riiiliulrlpliia.
Asa Packer Maiich Chunk.
RHODE ISLAND.
SENATORS.
John J. Pearcc Willian i
SaiiMiel A Purriance /
David lUiihIo lit ■ -
Anthony E. Roberts I.an.
Dnrid V. RobUon... Chamber ~
Lemuel Toild Cui , i -i^ .^ . —
Job li. Tyson ^hilodelplucf^a.
.Providence. | ChnrlesT. James Prorith
KEPItESEXT.VTrVES.
. Jivarton. | BoujominB. IburaUm. ^opl
THK THIBTY-FOUBTH OONOI
143
SOUTH CAROLINA.
SENATORS.
.AsdxewP. Bader Edgefield 0. H. | Jottlab J. Erons Society HllL
UEPRESENTATITES.
'WilUam Aiken. Charleston.
■yg'illiam W. Bojce . Winnsborongh.
Preston S. Brooks i Ninety .Six. I
li M. Keitt«... .Orangoburgh C. H. |
Jolin McQueen. Morlboroogh C. H.
James L. Orr Anderson.
Jotua Bell.
Jnljr 14, 1806; mbawinently nvclected, and took Ills seat AnB. 1, 1896; died Jon, 27, 18ST.
1SS6; mliMMiQenU; rs-eloctod, uid took Us Boat Aug. 6, U86,
TENNESSEE.
SENATORS.
.Nashyille. I James C. Tones .
> Bnlgned Julj 10,
.MemphiB.
Emerson Etberiilgo I>rcsden.
Oeorco W. Jones Fayettevillo.
Charles rieady...MurfroosborouBb.
TFliOEXuu lU vera SomernUe.
REPRESENTATIVES.
John II. Sava(»e SmithviUe.
Samuel A. Smith Charleston.
AVilliam K. Sneod KnoxriUe.
A. O. ■\Vatlcins. . . .I'ttntlior Springs.
John V. Wrieht
Felix K. ZoUlcoiTer.
... .Purdy.
.NashvUle.
.Nacogdoches.
MaishaU.
■ TEXAS.
BEN-ITOES.
Sazniiel Houston Hontsrille. | Thomas J. Busk..
REPRESEKTATI VEa
_g]. ^CBeU Austin. | Lemoel D. Evans.
^^H TEIOIONT.
^^^P SENATORS.
^■bool) CoUamoT Woodstock. | Solomon Foot
REPRESENTATIVES.
OearauT. Ilodgegl Rutland. I Jiwtin S. Morrill Strafford.
rUoacham > Middlcbury. | xVlvah Sabin Uoorgia.
' Elected In plaee of Jamca Moaduun, dooowed; took bis seat Dm. 1, 18S0. * Died Aog. 23, 18E6.
.Butland.
VIKGINTA.
BobertM. T. Httnter..
.■Winchester.
BlJ^nrbu H. Bavly«. . Accomac C. H.
^B vv" " Br»-iMk..Api)onurt.tox C. H.
^r ' Clnrk.sbur(;.
H Richmond.
H '■ ' . ^^. .1 .iindson Salem.
^1 * OocM praakUmt pra ten. Jan. 6, UST.
SENATORS.
Lloyd's, I James M. Mason t.,
REPRESIOTTATrVES.
Charles J. Fmilkncr . . Martitisbiirg.
Miiscoe K. II. (iarnett* Llnvil's.
Williiira O. tiomle Iloydton.
Ze<Ii-kia)i Kidwell Fairiiioiint.
John Letclier Lexington.
> Died June !B, ISSG. > Eleotad In place of Thomas H. Baflv, deceased; took
his Boat Dec. 1, 18S6.
WISCONSIN.
Fayette Mi-Mtillin Bve Ocivo.
Jnlin 8. Milb<on Norfolk.
I'aulus I'owcU Aiiil»er.<t C. IL
\yilliiun Smitli Warrenton.
SENATORS,
^•niy Dodge Do<IgeviUe. | Charles Dtirkee. ,
.EenoBha.
REPRESENTATIVES.
>BIllingbiust.......Janeau. | 0. C. Wash))umo.... Mineral Point. | Daniel Wells, jun. Slilwaukeo.
KANSAS TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
• Whitfield! Tecunwch.
■ Election muacceesfiUly ooiiUslod l>y AihItbw n. Roodor.
MINNESOTA TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
.St Pool
144 COKGBXaSBIONAL DIBEOTOST.
KSBBASKA TEBRIT0B7.
DKLECIATK.
Binll), Chapinsai... , Omaha Oty.
1 ElesUon niKnaoenfally oonteated bj Hbam P. BeaiMtt.
TEEEITORT OP KEW MEXICO.
DZLEGATES.
Joa^ Manuel Gallegosi Alliaqnerqne. | Migael A. Otero* Albnqneiqne.
1 EloctloD guccossfollj coDtoted bT MlgQcl A. Otaro. > SacceMfoIlT oonteatad tbe deeUos sf 3i»i KimivJ QaUeeo*; took hii
•eat July 28, 1866.
OBBGON TEREITORY.
jyjSUSQATR,
JoeephLsuie, , , Wincheiter.
UTAH TEEBITORT.
DELEGATE.
John M, BemlilBsl Salt I«ke (Sty.
WASHINGTON TEEKTTOBT.
SELBOATE.
J. Fatten Andenon OlTn^ia.
THE THIETT-FIFTH CONGEESS.
Firti Sestion,/rom Dee. 7, 1657, ta June 14, 1858. Second Session, fitm Dec. 6, 1858, to March 8, 1859.
Fice-Pnpndffnl. — John- C B&bcktnbidob of Kentucky. Precitlentt of tM Senate pro tempore. — Jaxxs U.
Uamn of Vlrtrinia, elected Morcli i, 1867, in special session; Tbokas J. Busk of Texas, elected March 11, ISSl,
ia special atjasJon; BsxJAimr FrTZPATBicK of Alabama, elected Deo. 7, 1857, again elected March 29, 1858, again
eleotod Juno 14, 1853, and agsdn elected Jan. 26, 186a Secretory qf the Senate. — Asbuby DicKsm of Korth
Carolina,
Speaier(iftheM»ue.—Jj^aa L. Obb of South Carolina. Clerk qf Hie House. — JAMxaO. Axi;bv of Illinolai
AT.AT>A\rA
SENATOBS.
IjCkoiast a Clay, Jus. HnntsTiUe. | Benjamin Fiti^iatriok i. Wetumplo.
EEPEESENTATIVES.
an B. W, Cohh.Bollcf onto. [ George S. Houston Athens. I James A. StaUvoith....ETBiSTeen.
: L. ^L Curry. ..... .Talladega. | Sydenham Moore . .Oreensborough. I
itF, UowUoll .Obambeii C. iL | Eli 8. Shorter Enfaiua. |
> Elected president pro ttm. Dee. T, 18BT.
ARKANSAS.
SENATOBS.
ebsrt W. Johiuan PineBlufis. | William K. SehostiBn Helena.
REPRESENTATIVES.
i & OiMBWood. Bento&Tille. |£dwardA. Warxea Gamdeo.
THB THIBTY-FIFTH OOKGBEBS
CALIFORNTA.
SENATOBS.
SaTldO. Btodericki San Francisco. | WUUamM.Owin San Frnnclsoo.
KEPHESESTATIVES.
JoNpbO. McKibbin Dovmleville. | Charles L. Soott Sonora.
H^ s Took hi« teai Match 4, im.
^^^ coNirecTicnT.
■ SENATORS.
f Jamea Dizoa^ Hartford. | Lafayette S. Faster
KEPRESENTATIVES.
Baznuel Arnold .' Hadilam. I Ezra Clark, jnn.
EnD. Biabop Bridgeport. | Sidney Dean
;
DELAWAEE.
SENATOKS.
W. Bates! Doyer. | James A. Bayard.
KEFRESENTA TIVE.
lUiam G. ■yrhiteley NewCostle.
' PJmtftui In plM« ot John M. Clayton, dMeeied, Joaopb r. Comegys having been appointed pro tan. ; took hla Mat Deo. 6, VXSB.
FLORIDA. "
SENATOBS.
ephen B. Mallory Key West | David L. Ytdee .
BEPBESENTATXTE.
tS. Hawkins Pensaoola.
OEOBGL^
SENATOBS.
AUt«d Iveraon Colnmboa. | Robert Toombs
EEPBESENTATTVES.
J^aitln J. Crawford. Colnmbna. I James Jack»on Atbons. I Robert P. Trippe Forsyth.
Lucios J. GartrelL Atlanta. I James L. Sowanl ThomasTille. I Augosttis B. Wright. Borne.
•foahaaUill. Madison. | Alex. H. Stephens ..CrawfordTille. \
^'"PbenA Donglas
Joha p Famsworth. Chicago.
^^a\u L. Harris > Petersburg.
jliwles D. HorlKBS a CorroUtou.
"'Uliftm Kellogg Cantoa
ILLINOIS.
SENATOBS.
.Chicago. I Lyiuan Tmmbnll
REPRESENTATIVES.
Owen LoTcjoy Princeton.
Sam'l S. MnrslialLMcLeonsborough.
Isaac N. Morris Quincy.
Aaron Shaw LawrenceTllle.
> Died Not. 34,1898. • Eleoted in plaoe of Thomaa L. Harrta, dooeassd; took Ills Mat Janoaiy, 18SB.
INDIANA.
SENATOBS.
. JoffersouTille. | Graham K. Fitch >
EEI'BESENTATIVES.
.Fort Wayne.
.Sonth Benil.
.BockvUle.
i H. English Lexington.
James B. Foley Oreen.sbureh.
.lames SI. Grogs l>.iu\"ille.
James IIiiRhus lilonmington.
David KilRore Yorlrtown.
> Election unsuoceaafull; ooDteated.
146
OONGBESSIONAL DIBBOTOBT.
IOWA.
SENATOBS.
James Harlan Mt Pleasant. | George W. Jones..
EEPHESENTATIVES.
Samuel B. Ooztis Keokuk. | Timothy Davis....
.DQl>aqa&
.Dabnqae.
John J. Crittenden.
KENTUCKY.
SENATOBS.
.Frankfort | John B. Thompson .
REPRESENTATIVES.
.Hanodsboiz.
Henry 0. Bnmett. Cadiz.
James B. Clay Lezineton.
John M. Blliott Piestonbui^g.
Joshua H. Jewett . .EUzabethtown.
Humphrey Marshall. . . .Springport.
John C. Mason OwingsvUle.
Samuel O. Peyton Hartford.
John W. Stevenson Covington.
Albert G. Talbott Danville.
Warner I4 Underwood,
Bowling Green.
LOUISIANA.
SEKATOBS.
Jndah P. Benjamin. New Orleans. | John Slidell NewOileaiii.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Thomas G. Davidson East Feliciana. | John M. Sandidge Pineville.
George Eostis, jun. New Orleans. | Miles Taylor DonaldaonTille.
MAINE.
SENATORS.
WtlUam Pitt Fesseudcn Portland. | Hannibal Hamlin Hampden.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Nehmuiali Abbott. Belfa.<it. I Olinrlea J. Oilman Brunswick. I Israel Washtam, Jun. Orona
Btoplien C. Foster Pembroko. | Freeman H. Morse Bath. | JohnM. Wood< Portland.
MARYLAND.
SENATORS.
Baltimore. I James A. Pearoe Chestertown.
Anthony Eeoneily 1 . . .
REPRESENTATIVES.
J. Korrison Harris ' Baltimore. I James B. Bicaud Chestertown.
Oivltimore. | Jacob M. Kunkel. Frederick. | James A. Stewart Cauibridga.
Stach t, USi, • Electloii imKacoensfnllT contested by Henry F. Brooks. • Eleetion nnaaoeeaBtollj eon-
tasted by Willlun Pinckney Wliyte.
Thos. F. Bdivie. Upper MaTltmrniigh,
11. \Vmt<.ir Duvb*. .. " '
> Took liis I
Cbarl«i Samner > ,
MASSACHUSETTS.
SENATORS.
...Boston. I Henry Wilson.
.Nadck.
REPBESEafTATIVES.
liimis B. Comins Boston.
William S. Dumrell Dedham.
Tiiaotliy Davis Gloucester.
lltiury L. Dawes. . . . .North Adams.
> IHd Hoi Uke hb MM diutug the MSeba. • Resitted Dec 24, IS57. • Qeeted in plaoe of Kathaniel P. Banks, Jm.,
naigned; took 1>U Beat Jan. ai, 18GB.
NfttL nnUa P, Dnnks, ]an.s.Waltliiini.
Jiiiut«s UultltitoD , Fall Kh-cr.
An-Jon Rurlidjpinie ..CtvnibriilHC.
C«lvm C, CliuUDO. iiprin^Lleld.
Daniel W. Gooch* Melroee.
BobertB-Hall Plymouth.
Chaunoey L. Knapp LowelL
Eli Thayer Woivaster.
MICHIGAN.
SENATORS.
Zactiartith Cltandler 1. Detroit | Charles £. Stuart .
REPRESENTATIVES.
I WilUiun A. tlowttfd Detroit I David a Walbridge Kalamazoo.
IMWlttO, LwMli Lansing. | Henry Waldion Hillsdale.
^^^—^ 1 Took hb xeat March 4, 1857.
HM^ILBta
k M. OkrananKh * .
\
• Tbok LkXMt Hay 13, !«!!«.
.Kalamazoo.
MINNESOTA.
SENATORS.
.St Paul. I James Shields 1
REPRESENTATIVES.
ChatttoM. I WUUam W. Phelps' Bed Wing-
> Took bis seat lUj 22, 18S8.
THE THIBTY-PIFTH CONGRESS.
147
k
.Hnrricanew
k
inssissrppL
SENATORS.
Alberto. Browo Kewton. | JcfTorson Darlai
REPRESENTATrVES.
'WUlinm Barksdale. Onlambus. i Lucius Q. C. Lamar AbbcvUle. I Jolm A. Quitman * ITatRheis.
£euben Davia Aberdeen. | John J. MoKa*3< State Line. | Othu B. Singleton Canton.
1 Took hla Mat March 4, 185T. • Eloetoa In place o( John A. qnicmaa, doaeoMd; took his leat Deo. T, 1868. 'DledJulTlT,
UC8.
MISSOURI.
SENATORS.
JimMS. Green Canton. | Tni.iten Polk^.
I Tbomas L. Anderson Falmjra.
IflnuusisP. Blair, Juu. Sc. Xxjuis.
rfawiMl Caratlieis .Cape QUarUeau.
KEPRESENTATIVES.
I John B. Clark Fayette. 1
Jiuiios Crniji St. .Jiise|ili.
I John S. Pliolps ijiiriiiglield. {
• Took hi* coat March 4, 1807.
.St-Lonls.
Samnel H. Woodson. Independence.
MEW HAMPSniRE.
SENATORS.
^I>Aiil«l Clark >. Mancliestor. | John P. Hale Dotot.
KEPRESENTATIVES.
[AATonH. Cragin Jjebanon. | James Pike ....Sanboniton Bridge. | Mason W. Tappaa Bradford.
> Elected In phtoe of June* Boll, dooeMod May 26, tSST; took Us leat Dea T, ISITl.
NEW JERSET.
SENATORS.
[ Jolm E. Thomson Prlnt«tou. | William Wright Newark.
REPRESENTATIVES.
^^nuittB. Adrian. NewBrnns^rlok. I .Tohn Huylor Hackonsack. I Jacob B. Wortendjke. Jersey City.
, iM^alt O. Clawsoii. .... Woodatown. | Gea B. Bobbins . Hamilton Square. |
P»e«toaKing»
NEW YORK.
SE3JAT0RS.
■ Ogdenaburg. | WUllam H. Sewaid..
.Auburn.
Tb,
lel 0. Andrews Rochester.
f'UKnJ, B;irr' New York.
^'•nrv Iknnett New Berlin.
?]'«' M. niirroiigh.>t Medina.
■•.tTiicf. F. CInrk New York.
'-l.lrl: i\
J,.:
p"; "H Altiimy.
'•u '^ .1. ,| Lii •■ i, 1 Argyle.
Kcntioa E. Kenton. Frewslmrg.
rane Sclieiieotodv.
.Sow Y'orfc.
■rJ-iify C. CriMxl win. Uamiltou.
**«• P. Cnuiger Syracuse.
'TloiikblisaatMiuch«,UST. • Elaotad
REPRESENTATIVES.
John B. TTa-ikin Fordhnm.
Israel T. Hatch Buffalo.
Charles B. Hoard Watnrtown.
tliilin Kelly » Now York.
Williiim 11. Kelsey Geneseo.
William B. Mnclay New York,
Orsanius 11. Mntteson I'tir-a.
Kdwin B. Morpiu Aurora.
Oliver .\. MiTso Cherry Valley.
Ainbrosui K. Jlurray Ooshen.
Abr,niii B. Oliu Tmy.
George W. Palmer Plattsburg.
In plaoo ol John Kelly, resigned ; took his seat Jan. IT, 1880.
US8.
JolinM. Parker. Owego.
Einnry B. Pottle Naples.
William F. RusseU. Baugorties.
J»hn A. Searing.
Hempstead Branch.
Jadson W. Sherman. Angelica,
Daniel E. Sickles Now York.
Francis E. Spinner Mohawk.
Croor^'e Taylor Bmoklyn.
Jolm Tlinmpson Pou^hkeepsie.
Elijah Ward New York.
• Eeticned Deo. S8,
NORTH CAROLINA.
SENATORS.
.WlUiain.tton. I David 8. Reid...
CUngman * Asheville. |
ItEPPJSENTATIVES.
John A. Gilmer Grcen.>iI)oronKh.
ThoimM Ruillu Guldrtborougli.
AllreU M. Scales Madison.
.FleMantville.
K['''WcoO'B. Branch .
£"*»» L Clingman'. . . ash
•"WwCraige Salii
'NtMdMsy, ISH.
. Raleieh.
Asheville.
isbury.
Henry M. Shaw Indian Town.
Zcbulon B. Vance* A-sheville.
Warren Winslow Favcttevillo.
* ElooUxI Dcnntor In plttco of Atu Biggs, re!)lgno<l ; took hlK scat Doo. C, UoS,
Tboma* L. Clingmau, elected saiuuor; took his scat Doa 7, 1868.
• Eloetod In plsM of
148
OOKOfiESSIONAL DIBBOTOBr.
OeoTgeE. Pngh..
OHIO.
SENATOBS.
.Cincinnati. | Benjamin F. Wade.
.JeffemiL
REPRESENTATIVES.
La^rrence W. Hall Bncjrrns.
Aaron Harlan Yellow Springs.
Valentine B. Horton Pomeroy.
^^'illiam LawrenL'e Washington.
Iteajamin F. Letter Canton.
.loseph Miller. Ghillicotbe.
Riishard Mott Toledo.
Mattliias H. Nichols Lima.
John A. Bingham Cadiz.
Philemon Bluis lUyria.
Joseph Bnms Coshocton.
Irf'.wi!* P CiimpbpU 1 IldTnilton.
Josei>h il, Cofkorill . . .AVtint U'ltiuii.
Samuel 8. Cox Uoluiiihus.
Joshua R. fiiiiiliiigs Jtiftersoti.
Williaia t>. tirutiabeuk.. .Ciuc^intiiiti.
I EloDtioii moiHHaFnUT contestod bv Claraeat U Vallandtaham. > Saocenfolhr oonteMad tbe eleeUon of Lewk D. Cuplwll;
took Us seat May 2B, 1888.
Oeoige H. Pendleton. . . .CSndmiatl
John Sherman HansMd.
Benjamin Stanton . . . Belief ontaine.
C. B. Tompkin.<i HcConnellsTille.
Clement L. Va-llMidigham,*
Edward Wade Clerekiid.
Delozon Smith ^
OBEOON.
SENATORS.
.Portland. | Joseph Lane* WlncbeBter.
REPRESENTATIVE.
> Took Ms teat Feb. 14, use. > To<A bla MM Feb. IS, US>.
Wmiam Bigler, .
PENNSYLVAIOA.
SENATORS.
Clearfield. | Simon Cameron^ Harrisboig.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Gnlnsha A. Grow. Glenwood.
John Hickman West Chester.
.J. Qlancy Jones ^ Reading.
Owen Jones Cabinet.
W illiam H. Keim * Beading.
John G. Kunkel Harrisburg.
,laaie!) Landy Philadelphia.
Paul Leidy Danville.
William Montgomery .Washington.
Edward Joy Morris. .Philladelphla.
Henry M. Phillips Philadelphia.
Samuel A. Pumance Bntler.
Wilson Beilly Chamberabarg.
David Ritchie Pittsburg.
Anthony E. Roberts Lancaster.
WilUaiu Stewart. Mercer.
Allison White Lock Havea
John A. Ahl , Newiillo.
Henry Ctuvpman Doyli'stiuvu.
Jnhii Coviiile. Loik jKirt.
WillUiui L. Duwart .fiuubury.
John Dick >Ir;iilviUf'.
Wi Ilium IT. Dlnuiiick. ..Honesdiik'.
John R. Btliu. , SoiuurH<-*t.
TbomEXS B. Florent;e. -PhilaJflffchisi,
James L. ililli* Ridgevvuy.
> TOgJt Ue »(»t ftlarcb 1, l«fT. ■ BeslcnedliiUSS. > Elected In place of J. Glanoy Jones, resigned ; Uxdc bis seat Dee. T,1K8.
BHODE JSLAm).
SENATOBS.
Philip Alien Providence. | James F. Simmons ^ ProTidence.
REPRESENTATIVES.
William D. Brayton Warwick. | Nathaniel B. Dutfee TivertOL
■ Took hia seat March 4, 185T.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
SENATOBS.
James Chestnut, jnn.i Kershaw. I James H. Hammond Beech Mand.
Jmiah J. Evans! Society Hill. | Arthur P. Hayne*
REPRESENTATIVES.
I William P. Miles Charleston.
James li. Orr* Andenon.
JIiIIt^dSB L. Bonham EtlgeliPld. I L. M. Keitt Orangeburgh 0. H. I
Williiun W. BoyM,. . . . .Mciuticutlu. | John McQueen. .Marlborough C. H.
* Elected in plnoe of Jo^itili .T. t^nns, 'Imraiised, Arthur P. Hnvne having been appointed pro tern. ; toOk his seat Jan. 5, IMS.
"in) Mnj a, l¥&i. ' AintohWKX \n I'lsoe of Joelah J. Evans, deceased; took his seat Ibiy 20, US8. • Elecled speskec
HnBell.
Atklnn... Parid.
-■Vvt^ry. ...... .Memphis.
Jijiii». . Fayottevillo.
ird.....-..KoD3Cv{lle.
TENNESSEE.
SENATORS.
Nashville. | Andrew Johnson .
REPRESENTATIVES.
Charles Ready Murfrecsborongh.
John H. Savage SmithviUe.
8amuel A. Smith Charle-iton.
A O. Watkins . . . .Panther Springs.
.Greenvffle.
John V. Wright
Felix E. ZolUcoffer.
Pnriy.
.Nashville.
THB THIBTY-JfiyTH 0ONGBES8. 149
TEXAS.
SEXATOB8.
J. Piockney Hendenon^... HarohTille. I Thomas J. Bosk* Ifacogdoches.
Samoel Honston Hnntsville. | Matthias Ward* JefEanon.
KEPBESZNTATTVES.
OnyM. Bryan .' Bnzoiia. | JohnH. Beagan Palestine.
> Zleeted In plaoe of nomas J. Bnsk, deaeaaed; took hia aeat Haieh 1, 1868; died Jnne 4, 18S8. > Elected president
vn (en. Kaieh li, 18S7; died July S8, UST. ■ Appointed In plaoe of 3. Ptnokney Hendeiaon, deceased; took fals seat Deo. i,
U58.
VEKMONT.
SENATORS.
Jacob CoOamsr Woodstock. | Solomon Foot Bntland.
EEPEESENTATTVES.
Justin & Uoidll Stnffoid. | HomwE. Boyce BerkBhlre. | B. P. Walton. Hontpelier.
VIRGINIA.
SENATOBS.
Bobeit H. T. Hnnter. Uoyd's. | James M. Mason i Winchester.
BEPBESKNTATTVES.
Mnscoe B. H. Oamett loTett's.
William O. Qoode. Boydton.
George W. Hopkins. Abington.
Albert G. Jenkins. . .Green Bottont
John Ijctcher Lexington.
1 Elected president pro ttm. Haroh 4, 18R.
Thos. S. Bocock. Appomattox C.H.
John B. Caskie Bichmond.
Bhenaid Clemens Wheeling.
Henry A. Edmandson Salem.
Cbanes J. Faulkner. . .Maitinsbuig.
JohnS. Millson. Korfolk.
Paulns FoweU Amherst.
William Smith Waitenton.
WlSCONSm.
SENATOBS.
JameaB.DooUttlei Baclne. | Charles Duikee Kenosha.
EEPEESENTATIVES.
ChatlssBillinghntBt Jnneaa. | John F. Potter East Troy. |0. 0. Washbnm Ifineral Point.
i Ttook hia aeat Uareh 1, 1857.
KANSAS TEBRITOBT.
DELBQAIE.
MaicnsJ. Ftnott LMTenworth City.
MINNESOTA TERBIT0R7.
DELEQATE.
William W. Kingsbury Endion.
NEBRASKA TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
FennerFeiKOsraii. Belleview.
1 laseUon imsnoaearfally oonteited by Biid B. Gbapman.
TERRITORY OP NEW MEXICO.
DELEQATE.
UgMIA. Otero Albnc[aerque.
OREGON TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
JowphXane. ^^ncbeater.
UTAH TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
JahBU.Betnhia«l Salt I«ke City.
WASHINGTON TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
IiMcLSterens Olympia.
IJiO OOKaSBSSIONAL DIRBOTOBT.
THE THIRTY-SIXTH CONGRESS.
Fmt Ses*ion,from Dec. 5, 1859, to June 26, 1860. Second Session, from Dee. 8, 1860, to Marek 8, 1861.
VUx-PreetderU. — Joim C. Bheckikbidob of Kentucky. President* qf the Senate pro tempora. — Bxkjaxei
F1TZPA.TRICK at Alabama, elected March 9, 18S9, in epeciikl seaaion, again elected Deo. 19, 1859, again elected
Feb. SO, laeo, and again eleuted June 26, I860, in special session; Jbssb D. Bbiqbt of Indiana, elected June 12,
M60 ; SowMOM Foot of Vermont, elected Feb. 16, 1861. Seeretaiy qf the Senate. — Asbdbt Dxckkks of North
Carolina.
Speaker 0/ the Smae. — Willum Pkhwinoton of New Jersey. Clerk* <if the Bmttt. — Jajibs 0. Aura of
nilnoia; Joior W. Foiurxr of FennsylTanla, elected Feb. 3, 1860.
AT.ABAMA.
SENATOBS.
Clement C. Clay, ]an.> HontsTille. | Benjamin Fitzpatiick*. Wetompka.
BEPBESENTATTVES.
David Clopton > Tnitlcei^ee,
WiJliaiusou K. W. Cobb*. Bel lefonte.
Jabuz L. M. Curo' * TalWtiga.
James L, Pugb*. Eufauia. |
1 BellniJ frouL ttie aeiute Jan. 21, IMt. > Eleeted president pro tem. March 9, 18SB; retired from the aenata Jan. 21, IWL
' KeUnd bom fiu> hooae Jan. 21, 1861. < Betired from Uie home Jan. SO, 1861.
ABEAXSAS.
SENATOBS.
Robert W. Johnson FlneBlnfEs. | William K. Sebaatlaii Hdeiia.
BEPBESENTATIVES.
ThiuuaaO. TTimimttn Helena. | Albeit Boat. little Bock.
CALIFORNIA.
SENATOBS.
INiTJdC. Broderkiki San Francisco. I Henry P. Hann*. Haiysrille.
'WllUamM. Owln San Francisco. | Milton S. lAtham* SanFrandsco.
BEPBESENTATXVE8.
JohnC Buioh WeaTerrille. | Charles Ix Scott Sonora.
■ DMScTt-l*. IS^ > Appolntrdtn place of DaTidCBroderick. deceased; took his seat Dee. ^ I8SOL • Elected hi iilac*
of UiaTld a. Btodeiick. Jdeeasnl, Haniy P. Hann haring been appointed pro trnt.; took his seat Kanih S, 1860.
CONNECTICUT,
gh^^^ SENATOBS.
^^^^V Jmea Dixon....... Hartfoid. | I^fayette & Fostar. Korvidk
^ BEPBESENT.VTIVES.
f AAvdA. Bomham \rindhain. I Diright Loomls Bockrllla.
r QBto&Feny Norvalk. | John Woodioff. New Haven.
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DEIAWAKE.
SENATOBS.
A.m]rwdL WUmlngton. | Wlllard SMUsbmy Oeoigetovn-
BEPBESENTAXITB.
WJMMiiO. WMi»tay,... Newcastle.
George S. Houston* Athens. I James A. StaIlwoith*...Eyergreen. 1
Sydenham Moore '.Gieensboroagh. I -
Ktspbi
Hbhii F. FamRworth. Chicam.
MLilip B. Fouke BellevUlo.
WiliuunKoUogg Canton.
aphsn A. DonglAs
bD. Bright'.
« arles Cnse Tort 'Wnj-no.
cli-nylcr Colfax Sonth Bend.
Jobn G. Unvis Eofk%ilK>.
ViUiam U. Donn. Mmlison.
WilUain n. English Leilnpton.
Williiim S. Uoliiian.Lawrenceniiri;.
Davi.l ]Cilgoio York town.
WiUiani K Nibliick Vlnoonnea.
> Elooted pmldent pro tan. Juno 12, 1800,
IOWA.
SENATORS.
I James vr. Giimos BarlliiKton. | James Harlan Mt. Pleanant
KEPRESENTATIVES.
(•mnol E. Curtis Keokiik. | William Vandever Dnbuquo.
fj<*a J. Crittenden
KENTUCKY.
SENATORS.
.Frankfort. I Lazams W. Powell.
I \e^ A<1sm' BarboursviUe.
F?'" ""Oioni Danville.
'/■•■ .w. Elkton.
*'''■'. :„. ^vn.Elizabotlitowu.
REPRE.SENTATI VKS.
Henry 0. Unmett Cadiii.
Robort Mnlliiry La Grange.
I..al>iui T. Mooro IjOUJHa.
Samuel O. Peyton .HartfonL
William E. Stmms Paris.
John W. Stevenson Covington.
> Boction nnsaooenfolljr contested by James S. rhHim^n.
LOUISIANA.
SENATORS.
'*'»li P. Benjamin* New Orloaus. | JohnSlidell' New Orleans.
REPRESE3JTATIVES.
John M. Lamlrum Shroveport.
Miles Taylor' DonaMsonvUle.
-..■"lE. Boulipnv New Orleans,
^"•"iiiO. Davidson Baton Rjugo.
I Betlrcd from tbo senate Fob. 1, 1361. ' Retinxl bom the honse Fob. S, USl.
152
GOKOSBSSIONAL DIBBOTOBT.
..AngiubL
KAINE.
BXHATOBS.
Wtlliam Pitt Fessenden Portland. I LotM. MozxUl*..
TTanniTynl HlLmltn 1 , .,,«..• .HampdOlL |
KEPBESEKTATTTES.
Stephen Cobum * Skowliegan. Freeman H. Morse Bath. I
Btfljilieii C. Foster, Pembroko. John J. Perry Oxford.
Ezm ii. Froncb. .... .Daniarincotta. Daoiel E. Seines Biddeford. [
> BedgneilJui IT, ISei. ■ Elected In pUoe of Hmnnlbal Hun]ii>,rMi8ned; took hia seat Jin. IT, 18tl. • Heetad In dice
ariimeIWiutibani,jnn.,i«ctpisdi took hiaaeat Jan. 1,180. • Baalgnadi, to take gffiaot Jan. 1, U61.
Israel "Washlniin, jnn.*. Onmo.
MABYLAND.
SENATOBS.
Baltimore. | James A. Pearoe
BEPHESENTATIVKS.
H. Winter Davia Baltimore. I neoice W. Hnehes West Blver. I James A. Stewart CSambridga.
J. Moirloon Harris BsltiDiorg. | Jacob M.Kan£el... Frederick City. JEdwaidH. Webster Belur.
Anthony Kennedy .
.Cbesteitowii.
CliailM Somuer .
Clinrled F, Adams. Quinny.
Jobn B. Alley Lynu.
James Bullinton Pall tli ver.
Anson Biirlingame Cambridgo.
MASaACHUSETTS.
SENATORS.
Boston. I Henry Wilson. . .
BEPKESENTATTVES.
Hen:^ L. Dawes North Adams.
Charles Delano Northampton.
Thomas D. Eliot New Be^ord.
Daniel W. Qooch Melrose.
.Nadek.
Alexander H. Bioe Boatoa
Eli Thayer Worcester.
Charles B. Train. Fnuningham.
MICHIOAI7.
SENATOBS.
Kinsley S. Bingham Kensington. | Zachariah Chandler Detndt
BEPBESENTAXrVES.
I Henry Woldion EDllsdale.
George B. Cooper l ....Jackson.
Williim A. Howard * Detroit.
Pranois W. KeUogg. Grand Bapids.
BeWitt O. Leach Lansing. |
1 Elsotion aiKMeuf oil; oootested bf WlOiaai A. Howard. * SncoeasfnllToonteated the election of GeanteB. Comiet; took Ua
aeat Hay U, 1860.
MEfNESOTA.
SENATOBS.
Benry M. Bioe St PanL | Morton a WUkinson Mankata
BEPBESENTATrVES.
Cyrus Aldrich ,. .SDnneapoUs. | William Wlndom Winona.
MISSISSIPPL
SENATOBS.
Alberto. Brown' Terry. | Jefferson Davis > HnnicaiMi
BEPRESENTATTVES.
"William RarksdalB 3 Columbus.
Beubua Buvia ^ Abvrdcou.
Liirins (
John J. '.
. C. Lamar ». . . . Abbeville.
IcBae ' State Line.
OthoB. Singleton*. Canton.
I Seat! decLuBd Tocuit Uaioh 14, 18S1. * Bstlred bom. the bouae Jan. 12, UBL
UISSOTTBL
SENATOBS.
S, Gtreeu.
Canton. ITmstenPolk 8t Lonis.
BEPKESENTATTVES.
JnhnB. Clark Fayette. I JohnS. Phehn Sprinirfield.
James Crai); St. Joseph. Samuel H.Wood8on.Iiidependence.
Juhn W. Noell Perryville. |
» Berdon (luMaMK «n(t»i>tod by Fmnsl* P. Blair; subaemiently elected on the re«lgnAtlon of Mr. Blair, and took lui »e»«
^ ■*— a, IMO, > Siuioaatrultf eonhstoil tlw electlou of Jamea B. BaireU; took hla aeat Jane 8, IseO; leelgned in ISGt.
Ttiomna L, Andoraon Palinyra,
Jatii«a B, Rorrett l st. Louis.
FWMida P, B(alr» St. Louis.
THE THTBTr-arrrH cokgbesb.
158
SSW HAHFSHIBE.
SESAXOBS.
Daniel dadc JCaachester. | JohnP. Hale. Dover.
BBPSESE)NTAIXVES.
Tbomaa M. Sdwazda Keen& | Oilman Haiston Exeter. | Haaon W. Tappan Bradtord.
ITEW JE6SET.
SEKATOBS.
John O. Ten Eyek. Honnt Holly. | JohnB. Thomson. Fiinoeton.
EEPKESENTATIVUS.
GamettB. Adiain.KewBnmswick. I William Pennington ^ Kewark. I John L N.Btratton..Monnt Holly.
Jobs T. ITixon Biidgeton. | JetnrB. Kiggs Pateison. |
* Eleoted speaker Feb. 1, 1860.
PiestonBSng.
NEW YORK.
SENATOBa
.OgdenshiiTg. | William H. Sewaid..
.Antmrn.
Thomas J. Barr New York.
Charies Ii. Beale Kinderhook.
Geoige Briggs New York.
Silas M. Burronghsi Medina.
Haitin Butterfield Palmvra.
JUither C. Carter Flushing.
Horace F. Clark New York.
Clark B. Cochrane. . . .Schenectadv.
Jolm Cochrane Npw York.
Boscoe Conkling TTtica.
B. Holland I>neU.Coartland Village.
Alfred Ely Bochester.
> DledJana 3, IMO. > Kleeted In place
RKPBESENTATTVES.
Beuben E. Fenton Frewsbnrg.
Augustus Frank Warsaw.
James H. Graham Delhi
John B. Haskin Fordham.
Charles B. Hoard Watertown.
James Humphrey. Brooklyn.
William Irvine Coming.
William S. Kenyon EUngston.
M. Lindley Lee Fulton.
WUliam B. Maclay New York.
James B. McKean Saratoga.
Abram B. Olin Troy.
George W. Palmer Flattsburg.
Emoi7 B. Pottle Naples.
Edwin B. Beynolds ' Albion.
John H. BOTnolds. Albany.
Charles B. Sedgwick Syracuse.
Daniel E. Sickles » New York.
Elbrldge G. Spaulding. Buffalo.
Francis E. Spinner Mohawk.
Chas. H. Van Wyck.Bloomingburg.
Alfred Wells Ithaca.
of SOas M. Borronghs, deceased ; took his seat Deo. B, IMOl
fully contested by Amor J. WlUlamaon.
•Elaotian i
Thamas Bragg.
I«wience (fB. Branch . . . .Baleigh.
Burton Cralge SaUsbnrr.
John A. Gilmer. . . .OxeenaborongL
KOBTH CABOLIKA.
SESATOBa.
Baleigh. | Thomas L. Cllngman. Aaherille.
KBPRESENTATIVIS.
James M. Iieach Lexington. I Zebulon B. Vance. Aahevllle.
Thomas Eusan Goldsboroogh. I Warren Wlnalow FayettOTllle.
Wm. N. H. Bmith. . .Mnrfreesboro'. |
OeoigeB. Pnj^.
omo.
SEKATOBS.
.Cincinnati. | Benjamin F. Wade..
.Jefferson.
William Allen. Lima.
Jaine-s M. Ashley Toledo.
John A. Binghffifo. Cadiz.
Harrison G. Blake. Medina.
John Carey Wyandotte.
^omasCorwin. Lebanon.
SamoelS. Cox Colnmbus.
BEPBESEXTTATTVES.
Sidney Edgerton. Tallmadge.
John A. Gnrley Cincinnati.
William Helmick New Phila.
William Howard Batavia.
JohnHutchins Warren.
Charles D. Martin. Lancaster.
George H. Pendleton. . . .Cincinnati.
John Sherman Mansfield.
Benjamin Stanton.... Bellefontaine.
Thomas C. Theaker. . . . .Bridgeport.
C. B. Tompkins . . .McConneUsTllle.
Carey A. Iriuible Chlllicothe.
Clement L. Vallandigham. .Dayton.
Edward Wade ClaTeland.
OREGON.
SENATOES.
UwaidD. Baker 1 Oregon City. | Joseph Lane Winchester.
&EPBESEMTAT1 VE.
I^Dsiiig Stout Portland.
I Took hla seat Sec. S, I860.
154
OONOSKSSIOKAIi DIBBOTOBY.
'^'Oliom Biglor,.
Elijali Babbitt Erie.
Bomiiel ti. Blair IIiiliili'iysburB.
Jaiuca 11. Caiuptiell . .l'ott.ivillo.
JoliJX Co vode .......... i . .Ltx'kTMirt.
"WillJam II. nimmk'k. . .Honenuala.
TlifHria'* B. Florence. .Pliilailolphlii.
GaluHLi];! A. i Jrow. rH<?n\i'OCJ<l.
Jajue.'^ T. ihUti BellefontQ.
Ciiapln HiilL Wiirrtiii.
^ Klectad 1^ plBoe of John
PENNSTLVANIA.
SEKATOBS.
Cleartiuld. | Simon Cameron .
HEPllESENTATIVES.
Jolm nkkmiin Wast Chester.
Benj. F. Jtitikin...Kew BloomQelil.
Jului W, IvillLa^er Lebanon.
Henr.v C. Longnecker. . . Allentown.
Jatot K. MuKentyi Reading.
liolttrt ItlEKtilglit Pittsbui];.
ICdvrard Mrl'hutson. . . .Gettysburg.
Willtiuii MilJvrard.... Philadelphia.
WiEiimj SIoutgomery..Waaliington.
Scliwarta.duiiejwed; took his seat Dec. 3, 1860. • IHad June 20^ USD.
.Hanisbsig.
James K. Moorhead Pittsborg.
Edward Joy Morris. . .Philaddphia.
John Schwartz ' Reiding.
George W. Scranton Scraaton.
Thatideus Stevens Lancaster.
William Stewart Mercer.
John P. Verree Philadelpliia.
John Wood Philadelphia.
BHODB ISLAJND.
SEHATOBS.
Henry B. Anthony Providenoe. | James F. Slmioona Providence.
UliPKESENTATTVES,
WiUiamD. Drayton • Warvnck. | Chrlatopher Boblnaon 'Woonsocket.
SOUTH CAROLINA-
SENATOES.
Jfunes Cbestnnt ..Caitiden. | James H. Hammond Beech Island.
BEl'KESENTATIVES.
JohnD. Aflhmoret.,....AndeT9on. 1 William W. Hoycoi...."WlnnsborD'. I John HcQneen >.. .Marlboro' 0. H,
MilledgeL. Booham ^. . . .BdgetMd. | L, M. Kuitt Orangeburg G. H. | W. Porchei Miles Charlestoa.
^ IIciItlhI trutti tlie boose Deo. 21, U60.
Andrew Johnson .
TEmJESSEE.
SEKATOES.
.Gre!enuvd]o. | Alfred O. P. IHcholsoii..
.Colmnhia,
WlUlaiu T. Avery Memphis.
Recsn B. Bmbsnii Olmttimooga,
£iiiL«rKoti Etliciiidgo DTH.-iilcu,
Bobert UattiOii. Lebanon,
REfliESENTATIVBS.
Horace May nard Knorville.
TboiBjiB A. 11 Nelson... Joneaboro'.
.Jiimi's M . Quarles Clarksville.
Williiuu B. tiiokes Alexandria.
Jamea H. Thomas .
John V.Wright...,
.Columbia.
Poidy.
TEXAS. •
SRNATOBS.
John Heniphin Austin. I LouisT. Wlgfall*. Marshall
Matthias Ward JoHeraon. |
REPRES ENTATIVES.
Andrew J. Hamilton Aur^tin. | JohnH. Beagan Palestine.
> Elected tn plane of J. Flnakney neiuliinon, daECBKul, Hattbias Ward havlna been aiip<^te4 pro ten.; took Us seat
Jan. 4, 1860.
TEKMONT.
SESA.TOB3.
,,,, WoodsttTck. I Solomon Foot 1. Batland.
BJEPRESENTATIVES.
. Strafford. | Homer E. l:o jce . . .Bast Berkshire. | Bzekiel F. Walton Montpeliet.
' Eloctcd ppcBiiiuut pro tern. Feb. 16, 1861.
VIRGINIA.
SENATOES.
Uoyd'o. I James M. Mason. Winohestei.
THE IHIBTY-SEVENTH CONOBESS. 156
Thomas S. Booock. . . .Appomattox.
Alexander R. Boteler. Cfiarlestown.
Shenaid Clemens Wheeling.
D. C. De Jamette . .Bowling Green.
Heniy A. Edmnndson. Salem.
BEFSESENTATIVES.
Knscoe B. H. Oamett lioretto.
John T. Harris Hanisonbiirg.
Albert G. Jenkins.. .Green Bottom.
Shelton F. leake. . .CharlottesTille.
Elberta Martin LeeO. H.
John S. Millson..... Korfollc.
Eoger A. Pryor i. Peteisbnrg,
Wullam Smith Wairenton.
< XlActad in plaoe of WHUam O. Ckxxle, deoeaud July 3, 18BS; took bis leatDoo. T, UBOi.
WISCONSIN.
SENATOBS.
James B. DooUttle ....Badne. | Charles Dnikee. Eenoaha.
KEFBESEMTATXViSS.
Chailfls H. Lansbee. Hoiicon. | John F. Potter East Troy. | 0. O. 'Wasbbum LaCiDSsa.
KANSAS TEBBITORT.
DELEGATE.
Vaicoajr. Fairott Leavenworth City.
NEBRASKA TEBBITORT.
DELEGATES.
Samuel Q. Daily i Peru. | Experience Estabroolc> Omaha.
»8rifnMifiinyeantBrtedtliaelaetionot ExparieneeErtabroofc; took his seat May 18, 1860. > Electloa (aooearfiilly contested
by Samuel G. Dally.
TERRITORY OF NEW MEXICO.
DELEGATE,
mgad A Otero Albnqnerque.
UTAH TERRITORT.
DELEGATE.
VnmamH.nooptir » Salt Lake City.
WASHINGTON TEKRITORT.
DELEGATE,
laaao L Stevens Olympia,
THE THIRTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.
Pint Seuumyfrom July 4, 1861, to Avg. 6, 1861. Second Session, from Dee. 2, 1861, to July 17, 1862.
Third Session, from Dee. 1, 1862, to March 8, 1863.
Fie«-Pre(tiien(.— Hahsibai. 'HAxajx of Maine. President qf tJte Senate pro tempore. — Soloxox Foot of
Vennont, elected July 18, 1861 ; again elected Jan. US, 1863 ; again elected March SI, 1862 ; again elected
June 19, 1862 ; and again elected Feb. 18, 1863. Secretaries of the Senate. — Asbttby Diokshb of North Carolina ;
JoHx W. FoBMBT of Pennsylvania, elected July IS, 1861.
Speaker of the fiouwi — OaiiUSHA A Qtvav of Pennsylvania. Qlitrk <if the £EoiiM.— BilBBSOxExaEBlDcai
oiXtmiaMeeL
AT.ARAMA.
SENATOBS.
(Vacant.)
BEPSESSIITATITE8.
(Vacant)
153 OONGBESSIONAIi DIBBOTOBY.
ARKANSAS.
S£NAXOBS.
(Vacant.)
BEPKESENTATlVJtS.
(Vaoaat.)
CAUTOENIA-
SEKATOBS.
Milton 8. lathttm ..Sacramento. | James A. MoDongall BanFraadBea
HEPBESEanrATlVES.
S'lederickS'. Lowt. .San Fitandsoo. | Tlmoth^r G. Phelps San Mateo. | Auon A. Saigent Keyada.
1 TOokUs leat Jane 3, 1862.
CONNECTICUT.
SENATOBS.
JameiB DLzon Hartford. | I&fayetteS. Foster Korwich.
KEPBESENTATlViSS.
Al&ed A. Bnmham TVimlbam. I Dwight Loomls Bockrille.
JamosE. English. Kew HaTen. | George O. Woodmfl litchfield.
DELAWABE.
SENATOBS.
JamM A. BAyard WHmtngton. | Willard Saolsboiy Georgetown.
BEPBESENTATXVK.
Georee F. Fislier. Dover.
FLORIDA,
SENATOBS.
(Vacant.)
BEFBESENTATTVES.
(Vacant.)
GEORGIA.
■
SENATOBS.
(Vacant.)
BEPBESENTATTVES.
(Vacant.)
ILLINOIS.
SENATOBS.
OrvJIleH. Browning! Qntncy. I William A. Blcbardson* Qnincr.
Biephon A. Douglas >..... ..Chicago. | LTmanTmmbnU Alton.
RE PilESENTATlVES.
I'liilip n. I'V'iiki^ IJelleviJle.
Atilliiiuy L. Knapp ^ . . . Jeis6.v ville.
William A. Biohardson *. . . . Qninr
James 0. Bobinson Marshal
Ellihn B. Washbnme Galen*.
■William J.Allen*. Marion. Willinru Et-Uogg Canton. "William A. Biohardson »....QBincT-
Isaaci N. Arunld. Chicago, John A. LiijjanA Benton. James 0. Bobinson Marshall
Owen Ijovejoy Princeton.
Julm A. McClemand'. .Springfield.
' AaWJW* lO^Btaoe of St.-i')<"<> A. DouglFu, dixviised: took his seat Jul; 4, 1861. • Died Jane 3, 1861. • Blec^
"■' i-i !i.'l IT. ilt!ceaiM.'(UOniJliiH. Browning having boon appointed pro tern.; took Us seat Jun- Wp
'w A. iiognn, nwliji led ; took his seat June 2, 1862. • Sscted in pUoe of John A. MoClenia»ii
Ml. • Besigned in IWtl. ' Besigned in 1861.
»
INDIANA.
SENATOBS.
JefTemnnville. I David Tnrpiei Indianapolis.
CrawfordBirille. | Joseph A. Wright • Indianapolis-
4mm hi place of .rtsee D. Bright, expelled, Joseph A. Wright having been appointed j)nl<"'>
^B, • Appoioteti in place of Jesse D. Bright, expelled; took his seat Haich 8, 1862.
V
THE THIBTY-8EVJ£NTU OONOBESS.
167
BchiiTler Colfax Sontb Bend.
James A. CraTens. . . .Haidinsbtug.
Vf. SIcKeeDmin. Madison.
'VrUliam 8. Holman Atuora.
BEFSESEirrATITESS.
0«)Tge W. Julian CentreTlUe.
JohnXaw BTans-ville.
William MitcheU KendallTille.
Albeit O. Porter Indianapolis.
JohnP. O. Shanks Jagr 0. H.
Daniel W. Voorhees . .Terre Hants.
Albert S. WMte Stookwell.
IOWA.
SEKAT0B8.
James W. Giimea BnrUngton. | James Harlan Ht. Fleasant.
BEFRESENTATl VJSS.
Falifleld.
Samnel B. Cnrtlsi Keokuk. I James F. Wilson*
William Yandever* Dubuque. |
> Ttwlgned Aug. 4, U8L > ZlaeUon miniooanfally oontnted by Le Oimnd B;
Coitis, reaigned; took Ua seat Deo. 2,
• Blaotsd in plaoa of SanmalB.
EAITSAS.
^ENATOBS.
James H. I«ne> lAwience. | Samuel 0. Pomexoy AtoUaon.
BEPBESEMTATiVE.
HaitinF. Conway Xawience.
1 EleeHan ^nllTlfl>wllll^lll^ eouterted by gwdarlnk P. Stsnton.
KENTUCKT.
SENATOBS.
JohnC. Bieckiniidgei IJexington. I
Garrett Davis' Paris.
Lazaros W. Fowdl Hendemon.
Henry C. Burnett*. Cadiz.
Samuel L. Casey ♦. Caseyville.
Jolm J. Crittenden Frankfort.
George W. Dunlap Lancaster.
•RH;pmrqir^]'i*A'i'i v ks^
Henry Orliler Bowling Oreen.
Aaron Harding Oreensburg.
Jameii S. Jackson'. ..Hopkiasville.
Bobert Mallory Iia Orange.
John W. Henzies Oovlngton.
William H. Wadaworth .Majsville.
Charles A. WicklifFe . . .Bardstown.
Geo. H. 7eamanS..Owen8boroogh.
> Expelled Dee. 4, 1881. > Elected in pisce of John C. Breckinridge, expelled ; took hia seat Deo. 23L 1861 * Spelled
Dee. 3, 1861. < £lectsd in place of Henry C. Barnett, expelled ; took his aeat Moich 10, 18*2. • Died in 1862. • Elected
In plaoecf James S. Jackaon, deoeaaed; Uxik bla aeat Dec. 1, 1862.
LOUISIANA.
SKKATOBS.
(Vacant.)
BEFBESENTATl VKS.
I MichaelHahn*
>To(dc Us seat Feb. 23, 1888. • Took hia seat Fab. 17, UO.
Benjamin F. Flanders'.
MAINE.
8ENAT0BS.
Ollaai Pitt Fessenden Portland. | Lot M. HorrOI Angnsta.
BEFBESENTATIVES.
Charles W. Walton * Anbnm.
t^mnel C. Femenden Rockland.
Tlioinas A. D. Fe;»senden i. Anbum.
John N. Goodwin . .South Berwick.
Asson P. Morrill. Beadfield.
Frederick A. Pike Calais.
John H. Kice Foxcroft.
'ElaetedlnilaoeotCliarlasW. Walton, lealgned; took his aeat Deo. 1,18(2. > Beslgned Hi^ V» UO>
MAJRTLAND.
SENATOBS.
Thomas H. H](to' Cambridee. I James A. Fearos* Ohestertown.
Anthony Kennedy Ellicotfs Mills.
BEFBESENTATIVES.
Charles B. Calvert. .. .Bladen-sbnrg. I Cornelius L. L. Leary.... Baltimore. I Francis Thomas Fiankvllle.
JohnW.Crisfield... Princess Anne. 1 Henry May Baltimore. | Edwin H. Webster Belair.
> Appolntedtoplaeeof James A. Peaioe, deoeaaed; took his aeat Jon. U, 1863. > Died Dee. 20, 1882.
ChidMSmnner.
MASSACmiSETTS.
SENATOBS.
...Boston. I Heniy Wilson.
.Kotlok.
158 OOKGBESSIONAL DIBECTOBT.
Jotn B. Allej-. tiynn.
Willinm Aiipletoni Boston.
GoliUmitli F. Bailuyi . . .Fitchburg.
■ToincH nuflinton Fall Bivor.
REPBESSMTATITES.
Charles Delano NoTthampton.
Thomas D. Eliot New BedJEord.
Daniel W. Ooovh Melruse.
Samncl Hooper * Boston.
Benjamin F. Thomas Boston.
Charles R. Train Framinftlum.
Amasa Walker *. North Brooklield.
Heiuy L. Davres North Adams. Alexander U. Bice Boston.
1 Beslgngd In IGOl. * Died Hay 8, 1862. > Elected in place of William Appleton, redgned; tock hl< seat Dae. 2, ISO.
• Elected to pjaoe of Goldsmith F. Bailey, deoeMed; took hU seat Dec. 1, 1862.
lacmoAir.
SENATOBS.
Kinsley S. Bingham i. Oak Orove. I Jacob M. Howard*. Detroit.
Zacharlah Chandler ..Detroit. |
BEFRESENTATl V ES.
Fernando C. Beaman Adrian. I Francis W. Kellon; Grand Bapids.
Bradley F. Granger Ann Arbor. | Rowland K Trowbridge BirmingDam.
1 Died Oct. 0, U6t * Slaoted in place of Kinsley 8. Blii^iam,deoeaMd; took Us Mat Jan. IT, 1882.
MUTNESOTA.
SENATOBS.
Hanr^rlLBloe St PaoL | Morton a WilUnson Uankato.
OyraaAMrbb... Minneapolis. | William Windom Winona.
MISSISSIPPL
SENATOBS.
(Vacant)
BEFBESENTATIV1E3.
(Vacant)
laSSOTTBL
SENATORS.
John B. Hendenion 1. Louisiana. I Trnsten Polk *. St Looii
Waldo Forcer Jubnaon' Osceola. | Bobert Wilson* St Joeepb.
BEPRESENTATIVES.
Francis P. BlaJr, iuxx* . . . .St Lonls. I BUjah H. Norton Platte City. I John W. Eeid»
William A. Halls. Huntsviile. John 8. Phelps Springfleld. James 8. Bollins. Colnmbia
John W, Noell Perryville. | Thomas L. Price '. . .Jefferson City. |
I Aliwitiitoil In placa of Trnsten Polk, expelled ; took his seat Jan. 29, 1862. • Expelled Jan. 10, 1862. • Appointed 111
placf of Wolilo I'raier .Ifitiiison, expelled; took lil» seat Jan. 24, lWi2. ♦ Reelgned in 1862. » Elected In place of John B.
Ctark, exiKllud .July 13, 1801; took Ua seat Jan. 20, 1802. • Elected to ptace of John W. Beld, expelled; took bia mu
Jan. 21, la«2. ' ExpclW Deo. 2, 1861.
NEW HAMPSHIEE.
SENATOBS.
DaoJel Clark Hanchester. | JohnP. Hale Dorer.
BEPBE3ENTATIVE3.
Thomaa M. Edwaida Eeene. | Oilman Harston Bxeter. | Edward H. BoUins. Conoonl.
NEW JERSET.
SENATOBS.
John C. Ten Erck Mount Holly. I John B. Thomson* Princeton.
Kichard S. rjeld 1 Princeton. | James W. Wall* Burlington.
EEPEESENTATIVES.
nporgn T. Cobb Morrist/)wn. I Nehemiah Perry Newark. I John Ij. N. Stratton. .Mount Holl.v.
Jiiliii T. Nixon Bridgeton. | William G. Steele Somerville. |
» Appoliitftl In plsco of ,Iohn B. Thomson, decoaned; took hla scot Doc. 1, 1862. • Died Sept. 12, 1862. • Elected in pi**
of Jotin li. XiiooiMin, decoaiieil, Richard S. Field having been appototed pro tern.; took his seat Jan. 21, 1863.
I
THE THIBIZ-SEVENTH COKQSBSS.
159
IiaHaitis..
Stephen Baker. Ponghkeepsie.
J. P. Chamberlain . . . .Seneca Falls.
Amliro-so W. Claik Watertown.
Krederick A. Conkling. .New York.
Roscoo Cunkling Utica.
Krastns Coming. Albany.
Isaac C. Delaplaine New York.
jVlexander 8. Diven Eliuira.
B. Holland Dnell. Conrtland.
Alfred Ely Rochester.
Reuben £, Fenton. Fiewaburg.
NEW YORK.
SESATOBa.
Albany. | Preston King. .. .
EEPBESENTATrVES.
Richard Franchot Schenectady.
Augustus Frank Warsaw.
Edward Haight West Chester.
James E. Kerrigan New York.
William E. Lansing. . .Ghittenango.
Jas. B. McKean . .&rato@ Springs.
Moses F. Odell ^Brooklyn.
Abraham B. Olin Troy.
Theotlore M. Pomeroy Auburn.
Charles B. Sedgwick Syracuse.
Sociates N. Sherman . .Ogdensburg.
.(^ensboig.
Edward H. Smith Smlthtown.
Elbridge G. Spaulding. Buffalo.
John D. Steele Kingston.
Burt Van Horn Newfane.
Robt. B. Van Valkenburgh . . .Bath.
Chas. H. Van Wyck.Bloomlngburg.
Chauncey Vibbajd. . . .Schenectady.
William Wall Brooklyn.
EUiah Ward New York.
William A. Wheeler Halone.
Benjamin Wood. New York.
NORTH CAROLINA,
BZNATOBS.
(Vacant.)
BEPBESENTAXIVES.
(Vacant)
orao.
SENATOBS.
Salmon P. Chase- Cincinnati. I Benjamin F. Wade.
John Sherman '. Mansfield.
•Jefferson.
■William Allen QreenTille.
James M. Ashley Toledo.
John A. Bingham Cadi?,.
Harrison G. Blake. Medina.
Ramnel S. Cox Columbus.
^Viiltam P. Cutler Constitution.
Sidney Edgerton. Tallmadge.
EEaPKESENTATrVES.
John A. Gurley Cincinnati.
Richard A. Harrison London.
Valentine B. Horton Pomeroy.
John Hutchins Warren.
James B. Morris Woodsfiold.
Warren P. Noble Tiffin.
Robt. H. Nugen.New Comeistown.
George H. Pendleton.. . .Cincinnati.
Albert G. Riddle Cleveland.
Samuel Shellabarger. . . .Springtield.
Carey A. TrimlUe Chillicothe.
Clement L. Vallandlgham. .Dayton.
Chilton A, White Georgetown.
Samuel T. Worcester N^rwalk.
> Bcdgned Uaroh 6, 1861. > Elected In place of Salmon P. Chaae, mlgned; took hla Beat Hanh 23, 1861.
0RE(3ON.
SSKATOBS.
KdwardD. Bakeri I .Tames W. Nesmlfh. Salem.
BenjaminF. Harding^ Salem. | Benjamin Stark* Portland.
BEPBESENTATITE. •
George K. Shlel. Salem.
■ Died Oct. 21, I88I. * Elected In place of Edward D. Baker, deceased, Benjamin Stark having been appointed pro ten, ; took
hia teat, Dec. 1, 1862. • Appointed in place of Edward D. Baker, deceaaed; took hla aeat Feb. 27, 1862.
S'lmon Cameron '
£dgarCowan Greensbnrg.
PENNSYLVANIA.
8ENAT0HS.
David Wilmot*.
.Towanda.
M«nham E Ancona Beading.
Wijah Babbitt Erie.
Jnwph Bailv Newport.
CharlfS J. Biddle «... Philadelphia.
>;Tmiiel 8. Blair Hollidaysburg.
Jaiucs n. Campbell I'ottsville.
Thiimas B. Cooper <. . . Coopersburg.
John Covode Lockport Station.
nilliaui Morris Davis. . .Milestown.
REPRESEKTATIVES.
Oalusha A. Grow •
James T. Hale Bellofonte.
John Hickman. West Chester.
Philip Johnson Easton.
William D. KoUey. . . .Philadelphia.
John W. KilUugor Lebanon.
Jesso Lazear. Waynesbiirg.
Wm. E. Lehman «... .Philadclpliia.
Robert McKnight Pittsburg.
Edward McPherson . . . .Gettysburg.
James K. Moorhead Pittsburg.
John Patton Curwinsville.
Tbaddens Stevens Lancaster.
.Tolm D. Stiles ' Allentown.
John P. V'crree " Pliiladolpliia,
.John W. Walliu-e Newcastle.
Hendrick B. Wright . .Wilkesbarre.
' IMnicd Han-Ii, 1861. > Elected In place of Simon Cameron, resigned; took his seat March 18, 1861. > Elected in
pl»M of K. .Toy Morrill, resigned. • Died April 4, 1862. » ElectBil sijoaker July 4, 1861. • Election unaucoessfully oon-
■oM lij John M. Butler. ' Eloctod In place of Thomas B. Cooper, deceased ; took his seat June 3, 1862. • Election unsao-
ceufnlly contested bj John Kline.
J
TENNESSEE.
3ENAT0ns.
Andrew Johnson Greeneville. | Vacant.
RETRESENT.^TITES.
George W. Bridges i | Andrew J. Clementtt'... Lafayette. | Horace Ilaynaid KnoxrtUai
> Took hli leat Fob. 2S, 1803. > Took hU aeat Jan. 13, 1M3.
VERMONT.
SENATOBS.
Jacob Collamer 'Woodstock. | Solomon Foot>
REPRBSENTATmS.
Partus Baxter. Derby line. | Justin S. Morrill Strafford. | K7.elrial P. Walton Montpelioi.
I Elected presldont pro ttm, Jolf 18, 1861.
VIRGINIA-
SENATOBS.
.Wlieeling. | WaitemonT. Willey*
BEPRESENTA'i'lVKS.
Jacob n. Blair* Parkersbnrg. I John S. Carliloi Wlieellne. [ Charles H. TTpton*.. .Palls Chiuch. |
Willi.-imO. Brown KingwooU. | Josopli E. Scgar*... Elizabeth City. | EUUnn V. Whaley Cenxla
■ Eloctod Mnstor In plnco or U. it. T. Uant«r, withdrnim ; took hi* Kst Jnlj 13, 1881. > Elected In place of J. If . Ihita,
wlilidrawn; took hia aoHt .luly 13, ISCl. • EWtcd In place of .Tiihii S. Carllle, reslgoed; took hi< Mat Dee. 2, 1861. < To< |
Ills seat Mtf 6, 1802. • ElooUon uusooaeasfully oontoatoJ by S. F. Booob.
WISCONSIN.
SENATOBS.
James B. DooHttle Bacino. | Timothy O. Howe OreenBay.
RETRESENTATITES.
Luther Hnncliptt' Plover. I John F. Potter EartTioj,
Walter D. Mtlndoe* Warsaw. (A. Scott Sloan Bearer Dam.
' Died Mot. 24, 1863. > Elected In place of Lather Boncbott, deceand; took bis leat Jon. S6, 1863.
COLORADO TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
THE THIBTT-mOHTH OOKOBESS. 161
DAJCOTA TEBRITOBT.
DELBQATE.
Jolm B. S. Todd < goifRandaTl.
NEBBASEA TEBBITOBY.
DELEOAIB.
Btameia.Daflyi. Fern.
1 IQeatianaiiniooeMfnllyooiitartsdbjr J. BtaUngUorton.
NEVADA TEKBITOBT.
DSLEGATB.
John OwdlalMwigh.. OazMmOity.
TEBBTTOBT OF NSW MEXICO.
DELEGATB.
JohnaWMtta Santa F«.
•UTAH TEBBTTOBT.
DELEGATE.
JohnHBernUaaL. Salt lAke 0it7.
WASHmaxoN terbttobt.
DEUBQAXEL
"William H-WaOaiM..... Btrilaooom.
THE THIETT-EIGHTH CONGRESS.
Pint Sarion, from Dee. 7, 1863, to Jvly 4, 1864. Seamd Session, frvm Dee. 6, 1864, to March 3, 186S.
FIw-Avfidenl — HuniiBAL HAKuir of Maine. Pmidentt (tf 0>» Senate pro tainpops. — BoiAifoir Foo* of
Teimont, dected March 4, 1863, in special session, again elected Deo. 18, 1863, again eleoted'Feb. 23, 1861, again
elected March 11, 1864, and again elected Apiil 11, 1861; Daiukl Olask of New Hampshire, elected ApiU 28^
I8S1, and again elected Feb. 9, 1865. Stcrelary of the Senate. — John W. Fomnr of FennsylTanla.
Speaker of the Houw. — Sohutlxb CJoltax of Indiana. Clerke of tke flinue.— EwEBaoir Ezbkbisqb of
Tenaewee; Edwabd MoPkkbbox of Pennsylvania, elected Dea 8, 18631
AT.ABAMA.
BEKAI0B8.
(Vacant.)
(Vacanl)
ABKANSAS.
SENATOBS.
(Vacant.)
mfpmtRTCMTATiyiai-
(Vacant)
XHE THIRTT-mGHTH CONOBBSS. 168
KAirSAS.
8EKAT0BS.
JasMB K. Lane Lawrence. | Samnel C. Fomeroy AtcUaon.
BEFKESENTATITE.
A. Carter 'Wndor Leavenworth.
EmrrucKT.
SENATOBS.
Garrett Da-ria Paris. | IiazanuW. Powell Henderaon.
EEPBESENTATITES.
Lacten Anderson Marfleld. I Aaron Harding Oreensborg. I Oreen Olay Smith Oovington.
Biutns J. Clay JParia. Bohert Mallory La Orange. William H. Wada worth. MaysvUle.
Henry Orider Bowling Oreen. | William H. Bandall London. | Geo. H. Teaman ^..Owenaborough.
I JOaaOtm onniooenfally oontested by John H. HdHeniy.
LOTJISL^lNA.
SENATOBS.
(Vacant)
BEPBBSENTATiyBS.
(Vacant.)
MATNE.
SEKATOBS.
Kathan A. Farwell I Bockland. I IiotM. Morrill Angosta.
^FillJamPlttFeasenden*. Portland. |
BEFBESEIITATrVZS.
James G. Blaine Angnsta. I Frederick A. Pilie. Oal^. I LorenxoD. H. Sweat ....Portland.
Sidney Perham. .Paris. | John H. Kice Fozcroft. |
t AppointsdlnpIaoeo(WUll>mFlttFeawnden,TaaIgned; tookli]aieatDee.B,U61 > Beelgnad in U8t.
MAEYLAKD.
SEKAT0B3.
Thomas H.Hioik8i Cambridge. | Beverdy Johnson Baltimore.
BEEEESENTATIVES.
John A. J. Cnswell Elkton. | Benjamin G. Harris .Leonardtown. I Bdwln H. Webster Belair.
Henry Winter Davis.... Baltimore. | Francis Thomas Frankrille. |
>I>iedFeb.l3,186Bk
MASSACHUSETTS.
8ENATOBS.
Charles Snmner Boston. | Henry Wilson Katlck.
SEPBEaKHnATCVXS.
JohnB. Allciy. Lynn.
Oakes Ames KorthEaston.
John D. Baldwin Worcester.
Geoige B. BontwalL Oroton.
Henry L. Dawes Pittsfleld.
Thomas D. Eliot New Bedford.
Daniel W. Gooch Melrose.
Samuel Hooper. Boston.
Alexander H. Bice Boston.
William B. Washbom . .Greenfield.
^acmGAN.
SEyATOBS.
Zschariali Qhaadler ,, Detroit. | Jacob H Howard Detroit
KEPEESENTATlVifiS.
AognstosC. Baldwin Pontiao. I JohnF. Dri^s East Saginaw. I John W. Longyear Lansing.
Fernando 0. Beoman Adiian. | Francis W. Kellogg. Grand Kipids. | Charles Upson Ooldwater.
MINNESOTA.
SENATOBS.
Alwander Bamsy. St. Panl. | Morton S. Wilkinson Mankata
KEPBESEKTAXIYES.
IgnatlasDoiiiwUy Nininger. | William Windom. Winona.
Id
CONOBESSIONAIi DIRECTORT.
.BtJoi
rmnclB P. niair, Jun.* St. Lonla.
Henry T. Blow St. Ixniis.
Bemnroniii.t H. Boyd .. .Springlicld.
■WUliiun A. Uall HunlsviUe.
Jntnen S. TCoUim OoInmliU.
JohnG. ecott^ Iranilil&
' )'««n appointad pro tern, i took tb Ml
■etttnUj aoBtettetl \xj Jamw B. BhL
I. ' £leationtm«iieem(aD|'OaaMM
' Elootton onraoeenftiDT eonlanl tr
mSSISSIPPL
8EKAT0BS.
(Vaoant)
BEPKESENTATTVES.
(Vacant.)
MISSOUM.
SENATORS.
B. GratzBrowni St. loiiis. I Robert Wllaon . .
John B. Hondenon Louisiana. |
lUyRESKNTATIVES.
An.«in A. EUnf;' Richmond.
.Samuel Knox* St. LoiiLt.
Ilenjiiinin Loan • St. Joseph.
.Tosepb W. MoClurg o. . .Linn Creok.
• Elected In place of Waldo Forter Jolinaon, oxpoUod in Mva. Robert nil
I>eo. 14, 1B63. * ElecUoa •aMUMfnllv conledod br Siuuuel Knox. • Kl
* Suooanfiilljr oontusted the elooliOD of FrancU P. Blmlr, jun. : ItKik Ills seal . I
br John P. Druoe. ' Election nnmoaeaafnlljr oontested by Tbouuu L. Pdco.
Jiimea Undony.
NEVADA-
SENATORS.
James W.Nyei Caison City. I William M. Stewart > Virginia CKr.
EEPRESEJITATIVE.
HeniyO. Worthlngton !■ Anitii.
> Took his scat Feb. 1, 186S. > Took his seat Deo. 21, UM.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
SENATORS.
Daniel Clark 1 Manchester. | John P. Hale Donr-
KEPRESENTATITES.
DoniolMarcy Fortsmontb. | James W. Patterson Hanover. | Edward H. BolUns C(meoI^I■
I Eleetad prastdant jiroteM. April at, 1864, and I^Bb. 9, 1860.
NEW JERSEY.
SENATORS.
JohnO. TonEyok. Meant HoUy. I William Wright X««i*
REPrjSENTATIVES.
Ocorge Midrlioton Allentown. | Andrew.!. Rogers Nowton. | William G. Steele SomariD*
Nehemiah Perry Newark. | John F. Starr Caindeu.
Ira Harris..
NEW YORK.
SENATORS.
.Albany. | Edward D. Morgan .
.NwTorl
James Brooks New York.
John W. C'hanler New York.
Ambroso AV. Clark. Wntertown.
Kreeiiian Clarke Rochester.
Tlioina.1 T. Pa vis Syracuse.
Reuben E. i-Vntirn' FrewslmrK.
Augustu.'i Knnik Warsaw.
.Tdlin ( "lausdii Bufliilo.
Jolin A. (JriBwold. Trov.
Anson Horrick New York.
Giles W. Hotchkiss. . .Binghauiton.
>BerignedDoclO,18t4. 'Bedgnedin
KEPRESENTATnrES.
Calvin T. Hiilburd.. . Brasher Falls.
Martin KnltiHeisch Brooklyn.
Orl.-inilu Kc'llo(j|i; Elizabethtown.
rraiicia Kcrniin Utica.
DoWitt C. Littlojolin Oswego.
Jiimes -M. Miir\-in..S.iraloga Springs.
Samuel V. Miller Fniuklin.
t >auiel Sf orris Ponu Yan.
HnmerjV. Nelson Poughkeepsia
.'Closes F. Odeli .Brooklyn.
John V. Ll Prnyn AlliM»j
William lta<lford. Yonke*^
Henry O. Stebbins,' _
New Brfphtflt. »•
JohnB. Steele lvii«*4
Dwight Townsenil* . . ..Clifton, r^
Hnbt. IV Van Valkenbnrgh...ni»r
Elijah Ward New Xa*
Charles H. WinlleUl &«»*
Benjamin Wood New Vo»
Femamlo Wood. New V
Theodore M. Pomeroy Auburn
1864. • EloAsd te place of Heniy O. Stebbins, raalgncd ; took Ua Mat D»- <i
NORTH CAROLINA.
SENATORS.
(Vacant.)
EEPRESENTATTVES.
(Vaiant.)
THE THIBTT-EIGHTH CONGBESB.
166
John Sherman.
Jamm H. Ashley Toledo.
(i«OTge Bliss 'Wooster.
Samuel 8. Coz Golnmbus.
Ephraim R. Eckley CaiioUton.
William E, Flnck Someiaet.
James A. Gaifield Hiram.
'Wells A. Hatchlns . . . .Foitsmouth.
omo.
SENATOBS.
.Uans&eld. | Benjamin F. Wade.
KEPKESENTATIVKS.
.Jefleison.
■William Johnson Mannfleld.
Francis C. Le Blond Celina.
Alexander Lon;; Cincinnati.
John F. McKinney Piqua.
James H. Moiris Woodstleld.
Warren P. Noble Tiffin.
JohnCTNeiU ZanesTille.
Oeorge H. Pendleton. . . .Cincinnati.
Bobert C. Schenck. Dajrton.
Bufns P. Biding Cleveland.
Chilton A. White Georgetown.
Joseph W. White Cambridge.
OREGON.
SENATOBS.
Benjamin F. TTnrftng Salem. | James W. Kesmith Salem.
KEFBESENTATiVK
JohnK. HcBiide Lafayette.
Charles B. Backalew. .
PENNSYLVANIA.
BEKATOBS.
.Bloomsbnig. | Edgar Cotran
.Graensbnigh.
Sydenham E. Anoona Beading.
Joseph Baily Newport.
JoimM. BroomaU Media.
Alexander H. Co&ioth . . .Somerset.
John L. Dawson Brownsville.
Charles Denison WUkesbarre.
James T. Hale Bellefonte.
Philip Johnson Easton.
ViUiam D. KeUey. . . .Philadelphia.
• KEPKESENTATIVZS.
Jesse Lazear Waynesbnrgh.
Archibald McAllister,
Sprin^^eld Furnace.
WUliam H. Miller. Harrisburg.
James K. Moorbead Pittsburg.
Amos Myers Clarion.
Leonard Myers i Philadelphia.
Charles O'Neill Philadelphia.
Samuel J. Bandall Philadelphia.
Glenni W. Scofleld Warren.
Thaddens Stevens Lancaster.
JohnD. Stiles Allentown.
Myer Strouse Pottaville.
M. Bussoll Thayer '. . Chestnut Hill.
Henry W. Tiaoy... .Standing Stone.
Thomas Williams Fittsborg.
1 Eleotlan mmoeeasfnlly contested by John Kline. > Election onaucceaBtally oontested by 0. W. Ouilgan.
Hemy B. AnHiony. .
Kitbaal'.Dlzon....
EHODE ISLAND.
SENATOBS.
.Providence. | William Spragne. . . .
EEPEESENTATIVES.
...Westerly. | Thomas A. Jenokes.
.Providenoa.
.Providenoew
Jacob Conamar.
^ctos Baxter . .
SOUTH CAKOLINA.
SENATOBS.
(Vacant.)
BZFBESENTAnVES.
(Vacant.)
TENNESSEBL
BENATOBS.
(Vacant.)
RUPRTlSlirTJTA'ri V KM.
(Vacant.)
TEXAS.
SESAToaa.
(Vacant.)
BEFBESENIATIVES.
(Vacant)
TEEMONT.
SEKATOBS.
.'. Woodstock. I Solomon Footi Butland.
KEFBESENTATIVES.
.Derby Line. | Jnstin S. Morrill Strafford. | Fred. E. Woodbrldge. . . Vergennes.
> Eleoted president pro (em. Feb. 23, 1864.
166
CONQBESSIONAI^ DIBEOTOBT.
Lemuol J. Bowden*.
. VIRGINTA-
8ENAT0BS.
I Juhn 8. Carlile.
JUraESENTATIVES.
(Vacaat.)
> Died Jan. 2, U6t.
.Oladaboc^ J
WEST VIRGENIA.
SEMATOBS.
WaitmanT. WUleyi Morgantown. | Peter G. VanWinkle^ Parkenba
EEPEESENTATIVES.
Jacob B. Blair i Farkersburgh. | WiUiam G. Brown > EJng^ood. | Killian V. Wbaley ^ . .Ft. Pleasant.
1 Took his soM Doc. 7, 1863.
wiscoNsnr.
BEMATOBS.
James B. Doollttle Racine. | Timothy O. Howe .....Green Bay.!
KHTRESENTATTVES.
Jamea S. Brown Milwaukee. I CTinrles A. Kliiriilpj . .Fond dii Lac I Itli,imar C. Sloan. JannrriUt.
AmosaCobb Mineral Point. | Waller I>. Mcludoo Warsaw. | Ezra \\rbecler Berlin.
ARIZONA TERRITORr,
DELEGATE,
diaries D. Fostoa Tnbac
COLORADO TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Hiram P. Bennett .Denrec
DAKOTA TERIUTORT.
DELEGATES.
I John B. S. To<ld» Yankton.
William Jayne '
* BeoUon anocenfullf oontested by John B. S. Todd. ' Siicowsfullr contcated the aleotlon of WOllam Jayna; took hit i
Juiu) 13, lemL
IDAHO TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
WllUam H. Wallace.
MONTANA TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Samuel McLean > Bajtmack Caty-J
1 Took hbi teat Jan. 6, IHB.
KEBRASKA TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Bomuel O. Daily .
NEVADA TERRITORY.
DELEGATES.
Gordon N.Mott> Carson City. | Henry G. Worthington.
> TookhiiMatJan. U, 1864.
TERRITORY OF NEW MEXICO.
DELEGATE.
XYandoco FereaV BemoliUOv
> Electioo tuunoceasfully oonteated by J. M. GaUogo*.
THE IHIBTX-limTU CONQB£S8.
167
UTAH TEIUUTORY.
DKUSaAXZ.
John F. Eenney Salt Luke City.
WASHINGTON TERRITORY.
DBUEQATB.
>G«oiKeE. Cole Walla Walla.
THE THIRTY-NINTH CONGRESS.
Fv^ Session, from Dec. 4, 1S65, to July 28, 1866. Second Session, from Dec. 3, 1866, to March 8, 1867.
Vit»-Pn*{dent.^ PmtdenU of Vte Senate pro Jempore. — LArAntTTB 8. Fobtib of Connecticat, elected
March 7, 1865, in upociol sesaion; Bekjamen F. Wads o{ Ohio, elected March 2, 1867. Secretary of the Senate. —
Joss W. Foaxrr ot Ponnsylvanla.
Sijeaier of the Ilove.—^caxmxB. Colt ax of Indiana. Clerk of tht Souse.— 'Rdwxbo MoPhebsov vt
F«tu>sylrania.
I Vloe-Fraddont Andrew Johnson became Pnaliiont b; the death of Abrnliitn Lincoln, Apdl IB, 188S.
ALABAMA.
BEMATOBS.
CVacaot.)
EEPRESENTATIVES.
(Vacant.)
ARKANSAS.
SENATOBS.
(Vacant.)
EEPRESENTATIVES.
(Vacant.)
CALIFORNIA.
SENATORS.
Sacramento. | James A. McDoagaU. Ban Francisco.
REPRESENTATIVES.
OUco. I William Hi^by Oalaveras. | Donald C. MoRaer. .San Francisco.
CONNECTICUT.
SENATORS.
Hartford. | Lafayette S. Foster ^ Norwich.
REPEESENTATI VES.
New Lonrlon. I John n. Hnhbard IJtohflold.
Hartford. | Samuel L. Warner Middletown.
> BMted pratdont pro tan. Uaroh T, U6B.
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168 OOKOBICSSIONAL DIBBOIOBT.
DELAWABE.
SENATORS.
George Bead Saddle Wnmington. | Willaid Sanlsbuiy, Geoigetowi,
BEFBESENTATtVB.
JoUn A. NksholsoD.. Dorer.
FLOBIDA.
SENATOBS.
(Vacant)
BEPKESEtTTATlVK.
(Vacant)
OEOBOIA.
8ENAT0B8.
(Vacant)
BEPBESENTATIVZ3.
(Vacant)
ILLINOia
SEMATOBS.
I^rman Trumbnil Chicago. | KichardTatea JacbffliTtlls,
BEPBESENTATTVES.
ATwer C. Harding Monmouth.
Jebu Baker Betle-rtlle.
Henry P, H. BromweU. .Charlestoa
Buruin C. Cook Otfawn.
Shelby M. Ciillom .Springtiold.
John F, Famaworth St. Charles.
Ebon C. Insersoll Feoria.
Andrew J. Kny dendaU Vieniin.
Sam'lS. MarsbalLMcLeansborouirti.
Samnel W. Moolton . . .Shelbyyme.
LewU W. Bo«« . TjewiRtown.
Anthony Thorn tou 8bell>yTille
Klliliu 13. Waalibuma Galena.
John Wentworth Chicago.
INDIANA-
SEKAOnBS.
Thomas A. Hendricks Indianapolis. | Henry S. Lane .,,.,..... Gratrfordsville.
BEPRE8ENTAT1VKS.
Sohnyler Colfaii South Bend.
Josoph H. Defreea Goshen.
Bbenezer Dumout IndlanapoIU.
Joim H, FarqnLar Brookvilla.
Ralph Hill (Jolnmbiia.
George W. Julian Centrevillo.
Michael C. Kerr New Albany.
■William B. Niblack Vlncennes.
Godlove S. Orth Laf nyWta
Tbotnaa N. Still well Andenun,
Daniel W, VoorhoesS.Terae Haut«.
Henry D. Washbarn » Clinton-
t ElHited iiical^er Dee. 1, ISOS. > El«otlon saoeeaKfolly oonteetad by Henry n. WsHhbum. • Suoeflc^uUy eontest^ tU
electlsa of Daniel W. Voorhees ; took Us seat Fob. 23, ims.
IOWA.
BENATOBS.
JameriW. Grlmei Burlington. I Samuel J. Klrkwood* lowidtf,
Jomea Harlou i Mt Pleasant. |
BEPKESKNTATTVES.
"William H. AUisoa Duhnqtie. I Asahel W. Hubbard. . . .Sioux City, | Hiram Prioe .Dnvenpott.
Jofliah U. Grinnell Grinneli | John A. Easson DesMolne.'i. { James F. Wilson Fairtlelil.
> Beaigned Hay IS. ISSS; huTtng been uipobited Secretary of the Interior. * Elected In place of Janes ""'■", Tmipei}
took his Beat Jan. a», 1888.
KANSAS.
SENATOBS.
Jomiea H. Lane^ Lawrence. I Edmund O. Boaa* Lawrescs.
Stephen C Fomeroy Atchison. |
BEPBESENTATXVJS.
Sidney Chirke Lawws*
> Died July II, ia6& • Appointed In plaoe of James H. Lame, deeeaBed; took Mb test July 2S, 1886.
KEKTUCKT.
BENATOBS.
Garrett DavlB Paris. | James Outhiio Lonisyille-
^
THE THlETy-NLNTH CONOKE83.
169
BEPRESENT ATI V K3.
"William H. Randall London.
Biirwell V. Hitter Uonkiiisville.
LrjVi'U II. U'msHfau' Louisvillo.
Ueurge S. Slianklin . .NicLulaaviUu.
Green Clay Smith * Corini^n.
Lawrence 3. Trimble Pa<lucah,
Andrew n. Ward* Cyntliiana.
> Died Sept 14, ISRS. • Eleotod In [>I»cs of Uuury Qridcr, docewed: took bl* ieat Deo. 3, 18M. • Rocigned Jiilj 21,
IM; wbMuaentlTro-elootod, iuidUiokhkMatDeo.8,ltl66. * Bmlaiwl In 1BB6. ' Elected la place of Qreeu Uav SuUUi,
tmUdi look his MM Deo. ^ 1888.
LOUISIANA.
SENATOBa
(Vacant.)
BEPRESENTATtVSS.
(Vacant)
MAcns.
SENATOBS.
Portland. |LotM. Morrill Angnsta
EEPKESENTATIVES.
raxTkesG. Blaine AngiiBta. I Sidney Pcrliam Paris.
rol&n Lynch Portland. | Frederick A. Pike. Calais.
I JohnB. Bice Foxoioft
I
MARYLAND.
SENATORS.
FoliA A J. Creswon Elkton. | Reverdy Johnson. Boltlmom,
RBTEESENTAXrVES.
BexvjaminO. Harriii.Leonardstown. I Charles E. Phelps Baltimnro. I John L. Thomas, jim. .. .Baltimore.
Hix^axn McCollough. Elkton. | Francis Thomas Frankrillo. |
»
MASSACHUSETTS.
SENATORS.
*^l»arles Smnnor Boston. ( Henry Wilson
REPRESENTATIVES.
JnTin T? AJloy Lynn.
' :iii-s KorthEaston.
Ualdwiu WorccHter.
— "«.tLamel P. Banks^ . . . .Waltham.
> Elected In pluoo of D. W. Qoocb, resigned la 18C9l
..Katlck.
George S. BoutwoU. Groton.
Henry L. Diiwes PittsHeld.
Tliomas t>. Eliot New IJediord.
Samuel Hooper Boston.
Aloxandorn. Rico Boston.
Wllliaia B. Washburn. .Oreentield.
MICmQAN.
SENATORS.
Chandler Detroit | Jacob M. Ho-vrord.
REPRESENTATIVES.
.Detroit.
j^JTiandoC. Beaman Adrian. I Thomas W. Ferry.. .Grand Haren. I R. E. Trowbridge..... Birmingham.
°***iV.Dxiggs Bast Sajpnaw. | John W. Longyear Laniiing. | Charles Upson Coldwater.
MINNESOTA.
I
^r SENATORS.
f '^soiel 8. Norton Winona. | Alexander Ramsey. Bt FAnL
REPRESENTATIVES.
'^**%tinx Donnelly Hastings. | William Windom • .Winona.
MISSISSITPL
SENATORS.
(Vacant)
REPRESENTATIVES.
(Vacant.)
170
CONGRESSIONAL DIEECTORY.
B. Oratz Brown.
George W. Anduison. . . .Loatslana.
Jolin F. Benjamin Palmyra.
HemyX. Blov<r St. Louia.
MISSOUBL
SENATORS.
..St LouU. I John B. Heoderaon.
EEPEESENTATIVES.
.toaillu>9
John Hoaan St. Loni.<i.
John E. Kelan Sprin^old.
Benjamin F. Loau St. Josepli. j
.Joseph TV. McOlurg. . . -Udu Cp
Thomas E. Noell PeTTjyiL^
Robert T. Van Horn . .Kansas Ci^=XT-'
KEVADA.
SENATORS.
l^James W. Nye Carson City. | William M. Steirart
EEPRESENTATIVE.
'I>eIo8B. Ashley Virginia
.YirgiDla Qt.
ITEW HAMPSHIRE.
SENATORS.
Daniel Clark 1 Manchester. I George O. Fogg> Conooi
Aaron U. Craf!;in. Lehituon. |
REPRESENTATIVES.
Glliuan Marston Exeter. | James W. Patterson Hanover. | Edward H. Rollins. ...... .Cone
I Ba*lgDod July, 1866. * Appointod In pUoo of I>anial CUrk, reetgned; took his teat Oeo. 3, 1866.
NEW JERSEY.
SENATORS.
Alexander O. OatteU' Camden.
Frederick T. Frolinghuysen*. Newark.
John P. Stockton* Trent<
William Wright «. Newa
Edwin R. V. Wright. .Hndson Cfc_-
REPRESKNTATl VES.
William A. Newell Allentown. I Charles Slt.groaves I'hlllipiiburR. I
Andrew J. liogers Newton. | John F. St4irr Cajuileu. |
1 £lwk>d In iilaoe of John P. Stookuin, whoM uat wa« dodarad raoant: took bU aost Doc. 3. IfKS)!. > Appointed in pli
WUlliuu Wrlsht,d«ooued; UwkhUiwatOeo.3,1866. • Seat doclared Tucanl Maroh 27, Ui66. < Ui«d Nor. 1, lijes.
Iba Harris .
NEW YORK.
SENATORS.
.Albany. | Edward D. Morgan.
.NewY*
Tenni.s O. TlerBen . . . .New Utrecht.
James Brouki > New York.
.Tohn W. Clninlor New York.
Rowoe C^cnUlinc Uticiv.
Willinui .\. Darliug New York.
Thnin:« T. Iiavls Symcusu.
Willimri K. l)o<lne« New York.
Charles Goodyear. Scholiario,
.John A_ GriRwnld Trov.
Robert S. liale Elizabethtowk
Roswell Hart Rochester.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Sidney T. Holmes Morrisrillo.
Giles W. Uiitcliklss ...Bingliairiton.
Dcmiis Hubbard, jtin Smyrna.
Kdwiii Ij. lliilibi'Il Co.\«n-kie.
Ciilviu T. ilulbiirci. . .Brasher Fulls.
.Innu'H Umuplircy' Brooklyn.
.liime.s M. Iliimpiiroy BufTalo.
Joliu W. Hunter* ^Brooklyn.
Mor;,'aii .loiies New York.
John H. Kcl<-ham Dover.
Addison H. Lai) in Herkimer.
Jas. M. Marvin. . .Baratoea Spri t^
Daniel Morris .Peim fc-
Thfodore M. Pomeroy Aul> «"■
WiUi:im Radford Yonlc*
Henry .1. IC;iyraoud New Y «:*
Steiilicn Tnber Ilof*!
Nelson Taylor New Y" «^
Henry Van Aemam..Franklir'«--i
Burt Van Horn Nc
Hamiltuo WortL B<
Charles H. Winlield i;. -- ■■ •
■rk
' Election ancaessfully oontested by WllUiun E. Dodge. > SticcnMfiilly oontentad the election of James Brooks; took Ir —
April 7, 1860. • IMod Juno 16, 1066. • EleclAl In pUco of /lamge Humphrey, deoeaaod; took hia aoat Dec 4, Itm^
John Shennan.
NORTH CAROLINA.
SENATORS.
(Vacant.)
BEPBESENTATTVZS.
(Vacant.)
omo.
SENATORS.
, . .Mansfield. | Benjamin F. Wade i.
. * Elected pratideut pro lem. March 2, 1867.
THB THIBTr-lIIKTH COKGBESS.
171
James M. Ashley Toledo.
John A. Bineham Cadiz.
Ralph P. Burkland. Fremont.
Hezekiah a Bandy Beed's Mill.
Header W. Clarke. Batavia.
Colnmbns Delano > . . . .Ml Yemon.
Ephraim B. Eckley Cartollton.
BEPBESENTATTVXS.
Benjamin Btsleston . . . .CindnnatL
■William B. Finck Somerset.
James A. Qarlleld Hiram.
Butbeifoid B. Hayes. . . .Cincinnati.
JameA B. HubbeU. Delaware.
William Lawrence Belief onte.
Francis 0. Le Blond Celina.
Tobias A. Plants Pomeroy.
Robert C. Sclienck Dayton.
Samuel ShelIabarger....SpTingl1eld.
Rufoa P. Spalding Cleveland.
Martin 'Welker. Wooster.
1 Election onsaooeaifaUy oontested by Oiarlw Ttdlett.
OSEOON.
SENAT0B8.
James W. Kesmltb Salem. | George H. WiUUuns Portland.
BEPBESENTAXITE.
James H. D. Hsndeiaon..
.Eugene City.
Charles B. Baokalew.,
.Oieensbnig.
PENNSTLVAKIA.
BEKATOBS.
... .Bloomsborg. | E^gar Cowan. . . .
REFBESENTATITES.
Philip Johnson ■ Easton.
William D. KeUey. .. .Philadelphia.
William H. Koontz* .... .Somerset.
George V. Lawi-ence,
Mouongahela City.
Ulysses Mercur Towanda.
George F. Miller Louisburg.
James K. Moorhead Pittsburg.
Leonard Myers Philadelphia.
saocenfnlly contested by WUllam H. Koontx. > Eleetlon nnsnooessf ally contested
< Siioeeaafally contested tlie election of Alexander H. Cofftoth; took his seat July
BHODE ISLAND.
SENATOBS.
Henry B. Anthony. Providence. | WUliam Spragne Providence.
SEPBESENTAHVES.
KathanF. Dizon. Westerly. | Thomas A Jenokes Providence.
Sydenham E. Ancona Reading.
Abraham A. Barker Edenburg.
Benjamin M. Boyer. . . .Norristown.
John M. Broomhall Media.
Alexander H. Cofitroth ^. .Somerset.
Charles V. Culver Franklin.
John L. Dawson » Brownsville.
Charies Denison Wllkesbane.
Adam J. Glossbrenner York.
Charles O'Neill PhUadelphia.
Samuel J. Randall Philadelphia.
Olenuie W. Scofleld Warron.
Thaddeus Stevens Lancaster.
Myer Stronse Potts ville.
M. Russell Thaver . .Chestnut HUl.
Thomas Williams Pittsburg.
Stephen F. Wilson Wellsbon?.
> Took his aei
bT Smltb Fuller.
U,UW.
tFeb. lO.lSae; deoUon
• Died Jan. 20, 186T,
Joseph a Fowlar).
SOUTH CABOLIKA.
BENATOBS.
(Yacant)
BEFBBSENTATIVSS.
(Vacant.)
TENNESSEE.
8EKAT0BS.
..Nashville. I David T. Patterson*..
.Gie«neviUe.
Samnel M. AmeU * Colombia.
WUliam B. Campbell*. . . .Lebanon.
Edmund Cooper > Shelbyville.
> Itek Us seat Jnly 2B, UOS.
BEPEESENTATIVES.
Isaac R. Hawkins '....Huntingdon.
John W. Lef twich i Memphis.
Horace Maynard* Knozville.
William B. Stokes *. Liberty.
Nathan'l J. Taylor^. .Happy Valley.
a Xook his seat Jnly 28, ISGS, > Took his seat Dec.^ 3, 1866; election nnsnootsstally oontested
by Donny B. Toodus. < Took his seat July 24, 1866.
TEXAS.
8ENAT0BS.
(Vacant)
BEPBESENTATl V kS.
(Vacant)
VERMONT.
SEKATOBS.
OeofgeF. Edmonds >. Borlington.
Solomon Foot* Rutlaud.
Luke P. Poland* St. Johnsbnry.
> Baecad in niaea of S<domon Foot, deceased; took his seat Dec. 3, 1866. • Died Blareh 28, 1866.
Jaoob Collamer, deceased Nov. 8, 186S; took his seat Dec 4, 186S.
• Appointed In plaoe of
172 OONGBBSSIONAL DIBEOTOBT.
BEFBE8ENTAT1VKS.
Partus Baxter.. Der^yXlne. | Justin S. Morrill Stzafloid. | Fied. E. 'Wood1>iidge...Veigemie9.
VIROIMIA.
, BESAxaaa.
(Vacant.)
BEPBESENTAITVIB.
(Vacant.)
WEST TmOINIA.
SI2TAT0BS.
Petal G. Van Winkle Farkeraborg. | WaitmanX. Willey Hoigantown.
BIIPBESENTATrVES.
Ghestei D. Hab]xvd....>WfaeeUng. | Qvxgi B. Latham. Grafton, t KilUan V. Wliale7....Ft Pleasant.
WISCONSIN.
SENATOBS.
James B. Doolittle. Badne. | Timothy O. Howe. OzeenBsy.
EEPBESENTATIYES.
AmasaCobb Kfineral Point. IWalterD. Mclndoe Wanaw. I Philetus Sawyer Oshkosh.
Cborloa A. Eldridge. .Fond du liao. | Halbert £. Paine. Milwaukee. | Ithamar O. Sloan. JanesTille.
ARIZONA TERRTTOBT.
DELEOAZE.
JolmN, Goodwin........ Plescott
COLORADO TERBITOBT.
DEIiEOATE.
Allen A. Bradfoid Denrei.
DAKOTA TERRTTOET.
DELEGATE.
Walter A. Butlelgb. Tankton.
IDAHO TERRITORY.
DELBQATE.
E, D. Holbrook. UahoCStr.
MONTANA TERRITORT.
DELEOATE.
Samuel MoLean., Bannack City.
NEBRASKA TERRITORT.
DEUSOAIE. .
PhlneoB W. Hitchaook. Omalia.
TERRITORY OF NEW MEXICO.
DELEQATE.
J. J'lanoiww ObSTes Santa Fe.
UTAH TERRITORY.
DELBQATB.
William a Hooper Salt lake City.
WASHINGTON TERRITORY.
DELBQAIE.
Arthur H. Benny Seattle
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THE FOKTIETH CONGEESS.
rvm Sttnon, from March 4, 1867, to March 80, 1867 ; Jtdy 3, 1867, to July 20, 1867 ; Nov. 21, 1867, to . "^^ |
Dee. 2, 1867. Second Session, from Dee. 2, 1867, to Jrdy 27, 1868 ; Sept. 21, 1868, to Sept. 21,
1868 ; Oct. 16, 1888, to Oct. 16, 1868 ; Nov. 10, 1868, to Nov. 10, 1868. Third ,f.
Session, fivm Dec. 7, 1868, to March S, 1869.
Ffce-Pre»<<ieiU.» Prestdent of tA< &na(e pro tempore. — BeKjAimr F. Wadb of Ohla Beeretarita of tha
ftaote.— John W. Fobnxt of Pennsylvania; Oxobob 0. Oobham of California, elected June 4, 1868.
Bptaikers of the Bouse. — Sohdtueb Couax of Indiana; TaEosoBB K. Fokebot of Kev Tork, elected
March 3, 1809. Cl8nfc<t^tA«JSbuM. — Ei>wABDMcFHZBSON of Pennsylvania.
1 Andrew Johnson beowna fraeldent by the dfl«th of Alaaham Unnoln.
ALABAMA.
SENATOBS.
GeotgB E. Spencer I Deoatar. | Willaid Warner^ Montgomery.
BEPBESENTATIVZS.
CharletW.Bnckley*. Montgomery. I Thomas Haughey ' Deoatnr. I Benjamin W. Korris* Elmore.
John B. Callis * Hnntsville. | Francis W. Kellogg < Mobile. | Charles W. Pierce > DemopoUa.
>1\Mkhla seat Jaly2B, 1818. > Took his seat July 21, 1868. * Took hU seat July 23, U88.
ABEANSAS.
SENATOBS.
Alexander McDonald 1 Little Bock. | Benjamin F. Bloe> Little Book.
KBPRESENTATITES.
Thomas Boles* .Dardanelle. I James Hinds*
James T. Elliott* Camden. | Logan H. Boots' DevaU's Bluff.
> Took his saat Jane 24, 1888. > Elected In plnoe of James I
Jan. 13, 1889. • Took his neat Jane 24, 1868; dtod Oct. SB, 1868.
*I«akU> seat Jona 23, 1888. > Took his seat Jane 24, 1888. > Elected In plnoe of James Hbidbkdeaeased; took his seat
- ._ ... .- - -g;dfcdr~ —
CALIFOKNIA.
SENATOBS.
ComeUos Cols San Francisco. | .JohnConness Georgetown.
EEPEESENTATIVES.
Samoel B. AxteUi. .San Frandsoo. | 'William Higby > Calaveras. I James A. Johnson i. . .Downieville.
1 Took his seat Not. 21, 186T. -
CONNECTICUT.
SENATOBS.
James IMzon Hartford. | Orris S. Ferry Norwalk.
BEPBESENTATIVES.
'V^lamH. Banraml Lime Bock. I Richard D. Hnbbard Haitford.
Julias Hotchkiss Middletown. | Henry H. Starkweather. Norwich.
> Seat onsDOoeasfally contested.
DELAWARE.
SENATOBS.
James A Bayaid I Wilmington. I Willaid Saolsbniy Georgetown.
QwigeBeadBiddle*. Wilmington. |
< A|iiwliiMdlnplaosofawi8SBeadBk]dla,deoassedi took his seat April 1, 1887. • Dtsd Uandi », U87.
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CONGRESSIONAL DnJECTOBY.
BEPfiESENTATIVE.
John A. Kicholson. CoVd
Thomas W. Oabom > .
FLORIDA.
8ENATOBS.
.PeniiacoU. | AdonijahS. Welch* JackaonrCKia.
EEPBESENTATIVK.
Charles M. Hamilton'
1 Took lili aoat June 30, 186a. • Took his iwiU Joly 2, 1868. • Took hU nat Jolj 1, 1868.
OEORGLl.
8EKAT0BS.
(Vacant)
BEPKESENTATITES.
I Sntnnel F. Oove i Oriswoldville.
I Cbarles H. Priuce ^ Augusta.
I Took hit seat July 2S, 1868.
Joseph W. Clift« Savannah.
W. P. Edwanlsi Butlar.
Nelaon Tift »
P. M.B. Young 1
lorman TrumhuU.
Jehu Bnkur Bolloyille.
Houry P. H. BromweU.Chnrloston.
Albert G. Burr Wincliaster.
Burton C. Cook Ottowa.
Shelby M. Collom SpringUeld.
ILLIXOIS.
SENATOnS.
Chicago. I RlchanlTates Jacksonville
KEPUESENTATma.
John F. Fnmsworth . . .St. Charles.
Abncr C. Ilardinc Monmouth.
Ebon C. I iigerHoU I'enrin.
Normuu B. Judd Chicacii.
John A. Lugun. Carbondiue.
Samnel S. Marshall,
McLeansboroTigh.
Green B. Ranm HanuUtiTK
Lewis W. Rons Lewistoo-
Kllihu B. Washbume Galons.
Thomas A. Hendricks .
John Cobnm Indianapolis.
Scliii yier Colfax ' South Bend.
■\Villiam S. Holman Atirnra.
Morton C. Unnter. . . .Blooniingtou.
SENATORS.
— Indianapolis. | Oliver P. Morton..
KEPRESENTATIVES.
George W. Jiilinn CentreviUe.
Michael C. Kerr New Albany.
William E- Nil>Iaik VinreniiM.
Godlove S. Ortli Lafayette.
> Kkint»Kl apeoker March 4, 180T.
IOWA.
.Indianapolis.
John P. 0. Shanks Jay O. B.
Henry D. Washburn CUntoTi-
William Williams Wbi»»''*'
SENATORS.
James W. Grimes Burlington. | James Harlan Mt. Plea0'
J
William B. Allinon. Dubuque.
GrenviUe M. l^odge. Council Bluila.
BEPRESENTATmS.
Asahcl W. Uubbanl Sioux City.
William LougUridgo Oslvaluosu,
ni ram Price
Jame!i F. Wilson .
....Dnvcnr^^.'^
.Fairl
KANSAS.
SENATORS.
Samnel 0. Pomeroy Atchison. | Edmund O. Boss Lawr'^
REPRESENTATIVE.
Sidney Clarka
KENTUCKY.
SENATORS.
Garrett Davis Paris. I Thomas C. McCreery » .
JameH Gutlirio > Louiiivillo.
.Owensborf
«.!$)>■
George M. Adams «. .Barbours'i'tlle.
James II. Bock * I.exlnBrnii.
Jacob S. Golladav ' ^Vlluiisvillo.
REPRESENTATTVES.
Asa P. Grovor * Louisville.
Tlioma.s L. .Iones« Newport.
J. I'roctor Knott* Loidtville.
Samuel McKeo » Mt. Sttn-'MJac ]
Lawrence S. Trimble •....Padi****'
> Rf«lini«l Fobni.in', Mil. • Klwt.sl In |ila<vi of .I.iinwi Oiitlirio, rMlgn^l ; took bUi Kent Fob. SS, 1808. • Took U«- ^,
.lulyA, I'U;. ' To<ik liU i>umt I>m. 3, tK<j7. • Electtnl in i<lnceor ElynhUbo,dec0andMaT8,iaGT: took Ids nat Dae Ar^'
• Twk lilKKHftt )V)n.4, iNw. t S>i«HwafulIrormliv>U'<lUMclocUano(JohnD.Yoajigi took bU seat Jane 32, UM&
iiti5iicoiv.«ful]y coal&Aiod by G. O. Symiuos; look hLt aoat Jan. 10, 1868.
THE VOBTIETH COKaSBSS. 176
LoxnauNA.
SENATOBS.
John a Harris 1... Vldalia. | WiUiam Pitt Kellogg >. Kew Orleans.
SEPBESENTATI V JSS.
W. Jasper Blackbom* Homer. I JosephP. Kewshomi.Francesville. I Iftohael Vldal* Opelonsaa,
James Mann' New Orleans. | J. a. Sypher*. Kew Orleans, |
> look Us seat Joly 17, 1868. > look bis seat July 18, 1868.
MAINE.
8ENAT0BS.
'WnUamFtttFessenden , Portland. | Lot M. Morrill Angnsta.
BEFBESENTATIVES.
James O. Blaine Angnsta. I Sidney Ferham. Paris. I Frederick A. Pike. Calais.
Johnliyncli Portland. | John A. Peters. Bangor. |
MABTLAm>.
SEKATOB3.
BererdyJohnson > Baltimore. I W. Pinckney Whyte* Baltimore.
George vickers* Cheateitown. |
BEPBESENTATIVES.
Stevenson Archer Belair. I Charles E. Fhclps* Baltimore. I Francis Thomas Frankrllle.
Hiram McCulloQgK £lkton. | Frederick Stone Port Tobacco. |
> Berigned July 10, 1868. > Elected in place of P. F. Thomas, rejected ; took his seat Harch 9, 1868. • App<rfiited In place
at Beverdy Jobnaoii, leaigned ; took his nat July 14, 1868. • Election luunooeastully contested by J- J' Stewart
MASSACHUSETTS. '
SENAXOBS.
Cbaries Stunner Boston. | Henry Wilson Natlck.
KEPEESENTATIVES.
Cakes Ames KorthEaston.
John D. Baldwin. Worcester.
Nathaniel P. Banks Waltham.
George S. Bontwell. Oroton.
Benjamin F. Butler Gloucester.
Henry L. Dawes Plttsfleld.
Thomas D. Eliot New Bedford.
Samuel Hooper. Boston.
Oinery Twichell Brookline.
William B. Washbnm . .Greenfield.
MICHIGAN.
BENAT0E8.
Zachaiiah Chandler Detroit. | Jacob M. Howard Detroit.
BEPBESENTATl VE8.
Fernando C. Beaman. Adrian. I John F. Driega East Saginaw. I R. B. Trowbridge Birmingham.
Austin Blair Jackson. | Thomas W.Ferry... Grand Haven. | Charlea TTpson. Cold Water.
MINNESOTA.
SENATOBS.
Daniel S. Norton Winona. | Alexander Bamsey. St FanL
BEPBESENTA'l'l V ES.
Ignatius Donnelly Hastings. | WUliam 'V^ndom. Winona.
MISSISSIPPL
SENATOBS.
(Vacant)
BEPBESENTATIVES.
(Vacant)
MISSOURL
SENATOBS.
ChsdwD. Dnka » St LoiUs. | JohnB. Henderson. Lonlslaaa.
Georgo W. Anderson!. ..liOnUlnnii.
John F. Rcnjnmin ShclbyvUlo.
Josoph J. Gravely Stockton.
Benjamin F. Loan. St. Joseph.
Wniiam A. POe* BtLoalv
John H. Stover « VeraaiUa.
Kohett T. V'OQ Horn i.Eaiuu City.
Joseph W. McClurg'.. .Linn Creek.
Jame.'t K. McCorraicik' Injnton.
Carman A. Nowcuuib ViuelaniL
Thomaa E. Nooll « Perryville.
I ElMJtlon unsucoesufnlly oontected bj Wllllnm F. Switxler. > Ra«lgii«l in li!68. ■ ElvctMl In nlaes of Tbomu E. SotD,
daeeued ; took lili m»t Doc. 17, 1807. < I>iiMl Uct. 4, 18fi7. • Election iiiuacoeMfnlly eontoitad by Jolm Hosni. • ElaeM
In plMe of Joaeph W. UcCliirg, raaigiied ; took his neat Doo. 7, I6CD. ' EleoUoo iHMnncmiiifiillj oontaited b; damn H. BUi
NEBRASKA.
SBS^ATORS.
JohnM. Thayor Omaha. | Thomas W. Tipton BrowtTilk
BEPBESENTATITE.
JobnTaffe Omli&
NEVADA,
SENATORS.
JamoaW. Kye Oarson City. | William M. Ste\rait Yliginia Citf .
EEPRESENTATl VK.
DelosB. Ashley Autiii.
NEW nAMPSniRB.
8B2IATOBS.
Aaron H. Cragln Lebanon. | Jomea W. Pattetaon. Hinonr.
REPRESENTATl V ES.
Jacob Benton Lancaster. | Jacob H. Ela Rochester. (Aaron P. Sterena. Naihsi
NEW JERSEY.
8ENAT0ES.
Alexander Q. CattelL Camden. | Frederick T. Frelinghaysen SenA
EKPaESENTATIVES.
Charles Haight Freehold. I John Hill Boonton. I Charles Sitgrcaves Fhillipebiug.
George A. Ilalsey.... Newark. [ William Moore May's Landing, j
BoRcoe Conkling. ,
NEW YORK.
BENATOBS.
..trtlca. I Edwin D. Morgan.
.New Tort
Alexander II. Bailey > Rome.
DeiDOH names Brooklyn.
JameH Brooks New York.
John W. Chnuler New York.
Jolni C. Churchill Oswego.
Thurn.is Cornell Rondout,.
Oningo l-'erriss Glen's Falta.
Willlnm C. Fields Ijaurens.
John Fox New York.
Jolm A. (Iriswnld Troy.
Calvin T. Uulburd. . .Brasher Falls.
REPKESENTATIVES.
James M. Humphrey Buffalo.
William n. Tu'l^ey Geneseo.
John H. Ketcliiim Dover.
Addison 11. I>ntlin Herkimer.
Willi.iin S. Limriln Owego.
James M. Miirvin. Saratoga Springs.
Dennis Me<.'!irthy Syraeuso.
John Morrisscy New York.
Theodore II. Pomeroy^ Aulmm.
John V. L. I'ruyn Albany.
William H. Robertson . . . .KatoDau.
William E. Robinson BrooklJ"-
licwis Selye nn.;li<«ter.
Thomas E. Stewart New Vu*
Stephen Taber Ilrtlj^''
Henrv Van Aemam .FranklinviU*
Burt Van Horn I.nclipon-
Uhas. H. Von Wyck...Middlelo»iL
Hamilton Ward. Bclraow-
Fernando Wood. New Votfc
• Elaeted In plaos of BoMoeConkllng, elected ■ouator; look hi* scat Not. 30^ 1867. • Elected fpeaker March 3, UN-
NORTH CAROLINA-
SENATOBS.
Josoph C. Abbott> Wilmington. | John PooU EUzabetli CitT'
REPKESENTATIVES.
Nathaniel Boyden* Salisbury.
Jolin T. Dnwcesc' Raloicli.
Oliver H. Doikery' .Richmond Co.
1 Took his aesl July 17, 186«.
John R. French « Edenton.
I>nvid Heaton^ Nowbem.
Alexander H. Jones' ...AsheviUa.
1 Israel G. Lash* Srf*"'
lily 1.'
' Tool
ikhisi
• Took his scat July 8, 1668.
t July 20, 1868.
« Took bis seat July U)!*'^
•dki
THB FOBTIBTH OOITGBESS.
177
John Shmnan.
omo.
SENATOBS.
.Mansfield. \ Benjamin F. Wade i .
KEPKESENTATTVES.
.Jeffeison.
JameaM. Ashley Toledo.
JohnBeatt7> CanliDeton.
Jobn A. Bingham Cadiz.
Balph P. Buckland Fremont.
Samnel F. Carey * Cincinnati.
Reader W. Clarke Batavia.
Columbus Delano *. Mt. Vernon.
Ephraim B. Eckley. Carrollton.
Benjamin Eggleston . . . . Cincinnati.
James A. Garlleld Hiram.
Cornelius 8. Hamilton '.Maiysrllle.
Rutherford B. Hayes" . .Cincinnati.
William Lawrence. . . Belief ontaine.
0«o^ W. Morgan'... .lit. Vernon.
William Mungen Findley.
Tobias A. Plants Pomeroy.
Robert C. Schenck Dayton.
Samuel Shellabarger . . .Sprin^eld.
Rufas P. Spalding Cleveland.
Philadelph Van 'Onmp. .lAncaster.
Martin welker. Wooster.
John T. Wilson Tranqnillity.
1 PnsUant Bra (e
I>liKe ot Knthetford B. HaTes, resigned: took bla aeat Nor. 21, 1867.
tuok hbaeat June 3, r~~* =^- ' *- ~ -- •
IXlaao.
> Elaetad In place of Comeliiu B. Hamilton, deceased
resigned: took bla aea "
• Died Deo. 22, 186T.
,.., uouo-x^, took his seat Feb. S, 188S. > Elected In
• Suooeaifaliy contested the seat of Geoise W. Morgan;
• Beelgned In 1867. ' Election ■aooeasfally oantasted by Columbus
OBEGOK.
SESATOBa.
HeniyW. OoorlMtt Portland. | George H. TdUiama. Portland.
WKPRKSKNTATlVJi.
BafoaMaUoiy Salem.
Charles R. Backalefw..
Benjamin M. Boyer. . . .Korristown.
JohnH. Broomall. Media.
Henry L. Cake. Tamaqua.
John Covode lockport.
Charles Denison ^ Wilkesbarre.
Oliver J. Dickey * Lancaster.
J. Lawrence Oetz. Reading.
Adam J. Olossbrenner VorE.
Darwin A. Finney* Meadrille.
PENNSYLVANIA.
SENATOBS.
I . . . .Bloomsbnrg. | Simon Cameron .
KEPBESENTATTVES,
William D. Kelley. . . .Philadelphia.
William H. Koontz. Somerset.
O. V. Lawrence.MonongahelaCity.
Ulysses Mercur Towanda.
George F. Miller Lonisborg.
James K. Moorhead Pittsbnrg.
Daniel J. Morrell Johnstown.
Leonard Mrets. Philadelphia.
Charles C^eiU Philadelphia.
.Ebrrlsbnrg.
Newton B. Pettis * Meadville.
Samnel J. Randall Philadelphia.
Glenn! W. Scofleld Warren.
Thaddens Stevens^ Lancaster.
Caleb N. Taylor BristoL
Daniel M. Van Auken. MUf onl.
Thomas Williams Pittsburc.
Stephen F. Wilson . .Wellsborougu.
Geo. W. Woodward •..Wilkesbarre.
> Died Jane 27, 18S7. ' Elected in place of Thaddenn Stevens, deceased; took his seat Deo. T, 1868.
< Elected In place of Darwin A. Rnney, deceased: took his seat Deo. 7,1868. • Died Aug. U, 1868.
Chsdca Denbon, deceased; took Us seat Nov. 21, 186T.
•Died Aug. 25, 1868.
• Elected In place of
RHODE ISLAND.
SENATOBS.
Henry B. Anthony. Proyidence. | William Spragne. Proridenoa.
BEFBESENTATIVJSS.
Kathan F. Dizoa Westerly. | Thomas A. Jenokes .Ciuaberland.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
SENATOBS.
Thomas J. Bobertsont Colombia. | Frederick A. Sawyeri Bolton.
BEFEESENTATIVES.
C. C.Bowen*. Charleston. I James H. Goes « ,.,. ..Union 0. H.
Simeon Corley* Lexington. | B. Frank Whittemore^ Darlington.
■Took Us seat Joly 2^ 1868. > To<dlUsseU Jolyao, 1868. > IVrak Us seat Jnly 25, 1868. « Took Us seat Joly 18, 1868.
Joseph a Fowler>.
TENNESSEE.
SENATOBS.
.Nashville. I David T. Patterson*.
REPRESENTATIVKS.
.GxeeneviUe.
Samnel M. Amell*.
Roderi.'k B. Untler*
Issac& Hawkins*.
'Itakhlsi
. . .Columbia.
.WythevUle.
Huntingdon.
July 25, 188& > Took Us seat July 26, 1866.
Horace Maynard ' Knoxville.
James Mullins ' Shelbyville.
David A. Nuau ' Brownsville.
William B. Stokes*. . ..Alexandria.
John Trimble > Nashville.
• Took Us seat Nov. 21, un. • Took Us seat Jnae 26, 1868.
178 OOHGBESSIONAI. DIBBOTOBY.
TEXAS.
gBMATOBgi
(Yacant.)
mepRwaicwTA'ri v ml
(Vacant)
VERMONT.
SENATOBS.
0«oige F. Edmnndi Bnrilngton. | Jostina UonflL Btnffatd.
BEPSESENTATITES.
lioke P. Poland 8t JohiMtmix. | Woithington U Smith .St. Albaa's. | Fzod. B. Woodttddge. . .YngcnaeL
VIBGINIA.
SENATOBS.
(Vacant)
BBFSBSENTATTVBS.
(Vacant)
WEST VIBOINLl.
SENATOBS.
Pater O. Van WlnU« Padcenboig. | Waitmaa T. WUloy M<»8antown.
BEPBESENTATITES.
OhenerD. Hubliard Wlieeling. | BethnelM. Kitchen... Maittnsbiug. | Daniel Pcdaley. Point FUaaant
WISCONSIN.
SENATOBS.
James B. Doolittle Badna. | Timothy O. Howe. Omen Bay.
BEPBESEMTATIVES.
AmasaCobb Mineral Point I BenlaminF. Hopkins. Madison. I PUletiu Sawyer Oshlcash.
Charles A. Eldridga.. Fond da Laa | Halbert B. Paine. Milwaukee. | O. 0. Washbom LaCioaaai
ABIZONA TEBBITOBT.
SELECLATB.
Coles Bashfoid Tocmd.
'*• COLORADO TERBITORT.
DELEOATE.
George M. Ohiloott EzceUff.
DAKOTA TERRITORY.
DELEOATE.
Walter A. Bnilelgh .Yankton.
IDAHO TERRITORY.
DELBQATB.
E.D.HolbrDoV OdaboCitr.
MONTANA TERRITORY.
DELBQATE.
JamaA M. Cayanaagli Helena
TERRITORY OP NEW MEXICO.
DELBQATE.
CbaileaF. Clever I Santa fb
1 EWiMnn ■nsoooeaifiilly oontested by J. F. CbsTts.
UTAH TERRITORY.
DELEOATE.
WillliuoH. Hooper..,, Salt I«ke Oty.
WASHINGTON TERRITORY. ♦
DELEGATE.
AlTMi Ftandeia. Walla Walls-
THB FORTY-FmST OOKGBESS. 179
THE FOETY-FIRST CONGEESS.
Pint Sttaon,fram March 4, 1869, to April 10, 1869. Second Session, from Dee. 6, 1869, to July 16, 1870.
Third Session, from Dee. 5, 1870, to March 8, 1871.
Vioe-Pi'vtident. —SoBirrLBB CoiiFAX of Indiana. President of the Senate protenqiore. — SxifST'B. AxrtBovr
d Bhode IsUmd, elected Karoh 23, 1869; again elected April 9, 1869; again elected May 28, 1870; again elected
Jnlr 1, 1870; and again elected July 14, 1870. Secretary of the Senate. — Okoboe 0. Oobbak of CaUfoinia.
8peaierqflhi»Bmee.—jAtaa &. Bhina of Maine. Clerk <^ tAa BbuM.— Bdwabd MoFHxneos of F8nn-
sjlrania.
AT.ABAMA-
SENATOBS.
OeoigB E. Spencer. Decatnr. | Willaid "Warner Ifontgomery.
•mf.l'KTlif^IirfjTATIVK!^
Alfred RBncki MobUe. I PeterH. Dox* Hontsyllla IBoberta Heflln* Wedowee.
ChailesW.BaokIe7i.Hontgomery. | Charles Hays ^ Entaw. | William O. 8herrod*....Courtland.
I TO(dc hi* seat Dec. 8,1868. > Took Ua lart Deo. 7, ISeS.
ABEANBAS.
SENATOBS.
Alexander McDonald UttleBock. | Benjamin F. Bice Little Book.
TmiPTIKMH'.N'I'ATIVml-
ThomasBoIea. Dardanelle. {Anthony A. 0. Bogeis. .Pine Blnff. | Logan H. Boots Dnvall's BlnfL
CAIIFOBNIA.
SENATOBS.
Eniene Oassedy San Francisco. | ComellnsCoIe Ban Francisco.
BEPBESENTATTVES.
SMondB. AxtelL...8anFiano]aoo. | James A. Johnson DownlerOla |A«»m A. Sargent.. •.Nerada City.
COIWECTICUT.
SENATOBS.
\niUsmA.Backingham Korwich. | Orris S. Ferry Korwalk.
BEFBESENTATTVES.
^pIUimH.Bamumi. Lime Bock. I Henry H. Starkwe^lier* Korwioh.
8t«pheaW.KaUogg> Waterbnry. | Julius L. Strong*. Hartford.
>Taokh)iieatDeo.6,186g. > Took his aeatApiIl 9,18681
DELAWABE.
SENATOBS.
^VmssnaadsB^ardi. "Wilmington. | Willard Sanlsbnxy Georgetown.
EEPBESENTATIVB.
BeaJainlnT. Biggs. BmnmitBldge.
'BnM In plaee of Geais Bead BUdle, aaeoMWl, James A. Bvaid taarlnc bean i^alnted pro iem,,- took Um seat
_^ *Iten!b4,186».
180
0OKOBE88IONAL DIBEOTOBT.
FLOBIDA.
BENATOBS.
Abljah OUbert. St Angostliie. jThomaaW. Osborn Feniacola,
KEPBESENTATIVK.
Charles H. Hamilton ,
Jo6lraaHmi.
GEORGIA.
SENATOBS.
Madison. | H. V. M. lOUer*.
BEPBESENTATITES.
Morion Bethnne* Talbotton. I William W. Paine* Savannah.
Stephen A. Corker*. .Waynesboro'. William P. Price' Dablonep^.
Jefferson F. Long * Macon. | Bicliard H. Whiteley ■. .Bainbrid^
1 Took his neat Jsn. 30, Ign. > Took bis seat Feb. », 18T1. • Took bis seat Jan. 18, tstl.
oonteated by Tbomas P. Beard; took bis seat Jan. 21, 1871. • Took bis seat Jan. aS, 1811. •
tested by Nelson TUt ; took bU seat Vob. », 1871.
ILLINOIS.
Pieioe M. Bw Tonng* . .CaitenriUa.
* Election muneeesafiill;
Elaottrai nmiwwMtfiJlyeoii-
Lyman IVnmbuU.
Horatio C. Bnrchaid ^ . . . .Freeport.
Albert G. Burr. Carrollton.
Burton C. Cook Ottawa.
John M. Crebs Carmi.
Shelby M. GuUom Springtleld.
SENATOBS.
Chicago. |BichardTat«s...
BEPBESEMTATI7ES.
John F. Famsworth. . . .St. Charles.
John B. Hawley. Bock Island.
JohnB. Hay Belleville.
Ebon C. Ingersoll Peoria.
Norman B. Jndd Chicago.
.JaeksonTiUeb
John A Logan. Carbondale.
Bam'I Sl MarahalLMcLeansboron^
Thompson W.McNeely.Petersboig.
Jesse H. Moore Decatur.
£UihaB.Washbnme* Oalana.
1 Elected In plaoe of £mbnB.Wadibnnie, resigned; took hta seat Dee. tkUaft. > Berfgnwl KaiOh ty UStL
Oliver P. Morton .
John Cobnrn Indianapolis.
William S. Holman Aurora.
George W. Julian ' CentreviUe.
Michael C. Kerr New Albany,
* Election onsaeeeiafDllT contested by John S. Beld.
INDIANA.
SENATOBS.
.... Indianapolis. | Daniel D. Pratt. Logansport
EEPBESENTATIVES.
William E. Niblack. — Vinoennes.
Godlove S. Orth Lafayette.
Jasper Packard La Porte.
John P. C. Shanks Jay C. H.
< Elected In place of Daaial D. Pratt aiaoted senator; took hH lait
MaiGb4,18tt.
James N. "Prner* Pero.
Daniel W. Voorhees . .Terre Haiite.
William Williams Warsaw.
lOWA-
SENAT0B8.
James W. Grimes^ Burlington. I JameaB. Howell*.
James Harlan Mt. PletkSant. |
EEPRESENTATTVES.
■ William B. Allison. Dubnque.
William Longliridge Oskaloosa.
> Baslgned Deo. 8, 1869. ■ Elected In place of James W. Otlmes,xestcned; took bis seat Jan. St, 1870.
.Keokok.
George W. McCrary Keoknk. 1 Charles Pomeroy . . .". . .Fort Dodge.
Frank W. Palmer Des Moines. | William Smyth Haooa
Bamnel O. Pomeroy .
KANSAS.
SENATOBS.
.Atchison. I Edmund a. BoM. lAwienoa.
BEPBESEKTATIVE.
Sidney Clarke Lawwnoa
Garrett Davis .
r
KENTUCKT.
SENATOBS.
. .Paris. I Tbomas C. McCreery.
.Owensboioa^
George M. Adams ^ ..BarboursviUe.
James B. Beck Lexington.
J. 8. Golladay » Allensville.
Thomas L. Jones Newport.
BEPRESENTAXIVES.
J. Proctor Knott Lebanon.
Joseph H. Lewis • Glasgow.
Jolm M. Kii-e' Louisa.
Wm. N. Sweeney . . Owensborough.
Lawrence S. Trimble Psdncsh.
Boyd Winchester LonisTiU*.
< Election nnsaccessfaUy contested by S.M. Barnes. > Ba8lgnedFeb.28,18T0. • Elected in dace of J. S
took bis seat Hay 10, 18T0. • Election unsuoceasf iiily contested by JobuTT. Zal^er.
• Elected in place of J. &Gona<lay,nal(M<>i
THB FOBTY-FIBST OONGBBSS. 181
LOUISIANA.
BENATOBS.
Jobn aEanla Tldalia. | William Pitt KeUogg. New Orleans.
fiEPSESENTATTVES.
rhesterB. DanalU Biashear. | Jos. P. Newsham'.St FrancisvlUe. I J. HaleSypher* New Orleans.
f lauk Hoiey > Monroe. | Lionel A. Sheldon * . .New Orleans. |
> Election ni»tioe«MfaIly contested by Adolf Bailey; took hla aekt July T, 1869. * Election muncceasfnlly contented by
G. W, McCroni .' ; took hli seat Dec. 6, 1870. > SnoooMfaUy contested the election of Mldual Bvan : took bb scat May 2Sy
li>70. * Eleotiou unsucoeasfiilly contested by Caleb S. Hunt; took bis seat April 8, 1868. > Electum nnsnooeaafnUy son-
tasted by Ur. St. Mazttn; took hU seat Dec. 5, 1870.
MAINE.
SEKATOBS.
'mmamPittFeesflnden* Portland. I liOt M. Honill* Augusta.
TTnTinlTtal TTaTnHf> ,,, BallgOT. |
BEPBESEMTATl VE8.
James G. Blaine* Angnsta. I John Lynch Portland, i John A. Peters. Bangor.
£agene Hale Ellsworth. | Samuel P. Morrill Fanuington. |
> DM Sept. 8, lata. > Appointad in pbwe of William Pitt Fessenden, dsoeaaed; took Us seat Deo. 6, ISSa, • Elaeted
speaker March 4, 1860.
MABYLAND.
SENAT0B8.
William T. Hamilton* Hageratown. | Oeoige Viokets Cheatertown.
REPRESENTATTVES.
Stevenson Archer Belair. | Patrick HamiU Oakland. I Thomas Swann. Baltimore.
Samuel Hambleton. Easton. | Frederick Stone. Port Tobacco. |
> EVMted In plaroe of Baverdy Johnson, taigoBA In 1868. W. Plnckney Whyte bAving been aiqiolnted pro tern.; took his seat
March 4, 1869.
MASSACHUSETTS.
SENATOBS.
Cbailes Sumner Boston. | Henry Wilson Natidc
HEPEESENTATIVES.
Oaken Ames North Easton.
Nathaniel P. Banks Waltham.
GeoigeS. Bontwelli Oioton.
George M. Brooks^. Concord.
James Bufflnton Fall Biver.
Benjamin F. Butler Lowell.
Henry L. Dawes Pittsfleld.
George F. Hoar Worcester.
Samnel Hooper Boston.
Oinery Twicnell Brookline.
William B. Washbnm . .Greenfield.
' BMlgned Haich Ul UW, havlntE been appointed Seeretaiy of the Treaanty. > Elected In plaoe of Oeoiga S. Boutwell,
lealgned; took his aeat Dee. 6, 1888.
MICHIGAN.
SEBTATOBS.
Zacharlah Chandler Detroit. | Jacob M. Howard Detroit.
HBPHFJ^lTMTA'ri V KH-
Fernando 0. Beaman. Adrian. I Omar D. Conger PortHaron. I William L. Stongfaton Stnrgis.
Austin Blair Jackson. | Thomas W. l^rry. . . .Grand Haven. | Bandolph Striduand — St. John's.
MDINESOTA.
SENATOBS.
Dsnlel a Norton I Winona. I OzoraP. Steams* Eochester.
Alexander Bamsey. St PauL | William Windom» Winona.
BEFBESEMTATIVES.
Morton S. Wilkinson Mankato. | Eugene M. Wilson Minneapolis.
' Died July 13. 1870. ■ Hected In place of Daniel S. Norton, deceased, William Wlndom havbig been appointed pn Ian.;
took hia seat Jan. 23,1871. • Appointed In pliwe of Daniel S. Norton, deceased; took bfi seat Dec B, 1870.
MISSISSIPPL
SENATOBS.
Adelbett Ames* Natchez. | Hiram B. Bevels > Natchez.
REPBESENTATTVES.
Henry W.Barry* Colnmbns. I George C. McKe6< Vicksburg. I Legrand W. Perce* Natchez.
George E. Hams* Hernando. | Joseph L. Morphis* PontoUw. |
>T«okhlstaatA(dll,lS70. • Took hla seat Feb. 26, 1870. • Took his seat April 8, 1870; « Took his seat Feb. 23, 18T0.
182
OONOBBSSIONAL DIBBOTOBY.
MISSOITBL
SENATOBS.
FrandsP. Blair, jan.' St Iioai& ICarlSchniz .
Charles D.Diake* St. Louia.
.StLotdi
Joel F. Asper Chillicothe.
John F. Benjamin Shelby ville.
Sempronins H. Boyd. . .Sprlngtield.
BEPBESENTATIVES.
StunuelS. Bnrdett Osceola. I
David P. Dyer' Looisiana.
Qustaviu A. Finkelnborg. St. IjOuIs. {
James R. McCormick. Iiontos.
Robert T. Van Hom«.Kansa.iCitT.
Brastua Wells. St Lous.
> Eleoted In place of Charlea D. DnUce, resigned; took bis seat Jan. 25, 1871. > Beaigned Dee. 19, I8T0. - *
oessfally contested b; William F. Switsler. • Election ansnecesef nUy contested by Mr. Shields.
John U. Thayer,!
NEBRASKA.
SENAT0B8.
.Omaha. | Thomas W. OSptoil BiownTills.
BEPSESENTATTVE.
JohnTaffe Omihi.
NEVADA.
8ENATOBS.
Junes W. Nye OarsonCity. | "William H. Stewart.
VliginiaCity.
BEPEESEKTATIVK.
Tbonuu Fitoh. Belmont
NEW HAMFSHIBE.
SENATORS.
Aaron H. Cragin. Lebanon. | James W. Patteiaon. Hanoret,
TmpitF-«^icTrPA'ri v Ka
Jooob Benton Lanoaster. | Jacob H. Ela Rochester. | Aaron F. Stevens Nashua.
NEW JERSEY.
SENATOBS.
Alexander a. Cattell Camden. | JohnP. Stockton. Trenton.
BEFBESENTATIVKS.
JohnT. Bird Flemington. I Charles Haight Freehold. I WilUam Mboie ....Hay's Landing.
Orestes CleTeland Jersey City. | John Hill Boonton. |
BoscoeConUlng.
NEW YORK.
SENATOBS.
..XTtica. I Reuben E. Fenton.
•Jamestown.
Alexander H. Bi^ey Rome.
David S. Bennett Buffalo.
James Brooks. New York.
Hiiri'ij C. Caliin... .... .New Yurk.
John V. t^iiirchiU XMW(^«o.
Gijorge \V. Cowlta i lyde.
Sanmel 8, Cox .Hvvr Yurk.
Noah Uavf« > AlMon.
Omngo Ferrl.4^ Olon'fi Fails.
John FIslier ... .... U.itavia.
Jobu Fox Kew York.
EEPBESENTATIVES.
George "W. Greene* Goshen.
John A. Griswold Catskill.
Charles H. Holmes • Albion.
Giles \V. Hutclikiss.. . . Binshamton.
William H. Kelsey .Geneseo.
John H. Ketcham Dover.
Cliarles Knanp Deposit
Addison H. Latlin Herkmier.
Stephen L. Mayham Schoharie.
Dennis McCarthy Syracuse.
Clarkson N. Potter . .New Bocbelle.
Henry A. Beeves. Green Point
Stephen Sanfoid Ainstenlam.
John G. Scliumaker. Brooklyn-
Porter Sheldon. Jamestown.
Henry W. Slocum. Urouklyn.
Adolphus H. Tanner ^^^litchall.
Chas. H. Van Wyck* .Middletown.
Hamilton Ward. Belmont
William A. Wheeler. Malone.
John Morrissey .'. New York. Fernando Wood New Yort
> Beslcrnni li\ imo. * Seat vncceHtidly contented b; Cbarlee H. Tan Wyck. • Elected in place of Noah Davis, ledgiwl;
UMk bU Buat D«e. H, 1^0, * SoceeaafiiUy oontasted the election of Geoige W. Graeue ; took hla seat IW>. 17, iBTO.
NORTH CAROLINA.
SENATOBS.
ill G Abbott Wilmington. | John Pool EUzaheth City.
BEPRESENTAXl VES.
>''' ' '■' " ...ElizabetbCitv. I Oliver H. Dockery Mangum. I Israel O. Lash Salem.
I >■' Raleigh. I Davidlleaton' NewberiL I John Manning, jun.<.Pittsbomagli.
ipl Houktirton. | Alexander H. Jones * Ashe ville. | Fiancis £. Shobcr * Salisbury.
' i- :$k ieno. • Ekcted in place of David Heaton. deceased; took his seat Dee. S, IS70. > Died June 23,
iiuiiiocwjif iiU) twDteated by Plato Durham. * Took his seat Deo. 7, 1870. ■ Bectlon ""«"'■■" Jiillj o>o-
THB 70KTY-FIBST OOHOBK88.
183
John Sherman.
OHIO.
SENATOBS.
.Mansfield. I Alien Or. Tbaxmaa. ,
.Oolnmbua,
Jacob A. Ambler Salem.
John Beatty Cardinston.
Jolin A. Bingham Cadiz.
Edn-aid F. Dickenson . . . .Fiemont
James A. OarHeld Hiram.
Truman H. Hoag^ Belmont.
Villiam Lawrence. . .Belief ontaina
BEPBESENTATIYES.
Eliakim H. Moore. Athens.
George W. Mon^n Mt Vernon.
William Miinaen Findley.
Erasmus D. I%clt" Perrrsburg.
Robert C. Schenck Dayton.
John A. Smith Hillsborough.
Job E. Stevenson Cincinnati.
Peter W. Strader* CincinnatL
William H. Upson Akron.
Philadelph Van Trump. .Lancaster.
Martin Welker Wooster.
John T. Wilson. Tranquillity.
James J. Winans Xenik
'DMFrimHr.Uni
> Eleotad in plaoe of Tmnum H. Hosg, deoeuedj took bis seat Apifl 83| 1870.
cwfiillj oontested by Banjamlu Bggleston.
(Eleellon imsaiy
OBEOON.
BENAIOBS.
HeniyW. Oorbett Portland. jGeoigeH. WlUiams Foctlaiid.
BEFBESBNTATIVK.
Joa^a Smith..
.Salem.
fflmon Cameron...
Wm. H. Armstrong. .Wllliamsport
Henry !>. Cake Tamaqna.
John Cessna. Bedford.
Jolin CoTode ^ Lockport.
Oliver J. Dickey Lancaster.
Ju'<eph B. Donley . . . . Waynesburg.
J. Lawrence (retz. Reading.
Calvin W. OilflUan FrankUn.
Kichanl J. Haldeuan. .Harrisburg.
PENNSTLVANIA-
SENATOBS.
> Harrlsbnrg. I John Scott
BEFBESENTATX VJS.
William D. Kelley. . . .Philadelphia.
nivsses Mercar To wanda.
John Moffet * Philadelphia.
Daniel J. Morrell Johnstown.
Leonard >Iyers > Fhiladelptiiu.
James S. Neijley Pittsburg.
Charles O'Neill Philadelphia.
John B. Packer Sunbury.
Darwin Phelps Kittanning.
■ Huntingdon.
Samnel J. Randall Philadelphia.
John R. Reading * Sonierton.
Glenn! W. Scofield Warren.
John D. Stiles AUentown.
Caleb N. Taylor » Bristol.
Wasliington Townsend,
West Chester.
Daniel M. Van AukeiL Milford.
Geo. W. Wood ward... Wilkesbarra.
> Sae-
eewfollj eontaated the election of John >Ioffet; took hia seat April 0, 1869. < Election BuooeMhiUy oontested by Caleb N.
Isjlor. • Soooawf ally contested the election of J<d>n & Beading; took bis aeat Qeo. 6, 1870.
' Qeetkm onaacoeMfnllT oontested b; Henry D. Foster. > £lecUon sttcceaatuUy contested b^ I«onard Hyen.
RHODE ISLAND.
SENATOBS.
HeuyB. Anthonr^ FroTidence. | William Spragns ..Provldenoe.
ttHTPaiCSIinJTATIVKH.
Nathan F. Dixon. Westerly. | Thomas A. Jenckes .....Kovldenc«.
i Elected president pro (on. Haieh 23, un.
SOUTH CAROLINA,
8ENATOB3.
Thooiaa J. Bobertaon Colombia. | Frederick A. Sawyer Charlestown.
BEPBESENTATXYES.
C.C.Bowen Charleston. I Joseph H. Raineyi Georgetown. I B. Frank Whittemore^-Darlington.
Golomon L. Hoge> Columbia. | Alexander 8. Wallace*. .Torkville. |
< Election nnmooassfully contested by J. P. Beed. > Elected in place of B. Flank Wbittemore, who was lefnsed his seat.
• Elwtion anaaooeHfally oontested by William S. Simpson. < Beeped Feb. 23, 1870; sobaeqasnUy re-elected, but lefuaed
•dmlariaD Jane 21, 1870.
Wmiam O. Brownlow. ,
TENNESSEE.
SENATORS.
.Knoxville. | Joseph S. Fowler..
BEPEESENTATI VE3.
.NashTille.
William B. Stokes Alexandria.
Lewis Tillman' Shelbyville.
Samuel M. AmelL Columbia. I Horace Maynard KnoxviUe.
Bodeiick B. Butler. . . .Tayloreville. I William F. Prossor Nashville.
Isaac R. Hawkins..... Huntingdon. [William J. Smith* Memphis.
' Ftodllnii iiiisiMNicfiillj iioiiUisldil lij lliTi Tmfl Willi • Election onsaeoeasf ally oontested by O. A. Sheaf e.
184 OOKORBSSIONAIj dxehsoiobt.
TEXAS.
SENAT0B3.
J. W. Flanagan! 'Walling's Feiry. | Moigan 0. Hamaumi. Anatbi.
EEPBJESKNTATrVZS.
WilUam T. Clatki. Galveston. I Edwaid DeKener^ SanAntonia
JohnO. CSonner^ Sherman. | Geoige'W. Whitmoiei X^lei.
>Iookbiii«itliarabSl,lS70. > TookbltaeBtManhai, 1870; deetionimsDooaMtallyoontaatadtirB.r.Gaaoa
VERMONT.
8ENAT0BS.
GeoigeF. Edmimda Burlington. | Justin 8. HotiflL StnSoTd.
BEPBESEMTATIVES.
Lnlce P. Poland 8t Johnsbniy. | Worthington C. Smith. .St. Alban's. | Chadea W. Willaid. . . .Montpeliei.
yiBOINIA.
BENATOB&
JohnW. Johnston! Abingdon. | JohnF. I^wlsi Port Bqmblic.
KEPEESENTATTVKS.
James H. Piatt, ftm.'' . .Petenboie.
Charles H. Porter ' Eichmond.
Robert Ridgway' CoolWelL
Richard 8. Ayor* Waraaw. I James King Gibson » Abingdon.
G«oige W. Booker ». . .Martinsville. Lewis McKenzie • Alexandria.
R. T. W. I>nke4....Ciharlotte8Tille. | William Hilnes, jun-^-Staenandoah.
> Took his aeat Jan. HI8TO. • Took hJs teat Jan. 31, 1870. • Election ansncoeMfany conterted by Oeoige Tucker; took
Usieatfleb. 1,1870. « Eloeted in place of Bobert Bidewnjr, deoeued: took his aeat Deo. 6, 1870. • Took his seat Jan. SS,
1870. • Election unsncoMsfolly contested by C.C.WMtUesey; took liis seat Jan. 31, 1870. ' Took his seU Jsn. 17, ISiO.
• Took his seat Jan. 87, 1870; died in 1870.
WEST VIRGINIA
SENATOBS.
Azthnzl. Boxeman. Parkeisbnrg. | WaltmanT. WQIey. Moi^ntcwn.
SEPBESENTATTVES.
Isaao H. Dnval. Wellsbnig. | Janies C. MoQrew Kingwood. | John a Witoher Gnyandotte.
WISCONSIN.
SENATOBS.
Matth«w H. Carpenter IGlwankee. | Timothy O. Howe. QieenBay.
BEPBESENTATIVES.
David Atwood*. Madison. IBenlaminF. Hopkins > ...Madison. O. O. Waahbun I« Crosse.
AmasaCobb Mineral Point. HalbertK Paine. Milwaukee.
Charles A. Eldridge. .Fond dn Lac | Philetns Sawyer Oshkosh.
1 Elaated In phu» of Benjamin r.H<vkhia,deoeased; took his seat rah. 83,18701 > Died Jan. 1, Um.
ARIZONA TERRITORY.
DELBQATE.
Richard O. McConnlok. Tncson.
COLORADO TERRITORY.
DKt^BOATE.
Alton A, Bradford.. rruHe.
DAKOTA TERRITORY.
DELBOATB.
><•••••••.•...>....... ••••••••••.•Yankton.
IDAHO TERRITORY.
DELEOATE.
, .UaboGtr-
MONTANA TERRITORY.
DELBQATE.
,. Helena
THBS VaRTSC-BBCOSm CONOBESS. 186
TEBBITOBT OF NEW MEXICO.
DEIiEOATE.
J. FMndno ChaTW Santa T^,
UTAH TERRITORY.
DELEOATB.
'WUUamH.Hioopar Salt Lake City.
WASHIKGTON TERKITOET.
DELEQATE.
Sdnctna Gatfidde Olympla,
WTOMINO TERRTTOET.
DELEQATE.
Stepfaea F. NnokallB. ChaTemie.
THE FORTY-SECOND CONGRESS.
Pint &«nm, from March 4, 1871, to Aprtt 20, 1S71. Second Sestion, from Dee. 4, 1871, to June 10, 1872.
Third Session, frvm Dee. 2, 1872, to March 3, 1873.
Viee-PreMeTtt — Sceutleb Cot.FAX of Indiana. President of the Senate pro tempore. — Hknbt B. Anthont
of Bhode Island, elected Uarch 10, 1871; again elected Deo. 21, 1871; agabi elected Feb. 23, 1872; and again
elected July 8, 1872. Seeretaru of the Senate. — OsoBOB O. Gobham of Calif omia.
SpeakernfHt» Bnue. —Jambs Q. Blaihb of Maine. Clerk of (Ae Boum, — Bdvabd MoFbkbsok of Pena-
tylTsnia.
AT.ABAMA.
SEKATOBS.
Gemge Goldtbindte 1 Montgomery. | George E. Spencer. Deoator.
BEPBESENTATTVES.
Cbarles W. Buckley. .Montgomery. I William A. Handley' Roanoke. I Joseph H. SIoss Toscmnbia.
Peter M.I>oz. HuntsyiUa | Charles Hays Eutaw. I Benjamin Sterling Tomer. . .Selma.
< Took bis seat Jan. IS, U72. > Election nnsacoeHf idlf contested by B. W. Noitis.
ARKAirSAS.
SEMATOBS.
PoweU Clayton. little Bock. | Benjamin F. Bice UttleBock.
TtlCPmiyiglJTATI V HH.
Thomas Boleai Dardanelle. I James M. Hanks Helena.
John Edwards* Fort Smith. | OUver P. Snyder*. Pine Bluff.
' SneesstfoIIr eontested Uie deeUon of John Edwards ; took his seat Feb. 9, 1872. t Election saccessfaUy contested by
Thomas Boles. • Election oasacceesf ally contested by S. H. Bogeis.
CALIFORNIA.
SENATOBS.
^agweCiMBrly San Franclaoo. | Comallaa Cole SanFrandaoa
186
CONGBESSIOKAZ. DIBEOTOBT.
John ML Coghlani .
BEF&BSENTATIVES.
.SoUnn City. | Shetnun O. Houghton K . .San JoaA. | Aaron A. Satgent. . .
> Took hU Mat Dee. 4, isn.
.HeradaCitr.
'William A. Buoklnghain..
CONNECTICUT.
SENATOBS.
.Norwich. | Oiria S. Fetiy.
BEPBJESENTATTVES.
.Monralk.
'William H. Bamnm Lime Bock.
Joseph Roswell Uawleyl Hartford.
BtepLen'W, KbUosg'^.. 'Waterbory.
> EtootMl In pluw ol JiiUiu L. Strong, doee—ed; took hll leat Deo. S^ 1872.
1873.
Henry H Starkweather Norwich.
JtiUasL. Strong* Ebitiord.
>Taokhls8ei«Dee.4,Un. iDiedSepL?,
DELAWABE.
SENATOBS.
Tbomas Francis Bayard. 'Wilmington. | Eli Saolsbniy. Dom.
BEPBB8EMTATIVE.
Benjamin T. Bisga Summit Kdge;
AWJahQflbert.
Silaa Ll Nlblack 1
1 eui»a*Btiilly eonteeted tlia election ct Jodah T. WaDa; took Us aeat Jan. Stu 1873.
SUaa L. Niblack.
FLOBTOA-
SEKATOBS.
.St Angoatine. | Thomaa'W. Oabom. Fannoola.
BEPBESENTATIVES.
I Josiah T. 'Walls* Gainesrille.
> Beotion iiiinwaafiilly oonteated by
Joshua Hill.
GEORGIA.
SZITATOBS.
.Madison. | Thomas Hanson Norwoodi .
.Savannah.
Era.'iiiius W. Bet-k ' GrifSn.
John Suminerflpld Blgby .Noivnan.
Ihiilley SI. DnBrae * , .Washintrton.
EEPBESENTATIVES.
I A. T. Mclntyre * ThomasTille. I Bichard H. 'Whlteley • .Bainbridee.
WilUam P. Price Dahlonesa. I Pierce M. B. Young . . .CarteiSTiUa
I Thomas J. Speer ' BamesTille. |
■ ElCH-tion nianrrewiCullf i!onte»ted by Foster Blodgett; took hU seat Deo. 19, 1871. > Xleoted in place of Thomas 3.
Spccr, dticeijicti ; uxik Ids seat Ixm. 2, 1873. > Election unsnccesiif ully contested by J. S. Fannin. < Elecdoa ansuooeasfolly
ODotegted by Vli^ iliUyer. ' Died Aug. 18, 1872. • Election unaueeeaafolly contested by Nelaon TUt.
John A. Logan..
John L. Boveridee ' Eranston.
Hoiatlo C Burchanl Fre«port.
Bnnon C. Cook . , Ottuwa.
John tL Crolw .CitrmL
Jolm b"". FarnswDrth St, Charles.
ILLINOia
SENATOBS.
Carbondale. | Lyman Trmnboll.
BEPBESEI^TATIYES.
Charles B. Farwell Chicago.
John B. Haw ley Bock Island.
JohnB. Ha.v Belleville.
Saiu. S. Marshall. McLeansboroogh.
T. 'W. McNeely Petersburg.
.Chle^n.
Jesse H. Moore Decatnr.
Edward T. Bice Hillsboroiigh.
James C. Bobinson Sprinstield.
Henry Snapp* Joliet
Bradford H. Stevens Tiskilwa.
> Took hJs seat Deo. 4, 1871; resigned Jan. 4,1873. • Took Us seat Deo. 4, 1871.
Olivet P. Morton .
INDIANA.
SEITATOBS.
.Indianapolis. | Daniel D. Pratt .
.Logansport.
John Cobom IndianafKilis.
'Wlllimn S, Holinan Aurora.
MJt'liael C Kerr ... . . .Jfew .■Vlbany.
UidiloaD. Uaniion.Cnkwfordaville.
BEPBBSENTATTVES.
'William E. Niblack. — Vinoennes.
Jasper Packard. La Porte.
John P. O. Shanks. Portland.
James N. Tyner Peru.
1 Eleetioo unsaooeasfully oonteeted by David S. Qooding.
Daniel "W. Voorheee . .Terre Haute.
'William 'Williams. Warsaw.
Jeremiah M. Wilson i.OonneisviUa
Jamea Harlan .
IOWA.
SENATOBS.
.Ht Pleasant. | George G. Wright. .
.DesMoiD*
THE FOBTY-SECOHB CONGBBSS. 187
BEFSE8SNTAT1VE8.
Arlett It. Cotton Lrons. I Oeoige "W. MoCtaiy. Keokuk. I Frank W. Palmer. BesHoinea.
'William G. Domum. Independence. | JaoksonOrr Montana. | Madison H. Walden ...Centreville.
KA-SSJkS.
SENAT0B3.
Alexander Caldwell. Leavenwortb. | Samuel 0. Pomeioy , Atohison.
BEPBESEMTATIYE.
DavldP.Lowe FoitSoott.
KENTUCKT.
SENATOBS.
Garrett DaTiai Forii. I John W. Btevenaon OoTtnston.
'Willis B.Machen* EddyviUe. |
EEPKESENTATIVES.
Edward Crossland Mayfleld. I William B. Bead. Hodgensville,
George M. Adams . . .Barboursville.
Will&m B. Arthnr. CoTington.
James B. Beck Lexington.
Joseph H. Lewis Glaneow. I John M. Bice Lonisa,
~ ~ Hwrttoid. ~ ' ■ - . ...
Henry D. MoHenry Harttoid. | Boyd 'Winchester Louisvilla
> Died Sept 3^ 1872. * Appdntedinplaoeof GurettDaTla, deoeued; to<d[Iilsie>tDeo.2, 18T2.
LOUISIANA.
SEKATOBS.
WUUam Pitt Kellogg: New Orleans. | J. Bodman West Kew Orleans.
SEFBESENTATIVES.
Aleck Boarmani Shreveport. | Frank Morey Monroe. I J. HalflSypber New Orleans.
Chester B. Darrall Brashear. | Lionel A. Sheldon. . . .New Orleans. |
* Eleetod in place of James UcCleat7,deoeaaed In 1871; took his Mat Deo. 8, 1S2Z
MAINE.
SENATOBS.
Hannibal Hamlin Bangor. | Lot M Morrill Augusta.
BEPBESENTAITVES.
James G. Bltdne^ Augnsta. I EngeneHale Ellsworth, i John A. Peters. Bangor.
"WilliamP. Fiye Levnston. | Jo&i Lynch Portland. |
> Elected speaker Haich 4, isn.
MARYLAND.
BENATOBS.
'WniiamT. Hamilton. Hi^rstown. | George Viokem Ohestettown.
EEPHESENTATTVES.
Sterenaon Archer Belair. I William M. Merrick Ilchester. I Thomas Bwann. Baltimore.
Samael Hambleton. Easton. | JohnBitchie Frederick City. |
MASSACHUSETTS.
. SEKATOBS.
Charies Sumner Boston. | Henry Wilson Natick.
REPBESENTATIVES.
Oakes Ames North Easton.
Nathaniel P. Banks. Walcham.
George it Brooks l Concord.
James Bufflnton Fall Bi'Ter.
George F. Hoar Worcester.
Samuel Hooper Boston.
Glnery T wicnell Brookline.
William B. Washburn^ .Greenfield.
Benjamin F. Bntler Lowell.
Al-rah Crocker ' Fitchburg.
Henry L. Dawes Fittsfield.
Constantlne C. Esty ■ . Framingbam.
. _* Bericned Hay 13, 1873. > Zlectsd in place of 'WUlJam B. fVashbnni, elected goramor: took his seat Feb. 14. 1872.
■Elected In pJaoaoI George K. Brooks, realpied; took his seat Deo. 2, 1872. * Beslgned Dec S, 1871, hartng been aleoted
foremor.
MICHIGAN.
SENATOBS.
Zkdiatiab Chandler Detroit. | Thomas W. Ferry Grand Haven.
BEPEESENTATIVES.
Austin Blair Jackson. I Wilder D. Foster i . .Grand Bapids. I Jabez G. Sutherland Saginaw.
"lurD. Conger Port Huron. | William L. Stoughton Storgis. | Henry Waldron Hilladale.
> Sleeted in place of Thomas W. Terrj, elected senator; took his seat Deo. 4, 1871.
188
OONOBESSIOKAIi DIBBOIOBT.
MINiraSOTA.
8ENAT0BS.
Alexander Bamsay. St FaoL | William Wlndom. 'Winona,
BEPSESENT ATI V IJS.
JobnT. ATerlll St. Paul. | Mark H. Diumell Owatonna.
James liuak Aloont^.
Henry W. Ban^y Colnmbns.
GeorgeK Hams Hernando.
mSSISSIPPL
SENATOBS.
.. .Friar's Point. | Adelbert Ames..
BEFBEaENTAnVES.
George C, McKee Vicksbuq;.
Joseph li. Morphis Pontotoc
> Took hli sast Dee. 4, isn.
.Natchez.
Legrand W. Peroew Ifatdiez.
Francis P. Blair, ]nn. .
.St. Louis.
mSSOTTBL
SENATOBS.
..St Louis. I CarlSchoTE.
BEPBESENTATIVES.
James G. Blair Canton. I Gnstavas A. Finkelnbnrg.St. Louis. I James B. McCormick Arcadia
Samuels. Bnrdett Osceola. Harrisou E. Havens.-.. Spring6eld. Isaac C. Parker St. Joseph.
AbramComingo — Independence. | Andrew King St. Charles, f BrastusWeUs St. Louis.
NEBRASKA.
SENATOBS.
FUneas W. Hitchoook Omaha. | Thomas W. Tipton. Brown^Ila.
BEPBESENTATIVE.
JohnTaffe Omaha.
NEVADA.
SENATOBS.
James W.Nye Canon City. | William M. Stewart.
Virginia City.
BEPBESENTATIVE.
Charles West Eendaa : Hamilton.
NEW HAHPSHIBB.
SENATOBS.
Aaron H. Oragin. Lebanon. | James W. Patterson Hanovei.
BEPBESENTATIVES.
Samuel N. Bell Manchester. (ElleryA. Hibbard Laoonla. | Hoaea W. Parker Claremont
NEW JEBSEY.
SENATOBS.
Frederick T. Frelinghnysen Newark. | John P. Stockton. Trentoo.
BEPBESENTATIVES.
John T. Bird. Flemington. I George A. Halsey Newark. | John Hill Boonton.
Samuel C. Forker Bordentown. JoluTW. Hazelton llnllica Hill.
BoBGoe Cookling.
James Bronks Nnw York.
John M, Carroll Jolmsrown.
Freoraan Cl»rlie .... .Kutlnsirer.
Samuol B. Cox ..... .New York.
R Holland Duell Cjmland.
Smith Ely, JTin New York.
miit Gojilrtcli. ..Dr>-il(in.
•Trthn H, lCctcli.'im....D0TerFlniii8.
Tlinraafl Kiiirwlla. BriMiklyn,
'William H. LaiDport,CaBatidai^ia.
WiUioiD E, Lunaing. . .Cliittemingo.
iraiW YORK.
SENATOBS.
.Utioa. I BeubenE. Fenton
BEPBESENTATTVES.
Clinton L. Merriam. .Locust Grove.
Eli Perry Albany.
Clarkson N. Potter. .New Rochelle.
Elizur H. Prindle Norwich.
Ellis H. Rot>ert» Utica.
WilUam B. Roberts New York.
John Rogers Black Brook.
Robert B. Roosevelt New York.
JohnE. Seeley Ovid.
Walter L. Sessions Panama.
Henry W. Slocom Brooklyn.
,,,,,,. Jamestown.
Horace Boardman Smith . . .Elmii*.
Charles St. John Port .Terris.
Dwight TowBsend Stapleton-
Joseph H. TuthiU Ellenville.
Seth Wakeman Batavi*.
Joseph M. Warren Ttoy.
William A. Wheeler. Malone.
WiUiam Williams Buffalo-
Fernando Wood New York.
THE FOETY-SECOKD CONOBE88.
189
NORTH CAROLINA.
SENATOBS.
j^ls^zlFool Elizabeth City. | MattW. Ransomi VTeldon.
^ HErRESENTATIVES.
^fci,-«:»t«D L. Cobb.... Elizabeth City. I 81on H. Hogcw* Raleigh. Alfred Moore 'Wadclcll. Wilmington.
^ya*"*^*" ^- 'lanx-T Patternou. Franci-! K. Sliobor Salisbury.
j^xX^eaiL Leach Lexiugton. | Charles U. Thomas. Newbcru.
I Took hii teat April 24, 1872. > Tooli bia seat May 23, 1872 ; eluction muacocnfullj oonto6tod by Jamo* n. Harria.
^^ES»
OHIO.
SENATOBS.
2folsxi Sbennon Monsfleld. | Allen G. Thonnan .
.Colnmbax.
BEPRESENTATIVES.
, Jacob A Ambler Salem.
Jolin Beatty Cardinprton.
John A. DinKbain Ciuiiz.
l*-wi» I), fumpboll ' Hamilton.
> r. Dodils ^ Ciniinnati.
t Foster Kostoria.
. Gartield. Iliram.
ChaTleR N. I.ianil.«on Ldno. I
.Icihn F. Mclviuuey Pinna.
James Mounio Olierlin.
Hoorgo W. Morgan ....Mt. Vcniou.
EranmiLS I>. Peck Pcrrysburg.
Aaron F. Pprry * Cincinnati.
Hamuol Shellabarger ■ . .Bpringllold.
> Kleetton aninoeeMfuUy oontoted by K. C. S<:lien<'k. > Elrcb^l In plnce of Aaron F. Ferry, redgaad; took his leat
Dec 2, ItJTZ. • KosIkuinI In IKS.
rOa<oj
.Tohn A. Smith HUUborongh.
Win. P. SprngiiB - .McConnclUviUe.
Job E. Stevenson Cindnnatt
William H. I'pson Akron.
Philadclph Van Tnimp. .LaneaHtor.
John T. Wilson Tranquillity.
OREGON.
SENATOKS.
[Baniy "W. Corbett Portland. | James K. Kelly Portland.
EEPBESEXTATl VE.
H. Slater Le Grande.
obnon Cameron..
EplirjUni li. Acker Ifnrrl8t«>wn.
fnink C. BunicU • . .Tunbbannoclt.
John V. Crerly Plnhulelphiiv.
Oil Vvr J 1 )ii key Luncaster.
**«"ni"y 1>. Foster Orecnsliurg.
J L.T\VTenc»> f iutz. Reading.
, «iniu,.j (irifflth Mprcer.
I AiV'""''' ■'• lluhlcmnn . Harri.sburg.
I ■Aitreil c. Hariuer Germantown.
PENNSYLVANIA.
SENATORS.
Harrisburg. | John Scott
EEPEESENTATI^•E3.
William D. Kellcy.. ..Philailelphia.
.folin W. Killlntrcr lycbaniin.
William Mr('lollancl . . . .Newcastle.
Ebcnezcr Mi'Junkin Butler.
I'ly-scs S. Meriur- Townndii.
Benjamin V. Meyers' Bedford.
IjCiinaril Myers Philadelphia.
James S. hecley Pittslmrg.
John B. J'ai ker Siiubury.
.Huntingilon.
Samnel J. Randall — Philadelphia.
Olenid W. Scotleld. Warren.
Henry Sherwood Well-sboroiigh.
Ijn/.aru.H D. Shoemaker,
Wilkesbnrre.
R. Milton Spccr Huntingdon.
.Fohn B. Storm Stroudsbtfrgh.
VVa.shlngton Townitend,
West Chester.
> In place of Ulyvot S. Meteor, resigned ; took his neat .Tan. 7, 187X > Resigned Deo. 2, 1S73.
fully oontsatwl by Jouu Cemia.
• Election nnsneecM
RHODE ISLAND.
SENATOBS.
^*^*^ B. Anthonyt ProTidencc. | William Sprague Providence.
REPRESENTATIVES.
'**JaiiunT. Eames Providence. | .James M. Pendleton Westerly.
> Elected prtwliUjiit pro tern. March 10, 1871.
SOUTH CjVROLINA.
SENATOBS.
*Oioag J Robertson Colnmbia. | Frederick A. Sawyer Oharlestoa
REPRESENTATIVES.
t£?}*nc. DeLnntet Charleston. I .logeph II. Rainev Georgetown.
"'^"ert Brown Elliott ■» Columbia. | Ali^xuniler 8. Walhice' Yorkville.
^^^tton contested by Chriatophor C. Bowcn ; scat derlarxl vacant .Jan. 24. 1873.
cesafully couu»tcd by 1. O. MctCUaick.
Rwlgoed In 18T3. • Election ansno-
Q. Brownlow.
TENNESSEE.
SENATOBS.
.Kuoxville. I Henry Cooper .
.Nashville.
190 OONOBKSBIONAIj DntSlOTOBT.
John Morgan Bright . .Fayetterffl*.
Koilenck R. Butler. . . .Taj-lursvill^.
Subtirt P. Ca]tlweU Trotiton,
BEFSEUENTATIVISB.
AbrahamR Oarrett. Oaithaga. I 'WUllam W. yaiigh«n.Braim8Tfll&
Edward L Golladay. Lebanon. I W. O. Wbitthozne Columbia
Hoiaoe Haynaid KnoxTille. |
^
TEXAS.
SENAXOBS.
^BUes W. FlanagBn >.,........ .Flanagan's Mills. | Morgan O. Hamilton Austin.
BEPBESEMTATIVES.
inniamT. Clor^i GalTeskm. IDeWittC. Giddings *..... Bienham. I William 8. Heindon. Tjlet
JolmO. Conner... Bbormuu. | John Hancock. Austin. |
• KlaoUanattoiisHfiiUyoontmtedbTD. O.CMddinn. * Soooenfiilly oontMtad tlie deetkm oCWnUamT. Cladc; taokUmtt
Ma; 13, 1872.
VEEMONT.
BENAT0B8.
GeoigeF. Edmonds.. Borlington. | Justin & MonQl. Sttaitad.
BEPBESEKTATITES.
Luke F, Poland — .St, Johnsbury. | Worthlngton 0. Smith .St Alban's. | Cbades W. WilUad . . . .Montpdier.
VIKGINIA.
8EKAT0B8.
John W. Johaston Abingdon. | JohnF. Lewis FOftBepnUle.
BEPBESENTATIYEa
JohnX. Harris Harrisonbuix. | Wm. H. H. StoweU. . . .Ibnchester.
James H. Piatt, Jon. .. .Petersbni
Charles H. Porter Kichmoo
1 Eiec^oa annicaaaafuUj oontected b; Lewis HdEeosia,
E. M. Biaxtai) > . .FredericksburBh.
John ditcher Oak Groyo.
Elebard T.W.Duke.ChMlottesvilJo.
James H^ Piatt, Jon. . . . Pf tersbnig. I William Teny Wytbeyilla.
WEST VIKGIinA.
SENATOBS.
Ajibiirl. Boronuui., Faxketsbnig. | Henry O. Davis Ftedmost
BEPBESENTAXI V J£S.
John J. Davis Clatksburg. | Frank Hereford. Union. | James O. MoQiew Kingwood.
WISCOKSm.
«
SENATOBS.
Matthew IL Corpmter Milwaokee. | Timothy O. Howe. GzeenBv.
KEPBESENTATIVKS.
J. AUon Barber LanrastLtr. I Gerry W. Hazelton Columbus. I Jeremiah M. Bu8k........Vltaqaa
Charles A. Eldredge. . Fond dn Luo. j Alexander Mitchell .... Milwaukee. | Fhiletua Sawyer Oshkaak
ABIZONA TERBITOBY.
DELEGATE.
BichanlO. MoConnick Tncsim.
COLORADO TERRTTORT,
DELEGATE.
Jerome B. Chsvffeo... • Denver.
DAKOTA TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
UoiealL AnQittong Yankton.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.
DELEGATE.
KortonP. Cbjpman Washington Oty.
IDAHO TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
ecmtial A. Meitltt UaboCity.
THE PORTY-THmD OONQBE88.
191
MONTANA TERRITORr.
DELEGATE.
f'WmiamBlCIaggett Deer Lodge City.
TERRITOEY OF NEW MEXICO.
DELEGATE.
JoKMutuelGallegos Santa Fd,
■
UTAH TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
■WlUlaniH. Hooper* Salt Lake City.
1 ElooUon tuuncceafnUy oonteated by O. B. HaxwelL
WASHINGTON TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
fielactos Garfielde Olympia.
WYOMING TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Vmtam T. Jonee Olteyeuiie.
THE FOETY-THIRD CONGRESS.
Session, Jrom Dee. 1, 1873, to June 23, 1874. Second Session, from Dee. 7, 1874. to March 4, 1875.
^tea-President. — Hknby Wilson of Massachiisetta. PivMclents of Oie Senate pro temix>re. — SIatthkw H.
^^*l^XMTSB of Wigconsin, elected March 13, 1873, in tipccial session, again oloctod March 2(!, 1873, again elected
. ^^**s- It, UI7.3, and again elected Dec. 23, 1874; Hsnry B. Anthoxt of Uliodo Inland, elected Jan. 25, 18T5, and
I***^ elected Feb. 16, 1875. Secretary q/'tAe Seno/i;. — Geohoe 0. Goiuiam of California.
^^>eaJc«r qf ttie Bouse, — Jamss O. Blaikb of Maine. Clerk of the House, — Edwabd MoPhebsok of Fenn-
Vlvaaia.
ALABAMA.
BENATOH3.
UAopgQ Goldthwaite Montgomery. | George E. Spencer Cecatnr.
[ j)5''*'i'k G. Bromberg Mohilo.
irir^ H. CiildweU ... .Jacksonville.
r-'MirUjB uaya Eutaw.
REPKESENTATIVE3.
Cliarlos Pflimm Talladega.
Jaines T. Jtapicr Montgomery.
Cbristophcr C. Sbeata Decatur,
Joseph n. Sloss Tosoumbla.
Alexander White Bolma.
.Helena.
ARKANSAS.
SEKATOICS.
P«»>mi Clayton Uttlo Kock. I Stephen W. Doiaey
REPRESESTATIVES .
t'^^^nasM. Oiinter»..FayetteviUe. I William J. H\tios Little Kock. I WlUlamW. Wilshire*. Little Bock.
■^** Bwigva ■' Marion. | OUvor 1'. Snyder » Pine BlulT. |
.- ' SiiMeaRfully conUssted the oloction of WUUam W. WIIkUto; look hb itcat June K, IS74. ' FJootion unsiicccwfiilly coiw
2?* It U C. OanM : took hli seat Fib. 4, 1871, ■ ElecUon ansucoMsdiUy ooat<Mt«<i by IL L. Boll. * Elootiou kucceudilly
^""■■1 \ij Tboma* U. Guotor.
192
0ONOSE88IONAL I>IKEi01X>BY.
CALIFOKNIA.
SENATOBS.
liugene Casserlyi Ban Francisco. I Aaron A. Sai^nt. KevadaCity.
Johns. Hager ',..,,,.,,,. San Francisco. |
KEPEESENTATIVES.
Charles Clayton San Francisco. | John K. Luttrell Santa Roa4.
Sherman O. Hoaghton San Josd. | Horace F. Page FUwerrille.
> BMigned Not. 29, 18T3. * Elected in place of Eugene Cuaerly, naigned ; took hie aeat Feb. 9^ UH.
CONKECTICUT.
SENATORS.
William A. Bnckingham^ Korwich. I OrrisaFUry NorvalL
William W. Eaton*. Hartford. |
EEPEESENTATITES.
William H. Bamiun UmeRock. I Stephen W. Kellogg Waterbnir.
Joseph B. Uawley Hartford. | Henry H. Starlcweather NonricL
>I>ledFeb.6,187B. > Anmlnted In plaoa of William A. BacUn^iam, deoeued; took his wat Feb. IS, 1876.
DELAWARE.
8ENAT0BS.
IhomaB F. Bayard. ^Wilmington. | Eli Saolsbniy Dorer.
BEFBESEin'ATITB.
James B. Loflamd .
.MiUoid.
FLORIDA.
SENATOBS.
BimonB. Conorer Tallahassee. | Abijah Gilbert St. AngastiDe.
, KEPBISENTATIVES.
William J. Purmani Tallahaasee. | Josiah T. Walls Gainesrille.
I Beslgned Feb. 16, 1876.
John B. Gordon .
GEORGL^
SENATOHS.
.Atlanta, | Thomas Hanson Norwood .
.SaTsnnah.
Hiram P. Bell Coming.
James H. Blount Macon.
Philip Cook Americas.
James C. Freeman Griffin.
> Election nnsnoceesfolly contested br M.
EEPBESENTATIVES.
Henry R. Harris ' Greenville.
Morgan Rawis* Gnyton.
Andrew Sloan ■ Savannah.
Alex. H. Stephens.. .Crawfordville.
Bethane. > Election sncoeiKfally oontested by Andrew Sloaa.
Richard H. Whiteley . . .Bainbiidge.
Pierce M. B. Young. . . .Cartenrille.
John A. Logan .
conteeted the election of Hotgan Bawls; took his aeat Manh 24, 18T4.
ILLINOIS.
8EKAT0BS.
....Chicago. I Richard J. Oglesby .
* SooeasitiillT
.Decatnr.
Granville Barrere Canton.
Horatio C. Burchanl Freeport.
JoHeph O. Cannon Tuscola.
Bamanl O. Canllield ^ Chicaco.
Inane C'lements ....... .Carbondale.
Franklin rnnviti Peru.
Jolin H, Kdcii ■ Sullivan.
BEPBESENTATTVES.
Charles B. Farwell Chicago.
Groenbury L. Fort Lacon.
John B. Rawley Rock Island.
Stephen A. Hnrlbat Belvidere.
Robert M. Knapp Jersey ville.
Samuel S. Marshall. .McLeansboro'.
James S. Martin Salem.
John McKulta. Bloomington.
William B. Morrison. . . . .Waterioo.
William H. Ray RnshriUo.
John B. Rice » Chicago.
James C. Robinson Springfield.
Jasper D. Ward Chicago.
Elactedlnpliuieot John B.Bloe,deoeased; took his seat Feb. 1,1875. > Died Deo. U, 18T4.
OUfor P. tlnrton.
Tliotiiiw .r, Caaon. , ..... . .I/;banon.
Jiiliii rdUnni IniUanfl polls.
Willijun S lliilrtiaii Aurora.
MuriKii < '. IIimHT. ., .BliMiviiington.
WUUnm K. Nlblook Viiiuennes.
DTOL^NA.
SENATORS.
... .Indianapolis. | Daniel D. Pratt..
REPRESENTATIVES.
Godlove 8. Orth Lafayette.
Jasper Packard La Porte.
Henry B. Savler Iluntineron.
John P. C. Shanks i Portland.
I James N. Tyner Peru.
.Loganspoit.
William Williams. Waisa».
Jeremiah M. Wilson. .ConnetsriUe.
Simeon E. Wolfe New Albany.
> Election onsacoeesfolly oootested by John E. KefL
THB FOSIT-TBIBD COKOBB8S. 198
IOWA.
SENATOBS.
^nniamB. ADlaon Dabnqne. | Oeoige O. Wright DesMbineR.
BEFBESENTATIVIS.
ArlettB. Cotton Lyoiu. I William I/>iu;htidg:e.....08kaloo8a. I Jackson Oit. Boone.
Willjam O. Donnan. Independence. George W. MoCiary Keokuk. Henry O. Pratt Charles City.
John A.Ka8soa DesMoinee. | James W. HcDill Afton. | James Wilson Ti*er>
KA17SAS.
SENATOBS.
Alexander Caldwell^ LaaTenworth. I James H. Harrey*. Vinton.
Bobert Croder* Leavenworth. | John James Tngalls. Atohiaon.
BEPRESENTATIVES.
SteidianAlonsoOobb. .Wyandotte. | David P. Lowe FortSoott | WlUiam A. Phillips Salina.
> Barigned MsRli 34, UIS. > Appointed In ^aoe of Alexasder Caldwell, nsicned; took hii seat Deo. 1, UTS. • Elasted in
pjaoe at Akzaodei Caldwau, mlgned, Bobeit Crosier having been appouited pro tern.; took hla uat I^b. 13, 1874.
KENTUCKY.
SENATOBS.
Thomas C.MeCteeryi. Owensborongh. | John W. Stevenaon Oovingtoo.
BSFBESENTA'X'IVJSS.
EUsba D. Btsndiford . . . .LonisTilla.
Geoise H. Adams . . .BarboaisvUle.
William £. Aithnr Covington.
James B. Beck Lexington.
John Yoong Brown . . . .Henderson.
Edward- Crossland Mayfleld.
Hilton J. Ihirliara Danville.
Charles W. Milliken Franklin.
William B. Bead Hodgensville.
1 Eleetlon noaaceessfnllr oonteated by John M. Boma,
JohnD. Tonngi Owensvllla.
LOUISIANA.
SEKATOBS.
J. Bodman West New Orleans. | Yaoanl
BEPBESXIITATIViSB.
Chester B. DsocalL Braahear. I Lionel A. Sheldon >... New Orleana. IO«orBeL.Sml11i* eOuereport.
FzyikMorey Monroe. | Gteorge A. Sheridan 3. | J. Hale Sypher* Kew Orleans.
' Eleetion mMneeenfally contested by Bsndall L. Olbson ; took his seat Dee. 3, 1SI3. ' Eleetlon nnraocentolly contested
by P. B. 8. PinehbMk: took his seat March 3, 1875. • Election nnsacceasfully contested by £. O. Davldaon; took his seat
Me. 1^1873. • Elaeoonmisnooeaafiilly oontested by E.lAwienoe; took his seat Deo.il, 1S73L
MAINE.
SENATOBS.
Harnilbal Hamlin Bangor. | LotH. Monill Angnsta.
BEFBESENTATTVES.
James O. Blaine 1 Angnsta. I William P. Frye. Lewiston. I SamnelV. Haiwy* Bangor.
John H. Borle^gh . .Sonth Berwick. jEngeneHale ....Ellsworth. |
iZlested speaker Deo. 3^1813. > Died Veb. S. Uffi.
UABTLAND.
SENATOBS.
Oeotge B. Dnmis Kingston. | William T. Hamflton Hageratown.
BEFBESENTAIIVES.
Wnilam jr. Albert Baltimore. I Lloyd Lowndes, jnn. .Cumberland. I Thomas Bwann. Baltimore.
Btereoson Archer Bdalr. (William J. O'Brien. Baltimore. | Bphraim K. Wilson SnowHiU.
11ASSACHUSETT&
SENATOBS.
aBontwelli Oroton. I William B. Washboin* Greenfield.
Somner* Boston,
BEFBESENTATTVES.
Daniel W. Oooch Melrose.
Jimes Bofflnton Fall Biver.
SenjaminF. Bntler LoweU.
Alrah Crocker*. Fitchburs.
Henry L. Dawes. Pittsfield.
Benl. W. Harris. East Bridgewater.
£. Kockwond Hoar Concord.
George F. Hoar . . . : Worcester.
Samuel Hooper*. Boston.
Henry L. Fierce Boston.
Charles A. Stevens *. Ware.
John M. S. Williams... .Cambridge.
. * ElsrtedtnplaceofHennWnson,elect<MlVlce-Frei<ldont; tookhlsBeatMBrohl7,1873. • Died Hatch 11,1874. 'Elected
lBplMsofChBrI<iaSumn<]r,dacaasua; tookhls nest May 1,1874. « Died Deo. St, 1874. • Died Feb. 14, 1878. <Eleclediu
flwscfAlTahCniekaT.dsiMassdi took bis seat Jan. 37, 187&
194
CONOBBSSIONAI. DIBECTOBr.
MICmOAK
SENATORS.
Zachariah Chandler. Detroit. | Tliotnas'W. Feny., ..GiandHiiTBiL
REPKESENTATIVKS.
Joafah W. BcKols FHnt.
Nathan B. Bnwlley .Bay City.
JulliiB C. Burrows. Ealaniawti.
I Omar D. Conner . . .Port nuron.
Moses W. Field Detroit.
I Jay A. HubbeU Honghtoo.
Henry Waldron. Hillalsk,
( kKiree WUlanl Battle Creek.
WUUeuh B. WUIlams l AUegsi
Elected In place of Wilder D. Foster, decounl In ISI3; took Ills Mkt Deo. 1, 1173.
MINNESOTA.
8ENAT0I13.
Aloxandoi Bamsay St. Paul. | William 'Wisdom 'Winoni.
VEPBXSESrATlVTSS.
John T. AveriU St. FaoL | Mark H. Dmuiell Owatonna. | Horace B. Strait SbakapM
MISSISSIPPL
SENATORS,
Henry B. Beue*.
. JlO^BOD^
Jfaamlj. Aloom Friar's Point.
Adalbert Auiea ' Natchez.
BEFRESEMT ATIT^ .
Henry W. Barry Colmntins. I Lncitu Q. 0. Lamar Oiford, I George C. MoKee TicfcilraiR.
Albert B. Howe SanilB. [John K. Lynch .Natchez. \ Jaaoa NUes Kosdtuuk
Beidened 1871. ■ Elected in plaoe of Adelbert Autos, roilBnad; took liiBieat Feb. 1^ 1S71.
IJewIa V. Bogy .
Blchord P. Bland Lebanon.
AyietC II. Buckner. Mc;ui:i>.
Juliu B. CLirk, juu, Fnyettd.
Abeam Comingo InileiienifcQfO.
Thog. T, Crittenden. .Warceusbuig.
lOSSOTTBI.
SENA1X)RS.
StLonis. I Carl Schotz.
BEPSESENTATIVES.
John M. Glover Ia ORitijcte.
Robert A. Hntcber New Mailrul.
Uanison E. Haven h Sririiiglleld.
IraB. Hyde t"rin™uj[i.
Isaao G. Parker .St. Joaepti.
.SLLtmii.
Edwin O. Stanard.
William H. Stuue .
Erastua WtUls
.St L()iii«.
.St. Loois.
.St. Louis.
NEBRASKA.
SEKATOBS.
PldneasW. Hitchcock Omaha. | Thomas W. Tipton.
.BrownsvUK
BEPBESENTAinrE.
Lorenzo Crounse Fort C^boiUL
NEVADA.
SENATORS.
John P. Jones GoldHiU. | William H. Stewart .
.Tiiginia Oty.
BEFBESENTATIVK.
Charles W. Eondall .Hamilton.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
SENATORS.
Aaron H. Cragin. Lebanon. | BaLnbridge Wadlelgh. HUfonL
KEPKESENTATi V ES .
Hoaea W. Parker Claiemont | Anstin F. Pike Franklin. | William B. Small... .^ewM«ik«t,
rre<!eiricfc T. Fr»liQt;hnyBen.
Ames CTark. jun Elizabeth.
fiwniiel A P,,l,binB . .Mount Sollv'.
Botiert Haniilton Newton.
NEW JEESET.
SENATOItS.
Newark. | Jobii P. Stockton.
REPRESENT A TI VE3.
John W. Hazelton . . . .Mallinn Hill.
William W. Phelps .... Englewootl.
Isaac W. Scudder. Jersey City.
Marcna L. Ward .
.Ttentcu.
.Hemik.
THE FORTT-THIIID CONGRESS.
195
Itoseoe ConUing.
I-ymnn K. Bhai 'Bnffalo.
8init<r>ii B. Chittenden' . .Rrouklyit.
Fn-einnn Clarke 1 Joolip»ti«r.
Stuuiiel S. Cox Kc'W York.
TlionuM J. Creamer. New Yurk.
Pbilip 8. Crooke Flat busli.
I>ttvl<l M . npWirt Kinestim.
li. UoUnml l)neU Cortland.
3lol)ert S. Hale EliEabothtowo.
Jl. H. Hilt hum.,. Saratog;* Hprinfis.
♦•(•orgo *i. HoskinR Attica.
~NVm. H. Lamport Cananduigua.
' Bwted in place ot Stewart L. Woodford, realgned; took hU Mnt Dm. 7, 1X74.
DarM B. Helltab, deoeaaedi tuuk kla soat Doc. 7, 1874.
NEW YORK.
SENATORS.
TJttca. I Reuben E. Fenton .
KEPRESENTATI VK3.
Win. E. Jjinxing ChittonanRo.
.fnlm I>. LawRnn New York.
Clinlim \). M:iol>oiigall Auburn.
Din-ill n. Mfllish » New York.
Clinton L. Mcrriam. .Locust Orove.
Eli Perry Albany.
Thomas "C. Pljitt Owcgo.
Cliirksiin N. Pott«r. .New Rocbelle.
Ellis H. liobcrts Uticu.
Willlnui H. lU.lwrts New York.
Uii'Iiai'fl Si'hell" New York.
John If. Scbumuker Ilrooklyn.
.JameRtown.
Ilcnry J. Srndiler New York.
Waller L. Sessiuos I'nnmuo.
.Tame;! S. Smart CambriilKO.
U. llourdman Smith Elmim.
Charles St. .Tnhn Port .lervU.
Lyman Tremain Albany.
William A. Whcoler Malono.
.John O. Whitehousc.PoughkcetMie.
rtavid Wilber Milf.)rd.
Fernando Wood New York.
Stewart JL. Woodford*. . .Brooklyn.
I Dlod May 23, 1II7I.
BflnIcneJ In 1874.
• Booted In place of
NORTH CAROLINA,
SENATOUS.
^Ansustiis S. Merrlmon Raleigh. | Matt W. Ransom.
.Weldon.
lomaa 8. A«he Wadosborongh.
liziton L. Cobb Elizabeth City.
lasM. Iieacti Lexington.
folun Sherman.
BEPRKSENTATTV'ES.
I William M. Robbins. . . . Statosville.
William A. Smith Princeton.
I Charles U. Thoraaa Newbem.
orao.
SENATOUS.
Mansfield. I Allen O. ThtumaQ ,
Robert B. Vanee Asherille.
Alfred M. WaddeU. . . . Wlludngton.
.Columboa,
[ exiry n. Banning Cincinnati
[ Jolir Berry Upper Sandusliv.
[Ileiukiah S. Bundy.. . .Ueed's .Mills.
I lyOT-«-n.',ii Danfonl .". . -St. Clairsville.
"William E. Finck' Somerset.
Ch^jlen Foster Fostorla.
iJamuA Oarfleld Hiram.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Lewis R. Oiinckel Dayton.
llii(jli J. .Tewctt' Culuiilbiis.
CImrles N. I.Ami.son Lima.
William I.awrenco. . .Bellefoutaiiio.
.lames Monroe i)berliu.
Ijawnmco T. Neal Chillicotbo.
Richard C. Parsons Cleveland.
.Tames W. Robinsou MarysvtUe.
Milton Sayler Cincinnati.
Is.iac li. Sherwood Bryan.
■Iiihn Q. Smith Oakland.
Milton I. Southard Zanesville.
Wm. r. Si)ni({Uo . .McConnellsville.
Laurin D. Wood worth . YouUKStown.
* Eleeted In place ot Hugh J. Jowott, teelgnoil ; took bl« teat Dec. 7, 1874. > UudgnBd In 1874.
OREGON.
SENATORS.
i'K. Kelly Portland. | John H. Mitchell... Porthuid.
EEPRESENTATIVE.
iW. Nesmithi BlcieoL
> Elooted In plaoe ot J. Q. WUaon, deoeaeed In 1873, having never taken hi« loat.
I ^**»on Cameron .
PENNSYLVANIA.
SENATORS.
.Harriabtirg. I John Scott.
BEPBBSENTATIVES.
.Iluntingdon.
VIbrlght. . . .Manch Chunk.
lliery Allentown.
<• na Bedford.
or Clyiiior Reading.
im B. Curtis Erie.
I C. Ilnrmer Oennantown.
Iliiuu 1) KcIIdv,. . I'hiladelgihiiv.
ku ^^'. Killiuger Lebanon.
.- *iii A. Mngco New Bloomtiphl.
^ "eneicr McJunkin i Butler.
Willinm .S. Monro Washington.
l/conard Myers PhiliKlelphia.
James S. Negley Pitt.ifiurg.
Charles O'Neill Philadelphia.
John B. Parker Siinburj-.
Samuel .1, llanilaU.. ..I'hibjilelpliia.
Ifiriitii 1.. liiclimond Meadville.
Sobleski liogs Coudcrsport.
Glenni W. Scofleld. Warren.
L. D. Shoemaker Wilkesbarre.
***4tned Jan. 1, 1878, having been olootod dlttxict Judge. > Elwtml In plaoe at Ebenoor UoJanktn, resigned ; took hU soak
Jan. 6, lb7S.
A Horr Smith lionraater.
R. Milton Speer Huntinijilou.
John B. Stonn Stroiidsburg.
James D. StrawbridRe. . . .Danville.
Alexander W. Tavlor Indiana.
John M. Thompson ' Butler.
Uniiiiel Tmld Carlisle.
Wasliingtou Townseud,
West Chester.
KHODE ISLAND.
SENATORS.
r B. Aotbony ProTidence. | William Sprague Providence.
BEPKESENTATIVES.
^^*^jaminT. Eames Proridence. | James M. Pendleton Westerly.
196 OOKGBESSIOIfAI. DIBX!0T0B7.
SOITTH CABOLmA.
SENATORS.
Jolin J. FatteiaoB. Colnmbia. | TbonuM J. BobeztBon Ocdmnbi^
KEPRESEHTATXVES.
Bichard H. Cain Colnmbia. I BobertB. Elliott < Columbia. I Alonzo J. Bansier Chatlestoi.
Lewis C. Carpenteri Columbia. | Joseph H. Bainey Georgetown. | Alexander S. Wallace... .YorkTil]«.
> Eleeted in pbwe of Bol>artB.£UIoa,ialciied; took bis SMrt Deo. 7,1874. > Bedgnad in 1874.
TENNESSEE.
SENATOSa
Wmtam a. Brownlow. KnozYille. | Henry Cooper. KadniDe.
BEPBESENTATTVES.
Jobs D. C. AfUnB. Paris.
John H. Bri^t IS^yetteyille.
Boderick B. Bntler. . . .Tayloisrille.
William Cratchfleld . .Chattanooga.
Horace H. Harrison Nashville.
Barbour Lewis Memphis.
Horace Maynaid Knoxville.
David A. Nonn. BrownsTllle.
Jacob M. Thombnrgh. ..Knoxrille.
Washington a WhitthoniB,
Colmnbii.
TEXAS.
BENATOBS.
James W. Flanagan Flanagan's Hills. | Morgan O. HamOton. .Anatin.
BEPBfSENTATTVES.
DeWitt C. Oidding) Brenham. | William S. Hemdon Tyler. I BogerOlCUs.,... Coiskaoa.
John Hancock. Austin. | Wm. P. McLean.. .Mount Pleasant. | Asa H. Willie Galvesttm.
VERMONT.
SENATOBS.
Oeotge F. Edmonds Bndington. | Justin S. Morrffl. Stafford.
BEPRESENTATl VE8.
Oeoige W. Hendee MbnteTHIe. | Lake P. Poland St. Johnsbniy. | Charles W.'^nilaid....M6tttpelier.
VIEGINIA-
SENATOBS.
John W. Johnston Abingdon. | JohnF. Lewis FoitBepabUe.
BEPBESE2ITAT1VE8.
Beea T. Bowen Maiden Spring.
Alexander M. SaTis,^
Independence.
John T. Harris Barnsonburg.
Eppa Hunton Warrenton.
James H. Flatt, jnn. Norfolk.
James B. Sener. . . .FredericksbaiK-
J. Ambler Smith Bichmond.
Wm. H. H. Stowell Bnrkerille.
Christopher T. Thomas,*
Martlnsrille.
Thomas Whitehead . .Amherst C.H.
> Election ineoeaifally oontested by Cbrlstopber T. Thomaa. > SaaaenfuQ; oontastad tbe electton of AVixaniVr H. Dsiiii
took bi* aert Mansb 6, 1874.
WEST VIRGINIA.
SENATOBS.
Arthur L Boreman Parkersbnrg. | Henry G. Davis Ftodmant
BEPEESENTATTVES.
John J. Davis* Clarksburg. | JohnM. Hagans> Morgantown. { Frank Hereford. Union.
1 Election nnsoooeMfiiUy oontested by Benjamin Wilson; took bis aeat Jan. 27,1874. « Etectton mismifwwftiny eontasted by
BenlamlnF. Uartln; took bia seat Jan. 27, 1874.
WISCONSIN.
SENATOBS.
Matthew E. Cttipenler i. IClwaakee. | Timothy O. Howe OnenBi7.
EEPKESENTATTVES.
J. Allen Barber LnncBBter. | Alexanders. McDill. Plover. I Philetus Sawyer Oshkosh.
Cliarle.4 A. Elilildge. .Food dn Laa I Alexander Mitchell . . . .Milwaukee. I Charles G. Wuliams. . . JaynesriUS'
Gerry W. Haxelton Colmnbus. | Jeremiah M. Busk Viroqoa. |
> Elected president pro (em. Hatch 12, 1873.
ARIZONA TERRITORY.
DELBQATB.
EicbardC. MaCormick..... .Taoaon.
THE FOBTY-VOUBTH COITOBBSS. 197
COLORADO TKBRTTOBT.
VXIXQAXB.
•TeiaineB. GliaffM DenTSr.
DAKOTA TEBBITOBT.
HEIXQAXB.
Xoaes K. AimBttong YaoktOB.
DISTEICT OF COLUMBIA-
DELEOATE.
KortamP. Chipnum. "WMUngton.
IDAHO TEREITORT.
DELEGATE.
JoImHafley BoIaeCUy.
MONTANA TEBBITOBT.
DELEGATE.
MkrtiB Magbinla • • • tTaImih^
TEKEtlTORT OF NEW MEXICO.
DELEGATE.
Stephen BwSIUiis 8aataV<.
UTAH TEBBITOBT.
DELEGATE.
OaoxgeQ. Cannon 1. Salt Lake City.
1 Eleetion tuuaooeoBfnUjr oonteated by G«orgs B. UunnU.
WASHINGTON TEBBITOBT.
DELEGATE.
Obadiah B. MoFadden Olympla.
WYOMING TEBBITOBT.
DELEGATE.
'WnUam & Steele Obeyenneu
THE POETT-FOURTH CONGRESS.
FSnt S«$*i(m,fnm Dee. 6, 1875, to Aug. 15, 1870. Second Seieion, from Dee. 4, 1876, to March 8, 1877.
Tht-Prettdeat.^ Praident of tft« SenaU pro ten^pore.— Tbokab W. Fkkbt of SOchigan, elected Mazxsh 9^
1875, In ipedal aesalon; again elected Maich 19; 1878; and again elected Dea 20, ISTO. BeereUiTy f^ ih» Senaie. —
OaoBOB 0. GoBEAX of Calif oniia.
Sptaken itf the Bouee.—ISsaBAXt. 0. Kkbb* of Indiana; Saxuel J. Badixaixi of Pennaylvania, elected
Dee. i, 1876l Clerh </ the Bouae. — Gxobob M. Asaxs of Kentnoky, elected Dea 6, 1875.
>HaBiyWilMa,^oe-Fiaddant<rf the United StBtoi, died Not. 22, U7B. * IMad Aog. 1^ UTt.
AT.ABAWA.
SENATOBS.
6«o>ge6oldth«aite Montgomery. | Qeoige £. Spencer Deoatoi.
BEFBESENTATTVES.
I^Ql Biadf ord Talladega. I Jere Haralson i Selma. I BmtrellB. Lewis Toecalooaa.
JohnH. CaldvreU....JacksonTlfle. Charles Hays Haysville. Jeremiah N. Williama..... Clayton.'
William H.Fom«y...JackaonTiUe. | Goldsmith W. Hewitt. Birmingham. |
' iriiwlli miiiiimiifiiTlj ImliiillijT' 0 TliiiiiilHin
Ids OONGBESSIONAIi DIBEOTOBY.
ABEAKSAS.
SESATOBS.
Powell Clayton Little Bock. | Stephen W. Doraey Hdaii
BEPEESENTATTTES.
Lncien C. Gause,. Jaoksonport. I WllUain F. Slemong MontJceQo,
Tboma* M, Gunier FayettovlUe. | William W. WUaMns little Eoi*.
CALIFOIINIA
SENATQBS.
Nowion Booth Saoramento. | Aaron A. Sargent -NerodiiCilj.
REPRE3ENTAT IT E3.
John K. Lnttrell Santa Bosa. I William A. Piper San Fnnctera.
Horace Franula Page Plaoerville. | Peter UlnwidcBo Wlggiatou Man»d.
COLORADO
SENATORS.
Jerome B, ChaSee* Denver. | Henry M. TeUar !...>.. CentmlCtty.
BEPEESENTATITE.
James B. Belforili... , Contial City.
) ToaVUsMatDee.4,18TS. > Took Ub hm J&n. 31, 1BT7.
CONNECTICUT.
SENATOItS.
William H. narnum> UmeBock. [ James E. Engliali* New HaT«n.
William W. Eaton Hartford. lOrrLia Ferry" Norwalk.
EEPKESENTATIVES.
WllHaiii H. Barniitn ' . . Umo Rock. I James Phelps KiMex. I John Turner Wait • Korwlclu
GeorEO SI. Landera . . .New Britain. | Henry H. Starkweatlier-" . Jforwicli. | Levi Waniiir » Num alk.
• Klwtrd scnalnr In plrww of Orrtr> S, Ftetry, deceased, Jainwt E. Eiiclish ImTlng boeri npjMiintod pro ttm.; tock hli mt
Mny 2i. 1«T*. • AppoiiiUsI In plaeo of Orrto S. Feny, dweMwl; look hk «eat r>oo. 8, 1875, > l)ie4 Not. W, ISi75. • Iftsi
Jttn. 'iS. IKTO. ' £1l*«Ivi1 Lu pith's uC llfiniy U. Starkweather, ilocoasad) todk big seat April 12, ISTS. • fHoctud In {din at
WLUiuu U. Bamum, elected ecuator; took nla seat Deo. 5, IVtO,
DELAWAKE.
SENATORS.
XhosnasF. Bayard Wilmington. | Eli Saulsbni^ Doret^
BEPBESENT ATI V E.
James WlUlama Kenttm.
FLORTOA.
8EKAT0BS.
Simon B, Conoyer Tallahaaaee. | Charles W. Jones Pensaeala.
BEFBES£N T ATI VES.
Jwsa J. Pinley l JaelcBonville | William J. Porman Tallahassee. | Joelah T. Walls ^ O^nesville.
■ Suc«eBfiiIty eontosted tbo election of Jodah T. Walls; took liis noat April 13, isrra. ■ Qectlon ■ucooaKtolly contesteii Iv
JeneJ. Fluluj-.
GEORGIA.
SENATORS.
~il<ihnB, Oordon « Atlanta. | Thomas Manion Norwiood SaYasnib-
BEPBESEXTATITES.
Jamw H. Blonnt Macon. WllUam H. Feltou CartersTille. I Benjamin H. HiU i Atlaota.
MUtim A. Caudler Atlanta. Henry R. Harris Greenrille. I William E. Smith Alban.r.
niUipCaok Americus, Julian Hartridge Savannah. | A.H. Stephens Crawfordrille.
>EliKil*itt]ipUoaofa«iTattHoMman, deoeaMkllnlSTSi took Ua seat Dee. 6, UTS.
ILLINOIS.
SENATOBS.
kuA. logm , Chicago. I Bichaid J. Ogleaby Decatur.
TB£ XOBIY-XVUBIH CONGBBSS.
199
'William B. Andenon. .Elk Piaiiie.
John C. Basby BoshTille.
Horatio C. Burobaid Freeport.
Alexander Campbell La Salle.
Josepli G. Cannon Danville,
Barnard G. Caulfleld Chicago.
John B. Eden Sullivan.
> Beetkm imiiiinifiiTlj oonteitad Iff J. V. LaUoyne.
BEPEESENTAT1VJ58.
Charles B. Farwell i Chicago.
Greenbury L. Fort Xacon.
Carter H. Harrison Chicago.
"Willlani Hartzell Cheater.
Thomas J. Henderson. . .Princeton.
Stephen A. Hurlbut Belvidere.
'William B. Morrison 'Waterloo.
J. 'V. LeHoyne*
'William A. J. Sparks Carlyle.
'William M. Springer Springfield.
Adlai £. Stevenson. . .Bloomington.
Richard H. 'Whiting Feoria.
Scott 'Wike Fittsfield.
> Snoeesisfally contastad the election o( Ouutlei B. Itewdl; took hia
Beat Ma; 6, 1876.
Joseph E. McDonald .
johnH. Baker Ooshen.
If athan T. Carr ^ Columbus.
Thomas J. Cason Lebanon.
Janiea L. Evans Noblesville.
Benoni S. Fuller Boonville.
INDIANA.
SESATOBS.
. . . .Indianapolis. | Oliver P. Morton .
KEPHESENTATTVES.
Andrew H. Hamilton. Fort 'Wayne.
"William S. Haymond . . .Monticello.
W. 8. Holiiian Aurora.
Andrew Humphreys >. . . .
Morton C. Hunter Bloomington.
.Indianapolis.
I Elected In place <tf Michael O. Kerr, deoeaaed; took hla seat Dec. 6, 1876. *
reidgned ; took hli aeat Deo. S, 1876. ' Elected apeaXet Dec. 6, 1675; died Aug. 16,
eleiSad ciiTeimoT of Indiana.
Michael 0. Kerr » New Albany,
Franklin Landers Indianapolis.
Jeptha D. New Vernon.
Milton 8. Robinson Anderson,
James D. Williams* 'Wheatland.
Elected In place of Jamea D. 'Williams,
1876. < Beelgnad In 1876, liaTing been
'WnUamB, Allison.
LLAlasworth 'West Union. I
John A. Kasson Des Moines.
Geoige W, McCiary Keokuk. |
IOWA.
SENATOBS.
, Dubuque. | Oeorge O. "Wright .
BEPBESENTATIVES.
James "Wilson McDill Alton. 1
Addison Oliver Onawa. {
Henry O. Pratt Charles City.
.Des Moinea.
Essekiel S. Sampson Bigoumey.
John Q^uf ts, . , .'Wilton Junction,
James Wilson Traer.
KANSAS.
SENATOBS.
James IL Harvey 'Vinton. | John James Ingalls Atchison.
BJSPBISENTATIVES.
'William B Brown ....Hutchinsoa | John B. Ooodin Humboldt | WllUam A. PbUIips Salina.
Thomas 0, MoCieeiy.
Joseph 0. 8. Blaokbnm. .Versailles.
AodrewB Boone Mavfleld.
John f onng Brown . . . .Henderson.
Juhn B. duke BrooksvUle.
KENTUCKY.
SENATOBS.
. .Owensborongh. | John 'W. Stevenson .
BEPBESENTATIVES.
Milton J. Durham Danville,
Thomas L. Jones Newport.
J. Proctor Knott Lebanon.
Charles W. Milliken Franklin.
.Covington.
Edward Y. Parsons ^ ... .LooisviUe.
HenryWatterson* Louisville.
John D. WMte Manchester.
> Died July 8, 1876L > Elected In place of EdwaidT.Panona, deceased; took bia seat Atig. U, WS.
J. B. West.
LOUISIANA.
SENATOBS.
.New Orleans. | Vacant.
BEPBESENTATIVES.
Chester B. DanaU Brashear.
£.John Ellis New Orleans.
Baadall L. Gibson. . . .New Orleans,
I 'William B. Spencer* Vidalia.
'William M, Levy — Natchitoches. {
Frank Moreyi Monroe, j
Charles E. Mash Washington. |
* OaeUon iniwfnlly contested by "WilUam B. Spencer. * Saccesefnlly conteated the election of nank Xaey; took hla
aeat June 8, 1876; resigned Jan. 8, 1877.
.Augusta.
UAJNE.
SENATOBS.
James G. Blaine 1 Augusta. |LotM.Monai*
Hannllial TTomnTi Bangor. |
BEPBESENTATIVES.
James O. Blaine 1 Augusta. lEdwlnFlye* Newcastle. I Eugene Hale Ellaworth.
John B. Borieigh ..South Berwick. | William P. Prye Lewiaton. | Harris M. Plalsted* Bangor.
* Qected senator in place of Lot M. Monill, resigned: took hla aeat Deo. 4, 1876. > Beslgncd July 7, 1876, bavlng Ixwn
JVpoliUed seeretaiy of the treaauiy. • Elected in place of Jamea Q. Blaine, re!>igned ; took hla aeat Dec. S, 1876. < clectod
"Plaoeal Samuel F.Haaey,deoeaaod; took hla seat Dec. 6, 1876.
200
OONOEESSIONAI. DIBIOCTOST.
MABTIAND.
SENATOBS.
QeoTge B. Be&nlfl Kingston. | WiUiamPinckney'WIiTte.
hefresentativjs.
■BalSmare.
Eli J. nenkle Brooklyn.
IViUumi J. O'BiIqii Baltimore.
Qtorgi 8. B<nitweU.
Cliarlea B, Rolwrta . . .Westnilnater. I
Ttiomas Swaiin Baltimore. |
MASSACHUSETTS.
SENATORS.
Oroton. I Henry L Dawes .
KEPItESENTATIVES.
Enfiis 8. Fr()!(r • Chelsea.
Bi;nj. W. Harris ...B. Bridgewater.
Oeorso F. Hiiar Worcester.
UtuLry L. Piui'ue Boeton.
PhUipF. Thomas Eutoa.
'William ^^oIbIi . finmViATlflru^
.fittaEd'l
Jullni! H. Seelye ....Ambeiit
Jolin K, Turhox .LawreBK^
Charles P. Tliampson. . .GloHcesto;.
William Wirt Wujrcn BusUn,
Josinli G. Abbott^. Boston.
Nutbaniel P. lianks WaJtliam.
Chester W. Chapin Sprinctielil
William W. Crapo*. .New Bedford.
■ Siu»eisfi;l]y oontffited the elecUon of KafnB S. Front; took his seat Jnly 28, ISTS. > EI«Xed In nlaeeof Jam» Baltslm,
deceueil In 18Tfi; took bit seat Dtto. i, IbTCL • EleeUon sacoentally ootitegteil by Joslab G. Abtntt.
MICHIGAir.
SENATOBS.
Lamdog. | Thomas W. Ferry ^ Grand Hsreo.
Isaac P. Chtistlaucy.
Nathan B, Bradley. ..... .Bay City.
Omar D. Conger. Port Huron.
George H. Dunutd Flint.
KEPRE3ENTATIVES.
I Jay A. n alihell Honghton.
Alien Potter Kalamazoo.
( Henry WaUlron Hillsdale.
1 President pro (em.
George Willard Battle Creek.
Alplieus S. Williams Detroi»L
WUliam B. Williams AUegsn.
MIXNESOTA.
SENATOBS.
Samoel J. B. McMnian St. Paul. | William Windom Winons.
aEPRESENTATins.
UatkH, DnimeU Owatonua. | WQliamS. King Minneapolis. | Horace B. Strait' Bhskopee.
> lElaeUou nnsacoesetnlly contested by E. 8. Cox.
MISSISSIPPL
SKNATOBS.
Jamea Ltisk Aluom rriar's Point. | Blanche BL Brace FloreydUe.
BErBBSENTATTTES.
Charles B, Hooker Jackson. | John B. Lynch Natchez. I Otho B. Singleton Canton.
I a. Wilej " ■
Lucius Q. C. Lamar... Oxford. | Bemando De Soto Money .Winona. |
raey W ells Holly Spring!
Lewis V. Bogy.
MISSOURL
BENAT0B8.
■St. Louis. I Francis M. Cockrell.
EE PRESENTATTVES.
.Warrenehnig.
Blchard P. Bland Lebanon.
Avl< tt H. Buckner Mexico.
Join) B. Clark, ItviL Fayette,
Bodn A. DeBoIt .Trenton.
Benjamin J. Franklin. Kansas City.
John M. Glover La Grange.
Robert A. Hatcher. . . .New Madrid.
Edward (J, Kohr St. Louis.
Charles H. Morgan Lamar.
JohnF. Phillips Sedalia.
DaTid Rea Savannsh,
Williaiii H. Btono St Luuiv
Eiaatus WeHs Si Lools.
NEBBASEA.
6ENATOBS.
..Omaha. I Algernon S. Faddook Beatrioe.
EEPEB8ENTATIVE.
..Fort Calhoun.
i
NEVADA.
8ENAT0BS.
Gold Hill. I William Sharon Virginia City
BEPBESENTATTVE.
• VitginiaCity.
THE FORTY-FOUBTH OONOI
201
NEW nAMPSHIRE.
SENATORS.
JUronH. Cragin I<ebanon. | Bainbridge 'Wadleigh Uilford.
BEPKESESTATIVES.
Samuel N. Bell Manchester, | Henry 'W. Blair Flymoath. | Frank Jones FortsmoDth.
^^^P K£W JERSEY.
W SENATORS.
B TMeiickT. Frelinghaysen Newark. | Tbeodoio F. Bandolph MorrlBtown.
H EEPEESENTATI V ES.
^ £imni
^ngnstna "W. Cntler. . .Morristown.
£imncl A. Dobbins . .Mount Holly.
Xobeit Hamilton Newton.
Angnstna A. Hardeiibergh,
Jersey City.
Miles Boss New Bmuswiok.
Clement H. Binntokson Salem.
Frederick H. Teeiie Newaik.
Conkllng.
NEW YORK.
SENATORS.
..ntioa. I Francis Eeman.
.rrtica.
H. Ailama Cohoes.
otge A. Bagley Watertown.
" nH. Baglev, jiin Catskill.
illlam H. BnkoT Conatantio.
LyxnauK. Bass Buffalo.
George M. Beebe Monticello.
A.r>clut>alcl M. Bliss Brooklyn.
Simron R. Cbitteudon ...Brooklyn.
Sainurl S. Cox Now York.
Joli u M. Davy Rochester.
Smiih Ht. inn.1 New York.
David Uudlev Field' . . .New York.
KEPEESENTAT1VE3.
H. H. Hatliorn... Saratoga Springs.
Ahrora 8. Hewitt New York.
rieorpe (!. Hoskins Attlr-a.
Elbriiige O. I^ipliom . Canandaigua.
Eliiw W. I..eavenworth Syracuse.
Scott Lord Uticu.
Clinton D. MacDougall Auburn.
Edwin K. Meade New York.
Ucnrv B. MrtraiUe Westlield.
Sniiiucl F. .Miller.. North FrankliD.
Nclmm I. Nortiin' niiisdnle.
N. Holmes OdeU White Plains.
Thomas 0. Plntt Owego.
John G. Schiiuiaker Brooklyn.
Martin I. Townseiid Troy. '
Clmrles C. B. Walker Comine.
Elijiih Ward New York.
\V illiam A. Wheeler Malone.
Jolin O. Whitehouse.PouBhkcejBie.-
Andrew 'Williuma iHattsbure.
Benjamin A. Willis New York.
Fernando Wood New York.
P
Xteriped Dee. 12, 187a, having been el(^et«d maror of New^Tork CItr. ' Electtnl In place of BinlUi Ely, Jan., roalgned ; took
' m. 11, 1877. • KIocUhI in puco of AuKustui F. Allen, deoeucd In 1875; took his Mat Dec. «, lisiS.
Uaa
NORTH CAROLINA.
SENATORS.
A.ti£iutQ«S. Merrimon Baleigh. | Matt W. Bansom.
REPRESENTATrVES.
William M. Bobbins. . . . StatesTille.
Alfred hL Scales. . .Greensbnronob.
Bobert B. Vance A8hevill&
.Weldon.
Tbomas 8. Ashe . . .WadesbomngK I
JoMeph J. Bavis Louisbnrg.
JoluA.Hyman Warrenton. |
I Alfred M. Waddell .. .Wilmington.
Jesse T. Yeatea . .MurfieesboiuDgb.
I
JobnShennan.
onio.
SENATORS.
.Mansfield. I Allen O. Tbarman .
.Oolnmbna.
^enrr B. Banning Cincinnati
•iar-„i, i>. Cowan Asliltin'l.
*^>K'iuo Danford St. Clairsville.
Y'^^f'es Foster FosUiria,
^aoica A. Garfield Hiram.
frank H. Hnrd Toledo
^ illiam L«wTence. . . Belief ontaine.
REPRESENTATIVES.
John A. McMahon Dayton.
.liimes M<<iir<v(' Olwrliii.
I.a« rerico T. Neal Cbillicotlio.
Ileury B. Payiie Cleveland.
Early F. Pupnlfton Delaware.
Amoricus V. llioe Ottawa.
John S. Savage Wilmington.
Milton Sayler Cincinnati.
Milton 1. Southard Zanesrille.
•lohn L. Vamo Gallipolis.
Nelson H. Van Vorhes Athens,
Ansel T. Walling Circleville.
li. D. Woodwortn . . . . Yoongstown.
OREGON.
SENATORS.
I ^*«a«« K. Kelly Portland. | John H. Mitchell Portland.
, REPRESENTATIVE.
I ^^ellfl liue t Boaebnrg.
> Elected In place of George A. La Dotr, docesMd in 1875; took hli seat Doe. 8, 1875.
lOftBunm •
PENNSYLVANIA.
SENATORS.
.Harrlsburg. | William A. Wallace Clearfield.
202
CX>>'GB£SSIONAI. DIBBCTOBT.
Hiester Cly mer Reading.
Alex. (t. Corlimne . Alleglmny City.
Kranciji 1). Ojlliiis Scrautoii.
Albert («. Egbert Fraiiklin.
Chnpinan Freeman .. .rhiliidelpliia.
Jaiiiea U. H<iiikinB Pitlsfmrj;.
Oeoree A. Ji'nki* Bronkvillc.
AVilliBiii D. KHlnv....Pliiliwl.lphia.
Vf. W. Ki'tcliuiul Wilkcsbiirre.
Jjev\ A. Mackey Lock Haven.
> Bodgnsd In 1878. * Eleotad
KEPEESENTATIVK8.
Ti<>rl Maisb York.
Willinm Miiti'liler Kaston.
I'liarlfs ONelll PUilailclpIiia.
Jolm li. I'aiker Sunlmry.
Josepli I'owell Towaiida.
Saiiiiwl J. Riinilall'. ..Pbiluilelpbiii.
JaiQi-s H. r.eilly Pottuvilln.
Jciliii Itoilly Allot urn.
John RobliiuR Philadclpliio.
Boblsski Boss Cua<len<|iort.
Dm. 4, 1876. • laeoted In nlaoe of Winttarop W. Ketefaam, TBdocd; took hit
MatOao.4, 1878.
James Sbeakley Gr««nr01i.
A. Ilerr Sraitli lAaantt.
William H. Stanton* Scnnioa
William S. Steuger .Chaml- -^- -
W. Towiuiend Wev
Jai'obTumi'y (;i. ■
.Tohn W. Wallace Ntwciutlt
.■Uan Wood, jiui Consbohudia.
RHODE ISLAND.
SENATORS.
Henry B. Anthony Ptovidence. | Ambrose E. Btimside Prorideno*
BEPEESENTATITES.
Latimer W. Ballou Woonsocket I Benjamin T. Eamea PioTidtiks^r^
SOUTH CAROLINA.
SHKATOBS.
John J. FatteiBon Charleston. | Tboiuas J. Robertson CohuntaiA
RETKESENTATI V ES.
Cliarles W. Buttzl Charleston. I Edward VT. M. Mackey,»CIiarleston. I Robert SmalU Reaufr-* A
Solomon L, Uoge Columbia. I Joseph 11. Raiiiey* Gcor^tovm. | Alexander S. Wallace... \'otkTi-S]&
' Bected to fill vscancy declared by Congrpss .Inly ID, 18TA : took his mait .tan. 23. 1HT7. • Seat declared vacant July U, 11
* J^ouUon unsuccQAKf ully contested by Samuel Lee.
TENNESSEE.
SENATORS.
James E. Bailey' Clark-ivillo. I Andrew Johnson* GpeenvtH*-
Uoiiry Coojier Nasbvillu. { Uu^id M. Key* Chattanoo^^
John D. C. Atkins Paris.
John it Bright Fayetterille.
■William P. Caldwell Gardner.
O. O. Dibrell Sparta.
REPRESENTATTVXS.
John F. Hiiiisc Chirksrille.
William JIcFiirlniid . . . Moriistown.
Haywoiid Y. lliildle* Lebanon.
.locol) M. Tboniburgh. . .KnoxTillo.
Washington C. "Whltthome,
Colimi»>»»-
Casey Yonng MemplaJa-
> Elect4>d in plsco of Andrew Jobndon, doceased, David M. Kev Im^'hiK tiecn appointed pro tem, ; took his seat .Tan. ^ L I
* Died July .It, In75. • Appointed In iiWp of Aiulrcw .Inliiii^on, dMeawMl; took his sent Deo. 6, 1875. * J
vaoanoy caused by the death of Jolin W. lload and Kanuic-I Al. FiLu, noiiiior of wliom lived to take bis i
TEXAS.
SENATORS.
Morgan G. Hamilton Austin. | Kam. Bell Maxey
1
REPRESENTATrVES.
David B. CnlboTson Jeffersoa
John Hancock Atutlti,
Roger Q. Milla Corsicana. I On stave Schleicher Cu * T^
John H. Reagan I'alestine. | Jas. \V. Throckmorton.McKini--^'""
VERMONT. ^H
SENATORS.
George F. EdmundB Btirlington. | Justin S. Morrill Stiaif"'^^**^
REPRESENTATTV'ES.
Dndley 0. Denison Royalton. | George W. Hendco Monisvllle. | Charles H. Joyce Rntl:
VIRGINLl.
SENATORS.
John W. Johnston Abingdon. | Robert E. Withoia .
RE1*RESENTAT1\T3.
.Wythe-«":
George C. Cabell Danvillo.
Beverly B. Donglas Aylott-*.
John Uoode, juu. i Norfolk.
.Tolin T. Harris narrisonbnrg.
KpTMi riuntoii Wnrri'ntoii.
WilliaiJi II. U. Stowell .Burkuville.
I William Terry WytJie-»" .
Jiilm Randolph Tucker. Xx)\lca*r*^'f-
Gilbert C. Walker Kichnaf*''
I Election unsuocouf ally contested by James II. Piatt, Jon.
THS F0BXT-F0X7BTH COKGSBSS.
WEST YIROINIA.
8EKAT0BS.
Alien T. CapertoD > XTnlon. I Fniiik Herafoid* TTnlon.
Heoiy O. I&Tia Piedmont. | Samnel Price*.... .Lewlsbuxg.
BEPBESSNTATIVJSS.
Cbarlea J. Faulkner. .Martinsbmg, | Frank Hereford > TTnion, | Benjamin Wilson Wilsonbmi^
> mad July £8,187(1. ■ Elected mnatorinpUae of AUenT.CapertoiL deceased, SanraelPiioeliaTlng been appcdntedjwo (on./
took Us Mat Jan. 81,1877. • Awol»ted In place of Allen T.Capeiton,deaeaMd; took hiiieat Dee. 4, 1878.
WISCONSIN.
SENAT0B8.
Angns Cameron la Crosse. | Timothy O. Howe OreenBay.
EKPEE8ZNTATITES.
SamndB. Barchard..BesTeiI>am. I AlansonM. Kimball . . .Fine Biver. I Jeremiah M. Bnsk 'Viroqna,
LucienB. Caswell. .Fort Atkinson. William Pitt Lynde.... Milwaukee. Charles O. Willlaiiis....JanesTllIe.
George W. Cate . . . .Stevens' Points | Henry B. Magoon Darlington. |
ABIZONA TERRTTOBT.
DKLEOATE.
Hiram a Stevvna Tucson.
COLORADO TERRITORT.
DELEGATE.
Thomas U. FBttezaon DemTor.
DAZOTA TEBRITORT.
DELEQATE.
Jefferson P. Kidder YermiUon.
IDAHO TERRITORY.
DELEGATES.
Thomas W. Bennett 1 Boise City. | Stephen S. Fenn* lloont Idaho.
' Snccenfully ooi
at June SB, 1876.
■BectkBRiooeMfiillTeontastedbySteidienS. Fenn. ' 8ncce«fully contested the election of Thomas W. Bennett; took Us
- 8, l«ft
MONTANA TERRITORT.
DELEGATE.
v»th»i ir«jFiiii«t« , , Helena,
TEBRITORT OF NEW MEXICO.
DELEOATE.
Stephen B.EUdns Santa F<.
UTAH TERRITORT.
DELEGATE.
George Q. Cannon Salt lAke City.
WASHINGTON TERRITORT.
DELEGATE.
Oiaai^ JaoolM Seattle.
WTOMING TERRITORT.
DELEGATE.
^miiam B. Staela Cheyenne.
204
COKQKBSSXONAL DmECTOST.
THE rORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS.
!»•»!
Pint SMfion, ptm Oct, U, 1877, to Dee. 3, 1877. Second Se$tUm, from Dec. 3, 1877, to JiiiM SO, 1878. Ttifi
SeuUm, from Dec. 3, 1878, to March 3, 1879.
Tico-Prettdent. — WtLUAit A. Wmnn.Kii of New York. Pretident of «*« Senate pro tempore. — Thokm "^ ,
Febbt of Michigan, elected March 6, 1877, In special soasion; again elected Feb. 26, 1878; and a^ain elMb^^
April 17, 1878. Secretary of l/ie Senate. — Obobos 0. Oobbam of California.
SptaJcer of the Home. — Sajiuxi. J. Bajtcau. of Pennsylvania, elected Oct. 16, ISTT.
AT.ARAMA.
BENATOBS.
JohnT. Morgan Selma. | George E. Spencer .
BEPOESBNTATIVSS.
.Decitc=»
William H. Forney. . .Jacksonville.
William W. Garth Huntsville.
Hilary A. Herbert. . . .Montgomery.
G.W. Hewitt Birmingham. 1 CharleaM. Shelley 8eh
James T. Jones Demnpolis. Jere N. Williams ~'
Bobort F. Ligoa Tnakegee. |
ARKANSAS.
BEKATOaS.
Stephen W. Doiaey Helena. | AngnstnsH. Garland
BEPBBSENTATrVES.
Jordan E. Cravens Clarksville. I Thomas M. Gnnter Fa;
LucienC. Oauso ..Jacksouport. | William M. Slemons
CALIFORNIA.
BZNATOBS.
Newton Booth Sacramento. | Aaron A. Saigent^
BErREBENTATIVES.
Horace Davis San Francisco.
John K. LuttroU Santa Rosa.
B. Pachooo* San Luis Obispo.
■ BooalTod tba nrOflcmto of clecUan ; bat Uic Iloaae gave th« Mat to P. D. WlQlilloa Fab. T, UTB.
.Little
Horace F. Voffi
Peter D. Wigginton.
COLORADO.
BENATORS.
Jerome B. Chaffee..... Denver. | Henry M. Teller Central C7^-
RKPBESKNTATrVES.
James B. BeUord 1 Central City. | Thomas M. Patterson DeoJ-vtst-
> BooelTod tbo oartlfloate of oloctloo ; but tlia Honia gave tbo uat to T. IL Fattwaon Dao. U, UTT.
CONNECTICUT.
BENATORa.
William H. Bamnm Lime Bock. | William W. Eaton Hartfo**
REPUE8KNTATIVES.
Oeoige M. Landers New Britain. I JohnT. Wait .Nonrirfc
" *" ' Essex. lifivi Warner "
XHB FOBIY-XTFTH CONOBE8S.
206
DELAWARE.
SmTATOBS.
ThamaBJF.'Bajaxi WUznington. | EUSaulsbnry Dover.
BBFKKSKNTATrVX.
JaaMWOllama Kenton.
FliOBIDA.
BKNATOBS.
Sbnm B. OmoTer Tallabaasee. | Charles W. Jones..
BBFRXSENTATiViCa.
Hoiatio Biabee, Jon. Jacksonyflle. | B. H. M. Davidson.
.Fensaoola.
.Qolncy.
JolmB. Oordon.
HinmP. Bell CSnminlng.
James H. Blonnt Maoon.
Hitton A. Candler Atlanta.
GEORGIA. '
BEKATOBS.
Atlanta. | Benjamin H. Hill .
BEPKBSKHTATXVKS.
Philip Cook Americfas.
William H. Felton . . . .CartersTille.
Henry B. Haids OraenviUe.
.Atlanta.
Jnlian Hartridge Savannah.
William E. Snuth Albany.
Alex. H. Stephens.. .Ora^rfordville.
David Davis ,
ILLINOIS.
BEIfATOBS.
.Bloomington. | Bichard J. Qglesby.
.Deoatnr.
WlIUamAldrlch Chicago.
Thomas A. Boyd Lewiston.
Lorenzo Bietano Chicago.
H. C. Bnichard Freeport.
Joseph O. Cannon Tuscola.
John B. Eden Sullivan.
Oreenbozy L. Fort Lacon.
BBFKESSNTATIVBa.
Carter H. Harrison Chicago.
WiUiom HGurtzell Chester.
Philip C. Ha^es Morris.
Thomas J. Henderson. . .Princeton.
Bobert M. Knapp JeiseyvUle.
William Lathrop Bockford.
B. F. Marsh Warsaw.
William B. Morrison Waterloo.
W. A. J. Sparks Carlyle.
WUliam M. Springer . . .Springfield.
Thomas F. Tipton . . .Bloomington.
B. W. Townsnend.. .Shawneetown.
nroiAiTA.
BBNATOBS.
Joseph E. McDonald. .Indianapolis. | Oliver P. Morton i. . . .Indianapolis. | Daniel W. Voorhees *.Terre Htote.
JohnH. Baker Goshen.
George A Bicknell. . .New Albany.
Thomas H. Browne. . . . Winchester.
WUUam H. Calkins La Porte.
Thomas B. Cobb Vincennes.
REPKESBIirrATIVES.
James L. Evans Koblesville.
B. 8. Fuller Boonville.
A. H. Hamilton Fort Wayne.
John TTftnnifc Indianapolis.
M. O. Hunter Bloomington.
M.€. Bobinson Anderson.
Leonidas Sexton Boshville.
M. D. White Crawlordsville.
•Died Nov. l.un. « AppohitedlaaieplsoB of O. P. Morton, amanil; took Ms seat Kov. M, MTT.
^niUamB. Allisan..
.Iowa City.
IOWA.
8ENAT0BS.
Dnbnque. | Samuel J. Kirkwood
BEFBESENTATIVHS.
Theodore 'W.Bnidick.....Deoonth. IKathanielC. Deering. Osage. I E. S. Sampson SIgonmev.
Knsh Clark. Iowa City. Addison OUver. Onawa. William F. Sapp.... Council BInfb.
H. J. B. dunmings Winterset. | Hiram Price Davenport. | J. C. Stone Burlington.
KANSAS.
SEN-AXOBS.
John James Ingalls Atchison. | P. B. Plnmb Emporia.
BEPEES£NTATIV£S.
Dudley C. Haskell. Lawrence. | William A Phillips Sallna. | Thomas Ryan Topeka.
KENTUCKY.
SEKAT0B8.
JaBN&Beok. Lexington. |TbomasC. McOieery
.Oweasbotongh.
John K. Leonard ' Monoii.
£Uvr. W. Bobertaon. .Baton Boofa.
MAIKE.
BEITATORS.
JamoaO. Blalno Augusta. | Hannibal Hamlin Btojor.
REPRK8KNTATrVB8.
J Thomas B. Beed FotlaiJ.
.Honlton. |
MARYLAND.
SENATORS.
0«orge B. Dennis Kingston. | W. Plnkncy Whyto Bsltlmcw.
RKPRESENTATIVES,
vrmiain KimmoII BalHmore.
CborleH B. llobcrts. . .Westmlnstur.
Tlinmax R wann Baltimoia.
William WiUsh Cmuberiul
MASSACHUSETTS.
SEfATOBS.
.Plttsfleld. I George F. Hoar.
■WoKWter.
Benjamin T>eaii Boston.
WaUiriilci" A. neM » Boston.
li. W. HarrlM East Bridgewatcr.
George B. Loring Salem.
Leopold Morne Boston.
Amasa Nonrross Fitclitolt'
WilUam W. Klce -Worcaut.
George D. Boblnson ChlcopM-
■ Beoelvod the oortl&caUi of eleoUon ; boi the Hoiue gsn the MM to B. Oasn Maroh SB, IBTS.
MICHIGAN.
SENAToia.
.Lansing. | Thomas W. Ferry.
GiwidHiW"-
BEPIlESE>fTATI VES.
Jay A. Huhbell nouRhton,
E. W. KelKliiIey Constaiuine.
J. H. McGuwun Cold Walur.
John W. Stone Grand W^
A. S. WUIiams 1*"^
Edwin WUUts MunJ<*
MINNESOTA.
8ENAT0BS.
Bamnel J. B. McMUlaiL St. FaiiL | William Windom
KKPEESENTATI VES.
Mark H. DunneU Owatonna. | Jacob H. Stewart St. PauL | Horace B. Strait.....
vma^
....Shskop*
MISSISSIPPL
SENATUllS.
Blanche K. Bruce FloroyvUlo. | Lucius Q. C. Lamar
REP lUESENT ATI VES.
J. R. Chalmers Friar's Point. I Van H. Manning.. ..UoUy SprinRS. t H. L. Muldrow Stark'f'*'
CbarlusO. Uooker Jackson. | Uemundo U. Money Winoua. | Otlio It Singleton. li*"*
)i
Iiewia v. Bogy..
THE FOBTY-FIFTH CONGBBSS.
lOSSOTTKL
8EKAT0BS.
.St. IjcniiB. I Francis Marlon Cookien..
20T
.'Waneng'bntgfa.
Bichard P. Bland Lebanon.
Aylett H. Buckner. Mexico.
John B. Clark, jun. Fayette.
KatbanCoIe St. I«ni8.
T. T. Ciittenden Wazrensboigfa.
BEPBESEKTATTVES.
B. J. Franklin Kannas City.
Kobert G. Frost l St. Lonb.
John M. Olover. La Orange.
K. A. Hatcher Kew Madrid.
Anthony Ittner St. Louis.
> Contorted the eeat of Lynda S. UetoaUk
Lvnde S. Metcalfe. St. Louis.
Charles H. Morgan Lamar.
Henrr M. Pollard Chlllicothe.
David Bea Savannah.
WEERASKA.
SENATOBS.
Beatrice. | AlTin Sannders Omalia.
BEPBESESTATI VK.
Frank Welch Koifolk.
Algernon S. Paddock .
NEVADA.
SENATOBS.
John P. Jones OoldHUl. | 'WilUam Sharon '^rglnla City.
BEPBESEXTATXVK.
Thomaa Wren Eoiekik
NEW HAHPSHIBE.
8EKATOBS.
Edward H. Bolllns Concord. | Balnbridge Wadleigh Ifilfotd.
BEFBESENTATITES.
Efenry W. Blatr Plymonth. | JomesF. Briggs Manchester. | Frank Jones. Fortsatouth.
NEW JERSEY.
SENATOBS.
JohnB. McPherson Jersey City. | Theodore F. Randolph Morristown.
BEPRESENTATIVES.
AlTahA.Clark Somerrille.
Aojnutus W. Cutler. . .Morristown.
A A. Hardenbergh. . . .Jersey City.
Thomas B. Peddle Newark.
J. Howard Pugh Burlington.
Miles Boss New Brunswick.
I O. H. Sinnickson Salem.
BoKoe Conkllng.
NEW YORK.
SENATOBS.
.irtlca. I Francis Kemon..
William J. Bacon TTtioa.
Citnpjfi A. Bagley Watertown.
William H. Baker Constantia.
Hcoree M Beelie Monticello.
CiMrles B. Benedict Attica.
Anhibald M. Bliss. Brooklyn.
Siilonion Bnndy Oxford.
JolinH. Camp Lyons.
B. B. Chittenden Brooklyn.
James W. Corert Flushing.
8. 8. Cox NewYorl
.TTtioa.
Angnttos & Menimon.
BEPEESENTATIVES.
Jeremiah W. D wight Dryden.
Anthony Eickhoff New York.
B. Kirke Hart Bochester.
Abram 8. Hewitt Now York.
Frank Hiscock Syracuse.
J. N. Hnngcrford Comlne.
A. B. James Ogilensbnrgh.
J. H. Ketcbam Dover Plains.
£. O. Lapham Canandaigiia.
D. N. Lockwood BuSalo.
S. L. Mayham Schoharie.
> Dtod St Albuy, N.T., June U, UT8.
NORTH CAROLINA.
SENATOBS.
, Balcigh. I MattW. Ransom.
Anson O. McCook New York.
Nicolas Muller New York.
G. W. Patterson Westfleld.
C. N. Potter New Ibtchelle.
T. J.Quinni ^bany.
J. H. Btarin FullkiviUe.
Martin I. Toivnsend Troy.
William D. Veeder Brooklyn.
Andrew Williams Plattsbiirgh.
Benjamin A. Willis New York.
Fernando Wood New York.
.Weldon.
BEPBESENTATITES.
C' VL Brogdea Goldsborough. I A. M. Scales Oreensborough.
JoMph jrOBXiB Louisbiugb. W. L. Steele Rockingham.
VniiamM. Bobbins ... .StatesviUe. | B. B. Vance AaheviUe.
A. M. Waddell Wilmington.
J. J. Yates. Murfreesboroogh.
J
90S
OONQRESSIOKAIi DIBBOTQBT.
Stanley Mattbews ^ ,
OHIO.
BENATOBS.
..Cincinnatt. | John Sherman >. Hanafldd. | Allen O. Thaznuui Colnmlm
Henry B. Banning Cinctntisti,
Jacob I). Cox Toledo.
It Danford St. Claitsville.
Henry L. Dickey Grconfield.
Thomas Ewing Lancaster.
"E. B. Kinley Bucyrus.
Cbarloa Foster Fostoiia.
1 Elected unator In pitooe ot Jdtut Shannui, imlgnod.
KEPBEBENTATITZS.
Miles Oardner. . ..Washington C.H.
James A. Garlield Hiram.
John S. Jones Delaware.
J. Warren Keifer. Sprincfleld.
W. HcfCinluy CannonsbnTg.
J. A. Mclilabon Dayton.
Jnmos Monroe Oberlin.
Heniy 8.NeaI Bnnton.
A. V. Bice Ottasx
Milton Sayler Cincinnati.
M. I. Bonthward Zanesrille.
Amos Townsend CleTeland.
N. H. Van Vorhes. Atbem.
< Beslgned Uaieh 8, UTT, on baring been ^ipointad nerebny of Sw
tzsHoiy,
OBXOOK.
BKNATOBS.
Xob^etteF. Gnrror. Salem. | John H. Mtchell.
.Portland.
EETRBSEMTATrra.
BichardWUUams.... t fortlaiid.
PENNSTLVAHIA.
SEKATORS.
J. Don Cameron > HanlBbnigh. | Bimon CameTon *. Harrisbuigh. | WlUiam A. Wallaee Cleatfidd
KEPRESENTATrVES.
Thomas M, Bay no Pittsburgh.
6. A. Bridges ■ .AUcntown.
Jacob M. Campbell Johnstown.
Heiater Clymer Beading.
F, D, (JoUing ScrantoD.
EuB3ell Errott PittsbuTgli!
I. Newton Evans Hatborough.
Chapman Freeman . . .Philadeliihia.
A.. C. Ilarmer .Philodelithla.
William D. Kelley. . . .Philadelphia.
J. W. Killinger Philadelphia.
L. A. Mackcy Lock Haven.
Levi Maish York.
John t. Slitchell ....Wellstwrough.
Charlea O'NeU PhiladelpUa.
EdiA'aril Ovnrton Towanda.
S. J. IilandnU Philadelphia.
J. B. Rcilly PottsTille.
W. S. Shallenberger Bochester.
A. Hen Smith Lancaster.
W. S. Btenger Cluunbeistnirrii.
J. H. Thompson Bntler.
Jacob Tumey OTeensbuigb.
William Ward Chester.
Lewis F. Wataon Wanen.
Harry White Indians.
H. B. Wri^t Wilkeslism.
I Elected lenster ta pIiM at Blmon Ouneron, realgned. ■ BeilgQed Uuob 8, 18TT.
RHODE ISLAND.
8ENAT0BS.
BeniyB. Anthony TKividence. | Ambrose E. Bnnudde Fioridence.
REPBESENTATIVES.
lAtlmoi W. Bolloo. Woonsocket | Benjamin T. Eomes FroTidenoe.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
SEKATOBS.
ILC. Btttlei EdgefleldC.H. [ David T.CorMn> Charleston. | J. J. Patterson C<dnmUa.
REPBESEMTATIVES.
I>. Wyatt Aiken..*. Gokesbnry. I J. n. Btrhr Spartanbuigh. I J. S. Siohardaon* Smnter.
BichEtfd H. Cain* Charleston. | Joseph Q. Bainey..... Georgetown. | Robert Smalls Beacfoit
> OoDtacta the Hst held by Ur. Bntltr. > Scut santcstBd by H. F. O*0oimor. * OooteMs the Met dafaaed bj Ifr. Bilwr.
TENNESSEE.
^ SEKATOBS.
JbiomX. Bailey.. ClarksvlUe. | Isham Q. Harris Nashville.
BEFBESENTATiVKS.
John F, House Clarksville.
Jamet 11. Randolph Newport.
W. M. Randolph >. Memphis.
J. D. 0. Atklna, Paris.
JohnK ^Mniit ...... Fayetteville.
W. .......Giinlner.
Qt Sparta.
H. Y. Riddle. Lebanon.
k 1 OonteiUid tbe nat of Cuey TooDg.
' TEXAS.
SEKATOBS.
y., Waco. I Samuel Bell Mazey.
TIETBESENTATIVES.
J. M. Thombuigh Knozrille.
W. C. Whitthome Columbis.
Casey Young. Memphis.
.Paris
effcrson.
I Boj^or Q. :UIlls Coraicana. 16. Sc
I John U. Beagaa Palestine. | J. W.
Scbleidier Caero.
ThKockmerton. . . .McKinaey.
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THB FOBTT-FHTH 00NGBBS8. 209
VBBMONT.
8ENAT0BS.
GooigaF. Kdmunds BuzUagton. | Jaadn 8. HariiU. Stntffoxd.
BJEFaESENTATTVES.
D. C. Deniaon Boyaltmi. | O. W. Heodee. MonisrUle. | CbarletfH. Joyve Bntland.
VIEGINIA.
8KNAT0BS.
John W. JohnstOD AUngdon. | Bobert E. 'Withan WyUMviUa.
A. BKFBESENTATTVES.
6«ais« O. OkbeQ DaayUIe.
BererlT B. Don^aa A^lett's.
John Ooode, jnn. ...Norfolk.
J.T. laania Hanisonbaigh.
W. B. Hlnton Petenboif^.
Eppa Hnnton Warrenton.
Joseph Joigensen Petersbuigh.
A. It. Pridemore JoneaviUe.
J. Bandotph Tookar . . . .Lsziiigtan.
Gilbert 0. Walker Btnhmond.
WEST yiBGINIA.
SENATOBS.
HeniT'O. Davis Piedmont. | Eiank Hereford Union.
BEPBESENTATl V KS.
JohnE.Eenna Kanawha C.H. | B. F. Martdn Prontytown. IBWUson. "^^laonbiiigb.
WISCONSIN.
8SNAZaB&
Angus Cameron LaCroHe. | Timothy O. Howe QreaoBay.
BEPBBSENTATIVJES.
Gabriel Bonek .....OdikoBh. I O. C. Hazelton BosoobeL IT. C. Ponnd....... Chippewa Falbi.
E.S. BiBgg. Fond da Lac. I H. Ij. Humphrey Hadaon.lCG. WOUama. JanesTllla.
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ARIZONA TEBBTTOBT.
BELEQATEl
BinunS. Sterena <. Truaon.
DAKOTA TEBMTOBT.
DKLEGA^nE.
JtffeooD P. Kidder. Yenaillatt.
IDAHO TEBBTTOBT.
DBLEaATB.
B.&FenB Mt Idaho.
MONTANA TEBBITOBT.
VKLSOtATB.
HutiB Kaginnla. Halemu
TEBBITOBT OF NEW MEXICO.
DBLEOATB.
Trinidad BooMo Santa XV.
UTAH TEBBITOBT.
DELEGATE.
Q«ii|te Q. Cannon Salt Lake City.
WASHINOTON TEBBITOBT.
DBLEQATE.
OnoBsJaooba Seattla.
WYOMING TEBBITOBT.
DBLKOATE. _
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' SESSIONS OF
CONGRESS
«^^^^H
1
^^H CoirosxsB.
Snstox.
Bboak.
ElCDED. '
LKirom.
Locitmi.
^^H Contlnent&l,
First,
September 5, 1774,
October 2f>, 1774,
62
dars,
FhiladdpUb
^^^H
Second,
May 10 1775,
December 20, 1776,
December 12, 1776,
682
if
"
^^^H
Tliini
March 4. 1777,
7B
«t
Baltimore.
^^^H
FDiirth,
March 4, 1777,
September 18, 1777,
199
(1
Pliiladclphi*.
^^^^1
Fifth,
Septeinl>er 'J7, 1777,
September 27, 1777,
1
day.
lADcaita.
^^^H
Sixth,
Sent ember 30, 1777,
July 2, 177H,
June 27, 1778,
272
ia.p,
York.
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Seventh,
Jime21, 1783,
1816
FhilidetpbiL
^^^^^v
Eiglitb,
June ao, 17(*3,
November 4, 1783,
127
Princeton
^^^^^f
Ninth,
November 20, 1783,
Juuelt, 1784,
December 24, 1784,
189
Annapolil.
^^^^^r
Tenth,
November 1, 17f*4,
54
Treuton.
^^^^M
Eleventh,
January 11, ]7«5,
Novemt)er 7, 178."!,
November 4, 1785,
2!>8
New Vott
^^^m
Twelfth,
November 3, 178C,
3B3
It
^^^H
Tbirteonth,
Nnvenilwrii, nt^i.
October 30, 1787,
350
(t
^^^H
Fourteenth,
Novemtier.S, 17S7,
October 21, 1788,
353
fl
^H I'int,
Finit,
March 4, 17.S9,
September 29, 1789,
210
II
^^^B
Second,
January 4, 17!iO,
August 12, 1790,
221
t«
^^^H
Third,
Deomnber G, I'tK),
March 3, 1701,
88
Phfladelphli
^^^ Beoond,
First,
October L'4, 17;n,
May 8, 1792,
1117
4*
H
Second,
November 5, \7M,
March 2, 1793,
itg
II
I Third,
First,
Dccemlicr i!, I7!I3,
June !», 17lt4,
190
II
1
Second,
November ,1, 17!4|
MarcJi 3, 1795,
121
41
1 Fonrtb,
First,
Decenilier7, 17SI6,
June 1, 1796,
177
•4
■ 11
Second,
December fl, I'ilfi,
March 3, 17I»7,
89
II
I Hftb.
First,
May 10. 17U7,
July 10, 1797,
67
■«
■
Second,
Novetiibcr 13. 1707,
July 1(1, 1798,
246
It
^^^H.
Third,
December ;«, 17!IH,
March 3, 1799.
91
»«
^B Blzth,
First,
DcceiulKir 1!, 17!i!l,
May 14. 1800,
11-4
II
^^^f
Second,
Novemlwr 17, IHOO,
March 3, 1801,
107
l<
W Serenth,
First,
lJe«.ember 7, ]«U1,
May 3, 1802,
148
It
■
Second,
Ifmcail.orti, imi,
Marcli 3, 1803,
88
U
■ Eighth,
First,
October 17, 1««3,
March 27, 18(H,
163
««
Second,
November S, 1804,
March 3, 1805,
110
•1
m Ninth,
First,
December a, ISOB,
April 21, 180fi,
141
«.(
^^^H
Second,
December 1, IK0<3,
March 3, 1807,
93
II
^^B Tenth,
First,
October L'fi, imi.
April 28, 1808,
182
tl
^^^F **
Second,
November 7, 1808,
Man^i 3, 1809,
117
•«
W Eioventb,
First,
May 22, 1S(I<J,
NoveniI)er27. 1W»,
June 28. 1809,
38
u
■
Second,
May 1, 1810,
166
II
^^^■_
Third,
Decemliera, ISIO,
March 3, 1811,
91
fl
^H Twelftl),
First,
November*, IKll,
July a, 1813,
245
•1
^^^M
Second,
Novoiiibcr 'J, 1812,
March 3, 1813,
123
■1
W Thirteenth,
First,
May M, WKl,
AiiRUSt 2, 1813,
71
II
■
Sefiind,
l>ecemlier ti, lfll.%
April 18, 1814,
lU
•I
1
Tlilrd,
Septeiiiher I'.), 1814,
March 2, 1816,
ltJ6
It
1 Fourteenth,
First,
December 4, 1815,
April .10, 1816,
148
If
1
Second,
Decuralicr 2, IHKi,
M.irch 3, 1817,
92
If
■ Fifteenth,
First,
Deuember 1, 1«17,
April 20, 1818,
141
11
■
Second,
November Itj, 1818,
March 3, 1819,
108
M
^^_ Sixteenth,
First,
December C, 181'J,
May 15, 1820,
103
• 1
Second,
November 13, 1820,
March 3, 1821,
111
II
^^H Seventeenth,
First,
December 3, 1821,
May 8, 1822.
157
WashiQ£ta
^^^1
Second,
December 2, 1822,
Marcli 3, 1823,
93
(4
^^m Eighteenth,
First,
Der^mbcr 1, 182.),
May 27, 1824,
178
14
^^^1
Second,
December li, 1824,
March 3, 1823,
88
•<
^^H Kineteenth,
First,
Deceiiilwr H, 1823,
May 22, 1820,
Marcli 3, 1827,
169
II
^^^H
Second,
Decotulier 4, 1821!,
90
II
^^1 Twentieth,
First,
December 3. 1827,
May 2(i, 1828.
175
II
^^^^1
Second,
December J, 1828,
March 3, 1829,
93
4«
^^1 Twentr-arst,
First,
December 7, 182".*,
May 31. 1h;»,
170
•1
^^^H
Seiond,
Decomlier li, 18;«1,
March -T 1831,
88
14
^^H TweDtT-«econd,
First,
December 5, 18;!i,
July Hi, ISJfi
March 2, 1833,
225
CI
Second,
Deceirtlwr ;i, 18.72,
HI
M
^^V Twenty-third,
First.
December 2, 18.').%
.June 30, 18;«,
March 3, 1835,
211
41
Boooud,
Decembei 1, 1831,
93
44
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^^^
^^
^^^
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J
8B88I0NS OF 00KORE88.
211
COSGBBa.
BEsnov.
BXOAV.
Smdxu.
Lksoth.
liOOATIOS.
Twtotpfourfh,
Flrat,
Second,
December 7, 183S,
December 6, 1838,
September 4, 1837,
July 4, 1836.
March 3, 1837,
'^gJ'?^
Washington.
Twenty-flfth,
Flnt,
October 16, 1837,
43 "
11
Second,
December 4, 1837,
July 9, 1838,
218 "
If
11
Third,
December 3, 1838,
March 3, 1839,
91 «
*( *
Tirenty-dxth,
First,
December 3, 18!«,
July 21. 1840,
March 3, 1841,
233 "
<i
Second,
December 7, 1810,
87 "
«
Firrt,
Mar 81> 1841,
December 6, 1841,
September 13, 1841,
106 "
<i
Second,
August 81, 1842,
269 "
u
ti
Thlid,
December S, 1842,
March S, 1843,
89 "
w
Tweatf-«l(^ffa.
Ftret,(
Second,
Deoembei 4, 1843,
December 2, 1844,
Juno 17, 184%
March i, tm.
196 "
92 "
u
Twenty-nlntli,
Ftart,
December 1, 1840,
August 10, 1846,
288 "
II
Second,
December 7, 1846,
March 8, 1847,
87 "
II
Thirtietib,
Fint,
December 6, 1847,
Augost 14, 1848,
2S4 "
II
(«
Second,
December 4, 1848,
March 3, 1849,
90 "
II
lUitT-flnL
Fint,
December 3, 1849,
September.30, 1880,
a03 "
II
1*
Second,
December 2, 1880,
March S, 1861,
August 31, ias2,
93 "
II
Thirtj-aeoond,
FilBt,
December 1, 18S1,
278 "
II
%i
Second,
December 6, 1852,
March3,18f»,
August 7, 1864,
88 "
II
Thirty-thlid,
Fint,
December 0,1853,
246 "
II
»•
Second.
December 4, 1854,
Mnroh 3, 1855,
90 "
II
ThiitT-fonrth,
Fint,
December 8,1855,
August 18, 1856,
260 «
II
»*
Second,
Angnst 21, 1866,
August 30, 1856,
10 «
II
u
Thiid,
December 1, 1856,
Match 3, 1867,
93 "
II
ThlrtT-flfth,
FinC
December 7, 1857,
June 14, 1868,
189 "
II
«
Second,
Decembers, IRfiR,
March 3, 1869,
88 "
II
TUTtT-RlzUl,
Fint,
Decembers, I8fi9,
June 26, I860,
March 3, 1861,
202 "
II
•1
Second,
December 3, 1860,
93 "
II
Thirtj-serimfh,
Fint,
Jtay4, 1861,
AuKUSt 6, 1861,
jui^ 17. isea,
MarchilSra.
84 "
II
((
Second,
December 2, 1861,
228 "
II
•1
Third,
December 1, 1862,
94 "
II
Thirt7-«lchtb.
Fint,
December 7, 1863,
July4,l8M,
200 "
II
•t ^
Second,
December ^ 1864,
March 3, 1865,
90 "
II
Thirtr-nlnai,
Fint,.
December 4, 1865,
July 28, 1866,
Maroh8,18e7,
March 80, 1867,
July 20, 1867,
237 "
II
II
Second,
December & 1866,
March 4, 1867,
92 "
II
Fortieth,
Fint.
26 «
II
tt
II
July 3, 1867.
HoTember 21, 18W,
18 "
II
U
<«
December 2, 1867,
Jnly27.t8«l,
September 21, 1868,
12 "
II
u
SMond.
December 2, 1867,
September 21, 1868,
239 "
II
M
II ^
lda;y.
1 "
II
October 16, 1868,
Kovember 10, 1868,
October 16, 1868,
Korember 10, 1868,
II
II
M
Thlid,
December 7, 1868,
Manh 3, 1869,
87 da^
II
Fw^-flirt,
Fint,^
March 4, 1869.
December 6, 1869,
AprU10,1869,
II
Second,
July 15. 1870,
March 3, 1871,
222 "
II
U
Third,
Decembers, 1870,
90 "
II
FoHy-MOond,
First,
March 4, 1871.
December 4, 1871,
April 20, 1871,
47 "
II
II
Second,
June 10, 1872,
March 3^ 1873,
190 "
II
■1
Third,
December 2, 1872,
91 "
II
'•rty41dxd»
Fint,
December 1, 1873,
June 23, 1874
March S, 1876,
204 "
II
II ^
Second,
I>ecember7, 1874,
87 "
II
Varty-fonzth.
Fint,
December 6, 187S,
August 15, 1876,
264 «
II
II ■
Second,
December 4, 1876,
March 3, 1877,
December 3, 1877,
90 "
II
forty^flfft.
Fint,
October 15, 1877,
60 "
II
Second,
December 8, 1877,
June 20, i«n,
200 "
II
u
Third,
December 2, 1878,
March 8, 1879,
92 "
II
J
THE EXECUTIVE.
THE EXEOUTIYE.
Four ADimnsTSATiOK. — WASHINOTON.— Maroh 4, 1789-MBroh 8, 1791.
Gbobob "WASBBfOfsos of Vli^ia was nnanimonBly elected, receiving 69 electoral votes. EOs cabinet
wai: —
^Secretary of State. — Thomaa Jefferson of Vlislnia, appointed Sept. 26, 1789.
Secrettay of the Trauury. — Alexander Hamilton of New York, apx>ointed Sept. 11, 1789.
Secretary of War and of the Navy. — Heniy Knox of Massachusetts, appointed Sept. 12, 1789.
Attomeu-Oeturdl. — 'EaiawaA Bandolph of Vircinia, appointed Sept. 28, 1789.
JoHTT Adams of Massacliusetts was elected Vice-President, receirini; 34 votes; -while John Jay had 9
votes; Robert H. Harrison. 6; John Rntledge, 6; John Hancock, 4; George Clinton, 3; Bamnel Huntington,
3; Jamea Armstrong, 1; Edward Telfair, 1; and Benjamin Lincoln, 1.
Skcons AoxiHiSTSATioir.— WASHINGTON.— March 4, 1701-Mwieh 8, 1797.
Obobob WABHuraroir of Virginia vas tinanimonsly r»«]eoted President, receiving 132 votes. His cabinet
■was: —
Secrttarie* of State. —Thomas Jefferson of Viijrinia, continued; Edmund Bandolph of "Virginia, apfwinted
Jan. 2, 179t; Timothy Pickering of Masaachnsetts, Dec. 10, 1795.
Stcretarka of the Tnatury. — Alexander Hamilton of Kew York, continued; Oliver Wolcott of Connecti-
cnt, Feb. 3, 179S
Sfiittaila of War and t^ the Navy. — Henry Knox, continued ; Timothy Pickering of Massachusetts,
Jan. 2, 179S; James McHenry of Maryland, Jan. 37, 1796.
Attomey»-Gerural.SdmiinA Randolph of Virginia, continued; William Bradford of Pennsylvania, Jan.
28, 1794; Charles Lee of Virginia, Dec. 10, 1796.
JoBN A PAHS of Massachusetts was re-elected Vice-President, receiving 77 votes; while George Clinton
had ISO votes; Thomas Jefferson, 4; and Aaron Barr, 1.
Thibd AoxmisTRATioir. —JOHN ADAMS. -March 4, 1797-Maiich 8, 1801.
Jomr AsAXs of Massachusetts was elected President, receiving the entire vote of Kew Hampshire, Mas-
Mchnsetts, Rhode bland, Connecticut, Vermont, New York, New Jersey, and Delaware, with 10 scattering
votes from other States, making 71 of the 140 votes cast. Hia cabinet was : —
Seeretariei of State. — Ttmouy Pickering of Massachusetts, continued; John Marshall of Virginia, May 13;
laoa
Seerttariet <tf the TVeotury.- Oliver Wolcott of Connecticut, continued; Samuel Dexter of Massachusetts,
Jan. 1, 1801.
Seerttariet of War. — James McHenry of Maryland, continued; Samuel Dexter of Massachusetts, May 13,
Secrttarie* of the Nam.—Oeoifso Cabot of Massachusetts, May 3, 1798; Benjamin Stoddard of Maryland,
May 21, 1798.
Atiomey-Oeneral. — Charles Lee of Virginia, continued.
Tdoxas JsmcBsoN of Virginia was elected Vice-President, having the next highest number of votes to
the President,- 68; while Thomas Pinkney liadSS; Aaron Burr, 30; Samuel Adams, 16; Oliver Ellsworth, 11;
Geoive Clinton, 7; Jolin Jay, fi; James Iredell, 3; Samuel Johnston, 2; George Washington, 2; John Henry, 2;
and Charles C. Pinckney, 1.
FoiTBTH ADHunsTBATioir.— JEFFERSON.— March 4, 1801-Mareh 8, 1806.
TBOKAa JxTTKHSOir of Virginia was elected President by the House of Representatives, be and Aaron
Burr Iiaving each received 73 electoral votes; while John Adanu had 65 votes; Charles C. Pinckney had 64;
sod John Jay, 1. The House of Representatives voted to commence balloting on Wednesday, Feb. 11, 1801,
sod not to adjourn until a choice was effected. Seats were provided upon the floor for the President and the
Mnston; but, during the act of balloting, the galleries were cleared of spectators, and the doors were closed.
TpoD tlie flmt ballot. New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Caruliua, Georgia, Kentucky, and
Tennessee (8) voted for Thomas Jefferson; New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Dela-
*are, and South Carolina ((i) voted for Aaron Burr: and the votes of Vermont and Maryland (the representa-
tins of which were divided) were given blank. The balloting was continned, and the House remained in
SIS
^
216
OONGEESSIONAIi DmEOTOBY.
Remlon, nomlntilly without Mljonmnient, for seven days, dnrioK which IM niemheiTa were piwent 8oim<A
tbcm were bo inflrm or inrtispoRed, that it was neceRsarT to provliln beds for tliein ; and one member, who ir*
quite ill, WHS attended by his wife. On the thlrt.v-elxth Imllot, wliicli was taken on tlie afternoon ol the IT*^
the votes of Di-luware and Sontli Carolina were ifiven blnnlv; wliile tlio«e of Vermont and Marylanil we**
given to Mr. Jefli-rson, and elected liini. His cabinet was: —
Sfcirtnrj/ of. Stair. — James Madinon of Virfriuia. March 0, 1801.
Stcrctary of Ihe Trvattniij. — AWwrt Gallatin of rennsylvania. May 14, 1801.
SffTtHtry of War. — Henry Dearlxirn cjf MassacIiUHCtts, Maruli n, IHOl.
Sn-relaric» of the Navi/. — Ik-niaiiiin Stoddard of Marvland, continned; Robert Smith of Maiylaod, Jt
Ifl, lUOl; Jacob Crowninshicld of MiKwachusetts, March 2, 1806.
Allnrneyt-GeneTnl. — I>cvi Lincoln of Madsachaitetts, ttarch 6, 1801 : Robert Smith of Marylanil, March 2,1
Aabok Bubb of New Y orlc became Vice-President when Ilr. JeSeraon was elected President.
Fifth Administration. —JEFFERSON. — March 4, 1805-March 3, 1809.
Thokas jKrrKBBON of Virginia was re-elected President, receirlns 1G2 of the 17(1 votes cast. This
prised the entire electoral vote of nil the States, except Connecticut, Delaware, and Marvlaod; the two lint
which threw llicir full vote for Charles Coteaworth PIncltnoy, and the last gave 9 votes for Jlr. Jefferson,
2 for Mr. Pincknuy. His cabinet was: —
Srrrrinnj of sidtr. — .Tames Madison of Virginia, continued.
Sri-rrtniy of the TVeiMuri/. — Albert Gallatin of Pemmylvaiiia, continned.
Hfi-relarii of War. — Hennr Pearbom of Ma.ssachiisetts, continned.
Srcrftari/ of the Naiiy. — Jacob Crowtiinslndd of Ma.s.sacliu8ett«, continued.
Attnmri/i-iienerat. — Roliert Smith of Maryland, continued; Jobn Breclduridgo of Kentuckj, Dee. SS,
Ca^sar A. Rixlnoy of Delaware. Jan. 'JO, 1807.
Ueoiujii Clinton of New Vorlt was elected Vico-Ih«sident, receiving 162 of the 176 votes cast. This
prised the entire doctoral vot« of all the States, except U from Connecticut, 3 from Delaware, and 2 of tb^
votes from Maryland, malting 11 votes for Bufns King of New Torlc
Sixth Administration. — MADISON. — March 4, 1809-March 3, 1813.
jAUts Madison of Virginia was elected President, having reoe!ve<l the entire electoral vote of Verm*
Pennsylvania, Soutli Carolina, Ueorgia, Tonne-ssco, Kentucky, and Ohio, and l.'l of tlio 111 votes of New V<
9 of the U of Sfaryland, and 11 of the 14 of North Carolina, — in all, l'J2 of the 17."i votes cast, fleorge Clic
received 0 votes of Now York; and the remaining 47 were given to Charles Coteswortli Piuckncy. Hi* c
net was: —
Secretaria 0/ State. — Botiert Smith of Maryland, March li, 1800; James Monroe of Virginia, .\pril 2. 1S1
Secretartt 0/ the Trraniru. — Allx'rt (fallatiii of IViinHylviinia, continued.
Secmtariet of War. — WUliaui Eustis of Massachusetts, March 7, 180ii; John Armstrong of New York,
13, 1813.
Bterttariet of the Navy. — Paul Hamilton of Soutli Carolina, March 7, 1809; William Jones of Pen nsy Ira
Jan. 12, 1813.
Attoriuifi-Oeneral. — Cassar A. Rodney of Delaware, continued ; 'William Pinkncy of Maryland, Dec. 1 1,
Gkobob Cuvtok of New York was elected Vice-President, receiving 113 votes; while Rufus King hib
James Madison, 3; and James Monroe, 3.
i
Seventh Administration.- MADISON. —March 4, 1813-March 8, 1817.
Jaxbs Madison of Virginia was re-elected President, having received the entire electoral vote of
mont, Penn-sylvania, Vlrgini.i, North and South Carolina, Oeorgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio, and D>nl5«
and li of the 11 votes of Maryland, — in all, 128 of the 217 votes cast. The remaining 89 were given for D^
Clinton of New York. Ui-s cabinet wbh : —
Seerttar]/ of State. — James Monroe of Vlrglida, continued.
SecrelarieM of the IVetuiir)/. — Alliert Gallatin of PciinHylvania, continued; George W. Campbell of
nessee, Feb. 9, 1814; Alexander J. Dallas <if IVunsylvanlo, Oct. «, 1814.
Secrelarie4 of li'iir. — .Iiiliii Armstrong of New York, continned; Jaines Monroe of Virginia, Sept. Sft»
William U. Crawford of Gwirgia, March 3, 1815.
Secretariet of Uie A'aiy. — \YiUiam Jones of I*ennaylvania, continued; Benjamin W. Crowninshi'^s
Uassachusetts, Dec. 19, 1814.
Attomeys-Orneral. — Vk'UUam Pinkney of Maryland, continued; Ricbani Rush, Feb. 10, 1814.
Elbrioob Gxrry of Massachusetts was elected Vice-President, receiving 131 votes ; while Jai«d In j
had 80.
1>!B-
EiOHTH Administration. —MONROE. —March 4, 1817-March 8, 1821.
James Moxhoe of Virginia was elected President, having received the entire electoral vote of everjr"
except Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Delaware, — in all, 183 of the 217 votes cast; the remaining 3fc^
given for Riifns King. Uis cabinet was: —
Secrrlary of SliUc. — Jolm Q. Adams of Ma-ssachn.sotts, March r>, 1817.
Secretary of Ute Treaniry. — William H. Crawford of Ceorgia, Oct. 22, 1817.
Secretary of War. —John C. Calhoun of South (.larulina, Dec. 1.1, 1817.
Secretaricn of the Xavy. — Boniantin W. Crowuinahicld of Massachusetts, continned; Smith Thomp^'
New York, Nor. 9, 1818.
Attorney Jlenmil. — William Wirt of Virginia, Dec-. IB, 1817.
Daxikl D. Tompkins of New York was elected Vice-President, receiving 183 votes; while John '.
ard had 22 rotiea; Jam^ Ross, 6; Jphu Marshall, 4; and Robert G. Harper, 3.
PBESXDESTS AlfTD THKIB CABIKETS. 217
l7DrrH AsKunsTBATioir. —MONROE. —March 4, 1821-March 3, 1825.
jAxas HovBDB of Viislnla was re-elected PreRldent, receiTin(|; the entire electoral rote of every State (228)
except Xew Hampshire, of which 1 vote was thrown for John Quincj Ailams. His cabinet was: —
Stcretarg o/State. — John Q. Adams of Massachusetts, cootinned.
■Secretory of the TrtoMtry. — William H. Crawford of QeorKia, continued.
Seeretarjio/War. — Joim C. Calhoun of South Carolina, continued.
SeeretoHet q^ the Navy. —Smith Thompson of New York, continued; Samuel li. Southard of Sew Jeiaey,
Sept. 16, 1823. •"»*-'•
Attomeif-Omerta. — WUliam Wirt of Virginia, continued.
TOakuo. D. ToxrEiNB of New York was re-elected Vice-President, leaeiying 215 TOtaa; whUa Bidbard
Stockton had 8 votes; Daniel Bodney, 4; Bobart O. Harper, 1; and Blchard Bush, 1.
Torra AmnmsTRATiON.— J. Q. ADAMS.— March 4, 1825-March8, 1829.
JoHK Qtmrcr Adams of Massachusetts was elected President by the House of BepresBntatives, the eleo-
toral oolleKe not giving either of the four candidates — Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams, William H.
Crawford, or Henry Clay — the requisite majority, which was 132 votes. Andrew Jackson received US votes,
being the entire electoral vote of New Jersey, Peunsylvaaia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, In-
diana, Mississippi, and Alabama, 1 of the 36 votes of New York, 7 of the 11 votes of Maryland, 3 of the 5 votes
of Iionisiana^nd 1 of the 3 votes of Illinois. John Quincy Adams received Si votes, being the entire vote of
Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Bhode Island, and Connecticut, and 26 of the 3S votes of
New York, 1 of the 3 votes of Delaware, 3 of the 11 votes of Maryland, 2 of the 6 votes of Louisiana, and 1
of the 3 votes of Illinois. Williara H. Crawford received 41 votes, being the entire vote of Virginia and at
Georgia- and fi of the 38 votes of New York, 2 of the 3 votes of Delaware, and 1 of the 11 votes of Maryland.
Henry Clay received 37 votes, being the entire vote of Kentucky, Ohio, and Miasooti, and 4 of the 36 votes of
New York. The House of Bepresentatlves balloted for the three nigbest candidates, Messrs. Jackson, Adams,
and Crawford; and the following was the result of the first ballot: For John Quincy Adams, Maine, New
Hampshire, Massachusetts, Bhode Island, Conneoticnt, Vermont, New York, Maryland, Ohio, Kentucky, Illi-
nois, Missonri, and Louisiana, — 13 States; for Andrew Jackson, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, South Carolina,
Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, and Indiana, — 7 States; for William H. Crawford, Delaware, Virginia, North
Carolina, and Georgia, — 4 States. The speaker then declared that John Quincy Adams, having received a
majority of the votes of all the States, was dnly elected President. His cabinet was : —
Secretary of StaU. — Henry Clav of Kentucky, March 7, 1825.
Secretary of the Treatury. — Bicnard Bttsh of Pennsylvania, March 7, 1826.
Secretariee of IKar. —James Barbour of Virginia, March 7, 182S; Peter B. Porter of New York, May 28, 1828.
Secretary of the iVapy. — Samuel L. Southard of New Jersey, continued.
AUomey-OeiiercU. — William Wirt of Virginia, continued. .
JoHX C. CAi.BonN of South Carolina was elected Vice-President, receiving 182 votes; while Nathan Saa-
foid had 30 votea; Nathaniel Macon, 24; Andrew Jackson, 13; Martin Van Buren, i; and Henry Clay, 2.
Elbyxnth ADMimsTBATioN. —JACKSON. —March 4, 1820-Mafch 3, 1833.
Amdbbw Jacksoit of Tennessee was elected President, receiving the entire electoral vote of Peniisylvania,
Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio, Louisiana, Mississippi, Indi-
ana, nUnois, Alabama, and Missouri, 1 of the 9 votes of Maine, 20 of the 36 votes of New York, and 6 of the
11 votes of Maryland, — 178 in all; John Quincy Adams receiving the remaining 83 electoral votes. His cabi-
net was:—
Secretarie* <^ Stale. — Martin Van Buren of New York, March 6, 1829; Edward Livingston of Louisiana,
May 24, 1831.
Secretarieeo/the IVecuury. — Samuel D. Ingham of Pennsylvania, March 6, 1829; Louis MeLane of Dela-
ware, Aug. 8, 1831.
Secretariei of War. — John H. Eaton of Tennessee, March 9, 1829; Lewis Cass of Michigan, Aue. 1, 1831.
Secretcaiee of the Ifavy. — John Branch of North Carolina, Maron 9, 1829 ; Levi Woodbury of New Hamp-
shire. May, 1831.
Po«tnuuter-Oenera{.— William T. Barry of Kentucky, March 9, 1829.
Attpm^t-Oeneral. — John M. Berrien of Georgia, March 9, 1829; Boger B. Taney of Maryland, Deo. 27, 1831.
John C. CAiaomi was re-elected Vice-President, receiving 171 votes; while Bichaid Bush had 83 votes;
and William Smith, 7.
Twelfth AoMiiasTBATioir. —JACKSON. — March 4, 1833-March 3, 1837,
Amnuiw Jackson of Tennessee was re-elected President, receiving the entire electoral vote of Maine,
New l^unpshire. New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Ohio,
Loniaiana, Mississippi, Indiana, Illinois, Alabama, and Missouri, with 3 of the 8 votes of Maryland, —219.
Henry Clay of Kentucky received the entire vote of Massachusetts, Bhode Island, Connecticut, Delaware,
and Kentucky, with 6 of the 8 votes of Maryland, —49. John Floyd received the entire vote of South Caro*
Una, — 11 ; and William Wirt, the entire vote of Vermont, — 7. His cabinet was : —
Secretariea of State. — 'EAwaxd Livingston of Louisiana, continued; Louis McLane of Delaware, May 29,
1833: John Fotsyth of Georgia, June 27, 1834.
Secretariea of the TVeosurv. — Louis McLane of Delaware, continued; William J. Duane of Pennsylvania,
May 29, 1833; Levi Woodbury of New Hampshire, June 27, 1834.
Secretary of War. — Lewis Cass of Michigan, continued.
Seer^atiee oftheNaoy. — ljerri Woodbury of New Hampshire, continued; Mahlon Dickerson of New Jer-
tey. June 30, 1831.
Pottnuutert-QeTusral. — WiUlam T. Barry of Kentucky, continued; Amos Kendall of Kentucky, May 1, 1835.
Attorney $-Oeneral. — 'BotmT B. Taney of Maryland, continued; Benj. F. Butler of New York, June 24, 1834.
MAJnrnr Vaw Bosbn of New York was elected Vice-President, receiving 189 votes; while John Sargent
kad 49 votes, William Wilkins had 30, Henry Lee had 11, and Amos Elmaker had 7.
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Thiktkekth Adjunistbation.— van BUREN. — March 4, 1837-March 3, 1841
MARTrw Va!« Bubex of New York was elected President, receiving the entire electoral rote of 1
Kew Hniiipsliiro, Kbodo Islanil. Connecticut, N«n- York. Pennsvlvanin, virRinia. North Car ' T
I liisslssiiijii, Illinois, Alahnmn, MiHsoiiri, Arkaiisas, Micliicsin. — 170. William H Harrison r^ ■■pli^^*"
vote of \eriiiont, New Jersey, Delaware, Mnryliind, Kentucky, Ohio, anil Indiana, — 73; II' „ le. lEl — ^*
vote of Georpa and of Tennessee, — 20; Daniel Webster, the vote of Massacbnaetts, — 14; and W. P. Uuigai^^^^^
the Vote of South Carolina. — 11. His cabinet was: —
Baaretar]/ of State. — tlolin Forsyth of Oeorpia, continued. ^m
Seerttary of the Trecuniru. — Levi Wootllmry of New Hampshire, continued. ^M
aterelary if Ifar. — Joel R. Poinsett of South Carolina, March 7, 1837. V
Stentanetof the Navy. — Mahlon Dickerson of New Jersey, continued; James K. Panlding of NewYortM^— 4
June 3(1, 1H38.
Poatmasten-Otneral. — Amos Kendall of Kentucky, continued ; John M. KUes of Connecticut, May 25, ISIM^^^^
Attomej/t-Gmeral. — Benjamin F. Butler of New York, continued; Follz Qrundy of Tenneasee, BepL Z i
1838; Henry D. Gilpin of Pennsylvania, Jan. 10, 1840. ^
RicMAKD M. J0H.N8OM of Kentucky was chosen Vice-Preaident by the 8enat«, no one faavins received _j ^
I majority of the electoral votes, which stood: Richard M. Johnson, 147; Francis Granger, 77; John Tyler, i"-^^^.
FouBTEENTH ADMuasTBATiON.— HARRISON. — March 4, 1841-Apra 4, 1841.
WlUJAM Hkvbt Harrison of Ohio was elected President, receiving the entire electoral vote of Mi
Maaaachnsetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Vermont, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware. Mai
.land. North Carolina, OeorKla, Keutuuky, Tennessee, Ohio, Louiiilana, Mississippi, Indiana, aud Michiga
I.S34. Martin Van Ktiren received the entire electoral vote ot New Hampsliire, Virgluia, South Carolina,
Hols, Alabama, Missouri, and Arkansas, — liO. His cabinet was: —
Secretary uf State. — Daniel \Veb.sterof Masstu-huHetts, March S, 1841.
Seerttary of the JVeaiury. — Thomas Ewing of Ohio, March 6, IML.
Beentary of ITar. — John Bell of Tennessee. March 5, 1H41,
Ssoretorv °f 'Ae Nary. — George E. Badger of North Carolina, March 8, 1841.
PottmaAtT-Otneral. — Francis Granger of New York, March 6, 1841.
Attomry-Gnieral. — John J. Criltenacn of Kentucky, March 8, 1841.
Juii.v Tyi.rr of Virpuia was elected Vice-President, receiving 234 votes; while B. M. Johnson had
L. W. Tazewell, 11; and James K. Polk, 1.
Fifteenth ADuraisTRATiou. —TYLER. — April 4, 1841-March 3, 1845.
JOEor TrutR, Vice-President, became President after the death of Pres. Harrison. His cabinet wa»:
Becretttriei 0/ State. — Daniel Wetater of Massachusett.H, continued; llui;h S. I..eKard of South Carob Ini,
^ICay 9, 1843; Abel P. Upshur of Virginia, Juno 24, 184,); John C. Cnllioun of South Carolina, Matvh G, 18*4 —
I Secretaries of the Trtajnmi. — Thfnuas Ewing, continued; Waller Forward of Peuusylvanio, Sept. 13, ^^■IMI;
rG«orge M. Bibb of Kentuckv, .Uino !.'>, 1844.
lkcretarte» of War. — .lolih Boll of Tennessee, continued ; John C. Spencer of New York, Oct. 12, 1841 ; Wll~^ilim
Wilkina of Pennsylvania, Feb. 16, 1S44.
Secretarlet of the iVai';/. — George E. Badger of North Carolina, continued; Abel P. tJpshnr of Vug^^Snlk
Sept 1.3, 1«41 ; f)a%'id Hcuslmw of >Iassachusetta, July 24, 1843; Thomas W. Gilmer of Virginia, Feb. Ifi, IMt;
Joun Y. Mason of Vircinin, Man^'h 14, 1844.
PuHmatten-Oenerai. — Francis Granger of New Y'ork, continued; Charles A. WlckllfTe of Kenti^^aadc;,
Sept. 13, 1841.
.ilMornei/»-Glcn<ToJ. — John J. Crittenden of Kentucky, continued; Hugh S. Legar^ of Soath Carr- ilinti
Sept. 13, 1841; John Nelson of Maryland, Jan. 2, 1844.
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StxTEEm'a Adkiniatbation. — POLK. — March 4, 1845-March 3, 184©.
jAns K. Por.K of Tennessee was elected President, receiving the entire electoral vote of Maine,
Hampshire, Now York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, .Simtli Carolina, tJeorgia, Ix)ulsii>na, Mi.s»i!«it>pl, Indian
nols, Alabama, Missouri, Arkan-sas, and Michigan, — 17<l. Henry Clay received the vote of Ulio<le Island
Bachusetts, Cuunecticut, Vermont, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tenna
and Ohio, — 105. His cabinet was : —
Secretary of State. — James Buchanan of IVnnsvlvania, March G, 1H5.
Secretary of the Treamrii. — Kobert J. Walker nf Mississippi, March 6, 1843.
Secretary of War. — William L. Marcy of Now York, Mun.u 3, 184.5.
SecretaricM 0/ the Navy. — Georgo Bancroft of Massachusetts, March 10, 1845; John T. Haaon of '
Bept. », 184&
Poetmanter- General. — Cave Johnson of Tennessee, March B, 184S. _ iius-
AtUirneyt-Gcwnd.— 3 ohn Y. Mason of Virginia, March 5, 1845; Nathan Clifford of Maine, Dec 83,^— . '»"'
Isaac Toucov of Connecticut, June 21, 1848. ,, _
Gbobob M. DalluU of Pennsylvania was elected Vice-President, receiving 170 votea; while T. Fi -^ Ti^r j
hnyaen had 105.
Sevxnteenth ADMiJnsTKATioN.- TAYLOR. — March 4, 1849-July 0, 1850.
Zachary Tavlor of Louisiana was elected President, roceivinc: the entire electoral vote • f "' ' ^"^"ij^j
Rhoile Island. Connecticut, Vermont, New Ynik, New .lersey, I'ennsylvunia, Uelawaro, ^ fS»
Carolina. GeoroHa. Kentucky. Tennessee, Louisiana, and Floriila, — UU voles. Lewis Cass ri ■ . ^_« MiT
vi'te of Maine, New ILiuipshirc, Virginia, South Carolina, Ohio, Mississippi, Indiana, lllinoia, AtaiMUU.:^^ «■■
aouri, Arkansas, Michigan, Texas, Iowa, and Wlscoasin, — 137 Votes. His cabinet was: —
PSESIDKIIT8 AKD THEIS CABINETS. 219
Btentarji iff Butt. —John M. Clayton of Delaware, Hweh 7, 1849.
Secretary of the Tnaxwry. —William M. Meredith of PeniUTlvania, March 8, ISffi.
Beereusm of War. — George W. Crawford of Georeio, March 6, 18i9.
Seerttarf of tfte JVary. — William B. Preeton of Viisiiiia, March 8, 1810.
Secretary of the Interior. — Tbomaa Ewingpf Ohio, March 7, 1849.
J'oetmatter-Oeneral. — Jacob Collamer ofvermont, March 7, 1849.
Aticnteif-Oeneral, — Bererdy Johnson of Maryland, March 7, 1849.
Mn.i.ABD P. FnxMOBB of Kew York was elected Vioe-Freaident, xacalyliic 168 vote*; whila 'WUUom O.
Butler received 12T.
EiOBTXKNTH AsioinBTBATiOK. — FILLMOBE. — Joly 9, 1860-Marcb 8, 186S.
MiixASD TnjJKmK, Vloe-Preeldent, tMcame President afterthedeathof Free. Taylor. Bis eaUnet was:—
SBcretarisfQ/ /State. —John M. Clayton of Delaware, oontinaed; Daniel Webster of Massochiuetts, July 20l
18S0: £dward Brerett of Maasachnsetts, Ko7. 6, 18S2.
Secretarie* oftJte Treamry. — WUliam M. Meredith of Pennsylvania, continued; Thomas Corwin of Ohio,
July 33, ISSa
Seeretarlet <tf War. — George W. Crawford of Oeoigis, oontlnued; Charles M. Conrad of I«oIsiana, Jnly 18,
BttTttarie* of the Naoy. — William B. Preston of Vb^ginlo, continned ; William A. Graham of North Carolina,
July 22, 18B0; John P. Kennedy of Maryland, July 22, 1862
Seeretariei of the Interior. —Thomas Swing of Ohio, continued; Alexander H. H. Stuart of Virginia, July SSL
1850.
Poftmastert-OencroZ. —Jacob Collamer of Vermont, continned; KathanK. Hall of New Tork, Jnly90i 18B0;
Samnel D. Hubbard of Connecticut, Sept. 14, 18S2.
.Ittomeys-OsiMra].— Beverdy Johnson of Maryland, continued; John J. Crittenden of Kentudky, Jnly 20^
18B0.
NnrcmNTB AoimnsTRATioH. —FIERCE. —March 4, 1868-Maroh 8, 1867.
Frahkuw Timaam ot New Hampshire was elected President, receivins the entire electoral vote of Maine,
New HampsUre, Bhode Island, Connecticut, New York. New Jersey, Fannsylvanla, Delaware, Maryland,
Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Lonisiana, Texas, Arkan>
SOS, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Missoiul, Iowa, Wisconsin, and California.— 2M. Winfleld Soott
received the vote of Vermont, Massachusetts, Tennessee, and Kentucky, — 42. £Ua cabinet was : —
Secretary of State. — William L. Marcy of New Yorl^ March 7, 18S3.
Seeretary of the Treasury. — James Guthrie of Kentucky, March 7, 18S3.
Secretary of War. — Jefferson Davis of Mississippi, March 7, 1893.
Seeretary of the Navy. —James C. Dobbin of North Carolina, Man^h 7, 18S3.
Secretary if the Interior. — Bobert McClelland of Michigan, March 6, 18S3.
foitmailer Oeneral. — James Campbell of Pennsylvania, March 7, 1853.
^ttoriMir-Geaeral.- Caleb Cnshing of Massachusetts, March 7, 1863. ^^
WnxiAM B. KuiQ of Alabama was elected Vice-President, receiving 264 votes; while WlUiam A. Graham
had43L
TwBMTiETH Admikistratiom.— BUCHANAN. — March 4, ISST-March 8, 1861.
jAissa BccBAHAir of Pennsylvania was elected President, receiving the entire electoral vote of New
Jersey, PennsylvanliL Delaware, Vligiuia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee,
I^nisiano. HiasissippL Indiana, Illincds, Alabama, Missouri, A'*ft''«!i«, Florida, Texas, and California, — 173.
John C. Ir^mont received the entire vote of Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Bhode Island, Connecti-
cnt, Vermont, New York, Ohio, Michigan, Iowa, and Wisconsin, —114. Millard FUlmore received the vote of
Maryland, — 8. His cabinet was : —
SKretortef of State. — La wis Cass of Michigan, March 6, 18S7 ; Jeremiah & Black of Pennsylvania, Deo. 17,
I860;
Seeretariee of the Treatury. — Howell Cobb of Georgia, March 6, 18S7; Philip F. Thomas of Maryland, Deo.
ta, 1860; John A. Dix of New York, Jan. 11, 1861.
Seeretariei of War.— John B. Floyd of Virginia, March S, 18S7; Joseph Holt of Kentucky, Deo. 31, 1861.
Secretary of the Navy. — Isaac Toncey of Connecticut, March 6, 18S7.
Seeretary if the tmterior. — Jacob Thompson of Missigsippl, March 6, 1867.
Poitnuuters-Genenil. —Aaron V. Brown of Tennessee, March 6, 18S7; Joseph Holt of Eentuoky, Maioh 14^
18BB; Horatio King of Maine, Feb. 12, 1861.
JMom^s-OeneniJ.- Jeremiah S. Block of Pennsylvania, March 6, 1857; Bdwin M. Stanton of Ohio, Deo.
31,1800.
JoHX C. BsxcKiRBiDGn of Keutuoky was elected Vice-President, receiving 173 votes; while W. L. Dayton
had U« : and A. J. Donelson, 8.
TwxBTT-nxsT ADHiinBTRATiON. —LINCOLN. — Mansh 4, 1861-March 8, 1865.
Abrabax Lorooui of Illinois was elected President, receiving the entire vote of California, Connecticnt,
niiaoia, Indiana, Iowa, Main& Massachusetts, MiohiEan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New York, Ohio,
Oiegon, Pennsylvania, Bhode Island, Vermont, and Wisconsin, and 4 of New Jersey, — 180. John C. Breck-
inridge received the vote of Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, MIhsIs-
sippi. North Carolina, South Carolina, and Texas, — 72. John Bell received the entire vote of Kentucky, Ten-
BMsee, and Virginia, — 80. StephenA-Donglasreoelved the voteof Missouri, and 8 of New Jersey, — 12. Hia
cabinet was:-
Secretary of State. — WiUlam H. Seward of New York, March S, 1861.
220 OOKOBESSIONAL DIBBCTOBT.
Set^tarie* of tha TVeoniry.— Salmon P. Ohara of Ohlo> March 7, 1861; WllUam P. Feasenden o! iUbt,
July 1, 1864.
Sftrrctaries of War. —Simon Cameron of Pennsylyania, Harob i, 1861; Bdwin H. Stanton of Ohio, Ju. 11,
1862.
Sccrftary of the Naey. —Gideon Welles of Connecticnt, March S, 1861.
Beerttarifi of the Interior.— Caleb B. Smith of Indiana, March 6, 1861; John P. Usher of Indiana, Jan.&
1863^
Pottmatteri-Chnaral.—'ii.'aaXffamvrj Blaiz of Marj-Iand, Maioh 7, 1861; William Dennison of Ohio, Get. L
16G1.
Attomeyi-Oeneral. — Edward Bates of Missonri, March 6, 1861; James Speed of Kentucky, Dec. 2, 188t.
HA?iTrrBAL Hamun of Maine was elected Vioo-Presideni, receiving 180 votes; while Joseph Iduie leoeired
72; Bdwaid Everett, 88; and Heraohel V. Johnson, 12.
TwENTT-SECOND AsHiinsTKATioN. — LINCOLN. — March 4, 1865- April 15, 1805.
AiinAKA» TiiNOOLic of nilnoia was re-elected President, receiving the votes of Maine, Massachusetts, Hew
Hani mb ire, \'crmont, Connecticnt, Bhode Island, New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Ohio, Tiw<iana, jiiehi-
gau, tlliiwis, iDWa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Missouri^ Kansas, West Vii];inia, Or^n, California, and Nevada,
— 213. George B. McClellan received the vote of New Jersey, Delaware^ and Kentacky, — 31. His eabjnet
WOS: —
Heeretary of State. — WUUam H. Seward of New York, oontinned.
Sei:nitarji (if the Tnamiry. — Hush McCuUoch of Indiana, March 7, 1865.
Seeretanj of TTor.— Edwin M. Stanton of Ohio, continued.
Secretary of the Naey. — Gideon Welles of Connecticut, continued.
Secretarj/ of the Interior. — John P. Usher of Indiana, continued.
PoftmoMer-OenercU. — 'WOllam Dennison of Ohio, continued.
Attomej/'Gitieral. — James Speed of Kentucky, continued.
Anaasvi JoHmoN of Tennessee was elected Vioe-PMBldent, leo^Ting 212 votes; whfle George H. Pendls-
ton received 2L
TweiTTT-THiBD ADHiinsTRATioN. —JOHNSON. — April 15, 1865-MaRsh 8, 1869.
Andsrw JomnoH, Vice-President, became President after the death of Frea. Tiinfioln. His cabinet «m:—
Secretary of State. — William H. Seward of New York, continued.
Secretan/ nfthe TVetuvrv. — Hugh McCulloch of Indiana, continued.
Saemtarki of War. — Edwin M. Stanton of Ohio, continued ; John M. Schofleld of New To^ April 23, U6S.
Secretary of the Nany. —Gideon Welles of Coanectiont, continued.
Secretarke of the Interior.— John P. Usher of Indiana, continued; James Harlan of Iowa, May IS, 1865;
Orvllle H. Browning of Illinois, Sept. 1, 1806.
PostritanteTs-Oeneral. — William Dennison of Ohio, continued; Alexander W. Randall, July at, 1866.
Attomriiii-General.—JtuDm Speed of Kentucky, continued; Henry Stanbery of Kentucky, July 23,1886;
WiUJam M. Evarts of New York, July 15, 1868.
TwKKTT-FOUBTH AsHnnsTRATiOM. — GRANT. — Martsh 4, 1860-Maroh 8, 1878.
ULTsgm g. Gbamt of Illinois was elected President, receiving the entire electoral vote of Alabama,
ArkatisiiH, California, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Indiaiia, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Massachusetta, Michigan,
MinDcfkitii, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Bhode Island,
South Carolin.T, Tennessee, Vermont^ West Virslnia, and Wisconsin, —214. Bforatio Seymour of New York
received ilie voce of Delaware, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, and Oregon,
— 80. His oabinet was : —
Secretaria of State. — 'EMbrx B. Washbume of Illinois, March 6, 1868; Hamilton Fish of New York, Maich
11, 19GU.
Searetarff of the Treamry. — George 8. Boutwell of Massachusetts, March 11, 1869.
A'eoretaricj qf War. — John A. Rawlins of Ulinois, March 11, 1869; W. W. Belknap of Iowa. Oct 3, 1869.
Seavtark4 of the If any. — AAolph E. Borle of Pennsylvania, March 8, 1869; George M. Bobeson of New
Jersey, Juno 25, 1869.
Becretarief of the Interior.— Jacob D. Cox of Ohio, March 6, 1869; Columbus Delano of Ohio, Nov. 1, 18Ta
Poslmattcr-'Oeneral. — John A J. Cieswell of Maryland, March S, 1869.
Attonicifn-deneral.—'EbetiiBZOT R. Hoar of Massachusetts, March 6, 1869; Amos T. Akerman of Oeorgis,
Jnno 23. I8TCI; George H. Williams of Oregon, Jan. 10, 1872.
BcuLTLxic CoLTAX of Indiana was elected Vice-President, receiving 214 votes; while Fiands P. Blair, Jul,
received SO.
TwKNTT-FiFTH Administbation. — GRANT. — March 4, 1873-Maroh 8, 1877.
Ui^rssiB 3. Grakt was re-elected President, receiving the electoral votos of Alabama, Calif omia, Con-
necticut, DeIn\Tare, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota,
Mi**issi[)pi, Nebra.ska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio,' OregonjPenn-
irlvanla, Rlirxle Island, South Carolina, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wisconsin,- 2tfi Horace
uFreelc}', had he lived, would have received the votes of Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, Hissoiin,
TcB^mAety, and Texas; but, he having died before the meetings of the electors, the votes of these States were
cost for Tliiiiitis A Hendricks, 42; B. Gratz Brown, 18; Horace Greeley, 3; Charles J. Jenkins, 2; and David
Davia, 1, — W>. His cabinet was : —
Secrctnni ri/<Si<Ke. —Hamilton Fish of New York, continued.
.Sfi-rrtitrim of the Treasuq/. —William A. Biohardson of Massachosetts, March 17, 1873; Benjamin EL Bii»-
tow of Kentucky, June 4, ISH.
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8eeretarie*<^War.—'WiXliainW. Belknap of Iowa, continned; Alphonao Taft of Ohio, Maxell 7, 1876;
James Donald Cameron of Pennsylvaniaj May 22, 1876.
Secrttar]fo/th» Navy. — Geoise M Bobeson of New Jeisey, continued.
Searetariet of the Interior. — Columbus Delano of Ohio, continued ; Zacharlah Chandler of Michigan, Oct 19,
1875.
Po$tma»ter»-Oenerat. — John A. J. Cieawell of Maryland, continued; James W. Marshall of Virginia,
July 3, 1874; Mushall Jewell of Connecticut, Sept. 1, 1874; James N. Tyner of Indiana, July 12. 1876.
.ittom«y»-6enera{.— QeoTge H. Williams of Oregon, continued; Edwards Fierrepont of New Yoik,
May IS, 187B ; Alphonso Taft of Ohio, May 22, 187&
Henbt Wiuon of Massachusetts was elected Vice-President, receiving 292 yotes; whUe B. Oiatz Brown
leoelyed 8S votes, and the remaining 19 votes were scattered among different candidates.
TwKNTT-siXTH ADHnnBTBATiOH. — HATES. — March 4, 1877-
BoraBBTOBD B. Hatxs of Ohio was elected President, receiving the electoral votes of Oalifomia, Colo-
rado, Florida, Illinois, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts. Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada,
New Hampshire, Ohio, Oj«gon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Sontn Carolina, Vermont, and Wisconsin, — 185.
Samuel J. Tilden leoeived the entire vote of Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Indiana,
Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Vir-
ginia, and West Vir|^ni& — 184. His cabinet is : —
Secretary of Stale. — William M. Evarts of New York, March 12, 1877.
Secretary of the Treasury. — John Sherman of Ohio, March 8, 1877.
SecrOary of War. —George W. McCrary of Iowa, March 12, 1877.
Secretary of thu Navy. — Bichard W. Thompson of Indiana, March 12, 1877.
Secretary of the Interior. — Carl Schnrz of Missouri, March 12, 1877.
Poetnuuter-Oeneral. — David M. Key of Tennessee, March 12, 1877.
Attomey-CfenenU. — Charles Devens of Massachusetts, March 12, 1877.
WnxiAM A. Wbkkucb of New York was elected Vice-President, receiving 18B votes; while Thomas A.
Hendiicka zeoeived 184.
222
OOzrOBBSSIONAI. DISBOTOBT.
THE EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS.
THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE.
SBCBETABIBS OX* FOBBIGN APFAIBa
Bobert B. UTingston of Kew York, from Oct 30, 1781.
BUas Bondinot of Kew Jeraer, from June, 1783, ad
int.
ThomaB IDfflin of FemuylTania, ficom Kor. S; 1783, at
iiU.
John Jay of Kew Tork, from Dec. 21, 1781.
SBOBBTABIBS OF STATK
Thomas Jeffenon of Virginia, from March 21, 1790.
Bdmund Randolph of ViTKima, from Jan. 2, 1791.
Timothy Pickerina of Fennsylrania, from Ane. 19,
Timothy Fickeringof PenDaylvanla, from Dea 10, 1796.
John Afarshall of Virginia, from May 13, 1800.
James Madison of Virj^nla, from March S, 1801.
Bobert Smith of Maryland, from March 6, 1809.
James Monroe of Virginia, from April 2, 1811.
John Quincy Adams of Massachusetts, from Maiob B,
1817.
Henry Clay of Kentucky, from March 7, 1828.
James A. Hamilton of Kew York, ^m March 4, 1829,
ad int.
Martin Van Buren of Kew York, from March 6, 1829.
Edward Livingston of Louisiana, from May M, 1831.
Louis MoLane of Delaware, from May 29. 1833w
John Forsyth of Georgia, from June 27, 1831.
J. L. Martin of Korth Carolina, from March 8, 1811, ad
int.
Daniel Webster of Massachusetts, from March 6, 1841.
Hugh S. Legar< of South Carolina, from May 9, IMS,
ad int.
Abel P. tTpehnr of Virginia, from June 91, 181S, at M.
Abel P. Upshur of Virginia, from July 21, 1813.
John Kelson of Maryland, from Feb. 29, ISM, odM.
John C. Calhoun at South Carolina, from Haich 6,
1811.
James Buchanan of Pennsylvania, from March 6, 181S.
John M Clayton of Delaware, from March 7, 1849.
Daniel Webster of Massachusetts, from July 22, 1850.
Charles M Conrad of Louisiana, from Sept. 2, 1882, ai
int.
Edward Everett of Massachusetts, from Kov. 6, 18IQ.
WiUiam Hunter of Bbode Island, from March 3, 18S3,
ad int.
William L. Marcy of Kew York, from March 7, 1853.
Lewis Cass of Michigan, from March 6, 1857. >
William Hunter of Bhode Island, from Dec 12, 1860,
ad int.
Jeremiah S. Black of Pennsylvania, from Dec. 17, 1880.
William H. Seward of Kew York, from March 6, 1861.
Elihu B. Washbume of IlUnols, from March 5, 18ea
Hamilton Fish of Kew York, from March IL 1869.
WUliam M. Evarts of Kew York, from Maieh IS,
1877.
The secretary of state is charged, under the direction of the President, with the duties appertainbiK to
correspondence with the public ministers and consuls of the United States, and with the representatlTM of
foreign powers accredited to the United States, and to negotiations of whatever character relatlns to the foi^
eign affairs of the United States. He is also the medium of correspondence between the President and the
chief executive of the several States of the United States. He has the custody of the great seal of the United
states, and countersigns and affixes such seal to all executive proclamations, to various commissions, and to
warrants for pardon, and the extradition of fugitives from justice. He is ref^rded as the first in rank among
the members of the cabinet. He is also the custodian of the treaties made with foreign States, and of tbe
laws of the United States. He grants and issues pcuMPorts; and exequaturs to foreign consuls in the Uniwd
States are issued through his office. He publishes thelaws and resolutions of Congress, amendments to tiM
Constitution, and ptocumatlons declaring the admission of new States into tbe Union. He is also cbaiRw
with certain annual reports to Congress relating to oommerdal information received from dlplomatio ami
consular officers of the United States.
ASSISTAKT EDSOBBTABIES OF STATE.
A. Dndler Xnnn of Ohio, from March 23, 1 883.
Williani llu liter of Bhode Island, from May 8, 18SS, ad
(nJ.
John A Thoiiins of Kew York, from Kov. 1, 18BB.
John Applctoii of Maine, from April 1, 1887.
WlHiiun II. Trtacot of South Carolina, from June 8,
im\
Frodoritk W. S« ward of Kew York, from March 6, 186L
J. C. Bancroft Davis of Kew York, from March SS,
1869.
Charles Hale of Massachusetts, from FeK 19, 1872.
J. C. Bancroft Davis of Kew York, from Jan. it,
1873.
John L. Cadwalader of Kew York, from July 1, ISTt
Frederick W. Seward of Kew York, from March U.
1877. •
The assijtaDt secretary of state becomes the acting secretary of state In the abaenoe of the aeontaiy.
8BC0KD ASSISTAKT SECBBTABY OF STATE.
William Hunter of Bhode Island, from July 37, 18e&
THE EXBOUnVB DSPABIMENTS.
228
THIRD ASSISTANT SECBETABY OF STATEL
Joha A. GampiMn of Ohio, team Feb. M, 1875. | Qhadai Pliyon of MwminTuMetta, from Jima 1, 18T8.
Under the oiKanizatlon of the department, the aaslstant aecretBry, aeoond assistant aeoretBTy, and third
Msistant secretary, are respectiTely charged with the immediate sapeirislon of all correapondence with the
diplomatic and oonsular olncers In the countries named In divlalons A, B, and O of those bureaus, and of the
mlaoeUaneons oorrespondenoe relating thereto; and, in general, they are intmsted with the preparation of
the correspondence nixm any questions arlaing in the course of the public business that maybe assigned to
tbem by the secretary.
llHlllill' CUSBXS.
Henry Remsen, Jun., of New York, from March 2, 17M.
Boger Akien of Connecticut, from July 2B, 1789.
Henry Bennen, jun., of New York, from Sept. 10, 1790.
Georee Taylor, jun., of New York, from April 1, 1793.
Jacob Wagner of Pennsylranla, from Feb. 8, 1796.
John Oraham of Virginia, from July 1, 1807.
Daniel Brent of Vir^nia, from Sept. 21, 1817.
Asbnry Dicklns of North Carolina, from Aug. 8,
Aaron Ogden Dayton of New Jersey, from March 13,
1837.
Aaron Vail of New York, from June 26, 1839.
J. Xk Martin of North Carolina, from July 15, 18ia
Daniel Fletcher Webster of Massachusetts, from March
8,1841.
William a Derrick of Pennsylvania, from April at,
1843.
Bichard K. Crall^ of "^niinia, from April 10, 1844.
Nicholas P. Trist of Vlri^a, from Aug. 28, 1846.
John Appleton of Maine, from Jan. 20, 1848.
WlUiaui S. Derrick of Pennsylvania, from April 0, 1840.
William Hunter of Bhode Island, from May 17, 18S2.
Bobert 8. Chew of Virginia, from May 8, 1855.
William Hunter of Bhode Island, from Nov. 1, 18SS.
Bobert a Chew of Vlwinia, from July 27, 1866.
SeveUon A. Brown of New York, from Aug. 7, 1873^
The chief clerk has the general supervision of the clerks and employte of the department.
BXAHtNEBS OF CLAIMa
E. Pedilae Sndth of New York,from July 27, 1866. I Heniy O'Connor of Iowa, from Feb. 9^ 1872.
Cbaries C. Beaman, jun. , of New York, from No v. 1, 1871 |
The examiner of claims, who is subordinate to the attorney-general, has to examine all questions of law
and other matters submitted by the secretary of state or the assistant secretary, and all claims before the
department of state.
CHIEFS OF THE BITBEAU OF INDEXES AND ABUUXVES.
BeveUon A. Brown of New York, from July 1, 1873. | John H. Haswell of New York, from Aug. 7, 1873.
The duty of opening the mails; preparing, registering, and indexing daily all correspondenoe to and from
the deportment, both by subjects and persons; the preservation of the archives; answenng calls of the secre-
etaries, cmef clerk, and chiiefs of t ' . ~
taiy, assistant secret]
, cmef clerk, and chiefs of bureaus for correspondence, &c.
CHIEFS OF THE DIFLOMATIO BTTBEAIT.
Heniy D. J. Pistt of Massachusetts, from July 1, 1874. | Charles Payson of Massachusetts, from April 12, 1876.
DiplfMnotia correspondence, and miscellaneous correspondence relating thereto.
DttiaonA. — Correspondence with Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain, Nether-
lands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and Norway, and ^Itzerland, and mlscellaneons correspondence relating to
those coontius.
J9iBis<onJB. — Correspondence with Argentine Bepublic, Brazil, Central America, Chili, Greece, Hawaiian
Islands, Hayti, Italy, Liberia, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Bnasia, San Domingo, Uruguay, uid Venezuela, and
miscellaneous comspondence relating to those countries.
Dmitiaa C. — Correspondence with Barbery States, China, Egypt, Friendly and Navigator's Islands, Japan,
Madagascar, Muscat, Buun, Society Islands, Turkey, and other' countries not assigned, and miscellaneoua
eotraspoadttice relating to those countries.
CHIEF OF THE CONSULAR BUBEAU.
Arthur B. Wood of Virginia, from July 1, 1874.
Conespondenoe with consnlotes, and mlsceUaaeons correspondence relating thereto.
Thars ore three divisions, A, B, and O, with certain countries allotted to each, as In the diplomotio bnreao.
CHIEFS OF THE BUBEAU OF ACCOUNTa
Edwaid Haywood of New York, from July 1, 1873. | Bobert C. Morgan of New York, from Aug. U, 1874.
Cnstody and dlsboisement of appropriations under direction of the department; charged with oostody
it iodemni^ fund* and bonds; care of tue building and property of the department.
wd public
CmEF OF THE BUBEAU OF BOU^S AND LIBBABY.
Ferdinand Jefferson of District of Columbia, from July 1, 1874.
of the rolls, treaties, &a ; promulgation of the laws, &c. ; care and superintendence of the llbmty
its; care of the xevolationary archives, and of papen relating to international oommiasiona.
224
CONGEE88IONA1. DIBEOTOBY.
THE TEEASUEY DEPARTMENT.
SEOHETAErES OF THE TREASURY.
Alexander Hamilton of Kew York, from Sept. 11,
1789.
Oliver Wolcott, Jnn., of Connecticat, from Fob. 3,
1795.
Samuel Doxt^r of ManRachasetw, from .Tan. 1, ISOl.
Albert Gallatin of Poutisylvaiiia, from May l4, 1801.
George \V. Cauipbell of Tennessee, from Feb. !l, 1814.
Alexander J. Dalla-i i^f Pennsylvania, from Oct. 6, 1814.
William H. Crawfurd uf « ieorgiu, from Oct. 22, I8]ti.
Samuel L. Southard of New Jersey, from Marcli 7,
1S25, nd int.
Richard Rush of Pennsylvania, from Manth 7, KZ\
Samuel D. Ingham of PennsylTanio, from March 6,
1829.
Asbiuy Dickins of North Carolina, from June 21, 1831,
ad int.
Louis McLane of Delaware, from Ang. 8, 1H31.
William J. Duane of I'enniylvania. from May 29, 1833.
Bocer B. Taney of Maryland, from Sept. ?.t, 18^3.
McClintock Young of Maryland, from June 25, 1834,
ad int.
Levi Woodbury of New Hompshiro, frt)m Jane 27, 1834.
McCIiuto<'k Young of Maryland, from March 3, 1841,
ad int.
Thomas Ewing of Ohio, from Starch B, 1841.
McClintock Ifuung of Maryland, from Sept. 13, 1841,
ad int.
Walter Forward of Penn.sylvanio. from Sept. 13, 1841.
McClintock Yoang of Maryland, from March 1, 1843,
ad int.
John 0. Spencer of New York, from Manh S, UU
McClintock Young of Maryland, from May 3, 1IH1,0<
Hit.
George M. Bihb of Kentucky, from .Jane K, 184t
Rolieri J. Walker of Mwsifuiippi, from March fi, IMl
McClintock Young of Maryland, from Mamh 6,109,
fid int.
William M. Meredith of Pennsylwnia, from Muilit,
1849.
Thomas Corwiu of Ohio, from .Tuly 23^ 18S0.
James Guthrie of Kentucky, frora'March 7, 18S&
Howell Cobb of Georgia, from March 6, 1857.
Isooo Toucey of Connecticut, from Dm. 10, Uai, of
int.
Philip F. Thomas of Maryland, from Dec. 13, 1800.
John A. Dix of New York, from .Ian. 11, 1861
Salmon P. Chase of Ohio, from March 5, 1861.
George Harrington of District of Columbia, from JoM
30, 18(», ad int.
William P. Fessenden of Maine, from July 1, UG4.
George Harrington of IHstrict of Colombia, ftOD
March 4. 18<id, nd inl.
Hngh McCuUoch of Indiana, from Haich T, 18SS.
George S. Boutwell of Maasachusetto, from Uiicli 11,
mo.
William A. Richardson of Massachnsetts, fromldudi
17, 1873.
Benjamin H. Bristow of Kentucky, from Jane 3^ 1S7L
Lot M. Morrill of Maine, from June 21, 187a
John Sherman of Ohio, from March 9, 1877.
The Becrotary of the treasury has charge of the national finanoes. He digests and prepares plans far tla
Improvement and management of the revenue, and support of the public credit; he superintends the collectin
of the revenue, and prescribes the forms of keeping and rendering all public accounts, and making hIBTM;
grants all warrants for money to 1h) is.sueil from the treasury in pursuance of appropriations by law; mitai
report and gives information to either branch of Ciuigress, .as may bo required, reepeotlng all matters re'*"*
to nim by the Senate or House of liepresentatives, and generally performs all sach services relative to IM
finances as he Ls directed to perform; cnnirols the erection of public buildings, the coinage and priiitln|(«
money, the collection of commercial statistics, the marine ho«pitals, the revenue<ntter service, the life«»™f
Bcr^'ice. Under his superintendence the Light-house Board discharges the duties relative to the coniitnicti(iB|
illiiuiiuation, inspection, and supi*rintcn<lcnce of Ught-housos, light-vessels, beacons, buoys, soa-marlcs, tM
tlipir appendages; makes provision for the payment of the publio debt under enactments of Colignsa,iK>
pulilishes statements conceruiii^; it; and submits to Congress, at tbe commencement of each seaaton, MdmiM
of the probable receipts and of the renuirod expenditures for the ensuing tlscal year.
The routine work of the secretary s odice Ls transacted in tlio followuig dirisions: —
/>i»i»tono/ .^ppo/dhwiit*. — The supcr^-ision of all matters rehiting to the appointment, removal,
tion, or suspension of the oflirers, clerks, messengers. So., under the control of the treasury depaitme
the custody of papers pertaining thereto, including t.he examination of applicatiouii for appointment, i
propnnition of commissions therefor; the examination of all complaints against ofUcials, except whi
invcstij^iilion is otlicrwiso specially directed; the preparation of reports retjuireil by law relative to
ployineut and compensation of persons in the public service, and the publication of "The Unit
Treasury Register; the verification of all nay-rolls of the department, and all vouchers for sahiries <
boat inspectors, oustoilians, ami janitors; tho inspection uf the accounts of intcrnal-rovenuo gangers,
examination of all estimates for salaries and coiiipeusatioD of olhccrs and employees, and of incident
penses payable from tho appropriation for collecting the customs revenue, and keef>iug account thereof;
Keeping account of absence fn>m duly of employees in the several bureaus and otUcas of the department,
the consideration of requests for leave of absence.
Divuiionvf Wui-rant», KMimatc», and Appropriationt. — The Lssuo of all warrants for tho receipt and
mont of public moneys, and of appropriation and auri)lus-fund warrants; the preparation and keepira Cj
appropriation, sinkin^^-fund, public-debt, and PaciHc-railrooil occoonts; tho publication, for the use at]
gress, of the annual OHtlnuites of appropriations, ami of tho digest of appropriations m.ido at each seMT
Congress, with the dcign-ition of titles yn<ler which Cuniis may be drawn from appropriations; the pO
tion of the statements of the annual receipts and expenditures of the goveriiiucut, and of the tables ■
panying tlie annual rc[)ort, of tlic secretary of tlio treasury; the publication of iho monthly statements of (
pulilic ileiit, and tlie preparation of the dailv statement showing tbe llnancial uondition of tho treasury; t
prupanilioii of statistical tables rciatiuc to llie iinances, cmbra'Tug all information connected with the m:t\l
and expenditures.of tho goveminent from its foundation to tho present time; and, generally, all r -"'
connected with tho foregoing.
tofi
THX EXECTrnVE DEPABTSfENTS. 226
IHebton of PviUe Jforwya.— The Baperviidon of the Independent-treaBory offices, the desifniatioii of
natioasd-banlc and other depositoriea, and the obtaining from them of proper securities; the keeping of a
freneral account of receipts into the treasury; the classification of such receipts, and the preparation of lists
tlieKof on which to issue coTerinj; warrants; the directing of all public officers, except postmasters, as to the
depmit of the public moneys collected by them ; the issue and enforcement of regulations governing inde-
p^ndent-tieaso^ officers, and the several depositaries atad public disbursing officers, in the safe keeping anil
aiabiinement of public moneys intrusted to tliem- the supervision of the business pertaining to "outstanding
liabilities;" the issue and payment of duplicate checks; toe transportation of public moneys and securities,
and expenses thereof, and the expenses of the independent-treasury offices; the care and final disposition of
moneys arising frcan fines, penalties, and forfeitures under the internal-revenue laws; the direction for special
transieiB of public moneys; and, generally, all matters pertaining to the foregoing.
/MrWOn q^ Ctutonu. — The examination of all questions arising under the tans laws, upon appeals from
decisions of collectors of customs, Involving the rates and amount of duties on imports; the consideration of
caaes involrlng erron in Invoices and entries; refund and abatement of duties; drawback of customs duties
on articles manufactured in the ITnited States out of imported material, and establishing the rates of draw-
back; the oonsideration of all questions arising upon the construction of the customs laws, and the general
ref^latlons thereunder, in regard to the entry, appraisal, and delivery of merchandise, and payment of duties
thereou; correspondence with consular officers, through the department of state, in reganl to dutiable values,
invoices, &C. ; sapervision of appraisers in securing uniformity of valuation of dutiable merchandise at the
various ports, and compromises in customs oases; supervision of the seal-fisheries In Alaska, and such other
matters in that Territory as are placed by law in cha^ of the secretary of the treasury.
Dieitkm of InXtmal Revenue and Navigation. — The examination of petitions for the remission of fines,
penaltieSj and forfeitures, under the customs, internal-revenue, navigation, and steamboat-inspection laws,
and applications for compromise of claims in favor of the United States, except customs cases; all internal-
revenue ba.siness oomii^ before this office, except such as relates to appointments ; the examination of ques-
tions relating to the marine doonments, entry, clearance, hypothecation, and admeasuremeut and tonnage of
vesseb, tax on tonaase, fees for the services of revenue officers, and the transportation of merchandise in
vessels; and, generally, all business connecte<i with the foregoing.
Oicition of Loan* and Ourrena/. — The supervision of the details of all matters pertaining to loans and the
issne and redemption of United-States bonds, including the details of negotiating United-States interest-
bearing securities; the preparation of orders for engraving and printing United-States bonds; the original
issue uid delivery of bonds; the preparation and distribution of circulars designating bonds for redemption:
the counting, canoellation, and record of bonds received for redemption; the cancellation and record of
oonpon-bonds received for exchange for registered stock, and the preparation of vouchers for the issue of
registered bonds; the examination and record of transfers of registered United-States securities; notice
of caveats Aled against United-States securities alleged to be de-ttroyed, lost, or stolen, and, in connection
therewith, the procuring of evidence for the courts and law-officers of the department, and, in cases of re-
iasne, the secnnng of the requisite indemnity for the government^ the record of issues of gold and currency
eertiflcates, and their cancellation upon redemption, and the receipt, counting, cancellation, record, and de-
struction of reileemed District-of-Columbia securities; the supervision of all matters under the immediate
charge of the secretary of the treasury relating to the counting, cancellation, record, and destruction of all
redeemed and mutilated United-States notes and fractional currency, and internal-revenue stamps redeemed
or mntilated in printing: the charge of the distinctive paper for United-States notes, bonds, and currencjL
ZKriiJon of Seeenue Marine. — The management of the revenue-marine service, including the snper^sion
of the building and equipment of revenue vessels, their repair, purchase, and sale; the assignment of cruising
grounds; the assignment of officers to vessels; the purchase of outfits and supplies; the regulation of the
complements of crews and their wages; the examination and certification of revenue vessels^ pay-rolls, and
aoconnts of disbursementi on account of the service by collectors of customs; the examination of the prop-
erty accounts of officers; the preparation and enforcement of regulations for the examination, admission, and
government of rtfvsnue-marine cadets ; the preparation and enforcement of general regulations for the govern-
ment of the sarvicA; &c. ; the examination of all matters pertaining to the ugbt-house establishment, placed
by law in charge of the secretary of the treasury; the examination of all matters relating to the United-States
coast survey coming before the secretary; the charge of all matters relating to weights and measures upon
which the secretary is required by law to act; the general superintendence of the lue-savlng service, embni-
dng the supervision of the establishment of life-saving and life- boat stations, and houses of refuge; the se-
lecnon of sites for the same, and the procurement of titles thereto; the preparation of plans and specifications
for buildings; the making of contracts for their construction; the testing, selection, and purchase of their
apparatus, equipment, and supplies; the organization of the service, and the preparation of regulations for
toe government of its officers and employees; the employment tif crews, and tne regulation of their wages;
the supervision of all expenditures and accounts connected with the service, and the general management
of the service; the award of medals for the saving of life from the perils of the sea; the collection of statistics
o( marine disasters; the preparation of the annual report of the expenditures and operations of the life-saving
service, as required by law; and, generally, all business of the office connected with the foregoing subjects,
except appointments.
Divitiaa of Stattonery, Printing, and Blank*. — The purchase and supply of stationery for the department,
•ub-treasuries, depositories, United-States mints, custom-houses, revenue vessels, steamboat-inspection ser-
vice, Hfe-saviug stations, marine hospitals, light-houses, and intemal-revenne offices, and blanks and blank-
books for the same, except Intemal-revenne offices ; supervision over the forms of books aud blanks used by
castoma officers, with a view of securing nniformity m their methods of transacting business, and of the
printing; binding, lithographing, and engraving for the department, except United-States bonds and notes,
United-Statea cnrrency, natiomu-bank notes, and internal-revenue stamps; the arrangement for publication
tnd the indexing of the several reports and tables comprising the finance report; the superintendence of the
advertising of the department; the examination and reference to the proper officers of the accounts for such
adTertising, and the subscription for newspapers and periodicals; the preparation and delivery to disbursing
officers of the government of all disbursing cuecks used by them, except pension checlis; the charge and dis-
tiibntion of official postage-atampe for the department: the custody and distribution of cigar^tamps to officers
o( the customs; the examination of the accounts of those officers to see that such stamps are properly ao-
eoancad for; and, generally, all business connected with the foregoing.
Oitltbm of Special Ageiut. — The assignment and detail of special agents, and the examination of their
monnta for compensation and travelling expenses, and the examination and reference of their reports; the
sapervision aud enforcement of measures for the prevention of smuggling and frauds on the customs revenue;
•aperviaion over the customs districts, tbo acts of customs officers, and the examination of their books,
Mpeis, and accounts, with a view of enforcing the customs laws and regulations, correcting and preventing
inrgularities, and promoting uniformity of methods and securing elUrieucy in the transaction of the customs
bnainess; supervision of the transportation of merchandiso in bond, including the examination of the reports
of collectors of customs at ports of shipment and of arrival, and the investigation of cases arising from al-
leged inegolarides in connection with such transponation; the examination and approval of bonds for cus-
toms warehonses and bonded routes; the enforcement of the laws and regulations governing tho trade with
Mtxioo and Oaaad% so far as xelatea to the establishment of bonded routes and mofle of transportation.
226
CONOBBSSIONAIi DIBBCTOBY.
Tioo dUbwrsing ekrk* pay the RSlaries and compensation of the officers and employees of the department,
and disbnne, npon the oraers of the secretary, such moneys as have been appropriated to be expended mider
the direction of the department, keeping the necessary accounts connected therewith.
ASSISTANT SECBETABIE3 OF THE TBEASITBY.
Tench Coxe of FennaylTania, from Sept. 11, 1789.
Charles B. Penrose of Pennsylvania, from BdCarch 12,
1849.
Allen A. Hall of Tennessee, from Oct. 10, 1848.
William Ii. Hodge of Pennsylvania, from Kov. 16,
18fiO.
Peter O. Washington of District of Colnmbia, from
March 4, 1853.
Philip Clayton of Oeoigia, from March 11 1887.
Gilbert Bodman of Penuaylyania, from Jan. 16, 1861,
oidint.
George Harrington of District of Coltunbia, from March
13, 1861.
Haunsell B. Field of Kew York, from March 18, 1864.
William Blaton Chandler of New Hampshire, from
June S, 1865.
John F. Hartley of Maine, from July 11, 186S.
Edmund Cooper of Tennessee, from Nov. 20, 1867.
William A. Bichardaon of Massacfansetta, from March
20,1869.
Frederick A. Sawyei of South Carolina, from March
8,187a
Charles F. Conant of New Hampshire, from Jidy 1,
1874.
Curtis F. Bnmam of Kentucky, from May 4, ISTEi
Henry F. French of Massachnsetts, from Aug. 7, 1S7&
B. C. McCormick of Arizona, from April 3, 1877.
John B. Hawley of Illinois, from Dec 6, 1877.
One of the two assistant secretaries (now Hon. B. C. McCormick) has the general supervision of all the work
assigned to the divisions of appointments, publio moneys, revenue marine, stationery, printing, and blanks,
loans and currency, bureau of engraving and printing, and office of the director of the mint; the signing of
all letters and papers as assistant secretary, or " by order of the secretary," relating to the business of the
foregoing divisions and bureau, that do not oy law require the signature of Uie secretary of the treasury; the
performance of such other duties as mav be prescribed by the secretary or by law.
The other assistant secretary (now Hon. H. F. French) has the general supervision of all the work as-
signed to the divisions of customs, special agents, internal revenue and navigation, warrants, estimates, and
appropriations, and to the offices of superv^ing arohitect, snpervlsing suigeon-general of marine hospitals,
bureau of statistics, and supervising inspector-general of steamboats; the signing of all letters and papers as
assistant secretiury, or " by onler of the secretary," relating to the business of the foregoing divisions, that do
not by law require the signature of the secretary of the treasury; and the signing, instead of the secretary, of
certain warrants under section 246 of the Bevised Statutes; the performance of snoh other duties as may bs
prescribed by the secretary or by law.
FIB8T COMPTBOLLEBS.
Nicholas Bveleigh of South Carolina, from Sept 11,
1789.
Oliver Wolcott, jun., of Connecticut, from June 17,
1791.
Jonathan Jackson of Massachusetts, from Feb. 25,
1795.
John Davis of Massachusetts, from June 26, 1795.
John Steele ef North Carolina, from July 1, 1796.
Gabriel Duval of Maryland, from Dec. 15, 1802.
Bichard Bush of Pennsylvania, from Nov. 23, 1811.
Ezekiel Bacon of Massachusetts, from Feb, 11, 1814.
Joseph Anderson of Tennessee, from Feb. 28, 181S.
George Wolf of Pennsylvania, from June 18, 183S.
James N. Barker of Pennsylvania, from Fdi. 23b
1838.
Walter Forward of Pennsylvania, from April 6, 1841.
James W. McCulloch of Maryland, from April 1, 1812.
EUsha Whittlesey of Ohio, from May 31, 1849.
WiUiam MetUll of Ohio, from March 26, 1857.
Ellsha Whittlesey of Ohio, from April 10, 1861.
Bobert W. Tayler of Ohio, from Jan. 14, 1803.
Albert G. Porter of Indiana, from March 6, 1878.
The first comptroller countersigns all warrants issued by the secretary of the treasury, covering the pub-
lic revenues into the treasury, and authorizing payments therefrom. All accounts examined by the fii^
auditor, except those wbich go to the conmiissioner of customs, and all examined by the fifth auditor, and
accounts of registers and receivers of land-offices examined by the commissioner of the general land-office,
are re-examined and revised In the first comptroller's office. Hera also are examined and reported on the
drafts for series and expenses drawn by mmisters and consuls abroad, and the requisitions for advances
drawn by marshtds, collectors of Internal revenue, secretaries of the territories, and other disbursing offlcets.
Powers of attorney for the collection of drafts on the treasury are examined j and many other duties, haring
reference to the adjustment of claims against the United States, pertain to the office, but are of too varied •
character to be enumerated.
SECOND COMPTBOLLEBa
Bichard Cntts of Massiaohusetts, from March 6,
1817.
Isaac Hill of New Hampshire, from March 21, 1829.
Enoch Bevnolds of District of Columbia, from May 25,
1830. ad int.
James B. Tliornton of New Hampshire, from May 27,
John N. Moulder nf Pennsylvania, from June 18, 1836,
(id M.
Albion Iv. Parrii nf Maine, from June 18, 1836.
fiiland Uall of Vi^rmont from Nov. 27, 1850.
James Madison Cntts of District of Columbia, from
Sept. 10, 1851, ad int.
Edward J. Phelps of Vermont, from Sept. 30, 1851.
John M. Brodhead of New Hampshire, from Feb. 11,
1853.
James Madison Cutts of District of Columbia, bom
Oct. 1, 1857.
Goodsil Buckingham of lowa^from MaySO, 186^ ad M.
John M. Brodhead of New Hampshire, from May 9,
1863.
Cyrus C. Carpenter of Iowa, from Jan. 7, 1876w
Accounts received
rnviiiefl, mid ocrtilied to:
from the second, third, and fourth auditors against the United States are exaniineil.
o; viz.: Eeported by the second auditor, — for organizing volunteers, recruiting, psjrof
the army, sptji-ial military accounts, army ordnance, the Indian service, the aruiy medical department, con-
tlt)(!fm. iiii!iti»iv I'spunses, bounty to soldiers, the Soldiers' Homo, and the National Home for Disabled Volnn-
t<>er<, Ui>iir>rli,'il li>' the third auditor, — disburseuieuts by the quartermaster's department, the subslstenos
deimtlmftit, ilir? ongineer department, army pensions, property taken by military authority for the use of the
aniiy, nnil nii-ii I i.n.ious war claims. Reported by the fourth auditor, —disbursements for the marine coqw,
bv tlvo iiiM v piiv 111 liters for pay and rations, by the paymasters at the navy-yards, for navy pensions by the
dlflbursiug ajjouiM .iL foreign stations, and the financial agent at London.
These mx'onins are examined in diiusioru, devoted respectivel.y to the aSalrs of army paymiultn, armf
muireerma4t«r», nuvv pav'M't^' <"«' the marine corps, arm]/ pentioni, mitceltaneout claimt, aadlnMim qglairt.
THE KXSOUl'lVJS DEPABTMENTS. 227
COMMISSIONEBS OF CT7STOMS.
Cbailes W. BocAwell of Conneoticnt, from March 16,
1M9.
Hnxb 1. Andenon of Maine, from March 23, 1853.
Sainnel Ingham of Connecticut, from Dec. 6, 1867.
Nathan Saigent of Pennsylvania, from May 14, 1881.
William X. Haines of Pennsylvania, from Jnne 29,
1871.
Henry 0. Johnson of Pennsylvania, from April 8, 1874.
The commissioner of cnatoms revises and certiflea the accomits of revenne collected from dnties on im-
poita and tonnage; of moneys received on account of the luarine-hospltal fund; fines, penalties, and for-
xeitorea nnder the customs and navigation laws; steamboat inspection; liceuses to pilots, eneineeni, &e., and
from mlsoellaneoas sources connectra with customs matters, accoimts of the importation, withdrawal, trans-
portation, and exportation of goods under the warehouse system ; for disbursements for the expenses of col-
lecting the revenue from customs, revenue-cutter service, construction and maintenance of Oghts, marine
hospitals, debentures, excess of deposits for unascertained duties, refund of duties exacted in excess, lif&-
ssTing service, construction of custom-houses and marine hospitals; fuel, light, water, &c., for castom-honses,
&e. ; approves and iUesthe official bonds given by customs oncers, and transmits their commissions; files tha
oaths of office of the persons piUd in the accounts certified by him; and prepares for the use of the law-offioen
of the department the accounts of those in aneais under the heads above mentioned.
The office is organized in fonr divisions; viz., euttomt, bookhaptn, bond, mid nUioeBaneoiu.
BIBST AtTDTTOBB.
OUver Wolcott, jaa., of Connecticut, from Sept. 12. 1789.
-William Smith of Maryland, from July 16, 1791.
Richard Harrison of Virginia, from Nov. 29, 1791.
Jesse Miller of Pennsylvania, from Nov. 1, 1838.
ToUy B. Wise of Viri^nia, from June 17, 1842.
"Vnillam Collins of "^^rglnia. ttom July 24, 1844.
Jolm C. Clarke of New Tork, from Aug. 2, 18W.
Thomas L. Smith of Virginia, from Oct. 31, 1849.
David W. Mahon of Pennsylvania, from Dec. 19, 1871.
B. M. Reynolds of Alabama, from April 16, 1878.
It is the duty of the first auditor to receive all accounts accruing in the treasury department (except those
arising nnder the internal-revenue laws), and, after examination, to certify the balance, and transmit tha
auconnts, with the vouchers and certificate, to the first comptroller or to the commissioner of customs having
respectively the revision thereof. The subordinate divisions of his office are : —
Cuttotiu DUfition. — Receipts and expenditures of the customs service, including fines, emoluments, for-
feitures, debentures, drawbacks, marine-hospital service, revenue-cutter service, &o.
JudMeoTi DiviMon. — Salaries of United-States marshals, district attorneys, commissioners and clerks, rent
of cooTt-honses, support of prisoners, &c.
Public Debt fMvtnon. — Redemption of the publlo debt, including principal, premium, and interest; p^y-
ntent of interest; redemption of certificates of deposit; notes and currency destroyed.
Warehotae and Bond DItruion. — Kxaminatlon of accounts received frpm the various custom-hoases.
lti»eettaneou$ DivitUm. — Accounts of mints and assay-offices; territories; coast survey; salaries and con>
tingent expenses of the legislative, executive, and judicial departments of the government; constmotion,
Mpair, ana preservation of public buildings; treasurer of the United States for general receipts and expendi-
tures; together with a laige number and variety of accounts not permanent in their character.
SECOND AtTDITOBa
WilUam Lee of Massachusetts, from March 6, 1817.
William B. Lewis of Tennessee, from March 21, 1829.
John M. McCalla of Kentucky, from March 29, 184S.
PhiUp Clayton of Georgia, from April 9, 1849.
William Mechlin of District of ColomUa, from March
16, 1867, a<J int.
Thomas J. D. Fuller of Maine, from AprU IS, 18S7.
Ezra B. French of Maine, from Aug. 3, 1861.
The second auditor examines, adjusts, and transfers to the second comptroller all accounts relating to
hoonties, the recruiting service, tne pay and clothing of the army, the subsistence of officers, medical .and
hospital accounts, the pay of private physicians, and the expenses of the war department, contingent dis-
bmsements of the army, and all accounts relating to Indian asairs. The divisions are : —
JParmoMtet'* Dioition. — Army paymasters' accoimts, and payments to the Soldiers' Home and the National
Home for Disabled Volunteers.
ifiweSoneoiM CHaima Disition. — Accounts of the ordnance and medical departments of the army, conttn-
gent expenses, army medical museum and publications, regular and volunteer recruiting, freedmen^ bounty
and par.
Indian Again ZMnMon. — Disbursements for the Indians, money-ctooonnts and property-retains of Indian
agents, and claims for goods supplied and services rendered.
Pan and Bounty Dwiiion. — ^Examination and adjustment of claims of white and colored soldiers and their
lH,s1 beiia for pay and bounty.
ImctttitKUion qf t^ratid* Dtvitlon. — Investigation of alleged cases of forgery, fraud, over-payments, unlaw-
ful withholding of money. Sec., in the payment of white and colored soldiers.
Book-keipert Divition. — Aocounts of the numerous requisitions drawn by the secretaries of war and Inte-
rior examined, snd charged to various appropriatiouB.
TUIKD AX7D1T0BS.
John Wilson of Illinois, from Oct 26, 1864.
Reader O. Clarke of Ohio, from March 26, 1809.
Allan Bntlierfoid of North Carolina, from March 28^
1870.
Horace Austin of Minnesota, from Jan. 7, ISTflL
Peter Hagnsr of District of Columbia, from March 6,
1S17.
John a Oallaher of Virginia, from Oct. 22, 1849.
Francis Bnrt of South Carolina, from April 6, 18SS.
Robert J. AtUnson of Ohio, from Aug. 28, 18S4.
KUjah SciUs of Iowa, from Jnly 18, 1864.
The third auditor examines, adjusts, and transfers to the second comptroller all aoconnts relating to tha
qnartennaater-senerars department, the engineer corps, and the commissary-general's department of the
anny: claims for lost horses; accounts of nnpaid pensions; State war^laims; and the clamoa of States for
wgsnixing, arming, and equipping volunteers after 1861. The divisions of the third auditor's office are: —
Bo«i>iteepei't Uiuition. — Accounts of the numerous requisitions drawn by the secretary of war and of tha
ktadovaxamiiiad, and ohaigsd to Taxioos appn^rlations.
228
OONOBBSSIONAL DmECTOBY.
QuoTtermaMer's DivMon. — Accounts of dishnnicnientfi for bairacka and qnarteni, hospitals, office^ itiliU^
and transportotion of Biipplics; tlie purchase of clottiing, cnmp and carrUon eqnipa^, horses, fii«, fonm,
straw, bcadinff, and stationery; nayinents of hired men nnti <if extra-duty men; expenses incniTM in tM
apprehension of deserters; for tlio burial of officer» and soldiers; for liircd escorts, expreiues, interpreun,
snios, and guides; for veterinary surgeons, and medicines for horses; for supfdyinR posts with water; lUidfiii
all other authorized outlays connected \«ith the muveuienta of the army not expresfily assigned to anyotbir
departiiiciit.
Subxi-''l' nee <md Engineer Divition. — Acrounts of all commissaries anil actins coramisaaiies in the smj,
whoso duties are to purchase the provisions and stores necessary for its sniisistcnco, and to see to their prnpci
distribution; also arcounts of oflirers of tho corns of engineers wlio dLsburxe money for the expeiiws o( tit
military academy, the iinpnivement of rivers and liarbors, the construction and preser\-ation of lortificatioDL
the surveys on tlie Atlantic and Pacilic coasts, the surveys of lakes and rivers, and the construction ml
repair of iireakwaters.
Slate It'rtr nnil Ifnne Ctatnu Piiri»ion.—Tbo settlement of all claims of tho several States and Tmitnrla
fop expenses incurred by them for enrolling, subsisting, clothing, arming, paying, and tru '<ir
troops while employed by tho government in aiding to suppress the recent msiirrt'otion a»;:i at
States; also tho settlement of claims for tho loss of^horses and equipages sustained by officu. ..,.>:ni
men while in the military serrico, and for horses, mules, &c., lost wliile in service, bv impressment or cw-
txact.
ifiaeeUanemii Claim* DMtion. —The a<1.iuBtment of claims for tho appropriation of stores, the pnrcluN ol
T8iae]s, railroad stock, horses, and other means of transportation; the occupation of real estate, oonrt-numitl
fees, travelling-expensos, &c.; claims for compensation tor vessels, cars, engines, &c., lost in the militun-.x;-
vice; claims growing out of tho Oregtm and V?a8hington war of VVJi and IKofi, and other Indi i- in
of various descriptions under special acts of Congress, and claims not otherwise assigned for n<i
Cn(tecWo7iy)i>wnon. — Prepares accounts for suit against defaulting officers; answers all tall-! lui niifia*-
tion from tho (lies of thootllco; examines all claims for bounty-land and pensions granted to theioUloil4
the war of 1812, and proi>orIy certifies them to the commissioner of pensions for action.
FOUKTH AUDIT0E8.
■William Winder of Maryland, from July 10, 1708.
Thomas Turner of Mai-yland, from Jan. 9, 1800.
Constant Freeman of ilassachusetts, from March 22,
1616.
Constant Freeman of Massachusetts, from March 6,
1817.
"Willlain P. Van Ness of New York, from May 26,
1824.
'William Lee of Massachusetts, from Moivh 11, 1824, ad
int.
Tobias Watkins of Maryland, from .Tune 18, 1821
Amos Kendall of Kentucky, from March 24, 1620.
John 0. Pickett of Ecntncky, from May 1, IS3&
Aaron O. Dayton of New Jersey, from Jime a, 1831
Andrew J. O'Bannon of TiigiiJa, from Oct. 4, 1838, oi
iiU.
Andrew J. O'llannon of Virginia, from March 1. ISB.
Taliaferro Hunter of Virrinia, from Aug. 15, WlOi
Holiart Uorrian of New York, from April 24, ia!t,ai
int.
nobart Berrian of New York, from May 4. ISfll.
William W. Danonhowor of Illinois, from May i 183,
nd int.
Stephen J. W. Tabor of Iowa, from May 19, 18(9.
Tho fourth auditor examines, adjusts, and transfets to the second comptroller all accounts concerning iti«
pay, exx>enditnres, pensions, and pnze-money of the navy, and the accounts of the na^'y department TIh
BUDordlnate divisions of the bureau are : —
Record Prite IHvigion. — Adjusts the prize-money accounts, anil prepares tabulated statements caDed tet
by Congress.
li(my-AgenUf Division. —Examines tho accounts of tho disbursoinents by the nayy-Bgents ai PortimoBU**
Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Wasliington, and San Francisco.
Pajftnattert' Division. — Examines the accounts of paymasters', including mechanics', roUa.
FIFTH AUDITOBS.
Stephen Fleasonton of Delaware, from March 6, 1817.
Joalah Minot of New Hampshire, from March .1, 18C5.
Gilbert Rodman of Pennsylvania, from July 31, 1855,
ad int.
Mtirr.iy McConnel of Illinois, from Aug. 1, 1855.
Bartholomew Fuller of North Carolina, from March 1,
ISO).
Thoinaa M. Smith of Indiana, from April SO, ISO, od
Inf.
John C. Underwood of Virginia, fnm July 81, 186L
Charles M. Walker of Indiana, from Aug. 31. 1863.
Henry D. Barron of Wisconsin, from April 30, 18«99t
Jacob H. Ela of New Hampshire, from l>cc. It), Un.
The fifth auditor examines, adjusts, and transfers to the first comptroller the diplomatic and consular
accounts, the expenditures of the department of slate, and the bureau of internal revenue. There are tw»
dlTlalons: —
Diplomatic and Consular Diriiibn. —Adjustment Ls maile of the exjienses of all mtoions abroad for salaries,
contingencies, and loss by exchange; consular foes, salaries, and euioluments; consular courts and prisons;
the relief of American seamen; the return of American seamen charged with crime; the expenses of claims
commissions, boundary surveys, &c.
Internal- Rcvnme iJivininn. — Accounts for assessing and of collecting the internal revenue, including the
salaries, commissions, and allowances of the as-sessors and collectors, their contingent expenses, &c. ; the rest _
of revenue^tamps; the accounts for salaries and expenses of supervisors, agents, and surveyors of distilWrriest
the fees and expenses of gangers; counsel fees, and taxes refunded.
SIXTH AUDITOBa
Charles K, Gardner of New Jersey, from July 2, 1836.
Elislia Whittlesey of Ohio, from March 17, 1841.
Matthew .St. fliiif Clarke <it District of Culunibia, from
Dec. 1!>, lH4.t.
Peter f). Washington of Virginia, from Man;h 'Jfi, 184.'*.
John W. Karrelly of Pennsylvania, from Nov. 5, 184U.
William F. Phillips of Virpnia, from April 7. 1853.
Thomas M. Tate of Virginia, from Oct. 1, 1857.
Green Adams of Kentucky, from April 17, 1881.
Klijuh Sells of low,'*, from tift. 2ti, 1N<H.
Isaac N. Arnold of Illinois, from April 2!), 186&.
Iliigb ,T. Anderson of Maine, from Sept. 211, 1868. '
J. J. Martin of Alabama, from April I'l, lS(iU.
Cnarlus Christopher Sheats uf Alabama, from
11, 1875.
Jacob M. McGrew of Ohio, from July 1, 1S7&
THE EXXCtmVX! DBPABTMEKT8. 229
The Btztli aadltor examines and adiasts edl accounts relating to the postal serrlce; and his decisions <m
these ar« final, nnless an appeal be taken in twelve months to the first comptroller. He supeibitends the
collection of all debts due the post-ofBce department, and all penalties imposed on postmasters and mail
contractors- directs suits and legal proceedings, civil and criminal, and takes all such measures as may be
authorized by lavr to enforce the payment of moneys due to the department. There ore eight subordinate
divisiona; viz.: —
OoUecting Division. — The collection of balances due from all postmasters, late postmasters, and contract-
ors; also the payment of all balances due to late and present postmasters, and the adjustment and final settle-
ment of postal accounts.
Slating Division. — The general postal accounts of postmasters, and those of late postmasters, until fnlly
etate<l, are in charge of this division.
Jixamining />trtnon. — Keceives and audits the quarterly accounts current of all post-offices in the United
States. It is divided into four subdivisions; viz., the ojiening-room, the stamp-rooms, the examining corps
proper, and the error-rooms.
Money-Order Dioition. —Accounts of money-orders paid and received are examined, assorted, checked, and
filed ; remittances are registered and checked; errors corrected.
Poreign Mail Division. — Has charge of the postal accounts with foreign govemtnents, and the accounts
wldi steamship companies for ocean transportation of the mails.
Registering Divinon. — Keceives from the examining division the quarterly accounts current of all the post-
officra in the United States; re-examines and registers them, placing each item of revenue and expenditure
under its appropriate head; adds and recapitulates the Hame, and euibits in the register ending June 30 of
each year the total amount of receipts and expenditures for the fiscal year.
Pay Division. —The adjustment and payment of all accounts for the transportation of the mails, whether
carried by ocean steamers, railroads, steamboats, or any mail-carrier; the accounts of the railway postal ser-
vice, railway postal clerks, route-agents and local agents, mail depredations, special agents, tree-delivery
systeui, postage-stamps, postal-cards, envelopes, stamps, maps, wrapping-iiaper, twine, mail-bi^, mail locks
uid keys, advertising, fees in suits on postal matters, and miscellaneous accounts.
Bookkeeping Division. — The duty of keeping the ledger-accounts of the department, embracing pos^
mastera, late poetmaBters, contractors, late oontiaotois, and accounts of a general, special, and miacelumeona
character.
IBEASUBEBS OF THE UNITED STATES.
John Bloane of Ohio, from Nov. 27, 1800.
Samuel Casey of Kentucky, from April 4, 18SS.
WUliam B. Bandolph of Virginia, &om Dec. 23, 1869,
ad int.
William C. Price of Missouri, from Feb. 28, 1880.
Francis E. Spinner of New York, from March 16^
1861.
John C. New of Indiana, from June 30, 1875.
A. U. Wyman of Wisconsin, from July 1, 1876.
J. Gilfillan of Connecticut, from July 1, 1877.
Samuel Meredith of Pennsylvania, from Sept 11, 1789.
Thomas Todor Tncker at South Carolina, from Uec. 1,
1801.
Michael Noniae of Virginia, from May 8, 1828, ad int.
John SaTage of New York, from May 9, 1828.
William Clark of Pennsylvania, from June 4, 1828.
John Campbell of Virginia, from May 26, 1829.
William Selden of Vi^nia, from July 22, 1839.
William B. Bandolph of Virginia, fromNov. 23, 1800,
odinl.
The treasurer of the United States is oharged with the custody of all public moneys received into the
treasury at Washington, or in the sub-treasunes at Boston, New Yorlc, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Charleston,
Cincinnati, St Louis, and San Francisco, or in the depositories and depository Danks; disburses all publio
moneys upon the warrants of the secretary of the treasury, and upon the warrants of the postmaster-general;
issues and redeems treasury-notes; is agent for the redemption of the circnlatine notes of national ranks; is
trustee of the bonds held for the security of the circulating notes of national banks, and of bonds held as
security for public fleposits; is custodian of Indian trust-funds; is agent for paying the interest on the publio
debt and for paying the salaries of the members of the House of Bepresentatives. The subordinate divisiona
of the tieaanry are: —
Issue Diviuon. — Issues are made of 1^^-tender notes, fractional currency, coin-cettificates. Sue.
Sedtmption Division. — Coin-certificates, national-bank notes, fractional currency, &&, are redeemed, aad
gBDerally destroyed by maceration.
Loan Division. — Bonds are issued, purchased, retired, cancelled, or converted.
Jecounte Division. — The accounts of the treasury, the sub-treasuries, and the national banks used as depos-
itories, are kept.
Natianal-Bamk Division. — Bonds held as security for national-bank circulation are examined, notes issued,
redeemed, and cancelled.
Nationat-Bank £edemption Agencg, — Notes of national banks are redeemed, assorted, and accounted far.
REGISTEBS OP THE TEEASUBT.
Joseph Nonrse of Virginia, from Sept. 13, 1789.
Tbomaa L. Smith of Virginia, from June 1, 1829.
Bansom H. GiUet of New York, from April 1, 184fi.
Daniel Graham of Tennessee, from June 4, 1817.
Michael Nonrse of Virginia, from March 6, 1849, ad int.
Allen A. Hail of Tennessee, from April 7, 1849.
Michael Nonrse of Vlrainia, from Jan. 17, 1860, ad int.
Townsend Haines of Pennsylvania, from Feb. 13, 1850.
Michael Nonne of Virginia, from Oct 30, 1851, ad int.
Nathan Saigent of Dist. of Columbia, from Nov. 1, 1851.
Finley Bigger of Indiana, from April 20, 1863.
Lucius £. Chittenden of Vermont, from April 17, 1881.
Beinhold Solger of Massachusetts, from May 1, 1863,
ad int.
Stoddard B. Colby of Vermont, from Aug. 11, 1864.
John A. Graham of Iowa, from Sept. 23, 1867, ad int.
Noah L. Jeffries of Maryland, from Oct. 6, 1867.
John Allison of Pennsylvania, from April 3, 1809.
Glenni W. Scofield of Pennsylvania, from March 28,
1878.
The register of the treasury has charge of the great account-books of the United States, which show every
receipt ami disbursement, and from which statements are annualljr made for transmission to Congress. He
•igus and i-wues all bonds, treasury-notes, and other securities; registers all warrants drawn by the secretary
npoD the treasurer; transmit!) statements of balances due to individuals after their settlement by the first
comptroller, on which payment is made; issues ships' registers, licenses, and enrolments; prepares annual
returns of all vessels buUt, lost, or destroyed ; and also prepares stiitements of the tonnage uf vessels in which
importations and exportations are made, with the viuious articles and their values. These duties are attended
to m fire divisions; viz. : —
Coupon and Note Division. — Bonds, interest-coupons, gold-certificates, coin-checks, currency certificates of
depcait, and oeitlficates of indebtedness, are examined, registered, and issued or redeemed.
280
OONOBBSSIONAL DIBEOTOBT.
JIToto and KraeUimal Ctoreney DfeMon. — Tnasory-notes, notes of lutionkl tenka whlcb hsTS geoe ioto
Uquldadon, and mutilated fractional cnnency, are examined, cancelled, and destroyed by maceration.
Loan DtvMon. — Be|;istered and coupon bonda are issued, embraciDe the transfer of all reftistered bonds;
tbe conversion of coupon into refiisterea; the ledger accounts with holders of registered bonds, and scbednlM
made out npon which interest on same ispaid.
Becftpti and £xpendUuns DUtitbm. — The ledgers of the United States are kept, showing the civil, diplo-
matic, intemal-reveuue, miscellaneous, and pnbUo-debt leoeipts and expenditures; also statements of tlia
warrants and drafts registered.
Tonnage /HoMon. —Accounts are kept, showing the registered and the enrolled and licensed tonnsfie.
divided Into different classes, and exhibiting what Is annually built, and what is engaged in tbe fisheries of
dllfeient kinds.
COHFTBOLLEBS OF THB OTTBBENOY.
Hugh HcCulloch of Indiana, from Hav 9, 186S.
Freeman Clarke of Kew Tork, from March 9, 1865.
I Hlland B. Hnlbnrd of Ohio, from Feb. 6, WBl.
I John Jay Knox of Hinnesot*, from April 21, 1871
The comptroller of the currency baa, under the direction of the secretary of the treasniy, tbe oantnl of
the national banks. The divisions of this bureau are : —
Atue i)iiiMi>n. — The preparation and issue of national-bank circulation.
Bedemption DMiion. — Tne redemption and destruction of notes issned by national banks.
BqmrU DtvUion. — Examination and consolidation of the reports of national banks.
Organixation DSvition. — The organization of national banks.
80UCIT0BS.
"Viifft. Maxoy of Maryland, from May 29, 1830.
Henry D. Gilpin of Pennsylvania, from June 16, 1837.
Matthew Bircnard of Massachnsettn, from Jan. 16, 1840.
Charles B. Penrose of Pennsylvania, from March 17,
1841.
Beth Barton of Loalstana, from March 25, 1845.
Bansom H. GUlet of New York, from May 27, 1847.
John C. Clark of New York, from Oct. 31, 1849.
Oeorge F. Comstock of New York, from Nov. 15, 1862.
Gilbert Bodman of Pennsylvania, from March 30, 18S3,
ad int.
John C. Legrand of Pennsylvania, from April 8, USL
Albert G. Constable of Muyland, from May 2, 18SX
Farris B. Streeter of Pennsylvania, from June 3, U8S,
Junius Hillyer of Georgia, from Dec 1, 1867.
Benjamin F. Pleasants of Kentucky, from Feb. 13,
18(il, nd int.
Edward Jordan of Ohio, from March 28, 1861.
E. C. Banfield of Massachusetts, from April 15, 1888.
BlufoKl V/ilson of Illinois, from June 22, 1874.
George F. Talbot of Maine, from July 24, 1876.
Kenneth Baynor of Mississippi, from July 1, 1877.
The solicitor of the treasury is an officer in the department of justice, having a seal, and is required by
law to take cognizance, under the direction of the secretary of the treasury, of all frauds or attempted frsods
upon the revenue, and exercises a general supervision over all legal measures for their prevention and detec-
tion; also to establish regulations, with the approbation of the secretary of the treasury, for the ob»erTgDC«
of collectors of the customs, and, with the approbation of the attorney-general, for the observance of United-
States attorneys, inanthals, and clerks respecting suits in which tbe United States is a party or interested. He
is also empowered and directed to instmct the district attorneys, marshals, and clerks of the circuit and dl(-
trict courts in all matters and proceedinss appertaining to suits in which the United States is a party or in-
terested, except those arising under the uitemal-revenue laws.
He is required to examine reports of collectors and district attorneys upon bonds delivered for salt; to
Inform the Resident of false reports of bonds delivered for suit, and supervise statements from district st-
tomeys concerning suits, and those from mushala relating to proceedines on execution; also reports from
clerks as to judgments and decrees; and Is chiuved by the attorney-general with all post-office litig^on.
He also has charge of the secret-service employees engaged in tbe detection of persons counterfeiting the
coin, currency, and public securities of the United States, and all other frauds on tne government In audh
tion to the duties prescribed by law, tbe secretary of the treasury refers to the solicitor for opinion a veiy
large number of cases arising in his department relating to duties, remission of fines, penalties, and tot-
f eitures, navigation and registry laws, steamboat-inspection acts, claims, &c.
COMMIS8IOMBBS OF IMTEBNAL BEVXNXTE.
Ten eh Coxe of Pennsylvania, from May 8, 1792.
W. MiUer of Pennsylvania, from Jan. 28, 1798.
a H. Smith of Dtotrict of Columbia, from July 31. 1813.
George S. Bontwell of Massachusetts, from July 12,
Charles F. Estee of Massachusetts, from March 6, 1863,
od t'nl.
J. J, Lcrwis of Pennoylvanla, from March 10, 1863.
William Orton of New York, from July 1, 1866i
E. A. RoUlns of New Hampshire, from Nov. 1, 18GS.
Columbus Delano of Ohio, from March II, 1869.
Alfred Pleasonton of New York, from Jan. 3, 1871
John W. Douglass of Pennsylvania, from Aug. i,
1871.
Daniel D. Pratt of Indiana, from May 15, 1875.
Green B. Baum of Illinois, from Aug. 2, 1876.
The (ronitiiiosioner nf internal revenue makes all assessments, and superintends the collection of all taxet;
})T(<pnrulli)n of itifltructionn tr-r special tax-stamps (formerly licenses), forms, and stamps of all kind^; and
pavn iiiici tlie ticMury ilnily nil moneys receiTe<r by bim from collectors. He is aidfed in bis duties by th*
■olltMti/r nl Intaraal revenue, who is an officer of the department of justice, and to whom all questions of U«
anil pini^ttoe thottiuDttcr stra submitted; bv one deputy commissioner, seven heads of divisions, one stenog^
nplioi, twenty- tlvu ilerk!! of class four, tnirty clerks of class three, forty clerks of class two, eighteen of
oliUM onn, nfly i-lprks at ^KiO vocb, four messengers, and ten laborers, aggregating one hundred and eighty-
■«T«)i person*.
Tbn tiUKlo«M of the biircsu is transacted in seven divisions; viz.: —
AmH'lMmi-nt DtrUkm, — l» ohaiged with all matters pertaining to issuing of commissions, leavesof absence,
oflloo tilm-ljiUiip. s<i..iirtiii^ nni! ditposition of the mail, registry and copying of all letters; with the care of tbe
pmoml Itlc^ M\i\ ull niattt>rx n^litting to messengers, laborers, office stationery, printing, advertising, and tlra
prepnmlttiii trf blunlts sirul (itMuk-books for the bureau.
U"'- fHritiBK. — Is I'liitivpt) with all questions (except as hereinafter stated) relating to seizures, suits
ahatemciiT^ and rsfaiidioii i-litlriis, and those relating to special taxes, docniuentary stamp-taxes, taxes on In-
«o<ues, lemi-loi^ and snojaviiiniB. and on dividends, &c ; also lands purchased for Um United States on di*-
lan<
and I
llae axtention of it me on distraints.
"^
THE XSXEOUTIVK DBFABTMENTS.
281
TUoeeo IHvUon. — la cfaaiKed with all matters (Inolnding ipeclal taxes) relating to tobaooo, saaS, and
cigars not in salt or in bond, stamp-tax on medicines and preparations under schedule A, Revised Statutes.
Division of JiccounU. — Has charge of the examination and reference of the revenue and disbursing ac-
counts, the estimates of coliectors and of their applications for special allowances, and other matters relative
to advertising and the purchase of blank-books, newspapers, and stationery for collectors, revenue agents, &c. ;
also baa charge of the examination and reference of the monthly bills of revenue agents, gangers, and dis-
tillery Bnrveyors, and of all miscellaneous claims presented to tbis bureau arising under any appropriation
ma<le far carrying into effect the various internal-revenue laws (excepting claims for abatement, refunding,
and drawback), and the preparation of estimates for appropriations by Congress, together with the prepara-
tion of the statistical records of the bureau.
IHeiaion of Di»tiUed Spirits. — This division is charged with the supervision of all matters pertaining to
distillerieH, distilled spirits, fermented liquors, wines, reotiflcation, gangers' fees and instruments, approval of
bonded warehouses, and the assignment of storekeepers.
Stamp Divifion. — This division Is charged with the supervision of the preparation, safe keeping, issue, and
redemption of stamps for distilled spirits, tobacco, snuff, and cigars, fermented liquors, special taxes, docu-
mentary and proprletaty stamps, and the keeping of all accounts pertaining thereto; also the supervision of
ail bnamess with Adams's Express Company, and the preparation, costody, and issue, of steel dies for cancel-
ling stuDf>s.
Division of Jtseuments. — Is charged with the preparation of the assessment lists; with the consideration
of ail reports and returns, except those received from distillers, rectifiers, and brewers, affording data from
which assessments may be made;, also with keeping the bonded account, and with the consideration of claims
for tbe iUlowance of drawback.
In addition to the al)ove, there was organized, at the commencement of what Is commonly known as the
"whiskey war," a division of revenue agents for the purpose of detecting any and all frauds which mi^ht
be perpetrated against the internal-revenue laws ; and for the reason that the work assigned to tills division
has been efficiently performed, and with great advantage to the interests of the government, the same has
been continued, and is now in active operation.
sxTPKBnrTENDEirrs of the coast subvey.
Alexander D. Bache of Pennsylvania, from Dec 12, 1 Benjamin Feirce of Hassachnsetts, from Brat 27, 18S7.
1843. C. F. Fatterson of California, from Hay 4, U71.
J. E.]ailgard of minoia, from April 11,1862. |
The coast survey Is continning the hydrographlcal survey of the Atlantic, Faciflo, and lake coasts, with the
topogr^hy of the shores, tidal operations, &c.; drawings of charts are made and pabliahed; and the pabllo»-
ttmi of uie " Coast Filot " for the Atlantic coast has been commenced.
THE WAR DEPARTMENT.
SBCBETABIES OF WAB.
Benry Knox of MaaeachnsettB, from Sept. 12, 1789.
Timothy ^kering of Fennsylvania, from Jan. 2, 179S.
James MdQenry oi Maryland, from Jan. 27, 1796.
Bamnel Dexter of Massachusetts, from May 13, 1800.
Eoger Griswold of Connecticut, from Feb. 3, 1801.
Hcory Dearborn of Massachusetts, from March B, 1801.
William Eostis of Massachusetts, from March 7, 1809.
John Armstrong of New York, from Jan. 13, 1813.
Janua Monroe of Virginia, from Aug. 31, 1814, ad int.
William H. Crawford of Georgia, from Aug. 1, 181S.
Iiaac ghelbv of Kentucky, from March 6, 1817.
George OrsJiam of Virginia, from April 7, 1817, ad int.
John C. Calhoun of South Carolina, from Oct. 8, 1817.
James Barbour of Vir^nia, from March 7, 1825.
Samuel Li. Southard of New Jersey, from May 26, 1828,
ad int.
Peter B. Porter of NeWYork, from May 26, 1828.
John H. Eaton of Tennessee, from March 9, 1829.
Philip G. Baodolph of Virginia, from June 18, 1831, ad
int.
Soger B. Taney of Maryland, from Jidy 21, 1831, ad int.
Lewis Cass of Ohio, from Aug. 1, 1831.
Beajamin F. Butler of New York, from Oct. 26, 1836,
ad int.
Jod B. Poinsett of South Carolina, from March 7,
1837.
John Bell of Tennessee, from March 6, 1841.
John McLean of Ohio, from Sept. 13, 1841.
John C. Spencer of New York, from Oct. 12, 1841.
James M. Porter of Pennsylvania, from March 8, 1848.
William VTilkins of Pennsylvania, from Feb. IB, 1844.
WilUam L. Marcy of New York, from March B, 1846.
George W. Crawford of Georgia, from March 8, 1849.
Winfleld Scott of Virginia, from July 23, 18B0, ad int.
Charles M. Conrad of Louisiana, from Aug. 16, 1860.
Jefferson Davis of Mississippi, from March 7, 18S3.
Samuel Cooper of New York, from March 3, 1867, m)
inL
John B. Floyd of Virginia, from March 6, 1867.
Joseph Holt of Kentucky, from Jan. 18, 1861.
Simon Cameron of Fennsylvania, from March 6, 1861.
Edwin M. Stanton of Pennsylvania, from Jan. 16, 1862.
U. S. Grant of Illinois, from Aug. 12, 1867, ad int.
E. M. Stanton of Fennsylvania, bom Jan. 14, 1868.
John M. Schofield of New York, from May 28, 1868.
John A. Bawlins of Illinois, from March 11, 18G9.
William T. Sherman of Ohio, from Sept. 9, 1869, ad iiUi
William W. Belknap of Iowa, from Oct. 26, 1869.
George M. Bobraon of New Jersey, from March 2, 1876,
ad int.t
Alphonso Taft of Ohio, from March 8, 1876.
James Donald Cameron of Pennsylvania, from May 22,
1876.
George W. McCrary of Iowa, from March 12, 1S77.
The tecretoiy of war performs such duties as the President of the United States, who is commander-in-
diisf, may enjoin apon him concerning the military service, and has the superintendence of the purchase of
■Bay mpplies, transportation, &a.
232 COKOBBBBIONAIi DIBBOIOBY.
The chief <derk receives In the aecietarT'B office the pabUc mail and oonespondenoe; diatrfliutea, leeoida,
and anawetB it; keeps the accounts of appropriations and estimates; is the medlnm of commnniofttion hetween
the secretaiy and omcen of the department; and has the geneial superintendence of the department.
ASSISTANT SBCBETAKIES OF WAB.
Thomas A. Scott of Pennsylvania, from March 10,
1861.
Peter H. Watson of District of Columbia, from Jan. 24,
1862.
John Tucker of Pennsylvania, from Jon. 29, 18G2.
Christopher P. Wolcott of Ohio, from June 11, UGl
Charles A. Dana of New York, from Jan. 28, 1861.
Thomas T. £kskert of New Tork, from Jnljr 27, 1866.
The office of assistant secretaiy of war was abolished in 1868.
MUJTAST BXmBAUS OF THB WAS DEPABTHENT.
The chiefs of the military bureaus of the War Department are officeia of the regular army of tbe United
States, and a part of the mlUtary establishment; viz. : —
TTiB AdjutanUOeneral promulgates the orders of the President and the general commanding the army, and
conducts correspondence between the general and the army, receives reports, issues commissions and re^gn*-
tions, saperintends recruitins and the militaiy prison at L^venworth, has charge of the papers oonoenung the
enlistment and drafting of volunteers, receives all muster-rolls, and furnishes consolidated reports of tbe entin
army, and has chuge, under the general, of details affecting the discipline of the army.
The Jmpector-Oeneral and his assistants inspect and report upon the pertottnel and the ntaUriel <rf the
army at all posts, stations, and depots; and give instruction relative to the correct interpretation of donbtfol
points of law, regulations, and orders, and upon other mooted questions regarding the proper performance o(
military duties; and they also Inspect the money accounts of all disbursing officers of the army under the act
of Congress approved April 20, 1874.
Tfie Quartemuuter-Generai, aided by assistants, provides quarters and transportation for the army, clothing,
camp and ^;arrison equipage, horses and mules, forage, wagons, stoves, stationery, fuel, lights, straw, hosjHtau,
and medicmes: he pays the expenses of guides, spies, and interpreters, and veterinary surgeons; p^yi the
funeral-exiwnses of officers and men; and is in charge of the national cemeteries.
27te Committary-Oeneral has administrative control of the subsistence department, of the disbursement of
its appropriations; the providing of rations, and their issue to the army; the purchase and distribution of arti-
cles authorized to be kept for sale to officers and enlisted men; and the adjustment of accounts and retonii for
subsistence funds and supplies, preliminary to their settlement by the proper accounting officers of the treasoi;.
The SurgeoTi-Oeneral, under the immediate direction of the secretary of war, is charged with the adminis.
trative duties of the medical department, the designation of the stations of medical officers, and the issuing of
all orders and Instmctions relating to their professional duties. He directs as to the selection, purchase, and
distribution of the medical supplies of the army. The Army Medical Museum and the official publications of
tlie surgeon-general's office are also under his direct control.
The Poj^natter-Oeneral and his assistants pay the army, also second auditor's treasury certificatcB, and
keep a record of said payments.
The Chi^ of Engitifert commands the corps of engineers, which is charged with all duties relating to foitf-
flcations, whether permanent or temporary; with torpedoes for coast defence; with all works for the attack
and defence of places ; with all military bridges ; and with such surveys as may be required for these objects, or
the movement of armies in the field. It is Skbo charged with the harbor and river improvements; with wS^m
and geographical explorations and surveys; with the survey of the lakes; and with (uiy other engineer wo*
spec&lly assigned to the corps by acts of Congress, or orders of the President of the United States.
The Chitf^of Ordnance commands the ordnance department, the duties of which consist in providing, pre-
serving, distributing, and accounting for every description of artillery, small-arms, and all the muniticos a
war, which may be required for the fortresses of the country, the armies in the field, and for the whole bodyoi
the militia of the Union. In these duties are comprised that of determining the general principles of constnc-
iion, and of prescribing in detail the models and forms of all military weapons emplOTed in war. They^n-
prise also the duty of prescribing the regulations for the proof and inspection of all these weapons, fbrmaiD-
taining uniformity and economy in their fabrication, for insuring their good quality, and for thedr preserraCioD
and distribution; and, for carrying into effect the general purposes here statea, huge annual appropriations are
made; and, in order to fulfil these purposes, extensive operations are conducted at the national aimoriei, ais»-
nals, and ordnance depots.
The Judg^AdttOcate-General and his assistant receive, review, and have recorded, the proceediius ol w
courts-martial, courts of inquiry, and military commissions, of the armies of the United States, and tnnau
reports and opinions on such questions of law and other matters as may be referred to the bureaa of militsiT
Justice for the purpose by the secretary of war.
The Chitf iiignai Cfficer superintends the instruction of officers and men in signal dntles, supervises the
preparation of maps and charts, and has the reports from the numerous stations received at Washington oo*'
solidated and published.
THE BXBOUTlyB DSPABTMBNT8.
238
THE NAVY DBPAETMENT.
SBCBXTABIBS OS* THX KAVT.
G«ciig« Cabot <rf Haaaachnsetta, from May 3, 1798.
Benjamin Staddert of Maryland, from May 21, 1796.
Bobezt Smitk of Maryland, tram July IS. 1801.
Jacob CrawainaUeld of Maaaachnaetta, from March 3,
18QK.
Bui Haraitton of South Carolina, from March 7, 1809.
WiUiam Jones of Pennsylvania, from JVm. 12, 1813.
Bentamia W. Ciownlnahield of Massachuaetta, from
l)ec 19,1814.
Smith TfaomiBon of Kew Tork, from Kov. 9, 1818.
J(dia Bodsen of Maryland, f^om Sept. 1, 1823, ad M.
Samuel !<. Boathard of New Jersey, from Sept. 16, 1828.
John Branch of North Carolina, from March 9, 1829.
Levi Woodfaoiy of New Hampdiiie, from May 23, 1831.
Mahkm Di<&eraon of New Jeraey, from June 30, 1834.
James B^ Molding of New Tork, from June 2S, 1838.
Geog^K. B.d«« «f North Carolina. f««i J^ 5.
Ahel P. TTpahur of Virginia, from Sept. 13, 1811.
David Henaliaw of Massachnaetts, from July 2% 18<S.
Thomas W. Gilmer of Virginia, from Feb. 16, 18M.
John Y. Maaon of Virginia, from March 14, 1844.
George Bancroft of Massachosetta, from March 10^
John Y. Maaon of Virdnla, from Sept. 9, 1846.
William B- Preetou ofVirginia, from March 8, 1849.
William A. Graham of North Carolina, from July 22,
18S0.
John P. Kennedy of Maryland, ftom July 22, 18S2.
James C. Dobbin of North Carolina, from March T,
18fi3.
Isaac Touoey of Conuecticnt, from March 6, 1887.
Gideon Wellea of Connecticut, from March B, 1861.
Adolph B. Borie of Pennsylvania, from March B, 1869.
George M. Bobeaon of New Jersey, from Jane 2B, I860.
Bichard W. Thompson of Indiana, tram March 12, 1877.
The secretary of the navy pert orma snoh duties aa the President of the United States, who is commander-
bMhiel, nay aasign him: and has the general superintendenoe of oonstmction, manning, armament, equip-
ment, wid employment of vesaela-of-war.
2ae Ckitf Clerk baa general charge of the xeoords and oorFespondenoe of the aecretaiy'a office.
ASSISTANT 8BCBBTAKIES OF THE NAVY.
OostBTH V. Fox of Massachnsetta, from July 31, 1861. 1 Guatavua V. Fox of Maaaachnaetti, from Nor. 91^
WUlioDB Faxon of Connecticut, from June 1. 1866. | 1866.
Tkaofloe of aastatant secretary of the navy was abolished in 1868.
NAVAL BUBEAUS OF THB MAVT DEFABTMEMT.
Tb» chiefi of the naval bnreana of the Navy Department are offlceis of the United-StBtes nsvy, and a part
of ae naval establishment ; viz. : —
the (M^o/the Bwnaxt of Tard* and Doeka has charge of the navy-yaida and naval statione, their conatnio-
tloa and repair: he mirchases timber and other materials.
The Otttfoftheliureaa o/lfavtaatUm supplies vesaels-of-war with maps, charts, chronometers, barometers,
ilses, signal-lights, glaaaea, and stationery: he nas charge of the publication of charts, " The Nautical Almanac,"
aad surreys; andtlie Naval Observatory and Hydio^aphio Oflice at Washington are under the diieotion of
tUsbnrean.
The CMrfoftht Bureau of Ordnanee has charge of the manufacture of naval ordnance and ammunition; the
amament of veaaels-of-war; the arsenals and magazines; the trials and tests of ordnance, small'«nns, and
anunnnltion; also of tbo t«rped»«ervioe, and torpedo-station at Newport, and experimental battery at
Annapolis.
Im CM^oftht Bureau ofProoUtoru and Clothing has charge of aU contracts and purchases for the supply
d provisions, water for coonng and drinking purposes, clothing, and small stores for the use of the navy.
27ks CM^ of tht Bureau of Medicine and Surgery superintends every thing relating to medicines, medical
stores, snrsieal instruments, and bospital supplies required for the treatment of the sick and wounded of the
navy and uie marine corps.
Tile Chi^ of the Bureau of Conftruetlon and Bepabr has charge of dry-docks and of all vessels undergoing
npaira, the designlnc, bollduig, and fltUng-ont of vessels, and the armor of iron-clada.
The CMefof the Bureau of equipment and BecruitiTig has charge of the equipment of aD Tessels-of-war, and
file iuppW to their sails, rlt^ng, anchors, and fuel: also of the recruiting of sailors of the varlona grades.
The Bngtneer4n-Chii^iSei^ the designing, fitting out, running, and repairing of the steam marine en^es,
BoHen and aiffiirtwiaiioBa used on ▼esse&dtwar, and the workshops in the navy-yarda wh«re they ate mad«
Mdrepaixed.
284
OCWOBBBBlOZrAL votMysosx.
THE MPABTMENT OF THE INTEBIOR.
SECBETABIES 07 THE INTEBIOB.
Thomas Swing of Ohio, from March 8, 1849.
Thomaa M. T. McKemum of PemuylTsnla, from Ads.
W, 1850.
Alexander H. H. Stoart of Vbglnla, from Sept. 12, 18B0.
Bobert McClelland of Michigan, from March 7, 18B3.
Jacob Thompson of Mlasiulppi, from March 6, 18B7.
Caleb B. Smith of Indiana, &om March 6, 1861.
John P. TTsher of Indiana, tnm Jan. 8, 1863;
James Haxlan of Iowa, from May IS, 1865.
Orrllle H. Browning of Illinois, from Bent. 1, I88S.
Jacob D. Cox of Ohio, from March 5, 1868.
Colnmbos Delano of Ohio, ttom Not. 1, 1870.
Zacharlah Chandler of Michigan, from Oct. 19, ISI8.
Carl Schnix of Miasouri, from March 12, 1877.
The secretary of the interior is charged with the snperrision of pablic bosiness relating to patento tor
Inrentions; pensions and bonnty-Iands; the pnblic lands, inclnding mines; the Indians; edncanon; thecessoa,
when directed by law; the custody and distribution of public documents; and certain hospitals and eleemcsy-
nary institutions in the Plstrict of Columbia. He also exercises certain powers and duties in lelatloD to tlis
Territories of the United States.
ASSI8TA2IT SECBETABIES OF THE INTEBIOB.
John P. TTsher of Indiana, from March 20, 1862.
William T. Otto of Indiana, from Jan. 29, 1863.
Benjamin B. Cowen of Ohio, from April 17, 1871.
I Charles T. Oorham of Michigan, from Mazcfa tS, 18>&
Alonso Bell of Kew York, from April 9, 1877.
The assistant secretary of the interior performs such dntles as are prescribed by the secietazy or iwiulirf
by law, aiding in the general administration of the affairs of the department. In the absence of the secntsiTi
he acts as the nead of the department.
JTu Chief Clerk has the general management of the order of business in the secretaiy's office, which h
transacted in dirisions; viz.. Appointment Division, Disbursement Division, Land and Kallroad DivWtn,
Indian Division, Pension and Ifisoellaneons Division, Document Division, Stationery Division, and BetmBS
Office.
COMMIS8IONEB8 OF THE GENEBAIi LAUD-OFFICE.^
Edward Tiffin of Ohio, from May 7, 1812.
Joslah Meigs of Oeorg^ from Oct. 11, 1814.
John McLean of Ohio, from Sept. 11, 1822.
Oeorge Oration of District of Columbia, from June 26,
John M. Moore <A Pennsylvania, from Oct, 1, 1880,
ad int.
SUjah Hayward of Ohio, from Sept. 80, 1830.
Ethan A. Brown of Ohio, from Aug. 31, 1^.
James Whitoomb of Indlima, from Oct 81, 1838.
Elisha M. Huntington of New York, from July 3,
1811.
Thomas H. Blake of Indiana, from May 19, 1842.
James Shields of Illinois, from April 16, 184S.
Bichard M. Yonng of nilnols, firam Jan. 6, 18tr.
Justin Bntterfleldof nilnols, from Jan. 24, 18S0.
John Wilson of District of Columbia, from Sept 1^
1862.
Thomas A. Hendricks of Indiana, from Jan. 8, 189&
Samuel A. Smith of Tennessee, from Jan. 18, 1880.
Joseph S. Wilson of District of Columbia, from Feb
13,1860.
James M. Edmunds of Michigan, from March 19, U61.
Joseph S. Wilson of District of Colombia, from Ang-
le, 1866.
Willis Drummond of Iowa, from Feb. 4, 1871.
Samuel S. Buidett of Missouri, from June 1, UT4.
James A. Williamson of Iowa, Itam June 24, 187&
The commissioner 6f public lands is charged with the survey, management, and sale of the public domsisi
and the issuing of titles tnerefor, whether derived from confirmations c» grants made by formergoviemmeiiti,
bv sales, donations, or grants for schools, railroads, military bounties, or public improvements. The land'«ffic«
also audits its own accounts.
The divisions of the office are, the Becorder'B, Public Lands, Private I«nd-Clalms, Surveys, Dranghting,
Mineral Claims, Ballroads, Bounty Lands, Swamp lands, Pre-emption Claims, and Aoooonts.
COMM3SSIONEBS OF PATENTS.*
William Thornton of District of ColumUa, from 1803.
Thomas P. Jones, from April 12, 1828.
John D. Craig, from Jan. 1, 1830.
James C. Pickett of Virginia, from Feb. 1, 183S.
Henry L. Ellsworth of Connecticut, from July 4, 1836.
Edmund Burke of New Hampshire, from May S, 1845.
Thomas Ewbank of New York, from Sept 3, 18!0.
Silas H. Hodges of Vermont, from Nov. 8, 18S3.
Bichard C. 'Vf^htman of District of Columbia, od M
Charles Mason of New York, from Mavch 94. 1863.
S. T. Shugert of Pennsylvania, from tIarchS, 1857,adm(.
Ellis Spear of Maine, from April, 1877.
> The OeoenO Land Office was organized u a bureau of the Treuniy Department by Act of Congreaa sptiFored Apiil rs.
1812 (prior to which time gnuita of land were iuued by lettera-patent from the Department of StataX and wsa tianaferml v>
ttae Department of the Interior upon the creation of the department in IMS.
• Prior to the Tear UX the Patent Office wai a bureau in the Department of State, and the heads of the offlee were itrM
" (upertntendenta." The office was re-organiied by Act of Congrew approved July 4, 1836, and tnnaferred to the Defaitmeat
•f the Interior upon the cnatlon of thii departmeiit In 1848. •
THE EXBOUTIVIS DSPABTMKKTS.
285
Joaeph Holt of Kentadkv, from Sept. 10, ISffT.
Samuel T. Shngert of Pennaylvanla, from March IB,
1899, ad int.
Wdliam D. Bishop of Connecticut, from Hav 23, I8B9.
Philip F. Thomas of Maryland, from Feh. 16, 1860.
Samuel T. Shugert of Pennsylvania, from Dec. 14, 1860,
cut int,
David P. HoUoway of Indiana, from March 28, 1861.
Thomas C. Theaker of Ohio, from Aug. 17, 1865.
Elisha Foote of New York, from Jnne 6, 1868.
Samuel S. Fisher of Ohio, from May 1, 1869.
Mortimer D. Iieggett of Ohio, from Jan. 16, 1871.
John M. Thacher of Virginia, from Nov. 1, 1874.
R. Holland DueU of New York, from Oct. 1, 1876.
£Uia Spear of Maine, from Jaa. 90, 1877.
The commissioner of patents is charged with the administration of the patent-laws, and supervises aQ mat*
ters relating to the issue of letters-patent for new and useful discoveries, Inventions, and improvements. He is
aided by an assistant commissioner, three examiners-inrohlef, twenty-four examiners, an «»TMniTu»T et lntex>-
ferences, and am examiner of trade^narks.
COMMISSIOinEBS OF FKNSIONS.>
James I,. Edwards of Virginia, from March 9, 1837.
James B. Heath of Virginia, from Nov. 27, 1880.
Loren F. Waldo of Connecticut, from March 17, 18S3.
Joaiah Minot of New Hampshire, from Jan. 10, 1800.
George C. Whiting of Virginia, from Jan. 19, 18B7.
Joseph H. Barrett of Ohio, from May 1, 1861.
Christopber O. Cox of Maryland, from July 28, 1868.
Henry Van Aemam of New York, from May 1, 1869.
James H. Baker of Minnesota, from AotU 20, 1871.
Heniy M. Atkinson of Nebraska, from Jiaroh 20, 18761,
Charles B. Gill of Wisconsin, from Feb. 10, 1876.
John A. Bentley of Wiscoualn, from March 28, 1816.
The commissioner of pensions supervises the examination and adjudication of all claims arising under laws
COMMISSIONXBS OF INDIAN AFFAIBS.*
Alfred B. Greenwood of Georgia, from Hay IS, 18B9.
William F. Dole of IlUnois, from March 14, ISSL,
Dennis N. Cooley of Iowa, from July 11, 1860.
Lewis V. Bogy of Misaonri, from Nov. 1, 1868.
Nathaniel G. Taylor of Tennessee, from MiMck 28L
1867.
Ely 8. Parker of New York, from April 21. 18G».
Francis A. Walker of Massachusetts, from Dec. K,tnt,
Edward P. Smith of New York, from March 80^ M»8L
John Q. Smith of Ohio, from Dec. 11, 1876.
Ezra A. Hayt of New York, from August, 187T.
Kbert Hening of Connecticut, from July, 1832.
Carey A. Hams of Tennessee, from Jtily 4, 1836.
Thomas Hartley Crawford of Pennsylvania, from Oct.
.y> 1838,
William MediU of Ohio, from Oct. 28, 1846.
Orlando Brown of Kentucky, from May 29, 1850.
Luke Lea of Mississippi, from July 1, 18S0.
George W. Manypennv of Ohio, from March 24, 18B3.
James W. Denver of California, from April 17, 1867.
Charles E. Mix of Connecticut, from June 17, 1868.
James W. Denver of California, from Nov. 8, 1868.
The commissioner of Indian affairs has charge of the several tribes of Indians in the States and Territoriesk
He issues instructions to, and receives reports from, inspectors, superintendents, agents, and traders: s«pet>.
Intends the purchase, transportation, and distribution of presents and annuities; and reports annually fte idk».
tion of the government with each tribe. The divisions of the office are four In number; viz., the Finanee, IaiuI
Aooonnts, Civilization, Educational and Becords.
C0MMISSI0NEB8 OF EDXTCATION.
Henry Bamazd of Connectiant, from March 14, 1867. | John Eaton of Tennessee, from March 16, 1810.
The dnties ct the commissioner of education are to collect such statistics and facts as shall show the condi-
tion and progress of education in the several States and Territories, and of diffusing such information respecting
Ihe organization and management of schools and school systems, and methods of teaching, as shall aid the
people of the United States in the establishment and malntenanoe of efficient school systems, and otherwise
{tomote the causa of education throughout the country.
8UPEBINTENDENTS OF THE CENSUS.*
J. C. O. Kennedy of Pennsylvania, from 1880.
J. D. B. DeBow of Louisiana, from 18S3.
I J. C. G. Kennedy of Pennsylvania, from 1860.
Francis A. Walker of Massachusetts, from Feb. 7, I870L
The superintendent of the census supervises the taking of the census of the United States every tenth year)
sad the snosequent arrangement, compilation, and pnbli(^on of the statistics collected.
■The Pension OffloewasabnnantntlieWarDepsrtmentiintU the eieatlon of the Department of the Interior In tbayesr
tttt. Tbe office of CommlMloner of Pensions was orested bv Aot of March 3, 1833.
■ Tbe oOlce of Indlau AJtsln was a boresn of tbe War Depsrtment antll it* tnuuf er to the Department of the Interior
nm Um on»ntf»tion o( ttwt department in 1841). The oflioe <n Oommlisloner of Indian Aftaln waa created by Act of July 9^
* Prior to tbe year 18E0, the woA of the Cenina Offlce was oondneted under tbe dlieotton of tiie aeeietaty of state. B^
Act of March 3, 1849, this raperrlslon was tianaferred to the seoretarj of the Intailor, tlw ehlat of Uw «ffiee being stylr
"SaperintenillTH Clerk," and afterwards " Superintendent."
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00NGBE8SIONAL DIBBOTOBY.
THE POST-OFFICE DEPAETMENT..
FOSTMASTEBS-OBNEBAI..
Saianel Oawod of MnmohiMetto, from BepL 36, 1789.
TimoQi7 nokerlng of Panniylvania, from Aug. 12,
1791.
Joseph HalwTsham of Geoisla, from Fe^. 25, 1796.
Gideon Ozanfrer of Coiuiec»:ut, from Not. 28, 1801.
Betorn J. Ueiga, ton., of Ohio, from March 17, 1814.
Joha MoLean of Ohio, from June 26, 1823.
'nrilljam T. Bany of Kentockj, from March 9, 1829.
Amos Kendall of Kentucky, nom Mar 1, 183B.
John M. mies of Connecticnt, from May 19, 1840.
Francis Qzaoger of Kew York, from March 6, ISil.
Charles A. inokUfle of Kentucky, from Sept. 13, 1811.
Care Johnson of Tennessee, from March 6, 1815.
Jaoob CoUamer of Vermont, from March 8, 1849.
XTathaa K. HaU of Kew Tork, from July 23, 1850.
Samnel D. Hnbfaaid of Connecticnt, from Ang. 31, I8t&
James Campbell of Pennsylvania, from March 7, 1863.
Aaron V. Brown of Tennessee, frixm Maicb 6, 1857.
Joseph Holt of Kentucky, from March 14, 1859.
Horatio Kinsof Maine, from Feb. 12, 1861.
Montgomery Blair of District of Colombia, from Haicfa
6,1861.
William Dennison of Ohio, from Sept. 24, 1864.
Alexander W. Bandall of Wisconsin, nam July SS,
1866.
John A. J. Creswell of Maryland, from March 5, 1869.
James W. Marshall of Viiglnia, from July 3, 1874.
Marshall Jewell of Connecticut, from Aug. 24, 1874.
James K. Tyner of Indiana, froia July 12, 1876.
Dayid M. Key of Tennessee, from March 12, 187T.
ihte |insljniwter<eneral has the direction and management of the Foat-oiBce Department. He appoints ill
•ffioers tad employm of the department, except the three assistants postma8ter.general, who are appointed by
the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate ; appoints all postmasters whose compensatioii
does not exceed one thousand dollars; makes postal treaties with foreign governments, by and with toe advice
and consent of the President; awards and executes contracts; and directs the management of the domestic and
focGign nail flervice.
riBST ASSISTANT POSTMASTBBS-OENERAL.
8«fh Feaae d Connecticnt, 1816.
Abraham Bradley of Connecticut, 1817.
Phineaa Bradley of Connecticut, 1816.
(The offlce was dispensed with for some years.)
Charles K. Gardner of Mew Jersey, 1829.
Seiah B. Hobbie of New York, 1836.
8. D. Jacobs of Tennessee, 1851.
Selah B. Hobbie of New York, from March 22, 1853.
Horatio King of Maine, from March 28, 1854.
St. John B. L. Skinner of New Tork^ 1861.
John A. Kasson of Iowa, from March 8, 1861.
Alexander W. Bandall of Wisconsin, from Jan. 9, 1863.
St. John B. li. Skinner of New York, from July 28, 1866.
George Earle of Maryland, from April 2, 1869.
James W. Marshall of New Jersey, from Dec. 1, 1860.
James H. Marr of Maryland, from July 7, 1874.
James W. Marshall of New Jersey, from Aug. 21, 1871
James N. Tyner of Indiana, from March 16, 1877.
The flrat assistant postmaBter.general has charge of the appolntment.ofBce, which includes five divisions;
viz.:—
Appointment IHvitton. — The duty of preparing all cases for the establishment, discontinuance, and change
of name or site of post-offices, and for the appointment of all postmasters, agents, postal clerks, maU-meesengeis,
and department emplov^s, and attending to all correspondence consequent thereto.
Bond DixiMon, — The duty of recelvmg and reconling appointments; sending out papers for postmaiten
and their assistants to qualify; receiving, entering, and flung their bonds and oauis; and Issoing the cominiv
■ions for postmasters.
Salary and AUotaance IHvition. — The duty of re-adjusting the salaries of postmasters, and the consideration
of allowances for rent, fuel, and lights, clerk-hire, and mlsceUaneous expenditures.
Free Deliva-y. — The duty of prepuing cases for the inauguration of the system in cities, the appointment
at letter.caTrlen, and the general supervision of the system.
Blank Agency Divition. — The duty of sending out the blanks, wrapping-paper, and twine, lettei-balancei,
and canceUing«tamps to offices entitled to receive the same.
SECOND ASSISTANT POSTMABTBBS-GENEBAL.
Belah E, HobWe of New York, 1829.
BolitTt J((l]iiai>ri ot riinnaylvania, 1836.
Philg C. Fiilk-r vl Kew York, 1841.
John A. Brjan ot MaasachMetta, 1842.
J. W. Tyson, 1S+:).
N. M. SfilliT of \*irciiiis, 1844.
William MpiUII r.f Ih'laware, 1816.
WUliiua J. Btovvu oI Indiana, 1815.
Fitz Henry Warren of Iowa, 1851.
William H. Dundas of ViigtiUa, 1862.
George W. McLellan of Massachusetts, from March U,
1861.
Giles A. Smith of Illinois, from March 26, 1869.
John L. Boutt of Illinois, from Oct. 12, 1871.
James N. Tyner of Indiana, from Feb. 26, 1875.
Thomas J. Brady of Indiana, from July 21, 1876.
The Rcrond a/mijtTant poetmaster'.geneTal has charge of the contractoffice, mail equipments, &c., including
the foliowing tlirue divisions: —
CiiittnKt Diritirja. — The arrangement of the moll^ervice of the United States, and placing the same ander
contract, embracing oil correspondence and proceedings respecting the frequency of trips, mode of conveyance,
and times of departures and arrivals on all the routes, the course of the mails between the different sections ot
the country, the |joints of mail-distribution, and the r^ulations for the government of the domestio mail-service.
THB KXBOUnVJB DEPABTMBNTS.
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Ik piepMM the adrertiaementB for mail-piopoaals, Teceives the Uda, amd has obaqge of the KmniBl and ooc»>
donal maU-lettiiigB, and the adJuBtment and execution of the contracte. All appllcationa for the eBtabUshment
ox alteration of mail-arrangements and for mail-measengeis should be sent to this offioe. All claims should be
submitted to it for transportation service not under contract. From this office all postmasteis at the end of
rontea reoeire the statement of mail-arrangements prescribed tor the tespective routes. It reports weekly to
the auditor all contracts executed, and all orders affecting the accounts for mail-transportation; prepares the
statistical exhibits of the mail-service, and the reports to Congress of the mail-lettinaB, givins a statement of
each bid, also of the contracts made, the new service originated, the curtailments oaerM, oira the additional
allowances granted within the year.
/rupertion Divition. — The duty of receiving and examining the registers of the arrivals and departures of
the mails, certificates of the service of route^gents, and reports of mul-tailures: noting the delinquencies of
contiactois, and preparing cases thereon for the action of the postmaster^neral; fnm&hing blwofs for mail-
registers, reports of mail mlnrea, and other duties which may oe neoessaiy to secure a fiaithfnl and exact per-
formance odt all mail contracts and seivloe.
Mail-£qu^pment I>MtU>n,—Tbo Issuing of mail lotto and keys, mail pouches andMck8,and the construction
of maU-bog eattdiets.
THIRD ASSIBTAirr FOSTMASTICRS-OENERAXi.
Daniel Coleman of North Carolina, 1836.
J<din S. Skinner of Maryland, 1841.
N. M. Idler of Virginia, 1815.
(This office was dispensed with for some years.)
John HaiTon of Georgia.
Alexander N. Zevely of Korih Carolina, from Ibnch
6,1899.
W. H. H. Terrell of Indiana, from May 32, 18S9.
Edward W. Barber of Michtean, from March 17, 1878.
Abram D. Haaen of Pennsymuua, from July 1, 1877.
The tbizd assistant poetmaster.geneTal has charge of the flnanoe-offioe, &o., embracing the following four
divisions: —
Divition of finaaae. — The duty of issuing drafts and warrants in payment of balances reported by the-
auditor to be due to mail-contractors or other persons; the superintendence of the coUectiou of revenue at
depository, draft, and depositing offices, and Uui accounts between the department, and the treasurer and as*
sistant treasurers and special designated dcjwsitaries of the United States. Thia division receives all accounts,
monthly or quarterly, of the depository and draft offices, and certificates of deposit from depoeiting-offlces.
Disitlan of PottageStampt and Stamped Enoelopa. — The issuing of poetage^tamps, stamped envelopes,
newspaper-wrappers, and postal cards; also the supplying of postmastexa with envelopes for their official use,
and re^tered package-envelopes and seals.
Division of Segiflered Letter*. — The duty of preparing instructions for the guidance of postmasters relative
to registered letters and all correspondence connected therewith; also the compilation of statistics as to the
ttiuuactions of the business.
Divition of Dead LelterM. — The examination, and return to the writers, of dead letters, and all conespondenee
relating thereto.
The Superintendent of Foreign Mailt has charge of all foreign postal arrangements, and the saperrision of the
ocean mail-steamship service.
The Superintendent of the Money-Order Syttem has the general supervision and control of the postal money>
order system throughout the UnitM States, and the sup^vision of the international money-order correspona-
•ace with foreign countries.
DEPARTMENT OP JUSTICE.
ATTOBMKYS-OENXRAIi.
Xdmnnd Bondolpli of inrginia, from Sept 28, 1789.
William Bradford of Pennsylvania, from Jan. 27, 1794.
Charles I<ee of Virgtaiia, from Deo. 10, 179B.
Levi linooln of Massaonasetts, from March S, 1801.
Bobert Smith of Marrlaad, from March 3, 180B.
John Breckinridge m Kentucky, from Aug. 7, 1805.
^*ar A. Rodney of Pennsylvania, fnnn Jan. 20, 1807.
WUUam Ptnknev of Maryland, from Dec. U, 1811.
UdMid Rnsb of Pennsylvania, from Feb. 10, 1814.
WilUam Wirt of Virginia, from Nov. 13, 1817.
John Macpherson Berrien of Georgia, from March 9,
1829.
Boger B. Taney of Manrland, from July 20, 1831.
Benjamin F. Butler of New Yoric, from Nov. IS, 1833.
VeUx Omndy of Tennessee, from July 6, 1838.
Reniy D. Gilpin of Pennsylvania, from Jan. 11, 1840.
John J. Crittenden of Kentucky, fnnn March 6, 1841.
Hn^ S. Legar^ of South Carolina, from Sept. 13, 1841.
John Nelson of Muyland, from July 1, 1843.
John T. Mason of Virginia, from March 6, 184S.
Nathan Clifford of Maine, from Oct. 17, 1846.
Isaac Toncey of Connecticut, from Jane 21, 1848.
Beverdy Johnson of Maryland, from March 8,J849.
John J. Crittenden of B[entucky, from July 2?, 18S0.
Caleb Cnshingof Massachosette, from March 7, 18S3.
Jeremiah S. Black of Pennsylvania, from March 6,
18S7.
Bdwln M. Stanton of Fennaylvanla, from Deo. 20^
1880.
Sdwatd Bates of Missouri, from March S, 1861.
James Speed of Kentucky, from Deo. 2. 1864.
Henry Btanbery of Kentucky, from Jtily 23, 1866.
WiUlam M. Evorts of New York, from July IS, 1888.
Ebenezer B. Hoar of Massachusetts, from March B,
1869.
Amos T. Akerman of Georgia, from June 23, 1870.
George H. Williams of Oregon, from Jan. 10, 1872.
Edwards Fierrepont of New York, from May IS, 1875.
Alphonso Toft of Ohio, from May 22, 1876.
Charles Devens of Massachusetts, from March 12, 1877.
The attomey-oeneral is the head of the Department of Justice, and the chief Iaw«ffloer of the sovemment.
He represents the United States in matters involving legal questions : he gives his advice and opinion on quea>
Uoos of low wben ttaey are naqnlMd tgr the F(eaid«at« or hy the hsada oTtha «thar SKaeutiTa I
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CONGBESSIONAL DIRECTORr.
qnestlons of law arisins apon tho odmtnistratlon o( their respective deMitmenti; he exeretaet a geaenlaiy.
intondrnc« anil (Urertion over Unitc(l-Stat«ii attonipyB and marshals in all jadicial diatriots in UM BttM iad
Trrritorips; and he providos special counsel for the United States whenever required by any department d tto
govprnmcnt.
llu in oKxisted 1>y a chief clerk and other clerks and employes In the executive management of the Imntw
of the dprmrtment.
The law clerk, who is aUo an examiner of titles, aasista the attorney-general In tho investigatian a( kpl
questions and in tho preparation of opinions.
80UCrrOR&-<5BafERAL.
Benjamin H. Bristow of Kentucky, Oct. 11, 1870. | Samuel F. PI)iUlpe of North Carolina, Dec. 11, Vhl
The soliritor-cencral a-saists tho att-omey.ceneml in the performance of his ij^noral duties, and bj tfM
Siovision of law, In the oaso of a racAncy in the nfflco of attorney-general, or in his ali8«ncc, exercises all tbea
utlrs. Except when the attorney-general in particular oases otherwise directs, the attomey-cencnl ud
solicitor-general conduct and ar;^io all roses in the Supreme Court and in tho Court of Clainu mwhiclitlii
United Statt;8 are iuteresteii; and, when ttio nttornev-sencral .10 directs, any such case in anu court tf lit
United fflaln miiy 1m! conducted and nrKU>'<l )>>' the sollritor-cencral; and in tho samo way the S0lidUffH!«Cial
may be sent by the attorney-general to attend to the interests of the United States in any State court trilih
Ulltere.
ASSI8TA2JT ATTORNEYS-GENERAL.
Alfred B. MrCnlmont of Pennnvlvnnin, March 14, 1850.
Titian J. Cofley of IVnnsylvani.i, April 20, IWl.
J. Hublev Aobton of IVnimylvniiin, May 10, lji(>4.
John M. Biniklev of r)i«trirt of Columliin, .Tune 1, 180T.
J. Hublev Ashtoii of Pcnnsvlvanio, ,Tuly ;», lH<i8.
T. Lvle iMckcv of Illinois, Jnlv .'W, 1808.
WaliirldRe A. Field of Moasachuscns, Moy 1, 1809.
Thomas 11. Talbot of Maine, Doc. 1, 180n.
Clement HuRh nill of Mossachnsptts, Oct 3. UJO.
Walter H. Smith of Ohio, Manh 17. 1K71.
William MoMichn<'l of Penn-rvlvania, Oct. IB, WL
.Tnlin (Jiiforth of Pennsyh-ania, Moroh 18. 18(3,
Thomas Simons of New York, Mav 28. 187S.
F,<lwin n. Smith of Maine, Aug. 2.S, 1873.
AuKustino S. Onylonl of Micliijjan, Nov. 8, 1815.
Kdgor M. Marble of Michigau, April 4, 1877.
Two assistant attorneys-general a.'wist the attorney-general and the solicitor-eonenil in the pcrfoniiiiiK» d
thdr duties. One assists' in tho nnriiment of causes in the Supremo Court and in the preporatlon of Itgil
opinions: the other is eharecd with the conduct of tho defence of the Unit4?d States in tho Court of Clsina.
Under the Art of 1870, the difTorent law-officers of tho executive departments exercise their function* ondct
the suiH>ri"i«ion and control of the attorney-BiniTal. They are, the iiMittant atlometf-gfneral for the drpartmift
0/ till' inlerlnr ; the nfnUtdnt ntlitrniy-rfmernt fur r>ie pott-ofice drpartmnit ; the mlieitor of the Irraturj, awl ttt
solicitor nf intcntul rctcniic, treasury department; the nmal tolicitor, navy department; and the etamimr ^
dainu, state department.
THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.
COMMISSIONERS OF AGRICULTURE.
Isaac Newton of Pennsylvania, June 30, 1867.
Horace Cnpron of Illinois, Dec. 4, 18S7.
' Frpflerick Watts of Pennsylvania, Ang. 1, 1871.
WiUium a. LeOno of Minnesota, July 1, 1877.
The commissioner of agrictilturo Is rcfjuired to collect and diffuse iisefu! information on subjects connf***
with ngr! ulture. He la to acquire and prcsorvo in his oifice oil information he can obtain coneerninj*";
culture by means of iKwks nntf corrcsponilencc, ond by practical and scientific experiments, the collec"*"'"
statistics, and other appropriate means; to collect new and valuable seeds and plants; to learn by actusltj^
votion such of tlicm as may require such teats; to propogato such as may bo worthy of propagation, •*'""
distribute them among oijriciiitHrists. ^,
77i<! .Sldtifliriiin. — Uv cDllccf.s reliable Information as to the condition, prospects, and resnits of th* ceiw-
cotton, and othiT rrojw, by the instniinentnllty cif four corri'sprniilcnts in each county of every State: thl«l»"^
mation i.s KUtlicrcd nt stated periods of each iriuiith, ranfnlly studied, estimated, tabulated, and published.
Thr Ktilnni'/lnf/iitl. — He olitalns infoniititlon wKli regnrtl to iii.soct.s injurious to vegetation ; invc«tiKsM'''T
character of Insects sent him, to point out their modes ril intlictlon, and the moans by which their depted**"*
may he avoided; and arranijes speciniena of their injuries and nest architecture. . ,< il
Till' lii'tttiiiKi. — He receives liotiiniciil lontrilmtions, and, after rankinK desirable selections for the St"**!
Herbarium, distributes the duiilical-e plants amouR foreign and domestic scientific societies, institution' *
learning, and botanists; and answers inquiries of a botjinico-ogriculttiral character. _i,ifli J
Thr t'hrmiel. — He inakes nnalyses of natural fertilisers, vegetable products, and other moterials '■''S 1
pertain to tho interests of agriculttirc. Applications arc constantly made from all iwrtioas of the couotlT'"'
the analysis of soils, raincmlR. liquids, and inanipiiliitcil niiiniin's.
Thf Mi'-nini'iiii'l. — III' iimkes orlKiiiiil investigations, mostly relating to the Habits of i>arasitic hmgoidf
whlcJi ore frequently found on living plants and animals, producing sickly growth, and, in many ca
turo dearli.
The Propanating Garden. — lArgo aiunbers of exotic, utilixable, and economic ploata ore prop
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dtstribated. The orange family ia parttcnlarly Talnalle; and the best oommetoJal varieties axe prapagated
and distributed to the greatest practicable extent.
The Seed lHvition. — Seeds are pnrchaaed, in this and foreign countries, of reliable firms, whose goarantv o{
good quality and genuineness cannot be qnestioned: they aie packed at the department, and distrlbatea to
applicants in all parts of the country.
The lAbrary. — Exchanges are made, by which tlie Ubiaiy leceiTes reports of the leading agiioaltaral, paino>
logical, and meteorological societies of the world.
TIE PUBLIC PRINTING.
K
The printing and binding of the two Houses of Congress and of the execntire departments was exocnted
br contracts, awarded to the lowest bidders, until 1819, when it was made the duty of the Senate and House to
elect printers for each suocessive Congress; and, later, the President was directed to haye all the printing and
binding of the executive deportments executed by one of the congressional printers, designatea by him. It
frequently happened, in carrying out this law, that one 'firm or person was elected by each House as its printer
for that Congress. The printers thus elected, generally proprietors of Washington newspapers, were : —
Prtnten to the Senate.— Gales and Seaton of "The National Intelligencer," 1820; I>nff Green, "Tele-
ph,"1831; Gales and Seaton, 1836; Thomas Alien, "Madisonion," 1841; Gales and Seaton, 18t3; Ritchie and
^Jiw, " Union," 1845: Robert Armstrong, " Union,'* 1882; Beverly Tucker, " Sentinel," 1852; A. O. P. Nichol-
son, " Union," 1866: W. A. Harris, " Union," 1887; George W. Bowman, 1860.
Piinttrt to the Hmae of RepreteTUaUvet. — Gales and Beaton, 1821: Blair and Biyes. " Globe," 18%; Thomas
Allen, 1837; Gales and Seaton, 1841; Blair and Rives, 1843; Ritchie and Heiss, 1845: John T. Towers, 1853;
A. O. P. Nicholson, 1864; Cornelius Wendell, 1866; J. H. Steadman, 1867; Thomas H. Ford, 1860.
77>e Public Prtnting-Qgice was established in 1880, and has since been under the superintendence of the fol-
lowing gentlemen, with varied official designations: Cornelius Wendell of New York, from 1860; John D.
Detrees of Indiana, from March 6, 1861; Corueliua Wendell, from Sept. 1, 18G6; John D. Defreee, from Feb. 26,
1867; Almon M. Clapp of New York, from June 4, 1868; John D. Defrees, from April 6, 1877.
"The Congressional Globe " was published by John C. Rives from December, 1833, until March 6, 1873,
giyingreports of the debMes and proceedings of the Twenty-third to the Forty-second Congresses inclnsiTe.
" The Congressional Record " nos been published, by order of Congress, at the Public nlnting-Offioe since
the commencement of the Forty-third Congress, Deo. 1, 1873. Copies are supplied to the public at the cost of
printing.
THE CONGEESSIONAL DIRECTORY.
"The Congreaaional Directory " was pnbUahed as a priTote enterprise from 1820 nntil 1864 Inclusive, and
copies were sold to Congress and to the DiepartmentB. It was sometimes two months after the commencement
of a session before the first edition of the Directoir was ready for delivery; and the work did not contain
much of the varied Information given in similar publications at the capitals of some of the States, and at the
•eats of Bovenunent in Europe.
At the cooimencement of the second session of the Thir^-«ighth Congress, a joint resolution was passed
snanimonsly, ordering the compilation and publication of "The Congressional Directory," under the direction
ot the Joint Committee on Public Printing. The Joint committee, urged by senators and representatives
to give additional value to the work, examined upward of twenty publications of a similar nature, and adopted
•ereial features, among them statistical eketcnes of members of Congress. Otle form of these statistical
tketrhes which met the approval of the joint committee was that which thev found In a publication entitled
the "House of Commons," which has been published annually at London, in its present shape, since 1862;
•ml it has since been used as a model in the compilation of the pamphlet Congressional Directory by the
omipiler of this work. The favor with which the publication has been received prompted the preparation
^ this Congressional Directory, which includes all of the executive, legislative, and judicial offlcers of the
radersl Government to the present time.
THE JUDICIARY.
THE JUDICIARY.
CHIEF JUSTICES OF THE SUFBEME COUBT.
John Jar of New York, appointed by WaahinKton,
Sept. as. ITW): tesisned im.
John Bntleqge of Sonth Carolina, appointed br 'Wash-
ington, July 1, 1796; rejected Dec. 16, 1796.
William Cnshing of Massacnnsetta, appointed by Wash-
ington, Jan. 27, 1796; declined promotion.
Oliver Ellsworth of Connecticut, appointed by Wash-
ington, March 4, 1796; resigned November, 1796.
John Marshall of Virginia, appointed by J. Adams,
Jan. 20, 1801; died July 6, 1836.
Boger Brooke Taney of Maryland, appointed by Ja6k>
son, March 16, 1836; died Oct. 12, 186*.
Salmon Portland Chase of Ohio, appointed by Iiincoln,
Dec 6, 1861: died May 7, 1873.
Oeorge H. Williams of Oregon, appointed by Oiant
in 1873; rejected.
Caleb Gushing of Massachusetts, appointed by Grant
in 187:1; rejected.
Morrison It. Waite of Ohio, appointed by Grant, Jaa.
21, ir.71.
JUSTICES OF THE SUFBEME COUBT.
John Bntledge of Sonfb Carolina, appointed by Wash^
ington, Sept. 26, 1789; resigned 1791.
William Cnshing of Massachnsetts, appointed by Wash-
ington, Sept. 26, 1789; died 1810.
James Wilson <A Pennaylvsinla, appointed by Wash-
iiffiton, Sept. 26, 1780; died 1798.
John Blair of Virginia, appointed by Washington, Sept.
26, 1789: resigned 17>.)6.
Bobert H. Harrison of Maryland,.appointed by Wash-
ington, Sept. 26, 1789; resigned 1790.
James Tredell of North Caromia, appointed by Wash-
ington, Feb. 10, 1790; died 1799.
Thomas Johnson of Maryland, sropointed by Washing,
ton, Aug. 6, 1701 ; resigned 17!3.
William Patterson of New Jersey, appointed by Wash-
ington, March 4, 1793; died 1806.
Samnel Chase of Maryland, appointed by Washington,
Jan. 27, 1796; aed 1811.
Bnshrod Washington of Virginia, appointed by J.
Adams, 8ept729, 1798; died 1829.
Alfred Moore of North Carolina, appointed by J.
Adams, Dec. 10, 1799; resigned 1804.
William Johnson of South Carolina, appointed by Jef-
ferson, Maroh 26, 1804; died 1834.
Brockholst Livingston of New York, appointed by Jef-
ferson, NovTTo, 1806; died 1823.
Thomas Todd of Kentucky, appointed by Jefferson,
March 2, 1807; died 1826.
Levi Lincoln of Massachusetts, appointed by Madison,
Jan. 3, 1811; declined.
John Qnlncy Adams of Massachusetts, appointed tar
Madiaon, Feb. 22, 1811; declined.
Joseph Stoiy of Massachusetts, appointed by Madison,
Nov. 18, 1811; died 1846.
Gabriel Duval of Maryland, appointed by Madison,
Nov. 18, 1811; resigned 1836.
Bmith Thompson of New York, appointed by Monroe,
Dec 9, 1823; died 1843.
Bobert Trimble of Kentucky, appointed by J. Q.
Adams, May 9, 1826; diedlSZS.
John McLean of Ohio, appointed by Jackson, March 7,
1829; died 1861.
Benrr Baldwin of Pennsylvania, appointed by Jack-
son, Jan. 6, 1830; died 1846.
James M. Wayne of Georgia, appointed by Jackson,
Jan. 9, 1835; died 1867.
Philip P. Barbour of Virginia, appointed by Jackson,
March 18, 1836; died 1841.
John Catron of Tennessee, wpointed by Van Bnron,
March 8, 1837: died 1866.
William Smith of Alabama, appointed by Van Bnren,
Maroh 8, 1837; declined.
John McKinley of Alabama, appointed by Van Buren,
AraU 22, 1837; died 1862.
Peter V. Daniel of Viifinia, appointed by Van Buren,
March 3, 1841; died 1860.
Samuel Nelson of New York, appointed by ^ler, Feb.
14, 1846; resigned 1872.
Levi Woodbury of New Hampehiro, appointed by PoQc,
Sept. 20, 1845; »aslgii«i< IWft. ^O-C 4.- ' "^ ^(
Bobert C. Orler of Pennsylvania, appointed by Polk,
Aug. 4, 1846; resigned 1870.
Benjamin B. Curtis of Massachusetts, appointed by
Fillmore, Dec. 20, 1861; resigned 1867.
John A. Campbell of Alabama, appointed by Pleroe,
Maroh 22, 1863; resigned 1861.
Nathan Clifford of Mune, appointed by Buchanan,
Jan. 28, 1868.
Noah H. Swayne of Ohio, appointed by Lincoln, Jan.
4,1862.
Samuel F. Miller of Iowa, appointed by Uncoln, July
16, 1862.
David Davis of Illinois, appointed by Lincoln, Dec 8,
1862; rosigned Maroh 4, 1877.
Stephen J. JBield of California, appointed by Uncoln,
March 10, 1863.
Edwin M. Stanton of Ohio, appointed by Grant In
1869; died 1869.
William Strong of Peimsylvanla, appointed by Grant,
Feb. 18, mo.
Joseph P. Bradley of New Jersey, appointed by Grant,
Maroh 21, 1870.
Ebenezer R. Hoar of Massachusetts, appointed by
Grant; rejected.
Ward Hunt of New York, appointed by Giant, Dec
11, 1872.
John M. Harlan of Kentucky, appointed by Hayes,
Nov. 29, 15.77.
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OONGEESSlOKAIi D'feBOTOBT.
CLERKS OF TUB StTPBEME COURT.
John Tucker of Maaaachnsetts, appointed Feb. 3, 1790;
reaiga^d,
Samuel Bayaid of Delaware, appointed Ang. 1, 1791;
resigned.
Ktiaa B. ColdwcU of New Jersey, appointed Aug. IS,
1800; died.
Williiun Grifflth of New Jersey, appointed Fcb.9,USi
flicd.
William T. Carroll of the District of Columlil*, i^
pointed Jiin. 20, 182T; died.
Danlul W. Middlcton of the District of Colnjnliii, i^
pointed Dec. 7, UC3.
REPORTERS OF THE SUPREME COURT.
Alexander J. Dallas of Pennsylvania reported from
1789 to 1800 inrlusive; 4 voluraes.
William Cranch of Maasachu.setui reported from 1801
to 1815 inclusive; 9 vulumos.
Henry Wheaton of New York reported from 1816 to
1827 inclusive; 12 volumes.
Bichard Peters of Pouna.vlvonia reported from 1828 to
1842 inclusive; 16 volumes.
Benjamin C. Howard of Maryland reported boa US
to 1861 inclusive ; 24 volumes.
Jeremiah S. Block of Pcmmylrania reported {mm Utt
to lS(j4 inclusive; 2 volumes.
John W. Wallace of Pennsylvania reported traa IM I
to 1875; 23vrilume8.
William J. Otto of Indiana reported from Uw tfll |
term.
MARSHALS ATTENDANT ON THE SUPREME COURT.
David Lenox, U. 8. Marshal of the District of Pennsyl-
vania, att,pn(le<l from .Jan. 28, IT'.fO, to Fch. 4, 1801.
David Carroll Urcut, U. H. Marshal of the District of
Colimibia, attended from Aug. 3, 1801, to Aug. 6,
1806
Washington Boyd, U. S. Marshal of the District of
Columbia, attended from Fob. 1, 1808, to Aug. 1,
1818.
Tench Ringold, U. S. Morslml of the District of Colum-
bia, att<.^ndc4l from Nov. :w, 1818, to Aur. 3, 1831.
Henry Ashton, U. S. Marshal of the District of Colum-
bia, attended from Fob. 4, ISTJl, to Feb. 2, 1834.
Alexander Hunter, U. 8. Marshal of the District of
Columbia, attended from March G, 1834, to Dec. 4,
1M».
Robert Wallace, U. S. Marshal of the District of Co-
lumbia, attended from Deo. 6, 1848, to Deo, 3,
1849.
Richard Wallaoh, D. S. Marshal of the DiitiMttj
Columbia, attended from Dec. 4, 1849, to Mif 1^ f
185:1. '
Jonah D. Hoover, U. S. Marshal of the Dlsnirt ot
Columbia, attended from May SI, 18o;l, tu April U
1858.
William Solden, U. 8. Marshal of the Di-irtrirt ol 0>-
lumbia, attended from April 1, 1.S58, to Xlturll.
l«(il.
Ward II. Lamon, U. 8. Marshal of the District of C*
lumbia, attended from March 8, 1861, to Jme i,
18t».
D. C. Gooding, U. S. Marshal of the Di'tricf nf fnliiak
bin, att»-nacd fnini .Tune 0, ISCiS, '■ '^T.
Richard C. Parsons, Marshal of tli' lUt,
attended from April 3. 18U7, to 1).
John O. Nirolay, Marshal of the Sopreiue Coiiiti I
tended from Dec. 16, 1872.
UNITED-STATES CIRCUIT JUDGES.
Benjamin Bourne of Rhode Island First.
John Lowell of Mn-ssjubiisctts "
GoorRi? F, Sln'|iky of Maine "
Jcremlali .Smith of New Hami>shiro "
Eglx^rt Benson of New York Second.
Sunuel Hitchcock of Vermont "
Alexander S. .lohnson of Now York "
Oliver Woleotl of Connecticut *'
Lewl.s n. Woo<lruff of Connecticut "
Richard Biisaell ol Delaware Third.
William (irillilh "
Jared Ingrirsoli of Pennsylvania "
William Tighlman of Mary laml "
Philip Barton Key of Moryhmd Fourth.
Charles Lee of Virginia . . "
George K. Taylor Fomtt.
liughL. Bonii of Maryland "
Tliomas Bco of South Carolina. KlWt
.Tosepli t:iay, jun. "
Theoili>ro Gaillnrd of Louisiana.
Doininick A. Hall of North Carolina
Edward Harris "
Henry Potter of Virginia •
John Sitgroavcs of North Carolina
William B. Woods of Alabama .
William McCiurg Sirtt.
Halmpr H. Emmons of Michigan " .
Tliomas Dnimmond of Illinois SrvrnUi.
John F. DUlou of Iowa »«■"»•
Lorenzo Sawyer of California 2>mt».
UNITED-STATES DISTRICT JUDGES.
Richard Bosteed. Alabama.
JohiitJavle "
WUIiom G. Jones
George W. Lane "
Charles Tnit <•
Henry C. Caldwoll Arkansas.
Benjamin .Johnson "
Tliomiu J. Lacey "
Daniel Ringo "
William Story "
Jolm ThompKon "
Arcliiliald Yell ••
Fletcher JI. Ilaight California.
Ogden Hoffman "
J. M.. Tones "
Matt. H. Me.\lU»ter "
Isaacs. K. Otjier "
William Bristol Connecticnt.
Plcrrefmnt Edwards "
Anilrew T. Judson "
Richard Ijiw "
Nathaniel Sbipmon ••
Gunning Bedford Dtls""*
Edward O. Bradford „
John Fisher „
Willard Hall __„.
Ridiard C. Allen rX"*"
Thomas J. Boynton ,,
H. M. Breckinridge „
H. M. Brockenbrough «
Isaac H. Bronson ••■■ „
John A. Cameron •••• »
Samuel W. Cormack. u
Samuel .T. Douglass • «
Philip Fnizcr „
Dillen Jordon, jun • «
William W. Lawrence «
James W. IxK-ke «
McQueen Mcintosh »
William Marvin ,.
T. Randall
Joseph L. Smith
Joseph Clay, tun
Jeremiah Cay les
THK JUDIdABT.
Stf
USITED-STATES DI8TBICT JUD6BS. — CbntiiMMd.
-OeotKia.
William DayiM
John EnUne
Thomas Gibbons "
Bobert B. Gilchrist "
JohnC. KicoU "
William Stephens "
Henry W.Blo^tt Illinoia.
Kathaniel Pope "
Alexander Stewart "
Jesse B. Thomas "
ThomasTowles "
Samuel H. Treat "
EUshaH. Hnntinston. TnjHMia-
DaTid McDonald ••
CalebB. Smith "
Walter Q. Ot«8ham. "
Jesse L. Holman "
John J. Dyer lows.
James M.Iioye "
Mark W. Delah«y Kansas.
Archibald Williams "
Bland Ballaid .Kentucky.
John Boyle. "
Harrylmies. "
Thomas B. Mnnioe "
BnbertTrimble "
Henry Boyce Lonisiana.
JohnDick "
Edward H. DnreU "
BotusElaston "
Theodore GaiUard "
Dominic A.HaU "
Samuel H. Harper "
Philip K. liawience "
EdwardFox. Maine.
John Holmes "
Albion K. Paris "
DavidSerrelL "
AshnrWare. "
Theodorick Bland. Maryland.
ni]idiL.Bond '•
William E. Qilea "
Elias Glenn "
rpton S. Heath "
James Honston "
Thomas Johnson "
WilliamPaca. "
James Winchester. "
John Davis Massachusetts.
John LoweU "
PelegSpragne '*
John w . Iionsyeax Michigan.
BoasWiUdns
Solomon L. Withey *<
Bensaelaer Nelson Minnesota.
Qeoige Adams MisslsslppL
Bimuel J. Gholson "
Bobert Andrews HiU "
Ohadiah Jones "
Walter Leake. "
Geoige Foindexter "
Peter Randolph "
WUIiam Bayaid Shields "
Joaiah Simpson "
HatrrToounan "
Araold Krekel JUasouil.
John B. C. Lucas "
J. H. Peck "
William Sprigg "
Bobert W. Wells "
Daniel Clark Kew Hampshire.
Matthew Harvey "
JohnPickering "
John 8. Sherburne. "
John SulllTan " .
David Brearly New Jersey .
Philemon Dickeison "
Rirhard 8. Field. "
BobertMorris "
JohnT.mxon. "
W. g. Pennington "
William Boasell "
Charles L. Benedict New York.
Samnel R. Betts "
8«iinel Blatchford "
Allied ConkUng "
James Duane NewTork.
Nathan K.HaU «
JohnB. Hobart "
John Lawrance "
Brockholdst Livingston "
Roger Skinner "
Mathias B. Tallmadge "
Daniel D. Tompkins "
BobertTroup "
William P. Van Ness "
Asa Bims North CavolliUk
George W. Brooks "
WUl&mB.Davi8 "
Bobert P.Dick "
WUliamH.HiU "
Henry Potter "
John Sitgreaves "
John Stokes "
Charles Whiting Byrd Ohio.
J. W. Campbell. "
William Creighton, hin "
Humphrey H. Leavitt "
Charles T. Sherman "
Philip B. Swing "
Hiram V. Wilson "
M. P. Deady Oregon.
John Cadwalader Pennsylvaniib
Francis Hopkinson "
Joseph Hopklnson "
Thomas Irwin "
John K.Kane "
WilUamLevris "
Wilson McCandleas "
William McKennan "
Richard Peters "
Archibald BandaU "
John H. Walker "
William Wilkins "
David L. Barnes Rhode Island.
Benjamin Bourne "
James K. Bullock "
David HoweU "
John P. Knowles "
Henry Marchant. "
John Pitman "
Thomas Bee South Candtna.
Gteorge S. Brytm "
John Drayton "
William Drayton "
Robert B. Gilchrist "
Thomas Lee "
A. O.McGrath "
Thomas Parker "
Thomas Plnckney "
Jacob Bead "
Morgan W.Brown Tennessee.
John M. Lea. "
JohnMcNairy "
Connolly F. Trigg "
Thomas H. Duvd Texas.
Amos Morrill "
John C. Watrons "
Nathaniel Chipman Vermont.
Samuel Hitchcock "
Eiyah Paine "
Samuel Prentiss "
David A. Smalley "
PUIip Barbour Virginia.
J. W. Brockenbronih ^'
Alexander Caldwell. "
Peter V. Daniel "
Cyrus Griffin "
Jamea D. Hallybniton "
George Hay "
John J. Jackson, ]nn "
John Y.Mason "
Edmund Pendleton "
Isaac S. Pennvbacker. "
Alexander Blves "
St. George Tucker "
John Tyler "
John C. Underwood "
John J. Jackson, jun West Vlr^nte.
Andrew J. Miller Wlsoonaiii.
A. J.MiUer
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OONGEES8IONAL DIRECTORY.
TJNITBD-STATES TEBBITOBIAI, JUDGES.
William Crawford Alaliama.
Jottpph P. AUvn Aiixona.
HeiiryT. Bnckus
HnrloyH. Carter "
Etliuund Pmni'iK Doane "
r<irt.er D. Fon«t "
JoluiN. Goodwin "
WUllam F.HoweU
Ishaai Besvis "
John Titus "
William T. Turner "
Charles A. Tweed "
J. Woodson Bates Arkansas.
Alexander M. Clayton "
Edward Cross
TlioDios P. Eskerldge "
C. C. Jcw(>n "
Aniiri'W Si'ott "
Joseph SfWon "
Willliuu Trimble "
B. Hcydnnlolt California.
H. A. Lyons "
H. C. Murray
Charles t<ee Armor Colorado.
AUen A. Bradford "
C. 8. EmU'T "
William H.Gale "
William R. Gorshlre "
Brnjiimin F. HaU "
Mnsps Hallet "
Btejihen S. UariUng "
Charlos F. Hollv "
B. Newton Pettis "
Ebene/xir T. Wells "
Alonson H. Barnes Dakota.
Asa Bartlett "
O. G. Bennett "
Philemon Bliss "
John W. Boyle "
W. W. Hrookiugs "
William K. Gleason "
J. P. Kidiler
Pet*r C. Shannon "
Joseph L. Williams "
Lorenzo P. VVilUuton "
Alfred Balch Florida.
Robert R. Reid "
James Webb "
John Cummins Idaho.
Sidney E:<lcerton "
M. E. Holli8t«r "
Milffin Kilbv "
John R. MiBride "
David Nogglc "
Samuel CTTarks "
Alloock C. Smith "
William C. Whiston "
Stanley Griswold Illinois.
Obadiah Jones "
William SpriRR "
Ali'xanclrT Stuart "
Thoma.s Tow tea "
William Clark Indiana.
Thomas T. Davis "
James Fisk "
JohnGrillin "
Benjamin Parke "
James Srott "
Walter Taylor "
Henry Vandcrburg "
Charles Mason Iowa.
Joseph Williams "
T. S. Wils<m "
J. M. Burrell Kansas.
SterlinRQ. Cato "
R. Elmore "
Samuel D. Lccompte "
John Petit "
John Colium Louisiana.
John B.C. Lueas "
Theodore H. McCalob "
Retnni J. Meigs "
T. B. Robertson "
Otto Bhrader "
WnUam Sprigg "
Frodorick Bates Michigan.
Henry Chipman Ml-Wp^.!
iTohn Cobum
.Tames D. Uoty "
David Er\vin "
John Griffin "
Sutunel Huntington "
licturn J. Meigs, jun "
Geurp> Morell "
Solomon Sibley "
William SpriRB "
James Witherall "
William Woo<lbridBe "
Aug. B.Woodward. "
A. a. Chatfield Hhmoaotb
David Cooper "
Charles E. Flandraw "
Jerome Fuller "
A.Goodrich "
B. B. Meeker "
R. R. Nelson "
Moses Sherbumo "
William H.Welch "
Peter Bryan Bruin lOiiiMipiL
Povvhattan Ellis "
Oliver Kins "
Oba<li.ili Jones "
David Ker "
Ephniim Kirby "
Walter Leake "
Se(h Lewis '•
William McGuire
Francis X. Martin
Georije Matthews, jun
fjeorue Poindexter
Thomas RiMlney
Daniel Tilton
Harrv Toulman "
BilaaBent Mtaoml.
George Bullet "
John B. C. Lueas "
.Vlexandcr Stuart "
Henry N. Blake Montana.
H. L. Hosmer "
Hiram Knowles "
Lyman E. Mimson "
.Tohn L. Murphy "
Fmnris G. Service "
D. L. Wade "
Samuel W. Black Neb
James Bradley "
Elmer 8. Dundy "
Ferguson Fonner "
Augustus H.'ill "
E. R. irirdiii "
William I*. ICell<.3>: "
William F. Lo<-,kw.M)d "
.T.weiih Miller "
Kniniii'l Million «. "
Kleazer Wnkelv "
Powlmttan R. t.r>eke KflTada,
Gordon N. Mott "
.John W. North "
George Turner "
Grafton Bnker New Mie
K. Benedirt "
William G. Blackwood "
William F. Boono "
Woren Bristol "
.T. J. Davenport "
Sidney A. Hubt)eU "
O.B. Johnson "
llezekinh S. Johnson "
.Tiiseph G. Knapp "
Iloroi'e Mfiuer "
Joseph G. I'nlin "
Henry Sherman "
H. L. Waldo "
Johns. Watts "
Joseph G ilrnan North- Weat of Ohio m
Retiirn J. Meigs " "
Samuel II. Parsons " "
Rufiw Putnam " '*
.John C. .Symmes " '*
Geor^ji- Turner " '*
Williuin P. Bryant Oresoa.
O. B. Mi-Failden
THB J UmUlABT.
847
vmrmymuLTEa TBBBnx>BiAz< joDOBa— omttHMd.
Thomaa KelaoB.
.Oreoon-
CynaOlney
George H. WiUiania "
Junes Blown Oileana.
JohnCobom "
Moresa De Usle <*
George DofSeld "
Dom&ick A. E[aU '•
Joshua Iiewis "
Frands X. Hartln **
George Matthews, Jnn. "
John B. FMToat "
WUUamSpiIgg "
John Thompson "
Bnekner Thurston "
Joseph Anderson JSonfb of Ohio Btver.
WiUkmFeeiT ^ " "
Jacobs. Boreman Uiali.
!•. O. Brandetnng "
F. E. Broohns "
Joseph Bi
F. A Chen<
JohnCiadlel
HeniyB. Ciosl
Thomas J. Drake "
'William W. Dmmmond "
DeUDoB.Eckles "
G. Sdnmnds "
Philip H. Emerson "
Bobett P. Hennlker **
Cynu M. Hawley "
J. F. Kinney -
8. P.McCnrdr "
James B.McKeaa "
K.I>. Potter "
lAzanis H.Bead Utah. .
Leonldas Shaver "
Charles E. Sinclair «
Zembhsbel Snow «
George P. StilM «
O.F.Strickland "
John Titns "
Charles B. "Waits "
O. B. Dazwin 'Washlngtoa.
Edward C. Fit^int^ "^
Bogez S. Oreena "
M.aooc^nd "
Orange Jacobs "
James K. Keimedy "
Edward lander "
Joseph B. Iiewis **
V.^nroe "
B. P.OUphant "
William Btrong "
James E.Wt^ "
Orasmns Cole ^nsoonsin.
Lather 0. Dixon '•
Charles Duncan "
Charles Dunn «
■William 0. Frazier «
James C. Hopkins "
David Irwin "
Bijan Paine "
Joseph M. Carer .....WyomlnB.
Joseph W. Fisher "
John H.H6we "
William T. Jones "
JohnW. ir»«gwn^t^ «
E. A. Thomas "
JUDGES JS THE DI8TBI0T Or OOLTJHBIA.
Dsrld K. Cattter, Chief Justice from Ohio.
William Cranch, Chief Justice. . " Kassa
Thomas H. Crawford " Pennsylyania.
Allen B. Dnokett '< Maryland.
James Donlop " Dist.ofCoL
George P. Fisher " Delaware.
Hicholaa Fltshn^ " '^r^nla.
David G. HnmpKreys " Alabama.
^bomas Johnson btmi Maryland.
WllliamEilty, Chief JusOoe.... '< Dist of CdL
James MarHhall " Virginia.
Arthur McArthur " Wisconsin.
James S. Morsell " Maryland.
Abraham B.01in " NewYork.
Bnekner Thurston . " Kentucky.
Andrew Wylie " Permsylvania.
UKITED-STATES COXmT OF CliAIMS.
laaao Blackford of Indiana, 18B6; died.
Joieph Casey of Pennsylvanlaasol, C. J^ 1863; resigned.
J. C. Bancroft Davis of New York, 1877.
Charles D. Drake of MiasonrI, C.J., 1870.
John J. Gilchrist of New Hampshire, 18BS; died.
-VUliam H. Hunt, 1878.
Jamas Hngbsa of Indiana, 1860; resigned.
Edward G. Lorlng of Massaohnsetts, 18B8; rettrsd.
Samuel Milligan of Teimessee, 18S8: died.
Charles C. Nott of New York, 1865.
Ebenezer Peck of Illinois, 1863; retired.
William A. Richardson of Blaasachnsetts, 1874.
G. P. Scarborough of Virginia, 185S; died.
David Wilmot of Pennsylvania, 1863; died.
STATISTICAL SKETCHES
or
MEMBERS OP CONGRESS.
STATISTICAL SKETCHES.
Abbott, Amos, was bom at Andover, Hassa-
dtnaetta. September 10, 17S6; reared on his father's
farm; educated at the district school and at Bradford
Academy; engaged in mercantile pursuits; filled a
number of town-offices ; was a member of the State
House of Bepresentatires in 1836, 18S6, and 1842, and
of the State Senate in 1840 and 1843; was one of the
founders of the Boston and Maine Bailrood, and for
eeTeral yeara one of its directors ; was elected a repre-
eeDtative in the Twenty-eighth Congress, as a Whig,
on the second trial ; was re-elected to the Twenty-
ninth Congress, and was re-elected to the ThlrtieUi
Congress, serving from February 16, 1844, until March
3, 1849; died at Andover, Massachusetts, Kovember
2,1868.
Abbot, Joel, was bom at Fairfield, Connecticut,
in 1790; received an academic education; removed to
Washington, Oeorgia; held several local offices; was
elected a representative from Georgia In the Fif-
teenth Congress, as a Democrat, on a general ticket,
»nd was successively re-elected to the Sixteenth,
Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Congresses, receiving
on his last election 11,231 votes as a supporter ox
Mr. Crawford for the presidency, and servingfrom
December 1, 1817, to March 3, 1826; died at Wash-
ington, Georgia, November 10, 1826.
Abbott, Joseph C, was bom at Concord, Kew
mmpihire, July 16, 1826; received an academic edu-
cation; read law, and was admitted to the bar in
March, 1862 ; was editor and proprietor of " The Man-
chester American " for five years, and subsequently
editor of " The Boston Atlas ; " was appointed adju-
tant-general of the State of Kew Hampshire in July,
1855, and held the office until July, 1861, when he re-
signed; received orders from the War Department
in September, 1861, to raise a regiment of infantry,
which regiment having been raised, he entered the
MTvice as lieutenant-colonel, and in Kovember, 1863,
was promoted colonel : in January, 1865, was brevetted
br^idier-general for '' gallant services in the capture
of Port Fiaber ; " after leaving the service, removed to
North Carolina, and entered Into business ; In Sep-
tember, 1867, was elected to the State Constitutional
ConrenUon; in April, 1868, was elected to the State
Mgidature; in July, 1868, was elected United-States
Moator froiD Kortb Carolina, as a RMmbllcan, serving
iiom J^ 17, 1868, to March 8, 1871 ; resumed busi-
oen at Wilmington.
Abbott, Jocdab O., was bom at Chelmsford.
Hsitacbiuetta, November 1, 1816 ; received a classical
education, graduating from Harvard Univeraity in
183S; studied law; was admitted to the bar In 1836,
sad commenced practice at Boston ; was a member of
tlw State House of Representatives in 1830, and of the
Btate Senate in 1841 and 1842; was a judge of the
iinperior Court of -Massachusetts in 1865; was elected
^ RpretentatlTe from Massachusetts In the Forty-
nurth Congress, as a Democrat, receiving 6,420 votes
against 6,717 votes for Rufus S. Frost, Bepublican
(owing to informalities in the returns, Mi. Frost
obtained the certificate of election; but the House
decided that Mr. Abbott was entitled to the seat, and
he was sworn in July 28, 1836, serving to March 8,
1877); declined a re-nomination to Congress; was a
delegate to the Kational Democratic Convention at
St. Louis in 1876, which nominated Tiiden and Hen-
dricks ; was a member of the Electoral Commission.
Abbott, Nehemiah, was bom at Sidney, Maine,
March 20, 1806; received an academic education:
studied law ; was admitted to the bar, and commenced
practice at Belfast, Maine ; was a member of the State
House of Bepresentatives 1842, 1843; edited "The
Belfast People's Advocate" in 1844, 1845; was elected
a representetive from Maine in the Thirty-fifth Con-
gress, as a Bepublican, receiving 10,562 votes against
8,252 votes for Ingalls, Coalition ; resumed practice at
Belfast, and died there July 26, 1877.
Aberorombie, James, was bom In Hancock
County, Gleorgia; received an academic education;
removed to Montgomery County, Alabama, in 1810;
was a member of the State House of Representatives
1820 and 1822, and of the State Senate 1825, 182&
1827, 1828, 1820, 1830, 1831, 1832, and 1833; removed
to Russell County, and was a member of the State
House of Representatives in 1838 and 1830, and of the
State Senate in 1847, 1848, 1840, and 1850; was elected
a representative from Alabama to the Thirty-second
Congress, as a Union Whig, receiving 7,508 votes
against 6,211 votes for John Cochran, Southern
I^mocrat; and was re-elected to the Thirty-tliird
Congress, as a Union Whig, receiving 7,474 votes
against 6,838 votes for Duiiel Clopton, Southern
Democrat, serving from December 1, 1861, to March
8, 1856 ; was engaged in supplying brick for the Pen-
sacola Navy Yard ; and died in 1860.
Aoker, Ephraim L., was bom in Marlborotigb
Township, Pennsylvania, January, 11, 1827 ; received
a classical education, graduating at Marshall College
September 8, 1847 ; taught school two years, and grad-
uated In medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
in March, 1862; was editor and publisher of "The
Norristown Register;" was superintendent of com-
mon schools f orMontgomery County from June, 1854,
to June, 1860; was appointed postmaster under Presi-
dent Buchanan at Norristown in March, 1860, and
removed by President Lincoln, after serving about
eleven months ; was Inspector of Montgomery-counf
prison three years; was elected a representative frc
Pennsylvania in the Forty-second Congress, as
Democrat, receiving 12,040 votes against 11,072 vo:
for J. H. Oliver, Republican, serving from March
1871, until March 3, 1878.
Acklen, J. Hayes, was bom at Nashville, Te.
nessee. May 20, 1850; was educated partly by privak
tutor at Belle Monte, the country-f»»*- «»» hi« narents,
near Nashville, then at Burlingto' " ->ally
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graduated Buccesslvely at two foreign universities;
returning to the United States, graduated in the Law
Department of Cumberland Univen-ity at Lebanon,
Tennessee; praeliwd law for two years at Nashville,
and Iben for two years at M<'iiipliis, Tennessee; relin-
quished practice to su[X?riiiteii(t bis sugar-plantations
on the Bayou Teche in Louisiana; and was elected a
representative from Louisiana in the Forty-fifth Con-
gress, 88 a conservative Democrat, receiving 15,204
Tot«s against 14,870 votes for Chester B. Darrall, who
contested the seat.
Adair, John, was >x)rn in Chesf^r County, South
Carolina. August 10, 1709; received a public-school
education ; served in the army of the Revolution ;
removed to Kentuclcy in 1787 ; was major of volun-
teers In the expeditions against the Indians under
General Wilkinson in 1701, 170i!, ami lieutenant-colo-
nel under General Charles Scott in 1793; was a
member of the Kentucky Constitutional Convention
of 1799; was elected several years a member of the
Kentucky legislature, serving one year as speaker of
the House; was raster of the United-States land-
office in Kentuclvy; was elected a senator from Ken-
tucky in tiie Ninth Congress, as a Democrat (in the
place of John Breckinridge, resigned), scr\-ing from
December 0, 1S05, until April 21, 1800, when ho re-
signed; was a volunteer aide-de-camp to General
Shelby at the battle of the Thames in 1813; was com-
mander of the Kentucky Ilifio Brigade, wliich served
under General Jjickson in 1814, 1815, and distin-
guished himself at the battle of New Orleans; was
governor of Kentucky 1S20-1824 ; was elected a rep-
resentative from Kentucky in the Twenty-second
Congress, as a Democrat, serving from December 5,
1S31, to March 3, 1833; and died at Uorrodsbutg,
Kentucky, May 10, 1840.
Adams, Andrew, was born at Stratford, Con-
necticut, .lauiiary, 17.'!0; received a classical educa-
tion, graduating at Yale College in 1700; studied
law; was admitted to the bar, and commenced prac-
tice at Stamford, but removed in 1704 to Litchtieid;
was a member of the State legislature in 1770-1781;
was a delegate from Connecticut to the Continental
Congress in 1777-1780, and in 1781, 1782; was a mem-
ber of the executive couucii of Connecticut in 1781 ;
was appointed a justice of the Supreme Court of
Connecticut in 1789, and chief justice in 1793; died
at LitchQeld, Connecticut, November 26, 1797.
Adams, Benjamin, w.« l>orn at Worcester,
Massachusetts, in 1705; received a classical educa-
tion, graduating at Brown University in 1788; stud-
ied law; was aldmitted to the bar, and practised at
Uxbridge; was a raeml)er of the State IIousc of Rep-
resentatives In 1809-1814, and of tlio State St^nate in
1814, 1616, and In 1822-182oj was elcctt-d a repre-
sentative from Massachusetts m Iho Fourtccuth Con-
, as a Federalist (to till the vacancy occisioned
by the doatli of Eli jail BrigUam); was re-elected to the
Illtecnth Congress ; was re-elected to the Sixteenth
Congress, seriing from Dccemlier2, 1810, until March
3, 1821; was defeated as the Federal candidate for
the Seventeenth Congress by Jonalban Russell; was
defeated as the Federal candidate for the £ight4>cnCli
Congress by James Sibley, Democrat; died at Ux-
bridge, Massachusetts, Marcli 28, ISn.
Adams, Charles Francis (grandson of John
Adams, and son of John Quincy Adams), was bom
at Boston, August 18, 18'J7; received a classical educa-
tion in Europe; studied law under Daniel Webster,
and was odnuttcd to the l)ar in 1828. but uever prac-
tised ; was a member of the Stale House of Rcpre-
senUtives in 1831-1834, and of the State Senate in
1835-1837; edited "The Boston Whig" In 184.5-1848;
was nominated by the Free-soil party in 1848 for
Vice-President; was elected a representative from
Miuisacliusctts in the Tliirty-sixth Congress, as a Re-
publican (from tlie district formerly represented by
his father), receiving 0,524 votes against 3,880 votes
for Austin, Democrat, and 1,402 votes for Cobb,
American; and was re-elected to the Thirty-seventh
Congress, as a Republican, recelTing ]O,6S0
against 7,449 votes for L. Saltonstall, Demncrat, bai
only served from Decemlier 5, IKJli, until Mimh g,
1801; was appointed minister to On- 1 ^!irfli
20, 1801, and scncd until May 13, I ^
an overseer of Harvard College in 1m.-. .>.^> .i. i..,it<l
in 1S70 as the Democratic candidate for gdVcnmriif
Massiichusetts. He contributed numenws articlw lu
"The North-American Review" and other [wrindl-
cals, and edited the published works of John Adiai,
Mrs. John Adams, and John Quincy Adams.
Adams, Charles H., was born in Coxaackie,
Now York, in 1824; received an academic education;
studied and practised law; removed to Coho« in
1850, and engaged in manufacturing pursuits; ivtind
from active business in 1870; was chosen in VSt
president of the Board of Water Commissioncn of
Cohoes, having previously sen-ed as a trustee of the
village; and was elected in 1870 the fint mayor «(
the then city of Cohoos, sening two yean: nu i
member of the State Assembly in 1858. and of Ol»
State iSenate in 1872-1873; was a delegate to fl»
National Republican Convention in 1H72; ira» ap-
pointed United-States commissioner from New York
to the Vienna Exposition in 1873; was eleclcd a rep-
resentative from New York in the Forfy-foartli Cnn-
gress, as a Republican, receiving 12,f!2t) votes a^iut
9,003 votes for T. J. Quinn, Democrat, and I),11B
vot«?8 for Eli Perry, Independent Democrat.
Adams, Gteorge M., was bom in Knox Cnaity,
Kentucky, Deceml)er 20, 1837; was educated at Centre
College, D.anviUe, Kentucky; studied law; wa» flat
of the Circuit Court of Knox County from ISM to
ISOl ; ho raised a company in August, 1801, ud en-
tered the Union army as captain in the Seventli Keft-
tucky Volunteers; in August, 1801, he was sppointtd
paymaster of volunteers, and served in that capteity
until the close of the w.ir; was elected a represents-
tive from Kentucky in the Fortieth Congivsj. «i i
Democrat, recelvlnB 7,090 votes against 7,175 vow
for M. D. Rice, Radical ; w.-vs re-elected to the Fo^
first Congress, receiving 10,32.3 votes against ftwl
votes for Barnes, Republican ; was re-elected to ft*
Forty-second Congress, receiving 12,220 votes igiinrt
12,208 votes for J. H. Fiulev,^ Republican. serrinT
from March 4, 1867, to March 3, 1875; was r<MlecK«
to the Forty-third Congress, as a Democrat, rweldof
0,684 votes against 8,100 votes for Wood, Bci«l«»-
can; was elected clerk of the House of Bepreia»l*'
lives in the Forty-fourth Congress, as a ifcnioai^
defeating Edward McPherson, Republican; swl »•
ganlzed the House as clerk at the commenceno'
of the first session of the Forty-fifth Congress.
Adams, (Jreen, was boni at Barboursvillc, KM-
tucky, August 20, 1812; received a public-school with
cation; studied haw; was admitted to the bar, uw
practised; was deputy-sheriff of Knox County m
18.32, 1*53; was a member of the State legislatnrt
of Kentucky In 18.39; was elected a representiti'*
from Kentucky in the Thirtieth Congress, as affJuSi
sening from December 0, 1847, to March .3, 18tf j *••
a presidential elector in 1!S44 and IS-'jO; w»» JW
of the (Circuit Court of Kentuck-y lS51-lS!fl; J"
again elected to the Thirty-sixth Congress, »» * ?«
tional American, receiving 8,104 votes agaiitft 7i**
votes for Garrard, Demfwrat, ser\'ing from Deceo'*
5, 1859, to March 3, 1861 ; was sixtli auditor otW
treasury from April 17, 1801, to October 20. l'*''
was appointed cliief clerk of the House of B*!**"
scntatives in the Forty-fourth Congress.
Adams, John (father of John Quincy >«•»*
and grandfather of Charles Francis Aihm'l. "'"
bom at Braintree, now Quincy, Mas^
berSO, 17i'); received a classical edu.
uated at Harvard College in 17.Vi;
Latin and Greek at Worcester; sluili
mitted to the bar, and commenced pr i-
removed to Boston in 1708; was a nn-n
General Court in 1770, and of the Proviui ;
In 1773, 1774; was a delegate to the Contin.'iu." ' —
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STATISTICAL SKETCHES.
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gi«S8 from Massachusetts 1774-177t; was appointed
comtaissioner to France, November 28, 1777, but
deemed it best, after his arrival at Paris, to resign
and return; was a member of the Massachusetts
Coast! tatlonal Convention of 1770; was appointed.
In September, 1779, minister plenipotentiary to ne-
gotiate a treaty of peace with Great Britain; nego-
tiated a treaty of commerce with the Netherlands in
1T82, acGomi»nied by a loan, and performed other
diplomatic services; recalled in 1788, be was again
appointed a delegate to Congress, but did not serve,
as he was elected Vice-President of the United States,
as a Federalist, defeating John Jay and others; and
was re-elected in 1793, defeating George Clinton;
in 1797 he was elected the second President of the
United States, as a Federalist, receiving 71 electoral
votes a^nst 68 votes for Thomas JeSerson, Demo-
crat; was a candidate for re-election, but only re-
ceived 66 of the 128 electoral votes cast, and Thomas
Jefferson, who received 73, was subsequently elected
by the Hoose of Bepresentatives; he retired to
Qoincy, where he died July 4, 1826. His autobiog-
rafAy and other works have been edited and pub-
lished by his grandson, Charles Francis Adams.
Adams, John, was bom at Durham, Greene
County, New York, August 26, 1808; received an
academic education; studied law, and practised at
CatstdU, Kew York; was surrogate of Greene County
1810-1811; was a member of the State House of
Bepresentatives 1813-1813; was a Democratic candi-
date from the State of New York for the Fourteenth
Congress, and was returned as elected, but did not
take his seat, and a committee of the House decided
that bis competitor, Erastus Boot, had been legally
elected, 676 of his votes having been thrown out by
the erroneous copying of a deputy county clerk; was
elected a representative from New York in the
Twenty-third Congress, as a Jackson Democrat, serv-
ing from December 2, 1833, to March 3, 1835; and
died at CatsHU, New York, September 28, 1854.
Adama, John Qiiinoy (son of John Adams,
and father of Charles Francis Adams), was bom at
Braintroe, Massachusetts, July 11, 1767; received a
classical education abroad and at home, graduating
at Harvard College in 1787 ; studied law at Newbury-
port with Theophilus Parsons; was admitted to the
W, and commenced practice in Boston: was minis-
ter to the Netherlands from May 30, 1794, until June
21), 1707, and to Prussia from July, VIVJ, xaxtil April
28, 1801; resumed practice at Boston; was elected to
the State Senate of Massachusetts in 1802 on the
Federal ticket; was the Federal candidate for repre-
sentative in Congress in 1802, and was defeated by
William Eustis, Itemocrat; was elected to the United-
States Senate, as a Federalist, defeating Thomas J.
Skinner, the Democratic candidate, serving from Oc-
tober 17, 1803, until he was defeated for re-election,
sod resigned June 8, 1806; was professor of rheto-
ric at Harvard Coll^ 1806-1809; was minister to
RoMla 1809-1814; was appointed judge of the Su-
preme Court In 1811, but declined; was on the com-
iniasion which negotiated the Treaty of Ghent in
181} ; was minister to Bussia 1815-1817; was secre-
tary of state under President Monroe 1817-1826;
was inaugurated sixth President of the United
States, March 4, 1826; was an unsuccessful candi-
date for governor in 1834; was elected United-States
lenator 1^ the House in 1836, but the Senate refused
to concur; was elected a representative from Massar
chusetts in the Twenty-second Congress, as a Whig,
tod was sncceasively re-elected eight times, receiving
It Us hut election 6,766 votes against 2,617 for
Wright, Democrat, and 980 scattering, and serving
from December 6, 1831, until he was stricken by
death in the Capitol, Febraary 23, 1848.
Adams, Parmenio, was bom at Hartford, Con-
necticut; received a public-school education ; removed
to Genesee County, New York; served in the war
gainst Great Brit^ as paymaster of Dobbins's New-
Torfc Volunteers; was elected a representative from
New York in the Eighteenth Congress, as an Adams
man, receiving 2,077 votes against 2,871 votes for
Isaac Wilson, Democrat, who obtained the seat
through incorrect returns, but the House gave it to
Adams; he was re-elected to the Nineteenth Con-
gress, serving from January 7, 1824, until March 3,
1827.
Adams, Bobert H., was bom in Bockbridge
County, Virginia, in 1792; received a classical educa-
tion, graduating at Washington College, Lexington:
studied law; was admitted to the bar; commenced
practice at KnoxviUe, Tennessee, and removed to
Natchez, Mississippi, in 1819; was a member of the
State House of Biepresentatives in 1828; was elected
to the United-States Senate to fill the vacancy occa-
sioned by the death of Thomas B. Beed, serving from
Febmary 8, 1830, untU May 81, 1830; and died at
Natchez, Mississippi, July 2, 1830, from drinking too
freely of Ice-water when heated.
Adams, SamueL was bom at Boston, Massa-
chusetts, September, ZJ, 1722; received a liberal edu-
cation; graduated at Harvard College in 1740, and
studied theology; was appointed tax-collector of Bos-
ton ; was a member of the General Court of Massa-
chusetts 1765-1774; was a delegate from Massachu-
setts to the Continental Congress from September 6,
1774, to 1781; was a member of the Massachusetts
Constitutional Convention in 1779; was a member
of the State Senate, and its president in 1781 ; was a
member of the State Convention which adopted the
Federal Constitution in 1788; 1789-1794 was elected
lieutenant-governor of Massachusetts as a Democrat,
and governor in 1794-1797 ; was defeated as the Dem-
ocratic candidate for representative from Boston la
the First Congress by Fisher Ames, Federalist; and
died at Boston, October 2, 1803.
Adams, Stephen, was bom in Franklin Coun-
ty, Teimessee; received a public-school education;
was a member of the State Senate of Tennessee;
studied law; was admitted to the bar, and removed
to Mississippi, where he commenced practice; was a
member of the State House of Bepresentatives; was
elected a representative from Mississippi in the
Twenty-ninth Congress, as a Democrat, serving from
December 1, 1846, to March 3, 1847; was elected
judge of the Circuit Court in 1848; was c)|osen a
United-States senator from Mississippi, as a State-
rights Democrat (in place of Jefierson Davis, re-
signed), serving from March 17, 1852, until March 3,
1^7; removed to Memphis, Tennessee, to resume
practice; and died there, of small-pox. May 11, 1857.
Adams, Thomas, was bom In Virginia, and
was a delegate from that State to the Continental
Congress, servingfrom 1778 to 1780.
Addams, vVilliam, was bom in Lancaster
County, Pennsylvania, September 4, 1776; settled in
Berks County, Pennsylvania, where he served as
auditor in 1813, 1814, and as county commissioner
1814-1817; was a member of the State House of Bep-
resentatives 1822-1824; was elected a representative
from Pennsylvania in the Nineteenth Congress, and
was re-elected to the Twentieth Congress, serving
from December 6, 1825, to March 3, 1829; was asso-
ciate judge of Berks County 1839-1842; and died
Mav 19, 1868.
Adgpate, Asa, was a native of the State of New
York; was a member of the State House of Bepre-
sentatives in 1798, 1799: was elected a representative
from New York in the Fourteenth Congress (In the
place of Benjamin Pond, who had died before taW
his seat), serving froml><ecember4, 1816, until V
3, 1817; was again a member of the State Hot
Bepresentatives in 1823; and died at Clinton,
York.
Adrain, Gtamett B., was bom at New
City, December 20, 1816; received a classical €
tion, graduating at Butgets College In 1833; stt
law ; was admitted to the bar in 1837, and commeu
practice at New Branswick, N ■« electt
a representative from New " -t,y-ftfth
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COMGBBSSIONAL DEBECTOEY.
Congress, as a Democrat, reccivini; 10,781 votes
against 0,7*18 votes for Bishop, Fusion candidate;
wos re-elected to the Thirty-sixth Congress as an
anti-Lecompton Democrat, supjKirted by tlie oppo-
sition, recei\in{j 0,713 votes against 0,2o.5 votes for
Putcrson, Deniocrtit ; resumed the practice of law.
Ahl, John A., was boni at Strasbnrg, Pcnnsyl-
Tania, August li, 1S15; received a thorough English
education; studied medicine with his father; f^^u-
ated at the Washington Medical College of Baltimore,
and practised until 1850, when ho became a manu-
facturer ; was elected a representative from Pennsyl-
vania in the Thirty-fifth Congress, as a Democrat,
receiving 11,101 votes against 8,070 votes for Todd,
Union.
Aiken, D. Wyatt, was bom at Winnsborough,
South Carolina, March 17, 1828; received a classical
education ut Mount Zion Institute, Winnsborough,
and graduated from the South-Carolina College in
1840; taught school two years: settled upon a farm in
1852, and has since devoted himself to agriculture ;
entered the Confederate service as a private in 1801 ;
yras appointed adjutant of the Seventh South-Caro-
lina Volunteers, and was elected colonel when the
regiment was re-organlzed at the expiration of its
term of service, serving until forced to retire by rea-
son of wounds received at the battle of jVntictam;
was elected to the State legislature in liHU and 1800 ;
was master of the State Grange of Patrons of Hus-
bandry for two years, ond a member of the Kxecu-
tlve Committee of the National Grange for six years;
■was a delegate to the National Democratic Conven-
tion at St. Louis in 1870; and was elecR-d a repre-
sentative from South Carolina in the Fr)rty-fifth Con-
gress, as a Democrat, receiving 21,470 votes against
lb,!}^k\ votes for L. Cass Carpenter, Kcpublican.
Aiken, "Williani, wos bom at Charleston, South
Carolina, in 18'Xl; received a classical education,
graduating at the South-Carolina College in 1825;
cultivated a large rice-plantation: was a member of
the St.ito legislature in l*i«, 184<l, and 1812; was
governor of South Carolina 1844-1840; was elected
a representative from South Carolina to the Tliirty-
.Becond Congress, as a Southern-rights Demnrr.il,
'without opposition; was ro-elected to the Tliirty-tUird
[ Ct>ngre8S without opi)ositii)n, and to the Forty-fourth
ICongrcss without opposition, receiving the votes of
The Democrats and the National ^Vinericans In the
last ballotings, which resulted in the election of N. P.
Banks as sixjaker of (he Thirty-fnurtli Congress, and
serving from December 1, ISji. until March .3, 1807;
was again elected to the Thirty-ninth Congress, re-
ceiving 7<'J3 votes againftt 090 votes for Stephen Kllint,
422 votes for William Whaley, and 70 votes for L.
M. Ayer; presented his credentials February 12,
1807. I)ut w,a9 not ailmittod to a seat,
Ainsworth, Lucien Lester, was bom at
New Woodstock, Now York, June 21, 18;31; was
e<lucated at public schools and at Oneida Conference
Seminary, Cazenovia, New York; studied law; was
admitted to the bar in Madison County, New York,
in 181)4; removed to Iowa in 18.5.';, and commenced
practice at West Union; was a member of the State
Senate of Iowa 1800-1802; entered the Union army
In the fall of 1802 as captain in the Sixth Iowa Cav-
alry, and ser^'ed for three years against the Indians
at the North-West; at the expiration of his term of
service returned to West Union, and resumed prac-
tice; was a member of the Stjite House of RJ?pre-
sentativcs of Iowa in 1872 and 1S7:J; was elect<;d a
representative from Iowa in the Forty-fourth Con-
gress as an Anti-Monopolist, receiving 11,000 votes
against ll.fMI'i votes for C. T. Granger, ICepublican.
Akers, Thomas Peter, was elected a repre-
sentative from Missouri in the Thirty-fourth Con-
press, as a Notional American (to fill the vacancy
occ.Tsinnod by the death of J. G. Miller), serving
from Aii:,'iiBt"lH. 1K.">(;. to March ,'J, 1857.
Albert, William Julian, was bom at Balti-
moru, Maryland, August 4, 181(5; was- educated at
Mount Saint Mary's College, Maryland; vast own
chant, but retired from busiiief.? in lisaj; wupnsi-
dent of the Electoral Collfj;e of Mar)la:iJ loiwi,
which voted for Abraham Lincoln for re-electius u
President; was one of the founders of tiie ITm
National Bank of Maryland, and a director in it,
besides being director in insuxance-compaaies, mt-
ings-bonks, and manufacturing-c'" •■'•"■■: : mi
elected a representative from Mary I ; > r ,rtj.
third Congress, as a Republican, rec< - j v old
against 10,300 votes for Merrick, Deuiocral, Mrviug
from December, 1873, to March 3, 1875.
Albertson, Nathaniel, w.is bora in Virgliiii;
removed to Indiana, and located at Greenville; wai
elected a representative from Indiana to the Tbirty-
flrst Congress, us a Democrat, receiviog 8,271 voUi
against 7,608 votes for Emhree, Whig, and siffriiig
from December 3. l.S4!», to March 3, 1851.
Albright, Charles, was born in Berks Conntjt,
Pennsylvania. December 13. 1S30; was educated it
Dickinson College; studied law at Ebcnsliur^. Penn-
sylvania, and was admitted to the bar in lUii; ia
1854 went to Kansas, and participated iu tk^tarlf
struggles of the Territory lor freedf>ni ; In IS'ii) re-
turned to PeunBylvania, and resumed thv prattiw
of law at Mauch Chunk, where he has since residud:
iu VMH) he was a delegate to the liepublican Nalicmal
Convention; entered the army in 1802 as niijar
of the One Iliindred and Tliirty-second Begiaml
Pennsylvania Volunteers; after the battle of A^ti^
tom, was made lieutenant-c<j|onel ; on Febnurx SS,
IWW, was commissioned colonel, commanding the
tliinl brigade, third division, Second Army Coijn,
until after the battle of Chancellorsville: in Scplun-
ber, IStM, was commissioned colonel of the Two Hun-
dred and Second Regiment Pennsylvania Toluntetn;
iu March, 1805, was promoted to brevet hricadier-
general of volunteers; after the surrender of Itici-
mond, was sent to pacify the tumults iu I be mining
regions; in August, Lslo, he was mustered out ot
service, and resumed business at MauoU Chuni; in
1872 was a delegate to the iCcpublican National CoB-
venlion at Philadelphia; w^as elected to the Forty-
third Congress as one of the thnic ctingrcssnica B
large from Pennsylvania, as a Hepublican, recfitinj
:J0O,574 votes against 314,03)1 votes for Richard Vanx,
Democrat, and serving frun) December 1, 1853, to
March 3, 1S75.
Albright, Charles J., was bom hi PcumtI-
vania; removed to Ohio; was elected u repn'Miil*
live from Ohio iu the Thirty-fourth Comn^* •••
Itepublic.in, receiving 8,3^12 votes ai^ainst i:.(il7 W*
for Wire. Democrat, and serving from Decemtwli
1865, to March 3, 18.57.
Aloom, James Lusk, was bom JforwiMfi
1810, near Golcomla, Illinois; was reared In LinJf-
ston County, Kentucky, and educated at Cumli*-
land College in that State; was appointed dtputr-
slierilT of Livingston County, and held the office to
five years; in 1843 was elected as a Wliig lo the l<¥»-
lature of Kentucky; removed in 1844 to CoahoB*
County, Mississippi, and entered upon the pnctw
of law ; between 1840 and 1805 he scncil slst"*"
years in the legislature of that State, soraetini'* "'
the HouBe, sometimes in the Senate; in ll>5il""*'
chosen elector at large on the Scott tiekoi; no""-
naled by the Whips in 1867 for governor, he o*-
dined; running in that year as the Viliic camli'lw'
for Congress in his district (one largely Deiiiof""''-
he was lieaton by L. Q. C. Lamar; having l**" '?*
founder of the inev system in bis Stale, 'n ' , ,?*
was chosen president of the Levee Boani "'. j!
Mississippi-Yazoo Delta; he was elected to the Ss'*"
Conventifm of 1851, ond again to that of IStHi "'°
latter body electing him a brigadier-gencrsli Ij"'
when his brigade entered the Confederate Kri'j
JolTcrson Davis refused, owing to some'"'' •-■I'l"
dilfcreiices, to commission him as its <
in 1805 he was elected to the Senate ot
i
states, but was nut allowed tu take lUs suut; iA i^
.'-".^
8TATI8XI0AL SKBTOHXS.
256
h« waa elected on the BepnbUcan ticket governor
of Miasissippi, and was Inaugurated in Haivh, 1870;
elected to the Senate of the United States, he re-
signed the office of goTemor the 30th of Kovember,
1^1, and took his seat in the Senate on December 4,
1871 ; In 1873 he ran as Independent candidate for
goremor, and was defeated.
Aldiioh, Cyrus, was bom at Smitlifleld, Bhode
Island, Jane 7, 1806; reoelyed a pablio-school educa-
tion; made sererai ooaating-yoyages as a sailor; re-
moved to BUnois, and became an extensive mail-
contractor ; was a member of the State House of Bep-
resentatives in 1846, 1846: was i^pster of deeds In
Jo Daviess County lit 1847; was appointed by Presi-
dent Taylor receiver of the land-office at Dixon
In iS40; was the Whig candidate in Northern Illi-
aols for the Tliirty-Beoond Congress, and was de-
feated by John Wentworth, Democrat; removed In
18M to Minneapolis, Minnesota ; was a member of the
State Constitutional Convention of Minnesota in
18S7: was defeated in a contest for the Bepnbllcan
nomination for the Thirty-fifth Congress; was elected
a representative from Minnesota in the Thir^-sizth
Oongreas, as a Bepablican; and was re-elected to the
Thirty-seventb Congress, serving from December 6,
use, to March 8, 1861 ; was an unsuccessfal candi-
date (or the TTnlted-States Senate in 1863; was a
member of the legislature of Minnesota in 18i94; was
Mpointed postmaster at Minneapolis by President
Johnson in March, 1867; and died at Minneapolis,
MinneaqbL of dropsy, October 6, 1871.
Aldridtt, Wuliam. waa bom at Greenfield,
Saratoga County, Xew York, in January, 1820; re-
ceived a oonunon-setuwl education, witb one term
of private instruction in liigher mathematics and
iorreying, and one term at an academy; was reared
on a ffum, and taught school until twenty-six years
of age, whian he engaged in mercantile pursuits ; re-
moved to Wisconsin In 18S1, and manufactured lum-
ber, wooden-ware, and furniture, in connection with
merchandising; was for three years superintendent
of scliools, one year chairman of the Conn^ Board
«( Supervisors, and represented a part of Manitowoc
Coonty in the legislature of Wisconsin in 18&0; re-
moTed to Chicago, Illinois, in 1861, and established
himseif as a wholesale grocer: was elected alderman
from the Third Ward of Chicago in 1876; and was
elected a representative from lUlnois in the Forty-
fifth Congress, as a Bepablican, receivingl6,678 votes
■gainst 14,101 votes for John R Hoxie, Democrat.
Alexander, Adam B., was bom in Washing-
ton County, Yliginia; received an academic educa-
tion: studied law; was admitted to the bar; removed
to Uadison Coon^, Tennessee; was elected a repre-
■entaUve from Tennessee to the Eighteenth Con-
gress; was re-elected to the Kineteenth Congress,
serring from December 1, 1823, to March 8, 1827; and
died at Jackson, Tennessee.
Alexander, Bvao, was bom in Korth Caro-
Una; received a classical education, graduating at
Princeton College In 1787; was a member of the
State legislatare for two years; was elected a repre-
sentative from Iforth Carolina in the Kinth Congress
(to fill a vacancy canaed by the resignation of Ka-
tiuukiel Alexander, ifho had been elected govern-
or) soainst Bobert Locke; and waa re-elected to the
Teath Congress, serving from February, 1806, to
March 8» MOO; Aed saddenly October 28, 1800.
Alesaader, Henry P., was bora in Kew York
in 1803; received a publio-sciiool education; engaged
In mercantile pursuita at Little Falls, Herkimer
County; was the Whig candidate for the Thirtieth
Congress, and was dSeated, receiving 6,047 votes
agalnat 6,686 votes for Buell^Democrat; waa elected
* representative from Xew York in the Tliirty-flrst
Congress, receiving 6, 100 votes against B,564 for Neiiis,
Piee^oii Democrat, and 1,204 votes for Samous, Dem-
ocrat, serving from December 8, 1849, to March 1,
I851^uid died at LitUe Falls, New York, February
Alexander, Jamee, Jun., was bom in Mary-
land; received a public-school education; removed to
St. Claiisville, Belmont County, Ohio; was elected a
representative from Ohio in the Twenty-fifth Con-
gress, as a Whig, defeating Kennon, Van Buien Dem-
ocrat, and serving from September 4, 1837, to March
3, 1830; and died at St. CialrsviUe, August 6, 1846.
Alexander, John, was bom at SpartaubuiK,
South Carolina, where the family was called Eichi-
nor; received a public-school education; removed to
Ohio, where he oecame known- in politics as "the
Buffalo of the West;" waa elected a representative
from Ohio in the Thirteenth, and was re-elected to
the Fourteenth Congress, as a Democrat, serving
from May 24, 1813, to March 3, 1817.
Alexander, Mark, was bom in Mechlenburg
Countv, Vir^nia; received a liberal education; held
several locu offices; was elected a representative
from Virginia in the Sixteenth Congress, as a Dem-
ocrat; and was successively re-elected to the Seven-
teenth, Eighteenth, Nineteenth, Twentieth, Twenty-
first, and Twenty-second Congress, without opposi-
tion, serving from December 6, 1819, to March 3,
1833.
Alexander. Nathaniel, waa bom In Mechlen-
burg Coimty, North Carolina, March 6, 1750; re-
ceived a classical education, graduating at Princeton
College in 1776; studied medicine and surgery, and
entered the Bevolutionary army as surgeon; after
the establishment of independence, he practised his
profession at the High Hills of Santee; was for sev-
eral years a member of the l^islaturo; waa elected
a representative from North Carolina in the Eighth
Congress, serving from October 17, 1803, to March 3.
1806 ; was governor of North Carolina 1805-1807 ; and
died at SaUsbury, North CaroUna, March 8, 1808.
Alexander, Robert, was a native of Baltimore;
was chosen a member of the People's Committee,
November 12, 1774; waa choaen a member of the
Provincial Convention of Maryland in 1775; waa
elected a deputy from Maryland to the Continental
Congress, December 9, 1776; and re-elected July 4,
1776; but, soon after the promulgation of the Decla-
ration of Independence, he, with other Baltimore
loyalists, left for England.
Alford, Julius C, was bom in Georgia; re-
ceived an academical education; studied law; was
admitted to the bar, and commenced practice at La
Grange, Georgia; was elected a representative from
Georgia In tm Twenty-fourth Congress, aa a State-
righta Whig, to fill a vacancy occaaioned by the
reaignation of George W. B. Towna, aerving from
January 81, 1837, to March 3, 1837; waa defeated as
the Statfrdghts Whig candidate for the Twenty-fifth
Confess, receiving ^806 votes against 29,600 votes
for George W. B. Towns, TTnion Democrat; was
again elected to the Twenty-sixth Congress, receiving
82,333 votes against 31,190 votea for Joaiah S. Patter-
son, Union Democrat; was re-elected to the Twenty-
seventh Congress, aa a Harrison Whig, receiving 30,-
276 votes as a Harrison Whig against 36,362 votes
for Bobot W. Pooler, Democrat, and serving from
December 2, 1830, to March 3, 1843.
Allan, Chilton, was bom in Albemarle County,
Virginia, April 6, 1786; received a pubUc-school edu-
cation; learned the wheelwright's trade; removed to
Kentucky, where he read law after his work, and
was in time admitted to the bar; was elected to the
State legislature in 1811, and several succeaalve years;
was elected a repreaentative from Kentucky in the
Twenty-second Congreaa, as a Clay Democrat; re-
elected to the Twenty-third Congreaa without oppo-
sition : and re-elected to the Twenty-fourth Congress.
receiving2,883 TOtea against 2,570 votea for Bichard
HaweaTwhlg, serving from December 6, 1831, to
March S. 1837; was elected president of the State
Board oi Internal Improvement in 1838; was again
elected to the State House of Bepresentativea in 1842 ;
and died at Winchester, Kentucky, September 8,
185&
J
256
CONGBESSIONAL DIBECTOEY.
Allen, Andrew, was bom at Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, in 1740; reoi'iveil a classical education;
Btuilieil law with his father, Chief Justice WtiUoin
Allen; was admitted to the bar, and practised at
Philadelphia; was appointed attorney-general In
1760; was a memlx;r of the Philadelphia Coinmlttco
of Safety; is said by several biographers to have
served In the Continental Congress in 1775-1T70, but.
no mention of such service is to be found in the
printed jounLiI of that body; renewed his allegiance
to Great Britain in 1 1 <0, and went to London ; was
attainted, and Iiis landed estate was forfeited under
the Confiscation Art; died at London, March 7, 1825.
Allen, Augustus F., was bom in 1810; was
elected a representative from New York in the Forty-
fourth Congress, as a Republican, but died at James-
town, Now Tork, January 22, 1870, before ho took
his seal..
Allen, Charles, was bom at Worcester, Massa-
chusetts, August fi, 1707; studied law; was admitted
to the bar in 1818; commenced practice at New
Braintree, but soon after removed to Worcester, and
became a partner of Jolm Davis; was amemberof the
State nousc of Beprcscntatives in 1820, 1833, 1834,
1838, and IWO, and State senator in 1815, 1838, 1830;
was a member of the North-ensfem Boundary Commis-
sion in 1842; was judge of the Court of Common
Pleas in 1842-1844; was nominated judge of the State
Supremo Court in 1847, but declined; was elected a
TCprescntatiTe from Massachusetta in the Thirty-first
Congress, as a Freo-SoUer, on the second trial, de-
feating Charles IIutlBon, Whig, and J. Da\i9, Demo-
crat; was re-elected to the Thirty-second Congress
on the second trial, defeating J. M. Barton, Whig,
and J. S. C. Knowllon, Democrat, serving from De-
cember 3, 1840, until March 1, 1853; was a member
of the State Cmistilutional Convention of 1863; was
chief justice of the .Suffolk Superior Court 1858-1800;
was chief justice of the Superior Court 1860-1867;
was a delegate to the Peace Congress of 1861; and
died of paralysis at Worcester, Massachusetts, Au-
gust 0, lH(iO.
Allen, Elisha H., was bom at New Salem,
Miissachiisetts, Jnnttary 28, 1804; received a llljcral
e<lu('ation ; studied law ; was admitted to the bar, and
commenced practice at Bangor; was a member of
the State House of IJcpresentatives in 1830-1841, serv-
ing in 1838 as speaker; was elected a representative
team Maine in the Twenty-seventh Congress, as a
Whig, receiving 500 majority, and s<'r\-ing from May
81, 1841, to March 3, 1843; was a Whig candidate for
re-election, but was defeated by Ilannibal Ilamlin,
Democrat; was again elected to the St-ate IIousc of
KepresenLitives in 1840; removed to Boston in 1847,
and practised law ; wos a member of the Massachu-
setts House of Representatives in 1842; was appointed
consul at Honolulu; and has since been pnmiinently
connected with the government of the Hawaiian
Islands, as chief justiee, chancellor, and regent, and
as envoy to the United States in 1800, 1804, 1870, and
1876.
Allen, Heman, was bom at MUton, Vermont,
in 1770; received an academic education; studied
law; was admitted to the bar, and practised at Mil-
ton; was elected a representative from Vermont in
the Twenty-second Congress, as a Whig; was re-
elected to ihe Twenty-third Congress by 711 major-
ity; and was re-elected to the Twenty-fourth Congress
on the second trial, receiving 2,382 vot<?s against 1,725
votes for Van Ness, Democrat, and 1,380 votes for
the anti-Masonic candidate, serving from Juno 23,
1832, to March 3, 18:30: was a Whig candidate for
re-election, but was defeated on the second trial by
John Smith, Democrat; removed to Burlington, Ver-
mont, where he died December 11, 1844.
Allen, Heman, was bom at Poultney, Vermont,
February 23, 1770; received a classical education,
graduating at Dartmouth College in 1705; studied
lav; was admitted to the bar, and commenced prac-
tice at Colchester; was sheriil of Chittenden County
in 1806-1800, and chief justice -» •' •— t coart i
18U-1814; was s member of II : \'*-p-
resentatives 1812-1817; was at r: Tstj
of Vermont; was elected a ropretieAUUre from \a-
mont in the Fifteenth Congress, bat resigned irka
appointed by President Monroe United-States minhll J
for the district of Vermont, serving from Oeceabtr]
1, 1817, until August 1, 1818; was appointed mislMr'
plenipotentiary to Cliili January 27, 1823, and semd
until July 81, 1827 j was president of the Bm'U
branch of the United-States Bank from 18~^
the expiration of Its charter: removed to H
Vermont, and died there, of heart-disease, .
1852.
Allen, James C, was bom in Shelby Coast;, ^
Kentucky, January 28, 1823; received a public
education; studied law; was admitted to the 1
Indiana in 1843, and commenced practice: win"
prosecuting attorney for the Seventh Judicial Di»-
trict of Indiana ll^l&-184S; removed to QUiiQit;
was a member of the State House of BetireMat»
tivcs 1850-1851; was elected a representative bm
Illinois in the Thirty-third Congress, as a Demooit,
receiving 8,223 votes against 7,0.35 votes for ConstaUei
Wiiig, serving from December 5, 185.3, tintU Muck
3, 1855; was the Democratic candidate for the Thirty-
fourth Congress against Archer, Whig, and cUlnwd
to have received 8,452 votes against 8,451 for Aiciur,
but the House declared the seat vacant; was iuti»
(]ucntly elected, and took his seat December 1, HU,
serving until March 3, 1857; was chosen clerk of th*
House of Kepresenfativcs for the Thirty-fifth Con-
grcss, receiving 128 votes against 85 votes for B,
(iratz Brown, and 0 scattering; and was again ckclel
to the Thirty-eighth Congress as representalin rtj
large, receiving 130,000 votes against 110,701 votei£
Ingersoll, Republican.
Allen, John, was bom at Great
Massachusetts; in 1703, received a dasaical
tion; studied law; was admitted to the bar, and Nfrl
menced practice at Litchfield, Connecticut; wiai
member of the Council of Connecticut for jewnl /
years; was elected a representative from ConnMticnt |
in the Fiflh Congress, as a Federalist, servins inffl
May 15, 1707, to March 3, 1700 ; and died at Litchfi*
Connecticut, July 31, 1812.
Allen, John J., was l)om in Virginia; wceW
a classical education; studied law; was odmittdl U
the bar, and commenced practice in Harrison ConnRi
was elected a representative from Virginia in Iw
Twentv-third Congress, serving from Decembtf^
1833, to March 3, 1855; was chief justice of tta Su-
premo Court of Virginia.
Allen, John W. (son of John Allen), wa» b""}
at Litclifleld, Connecticut, in 1802; receivoU a li'«w
education; removed to Cleveland, Ohio, in 1**!
was a memltcr of the State Senate 1835-1S.7; "J
elected a representative from Ohio in the Thirtr-uW'
Congress, as a Whig, and re-elected to the TWrtT-
sixth Congress, serving from September 4, ISH, w
March 3, 1841.
Allen, Joseph, was bom at Boston, Septan'*
2, 1740; received a classical educotion, gnulns'i''? "
Harvard College in 1774 ; engaged in mercantile pnr-
suits at Leicester, Massachusetts ; was on »cl"«
Whig; removed to Worcester In 1770, bavins; ««
chosen clerk of the court, wliich office he held nniu
1810; was a member of the SUte ConstituUenu wjj
venlion 1778; was a presidential elector in 171)7; ™
elected a representative from Massachnsetu In f"
Eleventh Congress (in the place of Jabez Ppn«^
resigned), serving from December 11, ISIO. "nw
March 3, 1811 ; was a State councUlor 1815, 1S18; W
died at Worcester, September 2, 1827,
Allen, Judson, was bom In Connectkol! ^
celvtHl a public-school education; removed to oK"
pcrsvillc. Brown County, New York; was »,5?'?J
of the State House of llepresentatives in '^''^
elected a representative from New York la t«"
Twenty-sixth Congress, as a Democrat, nCBn""
STATISTICAL SKBTCHBS.
25T
6,073 -votes against 4,284 votes for Srastas Boot,
WhiK.
Allen, Nathaniel, was bom in Dutchess County,
New York; was a member of the State Assembly in
1812: was elected a representative from Kew York in
the Sixteenth Congress, serving from December 0,
1810. antU March 3, 1821.
Allen, Philip, was bom at Providence, Rhode
Island, September 1, 1785; graduated at Brown Uni-
versity in 1803; became actively engaged in mercan-
tile business, particularly the West-India trade, and,
when foreign commerce was prostrated by the war of
1812, turned his attention to the manufacture of cot-
ton goods; was appointed president of the lihode-
Islaud branch of the United-States Bank and pension
agent in 1827; was elected as a Tariff Democrat
governor of Bhode Island in 1851, and re-elected in
1832 and in 1853; at the Kay session of the State
legislature in 1853, after he had lieen declared gov-
ernor, he was elected United-States senator from the
4th of March preceding; served in the United-States
Senate from December 7, 1853, until March 3, 1859;
and died at Providence, of a bilious attack, Decem-
ber 10, 1865.
Allen, Robert, was bom in Augusta County,
Virginia, in 1777; received a public-school education;
engaged in mercantile pursuits, and removed to Car-
thage, Tennessee, where he entered into business;
was for many years clerk of the county court; com-
manded a r^unent of Tennessee volunteers, under
General Jackson, in the war of 1812; was elected a
representative from Tennessee in the Sixteenth Con-
gress, as a Democrat, and successively re-elected to
the Seventeentli, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Con-
gresses, serving from December 6, 1819, to March 8,
1827, and declining a re-election. HediedatCarth^e,
Tennessee, August 10, 1864.
Allen, Robert, was bom at Woodstock, Vir-
ginia, Jnly 30, 1794; received a classical education,
graduating at Washington College; studied law; was
admitted to the bar, and practised at Woodstock;
was prosecuting attorney; was for five years a mem-
ber of the State Senate ; was elected a representative
from Virginia in the Twentieth Congress, as a Dem-
ocrat, ana was successively re-elected to the Twenty-
first and the Twenty-second Congresses, receiving at
the last election 1,060 votes against 672 votes for James
V. Mason, and serving from December 7, 1829, until
March 3, 1833; died at Mount Jackson, Vii^nia.
Allen, Samuel Clesson, was bom at Bernards-
town, Massachusetts, January 5, 1772; received a
classical education, graduating at Dartmouth College
in 1794; studied theology, and was pastor of a Con-
gregaUonal church in Nortlifield 179^1798; studied
law ; was admitted to the bar, and practised at Green-
field and at Nortlifield; was a member of the State
House of Representatives in 1806-1810, and of the
State Senate in 1812-1815; was elected a representa-
tive from Massachusetts in the Fifteenth Congress,
and was successively elected to the Sixteenth, Seven-
teenth, Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Twentieth Con-
gresses, serving from December 0, 1810, to March 3,
1S20; was a member of the Executive Council in
1829-1830; was again elected to the SUte Senate in
1831; and died at Northfield, Massachusetts, Feb-
ruarv 8, 1842.
Allen, WiUiam, was bom at Edenton, North
Carolina, in 1806; received a liberal education; re-
moved to Oldo, where he studied law; was admitted
to the bar, and commenced practice ; was elected a rep-
wsentative from Ohio in the Twenty-tliird Congress,
M a Jackson Democrat, serving from December 2,
1«33, to March 3, 1835; was elected to the United-
States Senate (in the place of Thomas Ewing, Whig),
and was re-elected, serving from March 4, 1837, to
March 3, 1840; was elected governor of Ohio by a
plunility of 723 votes over Noyes, Republican, serv-
ing from 1874-1876; was the Democratic candidate
for nvelection, but waa defeated by Rutherford B.
Hayes, Bepablican.
Allan, 'W'illiam, was bom in Butler County,
Ohio, August 13, 1827; received an academic educa-
tion; taught school; studied law; was admitted to
the bar in 1840, and commenced practice at Green-
ville, Ohio; was elected prosecuting attorney in 1850,
and re-elected in 1858; was elected a representative
from Ohio to the Thirty-sixth Congress, as a Demo-
crat, receiving 0,558 votes against 9,871 votes for
M. H. Nichols, Republican; and was re-elected to
the Tliirty-Beventh Congress, receiving 11,766 vote*
against 10,908 votes for Hart, Republican, and serv-
ing from December 6, 1859, to March 8, 1863.
Allen, William J., was bom in Tennessee in
1828, and was taken the next year by his father to
Illinois; received a public-school education; studied
law ; was admitted to the bar in 1848, and commenced
practice; was a member of the State legislature in
1854; was appointed United-States district attorney
in 1855, and resigned when elected judge of the
Circuit Court; was elected a representative from
Illinois in the Thirty-seventh Congress (to fill the
vacancy caused by the resignation of General J. A.
Ix^an) ; and was re-elected to the Thirty-eighth Con-
gress, as a Democrat, receiving 0,497 votes against
4,290 votes for Bartley, Republican, serving from
June 2, 1862, to March 3, 1865.
Allen, Willis, was bom in Tennessee; was
elected a representative from Illinois in the Thirty-
second Congress as a Democrat, receiving 6,863 votes
against 4,816 votes for Davis, Whig; and was re-
elected to the Thirty-third Congress, as a Democrat,
receiving 12,100 votes, without any organized oppo-
sition.
Alley, John B., was lx>m at Lynn, Massachu-
setts, January 7, 1817; received a thorough public-
school education; was apprenticed to shoemaking;
engaged in the shoe end leather business; was for
several years a member of the Lynn-city councils;
was a State councillor in 1851 ; was a member of the
State Senate in 1852; was a meml>er of the Constitu-
tional Convention in 1853; was elected a representa-
tive from Massachusetts in the Thirty-sixth Congress,
as a Republican, receiving 6,587 votes against 2,116
votes for G. B. Loring, Democrat, and 8.017 votes for
Lord, American ; was re-elected to the Thirty-seventh
Cong^BS, receiving 0,614 votes against 2,471 votes for
Otis P. Lord, Democrat, 2,300 votes for J. Knight,
American, 722 votes for G. B. Loring, Democrat, and
253 scattering votes; was re-elected to the Thirty-
eighth Congress, receiving 8,605 votes against 6,162
votes for B. Poole, Democrat; was re-elected to the
Thirty-ninth Congress, receiving 13,085 votes against
4,158 for C. O. Morse, Democrat, and serving from
December 5, 1850, to March 8, 1867; resumed busi-
ness, and was prominently connected with the Union
Pacific Railroad.
Allison, James, was bom in Cecil County,
Maryland, October 4, 1772; received a liberal educa-
tion; studied law; was admitted to the bar, and com-
menced practice in Beaver County, Pennsylvania;
was elected a representative from jPennsylvania to
the Eighteenth Congress, serving from December 1,
1823, to March 3, 1825; was re-elected to the Nine-
teenth Congress, but declined serving on account of
ill health; resumed practice: and died in June, 1854.
Allison, John (son of James Allison), was bom
in Pennsylvania, August 6, 1812; received a classical
education ; studied law; was admitted to the bar, but
never practised ; was a member of the State House
of Representatives in 1846-1847 and 1849; was
elected a representative from Pennsylvania in the
Thirty-second Congress, as a Whig, receiving 6,596
votes against 6,439 votes for Power, Democrat, and
serving from December 1, 1823, to March 3, 1826; was
the Whig candidate for the TUrty-thlrd Congrew,
but was defeated, receiving 5,340 votes against 6,369
votes for Trout, Democrat; was again elected to
the Forty-fourth Congress, as a Wliig, receiving 7,808
votes against 6,172 votes for Trout, Democrat, and
serving from December S, 1856, to March 8, 18&7;
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declined a renomlnation; was appointed register of
llie treasury April 3, 1800.
Allison, Robert, was bom at Huntingdon,
Pennsylvnnia; rcocived a public-scliool education;
was cli;cled a repn.'scntalive from Pennsylvania in
llie Tweiilv-BC'cond (."<>ii5;ress, 8er^'in!J from December
5, 18:11, loMaicli.'l, is;w.
Allison, William B., was bom at Perry, Oliio,
Mareli 2, 1^21); was educ!ite<l at tbo Western-Reserve
College, Oliio; studietl law, and practised in Oliio un-
til lio removed to Iowa in IK57; ser\'ed on tlie staiT
of the Rovcmor of Iowa, and aided in organizing
volunteers in tljo bejjinniug of the war for the sup-
pression of the rebellion; was elected a representa-
tive fn)m Iowa In tbo Tliirty-eigbt Congress, as a
Republican, receiving Id,] 12 votes against 8,4.52
votes for Maliony, Democrat; was re-elected to the
Thirly-ninlh C'ongress, receiving lO.l.'W votes against
WJilS votes fur li. 15. Uichards, Democrat; was re-
elected to tlie Fortieth Congress, receiving 15,472
votes against 10, 4"0 votes for Noble, Democrat; was
ro-clected to the Forty-first Congresfi, receiving 20,1 UJ
votes against 14,12(J votes for Mills. Democrat, and
149 votes fi)r Thomas, Independent; sen-ing in tlie
House of Ilepre.'icnt.itives from December 7, INW, to
Harch 3, 1871 ; was elected to the United-,States Sen-
ate, as a Republican (to succeed James Harlan, Re-
publican), and took his seat March 4, 1873. His term
ef senice will expire Slartdi ;}, 1.S70.
Alsop, John, was lx)rn at Mid<llctown, Connecti-
cut; reniDved to New York, where he engaged suc-
cessfully in mercantile pursuits; was an earnest
Whig; was elected a delegate from New York to the
Continental ConRress, and re-elected, serving from
September 14, 1774, to OcUjber 2tl. 1774, and from
May 10, 177.'>. to the latter part of tliat year, when
ho went to Midiiletown, Connecticut, and remained
there until the Urilish troops evacuated the city of
New York. He died at his country seat at Newtown,
Long Island, Noveinbor 22, 1704.
Alston, Lemuel J., was bom in South Caro-
lina; vraa ohtcted a representative from South Caro-
lina in the Tentli Congress, and was re-elecleil to tho
Eleventh Congress, serving from Octolwr 20, 1807, to
March :5, 1811.
Alston, William J., was born in Oeorgia, but
removed to Alabama early in life, and settled in
Marengo County; w.is elected a memijer of the State
House of Ivi-prosentalives in I.t'n, and of the State
Senate in i.^:!!!; was elected a representative from
Alabama in tho Thirty-first Congress, as a Whig, re-
ceiving 4,022 votes against 4,0ill votes fur C.ilvin C.
Sellers, Democrat, serving from Decemtwr :i, 1840,
until March M. 18.51; and w.is again elected to Uic
Stitc House of Representatives in 1.855.
Alston, Willis, w.is l>orn in Halifax County,
North Cart)lin:»; n-ceived an academic educ.Ttion:
was a memlier (if tho Unnso of Commons of North
Carolina in 174)1, 171U 1820, and 1821. and of tho
State Senate in I7i)4. Hft*), and 17lKi; was elected a
representative from North Carolina in the Eighth,
Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, Twelfth, and Thirteenth
Congresses, as a War Democrat, ser\in« from Octoljtr
17, 180;}, until March ;1, 1810; and again elected to
tho Nineteenth Congress, defeating George C. Out-
law; was re-elected to tho Twentieth and Twenty-
first Congresses, without opposition, serving from
December 5. 1.H2.'), Bntil March 3, 1831; and died at
Halifax, North Carolin,"i, April 10, 1837.
Alvord, James C, was bom in Massaclmsotts
In l.'<08; received a lilierai education, graduating at
Dartmouth College in 1827; studied l.iw; was ad-
mitted to tho bar, and commenced practice; was a
member of eacli branch of the .State legislature for
one year; was elected a representative from Massa-
chusetts in the Thirty-sixth Congress, as n WliK, re-
ceiving 4.440 votes against d.OiU votes for Thomas
Nims. and 088 scattering; died liefore taking his
Beat, .September 27, 1830.
Axnbler, Jacob A., was bom at Pittsburg,
Pennsylvania, Fcbroary IS, 1S20; studied ind
tised 1.1W in Ohio; was elected in IS.'i" to tlie Sialt
legislature of Ohio, and. served two tenns; wu ip.
pointed in 1.850 judge of the Ninth Judicial Diitriet,
and served until lS<i7. when lie resumed pracll«;
was elected a representative f- ■■ " '■ u In
tlio Forty-first Ci ingress, as a vine
14,008 votes against ll.iX)2 vol' 'mi>
crat; and was re-elected tti the Ft>ri> .itji
as a Republican, receiving 11,085 \<. ;i,3U
votes for John Ball, Democrat.
Ames, Adelbert, was bom at Rockland, Mtlne,
October :il, 18:15 ; received an academic education;
entered tho United-States Military Academy at West
Point, and graduated May 0, 1801; was commii-
sioned second lieutenant of artillery; was hrcrtUtJ
major for gallant and meritorious services at tlie
battle of Hull Run, where lie was woundwl; ttu
brevetted lieutenant-colonel for scnices at tho l«l-
tlo of M.-Uvcm Hill; was appointed colonel of the
Twentieth Maine Volunteers; w.is brevetted colnnci
for services at tlie battle of Gettysburg; was lircTri-
tcd major-general of volunteers for services at Fort
Fisher; was brevetted major-genenil in the rniled-
.Statcs army, at the close of the war, for gallant aiul
meritorious services in the field during the Kebcili™
was appointed provisional governor of Missii
Juno 15, 1808; was ap{M>inte<l to the coroi
the fourth military district (department of
sippi) Marcli 17, 1800; was elected to the Ui
States Senate on the reconstruction of that State,
taking his seat April 1, 1870. and sening until here-
signed in January, 1874, iiaving been elected gov-
ernor of Mississippi; resigned as governor in Ua
fall of 1875. and removed to Minnesota.
Ames, Fisher, was \mra at Declhiun, Mafli-
ehusetts, April 0, 175S; received a cl.TK.«ic4l odno
tion, entering Harvard College when twelvi- ycaniif
age, and gr.iduating in 1774; studied law while Icarli-
ing school ; was .admittnl to tlie bar, and comniencdl
practice in 1781; was a memlier of the conventioa
wliich ratified tho Federal Constitution; wasamenh
her of tho State legislature; was electe«l a reiinatn"
t.ative from Massachusetts to the First Congress, m
Federalist, over Samuel Adams; and was succcsjirely
re-elected to the Seconil, Tliinl, and Fourth Cai-
gresses, serving from March 4, 1780, to March ^
1707; resumed practice, but gradually relin<iui»hed
it, and devoted liimself to agricultural pursuits; irJ«
chosen president of Harvard College in INtH. t""'
declined; and dicni at Dedhum, Massachusetts. July
4, 1808. His writings were cnllwted ami pulill«h«l
in 1800, with a memoir, by Dr. Kirkland; wnlaneii-
larged edition was published in 1S54, edited ^J^
son. Judge Setli Ames. •
Ames, Oakes, was Itom at E.iston. Massai'hs-
setts, January m, 1804 ; n^eived a pulilic*hool
cdiic.ition; learned the trade of shovel-makinc, anJ
established himsiif as a manufacturer iit North Ea»-
ton; W.IS a member of Hio Executive Couudl; *«»
elected a representafivo from Mll^sachuFett^ to lh«
Thirty-eighth Congress, as a Ri'iiublican, receiving
0,271 votes umijist (ijSS4 votes forSwiui, peojilc'tc*"-
didate; was SM-lect^l to the Thirty-ninth CongrMi
receiving 1:3,501 votes against 0,200 votes for MaiuiKi
Democrat; was re-elected to the Fortieth rongiwi/
receiving 9,581 votes against 2,4S0 vote* (or Me,
Democrat ; w.is re-elected to the Forty-first Conitn*,
receiving 14,408 votes against S.liOS votes for .V'err,
Democrat; and was re-electiHl to tlie Forty-W™
CoiiRress, receiving p.;!07 votes against O.li"] '^
for Avery, Democrat; servinKfroni December', Iw
until March 3, 1873; was largely concerned in traii»*
continental railro.ad enteri>rises; and died at Xorti
Easton, of apmilcxy, May 8, 1873.
Ancona, SydenhnJn E., was imm at «»^
wick, Pennsylvania, November 20, 1824; received*
thorough English eiiucation; removed to Dctk*
County, Pennsylvania, where he was for seveiM
years connected with the Reading lUUioad CoP'
8TATISTICAI. SKETCHES.
259
panv; was elected a representative from Pennsyl-
vania in the Thirty-serenth Congress, as a Democrat,
receiving 0,093 votes against 7,111 votes for Smith,
Ilcpublican ; was re-elected to the Thirty-eight Con-
gress, receiving 10,022 votes against 4,K)8 votes for
Wanner, Kepublican; was re-elected to the Thirty-
ninth Congress, receiving 12,076 votes against 6,071
votes for William M. Heistcr, Republican, and serv-
ing from July 4, 1881, to March 3, 1807 ; was nomi-
nated as navy agent at Philadelphia in March, 1867,
but the Senate did not confirm the nomination.
Anderson, Alexander, was bom in Tennessee;
TToeived a classical education ; studied law, and prac-
tised atKnoxvllle; was elected a United-States sena-
tor from Tennessee, as a Democrat (in place of Hugh
L. White, resigned), serving from February 20, ISS),
to March 3, 18«.
Anderson, Qeorge W., was bom in Jefferson
County, East Tennessee, May 22, 1832; graduated at
Franklin CoU^e, Tennessee; studied and practised
law; went to Missouri In 1853; was a member of the
State legislature of Missouri in 1850 and 1860, and
of the State Senate in 1862 ; was a presidential elec-
tor in 1860; served as colonel of- a regiment of the
reserve corps from 1802 to 1864, and commanded the
Forty-ninth It^iment and First Battalion E. M. M.
in active service; was elected a representative from
Missouri in the Thirty-ninth Congress, as a Repub-
lican: and was re-elected to the Fortieth Congress,
as a Republican, receiving 4,876 votes against 4,698
votes for W. F. Swltzher, Conservative.
Anderson, Hugh J., was bom at Belfast, Mas-
sachusetts (afterwards Maine), In 1801 ; received an
academic education; eng^ed in mercantile pur-
suits; was clerk of the Waldo-cotmty courts 1827-
lti37; ■tudiod law; was elected a representative from
Maine in the Twenty-fifth Congress, as a Democrat,
receiving 90,072 votes against 24,310 votes for Morse,
Whig, on a general tTcket: was re-elected to the
Twenty-«ixth Congress, receiving 6,727 votes against
3,510 votes for WiUiam G. Crosby, Whig, and 161
trattcring, and serving from September 4, 1837, to
March 3, 1841; was governor of Maine 1844-1847;
was a presidential elector on the Cass and Butler
ticket m 1840; was commissioner of customs In the
Treasury Departmeftt March 23, 1853-February 3,
1858; was sixth auditor of the Treasury Department
September 26, 1866-May 3, 1860.
Anderson, Isaac, was elected a representative
from Pennsylvania in the Eighth Congress, and was
re-elected to the Ninth Congress, serving from Octo-
ber 17, 1803, to March 8, 18OT.
Anderson, John, was bom at Ctmiberland,
Maine, in 1792; received a classical education, grad-
uating at Bowdoin College in 1813; studied law with
Stephen Longfellow ; was admitted to the bar in
ISlj, and commenced practice; was a member of
the State Senate in 1824; was elected a representative
from Maine in the Nineteenth Congress, and was re-
elected to the Twentieth, Twenty-nrst, and Twenty-
Mcond Congresses, serving from December 5, 1825, to
March 3, 1833; was mayor of Portland hi 1833 and
IM2; was United-States attorney for the district of
Maine, 1833-1837; was collector of customs at Port-
land, 1837-1841 and 1843-1848; and died August 21,
1K3. f -6 .
Anderson, Joseph, was bom near Fhlladel-
pbia, Pennsylvania, JNovember 6, 1757; received a
libera] education; studied law; was commissioned
nuign in the New-Jersey line In 1775; served through
the war of the Revolution, and attained the rank of
breret-major; practised law in Delaware for seven
Trtm; was appointed In 1791 United-States judge
"t the territory south of the Ohio River; was a mem-
ber of the first Constitutional Convention of Ten-
iieiwe ; was elected to the United-States Senate from
Tennessee, and served from September 20, 1707, to
Mwh 3, 1815; was first comptroller of the treasury,
March 4, 1816-^uly 1, 1836: and died at Washington
April 17, 1887.
Anderson, Joseph H., was bom at White
Plains, New York; received a public-school educa-
tion; was elected a representative from New York In
the Twenty-eighth Congress, as a Democrat, receiv-
ing 4,811 votes against 3,436 votes for Cruger, Whig;
was re-elected to the Twenty-ninth Congress, receiv-
ing 6,008 votes against 4,807 for Barretto, Whig, serv-
ing from December 4, 1843, to March 3, 1847 ; died at
White Plains, New York.
Anderson, Josiah M., was bom in Tennessee;
was elected a representative from Tennessee In the
Thirty-first Congress, as a Whig, receiving 7,256 votes
against 6,603 votes for Lyon, Democrat, and serv-
ing from December 8, 1840, to March 3, 1851; was
a Whig candidate for re-election, but was defeated,
receiving 6,058 votes against 6,674 votes for Church-
well, Democrat; was a delegate from Tennessee to
the Peace Congress of 1861.
Anderson, J. Patton, was bom in Tennessee;
removed to the Pacific coast, and settled at Olympla,
Washington Territory: was elected a delegate from
Washington Territory m the Thirty-fourth Congress,
as a Democrat, serving from December 3^855. to
March 3, 1857 ; was appointed governor of Washing-
ton Territory, but only held the position for two
months; entered the Confederate army February 10,
1862, as brigadier-general ; commanded a brigade com-
posed of the Firet Florida, Seventeenth Alabama, and
Fifth and Eighth Mississippi Regiments; was pro-
moted major-general Februaiy 17, 1864, and assigned
to the command of the district of Florida; and was
subsequently in command of Hlndman's division,
Polk's corps. Army of the Tennessee.
Anderson, Luoien, was bom at Mayfield, Ken-
tucky, June, 1824; received a thorough English edu-
cation; studied law; was admitted to the bar, and
commenced practice; was a presidential elector on
the Scott and Gra]^am ticket in 1863; was elected a
representative from Kentucky in the Thirty-eighth
Congress, as a Union man, receiving 4,323 votes
against 711 votes for Trimble, Democrat.
Anderson, Richard Clough, Jun., was bom
at Louisville, Kentucky, August 4, 1788; received a
classical education In Virginia, graduating at William
and Mary College, and studying law under Judge
Tucker; practised law at Louisville ; was a member of
the State legislature for several years; was elected a
representative from Kentucky In the iVteenth Con-
gress by a large majority over Stephen Ormsby, and
was re-elected to the Sixteenth Congress, serving from
December 1, 1817, to March 8, 1821; declined a re-
election; was again a member of the State House of
Representatives in 1822, and was elected speaker;
was commissioned as the first minister to Colombia,
January 27, 1823, and took leave Jime 7, having been
commissioned envoy extraordlnanr to the Panama
Congress of Nations; but died at Carthagena, on his
way there, July 24, 1820.
Anderson, Samuel, was bom in Peimsylvania
In 1774; served several years in the State legislaturo;
was elected a representative from PeimsyTvanla in
the Twentieth Congress, serving from December 8,
1827, to March 3, 1820 ; died at Chester, Pennsylvania,
January 17, 1850.
Anderson, Simeon H., was bom in Garrard
County, Kentucky, March 2, 1802: received a classi-
cal education; studied law; was aaoitted to the bar,
and practised with success; was a member of the
State legislature for several years; was elected a
representative from Kentucky in the Twenty-sixth
Congress, serving the first session, from December 2,
1830, until July 21, 1840, and dying before the exphu-
tion of his term, at his home, near Lancaster, Ken-
tucky, August 11, 1840.
Anderson, Thomas L^ was bom in Greene
County, Kentucky, December 8, 1808; received a pub-
lio-school education; studied law; was admitted to
the bar, and, removing to Missouri, commenced prac-
tice there in 1830; was a member of the State legis-
lature in 1840 ; was a presidential elector in 1844, 1848,
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C0NGBE88I0XAL DEBECTOEY.
1852, and 1850; was a membor of the Constihitional
C'lHiviMition In 1S4.5; was elwtcd a represent .it ire
from Misftoari in the Tliirty-lifth Congress, as a Xa-
tlonal American, receiving 8,870 votes against 8,140
vot«s for Richmond, Democrat; was re-elected to the
Thirty-sixth Congress, as a Democrat, receiving
W.dtri votes against (),0S9 votes for Henderson. Re-
J)iiblican, and soning from December 7, 1857, to
ilarch :t, 1S(U.
Anderson, William, was bom In Chester
County, Pennsylvania, in 1750; joined tlio Revolu-
tionary anny in 1770, and serveil until peiice was de-
clared, especially distiniaiishing liimsclf at Gerraan-
to^vn and at Yorktown; removed in 17lX) to Delaware
County, 1'ennsylvaui.T., where ho occupied several
ptiblic" positions; was elected a representative from
Pennsylvania in the Eleventh Congress, as a Jcflcr-
■onian Democrat; was ro-olectod to the Twelfth Con-
gress, receiving; 0,218 rotes against 4,300 votes for
Thomas B. Dich, and was re-elected to the Thir-
teenth Congress, serving from May 22, 1800. to Man-h
8, 1815; w.os a^jain elected to the Fifteenth Congress,
•ervlng from Decemlx-r 1, 1817, to March 3, 1810; was
judge of the Delaware-county court, and collector
of customs at Chester, Pennsylvania, where ho died
December 13, 1820.
Anderson, William B., w.is bom at Mount
Vomon. Illinois. April 2, lS;l(i; received a common-
school cilucatlon; was elected surveyor of Jefferson
County in 1851 ; studied law; was admitted to the bar
In 1858, but never practised, eng.-xgin^ in agricultural
pursuits; was ele<'ted a member of the State House
of Representatives of Illinois in 1850, and again in
1858; entered the Union army in 1801 as private,
was successively elected captain, lieutenant-colonel,
and colonel, .ind w.is lirevetted brigadior-general ; was
a presidential elector on the .Seymour and Blair ticket
In 1808; was elected a member of the Constitutional
Convention of Illinois in 1800; was elected to tlie
State Senate of Illinois N'ovcmlMT 5, ls7l, to till a
vacancy; was elected a reprcseutativo from Illinois
in the Forty-fourth Congress, as an Indejiendcnt Re-
fonnor, receiving 8,203 votes against, 7,550 votes for
Samuel S. Marsh.ill, Democrat, and 5,482 votes for
Green B. lUium, Ilppulilican.
Anderson, William C. was bom at Lancas-
ter, Kculuck)-. DwcmlkT 0, 1820; was cduc.ited at
D.anville College; studied law; was admitted to the
bar, and practise<l; was a memi>er of the State House
of lleprcscntatives in 1851 and 1853; was the Ameri-
can candidate for the Tliirly-liftli OtigresF. and was
defeated liy Talbott, Democrat; was elected a repre-
lenlativo from Kentucky in the Thirty-sixth Con-
gress, as an American, receiving 7.2W votes again.st
7,201 votes for Chrisman, Democrat (who unsuccess-
fully contested the seat), and served from December
6, 1859, to March 4, 1801; died at Franlcfort, Ken-
tucky. December 2.% 1801.
Andrews, Charles, was boni at Paris, JInlne,
In 1814; received a liberal education; studied law;
was admitted to the bar in 18.37, and commenced
practice at Turner, Maine; w.ts clerk of the Oxfonl-
county court; was a member of the State House of
Representatives in 18.'J0-1843, serving as speaker in
1842; was elected a representative from Maine in tlie
TUrty-BCCond Congress, as a Democrat, receiving
fl,718 votes against 0,052 for Isaac Iteed, Whig, and
183 for Alfred Pierce, Free-SoUor, scn-ing from De-
ceml>er 1, 1851, until his death, at Paris Hill, Maine,
April 30. 18.V2.
Andrews, George R., was iKim in the State of
New York; wiis elected a representative from New
York in the Thirty-first Congress, as a Wliig, receiv-
ing 7,(W? votes against 3,100 votes for Culver, Van
Buren Democrat, and 2,180 votes for Cutting, Cass
Democrat, and serxing from December 1, 1840, t<>
March 8, I8.M ; and died at Ticonilernga, New York.
Andrews, John T., was born m North Reading,
New York, in 1810; received a putilic-school educa-
tion; was sheriSof Steuben County 1834-1837; was
elected a representative from Now York hi tktl
Twenty-fifth Cungn'ss, as a Democrat, and Hinl|
from September 4, ls;;7, to March 3, 1839.
Andrews, Landaff W., was bom in Fltmlaf ]
County, Kentucky, February 12, l^^c?; rnrriifcd i I
classical education, graduating at T > Tni- 1
vers ity in 1824; studied law; wa-sa^' rlatj
in 1820, and has since practised: ii i- .. m «Ti»ll
the .State Hou-se of Repro>entrttivcs in ItyU; rati
elected a representative frvvm Kentucky in ttitl
Twenty-sixth Congress, as a Wliig, receivim: TU]
majority over Tliompsnn Ward. Doranerat; ami wu J
re-elected to the T\v. " ' liTinjJ
4.411 votes against j :'l>f
serving from Decern; . . • , i ..;.... ,, .. ,
the Whig canilidatc for re-election Ut the Twcnrr-J
eighth Congress, and was defeated by Anil
Democrat, who received 408 majority.
Andrews, Samuel G., was l>orn aiDerbr.i
neclicut, OctoIxT 10, 1700; received-- - '
ucalion; removed with his father t
York, in 1610; was a mcrvhaut aiii .
was mayor of Rochester; was a mcmlwr of thcf>t>Mi|
House of Representatives in 18:J1, 18;l2; wsai"
of the Monro«M:ounty court, and of the CfurtofA^I
pcAls; was secretary of the .State Senate for four]
ye.ars; w.is postmaster of Rochester; w:i«
ri.'prcsentative frf)m New York in the
Congress, as a Republican, receiving "
ag.ainst 4,.337 votes for Paine, Democrat. anJ :'sl»4J
votes for Clark, American, serving fr<:)m I)cconil«7, [
1857, to March 3, 1850; died at Rochesu-r, XcwYork,]
ial8C3.
Andrews, Sherlock J., was h-^rn it WniiiiayJ
foni, Connecticut, in 1801; roceivcil luci-j
tion. gradu.iting at Union College; > . rtti
admitte<l to tlie bar; removed to CIcvilimd, Ciliw.iniJ I
commenced practice there in 1825; was cIcctwlaKT^ I
resentativo from Ohio In the IVcnty-scvenlli CeO' j
grcss. as a ^V^lig, serving from May 31, 1811, iiatfl i
March 3. 1.S43. i
Angel, William Q-. , was bom at New Shcwluai, I
Block Island, July 17. 1790; when two yearaolihil}
father removed to Litchfield, Otsego Cotinty, Nw 1
York, where he worked on a fann, and rectlrtil •
common-school education; commer< ■■' •'■'■ "•"■Irnf j
medicine in 1807, but changed to tli »i» '
1800; was admitted to the bar in < ' 7. aw
commenced practice at Burlington. >"ew Vurk; wu j
appointed surrogate of Otsego County In lsil:fW I
elected a representative from New A '"i"*'
loenth Congress, .-is a JohnQnlncv ' "'*'•
defeating Dr. Campbell; was rc-i'kx;... : .. i^*
licth Ccmgress, as a J.ackson Democrat, di'fralini
General Crafts; was again elected to the TV^i*'-
first Congress, .is a .lackson Democrat, d''
acp Lathrop; resumed practice, and rem-
to Iliminiondsport; was a member nf tla- > h —
lional Convention in 1840; w;is elected county jiu'^
of Alleghany County in lf47 ; resigne.1 in ISM; >i"l
died at .\ngelica. New York, August 13, lS5i '
Anthony, Henry B., was Iwm at Covwijyi
Rhode Island, April 1. 1815; received a clas^li'jl «"•
cation, graduating at Brown University in l.Stl; iH-
sumed the editorial charge of "Tlic rroviJeBi*
Journal;" was elected governor of RIkhIc IsLina."
n Wliig, in 1840; re-elected in 1850, and ilocUn™*
re-election : was elected United-States senaUir B«J .
Rhode Isl.ind, as a Union Republican, tn suc«« I
Philip Allen, Democrat, and took li' ' " ""'" ""
6, I8.J0; W.IS successively re-<'lrctecl
1,'!70; w.is elected president of the. s...... ,
March 23. 1800; and was re-elected March l"M''"j\ ,
Anthony, Joseph B., was bom in Fcnii«y"*'|
nia; was elected a representative from ^''^^^''^Z.
In the Twenty-third Congn.'ss; .ind was rc-clcctw"
the Twenty-fourth Congrees. serxing from De*""'"
2, lS;J.i. to March 3, 18:)7; died at WUiiamspott, Pes**
sylvani.i. January 17, 1851. .. _ 1
Appleton, John, waa bom at Beverly, 1W*'|
STATISTICAL SKETCHES.
261
il|«i->Tt£ Vi->
CI
rcr-l
linnry 11, 1815; received a classicjil cdii-
• at Uowdiiin CuUci^c in IXH ; studied
>■! tci tlic l>.ir, and coinmi'iiced \>ri\c-
L'onUiid, Maine, in ItyT; edited "TIio Purt-
lun;" was register of tlie Cumberlaiid-
I'robatc t'liurt ; was chief clerk of llie Niivy
ipartinenl. mid subsomieiitly nf tlie Depnrlment of
e; wa* iniiiistor to Uiilivi:i from Miircli IjU, 1.S43,
May 4, LsiU; resumed the pmetice of law at Port-
~ in partnersliip with N.ntliau Clifford ; was elected
T representative from Maine in the Thirty-scx-ond
CoiiRTOss, as a Democrat, receiviiiK o,'J4.'3 votes against
r.....= for W. P. Fcssenden, \Vliig and Free-Soil,
u Uecemticrl, ISjl, to M;irch!i, 18X1; was
i^d secr<!tary of leiy;ation at London la
but declined; was secretary of lc(;atiou at
on from February 19, 1S55, until Xoveinlx!r 1(!,
ser\-ius in Octolier, ISoo, as chariif iVtiffairrn ;
ning. he declined the editorship of •' The Wash-
a Union;" was assistant secretary of slate
April 4, 1.S57, to June 8, ]f*00; was niitUsler to
ia from June S, ISOO, to June 7, 1801; died at
and, Maine, An;;iist 22. 1S(>4.
ppleton, Nathan, was born at New Ipswich,
iIam[>sUire, (JctolHT ti, mu; received an aca-
c education, entering Dartmouth CollcRe, but
ng to beconio a elerfc in his brother William
leton's store in Boston; was one of the founders
pioneer eotton-mill at \Valtham, and one of
■ i-s of Lowell in is-il; w.is a meml)er
lature for several years; was elected
. Iroiu Massachusetts in the Twenty-
ss, as a llit;h-tariif ^Nliig, defeating
and ser\ini; from Dcccnilter 6, 1h;ii, to
8. 18;i.j; was aj^aiu cle«t<'(l to the Thirty-
1 Congn>s9 (in place of llolx^rt C". Winllimp,
). rcceivinj; 2,".>.} voles against 1,2U;5 votes
ilium. D<.'inocrat, and serving fn^m June 0,
until he rcsi^^ued, Oclolw-r 4, 1842; was the
ir of pamphlets on tlie tariff, the currency, the
-lofiui, and the oriKiu of Lowell; died at
iton, July 14, \^\l. Ills memoirs were written
Itoljerl C. WintliPip.
ileton, William (brother of Nathan), was
Ilrooklield, Jhissachusctts. Ni)Veml>cr lli,
ived an academic education; entered a
itry store at Temple, at the age of fifteen, as a
p-inovod in 1.SU7 to Boston, where he was for
' ! 1 century hononibly and successfully
intile and niauufacturint! pursuits;
1. ■.! the Boston branch of the United-
18;13-1«'J0; was elected a representative
'liusetts in the Thirty-second Congress, as
;. recciviuK .5,s;}!> votes against l,8o.5 votes for
'. Ucard, Democrat, and 1,1(57 for B. B. Mus-
il; and was re-elected to the Thirty-third
as a Wilis. reoi/ivin« 4.(>72 votes against
ifor Ansoa Burliii'^amo, Free-Soil, sening
bcr 1, 18.J1, to MaRh 8, 1855; was awin
the Thirty-8<.'venlh Congress, as a Whig,
8,014 voles against 7,7J<J votes for Anson
e. American llepiiblican, and serving dur-
-ion from July 4, IStil, to August 0,
1 1 he resigned; died at Longwood,
. ! TU.iry l.i, 18(12.
Archer, John (father of .Stevenson Archer, and
P»Ti.iM!fi!!;.rofSlevenson Archer), was born in Harford
' id. June 0, 1741; received a classical
' iling at Princeton College in 17tX};
' . but, on account of a throat affec-
' iltcTilion to medicine, and received
■ • Philadelphia Medical College, the
iciil diploma issued on the Ainericin conti-
n* n WHiig; rai.sed a military company at the
• if the Kevolution; Wiis for several
• if U>e General Assembly of Mary-
, i..„-i ,1 <.i..<.tor in I8(d; was elected
hind in the Seventh Con-
I he Eighth and the Ninth
tui->iug Iroiu December 7, 1801, luiUl
'^ -
recei
March .3, 1S07; died at hii residence In Harford
County. Maryland, in 1810.
Archer, Stevenson, was bom in Harford
County, Marjland; received a classical education,
graduating at Princeton College in 1800; studied law;
W.1S admit tcil to the biir, and jiractised; was jtidgo
of the MarjIiii'J Court of Appeals; w;is elected a
representative from Maryland in the Twelftli Con-
gross, as a Democp.it, and was re-elected to the Thir-
teenth and the Fourteenth Congresses, ser\'ing from
Novemt)er 4, 1811, to March 3, 1817; was appointed
United-States judge for the Territory of Mississippi;
was again elected to the Sixteenth Congress, receiv-
ing 2,5811 votes against l.,S7!l votes for Beed, and sor%--
ing from December tS, 181!), to March 3, 1821 ; wsis
appointed chief justice of the Court of Api>eals of
Maryl.-uid in 1^S4.1, and held the position until he
died in l.'*48.
Archer, Stevenson, was bom in H.ir/ord
Couuty, Maryland, Felinniry 28, 1827; graduated at
Princeton College; studied and pmctised law; was •
member of the legislature of Maryland in 1864; waa
elected to the Fortieth Congress, aa a Democrat,
receiving 7,001 votes against 6,014 votes for I. L.
Thomas, Republioiin; was re-elected to the Forty-
tirst Congress, as a Democrat, defeating Knsor, Ke-
publican; wiu ro-elected to the Forty-second Con-
gress, as a Democrat, receiving 14,022 votes against
8,0(!2 votes for W. M. Marine, Kcpublicaii; and waa
re-elected to the Forty-third Congress, us a Democrat,
receiving 10,591 votes agahist 10,303 votes for A. M.
Hancock, Hepul)lican.
Archer, William B., claimed to have been
elected a representative from Illinois in tlie Tliirfy-
fourlh Congress, as a Whig, receiving 8,451 votca
;igainst 8,452 votes for J.onies C. Allen, Democrat;
but the ollicial canvas gave jUlcn the seat by one
majority. The House decided that Mr. .tUlen was not
entitted to the seat, and rejected a resolution declar-
ing Mr. Archer elected, — yeas 89, nays 01. On a
second trial, Mr. Allen was electctl beyond doubt.
Archer, William S., was bom in Amelia
County, Virginia. March 6, 17.89; received a classical
education, graduating at the College of William and
Mary; studied law; was admitted to the bar, and
practised; was elected to the Stale House of Dele-
gates in 1812, and was annually re-elected, with the
exception of one year, until 1819; was elected a rep-
resentative from Virginia to the Sixteenth Congress
(in place of James Pleasants, resigned) by 12<J ma-
jority over James liobinson; and was re-elected,
without ojiposition, to the Seventeenth, Eighteenth,
Nineteenth, Twentieth, Twenty -first. Twenty -sec-
ond, and Twenty-third Congresses, sening from Jan-
uary 18, 1820, until March ;1, is;l5; was elected to the
United-States Senate, as a Whig (in place of William
11. lloaiie. Democrat), .iiid served from May ;51, 1841,
luitil March 3. 1847. At the expiration of liis congres-
sional career, he retired to his paternal estate, where
he died, of neuralgia, March 28, ISoo.
Armstrong, David A., for many years a citi-
zen of .St. Louis, Missouri, where lie held several local
oOices, among lliem that of vice-president of the city
board of police commissioners, was api)oint<'d Uniteif-
.Stat<'3 senator from Missouri, as a Democrat, to (ill
the vacancy caused by the death of Lewis V. Bogy,
sen'ing from October 15, 1877.
Armstrong, James (son of John Armstrong,
and brother cit Jolin Armstrong), was bom at t'ar-
lisle, Pennsylvania; served in the war of the lievo-
lution; w.TS elected a representative from Pennsyl-
vaida in the Third Congress, senilis from December
2, 1793, to March 3, 1795; died at Carlisle, Pennsyl-
vania.
Armstrongr John (father of James Armstrong
and of John ^Vriustrong), was btim in the north of
Ireland in 1725; imiuigraled to Pcnusylvania, and
scttleil at Carlisle; entered the sen ice of the Pro-
jirielary Goverimieut as land-suneyor; waa colonel
of lullitia rangers, and commanded the force which
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destroyed the Indian town of Kittokinnine is 1755;
■was commissioned bripadicr-Rcncral in the Conti-
nental army in 1770, but resigned April 4, 1777, on
account of a difficulty concerning rank; was a dele-
fatc from Pennsylvania to the Continental ConRress,
77lf(-178() and n.'^7-17N.S; and died at Carlisle, Pcnn-
Bylvania, March U. 1705.
Armstrong, John (son of .lohn Armstrong, and
brother of James Armstrong), was bom at Carlisle,
Pennsylvania, November 25, 1755; received a lilienil
education, and entered Princeton College, but loft to
cuter the Kcvolulioimry army, where he sened on the
staff of Generals Mercer and Gates; was elected by
the Continental Congress one of the three judges for
the Wosteni Territory, October 10, 1787, but declined
January 1(5, 178S; removed to New York; was elected
United-States senator from New York, as a Demo-
crat (in tlie place of John Lawrence, resigned); took
his seat January 8, 1801, and s^'r^'ed untinie resigned
In 1802; was appointed to the I' ni ted -States Senate
(In place of De Witt Clinton, resigned), and served
irom December 7, 1803, to February 'Si, when he took
his seat as the elected successor of Theo<lorus llailey,
resigned, and served until he resigned, June 30, 1804;
was minister to France from Juno 30, 1S04, to Sep-
tember 14, 1810; retuniiug home, was appointed
brigadier-general July 0, ]8l;i; was secretary of war
from January 19, 1813, to S«>ptcml)cr 23, 1814; retired
to his est.ito at lied Hook, New York, where he died
April 1, 1843. lie published a brief history of the
military operations against the iiritish forces while
he was secretary of war.
Armstrong, Moses K., was bom at Milan,
Ohio, September lit, l^V2; was e<lucated at lluron
Institute and Wectern-lSeseno College, Ohio ; re-
moved to Minnesota Territory in 185(1; was elected
surveyor of Mower County, and in IS-jS was assigned
to the survey of the Unitt'd-Slates lands; on the ad-
mission of Miimesotu as a State, he removed to Yank-
ton, then on Indi.in village; on the organization of
the Territory of Dakota, in 1801, ho was elected to
the first territurial legislature, and was ro-elected in
18<12and 18(U, serving the last year as speaker; edited
"The Dakota Union " in 1804; was appointed clerk
of the Suureme Court in ia*j5; w.os elected to the
Tcrritorla! Council in 18<j0. and was chosen president
of that body In 1807; published the first history of
Dakota in 1807, and acted as secretary of the Indian
Peaee Commission: in 18H!, 1807, 18(i8, and 18(11), lie
established the great meridian and standard lines for
United-States surveys in .Southern Dakota and the
Northern Ked-rivor Valley, detecting the erroneous
location of the international boundary-line near Pem-
bina since 1823; was again elected to the Territorial
Council in 1800; was elected to the Forty-second
Congress, as a Democrat, receiving 1,221 votes ag-ainst
1,102 votes for W. A. Burieigh, Republican, and l,<r23,
for S. L. Spink, Kepublican; was re-elected to the
Forty-third Congress, receiving 2,(K)3 votes against
1,504 votes for O. C. Moody, Republican, and 1,002
votes for W. W. Brookings, Republican.
Armstrong, William, was born at Lisbum,
Antrim Couuty, Ireland. December 23, 1782; immi-
grated to Virginia in 1702; obtained craploJ^ncnt in
a store at Winchester, wliero he studied law; was
Unlte<l-,State8 tax-collector in 1818-1810; was a mem-
ber of the State House of Delegates 1822-1S2:J; w.is a
presidential elector In 1820 and 1824; held several
local ofliees; was elected a representative from Vir-
ginia in the Nineteenth Congress, as a \Vhig, dofcat-
ing Kdward Colston, Democrat, and was re-elected to
the Twentieth, Twenty-first, and Twenty-second Con-
gresses, receiving at tlx; lost (dection 1,512 votes against
1,210 votes for lidward Lueas, Democrat, and sening
from Derenilier 5, 1825, to March 3, 18-33. After leav-
ing Consress, he resided In the valley of the south
branch of the Potomac.
Armstrong, William H., was iiom ot Wil-
liamsport, Pennsylvania, .September 7, 1824: gradn-
atcd at Princeton College, New Jersey, in 1S47;
studied and practised law; sorrcd In the .?).-ii« V-t
laturc in 1800 and 1801 ; In lSfl2 was i nrn-
mission as president judge of tlie T\ .litdi-
cial Circuit of Pennsylvania, which ; ind
was elected a representative fnmi lia
the Forty-first Congress, as a Ucpu.,. .-..iring
10,700 votes against 14,7:52 votes for Motkcy, kIm
claimed to 1m2 a Republican, but was nomiaalMl tai
supported bv the Democrats.
Arnell, Samuel M., wasbomlnMaoryCoun^,,
Tennessee, Hay 3, LStJ; was educatisd at Anlmi'
and East Hampton, Massachusetts; was a mosbc)
of the Constitutional Convention of TennesM* tii<
18(35; was a member of the State House of Beptcstit-
tatives of Tennessee in 1855 and 180(J; was elected t>
the Thirty-ninth Congress, and admitted at thesMonJ
session; was elected to the Fortieth Congress. as*
llepublican, receiving 7,500 votes against 2.170 Tuta
for Thomas. Conservative; and was re-elwieil to Iks
Forty-first Congress, as an Indei>endenl Republicw,
receiving 5,143 votes against 2,141 votes fur Dncli,
RepubUcan, serving from December 3, 1800, to Hmh
3, 1871.
Arnold, Bene<iict, was bom at Amstcrdso,
New York; was a memlier of the State Assemblj,
1810-1817; was a representative from New V<irk m
the Twentv-first Congreiis, serving from Dcecmlw 7,
1820, untilMart-h .3. 1831.
Arnold, Isaac N., wa.s bora at nnrdwicke.St»
York, November, 181.J; taught seho. i ' ' ; ilrlng
his eilueation; studied l.iw; was adi ■ lior
in 1835, and commenced practice at ( : . l.iaoij;
was chief city clerk of Chicago in It^iT ; was a mcm-
l>cr of the State House of Representatives in 1^;
was a presidential elector in 1.S44: was elcctol a rep-
resentative from Illinois in the Thirty-seventh Cuo-
gress. as a Republican, receiving 30.8-34 votes agiinil
10.050 votes for Harrington, Deinocnit; was nMjlreloi
to the Thirty-eighth Congress, receiving CHi'iU vola
against 8,200 votes for Sherman, Democrat, anJscrr-
ing from July 4, 1801. to March 4, 1805; was .ippoiatai
sisth auditor of the treasury, serving from AJitilJi^
1S(k., to September 20. 1.8C^I. He pubUshed ^''tt*-
tory of Abrah.im Lincoln" in 1806.
Arnold, Jonathan, was lx>m at PVovidcnce,
Rhoile Island. December 14, 17-11; studied mi'difliK,
and commencetl ()ractice; was a charter member of
the Providence Grenadiers in 1774; was a mcmberof
the General Assembly of Rhode Island from Vnn-
denco in 1770; served in the Revolutionary arroji*
surgeon; w;is director of the .army hospital «t Vtiii^
dencc; was a delegate from Rhode Island in ITSima
1783; removed to St. Johnsbury, Vermont, wkrel"
held several local offices: and died February 2. IW
Arnold, Lemuel H., wiis Imm at St JuIm''-
bury, Vermont, January iO, 1702, and was taken '«
Rhrxlc Island at an early ago: received a eljssiiw
education, gnuluating at Dartmouth College iu ISUl
began the study of law, but relinqui-'hed it '»' "*"
cantilo pursuits; was elected governor of liW'
Island in 18.1l, and re-elected in 18:12; was amcin"-''
of the Executive Council during the Dorr Ili'lwUw"
in 1842; was elected a repri's<'nt;itive from Kl""''
Island in the Twenty-ninth Congniss, serving ft^
Decctnbcr 1, 1845, until March 3, 1847; and diwl at
Kingston, Rhode Island, June 27, 1852. ,
Arnold, Peleg, was bora at Smithficld, B»*
Island, in 17.V2; rt'ceivcd a lilieral education; staoi*
law; was a(lmitte<l to the bar, and commenceJ I""*"
tice; was for several years a member of Ihc '""^
General Assembly ; was a delegate from Hhodi'Wi"'^
to the Continental Congress 'from April (>, '^J'^?
November 1, 1787; w.as aptK>!ntcil chief justice "'j**
Supreme Court of Rhode Island ; died al SmidiB'"'
February 13. 1820.
Arnold, Samuel, was \mni at Ilodd-am, Cnnj"*''
ticut, June 1, IMKl; received an aca»leiiiic o''""'''^
was intcresteil in agriculture, and carried on * j*!:
stone-qu.TJTy with success; was a member "' "J*
State House of RcprcsentaUvos In 1S30, l*U, »*^
BTATISTICAJL SEEXOHSS.
268
«nd 1861 ; was elected to the Thirt; Vth Congress, as
a Democrat, rcceiTii^ 0,308 votes against 8,^ rotes
for Woodruff, Fusion candidate.
Arnold, Samuel Qreene, was bom at Provi-
dence, Rhode Island. April 12, 1821 ; received a clas-
sical education, graduating at Brown University in
IMl ; studied law at the Cambridge Law School, and
was admitted to the Rhode-Island bar in 1845; trav-
elled extensively in Europe, the East, and South
America; was elected lieutenant-governor of Rhode
Island in 1852, being the (Ally successful candidate
on the WfaiK ticket; was a delegate to the Peace
Convention In 1861 ; was again elected lieutenant-
govemor in 1861 and 1862; served in the Union army
as captain of light artiUeiy, and as aide-de-camp to
Governor Sprague; was elected United-States sena-
tor from Bhode Island, as a Union man (in the
place of J. F. Simmons, Whig, resigned), and served
from December 1, 1862, to March S, 1868. He pub-
lished a " History of Rhode Island " in seven volumes,
1850, and a number of biographical and historical
articles in reviews and magazines.
Arnold, Thomas D., was bom In Tennessee;
was defeated as candidate for the Twentieth Congress,
and ;^ain as candidate for the Twenty-first Con^ss,
ivcei'nng 4,413 votes against 4,496 votes for Pryor
Lea; was elected a representative from Tennessee in
the Twenty-second Congress, as a Whig, receiving
2n majority over Pryor Lea, and serving from De-
cembers, 1831, to MarchS, 1833. He was assaulted in
the Capitol, May 14, 1832, by Morgan A. Heard, who
fired a loaded horse-pistol at him (the ball grazing his
arm), and then struck him with a bludgeon. He was
asaia elected, without opposition, to the Twenty-
seventh Congress, serving from May 31, 1841, to
March 3, 1843. Died at Campbell Station, Tennes-
see.
Arrington, H. Archibald, was bom in North
Carolina; was elected a representative from Korth
Carolina in the Twenty-seventh Congress, as a Demo-
crat; was re-elected to the Twenty-eighth Congress,
receiving 4,818 votes against 4,265 votes for Stanly,
Whig; was electetl a representative from North Caro-
lina in the First Confederate Congress, serving from
February, 1862, to Febraary, 1804.
Arthur, WiUiam K., was bom at Cincinnati,
Ohio, March 8, 182S. His parents removed when he
was a child to Covington, Kentucky, where he was
educated; studied law; was admitted to the bar in
1850, and has since practised at Covington; was
Commonwealth's attorney for the Ninth Judicial Dis-
trict of Kentucky, 185&-1802; was a candidate for
presidential elector on the Breckinridge and Lane
ticket in 1800; was elected judge of the Ninth, after-
wards the Twelfth, Judicial Circuit in 1860, for a full
term of six years, but resigned In two years; was
elected a representative from Kentucky in the Forty-
second Congress, as a Democrat, receiving 0,213
votes against 4,578 votes for Thomas Wrightson, Re-
publican; and was re-elected to the Forty-third Con-
gress, as a Democrat, receiving 11,424 votes against
O.-VVi votes for H. Myers, Republican, serving from
March 4, 1871, to March 3, 1876; resumed the prac-
tice of law at Covington.
Ash, Michael W., was bom in Pennsylvania;
was elected a representative from Pennsylvania in
the Twenty-fourth Congress, serving from December
7, 1835, to March 3, 1837.
Ashe, John Baptiste (a son of Governor Sam-
uel Ashe), was bom at Halifax, North Carolina, in
1748; entered the Continental army in 1770 as cap-
tain, and served through the Revolutionary war, at-
taining the rank of colonel, and especially dis-
tinguishing himself at the battle of Eutaw; was a
member «>f the House of Commons of North Caro-
lina Id 17S0, and of the State Senate in 1789 and 1705;
WIS a delegate to the Continental Congress in 1787,
17SS; was elected a representative in the Second
Con;;re8s, serving from October 24, 1791, until March
i, 1798; was elected governor of North Carolina in
1801, but died before Us inauguration, at Halifax,
November 27, 1802.
Ashe, John B. (a son of John Baptlste Ashe),
was bom at Halifax, North Carolina; received an
academic education; studied law; was admitted to
the bar; removed to Tennessee, and practised there
with great success; was elected a representative from
Tennessee in the Twenty-eighth Congress, as a Whig,
receiving 5,457 votes against 5,274 votes for Frederick
P. Stanton, Democrat, and serving from December
4, 1843, to March 3, 1845; removed to Harris County,
Texas, where he died in January, 1858.
Asne, Thomas Samuel, was bom in Orange
County, NorOi Carolina; was prepared for collie at
the classical school of W. T. Bingham, in Hills-
borough, North Carolina; graduated at the Uni-
versity of North Carolina in 1832; studied law, and
has ever since pursued that profession; was elected
in 1842 a member of the House of Commons of the
legislature of North Carolina from the countjr of
Anson; was elected in 1847 by the le^slatuie solicit-
or of the Fifth Judicial Distaict of North Carolina,
and served in that capacity for four years: was
elected in 1864 to the Senate of the State legislature
from the counties of Anson and Union; was elected
in 1861 to the House of Representatives of the Con-
federate States, and to the Senate of the Confederate
Congress in 1864; was one of the councillors of
state during the administration of Governor Jona-
than Worth in 1866; was the Conservative candidate
for governor In 1868, but was defeated; was elected
a representative from North Carolina in the Forty-
third Congress of the United States, as a Conserva-
tive, by a majority of 2,149 votes over O. H. Dock-
ery. Republican; and was re-elected to the Forty-
fourth Congress, as a Democrat, receiving a majority
of 5,930 votes over C. C. Davidson, Independent
serving from December 6, 1873, to Mareh 3, 1877.
Ashe, William S. (son of John Baptlste Ashe),
was bom at Wilmington, North Carolina; received a
liberal education ; studied law ; was admitted to the
bar, and commenced practice at Wilmington ; was a
member of the State legislature of North Carolina
in 1846 and 1848; was elected a representative from
North Carolina in the Thirty-flrst Congress, as a
Democrat, receiving 5,128 votes against 2,813 votes
for Reid, Democrat ; and was re-elected to the Thirty-
second Congress without opposition, serving from
December 3, 1849, to March 8, 1851.
Ashley, Chester, was bom at Westfleld, Massa-
chusetts, June 1, 1790; was taken when young to
Hudson, New York, where he received a liberal
education; studied law; was admitted to the bar,
and in 1817 removed to Illinois, where he com-
menced practice; removed in 1819 to Little Rock;
was elected a United-States senator from Arkansas
in 1844, as a Democrat (in place of William S. Ful-
ton, Democrat, deceased), and re-elected for six
years in 1840, defeating Archibald Tell, and serving
from December 4, 1844, until his death, at Washing-
ton, April 29, 1848.
Ashley, Delos R., was bom at the Post, Ar-
kansas, February 10, 1828; received an academic
education; studied and practised law; went to Cali-
fornia in 1849; was district attorney in 1851, 1852,
and 1853; was a member of the Assembly of Cali-
fornia in 18.54 and 1855; was a member of the State
Senate of California in 1856 and 1857; was State
treasiirer of California in 1862 and 1863; went to
Nevada in 1864, and was elected a representative
from Nevada in the Thirty-ninth Congress, as a Re-
publican, receiving3,601 votes against 2,216 votes for
11. K. Mitchell, Democrat; was re-elected to the
Fortieth Congress, receiving 6,040 votes against
4,293 votes for Mitchell, Democrat, serving from De-
cember 4, 1805, to Mareh 3, 1860.
Ashley, Henry, was bom in Cheshire County,
New Hampshire; received a public-school education;
removed to New York, and located at Catskill; was
elected a representative from New York in the Nine>
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tcenlh Conzreas, serving from December, 1, 1623, to
Mnnli 3, 1*55.
Ashley, James M., was bom near Pittsbur^r,
I'euusylvania, XdvembiT 14, ISil; wttS8<?lf-<?ilucatccl;
went to the West, and tlioro acted iiB dork, aiid
learned the art of prinlins; edited '•Tlie Dispiilcli,"
and afterwards "The Ucrancrat," at Portsmouth,
Ohio; studied law, hut did not pracliso, cngagi ig in
l)oai-liuilding, and nuhsiMiuontlj' in the dnig-bu«vncss
at Toledo; was elected a repn-sentalivo from Ohio in
Iho Thirty-sixth Congress, as a Uepublicau, rcsMiviug
lO.Mi viiles against tt,US(l votes u.i Alunyeu, Demo-
crat; w.'us successively re-elected to the Thirty-
seventh, Tliirty-cighth. and Thirty-ninth Congresses;
and W.1S re-elected to the Fortieth Congress, lis a IJc-
Jiublicjm. receiving 14.S73 voles against 12,050 votes
or Couunager, Demnrr.it, scning from December 5,
JH50. to March ;i, INiO; was governor of Montana
Territfjry IsOi) and 1H~I); was llio Kcpublican candi-
date for the Forty-first t'ongress, and was defeated,
receiving 14,jyo votes against lu,CUT votes for T. H.
Uoag, Democrat.
Ashley, William H., was bom in Powliatan
County, Virginia, in 177S: received a public-school
education; removed to Missouri (then Upper Louisi-
ana) in 1S08; was a successful Indian trader, and
dealer in furs; was lieutenant-governor of Illinois in
1820; was elected a representative from Missouri in
the Twenty-second Congress, as a \Miig, on a getieral
ticket, and re-elected to the Twenty-ihinl and the
Twenty-fourth Congresses, serving from December
6, 1831, to March.*), 1837; died near Uoonville, Mis-
souri, March 20. 18:)8.
Ashmore, John D,, was bom In Greenville
District, Soutii Carolina, August 7. I«U»; received a
public-school education; was clerk in a sUire; taught
Mhoul; studied law, an<l was !ulmittcd to the bar, but
never practised; became a planter; was a member of
Uie State Douse of iSepresentatives in 184,8, J.s">!l,
and 18.52; was comptroller-general of the State
lS53-18o7; was elected a representative from South
Carolina in the Thirty-sixth Congress, as a State-
rights Democrat, snning from December 5, ISJU,
until he withdrew, DecemlnT 21, 1800, his .State hav-
ing seceded; served in the Confederate army; com-
mitted suiciilc by blowing out his brains at Sardis,
Mississippi. December 0. 1871.
Ashmun, Eli Porter, was bom at Blandford,
MttSiiachusetts. ,lunc 24. 1770; rei-eived a classical
education, graduating at Midillebury College in
1807; studied law; was admitted to the bar, and
practised at Blandford until 1807 ; was several times
a member of the State Senate and Ilonse of Repre-
sentatives; was elected a Unitcd-.Statcs senator from
Massachusetts to succeed Christopher G<irc, serving
from December 2, 1810, to May. 1818, when he nv
signed: died at Northampton, Massachusetts, May
10, 1810.
Ashmun, Qeorge, was bom at Blandford,
Miiss;«chusotts, December 25, 1804; received a cl.issi-
cal education, graduating at Yale College in 182;3;
stndied law; was admitto<l to the bar, and com-
menced practice at Springfield in 1828; w.is a mem-
ber of the State House of Rcpresenl.it Ives in 1S;B,
183.'>, l.SJil, 1838, and 1841, ser\lng the List year as
sneaker; was clwted a represenljitivo from JIass.v
cmisctts in the Twenty-ninth Congress, as aAMiig;
was re-«!lectcd to the ITiirtieth Congress, n-ceivirig
0,228 voti-s against 4.425 votes for TatMir, Democrat,
and 1,158 scattering; and was re-elected to the Thirty-
first Congress, serving from Decenilier 1, 1845, to
March 3, 1851 ; was pn^sident of the National Repub-
lican Convention at Chicago in 18t!i»; w.is a govern-
ment director in the Union Pacific R.iilroad ; died at
Springfield, M.issarliusetts, July 10, 1870.
Asper, Joel F., was bom In Adams County.
Pennsylvania. April 20, 1.822; removed with his
father to Ohio in 1827; workerl nn a farm and at-
tended school alternately; studied law, and wiui ad-
milleU to Uio bar hi l&k; wus clcctuU a justice of
the peace in 1640;. in 1S47, a prosecntiti!; aiiannf
'■nt
I In
ni«
" in tilt
iiallmul
Miv
IW,
for his county; was a delegate to !
vention of 1S48; editor of "The
Chronicle" in 184it. and i-f "The '
crat"' in 1850; in isiil he raised a .
at the battle of Winchester, w!- •■••
was promoted to the rank ol
1802; and, in 1803, he was uii:
" on account of wounds received in aciiun
latter year he organized a regiment of
guards, and conimanded*it at the I ' ' V.
Bridge in 1804. lie rvmoved to <
souri, where he practised law with .,..._ .^
and, in 1800, commenced the publication of "Tlw
Spectator;" was a delegate to the Chicago Conven-
tion; was elected a'repn>sentativc from Mitsourl la
the Forty-tirst Congress, as a Radical Rcpuhlicin,
receiving 15,272 votes against 8,029 votes for Oliver,
Democrat and Old-Line \Vhig, and serving {rum
March 4, IStiO, to March 3, 1871.
Atchison, David R., was bom at Prcgiowi,
Kentucky, August II, 18IJ7; received a liberal «ilu-
cation; studiiM law; was admitted to the bar, aad
commenced practice in Slis.souri in 1830; wajimon-
her of the St.ato legislature in 18.'U and ISS; nt
appointed judge of the I'latte-county Circuit tVurt
in IStl; was appointed United-States senator Irvm
Missouri, as a Derabcrat (in place of Lewis F. LImi,
deceasetl); and was subsequently elected atul n-
elected, serving from December 4, 184;J, to Maltb 3,
18.55; devoted himself to a^'ricultunil pursuits.
Atherton, Charles Gordon (s<in vi Ctarln
Humphrey Atherton), w.ia l>om at Amherst, Hew
Hampshire, .July 4, 1804; received a classical nltiitj-
tion, graduating at IIar^•ard College in 1822; jtujlnl
law under Charles U. Atherton (his father); wmikI-
niitted to the bar in 1825, and commcnccl fruVm
in Dunstable (now Nashua); was for tnanv.O'ii**
member of the St.ito House of Repnscutativn,
serving three years as speaker; w,i8 elected A nm-
sentative from New Hampshire in the Twontf-finli,
Twenty-sixth, and Twenty-seventh Congresses w«
Demoont, on general tickets; ami was electwl to ill*
Uniled-StJites Senate in 184.3, Ber\ing from Stftan-
ber4. 18;i7, until March 3, 18-19 (Moses Xorris. jua,
was chosen to succeed him); was again el«t«i •"
the United-Stales Senate in 1SJ2. dcfe.-iliualnl'*
ley, VVhig, and John P. Hale, Free-soil l>'mix'»»t;
and 8er\ed from March 4, lSo;5, until h« wiuiliid""
with parjilysis in court; and died at Slancljfsttti
Ni'W Ha.Tipshire, Novemi)er 15, 18.Vp.
Atherton, Charles Humphrey (faih" "
Charl's Gordon Atherton). was bom at imli('|»t.
New Hampshire. August 14. 1773; recoiTedui'liU*'™
education, graduating at Harvard College in IWt;
studied law; was admitted to the bar, anJ c""":
menccd practice at Andierst in 17l>7; was rogiltt™
probate. 17'J8-18:J7; w.is elected a rejiresentativf fi™"
New Hampshire in the Fourteenth Coiurress, M »
Fedi'nilist, ser\-itig from DecendK?r 4, i^l'>> ™'"
Man;h 3, 1817; declined a re-election; wnsamcnj^
of the .St.ite House of lU^prcsentatives in 1*3-1™
and 1S;J9; wrote s<'veral valualile historical article*,
and died suddenly of pneumonia at Amhenti ^"
Hampshire, Jannar>- 8. 1853.
Atkins, John D. C, was bom in H^
County, Tenncss<;e, June 4, l.'?i5; received » S<>^
early education, and graduated at the East-Tci
University in 1840; studied law; is a f.Tmii'i
elected a niemtier of the Tennessee House of
sentativcs in 1849 and in 1851; was elected to
St«te Senate of Tennessee in 18.'i5; was cUi
presidential eh-ctor in ISotl; was clcctol a inoi
of the House of Repres<'ntatives in the Consnss
the United Slates in 18-57: was on t'
electoriil ticket in 1800; v»iis lieutcn'
Fifth Teimessee liegiment in the < ■
in 1801; Wiis electi'd to the Confederate l'ro\lsi
Congresu In August, 1801; was tv-elccted in N'
bor, llSOl, and again elected in November, IStSi;
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dected a repietentatlye from Teaneasee in the Forty-
third Congress of the United States, as a Democrat,
receiving 11,411 votes against 7,734 votes for W. W.
Murray, Bepublican, and 1,369 votes for W. E. Tra-
vis, Independent Democrat; and was re-elected to
Uio Forty-fourth Congress, receiving 0,446 votes
ag^unst 4,789 votes for T. C. Muse, Republican.
Atkinson, Arohibald, was bom in Isle of
Wight Coanty, Virginia, September 13, 1792 ; received
a liberal education; studied law, completing his
studies at the law school of William and Mary Col-
lege ; served In the war of 1S12, and was at the battle
of Crany Island; commenced the practice of law at
Smithfield; served several years in the State Senate
and Honse of Delegates; was elected a representative
from Virginia in the Twenty-eighth Congress, as a
Democrat, receiving 1,780 votes against 1,784 votes
for Longhome, Whig; was re-elected to the Twenty-
ninth Congress, and was re-elected to the ThirtieUi
Coneress, receiving 2,238 votes against 2,166 votes
for Watts, Whig, serving from D^ember 4, 1843, to
March 3, 1840; was prosecuting attorney for Isle of
Wight County; and died at Smithfield, Virginia,
January 10, 1872.
Atlee, Samuel John, was bom in 1738; com-
manded a company of Pennsylvania rangers in the
French war, and a battalion of Pennsylvania conti-
nentals in the Revolutionary war; was taken pris-
oner by the British at the battle of Long Island ; was
a commissioner to treat with the Indians; was a
delegate from Pennsylvania to the Continental Con-
gress in 1778-1782; and died at Philadelphia No-
vember 7, 1786.
AtwoocL David, was bom In Bedford, New
Hamp8bii«ri>ecemt)er 15, 1815; received a common-
school education, and became an apprentice to the
printing business in Hamilton, Kew York, in 1832;
was for twenty-three years editor and publisher of
" The State Journal " at Madison, Wisconsin; was a
member of the legislature in 1861, United-States
assessor for four yeara, and mayor of Madison in
1868; was elected a representative for Wisconsin in
the Forty-first Congress, as a Republican, without
organized opposition, to fill the vacancy occasioned
by the death of B. F. Hopkins; and served from 1870
to March 3, 1871.
Austin, Archibald, was bom in Buckingham
County, Virginia, August 11, 1772; received a classi-
cal education; studied law; was admitted to the bar,
and commenced a practice in his native county
which was successfully extended over forty years;
was elected a representative from Virginia in the
Fifteenth Congr^, as a Democrat, defeating John
Randolph of Roanoke, and served from December 1,
1817, to March 3, 1810; was defeated as a candidate
for re-election by Mr. Randolph by 400 majority ; was
subsequently for several years a member of the State
legislature of Virginia, and so aggravated a chronic
lung complaint, while serving in 1835 and 1830, that
lie died at his residence In Buckingham County,
Virginia, October 10, 1837.
Averett, Thomas H., was bom In Virginia;
was elected a representative from Virginia in the
Thirty-first Congress, as a Democrat, receiving 2,113
votes against 2,1(» votes for Floumoy, Whig; and
was re-elected to the Thirty-second Congress, receiv-
ing 1,450 votes against 1,206 votes for Floumoy,
Whig, serving from December 3, 1849, to March 3,
1853.
Averill, John T., was bom at AIna, Maine,
Usrch 1, 1825; received a common-school and aca-
drmic education, and completed his studies at the
Uuine Wesleyan University; removed to St. Paul,
Wnnesota; was a manufacturer; was elected to the
State Senate of Minnesota in 1858 and 1850; entered
the Union army in August, 1862, as lieutenant-
colonel of the Sixth Minnesota Infantry, and was
mustcied out in November, 1865, as brigadier-general
of volunteers; was elected to the Forty-second Con-
giesi, as a Bepublican, receiving 17,133 votes against
14,401 votes for Ignatius Donnelly, Democrat, and
was re-elected to the Forty-third Congress, receiving
19,182 votes against 10,841 votes for G. L. Becker,
Democrat.
Aveiry, Daniel, was lx)m in Cayuga County,
New York; received a public-school education; was
elected a representative from New York in the
Twelfth Congress, as a Democrat, by a majority of
2,627 ; and was re-elected to the Thirteenth Congress,
serving from November 4, 1811, to March 3, 1815;
was again elected to the Fourteenth Congress, to fill
a vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Enos T.
Throop, serving from December 3, 1816, to March 3,
1817 ; and died at Aurora, New York.
Avery, William T., was bom in Maury County,
Tennessee, November 11, 1810; received an academic
education by his own exertions; studied law; was
admitted to the bar, and was a successful practitioner;
was a member of the State legislature of Tennessee
in 1843; was elected a representative in Congress
from Tennessee in the Thirty-fifth Congress, as a
Democrat, receiving 6,000 votes against 6,707 votes
for Stevens, American; and was re-elected to the
Thirty-sixth Congress, receiving 6,054 votes against
5,648 votes for Sneed, Opposition, and 236 votes for
Curi'in, Independent.
Axtell, Samuel B., was bom in Franklin
County, Ohio, October 14, 1810; was a student at the
Western-Reserve College, Ohio; studied law; was
admitted to the bar; removed to California, and com-
menced practice at San Francisco; was elected to the
Fortieth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 18,703
votes against 13,080 votes for Phelps, Union Repub-
lican; and was re-elected to the Forty-first Congress,
receiving 23,632 votes against 20,081 votes for Fix-
ley, Republican.
Aycrigg, John B., was bom in the State of New
York; removed to Psrramus, New Jersey ; was elected
a representative from New Jersey In the Twenty-fifth
Congress, as a Whig, on general ticket, serving from
September 4, 1837, to March 3, 1839; claimed to have
been elected to the Twenty-sixth Congress on gen-
eral ticket, receiving 28,294 votes, and received the
certificate of the governor, with the "broad seal" of
th6 State of New Jersey (but the House refused to
admit him and his Whig colleagues, and admitted
their Democratic competitors) ; was again elected to
the Twenty-seventh Congress, as a Whig, serving
from May 3, 1841, to March 3, 1843.
Ayer, Richard S., was bom in Waldo County,
Maine, October 0, 1820; received a common-school
education; was engaged for a number of years in
agricultural and mercantile pursuits ; at the breaking-
out of the Rebellion, he enlisted as a private in the
Fonrth Maine Volunteers, and was promoted to a
captaincy, which position he held for three years,
serving at the first battle of Bull Run, Seven Fines,
and Malvem Hill ; in 1865, he removed to Virginia;
in 1867, ho was elected a delegate to the Viiginia
Constitutional Convention; and he was elected a
representative from Vii^nia in the Forty-first Con-
gress, as a Republican, receiving 8,023 votes against
7,377 for Segar, Conservative, 5,050 for Lewis, Con-
servative, and 6,525 for Norton, Independent Re-
publican.
Babcook, Alfred, was bom in the State of New
York; received a public-school education: was elect-
ed a representative from New York In the Twenty-
seventh Congress, as a Whig, receiving 6,524 votes
against 4,300 votes for S. M. Burroughs, Van Buren
Democrat, and serving from May 31, 1841, to March
3, 1843.
Babbitt, IHiJah, was bom at Providence, Rhode
Island, in 1796; received an academic education; re-
moved to Pennsylvania, where he studied law; was
admitted to the bar in 1824, and commenced practice
at Erie; was b member of the State House of Repre-
sentatives In 1836 and 1837, and of the State Senate
in 1844 and 1845; was elected a representative from
Pennsylvania in the Thirty-sixth Congress, as a
266
COirOBESSIONAI. DIBECTOBT.
Unloniit, receiving 6,300 votes against 4,118 votes
for Marshall, Democrat; and was reelected to the
Thirty-seventh Congress, as a Kepublican, receiving
10,705 votes against 5,551 votes for Wilson, Democrat,
and serving from December 5, 1859, to March 4, 1861.
Baboock, Leander, was born in New York;
was elected a representative from New York in the
Thirty-second Congress, as a Democrat, receiving
8,423 votes against 7,130 votes for Williams, Whig,
and serving from Deceml)er 1, 1851, to March 3, 1853.
Babcock, William, was bom In New York;
was elected a representative from New York in the
Twenty-second Congress, serving from December 5,
1831, to Marcli 3, 1833.
Baoon, Ezekiel, was bom at Boston, Massachu-
setts, September 1, 1776; received a classical educa-
tion, graduating at Yale College in 17M; studied law
at the Litchiield Law School, and afterwards with
Kathan Dane at Beverly; was admitted to the bar,
and commenced practice at Stockbridge, Massachu-
setts; was a member of the State legislature in 1806
and 1807; was elected a representative from Massa-
chusetts in the Tenth Congress, as a Democrat, and
was re-elected to the Tenth, the Eleventh, and the
Twelfth Congresses, serving from October 26, 1807,
to March 3, 1813; was chief justice of the Court of
Common Pleas for the Western District of Massa-
chusetts ; was comptroller of the United-States Treas-
ury from Febmary 11, 1814, to Febraary 28, 1815;
removed to Utlca, New York, in 1816; was a member
of the State legislaturo of New York; was judge of
the Court of Common Pleas ; was a member of the
State Constitutional Convention in 1821; was the
Democratic candidate for the Nineteenth Congress,
but was defeated by Henry B. Storrs; and died at
Utica, October 18, 1870.
Baoon, John, was bom at Canterbury, Connec-
ticut, in 1737; received a classical education, gradu-
ating at Princeton College in 1765; studied theology;
preached in Somerset County, Maryland, in 1768,
and was settled over the Old South Church, JBoston,
September 25, 1771 ; was dismissed February 8, 1775,
owing to differences of opinion with his church, and
removed to Stockbridge, Massachusetts; was a mem-
ber of the State Senate and House of Bepresentatives,
and a judge of the Court of Common Pleas; was
elected a representative from Massachusetts in the
Seventh Congress, serving from December 7, 1801, to
March 3, 18(3; and died at Stockbridge, Massachu-
setts, October 25, 1820.
Baoon, William Johnson, was bom at Wil-
liamstown, Massachusetts, February 18, 1803; re-
moved to Utica, New York, in 1814; received a
classical education, graduating at Hamilton College
in 1822 ; commenced the study of law the same year
In the office of (General Joseph Eirklond, at Utica,
and completed it at the Litchfield Law School in
1824; was appointed corporation counsel of Utica in
1837 ; was a member of the New- York House of As-
sembly in 1850; was elected in 1853 a justice of the
Supreme Court for eight years, and in 1801 was re-
elected for another term of eight years; was elected
a trustee of Hamilton College in 1851; and was
elected to the Forty-flf th Congress, as a Republican,
Mrrliiii!;; 13,7tii) vii(r-s :igainst 13,009 votes for Scott
LorJ, Democrat,
Badger, George Edmund, was bom at New-
bcriw, North Camlina, April 13, 1705; received a
d.^ssicat oiiitaition, irraduating at Yale College in
ISiy? studied law with John Stanly; was admitted
to the bar. and eninraenced practice at Newberne;
was a memliftr nf the House of Commons of North
Curolina in IBUi; was elected judge of the Superior
Court In JS20. and survod until he resigned in 1825;
w;i9 (ippointeil spcrelary of the navy by President
Il^inisim, Miirch 5, i^U; and was re-appointed by
rrt'-iiCTit Tylur, liiii resigned September 13, 1841;
vv.i.^ elected Uniieil-S tales senator in 1840 (to fdl a
TiicLiiicy caused by Uie resignation of William H. Hey-
wood), m a Wlilg, and re-elected in 1840, serving
from December 14, 1846, to March 3, 18S5; was nomi-
nated as justice of the Supreme Court by President
Fillmore in 1851, but was not confirmed by the Senate;
was a member of the State Convention of 1861. and
spoke in defence of the Union; died at Balcigli,
North Carolina, May 11, 18C5.
Badger, Luther, was bom at Partridgefield,
Massachusetts, April 10, 1785; was taken to New
York by his father in 1780; received a classical edn-
cation, graduating at Hamilton College in ISOT;
studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1812, and
became a successful practitioner; was elected a rep-
resentative from New York in the Nineteenth Con-
gress, serving from December 5, 1825, until March 3,
1827; resumed practice In 1832; was examiner in
chancery, and commissioner of United-States loans,
1840-1843; was United-States attorney for the dis-
trict of New York 1843-1849.
Baer, Qeorge, Jun., was bom at Frederick,
Maryland; received a publif-school education; was
a merchant and a manufacturer; was elected a rep-
resentative from Maryland in the Fifth Congress;
and was re-elected to the Sixth Congress, serving
from May 15, 1797, until Mareh 3, 1801 ; was again
elected to the Fourteenth Congress, serving from
December 4, 1815, to March 3, 1817; died at Fred-
erick, Maryland.
Bagby, Arthur P., was bom In Virginia in
1794; received a liberal education; studied laV; was
admitted to the bar, and removed to Alal>ama, where
he commenced practice in 1818; was a member of
the State House of Bepresentatives in 1820-1822; was
fovemor of Alabama 18:37-1841 ; was elected United-
tates senator from Alabama (to fill the vacancy
caused by the resignation of C. C. Clay), as a Demo-
crat (defeating David Moore), and serving from
December 27, 1841, until he resigned, June 16, 1S48,
to accept the appointment from President Polk of
minister to Bussia, wliich he held until May, 1$49;
was a commissioner to revise the Code of Alabama;
died at Mobile, Alabama, September 21, 1858.
Bagby, John C, was bom at Glasgow, Ken-
tucky, January 24, 1819; was educated in the schools
of Barren Coimty, Kentucky; graduated as a civil
engineer at Bacon College, Harrodsburg, in June,
1840; studied law with Hon. Christopher Tompkins;
was admitted to the bar in March, 1845, and com-
menced practice at Bushville in April, 1840; never
held a public office of any kind until elected a repre-
sentative from New York in the Forty-fourth Con-
gress, as a Democrat, receiving 9,784 votes against
8,825 votes for Henderson Eitchle, Bepublican, and
serving from December 6, 1875, to Marfeh 3, 1877.
Bagley, Oteorge A., was bom at Watertown,
New York, July 22, 1826; received an academic edu-
cation; studied law; was admitted to the bar in
1847, and practised for six years, when he engaged
in the manufacture of iron, which he still continues;
was president of the village of Watertown in 18C6,
and supervisor of the town of Watertown in 1805,
1860, 1807, and 1868; was elected a representative
from New York in the Forty-fourth Congress, as a
Bepublican, receiving 14,391 votes agaiust 13,255
votes for Martin L. Graves, Granger, Liberal, and
Democrat; and was re-elected to the Forty-fifth Con-
gress, receiving 14,391 votes against 13,255 votes for
Martin L. Graves, serving from December 6, 1875.
Bagley, John H., Jun., was bom at Hudson,
New York, November 26, 1832; received a common-
school education; at the age of nineteen went to
California, where he wos engi^ed in mining and in
selling goods ; on his return he eng^ed in steamboat-
ing on the Hudson Biver, and was a merchant at
Catskill; served as supervisor of the town four terms;
was elected a representative from New York in the
Forty-foiuth Congress, as a Democrat, receiving
10,265 votes a!;ainst 12,700 votes for Seymour L.
Stebbins, Bepiiblican, and serving from December
0, 1875, to Moreh 3, 1877.
Baily, Joseph, was bom on the Brandywins
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battle-ground, Chester County, Pennsylvania, March
18, 1810; receWed a public-school education; was a
member of the State Senate and House from Chester
County 1830-1845, and from Perry County 1850-
1854; was treasurer of the State of Pennsylvania
1854; was elected arepresentatire from Pennsylvania
in the Thirty-seventh Congress, as a Democrat, re-
ceiving 12,069 votes against 11,712 votes for Junldn,
Bepauican ; -was re-elected to the Tlilrty-eighth Con-
gress, as a War Democrat, receiving 11,065 votes
j^inst 8,746 votes for Glosbrenner, Independent
Democrat, serving from July 4, 1861, to March 3,
1885.
Bailey, Alexander H., was bom at Mlnisink,
New Yoric, August 14, 1817; received a classical ed-
ucation, ^ndnating at Princeton College; studied
and practised law; was examiner in chancery in
Greene County in 1840, 1841, and 1842; was justice
of the peace in the town of Catslull for four years;
was a member of the General Assembly of the State
of Hew York in 1840; was county judge of Greene
County for four years from 1851 ; was a member of
the State Senate in 1861, 1802, 1803, and 1864; elected
a representative from New Tork in the Fortieth Con-
gress, as a Republican (to fill the vacancy occasioned
bv the resignation of Boscoe Conkitng), receiving
about 670 majority over F. Stryker, Democrat ; was
re-elected to the Forty-flist Congress, receiving
12,543 votes against 11,240 votes for Spriggs, Demo-
crat, and serving from November 30, 1807, to March
8, 1871 ; died at Kome, New York, April 20, 1874.
Bailey, David J., was born in Georgia; was
elected a representative from Georgia in the Thirty-
second Congress, as a State-rights Democrat, and
re-elected to the Thirty-third Congress, receiving
6,232 votes against 6,227 votes for Trippo, Whig,
and serving from December 1, 1851, to March 3, 1855.
Bailey, QoldEOmth F., was bom at Westmore-
land, New Hampshire, July 17, 1823. An orphan
when two years of age, he earned a public-school
education. In 1830 he began to Icam the art of print-
log, and became the assistaut printer and editor of a
country newspaper: commenced the study of law in
1815 with Torrey A Wood of Fitchburg, and when
admitted to the bar in December, 1848, was received
into that firm; was a member of the State House of
Kepresentatives in 1856, and a State senator in 1858
and I860: was elected a representative from Massa-
chusetts in the Thirty-seventh Congress, as a Bepub-
lican, receiving 0,745 votes t^ainst 7,040 votes for E.
Thayer, Independent Bepnblican, and serving from
July 4, 1861, until April, 1862, when his health forced
him to return home. He died of consumption, at
Fitchburg, Massaclmsetts, May 8, 1862.
Bailey, James E., was bom in Montgomery
County, Tennessee, August 15, 1822; received a clas-
sical education at the Clarksville Academy and at the
University of Nashville; studied law; was admitted
to the bar, and commenced practice at Clarksville in
18t3; was elected to the State House of Representa-
tives, as a Whig, in 1853; was not an original seces-
sionist, but served in the Confederate army; was
appointed by the governor of Tennessee to sit on the
Court of Arbitration in 1874; was elected United-
States senator from Teimessee (to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of Andrew Johnson, which had
been filled, by appointment, by D. M. Key), and took
his seat January 20, 1877.
Bailey, Jeremiah, was bom at Little Compton,
Bhode Island; received a classical education, gradu-
ating at Brown University; studied law; was admit-
ted to the bar, and commenced practice at Wiscasset,
Usine; was a member of the State House of Reprc-
•eutatives 1811-1814; was a judge of probate 1814-
ISilo; was a candidate for Congress, and was de-
feated, in 1823; was elected a representative from
Ualne in the Twenty-fourth Congress, as a Whig,
defeating Edward Kavanagh, Democrat, and serving
from December 7, 1835, to March 3, 1837 ; was defeated
u the Whig candidate for the Twenty-fifth Congress
by Jonathan OUlcy, Democrat; was collector of cus-
toms at Wiscasset 1840-1853; and died at Wiscasset
July 7. 1853.
Bailey, John, was bom in Norfolk County,
Massachusetts; received a classical education, gradu-
ating at Brown University in 1807; was a tutor in
Brown University 1808-1814; was a memlwr of the
State House of Bepresentatives 1815-1816; was a
clerk in the Department of State from October 1,
1817, to October 23, 1823; was elected on the eighth
day of September, 1823, a representative from Massa-
chusetts in the Eighteenth Congress, as an Adams
man. A protest was filed against his election on the
ground that he was not an inhabitant of the district,
and the House decided, March 18, 1824, that he was
not entitled to a seat; was again elected, receiving
1,661 votes, t>elng two more than a majority of all the
votes cast, and was sulieequently re-elected to the
Nineteenth, the Twentieth, and the Twenty-first
Congresses, serving from December 6, 1824, to March
3, 1831 ; died at Dorchester, Massachusetts, June 26,
1835.
Bailey, Theodoras, was bom in Dutchess
County, New York, Jime 11, 1752; was elected a
representative from New York in the Third Con-
gress, as a Democrat, and re-elected to the Fourth
Congress, serving from December 1, 1703, to March 3,
1707; was again elected to the Sixth Congress, and
re-elected to the Eighth Congress, serving from De-
cember 2, 1700, until March 3, 1803; was elected
United-States senator from New York, serving from
October 17, 1803, until January 10, 1804, when he
resigned, to accept the position of postmaster at the
city of New York, which he held until his death
there, September 6, 1828.
Baker, Caleb, was bom at Providence, Bhodo
Island ; removed to New York ; was a member of the
State Assembly there for four yean; was elected a
representative from New York In the Sixteenth Con-
gress, serving from December 6, 1819, to March 8,
1821.
Baker, David Jewett, was bom at East Had-
dam, Connecticut, September 7, 1702; received a
public-school education; removed with his parents
to Ontario County, New York, where he woiied on
a farm, and studied law; was admitted to the bar in
1819, and commenced practice at Kaskaria, Illinois;
was prominent in State politics, especially in his op-
position to a constitutional amendment sanctioning
slavery, proposed in 1823; was probate judge of Ban-
dolph County; was appointed to the United-States
Senate Noveml)er 12, 1830, as a Democrat (to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of John McLean), and
served from December 6, 1830, until January 4, 1831 ;
died at Alton, Illinois, August 6, 18C0.
Baker, Edward Dickinson, was bom at Lon-
don, England, February 24, 1811; was brought to the
United States in 1815 by his father, who fint settled
in Philadelphia as a weaver, and tanght the boy that
trade ; in 1825 the family removed to Illinois, where
the boy attended public school. He then studied
law, and served as a private in the Blaclc-Hawk war.
Admitted to the bar in Greene County, he commenced
practice at Springfield ; was a member of the State
House of Representatives in 1837, and of the State
Senate in 1840-1844; was elected a representative
from Illinois in the Twenty-ninth Congress, as a
Whig, serving from Decemlicr 1, 1845, until Decem-
ber 80, 1846, when he resigned, having previously
t>een commissioned as colonel of the Fourth Regiment
of Illinois Volunteers. Serving in the war against
Mexico, he participated in the siege of Vera Cruz,
and commanded a brigade at Cerro Gordo; removed
i^ter the war to Galena, Dlinois, and was again
elected to the Thirty-first Congress, receiving 10,325
votes against 0,3C2 votes for Wells, Democrat, and
serving from December 3, 1840, to March 3, 1851;
declined a re-election; removed to California in 1S51,
and practised; removed to Oregon in 1861, and was
elected a United-States senator from that State,
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COlTGBESSIOXAIi DIBECIOBT.
•taking hlB seat December 5, 1860; raised a re^ment
of California Tolanteeis In New Tork and Philadel-
phia at the breaking-out of the civil war, and took
the field as its colonel ; commanded a brigade at the
battle of Ball's BloS, where he was killed, October
21, 1861.
Baker, Ezra, was bom in Kew Jersey, and was
elected a representaUye in Congress from that State
in the Fourteenth Congress, senring from December
4, 1815, to March 3, 1817.
Baker, Jehu, was bom in Fayette County, Een-
tucl^, November 4, 1822; lecelved an academic
education; studied and practised law; was elected a
representative from Illinois in the Thirty-ninth Con-
gress, as a Union Republican, receiving 11,817 votes
against 11,741 votes for W. K. Morrison, Democrat;
and was le-elected to the Fortieth Congress, as a
Union Bepublican, receiving 13,032 votes against
ll,06d for Morrison, Democrat, serving from Decem-
ber 4, 1865, to March 3, 1869.
Backer, John, was a native of Virginia; received
an academic education; studied law; was admitted
to the bar, and practised ; was elected a representa-
tive from Virginia in the Twelfth Congress, as a
Federalist, receiving 111 majority over Daniel Mor-
fan. Democrat, serving from November 4, 1811, to
(arch 3, 1813; resumed practice; died at Shepherds-
town, Virginia, August 18, 1833.
Bakker, John H., was bom in Parma Township,
Kew York, February .28, 1832; removed at an early
age with his parents to the present county of Fulton,
Ohio, where ne assisted in such farm-labor as is inci-
dent to early pioneer life until less than a year before
attaining his majority. His early education while at
home was limited to the brief winter terms of a new
and sparsely-settled country. He afterward taught
school, and attended the Wesleyan University at
Delaware, Ohio, completing the first two years of the
college course ; studiedlawat Adrian, Michigan; was
admitted to the bar, and commenced practice in 1857
at Ooshen, Indiana; has been constantly engaged in
practice until his election to Congress, having pre-
viously held no office; was elected a representative
from Indiana in the Forty-fourth Congress, as a Re-
publican, receiving 13,071 votes against 13,013 votes
for Freeman Kelley, Democrat; and was re-elected
to the Forty-fifth Congress, receiving 18,481 votes
against 10,273 votes for Freeman Kelley, Democrat,
serving from December 6, 1875.
Baker, Osmyn, was bom at Amherst, Massa-
chusetts, May 18, 1800; received' a cloESical educa-
tion, graduating at Tale College in 1822; studied
law; was admitted to the bar, and commenced prac-
tice; was a member of the State legislature 1853-
1854 ; was elected a representative from Massachusetts
in the Twenty-sixth Congress (to fill the vacancy
caused by the decease of James C. Alvord), as a
Whig, the House cejecting a protest against his elec-
tion; and was re-elected to the Twenty-seventh Con-
gress and to the Twenty-eighth Congress, serving
mim December 2, 1839, to March 3, 1845 ; was elected
State councillor 1853-1854.
Baker, Stephen, was bom In New- York City
August 12, 1819; received a public-school education;
engaged in mercantile pursuits; amassed consider-
able wealth, and retircd in 1849 to a country-seat
near Poughkeepsie : was elected a representative from
New York in the Thirty-seventh Congress, as a Re-
publican, receiving 11,795 votes against 10,514 votes
lor Wager, Fusion Democrat, and 378 votes for Over-
heiser, Breckinridge Democrat, serving from July 4,
1801, to March 8, 1803. He was travelling on the
Union Pacific Railroad, and died suddenly as the
train was approaching Ogden, June 9, 1875.
Baker, William H., was bom at Lenox, New
Tork, January 17, 1827 ; removed with his father to
Oswego County, New York, in 1829; rcceived a com-
mon-school education ; studied law; was admitted to
the bar in 1851 ; located at Constantia, and practised
there; was elected district attorney in 1862, and re-
elected in 1866, acting as district attorney of Oswego
County from January, 1803, to Jauuair, 187(t; wm
elected a representative from New York in theFortv-
fourth Congress, as a Republican, receiving 12,119
votes against 11,109 votes for A. 8. Warner, Republi-
can, Independent, and Democrat; and was re-elected
to the Forty-fifth Congress, receiving 10,555 virtra
against 11,708 votes for Bond, Democrat and Pro-
hibitionist, and 556 votes for Richardson, Democrat,
serving from December 6, 1875, to March 3, 1877.
Baldwin, Abraham (half-brother to Henry
Baldwin), was bom at Guilford, Connecticut, No-
vember 6, 1754; received a classical education,
graduating at Yale College in 1772 ; was a tutor of
mathematics there until 1777, studying theology, and
served as chaplain in the Revolutionary army 1777-
1783; removed to Savannah; was admitted to the
bar, and commenced practice there ; was a member of
the State legislature in 1784; was a delegate to the
Continental Congress 1785-1788; was a member of
the United-States Constitutional Convention; was
elected a representative from Georgia in the first
Congress, as a Democrat, and was re-elected to the
Second, Third, Fourth, and Fifth Congresses, lerrii^
from April 20, 1788, to March 3, 1799; was chosen a
United-States senator from Georgia, serving from
December 2, 1799; was elected president pro lempon
of the Senate December 7, 1801, and April 17, 1802,
until he died, at Washington City, March 4, 1^.
Baldwin, Augustus C, was bom at Salina,
New York, Decembeir 24, 1817; received a public-
school education; removed to Michigan in 1837;
taught school; studied law; was admitted to the bar
in 1812, and commenced practice in OiUdand County,
Michigan; was a member of the State legislature in
1844 and 1840; was prosecuting attorney for Oalc-
land County in 1853 and 1854; was a delate to the
National Democratic Convention, whidi met at
Charlestown and at Baltimore in l&iSO; was elected a
representative from Michigan to the Thirty-eighth
Congress, as a Union Democrat, receiving 10,^ vote*
against 10,432 votes forR. £. Trowbridge, Republican,
and serving from December 7, 1863, to March 3, 1S65;
was defeated as the Democratic candidate for the
Thirty-ninth Congress, receiving 11,037 votes against
12,047 votes for R. E. Trowbridge, Republican,
and contested the seat, on the ground, that, by on
act of the legislature of Michigan, soldiers had been
permitted to vote outside of the State ; but the House,
by a vote of 108 yeas against 30 nays, decided that
Mr. Trowbridge should retain the seat; was a dele-
gate to the National Democratic Convention at Chi-
cago in 1804, and the Peace Convention at FhiUr-
delphia in 1866.
Baldwin, Henry (half-brother of Abraham
Baldwin), was bom at New Haven, Connecticut, in
1779; received a classical education, graduating at
Yale College in 1797; studied law; was admitted to
the bar, and settled at Pittsburg, Peimsylvania; was
elected a representative from Pennsylvania in the
Fifteenth Congress, as a Federalist; was re-elected to
the Sixteenth Congress, defeating S. Douglas, and
was re-elected to the Seventeenth Congress, serving
from December 1, 1817, until he resigned in 1822;
was appointed a justice of the United-States Supreme
Court, and served until he died, at Philodelpbia,
April 21, 1844 He was the author of " A General
View of the Origin and Nature of the Constitution
and Govenmient of the United States," published at
Philadelphia in 1837.
Baldwin, John, was bom at Windham, Con-
necticut; held several local offices; was elected a
representative from Connecticut in the Nineteenth
Congress; and was re<'lected to the Twentieth Coih
grcss, serving from December 6, 182&, to Maith £,
1809.
Baldwin; John Denison, was bora ji Itwtt
Stonington, Comiecticaf - ■ - -^
at Yale Colli
devoted hii
STATISTICAL SKETCHES.
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nect«d editorially with the prem until he became
editor and proprietor of " The Worcester Spy ; " was
elected a representative from Massachusetts in the
Thirty-eighth Congress, as a Republican, receiving
](),123 rotes asainst 6,178 votes for Wlutin, Demo-
crat: was re-elected to the Thirty-ninth Congress,
rpcciving 12,055 votes against 4,377 votes for Hodges,
Democrat ; and was re-elected to the Fortieth Con-
gress, receiving 0,U39 votes against 1,001 votes for
Williams, Democrat, serving from December 7, 1808,
to March 3, 1809; resumed his editorial labors; pub-
lished, in 1847, "Raymond Hill and other Poems,"
and " Pre-Historlc Nations."
Baldwin, Boger Sherman (son of Simeon
Baldwin), was bom at New Haven, Connecticut,
January 4, 1703; received a classical education, grad-
uating at Tale College in 1811 ; studied at the Litch-
field Law School ; was admitted to the bar in 1814,
and commenced practice at New Haven; was a mem-
ber of Uie State Senate in 1837, and of the State
House of Representatives in 1840, 1841 ; was governor
of Connecticut 1844-1840; was appointed by the gov-
ernor of Connecticut United-States senator (to fill
the vacancy caused by the death of T. W. Hunting-
ton), as a Whig, and subsequently elected for the
remainder of Mr. Huntington's term, serving from
December 7, 1847, to March 8, 1851.
Baldwin, Simeon (father of lioger S. Baldwin),
was bom at Norwich, Connecticut, December 14,
1701; received a classical education, graduating at
Yale College in 1781. and remaining there as tutor
17i^l-17St! ; stmiifil law; was ndmiut J to the bar, and
comiin-Miceil priictite ;itNi!w Haven; was clerk of the
District auil Circuit Cuurts 17t*i>-17l)o; was elected a
iicprc»eut.itivn from ConniKJticut in the Eighth Con-
gr«!««, M a Ftwloniliat, serving from October 17, 1803,
loM^rch 3, l!^U3; was jutlgu at Iho State Supreme
Court ISfXHSl"; was president nt the commission to
Incnte I ho Farmiiigton Canal lt^2£-1330; was mayot
uf New Haven in lb2U; and died at New Haven May
20, l>t>l.
Ball, Ed^rard, was boni in Virginia; was elected
a rf-'presoulalive from Ohio in the Thirty-third Con-
gn»9, .is a Whi;;. receiving 7,l(il voles against 0,347
TottfsfiirC.iay, Uemin'r-at, nml IWU votes for Blanchard,
rreo-Soilcr; and was re-elected to the Thirty-fourth
Oangtvas, as a Republican, receiving 7,205 votes
R{;i^st G,07:d votes for Uulii^her, Dt^mocrat, serving
fnim Decern bt!r 5, IS-Vt, (» March 3, 1357; was elected
itrqKiiit-atHitnis of the Houso u( licgircsentatlves for
Uic Thirl v-«eventh Con stress, serving from July 5,
Wl, t'l Dcivmlter 8, mii.
Ball, William Liee, woa Iwm in Lancaster
Ciiunty, Virsrinla, in nT'J; was elected a representa-
tive from Virginia in the Fifteenth Congress; and
w.\i re-electod to the Slitcenth. Seventeenth, and
EiEhleenth Congresses, starving from December 1,
im. until his UL>.iih, at Washiiigtoa City, February
Sfe*. 1S24.
Ballou, Latimer W., was bom at Cumber-
UdiI, Itbt^e Islantl, Mandi 1, IU12; received his edu-
cation at the public schools and academies in the
vicinity; removed to Cambriiljjo, Massachusetts, In
IftiJl, anil Icarneil thn art (if printing; at " The Uni-
versity Press ; " established " Tho Cambridge Press "
b 1833, and continued in the bu^iaess until 1842,
when ho removed to Woonsocket, Rhodo Island, and
tugged in mercantile ptusiiils; was chosen in 1850
Mihier (if the VV.tonsijckot^Falls Itank, and treasurer
of tho Woonsockpt IiiatUution fur Savings, which
ptwitiona ho has retained for twciify-five years; was
Ktira in the organ i^iti on (if the RepubUcan party,
»ad was president of the Fremont Club in Woon-
M;ki>iin ISSO; was presidential elector on theLin-
cala and Qamtin ticket in li^JU; was a delegate to the
Sattcoal S«)Utilican Convention which nominated
*■'■"" -"'' *v:|»on at Phi I at If" 1 1 ih ill in 1872; was
■*entativo Irtmi lilitnio Island In tho
<\30grvts, aa a iif [niiitican, receiving
'^ixMiMMt a^iMt l,Sii votes for Samuel Rodman,
Democrat; and was re-elected to the Forty-fifth Cor-
gress, receiving 7,170 votes against 6,296 votes for
Page, Democrat, serving from December 0, 1875.
Banister, John, was bom in Virginia; received
a classical education in England, and studied law at
the Temple ; returned to Virginia, and toolc a promi-
nent port In the anti-revolutionary movements ; was
a colonel in the Virginia line; was a member of the
Vii^inla House of Representatives ; was a delegate
from Virginia to the Continental Confess, serving
from March 10, 1778, to September 24, 1778; was one
of the framers of the Articles of Confederation;
served as lieutenant^olonel of Virginia cavalry in
1781, and was active in repelling the British Invaders;
and died near Hatcher's Run, Dinwiddle County,
Virginia, 1787:
Banks, John, was bom In Juniata County,
Pennsylvania, October 17, 1793 ; received a classical
education ; studied law ; was admitted to the bar in
1819, and commenced practice in Western Pennsyl-
vania; filled several local ofilces; was elected a repre-
sentative from Pennsylvania in the Twenty-second
Congress, and was re-elected to the Twenty-third and
Twenty-fourth Congres8<3s, serving from Decembers,
1831, until he resigned in 1830, when he was ap-
pointed by Governor Hitter judge of the Berks Judi-
cial District (in place of Garrick Mallcry, resigned):
was defeated as the Whig candidate for governor of
Pennsylvania In 1841, receiving 113,573 votes against
130,570 votes for Porter, Democrat; was State treas-
urer of Peimsylvanla in 1847, resigning his judgeship;
resumed practice at Reading, Peimsylvania, and died
there April 3, 1804.
Banks, Linn, was bom in Madison County, Vir-
ginia; was for twenty successive years speaker of the
Vii^nia House of Delegates, an office for which he
was so peculiarly quaUiied that he was selected to fill
it In all the mutations of party; declined further ser-
vice in the legislature in 1838, and was elected to the
Twenty-fifth Congress, as a Democrat (to fill the
vacancy occasioned by the resignation of John M.
Patton), defeating Mr. Slaughter by 13 majority; waa
re-elected to the Twenty-sixth Congress, receiving
1,785 votes against 1,300 votes for Slaughter; and
was re-elected . to the Twenty-seventh Congress
against William Smith, also a Democrat, who suc-
cessfully contested the election ; resigned at the close
of the extra session, having served from May 10, 1838,
to September 13, 1841, and submitted the case to the
voters of the district, who elected Smith by a small
majority; was thrown from his horse and drowned
while attempting to ford Conway River, January 14,
1842.
Banks, Nathaniel Prentiss, was bom -at
Waltham, Massachusetts, January 30, 1810; received
a public-school education; was a factory operative:
became a newspaper editor, and afterwards studied
law ; was a member of the Massachiuetts legislature
In 1840, 1850, 1851, and 1852, and was two years
speaker of the House; was elected to the State
Senate in 1851, but, being a member of the House,
declined ; was a member of the Constitutional Con-
vention of Massachusetts In 1853, and was chosen its
president; was elected a representative from Massa^
chusetts In the Thirty-third Congress, as a Coali-
tion Democrat, on the second trial ; was re-elected to
the Thirty-fourtli Congress, as an American, receiv-
ing 0,050 votes against 2,707 votes for L. V. Bell,
Whig, and 715 votes for B. Buckman, Democrat:
was elected speaker of the House after a protracted
contest; was re-elected to the Thirty-fifth Con-
gress, as a Republican, receiving 10,814 votes against
4,503 votes for Isaac H. Wright, Democrat, and
2,040 votes for Isaac Story, American, serving from
December 5, 1853, until December 4, 1857, when he
resigned, having been elected governor of Massachu-
setts ; served as governor from January, 1658, until
January, 1801 ; was president of the Ullnois Central
Railroad ; entered the Union army as major-general
of volunteers in 1801, and served throughout the
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CONGEESSIONAL DIBECrrOET.
war; was agidn elected to the Thirty-ninth Congreas
ito nil the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of
). W. Gooch), as a Union Republican, receiving
8,128 votes against 1,088 votes for Greenwood, Dem-
ocrat: was re-elected to the Fortieth Congress, as a
Bepublican, receiving 10,07^ votes against 3,866 votes
for Prince, Democrat; was re-elected to the Forty-
first Congress, as a Republican, receiving 13,033 votes
against 7,187 votes for Prince, Democrat; was re-
elected to the Forty-second Congress, as a Repub-
lican, receiving 10,548 votes against 6.123 votes for
Tarbox, Democrat, and 034 votes for Clark, Prohibi-
tionist, serving from December 4, 18G5, to March S,
1873; was defeated as the Liberal Republican and
Democratic candidate for the Forty-third Congress,
receiving 8,030 votes against 12,472 votes for Gooch,
Republican; was ^ain elected to the Forty-fourth
Congress as a Liberal Republican, receiving 13,438
votes against 7,263 votes for Grooch, RepubUcan; and
was re-elected to the Forty-fifth Congress, as a Re-
publican, receiving 13,325 votes against 12,317 votes
for Richard Frothingham, Democrat, serving from
December 0, 1875.
Banninff, Hemry B., was bom at Mount Ver-
non, Ohio, November 10, 1834; received a common-
school and acadenuc education; studied and prac-
tised law at Mount Vernon, Ohio, until April, 1861,
when he enlisted as a private soldier, and was pro-
moted successively to the rank of captain, major,
lieutenant-colonel, colonel, brevet brigadier-general,
and brevet major-general ; represented Knox County
in the Ohio legislature in 180(3 and 1867; removed to
Cincinnati in the year 1809, where he resumed the
practice of the law; was elected a representative from
Ohio in the Forty-third Congress, as a Liberal Re-
publican, receiving 11,038 votes i^ainst 9,532 votes
for Rutherford B. Hayes, Republican ; was re-elected
to the Forty-fourth Congress, as a Democrat, receiv-
ing 10,852 votes against 0,317 votes for Steven, Re-
publican; re-elected to the Forty-fifth Congress, re-
ceiving 14,133 votes against 14,053 votes for Stanley
Matthews, Republican, and serving from December
1, 1873.
Barber, J. Allen, was bom at Georgia, Ver-
mont; after a partial course of studies at the Univer^
Bity of Vermont, studied law, and was admitted to
practice in 1833; in 1837, he removed to the then
Territory of Wisconsin, and settled at Lancaster,
Grant County, where he has since practised. He was
a member of the first Constitutional Convention of
Wisconsin in 1848; was elected to the State Assembly
of Wisconsin in 1852, 1853, and 1863, serving the last
year as speaker; was elected to the State Senate in
1850 and 1857; was olected a representative from
Wisconsin in the Forty-second Congress, as a Repub-
lican, receiving 11,503 votes against 8,156 votes for
J. Strachan, Democrat; and was re-elected to the
Forty-third Congress, receiving 13,745 votes against
9,880 votes for Warden, Democrat, serving from
December 4, 1871, to March 3, 1875.
Baxber, Levi, was bom in Litchfield County,
Connecticut; removed to Ohio; was elected a repre-
sentative from Ohio in the Fifteenth Congress, serv-
ing from December 1, 1817, to March 3, 1810; was
deff^toil !is n camliilrvto for the Sixteenth Congress,
rocciviug 1,81)3 vot^s against 2,727 votes for Henry
Brosh, mvl l,iKA vfitcs for Edward Tupper; was
a^iitii eloctcd to tlic Seventeenth Congress, defeating
lifonry Brush, aad serving from December 3, 1821, to
Man-li;i, imx
Barbor, Noyes, was bom at Groton, Connecti-
cut, April 2S, nsi; ruceivod a public-school educa-
tion; was clerk In a store; studied law; was admitted
to the b.-ir, aad practised at Groton; was elected a
roprfwntatlvo from t'oimecticut in the Eighteenth
fJoiigCL'Ss; and was re-elected to the Nineteenth,
Twoiitieth, Twenty-fiir,!, Twenty-second, and Twen-
ty-tlilnl Congrrt-sses, Serving from December 1, 1821,
to March 3, 1845; rositmtid practice; and died at Gro-
ton, CouikecUcut, January 8, 1845.
Barbour, Jamee^as bora in Ortmge County,
Virginia, June 10, 1775; received a publio4chool
education; studied law while serving as deputy-
sheriff; was admitted to the bar in ITtH, and com-
menced practice; was a member of the Virginis
House of Delegates, and its speaker; was a United-
States senator from Virginia, anti Democratic and
State Rights, from January 11, 1815, to March 7,
1825, when he resigned on being appointed secretaor;
of war by President John Quincy Adams; was min-
ister to England from May, 23, 1828, to Scptanber
23, 1820; and died near Gordons villc, Virginia, June
8,1842.
Barbour, John S., was l)om In Culpeper
County, Virginia, August 8, 1700; received a closi-
cal education, graduating at William and Mary Col-
lege in 1808; studied law with his relative. Governor
James Barbour, and was admitted to the bar; wai
aide-de-camp to General Madison in the war of 1812;
was a member of the State legislature; was elected a
representative from Virginia m the Eighteenth Con-
gress, as a State-rights Democrat, by 60 majority,
and was re-elected to the Nineteenth, Twentieth,
Twenty-first, and Twenty-second Congresses, serring
from December 1, 1823, unUl March 8, 1833; was a
member of the Virginia Constitutional Convention
of 1829, 1830; and died in Culpeper County, Virginia,
January 12, 1855.
Barbour, Luoien, was bom at Canton, Connect-
icut, March 4, 1811 ; received a classical education,
graduating at Amherst Coll^ in 1837; removed to
Indiana; studied law; was admitted to the bar; com-
menced practice at Indianapolis; was appointed
United-States district attorney for the district of In-
diana; was a commissioner to codify the laws of
Indiana in 1852 jwas elected a representative from
Indiana in the Thirty-fourth Congress, as a Repub-
lican, receiving 9,824 votes against 0,^80 votes for
fiendricks. Democrat, and serving from December
3, 1855, to March 3, 1857.
Barbour, Philip Pendleton, was bom to
Orange County, Virginia, in 1790; received a classi-
cal education; studied law, and practised with suc-
cess; was elected a representative from Virginia in
the Fourteenth Congress, as a Democrat; and was
re-elected to the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, Seventeenth,
and £Ughteenth Congresses without opposition, serv-
ing from September 10, 1814, until he resigned in
February, 1825; was chosen speaker in 1821; was ap-
pointed judge of the Vireinia General Court for the
Eastern District in 182;^ fin place of Judge Hohnes,
deceased) ; was again elected a representative to the
Twentieth and Twenty-first Congresses, serving from
December 3, 1827, until he resigned. May 81, 1S30;
received 46 votes for candidate for Vice-President at
the Democratic National Convention at Baltimore in
1832, at which Jackson and Van Buren were nomi-
nated; was appointed by President Jackson associ-
ate justice of the Supreme Court, March 15, 1838,
and held the ofiice until found dead in his bed. at
Washington City, of ossification of the heart, Feb-
mary 25, 1841.
Barclay, David, was bom in Pennsylvania; was
elected a representative from Pennsylvania in the
Thirty-fourth Congress, as a Democrat, receiving
10,115 votes against 3,527 votes for Arthurs, Whig,
and serving from December 3, 1865, to March 3, 1857.
Bard, JJavid, was Imm in Pennsylvania; re-
ceived a classical education, graduating at Princeton
College in 1778; was elected a representative from
Pennsylvania in the Fourth Congress, and was re-
elected to the Fifth Congress, serving from December
7, 1795, to March 3, 1709; was agata elected to Uia
Eighth Congress; and was re-elected to the Nmth,
Tenth, Eleventh, Twelfth, and Thirteenth Con-
gresses, serving from October 17, 1803, imtil March
3, 1815. Soon after the expiration of his congressional
service, he died in Virginia.
Barker, Abraham A., was liom at Lorell,
Maine, March 80, 1816; received a public-acbool odu-
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cation; was a farmer; removed to Pennsylvania in
IS^, and engaged in ttie lumber trade ; was a dele-
gate to the National Republican Convention at Chi-
cago in 1860; was elected a representative from
Pennsylvania in the Thirty-ninth Congress, as a
Union Republican, receiving 0,225 votes against
8,710 votes for Johnston, Democrat, and serving
from December 4, 1865, to March 3, 1807.
Bcu'ker, David, ]un., was bom at Stratham,
Kew Hampshire, January 8, 1707; received a classical
education at Exeter Academy and at Harvard College,
where he ^^uated in 1815; studied law with John
P. Hale at Rochester, New Hampshire; was admitted
to the bar in 1810, and commenced practice there;
was an ori^nal member of the New-Hampshire His-
torical Society; was several years a member of the
State legislature ; was elected to the Twentieth Con-
gress, serving from December 3, 1827, to March 3, 1820 ;
resumed practice at Rochester; and died there, of a
heart disease, April 1, 1834.
Barker, Jacob, was bom at Swan Island, Maine,
December 7, 1770 ; received a public-school education ;
i>ecame a ship-owner, and engaged in commercial spec-
ulations ; removed to New- York City, where he be-
came a noted financier; was amemt>cr of the State
Senate of New Yorlt; lost his property, and was in-
dicted for conspiracy to defraud, after the failure of
a life-insurance company of which ho was the mana-
ger; removed to New Orleans in 1834 ; was admitted to
the bar there,and became a business and political lead-
er; was elected from Louisiana to the Tliirty-ninth
Congress (in accordance with the advice of President
Johnson), as a Conservative ; and his credentials were
presented December 10, 1805, but he was not admit-
ted to a seat; became again bankrapt in 1867; and
died at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, December 27,
mi.
Barker, Joseph, was bom in Massachusetts in
1751; received a classical education, studying two
years at Harvard College, and graduating at Yale Col-
lege in 1771; studied theology, and was ordained as a
pastor; was elected a representative from Massachu-
setts in the Ninth Congress, and was re-elected to the
Tenth Congress, serving from December 2, 1805, to
March 3, 1800; died in 1815.
BarksdaJe, William, was bom in Rutherford
County, Tennessee, August 21, 1821 ; received a clas-
sical education, and was a student at tlie Nashville
Unirersity; studied law at Columbia; was admitted
to the liEu-, and removed to Columbus, Mississippi,
where he practised ; edited " The Columbus Demo-
crat ; " served in the Mexican war as quartermaster of
the Second Mississippi Volunteers; was a member of
the National Democratic Convention of 1852; was
elected a representative from Mississippi in the
Thirty-third Congress, as a State-rights Democrat,
for the State at large, receiving '29,102 votes against
25. 183 votes for Bradford, Whig ; was re-elected to the
Thirty-fourth Congress, receiving 7,346 votes against
5.S04 Votes for Cobb, American ; was re-elected to the
lliirty-fifth Congress without opposition, receiving
5.5:)(» votes; and was re-elected to the Thirty-sixth
Congress without opposition, receiving 7,126 votes,
(crniigfrom Decemlier 5, 1853, until January 12, 1861,
when he retired, and entered the military service of
the Sonthem Confederacy. He attained the rank of
brigadier-oeneral August 12, 1862, commanding a
Mississippi brigade in Longstreet's corps; and was
lulled at the battle of Gettysbuig, Pennsylvania, July
2,1863.
Barlow, Stephen, was Iram in Pennsylvania,
and was elected a repres^tative from that State in
the Twentieth Congress, serving from December 8,
Ift-I. to March .% 1820.
Barnard, Daniel Dewey, was bom In Berk-
shire County, Mavachusetts, July 16, 1707; received
a classical education, graduating at Williams College
iolH18; studied taw; was admitted to the bar in 1821,
and practised at Rochester, New York ; was prosecut-
ing attorney in 1826; was elected a representative
from New York in the Twentieth Congress, serving
from December 3, 1827, to March 3, 1820; travelled in
Europe in 1S31, and, on his return in 1832, removed to
Albany; was a member of the State Assembly; was
again elected to the Twenty-sixth Congress, as a
Whig, receiving 6,680 votes against 6,145 votes for
Gallup, Democrat; was re-elected to the Twenty-sev-
enth Congress, receiving 6,351 votes against 6,073
votes for Jrench, Van Buren Democrat; and was re-
elected to the Twenty-eighth Congress, serving from
December 2, 1830, to March 8, 1846; was mimster to
Prussia from September 3, 1850, to September 21, 1863;
was a contributor to literary reviews; and died at
Albany, New York, April 24, 1861.
Barnard. Isaac D., was bom at Aston, Penn-
sylvania, July 18, 1701 ; received a public-school edu-
cation; studied law; was appointed captain in the
Fourteenth United-States Infantry March 12, 1812;
and after distinguishing himself, especially at the en-
gagements of Lyons Creek and Fort George, he left
the service in 1815; resumed his legal studies; was
admitted to the bar, and commenced practice at West-
chester in 1816; was deputy attorney-general in 1817;
was a State senator in 1820 ; was State secretary of state
in 1826; was elected a United-ijtates senator from
Pennsylvania, serving from Decembers, 1827, until he
resigned in 1811 ; and died at Westchester, Pennsylva-
nia, Febmary28, 1834.
Barnes, Demas, was bom at Gorham, New
York, April 4, 1827; received an academic education;
was reared on a farm; was a clerk in a country store;
removed to New-York City in 1840, and engaged in
the wholesale drug and medicine business; was elect-
ed a representative from New York in the Fortieth
Congress, as a Democrat, receiving 16,614 votes against
8,085 votes for Van Brunt, Republican, and 384 votes
for Hughes, Independent Democrat, serving from
March 4, 1807, to March 3, 1860.
Barney, John (the son of Commodore Joshua
Barney), was bom at Baltimore in 1785; was an un-
successful candidate for Congress in 1823; was elect-
ed a representative from Maryland in the Nineteenth
Congress, as an Adams anti-Democrat, receiving 5,517
votes against 6,347 votes for Isaac McKim ; and was
re-elected to the Twentieth Congress, serving from
December 5, 1825, to March 3, 1820.
Bamett, William, was bom in Virginia; re-
moved to Georgia; was elected a representative from
Georgia in the Twelfth Congress (in place of Howell
Cobb, resigned), as a State-rights Democrat; and
was re-elected to the Fifteenth Congress, ferving
from November 27, 1812, to March 3, 1816; was ap-
pointed a member of the commission to establish the
boundaries of the Creek-Indian reservation in 1615.
Bamitz, Charles A., was bom at York, Penn-
sylvania, September 11, 1780; received a liberi'l edu-
cation; studied law; was admitted to the br.r, and
practised at York; was elected to the State Senate of
Pennsylvania in 1816; was elected a representative
from Pennsylvania in the Twenty-third Coiigiess, as
a friend of Clay, defeating Doctor Adam King, Jack-
son Democrat, and serving from December 2, 1833,
until March 3, 1835 ; was president of the York Bank;
and died at York, Pennsylvania, January 8, 1850.
Bamum, William H., was bom September 17,
1818; received a public-school education; engaged in
the manufacture of iron ; was elected a representa-
tive from Connecticut in the Fortieth Congress, as a
Democrat, receiving 13,083 votes against 12,103 votes
for P. T. Bamum, Republican; was re-elected to the
Forty-first Congress, receiving 13,075 votes against
11,016 votes for Beardsley, Republican; w^as re-elected
to the Forty-second Congress, defeating Coffin,Repnb-
lican; was re-elected to the Forty-third Congress, re-
ceiving 12,561 votes against 10,790 votes for Miner,
Republican ; and was re-elected to the Forty-fourth
Congress, receiving 14,275 votes against 11,646 votes
for Hubbard, Republican, and 075 votes for Hedge,
Proliibitionist: and resigning May 22, 1876, when he
was elected a iTnited-States senator from Connect!-
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cut, as a Democrat (in place of Orris Ferry, Repub-
lican), ho took his seat in the Senate May 22, 1870.
Barnwell, Robert, was bom In South Carolina,
and was a representative from that State in the. Seconil
Congress, from < Ictobpr 24, 17!tl, to March 2, HO-i.
Barnwell, Robert Woodwaxd, was bom in
Soutli Carolina August M. isoi ; reecivnil a classical
education, graduating at Harvard Collcire in 1821;
8tudie<l law; was admitted to the bar, nutl practised;
was elected a represcntalivo from .South Carolina In
the Twent)--first Congrefs, and was roH'lcctcd to the
Thirtieth Congniss. serving from I)<'ceml)er 7. 1820,
to March :), 1S2:J; declined being a candidate for re-
election; was appfiintcd United-.Statcs senator from
South Carolina (in pi.ice of Franklin II. Elmore, de-
ceased), and served from Juno 2-1, 1850. to .January *l,
1851; was a commissioner from South Carolina to
confer with the Federal Rovernracnt regarding the
secession of that Slate in Deceinlirr. lS('>(t; was a
member of the Provisional Congress of the Confeder-
ate Stales. Bcr\'ing from Febraar)- 4. 1801, to February
1, 1802; was a senator from South Carolina in the
Confederate Congress, serving from February 1, 1802,
to February 18. 1800; was president of the University
of South Carolina.
Baxr, Thomas J., wa» bom at New York in
1812; received a puldic-school education; w.as the
landlord of a hotel In New Jersey 1S;j5-1842; returned
to New- York City, and was an a.s8igtaiit nidcmian
1840-1*>(); was a Stale senator in 1853; was elected
a representative from New York in the TUirly-lifth
Congress (in the place of John Kelly, resigned), as
a Democrat, and w.as re-elected to tie Thirty-sixth
Congress as an Independent Democrat, receiving
■3,041) votes against 2,071 votes for Stephens. Demo-
crot. 2,290 votes for Urennan, Republican, 710 voles
for Farmer, Democrat, and 300 votes for Iliuted,
American, serving from January 17, 1^9, to March
4, 1801.
Barrere, Granville, was bom in Ilighland
County, Ohio, where he received a public-school
education, and afterward attended collega at Au-
gusl.a, Kentucky, and Marietta. Ohio; studied law;
was mlmilted to the bar in Ohio, and commenced
practice in IlUnois in l.S.")0; devoted his entire atten-
tion to his ))rofe»sion until elected a representative
from Illinois in the Forty-third Congress, as a Ke-
publican, receiving 12,0.")5 votes against 10,7iK) voles
for N. E. Worthinpt^in. Democrat, and sening from
December 1, 1873, to March 3, 1,S75.
Bairere, Nelson, of Hillsborough, Ohio, was
elected a represent.ativc from Ohio in the Thirty-
second Congress, as a Wliig, receiving 5.515 voles
against 5,2 IS) votes for E. M. EUsberry, Democrat, and
Bor\'ing from DecemlK>r 1. 1851, until March 3, 18.53;
was defeated n-s the Whig candidate for the Thirty-
third (i'onsn'ss. receiving 7,208 votes against 7,47i>
votes for Ellison, Democrat,
Barrett, J. Richaxd, was bom in Kentucky;
removed to St. Louis; was the president of the St.
Louis Agricullnral .Society, and organized its liighly-
Buctessfiil exhibitions; claimed a B<!at as a repri'sen-
tatlvn from Missouri in the TThirty-slxth Congress.
but It was awarded, tune 8. 1801), to Francis P. Blair,
who soon aflerwanls resigned; was elected to the
vacant seat in the Thirty-sixth Congress, as a Demo-
crat, receiving 12,802 voles against 12.6;18 for Francis
P. Ulair, Hciiulilicaii. and served from December .3,
1,801, to March 3. lSO;j; was defeated as the Demo-
cratic candidate for the Thirty-seventh Congress, re-
ceiving 0.007 votes against 11.4.53 votes for Blair,
Republican, and 4..542 votes for Todd, American.
Barrinfirer, Qaniel L., was bom in Cabarrus
(then Meelilenburg) County. North Carolin.a. Octo-
ber 1. 1788; received a classical eilucation; studied
law; was admitted to the oar, and practised in Wake
County, where he married; was a member of the
House'of Commons of Nortli C.irulina in 1813. 1810,
1821, and 1822; was elected a reprcsentativQ in the
Nineteenth Congress (in the place of W. Hongiuu,
resigned), as a Democrat, defeating .Tames Mel
by 7 m.ajorily; was re<'leeted to the Twentieth C
gress, defeating A. L. Murphy by 220 majority: wi
ro-elected to the Tweiity-lirst C'ongress. defeat ini
James A. Craig by l,i)0<l majority; was re-ele<:ted t>
the Twenty-second Congress, as a J.kckson Detn
cnit, receiving 3,082 votes against 3,074 voles f
Edward De Berry. Adams Democrat; and was
elected to the Twenty-third Congress, defeating J.l
O. A. Williiunson by 01 votes, 8er\'ing from Decei
her 4, 1820, to March 3, 18:15; was di^feated as
Whig candidate for the Twenty-fourth Congress,
receiving 2,(N)0 against 2,440 for William Monlgoi
cry. Democrat; removed to Tennessee; was a me
l)cr of the State House of Represejitallvcs, am
chosen its speaker; and died in Tennessee Octol
II). 18.J2.
Barringer, Daniel Moreaii, was bom 1;
Cabarrus County. North Carolina, in July. ISOtii
received a classical education, graduating at the ISu
versity of North Carolina iu 1820; studied law undcri
Chief Justice Ruflin; w.ts admitted to the bar, mi'
commenced practice in 1.820; was a member of th'
House of Commons of North Carolina in Ji-iaO, IS
1.831. 18;J2, IS-Ci. 18;U. 1.H40, .and ie42: was a membci
of the Ciuislitutionai Convention in 1835: was ciccli
a repn'sent.ativo from North Carolina to the Twenty-
eighth Congress, as a V^^lig, receiving 4,1.'>5 voti
against 3.787 votes for Cnilge, Democrat; was
elected to the Twenly-ninlh Congress, receivinL
5,:i08 votes against 6,;342 votes for Ch.arlcs Fisher,
Democrat: was re-elected to the Tliirtieth Congre
receiving 3,412 votes against 702 votes for I^ak(v|
Democrat, serving from December 4, 1S4;J, untui
March 3, 1840; was appointed by President Tayloi
minister to Spjiin, antl served from June 18, 1840^
until .September 4, 18.5.3; returned home, and waa
elected to the State House of Representatives in 18M,
but ileclincd a re-election in 1855; was a delegate to,
the Peace Congress of 1801. i
Barrow, Alexander, was bom near KashviUo,^
Tennessee, in 1801; was educated at the West-Poinl'
Military Academy; studied law at Nashville; wa(
adinitU^l to Ibe b;ir, and soon afterwards removed to
Louisiana, where he practised a few years; then de-
voted himseir to agricultural pursuits; was several
years a inemlier of iho State legislature of Louisi-
ana; w:i8 chosen United-States senator from LonisI
ana. as a Whig, serving from M.iy 31, 1841, until bit
ileatU. which occurred suddenlv. while he was on A|
visit at Ualtimore, December 20, 1S46.
Barrow, Washington, was bom in Davidson
County, Tennessee. Octobers, 1817; received a clas-
sical education; studied law; was admitted to the
bar. and practiseil; was minister to Portugal from
August 10, 1841. to Fel)ru.iry 24, 1844: was elected
representative from Tennessee in the Thirtieth Con
gress, as a Wliig, serving from December 0, 1847,
March ;i, 1840; edited "The Nashville Banner;",
was State senator in 1800, 1801 ; was member of
commission which negotiated a military league with
the Southeni Confederacy. May 4. 1801; was airested
by onler of Governor Andrew Johnson March 23,
1802, and imprisoned In the penitentiary at Nash-
ville, but released the following week by order of
President Lincoln; died at St. Louis, Missouri, Oc-
tober 111, 18110.
Barry, Henry W., was bom in New York: wm
self-educated; was principal of Locust-Grove Acid-
emy, Kcntneky, for two ye.irs; graduated at the
Columbian Law College, Washington, District of
Columbia; enten-d the Union amiy as a private early
in tlic war; organized the fiiiil regiment of colored
troops raised in Kentucky; commanded a brigade,
and, for a time, a division of the anny; wa.s brevi'tteii
major-general; was a member of the Slate Constitu-
tional Convention of Mississippi ift 1807; was elected
to Ibe State Senate of Mississippi in 1808; was elected
a represenLiUvc from Mississippi in the Forty-Qist
Congress, as a BcpubUcou; was re-elected to Uit
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Jorty-sccond CongroM, receiving 12,012 votes npiinst
IKK) votes for Steoii. Ucmocriit, nml l,^il7 votes for
Flore, Conservative; was re-eleeted to llie Korty-
ilrtl {Congress, n>eeiviii(j l."),()47 voles against 0,440
otes for BoMin^, I>enio<Tat. and scrx'ed from April
1871). lo Mareh 4, 187o; visited Wasliinifton City
ilie following ,Iunc; and died there, of apoplexy,
June 7, 1S7-).
Barry, William Taylor, wiis born at Lunen-
burg;, Virginia. Keliruarj' 'i. 1744; n-eeived a classieal
ediicttion, gnuluating nt William and Mary College
ISOJi: studied law; w.-is admitted to the bar, and
«oniuicnced praetiee at Jyexin'^ton, Ki.'nturky; was
cleett'd a representative from Kentuikv in the Elev-
entli Congress, as a Demoerat (to till the vaeaney
caused hy the apftoinliiient of B. G. Howard to be
pivemor of Indiana Territor\'), and served from
l)oi-eml>er l-t. isio, until Mareh":!. 1S11 ; sen-ed in the
Indian warof lsi:J, and was aide-de-oamp tofJovenmr
JSliilliy at the battle of thr Th.'irnes; was a member of
the Stut<? House of R<!presentatives, anil was electeil
Its speaker; was appointed to the United-.States
Senate In 1814 (to (ill the vacanev eaused by the resig-
nation of Geort»e M. Bibb), ami 8<'rved from Febru-
ary 2, 181."), until he n'signod in ISlii; w.ia appointed
judge of the Supreme Court of Kenlurky; was
elceti'd lieutenant-govr-nior; was ap|K>inted pro-
fessor of law and politics in Tninsylvania Univer-
sity, at Lexington, in ISiil ; was suet-essively seere-
t:u->- of stale and chief justice of the .Supreme
f'r>iirt of Kentucky; w.is appointed iwslniaster-
gi'txral by Preciilent Jackson Manh 0, lS;il». and
Was the first poslnixster-gcneral Invited to sit in the
Cabinet; resigned April 10, ISO.'), when he w;is aji-
point<>d minister plenil>otentiary to Spain; died on
nis way to Ma^lrid, at Liverpool, EnRlund, August
30. IjCjo. His remains were brouglit home by direc-
tion of the legislature of Kentucky, and re-interred
in Frankfort *.'cmetiT>-, with M.'isonie honors, No-
vember H, l,s.->4.
Barry, William Taylor Sullivan, was bom
«t Columbus. Mississippi, December 12, 1821; re-
ceived a cl.issical education, graduating at Yale Col-
ieste in ls41; studied law; was admitted to the bar,
&nd practised at Columbus; had planting interests
In Oklibba and Sunflower Counties, making the lat-
t-«?r his residence in 185:1; was elected a repn'senta-
tire from Mississippi in the Thirty-third Congress, as
^k. Democrat, n-ceiving 7,'tjJI votes against O.lkil votes
^«ir Wilcox, Whig, anil serving from DeceralK-r 5,
J*5;i, to March 3, lS.>i; w.ts president of the State
cession Convention of l.stil ; w;is a mcmlier of the
^B.^*rovisional Confederate Congress, ser\iiig from Keb-
X. unry 4. 1801, to January, 1862, when he reBigned, t-o
^»ntcr the military sen-Ice; recnilted and comniauded
■fSie Thirty-tifth Mississippi Volunteers, acting sev-
«?5 ral times :ws comiuaiidcr of the briciule to which he
"fc»elonged, until captured at Mobile, April 12, IStto;
^»~>eBiiiued practice at Columbus; and died there, of
^Consumption, .lannarv 20, 1808.
Barstow, Qamaliel H., was bom in the State
«:if New York in 1785: was treasurer of the State of
^^few York 1825-1828; was several limes a member
«3f the .Stale .Senate and Assembly; was elected a
'WTjpn's.'ntative from New York in the Twenty-second
*!7orisress. serviiu; from Deceml>er a, 1!^;}1, to Mareh
«, ISW; died at Nichols, New York, April, 1,S<5.'5.
Barstow, Gideon, was bom In Essex County.
Massachusetts, in 17s:i; was a memlier of the State
ff^ — I House iif I>epresentati\es: was electeil a
I ive ill (Ningri'ss from Massachusetts, in
11: '•■enth Congress, as a Democrat, by 20()
*iajorily over Timothy Pickering, Federalist, and
•crving from DecemlK-r 3, 1821, to March .1, 1.82:1:
«lie<l at .S(. Au'jnisliiK', Florida, March 20, 18.)2.
Bartlett, Bailey, was boni r.t Havrrhill. Mas-
»«ehiis«>tts. HI 17.V1; received a public-school cducii-
tiun; was a clerk in his f.tther's Knglish-^iKKls ston\
«od then carried on tin- business until 1789; was n
member of the Stole Uuuiv of licpresoaUitivcs in
1781, 1782, and 1783, declining a re-election in 1784;
was a delegate to the .State Convention to ratify the
Federal Constitution in 1787; was again a member
of the State House of IJepn'sentatives in 178,8, and
of the .State Senate in 17811; was appointed high
shcrill of Es.sex County In 1780, and held the office
over forty years con.secutively, except between De-
cemlwr 6, 1811, and January 20, 1812, when he was
superseded on political grounds by f»ovenior (i^erry,
and apiM)inted county treasurer by the commission*
era of Essex County; was elected a representative
from MiLSsaehusetts in the Fifth Congress (in the
place of Theophilus Bradbury. n^signecT), as a Fed-
endist, and WiLS re-elected to the Sixtli Congress, serv-
ing from Novemlwr 27, 1707, to March :i, 1801; was
on the defeated Federal electoral ticket in 1804; was
a delegate to the State Coiistitulioiial Convention in
1820; was a presidential elector on the Adams and
Hush ticket in 1824; was a pniminent member of the
st.ite and county agricultural societies; and died at
Haverhill. Ma.s,sacliusetts, .ScptemlHT 0, 18;W).
Bartlett, Ichabod, w.as bom at Salisbury, New
Hampshire, July 24, 178»?; received a classical edu-
cation, graduating at Dartmouth in 1808; studied
law under Moses Eastman at S.disbury; was admit-
tetl to the bar in 1811; commenced practice at Dur-
h;un, but removed to Portsmouth in 1810; was clerk
of the State Sen.-ite 1817-1818; was a member of the
State House of Representatives in 1820 and 1821,
sert'ing the last year as speaker; was .in active militia
officer; was State solicitor for Rockingham County
in 1810, 1S20, and 1821; was elected a representative
from New Ilamjishire in the Eigliteeiith Congress,
as an anli-DemocRit, receiving 10,4<!4 votes on a
general ticket, and successively re-elected to the
Nineteenth and Twentieth Congresses, serving from
Deceml)er 1, 182:1, until Mareh :j, 1.820; was ap-
IMiintcd chief justice of the Court of Common
Pleas established in 182.), but declined, preferring to
reui.iin in Coiiaress; was again a member of the
.State House of Hepresent.atives in 1830; was defeated
as the Whig candidate for governor. In 18.S2, by Sam-
uel Dinsmoor, Democrat; was again a member of
the Stale House of IJepresentati'ves in 18:18, 1851,
and 18.'i2; was a member of the .State Constitutional
Convention of 18.50; and died nt Portsmouth, New
Hampshire. October 10, 18,5:1.
Baxtlett, Josiah, was bom at Amesbury, Mas-
sachusetts, Noveml)er 21, 1727 (old style); received an
academical education; studied medicine under Dr.
Ordway at Amesbury, and commenced practice at
Kingston, New Hampshire, in 1748; was a member
of the colonial legislature of New Hampshire, and
filled various offices of tmst under the royal govern-
ment; was chosen a delegate from New Hampshire
to the Continental Congn'ss which met at Philadel-
phia in September, 1775; atiil was the first, after
Pn'sidcnt Hancock, to sign the Declaration of Inde-
[lendence. He resigtied in Noveinl>er, 1778; was ap-
pointed chief justice of the Court of Conunon Pleas
soon afterwards; was transferred to the .Superior
lienoh in Novemlier, 1782, and there officiated until
be was apjiointed, in 1788. chief justice of the .State.
He was elected to the United-States Simate from
New Hampshire in 1780, but declined, and also re-
signed the office of chief justice; was elected presi-
dent of the State of New Hampshire in 1700; took
an active part in formins the New-Hampshire Medi-
cal Society, and was elected its first president in
1701; was a member of the Constitutional Conven-
tion of 17l>2 (which substituted the title of govemor
for that of president), and was the first chief magis-
trate of New Hampshire with the ijtle of govemor;
received the boiioniry degnM-s of M.A. and M.D,
from Dartnioutli Collese; and died suddenly, of pii-
ralvsis, at Kingston, New Hampshire, May 10, 1705.
fiartlett, JoBlah, jun. (a son of i)r. Josiiili
Bartlett), was bom at Kingston, New Hampshire, J
Dweniber 10. 1708; studied medicine, and commeneeaj
practice at Strathaui, New Hampshire ; was cbuaeu i
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ilicplacc of J. McIJTaine. deeeaaeil). He aertvd is tk«
Vnll«d-8t«tcs Senate from Pewaibef 7. ISM, ntll
he reaigned in JannaiT, ISUO; died at CedarriDe,
Vrw Jcrecr. JannJUT 2ft, 1829.
Batee, SSdwaro, «a« born at Bebnont, Goocb-
laiid County, Virginia, September 4, 1798: ppcelrei
tho ruilimrnta of a lilwral edacation at Chorlnlt*-
lUll Aciuleiny, Maryland, and obtained a midsbip-
Tiian'ii wnmtnt in 1812, bnt was prerented by bia
iiiiitlii-r fniiii going to Ben; served as sergipant in
III" wliit«r of 18ia-18l3 in llie volunteer brigade
riiiM;il for tlio dcfeni-e of Xorfolli; removed to St.
l.oul«, wlifro Ills diler limthfr was established, in
|H|4; stuilli^l law with Itiifiis Easton; was admitted
til lli« l«ir In 1H17. iiml ■•oninionofd practice; was
I'lrniit |irii»i'<'iiliii({ nllnnii-y in IHIS; was a member
of tlir (■(iiirontiou wlijrh fonm.-d the tState oonatitit-
tJon In WM; wiis Htate iit tomey^geiH'ral in 1820; was
II nii'mlK-r i>f llio 8tiit<' IIoiiso of IJcpri'sentatiyes in
IMu'j; wiin iriiit)-iKsiitti-<i illstrli-t nitomcy 1821-18atJ;
wim rliM'li'il a ii'iinwentdtive from Mifsouri in the
Twi'iilli'tli ('iiiiitirss, as an Ailiinis aiiti-Ofmocrat,
ivri'lvliiK il,ll.'l.j votes against ■l.l.'i.j votes for John
hodt, l*i-mocr»t, and serving from Docemlwr ;i, 18^,
STATISTICAL SKETCHES.
275
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to March 3, 1S20; wiw defeated as the anti-Dcmo-
enitie canitiiiatc for the Twenty-first ConpreMi; was
•iff mem I K-r of Ihi- .Stale Senate in lAJO. and i>f the
Slatc Umise of Itepresentativcs in 1.h:U; was a metn-
b^r i>f the Internal Irapmvemeiit Convention at
Chlcngo in IS^V; was offered a seat in the cabinet by
President Fillmore, but deolim^l it; was jnd^e of the
St, Louis Land Court ISiJ-lKjO; presided at the
Kationul WliiK Convention at IJaltimore in llViti;
i36f* altoniev-Keneral in President Lineohi's ealiiiiet
Ihrch, ISt'ii -September, 1S(J4; died at St. Louis
March i'j, IHiiK.
Bates, Isaac C, was bom at Granville, Massn-
cliusetts. May 14, 1780; received a classical educa-
tion. Rraduutinj; at Yale (joiicgo in 1K0:J; studied
law; w.xs admitted to the bar, and practised at North-
ampton: was several years a member successively
of the Exwutive Council, the Stale .Senate, and the
Stale House of Hepresenlatives; w!is elected a repre-
sentative fivim Massachusetts in the Twentieth Con-
gress, as an anti-Jiickson man, nH'eivins I,8S.1 votes
against D-KI votes for Latlimii, Demix-ral, and 2.'W
votes scattering; and was re-elected to the Twenty-
flrst, Twenlv^iecond, and Twentv-lhird Congresses,
•erring from December 3, 1827, to March 3, 18*j;
declined n ro-«dectiou; w.as a presidential elector
from Massachusetts in I.S:I7 and in ISH; was chosen
Unite'd-St.ates Benat<>r fmm M.as5ai'husetts (in place
of .John U.ivis, rcsiRiied on Ix-inij elected governor),
and si'rving from .lanuarv, 1)^1, until his death at
TVa.>«hin!?l«n City, March l"fl, l.S+'J.
Bates, James, was born in the Stat« of Maine;
stuilied medicine; was llci-nseil, and commfiiced
practice; was a physician at the Augusta Insane
lABspital; removed to Xorridgewock, where he paiil
* .t attention to the cultivation and improvement
fami; edited "The Democralic Somerset Viepnb-
llcan," established at Xorridgewock June 10, IS'JS;
elect«M a representative (mm Maine in the
wcnly-second Congn-ss, ser^'ing from Dec(^ml)cr T),
,ls;}l. to March 3, lS:;:i; was president of the Soraer-
»ct-county Agricultural Society.
Bates, James Woodson, was bom in Gooch-
lanci County, Virginia: removed to Arkansas Terri-
jXory: was elected a delegate from there to the Six-
"echth Congress, and re-elected to the Seventeenth
ongress. serving from March 2, 1820, to March 3,
.S2-i; W.T.S ajipointed a juilge of the Supn'me Court
of Arkansas; died at Van liuren, Arkansas, January
20, 1847.
Bates, Martin W., was bom at Shllsbury,
^Z'onnecticut, Febniary 24, 1787; receive<V a liberal
[luc.itiori, and removed to Delaware at au early age;
aught school; studied medicine, and then studied
aw; was admitted to the bar, and practised at
over; was a member of the State Ccmstitutional
onventionof ISTjO; was electe<l a United-States seua-
■OT from Delaware (to fill the vaeancy caused by the
«Seath of John M. Clayton), as a Democrat, ser»-ing
^rora Decemlicr 0, 18.V, to March 3, ISJiO; died at
JDover, Delaware, January 1, l.SOO.
Battle, CnUen G., was a Breckinridge elector
*rom .\labama in l.SOO; served in the Confederate
^rtny. attaining the rank of brigadier-cenernl ; w.as
elected a representative from Alab.ania in the Tliirty-
liinlh Congress, jis a Conser\ative, <lefeating tJeorge
X. Herse. but w;is not admitted to a seat.
Baxter, Elisha, of Litlle Itock, was elected a
Tiiil4'<I-Stati's senator fmm Arkansas in 1804, but
■was ni>t [M-rmitled to t.ike his seat, on the gmund
that the .St,ato had not been legally rt3con8tructed ;
was govenior of Arkans.-is 1874, l.S7.'J.
BeLzter, PortUS, was bom at Brownington,
Vermont: received an academic education: became
a raercimnt; was a .Scott presidential elector in 18.')2,
and a Fremont elector In ISVl; w.as elected a repre-
WntAtive from Vermont in the Tliirty-sevenlh Con-
a nepuMican, n'ceiving 8,;J2(i votes against
for Chaffee, Democrat; was re-elected to
Tty-cighth Congress, receiving 1,'£U votes
against 2,673 votes for Harrington, Democrat; and
was re-elected to the Thirty-ninth Congress, receiv-
ing !t,4n8 votes against 3,2.81 votes for Iliirriugton,
Democrat, ser\-ing from July 4, I.8<H, to March 3,
18<S7; died at WiLsliington March 4, 1808.
Bay, William v. N., was bom in New York;
received a public-school education; removo<I to Mis-
souri, and located at Union, Newton County; was
elected a represeutalive from Missouri in the Thirty-
first Congn^'ss, as a Democr.it, rveelving 8.394 voles
against 0,008 votes for Porter, Whig, imd serving
from December 3. 1.840, to Marc-h 3, 18.JI.
Bayard, James Asheton (father of James A.
Bayard and Kichard H. Bayard, and grandf.athcr of
Thomas Francis Bayard), was lioni ut Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, July 28, 1707; n-ceived a classical edu-
<'ation, graduating iit Princeton College in 1784;
studieil law uiuler tieneral Joaepli Heed; was ad-
mitted to the bar, and practised at Wilmington,
Delaware; was offered the mission to Fninee by
President .\dams, and declined it; was elected a
reiiresentative from Delaware in the Fifth Congress,
as a Ferloralist, and was re-tdected to the .Sixth and
Seventh Congresses, serving from May 16, 1707, to
March 3, 180:j; was elected a United-.States senator
from Del.aware (in place of William Hill Wells, re-
signed), serving from January l-'i. 180;"i. to Starch 3,
181:5; was appointed by President Madison one of
Iheconunission to negotiate peai^e with (Jreat Briloin;
resigned his seat in the Senate, and went to Europe
in May, 1814; aided in negotiating the Treaty of
Ghent in Deceinl)er, 1814; was commissioned minis-
ter to Russia February 2.8, ISl.^, but declined, although
bo expressed his willingness to negotiate a commer-
cial treaty with Great Britain. Comijelled by a seri-
ous illness to n-tum liome, he arrived at Wilmington
in June, and tlied there August 0, 181.5.
Bayard, James A. (son of James A. Bayard,
and father of Thomas Francis Bayard), was l)om at
Wilmington. Delaware, November 15, 1700; n>ceived
a classical education; studie<l law; was admitted to
the bar, and pr.ictised at Wilmington ; was elected a
United-States senator from Delawiire in 1R51, as a
Democrat {In the place of Jcdin Wales. Whig); was
re-elected in 1R")7, and was again r<>-electe<l in 1808,
sen-ing from December 1, IS^il, until his resignation
January 30, 1804; was apiiointcd a United-States
senator, as a Democrat (to fill the vacancy occasioned
by the death of Hon. Geoi^e Head Kiddle), and was
»ul>sequcntly elected for the unexpired terra, serving
from April 1, 1807, to March 3, 1800; was a delegate
to the National Democratic Convention at New Yorit
in i.ti;s.
Bayard, John, was boni in Cecil County, Mary-
lanrl, August II, 17.38; received a lilK^ral education;
engaged in mercantile pursuits at Philadelphia;
was many years a memlter of the Pennsylvania As-
sembly, Bcr%ing several sessions as speaker; was a
member of the Pennsylvania Committee of .Safety;
was major of the Second Battalion of I'hiladclpbia
Volunteers, which he eommnnded at the battle of
Trenton; w.as a delegate from Pennsylvania to the
Coiitineiital Congress I78.)-17.87; removed In 1783 to
New BrniiKwick, of which place be Ix-came mayor,
and judge of the Court of Common Pleas.
Bayard, Richard H., w.as born at Wilmington,
Delawan". I74*'; reci'ived a liberal educalion, gradu-
ating at Princeton College in 1814; studied law; was
admitted to the l)ar, ond practised; was elected a
United-States senator, as a Whig (to fill a vacancy
occasioned by the resignatitm of Arnold Naudin),
and servcfi from June 20, I8:W, to September, 1839,
when he resigned, to accept the appointment of
chief justice of Delaware (in the place of John M.
Clayton, resigned); was again elected to the United-
States Sen.ate, serving from December 2, ISiJO, to
March 3, IS^I; was appointed rharrie il'tiffaires to
Belgium December 10, 18o0. anil served until .Sep-
|em)H>r 12, 1853; died at Philadelphia March 4,
1803.
276
CONGRESSIONAL DIBECTOBY.
Bayard, Thomas Francis (grandson of James
A. Biiyanl, and smi nf Jainos A. Uay.inl), was bf>ni
at VVilniinfftou, IX-lunare, OcioIxt Ift). 1825J; was
chiefly eitucatod at the Flushing School, established
by llev. Dr. F. L. Ilawks; and, although his early
trainiiii! was for a mercantile life, he studied and
Bdo|i(i-<t the profession of law. Ue came to the bar
In 1S.")1 : and cveeplinj the years 18.Vj ami 185(1, when
he resided in I'hilailelphia. Ue has always nraclised
In his native city. In 18.V1 he was appointed United-
Stales district nttoniey for Delaware, but resigned
in 1.S.54; was elected United-Statcj senator from
Delaware, as a Democrat, to succeed .lames A. Uay-
anl (his father); fool? his seat March 4, 1S09, and
was re-elected in LS?."). His term of 9er>ice will ex-
pire March .'5, I.'<><l.
Bayard, William, was a natire of Xew York;
was a member of the Assembly in IVH; was a dele-
gate from New York to the Colonial Congress which
met at New York < )etobi'r 7, 17(15.
Bayley, Thomas, w.is bom in Somerset County,
Maryland ; nii^eived a classical education, graduating
at Princeton College in 171*4; was elected a represen-
tative from Maryland in the Fifteenth Congress; and
was re-elected to the Sixteenth and Seventeenth
Congresses, senlng from December 1, 1817, to March
3, IHiJ.
Bayley, Thomas Hemr (*<>" "^ Tliomas M.
Bayly), wiis lH)ru at the nnce«;lnil homestead In
Ac(x>mac County, Virginia, Decemln-r 11. 1810;
received a classical education, graduating at the
University of Virginia; studied law: was iwlmitterl to
the bar in 18;W. and conimcnccil practice; was a
memlicr of the St.ite .Vsseinhly ls;5.5-i84Ci, resigning
on being elected judge of the Circuit Court; was
elected a representative from Virginia in the 'IVenty-
eighth Congress, as a Democrat (to fill a vac.incy
occasioned ny the resign.ilion of Henry A. Wise).
receiving a majority of 75 over Carter, \Vhig. and
was siiccessively r<}-elccted, without opposition, to
the Twenty-ninth, Thirtieth, Thirty-tirst, Thirty-
second. Thirty-third, and Thirty-fourth Congresses,
serving from May ti, 1S44, until his death, at his
home in Aceomac County, June 2.1. IS.">(1.
Baylies, Francis (brother of William Baylies),
W.1S born at Taunton, Massachusetts, October Id,
1783; received an academic education; studied law
with his brollier, Willi.im Baylies; was admitted to
the bar, and practised; was register of probate for
Bristol County 1812-1820; was rlectcil a represen-
tative from Siassachus<'tts in the Seventeenth Con-
gress, receiving 100 ra.ijority over Marcus Morton,
and was re-elected to the KiKhttx-nth Cotign'ss, and
to the Nineteenth Congress on the s<.'cond trial, de-
feating llcxiges, serving from December 3, 1821, to
Man-h 3. 1827 ; commissioned chariii li 'affairen to the
Ai^entine Republic January 3, 1832, ajid received
his passports Sf'pteml)er 8, 18.12; dicnl at Taunton,
M.-wsachusutts, l)rtol>er3^, 18.'>2.
Baylies, William (brother of Francis Baylies),
was bom at Taunton, Miissachusi>tts, October 10,
1783; studied law with Seth Padelford at Taunton;
was admitteil to the bar. and eomnicnced prilctice at
West Hriilgi'water; was a meinU'r of the State legis-
lature 18U8-1,S0!). 1812-1813. 1S2(V1,S21, 18,fO-lK;Jl,
and of the State Senate 1825-182(1; was elected a
representative from JIassa<'huselts to the Eleventh
Congress, as a War Democrat, and took his seat in
May. 1800 (but the House declared his opinment,
Charles Turner, jun.. Peace candidate, to have l)oen
elected at a prvvious election, which the governor of
Massachusetts had declared void, and gave Turner
the scat June 28, 1809); was again elected to the
Thirteenth Congress, as a Democrat, and re-elected
to the Fourteenth Congress, serving from May 24.
1813, to Mari'h 3, 1817; w.is again elected to the
Twenty-third Congn'ss. jis a Uemwral. receiving
2,447 votes of the 5,ivs7 voles cast, serving from
December 2, 1833, to March 3, 1835; was defeated as
the Whig caudiiiatc for election to the Tweuty-
fourth Congress, receiving 3,GS4 votes against 4,400
votes for Borden, Democrat ; died at Taunton, Sep-
tember 27. 1S<S.
Baylor, R. K. B., was elected a reprcsentativa
from Alal)ama in the Twenty-lirsl Congn'ss, receiv-
ing a large majority over Barton anil Ellis, and
serving from Dei-.'uii'xT 7, 182tl, lo M.irch 3. IS'.l.
Bayly, Thomas M. (father of Thomas llcnry
B.iyley), was lioni at the ancestral home iu Aceomac
County, Virginia, September 2, 1775; received a
classical education, graduating at Princeton Col-
lege in 1794; entered public life in 1708 as a Demo-
crat, and served several years in each of the two
houses of the State legislature; was elected k
representative from Virginia in the Thirteenth Con-
gress, as a Democrat, serving from May 24, 1813, to
March 3, 1815; was aflerwanis several times defied
to the State legislatun^, and enjoyed the conti<lenca
of his constituents during many agitated political
phases, never having lost an election, and rarely
ever having one closely contested; died in Accomafi
County, Virginia, January (i, 1834.
Bayne, Thomas M., was defeated as the Re-
publican candidate from the Pittsburg district in
the Forty-fourth Comrress, receiving 4.!»SK1 votes
against 5,2.V) votes for Alexander G. Cochrane,
Democrat, .ind 2,803 vote? ''"• v l'i!r> i >tice. Inde-
pendent Democrat ; was ell' .live from
Pi'iinsylvania in the Forty-iii - a l{opul»-
lican, receiving 12,.'y)«5 votes agaiusl 8.J;;i) votes for
A. (r. Cochrane, Democrat, aiul 151 voles for Thom:ia
II. Rabe, Prohibitionist, Ber\ing from December 0,
1875.
Beach, Samuel Fergurson, of Alexandria,
Virginia, claimed to have licen elected a repri'senta-
tive from Virginia in the Thirty-s<;venth Congress,
as a Republican, receiving l^iS votes against 11 votes
for C. B. Shirley. Democrat ; but the House decided'
th.1t he was not entitled to a se.it.
Beale, Charles L., was born at Canaan. Neir
York, March 5. 1S24; received a classical education,
graduating at Union College in 1844; studied law:
was admitted to the liar in 184l>, and commencfd
practice at KinderluMjk, New York; Wiis ehx'tol
representative from New York in the 'ITiirly-sixlh.
Congress, as a Republican, receiving 10,750 vote*'
against 8,385 votes for McClellan, Democrat, an<t<
serving from Dixemlx-r 5, 1.S50, to March 3, 18tJl}
was defeated as the Republican candidate for the
Thirty-seventh Congress, receiving 11,512 votes against
10.712 votes for Nelson, Democrat; was a presiden-
tial elector on the Lincoln and .lohnson ticket in
18*14; w.Ts a delegate to the National Union Conven-
tion .It Philail'lpliia in 18<j«.l.
Beale, James M. H., was bom in Virginia;
resideil at Point Pleasant; was electe<l a representa-
tive from Virginia in the Twenty-tbinI Congress,
receiving l,ftfei votes ligainst ],1.5('i votes for Steele,
and was re-elected to the Twenty-fourth Congress
without opiK)sition, serving frxim Deceml>er ii. 18.33,
to March 3, IS'H; was again elected to the Thirty-
tirst Congress, as a Democrat, receiving 4.310 votes
against 4.t>l>4 votes for McComas, Whig: and Wiis re-
elected to the Thirty-second Congri'Ss, receiving 4.010
votes against 2,813 voles for .Smith, Whig, and serving
from December 3, 1840, to March 3, 185^1, having
declined lH?ing a candidate for re-«!lection.
Beale, Richard L. T., was bom at Hickory
Hill, We8tnion>land County, Virginia, May 22, 1819;
receiviHl a classical education, partly at Dickinson
College; studied law, graduating at the law school
of the University of Virginia; was admitted to the
bar in 18:i0, and commenced ]>raclice; was elected s
representative from Virginia in the Thirtieth Con-
gress, as a Dcmix'nil, recci\iiig 2,110 votes against
1,0U;J votes for Newton, Whig, and sening front
DecemlM-r <i, 1.847, to March :!, 1840; declined a re-
election to Congress; was a delegate lo the Slalo
Reform Convention in IS'jO; was a member of the
State Senate iu 1857; entered tli« cavalry arm of tJw
I
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STATISTICAl, SKETCHES.
27r
»
Confederate forces, nnd waa successively promoted,
liulil ill Ft'bniary, IS''), lie commnmleil ix liriaailc In
Lee's cavalry ilivision, Anny of Nonlnni Viijiinia,
composed of the Nintli, Tenth, Tliirlocnlli, and
Fonrtcontli V'ir^tinia C'av.ilry RojiraeiitB.
Beall, Reazin, was burn in 1'ciinrylva.nia Aujnist
10, 1770; H.is appointed ensi;j:ii in tlic United-Slates
«nay Man'li 7, ITflS, and liattallon (|narlerniaster
17ftJ; seired under (ioneral W'ayn" in lils carapaijnis
against the Indians; located ut Woostcr, Ohio; was
brigadler-gcucra] of volunteers in 1812; occupied
•cvenil local positions; w.-is elected a repivsentativn
from Ohio in the Thirteenth ConjriTSS, 8cr>'in5 from
May 24. I>iPi, to November, 1S14, when he resipicd;
died at Wooster. Ohio, February 2',l, 1h4:{.
Beaman, Fernando C, was iwm at Chester,
Venncml, June "iS, 1S14; reeciveil an acideniic edu-
cation; «tiidic<l and practised law; w;i8 proseeutini;
Mtoniey for Lenawee County six yoars; was judi;e
of probate four years; w;is preridentiai elector In
ISii); was elect^'d a reiireseiilative from Micliiijan in
the Thlrtj'-scventh Congress, as a liepnblican, re-
ceiving 1!),17;} votes against 12,(199 votes for Coffcn-
bcrrj'. Democrat; was re-elected to the Thirty-eighth
CongTt'SS, n?coiv1n!; l.".,40l) vot<'S against l:J,aJ8 votes
for i'cnniman. Democrat; was re-<decte<l to the
TJiirty-iiinth Con;;ress, receiving 17,00it votes against
/.j..0tt2 votes for >foble, Democrat; wjis re-t'lected to
fho Fortieth Congress. r<."ceiving lt,l:j9 votes against
1^.44:i votes for Chipnian, Demo<:rat; and was re-
elected to the Forty-tirsl Congress, n'ccivinj 22,1!)7
Votos .against 20,r)l)") votes for Mills, Democrat, serv-
Inj: from ,Tiily :!, iwil, to March :!, 1871.
Bean, Banning M., w.as bom in New U.arop-
j in 1782; n'ceived a publie-school education;
for five years a member of the .State legislature.
Rti<] was president of the State S<'nate in 18:i2; whs a
*rieinbcr of the Executive Council in 1S21>; waselMted
^ representative from New Ilamiishire in the Twenty-
t.lilr<l Con.'^rcss; an<l WiiS ri'-elefted to the Tivenly-
Xounli Congress, serving from Decemlwr 2, 1833, to
:Slarcli :i. ]XU.
Beardsley, Samuel, was bom in Otsego Couii-
New York; received an academic education;
ii'd law; was admitted to the bar, ami commenced
ice at Home; was a member of the .Stale .Senate
1822, resigning to be chosen first jndge of Oneida
ittnty ; was elected a repn'scntat ive from New York
tlie Twcnty-fleeond Congress, .is a Democrat; was
_e|pcl/vl to the Twenty-thiiil and Twenty-fourth
serving from Deeemlier •>, 1S.J1, until
. when lie resirjncd to accept the appoint-
; . , I cult judg<.'; was attorney-general of the
Btatc- of New York in 18W; was again elected to the
weiity-ein;hth Congress, serving from December 4,
!<l;l, to March 0, l.'vt4, when he resigned to accept
K,lie position of associ.'xte judge of the Supreme Court ;
^>ras made chief justice in i.S47, but declined a new
R-enu of sor\ice undi'r the now constitution; died at
XJliea, New York, May tl, l.S<j().
Beatty, John, was born in Bucks County, Pcnn-
^sylvoiiia, IJoeember 10, 1740; n'ccived a classical cdu-
«^tion, graduating at Princeton in 17ilO; studied
*iicdieino under Dr. Kush at Philadelphia, and was
■idmiited to practice; entcri'd the lievolutionary .army
in 1770, and li:ul attained the r.uik of lieutcii.iiit-
«olonel when he was made prisoner at the surrender
of Fort AVashington; after having been exchanged,
■was appointeil comraissary-generaf of prisoners, with
the r.mk of colonel, M.ay 28, 1778; resigned March
31, 1780, and commenced the practice of medicine at
Treuton, New Jersey: was a delegate from New Jer-
sey to flic Continental Congress, serving from Janu-
»ry i;}, 1784, to June 3, 1784, and from November 11,
17M, to November 7, 17So; was a member of the Slate
ConvPTitlon that adopted the Federal Constitution;
« ■ ' live from New Jersey in the
'li vi from December 2, 171)3, to
llai^.i , .. rotary of state of New Jersey
ITtt^ltJOO; was several years elected to the Stato Sea-
ato and House of Representatives, serving twice as
s|>eal;er of the Ilou.se; w.os prtsident of the Trenton
Hank 181.->-2U; and died at Trenton, New Jersey, May
30, ISa'i.
Beatty, John, wes bom near Sandusky City,
Ohio, December ]U, 1.S2.S; received a good English
education; eng-.iged in the business of banking; was
a Republican presidential electorin 18*iO; volunteered
as a private in the Third Ohio Infantry at the begin-
ning of the war for tlio suppression of the Rebellion,
and was appointed lieutenant-colonel in 18(11 ; took
part in sevenil battles in West Virginia; was promoted
colonel in 1802, and was conspicuous in campaigns in
the South-West ; commanded a regiment at PerrvTille
and a brigade .at Stone River; was commissioned
brlgadier-gencnil in 1803, an<l commanded ,'i brigade
at Tullahoina, Chickamauga, ami Marlon Ridge ; wai
elected a repn-sentativo frtim Ohio in the Fortieth
Congress (for the unexpirod term of C. S. Ilamilton,
deco;ised); was re-elected to the Forty-first Congress,
as a Republiciin, receiving 12,11)8 votes against Il,2o0
votes for Benson, Democr.it; ond was re-elected to
the Forty-second Congress, receiving 10,010 votes
against 9,441 votes for James R. Hubiiell, Democrat,
and 312 votes for Lindsev, Proliibltionist, serving
from February 5, 1808, to Mandi 3. 1871.
Beaty, Martin, w,ts a nativo of Kentuckv, and
WHS elected a iTpresentativc from that .Stale in the
Twenty-third Congress, iis a Whig, defeating Onither
and T. J. Marshall, and st^r\ing from December 2,
18:{:!, to JIarch 3, 18:?5; was defeated as a Whig can-
diilate for the Twenty-four! h Congress by Sherrod
Willi.ims, Whig: died at .South I'ork, Kentuclry,
Beatty, William, was bom la Ireland; received
a ])nl>lie-seho<>l cdiieallon; settled at Uutlcr, Penn-
.sylvania; held several loc'il ofilces; w.".s elected a
representative from Pennsylvania In the Tw<!nty-lif tli
Congress, as a Van Diircn Democrat; and was re-
elected to the Twenty-sixth Congress, n-eciving "),!)73
voles against 3,017 votes for Smith, Whig, serving
from Se'plemlK-r 4, 1.8:37, to Man.-li :t, 1841.
Beaumont, Andrew, w.ia bom in Pennsyl-
vania; received a public-school education; was
elected a represontativj from Pennsylvaida in the
Twenty-third Congress, as a Democrat ; was re-electod
to the Twent}--fourthCoiign'S9, defeating Shoemaker,
Wliig, sening from DeeemlK'r 2, 18;>J, to March 3,
18;J7; was appointixl liy President Polk commissioner
of public buildings at Washington, and served from
November 5, 1840, to Marcli :i, 1.S47; and died at
Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania, October 30, IS,*!.
Beck, Erasmus W., was bom at McDonough,
Georgia, October2l, 18:J;i; received a classical educa-
tion, gradu.iting at Mercer University; studied law:
w.TS admitted to the bar in 1850, and commenced
practice at Griffin. Ocorgia; never was a candid.ito
for or held any public otilco until he was elected a
representative from (reorgia in the Forty-second Con-
gress, as a Democrat (to lill the vacancy occasioned
by the death of Thomas J. .Speer), receiving 9,290
votes against 5,8M votes for Green, Republican, aud
sen-ing from Dccemlier 2, 1872, to March 3, 1873.
BeclC, James B., w.is bom in Dumfriesshire,
Scorland. February 13, 1822; received an acadeuiic
education in Scotland; immigrated with his parents
to Lexington, Kentucky; entered the law scliool of
Tr.ansylvania I'nlversitv; graduated in 1840, and has
since practised at Lexington; was elected a repre-
sentative from Kentucky in the Fortieth Congress,
as a Democrat, receiving 9,710 votes against l.COi
votes for Urown, Republican, and I.-'ISH votes for
H."UiBon; w.is re-<?lected to the Forty-lirst Congress,
receiving 13,010 votes .igainst 2,373 votes for Eginton,
Republican; \vas n'-t;Iected to the Forty-second Con-
gress, receiving 14,312 votes against 10,012 votes for
brown. Kepublican; and waa re-olccted to the Forty-
third Congress, receiving 13,078 votes against 0,322
votes for Trabue, Re|iublican, 8cr\'ing from Decem-
ber 3, 1807, to March 3, 187o; was elected a United-
States senator from Kentucky, as a Democrat (in
jar kt the battle of
' irke'a regbnent In
: nchrMer tHUtalion
r rxpcdition 1791.
hjnj «ub-lcgion of
• •HI AjifiJ 11, l7lKi, to Fcbru-
jImt ••{ 111" Statfl House of
iitatlve
wa» re-
. ■ ■ ■ ;..'..„., ^ J. Uctobcr
17, l»m, to Man h i!, ma; ami ilii-i| at the Ix>wcr
Bill'- I,l'-lci. K''iiliii-ky, alMHit IKVi.
I' ', Heary, won bom near Shephonls-
U<> .1, 111 IMIO; r<-c<-lv<Ml a cliutsical ejura-
tli'ii, HMi.iiicI law; HUM n<Jinitl<'il to tlir? Iinr in lKi2,
Mill roiniiii!iii.''-<t |inu'lic(.> nl Mn'iili(Tilstowii; was
olorti'd ft rt'iin'iieinullvc from Vlr;;lniu in the Twenty-
ninth C'on((r>-iiH, M a l>i'ino(.'rul, ami vtaa rc-«Jcc-tc<l to
iho Tlilrtli'lh CoriRrcM, wrvluK from Deceinlicr 1,
ISW, to Miiri'h !l, 1H41»; wiw ili<fi<uit!il iw ilie Deinocrjitio
cnmllilate for Iho 'I'lilrty-llml Coiip-ess, rccoi>liig
i!,IHl voli'ii nKiiiiiiil. 'J,:iX\ volcn fur Kmilkner, Whip;
Wim ui)|Hp||it<'(l riKirijf il'iijl'iilrm to Dcriiiiark May 24,
IMoil, mill iiiliiUu-r n.'nlili'iit .liiiiii 21», 1(S.V4, norvlng
uiilli Aii^iiKi ID, l)s.'')8; ri.'turiicil homi-; and illcd near
Shi'|ihrrililowii, VlrKiiiia, Niivc<nil)er 2(1, IHtM.
Boo, Thomas, wan Imni in thu provhiei* of South
Corolliia III niill; ri'rrjvi'il a eliuwleal etlucatloii;
■tiiilli'il law; wan lulinllli'il to llii< bar, anil coni-
ineiirnl |iia<'lli'e; wa« a iiii'IIiIkt iif Ihi- .Slalu llousf
of l[r|iri'Ki>iiliillvri« of Siiiitli Curiilliia; was a inrinl»T
of till' ICoyal I'llvy fmiiirll; look an lu'lln" pari in llii'
lU'voliilloii, anil wail a nirnilirr of the Couiuil of
Hiif ■ lli'iiti'iiaiil-Kovcnvor of .Soulli Carolina;
Wii ■ friimSoudi Carolina 1(1 tlii'ruutlni'iital
C'ua^; ;, II 1"!''^; was Judfjc of till" Uiiiti-iUStatos
Court lortlii' dlnlrli'l of South Carolina; |iiibli»h(<d in
1811) " llcporln of till' l>l»tric't Courts of South Coro-
Una."
Beobo, Ooorge M., was bum at iNfountVcmon,
Nnw York, Orlolirr ',;H, issijil; rcwivi'd an acadriulc
oiliiinilliiii; Htudli-d law at tho Law I'liivorsily at
Alliaiiy: Ki'adiiatiMl In IH.'i7, ami nimnu'iioi'd pracllcn;
nMnovi^J to Kan^a»l In IfCiil; wiw a iiiriiilii<r of tlii'
Territorial Council, wrroljiry of tlii> treasury, and
•oUng governor; ri<movQj \6 Nevwlft 1" ISWIj wus
Irwin, vbo recd'red LMV aaloritj; dlei
eMter, Ohio, Xorcaiber 30^ ISSBL
Bfyfrmiin. Thnmmii. tt— -i iwttrr ■ -tk,
and was elected » ivf««MsatatH« bwD ; ia
the Twtntieth Ccwgf, aerrag fn^ u^m-icvier S»
ieS7.to]IaickS,lffiBL
Beera« CymakWaaboiaiMihecitjaf NewToik;
reccfT«<l a pablic-idoal edontiMi; waa elected to
the Twentj-fiftb Congieaa, aa a Democtax (to fill tha
racancy occacianed Sf the death of Andrew Di W.
Bmyn, deceased), acfring fram Deoeaber S, 183S, to
March 3, 183».
Beeson, Henry W., was bom in PnunjlranU;
received a public-school olucation: was elected %
representative from rcnnsylvania ia the Twenty-
seventh Congress, aa a Democrat, serriBg from Uay
ai. ISJl. to JIarch 3, ]$■«.
Begole, Josiah W., was bom at GroreUnd,
New York, January 2:1, 1815; rt^xivcU a public-
school education; removed to Genesee County,
Michigan, then an unbroken wilderness, in August,
I8:i<l; taught district soliocl during the winters of
1S37 and 1S3S; commenced work as a farmer March
llj, IKil), and follov.od that occupation until 1850;
was clocteil county treasurer four successive terms
from IKOU to 18C4; commenced the lumbering busi-
ness in l.S(W; was elected to the State .Senate iu 1871;
was a member of the Board of Aldermen for the city
of Flint for three years; was a delegate to the Na-
tional Kepublican Convention at I'liiladclphia in
187'J; and was elected a representative fmm Slichigan
In the Forty-third Congress, as a Kepublican. receiv-
ing 111,470 votes against laxtU votes for A. C.
Ualdwin, Democrat, serving from December 1, 1SJ3,
to March «, 1S75.
Beime, Andrew, was Iiom in IrolanJ; immi-
Kratod to Vir';iiiia, an<l settled at Union, Monroe
County; was rleclod a rupresentalive frfnn Virginia
111 the Twenty-fiflh Congress, as a Van Bureii Demo-
crat, defeating Andrew Donelly, \Vhig; was re-elected
to the Twenty-sixth Congress, reoi'iving 'Jt,~iS) votes
against 1,721 votes for P. B. Wetherel, ^V^)ig, and
serving from Se|itember 4, 18:17, to March 3. 1841.
Belcher, Uiram, was bom at Augusta, Maine
(thou Massachusetts), June 10, 1700; received a
classical education at Hallowell Academy; studied
law; was admitted to tho bar, and comincncod prac-
tice at Augusta in 181L'; was for several years a
memlM-r of the State House of Uepresenlatives; was
elected a representative from JIaine in the Tliirtiolh
Congrcjis, as a Vt'hig, receiving 5,(187 votes against
:l,487 votes for Cutter, Democrat, and scning from
DeeemlxT I), 1847, to March 3, IMi; died at Augusta,
Maine, May 7, 18.">7.
Belchor, Na^Jaon, was bom at Griswold, Con-
STATISTICAL SKETCHES.
279
necticot, June 23, 1813; received a classical educ»-
tion. graidualiiip at Amiierst Collpse in 18:52; studied
law at tb^' (';iiiil>rid!;i> Law Scliouj; was adiiiilliiil to
tlie liar in JS;W, mid commencfd praclico at Clintmi,
Conuccticut ; remNveii to New London in 1S41;
relinquislic-d tin- iiractice of law. iind lifcarai' a inanu-
itiTpr; was a nienilxrr of tljc Stale Ilousir of Ilcpre-
nUtives in 134(1 and liilT, uiid uf tlic Statu Senate
tn 1S50; was a presidential elector on the Pieree and
Kini; ticl<el in IK.")2; wa« elected a representative
Ilroiu Connecticut in the Tliirty-tliini Congress, as n
Dcinocrsit, serving from December 6, 1853, to March
3, 1856.
Belden, Gteorge O., w-as l>oni in the city of
New Yorlj; received a public-seliool education; waa
elcctetl a representative from New York in the Twen-
tieth C'on;;ress, and served from Deceral)er3, 1827, to
liarch :l. IsM.
Belford, James B., was bom at Lewisto^vn,
Pennsylvania, .Septemljer 28, 18.17; was educated at
Dickinson College; studied law. and was admitted to
tin.' liar; removed to the Territory of Colonido in
lt'7<i, liavinj; l>een apixiinted a justice of the Terri-
torial Supreme Court, ami lield that office imtil
elecfod a representative from Colorado, as a Kepulj-
Ucao, ivcelving 13,3<)8 votes oijainst I:i,;il0 votes for
I Thomas M. Patterson, Democrat ; was elected at (.he
same time to the Fortv-lifth Congress, receivinK a
laajority of l,ti:)S over Thomas JI. Patterson (who
claiiued that he was suhse(|uently legally elected at
M election held on the 7th of Novemi>er). and serv-
ing from January SI, 1877, when ho was admitted to
lUs s>>.it Iiv the Hou9<;.
Bell, Biram, w.as honi in Venuont; received a
pnlilic-school etlucition ; removed to Greenville,
0|ii"i ; was elected a representative from that State in
the Thirty-second Congress, as a Wliig, leceivhig
9,014 votes against f>, 181 votes for John A. C'orwin,
aiid Bcr«'ing from Deeemlier 1, IKTil, to March S, 1SJ3;
' died at (iri'i^nvllle. Ohio. Deeemlier 21. ISiS.
Sell, HiraXQ P., w.'is horn in Jaelison County,
• I. January 27, 1827; received an academic cdu-
lauijht school for two years, durin« which
read law; and was admitted to the bar Ni>-
jlK*r 2S, 184'J; has since practised at Cummiiia,
Se<jrgia; was defeated as a candidate for presidential
Sleotor on the Uell and Kverelt ticket in ISiXt; was
slectftl ainemlK'r of the Secession Convention with-
• ut <>pi>osition in 181)1, and opposed the secession
linniice; was a commissioner from Oenrgia to
Illicit the co-operation of Tennessee in the forma-
tion of a Sontliem Confederacy; was a member of
ItiC State Senate in 1801. and resi^jned to romahi in
le Confederate army, which he entered in March.
•SiVi, as captain, and was [ironioted lleutenant-eolonel
LJid colonel of the Forty-tliird Georgia Uegiment ; was
latigerously woundeil at tlic battle of Chickasaw
tkyou. Mississippi, December 29, 1862; waa a mem-
r of the .Second Confederate Congress in 18(V4, IKfyi;
1 .1 United-States presidential elector on the .Sey-
Hour and Blair ticket In 18<i8: was a member of the
^estate Democratic Kxecutivo Committee 1S<18-1S71;
-WW AS elected a representative from Georgia in the
^Corty-third C'ongrcss. as a Democrat, receiving 7,lll8
"^rotes against 4,1<18 votes forDarrall, Kepublican, ami
^*erving from December 1, 1.873. to March ."J, 187o;
"^as a delegate to the National Uemocriitic Conveii-
"*"ion at SL Louis that nominated Tilden and Hen-
«irieks; was chosen a meml)er from the State at
large of the Democratic National Executive Com-
Itiittee; was again elected a representative from
Oeoreiain the Forty-fiftli Congress (to fill the vacancy
Ci '. ■ 'hi' elo<rtlon of llenjamin H. Hill to (he
1'; -i Senate), as a Democrat, receiving, '),17'1
Hvi. . .:- I 3,7:54 votes for Emory .Speer, ludepeud-
I Democrat, and 1,014 votes fur Martin II. Archer,
rablican.
Sell, Jame3 (son of Samuel Belt), w-as born at
Fraiicistowii, ]lflIslx)rough County, New Hampshire,
Kovembcr 13, 1804; received a classical cducatioq,
graduating at Bowdoin College in 1822; itadied law
at the Lilchfield Law School; w.ns admitted to the
bar in ISi.'), and eommenced practice at Gilmanton,
New Hampshire; removed in 1.S51 to Exeter, and
thence in l.'ild to Guilford; was a memlK-r of the
Stati" House of Itepreseutativcs in 184tl; was a dele-
gate to the State Constitutional Convention in 1850;
was defeated as the Whig candidate for governor in
I8.V4 and LSw; was elected a United-States senator
from New Hampshlri'. as a Whig (by a coalition with
the friends of John P, Hale), serving from December
3, 1855, to his death at Laconia, New Hampshire
(whither he had gone from Washington to recruit his
health). May 2*1. 18.^j7.
Bell, Jaiaea M., was bom in Ohio; received a
public-school education; was elected a representative
from Ohio in the Twenty-third Congress, as a Clay
Democrat, ser^-ing from December 2, 1833, to March
3, 18;*».
Bell, John, was bom near Nashville, Tennessee,
February 15, 17117; received a classical education,
graduating at the University of Nashville in 1814;
studied law; was admitted tothe bar in 1810, and com-
menced practice at Franklin, Tennessee; was elected
to the Slate Senate in 1817; declined re-election, and
liecame eminent in his profession; was electe<l a rep-
resentative from Tennessee in the Twentieth Con-
gress, receiring a majority of 1,010 votes over Felix
tirnndy, both Democrats; and was successively re-
elected lo the Twenty-tirst, Twenty-second, Twenty-
Uiird, Twenty-fourth, and Twenty-tlftli Congresses, as
a Whig, presiding as 9[>eakerthe second session of the
Twenty-thinl Congress, and serving from Deccmiier
7, 1820, until Man.'li 3. 1841: was ap]K>inted in 1841
secretary of war by Prciideiit Harrison, but resigned
(Jetober 12. 18-11: w,t? elected lo tlie State Houses of
IJepresentatives of Tennessee in 1.S47; was elected to
the United-.St.ite8 Senate, as a ^^^lig, serving from
DeremberO, 1847, until March 8, IS-IO; was nominat-
ed for President, with Edward Everett for Vice-Pres-
ident, and defeatetl; became concerned in large iron-
works at Cliatlanooga; and died at his home, near
Cumberland Kiver, near Nashville, September 10,
i8t;(>.
Bell, John, of Fremont, Ohio, was elected a rep-
resentative from that State in the Thirty-first Con-
gress (to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Amos
E. WiHxl), as a Uliig, receiving 8,014 voles against
7.088 votes for Holt, Democrat, serving from January
7. I85I. to March :!. IS.,!.
Bell, JoshuaF., was liom in Kentucky; received
a publie-schoot education; studied law; was admitted
to the bar. and eomnicneed practice at Dan^iUe. Ken-
tucky: W.1S elected a representative from Kentucky
in the Twenty-ninth Congress, as a \Viiig, receiving
(i.t>4-l votes against 0,1)05 votes'for Caldwell, Democrat,
jijid ser\ing from December 1, 18-15, to March 3, 1847;
declined a re-election; was appointed secretary of
state of Kentucky in July, 184U, in the pl,ice of Or-
lando Brown, resigned; was a delegate from Ken-
tucky to the Pcai-e Convention of 18(il; wos a mem-
lier of the .State House of lieprcsentatives in 1805;
died in Kentuckv, August 20, 1870.
Bell, Peter Hansbrough, was liom in Virgin-
la; received a public-school education: studied law,
and was admitted to the bar; removed to Texas: was
captain of Texas Volunteer Hangei-s 1845-1840; served
in the Mexican war as lieutenant-colonel of mount-
ed volunteers; was colonel of a Texas volunteer
regiment raised for frontier defence in 1848-1840;
resumed pnictice; was governor of Texas 1840-185:1;
was elected a representative from Texas in the
Tliirty-thinl Congress, as a Democnit, receiving 7,750
votes against 2.4(il votes for Caruthers, Whig, 3,011
for Scurry. Democrat, 3,052 for Ijewis, Democrat, and
1.429 for Blake. Democrat; anil was re-elected lo the
Thirty-fourth Congress, receiving 14,:579 votes against
0.4iXl votes for Hancock, American, serving from De-
cember 5, 18.">3, to March 3, 1857; was judge of Uie
Supremo Court of Texas.
280
CONGRESSIONAL DmECTOBT.
BelL Samuel, w.ia bom at Londonderry, New
Hampshire, February 9, 1770; received a classical
e<lucuti()ii, grailuatliijj at Dartmouth t'ollege in 17HJJ;
studied law; was luluiitted to the liur In 17tKt. ainl
conuiienced priiclico at Chester, Xew Iliuniishin-;
w,is a niemlier of the State legislature in IMtU-lSOW,
serving us speaker; and was State senator in 1S<)7-
1WI8; wasaState eouncillorin 1S<)U; wasjudfteof the
State Supreme Court in IKIO-IISIO: was governor of
New IJanipahire Isio-iSiJ; was elected to the Unit-
ed-Stales Senate, and re-elect<"d, serving from March
4, l.s2a. until March 3, 1.S». lie died at Chester, New
Hampshire. December -JS, 18o(l.
Bell, Samuel N., was bom at Clicster, New
Hampshire, March 25, IS'iO; graduated at Dartmouth
College, Xew Hampshire, in 1847; studie<l law. and
practised at Manchester; waselected a representative
from New Hampshire in the Forty-second Congress,
as a Democrat, receiving 11,-4(M votes against 10,526
votes for A. F. Stevens, Kepui)licau, and 2<I2 votes
for W. U. Gove, Labor Kefurm, and scattering:
and was re-elected to the Forty-fourth Congress, re-
ceiving 13,0M votes against i'2.Kii) votes for Austin
5. Pike, Republican, and 204 scattering, serving from
March 4. 1871. to March 11. 1S75; was appointed chief
justice of the Supreme Court of New II.im)ishire.
Bellows, Benjamin, was born at Walpole, New
Hampshire. October ti, 1740; was elected town-clerk
when nineteen years of age, and was successively
elected until 177t); was a member of the Colonial and
afterward of the Slate legislature. State senator, ami
State councillor; was appointed a delegate from New
Hampshire to the Continental Congress in 1781, but
his business engagements fon'ed him to decline; was
n memlM-r of the State Convention that ratiflcd the
Federal Constitution in 17S8; was president of the
electoral college of New Ilampshire wliiih voted for
Washington in 178fi, and a niemlier of the electoral
college which voted for .lohn Adams in 17117; in the
Colonial and State militia he rose from the grade of
corptjral to the rank of lirig.-ulier-gi'iicral, serving
during the Kevolution.ir)- war us colonel. He died
at Walpole in Jmie. 1.S02.
Bellinger, Joseph, was bom in South Carolina,
and was a pn sideiitiiU elector from that State on the
Madison and Clirilon ticket; was elected a representa-
tive from South Carolina in the Fifteenth Congress,
defeating. I osepli Chappell aii<l .lolinC. Allen, serting
from Deeember 1, 1K17, to April S"*, 1S18.
Belser, James E., was boni In North Carolina;
received a puhlic-school education; le.amwl a trade;
removed to Montgomery. Alabama, where he studied
law, and was admitted to the bar; was elected clerk
of the county court, and subsequently county soli-
citor; was elected a representative from Alabama in
the Twentv-eighth Congress, as a Democrat, receiving
4,177 votes against 3.881 votes for J. W. A. Pettit,
Whig, Ber\-ing from Decemlier 0, 1841, to Slarcli 3,
1840, and declining a re-election; In 184.S he was
among those Alabama Democrats wlio espoused the
cause of (ieneral Taylor for the presidency: he was a
member of the .State House of llepn/sentatives in 185;J
and in 1855; and died at Montgomery, Alabama, Jiui-
vian,- Iti. 1S.51).
Benedict, Charles B., was bom at Attica, New
York, Fi^briL-iry 7, 1828; received a common-school
and academic educ.ition; studied law, and was admit-
ted to the bar in 185<!; engaaed in the business of
banking at Altica in May, 18tM); was for five years a
member of the board of sujieri'lsors of Wyoming Coun-
ty; was a member of the Democnilic State Commit-
tee in 1875; wius a pn'sidential elector on the Tilden
and Hendricks ticket in 187(i; aiirl was elected a Tvp-
rescntative from New York in tlie Forty-fiftli Con-
gress, as a Demi>crat, receiving 12,251 voK-s against
11,847 voles for tJeorge (>. Iloskin, itepiibliain, and
2,327 V'>tes for Thomas T. Flugler, Kepublican.
Benjamin, John P., was t)orn at Cicero, New
York. January 23, 1817; received a public-scliooi ed-
ucation; removed to Texas, whore he passed tliree
years, and thence to Missouri ; studied lav, wm od- 1
mitted to the bar. and commenced practice at Slielby- I
ville in 1H4S; was a memlx'r of Uie State House of J
Reprt^sentatives in 18.'jO and 1852; was a presidential |
elector on the Buchanan ticket in 18.50; entenul the
Union army in 1S(>1 as a cavalry private, and wm |
subsei)uentiy promoted captain, major, lieutenant- i
colonel, and brigadier-general; was i>rovost-raarshal^j
of the eighth district of Missouri in 186:1 and 1804; f
was a delegate to tlie National Democratic Convei*- j
tion at Baltimore in 180-1; was elected a represent*- 1
tlvo from Missouri In the Thirty-ninth Congress, U I
a Kiulical, recei^-ing 8.5;J0 votes against 2,i>78 votei j
for Glover, Conservative; was re-elected to the For- 1
tieth Congress, receiving 7.001 votes against 0,060
votes for Glover, Conservative; was re-elected to tha I
Forty-first Congress, receiving 8.054 votes against I
7.348 vote for Williams, Democrat, and serving from.)
December 4, 1805, to March 3, l^tHi; pnictised lair I
ami pros<:'cuted claims at Washington City until hit i
death there. March 8, IS77.
Benjamin, Judah Peter, was bom in St. Do-I
mingo in 1812, and was brought to Savannah by hi* I
parents in 1810; received a liberal education, and en- J
tered Yale College, but left, without graduating, ial
1827; removed to New Orleans in 18:51 ; tanglit school;]
was a notary's clerk; studied law; was admitted to the]
bar in 1831, and commenced practice; was a member]
of the State Constitutional Convention in 1845; wa* j
elected United-Slates senator In 185;j as a Whig, ondj
re-elected in 1850 us a Conservative, serving fn^in |
March 4. 1853, until iio resigned, Febnmry 4. ISCl;
was appointed attomey-gener.al of the Southern Cou-
feileracy Fi-ltni.ary 21. ISOl; was exf)elled from the
United-States Senate March 14. 18<tl ; was appointed S
in August. 1801, acting secretarv- of war of the .South- fl
em Confederacy, and Wiis secretary of war from
November 10, lAill, until Februar)- 7, 1802, when he
Wiis appointed secrelar)' of state; n'movi-d to (ireut
Britain, and became a member of the liar at London, I
n>eeiving Uw ap|M)intnient of queen's ci>uns<d for]
Lancaster, and enjoying a lucriitive practice.
Bennet, Benjamin, was bom in 1702; receivedl
a jiulilic-school ednc:ition; .studied theolocy. and wn«]
orilained as a Hiiptist minister at Miildletowii, Nf
,Iersey ; was elected a representative fn>m New .lerscy J
In the Fourteenth Congn-ss, ami was r>.'-elected to tlia j
Fifteenth Congress, serving from January 1.5, KSIIJ, (
In March 3. 1811); died at Middletown, New Jersey,!
Ocloher 8, IMO.
Bennett, David S., was electe<l a represcnta-'J
live from New York in the Forty-lirst Congress, as S (
Kepublican, receiving 10.004 votes against 14.2J44
votes for Verplanck, Democrat, and serving from
March 4, 1800, to Mar<;b 3, 1871.
Bennett, Henry, was bom at New Lisbon, Nevr h
York. .Scpiiniiher 211. 1808; received a |mblic-«choolH
education; studied law; was admitted to the bar in ^
I8:!2, ami commenced practice at New ll«'rlln. New
in the Thirty-lirst Congress, as a Whig, rectdving^l
8.014 votes against 0.31)4 votes for Mason, Casa^|
Democrat, and 2,8.39 votes for .Smith, Van Burea
Dr'nuK'rat; was re-<dected to the Thirty-second Con-
gn'ss, receiving 0,170 votes against 8,101 votes for
Taylor, Democrat; was re-elected to the "niirty-i
thinl Congress, receiving 0.870 vot^s against li.KM
votes for .Smith, Democrat; was re-elected to Ihsl
Thirty-fourth Congn'ss, receiving 0.757 voles agsiinsU
5,57!t votes for Tompkins. Hard IJemocrat. and 2,07'l
vote's fpir CriH-ker, Soft Democrat ; and wiis re-electetf
to the Thirty-liftli Congn-ss, as a Kepublican, receiv«
ing 13,350 votes against 8,102 votes for Hyde, Demc
cnvl, serving from Decemtier 3, 1849, to March 3^1
1R5II.
Bennett, Henry S., was bom in Williauison
County, Tennessee, March 7, 1807: received a public
school education; studied law; was admitted to]
the bar, and commenced practicA at Mississippli
in 1830; w.is ciivult judge lS4U-18i>4; was electedl
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t fewTMtntntivc in Congrew from Mississippi in
tlje Tliirty-foiirtli Conijrt'SS, as n Dpniocriil, receiv-
ing 5,li:}i) voles against 5,554 vote's for lioiislon,
Dt-mnornt, and scr\'ing from December 3, 18oo, to
Mnrrh :l. isr.7.
Bennett, Hiram P., was horn at Carthnge,
Miiiiii'. S.-pti'nilii.-r 2, ISM; nvplvcil a. public-school
. I'ducation; atmlicil law; was iulmittnl to the Ijar,
anil conunencfrt pruoiice in Western Iowa, wlierc he
was elected judc;ij of the Circuit t'ourt in 1852; re-
moved into Nebraska Territory in 1S54. and was that
year elected a memtier of the territorial council;
was elected to the State House of Keprcsi'ntntivi's in
1858. and chosen siieaker; removed to Colorado Ter-
ritorj- in 1S5U, and was elected its delegate in the
Thirty-seventh Congress; was re-electe<l to the
Thirty-eighth Congress, as a ConB<!rvalive Repub-
lican, receiving M.iiftS votes against 2,754 votes for
yrancisco. Democrat, and 2,ai2 votes for Uilpin,
NVhig, and serving from December 2, 18(11, until
3Jarcli ;J, 18I15; was ap|Miintcd secretary of slate of
C^olorado in March, 1H07.
Bennett, Thomas W., was bom in Union
County, ln<iiana, Kel)ruary Itl, l.S;Jl; was educated
at the Indiana Asl)ury Uiiiversily, where he gradu-
ated at the Law .School in .July, IS-Vt, luid com-
menced praclice; was elected to the Indiana .State
6<?natG in 1858, and resigned In 1801 to enter the
X^nlon army; was commissioned a captain in the
Fifteenth Regiment Indiana Volunteers in April.
1801, major of the Tliirly-sixlh Regiment, Septem-
ber, 18111, colonel of the Sixty-ninth Regiment in
August, l^'li, and wiis appointed brigadier-general
in March. 18<15; was again elected to the Stale .Senate
lu October, 18(54, serving until March, 1807; was
elected mayor of the city of Richmoml, Indiana,
May, 18<i(>, ser\'ing two years; was apiR>inte<l govern-
or of Idaho Territory in Scpleml>er, 1,S71. serving
until DecenilKT 4, 187.5, when he resigiu'd upon
reganling himself as elected to the Korty-fourlh
Congn-ss as an Independent candidate; but the
House gave the seal to his optionent, .S, S. Fenn,
DemiH-ral, serving from Decern U^r 0, 1875, to June
23, l.s7ti.
Benson, Ejgbert, was bom iti New- York City,
June 21. 174<i; received a cl.-uisical education, gradu-
ating at Columbia College in 17i)5; studied law; was
admitted to the bar. anci commenced ])nictice at New
York; was a pniminent memlKTof the Ilevolutionnn,'
Committee of .Safety; was appointed in 1777 llio (irst
attomey-general of New York; was a member of (he
first State legislature in 1777; was on<' of the three
commissioners to dinn-t the embarkation of (he
Tory refugi'es for the loy.il Urilish provinces in 178.1;
was a delegate from New York to the Continental
Congress, ser>ing from 1784 to 178S; was elected a
n'pr('s<!ntative from New York in the First Congre.<is.
and was re-i'le<'leil to the .Second C:ongreBS, serving
from April I>, 17811, to Mandi ■'!, 171t.'l; was regent of
the New-York Universitv n81i-1.8(»2; was jtidge of
the Supremo Court of \ew York 1784-1801; was
judge of the Unile(l-,^tate8 Circuit Court; was again
elected to the Thirteenth Congress on the "Peace
and Commerce ticket," ser\'ing frtim May 24, 18i;J,
until he resigned. August 2. 1S|:}; w:ls the first
president of the New-York Historical Society; and
died at .lamaica. Long Island, August 24, 1833. He
wrote and published " Vindication of the ("aptors of
Major Aniirt'" in 1817, and "Memoir on Dutch
Names I'f I'liices " in 1K.'V).
Benson, Samuel P,, was bom at Winlhmp.
Maine; received a classical education, graduating at
Bowdoin (College in 1825; studied '.aw; was admitted
to the bar, and commenced practice at Wintlirop;
was a nieml)er of the ,State legislature of Maine
18,M-1R;5(}; was secretary of st,nte of Maine lS;i,8-
iH4\ ; was elected a representative from M.aine in the
Thirty-thinl Congress, as a Whig, n-ceiving 8,708
rotes against 6,4;5:} votes for Porter, Democrat, and
1,580 rotes for May, Frc«-5oU; was re-elected to
the Thirty-fourth Congress as a Republican, receiv-
ing 11,010 votes against 3,407 votes for Rogers,
Democrat, serving from December 5, 18.);f, to March
3, 1857; resumed practice, and was appointed one vt
the overseers of Dowdoin College.
Benton, Charles S., wi« Imm and raised In
Maiiii'; n'lnovc^d to Mohawk, New York; was elected
a n'pre.seiitative from that State in the Twenty-
eighth Congress, as a Democrat, receiving t),750 votes
against 4,870 for Frey, Whig; was re-elected to the
Twenty-ninth Congress, receiving 7,tj91 votes against
5,7IW votes for Alexander, Whig, and serving from
DeccTnlier 4, 184;!, to March 3, 1.S47.
Benton, Jacob, was bom at Waterford, Ver-
mont, August 14, 1810; receivetl an academic edu-
cation ; eng,aged in tuiching for several years; studied
hiw ; and w.is admitted to the l>ar in 184.S, and com-
menced practice at Lancaster, New Hampshire; was
a member of the State legislature in 1,8.54. 1855, and
I8.'>il; was a delegate to the National Republican
Convention in l.StiO; w.is brig.adier-gcneral, com-
manding the State volunteers; was elected to the
Fortieth Congress, as a Republican, receiving 11,2U4
votes against lU,24(t for iiingham. Democrat; and
was r»!-eleetcd t«> the Fortv-first Congress, serving
from March 4, 1.H07. to March :i. 1,871.
Benton, Lemuel, was born in South Carolina;
received a cla,wical education; was electi'cl a repre-
sentative from South Carolina to the Thinl Congress;
ami was re-<'lected to the Fourth and Fifth Con-
gresses, ser\ing from .lune !i. 17'.i4, to Man-li 3, 1700.
lie W.IS prevented, by indisposition in his family,
from taking his seat in the Fourth <'ongress tmtil
the last d.ay of the first session, six mouths after its
eomtnenccment ; and he notified the House that he
was not willing to (|ualify unless It could be noted
on the jrninial that he declined receiving compensa-
tion or Iravelliiig-expenses.
Benton, Thomas Hart, was bom at Hart's
Mill, near HiilstH)rough. North Carolina, March 14,
1782; rr'ccivcd a el.assical education, and was a
.student at ChajH-l-hill College; studied law at Wil-
liam and Mary College; removed to Niushville, Ten-
nessee, where lie w.is admitted to the bar; served as
aide-<le-camp to General Jackson; wi»s colonel of a
regiment of Tennessee volunteers from December,
1812, to April. 1813; was lieutenant-colonel of the
Thirty-ninth United-States Infantry 18i:i-1816; re-
moved to St. Louis, where he practised law, and
edited "The Missouri In<iuirer;" was elected
I'niled-Stales Ben.itor from Missouri as a Democrat,
and was live times re-elected, serving from August
to. I,s21, to March 3. 1851; was for the seventh time
a Democratic candidate for the United-.States .Senate,
lint was defeated on the fortieth ballot. n'ceiving56
v«iles against 80 votes for Uenry S. Ceycr, .md 20
scattering votes; was elected a represent.itive from
Missouri in the Thirty-third Congress as a Missouri-
Compromise Democrat, receiving 8,437 votJ'S against
7.5<i5 votes for Caqienter, Wliig, and 2,.500 votes for
Bogy, Southern Democrat, and serA'ing from Decem-
ber 6, ISfiii, to March 3, 18.55; was defeated as a
candid.ite for the Thirty-fourth Congn.'ss. receiving
.5,208 votes against 0.2.50 Vf)tes for Kennett, National
American; was defeated as a candidate for govemor
of Missouri in 18.50, receiving 27,570 votes against
40,425 votes for Polk, Democrat, and 41,07tl votes for
Ewing, American : devoted himself to the comple-
tion of bis "Abriilgment of Congressional Debates"
at Washington f 'ity. and died there April 10, 18."^.
Beresford, Richard, was a native of .South
Carolina; ami was a delegate from that .State to the
Continental Congress, serving from May 30, 1783, to
June 8. 17.84.
Bergen. Tennis Q., w.is bom at Bnwjklyn, New
York. October 0. 1800; received an ncadcmical educit-
tion at Flushing; w.is a horticulturist an<l land sur-
veyor; served in the State volunteer militia as ser-
geant, and was regularly promoted until he became
colonel; wm a member of the State Coustituiiuual
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Convention nf 1M6; was a member of thp National
Democratic Convonticiiis at Balllninrc iiml Cliarli'ston
in IHOll; WHS suptTvisor of Now Ulrvclit for Iwctity-
tliroe years; and was I'loetcil to ibo Tliiriy-nintli Con-
gress, IIS a Donioorat. receiving l:{.<>;lij voles against
S,8:il' votos for .Sainiicl T. Moililox, Repul«lican.
Bergen, John T., was elocteci a representative
from Jsow York in tlie Twcnty-seconil Conijress,
Berlin;; from Decoml)er o, 1S;J1. to Marcli 3, WSl.
Bernhisel, John M., was l>oni in Ciunberland
Connty, i'eniisylvania, June 3:1, I'll); received a
lil>eral education; stutlieil medicine, and graduated
from tlie medic;il department <if tlie Pennsylvania
Univei-sity; removed to I'tali; was clccli^d adclecale
from Utttfi to tlio Tliirty-liftli Congress, serving from
December 7, ISoT, to Marcli 3, ISoO; and was again
elected to the Tliirtv-seventli Congress, serving ^rom
July 4, ISCil, to Jlar'cli ;!, lS(t!.
Berrien, John Macpberson, wjis bom in New
Jersey. August ;i'J, 17>>1; received a classical education,
grailuatingat Princeton in 17!K1; studied law at Savan-
nali, the residence of his father, under Honorable
Joseph Clay; was admitted to the bar in 1791); com-
menced pnictice at Louisville, then the capital of
Georgia, and af terwanis removed to Savannah ; was
elected solicitor of the eastern ju<licial circuit of
G«orgia in 18110; was judge of the same circuit
1810-1821 ; was captain of the Georgia Ilussars, a
Savonnali vrdunteer comimny In the war of 1812-
1815; was Stiitc senator 1S22-1823; was elected to
the United-Stat^^s Senate from Georgiii, as a Demo-
crat; took his seat March 4, 1825, and served until
March i>, ISil), when he resigned to accept from
President Jackson the [Kisition of attoniey-gener.al ;
resigned as attorney-general December 27, 1831 ; w;i8
ag&in electe<l to the United-Stat4's Senate, as a \\'nig;
took his scat MayJJl, 1841; was re-elected in 1847,
and resigned May 28, 18.")2; and died of an inflam-
mation of the kidneys at Savauiiali, Georgia, January
1, 18.».
Berry, John, was Jwm April 20, 1833, In Uiat
portion of Crawford County, Oliio, which is now
Wyandotte County; received a. liberal English educa-
tion at the common schools an<l the Oliio Wesleyan
University at Delaware; graduated at the Law School
of the Cincinnati College: was admitted to the bar
in April, 1857, and commenced practice at Upper
Sandusky; was cleetod proseculing-attomey of Wyan-
dotte County in 18li2, and again in 18(U; never held,
or was a candidate for, any other ofllee, until he was
elected a representative from (Jhio in tlie Korty-lhiril
Congri'ss, as a Democrat, reeeiving 13,0i'>8 votes
against H.925 vfites for T. E. Douglas, Republican,
and ser\ing from December 1, 1873, to March 3, 1875.
Bethune, Laughlin, was bom in Cumberland
County, North Canuina; w.-is a member of the State
Senate of North C.irolina in 1817. 1818, 1821, and
1827; was elected a nrpresentatlve from North Caro-
lina, receiving 3,082 votes against 3,ij73 voles forE. Do
Berry, anti-Jackson Democnit, and in the Twenty-
secoiid Congress as a Jackson Democrat, serving from
December 5, IS-'II, until M.arch3, 1833; was defeated
as the Jackson Demoonilic e.indidatc for the Twenty-
third Congress by Edward De Berry. anti-Jaokson
Democrat, who h.id 37 majority; died at Fayelteville,
North Carolina, in I85<!.
Bethune, Marion, of Talbotton, was elected a
representative from Geon?ia in the Forty-first Con-
gress, and was admitted to his seat January 10, 1871,
8er\-in[; until March .3, 1871.
Betton, Silas, was Iwm at Londonderry. New
Hampshire, in 171^; received a classical education,
graduating at Dartmouth College In 1787; was elected
a representative from New Ilampshire in the Eighth
Congress; and was re-<'lected to the Ninth Congress,
serving from fk'tober 17, 18*13, to March 3, 1807; was
forst'verai yonrs lii'jh shfridof Rockingham County ;
and died at Salem, New llampsliin', in 1822.
Betts, Samuel Rossiter, was bom at Rich-
mond, UassitcUusoUs, Juno S, 1737; was reared ou
his father's farm; received a cl.i.ssical education,
graduatlngal Williams College in ISini; studieil l.iw .n
Hudson, New Vork; Wiis admitted to the bar. and
commenced prsictice In Sullivan County; strvrd as
judge-advocate of volunteers in tlii! war of IMl"; was
elected a representative from New York, in the Four-
teenth Congress, as a DemiK-nit, serving fnmi De-
cember 4. isin, to March 3, 1817; rvmov'ed to New^
burgh. New York, where he practiseil: was apixiintiMl
circuit judge under the new State constitution in 18::;3;
was appointed In I82t! judge of the United-States
District Court for the southern district of New York,
and oi'cupied the position until he n-signed in I8i.7;
died at New Uaven, Connreticut. Nnvenilw'r2. I.SW.
Publislicd in 18;W a valuable work on " Admiroltf
Pracliee."
Betts, Thaddeus, was bom at Norwnlk. Con-
necticut: received a classical education, gRuIuating
at Yale College in 1807; studied law; was admitted
to the bar, and commenced practice at Norwalk;
lilled several im[>ortant public |msitions; was electeii
United-States sen.itor from Connecticut, as a Whig,
for six years, frf)m March*!, 18:51): and st-rvt-d from
December 0, 18y.>, until he died, at Washington, I>i»-
trict of Columbia. April 8, ls40.
Beveridge, John L., was lx>m at Greenwich,
New York, July (>, 1824; was raised on a farm, and
received a common-scliool education; ejnii;rate<l to
Illinois in 1842, and received further education at
Rnck-river Seminary; taught sclnxil in Tennessee,
and read law, from 184/) to 1851; practised law Ui
Chicago; ser^-iid four years in the Unii>n army as
major and colonel of cavalry; was sheriff of Cook
County. Illinois, two years, from Nf)vemlK'r. 18<itl;
was elected State senator in November, 1.^70. and
resigned when ntmiinated .is a Republiciui to fill the
vacancy in the Forty-second Consn^'ss caused by the
election of John A. Logan, memlHT-trlect to the Si-n-
ate; he was elected a representative from Illinois, re-
ceiving l.'i7.02O votes against ll.j.:5;)7 votes for S. S.
Ilayes, IX-mocral, and serving from Jainiary 4, 1.873,
to March 3, 1873; was elected governor of Illinois, in
1873. for four years.
Bibb, George M., w:is bom in Virginia in 1772;
received a clas-^ical education, graduatiti!; at Prince-
ton College in 17112; studied law; was .admitted to
tiie bar, and commenced practice in Kentucky: was a
member of the State House of Repwsentatives and
Senate; was three times elected chief justice of
Kentucky; WiUt chancellor of the Louisville Court of
Chancery; was elected United-Slates sen.ator from
Kentucky, ser^ini; from Novemlx-r 4. 1811. to 1814.
when he resigned ; was again elected Uniled-^lntea
senator from Kentucky, serving from Deccral>er 7,
1820, to March 3, 18.')5; was secretary of the treasury
under President Tyler, serving from June l.'i, 1844,
to March 3, 1845; resumed the practice of law at
Washington ; was a clerk in the office of the attorney-
general: and died at Georgetown, District of Colum-
bia, Anril 14, 18.59.
Bibo, William Wyatt, was bom In Virginia,
Oetotx'r 1, 1780; received a clussic.il education ; stud-
ied medicine, and uradualed at the medical depart-
ment of the University of Pennsylvania in 1801;
removed to Georgia; was a meiiiWr of the State
Senate and House of Representatives of Georgia;
was elected a representative frtmi Georgia in (ho
Ninth Congress as a Democrat (in place of Thomas
Spalding, resigned), and re-elected to the Tenth,
Eleventh, and Twi'lfth CouRresses on general ticket,
ser^•in(; from January 20, 18i)7, to March 3, 181;!; wiss
United-St.ites senator from l8i:l to 1810 (to (ill the
vacancy occasioned by the resiKuallon of W. U. Craw-
ford, appointed minister to France): removed to the
Al.ibaraa territory, and was elected the Ijrst governor
under the State constitution in 1810. lie died at
Fort J.'.ekson. wliilo in ofTico. July 0. 1820.
Bibighnus, Thomas M., was bom in Pennsyl-
vania in 1810; received a [lublic-scliool education;
yioa elected a roprescntallrc from rcunsylvania In
Jktote
STATISTICAL SKETCHES.
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■tho Tlilrty-sccond Congress, b8 n Wliig, rccph-ing
C50n yuwt ogaUiBt 6,480 votes for Powi-r. Dfiiujcral.,
«n<l soiring from December 1, 1851, to March 3,
1S.VJ.
Bicknell, Bennet, w.-w Imm at Mansflcld, Con-
necticut, in IS(i:I: n'cciveil a piililic-scliool education;
removed to Morrisville, New Vnrk; was u memiior
at the Slate Assfinbly in 1812, and n State senator
1S1.>-181.S; w.LS elected a representative from New-
York ill llie Twcntj-tiftli Congress, ns a Uemoernt,
serving from ScptemlHT 4, 1837, to Marcli ;}, 1^S5^);
and died ut Morrisville, Madisou County, New Yorlc,
180.3.
Bicknell, George Augustus, was bom at
niiladelpliia. and w;is rean-d lliere; received a elussi-
caJ education, gradiialinj; .at tlie Universily of I'enn-
ijrlvauia; studied law at tlie Law Scliool of Yale Col-
lege; removed to Scott County, Indiana, in liS4(l;
WHS elected fence-viewer in 1.S47. counlv prosecutor
In 164>S. circuit prcwecutor in ISW, and judge of the
second judici.al circuit in 1852, holding the hist-iiiimed
]K»ition twenty-four years by four successive n'-t'lec-
tioiis; was profpsjor of law at the University of Indi-
ana 18<n-ltS"li; and wjis elected to the Forty-lifth
Congress, as a Deniocrat, receiving 17,22.'> votes
against il,.'i7li for Nowsom, Kepublic.in, and 1,034
Totes for G. W. Carr. Independent.
Biddle, Charles John (son of Nicholas Diddle),
bom at I'liiladpljihia in If'lll; received a classical
Ication, graduatini; at Princeton C'ollege in 1S37;
I Mud led law; was admilte<l to the biir in 1S40, and
I Cotnnienced prjK-tice at Philadelphia: served in the
^Ic'xiciiii war, receiving the bn^vet of major for gai-
atit anil meritorinus ser%-ic('»; n'sumed the practice
law at Philadelphia; entered the Union army in
as colonel of a regiment of (lie I'eimsylvania
Bire Corjis; was elected while in military senice
It representative from Pennsylvania In the Thirty-
seventh Congress (to fill a vacancy iK'casiolied by the
T ' 'ion of E. .lov Morris), as a Democrat, sening
1 oemI)er 2. i*;2. to Marcli 3. I>ltl3; wa-t de-
13. . as the Democratic candidate for the Tbirty-
sigbth Congress, receiving (UKi? votes ngain.«t 8,lil4
^■otcs for C. O'Neill, Kepublican; and died at Pliila-
"«3elphia, S<.pleml)er 28, 1873.
Biddle, Edward (uncle of Rlchanl Diddle), was
I'kjcini ut Pliilad'dpliia in 17;}0; served in the French
car as lieutenant and captain 175il-17(!3; studied
law; was admitted to llie bar, and commenced prae-
;.ice at Reading, Pennsylvania: w,is a member of the
"State iVsscmbly; was a delegate to the fUd Congn'ss,
er\-ing in 1774-1775: and died at Baltimore, Marj--
Lond, Seiitember 5, 1771).
Biddle, John, was born at Philadelphia, Penn-
^Bvlvania, Mandi 0, n.'*!l; served in the army (hiring
"*he war of 1812; was subseciuently pajinsistcr .ind
^3ndiun agent; removed to Detroit. Michigan, and was
"•he delegate from that Territory in the Twenty-lirst
I ^Congress, defeating Rev. Mr. Richard, sening from
^!Dweml>er 7, 1S2S>. to March ;J, 1831; w.is appointed
:»egister of the lauil-ofiice at Detroit. Michigan, in
anUl; visited Eurojie; and died nt the WliHe Sulphur
Springs, Vinrfnia, August 25, 18,511.
Biddle, Richard (nephew of Edward Biddle),
"Was born at Pliiladelphia, Pennsylvania, March 2.5,
niXl; receivecl a classical e<lucation; studied law;
«Ti» lulmitted to the tiar. and commenced practice at
Pill8bun;h. Pennsylvania; visited England, where he
made imiiortant historical Investigations, 1827-1830:
resumed practice on his return; was elected u repre-
sentative from Pennsylvania in the Twenty-tifdi
Congress, as a \Vliig; was ri'-clected to the Twenfy-
lUth Congress, receiving (i,09!> voles against 4,383
for James Power, Demm-rat, scn'ing from
ptoinber4. \SS1, to his resignation in is4y; died at
Plftsburgh. Pennsvlvania. Julv7. 1847. Ue published
• '• Life of Sel)aatian Cabot" in 1831.
Bidlack, Benjamin A., was Iwrn at Wilkos-
barre, Penn.sylvanla; was elected a representative
ttom Pennsylvania in the Twenty-«eTcntii Congress,
as a Democrat; and was re-elected to the Twenty-
eighth Congress, receiving .>,IKi7 votes against 2,71d
votes for Willits, Whig, serving finm Miiy 31, 1^1,
to March 3, 1845: was appointed c/iur<;e' d'ajlairca to
Colombi.a, May 14, 1845; and died in office at Bogota,
Colombia. February 0, 1840.
Bidwell, Barnabas, was bom in Massachusetts;
received a classical I'diication, gnuluating at Yale
(College In 1785; studied law; was admitted to tho
bar. iiiul practised; was a member of the Massivchu-
setls House of Representatives 180.5-1807; was elected
a representative from Massachusetts in the Ninth
C'ongn!S8, serving from December 2, 1805. to March
3, lm>7 ; was attomey-geueriU of Massachusetts IMO'?-
1811); died I.S'«.
Bidwell, John, was bom in Chautnuipia County,
New York, August .5, 1810; removed willi liis father's
family to Eric, Pennsylvania, in 18211, and again to
Asht.'ibula County, Ohio, in 1820; was educated at
Klngsville Academy; taught school; cri>s84.-d iJio
plains to California in 1841; served in the war with
Mexico, attaining the rank of majr)r; was a member
of the State cnnveiition whicli framed the first con-
stitution of California; was a member of the State
.'ienate of California in 1840; was a delegate to tho
National Democratic Convention at Charleston in
IStJO; was elected a re[iresentative from New York
in the Thirtv-nintli Congrt'ss, as a Unionist, receiving
18,018 votes 'against 14,24'.l voles for Temple, Demo-
crat, and serving from December 4, IStiu, to March 3,
18*17 ; was defeated as candidate for govenior of Cali-
fornia in 1875.
Biery, James S., was born in Venango County,
Penn.sylvania. March 2, ISiU; received an academic
education; taught school several years; studied the-
ology two yeare and a half; afterward studied law;
was admitted to the bar in the fall of 18t}8, aud com-
menced practice at Allenlown; in 1800 was the Re-
publican candidate from I/chigh County for the
lower hou.se of the Pennsylvania legislature, run-
ning ahead of liis ticket 2;J5 votes; am) was elected a
representative from Pennsylvania in the Forty-third
t'ongress, as a Republican, receiving l:i,01ft votes
.against 11,:!4<J votes for William H. Witte, and 3,7"n
votes for E. L. Acker, serving from December 1, 1873,
to March 3, 1875.
Bigby, John Sununerfield, was bom In
Coweta County, tJenrgia, February i:i, 18:12; was
educated at the county sihools; received a classical
education at Emory College, Oxford, Georgia, in
1853; studied and j)ractised law; was a memlM>r of
the State Constitutional Convention of 18(17-18<J8;
was solicitor-general of tho Tallapooso circuit from
-Vugust, 18(>7, to September 22, 1808; w.aa judge of
the superior courts of the Tallapoosa circuit from
September 22, 18*18. to March 3, 1871; and was elected
a represent-ativc from Georgia in tho Forty-second
Congress, as a Republican, by a majority of 1,(100
over Wright. Democrat, servhig from March 4, 1871,
to Marcir;!. 1S7.'..
Bigelow, Abijah, was lK)m at Westminster,
Massachusetts, Decembers, 1775; received a classical
education, graduating at Dartmouth College In 1705:
studied law; was admilte<l to the bar in 1708, and
commenced practice in the courts of Worcester
County, Mttssachus<'tts; was town-clerk of Leomin-
ster for five years; w;is a meml>er of the State IIouso
of Representatives; w.ns elected a representative from
Massachusetts in the Eleventh Congress (to fill the
vacancy causeil by tho r<.'signation of William Stead-
man), as a Federiilist: and was re-elected to the
Twelfth and to the Thirteenth Congress, serv ing from
DecenilKT 14, 1810, to March :t, 1815; was clerk of the
courts of Worcester County 1817-1S;W; w as .appointed
a in.a-sfpr in chancery in 18.18; and died April 4, 1800.
Bigelow, Lewis, was bom in WorceslerCounty,
Miissacliusetts, in 178.'t; received a classical educa-
tion, graduating at Willi.amsCoIleuc in 18(13; »ludied
law; was admitted to the bar. and commenced prac-
tice at Worcester; was elected a representative from
284
CONGRESSIONAL DtEECTOBY.
Massachusetts in the SiTcnteentli Concrcss, defeat-
ing Jnitn.*) Koniliill, and sen'inf; from UvcemboT :i,
l«i'l, to M:irch ;l, lSi:i; was \he editor of the first
serenteen volunii.-s of Massncliiisi-lls Keporls, and of
a Digest of six volumps of I'iclii'riiiij's Ilt'ports; re-
moved to Peorin, Illinois; was clerk of the Pcoria-
eounty court; and died at Peoria, Illiuois, October 3,
law.
Biraer, Samuel, was bom in Warren County,
Ohio, Decenilx'r ](!, ITIHI; reccivod a classical educa-
tion, ijrailualini; at Alliens Tniverslly; studiwi law;
was adinillL'd to the bur, and conimi'iiccd practice at
Fort Wayne, Indiana; was eleclnd a rcpn-sentative
from Ohio in the Twenty-lhinI ConRTcss, as a VAHiig,
Bcr^'lng from December 2, lAS;!, unlil Marcli .3, t.S:JiJ;
was governor of Indiana 184()-1H4.'1; was defeated as
the Whig candidate for governor in 1^4;} Ijv James
Wliiteonib, Democrat; died at Fort Wayne, Indiana,
in 1(<4;").
Biggs, Asa, was boni at Willlamston, North
Carolina, February 4, lyil ; received an academic
education; studied law; was admitted to the bar in
ISai. and commenced practice; was a mi'ml)erof the
Constitutional t'onvcnlion of North Carolina in lAto;
wasanu'ml)er of the House of t'onimoiis of North
Carolina in 1S40 ami IHJi', and of Hie Male Senate in
1W4 and 1S54; was elect*!d a represeni.itive from
North Carolina in the Twenty-ninth Congress, as a
Democrat, receiving :t,(51C» votes against ;i..>18 votes for
Outlaw. Whig, and 8er>ing from Deccniljer 1. lS4o,
unlil March !{. 1.H47; w.ns one of a commission to
codify the State laws of North Carolina in 1600; was
elected United-Estates senator, as a Deiuocrat, for six
years from Mareh 3, ii^hi, and resigned May, 1858,
when appointed by President Buchanan United-
States judge for the district of North Carolina.
Biggs, Benjamin T., was horn at Summit
Bridge, Dfluware, (k'totxT 1. 1821 ;"s|x.'nt his youth
npon a fann; alleiuU'd llic Penniiiuton Seniin.ary for
two years, an<l aft4.'rwards taught schocd for a short
time; was subseiinently a student in the Wesleyaii
University of Connecticut, hut left It on account of
his heultli; in 1847 he mriii'd his whole attention to
fanning; was a member of the State ('uiislitutional
Convention of 185^; siibse(|uently look an interest in
railro.id operations, and w.is elected director in the
Kent and Queen Anne's R-nilroad Company; was a
candidate for Congress in t8(tt), in opposition to .ludge
Fisher, and was defeated by 247 votes; was eleeteil a
representative from Delaware in the Forty-first Con-
gress, as a Democrat, receiving 10,1101 votes against
7,(J30 votes for TorU-rt, Republican; was re-elected
to the Forty-second Congress, receiving 11,440 votes
against O.l.M) votes for T. J. Ileald, Ilcpiiblican, serv-
i^trom March 4, 18(19, to Mareh 3, 187:1.
Bigler, William, was bom at Shrrmansburg,
Pennsylvania, in December, 181:1; received a pul>lie-
Bchofil education; served an apprenticeship to the
art of printing; removed toClearlield, and established
"The Clearlield Deraocrnt;" was elected to the .State
Senate in 1841 by :I,(X)0 majority, receiving every vote
in Clearlield County, save one; w.-is eh'cled governor
of Pennsylvania in 1801 simultaneonsly with the
election of his l)rotlier, John Bigler, as governor of
California, and sened 18o2-185.j; was elected a Unit-
ed-.Stales 8cn,itor from Pennsylvania, as a Democnit,
serving from December ii, 18'>.>, to JIareh 11, 18(11 ; was
a delegate to the (.'hicago National Convention of
18(14, to the Phitadelphiii National Union Convention
of IStK!, and to the N<!W-YorU National f.'ouvenUoii of
18(18; was a menit>er of the Constitutional Convention
of Pennsylvania, and was a fiscal organizer of the
Centenidal Exposition of 1870,
Billinghurst, Charles, was bom at Brighton,
New York, July 27. 1818; received a piililie-school
education; studied law; w,is admitted to the bar. and
commenced practice; removed to Wisconsin in 1817;
was a member of the tirst State legislature of Wis-
consin in 1848; was elected a presidential elector on
the Pierce and King ticket In 1852; was elected a
representative from the second district of Wlscondi
the largest in tlic United .Stale-s. in llie Thirty-foui
Congress, as a Repiibliran, riM-eiviiig l;!,:j.'i{) vol
:igainst 8.31H) votes for Macy, Democrat ; was re-idect-
to tlie Thirty-lifth Congress, reeeivuig 2.j,8<Ht voti
against 2:1,44.8 votes for 11. C. Ilobart, l5emo<-nil, an
sening from December ;J, l8iM, to March ;i, Itsili ; w
defeated as the Republie.in candidate for the Thirty-
sLxth Congi-ess, receiving 2:!,oil votes against 2-^.1* "
votes for I>.irrabee, Democrat; and died at Junea
Wisconsin. August 18, 180.').
Bines, Thomas, was bom at Trenton, New Jer-
sey ; received a public-8cht>ol education; was electe«l
a representative from New Jersey in the Thirteent'
Cimgress (to fill a vacancy caused by the death
Jacob Iluftyl, serving front NoveJiiber 2, 1814,
Muirh :i, 181.J.
BingtxaJS, John A., was bom at Mercer, Penn-
sylvania, in 1815; received an academic edue.ilion;
passeil two years in a printing-oflice; was a studrii
of Fnuikliii College, Ohio; was admitted to the hi
in 1840; wasdistriet-attoniey for Tuscarawas County,
Ohio, from 1840 to 1841); was electi-d a rcpresen '
five from Ohio in the Tliirty-fourth Congress, as
Republican, receiving lt,8(i0 votes against (),2;>> vol
for Stewart. Democrat; was re-elected to the Tliiriy
(ifth Congress, receiving 0,444 votes against (l,llt
voles for Woods, Democrat; was re-idecteil to th
Thirty-sixth Congress, re'ceiving 8,!i<8;l %oles agaiiisl
0.577 votes for Mansfield, Democrat; and was r<
el<"eteil to the Tliirty-sevenlh Congress, receiving
1>. 171) votes against o.lV);! votes for Wells. Democrat,
serving from December ;l. 1855, to Slarch 3, iHU
was chairman of the managers of the house in tb
impeaclimeut of Judge Humphreys, im|ieachod f«i
high tre;iS4in, May 22, 1802; w:is defeated as the l!c-i
publican candidate for the Thirty-eighth Congress,
receiving H.'.fM votes against 12.2!)!) votes for VV'hite,
Democrat; was appointed by Mr. Lincoln Unileil-
St.ites district judge for the southern district ot,
Florida, which he declined; was ap|K>inleU judge-
advocate in the Union army In ]8(i4, and later in
that year was appointed solicitor of the Court of
Claims; was special judge-advocate in the tri.il of the
conspirators against the life of Mr. Linc(dn; wa»
again elected to the Thirty-ninth Congress, as a Ke-
puliliean, receiving 12,377 votes against 11,11!) vote*^
for White, Democrat; was re-elected to the Fortietll
Congress, receiving i:^,:!(!l) votes against 11.1)47 vote*]
for Mitchner, Democrat; was re-*'lccted to the Forty-J
liist Congress, receiving l:},757 votes against lX;UlJ
votes for Estep, Democrat; and was re-elected to thai
Forty-second Congress, receiving 1:1,155 votes ugainstl
11,1)58 votes for Chambers, Democrat, serving from I
December 4. 1805, to March '.i, 1873; was appoiutcdij
rainisler to Japan Mav 3, 1873.
Bingham, Kinsley S., was bom at Camillus,
New York, December 10, 1808; received an academic,
education; taught school; was for three years a law«
yer's clerk; removed to Michigan in l.Sl:i, and settled!
on a farm; held several local offices; was a member]
of theState IIouso of lle])resentativcs 1.8.1.5- 1 S4(J: una!
electe<l a representative from Michigan in the Tliir-j
tietli Congress, as a Democrat, receiving (1.41)2 voiej J
against 5.780 votes for Wisner, Democrat, and S»8l I
voles for Cnnfield, Abolitionist; and was re-clcctfilj
to the Thirty-lirst Congress, serving from December
0, 1847, to March 3, 18">1; wsls elected governor oil
Michigan in ISVi, as a Republican, defeating I{iirr>-,|
Democrat, and Scott, Whig; ami was re-<.>lected gov-
ernor in 1850, OS a Republican, receiving 71,402 votcsj
against 54,085 votes for Feleh, Democrat; was eleeteil ,
Uulted-St.ites s<'nator from Michigan, as a liepuhli-
can, In place of Charles E. Stuart, Democrat, and
served from December 5, 18.50, until he died at Oak
(irove, .Michigan. October 5. 1801.
Bingham, Willitim, was bom at Philadelphia
in 1751; n'ceiveil a classical edue;ition,gradu,'itiugat|
Pliil.idelphia College in 170S; was agent of the Con-
tinental Congress at Martinique, and afterwards (
STATISTICAL SKETCHES.
285
consul at St. Pierre; was a dclcsato from Penngyl-
vaiiia to the Coiilinoiitiil ('(nisn'ss 17(<7-n.S(): was
L'nilotl-Statps senator from rcnnsylvnnia, serving
fri>iu Uecemlx'rV. llWi, to March :). 18.11; was elected
presid«.'iil jiri) trin. of the Sonale, February 1(5, ni>~:
Tisited Eurojjo after his senatorial term; and died at
Bath, England, February 7, 1814. He pul>lifilied in
1784 "A Letter from an American on the Sul>ject of
the Restraining Prorl,imalion;" .ind, in 17il3, "A
Description of Certain Tracts of Land in Maine."
Binney, Horace, was Iwru at I'hiladelphin,
Pennsylvania, .January 4, 1780; received a cl.ossical
cilucatiim. graduating at ILarvard in 17l>7; stuilied
law with ,Jan'd ln.;;er»oll; wa-s admitted to the bar in
IlStX), and commenced practice at i'hiladelphia; was
a member of the .state House of Kepresentatives 180<V-
lS;t7, and declined a re-election ; was elected a repre-
sentative from Pennsylvania in the Twenty-third
Congress, as a WHiis;. recelvini; Ti,:VA votes against
3.11)1 votes for Henry Horn, .Jackson Democrat, serv-
iiiK fn>m Ueccmber 2, IS'W, to March ;l, l.'iJ.'); was a
director and ilefender of the I'niled-iStales Uank;
made his last appearance in court in 184:1; and died
St I'bil.-vlelphia, Auj;jtist 12, I87,'), His most impor-
tant published work* were, " lieporls of t'.ises in the
Supremo Court of I'ciinsylvnnia, 171KV-1H14;" Eulo-
^_ eiitms on Chief-Justice TilKliman (lS:i7) aud on
^B Chief-Justice Marshall (ISJhi); "An hnjuiry into
^f the Fonnatlon of Washington's Farewell Address"
I (l.s.'>'.i); and " The Leaiiers of the Old Bar of Phila-
iaelrdiia" (I8,'i(t).
Bird, John, was bom at Litchfield, Connecticut;
rpceiveil a classical educ.ition, graduating al Yale
Collegi; in 178ti; studied law: w.-us admitted to the
bar, and commenced practice al Troy, New York;
wan elected a representative fn)m New York in the
SLxtli Congress, as a Democrat, sening from Decem-
ber 2, 171K», to March a, 1801; and died at Troy, New
York, in 1S0(\.
Bird, John T., was lK)m in nunterdon County,
I New Jorst'y, August 111, 1821t; received an academic
education; read law, aud was ailmitted to (he liar in
idMX practiseil in his native county; was nominated
As prosecutor of the ple:is in 18('>.'), an<l held the ollice
IXor the full tenu, live years; was elected a represeu-
Itative from New Jersey in the Korty-tir.st Congress, as
Democrat, receiving ll)..Wti vfites against 15,4511
rotes for Amos Clark, Itepublican; anrl wius re-elected
Ihe Forty-second Congntss, receiving 1S,(K)7 votes
u^iiist i:5,:!;il voles for II. Jtusling, llepublican, serv-
ig from March 4. IS4i'l. to March ;l. 1S7:1.
Birdsall, Alisbum, w.-i«i born In the city of New-
fork; renuived to lliiigliamlon; was I'leclcd a re|v
entative from New York in the Thirtieth Con-
^^^ , as a Democrat, 5er\ing from Decenibertl, Is47,
^^^«) March 3, 1S4U; was appoint(!<l Uniled-.Statc8 naval
^Hfc toreUee(>er at New-York City.
^B_ Birdsall, James, was elected a representative
^^Fmm New York in Ihe Fourleenlh Congress, as a
^^KJemoerat, serving from Deccmlx-r 4, 1815, to March
^^B,l.siT; was a member of the State General Assembly
^^ Ji l.s:3T.
Birdsall, Samuel, was elected a representative
^^n.m >"•■«• York in the Twenly-lifth Congress, as a
ijemocrat. f.en ing from tSeptembcr 4, 18:17, to Marcii
■53, 1h;;'.i.
Birdseye, Victory, was bom In 1782; waselect-
a representative from New Y'ork in tlie Four-
l*eenth Congrt-ss, serving from December 4, 1815, to
Search :{. 1817; was chosen a didegatfi to the .Stale
Vonstitiitioiuil Convenliou of 18;;i; w.is a .Slate sen-
ator in 18-Jl .inil 18;;it, and for three years a member
«f the Slate Assembly; was defeated as a Whig can-
didate' for the Twenty-sixth Congress, receiving (1,015
Totes against li.nti*,) votes for Edward Hogers; was
•sain elected to the Twenty-seventh Congres.s, as a
Whig, receiving lii.H.54 votes against 1<),772 votes for
Eafle, Van IJuren Democrat, and serving fiimi M.ay
31, 1841. to March 3, 1843; died at Pomiiey, bepttjm-
berlO,l»5a
Bisbee, Horatio, Jun., of Jacksonville, was
electeil a representative from Florida in Ihe Forty-
tifth Congri'SB, as a DetniK-r.at, receiving ll,l'8(l votes
against 11.147 voles for Jesse J. Fililey, Uepublican.
Bishop, James, was bom at New Branswick,
New Jersey; received a public-school education; wa«
bred a mercliant ; was a meinlxT of Ihe .Stale House
of Kcpreseiit.-itives; w.ns eli^eted a repn^sentative from
New (Jersey in the Thirty-fourth Congress, as a Whig,
receiving 0,001 votes against 7,()0:{ votes for Lilly,
Democnit, and serving from Deceml)er .3, l.SM, to
March ;J, 18.'<7 ; was tlefeated as an American I{epub-
licun eaniliilate for tlie Thirty-lifth Congress, rewiv-
ing l),7tlS votes against 10,781 votes for Adrian, Demo-
cr.it.
Bishop, Phanuel, was bom in Massachusetts;
received a public-school education; was a State sen-
ator 1787-I71II. and a meml)er of the .Stale House of
Uepresentatives in I7!rj, 17li;i, I7!)7, and 17US; was
elected a representative from Mnssachusctis in the
Sixth Congress, and was re-elected to Ihe .Sevi'iith,
Eighth, and Ninth C<mgre8ses, serving from Decem-
ber 2, 17'.K», to Manh ;i, 1.SU7.
Bishop, William D., was l>om at Bloomfleld,
New Jersey, Sepleinber 14, 1827; rt'ceived a classical
education, gnuliiatiiig at Y:Je Colli'gein l.s41i; stuillr'd
law, and was a<)initted lo the bar, but gave up his
prttfession to engage in railroad enterprises; was
elected a reprcsentalive from Connecticut in the
Tliirty-llfth Congn-ss, as a Democrat, rjK:eiving 8,403
votes against 8,;i(S7 votes for Ferry, Kepublicun, and
sen-ing from DeeemlMT 1. 1857, to March :i, 1.8,5(1;
was defeated as Ihe Democratic candidate for llio
Thirty-sixth Congress, receiving 10,000 votes .igaiusl
1 1 JiO'i votes for Ferry, Keiujbliean ; was commissioner
of jiatenls frf)m May 2:1, IKilt, lo January, l.'^tlO: wa»
a rni'mber of the iState House of Kepresentatives in
Bissell, William H,, was bom at Ilartwick,
New York, April 25, 1811; received a ])Uldie-»chool
education, supporting hims<,'lf byteiiching during the
winter nionlhs; studied inedieine, graduating from
the I'hiladelphia Meiiical College in 18;i5; ri'moved
to Illinois, and practiseil medicine in Monroe County
until l^i+l; was a member of the .Stale House of Kep-
resent.itivi's; studied law; was admitted to the l)ar,
and commenced practice at lielliville, HIinois; w.-w
county prosecuting ultomi-y in 1h44; servt'd in the
Mexican war. distinguishing himself at Buena Visia
as a captain in the .Secniul Illinois Volunteers; woa
elected a representative from Illinois in the Thirty-
first Congn'ss, as a Denioeral, without opfiosition;
was n'-elec'ted to the Thirty-second Congress, and was
re-4_'!ccte<l to the Thirty-tliii-tl Congri'Ss, os an Inde-
Iiendent Democrat, receiving 5,723 votes against 4,(!83
votes for (tillespie. Whig, and 4,515 voles for Foukc,
Democrat, and serving from December 2, iBiW, to
March 3. 1845; was elected os a Republican govemor
of (he State of Illinois, serving lS.'")0-18(iO; and died
at Siiringtield, lliinois, March 18. 18lW.
Black, Edward J., was bora at Bcoufort,
South (.'.iruiina, in 180l(; received a public-school
education; studied law at August.a, Georgia, under
Judge Held; was admitted to the bar, and commenced
practice at Augusta in 1827; removed in ltyJ2 to
Scriven County, (Jeorgia; 8er\'ed for several years in
the .State House of liepresentatives; was defeated as
candidate for .State attoniey-general In 1831; was
elected a representative from Georgia In the Twenty-
sixth Congress, as a Slate-rights Whig, receiving
;}|,(;75 votes .against .'10.005 votes for Bunicy, Demo-
cnit, and sening from December 2, 18;Jt), to Alarch 3,
1841; bei-ame a supporter of Van Uuren, aiul was
ilefi'.iled [IS the Demoeralic ctuididate for the Twenty-
seventh Congri'Ss. receiving 35,41)0 votes against
30,:i79 for Habersham, Wliig; was re-elected to the
Thirty-eighth CVmgress, as a Democrat, to fill a
vacuni'y, n?ceiving ;15,220 votes against .'!2,y«7 votes
for Wifde. Whig, and serving froni March 2, 1842, to
March S, 1845; was defeated as the Democratic con-
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didatc for llio Tliirty-nintli Conpross. rccolving 3,300
votos against 4.fi<l.") votes for Tooinlis, Wlilg; and ilioil
while on ii visit at Baniwell Uislrict, South Carolina,
18Kt.
Black, Henry (father of Jeremiah S. Black),
Wiis boni at Stony Brook, Somerset CNiunty, Penn-
sylvania. Folira;iry 25, n.S); received a pnhlic-sehool
odtieation; studied law; \v.is admitted to the liar, and
commenced practice; was a member of the .State
House of Kcprc'scntalives 1815-1818; was an associiito
judge of .Somerset County 182l>-lJ+iO; was elected a
reprcsent.itivc from Pennsylvania in the Twenty-
seventh Congress, as a Whig (to fdl the vacancy
caused liy tlio death of Charles Ogle), but died be-
fore talking his seat. November 28, 1.S41.
Black, James, was bom at Newport. Pennsylva-
nia; received a |iubIic-s<'h(M>l education; was elected
a rcpn-sentative from Pennsylvania in the Twenty-
fourth Congress (in place of Jesse Miller, resigned),
as a Ucraocrjit, and 8er\ing from Uccenibcr .1, IS-'iO,
to March 3, 18:17; was again olecteil to the Twenty-
eighth Congress, receiving 5,i}17 votes against 6,189
votes for Miller, Whig; was re-clecl*?d to the Twenty-
ninth Congress, receiving 8,405 votes against 8.084
for his Whig opponent, and sening from Dcceml>cr
4, 184;). to March 3, 1847.
Black, James A., wa.s bom in Abbeville Dis-
trict. South Carolina, in 171t;); received a public-school
education, .iiid eiiij.aged in mercantile pursuits; en-
tered the United-States army in 1812 as lieutenant,
and was promoted to the rank of captain; filled
several situations of trust and responsibility; w.as
elected a representative from .South C^arolitia in the
Twenty-ciglitli Congress, as .i Caliiouii Democrat;
and wiis re-elected to the Twenty-ninth and Thirtieth
Congresses, serving from December 4, 1843, to his
death, of pneiunonla, at Washington, April S. 184;^.
Black, John, was a native of Virgiida; re-
ceived a cliissicat education; t.aught school; studied
law; was admitted to the bar. ami coiinueneed pnic-
tiee in Louisiana; removed to Mississippi, where lie
was .appointed judge; was appointed United-States
senator from Mississippi by the governor (to lill the
vacancy caused by the r<'signation of Powhatan
Ellis), as a Whig, and was subseipieiitly elected,
serving from December 12. 1832, UFitil ho resigned
in 18:18; resumed the practice of law; and died at
Wincliester, Virginia, August 20, 1854.
Blackburn, Joseph C. S., was iwrn in Woo<l-
fonl County, Kentucky, October 1. IS.'iS; was edu-
cated at .Sayres Institute, Frankfort. Kentucky, and
at Centre College. Danville, Kentucky, whence he
graduated in 18.')7; studied law with George B. Kiii-
caid, Esn., at Ijcxington; was admitted to the bar in
1858, and practised until 18C1 ; entered the Confeder-
ate arpiy in 1S<)1, and served throughout the war;
resumed practice in 18t)5; was elected to the State
legislature of Kentucky in 1871 and 1873; was elect^'d
B representative from Kwitucky in the Forty-fourth
Congress, as a Democrat, receiving 1 1 ,2ti8 votes
against 6,045 votes for E. C. M.arshall. Independent,
and re-elected to the Forty-fifth Congress, receiving
18,884 voles against 1I,;U8 votes for T. O. ,Shackel-
fonl. Republican, and sening from December (!, 1875.
Blackburn, William Jasper, w.as boni in
Arkansas July 24, 1820; received a public-school edu-
cation; learned the art of printing; established the
" Homer Iliad " at Homer, Louisiana, and ttKik such
antislavery ground before emancipation, that his of-
fice was twice mobbed; was a rn<'mber of the State
Constitutional Convention of 1848; was elected a
repri'Sentalive from Louisian.a in the Fortieth Con-
gress, us a Itepublicon, and served from July 18, 1,*J8,
to March 3, 18(10.
Blacklege, William, was bom In Craven
County, North t.'arolina; was a m<'ml)er of the State
House of Uepresenlativs in 1707. 17'.18. 1700. and
1800; wus elieied a representative from North Can>-
lina in the EiKhth Congress, as a DemiK-rat, and was
re-elected to tho Niutb and Tenth Congresses, serv-
ing from October 17, 1803, to M.ircU 3, 1809; wa*
defeated iia a Democratic candidate for the Eleventh
Congress; was again elected to the Twelfth Cfiiigress,
defeating Willialn G.aston, Fedcrahst, and serving
from Novemlier 4, 1811, to March .S, 1813; was de-
feated as a Demm-ratie camlidate for the 11iirt<?cnth
Congress by William (Jaston, Fi-deralist; and died at
Sprint; Dili. Craven County, North Carolina, Octo-
ber lit. 1828.
Blackledcre, T^illiam S., was bom in Pitt
County, North Carolina, in M'M; removed to C'raven
County; was a member of the State House of Ri.-pre-
sentatives in 1820; was elected a representative frora
North Carolina in the Sixteenth (!'ongress (to till a
vacancy caused by the death of Jcs.se Sbx'um). as a
Democrat, defeating Davis; and was re-eli.-cted to the
Seventeenth Congress, serving from February 7, 1821,
to March 3, 1S-J3; died at New Berne, North Carolina,
March 21, 1S57.
Blackinar, Esbon, w,is bom in the State of
New York; was a prtuninent citizen of Newark in
that State; was two years a member of the St.ato
Assembly; was electi^l a representative in the Thir-
tieth Coiigrc.xs (to lill the vacancy caused by the death
of John M. Ilollev). as a Wliig, serving from Decem-
l>cr 4, l.'*48, to M.arch 3. 1.840.
Blackwell, Julius W., was bom in Virginia;
received a public-school education; removed to Ten-
nessee, and settled at Athens; was elected a repre-
sentative from Tennessee in the Twenty-sixth Con-
gress, as a Van Buren Democrat, receiving 1,313
jnajority over W. Stone. Wliig, nxeiving 5.703 votes,
and serving from December 2, 18.'}0, to March 3. 1S41;
was defeated as a Democratic candidate for the
Twenty-seventh Congress; was again elected to the
Twenty-eighth Congress, receiving 5,703 votes against
5.700 votes for Canipl>ell. Whig, and serving from
December 4. 1,h43, to March 3. 1845; was defeated aa
11 Democratic candidate for the Twenty-ninth Con-
gR'SS by Crozier. Wilis.
Blaine, James Gillespie, was born in Washing-
ton County, Pennsyivauia. J.anuary 31, l.S3<.l: grodu-
ate<l at Washiiigtcm College, I'ennsylvaida: adopted
the editorial profession, and went to Miiine, where
he edited "The Portland Advertiser" and "The
Kenneltee Journal;" was a member of the Maine
legislature in 18.50, 18«0, 18fil, and 18t!2, serving the
last two years as speaker of the house; was elected
a representative from Maine in the Thirty-eighth Con-
gress, .as a Republican, receiving 0,071 votes against
(1.540 votes for Gould, Democrat; was re-elected to
the Thirty-ninth Congress, receiving 14.(X>5 votes
against 0.727 votes for Gould, Democrat; was re-
elected to the Fortieth Congress, receiving 14,000
votes ju^ainst 8,318 votes for Heath, Democrat; wim
ro-«'lecled to the Forty-first Congress, receiving 10,127
voles against 12.881 votes for Farley, Democrat; was
re-elected to the Forty-second Congn^ss. receiving
11, .MM) votes against 0.270 votes for Farley, Demo-
crat; was re-elected to the Forty-third (Jongrew,
receiving 15.084 votes against 11,610 votes for Lang,
Liberal Republican ; was elected to the Forty-fourth
Congress, receiving ll,iJ24 votes ag.ainst 8.01M voles
for O'Brien, Democrat; and was appointed I7nitc<l-
Slates senator from Maine, July 10, 1870, to fill tho
vacancy occasioned by the resign.ation of Lot M.
Mon'ill, apijointed secretary of the treasurj", and
Wiis subsequently elected for that unexpired term,
and for the ensuing tcmi, which will expire Marcli 3,
18.S;i, serving from July 7. 180;j.
Blair, Austin, was bom at Caroline. NewTork,
Fettruary 8, 1818; received a rlossical education,
graduating at Union College, New York; studied
law, and on removing to Michigan commenced its
practice; was county clerk of Eaton County, and
pro8«'cuting attorney of Jackson County ; Wiis a inem-
ixT of the leeislature of the State of Michigan; was
governor of Michigan from I.SOI to 1805; was elected
a representative from Micliigan in the Fortieth Con-
gress, aa a Republican, receiving 10,240 votes ogaiost
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12,238 voto3 for Gmngcr, Democrat; was re-elected
t't tlio Fiirly-first C'»iiirr('Ss. receiviiic; 10,2(53 votes
against ]"iii!.S votes fur Crane, Democrat; and was
re-elccteJ to the Forty-second Congress, receiving
15,2;J(1 votcA against M,7US votes for U. 1). Hughes,
Democrat, sening from Marcli •!, 1S07, to Mareli :i,
1S7.1.
Blair, Barnard, was bom at Salem, New York;
p'ceived a jiuhlic-seliool education; held sevcnil local
offlcrs; Wius elected a representative from New York
in lUc Twenty-seventh f'ongrcss, as a Wiig, receiv-
ing 4.01X1 votes .Tgainst 3,(101 votes for Oreille Clark,
Van liuren Democrat, and serving from May 31,
1»11, to Miirch :i, l)>4.i.
Blair, Francis P., jun., was bom at Lexing-
ton. Kentucky, February 1'.'. 1821; received a classical
education, grjuluating at I'rinceton College in IIS-ll ;
removed to St. I.ouis. where he studied law with his
brother, Montgomery Blair; w;is a^lniitted to the bar,
and conimenciMl practice; visited the Ilocky Moun-
tains for his healtii in IS-ki, and while in New Mrxico
enlisted as a priv.ite in the regiment of Colonel
Doniphan, ser^'ing through the Mexican war; re-
sume^l pniclice at St. Louis, and w;is one of the
pioneers of the Free-soil movement there; was elected
to thi: Slissouri legislature in 1S.J2, and again in 1S54,
although Colonel Ueiiton. the Free-soil c;in<liilate for
Congress in 18.)2, was d(!feateil; became interested
in "The Missouri Democrat;" was elected a reprt'-
•euUitive from Missouri in the Thirty-lifth Congress.
M a Kroe-Soiler, n^ceiving (l,0:J5 votes against 5,5411
votes for Kcnnett, jVinerican, and 2,181 votes for
Kcynolds, Democrat ; w^is n'-eleeted to tbc Tliirty-
aizth Congress, defeating Darrett, Democrat, by a
vote so close that the election was conti'sted, but the
house gave him the seat, which ho resigned at the
close oif the lirst session; was def-ated as the Free-
soil cnmlidate fir llio remainder of the Thirty-sixth
Congress, reci-iving 12.r)o» votes iigainst 12,.S()2 votes
for iJarretl. Denmcrat; w.is again elected to the
Thirly-s<'venlh Con,:;res9. receiving 11,453 voles
lU^iinst tl.tHJ? votes for JSarrelt, and 4.."j42 votes for
Toild, American; was re-elected to the Thirty-eighth
Congress, receiving 4,"4;J voles aaaiiist 4,5110 votes
for Knos, and '2,-M') votes f.ir D"gy; entering the
Union amiy as colonel, he was upjHiinted brigadier-
general August 7. aiwl major-general N(jvember 21),
Wi2, ri'si'^ning liis wat in Congress; commanded a
division in llie Vicksburg c.im|«iign and the Seven-
teenth Army ("ori.)8 in Sherman's c^impaigns; w.as
appointed eiilleetor of internal n'venue at .St. Louis
in l-^iKl. and w;is reji-cterl by the .Senate; was after-
wards nominated minister to Austria, and Wiis again
rejected by the .Senate: changed front on fiolitics,
and was nomin.ate<l at the National Democratic Con-
Tcntion in l^ikS as vice-president on the Seymour
ticket; was a member of the .State legislature of
Sjissouri in 1S7U; w.os elected a United-Slates stMiator
(to fdl the vac.incy o<'casioned by the resignation of
JudRc Drake), as a Democrat, and served from
January 25. 1871, to M.irch 3, 1873; was a Demo-
cratic eanilidate for re-election, and defeated by L.
V. |{o'.xy. Dejuoer.it. R.'tuming to St. I^ouis, his
liealtli f.illetl, and he died there .July 8, 1875.
Blair, Henry W., was born at (".amplon, New
Hanii'Uhirc, December 0, l.'<;>4; received an acailemic
njucation; stuilied law with William Lcverett at
Plymouth: admitted to the bar in May, 18.')9, and
commenced practice at Plymouth; was appointed
prosecuting attorney for (Jrafton County in 1S(K);
fc-r\'<'d in the Union army as lieutenant-colonel of
the Fifteenth New-Uarap.shire Volunteers; was a
member of the .State House of Representatives in
1801. and of the State Senato in 18tl7-18<iS; was
«||ected a representative from New Hampshire in the
Forty-fourth Conjress, as a I'epublleaii, receiving
12.:l8i» votes agaiii.st 12,18 I for Henry <). Kent, Denicv
crat and Liber.il Ke]iubliean, and lii4 scattering; .ami
wa» rc-clectcd to the Fortv-ftfth C'onjiress. n-wivlng
18,083 vote* against 11,821 voles for Henry O. Keu^
Democrat, and 78 scattering, serving from December
0, 1875.
Blair, Jacob B., was bom at Parkerslmrg, Vip-
gini.t, April 11, 1821; received a public-school edu-
cation; studied law; was admitted to the bar, nnd
commenced practice; was prosecuting attorney for
Kitchie County for several years ; was elected a repre-
sentative from Virginia in the Thirty-*"ighth Con-
gross, as a Unionist, serving from Deceml)er 2, 1801,
to March 3, 18*>J; w.is elected a representative from
West Virginia in the Thirty-ninth Congress, receiv-
ing 8.0(5(1 votes Against (Mi voles for De Hass, also a
Unionist, and sening from Decs-mlier 7, 1803, to
March 3, 1805.
Blair, James, was born at Lancaster, South
Carolina; received a liberal education; and was
elected a representative from .South Carolina in the
Seventeeuth Congress, as .in anli-tarilT Democrat,
and served during the lirst session, from DecemlK>r2,
1821, to May 8, 1822, after which he resigned; was
again elected to the Twenty-first Congress, as a
l^nion Democrat, ami re-elected to tCe Twenty-
second anil Twenty-third Congresses, us a Democrat,
serving from Deeeml)or 7, 1M21I, to April 1, 1834;
(luring the first si'ssion of the Twcnty-tliinl Congress
he attended the Wiu-ihington Theatre one night, and,
becoming displeased with the actors, lired a loaded pis-
tol at them, for which he w.as arrested, and tincil live
dollars, his physician testifying tliat he was under
the Intluencuof brandy and opium, t.aken to alleviate
Iiain from chronic rheumatism; throe weeks after-
wards, April 1, 1*54, he blew out his brains with a
pistol, at Ills tioarding-house on Cajiitol Hill.
Blair, James G., was bom in 1828; received a
common Enclish education; studied l.iw; was ad-
mitted to thel)ar, and commence<l practice at Canton;
and was elected a representativi- from Missouri lu
the Forty-second Congress, as a Liberal Republican,
receiving ll.(>10 votes .agaiiiBt Vt.lliU voles tor J. T. K.
UavwcHid, Itailical Republican, seniiig from March
•I. 1871, to March 3, 1873.
Blair, John, was bom in Washington County,
Tennessee, in 171W; received .in aciulemic education;
was a member of the .State House of Kepresentalivei
and of the State Senate; WikS elected a representativo
from Tennessee in the Eighteenth Co/igress, as a
■lackson Democrnt. receiving Kit) majority over .John
Tipton; was re-elected to the Nineteenth Congress,
receiving 270 m.ijority over .John Tipton; was re-
elected to the Twentieth Congress, receiving 75
majority over Campliell, Wlik; was re-elected to the
Twenty-first Congn-ss, receiving 181 m.ajority over
Carter. Whig; was re-elected to the Twenty-second
Congress, receiving 314 majority over Carter, Whig;
and was re-elecfe(l to the Twenty-third C'ongress,
receiving 3,284 votes i^ainst 2,48<) votes for Carter,
and 1.S.J0 votes for Arnold, Wliigs, serving from
Decembers, 1825, to March 3, 18:55; and died at
.lonesborough, Washington County, Tennessee, JiUjr
I), 1803.
Blair, Samuel S., was bom In Pennsylvania;
rcci'ived a publie-sebool e<lucation; was elected a
representative fi-om rennsylvanla in the Thirty-sixth
Congress, as a Republican, receiving 9,114 votes
against 0,071) vote.* for Pershing, Democrat; was re-
elected to the Thirty-.seventh Congr<'SS, receiving
11,185 votes against 8,220 votes for McAllister, Dcmo-
enit. and serving from December 5, 1859, to March
3, IWVl.
Blaisdell, Daniel, was bom in New n.impshire
in 170"; received a public-school education; was a
member of the executive council 180.'5-18<i8; was
electeil a representative from New Hampshin* in tho
Eleventh Congress, as a Federalist, serving from
May 22, 18r.lt. to Slarch 3. 1811; and died In 18:52.
Blake, Hairison G,, was bom at Newfane,
Vemiont. March 17, ISIS; received u public-school
education; removed to Ohio in ISIO, and, while en-
gaged as clerk in a store, studied law; was admitted
to the bar, and commenced practice at Medina; waa
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for four years a member of the Ic^slattire of Ohio,
•erving as prcsicienl of tlie State Senate 1R4.*-1841»;
was clrct<"d a rcprr»<'ntativc fpiin Ohio in tli<- Tliirty-
(ixtli Conyriss (to fill a vacancy caused liy llio deatli
of Cyrus Spinlc), as a Hcpulilican; and was re-elected
U> tlie Tliirly-seveiitli ConpreRS, receiving 12.IU0 votes
against '.i.iiTi;! votes for I'n'ntJRS. Di'iniierat, serving
fnmi l)eceml>er 5, IHj'.t, to March 3, lS(l;j; wiis a dele-
gate (41 the Loyalists' Convention at Philudelpbla in
ism.
Blake, John, ]un., was bom at Montgomery,
Ormnge County; ri-ii-iv<'d a pul)llc-scho<i| education;
was a memlK-r (if the State Ilouse of ISeprcsentatives
170S. 171«», and 1S0(»; was EheriH of Orange County
1.SUJ-1.*j5; was elected a representative from New
York in the N'intli Conjiress; and was re-el(;eted to
the Tenth Cou;nvss, serving from Decemlier 2, l.HOii,
to March 3. 1*0; was again a member of the Slate
nouse of lU-prcsentatives 1813-1813; and died at
Monl(;omerv, New York.
Blake, I'hoinas H., was l>oni in Calvert County,
Maryland, Juno 14, ITH'J; received a public-school
education, and studied law at Washington City:
served in the militia of the District of Columbia at
the battle of Blailensburg in 1.S14; removed to Ken-
tucky, and thence to Indiana, where lie commenced
the pnietice of law at Terre Haut<"; was prosecuting
attorney and judge of the circuit court; relinquished
his profession for mercantile pursuits; was for
severiil y<'ar8 a member of the State legislature of
Indiana; was elected a nfpresentative from Indiana
In the Twentieth Congress, as an Adiims Republican,
receiving 5.222 votes aj^ainst .'>,i:{.s votes for Itatcllff
Boon, Jacksoni.in, and l,(J:i7 votes for L. 8. Shuler.
Jacksonian, sening fnira December ;i, 1.S27, to March
3, 1S2U; was defeated as an anti-Jackson candidate
for the Twenty-first Congress, by KatelifT lioon,
J.ick8i>nlan. who li:ul 78 majority; declined being a
candidate for the Twenty-second Congress; was ap-
pointed l)y President Tyler commissioner of the
general land oflice. May li'. 1.S42. sening until April,
184^; was ap[)oinled president of the Erie and Wa-
bash Canal ('omp,inv; visited England as financial
agent of the Slate oi Indi.ina; and, while returning,
died at Cincinnati. Ohio, November 28. 1840.
Blakey, Q-eorge D., was boni in Kentucky, and
claimed to have lieen elected to llic Thirty-ninth Con-
gress from that State. Elijah Hise, Democrat, had re-
ceived 7,74<) votes, and (5. D. lilaki-y, l!epul)lican, had
received 1.21)1 ; but Blakey claiim'd that llise had been
disloyal during the war, anil had been elected by dis-
loyal men, while bo had received a majority of the loy-
al votes. Before the certificate was given, llise com-
mitted suicide. A new election was ordered by the
governor; and J. S. Oolladay was declared elected;
tjic house refusing to sustain tlie claim of Blakey.
Blanchard, John, was l)om at Peacham, Ver-
mont, luid was reared on a farm; received a classical
education, prmluatlng at Dartmouth College in 1812;
removed to York, Pennsylvania, and taught school;
studied law; was admitted to the bar, and practised;
was elected a representative from Pennsylvania in
the Twenty-ninth Congn'ss, as a Whig, by a majori-
ty of 2X1 votes; and was re-elected to the Thirtieth
(Jongn-ss by a majnritv of fSoO votes, sen'iiig from
December 1, 1845, to March 3, IMO; and died at Co-
lumbia, Pennsylvani.-t, March 8, 1849.
Blanoharcf, Jonathan, was iKpm In New Ilamp-
shlre; received a public-school eilucation ; took an ac-
tive ]iart in the preliminary Biases of the Kevolution,
and was a delegate from New Hampshire to the Con-
tinental Congress 17'.>:!-17y4.
Bland, Kichard, was l)om in Prince Orange
County, Virginia, in 1708; received a classical educa-
tion, graduating at William and Mary College, and
at the University of Edinliurgh : was a member of the
Virginia House of Burgesses 174."i-17iiH, investigat-
ing the settlement ami progress of the colony with
such care, that he was known as " The Virginian An-
tiquary;' took a loading part in Itcvolutiouary
movements; was chosen a delegate to the Continen"!
tal Congress 1774-177n. .ind was again ch<T«en, but de-1
dined; and died at Williamsburg, Virginiii, October^
28. 1770.
Bland, Richard Parks, was 1mm near Hart-
fonl, Kentucky; was left an orpdian at an early age;
worked during the summer months to enable him to
attend the common schtnils in tlie winters, and when
he had attaiiieil his majority he taught school, to ra>
aide him to take an academic course; studied law,,
and practised his profession, never having held a pub-
lie oBiee until he was elected a n^presentative from.
Missouri in the Forty-third (Congress, as a Jackson
Democrat, receiving ll,t»74 votes against 8,82(1 vote*
for A. J. Seay, Republican ; w«s rp-elecf»'d to the
Forty-fourth Congress, receiving 11.350 votes against
8,92tt votes for .i. J. Seay, Republican; and was re-
elected to the Korty-liflh Congress, receiving ll..S5a
votes against 8,;»21> votes for .\. J. S«?ay, Republican,
serving from Deceml>er 1, 187;J.
Blaild, Thodorick (an uncle of John Ran-
dolph), was born in Prince George County. Virginia,
in 1742; was sent to EngLind to W educated in 17.VJ;
studied medicine at E<Iinl>urgh in 17<il-17<ki; was ad-
mitted to practice, and n'tunied home; t'X>k an active
p.-irt in Revolutionary movements, and enterp<l tha
Continental army as captain of the first trvxip of Vir-
ginia cavalry; was a delegate from Virginia to the
Continental Congress in 1780-178;J. and, wliile ia
attendance in 17.81. his home was plundered by th<s
enemy; was appointed by Ctovenmr Henry lieuten-
ant of Prince George's County in 178.'); was a mem-
Ikt of the Virginia Convention of 1788 on the adop-
tion of the Federal Constitution, and was one of tha
minority which op]>osed its ratific.ilion; was elected
a representative from Virginia in the Firsi Congress;
took his seat March -to, 178',). and served luitil ba
died at New York. June 1. 17'.»0.
Bledsoe, Jesse, receiveil a classical education;
studied law; w.is admitted to Uie bar in Kentucky,
and practised in the courts of that State with great
success; was professor of law in the Transylvania
University; was elected United-.States senator from
Kentucky, ser%-ing from May 24, 181:!, until he re-
signed in 181.'>. and was appointed chief justice of
Kentucky; removeil to Texas, where he pr.iclised;
and died at NacogcU)ches, Texas, June ,"50, 18;J7.
Bleecker, Hermanns, wiis born at Albany,
New York, in 1771I; P-ceived a classical education; '
Rturlied law; was admitted to the bar. tuid commenced i
praclice at Albany; was electc><l a represi-ntative from
New York in the Twelfth Congress, as an anti-war
Federalist, by a majority of 482, ser\iiig from No-
vember 4, 1811. to Mi»rch 3, 1813; was ap|Hiinted » i
n'gent of the University of New York in 1822; was
rhitrijr iVnffnirrx in the Netherlands May 12, lfM2-
June 28, 184.1; and died at Albany, New York, July
III, 1811).
Bliss, Archibald M., was bom at Brt>oklyn.
New York, Januar)' 2.'), INW; received an academic
education; Wiis engaged for many years in mercantile
pursuits; was an alderman of Bnioklyn in lsi>4. l.S(>5,
180(1, and 18(17, serving in I81W as president of the
boanl; was the Republican candidate for mayor of
Brooklyn in 18(i7; was a deleg;ite to the National Re-
publican Conventions at Baltlmon> in 18<14 and at
Chicago in 1808, and to the LilM'ral National Con-
vention at Cincinn.Ui in 1872; was a member of the
Boanl of Water Conmiissiouors of Brooklyn in 1871-
1S72; and w.ts elected a repn'Bi;ntative from New
York in the Forty-fourth Congress, as a Lil>eral and
Democrat, receiving 12,+}!) votes against 7.8«>2 vote*
for George C. B<:unett, Republican; and was r*-
4'lected to the Forty-fifth Congress, receiving lS,.*>i[)6
voles against 11,4!)(> voles for Solomon Spitzer, Re-
pnMic;in, serving from Decemlier (1, 187.">.
Bliss, George, was bom nt JiTictio. Vermont,
January 1, 1813; received a classical education, study-
ing one vear at Granville College; studied law; was
odmittcii to the bar In 1841, and commenced practice
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»t Wooiter, Ohio; was appointed president judge
of tlie eiglith judicial district in I80O, servine until a
clttmge of the constitution yacated the office; was
elected areptesentatlTe from Oliio in the Thirty-third
Congress, as a Democrat, serving from December
6, I80S, to March 3, 1855; was a^in elected to the
Thirty-eighth Oong^ss, as a DBmocrat, receiving
1U,4S0 votes against 10,454 votes for Hortin Wel-
ker, Republican, and serving from December 7,
1803, to March 3, 1805; was defeated as the Demo-
cratic candidate for the Tliirty-ninth Congress, re-
ceiving 10,312 votes against 11,366 votes for Martin
W'elfcer, Republican; was a delegate to the National
Union Convention at Philadelphia in 1866.
Bliss, Philemon, was l>om at Canton, Connec-
ticut, July 28, 1814; received a classical education at
Fairtield Academy and Hamilton College; studied
law ; was admitted to the bar, and commenced prac-
tice at Ohio; was president judge of the fourteenth
judicial circuit; was elected a representative from
Ohio in the Thirty-fourth Congress, as a Republican,
receiving 8,788 votes against 6,011 votes for Johnson,
Democrat ; was re-elected to the Thirty-fifth Congress,
receiving 10,414 votes against 7,617 votes for Fire-
stone, Democrat, and serving from Decemlier 7, 1863,
to March 3, 1865; was appointed Ciiited-States judge
for the Territory of Dacotah.
Blodget, Foster, was Iram at Augusta, Georgia;
was mayor <» Augusta; entered the Confederate ser-
vice In 1861-1862, but withdrew, and left the State;
was postmaster at Augusta; claimed to have l>een
elected a United-States senator from Geoisia, as a Re-
publican, for six years from the 4th of March, 1871,
but the Senate gave the seat to Thomas M. Norwood;
died at Atlanta, Geor]gia, November 13, 1877.
Bloodvrorui, Timothy, was bom in North
Carolina in 1736; he was reared in poverty, and it is
recorded that he " was, by turns, farmer, blacksmith.
Sreacher, physician, wheel wrl^t, and politician;''
c was a meml)er of the State House of Representa-
tives in 1770, 1780, 1781, 1782, 1783, and 1784; was
a delegate to the Continental Congress 1786-1787;
was a member of tho State Senate 1788 and 1789;
was elected a representative from North Carolina in
the Fint Congress, serving from April 6, 1790, to
March 3, 1791; was again a meml>er of the State
Iloose of Representatives 1793 and 1794; was elected
United-States senator, serving from December 7, 1796,
to March 3, 1801 ; was collector of customs at Wil-
mington; and died at Wasliiugton, North Carolina,
Annut 24, 1814.
Bloom, Isaao, was elected a representative from
New Toric in the Eighth Congress, but died l>efore
taking his seat.
Bloomfleld, Joseph, was bom at Woodbridge,
New Jersey; received an academic education; stud-
ied law; entered the Revolutionary army in 1776 as a
captain in the Third New- Jersey R^ment, and served
through the war, attaining the lank of major; re-
tomed the study of law ; was admitted to the bar, and
commenced practice at Burlington, New Jersey; was
State attomey.«eneral ; was governor of New Jersey
18U1 and 1803-1812; was commissioned brigadier-gen-
eral March 27, 1812, and served until June 15, 1816;
was elected a representative from New Jersey in the
Fifteenth Congress, as a Democrat, and was re-elected
to the Sixteenth Congress, serving from December 1,
1A17, to March 8, 1821; and died at Bnrilngton, New
Jersey, October 8, 1823.
Bloiint, James H., was elected a representative
from Georgia in the Forty-third Congress, as a Dem-
ocrat, receiving 9,993 votes against 0,190 votes for L.
& Anderson, Republican; was re-elected to the<For-
ty^onrth Congress, receiving 10,007 votes against
2,730 votes for Samuel O. Grove, Republican : and was
»e-elocted to the Forty-fifth Congress, receiving 12,-
OM votes against 4,570 votes for Samuel S. Gove, Re-
publican, serving from December 1, 1OT3.
Blonn^ Thomas, was bom in Edgecombe Coun-
ty, Murth Carolina, iu 1760; volunteered in the Kovo-
lutionary army at the age of sixteen ; became depnty-
paymaster-^eneral in 1780; and was major, command-
ing a battalion of North-Carolina militia, at the tuittle
of Eutaw Springs; was major-general of militia; was
elected a representative in the Third, Fourth, and
Fifth Congresses, serving from December 2, 1793, until
March 3, 1799; was agam elected to the Ninth and
Tenth Congresses, serving from December 2, 1806, until
March 8, 1807; and was again elected to the Twelfth
Congress, as a Democrat, defeating William Kennedy,
Federalist, serving from November 4, 1811, until his
death at Washington City, Febraary 7, 1812.
Blount, William, was l>om in Craven County,
North Carolina, in 1744; was a member of the House
of Commons of North Carolina in 1780-1784; was a
delegate to the Continental Congress from North
Carolina In 1782, 1783, 1786, and 1787; was appointed
by President Washington governor of the territory
south of the Ohio in 1790; was chairman of the con-
vention which framed the first State Constitution of
Tennessee, February 6, 1796; was elected United-
States senator from Tennessee, serving from Decem-
ber 6, 1796, until he was impeached, found guilty, and
expelled, for having instigated the Creeks and Chero-
kees to aid the British In conquering the Spanish
territory of West Florida, July 8, 1707; was elected,
during the trial, to the State Senate of Tennessee,
and chosen its president; died at Knoxville, Tennes-
see, March 21. 1800.
Blount, William Q., was elected a representa-
tive from Tennessee in the Fourteenth Congress, and
was re-elected to the Fifteenth Congress, serving from
January 8, 1810, to March 3, 1810; was secretary at
state of the State of Tennessee; and died at Paris,
Tennessee, May 21, 1827.
Blow, Henry T., was bom in Southampton
County, Virginia, July 15, 1817; removed to Missouri
in 1830; received a classical education, graduating at
the St. Louis University; engaged in the wholesale
drug-business, and afterwards oecame largely inter-
ested in lead mines; was four years a member of the
State Senate; was minister resident at Venezuela,
June 8, 1801, to Febraary 22, 1862; was elected a
representative from Missouri in the Thirty-eighth
Congress, as a B^ablican, receiving 7,104 votes
against 2,064 votes for Allen, Democrat and 191 votes
for Lawson, Independent; and was re-elected to the
Thirty-ninth Congress, receiving 6,180 votes against
1,263 votes for Stafford, Democrat, serving from De-
cember 7, 18^, to March 3, 1867; was minister to
Brazil from May 1, 1860, to February 11, 1871 ; was a
commissioner for governing the District of Columbia
1874-1875; and died suddenly of congestion, at Sara-
toga, New Tork, Septemlier 11, 1875.
Boardman, Elijah, was bom at New Milford,
Connecticut, March?, 1760; received a classical edu-
cation; engaged in mercantile pursuits; was several
years a member of the State House of Repiesentatives
and of the executive council; was a United-States
senator from Connecticut, serving from December 3,
1821, until his death, suddenly, at Boardman, Ohio
(a town which he was largely interested in), October
8, 1828. His remains were brought home.
Boardman, William W., was bom at New
Milford. Connecticut, October 10, 1794; received a
classical education, graduating at Tale College in
1812; studied law at the Cambridge and Litchfield
Law Schools; was admitted to the bar, and practised
at New Haven ; was judge of probate ; was for several
yean a member of Uie State House of Representa-
tives, serving one year as speaker: was elected a
representative from Connecticut in the Twenty-sixth
Congresa, as a Whig (to fill the vacancy occasioned
by the resignation of William L. Storrs), receiving
7,158 votes against 0,102 votes for C. A. Ingersoll,
Democrat; and was re-elected to the Twenty-seventh
Congress, receiving 001 majority, serving from De-
cember 7, 1»-1U, until March 3, 1843.
Boarman, Aleck, was bom in Mississippi in
1830; was educated at the Kentucky Military Insti-
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ttttc, Frankfort, Kentucky; xtudiedlaw; wasailraitt^d
to tUo bar, and commenced practice at Shrevc-port;
was elwtcd a r<'pr<»scntativi> from Louisiana (in pliu-e
of Jam(>s McCfoary, doconsed), as a LllH^^al. and
»cr\'.'<l fn)m Dercniht-r a, 1S72, to March -i, 1873.
Bockee, Abraham, was Ixim at Northeast,
Diitrhcss County, New York, in 1783; reocived a
pulilic-tchool education; was a member of the State
Ass<Mnl)ly in lS2lt; wa» elected a representative from
New Vork in the Twenty-first Congress, im a Jackson
Democrat, serving from Decern Iwr 7, l.S2'.», to March
3, lKi\; was again elecletl to the Twenty-third Con-
gn-'ss. and re-elected to the Twenty-fourth Congress,
serving from Deecmb<>r2, 1833. to March 3. 18^17 : was
a member of the .State Senate lS42-l!*4f>; was first
judge of tlie Dulchess-county court 1840; and died
at Poughkeepsie, June 1. 1805.
Bocock, Thomas S., was bom in Buckingham
County. Vir,'iiiia, ISl."); received a einssieal educa-
tion, graduating at llampden-Sidriey College; stud-
ied law; was admitted to the bar, and commenced
practice at Appomattox Court Douse. Virginia; was
St4ite*» attorney for Appomattox CNmnty ].S4.>-lS4ti;
was successively elect<>d several limes to the Vir-
ginia House of Delegates; was elected a represen-
tative from Virginia in the Thirlielh Congress, as
a Deraoeml, nx-elving 2.2f)-'} votes .against 2.2-l;i votes
for Irving, Wliig; was re-elected to the Thirty-first
Congress, n^eeiving 2,007 voles against 2.3'W for Ir-
ving; was re-<!lected to the Thirty-second Congress,
r<'celving 2.8.'>7 votes against 2.i'.!i,') votes for Goggin,
Wliig; was re-elected to the Thirty-third Congress,
receiving 4,384 voles asainst 3.1>12 votes for Wootton,
^VTiig, and 428 voti-s for Aniett. Independent; was
re-elected to the Thirty-fourth Congress, receiving
5,074 vot<?s against 4,073 votes f'lr (.'laihonie, Ameri-
can; was re-elected to the Thirly-ftfth Consress
witliout opposition; was re-elected to Ihe Thirty-sixth
Congress without opi>osilion. seniiig from December
0, 1847, until March .3, 18«1; was elected in 18((1 a
representative from V^irginla in the Confederate Con-
gn-ss. and was re-elected in 18<W.
Boden, Andrew, was bom at Carlisle, Penn-
sylvania; received a public-school education; was
elected a representative from Pennsylvania in the
Fifteenth Congress; and was rc-<'lectcd (o the SLx-
tecntli Coinp'css, serving from Docember I, 1817, to
March 3, 1S2I.
Bodle, Charles, was a native of .Sullivan Coun-
ty. New Vork; held several local oflices at Ulooiuiiig-
butg; was elected a representative from New Vork in
the Twenlv-third Coni^-css. servini; fnmi Deceml>er
2, 18:«, to March 3, 1835; died at New-York City in
18;>1.
Boerum, Simon, was bom at Brooklyn, New
York; received a libend education; was county clerk
of King's County 175(l-177.'>; was a member of Ihe
Colonial Asseiniily 17<l!-n7r»; w.is a deputy to the
Provincial Cimvenlton, April. 1775; was n delegate
from New York to the Continental Congress 1775-
1777.
Bogy, Lewis V., w.is bom at St. Genevieve. Jf i»-
souri, April 0, 1813; is a descendant of the Krench
pioneers who came to that region when it iM-lnngod
to France; was educated in the common schouls; in
early life was a clerk in a store; aftcrwarti studied
law under Judge Poi)0 in Illinois, and then at the
Law .School at Lexington. Kentucky, where he gradu-
ated in the spring of lS3-'>, and at once commenced
practice at .St. I^uis; was elected several times a
member of the State legislature of Missouri ; was
commissioner of Indian alTairs in 1S<?7 and 18<!8; was
one of the projectors of the St. Louis and Iron
Mountain Railroad, of which he was for two years
president; was elected United-States senator from
Missouri, as a DcYmH-rat, to succeed F. P. Blair,
Democrat, and took bis seat March 4. 1873; died at
St. Louis. >Ii.«siiuri, S<?ptembcr 20, 1S77.
Bokee, David A., was bom in New- York City
October 6, 1905; received a public-school education;
was elected a representative from New York In tha ,
Thirty-tirst Congress, as a Whig, receiving S.lijT
votes against 1.087 votes for Crooke, Democrat, and
serving from December .3. 1841', to March .3, l.S.'il; wa
apiioinHKl by President Killmore naval nflicer of
port of New Vork; aud while on a visit to W-ashinj
ton City was found dead in his room, March 111, IMIIOlI
Boles, Thomas, wiis born in Johnson C'ounty,|
Arkansas, July HI, 1837; was raised on a farm;
ceivcd u limited common-school edueulioii; wal
ilepnty-clerk of the circuit court of Yell County ial
ls.")l>-I.S(i(), during which time be studied law. undl
was admitted to the bar in Septcml>er, 18ti(); served
in the I'nion amiy as captain during the war for tbo
suppression of the Rebellion; was elected in June,
18(1.!!, circuit judge of the fourth judicial circuit of
Arkaiis.is, and resigned April 20. 1808, when elected
to Cnngress; was elected .i n'presentative from Ar- h
kaiisas in the Fortieth Congress, as a Ttepul>lic.in,fl
without opposition ; was re-elected to the Fi'rty-Brst ■
Congress, receiving 0.547 votes against 5.5.80 votes for
Nasli. Democrat; and was re-elccte<l to the Forty-
second Congress, receiving 10..S44 votes against 8,211
votes for John Edwards. Liberal Republican. Mr.
Eilwards received the certificate of clet'tinn. and took
the scat ; but the house declared Mr. Boles entitled to
it. ami lie w.is sworn in Februarv 0, 1872, st-rviug
from June 24. 1841.8. until March :i."l873.
Bond, William Key, was bom in St. Mary's
County, Maryland; received a clussical mlucation;
studied law; was admitted to the bar, and commenced
practice at Chillicothe, Ohio; was elected a repre-
sentative frfim Ohio in the Tweutv-fourth Congress
as a Whig; was n?-clccted to the Twenty-lifth f'on-
gress, and w.as re-elected to the Twenty-sixth Con-^
frrejyi. serviiiR from Deccml>cr 7, 18;i5. to March JJ, H
1841; was appointed collector of customs at Ciucin- i
iiali; and di<'d tlieic February 17, ls74.
Bond, Shadrack, was liom in Maryland : re-
ceived a lil>eral c<luc.ation; removed to KaskaslAi
(now in the State of Illinois, then in Indiana Territo-j
ry) ; was a membcrof the legislature of the Territiiryl
of Illinois, and its first delegate in the Uousc of Iiep-|
respiitatives. serving frf>m DecemlM?r ;j. 1812, to April ■[
18, 1IH14; was appointed receiver of public monejrSat]
Kaskasia in 1814; w.as the lii-st governor of Illinoia
after its admi.ssion as a State 1818-18-j-.'; died at Ka»-
kasia, Illinois, after a long and painful illness, April
13. I8;i2.
Bonzano, M. F., was bi>rn In Louisiana; and
wa.'f elected a representative from that Slate in the^
Tliirty-eiKhth Congress, as a Republican, receiving^!
l.OnO votes against 1.450 votes for :UI others. A ma-^|
jority of the committee on elections re[Hirted that he
w:is entitled to a seat; but such was the opiiosition,
that no vote was taken on the resolution, although,
on the last day of the session, ho was voted two thou-
sand dollars for compensation mileage and expenses.
Bonham, Milledge L., was born in SoutUfl
Carolina. May 0. 1815; received a classical education, ^
Kniduating at the University of S<mth Carolina in
18;}4; studied law; w.is admitted to tlie bar at
^'olumbia in 1*17. and commenced practice at Edge-
tield, .Sriuth Carolina; served in the Mexicin war as
comiiKindant of a battalion of South-Carolina volun-
teers; was State solicitor for the southern circuit
]S4.S-1S.)0; was major-general of militia; was elected
a n'presentative from South Carolina in the Thirty-
liflli Ciinirri^ss as a .Slate-rights Democrat, receiving
I.OiKt majority ovit Charles P. .Sullivan, and re-
elected to the Thirty-sixth Congress without oppo-
sition, serving from Dccenilier 7. 1807, until he with-
drew, with the other members of the South-Carolina
delegation. Docember 21. 1800; was a commissioner
fmm .South Candiiia to Mississippi; was detailed as
major-general to cnniniaiiil the .South-Carolina troops,
and afterwards appointed brigadier-geiienil in the
Confederate army, taking part in the battles of
Blackburn's Ford and Bull Run, in command of a
brigade of Suuth-Carolinliuie; was elected a
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cpotative from South Carolina in tlie Confederate
Cungreas, and served until governor of Soutli Caro-
lina 1802-1804; returned to the Confederate army,
and served until the close of the war; was a dele-
site to the National Democratic Convention at New
York in 1868.
Boody, Azariah, was bom in New-York City;
received a public-school education; engaged largely
in the construction of railroads; was elected a repre-
sentative from New York In the Thirty-third Con-
gross, as a Whig, receiving 7,290 votes against 6,678
votes for Field, Democrat, and 641 for Foss, ¥^e-
Soilcr; was compelled to resign before taking his
seat, because of the extensive rtiilroad contracts into
which he had entered, but could not complete before
the commencement of the session.
Booker, Qeorge W., was bom in the county
of Patrick, Virginia, December 6, 1821; received a
common-school education; studied law, and taught
school; was elected a justice of the peace in the
coimty of Henry; and was presiding justice of Hen-
ry-county court, which position he occupied for ten
years; was an unconditional Union man during Uie
w.irof the Rebellion; was elected to the House of
Delegates of the legislature of the State of Virginia
in 18U5; was nominated by the Republican party in
18(^ and elected attorney-general on the Wells ticket ;
which position he resigned in 1809, and was elected
a representative from Virginia in the Forty-first Con-
gn>8S in July, 1809, as a Conservative, receiving 13,-
101 votes against 9,608 votes for Tucker, Conserva-
tive, and 4,030 votes for Stowell, Independent, and
serving from January 31, 1870, until March 3, 1871.
Boon, Ratliff, was born in Franklin County,
North Carolina, in 1781 ; received a public-school edu-
cation; removed to Indiana; was elected a represen-
tative from that State in the Nineteenth Congress,
■s a Jackson Democrat, serving from December 6,
It^, to March 3, 1827; was defeated as a Jackso-
iiian candidate for the Twentieth Congress, receiving
6,138 votes against 6,222 votes for Blalce, Adams
Itepublican; was again elected to the Twenty-first
Congress by 78 majority, and was re-elected to the
Twenty-second, Twenty-third, Twenty-fourth, and
Twenty-fifth Congresses, serving from December 7,
1S29, to March 3, 1839; died In Louisiana, November
20, 1M4.
Boone, Andrew B., was bom In Davidson
County, Tennessee, April 4, 1831, and removed with
his parents in 1833 to Graves Connty, Kentucky; re-
ceived a limited English education; studied law, and
was admitted to the bar in October, 1851 ; was elected
judge of the Graves-county court in 1864 for four
Tears, and was re-elected in 1868: resigned as county
judge In 1861, and was electea to the Kentucky
legislature in that year, but resigned that position in
the same year; was elected cireuit judge for the first
judicial district of Kentucky in 1868 for six years;
iras elected a representative from Kentucky in the
Forty-fourth Congress, as a Democrat, receiving
5,882 votes against 6,801 votes for O. Turner, Inde-
pendent Democrat, and 1,235 votes for T. J. Pickett,
Independent Republican; and was re-elected to the
Forty-fifth Congress, receiving 10,991 votes against
5,835 votes for Henry M. Houston, Republican, serv-
ingfrom December 0, 1876.
Booth, Newton, was tx>m at Salem, Indiana,
December 25, 1826; graduated at the Asbury Uni-
versity In 1846; studied law at Terre Haute; was ad-
mitted to the bar in 1850, and removed to California,
where he temporarily abandoned his profession, and
engaged in mercantile pursuits at Sacramento; re-
turning to Terra Haute in 1857, he practised law
there In 1800, when he again went to California; was
elected to the State Senate of California in 1803; was
elected governor of California in 1871, and served
until March, 1874, when ho resigned, having been
elected United-States senator from California, as an
antl-monopollst, to succeed Eugene Caseorly, Domo-
cnt (whose unexpired term had been filled by the
election of John S. Hagcr, anti-monopolist), and took
his seat March 9, 1875; his term of service will expire
March 3, 1881.
Booth, Walter, was bom at Woodbridge, Con-
necticut, December 8, 1791 ; received a public-school
education; located at Meriden, where he became
largely interested in manufactures; was for several
years a member of the State Assembly and of the
State Senate; was associate judge of the county
court 1834; was major-general of militia: was elected
to the Thirty-first Congress as a Free-Soiler, receiving
6,672 votes against 0,632 votes for Babcock, and 139
scattering, and serving from December 3, 1849, to
March 3, 1851.
Borden, Joseph, was an early settler at Borden-
town. New Jersey ; was a delegate from New Jersey
to the Colonial Congress which met at New York
October 7, 1765; his residence was burned by British
troops in 1778.
Borden, Nathaniel B., was bom at Fall River,
Massachusetts, April 16, 1801 ; was a member of the
State House of Representatives in 1S31 and 18S4; was
elected a representative from Massachusetts in the
Twenty-fourth Congress, on the second trial, as a
Van Buren Democrat, receiving 4,400 votes against
3,CS4 votes for Baylies, Whig; and was re-elected to
the Twenty -fifth Congress, receiving 3,093 votes
against 1,411 votes for all others, servmg from De-
cember 7, 1836, to March 8, 1639; was defeated as the
Whig candidate for election to the Twenty-sixth
Congress, receiving 2,920 votes against 3,806 votes
for Williams, Democrat; was again elected to the
Twenty-seventh Congress, as a Whig, on the second
trial, serving from May 31, 1841, to March 3, 1843;
was a State senator 1846-1848, and a member of the
State House of Representatives in 1861 ; and died at
Fall River, Massachusette, April 10, 1806.
Boreman, Arthur Inshram, was bom at
Waynesburg, Pennsylvania, July 24, 1823; when a
child, removed with his father to Western Virginia;
received a common-school education; studied law;
was admitted to the bar in 1846, and commenced
practice at Parkersburg; in 1866 he was elected to
the House of Dolegates of Virginia, and was re-elected
until 1860; was also a member of the extra session of
the legislature in 1861, taking an active part against
the secession movement; was president of the Whecl-
ingconventlon of 1861 to re-organize the government
of Virginia; in October of that year he was elected a
judge of the circuit court, and held the ofiice until
1863, when he was elected governor of West Virginia,
and was twice re-elected, and was still in that ofiice
when he was elected United-States Kuator from West
Virginia, as a Republican, serving from March 4,
1809, to March 3, 1875.
Borland, Charles, Jun., was bom in Orange
County, New York; was a member of the (general
Assembly in 1820-1821 ; was elected a representative
from New York In the Seventeenth Congress to fill
the vacancy caused by the death of S. Tuthill, re-
ceiving a majority of 149 votes over John Duer, and
serving from December 3, 1821, to March 8, 1823;
was again a member of the General Assembly of the
State of New York in 1830.
Borland, Bolon, was bom in Virginia; received
a classical education in North Carolina; studied
medicine; was admitted to practice, and located at
Little Rock, Arkansas; served throughout the Mexi-
can war as major of Yell's Arkansas Volunteer Cav-
alry, and as volunteer aide to Major-General North;
was appointed United-States senator from Arkansas,
as a Democrat, by the governor of that State, to fill
the vacancy caused by the resignation of Ambrose H.
Sevier; and was subsequently elected by the legisla-
ture to fill Mr. Sevier's unexpired term, serving
from April 24, 1848, to March 3, 1853; was appointed
by President Pierce minister to Nicaragua and the
other Central- American republics, serving from April
18, 18.58, to June 30, 1854; was appointed govemor
of New Mexico, but declinoili resumed the practice
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of medicine at Little Rock; raised a bri|;ndc of Con-
fedemtc troops, and took posseasion of Fort 8mitli,
April 24, IStil, iK'fore Arliansjis hod seceded; raised
tlio Tliird Arl;aiisas Confederate Cavalry, and was its
colonel; waa ap(iointcd n brijjadier-general in tlie
Confederate service; and died in Texas, January ^1,
li?<S4.
Borst, Peter I., was bom at Sfiddlebury, New
York; received a public-school education; was elected
a representative from New York in the Twenty-iirst
Conifrcss, as a .lackson Democrat, servinfj; from Do-
cemlwr 7, isai, to March '.i, 1831 ; died at Middlebury,
New York, November 14, 1848.
Bobs, John L., jvin., wiis elected a representa-
tive friini ItluHle Jslatid in the Fourteenth Congress;
and wiis re-clecled to the Flfte<'rith Congress, serving
from December 4, ISl.j, to March 3, 181tl.
Bossier, Pierre Evariste, was a native of
L"ui.'!iana, i>f a Creole f.iinily, nliieli was among the
earliest settlers of the French colony; received a
thorough classicul education; R(>r\'cd ten years in the
State ISenatc; was elected a representative from
Louisiana in the Twenty-eighth Congress, as a Cal-
houn Democrat, by n large majority, serving from
December 4. 184.1. until his de;ith, after a protracted
illness, at Washington, April :;4, 1844.
Boteler, Alexander R., was bom at .Shepherds-
town, Jcilcrson County, Virgini.1, M.iy 10. 1815; re-
ceived a classical education, graduating at Princeton
College in ISJo; devoted liimself to agriculture and
literature at his niral home; was an elector on the
Whig ticket in 1852. and on tlie American ticket in
185<}; was elected a representative from Virginia in
the Thirty-sixth Congress, as a National American,
receiving 0,01(5 votes against 0,440 votes for Faulkner,
Democrat, and serving from December 5, 1850, to
Hardi 3, 1801; opposed secession until Vir^nia had
seceded; was cliosen by the Stale convention a re|>-
rcsenUtive from Virginia in the Provisional Confed-
erate Congress (in the place of James M. Mason,
resigned), Noveml>er 10. 1801; was elected a repre-
sentative from Virginia in the First Confederate
Congress, serving from February, 1802, to February,
IStM; was appointed a member of the Ccutenuial
Commission.
Botts, John Minor, was bom at Dumfries,
Virginia. September 10. 1802; he was left an orphan
in 1811. his parents having perished when the liich-
nond Theatre was burned ; received a thorough Eiig-
lisl) education; studied law; was admitted to the liar
In 1820; practised for six years, and then .ibandoned
the profession for agricultural pursuits; was a mem-
ber of the State House of Kepresentalives IStJ-lS^JO;
was elected a representative from Virginia in the
Twenty-sixth Congress, as a Henry Clay ^liig. re-
ceiving 1.459 votes against 1,251 votes for W. Selden.
Democrat; and was re-elected to the Twenty-seventh
Congress, serving from December 2, 1830. to March
3. 1843; was defeated as the Whig candidate for the
Twcnty-eiglith Congress, receiving 2..'iJ4 votes against
8,303 votes for John W. Jones, Democrat, the House
deciding that the returns were correct; was again
elccteil to the Thirtieth Congress, as a Henry f'lay
Whig, receiving 3.002 votes o^dnst 2.408 votes" for .S.
F. L«ake, serving from December 0, 1847, to March
3, IftlO; was defeated as the Wliig candidate for the
Thlrty-flrst Congress, receiving 2,458 votes against
2,944 for James A. Seddon, and 317 votes for Lee,
Independent \\"hig; was defeated as the \Vhig candi-
date for the Thirty-second Congress, receiving 2,472
votes against 2,0iK) voles for John .S. Caskie, Demo-
crat; opposed the secession of Virginia, and was im-
prisoned in ]8(!2 for his devotion to the Union; was
a delegate to the Southern Loyalists' Convention in
1800; and died at Richmond, Virginia, Januarv 8,
1800. He pubiislied "The Great Rebellion; its "Se-
cret Historj."
Bouch, Gabriel, w.is Iwm in the Stale of New
York ; removwl to Wisconsin, and located at Oshkosli ;
~ was elected a reprtsentative from Wisconsin in
the Fortv-tUth Congress, as a Democrat, roceivins
20.023 votes against 17,847 votes for A. H. ifitni«il^.
Republican.
Bouck, Joseph, was bom in New York: re-
ceived a public-scb<H)l education; was elected a rep-
res<.'ntativo from New York in the Twenty-*econd
Congress, serving from Deccmlier 6, 1831, to March
;5, 18;«.
Boude, Thomas, was elected a representativ*;
from Pennsylvania in the Seventh Congress, scrvi.
from December 7. 1801, to March 8, 18U3.
Boudinot, Elias, was bom at Philadelphia,
May 2, 1740; received a classical education; studied
law with Richani Stockton; w.-is admitted to the l>ar
of New Jersey, and commenced practice ; was con
missarj'-general of prisoners in the Revolution
army 1770-1770: was a delegate from New Jersi'y in
tlio Continental Congress, serving 1777-1778 and
1781-1784; resumed the practice of law at Philadcl-
|ihia; w;is elected a rcpr<!sentative from Peimssiva-
Ilia in the First Congress, and re-elected to the ^e<>.
ond and Third Congresses, serving from March 4,
1780, to March .3, 1705; was director of tlic national
mint from October, 1705, to July, 1805. Locating at
llurlington, he devoteti liis time to l>iblical litcnw
tun", ami his fortune to charitable and religious pur-
pose's: and died at Ruriingtou, New Jersey, Octobut
24. 1821.
Bouldin, James W. (brother of Thomas T.'
Boiildin), was bom in Virginia; was elected n repre-
sentative from Virginia in the Twenty-tliinl Coiigri'ss
( to lill the vacancy occasioned by the sudden cj<fatli
of Thomas .1. liouldln), as a .lackson DenuM.-n»t. n.--
ceiving 1,0;38 votes against 737 votes for Nullu-uiiel
R. Tucker, anti-Jackson Democrat; was re-^-li-ctcd
to tiie Twenty-fourth Congress, defeating Philip A.
Rolling, Whig; and was re-eU-ctc-d to the Twenty-
fifth Congress, serving from March 28, 1834, to Miuvll
3, 18;30.
Botildin, Thomas T. (brother of J.amcs W.
Bouldin), was bom in Virginia in lii2: received a
thorough English education while working on a
farm; studied law; was admitted to the bar, and
practised; was appointed judge of tlie General
Court, and serveti until he was elected to th«
Twenty-flrst Congress, as a Democrat, receiving »
majority of 28 votes over George W. Crump. Jack-
son Democrat, ond serving from December 7, 1820;
was re-elected to tlie Twenty-second Congress by a
m.ijority of 440 votes over George W. Crump; and
was re-<'lected to the Twenty-third Congress, defeat-
ing Daniel A. Wilson; but, soon after he entered
upon his third term, he was rebuked liy Hon. Henry
A. Wise, one of his colleagues, for having failed to
call the attention of tlie house to the death of his
predecessor. Jolin Randolph, and, as be rose to reply,
was seizeil with an apojilectic fit, dying instantly,
Febniary 11. 18:i4. His wife witnessed the appalling
scene from tlio galler)'.
Bouligney, Dominique, was bom in Louisi-
ana; receive<l a public-school education; studied
law; was admitted to the bar, and commenced prac-
tice at New Orleans; w.is elected a I'uited-Slates
senator from Louisiana (in place of Henry Jolinson,
resigned), and served from December 21, 1824, until
March 3, 1820; died at New Orleans, Louiisiana,
March 5. 18:8.
Botiligney, John Edmund (nephew of Doml-
nicgne Bouligney), w,is bom at New Orleans, Febru-
ary 5, 1824; received a public-school education;
studied law; w.is admitted to the bar, and com-
menced practice at New t)rlean5, where he held sev-
eral local offices; was elected a representative from
Louisiana in the Thirty-sixth Congress, as a No-
tional American, receiving 2,215 votes against 1.700
votes for La .S<>re, DenuKTat, serving from Di-cembcp
5, 1850, to Man-h :i. 1801, he being the only ivpre-
sentative from a State which seceded wlio diti not
leave his seat. He died at Washiugtou City, of con-
sumption, February 20, 1804.
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298
Botim, Benjamin, was bom at Bristol, Bhode
Island. September 0, 1755; received a classical educa-
tion, graduating at Harvard College in 1775; studied
law; was admitted to the bar, and practised at Provi-
dence, where he filled several public positions; was a
member of the Greneral Asscinbly of Rhode Island;
was quartermaster of the Second Rhode-Island Regi-
ment In 1770; was one of a committee sent with a
petition from Rhode Island to the Continental Con-
eress In 1789; was elected the first representative
from Rhode Island to the First Conraesa, and was
re-elected to the Second, Third, and Fourth Con-
gresses, serving from December 17, 1790, to 1796,
when he resigned; was ^>pointed judge of the Unit-
ed-States District Court for the District of Rhode
Island In 1801.
Bourne, Bhearjashub, was bom in Massachu-
setts; received a classical education, graduating at
Harvard College in 1704; studied law; was admitted
to the bar, and commenced practice at Boston ; was
chief justice of the Court of Common Pleas for Suf-
folk County, Massachusetts; was elected a represen-
tative from Massachusetts in the Second Congress,
and re-elected to the Third Congress, serving from
October 24, 1701, to March 3, 1706; and died 1800.
Boutwell, George Bewail, was bom at Brook-
line, Massachusetts, January 28, 1818; received a
public-school education; was engaged in mercantile
pursuits at Groton previous to 1^0; commenced the
study of law in 1838, and began practice in 1853; was
a member of the legislature of Massachusetts In 1842,
1843, 1844, 1847, 1848, 1840, and 1850 ; was SUte
bank commissioner in 1849 and 18S0; was governor
of Massachusetts in 1851 and 1852; was a member of
the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention in 1853 :
was secretary of the State Board of Education of
Uassachusetts from October, 1855, until January,
1801; was a member of the Board of Overseers of
Harvard College from 1850 to 1800; was a member
of the Peace Congress of 1861; was the first com-
missioner of internal revenue in 1802 and 1803 ; was
elected a representative from Massachusetts in the
Thirty-eighth Congress, as a Republican, receiving
7,0m votes dgainst 0,400 votes for Thomas, people's
candidate; was re-elected to the Thirty-ninth Con-
gress, receiving 12,067 votes against 6,433 votes for
Sweetser, Democrat; was re-elected to the Fortieth
Congress, receiving 0,847 votes against 2,885 votes
for Saltonstali, Democrat; was re-elected to the
Forty-first Congress, but resigned on being appointed
secretary of the treasury by President Grant, March
II, 1860; resigned as secretary of the treasury in
Uarch, 1873, having been elected United-States sen-
ator from Massachusetts to succeed Henry Wilson,
and served in the Senate to March 3, 1877 ; was ap-
pointed by President Hayes commissioner to codify
and edit the statutes at large in March, 1877.
Bovee, Matthias J., was bom in New York;
received a public-school education; was elected a
representative from New York In the Twenty-fourth
Congress, as a Democrat, serving from December 7,
ISST), to March 3, 1837.
Bowden, Lemuel J., was bom at WllUams-
tiarg, Virginia, January 10, 1816; received a classical
(dncation, graduating at William and Mary College;
ttndied law ; was admitted to the bar, and commenced
practice; was a member of the Virginia Constitu-
tioual Conventions of 1840 and 1851 ; was a presiden-
tial elector in 1801; was elected a United-States
senator from Virginia for six years from March 8,
196$, bat died of the small-pox, at Washington,
January 2, 1864.
Bowdoin, James, was bom at Boston, Massa-
<^UMtts, Auffust 8, 1727; received a classical educa-
tion, graduating at Harvard College in 1746; devoted
liimself to literary and scientific pursuits; was a
member of the General Court of Massachusetts In
ITKi, and provincial senator and councillor in 1750;
*ai again chosen councillor in 1700, but was nega-
tived by Governor Bernard, and Imm^ately after-
wards again elected a representative in the General
Court; was chosen a delegate from Massachusetts in
the Continental Congress in 1774, but was prevented
by ill-health from serving; took an active part in the
Revolutionary struggle; was president of the State
Constitutional Convention of 1778; was governor of
Massachusetts in 1785-1780; was a founder of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and of the
Massachusetts Humane Society ; and died at Boston,
November 6, 1700. He contributed three pieces to
the " Pietas et Gratulatis," published on the acces-
sion of George lU. to the British throne; and pub-
lished a voliune of poems anonymously at Boston
in 1750.
Bowden, Franklin W., was bom at Talladega,
Alabama; receive a classical education, graduating
at the Uiilversity of Alabama; studied law; was ad-
mitted to the bar, and commenced practice; was a
member of the State House of Representatives in
1844-1845; was elected a representative from Alabama
in the Twenty-ninth Congress (to fill a vacancy
caused by the death of Felix G. McConneU), defeat-
ing T. A. Walker, both Democrats; was re-elected
to the Tliirtieth Congress, as a Democrat, receiving
5,410 votes against 4,024 votes for 8. F. Rice, and
793 votes for Phillips, both Democrats ; and was re-
elected to the Thirty-first Congress, as a Democrat,
receiving 0,033 votes against 4^896 votes for J. T.
Bradford, Whig, serving from December 7, 1846, to
March 3, 1851 ; he removed in 1862 to Texas, where
he practised his profession; he was a presidential
elector on the Buchanan and Breckinridge ticket
in 1856; and he died at Henderson, Texas, June 8,
1857.
Bowen, Christopher Columbus, was bom in
Rhode Island January 6, 1832 ; removed to Georgia
in 1850; studied and practiseid law; removed to
Charleston in 1802; in 1867 was elected to the
Constitutional Convention of South Carolina held
under the reconstruction acts of the Thirty-ninth
and Fortieth Congresses; was elected a representa-
tive from South Carolina in the Fortieth Congress,
and was re-elected to the Forty-first Congress, as a
Republican, receiving 25,845 votes against 8,200 votes
for Seymour, Democrat, serving from July 20, 1808,
to March 3, 1871 ; was defeated as the Independent
Republican candidate for the Forty-second Congress,
receiving 15,700 votes against 10,086 votes for De-
Large, Republican; was elected sheriff of Charles-
ton m November, 1872.
Bowen, John H., received a public-school edu-
cation; was elected a representative from New York
In the Thirteenth Congress, as a Democrat, serving
from May 14, 1813, to March 3, 1815.
Bowen, Bees T., was bom in Tazewell County,
Virginia, January 10, 1809; received an academic
education; was a farmer and grazier; was represen-
tative fnim Tazewell County in the legislature of
Virginia in 1863 and 1864; was a magistrate for sev-
eral years prior to the war, and the presiding justice
of the county court a portion of the time; and was
elected a representative from Virginia in the Forty-
third Congress, as a Conservative, receiving 10,352
votes against 6,304 votes for R. W. Hughes, Republi-
can, serving from December 1, 1873, to March 3, 1875.
Bower, Gustavus B., was bom in Virginia;
received a public-school education; removed to Mis-
souri; was elected a representative from that State
in the Twenty-eighth Congress, as a Democrat, on a
general ticket, and serving from December 4, 1843, to
March 8, 1846.
Bowers, John M., was bom at Boston, Mas-
sachusetts; received a classical education, gradu-
ating at Columbia College, New York; studied law;
was admitted to the bar, and commenced practice at
Cooperstown, New York, in 1800; was elected a rep-
resentative from New York in the Thirteenth Con-
gress, serving from June 21, 1813, to December 20,
1813, when the House gave his seat to Isaac Wil-
liams, jun. ; and he died at Cooperstown, New York.
294
CONOnESSIONAL DIKECTORT.
Bowie, Richard T., was bom at Geon;ptown,
Districl nf <'oluiiil)iii. June 23, lSt7; rcociveil ii clji»-
slcnl eiliicutioii; studied law; was sidiiiitttHi U) tliu
bar, and cnmiiienced practice at RcK'kvilJe, Mar>-iand.
in 1827; wag a member of the Maryland legislature
in ISJO-lSn; was a delegate to the Whig National
Convention at Ilarrisburu in 1S40; was elected a reji-
rescntativc from Marjiand in the Thirty-tirst Con-
gress, as ft Wliig, receiving 4,2S1 votes without oppo-
sition, and was re-cleetetl to tiie Thirty-second Con-
gress, defeating Thomas F. Bowie, Independent
Whig, and serving from t)eceml)er 3, 1849, to March
3, IfWl.
Bowie, Thomas F., was t)orn at Queen Anne,
Prince George County, Slaryland, April 7, lH<*f; re-
ceived a classical education, graduating at Union
College in 18;17; studied law; was admitted to tlie
bar, and commeTice<l practice at UpjKT MarlVxirough,
Maryland; was for sixteen yeors deputy attoniey-
general for I'rince (.Jcorge (bounty; sen'ed three
terms in the State legislature; was elected a repre-
sentative from Maryland in the Tliirty-fonrlli Con-
gress, as a Wiig; was re-elected to the Thirty-lifth
Congress, serving from t>ccemlK?r 1, LSiW, to March 3,
IMVt; died at lTpi)er MarU)orough, Maryland, Octo-
ber *1, lS*iO.
Bowie, Walter, was Iwrn in Prince Gtiorgo
County, Maryland ; was a member of tlie Maryland
Constitutional Convention of 177<1; was elected a
representative from Maryland in llie Seventh Con-
gress to (ill the vacancy caused by the resignation
of William Sprigg; was re-elected to the Eighth Con-
gress, 8e^^•ing from March 24, 1802, to March 3,
18(>6.
Bowler, Metcalfe, was a dclei^ate from Rhode
Island to the Colonial Congress which met at New
York Octol)0r 7, lfS(l,5; was a ineuilier of the State
General Assembly, and speaker, 1774.
Bowlin, Jamea Butler, was ijom in Si>ottsyl-
vania f^oiinlv, Virginia, in l.s<>4; wtus apprenticed to
a mechanical trade, but abaniioned it, and by teach-
ing school ac<|nired a classical education; ri?move<l in
1WJ5 to Greenbrier County, where he studied law;
was admitted to the Imr in 1827, and commenced
practice; removed to St. r>oiiis in 1S27, commenced
practice, and est.iblished "The Fanners' and Me-
chanics' Advocate;" was a member of the .State
House of Representatives in 18.ii); was defeated as a
candidate for the Stale legislature in 1K(7; was a|>-
polnted district-attorney for St, Louis in IKH; wos
elected judge of the erinihial court in l.tid; wa-s
elficte<l a representative from Slissouri in the Twenly-
elgtith Congress, as a Democrat, and was re-elected
to the Twenty-ninth, Thirtieth, and Tliirty-lirst Con-
gresses, always on general tickets, and sen'ing from
December 1, 184:1, to March 3, 18.51; was appointed
by Pi«sldent Buchanan cotnniissioner to Paraguay,
serving from Septoinborl), 1K.V*, to Febniary 10, l.'^.iil.
Bowne, Obadiah, wiis born on Staten Island,
New York, May li', 1S22; received a classical educa-
tion, graduating at Princeton College; was elected
a representalivi! from New York In the Thirty-sec-
ond (Congress, as a ^\^lig, receiving 7,72il votes against
0,42H votes for Bogardus, Democrat, and serving from
December 1, 1S,J1, to M.irch 3, 1853; studied law with-
out intending to practice; was a <|Uarantine commis-
sioner 18.57-18'jy; was a Lincoln pn'sidentiiil elector
in 18t)6. Domestic difHoulties drove him to inlem|>er-
ance, and, after s<|uandering a large fortune, he be-
came reduced to destitution; he coinuiitted suicide
by taking opiiitu, on Staten Island, April 27, 1874.
Bow^ne, Samuel S., was l)orn in the Slate of
New York in 17li.'»; received a public-school educa-
tion; studied law; was admitted to the bar, and
commenced practice in Otsego County; was a mem-
ber of tlie State Assembly of New York in 18:54; was
elected a representative from New York in the Twen-
ty-seventh Congress, as a Van Uuren Democrat,
receiving 6,012 votes against 4,s:jl votes for D. M.
Ilanl, >Vbig, 'and serving from May 31, 1&41, to
March 3, 1*43; was judge of Otsego County in 18
dii'il ill Otsego Coiiniy. New York, July 1.'), 187.''».
Boyce, William W., wjis Ix'ni ut Charleston, I
South Carolina, Octolier 24, 18H>; received a cla.ssical 1
education at the College of South Carolina and Vir-I
ginia University; studied law: was adinittetl to the
bar, and commenced practice at WiiuisborLiugh,
.South C\in>lina; was elected a representative from
South Carolina in the Thirty-third Cougress, as a
State-rights Democrat, receiving 2..'>4n votes against
2,270 votes for Moses, State-rights Democrat, and 180
votes for O'Uanlon, Indejiendenl, and was re-elected
to the Thirty-fourth, Thirly-tifth, and Thirty-sixth
Congresses without opptjsition, seniiig from L)«!cera-
ber-O, 18.j:J, until he vacatetl his seat aftertbe secession
of .South Carolina, Dccember21, 18«jO; wos appointed
a delegate from South Carolina to the Provisional
Congress January 4, Wil; was elected to the Fired^l
Confederate Congress, and i'e-<?lected to the Second«^|
serving from Fehniar)- 1(1, I.sil2, to February IM, IStU; ^
removed to Wiushiiigton City, and practised law.
Boyd, Adam, was a native of New Jersey: was
active in the colonial resistance to British authority, i
and during the Revolutionary struggle w.ts a leading
citizen at Uackensack, holding several loi-al cifUces; T
was elected a representative from New Jersey in the I
Eighth Congress, as a DemcK-rat, on a general ticket, I
serving from October 17. I8i>;j, to March 3, l.SCio; was
again elected to the Tenth I'ongress (to till a vaeiuicy I
caused by the death of Ezra Darby, deceased); was I
re-elected to the Efeventh Congress on a general I
ticket, which recelve<l 18,705 votes against' 14,703
votes for the Federal ticket; was re-elected to the
Twelfth Congress, and served from April 4, 1808, to ^
March 3, 1S13; died at Uackensack, New Jeney, atH
an advanced age. ^|
Boyd, Alexander, was a noiive of New York,
and was elected a n'pre.sentative fmm that State iu
the Thirt<!eiitb tNmgress on the " Peace and Com-
merce" ticket, ser^-ing from May 24, 1813, to Maxell
3, I.'<1.'5.
Boyd, John H., was l>om at Whitehall. Newj
York; received a public education; was a member]
of the St.ite .Assembly in IMtl; was electetl a repre-
sentative from New York in the Thirty-second Con-
gri'ss, as a Whig, n-cciving (!,2.Sfl votes against 4,415
rotes for Thompson. Democrat, and serving from
December 1, ISIl, to March 3, laW; died at White-
hall. New York, July 21, 18«8.
Boyd, Linn, was bom at Nashville, Tennessee,
November 28. ISOO; his parents soon aflerwanls set-
tled r)n the eastern bank of the Cumberland River,
in Tri"g County. Kentucky, where he was liriuight
iij) to labor on the farm, while he acquired a scanty]
ediicalioii by winter attendance at public schools; ial
IS2tl he located himself on a farm in <'allowayj
County, Kentucky; was a member of the State lesi»-l
lature I827-1S'!>>; returned to Trigg County, which
lie repn-sented in the State legislature in l.s31-18:J2;
was defeate<l as a Democratic candidate for the
Twenty-third Congress by C. Lyon, Democrat; was
elected a represelitative from Kentucky in the
Twenty-fourth Congress, as a Democrat, serving from
December 7, IS.3.5. to March 3, 18:{7; was defeated
as the Democratic candidate for the Twenty-tifth
Congress, n?H'eiving 2.-'>47 votes against 2.H21 votes |
for Murmy, Democrat, and 1,88.5 votes for Cunipl>ell,
Whig; was again electeil to the Twenty-sixth Con-
gress, as a Democrat, receiving 3.(U>5 votes against
2..'jI3 votes for Patterson, Wliig. and 2,l:(8vote8 for
Murray, Democrat; was re-elected to the Twenty-
seventh C^ongnfss, defeating Barbour, Wliig; was
re-elected to the Twenty-eighth Congress, receiving]
0,097 votes against 4,ftW votes for BarlKiur, \Miig;
was re-elected to the Twenty-ninth Cougri ss without J
opposition; was re-elected to the Thirtieth Congress, i
receiring 7,421 votes against 4.1!>4 votes for Dehmy, i
Whig; was re-eleetiil to the Thirly-tirst Congress J
without opi«)sition; was re-elcctoj to the Thirty-
second Congress, receiving 0,038 votes against 3,74tl
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295
Totes for M'Carty, Whig; and was ro-elected to the
Thirty-third Congress, receiving ^,^)S!i votes against
5,51)0 votes for Brown, Independent Democrat, serv-
iag from December 2, 1839, to March 3, 1835; was
speaker of the House in the Thirty-second and
'1 liirty-third Congresses; was lieutenant^ovemor
of Kentucliy one year; and died at Paducah, Ken-
tucky, December 10, 1859.
Boyd, SeinproniU3 H., was bom in William-
son County, Tennessee, May 28, 1828; received a
good English education; studied law; was admitted
to the bar in 1855, and practised at Springfield, Mis-
souri; was clerk of the court; was mayor of Spring-
field in ltS7; entered the Union army in 1861 as the
commander of a regiment known as the " Lyon Le-
gion," which he raised ; was elected a representative
from Missouri in the Thirty-eighth Congress, as an
Emancipationist, receiving 3,072 votes against 1,840
votes for Phelps, Democrat, and serving from Decem-
ber?. 1863, to March 3, 1865; returned to the duUes
of his profession ; was judge of the fourteenth judi-
cial circuit of Missouri ; was a delegate to the Balti-
more Convention in li>64; raised the Forty-sixth Mis-
siiiiri Infantry in 1805; supported General Grant for
President in convention; and was again elected to
the Forty-fint Congress, as a Repubflcan, receiving
»,'JTi votes against 4,955 votes for McAfee, Democrat,
and 1,381 votes for Kelso, Republican, serving from
Miuich 4, 1809, to March 3, 1871.
Boyd, Thomas A., was bom in Adams County,
FenQsylvania, June 25, 1830; received a classical
education, graduating at Marshall College, Mercers-
buig, Pennsylvania, in 1848; studied law at Cham-
IwisboTg, Pennsylvania; was admitted to the bar,
aud commenced practice at Bedford, Pennsylvania;
removed to IlUnois in 1850, and continued in his pro-
fession; entered the Union array in 1801 as captain
in the Seventeenth Dllnois Volunteer Infantry ; was
elected to the State Senate in 1860, and re-elected in
18T0; and was elected a representative from Dlinois
m the Forty-fifth Congress, as a Republican, receiving
14,548 votes against 14,001 votes for George A. Wil-
»m, Democrat, and 678 votes for W. M. Matthews,
hidepcndent.
Hoyden, Nathaniel, was bom at Franklin,
Uassachusetts, August 10, 1700; received a classical
education, graduating at Union College, Schenec-
tady, in 1821; removed to Stokes County, Xorth
Carolina, in 1822; taught school; studied law, and
was admitted to the bar; was a member of the Ilouse
of Commons of North Carolina in 1838 and 1840, and
of the State Senate in 1844; removed to Salisbury,
and was elected a representative in the Thirtieth
Congress, as a AVhig, receiving 3,882 votes against
3,(KJ votes for Bolge, Independent Whig, and 000
votes forVogler, Democrat, and serving from Decem-
bers, 1847, to March 3, 1849; declined a re-election
on account of professional engagements; was a raora-
Iwr of the legislature of North Carolina under the
Confederate Government; was again elected to tlie
Fortieth Congress, as a Republican, serving from July
13, law, to March 3, 1809; was defeated as the Re-
publican candidate for re-election to the Forty-first
t4)ngres8, receiving 11,103 votes against 12,102 votes
for Shob«r, Democnit.
Boycr, Benjamin M., vt.i* imni in Montgom-
<■- I ViiiUy, IViin?ylvuiii;i, ,fiiiiu:iry --, 1S23; gradu-
ii'-'i il tlif Uiiivursily of I*ciirisylv:iiii;i; studied and
Iif»iti-i«l law; was (iistrii't-filUimoy <it Montgomery
C'jiuity. I'oinmlviihiii, fniio Is-tS until 1850; was
■■I'll n n-iirc-wntative fnim IViiiisylviinia In the
a£ly-(i>ntli rini'^rcfts, as a 1 )elntM.T[it, receiving 12,-
"n»i' (ijIWl v■)li^s fur Biillix'k, Repub-
'^li.urlml til I lie FiiitittU Congress,
;!*■■ -.viinst 11,4 17 voli* f(ir Thomas,
•II i>eci!inl>«r 4, 1805, to March
- In Butt'cipurt County,
■IB taki'u by his father
1 a good education;
studied law ; was admitted to the bar, and commenced
practice at Lancaster in 1797; was elected a repre-
sentative from Kentucky in the Eighth Congress,
and was re-elected to the Ninth and Tenth Con-
gresses, serving from October 17, 1803, to March 3,
1809; was appointed governor of Illinois Territory,
but did not serve; was judge of the Court of Appesds
of Kentucky from April, 1809, to April, 1810, and
chief justice of that court from April, 1810, to No-
vember 8, 1826; was United-States district judge for
the District of Kentucky from November 8, 1826,
to his death, January 28, 1834.
Brabson, Reese B., was bom at Chattanooga,
Tennessee; received a public -school education; was
elected a representative from Tennessee in the Thirty-
sixth Congress, as a Whig, receiving 8,372 votes
against 8,313 votes for S. A. Smith, Democrat, and
serving from December 5, 1859, to March 3, 1801.
Braoe, Jonathan, was bom at Harrington, Con-
necticut, November 12, 1754; received a classical
education, graduating at Yale College in 1779; stud-
ied law; was admitted to the bar, and commenced
practice at Hartford; was prosecuting attorney for
Hartford County, judge of probate, and chief judge
of the county court; was elected a representative
from Connecticut in the Fifth Congress to fill a
vacancy made by the decease of Jodiua Coit, and
was re-elected to the Sixth Congress, serving from
December^3, 1798, until he resigned in 1800; was
several years a member of the State legislature of
Connecticut, and for nine years mayor of Hartford,
at which city he died August 26, 1837.
Bradbury, George, was bom at Falmouth,
Massachusetts (afterwards Portland, Maine), in 1770;
received a classical education, graduating at Har-
vard College in 1789; studied law; was admitted
to the bar, and commenced practice at Portland ; was
a member of the Massachusetts House of Repre-
sentatives from Portland in 1800-1810, 1811, and 1812;
was elected a representative from the then Maine Dis-
trict of Massachusetts to the Thirteenth Congress,
as a Federalist, defeating William Widgery, War
Democrat, and was re-elected to the Fourteenth Con-
gress, serving from May 24, 1813, to March 3, 1817;
resumed practice; was associate clerk of the Portland
court 1817-1820; was a member of the State Senate of
Maine in 1820; and died at Portland, Maine, Novem-
ber 7, 1823.
Bradbury, James "W., was bom in the Maine
District of Massachusetts in 1805; received a classical
education, graduating at Bowdoin College in 1825;
studied law; was admitted to the bar, and commenced
practice at Augusta, Maine; was prosecuting attor-
ney 18;)4-18.'}8; W.1S a presidential elector on the Polk
ticket in 1844; and was elected a United-States sena-
tor from Maine, as a Democrat, serving from Decem-
ber 0, 1847, to March 3, laW.
Bradbury, Theophilus, was bom at Newbury,
Massachusetts, November 13, 1739; received a clas-
sical education, graduating at Harvard College in
1757; studied law while teaching school at Falmouth
(now Portland, Maine) ; was admitted to the bar, and
practised there 1701-1770; returned to Newbury, and
practised there; was a member of the State Sen-
ate and House of Representatives; was elected a
representative from Massachusetts in the Fourth
Congress, and was re-elected to the Fifth Congress,
serving from December 7, 1795, to 1797, when he
resigned, having been appointed a judge of the Su-
preme Court of Massachusetts, a position which he
held until his death at Newburyport, Massachusetts,
September 6, 1803.
Bradford, Allen A., was bom at Friendship,
Maine, July 23, 1816; received an academic educa-
tion; removed to Missouri in 1841; studied law; was
admitted to the bar, and commenced practice; was
clerk of the Circuit Court of Atchison County, Mis-
souri, 1845-1851; removed to Iowa, and was judge
of the sixth judicial district 1852-1855; removed to
Nebraska, and was a member of the legislative coun-
w
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ell 185fl, 1857, and 1R58; removed to Colorado In
18rt0; was appointed by Prpsidcnt Lincoln judijo of
the Siipn-me Court of Colorado Juno <1, I.sii2; was
electnd a delegate irom Colorado in the Thirty-ninth
Congress, as a Itepul)lican, sf-rving from DecemR'r
4, 1805, to March '.i, 11*7; was apiin e|pct<?d to the
Forty-first C'onpress, recciviiifj 4,(Ji>2 vot<?s against
4,(175 votes for Deldpn, Democrat, and sending from
March 4. ls<lit, to Mari;h 3, 1871.
Bradford, Taul, was bom at Mardisvillc, Ala-
bama, January 20, 1835; received a classical educa-
tion, pradualing at the University of Alabama in
1854; studied law; was admitted to the bar in IS-'w,
and has since practised; scr\ed in the Confederate
army throughout the war; was a member of the .State
legislature of Alabama in 1871 and 1872; and was
elected a representative from Alabama in the Forty-
fourth Concrcsa, as a Democrat, receivinjj 10,424
votes against 14,07(1 votes (or William H. BetUi, lle-
puiilican. anil servliit; from December ti, 187.5.
Bradford, Williaiii, was bom at Plympton,
Massacbusfits, Xovemlwr 4, 1720; received a clas-
sical education ; studied medicine under Dr. Ezekiel
Hersey, at Iliugham ; commcnceil practice at Warren.
Rliode Island, and a few years afterwarils ri'movecl
to Bristol, where lie stuiUi'd law, and practised that
profession; ho was a nicmb»'r of the Rhode-Island
Coinmltlee of Correspondence in 177.5; was chosen
deputy-governor of Uhode Island in 1773 ; wsis
elected a dclepatc from Uhoile Island to the Contl-
nent.il Congress in 1773, btitnevertook his seat; was
k delegate from Rhode Island to confer wiUi the
govcmnients of M.-ussachusetts andCcmnecticut; was
a mcTuber of the State (Jeneral Assembly, and one
year its sjteaker; was elected a Ilnite<l-Statcs senator
from Rhode Island, serving fmm Deeemlter 2, lIWi,
until he resigned in 1797; was elected president of
tlio Senate pro trm. July (!, 171*7; died at Bristol,
RliOfle Islanii. July H, 18iW.
Bradley, Edward, was born at East Bloomfield,
New York, April, ISos; reeeiveil a public-school e*lu-
catio'u; studied law; was admitte<l to the bar, and
commenced practice in Ontario County, New York;
was appointed iuss(K'iate judge of the Cmirt of Com-
mon Pleas in lS.!(t; removed to Mi<-lii^;in in IXW,
and practised there: was a nieuiber of (be State Sen-
ale of Michigan in 1842; was elected a n.'pn'sentative
from Michigan In the Thirtieth Congress, as n Dem-
ocrat, receiving l>,515 votes against 8,078 votes for
Gordon, WTiig, and 1,127 votes for Hussey, Aboli-
tionist, but never look his s<!at, on account of ill-
heiillh; died lit New-York City Aug\ist 5, 1847.
Bradley, Nathan B., was bom at Lee, Berk-
shire County, Massachusetts, May 28, 1831 ; removtnl
wltli his parents to I^orain County, Ohio, in 1835.
and settled on a farm In a locality which afforded Iml
limited op|x>rtuuitie8 for education: apprenticed
himself al the ,ige of sixteen to learn the tnwie of a
custom clothier, and served the term of tlir'-e years;
at the ago of nineteen went to OslikosU. Wisconsin,
where he 8i>ent a year in the employ of luinl>er man-
nfacturcrs; returned to Ohio, where he remained
alx)ut two years, and then went back to Micbisan to
engage in manufacturing lumber; w.ts elected a jus-
tice of the peace three terms, a su]H'rvisor one tj-rm,
an aldcnnan three temis, and was the first mayor of
Bay City after it obtained its charter, declining a
rcnomination fnim both |)olitical parties at the close
of the tenn; was a candidate for the lower house of
the Slate legislattire ; was elected to the SlJilc Sen-
ate In 18(W, but di'olined a reiioniination at the close
of the tenn; was elected a representative from
Michig.in iti the Forty-third Congress, as a Republi-
can, recidving ll,.l;J3 votes against 7,095 rotes for
C. W. Wisner, Lll>eral; and was re-elected to the
Forty-fourth Congress, receiving 10.2.58 voU^s imiainst
0,W7 votes for f^eonrc F. Lewis, Democrat, serving
from December 1. l^T-i. until March 3, 1.^77.
Bradley. Stephen Row, was liom at W.tlling-
tord, CuimecUcut^ February 20, 1764; received u
classical education, gradu.tting at Tale College in
1775; studied law under Judge Reeve ; was admitted
to the bar In May, 1779, and commence<l practice;
commanded a volunteer company in the Revolu-
tiouiuy war, and 8er\-cd as aide-de-camp to General
Wix>ster; removing to Vemiont, he took an activ«
part in orgsmizing that Stale; was elected a United-
States senator from Vermont, as a Democrat, serving
from Octolier 24, 1701, to March 3, 1705; was again
elected United-States senator in place of Elijah
Paine resigned, and re-elected, serving from Deeem-
l>er 7, 1801, until March 3, 1813; was jiR'sident pra
tpjnporc of the Seualo during a part of the Seventh
and Tenth Congresses; and died at Walpolc, Ne
Haii![>shire, December 16. 18;J0.
Bradley, 'William Czar (son of Stephen Row-
Bradley), was l)oni at Westminster, VenuonI, March
2.'i, 178;J; received a classical eilucation, entering
Yale College, but leaving when a freshman, in 179C;
studied law with his father; was adndtted to the liar
In 1802, and commenced practice at Westminster,
Vermont; was secretary of commissioners of bank-
ruptcy 1800-1803; was prosecuting attorney for Wind-
ham County 1804-1811; was a member of Ihe Stat«
Ilouseof Kepreseutalives 1800-1807; was a state coun-
cillor in 1S12: was elected a representative from Ver-
mont in the Thirti-enth Congress, ns a War Democrat,
serving fnim May 24, 18i:l. to Man-h 3, 1815: was
agent of the United States under the treaty of Ghent
1823-1827 ; was again elected to the Eighteenth Con-
gress, as a Dt'mocrat, and was re-electeil to the Nine-
teenth Congress, serving from December 1, 1823, to
March 3, 1827: was again elected to the .State House
of Representatives in 18.50; was a presidential elector
on the Fremont ticket in 1850; was a member of the
State Constitutional Convention in 1857; took a for-
mal fari'well of the bar of Windham County, after
fifty-six years of practice, in 1858: and died al West-
minster, Vermont. March 3. 1807.
Bradahaw, Samuel C, was bom at Ptnm-
steacl, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, June 10, 1800;
received a public-.school education; studied medi-
cine, graduating at the Pennsylvania Medical CoUegw
in 1S.'>J, and commenced practice at t^akertown;
was elected a repnsentalive from Pennsylvania in
the Thirty-fourth Congress, as a Wiig. receiving
8,527 votes against 8.182 votes for Bridges. Demo-
crat, and sening from DecemlH'r 3, 1855. to March 3,
l>v)7: was defeated as a Union candidate for the
Thirty-lifth Congress, receiving 8,7x0 votes against
10,:!21 votes for Chapman, Democrat.
Brady, Jasper E., was born in New .Jersey;
received a pnlilie-school education ; learned the hat-
ter's trade; studied law; was admitted to the bar,
and conimi'ncecl ])ractice at ChamlM-rsburg, I'ennsyl-
vaiiia; was elected a representative from Pennsylva-
nia in the Thirtieth Congn'ss, as a WHiig. 8«^rvin5
from December t), 1847, to March 3, 1840; Wiis de-
feated ,is the Whig candidate for the Tliirty-fir»t
Congress, receiving 8,015 votes against 8,182 votes
for J. X. McLanahan, Democrat; removed to Pitts-
burg, Pennsylvani.i, and practised law; was ap-
pointed in I8(!l a clerk in the office of the paymaster-
general in the War Department; died at Washington
City Januarv 23, 1S70.
firagg, Edward S., was bom at Unadilla, New
York, February 20. 1S27; n'ceiveil a classical educa-
tion, which was completed at CTcncvaCollege; studied
law; was admitted to the bar, and practised at Fond-
du-Lac. Wisconsin; was a member of the Slate Scn-
att? of Wisconsin in 1808 and ISOO; entered the Union
anny in May, 1801, as captain, and was mustered out
of service in October, 1.865, with the foil rank of
brigadier-general ; and was elected a representative
from Wisconsin in the Forty-fifth Congress, as a
Democrat, receiving 10.544 voti'S against 14,031 votes
for George W. Carter, Republican.
Bragg, John (brother of Tlxnnas Bragg), wos
bom in Warren County, North Carolin.i; received a
classical education, graduating at the
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Korth Carolins in 1824; stndled laif ander Judge
Hall; was admitted to the bar, and commenced
practice; was a member of the House of Commons
of North Carolina In 1830-1834; removed in 1836 to
Mobile, Alabama, where he practised ; was appointed
judge of the tenth judicial circuit in 1842; elected
by the t^islature in 1844, re-elected in 1847, and re-
elected by the people in 1850; was elected a repre-
sentative from Alabama in the Thirty-second Con-
gress, as a State-rights Democrat, receiving 6,113
votes against 4,254 votes for C. C. Langdon, Union
¥rhig, serving from December 1, 1851, to March 8,
1833; declined a re-election, and devoted himself to
agTicnltarai pursuits; was a delegate from Mobile
to the State Convention of 1861.
BraerfiTi Thomas (brother of John Bragg), was
bom in Warren County, North Carolina, November
0, 1810; was educated at the Military Academy at
Middletown, Connecticut; studied law; was admit-
ted to the bar, and commenced practice at Jackson,
North Carolina, in 1831 ; was a member of the House
of Commons of North Carolina in 1842; was elected
a presidential elector on the Pierce and King ticket
in 1853 ; was governor of North Carolina in 1855-1859 ;
was elected a United-States senator from North Coi^
oUna, as a Democrat, to succeed David S. Reid,
Democrat; took his seat Deceml)er 6, 1859, and re-
signed eariy in 1861, North Carolina having seceded
from the Union; was appointed by Jefierson Davis
attorney-general of the Confederate States February
S2, 1861, and served two years; was active In the im-
peachment of Governor Holden ; and died at Kal^igh,
North Carolina, January 21, 1872.
Brainerd, Lawrence, was a prominent busi-
ness-man at St. Albans; was elected United-States
senator from Vermont, as a Frce-Soiler, to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of William Upham, serv-
ing from December 4, 1854, to March 8, 1855.
Biranoh, A. M., was elected a representative
from Texas in the Thirty-ninth Congress ; and his
credentials were presented January 10, 1867 ; but he
was not admitted to a seat.
Branchy John, was bom in Halifax County,
North Carolina, November 4, 1782; received a classi-
cal education, graduating at the University of North
Carolina in 1801 ; studied law with Judge John Hay-
wood; was admitted to the bar, and commenced prac-
tice; was a member of the State Senate of North Caro-
Una in 1811, 1812, 1813, 1814, 1815, 1816, 1817, 1822,
and 1834; was governor of North Carolina 1817-1820;
was elected United-States senator in 1823, and re-elects
ed in 1820, resigning when appointed by President
Jackson secretary of the navy March 0, 1820, and re-
sided 1831; was elected a representative in the
Twenty-second Congress, as a Democrat, serving
from December 6, l&l, until March S, 1833; was a
member of the State Constitutional Convention in
1835; was the Democratic candidate for governor of
NoTth Carolina in 1838, and was defeated by Dudley,
Whig; was appointed by President Tyler governor
of Florida, serving from 1844 until the elecUon of a
governor under the State Constitution in 1845; died
at Enfield, North Carolina, January 4, 1863.
Braaoh, Lawrence O'Brien (son of John
Branch), was bom in Halifax County, North Caro-
lina, July 7, 1820; received a classical education,
graduating at Princeton College in 1838; studied law;
was admitted to the bar, and commenced practice at
Baleigb; was elected a representative from North
Carolina in the Thirty-fourth Congress, as a Demo-
crat, receiving 6,881 votes against 3,310 votes for
Shepsrd, American; was re-elected to the Thirty-
fifth Congress, receiving 7,375 votes against 1,102
scattering votes, and was re-elected to the Thirty-
^xtb Congress, receiving 6,827 votes against 2,459
Totes for Sanders, Whig, and serving from December
3, 1855, to March 8, 1801 ; entered the Confederate
*nny after the secession of North Carolina in May,
I8S1, and was appointed brigadier-general in Novem-
W, 1801; was in command at Newbera when it was
captured by General Bumside; and was killed at th«
battle of Antictam September 17, 1862.
Brandegee, Ausiistus, was bom at New Lon-
don, Connecticut, July 15, 1828; received a classical
education, graduating at Yale College in 1849 ; studied
law, graduating at the Yale Law School in 1851 ; was
admitted to the bar, and commenced practice at New
London; was a memtier of the State legislature oi
Connecticut in 1854. 1858, 1859, and 1861 ; was elected
an elector on the Lincoln ticket in 1861 ; was elected
a representative from Connecticut to the Thirty-
eighth Congress, as a Republican, receiving 8,878
votes against 6,381 votes for Converse, Democrat,
and was re-elected to the Thirty-ninth Congress, re-
ceiving 8,566 votes against 4,340 votes for Allen,
Democrat, serving from December 7, 1863, to March
4, 1867; was a delegate to the National Bepublicaa
Convention at Baltimore in 1864.
Biraxton, Carter, was bom at Newlngton, Vir-
ginia, September 10, 1736; received a classical educa-
tion; graduated at William and Mary College 1755;
visited England, and remained there three years;
was a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses
from 17G0 until 1775; was a member of the Virginia
Conventions of 1774 and 1775; was appointed a dele-
fate to the Continental Congress in the place of
'eyton Randolph, deceased, in December, 1776;
signed the Declaration of Independence adopted July
4, 1776; was not re-appointed to the next Congress,
but was re-appointed at the first session of the Gren-
eral Assembly of Virginia under the new constitu-
tion, serving from 1777 until 1783, and again in 1786;
was a member of the Virginia Council of State from
1786 until 1791, and from 1794 until he died, October
10,1707.
Braxton, Eilliott M., was bom in Matthews
County, Virginia, October 8, 1823; received a com-
mon-school education: studied law, and practises
the profession; was elected to the State Senate of
Virginia in 1851, and re-elected in 1863; was elected
a member of the Conmion Council of Fredericksburg
in 1866; and was elected a representative from Vir-
ginia in the Forty-second Congress, as a Democrat,
receiving 12,719 votes against 11,194 votes for L. Mo-
Kenzie, Republican, serving from March 4, 1871, to
March 3, 1873.
Brayton, William D., was bom at Warwick,
Kent County, Rhode Island, November 6, 1816; re-
ceived a classical education, passing two years at
Brown University; entered into mercantile persuits;
was for several years town-clerk, and then a member
of the Town Council of Warwick; was a member of
the State General Assembly in 1841 and 1851, and of
the State Senate in 1848 and 1853; served as major
of the Fourth Regiment Rhoderlsland Militia in the
Dorr rebellion ; was chosen presidential elector on the
Fremont ticket in 1856; was elected a representative
from Rhode Island in the Thirty-fifth Congress, as an
American Republican, receiving 8,932 votes against
3,209 votes for Jackson, Democrat, and was re-elect-
ed to tlie Thirty-sixth Congress, receiving 3,010 votes
against 1,789 votes for Anthony, Democrat, and serv-
ing from December 7, 1857, to March 8, 1861: was
defeated as the Republican candidate for the Thirty-
sixth Coi^ress, receiving 4,004 votes against 4,645
votes for Browne, Unionist; was appointed collector
of internal revenue for the Second District of Rhode
Island in 1862, and served until be resigned in 1871;
was a member of the National Union Republican
Convention at Philadelphia in 1872; was a member
of the National Union Republican Committee in
1872 and 1876, resigning in favor of Governor How-
ard.
Breck, DanieL was bom at Topsfleld, Massa-
chusettsTFebmary 12, 1788; received a classical edu-
cation, graduating at Dartmouth College in 1813;
studied law; was admitted to the bar, and com-
menced practice at Richmond, Kentucky, in 1814;
was judge of the Richmond-county court; was a
member of the State House of Representatives 1824r-
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18211; was president of the Richmond branch of
the State Bank of Kentucky 1 S;).V IK4;1 ; wiis :i judgi!
of the Supreme Court of Kentucky l(*4.'5-KS4it; was
elected a representative from Kentucky in tlie Tliir-
ty-llrst Toniress, as A Whig, receiving ('i,'.iihi votes
Bgainsl n.iVl votes for Martin. Dcmm-r.it, and serv-
ing friim IJecemlH-r:!. lH4ii, to Mardi 8, 1S.")1 : resumed
his duties as president of the Hichmoiid bnuich of
the State n.ink.
Breck, Samuel, was bom at Boston July 17,
1771 ; ix'ceivod a cjiissical education, wiiicli was com-
pleted at the Royal Military School of Ijorczc, in the
south of Fr.ance; returning to tlie United States, he
aftem'ards visiteti I'aris during the stoniiy scenes i<f
Uie Itevolutinn; eslablifihing liiniscif at Philadelphia
111 17U2. lie liecame a successful merchant; was several
years a member of the State legislature and llic city
govennnent ; was elected a re]ires«'ntjitive from I'enii-
sylvania in the Eighteenth t'ongn^ss, as a KederalisI,
and served from December I, IS'j;!, to Marcli :!. llSij;
died at his residence, called ".Sweel Brier." in what
w.ia afterwards West Fairmount Parlv, September 1,
imi.
Breokenridge, Henry M., of Tarentura,
Pennsylvania, wiis elected a representative from
that .State In the Twenty-sixth Congress, as a Whig,
to fill tlie vacancy ciused by the resignation of
Kii^liard Biddle, servinjj from December 10, 1840, to
March 8. 1S41.
Breokenridge, Jcunes, was buni near Fin-
CilBtle, Hotel. inrt County, Virginia. JIan-li 7. l7iW;
•Crved in the Kcvolutionary war; received a cliissieal
educntion. graduating at William and Mary College
in 1780 ; studied law; was iulmitted to the bar in
17S7, and commenced practice at Fincaslle; wivs for
several years a meinlKT of the State General Assem-
bly, and took especial interest in the construction of
the Chesapeake and Ohio Ciiiuil, .^nd in the establish-
ment of the University of Virginia; was elected a
representative from Virginia in tlie Eleventh Con-
S'ess. OS a Federalist. def<.'a(iiig Atexander Wilson,
omocrat; w.i8 re-elei-U'cl to the Twcdftb t^ongress. re-
ceiving 110 majority over Thomas L. Pivston. Demo-
crat; w;us re-elected to the Thirteeiitii Congress, re-
ceiving 117 majority; was rti-elected to the Fourteenth
Congress, serving from May 22, ISffit. to March '■],
1817; and died at Fiuc.astle. Vinnnia. .\ugttst II. 1S4(1.
Brecketiridefe, James D., was Ixirn In .lefTer-
Bon County, Kentucky; received a classical educa-
tion; was elccte<l a representative from Kentucky in
the .Spventeenth Congress, in place of Winfield Bul-
l'X!k. dece.'ised. and serving friuii December 'A, 1821,
to March :!, I>i2-i; died at Louisville, Kentucky, May,
184l».
Breckemridge, John (grandfather of .John C.
Bn'ckinridge). was born in Virginia in 17iiO; re-
ceived a classical education; studied law; w.isailmit-
lod t«i the bar, and commenced pnictice; wiis a mem-
ber of the (Senerivl Assemldy of Virginia; removeil
to Lexington, Kentucliv, where he was elected to
several local otllces; wiut elected United-States sena-
tor from Kentucky, as a Democrat, seniiig from
December 7, 18iil, until December i."). ISO."), when he
resigned to accept the position of attorney-general
of tlie United Stales from Presitleiit .lelTi-rsun ; and
died while in office, at Lexington, Kentucky. Decem-
ber 14. IhtHi. He was tlie author and advocate of
the Virginia Resolutions of nilH-HSiy.
Breckinridge, John Cabell (grandson of
John Ureckenridge). wiis Itoni near Lexington. Ken-
tuclcy, January 21. lS2o; received a cl.issic.il educa-
tion at Centn; College; studied law at the Transyl-
vania Institute; was admitted to the bar, and went
to Burlington, Iowa, with the intention of settling
there, but soon relunied. and comnieiiced practice at
Lexington, Kentucky; ser\ed in the Mi'xican war as
major of llie Third Kenlncky N'olunteers; was a
member of the .Stale legislature; was elected a repn--
sentative from Kentucky in the Thirty-second Con-
greM, as a Democrat, rc>ceiving 6,071 votes against
5.141 for Leslie Combs, Whig; was rc-el«>oted to the
Thirty-third Congn-ss, receiving ll..>'J:i votes ag:tinst
II.OIW votes for R. P. Letcher, Whig, serving from
December 1, 1851, to March 3, 18.x); was letidereU
the mission to Sp.iin. and declined it: was elected
Vice-Presiilent of the United States in ISVt. receiv-
ing 117 electoral votes as a Democrat against 114
votes for Dayton. Republican, and 8 voti'S fur Donel-
son. National American. ser\ing from Man-h 4, ISii?,
to March H, 1801 ; was defeated as the Democratic
candidate for Pr<!sident in ISrio, receiving 7- eU-etoml
votes against 180 votes for Abraham Lincidn, Kepul*-
lican, 31» votes for Jidin Bell. National Americ.in. and
12 votes for Stephen A. Douglas. Democrat; was
elected Uniled-.States senator from Kentucky in tike
pl.iceof Jolin ,). Crittenden, Wiig; seri-ed frrun July
4. ISiil. to August 0. 18(11, and was expelled Daceiu-
ber 4, 18t51 ; entered the Confederate-Stateji anny as
m.tjor-genenil ; was secretary of war of the Con-
feilenite-,Stales Government from January. 18(1.0. to
April, LSi'm; visited Europe, and remained tlien' until
ISIVH. when he n.>tumed to Lexington, Keiituckv,
where he died. May 17. 1873.
Breese, Sidney, was bom at Wliitcslxinmsh,
New Vork. July 1.5, 1800; attended ILamilton Col-
liige, l>ut graduated at Union College; r>;moved to
Iliiiiois; studied law; was admiltMd to the liar In
1820, and commenced pnictice at Kaskasia; was a|>-
poiiited |)ostmaster of Kaskasia in 18il, pniseculing
attoniey in 1.822. and Uniled-iStales district-attorney
in 1,827; held several commissions in tlie militia, and
siTvi.'d as a lieutenant of volunteers in the Black
Hawk war; wjis elected circuit judge in l,S;lo; was
elected United-.States senator from lUinois, us a
Democrat, to succeed Richard M. Young, serving
from December 4. 184;}. to Marcli '.i, 1S4!»; was a mem-
ber of Ihc St;ite House of Representativi?s. and lis
speaker in 1S.)0; was m.ide a judge of the Circuit
Court of Illinois in I8.V1. and its chief justice in 1873.
Brengle, Francis, was born in Maryland in
I81HI; rr'ceived a classical etlucation; was elecletl a
repr<.'sentative from Maryland in the Twenty-eighth
Congress, as a Wliig. sening from December 4, 1843,
to Mandi 3. 1845; died ut Frederick, Marylaml, De-
cember 10, 1840.
Brent, Richard, was iKjm In Virginia; received
a clussii;al eilucation: was elected a representative
from Virginia in the Fourth Congress, and re-elected
to the Fifth Congress, serving from Deceml>er7, 175)5,
to March ;1, ntc.t; was ai;ain elected a representative
in the Seventh Congress, serving from December 7,
1801, to March 3, 18;);5; was tdected Uniled-.States
senator from Virginia, serving fnmi W.ay 22. ISOU,
to Ills death, at W:i.shington, Decemlier ill), 1814.
Brent, William L., was b<>rn In Charles Coun-
ty, Maryland; reeelveil a lilM-ral edunitioii; studied
law; Wits admitted to the bar, ami r«'moved to Lnuisi-
aTia, wliere he practised; waselecteil a n.'pieseiiiaiivp
rntin l^oiiisiana in tlie Eighteenth Congress, as a
Whig, by a majority of 200 voles over J. S. J(dinson,
Deniocnit; wiut riMdected to the Nineteenth Con-
gress by a majority of 741 votes over Bullanl. Denio-
cnil, and wils re-<!lected to the Twentieth Congress
by 41X1 mrijoritv over liis Democratic opponent, sitv-
iiig from Deceralwr 1. 1S23. to Manli :!. 182t); prao-
lisi'd law at WiLsliington City ami in Louisiana; and
(lied suddenly of apoplexy, at St. Martinsville, Lou-
isiana. .Inly 7, 1848.
Brenton. Samuel, was lK>ni in O.allatln County,
Kentucky, NovemU'r 22. 1810; received an English
education; was a minister of tlie gospel 1S;;(1-IS4.S,
wlii'ii he was stricken with paralysis, and left the
pulpit; was appointed registrar of the land otlice at
Fort Wayne 184*; was elected a repri'sentative in
Ccmgress from InilLana in the Thirty-second Coii-
gn.'ss, .as a Whig, receiving 8,823 voles against 8,44<J
voles for Borden, Democrat, and serving from De-
I'cmlier 1. I8,'il, to March 3. 18.'kJ; w;is defeated as a 1
Whig candidate to tlie Thirty-third Congress, rw.eiv-
ing 5,EK](t votes against C,tt75 votes for Chnmberlain,
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299
DfMnoerat; was again elected to the Thirty-fourth
Congress, as a Kepublican, receiviriR 7,485 votes
a^lnst 6,881 votes for Chamberlain, Democrat, aiid
sening from December 3, 1855, to March 3, 1857;
was re-elected to the Thirty-fifth Congress, receiving
10,»aW votes against 0,089 votes for Lowry. Demo-
crat, but died at Fort Wayne, Indiana, March 20,
1857.
Bretano, Lorenzo, was bom at Manheim,
Grand Duchy of Baden, Qermany, Xovember 4,
181:); received a classical education; studied juris-
prudence at the Universities of Heidelberg and
Freibuig, and graduated as LL.D. ; practised oef ore
the Supreme Court of Baden ; was elected, on attain-
ing the legal ^e, to the Chamber of Deputies, and
in 1846 to the Frankfort Parliament; was president
of the FiOTisional Bepnblican Government estab-
lished by the revolutionists of 1840; was in contuma-
cium sentenced to imprisonment for life after the
failure of the revolution, but he had found an asy-
lum in tiie United States; settled In Kalamazoo
County, Michigan, as a farmer; in 1850 he removed
to Chicago, and was admitted to the bar, but soon
became ^itor in chief and principal proprietor of
" The Illinois Staats-Zeitung ; " was a member of the
State legislature in 1862; was for five yean presi-
tient of the Chicago Board of Education; was a
presidential elector on the Grant and Colfax ticket
in 1868; a general amnesty having been granted to
those who had participated in the revolution of '40,
he revisited his native land in 1860, returning to
Chicago after the great fire; was appointed United-
States consul at Dresden in 1872, and served until
April, 1870; and was elected a representative from
Illinois to the Forty-fifth Congress, as a Republican,
receiving 11,843 votes against 11,435 votes for J. Y.
LeMoyne, Democrat.
Brevard, Joseph, was bom In Mecklenburg
County, North Carolina, July 10, 1786; received a
classical education ; entered the North-Carolina line
in the Revolutiouary army as lieutenant in 1782, and
served throughout the war; removed to Camden,
South Carolina, and was sheriff of that district 1780-
1791; was appointed commissioner in equity Octo-
ber 14, 1701 ; was admitted to the bar February 11,
1792; was elected judge December 17, 1801, and re-
sided, on account of his health, in December, 1816;
was elected a representative from South Carolina In
the Sixteenth Congress, serving from December 6,
1x19, to March 3, 1821, when he declined; and died
at Camden, South Carolina, October 11, 1821.
Brewer, Mark B., was bom at Addison, Oak-
land County, Michigan, October 22, 1837; was reared
on a farm, receiving a pubIic4chool education;
itndied law with ex-Governor Wisner and M. E.
Crofoot; was admitted to the bar in 1864, and com-
menced practice at Pontiac, Michigan; was clt^at-
tomry of Pontiac in 1866-1S67 ; was a member of the
State Senate of Michigan in 1872-1874 ; and was elect-
ed a representative from Michigan in the Forty-fifth
Concress, as a Republican, receivinc 23,356 votes
aeainst 21,615 votes for George H. Durand, Demo-
crat.
^Brewster, David P., was bom in the State of
N'ewYork; studied law; was admitted to the bar,
»nil curamenced practice at Oswego, New York ; was
district-attorney of Oswego County 1829-1830 ; wa»
elfcied a representative from New York in the
Tweuty-sixth Congress, as a Democrat, receiving
li.'W) votes against 8,602 votes for Henry Fitzhugh,
Wliig; and was re-ele<:ted to the Twenty-seventh
('-■ingrpss, receiving 11,837 votes against 11,364 votes
'or Fortune C. White, Whig, serving from December
i. 1»», to March 3, 1843; and died at Oswego, New
Yorii. Febmary 10, 1876.
Bridges, George W., was bom in McMinn
''"unly, Tennessee, October 0, 1825; received aclas-
>ii'al education at the East-Tennessee University;
itudied law; was admitted to the bar, and com-
■WDced practice alao engaging In agricultural pur-
suits; was attorney-general of Tennessee 1S4O-1860;
was defeated as a candidate for presidential elector
in 1800; was elected in August, 18C1, A. representa-
tive from Tennessee in the Thirty-seventh Congress,
as a Unionist, receiving 8,000 votes against 7,062
votes given to a candidate for the Confederate Con-
gress ; was arrested on his way to Washington, taken
Lack, and held over a year a prisoner iu Tennessee ;
succeeded at last in escaping, and was admitted to a
seat in the House February 25, 1863, serving until
March 3, 1863.
Bridges, Samuel Augustus, was bom at Col-
chester, Connecticut, January 27, 1802; received a
classicsd education, graduating at Williams College
in 1826 ; removed to Easton, Pennsylvania, in Octo-
ber, 1826; studied law with James Madison Porter
and Robert May Brooke; was admitted to the bar in
1820, and commenced practice at Doylestown, Penn-
sylvania; removed in March, 18.30, to Allentown,
Pennsylvania, where he continued to practice until
his retirement; was deputy attorney-general of the
state for Lehigh County for seven years ; was a dele-
gate to the Democratic State Convention in 1841;
was elected a representative from Pennsylvania in
the Thirtieth Congress (to fill the vacancy caused by
the death of John W. Hombeck^ Whig), as a Demo-
crat, by 154 majority, and serving from March 0,
1848, to March 3, 1640; was again elected to the
Thirty-third Congress, receiving 8,328 votes against
7,480 votes for Caleb N. Taylor, Whig, and serving
from December 5, 1853, to March 3, 1865 ; was de-
feated as a Democratic candidate for the Thirty-
fourth Congress, receiving 8,182 votes against 8,527
votes for Samuel C. Bradshaw, Whig; was again
elected to the Forty-fifth Congress, receiving 20,119
votes against 12,266 votes for Howard J. Beeder,
Republican.
Briggs, Qeorge, was bom in Fulton County,
New York, May 6, 1805; removed to Vermont
in 1812; received a public-school education; en-
gaged in mercantile pursuits; was elected to the
State House of Representatives in 1837; removed
in 1838 to New-York City, and was a lai^
dealer in hardware there; was elected a repre-
sentative from New York in the Thirty-first Con-
gress, as a Whig, receiving 5,627 votes against 1,476
votes for Spencer, Democrat ; and was re-elected to
the Thirty-second Congress, receiving 4,444 votes
against 4,114 votes for Arcuiarius, Democrat, serving
from December 3, 1840, to March 3, 1853; was again
elected to the Thirty-sixth Congress, as an American,
receiving 8,906 votes against 6,501 votes for Ward,
Democrat, and serving from December 5, 1850, to
March 3, 1861 ; was a delegate to the National Union
Convention at Philadelphia in 1866; and died at
Saratoga, New York, June 1, 1800.
Briggs, Oeorge Nixon, was bom at North
Adams, Massachusetts, April 13, 1706; received a
public-school education; was apprenticed to a hatter;
studied law with L. Washburn ; was admitted to tlie
bar in October, 1818, and commenced practice at
Pittsfield: was an advocate of total abstinence; was
register ot deeds for Berkshire County 1824-1831 ; was
elected a representative from Massachusetts in the
Twenty-second Congress, as a Whig; was re-elected
to the Twenty-third Congress ; was re-elected to the
Twenty-fourtii Congress, receiving 4,220 votes
against 2,023 votes for all others ; was re-elected to
the Twenty-fifth Congress, receiving 8,567 votes
against 3,014 votes for all others ; was re-elected to
the Twenty-sixth Co^Tess, receiving 4,326 votes
against 3,601 votes for Henry W. Bishop, Democrat,
and was re-elected to the Twenty-seventii Congress,
serving from December 5, 1831, to March 3, 1843 ; was
governor of Massachusetts 1844-1851 ; was a mem-
ber of the State Constitutional Convention of 185:};
was judge of the Court of Common Pleas 1831-18,50;
was president of the Tract Society, the Baptist Mis-
sionary Union, and the Sunday-school Union; was
appointed iu 18U1 one of a commission to aidjust
300
CONGRESSIONAL DIRECTOBY.
diiTcrences between the United Statos and Saw
Grenada; was Mmrlally wounded l>y the aeeidonlal
discharge of a fowling-piece iSeplemlier 12. 1S<)1. A
biography of him was publislied by Kev. William C.
Kiclinrdsin ISiid.
BrigffS, Jaxnes P., was Ixim at Berry, England,
Octold'r li'l. 1S27; was i-lecled a n'presenl.ilive from
New Hanip.«liiro in the Forty-fiflh Congress, as a Ke-
pnblican, recoivinc; lo.200 votes against 12,111 rotes
for Sulloway, Democrat, and 7;J scattering.
Brigbaxii, Elijah, was bom at Northborough.
Massiu-hiisett.s, June 0, 1T5U; received a classical
education, graduating at II.■^r^•ard College in 1778;
commenced the study of divinity, but goon relin-
quished it, and engaged in mercantile business witli
his brother-in-law IJreck Parlvnian of Westborough;
was appointed a justice of the Court of Common Pleas
inl71>.>; waselecteda.St.itescnatfirin 1 71NJ, and a State
councillor in 17H;»iiiid 17iK); was elected a represcnta-
Uve from Massaclinsetts in tlie Twelfth Conijress, as
s Fedenillst, and re-electe<l to the Thirteenth and
Foiirtecntli Coiv^reKM-s, serving frtiin NovemlK'r 4,
1811, until he died suddenly, of croup, at Washing-
ton, Februjiry 22, LSltl.
Bright, Jess© D., was bom at Norwich, New
Torlc, UeceiiibiT IS, 1S12; was taken liy his parents
to Indiana in 1820; received a public-school educa-
tion; studied law; was .admitted to the b.ir in IKil,
and commenced practice at M.ullson, Indiana; was
elected judge of the Probate Court of Jefferson County
In 1834; was a member of the State House of Kopre-
scntalives in IR-IO; was United-,States marshal for the
District of Indiana; w.is elected lieutenant-'^ovenior
of Indiana in 1841 ; was electtsl a United-States sena-
tor from Indiana, as a Democrat, to succeed Altwrt
8. White, Whig; and was twice re-elected, ser\ing
from December 27, 1845, to February 5, lSfi2. when
he was expelled for liaving, in a letter to Jefferson
Davis, recognized liim as President of the (Confed-
erate States; removed to Covington, Kentucky; w.-is
a member of the State l(^gi!>lature in 18ti(l; w.as
chosen president of the I{a)Tnonil-Cily Coal Com-
pany in 1871 ; removed to Baltimore in 1874. retaining
liis connection with the coal company; and die<l of »
rheumatic affection of the heart, at Baltimore, Mary-
land, May 2<t, 1875.
Bright, John Morgan, was bom at Fayette-
villo, Tennessee, Janu.iry 20, 1817; receivc<l a clas-
sical and legal c<Iucation, grailuating from Nashville
University, Tennessee, in ISW, and from the law
department of Trannsylvanla University. Lexington,
Koirtucky, in IM1; was admitted t4) the bar, and
commenced practieo at F.iyeltcville, Tennessee; was
a member of the .State legislature in 1847-1848; was
c1ecte<l a representative from Tennessee in the Forty-
Bocond Congress, as a Democrat, ret-eiving 11,827
votes against l,84-'i voti» for J. Mullins. Itepubllcjui;
WM ro-electod to the Forty-thinl Congress, receiving
U,689 votes against 5.442 votes for J. P. Steele, lle-
pilbUcan; was re-elected to the Fi>rty-fourlh('ongress,
receiving 10,234 vott« against a,8:il votes for Wisner,
Kepublican ; ami was re-elected to the Forty-lifth Con-
gress, receiving 15.(»i)4 voles a^iinsl 5.:)((ll votes for
Galbraith. Kepuliliciin. serving from March 4. 1.S71.
Brlnkerhoff, Henry R., was born in Adams
County, Peniisylvani.i, in 1788; was taken early in
life by bis parents t/> Cayuga ('ounty. New York,
then a wilderness; received a scanty frontier educa-
tion; commanded a company of militia in the war
of 1812, distingui.shing himstdf at the battle of
Queenstown Ileiiihts; w;is twice elected a member
of the State legislature; was major-general of the
New- York State militia; removed to Huron County,
Ohio, in 1827, and cultivate<l a largo farm; was
elected a representative from Ohio in the Twenty-
eighth Congress, as a Democrat, receiving 5,814 votes
»g.iinst I.t)i)iJ voles for Weldon, Whig, and serving
from Deceuilx/r 4, I84;J. to his de.-ilh. at Ids fann in
Huron ('ounty, Ohio, of disease contracted in Wash-
ington, April ao, 1M4.
Brinkerhoff, Jacob, was bom in the State of j
New Viirk: rcnioved to Plymouth, Ohio; was elected]
a representative from that State in the Twenty-
eighth Congress, as a Democrat, receiving .'sSU votcsl
against l.lltnJ votes for Waldon, Whiz; was re-electc4l
to the Twentv-nintli Congress, serving from Decern-*
bcr 4, 1S4.!, to M.areh 3. 1.847.
Brisbin, John, was Inim in Pennsylvania; wa»J
elected a representative from that State in the Tlurly-J
first Congr<!S8 { t»i fill the vacancy cause<l by thi' <leath '
of Chester Butler), as a Whig, and served from Jauu-
arv 13, IKtI, to M.ireh 3, ls51.
Bristow, Francis Marion, was bom in Clark j
County, Kentucky. August 11. IftH; received •j
thorough English education; studied law, and wasi
admitted to the bar, devoting himself to his prac*tic«l
and to agricultural pursuits; was a member of th«|
State House of Representatives in 1831 and ].S.>i, and \
of the State Senate in 184(1; was a member of the
State Constitutional Convention in 18411: wa.s elected i
a representative from Kentucky in the niirty-thinl j
Congress, as a Whig, to fill the vacancy caused by j
the death of Presby Ewing, and served from Decern- j
lM;r4, 1854. to March li, 1855; was again elected to |
the Thirty-sixtli Congress, receiving 7.14(( vote*]
against 5.575 votes for Sale, Democrat, and servin* |
from Deceml)er 5, 1859, to March 3, 18fil: esiwusea '
the Union cause, and was for a time a refugee in Illi-
nois; died at Elkton Kentucky. June ID, IStM.
Broadhead, John C, was a resident at Mo-
dena. Ulster ('ounty. New York; was elected a rep-
n^scntative fnmi tii.it .Stfite in the Twenty-second
Congri'ss, as a Democrat, ser\ing from l>eceml)er .'i,
18:51, to M;ufh 3, 18:>{; was again elected to the ^
rwenty-fifth (^ingress, serving from September 4, ^M
18;J7. to March 3. 18:!fl.
Brockenbrougb, William H., was l>om In
1HI;J; n-ceivi'il a classical educaliim; studiitl law;
w.is admitterl to the bar. and was induciil by ill-
health to settle at Tall.-ihassee. Florida; was n ei-na-
tor under the U^rritoriui government, and Uidted-
States district-attorney; was elected a representative
from Florida in the IVenty-ninth Cimgrvss. as •
Democrat, and recelvetl his seat, although it wa« ;
contested by E. C. CalM-ll. AVTiis, sen Ing from Janu-
ary 24, lS4ft. to Mandi 3, 1847; died of pulmonary]
eonsumntion at Tallahassee, Florid-o, in June, 185(1.
Broctway, John H., was bom at Ellington^ J
Connecticut; received a classical e<lucation. gnulu
atlng at Yale College in 1820; taught school; atudiei]
law; was ailniitted to the bar. and commenced pr
lice at Klllngton; was several limes a inHnil)er of th4
State Senate ami Hou8«! of Keprcsenlatives of Coi»-|
necticut; was elected a n'pres»'ntative from (>onnectlr)
cut in the Twenty-sixth Congn'ss, us a Whig, reo<.>i>ir
:i.Slll7 votes against 3,5455 votes for Cleveland, Demo-I
crat; and was re-<dected to the Twenty-seventh Con-|
gn'ss bv 1,045 majorily, siTving from December 2,
1S;1». to" March 3. 184:!.
Bro<iericlE, David Colbreth, was bom at
Washington City in Deci'inlK-r, 181S, his fiither hav--j
ing emigrated from Irttland to work ns n stone-euttc
ontheCipilol: removed to New York in 182:1; r<-ci'ived1
a public-sch'Md education, and w.as apprenticed to]
leiirn the stone-cutter's trade; w.as proniiin'nlly cim-
neeled with the volunteer fire department; was di>-l
feated as the Deraoenitic candidate for the Thirllellll
Congress, receiving 3,800 votes against 4,205 votes fof
Tallmadge, Wiig; removed to California in 18401
was a memlK'r of the Constitutional Convention
Califoniia in 1841): w.is a memlx'r of the State Seii-|
ate of California in IS.V), 1851, and president of th.i
hotly the liuit year; was electeil a United-Plates sena
trir from California, serving from March 4, 1857, to^
March :), 1S5<.I; Mas mortally wounded in a duel,
before the ex|>iratioii of his term, by David S. Terry,
chief justice of the Supreme Court of California, nearj
Lake Merced in that State; and died September IC
ISi')!).
Brodhead, John, was bora in 1771; was for
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801
forty-foar yean a minister of the Methodist-Episco-
pal Church; waa elected a representative from New
Uampshire in the T\?enty-fir8t Congress; and was
re-elfcted to the Twenty-sccoud Congress, serving
from December 7, 1821), to Marcli 3, 183^; he died at
New Market, New Hampshire, April 7, 1838.
Brodhead, Richard, was bom in Pike County,
Pennsylvania ; was elected a representative from
Pennsylvania in the Twenty-eighth Congress, as a
Democrat, receiving 6,040 votes without opposition ;
and was re-elected to the Twenty-ninth and Thirtieth
Congresses, serving from Decemlier 4, 1843, to March
a, 1S49; was elected United-States senator from Penn-
sylvania, as a Democrat, to succeed Daniel Sturgeon,
Democrat, serving from December 1, 1851, to March
3, 1857; died at Easton, Pennsylvania, September
, 17, 18«3.
Brogden, Cturtis H., of Goldsborough. was
elected a representative from North Carolina in the
Forty-fifth Congress, as a Bepublican, receiving
21, QUO votes against 11,874 votes for Green, Demo-
crat.
Brombers, Frederick Qeorge, was bom in
New-York City June 19, 1837; his family removed to
Mobile in February, 1838; graduated at Harvard
University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1858; was
a student and assistant in the chemical laboratory of
the Lawrence Scientific School, Cambridge, Massa-
chusetts, in 1861-1863; was elected tutor in mathe-
matics at Harvard University in 186:^, resigned in
1X65, and returned to Mobile; was appointed treas-
urer of the city of Mobile in July, 1867, by Major-
Ucneral John Pope, commanding the department,
and served until January 19, 1809; was a member of
the State Senate of Alabama 1868-1872; was ap-
pointed postmaster of Mobile in July, 1869, and
removed in June, 1871, without cause; and was
elected a representative from Alabama in the Forty-
third Congress by the Liberal Republicans and Demo-
crats, receiving l&jpOT votes agaunst 13,174 votes for
B. 8. Turner, and 7,024 votes for P. Joseph, Admin-
istration Republican, serving from December 1, 1873,
to March 3, 1875; was defeated as a Democratic can-
didate for die Forty-fourth Congress, receiving 16,993
votes against 10,551 votes for Haralson, Republican.
Bromwell, Henry P. H., was bom at Balti-
more, Maryland, August 26, 1823; removed when a
lid to Ohio, and afterwards to Illinois; studied and
practised law; published and edited "The Vanda-
lian Age of Steam and Fire;" was a presidential
elector from Illinois in I860: was elected a reprc-
Kntative from Illinois in the Thirty-ninth Congress,
u a Republican, receiving 15,35;} votes against 12,027
votes for Eden, Democrat; and was re-elected to the
Fortieth Conzress, receiving 17,410 votes against 13,-
io2 votes for Black, Democrat, serving from Decem-
ber 4, 1805, to March 8, 1869.
Bronaon, David, was bom at SufQeld, Con-
necticut; received a classical education, graduating
U Dartmouth College in 1810; studied law: was ad-
mitted to the bar in 1823, and commenced practice
U Anson, Maine; was a member of the State House
of Keptesentatlvea in 1832 and 1834, and of the State
Senate in 1846; was elected a representative from
Maine in the Twenty-seventh Congress (to fill the
vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Creorge
Brans on his election to the Senate), as a Whig, serv-
ing from May 31, 1841, to March 3, 1843; was col-
lector of customs at Bath, Maine, 1850-1853; was
judge of probate for Sagadahoc County 1854-1857;
and died in Talbot County, Maryland, November
i».l883. .•"■''
Bronaon, Isaac H., was bom at Rutland, New
Torlc, Octotwr 10, 1802; received a public-school edu-
cation; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1822,
Ud commenced practice at Watertown, New York ;
'a» elected a representative from New York in the
Twenty-fifth Congress, as a Democrat, serving from
S'pt<wber4, 1837, to March 3, 1839; was defeated as
Uie Democratic candidate for the Twenty-sixth Con-
gress, receiving 4,300 votes against 4,980 votes for
Thomas C. Chittenden, Whig ; was appointed judge
of the fifth judicial district of New York; was ap-
pointed United-States district judge for the northern
district of Florida; and died at Pilatka, Florida, Au-
gust 13, 1855.
Brooke, Walter, received a public-school edn-
tation; studied law; was admitted to the bar, and
commenced practice at Lexington, Mississippi; was
elected a United-States senator from Mississippi (in
place of Henry S. Foote resigned), serving from
March 11, 1852, to March 3, 1853; was elected a
member of the Provisional Confederate Congress
from Mississippi, serving from February 18, 1861, to
February 18, 1802; was defeated as a candidate for
the Confederate Senate by James Phclan.
Brooks, David, was bom in Pennsylvania ii)
1766; received a public-school education ; entered the
Continental army as a lieutenant in the Pennsyl-
vania line in 1770; was captured at Fort Washing-
ton November 10, 1776, and exchanged after two
years' imprisonment; was appointed assistant cloth-
ier-general in 1778, in which position he secured the
friendship of Washington ; removed after the war to
Dutchess County, New York; was for six years a
member of the State Assembly; was elected a repre-
sentative from New York in the Fifth Congress,
serving from May 15, 1797, to March 3, 1790; was
appointed commissioner to negotiate a treaty with
the Seneca Indians; was first judge of Dutchess
County for sixteen years; was an oflicer in the
United-States customs service; and died at his resi-
dence in Dutchess County, New York, August 80,
1838.
Brooks, OteoTge Merrick, was bom at Con-
cord, Massachusetts, July 26, 1824; graduated at Har-
vard College in 1844; studied and practised law; was
a member of the Massachusetts House of Represen-
tatives in 1858, of the Massachusetts State Senate in
1850, and of the joint committee of the Senate and
House chosen in 1850 to revise the statutes of Massa-
chusetts; was elected a representative from Massa-
chusetts in the Forty-first Congress in November,
1860 (to fill the vacancy occasioned by the appoint-
ment of Honorable George S. Boutwell to the office
of secretary of the treasury), as a Republican, re-
ceiving 8,800 votes against 4,284 votes for Saltonstall,
Democrat, and was re-elected to the Forty-second
Congress, receiving 8,406 votes against 4,661 votes
for Adams, Democrat, and 1,489 votes for Kimball,
Labor Reformer; resigned in 1872 on being appoint-
ed judge of probate for Middlesex County, serving
from December 6, 1869, to May 13, 1872, when he
resigned.
Brooks, James, was bom at Portland, Maine,
November 10, 1810; received a collegiate education,
graduating at Waterville College; taught school In
Portland until'1830; edited "The Portland Adverti-
ser," for which he wrote letters from Washington
during the sessions of Congress; travelled in Europe
in 1835, and on his return established, in 1836, "The
New- York Daily Express," of which he was the edit-
or in chief through the remainder of his life; was
defeated as the Vfhig candidate for Congress in the
Portland district in 1836, receiving 3,320 votes against
3,729 votes for Francis O. J. Smith, Democrat, and
486 votes scattering, Mr. Smith receiving a majority
at the second trifd; was a member of the State
legislature in 1867; was elected a representative
from New York in the Thirty-iirst Congress, as a
Whig, receiving 9,708 votes against 2,042 votes for
Field, Democrat; was re-elected to the Thirty-second
Congress, receiving 8,357 votes against 6,724 votes for
Cochran, Democrat, and serving from Decemlier 3,
1849, to March 3, 1853; was again elected to the
Thirty-eighth Congress, as a Democrat, receiving
9,62.5 votes against 5,570 votes for Cowdin, Union
candidate; was re-elected to the Tliirty-ninth Con-
gress, but his seat was successfully contested by
William E. Dodge, RepubUcau, serving from Decern-
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bcr 7. 18*3, to April 7, 1900; was re-electwJ to the
Fortieth Goiigress, as a Domocral, receiving 14,210
votes asninst 8,:ilit voles for C'lmnoii, Hepubliean,
and scrviiic from Mai-ch 4, lHt!7; was apiKilnted a
Kovi-nitneiit dircrtor in the linioii Pacilic Kailroad
iti Octolior, l.M<i7; was rp-<'lerled to the Forly-tirst
Congress, rereivliiji; i'l,4S7 votes against D.SIK) votes
for Lalnslie^T, Hepuliliean ; was re-eleetod to the
Forty-seeond ('oiiitress, reeeivinc 12.84o votes af^aiiist
6,4H7 votes for Wilkes, Uepiihlican, and 4,78!» votes
for Wiuisworlh, Independent: contracted rlisetise
while travelliiii; around tlie wnrld in ls7-, whieli
was agijravated by the actlun of the llouse ciiiidenin-
Ing his connection with llie credit jnobilifr; and he
dieil at VVashinaton, April .'{0, 1873.
Brooks, Micah, was hom at Cheshire, Con-
necticut, in 1775; was educated by his father, with
whom he removed to Western New York; t.iupht
acliool in the winters, and worked on a fann in the
summers; was appointed a justice of the peace in
1800; was judge of the LivinsBton-county court 18(X1-
18*1; was a memlM>rof the New- York Assembly 1808
and ISOli; was elected a representative fnmi New
York in tin' Kourteenlh t'iiiiKri'-<s, wrviiip from \)e-
cendier 4, ISl.'i. to March S, 1817; was a member of
the Stiile Ccinstitutional (\)nveiition of 1S2I; w.as a
presidential elrttornn the Ailams ticket in 1S24; and
died in Livinirston County, New York, July 7, IS-'m.
Brooks, Preston S,, was bom in Edaelield l>is-
trict, .Siiutli Carolina. AuRust ID, ISlll; received a
classical education. Kraduatins at the Cojlese of
South Carolina in 1S.'>1I; studied law; was admitted
to tlie bar in M.ay. 184;!, and clevotcd himself tn his
pniclice and to iilanting; w.is elected a member of
the .State (ieneral Assembly in 1S44; 8er\i'd in the
Mexiciin war as captain of the I'alinetto Heijiment
of South-Carolina Volunteers; cave bis attention
exclusively to his planlaliim mi his reluni ; was elect-
ed a representative from .South Carolina to the Thir-
ty-thir«I Con^rc.is, as a .Slate-rights I>eiH<KTat, n-celv-
ini; 2,i>l>8 votes against l,41t2 for I'ickens, 1,474 for
Stilliv.an, and 1.41.'> for Marshall, all .Siate-richls
Democrats; and was re-<'lected to the Thirty-fourth
C'onj;ri;ss. receiviiiR ti.lIS votes against li.llol votes for
A. C. liarUnpton, .State-rights, servim; trfiiu Decem-
ber 5, 18.">:<, to .Inly 14, ls.5t!. when (the House not
having given a Iwo-lliinis vole for bis expulsion for
Iho assault upon Charles .Sumner) he resigned; was
again eiectiMl Ut the Tltirly-fourtb Congress by a
tinimimous vote, and w:is re-elected to the Thirty-
fifth Congress liy a uiianiiHous vote, serving from
August 1, ISJt), to his death, at WiLshlngton City,
of inll.anied soro-thnjat, .lanuury 27, I8.")7.
Broom, Jacob, was born at Haltimore, Mary-
land, .Inly 2"), 18tW; HHieived a classical educ.ition;
removed to Pennsylvania; was appointwl deputy-
auditor of Pennsylvania in 1840; was elected clerk
of the Philiulelphia Orph.ans' Court in 184!i; was
elnctcd a representative from Pennsylvania in the
Thirty-fourth Congrt^ss, as an American Whig, re-
ceiving 0,747 votes against 5.H9;j votes for Phillips,
Democrat, serving from December -i, I8.V1, to March
3, 18r)7: died at Washington in November, lS(t4.
Broomall, John M., was horn at Upper Chich-
ester, Peniisvlvania, .lanuary 111, 181(i; n^ccived a
classical education; studied and practised law; was a
memt)er of the State legislature of Pennsylvania in
]8,')I and 1852; w.is a member of the .State Heveiiue
UoanI in 18.54; was presidential elector in 18(10 and
18(il; Wiis elected a representative from Pcinisyl-
vanln in the Thirty-elghlli Congress, as a Itepublican,
receiving 0,S!)1 votes against (l,44ii voles for Met 'all.
Democrat; was re-electej to the Thirty-ninth Con-
gress, receiving 10,1»08 voles against 7.2.11 voles for
Be.ntty, Democrat ; and was re-elected to the Korllelh
Congress, receiving 12.011 voles against 8.;VU voles
for Pralt. Democrat, sening from DecemU'r 7, 1811:),
to March :!, 18i;!l.
Broom, Jaxnes M., was bom in Delaware in
ITiS; receivud a classicaJ cduuatiun, graduating ut
Princeton College In 1704 ; was elected a represents*
live fnun Delaware in the Ninth Congress, senringJ
from December 2. 18*6, to March .1, 18«7.
Broomfleld, Joseph, was born at Wowlbridge, 1
New Jei-sey, in l7->4; received a classical education;
studied law; entered the Kevulutionary army in ITitJ, f
and ser\'cd throughout the war, attaining the rank
of rajijor of the Third New-.Ierscy Re^ment; waaJ
attorney-general of Xew .Jerst'y; was governor of |
New Jersey 1.SIJ1-1S12; served in Uie war of 1812 asl
brigadier-general of volunteers; wag elect«Hl a repre-l
seiilativc from New Jersey in the Fifteenth Congress, [
and was re-elected to the Sixteenth Congress, serving ]
from December 1, 1817, to March :i, 11^21; died at his
residence, at Burlington, New Jersey, October 3, J
182:J.
Brown, Aaron Vail, w.as bom in Bmnswicki
County, Virginia, Augu.st 13, 171*5; received a classi-
cal education, graduating at the University of North ■
Carolina in 1814; removed with hi;" parimts to Nash-
ville. Tennessee, In 1815; studied law; was admitted j
to the bar, and conmience<l practice at Nashville; ^
was subsequently in partnershi|i with James K. Polk, ^
in Ciles County; was elected a representative from -Ml
Teimcssee in the Twenty-sixth Congn'ss. as a Demo- ^—
crat, receiving 4,40:1 votia iigainst 2,8.S"i votes for— ai
Ebenezer S. Shields, WVig; w:is re-clectoil to the^B
Twenty-Bcveiith Congress without opiMjsilioii, and
was re-elected to the Twenty-eiglith Congress,
ceiving .'J,.8.')2 votes against ;1.72;1 voles for Pavat,«
Whig, serving from December 2. 18;il), until March 'i,^
Is-Ui; was elected governor of Tennessee in l^'i,^
i-eceiving .'>8.27.') votes against rjO,,S>5 votes for Foster, J
and w.as defeated In 1847 as a candidate for re-elec
tion; w.as ap|Hiinted by President Jiuelianan [)<I8^
master-general in March, 1857; and died at Wa&liiuj(-
loii M;ircli 8, l.H.'il(.
Brown, Albert Gallatin, was hom in C'lie
ler District. .South Carolina, Slay HI, 181."}, but wa
taken by bis panmts to Mississippi when he was
child; receiveil an academic education ; studied law;
was ailniittwl to the bar, and coinmeiici-d practice;
was a member of the State House of Representatives
in ISJ-VIS:!!*; wiis elected a representative fnmi ilis
sissippi in the Twenty-sixth Congn'ss, as a Democr«t,__
on a general ticket, 8er\ing from Decemlxir 2, ISiOn
to Man-h -i. 1841 ; was a judge of the Circuit Sii)jeriot f
Court in 1852-1.86,1; was governor of Mississipjii ISH-
1848; was elected a representative from Missis!^ip|){
in the Thirtieth Congress, without opposition; ».u '
re-electcil to the Thirty-first Congress, receiving '.itHi
votes against a,02<l votes for Winans, Whig, and wai I
re-elected to the Thirty-second Congr«'.ss^ nveivins
7,304 votes against 5.444 votes for Dawson, Whig,
serving from January 24, 1.848, to March ii. IS'ki!; was 1
elected a United-States senator from Mississippi iu
1.8.5:$, and re-elected in 18.50, serving from January
20, 18.54, t<i his withdrawal on the secession of Mis-
sissippi, January 12, 1.801 ; was expelled from the
United-States Senate July 11, bSOl; cntere<l the Con-
federate army as captain in the S<'veuteenth Missis-
sippi Volunteers; w-as elected a Confederate-iJtales
senator in 1802, and 8er^'cd in the First and Second
Congres.sea. A volume of his addresses and speeches \
was published in 1859.
Brown, Anson, was bom at Ballston, New
York, in l.S()(l; received a classical education: studied
law; was admitted to Ihe bar, and commenced prac-
tice at U.illslon; was elected a representative from
New York in the Twenty-sixth Congress, as a Whig, ■
receiving .5,4111 voles against f),fr28 votes for Nicolas I
mil. jnn., Deniocrat, and 8er\ing from March ;J, 183U, j
unlil his death, ..at Uallston (where he had gone a few j
davs jireviously in ill-health), June 14, 184(1.
firown, Bedford, was born in Caswell County.
North Carolina, in 17!>5: w.as elected to the Hou.se of I
Coinuems of North t'arolina in 1815, ISKl, 1817. ami I
l.H2;l, and tii the .Stale .Senate in 1S28 and 182'.l; was
elected Unit ed-.Slates senator from North Carolina (to '
lill the vacancy caused by the reaiomitiou of JoUu
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Branch), as a Democrat, and was re-elected In 1835,
s<.'rving from December 28, 1829, until 1840, when he
resigned , becatiac he could not obey the instructions of
the General Assembly of North Carolina; was again
elected to the State Sienate in 1842, and was a candi-
date for the United-States Senate, but was defeated
by W. n. Haywood, Jan., after an angry contest, and
withdrew from pablic life; removed to Missouri, but
r<numed to North Carolina, where he died, at his
home in Caswell County, December 6, 1870.
Bro'wn, Benjamin, was a member of the State
legislature in 1800, 1811, and 1812; was elected a
representative from Massachusetts in the Fourteenth
ConRress, serving from December 4, 1815, to March
3, 1S17.
Brown, B. Qrata (grandson of John Brown),
was bom at Lexington, Kentucky, May 28, 1820;
received a classical education, graduating at Transyl-
vania University in 1845, and at Yale College in 1847;
studied law at Louisville; was admitted to the bar,
and commenced practice at St. Louis, Missouri ; was
a member of the State House of Representatives
1852-1858 ; was one of the founders of " The Missouri
Democrat," and its editor 1854-1859; was an eman-
cipationist, and took an active part in preventing the
secession of Missouri in 1861; was elected United-
States senator from Missouri, as a Kcpnblican, in the
place of W. P. Johnson, expelled in 1802 (JRobert
Wilson having been appointed pro tern.), and serving
from December 14, 1863, until March 4, 1847; was
nominated for Vice-President on the Greeley ticket
in 1872, and, after Mr. Greeley's death, received 18
votes for president.
Brown, Charles, was bom In Pennsylvania;
received a public-school education; was elected a
representative from Pennsylvania in the Twenty-
seventh Congress, as a Democrat, receiving 1,258
majority over Tyson, Whig, and serving from May 31,
ItMl, to March 3, 1843; was again elected to the Thir-
tieth Congress, serving from December 0, 1847, to
March 3, 1840; was appointed collector of customs at
Philadelphia; was a delegate to the Philadelphia
Union Convention of 1866.
Brown^ EQlias, was bom near Baltimore, Mary-
land ; received a public-school education ; was several
years a member of the State legislat irc ; was chosen
a presidential elector on the Monroe ticket in 1820,
and again on the Adams ticket in 1828; was elected
a representative from Maryland in the Twenty-first
Congress, receiving 0,144 votes against 3,711 votes for
Barney, and serving from December 7, 1829, to March
3, 1831 ; was a^ain chosen a presidential elector on
the Adams ticket in 1830; was a member of the State
Oonstitiitional Convention ; and died near Baltimore,
JiJy 7, 1857.
Brown, Sthan Allen, was bom at Darien,
Connecticut, July 4, 1776; received a thorough classi-
cal education; studied law under Alexander Hamll-
tonatNew York; was admitted to the bar in 1802;
x>mored to Cincinnati in 1804, and commenced prac-
tice; was a judge of the Supreme Court of Ohio 1810-
lfl8; was governor of Ohio 1818-1822; resigned on
boing elected United-States senator from Ohio (to fill
1 vacancy caused by the death of William A. Trim-
l>le), as a Democrat, serving from January 16, 1822,
t'j llarch 3, 1825; was canal commissioner of Ohio
lft2.>-1890; was minister to Brazil 1830-1834; was
eotmnissioncr of the General Land Office at Washing-
ton, from July 24, 1885, to October 31, 1830 ; removed
to Rising Sun, Indiana. November 1, 1836; was a
Bifmber of the Indiana House of Representatives in
1M2; and died at Indianapolis, Indiana, February 24,
1852.
Brown, GeorseH., was bom in New Jersey;
wceived a classical education, gradiviting at Prince-
l"n College In 1848; studied law; was wlmitted to
the bar, and commenceil pniotice at Somen-ille, New
Jirrsi'y; was a member of the State Constitutional
l^mretition In 1844; was elected a representative
(rom New Jersey in the Thirty-second Congnsss, as a
Whig, receiving 6,470 votes against 6,251 votes for
Vail, Democrat, and serving from December 1, 1851,
to March 3, 1855.
Brown, James (brother of John Brown), was
bom near Staunton, Virginia, September 11, 1766;
received a classical education, which was completed
at William and Mary College; studied law; was ad-
mitted to the bar, and commenced practice at Frank-
fort, Kentucky; commanded a company 'Of sharp-
shooters in an expedition against the Indians in 1701 ;
was secretary to Governor Shelby in 1792; removed
to New Orleans soon after the cession of Louisiana;
aided Livingston in compiling the codes of laws; was
secretary of the territory, and subsequently United-
States districtrattomey; was elected United-States
senator from Louisiana (to fill the vacancy caused by
the resignation of John Noel Destrahan), serving
from Februarys, 1813, to March 3, 1817; was defeated
for re-election to the Senate by W. C. C. Ciaiiwme,
who died before taking his seat; was again elected
United-States senator, serving from December 6,
1819, until he resigned, December 10, 1823; was min-
ister to Franco from DoccmberO, 1823, to July 1, 1829;
died at Philadelphia April 7, ISJB.
Brown, James S., was born at Hampton, Maine,
February 1, 1824 j received a public-school education;
removed to Cincinnati in 1840; studied law; was ad-
mitted to the bar, and commenced practice at Mil-
waukie, Wisconsin, in 1844; was prosecuting attorney
for Milwaukic County in 1846, and attomey-gcneru
of Wisconsin in 1848; was mayor of Milwaukie in
1860; was elected a representative from Wisconsin in
the Thirty-eighth Congress, as a Democrat, receiving
12,598 votes against 10,077 votes for Potter, Republi-
can, and serving from December 7, 1863, to March 3,
1865.
Brown, Jeremiah, was bom at Goshen, Penn-
sylvania, in 1782; served two years in the State House
of Representatives; was the first associate judge
elected by the people ; waa elected a representative In
the Twenty-seventh Con^ss, as a Whig, defeating
the Democratic and anti-Masonic candidates; was
re-elected to the Twenty-eighth Congress, receiving
4,808 votes against 8,940 votes for Martin, Democrat,
and 1,682 votes for Roberts, anti-Mason, and serving
from May 31, 1841, to March 3, 1845; died at Lancas-
ter, Pennsylvania, March 2, 1848.
Brown, John, was bom at Lewistown, Pennsyl-
vania; was elected a representative from Pennsylvania
in the Seventeenth Congress, and was re-elected to
the Eighteenth Congress, serving from December 3,
1821, to March 3, 1825.
Brown, John (brother of James Brown), was
bom at Staunton, Virginia, September 12, 1757 ; re-
ceived a classical education ; was a student at Prince-
ton College when the Revolutionary army retreated
through New Jersey, and enlisted, serving until the
close of the war; completed his studies at William
and Mary College, Virginia; taught school while
studying law; was admitted to the bar, and com-
menced practice at Frankfort, Kentucl^, in 1782;
was elected a member of the State legislature of Vir-
ginia from the district of Kentucky in 1785; was s
delegate from the Kentucky district of Virginia to
the Continental Congress In 1787-1788; waa elected
a representative from the Kentucky district of Vir-
ginia to the First Congress, and was re-elected from
that district to the Second Congress, serving from
March 4, 1780, until November 6, 1702, when he took
his seat as United-States senator from the newly-
admitted State of Kentuclcy, and was re-elected in
1799, serving from November 5, 1702, until March 3,
1795. He was the first member of Congress from the
Mississippi Valley, and was the last survivor of the
Continental Congress when he died, at Frankfort,
Kentucky, August 27, 1828.
Brown, John, was bom at Providence, Rhode
Island, Januai-y 27, 1736; engaged in mercantile pur-
suits in partnership with his three brothers; com-
manded the party which destroyed the British sloop-
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of-w«r " Qagp6 " in Nam^ansett Bay, and was sent
in irons to Boston for trial, but was released througli
tbe efforts of his brother Moses; was chosen a dele-
Kate from Bhodo Island to the Continental Congress
in 1784, but did not serve: was a munificent patron
of Brown University, of which ho was for forty years
treasurer; was elected a representative from Ehode
Island in the Sixth Congress, serving from Deceml>er
2, 1709, to March 3, 1801; and died at Providence,
Bhode Island, September 20, 1803.
Brown, 'John, was elected a representative from
Maryland in the Eleventh Congress, serving from
M^ 22, 1809, to his resignation in 1810.
Brown, John W., was bom at Dundee, Scot-
land, October 11, 1766; was brought to Xewburg,
New York, by Iiis father, in 1802; received a public-
school education; studied law with Jonathan Fisic;
was admitted to the bar in 1818, and commenced
practice; was elected a justice of the peace In 1620;
was elected a representative in Congress from New
York, in the Twenty-third Congress, as a Democrat,
and was re-elected to the Twenty-fourth Congress,
serving from December 2, 1833, to March 3, 1837;
was elected in Koveml>er, 1849, a justice of the Su-
greme Court for the second judicial district of the
tateof Kew York; was re-elected in 1857; was de-
feated as the Democratic candidate for judge of the
Court of Appeals in 18C4 by Judge Hunt, Republi-
can; retired from the bench in 1865 to resume prac-
tice; was an earnest advocate of the war for the sup-
pression of the Rebellion; and died at Kewbuig,
after a short illness, September 6, 1875.
Brown, John Young, was bom in Hardin
County, Kentucky, June 28, 1835; graduated at Cen-
tre College, Danville, Kentucky, In 1855; studied
law, and was admitted to the bar in 1857; was elected
a representative from Kentucky in the Thirty-sixth
Congress over Honorable Joshua H. Jewett, but, by
reason of not having attained the age required by
the Constitution of the United States, did not take
his seat as a meml>er of that iKxiy until the second
session; he was a member of the National Douglas
Committee in 1860; he was again elected to Uie
Fortieth Congress, as a Democrat, receiving 8,H22
votes against 2,816 votes for Samuel E. Smith, and
1,655 votes for B. C. Ritter, but the House reiused
him a seat, on account of the alleged disloyalty of a
letter which he had written, by a vote of 108 yeas
i^^nst 43 nays, and liis district remained unrepre-
sented during that Congress; was re-elected to the
Forty-third Congress, as a Democrat receiving 10,-
888 votes against 457 votes for S. W. Langley, Re-
publican; and re-elected to the Forty-fourth Con-
gress, receiving 7,381 votes against 3,804 votes for
George Smith, Republican, and 797 votes for E. R.
Weir, Independent Republican, serving from De-
cember 4, 1873.
Brown, Milton, was bom in Ohio; removed to
Jackson, Tennessee; filled several local offices; was
elected a representative from Tennessee in the
Twenty-seventh Congress, as a Whig; was re-elected
to the Twenty-eighth Congress, receiving 5,852 votes
against 3,723 votes for Pavat, Democrat; and was re-
elected to the Twenty-ninth Congress, serving from
May 81, 1841, to March 8, 1847.
Brown, Robert, was elected a representative
from Pennsylvania in the Fifth Congress to fill a
vacancy caused by the resignation of Samuel Sit-
greaves; and was re-elected to the Sixth, Seventh,
Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, Twelfth, and Thir-
teenth Congresses, serving from December 4, 1798,
to March 2, 1815.
Brown, Titus, was bom in Cheshire County,
New Hampshire, in 1786; received a classical educa-
tion, graduating at Middlebury College in 1811 ; stud-
Icil law ; was admitted to the bar, and practised at
Francestown, New Hampshire ; was a member of the
State legislature in 1S20-1825; was soli(;itor of Hills-
borough County 182»-1S25 and 1829-1834 ; was elected
a representative from Now Hampshire in the Nine-
teenth Congress, and was re-elected to the Twmtietli
Congress, serving from Decemlier 6, 1825, to March
3, 1829 ; was State senator, and president of tlie
Senate, in 1842; and died at Francestown, Kew
Hampsliirc, January 31, 1849.
Brown, William, was bom in Frederick Cormtr,
Virginia; received a public-school education ; removed
to Kentucky, and located at Cynthiana, Harrison
County; was elected a representative from Kentucky
in the Sixteenth Congress by a majority of over l.COO
over B. Tyler, and serving from Decemlier 6, 1819, to
March 3, 1821.
Brown, William G., was bom in Preston
County, Virginia, September 25, 1801 ; received s
public-school education; studied law; was admitted
to the bar, and commeijced Mactice at Kingwood.
in 1823; was a member of the House of Delegates <if
Virginia in 1832, and again in 1840-1843; was elcctrd
a representative from Virginia in the Twenty-ninth
Congress, as a Democrat, defeating Allen, Whi^,
and was re-elected to the Thirtieth Congress, defeat-
ing Hawkins, Wliig, and serving from December 1,
1845, to March 3, 1849; was a member of the State
Constitutional Convention of 1850; was a delegate
to t&e National Democratic Convention of 1860 at
Charleston and at Baltimore; was a member of the
Virginia State Convention of 1861, opposing seces-
sion; was again elected to the Tliirty-seventh Con-
gress from ViiKinia, as a Unionist; and was re-elected
to the Tiiirty-eighth Congress from West Virginia, as
a Unionist, receiving 3,576 votes gainst 1,804 votes
for Burdett, Unionist, and 800 votes for Zinn, Union-
ist, serving from July 15, 1861, to March 3, 1865.
Brown, William J., was bom in Kentucky,
November 22, 1805; removed to Indiana in 1821 ; was
a meml>er of the State legislature, and secretary of
state, for Indiana; was elected a representative from
Indiana in the Twenty-eighth Congress, as a Demo-
crat, receiving 7,399 votes against 6,314 votes for
Wallace, Wliig, and serving from December 4, 1M3,
to March 3, 1845; was second assistant postmaster-
general during the Polk administration, 1845-1819;
was again elected to the Thirty-first Congress, re-
ceiving 8,762 votes against 7,265 votes for Herod,
Whig, and serving from December 3, 1849, to Maidi
3, 1851 1 was editor of " The Indiana Sentinel," and
State librarian of Indiana; was special agent of the
Post-office Department for Indiana and Illinois;
died near Indianapolis, Indiana, March 18, 1837.
Brown, Wilham. R., was bom at Biublo, Kew
York, July 16, 1840; Kra[duated at Union College,
Schenectady, New York, in 1862; studied law, and
was admitted to the bar in 1864; was elected judge
of the ninth judicial district of Kansas in 1867, aiid
re-elected in 1872; and was elected a representative
from Kansas in the Forty-fourth Congress, as a Be-
publican, receiving 14,538 votes against Q^SQS votes
tor J. K. Hudson, Democrat, serving from December
6, 1876.
Browne, Gteonre Huntington, was bom at
Gloucester, Rhode Island, January 6, 1811 ; received
a classical education, grajduating from Brown Uni-
versity in 1840; studied law; was admitted to the bar
in 18413, and commenced practice at Providence; vas
elected a representative to the so-called Charter Gen-
eral Assembly of Rhode Island in 1842, and at the
same time was elected a representative to what was
denominated the Suffrage I^islature, and attended
the latter; was again elected a representative to the
General Assembly of Rhode Island, under the Con-
stitution, in 1849, 1850, 1851, and 1852; was appointed
in 1852 United-States district-attorney for Bhode I»-
land, and held the office imtil he resigned in 1861; was
a delegate to the Charleston and Baltimore National
Democratic Convention in 1860, supporting SteiAcn
A. Douglas as a candidate for the presidency; was a
delegate to the Peace Conference at Washington
February 4, 1801; was elected a representative from
Rhode Island in the Thirty-seventh Congress, as a
Union Democrat, receiving 4,547 votes against 3,99$
STATISTICAL 8KBTCHES.
805
Totcs for Wllliain Brayton, American Republican,
ami serving frofa July 4, 1861, to March 3, 1803;
tutored tlie Union army as colonel of the Twelfth
Rliodo-Island Volunteers October 13, 1862, and
served thnmgh the term of enlistment, participating
in the battle of FredericlvSburg December 13, 18C2,
and in several sulraequent slarmishes ; was State
senator in 1872 and 1^3; was elected in May, 1874,
by tlxe General Assembly, chief justice of the Supreme
Court of liliode Island, and commissioned, but de-
clined the office.
Bro'wne, Thomas M., was bom at New Paris,
Treble County, Ohio, April Ifl, 1829; removed to Indi-
ana in January, 1814; received a pubUc-scbooI educa-
tion; studied law; was admitted to the bar In 1840,
and conunenced practice at Winchester, Indiana; was
elected prosecuting attorney for the thirteenth judi-
cial circuit in 1^, and re-elected in 1857 and in
1.S59; was secretary of the State Senate in 1861, and
a member of that Iradyin 1863; assisted in organ-
izing the Seventh Indiana Cavalry, and went to the
iicldas its lieutenant-colonel; was promoted to its
colonelcy, and sulisequently commissioned by Presi-
dent Lincoln brigadier-general by brevet; was ap-
piinted in April, 1809, United-States district-attorney
fur the District of Indiana, and resigned August 1,
1S72; was the Republican candidate for governor of
Indiana in 1872, and was defeated by Thomas A
Hfudrictcs; and was elected a representative from
Indiana in the Forty-fifth Congress, receiving 15,598
votes against 14,009 votes for William S. Holman,
Democrat.
Bro-WTimg, Orville H., was bom in Harrison
County, Kentucky, in 1810; received a classical edu-
cation at Augusta College; studied law; was ad-
mitted to the bar in 1831, and commenced practice at
Quincy, Illinois; served in the Illinois volunteers
tUrongh the Black Hawk war in 1832; was a member
of Uie State Senate of Illinois in 1836-1840, and of
tlie State House of Representatives in 1841-1843; was
one of the founders of the Republican party, and a
delegate to the National Convention at Chicago in
18G0 ; was appointed United-States senator from
Illinois (to fill the vacancy caused by the death of
Stephen A Douglas), serving from July 4, 1861, to
January 30, 1863 ; was a meniber of the Union execu-
tive committee in 1866; was appointed secretary of
the interior by President Johnson in July, 1866, but
only served from September 1, 1866, to March 3,
1860; was a member of the State Constitutional Con-
vention of 1880.
Browulow, William Gkuinaway, was bom
in Wythe County, Virginia, August 29, 1805; when
about twelve years of age, his parents died, leav-
ing him penniless; when efghteeil years of age, he
removed to Abingdon, where he apprenticed him-
eelf to a houso-carpenter, and, after obtaining
the trade, he entered the travelling ministry of the
Methodist-Episcopal Church ; in 18sS he removed to
Tennessee; from 1830 until the last of October, 1861,
lie published and edited a newspaper called " The
Whig;" la 1843 he ran for Congress as the Whig
nummee against Andrew Johnson; in 1850 he was
appointed by President Fillmore one of several com-
tnissionen to carry out congressional provisions for
improving the navigation of the Teimessee River;
having always been a supporter of the Union, he was
very severe in his denunciations of the Ret>ellion
when it broke out, and for his loyalty was impris-
oned in a flreless jail in the winter, where be con-
ttacted painfiU diseases; he was a meml>er of the
Constitutional Convention which re-organized the
Stale Oovcnuneut of Tennessee ; on the 4th of March,
1885, be was elected governor of Tennessee without
oroosltion, and in August. 1867, he was re-elected,
daeating Emerson Etberiage, a former representa-
tive in Congress, and clerk of the House ; he was
elected United-States senator from Tonnessce, as a
Kcpublican, in place of David T. Patterson, War
Democrat, and served from March 4, 18U0, to March
3, 1875; returned to Knozville, where he occasionally
gave publicity to his views on public questions
through the local journals; and died at Knoxville
April 20, 1877, after an illness of only a few hours.
He published " The Iron Wheel Examined, and its
False Spokes Extracted;" "Debates on Slavery;"
and " Sketches of the Rise, Progress, and Decline of
Secession."
Brownson, Nathan, was bom in Georgia in
1743; received a classical education, graduating at
Yale College in 1761 ; studied medicine ; was admitted
to practice, and located in Liberty County, Georgia;
was an active revolutionist; was a member of the
Provincial Congress of 1775; served in the Revolu-
tionary army as surgeon; was a member of the State
House of Representatives, and its speaker in 1781,
and was chosen by that body governor of Georgia;
was a delegate from Georgia to the Continental Con-
gress in 1776 and 1778j was again elected to the State
House of Representatives in 1778, serving as speaker
in 1708; was elected to the State Senate, and was its
president in 1780-1701 ; was a member of the State
Constitutional Convention in 1780; and died in Lib-
erty County, Georgia, November 6, 1796.
Bruoe, Blancne K., was bom in Prince Edward
County, Virginia, March 1, 1841 ; as his parents were
slaves, he received a limited education; became a
planter in Mississippi in 1860; was a member of the
Mississippi levee board, and sheriff and tax-eoUector
of Bolivar County from 1872 until his election to tlie
United-States senate from Mississippi, February 3,
1875, as a Republican, to succeed Henry R. Pease,
Republican, and took his scat March 4, 1875. His
term of service will expire March 3, 1881.
Bruce, John P., of Washington, Missouri,
claimed to have been elected a representative from
that State in tlie Thirty-eighth Congress as a Demo-
crat, and contested the seat taken by Benjamin F.
Loan, RepubUcan, on the ground that the armed
militia of the State had interfered with the election;
the House committee of elections decided that there
was such an amount of intimidation by armed men
as to require the seat to be vacated and a new elec-
tion held ; but the House refused to adopt the report,
and General Loan retained the seat.
Bruoe, Pbineaa, was bom June 17, 1762; re-
ceived a classical education, graduating at Yale Col-
lege in 1786; was a member of the Massachusetts
legislature in 1702, 1703, 1706, and 1800; was elected
a representative from Massachusetts in the Eighth
Congress, serving from October 17, 1803, to March 3,
1805.
Brush, Henry, was bom in Dutchess County,
New York, in June, 1778; received a liberal educa-
tion; studied law; was admitted to the bar, and com-
menced practice at Cliillicothe, Ohio, removing sub-
sequently to London, Ohio; was grand master of
Masons in Ohio 1813-1818; was elected a repre-
sentative from Ohio in the Sixteenth Congress, re-
ceiving 2,727 votes against 1,054 votes for Edward
Tupper, and 1,803 votes for Levi Barber, and serving
from I>ecember 6, 1819, to March 3, 1821 ; was de-
feated as a candidate for the Seventeenth Congress
by Levi Barber; was a judge of the Supremo Court
of Ohio; retired to his farm, near London, Ohio, and
died there January 10, 1855.
Bruyn. Andrew De "Witt, was bom in the
State of New York; received a liberal education;
studied law ; was admitted to the bar, and commenced
practice at Ithaca; held several local offices; was
elected a representative from New York in the
Twenty-fifth Congress, as a Democrat, serving from
Septeml>er 4, 1837, to his death, from consumption,
at Ithaca, July 27, 1838.
Bryan, Qtiy M., was bom in Missouri, June 12,
1821; received a classical education; studied law;
was admitted to the bar, and commenced practice in
Texas, participating in the revolutionary struggle
against Mexico in 1836; served in the Texas Volun-
teers on the eastern bank of the lUo Grande; was a
806
C0NGBE8SI0NAL DEBECTOET.
member of the Texas leglslatnre for Beven years;
was elected a representative from Texas In the Thlr-
ty-flfth Congress, as a Democrat, receiving 21,142
votes against S,013 votes for Howth, Kational Ameri-
can, and serving from December 7, 1857, to March 3,
1859.
Bryan, Henry H., was bom in Martin County,
Korth Carolina; received a classical education; re-
moved to Tennessee; held several local offices; vras
elected a representative from Tennessee in the Six-
teenth Congress, and was re-elected to the Seven-
teenth Congress, receiving a large majority over E. B.
Robertson, and serving from December 6, 1819, to
March 3, 1823; died in Montgomery County, Ten-
nessee, May 0, 1835.
Bryan, John H., was bom at Newbem in 1798;
received a classical education, graduating at the
University of Xorth Carolina in 1816; studied law;
was admitted to the bar, and practised ; was a mem-
ber of the State Senate of North Carolina in 1823-
1824; was elected a representative from North Caro-
lina in the Nineteenth Congress, defeating Richard
D. Spaight, and re-elected to the Twentieth Con-
gress, serving from December 6, 1825, to March 3,
1829; declined are-election; removed to Raleigh.
Bryan, Joseph, was elected a representative
from Georgia in the Eighth Congress; and was re-
elected to me Ninth Congress, serving from October
17, 1803, until 1806. when he resigned.
Bryain, Joseph H., received a classical educa-
tion; was electeaa representative from Ohio in the
Fourteenth Congress, and was re-elected to the Fif-
teenth Congress, serving from December 4, 1815, to
Maroh 3, 1819.
Bryan, Nathan, was bom in Jones County,
North Carolina, in 1748; was a leading member of
the Baptist persuasion in North Carolina; was a
member of the House of Commons of North Carolina
In 1793 and 1794; was elected a representative from
North Carolina in the Fourth, and re-elected to the
Fifth Congress, serving from December 7, 1795, until
his death, of a pulmonary complaint, at Philadelphia,
June 4, 1798.
Buohanan, Andrew, was bom at Waynesburg,
Pennsylvania; was elected a representative from
Pennsylvania in the Twenty-fourth Congress, as a
Democrat, defeating Andrew Stewart, Whig, by 1,000
majority; and was re-elected to the Twenty-fifth
Congress, serving from Deceml)er 7, 1835, to March
3, 1839.
Buchanan, Hnj^l, was elected a representative
from Greotgla in theXhirty-nlnth Congress, as a Con-
servative, but was not admitted to a seat.
Buchanan, James, was bom in Franklin Coun-
ty, Pennsylvania, April 23, 1791; received a classical
education, graduating at Dickinson College in 1809;
studied law with James Hopkins; was admitted to
the bar in 1812, and commenced practice at Lancas-
ter, Pennsylvania; was elected a representative from
Pennsylvania in the Seventeenth Congress, as a
Federalist, and was successively re-elected to the
Eighteenth, Nineteenth, Twentieth, and Twenty-
first Congresses, having become a Jnckson Demo-
crat, and serving from December 3, 1821, to March
8, 1831; was minister to Russia in 1832-1834; was
elected United-States senator on the fourth ballot,
as a Democrat, in place of William Wiikins, Demo-
crat, resigned ; was twice re-elected, and served from
Decemtxjr 15, 1834, until he resigned in March, 1845 ;
was secretary of state under President Polk 1845-
1849; was minister to Oreat Britain 1853-1850; was
elected President of the United States in 1856, as a
Democrat, receiving 173 electoral votes against 114
electoral votes for John C. Fremont, and 8 elec-
toral votes for Millard Fillmore, and serving from
March 4, 1857, to March 3, 1801 ; retired to Wheat-
land, near Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where he died
of pleixro-pneumonia, June 1, 1868. He published
numerous political pamphlet*, and "Mr. Buchanan's
Administration," 186a
Buoher, John C, was bora in Pennsylvania;
received a public-school education; studied lair;
was admitted to the bar, and commenced practice at
Harrisburg; was judge of the Circuit Court ; w»»
elected a representative from Pennsylvania in the
Twenty-second Congress, serving from December a,
1831, to March 3, 18£» ; and died at Harrisbiuig, Penn-
sylvania, October 26, 1851.
Buck, Alfred E., was bom at Foxcroft, Main*,
Februaiy 7, 1832 ; received a classical education,
graduating at Waterviile College, Maine, in 18^;
was principal of the hi^ school at Lewiston, Maine;
entered the Union army in 1861 as captain of com-
Cy C, Thirteenth Maine Infantry; was iqipointrd
tenant-colonel of the Ninety-first United-States
Colored Troops in August, 1803; was transferred,
and made lieutenant-colonel of the Fifty-firet United-
States Colored Troops in October, 1864 ; was brevettrti
colonel of volunteers for gallant conduct at the siege
of Fort Blakely, Alabama, April, 1865; was mustereil
out of service at Baton Rouge, Louisiana, June, ISjfitJ:
was a memi)er of the Constitutional Convention of
Alabama in 1867; was appointed by General Pope
clerk of the Circuit Court of Mobile County, Ala-
bama, in 1867, and was elected to the same office in
1868; was chosen presidential elector in 1868, and
was elected a representative from Alabama in the
Forty-first Congress, as a Republican, receiving 14,Utl
votes against 12,080 votes for Mami, Democrat, serv-
ing from December 6, 1869, to March 3, 1871.
Buck, Daniel (father of Daniel A. A. Buck),
was one of the earliest settlers of Vermont, and took
an active part in securing its recognition as one of
the States of the Union; was distinguishcxl as. a law-
yer; was elected a representative from Vermont in
the Fourth Congress, and served from Deoember 7,
1706, to March 3, 1797; died 1817.
Buck, Daniel Azro A., was bom in Vermont,
January 16, 1789; received a classical education,
graduating at MiddleburyCoUege in 1807; entered
the Military Academy at West Point, and was com-
missioned as lieutenant in the army in 1808; resigned
his commission in 1811, and studied law; raised a
company of volunteer rangers in 1813, and sem-d
until 1816; was admitted to the bar, and commoncrd
practice at Chelsea, Vermont ; was for sixteen years a
member of the State legislature of Vermont, serving
twelve years as speaker of the House; was State
attomey for Orai^e County for six years; was a
presidential elector in 1821 ; was elected a represen-
tative from Vermont in the Eighteenth Congress, re-
ceiving 10,151 votes against 2,961 votes for P. While,
and serving from December 1, 1823, to March 3, 1825;
and was ^dn elected 40 the Twentieth Congress,
serving from December 3, 1827, to March 3, 1829:
was a clerk in the Indian Bureau, then connected
with the War Department; and died at Washington
City December 24, 1841.
Buckalew, Charles R., was bom in Cohmibiit
County, Pennsylvania, December 28, 1821; received
an academic education; studied and practised law;
was State attomey for Columbia Count>'from 1845 to
1847; was a member of the State Senate of Pennsyl-
vania in 1851, 1852, 1853, 1854, 1855, 1866, and 185S;
was United-States commissioner to exchange ratifi-
cations of a treaty with Paraguay in 1854; was ap-
pointed resident minister to Ecuador in 1858; was
elected by amajority of one vote United-States senator
from Pennsylvania (to succeed David Wilmot, Re-
publican), as a Democrat, serving from December 7,
1863, to March 8, 1869: was again a member of the
State Senate, when he initiated the movement for a
constitutional convention, of which he waa a leading
member.
Buckingham, William Alfred, was bom in
Lebanon, Connecticut, May 28, 1804; educated prin-
cipally in the public schools; was trained a farmer;
entered a store at twenty; was engaged in mereantilo
business twenty-one years, and then in manufactur-
ing; was elected mayor d the city of Norwich in
STATISTICAL SKETCHES.
307
1910. 1860, 1856, and 1857; was presidential elector
in 18o0; was governor of Connecticut from 1858 to
ISfiB; was elected a United-States senator from Con-
necticut, as a Repablican, to succeed James Dixon,
Democrat, and took his scat Marcli 4, 1869: he died
after an illness of some months at Iforwich, Con-
necticut. February 5, 1875.
Buckland, Balph P., was bom at Leyden, Mas-
sachusetts, January 20, 1812, and was taken to Ohio
in the same year; received a classical education, grad-
uating at Kenyon College, Ohio; studied and prac-
tised Taw ; was a member of the State Senate of Ohio
in 1850, 1857, 1858, and 1859; entered the Union army
in 18H1 as colonel of the Seventy-second Ohio Yolun-
teera, and attained the rank of major^neral, serving
until he took his scat as a representative from Ohio in
the Thirty-ninth Congress, having been elected while
in the field, as a Republican, receiving 13,611 votes
against 11,717 votes for Noble, Democrat; was re-
elected to the Fortieth Congress, receiving 15,231
votes against 13,944 votes for Finefrock, Democrat,
and serving from December 4, 1865, to March 3, 1869.
Buckley, Charles W.. was bom at Otsego
County, New York, February 18, 1835; graduated at
Beloit College, Wisconsin, in 18G0, and at the Union
Theological Seminary in New York-City in 1863;
entered the Union army February 9, 1864, and was
mustered out January 11, 1866; was the Alabama
State superintendent of education for the Bureau of
Kcfugees and Freedmen in 1866 and 1867; was a
member of the convention which framed the present
Constitution of Alabama in 1867 ; was elected a rep-
resentative from Alabama in the Fortieth Congress,
as a Republican, and took his seat on the re-admis-
sion of the State; and was re-elected to the Forty-
first Congress, receiving 14,933 votes against 10,786
votes for Wortley, Democrat, serving from December
6, 1869, to March 6, 1871.
Buctoier, Alexander, was bom in Indiana;
removed to Missouri in 1818; was a member of the
State Constitutional Convention in 1820; was several
years a member of the State House of Representa-
tives; was elected United-States senator from Mis-
souri, serving from March 4, 1881, until he died, of
cholera, at St. Louis, Missouri, June 15, 1633.
Backner, Aylett Hawes, was bom at Freder-
ricbsbut^, Virgina ; was educated at Georgetown
CoUcce and at the University of Vitiginia; taught
school, and studied law; emigrated to Missouri in
18;i7; was elected in 1841 clerk of the County Probate
Court of Pike County; in 1850 removed to St. Louis,
and practised his profession; was elected attorney
for the Bank of the State of Missouri in 1852 ; in 1864
was appointed commissioner of public works by
Governor Sterling Price: in 1857 was elected judge
of the Third Judicial Circuit; in 1861 was selected
by the General Assembly of the State as one of the
•Ideates to the Peace Congress: was elected a rep-
rrsentative bom Missouri in the Forty-third Con-
gn-ss, as a Democrat, receiving 16,249 votes against
(.710 votes for T. J. C. Fogg, Republican; was re-
elected to the Fortieth Congress, receiving 17,618
votes against 6,491 votes for F. Keckel, Republican;
«nd was re-elected to the Forty-fifth Congress, reeeiv-
ing 22,575 votes against 687 votes for I. 8. Hazelton,
Ure^nbacker, serving from Decemlier 1, 1873.
Buckner, Aylett, was bom at Greensburg, Ken-
tacky; received a classical education at New-Athens
Seminal?; was a memt>er of the State House of Rep-
resentatives 1842-1843; was elected to the Thirtieth
Congress, as a Whig, receiving 6,177 votes against
S.T))1 votes for James, Democrat, and serving from
December 6, 1847, to March 3, 1849; was defeated as
the Wh^ candidate for the Thirty-first Congress, re-
ceiving 6,679 votes agiUnst 6,719 votes for Caldwell,
Democrat.
Bu(dmer, Bichard A., was l>om in Fauquier
County. Virginia, July 16, 1763; received a classical
education; studied law; was admitted to the bar,
toil commenced practice at Greensburg, Kentucky;
was elected a representative from Kentucky in the
Eighteenth Congress, as au anti-Democrat, and was
re-elected to the Nineteenth and the Twentieth Con-
gresses, serving from December 1, 18^, to March 3,
1829 ; was defeated as a WUg candidate for governor;
was a presidential elector on the Harrison ticket in
1841; was a circuit judge in 1645; and died at
Greensburg, Kentucky, December 8, 1847.
BueL Alexander Hamilton, was bom at
Fairfiela, New York, July 14, 1801 ; was educated at
the Herkimer-county Academy; inherited at an
early age his father's store and business, which he
successfully carried on; was largely interested in
California trade ; was elected a representative from
New York in the Thirty-second Congress, as a Dem-
ocrat, receiving 6,636 votes against 6,047 votes for
Alexander, Whig, serving from December 1, 1851,
until he died at Washington, after a brief attack of
pneumonia. January 29, 1853.
Buel, Alexander Wadleigh. was bom at
Castleton, Vermont, in 1613; received a classical
education, graduating at Middlebury College in
1830; taught school while he studied law; was ad-
mitted to the bar, and commenced practice at De-
troit, Michigan, in 1834; was city attorney of Detroit
in 1836; was a member of the State legislature of
MicMgan in 1837, and i^ain in 1847; was prosecuting
attorney for Wayne County in 1843 and 1844; was
elected a representative from Michigan in the Thirty-
first Congress, as a Democrat, servmg from Decem-
ber 3, 1849, to March 3, 1851 ; was defeated as the
Democratic candidate for the Thirty-second Con-
gress, receiving 8,909 votes i^ainst 10,741 votes for
Penniman, Free-soil Whig; died at Detroit, Michi-
gan, April 17, 1868.
Bumnton, James, was bora at Fall River,
Massachusetts, March 16,1817; received an English
education at the Friends' College, Providence; worked
In a factory; studied medicine, but was not admitted
to practice; went on a whallng-vorage, and, on bis
return, commenced business at Fall River, of which
city he was mayor in 1854, 1866; was elected a repre-
sentative from Massachusetts in the Thirty-fourth
Congress, as an American, receiving 6,352 votes
against 1,461 votes for Crocker, Whig, 866 voties for
Vickery, Democrat, and 454 votes for Weston, Free-
soil ; was re-elected to the Thirty-fifth Congress, as an
American Republican, receiving 11,668 votes against
8,814 votes for Vickery, Democrat, and 1,132 votes
for Dunbar, National American ; was re-elected to
the Thirty-sixth Congress, as a Republican, receiving
7,386 votes against 2,941 votes for Wilson, Democrat;
was re-elected to the Thirty-seventh Congress, as a
Republican, receiving 10,103 votes against 4,409 votes
for Hobart, Democrat, and 258 scattering, — serving
from December 8, 1865, to March 3, 1865. Fall River
having been incorporated into another district, he
accepted a position as special agent of the treasury,
and was then made collector of internal revenue;
was again elected to the Forty-first Congress, as a
Republican, receiving 12,975 votes against 8,486 votes
for Cobb, Democrat ; was re-elected to the Forty-
second Congress, receiving 8,284 votes against 2,667
votes for Pitman, Independent, and 1,927 votes for
Corastock, Democrat; was rft-elected to the Forty-
third Congress, receiving 12,441 votes against 2,608
votes for Day, Democrat ; was re-elected to the
Forty-fourth Congress, but died suddenly, before
taking his seat, at Fall River, Massachusetts, March
7, 18W, having served from March 4, 1869.
Bumngton, Joseph, was bom in Pennsylva-
nia; received a classical education; studied law; was
admitted to the bar, and commenced practice at Kit-
taning, Pennsylvania; was elected a representative
from that State in the Twenty-eighth Congress, aa a
Whig, receiving 5,079 votes against 4,082 votes for
Lorain. Democrat ; and was re-elected to the Twenty-
ninth Congress, serving from December 4, 1843, to
March 3, 1847.
Buffum, Joseph, jun., was bom at Fitchburg,
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CONGRESSIONAL DiBECTORT.
Haasachnaetts, September 23, 1784; received a classi-
cal education, graduating at Dartmouth College In
1806; studied law; was admitted to the bar, and
'commenced practice at Westmoreland, New Hamp-
shire; was elected a representative from that State
in the Sixteenth Congress, as a Democrat, and served
from December 6, 1819, to March 3, 1881 ; was re-
nominated, but declined a re-election: relinquished
practice; was appointed judge of the Court of Com-
mon Fleas January 21, 1825, and resided on a well-
cultivated farm until he became the last survivor of
the Sixteenth Congress; died at Westmoreland, New
Hampshire, Februatv 24, 1874.
Bugg, Robert M., was bom at LynnvlUe, Ten-
nessee ; received a public-school education ; was
elected a representative from Tennessee in the
Thirty-third Congress, receiving 6,421 votes against
6,866 votes for Pavott, Democrat, and serving from
December 5, 1853, to March S, 1856.
Bull, John, resided at Charleston, and was a
del^ate from South Carolina to the Continental
Congress 1784-1787.
Bull, John, resided at Chariton, Missouri; was
elected a representative from Missouri in the Twenty-
third Congress, receiving 3,672 votes against 3,660
votes for Strother, Democrat, 3,440 votes for Shan-
non, and 2,100 votes for Birch, and serving from
December 2, 1833, to March 3, 1835.
Bullard, Henry Adams, was bom at Oroton,
Massachusetts, September 9, 1781 ; received a classical
education, gnwluating at Harvard Collie in 1807;
studied law, and was admitted to the bar. He ac-
compimied General Toledo as military secretary on a
revolutionaiT expedition into New Mexico, which
was repulsed by the Spanish troops at San Antonio.
After many hardships he reached Natchitoches,
where he commenced practice; in 1822 was elected
district judge ; was elected a representative from
Louisiana in the Twenty-second Congress, as a Whig,
and was re-elected to the Twenty-third Congress,
defeating A. Moreton, Democrat, by 206 votes, and
serving from December 5, 1831, untU he resigned in
1834 on receiving an appointment as judge of the
Supreme Court of Louisiana; remained on the su-
preme bench until 1846, with the exception of a few
months in 1839, when he acted as secretary of state;
was appointed professor of civil law in the Louisiana
Law School in 1847, and delivered two courses of lec-
tures; was a member of the State House of Represen-
tatives of Louisiana in 1850; was again elected to the
Thirty-first Congress, as a Whig (to fill the vacancy
occasioned ^ the death of Charles M. Conrad), and
served from December 5, 1860, until his death (caused
by the fatigues of his journey from Washington) at
New Orleans, Louisiana, April 17, 1851.
Bullock, Archibald (father of William B. Bul-
lock), was bom at Charleston, South Carolina; re-
moved to Savannah; was prominent in the difficul-
ties with the British Government which preceded
the Revolution; was a delegate from Georgia to the
Continental Congress in 1775; was president of the
Executive Council of Georgia from June 20, 1776, to
February 6, 1777, when the State government was in-
augurated; and died at Savannah, Greoivia, in 1777.
Bullock, Stephen, was bom in Massachusetts
in 1786; was a member of the first State Constitu-
tional Convention; served several years in the State
legislature; was elected a representative from Massa-
chusetts in the Fifth Congress, serving from May 15,
1797, to March 3, 1799; was judge of the Court of
Common Pleas for Bristol County; was a State sena-
tor and an executive coimcillor; and died at Massa-
chusetts 1816.
Bullock, William B. (son of Archibald Bul-
lock), was lM>m in Georgia in 1776; received a classi-
cal education; studied law; was admitted to the
bar, and commenced practice at Savannah in 1797;
was mayor of Savannah in 1809, and subsequently
collector of customs at that port; served in the Sa-
vannah heavy artillery during the war of 1812; was
appointed by the governor United-States senator fmm
Georgia (to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation
of William H. Crawford), and served from May 24,
1813, until December 6, 1813, when W. Wyatt Bibb,
who had been elected as Mr. Crawford's successcr,
took his seat; was one of the founders of the State
Bank of Geoi^a, and its president 1S16-1843; died at
Savannah, G^rgia, March 6, 1852.
Bullocuc, Wingfleld, was a member of the Static
Senate ofKentucky 1812-1814; was elected a repre-
sentative from Kentucky in the Fifth Ckn^ress. bat
died, before taking his seat, at Shelbyville, Kentucky,
October 13, 1821.
Bunch, Samuel, was bom in 1788; received a
public-school education; served in the C5reek waru
captain of a company of mounted riflemen under
General Jackson, and was distinguished in the attack
on Eiliibeetown November 18, 1813; waa elected a
representative In the Twenty-third Congress, as a
Whig, and was re-elected to the Twenty-fourth Con-
gress, defeating Adams, Democrat, and serving from
December 2, 1833, to March 8, 1837 ; died at Kutledge.
Tennessee, September 6, 18W.
Bundy, Hezekiah S., was bom at Muietta,
Ohio, August 15, 1817. , His parents removed two
years afterward to a farm in Athens County, Ohio,
where he was left an orphan at the age of fifteen,
having only received the rudiments of an English
education; entering into business as a clerk in a
store, he commenced the purchase of land, and be-
came a prosperous farmer; studying law at home,
he was admitted to the bar in 1850; he aided in
establishing the Latrobe Furnace in Jackson County,
which he now owns and operates; was a member of
the State House of Representatives in 1848 and 1850,
and of the State Senate in 1855; was defeated as tbe
Republican candidate for the Thirty-eighth Congress,
receiving 6,702 votes against 8,605 votes for Hutcbint,
Democrat; was elected a representative from Ohio in
the Thirty-ninth Congress, receiving 11,581 votei
against 7,793 votes for Hutchins, Democrat, ami
servlxtg from December 4, 1865, to March 3. 1867:
was again elected to the Forty-third Congress, receiT-
ing 13,267 votes against 10,360 votes for S. A. Nash.
Liberal, and serving from December, 1873, to Maitb
3, 1876; .was defeated as the Republican candidate
for the Forty-fourth Congress, receiving 10,496 votef
against 12,437 votes for J. L. Vance, Democrat.
Bundy, Solomon, was bom at Oxford, Che-
nango County, New York, May 22, 1823; was edu-
cated at Oxford Academy; taught school for several
years; studied law with James W. Glover; was ad-
mitted to the bar in 1869, and commenced practice at
Oxford; was districfc-attomey of Chenango Connty
1862-1865; and was elected to the Forty-fifth Con-
gress, as a Republican, receiving 18,825 votes against
17JB56 votes for Tompkins H. Matteson, Democrat.
Banner, Rudolph, was bom in 1779; received
a classical education, g^^uating at Columbia Cul-
lege; studied law; was admitt^ to the bar, and
commenced practice at Oswego, New York; was
elected a representative from that State in the
Twentieth Congress, as an Adams Democrat, and
served from December 3, 1827, to March 3, 1829;
died at Oswego, New York, July 23, 1837.
Burch, John Chilton, was bom In Boone
County, Missouri, February 1, 1826; received a lib-
ei^ education at Bonne Femme Academy and
Kemper College ; was practically engaged as a majon
on tihe construction of several public buildings to
defray the expenses of his education; studied lav
with General E. L. Edwards at Jeffeison City; was
in 1855-1856 deputy county clerk of Cole County, and
assistant adjutant^general of Missouri; was in 18ST
assistant enrolling clerk of the State Se&ate^of^ JU-
souri, and military secretaiy to Gov«iioej''*'
Edwards, in which capacity
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the region in which he was at work was organized as
Trinity Coiuty, and he was elected county clerk; was
elected district-attorney in 1853; was a member of
the State House of Kepresentatires in 1856, and of the
State Senat« 1857-1859; was elected a representative
iu the Thirty-sixth Congress from California, as a
Lecompton Democrat, receiving 37,8C5 votes against
41,*J8 vot€s for E. D. Baker, Republican, and 2,969
votes for S. A. Booker, anti Lecompton Democrat,
and serving from December 5, 1859, to March 3, 1861 ;
resumed the practice of law at San Francisco; was
appoiated a code commissioner by Governor Haight,
and served four years; declined being a candidate for
supreme judge of the State.
Buroh, James H., claimed to have been elected
a representative from Missouri in the Ttiirty-ninth
Congress, as a Democrat, and contested the seat oc-
cupied by Roliert T. Van Horn, Unionist, on the
ground that a sufficient number of votes to have
elected him had t>een rejected at the polls, under a
State law of registration which was unconstitutional ;
but the House, without a dissenting vote, declared
Mr. Van Horn entitled to his seat.
BuTohard, Horatio C, was bom at Marshall,
Oneida County, New York, September 22, 1825; re-
ceived a liberal education, graduating at Hamilton
Collie, New York, 1850; studied and practised law:
was engaged in mercantile business; was school
commissioner of Stephenson County, niinois, from
1857 to 1860; was a member of the legislature of
the SUte of Illinois from 1863 to 1866; was elected
a representative from Illinois in the Forty-first Con-
gress, as a Republican (to fill the vacancy occasioned
by the resignation of Klihu B. Washbume), receiv-
ing 0,217 votes against 1,845 votes for Eustace, In-
dependent Democrat; was re-elected to the Forty-
tecond Congress, receiving 11,718 votes against 6,219
Totes for C. Betts, Democrat ; was re-elected to the
Furty-third Congress, receiving 14,030 votes against
l.hSi for J. Dinsmoor, Liberal and Democrat; was
re-elected to the Forty-fourth Congress, receiving
9.232 votes against 7,006 votes for Daniel J. Pinck-
ney. Liberal and Democrat; and was re-elected to
the Forty-fifth Congress, receiving 16,973 votes
against 10,Cno votes for John Fattison, Democrat,
serving from Mareh 4, 1860.
Borohard, Samuel B., was bora at Leyden,
New York, July 17, 1838, and removed with his father
to Wisconsin in 1845; received a classical education,
which was finished at Madison University, Hamilton,
New York, but ill health prevented him from gradu-
ating; was a manufacturer of woollen goods; entered
the Union army as a lieutenant in the Missouri
militia; was appointed assistant quartermaster of
United-States volunteers, with the rank of captain ;
was stationed at New York, where he had charge of
llw |iiiri*li;i!w <it foriuje fur the fnroes on Ihi' AtlHntic
ti\t<.i, »nit Viixs musterod out with lliii rank nf major;
»,u rliiti'd til llie Slate .S(?n!ite of Wisniiisiii in 1^72;
ipwl WW «l(M;t).'d a re(irt>fleiitiitivu fmm Wisi'iinsln in
Ibf Kiirty-fiuirth Congri*s», as a Dpnirifrat, rccoiving
V;'*l Tirtci ftsjninst i\,SSU votea ft>r Biirber, Ut-publi-
Oin, wnmu tmm Decern Iwr U, 1^75, to Jliin^li .l, 1877.
Burd, George, was born in l7SiO; rcsfiUni at Bed-
tnnl, IVunsylv.inia; was cU'etwl a ro|iri'«r!rita11ve
fcwn Pennaylvftnia til th« Tweiity-B<'fniul Conifress,
Wi') W:ut rc-<.Otx't«l to the Tweiity-lliinl t'lmsress,
.- fnmi UfwraluT fi, IKJl, tu Marfli :!. 1S35;
' IVdfonI, IVnns.vlviiJikj. .LinuiiO' W, li-44.
■ iiiiett, Samuel S., w;i!i horn in Lrii-ester-
l.iiMliiiiil, I'Vhruary 21, 1h;W; t?mtgr!itfil to the
> ^iTi." ;ii the age of twnlvi'; rctfivf'd an
. -n nl Ulwflln, Ohio; stndicd the
■ I .; II 1(1 (I* pructiro in 1)1' Wilt, Iowa,
Brwl tin- 1 1 nil HI iirmj as a [iriv:vte in
1 wrvpd nntil Aumist, Istl-t; wiis presi-
' " :ri<!f. of Invvji in the
<l ii> MisHiitiii in
, ! flceiiit-atlumey in
'<• tium Hissourl to the
Chicago Presidential Convention of 1868; was elected
a representative from Missouri in the Forty-first
Congress, as a Radical Republican, receiving 11,387
votes against 7,941 for Phillips, Democrat, and was
re-elected to the Forty-second Congress, receiving
10,772 votes against 9,066 votes for G. R. Smith, In-
dependent, and 2,090 votes for D. Dale, Democrat,
serving from Mareh 4, 1869, to March 3, 1873.
Burdick, Theodore Weld, was born at Evans-
burg, Crawford County, Pennsylvania, October 7,
1836; received a common-school and academic edu-
cation ; removed in 1853 with his parents to Decorah,
Iowa; was appointed in 1864 deputy-treasurer and
recorder of Winneshiek County, and occupied those
positions until 1857, when, having attaineid his ma-
jority, he was elected treasurer and recorder, and
was twice re-elected, serving until 1862, when he re-
signed, to recruit a company for the Union army:
was elected and commissioned captain, and assigned
to the Sixth Regiment of Iowa Volunteer Cavalry,
in which he served for three years, in the Department
of the North-West; after the regiment was mustered
out in 1865 he retnnied to Decorah, and was chosen
cashier of the First National Bank there ; was elected
to the Forty-fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving
17,423 votes against 16,100 votes for Jeffrey M. Grif-
fith, Democrat.
Surges, Tristam, was born at Rochester, Mas-
sachusetts, February 26, 1770; was raised on his
father's farm, with scanty opportunities for educa-
tion, and limited means, but by his own industry
entered Brown University, graduating in 1796;
studied law with Judge Barnes; was admitted to the
bar in 1799, and commenced practice at Providence ;
was a member of the State legislature of Rhode
Island in 1811 ; was chief justice of Rhode Island in
1815; was professor of oratory and belles4ettre« In
Brown University 1815-1825 ; was elected a represen-
tative from Rhode Island in the Nineteenth Con-
gress, as a Federalist, and was re-elected to the
Twentieth, Twenty-first, Twenty-second, and Twen-
ty-third Congresses, serving from December 1, 1826,
until Mareh 3, 1835; was defeated as the VHiig can-
didate for the Twenty-fourth Congress by Dutee J.
Pearce, Democrat, who received 41 majority; was
defeated as the Whig candidate for governor in 1836;
resumed his practice ; and died at Providence, Rhode
Island, October 13, 1853.
Burgess, Dempsey, was horn in Camden (then
Pasquotank) County, North Carolina; took an active
part in Revolutionary movements; was lieutenant-
colonel of Gregory's Continental regiment; was elect-
ed a representative in the Foiuth Congress, aud was
re-elected to the Fifth Congress, serving from Decem-
ber 7, 1795, to July 16, 1798.
Burke, .^dcoius, was bom at Galway, Ireland,
June 16, 1743; received a classical and theological
education at the college at St. Omer, in France;
visited the West Indies, and came to Chartactpn,
South Carolina, to enlist in the Revolutionary Mviy ;
relinquishing the chiuch, he was admitted to the bar,
and was appointed a judge of the State Supreme
Court in 1778; served agtiin jn the Revolutionary
army 1780-1782, and then (Ctamed his seat on the
bench; was elected a r^p/esentative from South
Carolina in the First CJongress, as a Democrat, serv-
ing from March 4, 1789, lintil he resigned in 1791, the
legislature of South Carolina having passed a law
proliibitii^'&iy, State judge from leaving the State;
was "a menrSier of the State legislature for several
years ; and became State chancellor a short time lie-
fore bis death, at Charleston, South Carolina, March
30, 1802. He published a pamphlet denouncing the
order of the Cincinnati, which was translated by
Miral>eau, and used by him in the French Assembly.
Burke, Edmund, was bom at Westminster,
Vermont, January 23, 1809; received a private edu-
cation ; studied law ; was admitted to the bar in 1829,
and commenced practice at Newport, New Hamp-
shire, in 1833; established "The New-Uampshiro
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CONGRESSIONAL DIBECTOBY.
Argiis," niid edited il for several years; was cimi-
missioned as adjiilant in the niilltia in ISSI, iind ;i8
lirigadc iii8|H.'cliir ill IS*.'i8; viua elwlod a ri'iiresi-nta-
tive ill Cimjiress from New H:iru])sliire in llii! TwcMity-
sixlli Congress, as a Dennx'nit, aii(i was re-eli'cled to
the Twenty-seventli and Twenty-ciKlUli Coiiijresaes,
serving from December 2, INftK until March 3, lS4.j;
was apiwinted by Pn'sident I'olii commissioner of
patents, and served from May u, 1S4<I, iinlil Septem-
ber 3, ISM; resumed tlio praolice of law at Newport,
New Iliunpshirr.', liavinv: also an office at Boston.
Burke, Thomas, was liorn in tJalway, Ireland,
about 1717; received a clasaiciU education; studied
medicine, and in 1704 iniiui^^atcd to Accomoc
County, Virginia, where lie cunnnenced practice;
studied law; was admitted to the bar, and removed to
Norfolk, where he commenced practice; removed to
Hillsborough, North Carolina, in 1774: was u delegate
to the State Oonveiiliuns at New Uerno and Hillsbor-
ough in 1770, and ut Ilalil^ix in 177U; w.is a delegate
from North Carolina to the Continental Congress from
December, 1770, until he was elected by a<-claraatioii,
in July, 1"S1, the first govcruor of North Carolina
under its StaU- constitution; was kidnapped Septem-
ber 13, nsi. by the Tories, and carried to Charleston,
South Carolina, where ho was detained as a hostage;
but, being peniiitted to go at lai-ge on parole, he
etcaped, and, having been exchanged, resumed his
duties as governor in April, l~T2; when a candidate
for re-election the following December, he was ile-
nounced as having violated his parole, and was defeat-
ed by Alexander Martin ; died at Uillsboruugh, Nortli
Carolina. Uiceinber 2, 17SJ.
Burleigh, John H. (son of William Burleigh),
was born at South Berwick, Maine, October 9, 1822;
received an academic eilucati<m; went to sea at the
age of sixteen; commanded a ship on foreign voyages
seven years; left the 8<'a in lt>>li, and engaged in
manufacturing; was a member of tlie Maine State
House of Ik'pr<!sentative8 in llSli2, 18tV4, 1>MM, and
1872; was president of a state and initional bank, also
of a savings-bank, for twelve years; was delegate at
large to the National liepublican Convention at Bal-
timore in 1804; w;is elected a n-pn'sentalive from
Maine in the Forty-thinl Ccmgreiss, as a l\epublicaii,
nioeiving l.'i,4>S0 votes against l:i,210 votes for W. U.
Clifford, Democrat, and was re-elected to the Korty-
fuurth Congress, roeeiving 12,275 votes against 1(1,-
805 votes for Bion Bradbun,-, Democr.it, serxing from
December 1, 187o, to March ;l, 1S77; was killed, on
the night of Di!cember 5, IXTI, by l)eing thrown in his
carriage from a high bridge over the Salmon-Kails
River, at South Berwick, Maine.
Burleigh, Walter A., was elected a del^ate
from DaciiL-iii in the Thirty-ninth Congress, as an
Independent candidate, and was re-elected to the
Fortieth (Congress, receiving 5lt;J voles against 2.VI
votes for Brookings, liepublican; Wi»s defeated as
the Indeiiendcnt candiilate for the Korly-lirst Con-
gress, receiving (358 votes against 1,^71) votes for
Spink, liepublican, 044 vot<'S for Todd. Democrat,
flO;j votes for Vooliy, Independent, and r)Sl votes for
Kidder, people's candidate, serving from Dccemlicr
4, 1805, to March :i, 1.S09: and was defeated as the
Republican candidate for the Forty-second Congress,
receiving 1,1U2 voles against 1,221 votes for Arm-
strong, Democrat, and l,(Ki3 votes for Spink, Inde-
pendent Kepublioan.
Burleign, William (father of John C. Burleigh),
■was born at Itockiiigliain, New IIami>shire; received
a classical eiiucallnn; studied law; was admitted to
the bar, and commenced practice at South Berwick,
Maine; was elected a representative from Maine in
tlie Eighteenth Congress, on the fourth trial, as John
yulney Adatus Dejnocrat, receiving 92 majority over
M'Inlyre. William H. Crawfoni Democrat, and was
re-elected to the Nineteenth Congress, serving from
December 1, 1823, to Man-h 3, 1827; died at South
Berwick. Maine, in July. Ilrt27.
Burlingame, Anson, was bom at New Berlin,
New York, November 14, 1822; retnoveJ with hii
parents to .Senecii County, Ohio, in ISifi!, and after-
wards to Michigan; rei-eived a classical edi
griuluating at IIur\'ani College in 1840: stndieil law
W.1S udmitleil to the bar, and commenced prartiec in
Bostmi; was a member of the State Seiiaii' ■• '<" ■
Wiis a member of the Massiichusetts (.'on^
Convenlion in lSj;J; was elected a repf - z
from Massachusetts in the Tiiirty-fourth CungrtsMis.
as .in American, receiving 5,007 votes against :<.K^
votes for Apjileton, Wliig, ()(>4 votes for I'.i
Demcx-rat, and 10 votes, scattering: was n- ■
the Tliirty-lif th Congress, as an American, i . , . . . . _
0,582 votes against 6,51:1 votes for Apjileton, Wlu;^
and Democrat; was re-elected to the Tlurty-sixiL
Congress, as an American and Republican, rvceivln^
0,214 votes against 5,823 votes for IIear<l, Democrat—
and .'30 votes scattering, and serving from Decemliei-
3, 1855, to March 3. 1801 ; was dcifcateil as tlie ~
public.in candidate for the Thirty-»<?venth Con^
receiving 7,760 votes against 8.U14 votes for Applctoii
Conservative; was ap|H)inted minister to Atistri;
March 22, 18til, but the Austrian (Jovemment refu
to receive liim; was minister to China June 14. 1801
Noveml>er21, 1807; was appointed Dei-r-niU-r 1, 180'
by the Chinese Government, its nmbasjiador. to n
gotiate treaties with foreign jKiwers; and diet! at S
F'etersburg. litissia. February 2.S, 1873.
BiimeU, Barker, was bom at Nantucket, M;
chusotts. in 17l'8; was a memln'r of tin- State Ilimst
of liei>resenlatives in 1810, and of the State .Senate
in 1821-1825; was a member of tlie Massachusetts
Constitutional Convention; was a delegate to lbs
National Whig Convention at Harrisburg in 18J0;
was elected a representative from Mass.'uliii.srtts in
the Twenty-fleventh Congress, as a Wliig, serving
from May 31, 1841, to March 3, 184:1; died at Wasli-
ihgtcm Cilv June 4, 184:1.
Bumell, Frank C, was bom in Wyomiag
County. I'ennsylvauia. Marcli 10, 1842; received an
academic eilueation; left Congress to enlist as a
private in the Fifly-second I'ennsylvania Volunteera;
was prf)motetl, and, after serving through the Penin-
sular campaign, wa* discharged April 2, 18*1:5. on a
suRjeon's certilicate of disability; wfw employed in
mercantile pursuits from 1804 to 1800, when he
engaged in banking; was elected a representative
fMm Pennsylvania in the Forty-s<'Cond Congress (to
llil the vacancy canseil by the resignation of Ulysses
.S. Mercur, resigned), as a Republican, receiving 009
niajorily over V. E. Piolett. Democrat, and serving,
from J;inuar\- 7. 1.S7:1. to March 3. 187:J.
Burnet, Jacob, was bom at Newark, New Ji
sey, February 22. 1770; received a classical educa#in,f
graduating at I'rinceton College in 1701: studied
law under. liidge Boudinot; was .idmitted to the l>ari
ill I7!tO, and commeiiced practice at Cincinnati,
t>hio; was a rnenil>er of the territorial councils oti
Ohio in 1700-1802; was deputy grand muster ofi
Free Masons 18(J8-1813; was a member of the State
Douse of Representatives in 1812; w.-u a judge of tha'
Supreme Court of Ohio 1821-1828; wasciected L'nited-
St,itcs senator from Ohio to HII tlic v.ic.incy caused,
by the resignation of W. H. Harris'in, receiving SA
votes against 50 voles for John W. Campbell, and
served fmm Decemlier 1, 1828, to March S, 1831; waa
a menil)er of the commission ap|K>inted in 18:31 by
the States of Virginia and Kentucky to settle their
controversy on the stjitute of limitation passed by
Kentucky; was a member of the prominent literary
and astronomical associations of Southern Ohio, anil
of the Frencli Academy; and died at Cincinnati
April 27, 185;J. He published " Notes on tlie Early
Settlement of tlic North-western Territory," 1847.
Burnett, David Q., was Ixim at Newark. Ne
Jersey. April 4. 17N0: received a public-.s<.'hool cd
cation: was a merchant's clerk in New York: join
Gen. Miranda's expedition in 1817; Wiisa mcR-hanl'!
clerk at Natchitoches, Louisiana; went to Ciiicinnat
and studied law there; removed to Texaa in 1&^
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wu a member of the San Felipe Convention in 1833;
was municipal judge at Austin 1834-1836; was tlie
prurisional president of tbe incipient republic of
Texas in 1836, and afterwards vice-president; re-
mained on his plantation, near the battle-field of San
Jacinto, during the Rebellion ; was one of the com-
missioners sent by Texas to intercede with President
Jutmson for the release of Jefferson Davis; was
chosen United-States senator from Texas Septem-
ber 1. 1806, but was not permitted to take his seat;
and died at Galveston, Texas, Decemlier 6, 1870.
Burnett, Henry C, was bom in Essex County,
Virginia, October 6, 1^; received a classical educa-
tion; studied law; was admitted to the l)ar, and
commenced practice at Cadiz, Kentucky; was clerk
of the Trigg-oonuty Circuit Court 1851-1853; was
elected a representative from Kentucky in the Thirty-
fourth Congress, as a Democrat, receiving 9,223
votes against 5,708 votes for Hughes, American; was
to<>Iected to tlie Thirty-fifth Congress, receiving
8.988 votes against 2^'M5 votes for Onmes, American;
was re-elected to the Thirty-sixth Congress, receiving
U.HO votes against 2,248 votes for itoi-row, Ameri-
can; was le-elected to the Thirty-seventh Congress,
as Secessionist, receiving 8,988 votes against 6,255
Votes for Trimble, Union man, serving from Decem-
l>er 3, 1855, until December 3, 1861, when he was
expelled. He had been president of a Kentucky
Southern Conference which met at Russellviiie
October 29, 1801, and called a Sovereignty Conven-
tion, of which he was also president, which met at
KassellviUe Novemlwr 18, passing an ordinance of
secession, and organizing a State government; was a
representative from Kentucky to the Provisional Con-
federate Congress, serving from November 18, 1861,
tj February 17, 1802; was a senator from Kentucky
ia tlie First and the Second rebel Congresses, serving
from February 19, 1802, to February 18, 1805; and
dieil of cholera, near Hopkinton, Kentucky, 1800.
Burnett, William, was bom at Newark, New
Jersey; received a classical education, graduating at
Princeton College In 1740; was a delegate from New
Jersey in the Continental Congress, serving from
December 11, 1780, to April 1, 1781; and died at
Newark, New Jersey, In 1701.
Burnhcun, Alfred A., was bom at Windham,
Windham County, Connecticut, March 8, 1810; re-
ceived a classical education, sjiending one year at
Washington College; taught school; studied law;
vas admitted to the liar in 1843, and commenced
pr.u:tice at Windham; was a member of the State
liouse of RepresenUtives in 1844, 1845, 1850, and
1SJ8, serving the last year as speaker; was clerk of
the State Senate in 1847; was lieutenant.govemor
of Connecticut in 1857; was elected a representative
from Connecticut in the Thirty-sixth Congress, as a
Kepublican, receiving 7,323 votes against 6,771 votes
for Baker, Democrat; was re-elected to the Thirty-
urenth Congress, receiving 8,701 votes against 0,490
vales for Baker, Democrat, and serving from Decem-
ber 5, 1809, to March 3, 186.S.
Burns, Joseph, was bora at Waynesborough,
Vii^nia, March It, 1800; removed to Ohio when a
boy; received a public-school education; learned the
hatter's trade, but subsequently became a farmer;
beld several offices In Coshocton County; was elected
a representative from Ohio in the Thirty-fifth Con-
gress, as a Democrat, receiving 9,194 votes against
8,143 votes for Sapp, Whig, and serving from De-
cember 7, 1857, to March 8, 1859: was defeated as a
I>emocratic candidate for the Thirty-sixth Congress,
receiving 8,710 votes against 8,949 votes for Helmlch,
K'publican.
Bums, Robert, was bom in New Hampshire;
was a member of the State House of Representatives
and Senate; was elected a representative from New
Hampshire in the Twenty-third Congress, as a Dem-
<icrat, receiving 23,050 votes against 6,404 votes for
JamesWilson, Jan., Whig, and 1,842 votes for Hatch,
auti-Msson; and was re-elected to the Twenty-
f onrth Congress, serving from December 2, 1838, to
March 3, 1^7; died at Plymouth, New Hampshire,
June 20, 1806.
Bumside, Ambrose Everett, was bom at
Liberty, Indiana, May 23, 1824; entered West Point
in his nineteenth year, and graduated in 1847; served
in the Mexican and Indian wars, and resigned in
1852 to manufacture a breech-loading rifle of his
own invention; removed to Illinois, when appointed
treasurer of the Illinois Central Railroad, in 1858;
entered the Union army in April, 1861, as colonel oi
the First Rhode-Island Volunteer Infantry; com-
manded a brigade at the first battle of Bull Run;
was promoted brigadier and major general; com-
manded successively the expedition to North Caro-
lina in 1862, the left wing of the Union arm^ at
Antietam, the Army of the Potomac, and the Ninth
Army Corps, resigning in April, 1865; was elected
governor of Rhode Island in 1800, 1867, and 1868;
visited Europe in 1870, and was admitted within the
German and French lines in and around Paris, acting
as a medium of communication between the hostile
nations in the interests of conciliation; was elected
United-States senator from Rhode Island, as a Re-
publican, to succeed William Sprague, Independent,
and took his seat March 4, 1875. His term of service
will expire March 3, 1881.
Bumside, ThoniEts, was bora in Pennsylvania
in 1783; received a classical education; studied law;
was admitted to the bar, and commenced practice in
1^; was a member of the State House of Ifepre-
seutatives; was elected a representative from Penn-
sylvania in tbe Fourteenth Congress, serving from
December 11, 1815, to April, 1810, when he resigned;
was president-judge of a judicial district, and subse-
quently an associate justice of the Supreme Court of
Pennsylvania; died at Gcrmantowu, Pennsylvania,
March 25, 1851.
Burr, Aaron, was bom at Newark, New Jersey,
February 5, 1756; received a classical education,
entering Princeton College when twelve years of
age, and graduating in 1772; studied theology with
a clergyman in Connecticut; entered the Continen-
tal army in 1775; distinguished himself at Quebec,
Monmouth, and New Haven, and resigned, owing to
ill health, Mareh 10, 1779; studied law; was admitted
to the bar in 1782; commenced practice at Albany,
and in 1783 removed to New York; was a member
of the State House of Representatives in 1784 and
1708; was attorney-general of New York 1789 and
1700; was commissioner on Revolutionary claims
in 1701 ; was elected United-States senator from New
York, OS a Democrat, serving from October 24, 1701,
until March 3, 1707. At the presidential election of
1801 Burr and Jefferson had each 73 votes, and the
House of Representatives, on the thirty-sixth ballot,
elected Jefferson President, and Burr Vice-President.
In 1804 he was Democratic candidate for governor of
New York, and was defeated by Morgan Lewis by
8,000 majority; he mortally wounded Alexander
Hamilton in a duel fought at Weehawken July 12,
1804; after endeavoring to. revolutionize the Missis-
sippi Valley, he was arrested, and brought to Rich-
mond, where he was tried, in August, 1807, on a
charge of treason, and acquitted ; to escape f urtlier
prosecution and his creditors, be went abroad in
1808; retuming to the city of New York in 1812, he
resumed the practice of law; and died at Port Rich-
mond, Staten Island, September 14, 1836.
Burr, Albert Q., was bora In Illinois in 1820:
received a good English education; studied and
practised law; was a member of the State legislature
of lUinois in 1861, 1862, 1863, and 1864; was a mem-
ber of the State Constitutional Convention ; and was
elected a representative from Illinois in the Fortieth
Confess, as a Democrat, receiving 17, 1 10 votes aeainst
14,743 votes for Case, Republican ; and was re-elected
to the Forty-first Congress, receiving 21,420 votes
against 15,270 votes for Ross, Republican, serving
from March 4, 1867, to March 3, 1871.
812
C0NGBE88I0NAL DIKBCTOHT.
Burrill, James, jun., was bom at Providence,
Rhode Island, Apnl 25, 1772; received a classical
education, graduating at Brown University in 1788;
studied law; was admitted to the bar in September,
1781, and commenced practice at Providence; was
attorney-general of Rhode Island 1797-1813, when he
retired from the bar on account of ill health; was a
member of the General Assembly of Rhode Island in
1813, 1814, and speaker the last year; was chief jus-
tice of the State Supreme Court in 1816; was elected
United-States senator from Rhode Island, and served
from December 1, 1817, until his death at Washing-
ton City, December 26, 1820.
BtUTOUghs, Silas M., was bom in the State of
New York; received a liberal education; served four
years in the State House of Representatives; was
elected a representative from New York in the Thirty-
fifth Congress, as a Republican, receiving 6,885 votes
against 4,691 votes for Hunt, Republican, and 1,731
votes for Church, Democrat; was re-elected to the
Thirty-first Congress, receiving 6,093 votes against
8,376 votes for Irott, Democrat, and 2,132 votes for
White, American, and serving from December 7,
1857, until his death at Medina, New York, June 3,
1860.
Burrows, DanieL was l>om at Groton, Connecti-
cut; received a liberal education, and studied the-
ology; was one of the commissioners who established
the boundary-line between Connecticut and Massa-
chusetts in 1776; was elected a representative from
Connecticut In the Seventeenth Congress, serving
from December 3, 1821, to March 3, 1823; was sur-
veyor of the port of Mlddletown for twenty years;
died at Mystic River, Connecticut, January 23, 1858.
Burrows, Julius C, was bom at North-cast
Pennsylvania January 9, 1837; received a liberal
education; studied law; was admitted to the bar, and
commenced practice at Kalamazoo, Michigan; was
elected a representative from Michigan in ue Forty-
third Congress, as a Republican, receiving 10,717 votes
a^nst 11,451 votes for Potter, Liberal, and serving
from December 1, 1873, to March 3, 1875; was de-
feated as the Republican candidate for the Forty-
fourth Congress, receiving 12,278 votes against 13,317
votes for Potter, Liberal Democrat.
Burrows, Lorenzo, was bom in Connecticut;
received a public-school education; removed to
Albion, New York; was elected a representative from
New York in the Thirty-first Congress, as a Whig,
receiving 5,753 votes against 5,332 votes for Piper,
Democrat; waa re-elected to the Thirty-third Con-
press, receiving 6,372 votes against 3,846 votes for
Davis, Van Buren Democrat, and 2,214 votes for
Burroughs, Cass Democrat, serving from December
3, 1849, to March 3, 1853; was elected comptroller of
the State of New York in 1855.
Burt, Armistead, was bom in South Carolina;
received a classical education; studied law; was ad-
mitted to the bar, and commenced practice at Wil-
lington. South Carolina; was elected a representative
from South Carolina in the Twenty-eighth Congress,
as a Calhoun Democrat, and was re-elected, without
opposition, to the Twenty-ninth, Thirtieth, Thirty-
first, and Thirty-second Congresses, serving from
December 4, 1843, to March 3, 1853; was speaker ;)ro
tempore of the House of Representatives during the
absence of Mr. Speaker Winthrop; was a delegate to
the National Democratic Convention at New York in
1868.
Burton, Hutchins C, was bom In Granville
County, North Carolina; studied law; was admitted
to the bar, and commenced practice in Mecklenburg
County; was a member of the House of Commons of
North Carolina in 1810; was elected attorney-general
in 1810, and resigned in November, 1816; removed to
Halifax; was again elected to the House of Commons
in 1816; was elected a representative from North
Carolina in the Sixteenth Congress, as an anti-Demo-
crat; was re-elected to the Seventeenth Congress
without opposition, and was re-elected to the Eigh-
teenth Congress by a large majority over Dawsm,
serving from December 6, 1819, until he resigiirf,
March 28, 1824; waa governor of North Carolina in
1824-1827; was nominated by President John Quint?
Adams governor of Arkansas, but not confirmed by
the Senate; died in Iredell County, North Carolina
April 21, 1836.
Burton, Robert, was bom In Mecklenbio;
County, Virginia, in 1847; was a planter; removed
to Granville County, North Carolina, in 1775, and
served in the Revolutionary army, attaining ttie
rank of colonel ; was a delegate from North Carolina
to the Continental Congress in 1787-1788; was a
member of the commission which estabHshed the
boundary-line between North Carolina, South Caro-
lina, and Georgia, in 1801; and died in Granville
County, North Caroliiui, in 1^5.
Burwell, William A., was bom in Mecklen-
burg County, Virginia, about the year 1780; received
a classical education, graduatuig at William and
Mary Collie; removed in 1802 to Franklin County;
was elected a member of the State House of Dele-
gates; waa private secretary to President Jeffereon;
was elected a representative from Virginia in the
Ninth Congress (in the place of Christopher Clarlc,
resigned), as a Democrat, and was successively re-
elected to the Tenth, Eleventh, Twelfth, Thirteenth,
Fourteenth, Fifteenth, and Sixteenth Congresses,
serving from December 1, 1800, until Iiis death at
Washington, February 16, 1821. He is interred in
the cilT of Baltimore; and his character is taught in
his epitaph, written by Thomas Jefferson, — "Died
at Ills post in Congress: Ills body here, his spirit with
its kindred, — the just, the good, the beloved of men."
Busby, Gheorsre H., was lx>m at Davistown,
Pennsylvaiiia, July 10, 1794; received a public-school
education; removed with his father to Ohio in 1810;
learned the cabinet-maker's trade; worked on a fam;
was appointed clerk of the Marion-county courts,
and subsequently recorder of deeds for the same
county; was elected a representative from Ohio in
the Thirty-second Congress, as a Democrat, receiving
7,615 votes against 5,(S7 votes for Ford, Whig, serv-
ing from December 1, 1851, to March 8, 1853.
Butler, Andrew Piokens, was bom la Edge-
field District, South Carolina, November 19, 17»l;
received a classical education, graduating at the col-
lege of South Carolina in 1817; studieid law; vas
admitted to the bar in 1818, and commenced practice
at Edgefield Court House; was for several years a
member of the State House of Representatives; was
appointed judge of the Sessions Court in 18S3; was
judge of the State Court of Common Pleas in 1835-
1846; was appointed by the governor of South Caro-
lina United-States senator from that State (to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of Mr. McDufflce), as a
State-rights Democrat, and was subsequently elected
and re-elected by the legislature, serving from De-
cember 21, 1846, to his death at his residence near
Edgefield Court House, South Carolina, May 25, 1857.
Butler, Beidamin Franklin, was bom at
Deerfleld, New Hampshire, November B, 1818; re-
ceived a classical education, graduating at Waterville
College in 1838; studied law; was admitted to the
bar, and commenced practice at Lowell, Massachu-
setts ; was a member of the State House of Represen-
tatives 1853; was a delegate to the Constitntional
Convention of Massachusetts 1853; was a member of
the State Senate 1859; was a delegate to the National
Democratic Conventions at Charleston and Baltimore
in 1800; had been for some years an active member
of the Massachusetts militia, when he entered the
Union army in April, 1861, as brigadier-general; was
appointed major-general May 16, 1861, and served
throughout the war; was elected a representative
from Massachusetts in the Fortieth Congress, as a
Republican, receiving 0,021 votM against 2,638 votes
forNortbend, Democrat; was re-elected to the Forty-
first Congress, receiving 13,109 votes against 5,061
votes for Lord, Democrat, 1,811 votes for Dana, In
STATISTICAL SKETCHES.
313
dependent, and 33 scattering votes; was re-elected to
the Korty-socond fonsff'ss. r<>oriviiiji f^.'.Kiii votps
against -l,:^)7 v<>t<!s for Eiidioott, Dcmncrat, unil 1.(170
■votes fnr Ome. Indcpciidrnt; and was rc-elocled to
the Forty-tliird t'ongress, receiving ll.SSl votes
against 5,7.'{~ votes for Tliompsoii, Democrat, ser\'iii|j
fri>ni Marcli 4, 1807, lo March 3, lS7o: wa-i defe.'itcij
as a Kt'publican I'andidntc for the Forty-fourtli (;ini-
gnrss, ri'ci'ivini; 7,731 votes against 8,7tW votes for
Charles P. Tlmnipson, Democrat; was a+;iiin eleeled
to the Korty-lifth Conijross, receiving 1:;,100 votes
ag^nst li,:J7'.» votes for John K. Tarlxji, Democrat.
Butler, Chester, was ixim at WiUvCsb.irre.
Pcnn.sylvatiia, Miircli 0, t7ftS; received a classical
education, praduiiting at Princeton College in 1S17;
studied law at I ho Litclilicld Law School; was ad-
mitted to the bar in IS'Jt), and commenced prsiclice
at Willcesltarre; was for three years a racmlx-r of ttie
State House of Kepresenlatives; was eliKTted a rep-
resentative from Pennsylvania in the Tliirtietli
Congress, as a Whig, and was re-elected to the
Tliifty-firsl Congress, receiving 5,(i:j2 votes against
4,3!W votes for Wriglit, Democrat, and l,9:ist for
Collins, Independent Democrsit, and 8er\'ing from
December I!, 1847, until his death at Philadelphia,
October .% IRW.
Butler, Bzra, was bom in Conneclicut in 1702;
received a good English educatiim: studied law; was
wimittcd to the bar; .ind commenced pnu'lice at
Waterbury, Vermont, In 178(1; was eleven years a
member of the State Assembly, and fifteen years a
mumtXT of the Executive Council; was first judge of
the Chiltenden-county Court 18C»;i-18<Hl, and chief
justice 1SIJ0-18U; was elected a representative from
Vormont in the Thirteenth Congress, as a Democrat,
•orving fn>m May 24, 181'i. to March 3, ]81.t; wjis
chief justice of the Jefferson-county Court 1814-
ISaS; was a memlHT of the Venuont Constitutional
Convention 1822; was governor of Vermont 182(1-
183S; and died ut Waterbury, Vermont, July 10,
Butler, Josiah, was bom in Rockingham Coun-
ty. New llampsliire, in 17S0; received a classical
'^^J^^cation, graduating at Ilarvanl College in ISWl;
•tudied law while teai-hiiig In Vinrfnia; wivs admitted
j to the bar, and commenced pn-wtice at South Deer-
^eld. New llampsliire; was se%-eral times elected a
•presentativi! in the State legi^lalurc; was sheritT of
tockingham County; was appointed judge of the
Itipcrior Court of New HamiMihire in 181.S, and occu-
Jied the position until the oflice was abolished by
"le legislature in 1810; wiis defeated as tlie Dcmo-
ralic candidate for the Thirteenth Congress, recciv-
lo.7<}4 voti.'S against 18,478 votes for ^Vilco.\. peace
lidate; was elected a repn-sentativo from New
jpshire in the Fifteentli Congress, as a Demo-
at, and was re-elected to the Sixteenth and tlie
srcntcenth Congresses, sening from December 1,
"a K17, to March 3, 1823; and died at Deerfield, New
iHampsliire, Novembers, 18i>4.
Butler, M. Calvin, was bom at Edgefield Court
luusc, Soutli Carolina; received a classical eduea-
ion; studied law; was admitted to the bar, and
Btiscd at Edgefield Court House; entered the
federate service as colonel of the Second South-
tdina Cavalry August 22, 1802; was jiromoted
_ idicr-geiierai .Sejitember 1, 18(13. and placed in
iimand of a brigade of South-Carolina cavalry:
vus promoted maj">r-general, and placeil in command
[•^if Wright's and Logan's cavalry brigades, Army of
Northern Virginia; claimed to have been elei-ted a
Senator {mm South Carolina, as a Democrat, for the
term commencing March 4, 1877.
Butler, Pierce, was Iwtrn in Ireland July 11,
1744; received a liberal education; served in the
British army as lieutenant, captain, and major, and
*a» stationed in Boston, but resigned previous lo
^ Ilevolution, and settled in Charleston, South
olina; was a menil>er of the Continental Congress
South Carolina in I7S7; was a member of the
Convention which framed the Federal Constitution
in I7S8; W.1S elected a United-vSlales senator from
Soulli <!iin>liiia, as a Democrat, serving from March
4, 1781). to 17'.K!, when he resigned; was again elected
lo the United-States Senate (in place of J. C. Cal-
houn, deceased), 8er^■ing from Octotwr 18, 180.3. until
I.SIH, when ho agjiin resigned. He died at Philadel-
phia February lo, 1822.
Butler, Roderick R., was bom at Wyiheville,
Virginia. April 8. 1827; went at an early ag<^ t<> Ten-
nessee; learned the tailor's trade; studied law; was
a<lmitted to the bar, and commenced practice atXay-
lorsville, Tennessee; was elected county judge in
18.')<1; was a memlwr of the State House of Kepresen-
tntives in 18.")ll and 18(11; was a delegate to the Balli-
iKore IIepul)lican Convention of I.S<14, and to Iho
Tennessee Constitutional Convention of 18(55; was
appointed judge of the Circuit Court in 18(jfi; was
elected a representative from Tennessee in the For-
tieth (Tongress, as a Republican, almost witliout
opposition, receiving 1(1.107 votes .tgainst 78 votes for
Powell, Iiidi'pendent, iuid "t votes for Kyle, Demo-
crat; was re-elected to the Forty-first Congress, re-
ceiving ll,i>72 votes against 1,717 votes for Wliite,
Conservative; w-is re-elected to the Forty-second
Congress, receiving U,584 votes against 5,1)7!) voles
for While, Democrat; wxs re-elected to the Forty-
thinl Congress, receiving 10.281) vivtes against 7,840
voles for Carter, Democrat, and serving from June
20, 1808, to March 3, 1870; was defeatsd as the Re-
publican candidate for the Forty-fourth Congress,
rt'ceiving 0,i)84 votes against S,7'J7 votes for McFar-
land. Democrat.
Butler, Samson H., w.-w bom in South Caro-
lina; received a classical Mlucudion; was elected a
representative from Soutli Carolina in the Twenty-
sixth Congress, ajid was re-electeil to the Twenty-
seventh Congress, sening from December 2, 1810,
until he resigned, on account of ill health, Septcm-
iMT 27, 18.12.
Butler, Thomas, was Ivom at Carlisle, Pennsyl-
vania; received a classical education; removed to
Louisiana; was elected a representative from Lonisi-
:uia in the Fifteenth Concrt-.-is (to fiU the v.icancy
caused by the death of William C. C. Claiborne,
deceased), defeating Edward Livingstone, and was
re-electe(l to the Sixteenth Congress, serving from
Kehmary 20, 1818, to March 3, 1821; died at New
Orleans August 14, 1847.
Butler, Thomas B., w.ts bom at Wethersfield,
Coimeclicut, in 18W7; received a classical education;
studied law; was admitted to the bar, and commenced
practice at Nonv.olk, Connecticut; served in the
St.-jte legislature; was electeil a representative from
Connecticut in the Thirty-first Congress, as a \VTiig,
receiving 8, 172 voles against 7,028 voles for Wildnian,
Democrat, and serving from December 3, 1840, to
March 3, 1851 ; died at Norwalk, Connecticut, June
8, 1873.
Butler, William (father of Andrew Pickens
Butler and of William Butler), was bom in Prince
William County, Virginia, in 17oU; nx'cived a clas-
sical education; removed to South Carolina, and
grnduiited at the South-Carolina ('n)Iegc as a student
of meiliciiie; serveil wirh ■listinriinti in the war of
the Revolution; was a meitilier of the Stale C(mven-
tion whicli adopted the Federal Constitution, and of
the Slate Constitutional Convention; was a member
of the State legislature several years, and iu 1704
sberill; was elected a representative from South Car-
olina in the Seventh Congress, and was successively
re-<'lecleil (o the Eighth, Ninth, Tenth. Eleventh, aiul
Twelfth Congresses, without any serious opposition,
serving from Decemt)er 7, 18lil, lo Mandi 3, 1813;
Wits niajor-genend commanding the troops niised for
the defence of South Carolina during the war with
Great Britain; was defeated as a candidate for the
Sixti'enth Congress liy Eldri'd Simkins; died at Co-
lumbia, South Carolina, November I'i, 1821.
Butler, William (son of William Butler, and
814
CONOBES8IONAL DIBBCTOBY.
brother of Andrew Pickens Putler), wm bom at Co-
lumbia, South Carolina; received a classical educa-
tion, graduating at the South-Carolina CoU^^ in
1810; was elected a representative from South Caro-
lina in the Twenty-seventh Congress, as a Whig,
serving from Mav 31, 1841, to March 3, 1843.
Buuer, William Orlando, was bom in Jessa-
mine County, Kentucky, in 1793; received a liberal
education, and studied law; entered the United-
States army as lieutenant in the Second Infantry,
September 28, 1812, and served throughout the war
with Great Britain, attaining the rank of lieut^ant-
colonel; practised law at Carrollton, Kentucky, 1817-
1839; was elected a representative from Kentucky in
the Twenty-sixth Congress, as a Van Bnren Demo-
crat, receiving a majority of 287 over W. £. South-
gate, Whig; was le-elected to the Twenty-seventh
Congress, receiving 4,67i) votes against 4,391 votes for
SouQigate, Whig, and serving from December 2, 1839,
to March 3, 1841 ; served during the war with Mexico,
receiving the rank of major-general; was nominated
by the Democrats, in 1848, as their candidate for the
Vice-Presidency, with General Cass as the candidate
for President, and was defeated; was appointed by
President Pierce governor of Xebraska, but declined
the appointment; was a member of the Washii^ton
Peace Congress. His life and writings, edited by
Francis P. Blair, were pubHshed in 1848.
Butman, Samuell was bom in Maine when it
was a district of Massachusetts ; received an academic
education; was a member of the State House of Rep-
resentatives of Maine in 1822, 1826, and 1827; was
elected a representative from Maine in the Twentieth
Congress, and was re-elected to the Twenty-first Con-
gress, serving from December 3, 1827, to March 3,
1831 ; was county commissioner of Penobscot County
in 18i6; was a member of the State Senate, and its
president in 1853; and died at Dixmont, Maine, in
18S4.
Butterfield, Martin, resided at Palmyra, Xew
York, and was elected a representative from that
State in the Thirty-sixth Congress, as a Republican,
receiving 10,855 vot«s against 6,389 votes for Gris-
wold. Democrat, and 1,^1 votes for Sisson, Ameri-
can, and serving from December 6, 1859, to March 4,
1861.
Byers, Willieim^was elected a representative
from Arkansas in the Thirty-ninth Congress, but was
not admitted to a seat.
Byington, Le Qrand, claimed to have beeu
elected a representative from Iowa in the Thirty-
seventh Congress, as a Democrat, having received
8,886 votes at a general election held in 1801, in
accordance with a coustitutionalprovision of the
State, and contested the seat of WlUlam Vandever,
who had been elected in 1860, as a liepublican, re-
ceiving 36,805 votes E^ainst 27,200 votes for Samuels,
Democrat, and who had since accepted the commis-
sion of colonel of a regiment of Iowa volunteers.
The House, February 14, 1803, voted, 86 yeas against
28 nays, that Mr. Vandever, by accepting his conunis-
Bion, had vacated his seat, but that Mr. Byington had
not been lawfully elected.
Bynum, Jesse A., was bom in Halifax County,
Xorth Carolina, in 17K>; received a classical educa-
tion, graduating at Princeton College in 1810; studied
law; was admitted to the bar, and commenced prac-
tice at Halifax; was a member of the House of Com-
mons of North Carolina in 1823 and 1824; in 1825 a
brawl between the contesting candidates, Bynum and
Potter, and their friends, prevented an election, and
in 1826 Bynum was defeated by Potter; was again
elected to the House of Commons in 1827, 1828, 1820,
and 18:)0; was elected a representative in the Twenty-
third, Twenty-fourth, Twenty-lifth (defeating Long,
Whig), and Twenty-sixth (by 72 majority) Consresses,
as a Democrat, serving from December 2, 1833, until
March S, 1841; fought a duel with Representative
Daniel Jenifer of Maryland, in which several shots
were cxcUatt^cd without harm; had a personal dim*
culty on the floor of the House witfa Bepresentatire
Rice Garland of Louisiana; removed to Alexandhs
Parish, Louisiana, where he devoted himself to agri-
cultural pursuits, and died September, 1868.
Cabannis, £. Q., of Georgia, claimed to have
been elected a representative from that State in tlie
Thirty-ninth Congress; and his credentials were pre-
sented December 17, 186C, but no action was taken
on them.
CabelL Edward Carrington, was bora at
Richmond, Virginia, in 1817 ; received a classical eda-
cation, graiduating at the University of Virginia; re-
moved in 1837 to Florida (then a Territory), sjui
settled on a cotton plantation near Tollahatsce; re-
ceived the certificate of election as a repreaentatiTe
from Florida in the Twenty-ninth Congress; bat the
House gave the seat to the contestant, W. H. Brock-
enborough, who took it January 28, 1846; was elect«d
a representative from Florida in the Thirtieth Con-
gress as a Whig; was re-elected to the Thirty-fiixt
Congress, receiving 4,382 votes against 3,805 votes fur
Duvall, Democrat; and was re-elected to the Thirty-
second Congress, receiving 4,531 votes against 4,050
votes for Beard, Democrat, serving from December ti,
1847, to March 3, 1853; was defeated as the Whig
candidate for the Thirty-third Congress, receiving
4,687 votes against 4,627 votes for Augustus £. Max-
well, Democrat.
Cabell, Qeorge C, was bom at Danville Jan-
uary 25, 1837; was instructed by his father until
twelve years of age, and, from that time until the age
of eighteen, attended the Danville Academy; taught
school in Henry County, devoting his leisure houis
to the study of law; attended the Law School of the
University of Virginia in 18.^7 ; commenced practice
at Danville in 1858; also edited "The Republican,"
and then "The Democratic Appeal," papers pulv
lished at Danville; was elected in September, 185S,
Commonwealth's attorney for Danville, which posi-
tion he held until April 23, 1861, when he volunteered
as a private in the Confederate army; in June, 18iil,
was commissioned major, and assigned to the Eigh-
teenth Virginia Infantry, Colonel Withers, Pickett's
division, Longstrect's corps; participated in most of
the batties fought by that portion of the Army of
Northern Virginia to which he was attached; was
twice wounded, and left the army at the close of Ihe
war with the rank of colonel ; after the war, returned
to the practice of his profession, and was elected a
representative from Virginia in the Forty-fourth Con-
gress as a Democrat, receiving 10,221 votes against
7,723 votes for C. Y. Thomas, Republican; was re-
elected to the Forty-fifth Congress, receiving 10,221
votes against 7,723 votes for Thomas, RepubUcao,
serving from December 0, 1875.
CSabell, Samuel J., was bom in Virginia; re-
ceived a classical education, but left William and
Mary College to enter the Revolutionary army, in
which ho attained the rank of lieutenant-coloDcl,
serving until taken prisoner by the British at the
capture of Charleston in May, 1780; returned to Vir-
ginia after the war; was several years a member uf
the State House of Delegates; was elected a repre-
sentative from Virginia in the Fotulh Congress; was
re-elected to the Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Con-
gresses, serving from Deceral)er 7, 1795, to March 3,
1803; died on his estate in Kelson County, Virginia,
September 4, 18ia
Cable, Joseph, was bom in Ohio; received s
public-school education ; was elected a representatiTe
from Ohio in the Thirty-first Congress as a Demo-
crat, receiving 6,987 votes against 6,330 votes for
Mason, Whig; and was re-elected to the Thirty-
second Congress, receiving 6,085 votes against o.Su3
votes for Roberts, Whig, serving from December S,
1849, to Mai-ch 3, 1853.
Cabot, G^eorge, was bom at Salem, Massachu-
setts, December 3, 1752; received a classical educa-
tion, and entered Harvard College, but left at the
end of his sophomoi-c-yeor, and uiipped as a cahin-
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hoy; was In command of a veuel before he reached
lus majority, and followed the seas for 8orae years;
engaged in commercial pursuits at Boston; was a
delegate to the State Provincial Congress in 1775, to
the State Constitutional Convention in 1777, and to
the Convention which ratified the Constitution of the
I'nited States; was elected a United-States senator
from Massachusetts as a Federalist, serving from
October 24, 1791, until he resigned in 1790 ; was ap-
pointed by John Adams the first secretary of the
navy May S, 1798, but declined ; was a- member of
the Executive Council of Massachusetts 1808: was a
delegate to the Hartford Convention in 1814, and
was its presiding officer; retired from public anain,
and died at Boston April 8, 1823.
Cadwalader, John, was bom at Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, April 1, 1805; received a classical edu-
cation, graduating at the University of Pennsylvania
in 1821; studied law; was admitted to the bar in
1S21, and commenced practice at Philadelphia; was
elected a representative from Pennsylvania in the
Thirty-foorth Congress as a Nebraska Democrat,
receiving 7,842 votes against 7,834 votes for Jones,
anti-Nebraska Whig, and serving from December 3,
1355, to March 3, 1&7; declined a renomination, and
resumed practice at Philadelphia; was appointed by
President Buchanan judge of the United-States Dis-
trict Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
Cadwalader, Lambert, was bom at Trenton,
Xew Jersey, in 1741 ; entered the Revolutionary
army, and commanded a regiment of ' ' Jersey Blues ; "
was a delegate in the Continental Congress 1784-
1787; was elected a representative from New Jersey
in the First Congress, serving from March 4, 1789,
to March 3, 1791; was again elected to the Third
Congress, serving ifrom December 2, 1793, to March
3, 1795; and dledf at Trenton, New Jersey, September
12,1833.
Cady, Daniel, was horn at Chatham, New York,
April 29, 1773; received a public-school education;
learned the trade of shocmaking ; studied law at
Florida, New York; was admitted to the bar In 1795,
and commenced practice at Johnstown, New York ;
was a member of the State House of Representatives
1809-1813; was elected a representative from New
York in the Fourteenth Congress as a Federalist,
•crving from December 4, 1816, to March 8, 1817;
resumed practice; was a justice of the State Supreme
Court from 1847 to January 1, 1855, when he re-
signed; and died at Johnstown, New York, October
31, 1859.
Ca(^, John W., was bom In the State of New
York ; received a public-«chool education ; was a
aember of the State legislature in 1822; was elected
a representative from New York in the Eighteenth
Congress, serving from December 1, 1823, to March 8,
im.
Cage, Harry, was bom in Tennessee; received
a classical education; studied law; was admitted to
the bar, and commenced practice at Woodville, Mls-
iissippi; was appointed judge of the Supreme Court
of Mississippi ; was elected a representative from
Mississippi in the Twenty-Third Congress, serving
from December 2, 1833, until March 3, 1835; retired
from practice, and settled on a plantation in Louisi-
ana, where he died.
Cahoon, William, was bom In the State of
Vermont; was several years a member of the State
House of Representatives ; was a presidential elector
on the Madison ticket in 1809; was a member of the
cxecative council 1815-1820; was county judge;
was lientenant-govemor of Vermont 1820-1821: was
elected a representative from Vermont in the Twen-
ty-first Congress, and was re-elected to the Twenty-
•Kond Congress, serving from December 7, 1829, to
March 2, 18i33; died at Lyndon, Vermont, May SO,
C^n, Richard H., was bom In Greenbrier
County, ViKinia, April 12, 1825. His father re-
moved to OUo in 1831, and setUed hi Oalllpolis. He
had no education, except such as was afforded In
sabb.ith school, until after his marriage; entered the
ministry at an early aae ; became a student at Wilber-
fotce University at Xenia, Ohio, in 1860, and re-
mained there for one year; removed, at the breaking-
out of the war, to Brooklyn, New York, where he
was a pastor for four years; was sent by his church
as a missionary to the freedmen in South Carolina;
was chosen a member of the Constitutional Conven-
tion of South Carolina; was elected a member of the
State Senate from Charleston, and served two years;
took charge of a Republican newspaper in 1868 ; was
elected a representative from South CaroUna in the
Forty-third Congress as a Republican, receiving 66,-
825 votes against 26,394 votes for Lewis E. Johnson,
and was again elected to the Forty-FUth Congress as
a Republican, receiving 21,386 votes against 10,074
votes for M. P. O'Connor, Democrat.
Cake, Henry L., was bom in Northumberland
County, Pennsylvania, October 6, 1827; received a
common-school education; learned the art of print-
ing, and published "The Pottsville Mining Record"
up to the commencement of the Rebellion; entered
the Union army as a private April 17, 1861, arriving
at Washington April 18, 1861, with the first volun-
teers, afterwards incorporated with the Twenty-fifth
Pennsylvania Regiment, of which he was unanimous-
ly elected colonel at Washington, May 1, 1801 ; after
uie three-months' service he re-organized his r^-
ment, and commanded the Ninety-sixth Pennsylvania
Volunteers; was largely engaged In the manufacture
of machinery for the preparation of and in the mining
and shipping of anthracite coal ; was elected a repre-
sentative from Pennsylvania in the Fortieth Con^ss
as a Republican, receiving 13,186 votes against 12,-
971 rotes for Dr. Cyrus D. Gloninger, Democrat, and
was re-elected to the Forty-first Congress, receiving
12,601 votes against 12,276 votes for Connor, Demo-
crat, serving from March 4, 1867, to March 3, 1871.
CaldweU, Alexander, was bom in Ilimting-
don County, Pennsylvania, March 1, 1830; attended
public schools until he was sixteen years of age ; en-
listed in 1847 as a soldier in the Mexican war, enter-
ing his father's company, who was killed at one of
the gates of the city of Mexico; returned In 1848 to
Columbia, Pennsylvania, where he was emploved as
teller In a bank, and subsequentlv in mercantile pur-
suits; went in 1801 to Kansas, wnere he engaged iu
the transiiortation of military supplies to the various
posts on the plains, and was afterward largely inter-
ested in the building of railroads and bridges; was
elected UiUted-States senator from Kansas as a Re-
imblican, serving <from March 4, 1871, to March 3,
1877.
Caldwell, Gteorge A., was bom In Kentucky;
was elected a representative from that State in the
Twenty-eighth Congress as a Democrat, receiving
4,560 votes against 4,090 votes for B. Y. Owsley,
Whig, and 1,507 for Stone, Whig, serving from De-
cembier 4, 1843, to March 3, 1845; was defeated as the
Democratic candidate for the Twenty-ninth Congress,
receiving 6,965 votes against 6,044 votes for Joshua
F. Bell, Whig; was again elected to the Thirty-first
CongTMS, receiving 6,719 votes against 6,570 votes
for Aylett Buchner, and serving from December 3.
1840, to March 3, 1857; was a delegate to the National
Union Convention at Philadelphia in 1866, and died
at Louisville, KentuckyjSepteniber 17, 1866.
Caldwell, Qreene Washingrton, was bom iu
Oaston County, North Carolina, April 13, 1811; re-
ceived a classical education; studied medicine; was
admitted to practice: was assistant surgeon In the
United-States army July 13, 1832-Octobcr 19, 1832;
studied law ; was admitted to the bar, and commenced
practice at Charlotte ; was several years a member of
the State legislature; was elected a representative
from North Carolina in the Twenty-seventh Congress
as a Democrat, serving from May 31, 1841, to March
3, 1843; was appointed superintendent of the United-
States mint at Charlotte in 1844; was appointed
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captain of dragoons March 3, 1&17 ; and was mustcrod
out .July :iil. 1S48.
Caldwell, James, was elected a representativu
from Ohio in the Tliirtocnili Congreos as a Democrat,
and was n'H'lecteil to the FourtPfnlh Congress, scrr-
ing from May 2J, If*!;!, to Slarcli :l. 1817.
Caldwell, John H., was born at nunlsville.
Alabiuuii; recoiviMi a c;lnssical ediication in liis native
town, and was for two years at Uacon College, Har-
rodslrarg, Kentucky; was a meml)er of the legisla-
ture of Alabama in IStiT-iy-')^; was a^lmitled to the bar
in IHJit; was elected solicitor for the Tenth Judicial
Circuit by the legislature at the session of lSrj&-18<J0;
re-elected at the session of 1H(I3-18(M; deposed by the
provisional governor in 18(S; re-elected the same
winter, when things were no lunger " provisional,"
and removed from the office in 18(37 by military
authority for refusing to obey niilitary onlers; con-
tinued practice until he wiis eiecti'i! a representative
from Alabama in the Forty-third Congress as a
Democrat, receiving l(t,.%44 votes against 6,203 yotes
for O. D. Campliell, Ucpublican; and was ro-elecled
to the Forty-fourth Congress as a DemiH-rat, receiving
13.(111 votes against M.UtiO votes for James L. Shef-
field, IndepeiKloiit Dcniorrat.
Caldwell, Joseph Pearson, was bom in Ire-
dell County, North Carolina, in 1808; was educated
at Bethany Acailemy; studied law with Judge Cald-
well; was admitte<l to the bar, and commenced prac-
tice at Statc8\'ille; w.is a member of the State House
of IlepresentJitlves in 1,8;58, 1840, and 1842; was
elected a representative from North Carolina in the
Tliirly-tirst Congress as a Whig, receiving 0,8.'51
votes against 1,809 votes for .Stokes, Democrat, and
was re-elected to the Thirty-second Congress as a
Whig, without opposition, serving from December 3,
1840, until his death, January ;5, 1853.
Caldwell, Patrick C, was bom in .South Caro-
lina; resided near Newberry Court House; was
elected a representative from Sotith Carolina in tlio
Twenty-seventh Congress as a State-rights Demo-
crat, serving from May 31, 1841, to March 3, 184.3.
Caldwell, Robert P., was lx>m in Adair Coun-
ty, Kcntuck-y, DccemlK-r Iti, 1821 ; hiul a inibiic-sehoo!
education; studied law; was adinilled to tin? liar, ami
commenced practice at Trenton; was in the lower
branch of the General Assembly of Tennessee in
184"-184«, and was in the up|>cr branch in 18o.'»-18.'i<l;
was elected attomey-gcucral in the Sixteenth Judicial
Circuit of Tennessee In 1858; was major in the
Twelfth Teimessee Iirfantry of the Confederate scr-
vici-; had his disabilities removed by act of Congress,
and was ejected a representative from Tennessee in
the Forty-second Congrc^ss as a Democrat, receiving
8,227 votes against 1,848 votes for J. Norman, Ke^
publican.
Caldwell, "William P., was hom at Cliristmas-
ville, Tennessee. Noverab<.'r 8, 18,32; was educated at
Cumberland College. Kentucky; studied law at Lel)-
anon; wjis admitted to the bar, and coniiueneed prac-
tice at Dresden, Tennessee; was a menilwr of the
St-atc House of Kepresentatives in 1857 anil 185!);
W.1S on the Dougl.'ui electoral ticket in 18IK1; was a
de!e:;ate to the Nalionsil Di'mocratic Couveutiun at
New Vork In 18(18, which nominated Seymour and
lilair; was elected a representative frcmi TenncB.s^'e
In the Forty-fourth Congress as a Democrat, receiv-
ing 11,12.8 votes .against 4,,330 votes for David A.
Nliun, Kcpublican, and wa-x re-ele<;ted t/) the Forty-
fifth Congress, receiving 14,700 voles against 0,5lil)
Votes for Folk, Republican, serving from December
6, 1875.
Calhoun, John, was bom in Kentucky; received
A classical ediicaliun; studied law; was lulinitted to
the b.ir, and commenced iiraclicc; was a member of
the State legislature in 1820-1821 and in 1sl1)-1,s;*»;
was elected a representative from Kentucky in tlic
Twenty-fourth Congress as a Whig, defeating Dr.
Ray, Democrat; and was re-elected t^ the Twenty-
fifth Conjreas, dcfoating Vanmetro, Democrat, scrv-
I ing from December 7, 1S35, to March 3, 1?3S; re-
moved in 1S:JD to .St. Louis, where he practi.'p'l law;
rt'tumed to Kentucky, anil was appointed judge of
the Fourtf'enth Judicial District in January, 1M2.
Calhovm, John Caldwell, was bom in Abbe-
ville District, .Soufh Canilina, March IS, 1782: re-
ceived a classical education from his brother-in-law,
Kev. Mo.ses Wiiddcll, at (he Wilmington .\cademy,
which he perfected at Yale College, graduating in
1804; studied law at the Litchlicid "(Connecticut)
Law .School, and with U. W. DeSaussure at Charles-
ton, and (jcorge Bowie at Ablieviile; was admitted to
the bar in 18i>7, and commenced practice at Ablieviile;
was a member of the .State General Assembly in
1,S0S-18()(); was elected a representative from South
Carolina in the Twelfth Congress as a War Demo-
crat, and was re-elected to the Thirteenth and Four-
tecnlh Congresses, sen'ing from November 4, ISll,
to March 3, 1817; was secretary- of war Decemtier
10, 1817-March 3. 1825; was Vice-President of the
United States Miirch 4, 182.5-Deceml>cr 28, l.*a2,
when he resigned, and was elected rnitc<l-State«
senator (to (ill the vacancy made by the election of
General Hayne as govemor), and was re-elected, serv-
ing from Jaminry 4, LSti, until he resigned. March
3, 184;i; was secretary of state under President Ty-
ler March (i, ]S44-Mttrch 3, 1845; was again elected
United-States senator from South Carolin-T, serving
from December 22, 1845, until liis death, at Washing-
ton, Marcli 31, 18.50.
Calhoun, John Erwin, was bom in 1749; re-
ceived a classical education, gnidu.ating at Princeton
College in 1744; studied law; was admitted to the
bar in March, 1781), and commenced practice at
Charleston; was a conmiissioner of coniiscated es-
tates ; was several years a member of the Slate House
of Representatives ; was elected United-States senator
fr<>m South Carolina as a Democrat, and served from
December 11, 1801, until his death, at his summer
residence near Fort Hill, South Carolina, November
3, 1802.
Calhoun, Joseph, was b<:)ni in South Carolina;
was elected a representative from that State In the
Tentli Congress, and was re-elected to the Eleventh
Congress, ser^-ing from October 20, 1807, to March 3,
1811.
Calhoun, William B., was l»m at Boston,
Ma,ss.ichusetts. DcccoiIkt 21), 17W; n'ceived a clas-
sical education, graduating at Yale College In 1814:
studied law ; was a^lniitted to the b.ir, and comnienceu
practice at .SpriiigtleM; was a memlier of the State
House of Representatives 182.T-1.8.'t5, si-ning two years
as speaker; was elected a n-prcsentative from Massa-
chusetts in the Twenty-fourth Congress as n Whig,
receiving 3,(ai> votes against 2.3iH) votes for a Demo-
crat; was re-elected to the Twcniy-fiflh Congress,
ilefeating liaiu'roft. Democrat; was ri>-f!lectc<l to the
Twenty-si.xth Coiigri'ss, receiving 4,;3il3 voles against
2,057 votes for W. W. Thompson, Democrat, and
was reelected to the Twenty-seventh Congress, serv-
ing from December 7, 11S35, to M.arch 3. 184.3; was a
memlK-r of the State .Senate in 184() and 1847. and Its
president; was 8ecretjir\' of state of Ma.osachu.setts
1H4.8-1851; was State bank conmiissioner l.s.V}-18i5;
was presidential elector on the (lay and Frclinghuy-
sen ticket 1844; was mayor of SprJuglleld l.SoO; and
died at Spriiigllelil, Massachusetts, Novenilier 6, 18(»5.
Calkin, Hervey C, w:is liorn at Maiden, New
York, March 23, 18i'8; reeeive<l a public.-sehiKil ctlu-
catiori; settled in the city of New York in 1.847; was
for live years employed in the Morgan Iron Works;
in 18.52 he conimenceil business as a dealer in metals,
and iileutllied himself with the shipping interests
of the coutitry; held no public [lositions, excepting
tlint of « pchool-oilicer in his ward; was elccleil .•»
re]iri'senlativi' from New York in the Korty-lirst Con-
gress lis a Democrat, receiving 18,485 voles against
5,!IS7 Voles for I'iiickncy, ICcpulilican.
CaU, Jacob, resided at Princeton, Indiana; was
elected a representative from that State, in place ot
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William Prince, deceased, in the Eiehteenth Con-
gross, serving from December 23, 1824, to March 3,
1!?25.
Call. Biohard K., was liorn In Kentucky; en-
tered the United-ijtatcs army in 1814 as first lieuten-
ant of the Forty-fourth Infantry; was volunteer aide
to Major-General Jackson, April, 1818; was captain
July, 1818, and resigned May 1, 1822; settled in
Florida; was a member of the Tei-ritorial Legislative
Council In 1822; was brigadier-general of the West-
Florida militia January, 1823; was elected a delegate
from Florida in the Eighteenth Congress, serving
from December 1, 1823, to March 3, 1825.
Callis, John B., was bom in North Carolina in
1828; removed to Tennessee in 1841, and from there
to Wisconsin; entered the Union army as a lieu-
tenant, and rose to the rank of brigaclier-general;
settled, after the war, at Huntsville, Alabama; de-
clined a colonel's commission in the United-States
army: was elected a representative from Alabama in
the Fortieth Congress as a Republican, receiving
3,874 votes agidnst 2,183 votes for J. W. Burke, and
Eerving from July 21, 1868, to March 3, 1869.
Calvert, Charles B., was bom in Prince George
County, Maryland, August 24, 1808; received a clas-
sical education, graduating at the University of Vir-
ginia in 1827 ; devoted himself to agricultural pursuits,
and was noted as a stock-breeder; was president of
the Prince George County Agricultural Society, and
of the Maryland State Agricultural Society, and vice-
president of the United-States Agricultural Society;
was a memlier of the State House of Representatives
in 1830, 1S43, and 1844; was a political and personal
friend of Henry Clay; was elected a representative
from Maryland in the Thirty-seventh Congress as a
Uaion Whig, receiving 4,467 votes against 4,305 votes
for Harris, Democrat, and serving from July 4, 1861,
to March 3, 1863; died at "Riverside," his estate
near Bladensburg, Maryland, May 14, 1864.
Calvin, Bamuel, was bom at Washingtonville,
Pennsylvania, July 80, 1811; received, through his
own exertions, a classical education; taught school;
studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1830, and
commenced practice at HoUidaysburg, Pennsylvania;
was elected a representative from Pennsylvania in
the Thirty-first Congress as a Whig, serving from
December 3, 1849, to March 3, 1851; declmed a re-
election.
Cambrelene, Churohill C, was bom at Wash-
ington, North Carolina, in 1786; received an academic
education at New Berne, North Carolina: removed
in 1802 to New- York City, where he entered a count-
ing-room as a clerk, and in time became a leading
merchant, establishing the house of Cambreleng and
Peanon; was elected a representative from New
York in the Seventeenth Congress as a Democrat,
*nd was successively re-elected to the Eighteenth,
Nineteenth, Twentieth, Twenty-first, Twenty-second,
Twenty-third, Twenty-fourth, and Twenty-fafth Con-
gresses, by large majorities, serN-ing from December
3, 1S21, to March 3, 1839; was defeated as the Demo-
cratic candidate for the Twenty-sixth Congress, re-
ceiving 19,206 votes against 20,663 votes for Moses
Grinnell, Whig; went abroad, and, while in Europe,
was appointed by President Van Buren minister to
Ruuia, serving from May 20, 1840, to July 13, 1841 ;
died at bis cotmtry-<eat, at West Neck, Long Island,
April 30, 1862.
Cameron, Ansrus, was bom at Caledonia, New
York, July 4, 1828; received an academic education;
•tudicd law at BuHalo, New York, and graduated at
the National Law School, Ballston Spa; removed to
La Crosse, Wisconsin, in 1857 ; was a member of the
Sute Senate of Wisconsin in 1803, 1864, 1871, and
Ih;2: was a memt>er of the Legislative Assembly of
Wisconsin in 1860 and 1867, and was speaker in 1807;
*u a memt>er of the National Republican Conven-
tion at Baltimore in 1804; was one of the regents of
tint Univereity of Wisconsin 1806-1875; was elected
United-States senator from Wisconsin by the votes of
Republicans, Democrats, and Liberals, to saccced
Matthew H. Carpenter, serving from March 4, 1S75.
Cameron, James Donald (son of Simon Cam-
eron), was bom at Middletown, Pennsylvania, in 1833 ;
received a classical education, and was a student at
Princeton College; entered the Middletown Bank as
clerk, and became its cashier; was president of the
Northern-Central Railway Company of Pennsylvania
1866-1874, when the road was leased to the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad Company ; was secretary of war under
President Grant, May 22, 1876-March 3, 1877; was a
delegate to the National Republican Convention at
Cincinnati in 1876; and was elected a United-States
senator from Pennsylvania (to fill the vacancy caused
by the resignation of Simon Cameron) in March, 1877,
serving from October 15, 1877.
Cameron, Simon (father of James Donald
Cameron), was bom at Waynesborough, Pennsyl-
vania, March 8, 1700; learned the art of printing;
worked as a journeyman in Washington City, and
afterward edited newspapers at Doylestown and Har-
risburg; afterward l>ecame interested in important
banking and railroad interests, and served as adju-
tant-general of Pennsylvania; was secretary of war
in 1801, organizing the Union armies, and initiating
the arming of colored men; he resigned when ap-
pointed minister plenipotentiary to Russia in 1S02;
was elected United-States senator from Pennsylvania
in 1845, serving until 1849, and was re-elected in 1857
for the term ending in 1863, but resigned in 1801;
was i^ain re-elected as a Union Republican, to suc-
ceed Edgar Cowan, Democrat; took his seat in 1807;
was re-elected in 1872; resigned in 1877, and was suc-
ceeded by his son.
Campbell, Alexander, was bom at Concord,
Pennsylvania, October 4, 1814; received a common-
school education; entered an iron-manufacturing
establishment at an early age as clerk; became super-
intendent, and continued in the business of mana-
ging iron-works in Pennsylvania, Kentucky, and Mis-
souri, until 1850, when he removed to La Salle, where
he has since resided ; was elected mayor of La Salle
in 1852, and re-elected in 1853; was a member of the
State legislature of Illinois in 1858 and 1850; was a
member of the State Constitutional Convention of
Illinois in 1802, and was elected a representative from
Illinois in the Forty-fourth Congress as an Independ-
ent, receiving 10,3(53 votes against 7,960 votes for F.
Corwin, Republican, and serving from December 6,
1875, to March 3, 1877; was defeated as the Republican
candidate for the Forty-fourth Congress, receiving
13,313 votes against 14,849 votes for Philip C. Hayes,
Republican.
Campbell, Alexander, was bom in Virginia in
1779; received an academic education; studied medi-
cine, and commenced practice in Kentucky in 1785;
was a member of the State House of Representatives
in 1800; removed to Ripley, Ohio, In 1803; was a
member of the State House of Representatives In
1806; was elected a senator from Ohio in place of
Edward Tiffin, resigned, and took his seat January
12, 1810, serving until March 3, 1813; was a SUte
senator 1813-1823; and died at Ripley, Ohio, Novem-
ber 5, 1857.
Campbell, Brookins, was bora in Washington
County, Tennessee, in 1808; received a public-school
education; was for several years a member of the
State House of Representatives, and speaker of the
House in 1845; served in the Mexican war as com-
missary, with the rank of major, August 4, 1840, to
July 17, 1847; was elected a representative from Ten-
nessee in the Thirty-tliird Congress as a Democrat,
receiving 5,530 votes against 5,387 votes for Taylor,
Whig, but died at Washington City December 25,
1853, having never taken his seat.
Campbell, Qeorge Washington, was bom
In Tennessee in 1768; received a classical education,
graduating at Princeton College in 1704; studied law;
was admitted to the bar, and commenced practice at
Nashville; was elected a rcpieseutative uom Ten-
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ncssoo In the Eighth Congress as a Democrat ; wns
ro-clectoil to the Ninth Conjrosa, anil was ro-elcctod
to tho Tentli Con'^ross, serving from Octobor 17,
18J.1, to March 3, iSlW; was clcctcj rnitcil-Slates
senator from Tcnncssoo in place of Jeiil<in Wliitc-
Bido, rcsijcned, ami toolc liis scat Novcmlicr 4, 1811,
■cn'ing until lio rcsigncil. February It, l^il4; was
Becrctary of the treasury from February 1), 1H14. If)
October (J, 1814; was a^ain elected senator from
Tennessee, serving from l)eccml>er 4, ISl.'i. until be
resigned, in 1818; «•.■« minister to Russia from April
10, 1818, to July 6, 1821 ; w;is a memberof the Kronrb
CLiims CommiKsioii in IMl; and died at Nashville,
Tennessee, February 17, 184;j.
Campbell, James H., was bom at Williams-
port, Pennsylvania, February 8, 182(1; roci-ived a
classical cducati<m; studied law; Rradutited at the
Curlisic Law School; was admitted to the bar In
1S41, and commenced practice at Pottsvillc; was a
memberof tho National Whic; Convention at Halti-
mnri? in 1844; was elected a representative from Penn-
sylvania in tho Tliirty-fourtb Cnnip-ess as a ^V^lll;.
receiving 6.384 votes against 5,i>81 votes for W. L.
Dewiirt, Demoornt; was defeated ns the Ueimhlican
cindid.-ttc for the Thirty-tiflh Coiifrress, n-ccivin;;
0,418 votes against 8,1125 votes for W. L. Uewart',
UcmwnU; was asjain elected to the Tliirty-sixth
Conjcress, receiving 7,16:1 votes against 4,8fK) votes
for W, L. Dcwari; was re-elected to the Thirly-
■evcnth Congress, receiving 11,807 votes against i).'>i^
votes for nu|::lies, Democrat, sening from Decemlx-r
6, la'iO, to March ti, 18(il; w.is defeated .is tho I!c-
publican candidate for tlic Tliirly-clglith ('ongress,
receiving 8,518 votes against 9,2;W vot('s for Mycr
Slronse, Democrat ; was minister to .Sweden from May
18, 18(14. to March 20, 1807; w.is apjtoin ted minister to
the United .States of Colombia in 18(17. but (tecllned.
Campbell, John, was Imrn In Ch.irles County,
Maryland, .July 4, WA; received a cla.ssic.al educt-
tlon; held several local offlees; w.as elected a repre-
sentative from Maryland In the Seventh Congress .as
a Federalist, and wiis re-elected to the Eighth, Ninlli,
Tenlli. and Eleventh Congresses, serving from De-
ccml)er 7, I8()I, to M.ireh !i, 1811; was judge of (he
Orphans' CYmrt of ('barles Countv; and dio<l at Port
Tolweo, Maryland, .June 23, 1828".
Campbell, John, w.is born In .Soiith Carolina;
receiveif a classical education, graduating at the
South-Carolina College in 1811); studied law; was
admitted to the bar, and commenced practice at
Brownsville; removing to Parnassus, Marlliorough
District, was elected a n-presentative from South
Carolina in the Twcnty-lirst Congress as m State-
rights Whig, serving from December 7, 1820, to March
8, 1831; was a^aiu elected to the Twenty-fifth Con-
gress as a State-rights Democrat; was re-elected to
the Twenty-sixth Congress, receiving 1,28(J votes
against 000 votes for Smith, sul>-trcasury nullilier;
W.IS re-elected to the Twenty-seventh Congress, re-
ceiving 1,28<) majority, and was re-elected to the
Twenty-eighth Congress, serving from Seplcmlicr 4,
18.S7, to March 3, 1845; and died at Parnassus, May
10, 184.').
Campbell, John H., was born in Pennsylvania;
rccciveil a classical education; studied law; w.is
admitted to tlic bar, and commenced practice In Pliil-
adelphia; was elected a representative from Penn-
sylvania in the Tvventy-nintli Congress as a Native
American, receiving .'j,(!02 votes against 6,5(i!) votes
for his Democratic opponent, and serving from De-
cember 1, lS-1,'), to March :). 1847; declined a rennini-
natlon, and resumed practice; died ut Philadelphia
January 10, IfttH.
Campbell, John P., was born In Kentucky, and
resided at, Bellevievv; was a member of the Stale
House of Representatives In 1821; w.is elected a
representative from Kentucky in the Thirty-fourth
Congress as a National /Viuerlcan, ri'ceiving 7,633
votes against 0,080 voles for Peyton, Democnvt, and
serving from Docemt>er 3, 1K>5, to March 3, 1857.
Campbell, John W., was bom in AagnsH
County, Virginia; received an academic education;
studieil 1.1W ; was admitted to the bar. and com-
menced practice at West Union, Ohio; held several
local oftices; w-is elected a representative from Ohio
in the Fifteenth Congress as a Democrat; was rtv
elected to the Sixteentli, Seventeenth. Eigliteenlb,
and Nineteenth C'ongresses, serving from December
1, 1817, to March 3, 1827; was judge of the Unite«l-
Statcs Court for the District of Ohio; and died Sep-
tember 24, i8;w.
Campbell, Lewis D., was bom at Pnuiklin.
Ohio, ,\iigust 0, 1S| I : roceivetl a public-school educa-
tion; was api)rentieed to the art of printing 1828—
18;il; published a Clay Wliig nevvB[)aper at Hamilton,
Ohio, 1831-1830; studied Kivv; was .idinitted to th
bar, and commenced practice at Il.iniilton;
elect<?d a representative from Ohio in the TI
Congress as a Whig, receiving 0,014 vol.
0,470 votes for Baldwin, Democrat; was rf-< .. . ,. .
the Thirty-second Congress as a Free-soil Whig,
ceiving 0,002 voles against 5,270 votes for Vance,
Democrat; was re-elected to the Tliirty-lhinI Coi
gress, receiving 8,081) votes against 8,6;j;i votes for C,
L. Vullandigham, Democrat; was re-electeU to the
Tliirty-fourlii Congress, receiving 0.(K"v8 votes ag.iinst
0,40;J voti-s for C. L. Vallandigham (claimi.Hl to have
been re-elected to the Thirty-lifth Conprt?ss; but the
Uou.sc> gave the se.it to C. L. Vallandigham). serving
fn>m December 3, 1840. to May 2.%, 18,58; served in
the Union umiy as colonel of a regiment of Ohio
volunteer infantry 1S01-1SI02, resigning on account
of ill health; was commissioned minister to Mexico
May 4, 18«V-Juno 10, 1S07, but did not reach his
post; engaged in agricultural pursuits; was again
elected to tlie Forty-second Congress as a Democrat,
receiving 14,8.38 votes against 14,785 votes for Rol>ert
C. .Sclienk, Republicin.
Campbell, Robert B., w.is Iwm In .South Caro-
lina; received a classical e(hicatlon, graduating at
the .South-Carolina College in 1800; was electe<l a
representative from South Carolina in the Eighteenth
Congress as a .State-rights Whig, serv ing from De-
cember 1, 1823, to March 3, 182.">; was .igaiu elected
to the Twenty-third Congress in place of Thomas D.
•Singleton, decc.i.sed, as a nullitier, and was re-elected
to the Twenty-fourth Congress, receiving 81 majority
over Poslell, Union Democrat, serving from Febru-
ary 27, 18.S4, to March 3, 1*17; di-clincd a r»-election;
was appointed by President Tyler in 1842 cousiJ-
general at llav,ina.
Campbell, Samuel, w:vs bom at Mansflcld,
Conneclu'ul; reci;iveii a publii'-school education; re-
moved to Columbus, New York; was for five succes-
sive years a nieml)er of the .State Uousc of Repre-
sentatives; W.IS elected .i representative from New
York in I be Seventeenth Congress, serving frum De-
cember :?, 1821, to Man-h 3, 1823.
Campbell, Thomas Jefferson, w-as hom In
Tennessee in I78ii; received a public-school educa-
tion: was ossisLint insicector-general to Major-(Seu-
eral (.'oke's division of East-Tennessee militia Sep-
tember 2.5, 18i;j, to March 12, 1^14; was a presidential
elector on the Harrison ticket in 1841; was elected a
representative from Tennessee in the Twenty-seventh
Congress as a Whig, receiving 70 majority over Ju-
lius Blaekwell, Democrat, and serving from May 31,
1841, to March 3. 1843; Wiis defeat«l as the W\ui
candidate for tlie Twenty-eighth Congn'ss, receiving
5,700 votes against 5,703 votes for Julius Blaekwell,
Democnit; was elected clerk of the House of Repre-
sentatives in the Thirtieth and Tliirty-first Con-
gn'ssi's, serving from Decemlier 7, lt*47, until his-
death, .it Wa.«lilngTciu City, April 13, 1860.
Campbell, Thompson, vvas liom in Pennsyl-
vania; received a public-school education; removed
to Galena, Illinois, where he became interested in
mining; vviis ileited a repn-sentalive fmm Illinois in
tho Thirty-second Congress as u Di'm<K-rat, ri'ceivinil
8,131 votes against 7,807 votes fur Swoot, Whig, and
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•erring from Doccmb^r 1, 1851, to Hatx:h 3, 1853;
retnovoi] to Califomia, and died thero December 7,
ISflS.
Campbell, William B., was bom in Tennessee;
receiviMl a clasficiil eilin-ulioii; giudied law al Abing-
don and at Wini.'liosliT, VirjilMia; was admitted to
tlie bftr in Tennessee, and coninienccd practice; was
elccti-d a member of tlie Tennessee House of Uepre-
Bcutatlves in Ifsfc); seri-cd as capuiii of a company
in Trous<lalo'» rcfjiment In tlie Florida war; was
■ elected a representative from Tennessee in the Twen-
I ty-tiftli Congress as a Whig, receiving 014 majnrily;
^L^M re-eleeled to the Twenty-sixth Congress, recoiv-
^■jhM 706 majority over W. 0. Trousdale, Democrat,
^UhM was re-elected to the Twenty-si^venth Congress
without opposition, »er\'inK from .September 4, l^vj",
to March ;i, 1M4:J; served in the Mexican war as colonel
of the First Tennessee Volunteers; conimaiidcd bis
brigade after General f'ilbtw w;is wounded, and was
distinguished at Cerro (iordo and at Monterey; was
m mwle judge of the Fourth Circuit of Tennessee soon
■ after he rctunied fn^m Mexico; was governor of
H Tennessee ISol-lS-W; was elected judge of the Cir-
I cult Court in lKo7; canvassed the State in opposition
■ to »!cession in IHOl ; was appointed by I'rcsident
Lincoln liriRartier-general of volunteers Juno ;J0,
1802; resigned, on account of bad health, .latniary 20,
>1S(U; w;is elected a n'preS4mtative from Tennessee in
the Thirty-ninth Congress as a Whig, and was ad-
mitted to his seat December 3, lti07, scr\ing to
March 3, 1.S07; died at Lebanon, Tennessee, August
II). iNi-.
Campbell, William W., w.is born at Cherry
Valley. New York. .Mine 10, 1800; received a classical
education, graduating .it Union College in 1827;
nutlied law with Clijinecllor Kent of New York;
Was admitted to the bar, and eoinmencerl practice at
.New-Y'ork City In l.S;Jl: was rlicfed a ri'iiresentative
Xrom New York in the Twi-nty-niiith Congress as a
~ ational American, receiving 7.8o0 votes against
.760 vot<'S fur Moore, Democrat, and Ber^•iIlg from
eml>er 1, 1,S4."a to March 3, 1847; visited Europe;
as a juslico of the Superior Court of New-York
ity lSi4i»-18iV>; was elected a judge of the .State Su-
ireine Court for the Sixth District l.sr>7-l.'»iifi: pub-
Ishcil "Annals of Tr^•on Coiinlv " (1S;^1), " IJorder
'^N'arfan-" (1!^1»), " Life of De VVitt Clinton" (l.'m)),
•*- • Skel<-he8of Kobin llood .ind Captain Kidd " (ItW)),
'^' Life of Mrs. (Inmt. a Missionary" (1S40).
Canby, Richard S.. wasborii in Ohio; resiHed
^^t Bellefoiitalne; was elected a representative from
^Dhio in the Thirtieth Congress as a ^^^lig?, scr^'ing
:^Erom D.-remberii. ilMl, to March 3,1840.
Candler, Milton A., was bom in Caaipl)ell
^County. Georgia. Januar)' 11, 1837; received a clas-
sical education, graduating at the Tniversity of
^Jeorgia iu I8iJ4; studied law; was admitted to the
"■lar in IS-'Ai. .ind comuience<i practice at Decatur.
^Jeorgia; wasamemlier of the .Sl.ite House of Kepre-
^Mntatives in 1.8ill-18ii3. of llie State Constitutional
I"^^nvcntion in ISiVj. and of the .State Senate in 18(58-
. J872; Wiis elected a representative from Georgia in
■^hc Forty-fourth Congress as a Democrat, receiviiig
' 12.4;>() votes against (1,273 votes for G. Mills, Kepul)-
lican, .ser%lng from December 0, 1875, to March 3,
1877.
Cannon, George Q., was bom at Liverpool
England. .lanuarj' U. 1827; at an early age emigrated
with his p.irents to the Ignited .States; received a
careful education; learned the Mrt of printing; is an
editor by profession; was one of the first s<!ttlers of
the Gn-at Salt-lake D.isin. since organized as Utah
Territory; when steps were taken by the people of
Utah, in 18(12, to hove the Territory admitted into
tlie Union as a State, was elected United-.Stales sen-
ator; W.IS elected a member of the legislallve coun-
cil of the Territor\' of Utah for the vears 180.j and
1*!0, LSDltaiid 187(1, and 1871 and 1S72; w.as elei(ed
iu 1805, and regularly since llien, a niemlier of the
Board of licgcnts of the Deseret University; at a
Constitutional Contention held at ^alt-Inko City in
the months of February and March, 1872, was elecled
a delegate to iircsent the const itution and mcniorial
to Congress for the admifsion of the Territory into
the Union as a Sl.ite; was elected a dele;,'ate from
Utah In the Forty-third Congress, receiving 20.mH(
votes against I.'.M2 votes for G. 11. Maxwell, anli-
Mormon ; was re-elected tn the Forty-fourth Congress,
receiving 24,.8(i;j votes against 4,518 votfis for 11. N.
Baskin, anti-Mormon, and was re-elected to tho
Forty-liflh Congress, receiving 21..')31 votes iu{ainst
3,842 voles for U. N. Baskin, anti-Mormon, serving
from December 1. 1.873.
Cannon. Joseph G., was Ixim at Guilford,
North Carolina, May 7, I8.'J<i; received a lilwral edu-
raliioi; studied law; was adniiltcil to the bar, and
Commenced practice at Tuscola, Illinois; was .State's
altoniey from March, 1801. to Deceinber. l.St'i8; wag
clfctiil a representative from IHiiiois in the Forty-
tliiid Congress as a liepublican. receiving l.j.llll voles
against 11,405 votes for W. E. Nelson, Deiiiwr.it;
«a.s re-elected t«> the Forty-fourth Cimgrcss, reeoiv-
iiiR 11.243 votes against lO.(3<>:j votes for .Iam<j0 H.
Pickrell, Democrat, and was re-elected to tho Forty-
liltli (?onsres,s, receiving 17,7!l() votes .igainst l(t,4u4
voles for Black, Democrat, serving from December
1, 1873.
Cannon, Newton, wan iwni in Guilford County,
North Carolina; received a ]iublic-scluHil education;
removed to Tennessee; w.is clec'tcd a reprcsentativo
from Tenne.ss«'e in the Thirteenth Congress (in iiloco
of Ki'lix (irundy, resigned) as a Democrat, ami was
re-elected to the Fourteenth Congress, sening fnmi
October 15, 1814. to March 3, 1817; was appointed
by President Monroe a commissioner to negotiate
a treaty with the Chiek.isaw Indians in 1811); was
again elected a representative from Tennessee in the
.Sixteenth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 1.413
majority over Trimble, and was re-elected to thn
.Seventeenth Congress without opposition, serving
from Dercmber 0, 181H, to March 3, ]82;>; was gov-
eniorof Tennessee 18;i'i-18.30; and died at n»r|>cth,
Tennessee. September 21). 1842.
Cantine, John, was liom at Kingston, New
York; wium a member of the .State lIou.se of IJeprc-
seiitativcs 1777-1781, n88-17.H)l. and of the Stalo
Senate 1790-171)7; was a delegate from Ulster County
to the Slate Convention wbicli adopted the Federal
Constitution in 17.88; was elected a representative
from New York in the Eighth Congn.'ss, but resigned
before taking Iiis seat, in June, 1803.
Caperton, Allen Taylor, was boni near Union,
Monroe County, Xirgiiiia (now West Virginia), No-
vember 21, 1810; attended school in Virginia, and at
Iluntsvillc. Alabama, tlie University of Virginia,
and Y'ale College, graduating at the latter Institu-
tion in 18-39; studied law with .Itidge Briscoe G.
Baldwin at .Staunton, Virginia; wils admitletl to
the bar. and has since praetisi'd; was a director of
the James-river and Kanawha Can.il; w.ns for several
years a Whig member of the Slate House of Dele-
gates and of the State Senate of Virginia, his lost
senatorial tenn being from 1850 to 1800; was a mem-
ber of the .Slate Couslitutional Convention of Vir-
ginia in 1801 ; was elected by the legislature of
VirKUiia a member of the Confederatc-SLites Senate,
and served until the close of the war, in 1805; took
an active part, after returning home, in bringing the
tine coal, mineral, tiiulier, and grazlng-lands of
West Virginia before distant capitalists; was elected
Uniled-.States senator fnmi West Virginia as a
Uein<icrat, to succeed Artliur I. Boremaii ; took Ills
seat M.ireh 4, 1875; and dii^ at Washington City,
July 20. 1876.
CJaperton, Hugh (father of Allen T. Caperton),
was bom in VipfCinIa in 178(1; received an academic
education: devote<l himself to agricultural pursuits;
was for sewral years a mcml>cr of the Virginia State
House of Delegates; was eli-eted a reprcsentativo
from Virglula in the Thirteenth Congress as a Fed-
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eralist, serving from May 24, 1813, to Hnrch 2, 1815;
died in Monroe County, Virginia (now West Vir-
ginia), February 0, ly47.
Carey, George, was Imm in Cliaries County,
Maryland; rcetivodnnacadomic odticatinn; removed
to Gcorpa, and settled at Appling; was elected a
representative from tJoorKia in tlio liishtfenth Con-
gress, and was re-(Mected to llio Nineteenth Congress,
serving frotn December 1, 1.S23, to March 3, 1327;
and died in ITpson ('ounty, Georgia, Juno 14, 1!M4.
Carey, Jeremiah E!., was born at Coventry,
Rhode Island, April ;i(>, 18(J3; received a public-
school education; removed to Cherry Valley, in the
State of New York; studied law; was admitted to
the bar in 1820, and cominenceil pracliec; was electe<l
a representative from New York in tlie Twenty-eighth
Congress as a Democrat, receiving 8,085 vott'S against
6,803 vot«s for Tuckennan, Whig, and scrying from
I)ecemlH'r4, l.S4;3, to JIarch 3, IfUo; removed to New-
York City, and commenced practice there.
CcU'ey, John, was born in Monoiigahela County,
Virginia, April o, 1792; removed with his parents to
the North-western Territory in 1708; worked with
hia father as a tanner until 1812; assisted in liuihiing
the first stone house in Columbus, Ohio, in 1834;
was an associate judge IsiVlSHi; was a member of
the Stale House of'liepresentatives in 1828, 1830,
and 184;!; was elected a representative from Ohio
in the Thirty-sixth Congress as a Republican, re-
ceiving 9,304 votes against 9,117 votes for L. W.
Hall, licinocrat, scning from December 5, 1859, to
Mardi 3, 1801; retired to his farm, devoting himself
♦o agriniUur.Tl pursuits.
CarlUe, John S., was bom at Winchester, Vir-
ginia, Deccinlter IH, 1817; was educated by his
mother; eiigago<I in mercantile pursuits; studied
law; was admitted to the bar in 184(1, and ccmimcnccd
practice at Beverly, Virginia, in 1842; \\i\a a menil>er
of the St,itc Senate 1S47-1851; was a delegate to the
State Conslitutional Convention of 1850; was elected
a representative from Virginia in the Thirty-fourth
Congress as a Unionist, ser^•ing from Deceml)cr .3,
1855, to March 3, 1857; was again elected to the
Thirtv-seventh Congress as a Unionist, sen'ing fn)m
July 4, !8(il, until July 13, ISOl, when he took bis
seat in the Senate, having licen elected in place of
R. M. T. Hunter, withdrawn, and serving to March
3, 1805.
Carlton, Peter, was bom in New ITampsiiire;
received a intblic-sehooi education; and was elected
a representative from New Hampsliire in the Tenth
Congress, serving from October 'M, 1807, to March 3,
1809.
Canniohael, Richard B., was bom in Marj--
land; received a cl.^s.>!ical education, graduating at
Princeton College in 1828; studied law; wasadiiiittol
lo the bar, and pmctised at Centreville; was oleetcil
a represent.itive from Marjland in the Twenty-third
Congress as a Jackson Democrat, scr^-inp from De-
cember 2, 18;W, to March 3, 1835; was presiding judge
of the County Court nf (Jueen Anne County in 1801.
Carmichael, William, was bom in Maryland;
received a classical education ; went to Paris as secre-
tary to the commissioners of the Americ.in States
Noveml)er 28, 1777; returned home, and was a dele-
gate from JIarj'land in the Continental Congress
1778-1780; went to Spain as secretary of legal ion
September 28, 1770; was appointed chtirrif iVajjaircii
April 20, 170!J, and served until M.iy. 1704, having
negotiated In 1702, jointly with William Short, a
treaty concerning the free navigation r>f the Mi.ssis-
slppi River; returned to Maryland; and died in Fel>-
ruarj', 1705.
Carnes, Thomas P., was bom in Maryland in
1702; received a classical education; studied law;
was admitted to the bar, and removed to Milledge-
ville. Georgia, where he commenced [iractiee; was
Solicitor-general, and sub8e<|iicntly nltomey-general,
of Georgia; was jmlge of the Supreme Court of
Geoi^ia; was elected a reproseatativofrom Georgia in
the Third Congn'css. Berving from December 2. WK^
to March 3, 1705; died at Millcdgeviile, Georgia, May
6, 1822.
Carpenter, Davis, was bom at Walpolc. New ~^
H.iiiipsliire, December 2.j. 1700; received an academic ^
education: studied medicine; received the degree of '^
M.D. at Middlebury College in 1824, and commenced Mt,
practice at ilrockport, New York; was elected a rep--^—
resentativc from New York in the Thirty-tliirU Con — -^
gress (in place of A. Boo<ly, resigned) as a ^^^ug, ^3
receiving 148 majority, .and BCr^■ing from Dctcinl>cr
5, 18.V3, to March 3, 1855; w.is defeated as the Whig
candidate for the niirty-fourth Congress, r<x-civing,^_
4,227 votes against 5,0<i0 votes for John Willi.ims,^ ;,
Soft Democrat, anil 1866 votes for Sibley, Hard Dem — ,
ocnit; resumed practice at Brockport,
Carpenter, Levi D., was l)om In Oneida Conn— ^
ty. New York; received a public-school education
was elected a representative from New York in tli«
Twenty-eighth Congress (In place of Samuel Beards
Icy, resigned), as a Hani Democrat, by 7:U majority
serving from December 2. 1844, to Marcli 3. 1S45.
Carpenter, Lewis Cass, was ixini at I'utnan
Connecticut, Kebniary 20, 18:1(1; received a public
scliool education; removed to New Jersey, where he]
taught school for several years; studie<l law. and was ]
admitted to the bar, but never practised; l>egan writ-
ing for the press at an early age, and was for several
ye.ira connected with New- York papers: removed to
Washington, District of Columbia, in 1804, and was
appointcil an officer of the treasury depHrtinent; was
also Washington correspondent for several news-
papers; assisted in establishing the first Republican
daily paper in South Cun)lina — "The Charleston
Republican" — in 18<!8, and removed there in 1S70 .
to liecome one of Its editors; established " The Doily I
Union" in 1870; was elected a representative from'
South Carolina in tlic Forty-third Congress as a
Reimlilican (in place of Robert B. Elliott, resigned),
receiving 2;J,185 votes, »vithout any organireil oppo-J
sition, serving from December 7, 1874, to March 3, '
1875.
Carpenter, Matthew H., of Milwankcc, was
iHirn at Moretown, Vennont, in 1824; entered the
Jlilitary Ac.idemy at West I'oint in 1.S63. and re-
mained there two years; studied law with Rufus
Choate, and was admitted to the bar; removed Xoi
Wisconsin in 1848, an<l entered upon the practice ot\
his ])r(>fesslon; was electi.-d United-Stales senator)
from VVii!cou.sin as a Republican, in place of James
It. Doolitlle; took his seat March 4, 1800. and served
until March 3, 1875; resumed practice at SVashingtoit
City. f
Carr, Francis, was bom in Massachusetts in
17.52; received a pubiie-si-hooi education; was a mem- I
her of tlie State House of Itepresentatives ISlHi-lMl;
was elected a representative from Massachusetts in
tlie Twelfth Congress (in place of B. Gotiuett, ro-
.signed) as a Democrat, semng from June 3, 1812, to
ilarcli 3, I8I;!; and died October 7, 1S21.
Carr, James, was born in that [Kirtion of Maasa-
chiisetts which afterwards became Maine; was a
member of the State House of Representalivca ISOO-
1811; was elected a representative from Mossacba-J
setts in the Fourteenth Congress, serving from Do- I
ceiiilK!r2, 1810, to March 3, 1817; and died at Bangor.
Carr, John, settled at Charlestown. Clarke Coun-
ty, Indiana; was elected a representative from Indi-
ana in till! Twenty-second Congress as a Democrat,
and was rtM^lirted to the Twcnly-tliini and Twenty-
fourlh Congresses, ser>iiig from Deiember 5, 1831,
to March 3, l.s:!7; was defeated as the l>emncratjc
candidate for the Twenty-Ufth Congress by William J
Graliam, Whig; was again elected to tlie Twenty-
sixth Congress, serving from December 2, lS:l!t, to
Man.-li 3. 1841; and died at Charlestown, Indiana,!
JaiiujiPi' 20. 1845.
Carrington, Edward, was bom in Virginia, I
February II, 1740; received an academic e<lucatiun:i
served in tlie Ruvoluliouary army in the quarter
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master's department; was a delegate from Virginia
to tlie Coutlnental Congress 17S5-1780; was foreman
of the jury before which Aaron Burr was tried for
treason in 1807; and died at Bichmond, Virginia,
October 28, 1810.
Carroll, duurles, was bom at Annapolis, Mary-
laud, September 20, 1737; received a classical educa-
tion at the CoU^e of St. Omer, in France; studied
the civil law at the College of Louis-le-6rand at
Rheims, and the common law at the Temple at Lon-
don; returned to Baltimore In 1764, and took an
active part in the discussions which preceded the
lievolution; was a continental commissioner to Can-
ada early In 1776, but failed to induce the Canadians
to join the other provinces; was a delegate to the
Constitutional Convention of Maryland; was a dele-
gate from Maryland in the Continental Congress,
serving from July 18, 1776 (signing on the 2d of
August the Declaration of Independence, which had
been adopted on the 4th lust.), until 1778, when he
resigned, to devote his whole time to liis duties as
a member of the State Senate; was elected a senator
from Maryland in the First Congress as a Federalist,
serving his term of two years from March 4, 1789;
was re-appointed, and resigned in 1792; was a mem-
ber of the State Senate ot Maryland from 1791 un-
til 1801, when, on the defeat of the Federal party,
he retired into private life. He laid the comer-stone
of the Baltimore and Ohio Bmlroad, July 4, 1828;
and died at Baltimore Kovember 14, 1S32.
CaxroU, Charles H., was bom in Maryland
June 7, 1704; removed to the Genesee Valley, New
ToHv, with his father, when young; received a clas-
sical education ; studied law with John C. Spencer,
and was admitted to the bar, but never practised,
devoting hia time to the man^ement of his large
landed estates; was a member of the State House of
Bepresentatives in 1836, and of the State Senate in
iSSl; was elected a representative from New York
in the Twenty-eighth Congress as a Henry Clay
Whig, receiving 6,070 votes against 623 votes for
Pills, Abolitionist, the Democrats making no oppo-
sition, and was re-elected to the Twenty-ninth Con-
gress, receiving 8,310 votes against 6,465 votes for
Wadiworth, Democrat, serving from December 4,
1843, to March 3, 1847; was a presidential elector on
the Fillmore and Donaldson ticket in 1856, and the
Bell and Everett ticket in 1860; was a prominent
Union man during the war for the suppression of
the Rebellion; and died at Groveland, New York,
June 8, 1865.
Carroll, Daniel, was bom in Prince George's
County, Maryland, in 1756; received a classical edu-
cation; engaged in agricultural pursuits on an estate
now included within the limits of Washington City:
vas a del^ate from Maryland to the Continental
Congress 1780-1 7W; was a delegate to the Conven-
tion which framed the Federal Constitution; was
elected a representative from Maryland in the First
Congress as a Federalist, serving from March 4, 1780,
to March 3, 1791; took an active part in securing the
establisliment of a seat of government; was appoint-
ed by President Wasliington one of the commission-
en to locate the District of Columbia and the Federal
city in 1701; resided at "Duddington," his mansion-
lioiue, near the Ci^itol at Washington City, and died
tliere in 1^9.
CaxroU, James, was bom at Baltimore, Mary-
land; received a thorough English education: was
elected a representative fifom Maryland iu the Twen-
ty^ixth Con«esa as a Democrat, receiving 8,018
vote* against 7,632 votes for John P. Kennedy, Whig,
Mtving from December 2, 1830, to March 3, 1841.
Cam>ll, John M., was bom at Springfield, New
Tork, April 27, 1825; received an academic educa-
tion; graduated at Union College, Schenectady, New
York, in 1846; studied law; was admitted to tiic bar
ill IS48, and practised at Johnstown; was elected
diitrict-attomey of Fulton County in 1850, and hold
tlul oiiice three years; and was elected a representa-
tive from New York in the Forty-second Congress
as a Democrat, receiving 14,8^ votes against 13,390
votes for Marvin, Bepuollcan, and 2,286 votes for S.
.McKean, Independent.
Carson, Samu^ P., was bom at Pleasant Gar-
den, North Carolina; was a member of the State
Senate of North Carolina in 1822 and 1824; was
elected a representative to the Nineteenth Congress,
defeating the then representative, R. B. Vance, M.D. ;
was re-elected to the Twentieth Congress, again de-
feating Dr. Vance (a duel ensued that fall at Saluda
Gap, South Carolina, in which Dr. Vance received a
mortal wound, of which he soon died); was re-
elected to the Twenty-first Congress without opposi-
tion, and was re-elected to the Twenty-second Con-
gress without opposition, serving from December 6,
1825, until March 3, 1833; removed soon afterwards
to Arkansas, where he died at the Hot Springs in
November, 1840.
Carter, John, was bom on Black Biver, Sumter
District, South Carolina, September 11, 1792; received
a classical education, graduating at tjie South-Caro-
lina College in 1811; studied law; was admitted to
the bar, and commenced practice at Camden; was
elected a representative from South Carolina in the
Seventeenth Congress (in place of James Blair, re-
signed) ; was re-elected to the Eighteenth, Nine-
teenth, and Twentieth Congresses, serving from
December 11, 1822, to March 3, 1827; declined a re-
election: resumed practice at Camden; removed in
1836 to Georgetown, District of Columbia, where he
died June 20, 1850.
Curter, Luther C, was bom at Bethel, Maine,
February 25, 1805: received an academic education ;
removed to New York, where he engaged in mercan-
tile pursuits; was several years a member of the
Board of Education of New-York City; retired from
business, and removed to Long Jlsland, where he
became interested in agriculture; was elected a rep-
resentative from New York in the Thirty-sixth Con-
gress as a Union Republican, receiving 8,122 votes
against 7,339 votes for the Democratic candidate,
and serving from December 6, 1850, to March 8,
1861; was defeated as the Republican candidate for
the Thirty-seventh Congress, receiving 10,631 votes
against 11,882 votes for £. Henry Smith, Democrat.
Carter, Timothy J., was bom in that portion
of Massachusetts now Maine; received a classical
education; studied law: was admitted to the bar,
and practised at Paris, Maine; was secretary of the
State Senate of Maine 1833; was county-attomey
1833-1837; was elected a representative from Maine
iu the Twenty-fifth Congress as a Democrat, serving
from September 4, 1837, to his death at Washington
City March 14, 183a
Carter, William B., was bom in Tennessee in
1812; received a public-school education; was in-
terested in agricultural and mercantile pursuits; was
several years a member of the State Senate and
House of Representatives; was a delegate to the
State Constitutional Convention of 1834, and its pre-
siding officer ; was elected a representative from
Tennessee In the Twenty-fourth Congress as a
Whig, defeating Anderson and Arnold ; was re-
elected to the Twenty-fifth Congress, defeating T. J.
Arnold, Democrat, and was re-elected to the Twenty-
sixth Congress, defeating Powell, Democrat, serving
from December 7, 1835, to March 3, 1841; died at
Elizabethtown, Tennessee, April 17, 1848.
Cartter, David £., was bom in New York; re-
ceived a thorough English education; studied law;
was admitted to the bar, and commen<^ practice at
MasUlon, Ohio; was elected a representative from
Ohio in the Thirty-first Congress as a Democrat,
receiving 6,774 votes against 3,477 votes for Brown,
Whig, and was re-elected to the Thirty-second Con-
gress, receiving 6,682 votes against 4,448 votes for
Hemphill, Whig, serving from Decemlier 3, 1840, to
March 3, 1853; was appointed by President Lincoln
minister to Bolivia, serving from March 27, 1861, to
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COXGRESSIONAL DIRECTORr.
Mareh 10, 1802; was nppnint^d In 1803 chief justice
of the .Supreme rnutt of the District of Columlii.-i,
Carutners, Robert L., was hum in Smith
County, Tennessee, July .'11, IHOO; receive<I a classical
education, nuiinly tliroiigh his own exertions, while
clerk in a store; studied law; was admitted to the
hur in 182.S, and commenced practice; was clerk of
the State House of llepresentatives in l.'*24; was
rlerk of the Chancery Court of Smith County, and
edited a newspajicr there; removed to Wilson County
in LSai; w:ws State attorney IHiT-lKK; was a member
of the Tennessee House of Keprcscntatives in 183.1;
was elected a presidential elector on the Clay and
Freiinjhuysen ticket in 1H4.5, declinins; to l)C regarded
as a candidate for governor; w.os elected a repre-
sentative from Tennessee in the Twenty-fourth Con-
cress as a Whig, receiving 1,214 majoiitv. and serv-
ing from May 31, 1841, to Man;h 3, l.'i4.t; declined a
re-election; was appointed judge of the Supreme
Court of Tennessee in 11>")2; was a (hilcgate from
Tenncssie to the I'cace Convention of ItKM).
Caruthers, Samuel, w.is bom in Madison
County, Missouri, Octolx-r 13, 182<) ; received a
classicii education, graduating at Clinton College,
Teimcssee; studied law; was admitted to the bar,
and coinmenced practice at Fn'dericktown, n-moving
8ubs«'quently to f»irarde.iu, Missouri; held several
local offices; Wiis elected a repn'sentalivo from Mis-
souri in the Thirty-third Congress as a Whig, on a
general ticket; was re-elected" to the Thirty-fourth
Congress, receiving 8,045 votes against &,62.'> votes for
Jones, liciiton Democrat, and was re-elected to the
Thirty-lUth Congress ns a Democrat, receiving S.2i>l
votes against 4.88:1 votes for Ferryman, Anieri<'an,
serving from December 5, 18.V1, to JIarch 3, ISTiO;
ami died at Cape Girardeau. Missouri, July 20, IHOO.
Csiry, George B., was Iwm n'.'ar Petersburg,
Virginia, in 1811; received a classical education; was
elected a representative from Virgiiua in the Twenty-
BOventh Congress .is a Democrat, ser^•ing from May
81, 1811, to March 3, 1843; died at Betlilehcm, Vir-
ginia, March !>, 1*50.
Cory, Samuel P., was bom at Clncltuiatl, Ohio,
Febni.iry 18, 1814 ; graduated at the Miami I'niverslty
of Ohio, and aftenv.irds at the Cincinnati Law
School; practised law until l.^t,'), whi'ii he engaged
in agricultural pursuits; was elected a n'prescntative
from Ohio in the Fortieth Congress as an Indepenil-
ent Kepublican. receiving O'lO majority over Smith,
Itcpublican: Wits prominent as a iabor-ri-fonner,
Gary, Shepard, was Imrn in Mnini'; received a
public-school education; was interested in agricul-
ture and mercantile pursuits; was a member of
the StJito House of Itepresentatives in 18;j2, 18.'ly.
1830, 1.840, 1841, 1842, and 1843: w-as a presidential
elector on the Van Burcn and Johnson ticket in
1M6; was elected a representative from Maine in the
Twenty-eighth Congress, as a Demoernt, serving
from lilay'^lii, lft4-l, to March .3, lS4.i; died .it Houl-
ton, Maine. August 12, 1800.
Case, Charles, was bora at Austinburgh, Ohio,
December 21, Ii^lT; received an academic education;
studied law ; wxs ailmitted to the bar. and commenced
practice at Fort Wayne, Indi.ina; w.ts electtM a rep-
resentative from Indiana in the Tliirty-fiflh Congress
as a Keptibtiean (to till a Viicaney caused by the death
of Samuel Brenton), receiving 800 majority over J.
L. Werden. Democrat; and w.is re-elected to the
Thirty-sixth Congress, receiving 10,780 votes against
9,417 voles for Dawson, Democrat, serving from
I>ecember 7, IS-")?, to March 3, IStll.
Case, 'Walter, w.os l>om in Dutchess County,
New York; was elected a represcntitive from New
York In the .Slstecnth Congress, serving from De-
cember 0, 1810, to March 3, 1821; died at Newburgh,
New York.
Casey, Joseph, was bom in Marjland; received
a lilxnil r<l\aatiiin; sludii'd law; wa.s ■admitted to
the bar. and pr;v:tised at New Berlin. Pennsylvania;
was elected a representative from Pennsylvania in
the Thirty-first Congress as a 'Whig, receiving T,JI
votes against 7,118 votes for Petrekin. IJemocrattl
serving from December 3, l.'*49, to March 3. l.S)l;i
wiis appointed by Pn>sideut Lincoln a judge of tba
Court of Claims in 18«53.
Casey, Levi, was an active partisan olBccr !n .
South Carolina liuring the Uevolutionary war; waa
elected brigadier-general of militia; was eltvtttl a.
representative in Congress from Sonth Carolina to
tlie Kighth Congress; and was re-elected to the a
Nintli Congress, serving from October 17, 1803, until.
his death, at W.TShington City, February 1. IStiT.
Casey, Samuel L., was bom in I'nion Countyj
Kentucky; reccivcil a good English education; studic
law; was admitted to the bar, and practised at Ciutej
ville; was elected a representative from Kentucky i
the Tliirty-seventh Congress, serving from Marcli IQ
1S<12. to March 3, 18t(3.
Casey, Zadoo, was bom in Georgia in 1706;
moved to Illinois, where he founded the tov.n
Caseyville; was elected a reprcscnt.ative from lllinob
in the Twenty-third Congress as a Jackson Democrntjf
was re-elected to the Twenty-fourth. Twenty-fiffli,J
T\»'enty-8ixth, and Twenty-seventh Congresses, scrv.^
ing from DecemlK-r 2, 183:1, to March 3, 184:1; wa
elected licutenanl-govemor of Illinois; was a dele
gate to a .State Constitutional Convention; and die
at Caseyville. Illinois, in 18112.
Caskie, John 8., was bom at Richmond, Vh
ginia; received a classic.il education, graduating
the University of Virginia; studied law ; was admit
ted to the bar, and commenced ])mctlce at liichmondji
was appointed prosecuting attorney; was electedJ
wlien twenty-five years of age, by the legislaturej
judge of the Iliclunond and Henrico Circuit; wa
elected a representative from Virginia in the Thirty^
second Congress as a Dem'vcrat, receiving 'J ' s^
against 2,472 votes for John Minor Botts, W
re-elected to the Tliirty-tliird Congress, i.i.mii^
4,:i;l3 votes against '3,hOl votes for Coleman, ^\'higf
was re-elected to the Thirty-fourth Con.grcs8, recciv^
Ing 5,1).J1 votes against 5.446 votes for W. C. Scott
National American; was nM-lectcd to the Thii
iiflli Congress, receiving T>,\i>i votes against 2.Sl.'J
votes for Crane, National American, serving fron
December 1, 18.')!. to M.arch S, 18o!i: w.as defeated :
the Democratic c;indidato for the Thirty-sixth Con
gn.'ss, receiving .^ASl votes against ri..>sl votes fo
Daniel S. Dejarnette, Independent Democrat;
sumed practice; and died at Itichmond, Virgini;
.iflera protracted illness, December Hi, 18<)9.
Cason, Thomas J., was lM)m in Union ConntyJ
Indiana, September 13, 1.S2S; w.os educated at con
raon schools, and by himself at home; was ruLsed oa
a f.irm; when seventeen years of age, commenced|
teaching school, and reading law; studied l.iw wit!
Governor Henry S. Lane and Judge Samuel C. Wil-
son of Cmwfonlsville; w:is licensed to practise
March, 1850; was admitted to the bar of the Suprcmel
Court in May, l^<."i2, and continued to practise at]
Lebanon, except when on the liench; was a memb
of the State House of ncpres(!ntatives in 1.801, 18
18(W, and l.S<M, and of the State Senate in IStM. 18
18tJC, and 1867: was ajipointed by Governor Bake
common-pleas judge in April, 1807, and served luiti
October, when he was elected to the same office foe
a term of four years; was electe<l a reprcscntatival
from Indiana in the Forty-tliird Congress as a Ke-1
publican, receiving 17,920 votes against 17,730 rotesj
for M. D. Manson, Democrat; and w.is roolected taj
the Forty-fourth Congress as a Repulilican. reeeiviin_
1.1,188 votes against 12,754 votes for McClurg. Dcmol
crnt, serving from December 1, 1873, to Marcli 3,1
1877. J
Cass, Lewis, was Iwm at Exeter, New Hamp*!
shire, Octolwr D, 17S2; received an academic cduca
tion; crossed the Alleghany Mountains on foot, when
scveutei'U years of :ige, to <1hi.); studied law; writ
admitted to the bar In 18«i2, and commenced practice
at Zanesville; was a member of the Ohio House ( '
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823
Itopresentatircs; wna TTnlted-Slatc* mnrshal for the
District of Ohio lSlt7-181S; was colonel of the Third
Ohio Vohinlccrs, which was a piirt of tlcncral llnll's
army Burrcudi-red at Detroit Ausu!*!. M, 1^>12; was
Hppoiuted colonel of IheTwcnlielii United-Slates In-
fantry in Febniary, l.si:J, and promoted to the rank
I of hrigailier-genoral March I'l. 1S1:J; was governor
of Micliiffan Territory isi:j-is;jl ; was apiiointed
»«crotary of war hy President Jackson, seniiig from
l!*31 Vo i8;j<l; was minister to France fn>in Oclolier-l,
1830. to Novcmlwr IL', 1H42; was elected United-States
senator from Michigan as a Democrat, soning from
Dccemlicr 1, lS4o, until he resigned. May 20, I.S4.S;
was defeated as the Democratic candidate for Presi-
dent in the fall of 1S4.S; wns suhsequcntly elected to
^_ 611 the vacancy <H'c,i«ioned hy his own ivsignation,
^B «'r>ing from Dccemlwr ;i, IWH, to March S. 1S5";
^M was s<'crclary of state tinder President Bnohanan
^H from March 4, IK>1, nutll he resigned, December 17,
^H 1860; retireil to Detrciit, MIcliigan, where hd iliod,
I June 17, IWJt). Puhlisheil ■•Kraiice, its King, Court,
uid (iovernmeiit," and several magazine articles on
» Indian affairs.
Cassedy, George, was bom in Dcrgen County,
New Jersey, May 14, 17.S4; w.is elected .a nrpix-seut.i-
tive from New Jersey in the Seventeenth Congress,
And was re-elected to the Eightwnth and Nineteenth
Confcn»ses. stTviiig from December H. 1S21, to March
8, 1823; died at Haekcii.sack, New Jersey.
^^ Casserly, Eugene, was bom in Ireland in 1823;
^■.came with his parents, in 1827, to New-York City,
^f 'Where he resided until lS.'iO; received there a clnasical
CKlucation; was connected with the press for alxmt
five ye.irs; was admitted to the highest courts of New
York in 184.5; practised law in New- York City until
18.V), and was corporation-attorney there in lK4li-
1847; went to California in 1850, and h,is since re-
sided in San Francisco; in 18Jj!)-lK.jl ho pubtishod a
idaily paper there, and was Slate printer for one year,
in ISol-bSK; practised law from 1^51 luitll Novcm-
V>er, 18<)8; was elected United-.stitti's senator from
»C!alifornia as a Democrat, to siacecd John Conness,
Xiepiiblican, and served from March 4, 18(10. tmtil
November 2t>, 1873, when he resigned, and resumed
Jirat'tice at .San Frnnclseo.
Casvrell, Lucien B., was bom at Swanion, Ver-
Xnciiit. Novemlier 27, IS27; removed to Wisconsin in
1SJ7; pursued a parli.'il collegiate course; studied
.Jaw: was admitted to the bar In 1851, and practised
kt Foil Atkinson; was elected district-attorney in
L*r>.> and 185*1; was a meml)er of the Legislative As-
etiibly of Wisconsin in is<hj, 1872, imd 1874 ; was com-
missioner of the second district board of enrolment
"^njtn September, 18(i;{, to May 5, 18(V); was a delegate
i-o the liepublican N.itional f'onvention at Chicago
n tWW : an<l was elected a representative fmtn Wis-
loiisin in the Forty-fourth Congress as a Republican,
-eceiving 11,070 voles against 11,4.')9 votes for A. (i.
~r^oolc. Democrat, .ind was re-elected to the Forty-fifth
ioTigPV-is, n.'ceiving 15,073 votes against 14,745 votes
^or • >rt(in. Democrat, serving from DecemlxT 0, 1875.
Caswell, RichEtrd, was bom in Maryland, Au-
st 3, 17211; receiveil a cla.ssical education; removed
~*.o Kaleigh, North Carolina, in I74<>, and wius for
■feeveral years a clerk at the .State capitol, studying
iaw in his leisure hours; w.is admitted to the bar,
sand commenced practice; was a member of the Colo-
nial House of Delegates 1754-1771, si'ning I he two biKt
as speaker; sen'cd in the Kevolutionary army.
ommanding the right wing at the battle of Alla-
^nancc in 1771 ; was a delegate from North Carolina
"to the Continental Congress 1774-1770; was delegate
Ilo the Stute Constitutional Cimvention, and its presi-
dent; was governor of North Carolina 1777-1780;
«ominanded the North-Carolina troops at the battle
of Camden 1780; was speaker of the Senate of North
Carolina 1782-1784, pcrfomiing the duties of cf>mp-
lroller-gener.il at the same time; was again g<ivenior
«)f North Carolina 178.5-1788; was a (b'legiiti? from
l«ortli Carolina to tlie Couvcntiou which framed the
Federal ConBtitutioii 17S7; was ikgaln elected State
senator in 17811, and, while presiding over that liody,
vtitu stnick with paralysis, of wliich he died ten days
ofterivanis. Novembers, 1780.
Gate, George W., was bom in Montp<'ller, Ver-
mont, .September 17, 1H25; reeeive<l a comtnon-school
education; studied law, and was admitted to the bar
in 1845 at Moiilpelier; nsmoved tlu? same jear to
Wisconsin, ami located at Plover; was elected a mem-
ber of the State legislature in 18.52 and 1S.53; »!\s
elected judge of the Circuit Court in April, 18.54, and
held that position continuously until ilarch 4, 1876,
when he resigned upon being elected a representative
from Wisconsin in the Forty-fourth Congress as nu
Indi')«'inleiit IJeformer, receiving 0.440 votes ogninit
0,44-i votes for A. S. McDill, IJcpul'llcan, and serving
from Decemlier 0. 1S75, to March 3, 1877.
Cathcart, Charles W., was l>om on the Island
of Maib'ira in 1800; received a good Knglish educa-
tion; followed the sea in his boyhood; located at
La Porte, Indiana, in IKJl, and engaged in agricul-
tural pursuits, ami w.is for several years a I'nited-
.States laiul surveyor; was a inemlwr of the .Stat<<
House of Representatives; was chosen u presidential
elector on the Polk and Dallas ticket in 1845; was
elected a representative from Iiuliana In the Twenty-
ninth Congress as n Democrat, receiving 0,302 votes
tigninst 6,0.50 votes for Sample, Whig; and was re-
elected to the Tliirfieth Congress, receiving 7,474
votes against 7,070 votes for I'nitt, ^V^lig, serving
from Deceml)er 1, 1845, to March S, 1.S40; was ap-
pointed United-States senator from Indiana in place
of James Whitcomb, deceased, serving from Decem-
Ikt 0, 1852, to March 3, 1853; engaged in agricultural
pursuits.
Catlin, George S., was bom at Harwlnton,
Coiiiieclicut, August 7, 1800; received an academic
educ.-ition; studied law; was admitted to the bar in
18;W, and commenced practice at Windham, Connecti-
cut; was several years a member of the State legis-
lature; was Slate attorney for Windham County;
was elected a representative from Connecticut in the
Twenty-eighth Congress as a Democrat, receiving
0,2.53 votes against 6,011 voles for the Whig candi-
date, and 8<'r\ing from December 4, 184.3, to March
3, l845; was defeated as the Democratic candidate
for the Twenty-ninth Conpn>s9, receiving 6,3(11 votes
against 5,734 votes for Kockwcll, \V'hig, and 784 votes
for Wilson, Ab<.>litioni8l; was judge of the Windham-
county Court; died at Wliidham, Connecticut, De-
cember 20. 1851.
Cattell, Alexander Q., was bom at Salem,
New Jersey, February 12, 1810; received a public-
school education; w.is a clerk In his father's store,
and afterwards a merchant and a banker in Philadel-
phia; was a meml)cr of. the State legislature of New
Jersey in 1840; was clerk of the General A.isctnblyof
New jermiy from 18-12 to 1844; was a memlier of the
Stale Constitutional Convention of New Jersey in
1844; was elected United-States senator from New
Jersey as a Ilepublican in the place of John P.
Stockton, Democrat, who liad been unscati'd, and
served from December 3, ISflO, to March 3, 1871.
Caulfleld, Bernard Q., w-as lH>ni at Alexaiulria,
Virginia, Octolier 18. 1828; received a classical educa-
tion, graduating at the (Jeorgelown College, District
of Columbia, in 1848, and at the law department of
the University of Pennsylvania In 1850; was admitted
to the bar in 1S:50, iind removed in 18Wi to Chicago,
where he practiseil law; was electoil a representative
from Illinois in the Forty-third Congress (to fill the
vaeancv caused by the death of John H, Kice), and
took Ills seat Febru.iry 1, 1875; and had jircviously
been elected to the Forty-fourth Congress as a Demo-
crat, receiving 10,211 votes against 0,803 votes for
Sidney Smith, Bepublican, serving iiutll March 3,
1877.
Causin, John M. S., was l»<im In Maryland In
I.HU; received a classical education; studiid law;
was admitted to the bar, and cummeoced pniclicc ul
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CONGIlEaSIONAL DLEECTORY.
Lconardtown ; was several years a member of the
Stntc IIouso of Representatives; was elected a repre-
sentative from Jlarjl.-ind in the Twenty-eiglitli f.'on-
Sc«3 as a Whig, serving from December 4, IS43, to
arch 3, 1845; was a presidential elector on the
Taylor and Fillmore ticket iu 1848; died at Cairo,
Illinois, January 3(1, 18til.
Cavanaugh, James M., was bom in Spring-
field, Massachusclts, July 4, J.S23; received an aca-
demic education; became aucwspapereditor; studied
&nd practised law; settled in Minnesota in 1854, and
represented that State in the Thirty-fiflh Congress;
removed to Colorailo in 18GI, and engaged in the
practice of his profession and mining; was a mem-
ber of the Convention that framed the Constitution
of the State of Colorado; went to Montana in I80(i,
ond was elected delegalc from Montana in the Forti-
eth Congn.'ss as a Uomocrat, receiving t},lM)4 votes
against 4,WX.i votes for .Sanders, Ucpublicaa, and was
re-elected to the Fortv-lirst Congress, 8er\ing from
March 4, 18<J7. to March 3, 1871.
Cessna, John, was bom in Bedford County,
Pennsylvania, June 20, 1S21 ; graduated at Mars1i.all
CoUcgo. Mercersburg, in lS4:i; was a tut<.)r in that
institution for a short time, after which ho studied
law. and came to the bar in 1S45; was a member of
the State legislature in ISjO, 1851, 1862, ami 1803.
serving as speaker of the Ilouse iu 1851 ond 18i33;
was a delegate to the Cincinnati Convention of 1850.
to the Charleston and Baltimore Cnnventinns of
1800, and to the Chicago Convention of 1K(IS; in
1805 ho was chosen chairman of the nofmblican
State Convention, ami, on motion of Unn. Tb:iil-
deus Stevens, was elected chairman of the Ucpiih-
lican State Central Committee of 1805; was elected
a representative from Pennsylvania in the Forty-
first Congress as a Republican, receiving IS.tlS;}
votes ogaitist 13,500 votes for Kimnicll, Democrat,
and serving from March 4, 1800, to March 3, 1871;
was defeated as the Republican candidate for the
Forty-second Congress, receiving 12,844 votes against
12,850 votes for Benjamin F. Myers, Democrat; was
again elected to the Forty-tlilrd Congress, receiving
14.383 votes against 13,U07 votes for Benjamin F.
Myers, Democrat, and serving from December 1,
1873, to March 3, 1875; was appointed by President
Grant in 1875 assistant attorney-general, but de-
clined.
Chaffee, Calvin C, was bom at Saratoga, New
York, Augtist 28, 1811; received .in academic educa-
tion; studied medicine, gni(lu,iling with the degree
of M.D. from the Mcilical School of Middlebury
College; located at Springfield, Massachusetts, and
Sractised there; was elected a representative from
[ossachusctts in the Thirty-fourth Congress as a
Know-Nolhing, and was re-elected to Uie Thirty-fifth
Congress, receiving 10,002 votes against 4.107 votes
for Fowler, Democrat, scn'ing from December .0, 18.55,
to March 3, 1850; w.is librari;m of the House of
Representatives ISJIMSOI; was a claim-agent at
■Washington City 1801-1S70.
Chaffee, Jerome B., was bom in Niagara
County, New York, April 17, 1825; received an aca-
demic education; is a lioiiker and a miner; was
elected in 1801, 1802, an4 1803 to the legislature of
Colorado, and served the last year as speaker of the
House; was elected by the State legislature of the
proposed State of Colorado in 1805 as one of
the United-States senators; was elected to the Forty-
second Congress as a Republican, n'ceiving a majori-
ty of over 1,.'J<j0 votes over (J. W. Miller, Democrat,
and was re-elected to the Forty-third Congress, re-
ceiving 7,000 votes against 0,200 votes for A. C.
Hunt, Lil)eral Republic.in, serving from March 4,
1871, to March 3, 1875; w.'is elected United-St-itos
senator, on the admission of Colorado as a State, as a
RcpiiMlran, ,nnd UmiU liis seat December 4, 1870.
Chalmers, Joseph W., r<'iniived to Holly
Springs, Mississijipi, and practised law there; was
appointed United^^lales senator from Mississippi in
?mt>c^^
patfaM
m aS5
place of Robert J. Walker (Jacob Tliompson havini
declined the appointment), and was sulisequcntl;
elected for the v.ocant term, serving from Dccembe;
7, 1845, to March 3, 1817; resumed practice in
ncrship with Robert Barton.
Chamberlain, Ebenezer M., w.is bom
Orrin^rton, Maine, Auiiiist :;i), 18(15; received a public
sclioul education; workeil iu a shi|>-yard ; studied lav»»i
with Elisha H. Allen at Bangor, resorting to schiKil— ^
teaching to meet his expenses; removed in 18;32 tc*.
Cuuuersville, Indiana, where he eoniplcte«l his Ic^r.^^
studies; was admitted to the bar in August, litis. ^
luid commenced practice in Elkhart County; was ^
member of the SUite House of Repres<^ntatives ir^^
1835 and 1.837; was elected a representative froi^^
Illinois in the Tliirty-third Congress as a Democrat:::^
n-ceiving 0,875 votes against 5,00<J votes for Sarouea^
Brenton, Whig, and sening from DecemlnT 5. LSjC
to March 3, 1855; was defeated as the Democratir
candidate for re-election, receiving 5,881 votes again
7,485 votes for S.imuel Brenton, Republican, aoi
rcsiimed nractice at Goshen.
Chamberlain, Jacob P., was bom in Massacho-
setts; received a public-school education; removed to
Seneca Falls, New York; lilleil several local positions;
was elected a represent.itive from New York in ilia
Thirty-seventh Congress as a Republican, n?eeiving
11.681 votes against 8,153 votes for Lewis, Democrat,
anil serving from July 4, 18<il, to March 3, 180:J.
Chamberlain, John C, was bom in 1772; re-
cciveil a classical education, graduating at Uorvard
College in 170:1; studied law; wiis a<lmitte<l to th«
bar. and commenced practice at Alstcad, New Hamp-
shire; was elected a representative from New Ilamp*
shire in the Eleventh Congress as a Federalist, serv-
ing from May 22, 1800, to March 3, 1811; and died
at lUica, New York. Decembers, 1.S34.
Chamberlain, William, was l>orn in the Stata
of Vermont; n'ccive<l a clussictl education; studied
law; was admitted to the bar, and commenced prao*
ticc; was a State councillor 1706-180:1: was chosen »
presidential elector in 1801 ; was chief justice of tha|
Stjite Court of Common Pleas 1801-180;J; was elected •
representative from Vermont in the Eii;htli Congress,
scrying fmm October 17, 1803, to March 3, 18tt5; was
defeated as a candidate for the Ninth and Tenth
Congresses by James Fisk; was .ig.iin elected to tltS'
Eleventh Congress, receiving 100 majority over James
Fisk, and serving from May 22, 1800, to 3Iarch 3,
1811; was defe.ited as a candidate for the Twelfth
Congress by .lames Fisk; was lieutenantr.govemor of
Veriiu.nt 1813-181,i.
Chambers, David, was bom at Allen town,
Pennsylvania, March 17, 1780; was educated in tlio
academy taught by his father; scned in the Wiiiskey-
insurrection eamp.iign as a confidential express-
rider for President Washington; learned the art of
printing in the office of " Tlie PhiKidelphia Aurora: "
passed sixteen years on a farm in Virginia; estab-
lished a newspaper at Zanesville, Ohio, and was
elected State printer; when the seat of government
of Ohio was removed to Columbus, he leaa chosea
8ccret;iry of the Senate; scned in the war of 1813
as a voliuiteer aide-de-camp to General Cass; was
elected recorder, and afterwards mayor, of Zanesville;
was elected a representative from Oliio in the Seven-
teenth Congress, serving from December 3, 1821,
to March 3, 1823; was for several years a member of
the Stale House of Representatives, sen'ing in 1844
as speaker; was a delegate to the State Constitutional
Convention of 1851; and died at Zanesville, Ohio,
August 8, 1804.
Chambers, Ezekiel F., was bom in Kent
County, Maryland, Febraary 28, 1788; received %
ckissical education, graduating at Washington Col-
lege in 1805; studictl law; was admitted to the bar,
and commenced practice in 1808; served in the war
of 1812, attaining llie rank of brigadier-general;
was a member of the Stale Senate in 1822; was
elected Dnited-States senator from Maryland as s
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STATISTICAL SKETCHES.
325
Whig (tn the place of Edward Lloyd, rcsiinicd) ; took
his scat Febniary 22, 1S2<1, scrviiiK 111! 1A!4, wlion liP
resigned: w;is apiiointed prt'siiliiin jiidjji' (v{ llu-s«.'c-
ond judicial cirtuit of Marj-LTiid in IfiiJ. and occu-
piod tlie positioii until Itsjl, when, liya clianice of con-
statution, tlio judiciary of Mar)laiid liocanie elective;
was offere<l the position of secretary of the nn\'j' by
President Fillmore in 1852, but docliiietl on iiccount
of feeble lie.-dth; was defeated as the Dcmocralic
candidate for governor of Mar>land in ISO-J; and
die<l at rheslertown, Maryland, January 30, IStiT.
Chambers, George, was born at Chambers-
burg (founded by his grandfather), Pennsylvania,
February 24, I'yO; received a classical education,
graduating at I'rinceton College in 1804; studied law
with Judge Duncan at Carlisle; was admitted tn the
bar in LSiJ", and conunenced practice at C!innil>ers-
burg; was elected a representative from Pennsylva-
aia In the Twenly-thinl Congress .as a Whig, and
was ro-eleoted to the Twenty-fuurth Congress, sen-
Ing from December 2, 18*3, "to March 3, 1837; was
> member of the State Consliltilioual Convention of
Pennsylvania in 1837; was appointed a justice of the
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania April 12, 18.'>1, and
occupied that position until it was vacated by con-
stitutional provision ; died March 2.'5, 1800. lie wrote
1 history of the Cumberland A'alley, the manuscript
of which wiis destroyed when the Confederate
troops bunied his house during their invasion of
Pennsylvania.
Chambers, Henry, studied medicine, and prac-
tised at Madison, Alabama: was elected United-
Slates senator, sening from December 5, 1825, until
hla death, Januaiy 2.>, 1820.
Chambers, John, was bom in New Jersey,
Decenil«'r4, 1770; n;ccivcd a public-school education;
removed to Kentucky with his father in 1702; studied
law; was admitted to the bar in 1S(KI; served in the
War of 1812 09 aide-<lc-c.'imp to General llarrison,
anil was at the battle of the Thames; was elected a
»"eprcs<iilative from Kentucky in the Twentieth Con-
BTress (in place of Thomas Metcalfe, resigned) as a
»Vliig, receivhig 337 majority, and Rer%ing from De-
cember 1, 1828, to March 3, 1820; was again elected
to the Twenty-fourth Congress us a Whig, receiving
3,250 majority over Tanner, Democrat, and was re-
ilccted to the Twcnty-lifth Congress, serving from
iDcrcfinlier 7, 18.'J5. to Slarch 3, 18;jO; was governor
J of »he Territory of Iowa 1S41-1.S40; was a eomniis-
»ioncr to negotiate a treaty with the Sioux Indians
fis44l); and died near Paris, Kentucky, Sei>tembcr 21,
a8.52.
Champion, Epaphroditus, was bom at East
XIaildarn. Connecticut, February 1, 1752; received a
■public-school educatinn; was elected a representative
IroTu Connecticut in the Tenth Congn'ss as a Feder-
alist; was rc-elcelcd to the Eleventh, Twelfth, Thir-
teentli, and Fourteenth Congresses, seniiig fruni
Octolier 20, 1SI)7, to JIarch 3, 1817; and died at East
ll»4ldaiu, Cunneeticut, November 22, 18;i").
Champlin, Christopher Grant, was bom at
Ifewport, lihodu Island. A[iril 12, 17t)S; received a
dassieal etliicatlon, graduating at Harvard College
In 1780; completed his studies at tlie College of St.
Omer, in Fnmee; was elected a representative from
lUiode Isliind in the Fifth Congress, and was re-
elected to the ,Si.\th Congress, soniiig from M,'iv lo,
1707, to Mari-li 3, 1K<11; wius elected United-Siates
senator from Uhodc Ishunl (in place of Francis Mal-
bonc, deceased); took his se.it January 12, 1810,
serving until 1811, when he n'signed; w.is for matiy
years president of the l!hodc-I.';land liank, and oceu-
pj,,.) .1 . . . . ijj,„j „.|,f.„ i,y Jit;ii^ at Newport, Ithode
h U 18. ],S.|0.
C^: r, John (brother of Thomas Cliandler,
and unclu nf Zaohariah Chajidlcr). was bom at Ep-
plnj. New Hampshire; received a lilx.'nil education:
served in the Ilevnlutionary war; n'lnoved to that part
of Massachusetts which at tcrwaiils became the State
of Slainc, and settled on a farm at Monmouth; was a
member of the State Senate 1803-1806; was elected
a representative from a Atainc district of Massachu-
setts iu the Ninth Congress as a Democrat, and
was re-elected to the Tenth Congress, serving from
December 2, ISO.";, to March 3, 1800; was elected
United-States senator from Maine on the admission
of that .State, and w.as re-elected, serving fmrn No-
vember 13, 1820, to Murcli 8. 182i(; was collector of
customs at Portland 1820-1.837; and died at Augusta,
Maine, .Senteinbcr, l.'<41.
Chandler, Joseph R., was bom at Kingston,
Massachu.sctts, in 1702; received a liberal education;
studied law ; was adnutted to the bar, and coinmenced
practice at Philadelphia; edited "The United-States
tiazctte;" was grand master of the Free Masons of
Peimsylvania; was elected a representative from
Pennsylvaida in the Thirty-first Congress as a Whig,
receiving O.Ootl votes against 3,874 votes for Van
Dyke, Democrat; was re-elected to theTliirty-sccond
Congress, receiving 6,912 votes against 3,714 %t)tes
for Martin. Democrat; and was re-elected to the
Thirty-third Congress, receiving 0,004 votes against
3,.J.V) votes for Hamlin, Democrat, sening from De-
cember 3, 1.S40, to March 3, 1855; advocated the elec-
tion of President Buchanan, and was appointed by
him minister to the Two Sicilies, scrying fmm .Tune
1.5. 18.J8, to November l.j, 1800; edited "The Philo-
rlelphia North- American; " and died at Philiidelphia.
lie piibllslied a "Grammar of the Eiigli.sb Laii-
gu.oge," and several addresses delivered a^ Masonic
and literal^- assemblages.
Chandler, Thomas (brother of John Chandler,
.ind uncle of Zaclmriah Chandler), was boni nt Bed-
fonl, New Uampsliire, August 10, 1772; received u
public-school education; was by occupation a fanner,
and a teacher of sacred music; was a justice of the
[jeacc and of the quorum in 1808: was a captain of
militia in 1815; was a member of the State legisla-
ture in 1818, and again in 1827; was elected a repre-
sentative from New Hampshire in the Twenty-first
Congress as a Democrat, on general ticket, and was
re-elected to the Twenty-second Congress, serving
from December 7, 1820, to March 3, l.SJW: and died
at Bedford, New Hampshire, January 28, 1800.
Chandler, Zachariah, w.ts lK)m at Bedford,
New llanipsliiri', December 10, 1813; received an
academic cducatinn; removed to Michigan, and en-
gaged iu mercantile pui-suits; was mayor of Detroit
in 1.S5I; w.-is elected in IKTi? United-States senator
from Alichigan as a Kcpuljiican to succeed Lewis
Cass, Deinoeraf: was re-elected In 18*13, and was
again re-elected in 1.800, ser%liig from March 4, 1867,
to March 3, 1875; w.ts defeated as a caiididatc for
the Kcpublican nomination by I. P. Christianey;
was apiMjintcd by President Grant secretary of the
interior, serving from October 10, 1875, to March 3,
1M77; waji ehainnan of the National Hepnblican
ExeiMitive Committee in tlie presidential campiUgns
of l.sfW and 1.H70.
Chaney, John, was bom in Maryland in 1801;
received a pulilic-sclmol cducatinn; removiil to Ohio;
was elected a ropre.si'ntat.ive from Ohio In the Twenty-
third Congress as a .Jackson Democrat, defeating W.
W. Irvlu, Whig; was re-elected lo the Twenty-fourth
.iinl Twenty-fifth Congrcss<"s, serving from December
2, ]s:i:!. to March 3, 18:)0; died :it ('.iurtwrtglil, Ohio.
Chtmler, John Winthrop, was born in New-
Ydik City in 182tl; gradu.ited from Columbia (College,
New York, in 1847: studied and practised law; was
elected memlwr of the New- York State Assembly
from the tenth district of New- York City for lli">8
and 1850; was nominated State senator fnnu the fifth
district In 1.800, b\it declined; was nominated repre-
sentative to the Thirty-.sevonth Congress from the
si.xth district of New York, but was defi'ati.'d; was
elected n'presentative from the seventh district of
New York In the Thirty-eighth Congress sis a Demo-
crat, receiving 0,.T20 votes against 2.0:37 \t>te« for
Burr. Union Ke|iublican; was ri'-elccted to the
Thirty-ninth Congress, receiving 11,513 votes against
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CONGRESSIONAL DIRECTORY.
5,638 votes fur W. Buanlmon, Union Republican,
and was re-clcctod t.i the FortlelU Coiijiri'ss as a
Deniui'nit, rccciviii;{ U.riO:} votea aKaiiisL (l.TtJ voles
for Vr. F. Stoiiil)rctiiier, Rciiubliain, sening from
Dei;eml)(;r 7, lS(j.{, In Marcli :!, isil!); niul died siul-
deulv at Ids rcsidi-uoe near IChiui'bcck, New York,
October 10, l!s77.
Cbapin, Chester W., was bom nt Ludlow,
Massai'husetts, UeoemlHT 10, nOR; received a public-
sclioiil ediiealion; w:is engaged for (ivo years in mer-
canlilu pursuits; was a mail-contractor, ninuiti'j
post-coaelies and steamboats; was a member of lliu
Constitutiuual Convention of MaasacUufietls in 185;j;
is a farmer, manufacturer, liankcr, and president of
the Boston and Albany Itailroail Company; was
elected a representative from Miissaehusetts in the
Forty-fourth Congress as a Democrat, receiving
11,SXU votes against i^,'22'l votes for Henry Alexander,
jun.. Republican, and serving from Decemtx-rO, 11(7.'),
to March .'1, 1ST7; was defeated as the Deiuoerntic
coudidate for the Forty-(if lli Codctcss, receiving lt,7>;0
votes against 11.02'2 votes for (i. D, lioblnson, Kepul*-
11 can.
Chapin, Qrahom H., was bom In Connecticut
In 17vM); reccivwl a ela&sicid education, graduating at
Yale College in 1817; removed to Rochester, New
"York; was elected a representative from New York
in llie Twcntv-fourth Congress as a Democrat, si'rv-
Ing from December 7, 1S.V), to March 3, 1837; died at
Mount Morris, New York, Septemlx-r 8. IMl,
Chapman, Augrustus A., was born iu Vir-
ginia in IHUi; was elected a repnsentative from
Virginia in the Twenty-eighth Congress as a Van
Burcn Democrat, receiving 1,200 majurily over Watts,
Whig, and was re-elected to the Twcnty-iunth Con-
gress, 8er\ing from December 4, 184;}, to March 3,
1847; was defeated as the Democratic candidate for
the Thirtieth Congress, receiving 0,44;) votes against
W. U. Preston. Whig.
Chapman, Bird B., w.ts bom in Connecticut;
received a. publtc-sclidol education; removed to
Otualia. Nebraska; was eleett'd a delegate from Ne-
braska Territory in the Tliiily-fourth Con;zress. his
seat being unsuccessfully contested by lllram P.
Bennett, serving from December 3, 1855, to March 3,
1857.
Chapman, Charles, was bom at Newtown,
Coimeclicul, June ;il, nuO; received an acadcniital
education; studied law at the Litchfield LawScliool;
was admitted to the liar in 1.S27, and commence<i
firactice at New Ilaven in 1S'J7; removed to Hartford
n 1828, and succeeded John D. Prentice and John
O. Wliittier as editor of "The New-England Re-
view;" was three times successively cl<?cted as a
Whig to tlie State legislature; was United-States dis-
trict-attorney 1841-184."<; was defeated as tlie Whig
candidate to the Tliirty-Urst Congress, receiving
7,327 votes against 7.444 votes for Loren P. Waliio,
Democrat; was elected n representative from Con-
necticut In the Thirty-second Congress, receiving
7,885 votes against 7,740 voles for Waldo, and 423
votes for Cowles, Free Soil, and serving from Decem-
ber 1. 1851, to March 3, 1S53; was defeated as the
Temperance candidate for govenu)r of Connecticut in
1854. receiving 10,(>72 votes, lhert4iy thmwiug tlie
election into the legislalun*, and electing tlie Whig
candidate, although Judge Ingham, the Democratic
candidate, received tlie largest projwrlion wliieh fell
to any one of tlie three candidates, and nearly a ma-
jority of the |>opular vote. Wlien the Republican
party was formed, he idenliflcd himself ivith the
Democracy, and was sent to the legislature three
times by tliat party. He was reganled as the l>e»t
eriminaf lawyer in Connecticut ; and he died at flart-
fonl. Connecticut. August 7, l8(i!l.
Chapman, Henry, was bom in Bucks County,
Pennsylvania. January Ifl. 1.S(j5; ri'eeived a thorough
English education; studied law with hia father; was
adiiiitteil U- Oie bar in 18211, and commenced practice
at Doylestuwn; was a member of the State Senate
11 —
lar^l
of ■
Id ■
1843-1840; was president judge of the fifteenth judi j
ci.al district of Pennsylvania; w.is elected a repn' «
sentative frtmi I'ennsyivania in the Tliirly-lifth Con m
gress as a Democrat, receiving 10,.'i21 votes again5tc»"«
8,780 votes fi>r«Bra(lsliaw, Union Republican, and-t »
serving from DecenilM'r7, 18.J7, to M.lrch 3, 185y; w:u
elected president judge of the seventh judicial
trict of Pennsylvania in 1801.
Chapman, John, was bom In Pennsylvania..,^,^!
and w:>s elected a representative from that State in
the Fifth Congress, serving from May 13, 17'J7,
March 3, 17'.l'J.
Chapman, John O., was bom in Charles Couii
ty, Maryland, July 5. 17U&; received a classical edu-
cation, partly at Yale College, but did not gradii
ate, on accoiuit of his health; studied law witla
Samuel Riddle at Bedford, Pennsvlvaniii, and after-
wards with William Wirt; was admitted to the bar]
in 1820, and commenced practice; was « menilK-r of
the State House of Representatives of Marvland
1824-1831), 184;!, and 1844. and of the State Senate in
1840; was elected a representative frt>m Maryland in
the Twenty-ninth Congress as a Whig, and was n-
elccted to the Thirtieth Congress without opposition,
serving from December 1, 1845j to March 3, 1841);
was president of the Constitutional Convention uf
Maryland in 1851; was pnisident of the National
Whig Convention at Baltimore in 18,'iO which nomi-
nated Fillmore and Donaldson; died at Port Tobac-
co, Mar>laiKl, December 10, 18.V(.
Chapman, Reuben, was bom in Virginia In
ISOCi; received an acadetnic education; removed to
Alabama, and settled at Somer\ille. Morgan County;
was elected a representative from Alabama In the
Twenty-fourth Congress as a Democrat without op-
position; W!is re-elected to the Twenty-tifth, Twenty-
sixth, Twenty-seventh, Twenly-eightli, and Twenty-
ninth Congresses witliout opposition, serving from
Decembers. 18.')5, to Mareh 3, 1847; was governor of
Alabama 1.847-l.s-lit.
Chapman, William. W., was one of the flrst
Immigrants into Iowa, settling at Burlington; was
elected the first delegate from Iowa, taking his seat
in the Twenty-fUtli Congress, and was rc-elccted to
the Twenty-sixth Congress, serving from September
4, VXn, to March 3, 1.S41.
ChappeU, Absalom H.,was bom in Georgia;
stuilied law; was admitted to the bar, and practistil
at Macon; was elected a representative from Georgia
la the Twenty-eighth Congress (iu the place of John
B. Lamar, resigned) as a State-rights Whig, receiv-
ing ;!7,.'J05 votes against 3-1,721 votes for llerschcl
V. Johnson, Democrat, and serving from December
1, 1M3. to Slarch 3, 18-1.5.
Chappell, John Joel, was bom on Little River,
in Fairlield District, South Carolina, January 10,
1782; his parents removed, when he was an infant,
to Richland District, where they after^vard residcil;
received an academic education; studied law four
years under Thomas Henry Egaii; was admitted to
tlie bar in 1805. and conimenceti pr-V-'ticc at Columbia;
Iield the coniinissinn nf colonel during the war of 1812,
Ivut his regiment saw no active service; was electeil
a n-presentativo from South Carolina in the Thir-
teenth Congress as a State-rights War Democrat,
and was re-elected to the Fourteenth Congress, serv-
ing from May 24, 1813, to March 3, 1817; was defeated
as a candidate for the Fifteenth C<mgress liecausc he
had voted for tlio bill which gave congressmen a
yearly Balaiy of fifteen hundred dollars, instead of a
;mt diem allowance; was defeated as a candidate for
the Sixteenth Congress; was defeated as a candidate
for secretary of state of S<^>utli Carolina; resumed
the pr.'iclice of law, and practised until l.'*41); w»«
a directur in the Coluudiia lir.anch of the State 15aiii-
of South Carolina LSJit-lS'iS; removeil to Alabania,
where lie Itecame a cotton-planter; and dicil on his
plantation in Lnwiules County. May 2;), 1,S71.
Charlton, Robert M., was bom at Savanna}!.
Georgia, January IU, 1807; received a Uberul cduco-
■ tioi]
H and c-ommenoo<l prnotioo nt Kav.iiinnh; wiiB a mem
H ber of the StJito llnuw of itcprpseiitalivia; wns
W Unitei1-»Slatfs dislriot-uttonii'y ; wxs electpiJ a judge
of the Superior Court in ISJ5; resigned to devote
himself to his profession; wns appointed a senator
from Georgia I in place of J. Mel'herwjn Berrien, re-
■igned), ser\-int; from June II, J8,"il', lo March ;J, li>M;
WBS mayor of Savannah; and died at Savannali,
G«orgia, January 8, IHiA. Published a volume of
poenis in 183SI, an<l " Leaves from tlie Portfolio of a
GiMrgin Lawyer," with a number of historical and
literary addresses; and he was a regular contributor
to "The KniekerlHH'kcr Matrazinc."
Chase |or Chace], Dudley (uncle of Salmon P.
Cha*?), was bom at (.'ornish, New Hampshire, Ue-
cembor 30, 1T71; receivnl a classical education,
pailualing at Dartmouth Collcgo in 1701; studied
law; was admitted to the bar, and commenced prac-
tice nl Randolph, Vermont; was State altf)nicy for
Orniige County 18l);l-l,sU; was a delegate to the
8tat«' Constitutional Conventions of 1)SI4 ami of
1S22; was a meuiber of the State House of Ke|in'-
■enttitlves for several years, and speaker lSi:>-I.sl7;
was eleet4Ml United-States senator from Vermont in
the (ilaec of Stephen It. Urailley, aer\'iug from May
24, 1H1;1, until he n;signed in isi7; was chief jus-
tice of the Supreme Cmirt of Venuont ]!^I7-J8".il ;
was again elected United-States senator (in the place
of William A. Palmer), serving from December 5,
18:». to March 3. 1831 ; and died at Ilondolph, Ver-
mont, February W, lH4tl.
Chase, Q&OTge W., was bom at Sehencvus,
New York: w.isdefi.'ated as the Whig candidate for
Ijie ThIrly-thinI Congress, receiving 7,0()8 vo>'S
against 7,<>t>4 votea for Snow, Democrat; was electeti
a representative from New York in the Thirty-third
I Congress as a Whig, receiving l),iV>() votes against
*t,(tli4 votes for frordon. Democrat, and serving from
Ilecember :>. lX\.i, to March 3, 18oo; died at Mary-
land, New York, May I. 18(J7.
Chaae, Jeremiah T., was Imm in Maryland,
and was a delegate from that State to the Conti-
nental Congrvss i78;}-n84.
Chase, liUcien B., was bom In Vemiont Au-
gust 0, 1N17; removed to Tennessee, and liK'aleil at
Clorksvillc; was elecN'd a ri'iiresentalive from Teii-
aenee in the Twenty-ninth Congress as a Uemoi-rat,
and wa« re-elected to the Thirtieth Congress, serving
from Deeemlicr 1, 184.'>, to Marcli 3. 18411; declined a
rc-cli-ction: died rx-cemlHT 14, 18(14, Published a
"Oistiiry of the Polk Administration."
Chase, Sahnon Portland, was bom at Cornish,
New Hampshire, January l.'J, 1S(J8; studied a year at
Cincinnati College, Ohio, of which his uncle, Uishop
Chase, was prt-sidcnt; cnleretl the junior class at
Dartmouth College, and graduated In IH-Jii; studied
law at Washington with William Wirt, 8U[>iMirting
liimsclf 1>T teaching school, and was ailniitted to the
liar in 1H2U; ooimni'iu'ed praclice at Cincinnati in
I&IO; compiled an editirm of the statutes of Ohio,
and wrote uix>n biographical, historical, and oclen-
tUic KubjccLs for fieriodicais and news|)ii«'rs; l>ecame
a prominent defender of ])erHi>ns tried for violating
the Kugi live-slave Act in 18:J7; a schcHd-ex.iminer ft
Cincinnati in 1830; was elected as a Whig to the Cin-
cinnati city council in 184<J; advocated the eli.-ction
of Uarristm and Tyler in 18-10; identified himself in
1S41 with the Lil)erty parly, and was a participant in
Its national conventions, at ButTalo in 184:1, and at
Cincinnati in 1847; was a memlMT of the National
Fre<-soil Convention at IlulTalo in 1S4.S whic'h nom-
inated Van Uun-n; w;is elected a United-Slates s<'na-
tor (by a coalition under which the Free-Soilers gave
all the Suite oflices to the DemiK-rats in eonsitlera-
tion for their elei-ting him senator), and serveil from
Marvh 4, IWlt, to March 4, 18oo; was electi-d gov-
ernor of Ohio in 18;j.'j as a Frei'-soil Democrat, and
Hv-elccti-'d as a Kepuhlioan in l.S."i7; Wi»s a niemlier of
the Naliuuol Peace Cuuvcution in J8<IS; received
STATISTICAL SKETCHES
tion; Btudiod law; was admitted to the bar In 1827, | some vote* for candidate for President at the Rcpub-
I i._ ; ... 1- . . I liean National Convention of IStlO; was again elected
Unit<'d->itales Siinilor in J80O; totik his seat March 4,
istil, and resigned the ncjct day to Ijccome secretary
of the treasury under President Lincoln, which posi-
tion he held until he resigned in Septeml)er, 1804; wua
aj)i>ointed chief justice of the Supreme Court D»H'em-
Ikt n, 1804; presided at the impeju-hmeut trial of
President Johnson in 1800; was prominently lieforo
the Democratic National Convention of 1808; died at
New I'ork, after a paralytic shock, May 7, 1873.
Chase, Samuel, was honi in Somerset County,
Maryland, Ai)ril 17, 1771; received a thorough Eng-
lish e<Iucalion; studitMl law; w.is admitted to the bar
in 1701, and commeueeil practice at Anna|Hilis; was a
member of the (ieneral Assembly of ilaryland 1704-
1784; was elected a delegate from Maryland lo the
Continental Congress in 1774, and re-elected in 1770;
was sent on a »jN>elal mission to Canada in 1774, with
Charles Carroll and John Carrol), to induce the
Canadians to join in the revolution against Great
I3ritain; was a signer of the Declaration of Inde-
])<Midence; went to England In 1782 as agent of the
State of Maryland, to recover the stock in Uie Bank
of Kngland which it had purchased when a British
colony; removed to Baltimore in 17-8<J; was appointed
judge of the General Court of Maryland in 171)1,
and judge of the Baltimore Criminal Court in 1703:
was appointed by President Washington a justice of
the Supreme Court in 17Wi; was impeached in 1804,
through the exertions of John Randolph, on charges
of malfeasance in office several years previous; wag
tried by the .Senate in 180.'). and acquitted of all the
charges; remained on the bench of the Supreme
Court until he died, June 10, 1811.
Chase, Samuel, was liorn at Coopcrstown, New
Y'lirk, ami was elected a representative from that
State in the Twentieth Congress as an Adams Deiuo-
crut, serving from Decemlier 3, 1827, to March .1,
1820.
Chasttiin, Edward W., was liom in .Soutli
Carolina; removed to Tacoah, Georgia; held several
local oflices; was elected u rt^presentatlvc from Geor
gia In the Thirty-second Congress as a Union Demo-
crat, receiving 7,4.81 votes against 5,004 votes for
Stiles. State Bights; and was re-elected to the Thirty-
third Congress, receiving 8,118 voles against 7,871
votes for Tondinson, .State-rights Democrat, serving
fnirn Decenil)er 1. 18ol. to March .3, 1856.
Chaves, J. Francisco, was bom at Padiller«,
New Mexico, June 27, is;ii; received a lilK'ral edu-
cition at SI. LkiuIs, Mi.osouri; studied medicine ut
the New-Y'ork College of Physicians and Surgeons;
eiigagetl in mercantile ami agricultural pursuits in
New Mexico; entered the Union army as major of
the First New-Mexico Infantry; after seeing much
active service on the fnmtier, and participating in
several battles, he was promoted to the rank of
lieutenant-<-olonel, and wiu« mustered out, at his own
request, in 18f>4; W!l« electeil a rejiresenlative from
New Mexico in the Thirty-ninth Congress as a Be-
publican, and was re-electc:d to the Fortieth and
Forty-first Congresses, n'ceiving at the last election
2.20() majority over Uonieni, DennxTat, and serviiig
from Decembir 4. 180;"), to March :i, 1871.
Cheatham, Richard, was l)om at Springfield,
Tennessee, and was electeil a r<'i)resentJitive from
that State in the Twenty-lifth Congress as a Whig,
receiving lil m.ijority over Cave Johnson, Van Burca
Democrat, and serving from September 4, 1837. to
Man-h 3, 18:10; was defeated as the Wldg atndidate
for tlie Twenty-sixth Congres.-, by Cave Johnson,
Democrat, who n;eeived I, (W majority.
Chestnut, James, jun., was liom near Cam-
den, South Carolina, in 181.",; n-ceived a classical
education, gradu.il ing at Princeton College; was a
memlK-r of the Stale House of Bi-presentalives of
.'«)Uth Carolina ls42-lSo2, and of the SUte .Senate
18i'>4-18.")8; wiw ap|H)lnleil to the Uniled..States S<-nate
as a Statc-righls Democrat (In the place of J. J.
d
i
328
COJIOBESSIONAL DIKECTOEY.
Brans, deceased), and -was aubsequenlljr elected,
eerring from January 5, 1859, utitil lie resigned.
NovoiuIht in, ISOI, ami was oxpi-llril July 11. ISHl;
WHS appointed a delogaty fnim Soutli C'urolinn to llio
Confederatu Provisional Congress J.inuary 4, IStM ;
was appoint<>d colonel in the Confederate anuy, and
given a position as aide-<ie-camp on the staff of Jef-
lerson Davis in 18(tl ; was appointed brigadier-general
in ISM. and assigned to the coniniand of a brigade
on the coast of Soutli Carolina; was a member of
the National Oenmcratlc Convention of 18C8 which
nominated ^^ev^lour and HIalr.
Chetwood, William, was bom at Eliiabeth-
town. New Jersey, in 1709; reccivwl a classical edu-
cation, KTadualiiig at Princeton College in 17S>2;
studied Taw; was admitted to the bar in l"l»8, and
commenced practice; was a member of the St.ite
Council of New Jersey; was elected a representa-
tive from New Jersey in the Twenty-fourtli Con-
gress (in place of Philemon Dickerson, resigned),
serving from December 5, ISJO, to March 3, 18.37;
resumed practice; and died at Elizabethtown, New
Jersey, December IH, 1857.
Cheves, Langdon, was bom on Rocky River,
Abl)evillo Di-ilrict, .South Carolina, .Septemlier 17,
1770; received a scanty education; was taken by his
father to Charleston in 17S(i, and placed In a store as
clerk; commenced the study of law in 17W with
William Marshall; was admitted to the bar in 17'.l7,
and practised at Cliarleslon; was a member of the
Gtcneral Assembly in 1808. and State attorney-general
the same year; was elected a repn.'8cntative from
South Carolina in the Eleventh Congress (hi pliice
of Robert Marion, resigned); was re-elected to the
Twelfth Congress, and re-elected over John Hiit-
Icdge to the Thirteenth Congress, presiiling during
the second session as sjieaker, and serving from Jan-
uary 24, IHll, to March 3, 1810; declining a re-
election, he resumed practice, but was elected law
judge in Dceemlier, 181(1; he w.is elected Marcli 6,
1810, president of the Bank of the United States;
was chief commissioner of claims under the treaty
of Ghent; pr.ictisei! at I'liiludelpliiu, an<l then at
Lancaster, but r<'tunie<l to South Carolina in 18;Ji),
and engaged in ogricultitral pursuits; was a delegate
to the Soutticm Convention at Nashville in IKiJO,
and of the Southern Convention at Columbia in 18.52;
and died at Columbia, Soiilli Carolina, June 2t(,
1852.
Chiloott, George M., was l>om in Huntingdon
County, Peimsylvania, in 1828; received a common-
school education; w.ts a fanner and stock-raiser, ami
by profession a lawyer, liaving been adraitt4-d to
practice in ]8(5.3; removed to Iowa in 1844; was
elected sheriff of JetTersou County in 18ii;{; moved
to Nebraska in 1850, and was elected tlie same year
to the territorial legislature; moved to Colorado in
1830: served in the legisl.iture of Colorado during
the first two sessions of that body in 1861 and 1S()2;
was appointed register of the "United-ijtates land
office for the Colorado district in J8IJ:{, and served
four years; was elected a representative in Congress
under the .State orgauiz,ation Iti I8tVJ, but was not
admitted; and was elected a delegate from Colorado
to the Fortieth Congress lus a Republican, receiving
3.52tt votes against .•!.421 votes for Uunt, serving from
March 4 ISdT, to March .3, 1800.
Childa, Thomas, jun., was Ijom at New- York
City; was elected a representative from New York in
the Thirty-fourth Congress as an American Whig,
receiving 0,5,57 votes against 5,094 votes for Kennedy,
Democrat, but never took his seat, owing to pro-
longed illness.
Childs, Timothy, was Irom at Pittsfielil, Mas-
sachusetts; removed to Rocliester, New York; wiut a
member of tlie State IIouw? of ISeuresentatives in
1828; was elected a representative from New York
iu tlie Twenty-first C(mgre«8 as a Whig, serving from
Deceml)er7, 1829, to Ma!rch 3, 18;11 ; was again elected
to the Twenty-fourth Congress, and was re-elected to
the Twenty-fifth Congress, serving from December 7,
18.3.5, to March 3, 1830; was again elected to lh<
Twi.iity-sevcnth Congress, serving from Jlay :$!»
1841. to Marcli 3, 1843; died at Santa Cruz Novem-
ber 8, 1847.
Chilton, Samtael, was bom at Warrenton, Vir — <^
gini.n, .September 7, 1804; received a thorough Engli»h«LC.
education; studied law; was admitted lo the bar,„— m
and practised at Warrenton; Wiis ?• ■ irs -Tt
member of the State Uouse oif l{epre^' wa^s^
elected a representative from Virginia iu .... i ..<'.nty^ — ~s
eighth Congress as a Whig, receiving l,5i*l Tote^^
against 1,:303 votes for William Smith, Democrat,^ ^
and serving from December 4, 1843, to March 3«--^
1845; was a delegate to the State Constitutional Con .
vention; and died at Warrenton, Virginia, January-
14. 1807.
Chilton, Thomas, was bom at Elizabethtown,.
Kentucky; received a liberal education; was electe<l|
a representative from Kentucky in the Twcntietli ]
Congress, serving from December 3, 1827, to Mardi
8, 1830; was again elected to the Twenty-third Con-
gress, serving from December 2, 1833, to March 3,
1835.
Chinn, Joseph W^., was bom at Nuttsville,
Virginia; was a member of the State House of Rep- >
resentatives; was elected a representative from Vir-
ginia in the Twenty-second Congress as a Democrat,
rcceiring 70 majority over John Tali.^fe^■o, Whig;
was re-elected to tlie Twenty-tliird Congress, tlefeal-
iug John T.iliaferro, Wiig, serving from I)ct,-euil>er
5, 18:il, to March 3, 18:}5; was defeated as the Wliig i
candidate for the Twenty-fourth Congress by John
Taliaferro, Wniig, who receive<l 171 majority; and
died at Iticlimond, Virginia, Decemlier 5, 1840.
Chinn, Thomas W., was boni in Kentucky;
rcmovi'd to Baton Rouge, Louisiana; held several
Itxial offices; was elected a representative from Lou-
isiana in the Twenly-siixth Congress as a Whig, senr-
tng from December 2. 18;30, to Mart-h 3, 1841 ; was I
apjKiinted by Presiilent Taylor minister to the Two
Sicilies, ser^■ing from June 5, 1849, until he resigned |
in October, livli).
Chipman, Daniel, was bom at Salisbury, Con-
necticut, in 17t)5 ; received a classical education, .
graduating at Dartmouth College in 1788; studied '
law ; was admitted to the bar, and commenced prac- \
tice nt Ripton. Vermont; was several years a mem-
ber of the State House of Representatives, serving I
.IS B|ieaker four years; was elected a representative j
from Vermont in the Fourteenth Congress as a Fed-
eralist, serving from Decemlier 4, 18l5, to March 3, ^
1H17; died at Kipton, Vemiont, April 23, 1850. He I
pulilislied a work on " Law Contracts for the Sale of J
SiK'cilic Articles." and a volume of tlie " Decisions |
of the Supreme Court of Veniiont."
Chipman, John 8., was liom In Vermont; re- ]
ceived a classical educati(ui. graduating at Middlebury (
College in 182:3; n>mi>ved to Centreville, Michigan;
held several local oflices; was elected a rcpresenta- |
tive from Michig.an in the Twenty-ninth Congress a*
a Deinocnit. and ser^•ing from December 1, 1£4C, to
March ;{, IS47; removed to CaUfomia.
Chipman, Nathaniel, was bom at Salisbury,
Conneeticut, November 15. 1752; received a classical |
education, gradii.ilirtgnt Yale College in 1777; studied
law; was .nlmitleil to the bar, and commenc«?<l prac- |
tice at Tiiimouth, Vermont; was law-professor at
Middlcbury College for many years; was elected a
judge of the State Supreme Court in 1780, and was
chosen chief justice in 1780; was ap|K>inted judge of i
the United-States District Court in 1701. serving '
until 1704, wlieii lie was again elected chief justic«
of the State Supreme Court; was eliK-tcd United-
States senator from Vermont in place of Isaac
Tidicnor, resigned, serving from November 22, 1707,
until March 3, 1803; died at Tinmouth, Vermont,
Fel>ruary 13, 1843. He published in 1793 " Sketches ]
of the Principles of Government," and " Reports and ]
Dissertations."
BTATI8TICAI. SKETCHES.
829
C3iipinan, Norton P., was bom at Milford
Centre, Ohio, March 7, ISJM; attended the public
eohools of different counties of Ohio, in which his
parents successively resided; removed to Iowa In
1S45; entered Washington College, Iowa, and after-
wards attended the law-school at Cincinnati; re-
turned to Washington, Iowa, and commenced the
practice of law; entered the Union army as private,
and was enrolled as second lieutenant in the Second
Iowa Infantry, the first three-years' regiment sent
from that State; was adjutant and major of that
regiment; was appointed colonel and additional aide-
de-camp in the regular army, and at the close of the
war was brevetted brigadier-general ; settled at Wash-
ington City, where he had previously been on duty
for two years ; was appointed secretary of the Terri-
torial Government of the District of Columbia at its
organization ; was elected a delegate from the District
of Coltunbia in the Forty-second Congress as a Repub-
lican, receiving 16,100 votes against 11,104 votes for
R. T. Herrick, Democrat; and was re-elected to the
Forty-third Congress, receiving 12,443 votes against
7,012 votes for L. O. tline, Democrat; removed to
California, and entered into the lumber-business.
Chittenden, Martin, was bom at Salisbury,
Connecticut, March 12, 1700; removed with his par-
ents to Williston, Vermont, in 1776; received a clas-
sical education, graduating at Dartmouth College in
1788; commenced the study of law, but, his health
failing, he became a farmer; was a delegate to the
State Convention that ratified the Federal Constitu-
tion; was elected clerk of Chittenden County in 1790;
was a member of the State House of Representatives
1790-1796; was judge of the Chi ttenden-county Court
1793-1795, and was chief justice 1790-1803; was elect-
ed a representative from Vermont in the Eighth Con-
gress as a Federalist; was re-elected to the Kinth,
Tenth, Eleventh, and Twelfth Congresses, receiving
twelve majority at the last election, and serving from
October 17, 1803, to March 3, 1813; was governor of
Vermont 1813 and 1814, but was defeated for re-elec-
tion; was judge of probate 1821-1823. Contracted a
fever while on a visit to Illinois, and died at Willis-
ton, Vermont, September 5, 1841.
Chittenden, Simeon B., was bom atGoilford,
Connecticut, Mareh 29, 1814; received an academic
education ; entered a store in early life at New Haven,
Cozmecticut; removed to New York in 1843, and en-
gaged in mercantile pursuits; was vice-president of
the New- York Chamber of Commeree from 1867 to
1800; was a presidential elector in 1872; was one of
the first directots in the Continental Bank and in the
Continental Fire-insurance Company; was a trustee
of the United-States Trust Company; was a director
in the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western, and other
railroads; is president of the New-Haven and New-
London Shore-Line Railroad of Connecticut: was
elected a representative from New York in the Forty-
third Congress to fill a vacancy occasioned by the
resignation of Stewart L. Woodford ; was re-elected
to the Forty-fourth Congress as an Independent Re-
J'ablican, receiving 14,530 votes against 8,990 votes
or Oatrander, Republican, and was re-elected to the
Forty-fifth Congress, receiving 18,110 votes against
17,8.'^ votes for Thomas S. D^^in, Democrat, serving
from December 7^1874.
Chittenden, Thomas C, was bom in Massa-
chusetts; removed to Adams, Jefferson County, New
York; held several local offices; was elected a repre-
sentative from New York in the Twenty-sixth Con-
gress as a Whig, receiving 4,989 votes against 4,309
votes for Isaac H. Bronson, Democrat ; and was re-
elected to the Twenty-seventh Congress, receiving
6,212 votes against 6,750 votes for A. S. Greene, Demo-
crat, serving from December 2, 1839, to March 3, 1843.
Choate, Bufus, was bom at Ipswich, Massachu-
setts, October 1, 1799; was reared on a farm; received
a classical education, graduating at Dartmouth Col-
lege in 1819; was a tutor at Dartmouth College for
one year; studied law at the Cambridge Law School,
and then with Attorney-General Wirt at Washing-
ton City ; was admitted to the bar in September, 18^,
and commenced practice at Danvers ; was a meml>er
of the State House of Representatives in 1825, and
State senator in 1828; removed to Salem in 1828; was
elected a representative from Massachusetts in the
Twenty-second Congress as a Whig, receiving 1,750
votes against 767 votes for B. W. Crownlnshield,
Democrat, and 852 votes for Cabot, Jackson Demo-
crat; was re-elected to the Twenty-third Congress by
an increased majority, but resigned at the close of the
first session, serving from December 5, 1881, to Jnne
30, 1834; was elected United-States senator from
Massachusetts (to fill the vacancy caused by the
resignation of Daniel Webster), and served from
Mareh 1, 1841, to Mareh 3, 184S, declining a re-elec-
tion; was a regent of the Smithsonian J^stitntion,
but resigned February 2, 1855, as he could not in-
dorse the management of it; declined in 1848 the
position of professor of the Law School at Cambridge;
declined also a scat on the bench of the State Su-
preme Court; visited Europe in the summer of 1850;
was a delegate to the Whig National Convention at
Baltimore ip 1862; declined the attorney-generalship
of Massachusetts in 1853; advocated the election of
Buchanan and Breckinridge in 1856; started on a
voyage to Europe, but was unable to proceed farther
than Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he ^ed, of Bright's
disease, July 13, 1859.
Chnsman, James B., was bom in Kentucky,
and resided at Menticello in that State; was a dele-
gate to the State Constitutional Convention in 1849;
was elected a representative from Kentucky in the
Thirty-third Congress as a Democrat, receiving 5,657
votes against 6,622 votes for Bramlette, Whig, and
serving from December 5, 1853, to Mareh 3, 1855;
was a Democratic candidate for the Thirty-sixth
Congress, and claimed to have been elected, but the
House decided that he had only received 7,201 votes,
and gave the seat to Anderson, who had received
7,^)4 votes; was a representative from Kentucky in
the First and Second Confederate Congresses.
Christiancy, Isaac P., was bom at Canonga
(then Johnstown), New York, Mareh 12, 1812; re-
ceived an academic education at the Johnstown and
Ovid Academies; studied law with Hon. John May-
nard until 1836, when he removed to Monroe, Michi-
gan, where he completed his legal studies with Hon.
Robert McClelland; was admitted to the bar, and
practised until called to the bench of the Supreme
Court in 1858; was prosecuting-attomey 1841-1846;
was a delegate to the National Free-soil Convention
at Buffalo m 1848; was a member of the State Senate
of Michigan from January 1, 1860, until January 1,
1852; was elected a judge of the Supreme Court of
Michigan from January 1, 1868, until Febraary 27,
1875 (chief justice from January, 1872, until January
1, 1874) ; and was elected United-States senator from
Michi^n as a Republican, to succeed Z. Chandler,
Republican, serving from Mareh 4, 1875.
Christie, Qabriel, was bom in Maryland, and
was elected a representative from that State in the
Third Congress; was re-elected to the Fourth Con-
gress, serving from December 2, 1793, to March 3,
1797; was again elected a representative from Mary-
land in the Sixth Congress, serving from December
2, 1799, to Mareh 8, 1801.
Churchill, John Charles, was bom at Mooers,
New York, January 17, 1821; fitted for college at
Burr Seminary, Vermont; graduated at Middlebury
College, Vermont, July, 1843; taught languages at
Castlcton Seminary, Vermont, two years; was tutor
at Middlebury College one year; read law at Dane
Law School, Harvard University; was admitted to
the bar July, 1847 ; occupied the chair of languages at
Middlebury College for a few months, during the ill-
ness of Professor Solomon Stoddard ; commenced the
practice of law at Oswego, New York, early in 1848,
and has continued it to the present time ; was a mem-
ber of the Board of Education of Oswego City from
830
CONGKESSIONAI. DIBECTOBT.
1853 to 1850. and of the Board of Supervisors of Oswego
Coiinly 1S54 niid IS-VJ; was distrk-l-attompy fur Os-
wego County from 1857 to IS('A)\ wa.i judi;c of Oswejjo
County from ISil) to ls<H, and in the lailer year was
unanimously presented l>y liis rounly ns a eandidate
for justice of the Supreme Court; was electeii a rep
resciitalive from New Yorli in (tie Fortieth Congress
aa a Republican, receiving 1-1,4'il votes against t$,S27
votes for ^Vibertus Perry, Democrat; and was re-
eiected to ttie Korty-lirsl Congress, receiving 15,7<11
votes against (i, 1(111 votes for Stebbins, Democrat,
Bcning from March 4, l(Sii7, to Slarch 3, 1871.
Churchwell, William M., was boni near
Knoxvilie, Tennassee; was one of the county judges
of Knox County; was electe<l u representative from
Tennessee In tlie Tliirty-second Congress as a Demo-
crat, receiving 0,074 vot<^s against 0,658 votes for
Anderson, Whig; and was re-eiected to the Thirty-
third Congress, receiving 0,t!i!0 votes against 4,71'7
votes for II. Maynard, Whig, serving from December
1, IHT)!, to Marcli :i, l.SV».
Cilley, Bradbury, was boni at Nottingham,
New llampsliire, February 1, ]7Ci(): received a pubiic-
Bchool education; was elccti'ii a n-pri'senlutlve from
New Hampshire, in tl>e Thirleenlli Congress, on the
Peace ticket, hejuled iiy Daniel Webster, receiving
18,585 vote* against l.j,l»8.') votes for J. A. Uarj''^''.
War Democrat: was re-elected to the Fourteenth
Congrc-ss as a Federalist. ser\ log from May 24. 1K13,
until March -i, 1)S17 ; wiis an aide-ile-canip to (iovemor
Oilman, and was on duty when the Uritish Ihreatened
to attack Portsmouth, in 1814; aud died, at Notting-
ham December 17. 1831.
Cilley, Jonathan, was horn at Nottingham,
New Uamjjshir)!, .hily 2, 18()2; received a classical
education, graduating at fJowdoiii College in 1825;
Studied law; w.is adniitte<l to the bar in 1820, and
commenced pnnitiee at niomaston. Maine; edited
"The ThomasUm Kegister" 1821t-l.S"!l; was a mem-
ber of the SUto House of Uepresenlatives 1S32-I8;J7,
serving two years as speaker; was elected a repre-
sentative from Maine in the Twenty-fifHi CongreKS
as a Van Uuren Democrat, serving from Septcnil)er 4,
1837, to February 24, 18.'{8, when he was lulled in a
duel, near Washington, hy William J. Graves, a rep-
resentative from Kentucky.
CLUey, Joseph, was Iwrn at Nottingham, New
nampshire. January 4, 171)1 ; was commissioned us
ensign of .State militia October 17, Isll. and as cn-
Bigii in the reg\dar aruiy March 12. 1S12; served
through the w.irwitli Gn'jit Britain with distinction,
and resigned in July. ISIO; was an aide-<le-c.imp to
Governor Benjamin Pierce in 1827; was elected to
Uie United-Stales senate us a Democrat to (ill the
vacancy occasioneil hy the resignation of Levi WchxI-
hury (who had Ijeen aiiiMiintcJ a justice of the Su-
preme Court), serving from Juiur 22. 184<i, luitil
March .'J, 1847; {missc<1 the remaimler of his lif(! on
his wcll-tilled fann at Nottingham, New Ham|)sliire.
Claflin, William, was bom at Milford, Massii-
chusetts, March (1, It<lM; w.ns for many yr-ars engaged
in the wholesale boot and shoe business at St. I.onis.
Jli.Hsouri, and afterwanis at Boston, residing at New-
ton; was a luemlH-r ot tiie State House of Itepresen-
tatives 184(>-lSi)2; was a State senator 1800-1801, and
president of the Siunite the last year; was a member
of the liepubliean National Executive Oiunmillce
from 1804 to 1875, serving as chainnan from 1808 lo
1872; was licutenant-govonior of Ma»sacliuse(ls 180«)-
1800; was governor of Massachusetts 18<l'.i-is71 ; was
elected to the Forty-liflh Congress as a Kcpubliean,
receiving 14.245 votes against ]2,4'j7 voles for William
W. Warren, Democrat.
Clagett, Clifton, was hom at Portsmouth, New
Ilanipshire, DccemlM'r 3, 1702; received a classical
education; studied law with his fjitbrr, Atlorncy-
G«Mieral Wyseman Chigett; was .•ulmittcil to the Itar
in 1787, and comineueed priu:tice at Litehlield in
17.87; was apfKvinted judge of pmbale for Hills-
borough County in 1811, mid removed to Amherst;
was the representative from Litchfield in the legisla-
ture for several years, anil from Amln-rst in If^lO;
was elected a representative from New Uamiishire in
the Eighth (Congress, serving from Octolx-r 17, 180.3,
to March 3, lb05; was appointed a justice of the
[Wiice aud quorum in 18()8; w.-is appointetl a judge
of the Superior Court in 1813, and held that office
until the alterati(ms of the court the eusuing year;
was again elected to the Fifteenth Congn>ss, and re-
elected to the Sixteenth Congress, serving from De-
cember 0, 18111, to March 3, 1823; was appointed
judge of probate August 5, 1823, and held the office
at the time of his death, at Amherst, January 29,
1821).
Clagett, William H., was bom at Upper Hart-
borough, Maryl.ind, Sejitember 21, 1838; was early
utiucafed to a knowledge of the rod, and not mucli
else; studied mid prat'tiseil law; was a member of
the legislature of Nevada in 1802, 18<J3, and 1885;
and was electetl a representative from Montana In
the Forty-second Congress as a Republican, receiving
5.274 votes against 4.801 votes forE. W. Toole, Derao-
cmf. Kening from Slarch 4. 1871. to March ;J. 1«73.
Claiborne, John, was lM>ni in Virginia: nn-eived
a liberal eilucation; was elected a represeiiialive
frtmi Virginia In the Ninth Congress, and was re-
electoil to the Tenth Congress, ser^'ing fnim Decem-
ber 2. 1805, to 1808. when he died.
Claiborne, John F. H., was iHirn at Natchez,
Mississippi; received a classical education in Vir-
ginia, where lie studied law, and w.os admitted to
the bar; commenced practice at Natchez; was several
years a mcml)er of the State legislature ; was elected a
representative from Mississippi in the Twenty-fourth
Congress as a Jackson Democrat; claimed to have
iM.-en re-elected to the Twenty-fifth Congn-ss, — the
House admitting him to his si'at OcIoIktS, 1!S37, but
subs<'<)uenlly reversing its decision, and declaring
the seat vacant, — serving from Decenil>er 7, 1N?5, to
January 31, 18.'18; defeated as the Democratic cmidi-
flnte for the Twenty-fifth Congress at the si>ecial
election ordered, receiving ]1,.308 votes against 12,249
votes for .S. S. Prentiss, Whig; edited " The Natchez
Free-Tradcr," and Bubse<iuently " T>ie Louisiana
Courier;" was aiipoiincd by President Pierce Unitcd-
.Slates live-oak timber agent for the districts of
Louisiana and Mississippi. He published " Tlie Life
of General Samuel Dale," " The Life of General
yiiilniaii," ujid nuinv magazine articles.
Claiborne, Natbaniel Herbert, was lM)m In
Sussex Ciiuiily, Virginia, November 14. 1707; n>-
ceived a classical education; w.is several years a
tneinbcr of the Slate Housj! of Delegates: was an
executive councillor; was elected a representative
from Virginia in the Nineteenth Congress, defeating
Jabez Leflwich; was re-elected to the Twentieth
Congress, n'ceiving 1,(V48 vot<'8 against 780 votes for
William Campl)ell; was re-<'lectcd to the Twentj'-
first Congress without opjiosition; was re-electeU to
the Twcniy-secoiul Congress without opposition; wn»
re-elected to the Twenty-third t'ongress without oppo-
sition; was re-elcclcd to the Twenty-fourth ('ongress
without ojtposition, serving from Decern 1 k' r .'i. lh'25,
to Man'h 3, 1837; died at Rwky Mount. Virginia,
August 15, 18.30. Published "Notes on the War in
the South, ll^lIK"
Claiborne, Thomas (father of John and
Thomas Claiborne). w;is boni at Brunswick, Vir-
ginia; n?ceiveil a classical education; was elected a
represenlative fnmi Viitjinia in the Thinl Congrt-ss;
Wiis re-elc'cied to the Fourth and Fiftli Congresssea,
serving from Di'cciuber 2, HiBJ, to M.irch 3, 17^19;
was di'fealed as a candidate for the .Sixth Congress;
wjis again elei-ted to the Seventh Congri'ss; was rc-
el<;(teil to the Eighth Congn'ss, serv ing from Decem-
ber 7. 18(11. to March 3, 1806; died at Brunswick,
Virginia. 1812.
Claiborne, Thomas (son of Thom.is Clailmnie,
ami brother of Jivhii Claiborne), was hom at Bruns-
wick, Virginia; w;is elected » representative from
STATISTICAL SKKTOHSS.
881
Tennemee In the Fifteenth Congress, serving from
December 1, 1817, to March 3, 1819.
Claiborne. WiUiam Charles Cole, was bom
in Virginia; received a liberal education ; studied law;
was admitted to the bar, and commenced practice at
Nashville, Tennessee; was a delegate to the State
Consritutional Convention; was elected a representa-
tive from Tennessee in the Fifth Congress- as a
Democrat, and was re-elected to the Sixth Congress,
serving from March 23, 1797, to March 3, 1801 ; was
appointed governor of the Tcrritorjr of Mississippi in
l^Jl, and of newly-acquired Louisiana in 1804; was
elected governor of Louisiana, serving from 1812 to
ISIO; was elected United-States senator from Loui-
•iana as a Democrat, but died, l)efore taking his seat,
at Xew Orleans, Kovember 23, 1817.
Clapp, Asa W. H., was i>om in Maine; was a
merchant at Portland; was elected a representative
from Maine in the Thirtieth Congress as a Demo-
crat, receiving 4,3C9 votes against 3,023 votes for
Little, Whig, and 1,010 scattering votes, and serving
from December 6, 1847, to May 3, 1840.
dark, Abraham, was bom near Elizabeth-
town, New Jersey, Febmary 15, 1720; was self-edu-
cated; studied law; was admitted to the bar, and
commenced practice at Kahway ; was sheriff of Union
County; was cleric of the Provincial Assembly; was
active in the ante-Revolutionary movements; was a
delegate from New Jersey to the Continental Con-
gress 1776-1782 and 1787-1788; was a delegate to the
conventions of 1786 and 1787; was a member of the
State House of Kepresentatives 1782-1787; was
elected a representative from New Jersey in the Sec-
ond Congress; and was re-elected to the Third Con-
gress, serying from OctoI>er 24, 1701, to his death,
at Kahway, New Jersey, September 15, 1794.
Clark, Ambrose W., was bom near Coopeis-
town, New York, Febmary 19, 1810; received a pub-
lic-school edacation; learned the art of printing;
was pubUaher of "The Otsego Journal" for five
yean, of " The Northern Journal" in Lewis County
for eight years, and of " The Northern New Yale
Journal" at Watertown for sixteen years; was
elected a representative from New York in the Thir-
ty-seventh Congress as a Republican, receiving 12,904
votes against 4,834 votes for Puiple, Democrat ; and
was re-elected to the Thirty-eighth Congress, receiv-
ing 14,820 votes against ll.Sl votes for Carryl,
Republican, serving from July 4, 1861, to March 3,
1805; was appointed by President Lincoln consul at
Valparaiso, serving from 1865 to 1869, and acting the
last year as charg€ d'affaires at Chili, in the absence
of the minister.
Clark. Amos, Jtm., was l>om at Westfl^d, New
Jersey, November 8, 1827; received an English edu-
cation; was In business in New-York City, though
always residing in Elizabeth, and largely interested
in real estate there; was a member of the city coun-
cil of Elizabeth in 1866 and 1866; was elected State
senator, and served from 1866 to 1860; was an elector
on the Republican presidential ticket for 1872; and
was elected a representative from New Jersey in the
Forty-third Congress as a Republican, receiving 14,-
794 votes against 12,618 votes for J. H. Patterson,
Democrat, and serving from December 1, 1873, to
March 3, 1876.
Clark, Christopher, was bom in Virginia in
1767; received a classical education; studied law;
Was admitted to the bar, and practised; was several
times elected a member of the State legislature ; was
elected a representative from Virginia in the Eighth
Congress as a JefFersonian Democrat, in place of
John Trigg, deceased; and was r«-clected to the
Xlnth Congress, serving from Novembers, 1804, until
lie resigned, July 1, 1806; and died near New Lon-
don^ Virginia, November 21, 1828.
Clark, Daniel, was bom at Stratham, New
Rampshire, October 24, 1800; received a classical
education, graduating at Dartmouth College in 1834;
studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1837, and
commenced practice; was a member of the State
House «f Representatives In 1842, 1843, 1846, 1854,
and 1855; was elected United-States senator from
New Hampsliire as a Republican in place of James
Hell, deceased ; and was re-elected, serving from De-
cember 7, 1857, to July, 1866, when he resigned ; was
chosen president itro tempore during the first session
of the TMrty-eighth Congress; was appointed, in
July, 1866, judge of the United-States District Court
for the District of New Hampshire.
Clark, Ezra, jun., was bom in Vermont; re-
moved to Hartf ora ; was elected a representative from
Connecticut in the Thirty-fourth Congress as an
American Republican, receiving 8,619 votes against
7,852 votes for Pratt, Democrat; and was re-elected
to the Thirty-fifth Congress, receiving 8,410 votes
against 7,073 votes for R. D. Hubbard, Democrat,
serving from December 3, 1855, to March 3, 1859;
received 220 votes for the Thirty-sixth Congress,
although not a candidate.
Clark, Franklin, was bom in Maine; received
a public-school education; engaged in mercantile
pursuits at Wiscasset, Maine; was a member of the
State House of Representatives; was an executive
councillor in 1855; was elected a representative from
Maine in the Thirtieth Congress as a Democrat,
receiving 5,226 votes against 4,657 votes for F. H.
Morse, Whig, and serving from Deceml)er 6, 1847, to
March 3, 1849.
Clark, Henr^ S., was bom in Beaufort County,
North Carolina, m 1801 ; received a classical educa-
tion, graduating at the University of North Carolina
in 1828; studied law; was admitted to the bar, and
commenced practice at Wasliington; was a member
of the State House of Commons in 1833, 1834; was
elected a representative from North Carolina in the
Twenty-ninA Congress as a Democrat, receiving
4,640 votes against 3,099 votes for R. S. Donnell,
Whig, and serving from December 1, 1845, to March
3,1847.
Clark, Horace F., was bora at Southbury,
Connecticut, in 1815 ; received a classical education,
graduating at Williams College; studied law; was
admitted to the bar, and commenced practice in the
city of New York, where he l>ecame prominent in
financial, political, and railroad circles; was elected
a representative from New York in the Thirty-fifth
Congress as a Democrat, receiving 3,722 votes against
3,760 votes for Wakeman, Republican ; and was re-
elected to the Thirty-sixth Congress, receiving 0,035
votes against 6,338 votes for Herrick, Democrat,
serving from December 7, 1857, to March 3, 1861;
declined a renomination; died in New- York City
June 19, 1873.
ClarK, James, was bom in Bedford County,
ViiBiula, in 1770; removed when a lad, with lus
father, to Clarke County, Kentucky; received a lib-
eral education; studied law in Virginia; was ad-
mitted to the bar, and commenced practice at Win-
chester, Kentucky, in 1797 ; was several years a mem-
ber of the State House of Representatives ; was
appointed judge of the Court of Appeals in 1810;
was elected a representative from Kentucky in the
Thirteenth Congress as a Clay Democrat; and was
re-elected to the Fourteenth Congress without oppo-
sition, serving from May 24, 1813, to 1816, when he
resigned; was judge of the Circuit Court 1817-1824;
was again elected to tlie Nineteenth Congress as a
Whig; was re-elected to the Twentieth Congress;
and was re-elected to the Twenty-first Congress,
serving from Deceml>er 5, 1825, to March 3, 1831;
was elected governor of Kentucky in 18362rcceiving
8,066 majority; and died at Frankfort, Kentucky,
August 27, 1839.
Cdark, James W., was bom in Bertie Coxmty,
North Carolina, March 2, 1781 ; received a classical
education, graduating at Princeton College In 1700;
was a memuer of the House of Commons of North
Carolina from Bertie County in 1802 and 1803, and,
removing to Edgecombe County, was elected there
832
CONGRESSIONAL DIBECTOBY.
In 1811; WM a presidential elector on the Madiiion
ticket in 1812; was a member of the Stat* Senate in
1812, 181M, ami 1814; was elected a representative
in the Fourteenth Congress as a Derawr.it, serving
from DecemtK'r 4, 1S15, until Marcli :i. 1S17, and de-
clinini; a re-t-leclion; was appointed l)y Seeret^iry
Branch chief cleric of the N'avy Ueparlment in March,
1828; resigned, and died at Washington City Janu-
ary. 1K44.
Claxk, John B., jun., was bom at Fayette. Mis-
souri, January 14. 1S51; attended the common
«chix>ls; entered Missouri University at the age of
fifteen, but remained there only two years; studied
law under General John B. Clark of Misst)uri. and
afterward |;:nuiuale<l in the law depaitmcnt of Har-
vard University, at Cambritlgc, Massachusetts; prac-
tised law froni 1*V> until ho entered tlie Confed-
erate anuy as a lieutenant, and was pRimotetl succes-
sively to be captain, major, cnlonel, and brigadier-
Ceneral; was slate and county collector of Howard
County; was elected a representative from Missouri
In the Forty-third Con^>8s as a Democrat, receiving
17,.'H1 votes ^:ainst 8.28(} votes for M. L. Dt? Motte.
Kepublican ; was re-elected to the Forty-fourth Con-
gress, nsceiving 19,.'J44 votes, without opfx>sition; and
was re-elected to the Fortv-fifth Conijress. receiving
81,7(31 votes against 9.U15 votes for M. L. De Motte,
Kepublican. sor%iiiK from December 1, 1873.
Clark, John B., w:is bom in Madison County.
Kentucky, April 17, 18<>2; received a liberal educa-
tion: studied law; was admitted to the bar, and com-
menced practice at Fayette, Missouri; was clerk of
the Howard-county courts 1824-1834; commanded a
regiment of Missouri mounte<l volunteers in the
Black Hawk war 18:12; was commissioned major-
gneral of militia 184t<; was a racmb<T of the State
ouse of IScpresontalives 1850 and 1851 ; was com-
mander of the State force called out to expel the
Mormons from Missouri; was elected a representa-
tive from Missouri in the Thirty-tiflh Congress as a
DemiKrat to fill a vacancy caused by the election of
James S. Green as senator; was re-elected to the
Thirty-sixth Congress without opposition; and was
re-elecled to the Thirty-stiventh Congress, receiving
14,828 votes against 1().27U votes for Hawkins, Kepub-
lioaa, ■erring from December 7, 1857. until he with-
drew, and was expelled, July 1.3, 18(31: served aa a
senator from Missouri in the First Confederate Con-
gress, and as a representative in the Second Confeii-
erate Congress; was a brigadier-^neral in the Con-
federate service.
CSark, Liincoln, was bom In Hampshire County,
Vaasachusetis, June 0, 1800; was rearvd on a farm:
taught school; obtained a classical education, and
graduated at Amljerst Coileg*!; studiwl law in Vir-
ginia, teaching as a means of sup|>ort; w.is admittird
to the bar. and commenced practiiv in J'ickciis
Coiuity, Alabaiua; was a memlier of the Slate House
of Representatives in 1^4, HSH, and 184.5; removed
to Tuscaloosa in 1838; was appointed attorney-gen-
eral in 1830: was api>ointed Uniteil.State4i circuit
judge In 1846; removed in 1848 to Dubuque. Iowa;
was a presidential elector on the Pierce and King
ticket in 18.52: was elected a representative from
Iowa in the Tliirty-sccond Congress, receiving 7.('2:i
votes against 7,773 votes for J. P. Cook, Whig, and
serving from December 1, 1851, to March :j, 1S5.'?; was
defeated as the Democratic camlidate for the Thirty-
fourth Congress, .ind resumcil practice.
Clark, Lot, was Inirn in S'ew York; rt^ided at
Norwich; was elected a representative from New
Tork in the Eighteenth Congress, serving from De-
ccmbi-r 1. issi, to March 3, 1825.
Clark, Robert, was bom in Washington County,
New York: recived an ao.-ulomic education; was a
nieral«"r of the St;vlo Huuse of IteprciiMitativcs 1S12-
1815; w.is elect «.m1 a representative from New York in
Ui<' .Sixteenth Consress, serving from December 6,
JSli*. to March S, 1821.
Clark, Samuel, was born in New York; was
li- ^
elected a representative from New Tork In the Twen^Bca
ty-third Congress as a Democrat, serving from
cemlK-r 2, l».'il. to March 3. 1S:}5; removfrl to Michi-
gan, and settled at KalamazfK); was li
sentative from MIchisan in the Thirty-i .
.is a Demiwrat. receiving lo.7i}5 t..'i* :. ,,,-> -..-j,^ _
voles for Braillev. Republie.in, ser\ ': ,■ ;; [|i Decern——,
ber 5, 18.V1. to Jl.-irch M. 18.')5; w;i- .!■ i. i!,-d as tb«
Democratic candidate for the Thirty-fuurth Con-
Efress. receiving 10,178 votes against 12,Sfi5 votes foi
W.-ilbridge, liepublican; died at Kalamazoo, MicU-
gan. October 2. 1870.
Clark, William, was bom at Dauphin. PcnI^
syivania; was .State treasurer of Pennsylvania; wa
treasurer of the United St.ates 1S38-1M29; was elected
a representative from Pennsylvania in the Twenty-
third Congress as a Wliig; anil was re-elected to the
Twenty-fourth Consrrcss. receiving 400 majority over
John C. Beecher. D<>mocrat. serving from Decenil)er
2. 18:>3, to March 3. 18:37: and died at Daupiiiu,
Pennsylvani.-v. Ajiril 28. 1841.
Clark, AVlUiam T., was bom at Norwalk, Con-
necticut, June 2V>, lSi4; was educated in Connecti-
cut and in \ew-York City; taught school; read law
in the city of New York; removed to Iowa in 1S5.5,
and practisc<l law there until the commencement of
the war; servinl in the Union army in all grades up
to brevet major-general, and commanded a division
in Texas until muster«?d out in 1866, when he went
into business at Galveston; took an active part in
reconstruction, anil was elected a representative from
Texas In the Forty-first Congn-ss as a liepuldicin,
receiving 16,582 votes against H.864 for Elliot. Demo-
crat; and was re-elected to the Forty-second Con-
gress, receiring 18.407 votes against 17.082 votes for
D. C. Uiddings. Democrat, and 40U votes for L. W.
Stei-enson; cLiimisl to have \yrcn re-clwied to the
Forty-third Congress, but the House dccld.'d that he
bad only receivetl 10.400 votes ocuitist -'o,:ilil votes
for D. C. Giddings, Democrat, and gave Gidditigs the
seat; so that he sened from March 4, 18*57, to May
13, 1872: was an otliccr of the Treasury Dcfiartraent.
Clarke, Archibtild S.,was iKirn in the State of
New York in 1778; receive<l an academic education;
studied law, and was a<Imitte<l to the bar; was suc-
cessively clerk, Burmgate, and judge of Saratoga
(bounty; was a member of the State .Senate ISlS-
1816; was elected a representative from New York
in the Fourteenth Congress in place of Peter B.
Porter, resigned, .seizing from Decenilier 2, 1810, lo
March 3, 1817; died at Clarvncc, New Y'ork, Decem-
Ur 4. 1S21.
Clarke, Bayard, was bom in New Tork Ma^(^h
17, 181.V; receiveil a cl.issical education, graduating
at Geneva Collegi;; stuitli'd law. and was admitted to
the bar; was attaclie to General Cass, minister to
France, 1836-lMO: studied at tli.' i;i>yal Cavalry
S<.'h»<>l; was appointed second lieutenant in the
Eighth Infantry, March 3, 1811; was trinsfeTred, in
Septenilier. 1841 . to the Second Dragoons, and resigned
Dec<'ml)er 1.5. 1843; settled in Westchester County,
New York: was elected a n-pn-sentalive from New
York in the Thirty-fourth Congress as an American
Whig, receiving 7.7'54 votes against 2.0;!S votes for
Whiting, Dem'tcrat. and 2.540 votes for Braiuiretli,
Democrat, serving from December 3, 1855, to March
3. 1857.
Clarke, Beverly L., was lK>m in Virginia; re-
moved to Kentucky; w:is a nu'niln^r of the State
House of Representatives in 1841, 1842; was a dele-
gate to tlic State Constitutional Convention in liM9;
was electe<l a representative from Kentucky' in the
Tliirticth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 5,201
votes against 5,(i«35 votes fur Todd. Whig, and serv-
ing from Dei-cmbcr 6, 1847. to Manh :>. 184t>; was
apiM)inte<l by Pn'sident Buchanan niinisti-r to Guate-
mala, and was also accredited to Uouduras, serving
from Januarv 7, ISoS, until his death, at Guatemala,
March 17. I860.
Clarke, Charles E., was bom at Great Bend,
STATISTICAIi SKETCHES.
Kevr Tork April 8, 1700; was a member of the State
House of Roprescntatives 1839, 1840; was elected a
D'prcsentalive from New York In tUo Thirty-first
t'f>n:nvss as a Whig, receiving 4,030 votes against
4,4:;7 votes for W. Ives, Democrat, and 2,624 votes
for Uaiui, Democrat, serving from December 3, 1B40,
to March 3, 1851; was defeated as the Wliig candi-
date for the Thirty-second Congress, receiving 5,008
votes against 5,477 votes for W. Ives, Democrat; died
at Great Bend, New York, December 29, 1803.
Clarke, Daniel, became a resident at New
Orleans, and was a delegate from the Territory of
Orleans in the Ninth Congress, serving from Decem-
ber 1, 1800, to March 3, 1800.
Clarke, Freeman, was bom at Troy, New York,
Harch 22, 1800; commenced active lite as a mer-
chant, but was engaged for thirty-five years in the
banking-business and as an officer of railroad compa-
nies; was a presidential elector in 1S56; was appoint-
ed comptrollei of the currency in the United-States
Treasury Department in 1805 ; was a member of the
State Constitutional Convention of 1867; was elected
a representative from New York in the Thirty-eighth
Congress as a Bcpublican, receiving 11,193 votes
against 10,470 votes for Church, Democrat, serving
from December 7, 1803, to March 3, 1805; and was
again elected to tlie Forty-second Congress, receiving
13.814 votes against 11,187 rotes for J. H. White,
Democrat, serving from March 4, 1871, to March 3,
1873.
Clarke, JohnB.,was bom near Augusta,Bracken
Coimty, Kentucky, April 14, 1833; was educated at
Augusta; studied law, and was admitted to the bar
in April, 1834; was elected county attorney for
Bracken County in August, 1858, for the term of
four years ; was elected to the State Senate of Ken-
tucky, in August, 1867, from the twenty-sixth sena-
torial district, composed of the counties of Bracken,
Pendleton, and Grant; and was elected a represents^
tire from Kentucky in the Forty-fourth Congress as
a Democrat, receiving 0,324 votes against 0,Si^ votes
for John Means, Kepublican; was re-elected to the
Forty-fifth Congress, receiving 14,400 votes against
10,501 votes for Deming, Republican, and serving
from December 0, 1875.
Clarke, John C., was bom in Connecticut,
Harch 8, 1793; received a classical education, gradu-
ating at Williams College in 1811 ; removed to Che-
nango County, New York; was elected a member of
the State Assembly in 1820; was elected a represen-
tative from New York in the Twentieth Congress as
a Democrat, serving from December 3, 1827, until
March 3, 1829; was again elected to the Twenty-fifth
Congress as a Democrat, but changed front on the
appearance of President Van Buren's message in
1837; was re-elected to the Twenty-sixth Congress as
a Whig by 1,000 majority, and was re-elected to the
Twenty-Seventh Congress as a Whig, serving from
September 4, 1837, until March 3, 1843 ; was appointed
first auditor of (he treasury August 2, 1840, but only
»mcd until October 31, 1849; died in 1852.
, Clarke, John H., was bom at EUzabethtown,
^ew Jersey, in 1791 ; received a classical education,
graduating at Brown University in 1809: studied
law; was admitted to the bar; commenced practice
U Providence; engaged in manufacturing; was a
■aember of the State House of Bepresentatives; was
elected United-States senator from Bhode Island as
a Whig, serving from December 0, 1847, to March S,
U5.3; and died at Providence, Rhode Island, 1870.
Clarke, Reader Wright, was bom at Bethel,
Ohio, May 18, 1812; received a thorough education,
and teamed the art of printing; studied and prac-
tiied law; was a memlwr of the Ohio legislature in
IM), 1841, and 1842; was presidential elector in 1844;
was clerk of the court of Clermont County from 1840
Until 1852; was elected a representative from Ohio
In the Tliirty-itiuth Congress as a Republican, rccciv-
In;; 12,616 rotes against 10,174 votes for C. A. White,
Dsnociat; was re-elected to the Fortieth Congress
as a Repnblicao, receiving 13,846 votes against 12,267
votes for Howanl, Democrat, serving from December
4, 1805, to March 3, 1860; was appointed by President
Grant third auditor of the treasury, serving from
March 20, 1860, to March 20, 1870 j was appointed a
collector of internal revenue in Ohio; and died May
23,1872.
Clarke, Sidney, was bom at Southbridge,
Massachusetts, Octobsr 10, 1831 ; received a public-
school education; selected the editorial profession,
and published "The Southbridge Press;" went to
Kansas, and was a member of the legislature of that
State in 1802; served as captain and as assistant
{>rovost marshal-general in the war for the suppres-
sion of the Rebellion; was elected a representative
from Kansas in the Thirty-ninth Congress as 'a Re-
publican; was re-elected to the Fortieth Congress,
receiving 19,202 votes against 8,106 for Blair, Demo-
crat; and was re-elected to the Forty-first Congress,
receiving 20,324 votes against 13,000 votes for Blair,
Democrat, serving from December 4, 1865, to March
3, 1871.
Clarke, Staley N., resided at Ellicottsville,
Cattaraugus County, New York, and was elect^ a
representative from New York in the Twenty-
seventh Congress as a Whig, receiving 8,000 votes
against 5,789 votes for B. Cliamberlain, Democrat,
and serving from May 31, 1841, to March 3, 1843.
darkson, Matthew, was bom at Philadelphia,
and was a delegate from Pennsylvania to the Con-
tinental Congress, serving from 1785 to 1780.
Clawson, Isaiah D., was bom at Woodstown,
New Jersey, March 30, 1822; received a classical
education, graduating at Princeton College in 1840;
studied medicine, receiving his degree of M.D. at
the University of Pennsylvania in 1843; commenced
practice at Woodstown, New Jersey; was a member
of the State House of Representatives in 1853; was
elected a representative from New Jersey in the
Thirty-fourth Congress as a Whig, receiving 6,200
votes against 4,385 votes for Mulford, Democrat,
and 3,949 votes for Hazleton, Temperance; and
was re-elected to the Thirty-fifth Congress, receiv-
ing 9,673 votes against 7,351 votes for Hineline,
Democrat, serving from December 3, 1865, to March
3, 1850.
Clay, Brutus J., was bom in Madison County,
Kentucky, July 1, 1808; received a liberal education
at Danville College, and became a farmer and stock-
raiser in Bourbon County, Kentucky ; was a mem-
ber of the State House of Representatives in 1840
and 1800; was president of the Bourbon-county
Agricultural Society, and president of the State
Agricultural Society of Kentucky 185.3-1857; was
elected a representative from Kentucky in the
Thirty-eighth Congress as a Unionist, receiving
4,711 votes against 2,487 votes for Boyle, Unionist
and 2,143 votes for the Democratic candidate, serv-
ing from December 7, 1863, to March 3, 1865; devoted
himself to agricultural pursuits.
Clay, Clement Comer (father of C. C. Clay,
jun.), was bom in Halifax County, Virginia, Decem-
ber 17, 1780; received a public-school education;
studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1800, and
removed in 1811 to Huntsville, Alabama, whero he
commenced practice ; served in the war {gainst the
Creek Indians, 1813; was a member of the Territorial
Council of Alabama in 1817; was elected a judge of
the Circuit Court in 1810, and chief justice in 1820,
resigning in 1823; was a member of the State legisla-
ture of Alabama in 1827 ; was elected a representa-
tive from Alabama in the Twenty-first Congress as a
Democrat, serving from Deccmljer 7, 1820, to Mareh
3. 1835; was governor of Alabama in 1830-1837; was
elected a senator in Congress from Alabama to fill a
vacancy caused by the resiguatiou of John McKinley
(appointed a justice of the Supreme Court of the
United States), and served from September 4, 1837.
until he resigned in the fall of 1841 ; was judge of
the Supreme Court in 1843 for a few months; codi-
834
CONOEESSIONAL DIRECTOBV.
fled tlie laws of Alnhama In 1942-1^3; and died at
HiintsvUk'. Al:ili:iiii:i. Si'pli'tiilKT 7, \SCA).
Clay, Clement Comer, jun. (son of C. C.
Clay), wns born at Miiilison, Ahibama, in 1819; re-
ceived a closaical education, pradualiiig at the Uni-
versity of Alabama; studied at the law department
of the University of Virginia, griiduatinp In ISiJO;
was admitted to the b,ar in 184<l, and conimeTiced
practice at Iluntsviile, Alabama; was a mcndier of
the State House of Ileprescniatives of Aliibiima iu
1842, 184-1, and 1845; w.-is judge of the county court
of Madison County l.s45-]Sri<); was a presidential
elector on the Pierce and King ticket in 1H52; was
an unsuccessful candidate for Coiicress in IH,V1; was
elected to the Unit€d-,State8 Senate as a Democrat in
]8i>3, and unanimously re-electfd in ISTiil; withdrew
fn)ra the United-Slates Sen.ite December Ht, IWk);
■was elected to the f 'onfederatc-Slates Menate in l.'ttil,
and served until ISO;}; M-as ajipointcd a diplomatic
agent of the Confederate States; was arrested in
1HI1.'>, ami imprisoned in Fortress Monroe; devoted
himself to agricultural pursuits on his plantation in
Jackson ('ounty, AlaV)aina.
Gftay, Henry, was bom in Hanover County. Vir-
ginia, April 12, 1777; w.is reared on a farm, receiving
a scanty public-school education; when hfteen years
of age. entered the office of Mr. Tinsley, clerk of the
Court of Chancery at Itichmond, where he studied
law; was admitted to the bar in Novenil)er, 17H7, and
commenced practice at Lexington, Kentucky; was a
member t)f the State House of Hepresent.itivcs in
1803; was elected United-States senator fnmi Ken-
tucky in place pf John Adair, resigned, serving from
December 20, ISdC, to Man-h :i, 18(»7; was again
elected a member of the Slate House of Keprescuta-
tlvcs in 1S()8 and 1H(>!), serving the last year as
speaker; was again elected United-States senator in
placu of Buckner Thurston, resigned, ser^'ing from
rebniary Jj, IHIO, to March ;i, ISll; was eleete<l a
rcpresont,ative frf)m Congress in the Twelfth Coii-
gr«.'S8, and n'-eli-cted to the Thirteenth Congress,
Ber\'ing as speaker from Novemlwr 4, ISIl, vintil he
resigned, January 10, 1814; was appointed (uie of the
commissioners to negotiate a treaty of peace with
Gri'at Britain; was again elected repn'sentative to
the Fourteenth Congress; and was re-electeil to the
Fifteenth and Sixteenth Congresses, serving as
speaker from December 4, 181.'i, until he rrsigiierl,
Octolicr 20, 1820; was again elected a representative
to the Eightceiitli Congress, .serving as sjieakcr from
December 1, IBi'J, until M.-irch .3, 1-S2.5; was appointed
hy President John Quincy Adams secretary of state
182.'>-1820; was again elected United-.States sen.ator,
and rc-<.'leeted, serving from Deceml>er 5, 18.31, until
ho resigned, March 31, 1842; was ilefeated as the
Wliig candidate for Presiilent by Andrew Jackson in
1S42, and again hy James K. Polk in 1844; was again
elected United-States senator, serving from December
8, 1840, until ho died, at Washington City, June 20,
]8.')2. He declined the mission to Itiissia and a
place in the cabinet offen-d him by President Madi-
son, and the mission to Great nrit,'iiTi and a pliice
in the cabinet offered him by President Monroe.
He fought duels with Uumiilirey Marshall of Ken-
tucky and Joiin Randr>lpb of Virginia.
Clay, James Brown (son of iii-nry Clay), w.xs
born at Wiishington City, November 0. 1817; received
a liberal education at Transylvania University; was
A clerk in a counting-house at Boston ]S.'32-1S34;
was on a fann near St. Louis 18;VI-|S:J8; relunied
to Kentucky; studied law, graduating at the Lex-
ington Law School, and commeneiHl practice In
partnership with his father; wtus vhanjv <rtijf'iiiri:i
to Portugal from August 1, LS-lli, to July lit, 18r.():
resided in Missouri 18.")l-18o2; returned to Kentucky
Rfterlhe death of his father, from whom he inherited
Vf : , . .V^hland," near Lexington;
V iialive from Kentucky iu tlie
'Jli,,, ,-...■. i 1 ...,.,,..,.- .IS a DiMuoerat, receiving 0,-')77
\otii"< a-'alnrt C,4j1 ?ott« for Hanson, Anicricaii, and
o ^
la jf
serving from Deeemher 7, 1W7, to March 3, 18
was amenilHT of the Peace Congress of 18(11; id-.^^Bi
tified himself with the Southeni Confederacy; ^
died at Montreal, Canada, January 2t), IttH.
Clay, Joseph, was iKirn at Savannah, GeonEy— »-.
took an active part in the ante-I{cvolutionary n>'
menis: was a delegate, from Georgia in the < ■
nentnl Congress 1778-1780; served in the Revolun » ^h
ary army as paymaster of the Soutliem DepHrtm<.'.«i^H
was judge of the United-States Court for the LH^B
trict of Georgia I70O-18t)l; and died at Savmnnc-K ^
Georgia, January II), 1805.
Clay, Joseph, was bom at Phil.idelphia, Pe
sylvania, and was elected a representative frrmi
Slate in the Eichth (Congress; was rc-elccteU to
Ninib and Tenth Congresses, serving from Hi ti w^L
17, 1«<)3, to I.SOS, when'he resigned.
Clay, Matthew, w.is boni In Virginia, and -^mra*
eieefed a representative from that State in the t~S/)'j0'
Congress as a Demo<'ral ; was re-elected to the Si:a-ir/=^
Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, .to jf
Twelfth Congresses, generally without oppositio*^ '
and serving from May 15, 1707, to March 3, 1813^
died in ISl."),
Clayton, Au^stin Smith, was bom at Fred-
erickslmrg, V''irginia, Novenilier 27, 1783. His parents
removed to tJeorgia when he was one year old. Do
n>ceived a classical edue.ition, graduating at Fraiiklm
College in 1804; Bludie<l law under Judge Cames: 1
was admitted to the bar in Wilkes County, ana |
commenced practice in Franklin County, but. at lh« j
expiration of one year, rcmove.il to Athens; was »»>-
lecti'd by the legislature in 1810 to compile thai
statutes of Georgia from 1800; was a memtwr of thai
.State Senate and House of Representatives ; waal
elected a judge of the Superior Court in 1810, awlj
re-elected In 1822; was defeat<'d when a candidate in]
1825; was re-electeU In 1.S28, and was defenleii whcnl
a candidate in 1831; was elected n < 'ilival
from (reorgia in the Twenty-second ' :is al
.Slate-rights Democrat (to till a vacui. . i..„.. d by 1
the resignation of Governor Lumpkins), and wa» ]
n'-elected to the Twcntv-third Congn-ss. scrringj
from January 21. 1*32. "to March 3, 1S35. AlterJ
having been for many years sceptical upon religioosl
subjects, he became converted, and joined tlie )teth-l
ndist-Episeopal Church in 18;>8. He died at Athens,!
(■eorgia, of paralysis, June 21, 18.30. He published]
" The Laws of Georgia," " The Mysterious Picture," 1
"T\ie Life of Da^nd Crockett," and a number ofj
political essays signed " Atlicus."
Clayton, Charles, was bom in England in 1823J
receivr-d a public-schix)l education; came to Wiscon-I
sin ill 1842: crossed the Rocky Motmtains to Oregooi
in 1847; arrived in San Francisco in April, 1848; wnaJ
aJcaWe in Santa Clara in 1.^0-1850; built the Santa-|
Clara flour-mills iu 18.'»2; removed to .San Francisco
ill 18.");j; engaged in the grain and llour busiii
there; was a member of the Stale legi.slature fi
San Francisco in 18<>3, 18<U. 18(15, and 18/Xi; was i
member of the bo,ard of sujiervisors (aldennen) ofj
San Francisco from 18(J4 until l.stiO; was appointedj
by President Gnmt, Mareh HI, 1870, surveyor of ci
loms of the port and district of San Francisco; i
W.18 elected a representative from California in
Forty-lhinl Congnss as a Republican, receiving 1 1.1M4I
votes against |o,8S8 votes forW. A. Piper, De.mocnit.J
Clayton, John Middleton, was liom iu 8«
sex County. Didaware. July 24, 171HJ; received
cliL'sleal eduealinn, graduating at Yale College In]
1815; studied l.iw at Die Litclilield Law ScIhh,!; w:is|
adniilled to the bar in 1818, .mil comincnced |iraeiic«'l
at Dovit; was a member of the State House of Rep-I
resentatives in 1824; w.is st'crctary of slate of Dela-f
wan'; was elected United-States senator from Dela
ware, and re-elccteil, serving from l)eceiuber 7.
to 18;16; was chief justice of Delaw.are IS37-1S3»;1
was again elected Vnitcd-Stab's senator, seninyjj
from December 1, 1845, to his resignation Man-h (1, f
1810; wiu apixjintml secretary of statu by Prusidentl
rfHik
8TATISTICAI< SKETCHES.
836
Yaylor, serving from March 7, 1849, to Jnly 22, 1860;
was agai^ elected United-States senator, serving
(rum Mareh 4, 1853, until he died at Dover, Dela-
ware, November 0, 1856.
Clayton, Joshua, was bom in Delaware; re-
ccivc^d a liberal education ; studied medicine at Phila-
delphia, and practised at Middletown, Delaware ; was
president of Delaware 1789-1793; was governor of
the SUte of Delaware 1793-17S6 ; was elected United-
States senator from Delaware (in place of John
Vining, resigned), serving from February 19, 1798,
to Jnlyl6, 179B; died at his residence near Middle-
town, Delaware, August 11, 1708.
Clayton, PoweU, was bom in Delaware County,
Pennsylvania, August 7, 1833; received a common-
school education, and was afterward at Partridge's
Military Academy, Bristol, Pennsylvania; studied
civil engineering at Wilmington, Delaware, and fol-
lowed it as a profession ; entered the Union army in
Kansas Hay 29, 1861, as captain of the First Kan-
sas Infantry; was appointed lieutenant-colonel of
the Fifth Kansas C»valry in February, 1862 ; was ap-
pointed colonel of the same regiment in March,
1802, and was commissioned brigadier-eeneral In
August, 1864; settled in Arkansas at the close of the
war as a planter; was elected governor in 1868; and
was elected United-States senator from Arkansas as
a Republican (to succeed A. McDonald, Bepublican),
serving from March 25, 1871, to March 3, 1877.
Clayton, ThomEks, was bom at New Castle,
Delaware, March 9, 17^; received a liberal educa-
tion; studied law; was admitted to the bar, and
practised at New Castle; was elected a representative
from Delaware In the Fourteenth Confess, serving
from December 4, 1815, to March 3, 1817; was for
■ereral years a member of the State legislature ; was
elected United-States senator (in the place of Csasar
A. Rodney, resigned), serving from January 15, 1824,
to March 3, 1827 ; was chief justice of the Delaware
Court of Common Pleas; was again elected United-
Btates senator (in place oi John M. Clayton, resigned),
serving from January 19, 1837, to March 3, 1847 ; was
chief justice of the Supreme Court of Delaware;
died at New Castle, Delaware, August 21, 1864.
Qeayeland, Jeaee F., was bom at Decatur,
Georgia; held several local Offices; was elected a
representative from Georgia In the Twenty-fourth
Congress as a Union Democrat, receiving 30,811
votes against 27,947 votes for Gamble, State-rights
Whig; was re-elected to the Twenty-fifth Congress,
■erring from December 7, 1836, to March 3, 1839:
removed to Charleston, South* Carolina, in the fall
of 1839, and engaged in mercantile pursuits; died at
Charleston, South Carolina, May 19, 1841.
Clemena, Jeremiah, was bom at Hontsvllle,
Alabama, December 28, 1814: received a classical
edaeation, graduating at the University of Alabama
in 1833; studied law at Transylvania University, Ken-
tucky; was admitted to the bar in 1834, and prac-
Used at Huntsvllle; was appointed United-States
narshal for the northern district of Alabama In
IttSS; was a member of the State House of Repre-
•entatives 18^^1841 ; raised a company of riflemen
*nd served in the Texas war of independence in
1842 ; was again a member of the State House of Bep-
mcntatives 1843-1844; served in the Mexican war,
sod was appointed major of the Thirteenth United-
States Infantry March 3, 1847; promoted lieutenant-
colonel of the Ninth United-States Infantry Jnly 16,
l$47: disbanded July 20, 1848; was appointed in 1848
chief of the d^pdt of purchases in Mexico ; was elected
United-States senator from Alabama as a Democrat,
Krving from December 8, 1840, to March 3, 1863;
was a member of the convention which voted Ala-
lama oat of the Union in 1861, but protested against
It* action; held office under the Soutliem Confcd-
ciscy; advocated the re-election of President Lincoln
ill ISM ; removed to Memphis, Teimessce, and liecame
olitor of " The Memphis Eagle and Enquirer," Jan-
turjr 1. 18fi0; returned to Alabama, and died at
Huntsvllle May 25, 1866. He pahllshed "Bernard
Lile," "Mustang Gray," and " Tobias Wilson,"
Clemens, oherrard, was bom at Wheeling,
Virginia, April 28, 1826; received a classical educa*
tion, graduating at Washington College ; studied law ;
was admitted to the bar, and commenced practice at
Wheeling; was elected a representative from Virginia
in the Thirty-second Congress (in place of George
W. Thompson, resigned) as a Democrat, receiving
606 majority, and serving from December 6, 1862,
to March 3, 1853; was a presidential elector in
1866 on the Buchanan and Breckinridge ticket; was
elected a representative from Virginia In the Thirty-
fifth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 7,074 votes
against 2,821 votes for Duimington, American; and
was re-elected to the Thirty-sixth Congress without
opposition. His second term of service was from
December 7, 1857, to March 3, 1861 ; but a wound
received in a duel with Mr. Wise in 1860 prevented
his attending the second session of the Thirty-fifth
Congress.
Clements, Andrew J., was bom In Jackson
County, Tennessee, In 1882 ; received a public-school
education ; studied mediciue ; received the degree of
M.D. from the University of Tennessee In 1858, and
commenced practice at Lafayette ; was elMted a rep-
resentative irom Tennessee in the Thirty-seventh
Congress as a Unionist, serving from January 13,
1862, to March 3, 1863; was a member of the State
House of Representatives in 1866.
Clements, Isaac, was bom in Franklin County,
Indiana, in 1837 ; graduated at the Indiana Asbnry
University at Greencastle in 1850, paying his own
way by teaching school ; studied law with John A.
Matson of Greencastle ; removed to liiinois, and
taught school to raise money for the purchase of law-
books ; entered the Union army as second lieutenant
of Company G, Ninth Illinois Infantry, in July,
1861 ; remained in the service over three years, dur-
ing which he was wounded three times, and was
twice promoted; was appointed register in bank-
ruptcy in June, 1867 ; and was elected a representa-
tive from Illinois in the Forty-third Congress as a
Republican, receiving 12,009 votes against 11,278
votes for G. W, Wall, Democrat and Liberal, serving
from December 1, 1873, to March 3, 1875: was defeat-
ed as the Republican candidate for the Forty-fourth
Congress, receiving 9,280 votes against 10,866 votes
for W. Hartzell, Democrat and Reformer.
Clendenen, David, was elected a representa-
tive from Ohio in the Thirteenth Congress in place
of Rezin Beall, resigned ; and was re-elected to the
Fourteenth Congress, serving from December 22,
18li to March 8, 1817.
Cleveland, Chaunoey F., was bom at Hamp-
ton, Connecticut, in 1799; received a public-school
education ; studied law ; was admitted to the bar in
1819, and commenced practice at Hampton; was a
member of the State legislature in 1826, 1827, lt)28,
1820, 1832, 1835, 1836, 1838, 1847, and 1848, serving
two years as speaker of the House; was governor of
Connecticut in 1842-1843; was elected a representa-
tive from Connecticut in the Thirty-first Congress as
a Democrat, receiving 6,140 votes against 6,092 votes
for Rockwell, Whig; and was re-elected to the Thit-
ty-«econd Congress, receiving 6,261 votes against
6,810 votes for Ames, Whig, serving from December
3, 1840, to March 3, 1863; was a presidential elector
on the Lincoln and Hamlin ticket in 1860, and a
member of the Peace Congress in 1861.
Cleveland, Orestes, was bom in Duanesburg,
Schenectady Cotmty, New York, March 2, 1820; re-
ceived a common-school education ; engaged in mer-
cantile pursuits in New- York City, and afterwards
became a manufacturer in Jersey City; was elected
alderman in 18(11, and was president of the board
in 1802; elected mayor in 1864, re-elected in 1806
and 1806, and in 1867 was a8sure<l that no Repub-
lican candidate would oppose him if he would
accept the imaniraous nomination tendered by his
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CONOBESSIONAL DIBKCTOBT.
own party, but refused, and the city went back to
the Republicans ; in 1864 the city exbausted its au-
thority to issue bonds for bounties, and he borrowed
large amounts with unauthorized Ixinds by attach-
ing his individual guaranty, furnishing promptly all
the men required ; was elected a representative from
New Jersey in the Forty-first Congress as a Democrat,
receiving 19,110 vot«s against 10,862 votes for Halsey,
Bepublican, and serving from March 4, 1869, to
March 3, 1871; was defeated as Democratic candi-
date for the Forty-second Congress, receiving 14,694
votes against 18,092 votes for George A. Halsey, Re-
publican, and 030 votes for Fitzpatnck, Independent.
Clever, Chcurles P., was bom at Cologne, Prus-
sia, February 23, 1830: was educated at the Gymna-
Bium of Cologne and the University of Bonn; studied
law; was admitted to the bar, and commenced prac-
tice at Santa V6, New Hesico ; held several territorial
offices, and claimed to have been elected a representa-
tive from New Mexico in the Fortieth Congress; but
the House decided, nem. con., that he had only re-
ceived 8,307 votes, and gave the seat to J. Francisco
Cleaves, who had received 8,090 votes, so that he
served from March 4, 1867, to February 20, 1869. He
published " The Besouices of New Mexico " in 1868.
Ciittoii, Nathan, was bom at Runmey, New
Hampshit^ August 18, 1803; received an academic
education; studied law; was admitted to the bar,
and commenced practice in York County, Maine, in
1827; was elected a meml>er of the State House of
Bepresentatives 1830-1634, serving the two last years
as speaker; was attorney-general of Maine 1834-1838;
was elected a representative from Maine in the
Twenty-sixth Congress as a Democrat, receiving
6,568 votes against 4,500 votes for Nathan D. Apple-
ton, Whig; was re-elected to the Twenty-seventh
Congress, receiving 900 majority over Daniel Goode-
now, Whig, serving from December 2, 1839, to March
S, 1843; was appointed by President Polk attorney-
general of the United States, serving from December
23, 1840, to March 17, 1848; was commissioner to
Mexico, with the rank of envoy extraordinary and
minister plenipotentiary, from March 18, 1848, to
September 6, 1849; resumed practice at Portland,
Maine^ was appointed by President Buchanan asso-
ciate justice of the Supreme Court of the United
States Januaiy 28, 1858. He published "United-
States Circuit-Court Reports," in two volumes, 1869.
Clif t, Joseph Wales, was bom at North Marsh-
field, Massachusetts, September 1, 1836; received an
education at the common sciiool and Phillips
Academy; learned a carpenter's trade; united with
the Congregational Church In 1855; entered the
Union army; was acting-surgeon United-States army
from July 13, 1802, to August 7, 1866, serving in the
Army of the Potomac until November 18, 18(%; prac-
tised medicine in Savannah; was appointed registrar
of the city of Savannah by Major-General John
Pope under the reconstruction acts; was elected a
representative from Greorgia in the Fortieth Congress
as a Republican, receiving 11,980 votes against 8,140
votes for Fitch, Democrat and serving from July 26,
1868, to March 3, 1869.
Clinoh, Duncan L., was bom in North Caro-
lina In 17^; entered the United-States army as first
lieutenant July 1, 1808, and was gradually promoted
until he became colonel of the Eighth Infantry in
April, 1819; was brevetted brigadier-general April 20,
1829; commanded at and won the battle of Withla-
wochee against the Seminole Indians December 81,
1835; resigned Scptemlier 21, 1830, and settled on a
plantation near St. Mary's, Georgia; was elected a
representative from Georgia in the Twenty-eiKhth
Congress as a Whig by over 4,000 majority (to fill a
vacancy occasioned by the death of John Millen),
and served from Febmary 15, 1844, to March 3, 1845;
died at Macon, Georgia, November 27, 1849.
Clingan, William, was born in Pennsylvania,
and was a delegate from that State in the Conti-
nental Congress 1777-1779.
Clingmaa, Thomas L., was bom at HnntsriUe,
North Carolina; received a classical education; grad-
uated at the University of North CaroliiB in ISil:
studied law, and commenced practice; was elected
to the State House of Commons in 1835; removed to
Ashvillc, Buncombe County, in 1830; was elected
State senator in 1840; was elected a representative
in the Twenty-eighth Congress as a Whig, receiving
3,817 votes against 2,888 votes for Graham, Demo-
crat, and served from December 4, 1843, to March 3,
1846; was defeated by Graham in 18^; was agsu^
elected to the Tliirtieth Congress, receiving 4,^
votes against S,426 votes for Bynum, Democrat; was
re-elected to the Thirty-first Congress, receiving 7.£)1
votes against 1,140 scattering votes; was re-elected to
the Thirty-second Congress as an Independent can-
didate, receiving 6,500 votes against 2,819 votes for
Gaither, Whig; was re-elected to the Thirty-third
Congress, receiving 7,640 votes against 5,214 votes for
Gaimer; was re-elected to the Thirty-fourth Con-
gress as a Democrat, receiving 8,OT9 votes against
0,584 votes for Carmichael, Know-Notliing; and ^as
re-elected to the Thirty-fifth Congress as a Demo-
crat, receiving 8,673 votes against 3,759 scattering
votes; was appointed to the United-States Senate as
a Democrat to fill the vacancy occasioned by the
resignation of Asa Bigs, and was elected for six yean
after March 4, 1801 ; withdrew from the United-States
Senate Janiuiry 21, 1861, after having served contin-
uously since December 0, 1847; was iq>poiiited. May
17, 1862, brigadier-general in the Confederate service,
commanding a brigade composed of the Eighth,
Tliirty-first, Fifty-first, and Sixty^rst North-Carolina
Infantry.
Clinton, De Witt, was bom at Little Britain,
New York, March 2, 1769: received a classical educa-
tion, graduating at Columoia College in 1780; studied
law; was admitted to the bar in 1788, but did not
practise much; was private secretary to his uncle,
Govemor Geotve Clinton, 1790-1795; was made a
Freemason in Holland Lodge in 1793, and rose to be
Grand Master of New York in 1800, Grand High
Priest in 1816, and Grand Master of the Grand Eif
campment in 1810; was a member of the State House
of Representatives in 1798, and State senator in
1799-1802; was elected United-States senator from
New York as a Democrat in place of John Arm-
strong, resigned, serving from Februrary 23, 1802, to
1803, when he resigned ; fought a duel wiUi Samuel
Swartwout in July, 1802, after a political controversy;
was mayor of the city of New York 1803-1807; was
again State senator 1806-1811 ; was i^ain mayor of
the city of New York 1810-1811; was lieutenant-
governor of New York 1811-1813; was defeated in
1812 as the Peace candidate for president of the
United States, receiving 89 electoral votes against 123
votes for James Madison, war Democrat; was again
mayor of the city of New York 1811-1814; initiated
the Erie Canal in 1815, and served several years as
canal commissioner; was govemor of the State of
New York 1817-1822 and 1824-1827; was prominent
in the establishment of the New- York Historical Sjo-
ciety, the Academy of Fine Arts, and the Orphan
Asylum; declined the mission to Great Britain,
tendered him by President John Quincy Adams;
died at Albany, New York, Febmary 11, 1828. Pub-
lished "Letters on the Natural History and Internal
Resources of the State of New York," and several
papers on historical topics and internal improve-
ments.
Clinton, George, was bom in Ulster Comity,
New York, July 20, 1739 ; received a liberal education ;
mode a cruise in a privateer; served as a lieutenant
of rangers in the expedition against Fort Frontenac;
studic(l law with William Smith; was admitted to the
bar, and commenced practice in Ulster County; was
a delegate from New York in the Continental Con-
gress 1775-1777, but was a part of the time iu tlie liold
as brigadier-general of militia; was appointed brig-
adier-general by Congress March 25, 1777; was gov-
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emor of New Yorlc 1777-1705; was a rlolcgato to the
State Convfntlou wliicli r.itilied tlir FccliT.il Consti-
tution, ami its prfsiilont; wiis clefeiitcil as Ibc Stato-
righta canditlato for the vicc-prcsidnncy in 17liO, re-
ceiving 60 electoral votes nijainst 77 electoral votes
for John Ailarns, 4 for Jellersoii, anil 1 for Burr;
was a nienilH-r of the State Uousc of U<,'presenlii-
tivcs in 18110; wsis a^ain governor of New York
1801-1S(M; w;is elected vice-president in lStt4 as a
State-rights Democrat, rcc('ivin|{ 102 electoral votes
a{(ninst 14 electoral votes for Kufus King; and was
re-elected in 1808, receiving 113 electoral votes ajpunst
47 electoral voles for Kufus King, '.i for James Madi-
Bou, and 3 for .lames ilonroe; and died at Washing-
ton City, April 20, 1,S12.
Clinton, O^orge, jun., was l)orn in New- York
City; was a meinlxjr of tlio .State House of Ileprcsen-
tatives 1S01-1.SI)2; was clecti-d a representative from
New York in the Eighth Congress in pliu-e of Samuel
L. Mitchill. elected senator; ami was re-tdeeted to
the Ninth an<l Tenth Congn-sscs, serving from Febru-
ary 14, l.><0.j, t-i March .'!. 1800.
Clinton, James Or., was bom at Newburgh,
JJew Y'ork; lielrl 8<'veral local offices; was elected n
representative from New Y'ork in the Twenty-sev-
enth Congress as a Democrat, rec(dving 4,807 votes
against 4,:J4;J votes for Thomas McKisR<»ck, ^Vhig:
and was re-electeil to the Twenty-eighth Congress,
receiving 5..0tU votes against 4,4;j» votes for Wlieeler,
T\Tiig. serving from M.iy ai, 1841, to Marcli :J, 181.').
Clopton, David, was l>om in Georgia in 1820:
removed l^i Tuskegei', Alabama; v/xa eli'Ct<'d a repre-
sentative from Alabama in Iho Thirty-sixth Con-
gn>ss as a State-rights DemoiTat, receiving li.SS)
votes against (i,(XK! votes for T. J. .ludge, American
Whig, and serving from December 3, IS-JO, to Janu-
ary 21, 1.801, when he retired from the House; was
elected a re]iresentative in tin' First and Second Con-
fe<lenile Congresses 18li2-lS(>4.
Clopton, John, wits bom in Virginia; was
elccteda nrpresentative from Virginia in the Fourth
Congress as a Democrat, his seat being unsuccess-
fully contested by Burwell llassctt ; and was re-<'lectcti
to the Fifth Congn-ss. 8i.'r\-ing from December 7, ITil.l,
to March 3, 17tll); was again elected to the .Sevi-nlb
Congress; was re-elected to tlio Eighth. Ninth, Ti-ntb
(receiving 104 majority over I'eyton liamlidpli),
ilcventh. Twelfth, Thirteenth, and Fourteenth Con-
Ifresses. s<'n-ing from December 7, 1801, to September
11, 1810, when he diid.
Clowney, William K., was Iwtm in Union
County, .Soutli Carolina; reeitived a classical educa-
tion, gr.adnaling at tlio South-Carolina College in
1.S1S; studied law; was admitted to the bar, and
commenced practice at Union Court llimsc; was
OTumissioner In equity of South Carolina 1S30-
83S; was elected a representative from South Caro-
lina in the Twenty-thinl Congress as a Nullifier,
deceiving i.^AM votes iigainsl 4,;i.'iO votes for Thomas
"Williams, Unionist, and serring from Deeemljer 2,
ISSii, to March 3, IS-It; was defeattnl ns the StaKv
xights candidate for the Twenty-fourth Congress,
receiving 4,038 votes against 4,213 votes for James
Bogeni, Unionist; was "again elected to the Twenty-
fifth Congn-ss as a .State-rights candidate, ilcfeating
Jnines Kogers. Unionist, and serving from Sci)tend»'r
A, 18;,7, to March 3, 1831); was defeated as the Stute-
Tiglits candidate for the Twenty-«ixtb Congress by
Jan>es Kogers, Unionist.
Cljrmer, George, was bom at Philadelphia,
Tennsylvania. in 1730; received an English eclucatioii.
Jind engaged in mercantile purstiits; was prominent
in the antc-Ii<?volutionary movements; was a dole-
pile from Pennsylvania to the Continental Congress
177(1-1778 and 1780-178:5; was a member of the Penn-
sylvania legisLiture In 1784; was a delegate to the
tonvenliou that framed the Federal Constitution ;
w*s I'lerled a ri'pri'S''iitative from Pi'nnsylvania in
l''irsl Congress, servin); from JIareh 4, 17.Sil, to
""" 3, 1781; wan opiiointed c^dleclor ol exviso
duties in 1701, but resigned after the " Wliiskoy In-
surrection ; " was one i>f the commissioners wlio nego-
tiated a treaty with the Cherokees and the Creeks
Jane 20, 17U0; retire<l from public life, but was in-
terested in agriculture, the fine arts, and fin.ince;
died at Morrisville, Pennsylvania, January 2^1, 1813.
CljTmer, Hiester, was Imm at Caernarvon,
Pennsylvania, November 3, 1827; received his pri-
mary education in the schools of Heading, and grad-
uated at Princeton College, New Jerst^y, in 1847;
stuilied law, and was admitted to the bar in Berks
County in 1840; pursued his profession in that county
until 1.S.J1, when he removed to Pottsville. .Schuylkill
County, and lliere practised until 18.")0, when he re-
turned to Rending; in January, 1800, by apiKiintmcnt
of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas, ho rep-
resented Berks Coimty in tlie Board of Kcvenue Com-
missioners of the State, and in the same year he rep-
resented his district in the National Democratic Con-
vention, which belli its se^ions at Charleston and
Baltimore; w.as a memlM-r of the State Senate of
Pennsylvania from t)ctolK'r, 1800, until he resigned,
when nominated, in March, 1800, as Democratic can-
didate for governor of Pennsylvania; in 18(18 he again
represented his district in the National Democratic
Convention which met at New Y'ork; in 1.H70 he wag
.ipi)ointed by governor (ie.ary a member of the .Stato
Board of Public Charities; visit<'d Europe in 187l>-
1871 ; was president of the Democratic .State Conven-
tio7i winch :net at Reading in M.ay, 1872 ; was elected
a ivprcsentativo from Pennsylv.ania in the Forty-third
(.'(ingress as a Democrat, receiving 13,8.V4 votes
against 7.783 votes for J. Millholl.and, liepubUctin;
and was re-elected to the Forty-fourth Congress, ro-
eeiving 10,5o3 votes agaiust 5,3r)S votes for MeKnight,
ItcpulilicjHi; was re-<dected to the Forty-lifth Con-
gross, receiving 15.230 vot<'S .igaiiist 0.213 votes for
Murklev. Kepuhlican, serving from l>eeember 1, 1873.
Cobb, Amasa, was bom in Crawford County,
Illinois, .Si'iitemtxT 27, 1823; received a jiublic-scli(x>l
education; went to Wisconsin Territory in 1.842; was
eng.igt'd in lead-mining; served in the United-States
anny as a private in the Mexican war, during which
ho studieil law, and aft<!rwards commenced practice;
was district-attorney from IS-W until 18.">4; was a
niemlHir of the iState .Senate of Wisconsin in 1855
anri IHiJO; was adjut;int-gencnd of Wisconsin from
liSij.') until 18.58; was a niemlH?r of the Stat<' House of
Kepresentatives in 18(K) and 1801, sen-ing tlio last
year as speaker; entered the Uidon army as colonel
of the Fifth Wisconsin Volunteers, which he had
raised, and Bulise(]uently, during a recess of Con-
gress, as colonel ol the Forty-thinl Wisconsin Volun-
teers, which he had also raised, sen'ing with such
gallantry as to receive the brevet rank of brigadier-
general; was elected a representative from Missouri
in the Tlurty-eighth Congress as a Republican, re-
ceiving 11,021 votes against 11,240 votes for .Simpson,
Democrat; was re-elected to the Tliirty-nintli Con-
gress, receiving 14,75:5 votes against 8,4:10 votes for
C. A. RfKlolph, Democrat; wiu re-elected to the
Fortieth Congn-ss as n Republican, n-ceiving 13,00(1
votes against 7,055 votes for Virgin, Democrat; and
was re-elected to the Forty-first ('ongress, receiving
17,00:1 votes against 11, 102 "votes for Passmore, Dem-
ocrat, serving from Deceniljcr 7, 1803, to March 3,
1871.
Cobb, Clinton L., was bom at Elizabeth City,
North (.'arolium August 25, 1842; he attended school
vintil he was thirteen years of age, and then went
into a counting-room; "studied law, and obtained a
license to practise in 18<17; was a candidate for the
legislature in 1.800, but was defeated on the Howartl
Amendment; was an Indei)endcnt camlidate forCon-
gress In 1808, but withdrew in favor of J. K. French;
Wiis elected a n?pn?8entatlve from North Carolina In
Ihe Fort>-lirst Congn-ss as a Republican, receiving
1.'>.470 votes against 11,803 votes for Banies, Demo-
crat; was re-<-lected to the Forty-second Conirn-ss as
the regular liepublicon coudidatc b; 5,000 inajoriLy
888
CONOBES8IOKAL DIBECTOBT.
over T. MoTgan, Independent Bepobllean; and was
re-elected to the Forty-third Congress, receiving 13,-
&20 votes against 12,101 votes for D. M. Carter, Dem-
ocrat, servmg from March 4, 1869, to March 3, 1875 ;
was defeated as the Republican candidate for the
Forty'^onrth Congress, receiving 12,590 votes against
14,071 votes for Jesse J. Yeatcs, Democrat.
Oobb, David, was bom at Attleborough, Massa-
chasetts, September 14, 1748; received a classical
education, graduating at Harvard College in 1706;
studied medicine at Boston with Dr. Perkins; was
licensed, and practised at Taunton, Massachusetts;
was an ardent revolutionist, and a meml>er of the
Provincial Congress in 1773; was lieutenant-colonel
of Jackson's regiment in 1777-1778, serving in Bhode
Island and New Jersey, and was for some vears a
memtier of Washington's military family; after the
close of the war, be resumed practice at Taunton ;
was appointed major^neral of militia, and also
judge 01 the Bristol-county Court of Common Pleas,
declwing, during Bhays's rebellion, that he " would
sit as a judge, or die as a general;" was elected a
representative from Massachusetts in the Third
Congress as a Federalist on a general ticket, serving
from December 2, 1793, until March 3, 1705: removed
in 1700 to Maine, where he devoted himself to agri-
culture; was elected to the Senate of Massachusetts
from the Eastern District of Maine in 1802, and
served as president; was elected to the State Council
In 1808; was elected lieutenant-governor in 1800;
was a memljer of the Board of Military Defence in
1812; was chief justice of the Hancock-county Court
of Common Pleas ; returned to Taunton in 1817, and
died there April 17, 1S30.
Cobb, Creorsre T., was bom at Morristown,
New Jersey; held several local offices; was elected a
representative from New Jersey in the Thirty-seventh
Congress as a Democrat, receiving 10,789 votes against
0,711 votes for Edsall, Republican, and serving from
Jujv 4, 1801, to March 3, 1863.
Cobb, Howell (uncle of Howell Cobb), was
lx>m at Granville, North Carolina; removed to Geor-
gia, and engaged in agricultural pursuits; served in
the United-States army as ensign and captain 1793-
1800; was elected a representative from Georgia in
the Tenth Congress on a general ticket; was re-
elected to the Eleventh and Twelfth Congresses,
serving from October 26, 1807, to 1812, when he re-
signed to accept a captain's commission in the
United-States army; served tlirough the war with
Great Brittdn; resigned when peace was declared,
and resided on Ills plantation until his death in
1820.
Cobb, HoweU, was bom at Cherry Hill, Geor-
gia, Septemlier 7, 1815; received a classical educa-
tion, gittduating at Franklin College in 1834 ; studied
law with Judge Harden; was admitted to the bar,
and commenced practice at Athens, Georgia, in 1836;
was chosen a presidential elector on the v an Buren
and Johnson ticket in 1836; was solicitor-general of
the western judicial circuit of Georgia 1837-1841 ;
was master of Mount-Yemon Lodge of Freemasons at
Athens ; was elected a representative from Georgia in
the Twenty-eighth Congress as a Democrat, receiving
85,267 votes against 88,214 votes for A. R Wright,
Whig; was re-elected to the Twenty-ninth Congress,
receiving 6,369 votes against 4,424 votes for Under-
wood, Whig; was re-elected to the Thirtieth Con-
gress, receiving 4,368 votes against 3,131 votes for
Cleveland, Whig; was re-elected to the Thirty-^rst
Congress, receiWng 5,891 votes against 4,294 votes
for Harris, Whig, serving from December 4, 1843, to
March 3, 1851, the last two years as speaker; was
governor of Georgia 1851-1853; was again elected to
the Thirty-fourth Congress, receiving 9,203 votes
against 5,227 votes for Franklin, Whig, and serving
from Deceml>er 3, 1855, to March 3, 1837 ; was secre-
tary of the treasury under I'rcsideut Buchanan, serv-
ing from March 6, 1857, until he resigned, December
10, 1860; was chairman of the' convention of dcle-
Stes from the seceded States which SMembled st
ontgomery, Alabama, to form a Confederate gor-
emment, February 4, 1861 ; was appointed brigadier-
general in the Confederate army February 13, 1862,
and promoted major-general Septemlier 9, 1863; snr-
rondered at Macon, Georgia, April 20, 1864; died at
New-York City, October 9, 1868.
Cobb, Stephen Alonzo, was bom at Madison,
Maine, June 17, 1833; received a common-school
education; moved with his father to Minnesota in
1850; worked in the lumbering business in Minne-
sota neariy four years, studying the languages, and
preparing for college; entered Beloit College in 1854,
passed the foeshman and sophomore years there, and
then went to Providence, and graduated at Brown
University In the class of 1858; settled in Wyandotte,
Kansas, in 1850, and commenced the practice of the
law; entered the army in 1862, and served through
the war, rising to the rank of lieutenant-colonel in
the general volunteer staff; was mayor of Wyandotte
in 1862 and 1868; was a member of the State Senate
of Kansas in 1802, 1869, and 1870; was speaker of the
House of Representatives of Kansas in 1872; was
elected a representative from Kansas in the Forty-
third Congress from the State at large as a Repub-
lican, receiving 66,345 votes against 33,274 votes for
R. B. Mitchell, Dmnocrat, and serving from Decemlier
1, 1873, to March 3, 1875; was defeated as the Re-
publican candidate to the Forty-Fourth Congress,
receiving 14,220 votes against 14,965 votes for John
K Goodin, Democrat and Reformer.
Cobb, Thomaa B., was bom In Lawrence
County, Indiana, July 2, 1628; was reared on a
farm; attended the Bloomington University; studied
law with William H. Crawford at Lexington; was
admitted to the bar, and practised at Bedford 1853-
1867, when he removed to Vincennes, where he has
since continued practice; was commissioned major
of militia by the governor of Indiana in 1852 ; was a
member of the State Senate of Indiana 1858-18(J6;
was defeated as a Democratic candidate for presi-
dential elector in 1868 ; was president of the Indiana
State Democratic Convention in 1876: was a delegate
to the National Democratic Convention at St. Lonls
which nominated Tilden and Hendricks in 1876; and
was elected a representative from Indiana in the
Forty-fifth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 18,9%
votes agahist 13,519 for Rev. Lewis Loveless, Re-
publican.
Cobb, Thomas W., was hora in Columbia
County, Georgia, in 1784 ; received a liberal educa-
tion; studied law; was admitted to the l>ar, and
commenced practice at Greensbotough ; was elected
a representative from Georgia in the Fifteenth Con-
gress ; and was re-elected to the Sixteenth Congress,
serving from December 1, 1817, to March 8, 1621;
was a^in elected to the Eighteenth Congress, and,
before the expiration of his term, was elected United-
States senator In place of Nicholas Ware, deceased,
serving from December 6, 1824, to 1828, when he
resigned ; was chosen a judge of the Superior Court;
and died at Greensborougn, Georgia, February 1,
1830.
Cobb, WilliBIIlBon B. W., was bom in Bay
County, Tennessee, June 8, 1807; was taken by hi*
father in 1800 to Madison County, Alabama, where
he received a public-school education; was a fanner,
and dealer In docks; was a member of the State
House of Representatives in 1804 and 1806; was
elected a representative from Alabama in the Thir-
tieth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 3,330 votes
against 2,747 votes for W. Acklen, and 1,284 votes
for H. Pope, both Democrats; was re-elected to the
Thirty-first Congress as a Democrat, receiving 4,851
votes against 3,695 votes for J. Clemens: was re-
elected to the Thirty-second Congress as a Democrat,
receiving 4,008 votes against 1,303 votes for Mnrphv,
Democrat; was re-elected to the Thirty-third Con-
gress as a Democrat, receiving 4,673 votes against
3,241 votes for C. C. Clay, jun., Democrat; was le-
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elected to the Thirty-fourth CongreBS as a Democrat,
receiving 1,416 votes against 758 for Adams, anti-
Kaow-Kothiiig; was re-elected to the Thirty-fifth
Congress as a Democrat, without organized opposi-
tion, and was re-elected to the Thirty-sixth Congress
as a Democrat, without organized opposition, serv-
ing from December 7, 1857, until January 21, 1861,
wlien he resigned, Alabama having seceded ; was
elected to the Confederate House of Hepresentatives
in 1863, bat did not take liis seat; and was killed, by
the accidental discliarge of a pistol in his own hand^
in November, 1804.
Cobum, John, was bom at Indianapolis, In-
diana, October 27, 1825; received a classical educa-
tion, graduating at Wabash College in 1840; studied
law; was admitted to the bar in 1840, and practised
at bidianapolis; was a member of the State House
of Bepresentatives in 1860; was judge of the Court
of Common Fleas during 1850, 1860, and 1861, when
he resigned, and served in the Union army as colonel
of the Thirty-third Indiana Begiment during the
war for the suppression of the Rebellion, and was
brevetted brigadier-general for gallant and merito-
rious services; was appointed the first secretary of
Montana Territory in March, 1865, but resigned at
once; was elected judge of the fifth judicial circuit
of Indiana in Octol>er, 1865, and resigned in July,
1806; was elected a representative from Indiana hi
the Fortieth Congress as a Rgpiablican, receiving
10,719 votes against 14,245 votes for Lord, Democrat;
was re-elected to the Forty-first Congress, receiving
15,715 votes against 14,683 votes for Knightly, Demo-
crat; was re-elected to the Forty-second Congress,
receiving 14,123 votes against 13,707 votes for Cot-
trell. Democrat; was re-elected to the Forty-tliird
Congress, receiving 18,794 votes against 18,001 votes
for Shelley, LibersU Bepublican, serving from March
4, 1867, to March 3, 1^5; was defeated as the Re-
publican candidate for the Forty-fourth Congress,
receiving 10,411 votes against 16,907 votes for F. Lan-
ders, Democrat.
Cobum, Stephen, was bom in Maine; resided
U Skowhegan; was elected a representative from
Maine in the Thirty-sixth Congress (in place of Israel
Washburn, jun., resigned) as a Republican, serving
from January 2, 1861, to March 3, 1861.
Goohran, James, was bom in Korth Carolina;
received a public-school education; was elected a
representative from North Carolina in the Eleventh
Congress as a Democrat; and was re-elected to the
Twelfth Congress, serving from May 22, 1809, to
Karch 3, 1813.
Cochran, James, was I>om at Oswego, New
Tork, February 11, 1769; was elected a representa-
tive from New York in the Fifth Congress, serving
from May 16, 1797, to March 8, 1709; was postmaster
•t Osw^o; and died at Osw^o, New Tork, Novem-
ber 7, 1848.
Coohrane, Alexander Q., was bom at Alle-
ghany City, Pennsylvania, March 20, 1846; was edu-
cated at the public schools of that city, and at Phillips
Academy, Andover, Massachusetts ; studied law;
graduated at the Columbian Law School in 1864;
was admitted to the bar in 1866, and has since prac-
tised at Alleghany City; he was elected a representa-
tive from Pennsylvania in the Forty-fourth Congress
as a Democrat, receiving 6,256 votes against 4,906
votes for Bajme, Bepublican, and 2,8(3 votes for
A Purviance, Independent Democrat, serving from
December 0, 1875, to March 3, 1877 ; was defeated as
the Democratic candidate for the Forty-fifth Con-
gress, recetving 8,326 votes against 12,606 votes for
Bayne, Republican.
Cochnme, Clarke B., was bom at New Boston,
New Hampstiire, May 31, 1816; removed to Mont-
giimery County, New York, and acquired a classical
edncation by his own exertions, graduating at Union
College; studied law; was admitted to the bar, and
Commenced practice; was a member of the State
House of Representatives in 1843 and 1844; removed
to Schenectady; was an early Free-soil Democrat,
supporting Van Buren and Adams in 1848; was
elected a representative in the Thirty-fifth Congress
as a Republican, receiving 9,719 votes against 6,123
votes for Rossiter, Democrat; and was re-elected to
the Tliirty-sixth Congress, receiving 10,581 votes
against 0,820 votes for Goodyear, Democrat; feeble
health forced him to decline a renomination, and on
his recovery he removed to Albany, where he prac-
tised; was a member of the. State House of Bepre-.
sentatives in 1866 ; and was a candidate for re-eleo.
tion in 1867, but was defeated; totally worn ou^, he
took to his bed, and kept it until he died, at Albany,
March 6, 1867.
Coohrane, John, was bom at Palatine, New
York, August 27, 1818; received a classicat educa-
tion, graduating at Hamilton College in 1831 ; stud-
ied law; was admitted to the bar, and commenced
practice at Palatine, but removed to New- York City
in 1846; was a "bam-bumer Democrat;" sustained
the action of the Buffalo Free-soil Convention of 1848;
was appointed by President Pierce surveyor of the
port of New York 1853-1857 ; was elected a represen-
tative from New York in the TMrty-fifth Congress as
a State-rights Democrat, receiving 7,531 votes against
3,991 votes for Stillman, Repablican; and was re-
elected to the Tliirty-slxth Conanress, receiving 7,336
votes against 5,620 votes for McCurdy, Union Repul>-
lican, serving from December 7, 1857, to March 3, 1861 :
was a member of the Charleston-Baltimore National
Convention; was not renominated by the Democrats
for the Thirty-seventh Congress; entered the Union
aimy in August, 1861, as colonel of the First New-
York Chasseurs, which he commanded througli the
Chickahominy campaign; was promoted brigadier-
general July 17, 1862, and commanded a brigade in
Couch's division. Army of the Potomac, until he
resigned, Febroaiy 25, 1803; was president of the
Cleveland Convention in 1864, wliich nominated him
for vice-president on the ticket with Fremont for
president; was attorney-general of the State of New
York, 18^; was a delegate to the Nation^ Republi-
can Convention at Chicago in 1868; was appointed
collector of internal revenue for the sixth district of
New York in 1860.
Cooke, John (son of William Cocke), was bom
at Brunswick, Virginia, in 1772; removed early in life
to Tennessee, where he received a public-school edu-
cation; studied law; was admitted to the bar, and
commenced practice ; was several years a member of
the State Senate and House of Bepresentatives;
served in the Creek war in 1813 as major-general of
Tennessee volunteers, and as colonel of a regiment of
Tennessee riflemen under General Jackson at New
Orleans j was elected a representative from Tennessee
in the Sixteenth Congress ; was re-elected to the Sev-
enteenth and Eighteenth Congresses without oppo-
sition; was re-elected to the Nineteenth Congress,
receiving 1,200 majority over Arnold, serving from
Deceml)er 6, 1810, to March 3, 1827 ; engaged in agri-
cultural pursuits; and died at Rutledge, Tennessee,
Febraary 16jl854.
Cooke, William, (father of John Cocke), was
bom In Virginia; received an English education;
studied law; was admitted to the bar, and practised;
was a memlwr of the State House of Bepresentatives,
and a colonel of militia; removed to Tennessee; was
colonel, and subsequently brigadier-general, ol mi-
litia; was a member of the State House of Bepresen-
tatives in 1813; was appointed a judge of the Circuit
Court ; was elected a senator from Tennessee, serving
from December 5, 1706, to March 3, 1806 ; was ap-
pointed by President Madison Indian agent for the
Chickasaw Nation in 1814.
Cooke, William M.; was bom in Tennessee ; re-
sided at Butledge; was elected a representative from
Tennessee in the Twenty-ninth Congress as a Whig,
receiving 2,481 majority; and was re-elccte<l to the
Thirl ietli Congress, serving from December 1, 1845,
to March 3, 1840; was defeated as a Whig caiididuts
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for the Thirty-flrst Congress, receiving 4,068 votes
against 8,026 votes for Albert G. Watkins, also a
Whig.
Cockerill, Joseph R., was bom in Yitginla ; re-
moved to Ohio; received a public-school education;
held several local ofiices at West Union ; was elected
a representative from Ohio in the Thirty-fifth Con-
gress as a Democrat, receiving 8,603 votes against
7,460 votes for Emrie, Republican, and serving from
December 7, 1857, to March 8, 1859; and died at
West Union, Ohio, October 25, 1875.
Cookrell, Francis Marion, was bom in John-
son County, Missouri, Octolier 1, 1834; received his
early education in the common schools of his coun-
ty; graduated from Chapel-hill College, Lafayette
Connty, Missouri, in July, 1853: studied law; was ad-
mitted to the bar, and practised at Warrensburg;
served In the Confederate army; was appointed brig-
adier-general Fcbraanr 23, 1863, and commanded a
Missouri brigade in Bowen's division. Army of the
West; never held any public oflSce prior to his elec-
tion to Congress; was elected United-States senator
from Missouri as a Democrat to succeed Carl Schurz,
Independent Bepublican, and took his seat March 4,
1875.
Coffin, Charles D., studied law; was admitted
to the bar, and commenced practice at New Lebanon,
Ohio; was elected a representative from Ohio in the
Twenty-flfth Congress, (in place of Andrew W.
Loomis, resigned) as a Whig, receiving 00 majority,
and serving from December 20, 1837, to March 3,
1830; removed to Cincinnati, and practised there.
Coffin, Peleg, Jun., was bom in Massachusetts
In September, 1766; was elected a representative
from Massachusetts in the Third Congress, serving
from December 2, 1783, to March 3, 1795; was State
treasurer of Massachusetts 1707-1802; died March 6,
1805.
Coffroth, Alexander H., was bom at Somer-
set, Pennsylvania, May 18, 1828; received a public-
school education; studied law; was admitted to the
bar in 1851, and commenced practice at Somerset;
was a delegate to the Kationa[l Democratic Conven-
tion at Charleston in 1860; was elected a representa-
tive from Pennsylvania in the Thirty-eighth Congress
as a Democrat, receiving 10,063 votes as^st 10,426
votes for McPherson, Union Republican, serving
from December 7, 1863, to March 3, 1865; claimed
to have been re-elected to the Thirty-ninth Congress,
and served from Febmary 10, 1860, to July 18, 1866,
when the House gave the seat to William H. Koontz,
Union Republican, as having received 11,242 votes
against 11,174 votes for Coffroth; was appointed an
assessor of internal revenue In 1867.
Coghlan. John M., was bom at Louisville,
Kentucky, December 8, 1885; removed to Illinois
with his parents in 1847, and in 1850 emigrated to
California; studied law; was admitted to the bar,
and practised at Suisun City; was a member of the
Califomia le^slature in 1865-1806; and was elected
a representative from Califomia In the Forty-second
Congress as a Republican, receiving 18,504 votes
against 17,303 votes for G. Pearce, Democrat, serving
from March 4, 1871, to March 3, 1873.
Coit, Joshua, was bom at New London, Con-
necticut, October?, 1758; received a classical educa-
tion, gnuiuntin^ at Harvard College in 1776; studied
Ifiw; was iiJrnltti!d to the bar, and commenced prac-
tJcfi jit, Ni'vv f^midon in 1770; was for several years a
member of ihi^ State House of Representatives; was
electcil a rcprosojitative from Connecticut in the Third
Cumgrcw; was re-elected to the Fourth and Fifth
Ctmgreswa, Birring from December 2, 1703, to Sep-
teiHlier 5, 1708 ; when he died, at New London, Con-
aecticut, fif jf How fever.
Coke, Hichard, jun., was bom in Virginia; re-
ceivcil ft clMsii-iil education; studied law; was admit-
ted to tlMj liar, nnd commenced practice at Abingtou;
was elected a riipresentative from Virginia in the
Twenty-first Congress as a Jackson Democrat; and
was re-elected to the Twenty-second Congress without
opposition, serving from Doccml>er 7, 1829, to iitavh
2, 1833; died at Abington, Vii^nia, March 30, ISll.
Coke, BichfU'd, was bom at Williamsbuig, Vir-
ginia, March 13, 1820; was educated at William and
Mary College; studied law; was admitted to the bar,
and removed to Waco, Texas, where he has since
practised ; served in the Confederate army as prirate,
and afterwards as captidn; was i^ipointcd district
judge in June, 1865; was elected judge of the Slate
Supreme Court in 1866, and, after having held tlie
position for one year, was removed by General Sheri-
dan as " an impediment to reconstruction ; " resumed
the practice of law ; was elected governor of Texas
in December, 1873, by a majority of 50,000, and was
re-elected in Febmary, 1870, by a majority of 102.000,
resigning Decemi>er 1, 1877, after having iieen elected
to the United-States Senate from Texas as a Demo-
crat to succeed Morgan C. Hamilton, Republican,
and served from March 4, 1877.
Coloook, William P., was bom in South Caro-
lina; received a classical education, graduating at the
South-Carolina College in 1823; studied law; was ad-
mitted to the bar, and commenced practice at Gr»-
hamville, South Carolina; was several years a mem-
ber of the State House of Representatives, and two
years speaker of the Honse; was elected a repre-
sentative from South Carolina in the Thirty-first
Congress; and was re-elected to the Thirty-second
Congress, serving from December 3, 1840, to March 3,
1853.
Colden, Cadwallader David, was bom at
Flushing, New York, April 4, 1759; received a classi-
cal education, which was completed at London; re-
tumed to the United States; studied law; was ad-
mitted to the bar in 1701, and commenced practice at
New York; removed in 1703 to Pou^ikeepsie, where
he remained a few years, and then located in New-
York City; was appointed SUte district-attomey
1810; was a colonel of volunteers in 1812; was a
member of the State House of Representatives in
1818; was mayor of the city of New York hi ]!<19;
was grand warden of the Grand Lodge of Masons of
the State of New York in 1820; was elected a repre-
sentative from New York in the Seventeenth Con-
gress, having successfully contested the election of
Peter Sharpe, and serving from December 12, 1821,
to March 8, 1823; was a member of the State Senate
1824-1827; and died at Jersey City, New Jcisev,
Febmary 7, 1834. Published "The Life of Robert
Fulton '" in 1817, and a " Memoir of the Eric Canal '
in 1826, with several pamphlets on internal improve-
ments and the reformation of juvenile criminals.
Cole, Cornelius, was Irom at Lodi, New York,
September 17, 1822; graduated at the Wesleyan Uni-
versity, Connecticut; studied law in the office of
William H. Seward, and was admitted to the bar;
crossed the plains to Califomia in 1840, and, after
working a year in the gold-mines, commenced prac-
tice ; was district-attomey of Sacramento City and
County from 1850 to 1862; was a member of the
National Republican Committee from 1856 to 18C0;
removed to Santa Cror; was a representative from
Califomia in the Thirty-eighth Congress as a Union
Republican, serving from Decemi)er 7, 1863, to March
3, 1866; was elected United-States senator to suc-
ceed James A- McDougall, Democrat, serving from
March 4, 1867, to March 8, 1873.
Cole, Gtoorge E., was bom In Oneida Comity,
New York, December 23, 1826; received a publ^
school education; removed to Iowa in 1840; crossed
the plains to Califomia, and went thence to Oregon;
was a member of the Oregon House of ReprcsenU-
tives 1851-1853; was clerk of the United-States Court
for the District of Oregon 1860, 1860; removed to
Washington Territory in 1861 ; was elected a ddcpts
from Washington Territory In the Thirty-eighth Con-
gross OS a Democrat, serving from December 7, Iw^
to March 3, 1865.
Cole, Orsamus, was bom in New York; le-
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celTed a liberal education; studied law; was admit-
tod to the l>ar, and commenced practice at Potosi,
WiSGonsin; was appointed United-States judge for
Wisconsin Territory; was elected a representative
from Wisconsin in tlie Thirty-first Congress as a Re-
pablican, serving from December 3, 1849, to March 3,
1851 ; was elected judge of the State Supreme Court
in 1855, receiving upwards of 7,000 majority over
Judge Crawford.
Coleman, Nioholaa D., was bom at Maysvllie,
Kentucky, in 1800; received a classical education;
studied law; was admitted to the bar, and com-
menced practice; was elected a representative from
Kentucky in the Twenty-first Congress as a Jackson
Democrat, serving from December 7, 1829, to March 3,
1831; removed to Yicksburg, Mississippi, where he
resumed practice; was postmaster at Yicksburg 1841-
1844; died at Vicksbui^, Mississippi, May 11, 1874.
Coles, Isaac, was bom in Virginia; received a
lil)eral education ; was elected a representative from
Virginia in the First Congress as a Democrat, serving
from March 4, 1789, to March 3, 1791; was again
elected to the Third Con^ss; and was re-elected to
the Fourth Congress, serving from December 2, 1793,
to March 3. 1797.
Coles, Walter, was bom in Pittsylvania County,
Virginia, in 1789; received an English education; en-
gaged in agricultural pursuits; was for many years
justice of the peace; served In the United-States
army, during the war with Great Britain of 1812, as
captain of riflemen, on the Korthem frontier; was
a member of the State House of Bepresentatives In
1833 and 1834; was elected a representative from
Virginia in the Twenty-fourth Congress as a Demo-
crat, defeating Davenport, Federalist; was re-elected
to the Twenty-fifth Congress, defeating John Kerr,
Whig; was re-elected to the Twenty-sixth Congress,
receiving 1,664 votes against 1,465 votes for Witcher,
Whig; was re-elected to the Twenty-seventh Con-
gress, defeating Witcher, Whig; was re-elected to
the Twenty-eighth Congress, receiving 2,017 votes
against 1,911 votes for George H. Gilmer, Whig,
Serving from December 7, 1836, to March 3, 1845;
declined a re-election; and died at his residence,
near Roberson's store, Virginia, after an illness of
four days, Novemi)er 9, 1857.
Colfax, Schuyler, was bom at New-York City
March 23, 1823; received a common-school educa-
tion; in 1845 he became the proprietor and editor of
"The Register," at South Bend, Indiana, which he
published for eighteen years ; was elected in 1850 a
delegate from St. Joseph County to tlie convention
that framed the Constitution of Indiana; was elected
a representative from Indiana as a Republican in the
Thirty-fourth Congress, receiving 9,980 votes against
8.'223 votes for Eddy, Democrat; was re-elected to
tiie Thirty-fifth Congress, receiving 12,926 votes
against 11,890 votes for Stuart, Democrat; was re-
elected to the Thirty-sixth Congress, receiving 14,541
votes against 12,610 votes for John C. Walker, Demo-
crat; was re-elected to the Tliirty-sevcnth Congress,
rtwiving 16,860 votes against 13,458 votes for C. W.
Csthcart, Democrat; was re-elected to the Thirty-
eighth Congress, receiving 14,775 votes against 14,645
Tot« for D. Turpie, Democrat; was re-elected to the
Thirty-ninth Congress, receiving 18,658 votes agitinst
14,1)78 votes for D. Turpie, Democrat; and re-elected
to the Fortieth Congress as a Republican, receiving
20,221 votes against 18,073 votes for Turjiie, Demo-
crat He was speaker of the House of Representa-
tives in the Thirty-eighth, Thirty-ninth, and Forti-
eth Congresses, serving from December 8, 18.55, to
March 3, 1800; was elected vice-president of the
Vnitcd States on the ticket with General Grant, and
vned from March 4, 1809, to March 3, 1873; became
tire-president of a manufacturing company at South
Bend, Indiana, and delivered public lectures to large
auilicnces in every section of the Union.
Collamer, Jacob, was bom at Troy, Kew York,
in 17S2; removed with his father to Burlington, Ver-
mont; received a classical education, graduating at
the University of Vermont in 1810; served as a sub-
altern in the war of 1812; studied law; was admitted
to the bar, and practised at Woodstock, Vermont,
from 1813 to 1833, serving sevei^ years in the State
House of Representatives; was a judge of the Supe-
rior Court of Vermont from 1833 to 1842; was elected
a representative from Vermont in the Twenty-eighth
Congress as a Whig, receiving on the second trial
4,866 votes against 4,207 votes for Ransom, Demo-
crat, and others: was re-elected to the Twenty-ninth
Congress, receiving 659 majority ; and was re-elected
to the Thirtieth Congress on the second trial, receiv-
ing 6,457 votes against 3,854 votes for Henry and
some scattering, serving from December 4, 1^, to
March 3, 1849; was appointed postmaster-general by
President Taylor, serving from March 7, 1849, to July
20, 1850; was again judge of the Superior Court of
Vermont from November 8, 1850, to October 3, 1854;
was elected a senator from Vermont as a Repul>-
lican, serving from December 3, 1855, until his death,
at Woodstock, Vermont, November 9, 1865.
Collier, John A., was bom in Broome County,
New York, in 1787; located at Binghamton; was
elected a representative from New York in the Twen-
ty-second Congress as a Clay Democrat, serving from
December 5, 1881, to March 2, 1833; and died at
Binghamton, New York, March 24, 1873.
Ctollin, John P., was bom at Hillsdale, New
York, April 30, 1802; received a public-school educa-
tion; was a practical fanner; was a member of the
State legislature in 1834; was for some years a super-
visor of Columbia County; was elected a representa-
tive from New York in the Twenty-ninth Congress,
serving from December 1, 1845, to March 3, 1847;
died at Hillsdale, New York.
Collins, Ela (father of William Collins), was
bom at Meriden, Connecticut, February 14, 1786 ; re-
ceived a liberal education; studied law; was admitted
to the bar, and commenced practice at Lowville,
New York; was district-attorney of Lewis County,
1819-1840 ; served in the war of 1812 as colonel of an
infantry regiment of militia; was a memiier of the
State House of Representatives, aud was a delegate
to the State Constitutional Convention in 1821 ; was
elected a representative from New York in the Eigh-
teenth Congress, serving from December 1, 1823, to
March 3, 1825; devoted the closing years of his life
to agricultural pursuits ; and died at Lowville, New
York, November 23, 1848.
Collins, Francis D., was bom at Saugerties,
New York, March 5, 1844; was educated at St. Jo-
seph's College, ill Susquehanna County, and Wyoming
Seminary, at Kingston, Pennsylvania; studied law;
was admitted to the bar of Luzerne County in 1866,
and practised at Scranton, Pennsylvania; was elected
district-attomey of the Scranton mayor's court dis-
trict in 1809; was elected to the State Senate of
Pennsylvania in 1872, 1873, and 1874; and was elected
a representative from Pennsylvania in the Forty-
fourth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 12,980 votes
against 5,840 votes for Alexander H. Butler, Repub-
lican ; was re-elected to the Forty-Jifth Congress, re-
ceiving 18,548 votes against 10,171 votes for David J.
Waller, Republican.
Collins, John, was bom at Newport, Rhode
Island, June 8, 1717; was an active champion of
independence; was a delegate from Rhode Island to
the Continental Congress 1778-1783; was governor
of Rhode Island 1780-1789 ; was elected a representa-
tive from Rhode Island in the First Congress, but
did not take his scat; and died at Newport, Rhode
Island, March 8, 1795.
Collins, William (son of Ela Collins), was bom
in Oneida County, New York; received a lil)eral
education; studied law; was admitted to the bar,
and commenced practice at Lowville, New York;
was district-attomey for Lewis County 1845-1846,
was elected a representative from New York in tha
Thirtieth Congress as a Democrat, serving from De
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cember 6, 1S17, to March 3, 1840; temoTed to Clere-
land, Ohio.
Ck>lquitt, Alfred H. (sou of Walter T. Col-
Snitt), was bom in Georgia in 1823; received a Clas-
cal education, sraduatlng at Princeton College in
1844; was elected a representative from Georgia in
the Thirty-third Congress as a Democrat, receiving
6,795 votes against 6,249 votes for Johnson, Whig,
and serving from December 6, 1853, to March 3, 1855;
was an elector on the Breckinridge and Lane ticket
in 1860; was appointed brigadier-general in the Con-
iederate army September 30, 1802, and placed in
command of a brigade composed of the Sixth, Nine-
teenth, Twenty-third, TwenUr-seventh, and Twenty-
eighth Georgia Infantry, in Hill's division, Jackson's
corps, Lee's anas of Northern Virginia; was in com-
nand at the battnof Olustee, where he distinguished
himself; engagedin the insurance business alter the
war; was prominetatly connected with the Patrons
of Husbandry; wal^ elected governor of Georgia in
1876 as a DemocratXrecelving 109,811 votes against
84,116 votes for Norc^ss, Republican.
Colquitt, Walter T. (father of Alfred H. Col-
quitt), was bom in Halifax County, Virginia, De-
cember 27, 1799, but! was taken by his parents to
Georgia a few years Biterwards; received a classi-
cal education, which was completed at Princeton
College, but did not graduate; studied law under
Colonel Rockwell at Milledgeville; was admlttM to
the bar in 1820, and commenced practice at Sparta,
Georgia; removed soon afterwards to Cowpens; was
elected brigadier-general of militia by the legislature
in 1820; was defeated as the Troup candidate for the
Twentieth Congress by Lumpkin, the Clark candi-
date, who was elected by 32 majority; was elected
judge of the Chattahoochee circuit in 1826, and re-
elected In 1829; was licensed as a Methodist-Episco-
pal preacher in 1827; was a State senator in 1834
and 1837; was elected a representative from Georgia
in the Twenty-sixth Congress as a State-rights
Whig, but refused to support General Harrison for
president, and resigned, serving from December 2,
1838, to July 21, 1840; was again elected to the
Twenty-seventh Congress as a Van Buren Democrat;
and was re-elected to the Twenty-eighth Congress,
•ervlM from February 1, 1842, to March 3, 1848;
was efected United-States senator, and served from
December 4, 1843, until he resigned in 1848 ; was a
member of the Nashville Convention of 1860 ; and
died at Macon, Georgia, while on his way to the
mineral springs of East Tennessee for his health,
May 7, 1855.
Coliston, Eidward, was bom in Berkeley Coun-
ty, Virginia, in 1788; received a classical education,
graduating at Princeton College in 1806 ; was several
years a member of the State House of Representa-
tives, and high sheriff of Berkeley County; was
elected a representative from Virginia In the Fifteenth
Congress as a Federalist, defeating Robert Bailey
and Daniel Morgan, and serving from December 1,
1817, to March 3, 1810; was defeated as the Federal
candidate for the Sixteenth Congress by Thomas
Van Swearingen; died in Berkeley County, Virginia,
April 23, 1851.
Gomegys, Joseph P., was bom at Cherbourg,
Delaware, December 29, 1813; received an academic
education; studied law with John M. Clayton; was
admitted to the bar in 1836, and commenced prac-
tice; was a member of the State House of Represen-
tatives in 1841 and 1848; was appointed in 1851 one
of the three commissioners to revise the State laws ;
was appointed United-States senator to fill the va^
cancy caused by the death of John M. Clayton, and
served from December 4, 1856, to March 3, 1857 ; was
a delegate to the National Union Convention at Phil-
adelphia in 1866.
CominffO, Abram, was bom in Mercer County,
Kentucky, January 9, 1820 ; received a liberal English
education; studied law, and was admitted to the bar
In 1847; removed to Missouri iu 1848; was elected a
member of the Missouri State Conventi<» In fthn-
ary, 1861 ; was appointed provost-marshal of the sixth
district of Missouri in May, 1863; was elected a rep-
resentative from Missouri in the Forty-second Cod-
fress as a Democrat, receiving 12,652 votes agaiaft
,597 votes for G. SmiUi, Republican; and was re-
elected to the Forty-third Congress, receiving 1.W35
votes against 7,317 votes for D. S. Twicbell, Bepab-
lican, servlttgfrom March 4, 1871, to March 3, 1S75.
Comins, liinus B., was bom at Chariton, Uas-
sachusetts, in 1817; received a business education,
^aduating at the Worcester-county Manual-labor
High School; engaged in mercantile pursuits and
manufacturing at Roxbury, Massachusetts; was a
member of the Roxbury city council in 1846, 1S47,
and 1848, serving the two Last years aa president;
was mayor of Roxbury in 1854; was elected a repre-
sentative from Massachusetts in the Thirty-fourth
Congress as an American, receivine 4,972 votei
against 2,770 votes for S. H. Walley, Whig, sad 9:J3
votes for Spinney, Democrat; and was re-elected to
the Thirty-fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving
5,188 votes against 4,431 votes for C. G. Greene,
Democrat, and 1,678 votes for B. F. Cook, American,
serving from December 3, 1855, to March 3, 1856.
Comstock, Oliver C, was bom in Oswe^
County, New York, in 1784; received an academic
education, and commenced the study of theologf,
but relinquished it for medicine; was licensed, and
practised at Trumansbuigh, New York; was a mem-
ber of the State House of Representatives 1810-1812;
was elected a representative from New York in the
Thirteenth Congress as a Democrat; was re-elected
to the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Congresses, serving
from May 24, 1813, to Mareh 3, 1819; abandoned ths
practice of medicine, and was ordained as a clei^-
man of the Baptist Chureh; was chaplain of the
United-States House of Representatives; and died
at Marshall, Michigan, January 11, 1860.
Condict, John, was bom in 1755; received a
public-school education; served in the Revolutionary
war as surgeon ; was several years a member of tba
State House of Representatives; was elected a repre-
sentative from New Jersey in the Sixth Congress as a
Democrat; and was re-elected to the Seventh Con-
gress, serving from December 2, 1799, to March 3,
1803 ; was elected a senator from New Jersey, serving
from October 17, 1803. to March 3, 1817; died at
Orange, New Jersey, May 4, 1834.
CTondict, Lewis, was bom at Morristown, New
Jersey, Mareh, 1773; received a liberal education;
studied medicine; was licensed to practise, and locat-
ed at Morristown; was a member of the State Boiuc
of Representatives 1806-1810, serving the last two
years as speaker; was a member of the commission
for adjusting the boundary between New York and
New Jersey in 1807; was elected a representaUve
from New Jersey in the Twelfth Congress as a Whig;
was re-elected to the Thirteenth and Fourteenth
Congresses, serving from November 4, 1811, to Haich
3, 1817; was again elected to the Seventeenth Con-
gress; was re-elected to the Eighteenth, Nineteenth,
Twentieth (receiving 5,000 majority), Twenty-first,
and Twenty-second Congresses, serving from Decein-
ber 3, 1821, to March 2, 1833; declined a re-election;
was a presidential elector on the Harrison and Tyler
ticket iu 1840; and died at Morristown, New Jersey,
May 26, 1862.
Condict, Silas (father of Silas Condict), wis
bom in New Jersey, and was a delegate from that
State to the Continental Congress 1781-1784.
Condiot, Silas (son of Silas Condict), was bom
at Newark, New Jersey, in 1777; received a classical
education, graduating at Princeton College in 1795;
was several years a member of the State House of
Representatives; was elected a r^resentative from
New Jersey in the Twenty-second Congress as n Clay
Democrat, serving from December 6, 1831. to March
2, 1833; was defeated as the Clay candidate for the
Twenty-third Cougiess, receiving 23,780 votes against
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343
L,378 TotcB for F. S. Scbcnck, Jackson Democrat;
\rM a delegate to llio StJite Coiislltulioiial rDiiVfiilinn
! 1S44 ; was for several years president of the Newark
Jankini; Company ; and died at Newark, New Jersey,
Xovember -"^1. isiil.
CoQger, Harmon S., wag born in Connecticut:
removed to Cortland, New York; held several local
offices; was eleeteii a repn'sentutive from New York
in the Thirtieth Congress as a Wliijj; and was re-
elected til the Thirty-first Congress, receiving djii
votes against 5,747 votes for Uallanl, Van Buren
Demwrut. and 1,870 for Uyde, Ciiss Uemocral, serv-
ing from DecemlKT 0, 1W7, to March li, 1,S51.
Ck>nger, James L., was hom in New Jersey;
removed to Mount I'leasant, Michigan; was elected
a representative from Micliig:«n in the Thirly-seconil
Congress as a Free-soil Whig, receiving S.iWl voU'S
against S,427 votes for HikHculi, UiMuocral, and serv-
ing from December 1. IS'il, to March .'!. IS-ia.
Conger, Omeir D., wtLs born in Ikik at CVxipers-
town. New York; removed with Iiis fatlier, llcv. E.
Conger, lo Uuron ('ounly, Ohio, in IS'J-J; pursued his
ocarieraic studies at Uuron Instilnte, Milan, Ohio, and
graduated in 1.S42 at Wesli'rn lleserve Colh-ge; ivius
employed in the geologieal survey and niineral explo-
rations of the Lake-Su|wrior copjMT and iron regions
in I84."j, 1840, 1H47: and in I,S4.s engaged in the jirac-
lice of law at I'ort Iluroii, Michigan, where he has
Bince n'sided; was eleeterl judge of the Siiint Chiir
County Court in ISoU, and si-nator in the Michigan
Icgisl.iturc for Ihc biennial terms of Itvi."), ]S')7, and
lH.")i», ami waselccled president /<r(/ trm. of the .Senate
in 1859; was elccU-d in istld a niemlMTof the (Consti-
tutional Convention of Michigan; was a presidential
elector on the Itepulilican ticket in I.s<V4; was elected
a repri'sontiitive from Michigan in the Korty-lirst
Congress as a Itepublic^ui, receiving H1,:J47 voU'S
against 14,li2;J votes for Stout, Ui-mocnit; was re-
t'l(!eteil to the Forty-second Congress, receiving bl,"^';^
voles against 13,51U votes for II. (i. .Stout, Democrat;
was re-clccte'U to the Forty-lhinl Congress, rei-eiving
12,(i;t7 votes .igainst 7,T.»') votes for l{ieli;irdson, Demo-
crnt: and w;is rc-<deeleil to the Forly-foiirlh f Congress,
receiving 1(1,185 votes iigainst 8,20.'} voles for K. M.
Gmxlrich, Democrat, and ItiT votes for II. Fish, Tem-
perance; w;is rc-eleclcd lo the Forty-fifth Congress,
rcci'iving l.">,818 votes against 1:5,177 votes for Ch.id-
wick. Democrat, and 'M> votes for Henry Whiting,
Greenback canilidati', serviim from March 4, l.'^<i!l.
Conkling, Alfred (father of Alfred and Fred-
crick Coiikling), was'boni at East Ilaniplon, New
York, October 12, 1780; received a classical educi-
tion, gnuluating at Union College; studied law; was
admillecl lo the bar in 1812, and ccmiuK'ticed ]inurtiee
at Canajoharic; was district-attorney for Montgom-
ery County for two years; was elected a representa-
tive from New York in Iho .Si'Veuleenlh Congn'ss as
an antl-Jaekson Democrat, serving from Deceml)er;t,
1821, to March 3, 1823; removed to Albany; Wiis ap-
PointiMl by Pn^sident Adiuiis Unitcd-Staies district
jtulge for the northeni district of New York, serving
Itxini 182.» to 1852 ; was appointed by President Fillmore
llinist^r to Mexico, serving from August fl, 1N.)2, to
AuEtust 17, 185i); located on his return at Genesee,
N'ew York, where he devoted himself to literary pur-
tnits, including the revision of later editions <if his
un--l>o<iks; and died at Utica February 5, 1874. He
aul)li»lll^^l "Conkling's Troatise," " Conkling's Ad-
*liriilty," "The I'owers of the Executive Depart-
iioiits of tho Uintcd States," and " Tho Yomig
L-'itizon's Manual."
Conkling, Frederick Augustus (son of
^frod Conkling), was born at Canajoharic, New
^^rk, August 22. 181(1; received an academical edu-
^nM'lIl, ineluditig the Latin and Greek classics, at the
\ I ; iiiv Ac;ulemy; wius clerk to a mercantile iirni at
\li. my at the age of sixteen; entiTCil the dry-goods
|[^>usc of J. W. * 11. Leavitt, at New- York City, in
Li^io, and remained there seven years; becatno a
aer in lliu Una of Mygale & Cookling iu lti42,
Mkriiier in lliu u
and of the firm of Conkling, Barnes, & Sliepard,
18.'i(>-18r>8; w.TS a mcmlH-r of the State House of
Assembly in IS^l, IH-^t, and 185)1; organized in 4]une,
1800, at his own expense, the Elglity-fonrth Kegi-
meut of the National Guard of tho Slate of New
York, and was its colonel; it was ordered to the scat of
war July ,'J, 1803, and did duty one month as provost-
guard at Baltimore; in July, 18(^(, It was again mus-
tered into the service of the United States for one
hundred days, and placet! on picket-duty in Virginia
and West Virginia, receiving high praise for clK-
cioncy; was elected a representative from New York
in llie Tliirty-s<!venth Congress as a Kepublic«n, re-
ceiving 0,.>50 votes against 0,300 for John Cochran,
ISrcckinridgc Democrat, and 5,724 vot<a for J. W.
(Chanlor, Douglas Democrat, and s<'rviiig from July
4, 1801, to Man-h 3, 1803; was the H.-publican candi-
ilalc for mayor of the city of New York in l.'^O.S.
Conkling, Roscsoe, was Ixirn at Albany, New
York, Octobir 30, 1,S20; reci'iveil an acadetuic educa-
tion; studied anil practised law; removed to Ulicain
1.S40; was dislricl-jitloniey for Oneida County in l.s.V);
wiis«'lecled mayor of I'tica in 1H5.S; was a representa-
tive from New York in the Thirty-sixth Congii'ss as
a Ue[iubttcau, receiving 11,084 votes against 8,251
votes for Itoot, Democrat; was re-elected to the
Thirty -seventh Congress, receiving 12JM votes
ag.iinst 8,073 votes for Grove, Democrat; was rc-
I'lectcfi to the Thirty-ninth Congress, receiving IL'.Kki
votes agaitist 10,810 votes for Francis Kernan, Demo-
crat; Wiis re-elected to the Fortieth Congri'ss, rceoiv-
Ing 12,470 votes .against ILO-V! votes for Palmer V.
Kellogg; hut was imnii-diately afterwards eli.cte<l to
the Si-nate of the Uiiili.d .Stall's as a I'nlon lU'publi-
can lo succeed Ira Harris, Ri'publiciin; took his seat
in tlie Senate in JIarcli, 1S07; and was re-elected,
taking his seat March 4, 1.^73. His lenn of eoiigrcR-
sionai sen ice w.is comim'nced Deceiiilwr 5, 18,511.
Conner, Henry W., was bom in Prince (ieorgc
County, ViiT;inia. in August, 17!13: received a classi-
cal cducalion, graduating at the University of .South
Candina iu 1812; sened ;isaide-ile-camp lol'iigadier-
Geiu'ral Josejih Graiiam in the ex|K.'dition against tho
Creek Indians in 1814; .settled in Catawba County,
North Carolina; was defeated as a Democratic cJin-
didato for tho Sixteenth Congress, n-ceiving 078 votes
agaitist 1,708 votes for William Davidson; was elected
a representative from North Carolina in the Seven-
tciiitli Congnss as a Democrat of the Macon school,
defeating W. Davidson; and continuously re-«'lected
until the Tnenty-sixth Congn'Ss, serving from De-
cember 3, 1821, until Man-h ;5, 1841, when he declined
a re-election; was a member of tlie State Senate In
1H48, after which he declined all oilers of public
oflicc; he died in C.itawba County, North Carolina,
January 15, 1.80<i.
Conner, John C, was bom at Noblesvillc, In-
diana, Ociobor 27, 1.842; was educated at Wabusk
College, Indiana; entered tlic Union armv hi 1.802 .is
a lieutenant in the Sixty-third Lndhina Volunteers,
and served until the close of the war; was an iinsuc-
eessful candidate for the legislature of Indiana on
the National Union ticket in 18(^1; upon the rc-or-
gauizalion of the anny in the fall of 1800, was ap-
pointed a captfiin in the Forty-first Infantry, and
served in Texas until nominated for Congress; was
elected a n-presentatlve from Texas in the Forty-
first Congress iis a Democrat, receiving (),7:J>8 votes
ikgntiiBt 4,;J.>5 votes for Grafton, Hcpubliean, 3..540
votes for Johnson, Kepublican, and l»li4 votes for
Taylor, Kepublican; and was re-c'leclcd to the Forty-
second Congress, receiving 18,285 voters against 5,!)48
votes for Brvaut, Kepublican, serving froin March 4,
18(l!l, to Mafeh 3, 1873.
Conner, Samuel S., was lioni In New Hanii>-
slitre; n'ccived a classical education, graduating at
Yale College in I.8(Xi; scrscd in the war of 1S12 as
major of the Twcnty-Hrst Infantry, and lieutenant-
colonel of the Thirteenth Inf.ontry, resigning July 14,
1814; was elected a rcpruseulatfve from Massuchu-
844
CONOKESBIONAL DIBECTOBY.
•etts In the Fourteenth Consress, serving from De-
cember 4, 1815, to March 3, 1817; was appointed sur-
veyor-general of the Ohio land district in 1819; died
at Covington, Kentucky, December 17, 1820.
Conness, John, was bom in Ireland, September
20, 1821, and immigrated to the United States when
a lad; learned the trade of pianoforte-maldng, and
worked at it in New York; was one of the California
pioneers, interested in the mines, and afterwards in
mercantile pursuits; was a memtier of 'the California
legislature in 185S-1854, and in 1860-1801 ; was elected
United-States senator from California as a Union
Republican to succeed Milton S. Latham, Democrat,
and served from March 4, 1863, to March 4, 1809; re-
sided in Massachusetts after his senatorial term.
Conover, Simon B., was bom in Middlesex
County, New Jersey, September 23, 1840; received a
liberal preliminary education, and was graduated as a
doctor of medicine in 1803: was soon afterward ap-
pointed assistaht surgeon in the Army of the Cum-
berland, and stationed at Nashville, Tennessee; after
several promotions In the medical corps of the army,
he was ordered to Lake City, Florida, in 1860, and
shortly afterward resigned his commission; was a
delegate to the State Constitutional Convention in
1808; was appointed State treasurer by Governor
Beed; was a meml>er of the Chicago Convention
whicli nominated General Grant in 1808. and was at
that time appointed a member of the National Re-
gablican Committee; was also a member of the
tate Executive Republican Committee of Florida;
on retiring from the position of State treasurer at
the expiration of his term of office, he was elected a
member of the State House of Representatives, and
was chosen to preside over that body; was elected
United-States senator from Florida as a Republican
in place of T. W. Osbom, Republican, and took his
seat March 4, 1873.
Conrad, Charles M., was bom at Winchester,
Virginia, about 1804; was taken by his father when
a child to Mississippi, and thence to Louisiana; re-
ceived a liberal education; studied law; was admit-
ted to the l>ar in 1828, and practised at New Orleans;
served several years in the State House of Repre-
sentatives; was elected United-States senator from
Louisiana as a Whig, in place of Alexander Moutou,
resigned, serving from April 14, 1842, to March 3,
1843; was a delegate to the State Constitutional Con-
vention in 1844; was elected a representative from
Louisiana in the Thirty-first Congress as a Whig,
receiving 5,250 votes against 4^22 votes for Beatty,
Democrat, and serving from December 3, 1849, to
August 17, 1850, when he resigned ; was appointed
secretary of war by President Fillmore, serving from
August 13, 1850, to March 7, 1853; was a deputy from
Louisiana in the Montgomery Provisional Congress
of 1801 ; was a representative from Louisiana in the
First and Second Confederate Congresses 1802-1804 ;
and died at New Orleans February 12, 1878.
Conrad, E^ederick, was elected a representa-
tive from Pennsylvania in the Eighth Congress; and
was re-elected to the Ninth Congress, serving from
October 17, 18a3, to March 3, 1807.
Conrad, John, was elected a representative from
Pennsylvania in the Thirteenth Congress, serving
from May 24, 1813, to Mareh 2, 1815.
Constable, Albert, was bom in Maryland ; re-
ceived a liberal education; studied law; was admit-
ted to the bar, and commenced practice at Perryville,
Maryland; was elected a representative from Mary-
land in the Twenty-ninth Congress as a Democrat,
serving from December 1, 1845, to Mareh 3, 1847; was
elected judge of the Cirenit Court of Maryland in
1851; and died at Camden, New Jersey, Septeml>er
18, ia55.
Contee, Benjamin, was bom in Maryland in
1755; received a liberal education; studied theology,
and became a clergyman of the Protestant-Episcopal
Chureh; was a delegate from Maryland in the Couti-
licntal Congress 1787-1788; was clcetcd » represen-
tative from Maryland in the First Congress, serriiig
from March 4, 1789, to Mareh 3. 1791 ; was presiding
judge of the Charles-county Testamentary Court;
and died in Charles County, Maryland, November 3,
1815.
Conway, Henry Wharton, was bom in
Greene County, Tennessee; received a public-schod
education; removed to Arkansas, and was elected a
delegate from that Territory in the Eighteenth Con-
gress, receiving 370 majority over William Bradford;
was re-elected to the Nmeteenth Congress, receivlDg
2,576 votes against 610 votes for Bates, and serving
from December S, 1823, to March 3, 1827.
Conway, Martin F., was bom at Charleston,
South Carolina, in 1830; received an academic edu-
cation; removed to Baltimore in 1844; learned the
art of printing, and was one of the founders of the
National Typc^raphical Union ; studied law; was ad-
mitted to the bar, and commenced practice at Balti-
more; removed to Kansas in 1854; was a member of
the first legislative council; was chosen chief justice
of the Supreme Court under the Topeka Coostitation:
was president of the Leavenworth Constitutional
Convention ; was elected a representative from Kansas
in the Thirty-seventh Congress as a Republican, serv-
ing from July 4, 1801, to March 3, 1803 ; was appointed
United-States consul; returned to the United States,
and resided at Washington City, devoting himself to
literary pursuits.
Cook, Barton C, was bom in Monroe County,
New York, May 11, 1810; was educated at the Colle-
giate Institute, Rochester; studied law; removed to
Ottawa County, Illinois, in 1835; commenced the
practice of law in 1840; was elected in 1846, by the
legislature, State attorney for the ninth judicial
district for two years, and was re-elected by the
people in 1848 for four years; was a memljer of the
State Senate of Illinois from 1852 to 1800; was a
member of the Peace Conference which met »t
Washington in 1801 ; was elected to the Thirty-ninth
Congress from Illinois as a Republican, receiving
15,598 votes against 9,980 votes for S. C. Casey,
Democrat; was re-elected to the Fortieth Congress,
receiving 16,015 votes against 7,721 votes for Harrit,
Democrat; and was re-elected to the Forty-first Con-
gress, receiving 10,007 votes against 11,016 votes for
Gray, Democrat, and serving nom December 4, 18^
to March 3, 1800.
Cook, Daniel P. (a son-in-law of Kinian Ed-
wards), was l)om in Scott County, Kentucky, in
1705; received a classical ediication; studied law;
was admitted to the bar; commenced practice at
Kaskaskia, and then removed to Edwardsville; wa»
elected a representative from Illinois in the Sixteentli
Congress; was re-elected to the Seventeenth Con-
g-ess, defeating Ellas K. Kane ; was re-elected to the
ighteenth Congress, receiving 4,764 votes against
8,811 votes for John McLean ; was re-elected to the
Nineteenth Congress, and served from Decembers,
1810, to March 3, 1827 ; was defeated as a candidate
for re-election to the Twentieth Congress, receiTing
1,060 votes gainst 2,201 votes for Joseph Duncan;
and died at Edwardsville, Dlinois, October 10, 1827.
Cook, John P., was bom in New York; re-
moved to Davenport, Iowa; was elected a represen-
tative from Iowa in the Thirty-third Congress as a
Whig, receiving 7,773 votes against 7,103 votes for
Clark, Democrat, and serving from December 6, 1853,
to Mareh 3, 1856.
Cook, Orohard, was bom In that portion of
Massachusetts which became the State of Maine;
received a public-school education ; engaged in mer-
cantile pursuits ; was high sheriff of Lincoln County;
was elected a representative from Massachusetts in
the Ninth Congress; was re-elected to the Tenth and
Eleventh Congresses, serving from December 2, 1305,
to March 3, 1811.
Cook, Philip, was bom In Twiggs County,
Georgia, July 31, 1817; was partially educated at
Oglethorpe University, Georgia ; read law at /tlie
STATISTICAL SKETCHES.
845
t
Univerrity of Vlr^la, and practised at Americna,
fJi'orjfia; was elected to the State Senate of Georpia
in ISo9, ISOU, and 1863; waa elected a member of the
State Convention of 1865 called by President John-
son ; entered the Confederate service in April, 1861, as
a private; waa commissioned first lieutenant, lieuten-
ant-colonel, colonel, and in August, 1863, brigadier-
peneral; was elected a representative from Georgia
in the Thirty-ninth Congress as a Democrat, but was
not allowed to take his seat; was re-elected to the
Forty-third Congress, receiving 6,145 votes against
4,490 votes for J. Brown, Republican ; and was re-
elected to the Forty-fourth Congress, receiving 8,617
votes against 4,109 votes for John Brown, Republi-
can; was re-elected to the Forty-fifth Congress, re-
ceiving 10,684 votes against 4,280 votes for Pierce,
Repnuican, serving from December 1, 1873.
Cook, TnomaaB., resided atCatskill, New York;
was elected a representative from that State in the
Twelfth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 243 ma-
lority, and serving from November 4, 1811, to March
1, 1813 ; was a member of the State House of Kepre-
tCDtatives in 1838 and 1830.
CSook, Zadock, was bom in Georgia in 1769;
was several years a member of the State House of
Representatives; was elected a representative from
Geotgia in the Fourteenth Congress in place of
Alfred Cuthbert, resigned ; and was re-elected to the
Fifteenth Congress, serving from January 23, 1817,
to March 3, 1819.
Cooke, Batee, was bora in Niagara County,
Kcw York; was elected a representative from New
York In the Twenty-second Congress as an anti-
Mason, serving from December 5, 1831, to March 2,
ISB; was comptroller of the State of New York
from February 4, 1839; and was bank commissioner
from May 14, 1840, until his death, at I/ewiston, New
York, early in 1841.
Cooke, Eleutheros, was bora at Granville,
Kew York, December 25, 1787; received a liberal
education; studied law; was atdmitted to the bar,
and commenced practice at Granville, removing soon
afterwards to Sandusky, Oliio; was several years a
member of the State House of Representatives; was
elected a representative from Ohio in the Twenty-
Second Congress, serving from December 5, 1831, to
March 2, 1^; was again a member of the State
House of Representatives; and died at Sandusky,
Ohio, December 28, 1861
Cooke, Joseph Piatt, was bora at Danbury,
Connecticut, in 1730 : received a classical education,
paduatlng at Yale College in 1750; was a delegate
from Connecticut to the Continental Congress 1784-
1788; and died at Danbury, Connecticut, Augnist 14,
1810.
Cooper, Bdmund, was bora at Franklin, Ten-
nessee, September 11, 1821; received a classical
education, graduating at Jackson College in 1839;
studied law at Harvard College; was admitted to the
bar, and commenced practice in Bedford County,
Tennessee; was a member of the State House of
Representatives in 1849; was elected a Union dele-
gate to the State Constitutional Convention of 1861 ;
*as again elected to the State House of Representa-
tives In 1865, but resigned when he was elected a
representative from Tennessee in the Thirty-ninth
Congress as a Conservative, receiving 7,864 votes
against 224 votes for R. Mnllins, and serving from
July 25, 1866, to March 3, 1867; was appointed by
President Johnson assistant secretary of the treasury
November 20, 1867, serving until March 20, 1809.
Cooper, Qeorse B., was bora at Long Hill,
Jfew Jeney, June 6, 1808; received a public-school
education; removed to Michigan in 1830, and engaged
ill mercantile pursuits at Jackson; was postmaster at
Jackson for eleven years; was State treasurer of
Michigan two years; was several years a member
of the State Senate and House of Representatives ;
claimed to have been elected a representative from
Michigan in tbe Thirty-eixth Congress, but the
House decided that he had received bat 12,173 l^al
votes, while William A. Howard had received 12,687
legal votes ; so the seat was awarded to Howard, Mr.
Cooper serving from December 5, 1859, to May 16,
1860.
Cooper, Henry, was bom at Columbia, Tennes-
see, Au^t 22, 18^ ; received a classical education,
graduating at Jackson College August 11, 1847 ;
studied law; was admitted to the bar August 22,
1849, and commenced practice at ShelbyviUe Janu-
ary 1, I860: was elected to the State l^slature of
Tennessee in 1853, and again in 1857 ; was appointed,
in April, 1862, judge of the seventh judicial circuit
of Tennessee, and resigned in January, 1866; was
chosen professor in the Law School at Lebanon,
Tennessee, September 1, 1866, and resigned in June,
1867, when he removed to Nashville, and resumed
the^ractice of law; was elected to the State Senate
of Tennessee in 1869 and 1870 ; waa elected United-
States senator from Tennessee as a Democrat (de-
feating Andrew Johnson, Democrat) to succeed Jo-
seph S. Fowler, Union Republican, and served from
March 4, 1871, to March 3, 1877.
Cooper, James, was bora in Frederick County,
Maryland, May 8, 1810; received a classical educfr.
tion, graduating at Washington College; studied law
with Thaddeua Stevens ; was admitted to the bar in
1834, and conmienced practice at Gettysburg, Penn-
sylvania; was elected a representative from Pennsyl-
vania In the Twenty-sixth Congress as a Whig; and
was re-elected to the Twenty-seventh Congress, re-
ceiving 6,710 votes against 4,603 votes for Daniel
SheSer, Democrat, serving from December 2, 1839,
to March 3, 1843; was a member of the State l^s-
lature in 1843, 1844, 1846, and 1848, serving as speaker
in 1847; travelled in Europe; was made attorney-
general of Pennsylvania in 1848; was elected United-
States senator from Pennsylvania as a Whig, serving
from December 3, 1849, to March 3, 1865; removed
to Philadelphia; was authorized by President Lin-
coln to raise a brigade of loyal Maiylanders, and was
commissioned brigadier-general in May, 1861 ; served
in West Virginia under General Fremont; was ap-
pointed commandant at Camp Chase, near Cincin-
nati, and died there March 1, 1863.
Cooper, John, was bora in New Jersey, and
was a delegate from that State to the Continental
Congress in 1776.
Cooper, Mark A., was bora in Geor^a; studied
law; was admitted to the bar, and commenced prac-
tice at Columbus ; was electa! a representative from
Georgia in the Twenty-sixth Congress as a Democrat,
serving from December 2, 1840, to March S, 1861 ; was
again elected to the Twenty-seventh Congress, serv-
ing from February 1, 1842, to March 8, 18&; was re-
elected to the Twenty-eighth Congrcss, receiving
35,451 votes against 83,483 votes for Richard W.
Habersham, Whig, but resigned ; was defeated as the
Democratic candidate for governor of Georgia in
18^, receiving 35,326 votes against 38,718 votes for
George W. Crawford, Whig.
Cooper, Richeird M., was bom in Gloucester
County, New Jersey, in 1767; received an English
education; was a leading member of the Society of
Friends; was several years a member of the State
House of Representatives; was elected a representa-
tive from New Jersey in the Twenty-first Congress;
and was re-elected to the Twenty-second Congress,
serving from December 7, 1829, to March 2, 1838;
was for a number of years president of the State
Bank of New Jersey; died at Camden, New Jersey,
March 10, 1843.
Cooper, Thomas, was bom in Delaware; was
elected a delegate from Delaware in the Thirteenth
Congress as a Federalist, receiving 973 majority over
Dale, war Democrat; and was re-elected to the Four-
teenth Congress, serving from May 24, 1813, to March
3, 1817.
Cooper, Thomas B., was born at Cooperstown,
PeunsyTvama, December 20, 1823; received a classi-
846
CONOBESSIOKAI. DIBECTOBT.
cal education, graduating at Pennsylrania College;
studied medicine ; received a degree of M.D. from the
University of Pennsylvania, and commenced practice
at Coopenitown; was elected a representative from
Pennsylvania in tlie Thirty-seventii Congress as a
Democrat, receiving 10,702 votes against 1U,620 votes
for Longnecker, Whig, and serving from July 4, 1861,
until he died at Coopeiatowu, Pennsylvania, April 4,
1802.
Cooi>«r, William (father of J. Fenimore Cooper,
the novelist), was born at Burlington, New Jersey,
and removed to Otsego County, New York, where he
founded Cooperstown; practised law; was appointed
first judge of the Court of Common Pleas for Otsego
County February 17, 1791 ; was elected a representa-
tive from New York in the Fourth Congress as a
Federalist, serving from December 7, 1795, to March
3, 1797; was again elected to the Sixth Congress,
serving from Decemt>er 2, 1799, to March 3, 1801;
died at Cooperstown, New York.
Cooper, W. B., was elected a representative
from New Jersey in the Twenty-sixth Congress as a
Democrat; his election was unsuccessfully contested,
and he served from March 10, 1810, to March 3, 1841.
Corbett, Henry W., was bom at Westborough,
Massachusetts, February 18, 1827 ; removed with nis
parents to Washington County, New York, when
young; received an academic education ; commenced
mercantile pursuits in 1840 at Cambridge, New York;
removed to New- York City in 1843, continuing there
in mercantile pursuits until 1851; removed to Port-
land, Oregon, and commenced mercantile business
there in March, 1801; was city treasurer, a member
of the city council, and chairman of the Republican
State Central Committee; was elected United-States
senator as a Union Republican to succeed J. W.
Kesmith, Democrat, and served from 1867 to March
8, 1873.
Corlett, William W., of Cheyenne, was
elected a delegate from Wyoming to the Forty-fifth
Congress as a Republican, receiving 1,102 majority
over William R. Steele, Democrat.
CJorley, Simeon, was bom in Lexington County,
South Carolina, February 10, 1823 1 received the ru-
diments of an English education m the Lexington
Academy from 1830 to 1834, when he was apprenticed
to learn the tailor's trade; began business on his own
account in 1838; of progressive tendencies, he em-
ployed his pen in advocacy of the reform movements
of the day after 1846 ; opposed the first attempted
secession of South Carolina in 1852, for which, on the
ground of his al>olitionism, an attempt was made to
expel him from the State; edited " The South-Caro-
lina Temperance Standard" in 1855-1850, and held
the oflSce of grand scribe of the Sons of Temperance
of South Carolina during the same years; invented
and patented a new system of garment-cutting in
1867 ; was arrayed in hopeless opposition to secession
In 1860; was compelled to enter the rebel army in
18^; was captured by the national troops at Peters-
burg, Virginia, April 2, 1805; gladly took the oath
of allegiance June 6, and returned home ; advocated
the reconstruction policy of Congress in 1866; was a
delegate to the Constitutional Convention of South
Carolina in 1807; and was elected a representative
from South Carolina in the Fortieth Congress as a
Republican, by a majority of 2,500 over his old Con-
federate general McGowan, Democrat, serving from
March 4, 1867, to March 3, 1869.
Cornell, Bzekiel, was bom in Scituate, Rhode
Island; received a public-school education; was a
mechanic ; was appointed lieutenant-colonel in Hitch-
cock's Rhode-Island regiment in 1775; was appointed
brigadier-general of Rhode-Island State troops in
1776, and served until March 10, 1780; was a delegate
from Rhode Island in the Continental Congress 1780-
1783; retired to his farm at Scituate, where he passed
the remainder of his days.
Cornell, Thomas, was bom at White Plains,
New York, January 27, 1814; received a public-school i
education; was engaged in transportation and bank*
ing; was elected a representative from New York in
the Fortieth Congress as a Republican, receiving
10,521 votes i^ainst 10,179 votes for Tuthill, Demo-
crat, serving from Marcli 4, 1867, to March 3, IStiS;
was defeated as the Repifblican candidate for the
Forty-first Congress, receiving 11,692 votes against
12,201 votes for John A. Griswold, Democrat.
Coming, Erastus, was bom at Norwich, Con-
necticut, December 14, 1794; removed when thirteen
years of age to Troy, New York, and entered the
hardware store of his uncle, Benjamin Smith, whose
business and fortune he inherited; removed to Al-
bany in 1814, and established the iron-house of E.
Coming & Company; was a State senator 1842-1845;
was for several years an alderman, and subsequently
mayor, of Albany; was elected a representative from
New York in the Thirty-fifth Congress as a Demo-
crat, receiving 8,206 votes' against 4,631 votes for
Van Dyck, Republican, and serving from December 7,
1857, to March 3, 1859; was defeated as the Demo-
cratic candidate for the Thirty-sixth Congress, re-
ceiving 8,371 votes against 9,671 votes for Beynolds,
Repul>lican, and 260 votes for Livingston, Inde-
pendent Democrat; was a member of the Peace Coa-
gress of 1801 ; was again elected to the Thirty-spventh
Congress, receiving 10,814 votes against 10,04-3 votes
for Olcott, Republican, and serving from July 4,
1661, to March 3, 1883; was re-elected to the Thirty-
eighth Congress, receiving 15,715 votes against 10,(itE
votes for Smith, Republican, but resigned, and J. Y.
L. Pryn was chosen in his place; was a delegate to
the State Constitutional Convention of 1867; died at
Albany, New York, April 0, 1872.
Corwin, Franklin, was bom at Lebanon, Ohio,
January 12, 1818; studied law, and was admitted to
the bar in 1839; was a representative in the Forty-
fifth and a senator in Uie Forty-sixth and Forty-scr-
enth Grcneral Assemblies of the State of Ohio; re-
moved to Pern, Illinois, in 1857; was a representative
in the Twenty-fourth, Twenty-fifth, and Twenty-
sixth General Assemblies of Illinois, and speaker of
the House for the last two terms; was elected a rep-
resentative from Dlinois in the Forty-third CongrMS
as a Republican, receiving 12,404 votes against 8,2113
votes for G. D. A. Parks, Liberal and DemoorM,
serving from December 1, 1873, to March 3, 1S75;
was defeated as the Republican candidate for tbe
Forty-fourth Congress, receiving 7,960 votes a^inst
10,303 votes for A. Campbell, Democrat and Inde-
pendent.
Corwin, Moses B. (brother of Thomas Cor-
win), was bom in Bourbon County, Kentuciwy. Jan-
uary 5, 1790; was reared on a farm; received a piit>-
lic-school education; studied law; was admitted to
the bar ill 1812, and commenced practice at Urliana,
Ohio ; was a member of the State House of Repre-
sentatives In 1833 and 1839; was elected a representa-
tive from Ohio in the Thirty-first Congress as t
Whig, receiving 8,771 votes against 6,215 votes for
John A. Corwin (his son). Democrat, and serving
from December 3, 1849, to March 3, 1851 ; was again
elected to the Thirty-third Congress, receiving S,*!!
votes against 6,780 votes for Young, Democrat, and
serving from December 5, 1853, to March 3, ISoo;
died at Urbana, Ohio, April 7, 1872.
Corwin, Thomas (brother of Moses B. Cor-
win), was born in Bourbon County, Kentucky, July
29, 1794; removed to Lebanon, Ohio, where he was
reared on his father's farm; studied law; was ad-
mitted to the bar in May, 1818, and conunenced prac-
tice at Lebanon; was a membeJ of the State l^sls-
ture 1822-1829; was a zealous Freemason, attaining
the position of grand master of Ohio; was elected a
representative fn>m Ohio in the Twenty-second
Congress as a Whig; was re-elected to the Twen-
ty-third, Twenty-fourth, Twenty-fifth, and Twenty-
sixth Congresses, serving from December 6, 1S51,
to 1840, when he resigned; and was elected govemoc
cf Ohio by 19,000 majority, defeating Willson Shan-
STATISTICAL SKETCHES.
847
son, who in torn defeated him in 1842: was elected
a senator from Ohio, serving from December 1,
1843, to July 22, 1830, when he resigned, having
been appointed secretary of the treasury by President
Taylor, and serving until March 8, 1853; was again
elected to the Thtrty-sixth Congress as a Bepub-
lican, receiving 8,866 votes against 6,020 votes for
C. W. Blair, Democrat, serving from December 5,
1859, to March 3, 1861 ; was re-elected to the Twenty-
sixth Congress, but resigned, having been appointed
by President Lincoln minister to Mexico, and serving
from March 22, 1801, to September 1, 1864; located at
Washington City, and died there very suddenly, of
heart disease, December 18, 1865.
Cottman, Joseph S., was bom in Somerset
County, Maryland, August 16, 1808; received a clas-
sical education; studied law; was admitted to the
bar in 1820, and commenced practice at Upper Trappe,
Maryland; was a presidential elector on the Taylor
and Fllhnore ticket in 1848; was elected a repre-
sentative from Maryland in the Thirty-second Con-
gress as an Independent Whig, receiving 1,717 votes
against 1,509 votes for Henry, Whig, and serving
from Decemt>er 1, 1851, to March 3, 1853; and died
at Upper Trappe, Somerset County, Maryland, in
1863.
Cotton, Aylett B., was bom at Anstintovm,
Ohio, November 29, 1826; removed with his father
to Iowa in 1844; was a student at Alleghany College,
Ueadville, Pennsylvania, in 1845; taught school in
Fayette County, Tennessee, in 1840-1847; studied
law, and was admitted to the bar in Clinton County,
Iowa, in 1848; crossed the plains to California in
1849, and returned to Iowa in 1851 ; was county judge
of Clinton County, Iowa, in 1851-1853; was prose-
cuting-attomey of the same county in 1854; was a
member of the State Constitutional Convention of
Iowa in 1857; was a member of the State House
of Representatives in 1868 and 1870, serving the last
term as speaker; was elected a representative from
Iowa in the Forty-second Congress as a Kcpublican,
receiving 13,586 votes against 9,338 votes for W. K
Leffingwell, Democrat; and was re-elected to the
Forty-third Congress, receiving 12,521 votes against
12,346 votes for W. £. Leffingwell, Liberal, serving
from MaKlr4, 1871, to March 3, 1875.
Ck>tti^lL Jamee La Fayette, was elected to
the State House of Bepresentatives of Alabama in
1831, 1830, and 1837; and to the State Senate in 1838
for three years, serving as president in 1840; he was
elected a representative from Alabama in the Twen-
ty-ninth Congress (to fill a vacancy caused by the
resignation of W. L. Yancey) as a Democrat, receiv-
ing 428 votes against 898 votes for S. Beaman, Mr.
Yancey's half-brother, and serving from December
7, 1840, to Mareh 3, 1847; was nommated on the Cass
electoral ticket in 1848, but resigned, and removed to
Florida, where he engaged actively in politics.
Cotilter, Biohard, was bom in Westmoreland
Coanty, Pennsylvania; studied law; was admitted to
the bar, and commenced practice at Greensburgh;
was elected a representative from Pennsylvania in
the Twentieth Congress; was re-elected to the Twen-
ty^ist. Twenty-second, and Twenty-third Congress-
es, serving from December 3, 1827, to March 3, 1835;
Was jadec of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania;
and died near Oreensbutgh, Pennsylvania, April 21,
1&')2.
Covington, Leonard, was bora at Aqnasco,
Marvland, October 30, 1708; received a thorough
English education; entered the army, by appoint-
inent from President Washington, as comet of caval-
ry, March 14, 1792; distinguished himself in Wayne's
campaigns; was promoted to a captaincy, and re-
*i$ned September 12, 1795 ; engaged in agricultural
Punuits: was several years a member of the State
House of Representatives; was elected a representa-
Ure from Maryland in the Kinth Congress as a Demo-
cnt, serving from December 2, 1805, to March 3,
l!ti7; was appointed by President Jefierson lieaten-
ant-colonel of light dragoons January 0, 1809, and
colonel February 15, 1809; commanded the expedi-
tion which occupied West Florida in 1810; was pro-
moted brigadier-general August 1, 1813, and ordered
to the Northern frontier; fought gallantly and fell at
the battle of Chrystler's Fields November 11, 1813,
and died the next day. His remains wero removed
to Sackett's Harbor, and re-interted there August
13, 1820. t
Covode, Jolui, was bom in Westmoreland
County, Pennsylvania, March 17, 1808; received a
public-school education; was engaged in agricul-
tural, manufacturing, and transportation pursuits;
became largely interested in the coal trade; was
elected a representative from Pennsylvania in the
Thirty-fourth Congress as an anti-Masonic Whig,
receiving 9,342 votes against 0,588 votes for Drum-
mond, Democrat; was re-elected to the Thirty-fifth
Congress as a Ilepublican, receiving 10,400 votes
against 8,724 votes for M. Kinby, Democrat; was
re-elected to the Thirty-sixth Congress, receiving
9,257 votes against 8,105 votes for H. D. Foster,
Democrat ; was re-elected to the Thirty-seventh Con-
gress, receiving 11,769 votes against 9,701 votes for
Phelps, Democrat, serving from Deceml)er 8, 1855,
to March 3, 1863.
Cowan, Edgar, was bom in Westmoreland Coun-
ty, Pennsylvania, September 19, 1815; thrown upon
his own resources, he obtained a good education,
graduating at Franklin College, OhK>, in 1830; was
by turn a raftsman, boat-builder, schoolmaster, and
student of medicine, finally devoting himself to the
law, obtaining admission to the bar, and commencing
practice at Greensburg; was a presidential elector in
1860 on the Lincoln and Hamlin ticket; was elected
United-States senator from Pennsylvania as a Re-
publican, serving from July 4, 1861, to Mareh 3, 1867;
was a del^ate to the National Union Coifvention at
Philadelphia in 1806 ; and was appointed by President
Johnson, in January, 1887, minister to Austria, but
the Senate did not confirm the nomination.
Cowan, Jacob P., was bom at Florence, Penn-
sylvania, Mareh 20, 1823; removed with his parents
in 1835 to Steubenville, Ohio; was engaged in manu-
facturing until 1843, when he commenced the study
of medicine; removed to Ashland County, Ohio, in
1846, and engaged in the practice of his profession:
attended lectures, and graduated at Starling Medical
College, Columbus; was elected a member of the
State legislature in 1865, and was re-elected in 1857;
returned to the practice of his profession in 1859; was
president of the Citizens' Bank of Ashland, and a
dealer in real estate; was elected a representative
from Ohio in the Forty-fourth Congress as a Demo-
crat, receiving 12,394 votes against 7,214 votes for
W. W. Armstrong, Republican, and 309 votes for
Martin Deal, Prohibitionist, serving from December
0, 1875, to March 3, 1877.
Cowen, Benjamin Sprasrue, was bom at
Washington County, New York, September 27, 1793:
was reared on a farm; received a common-school
education; studied medicine; served as a private in
the war of 1812; removed to Moorfleld, Ohio, in 1820;
practised medicine and studied law there; was ad-
mitted to the bar in 1820, and commenced practice
at St. Clalrville, Ohio; was editor of " The Belmont
Chronicle" 1830-1840; was a delegate to the NaUonal
Whig Convention which nominated Harrison and
Tvler in 1839; was elected a representative from
Ohio in the Twenty-seventh Congress as an anti-
slavery Whig, serving from May 31, 1841, to Mareh
3, 1843; was a member of the State House of Bepre-
sentatives in 1845 and 1840; became presiding juir
of the Court of Common Pleas in 1847; was
many years president of a local Bible society;
died at St. Clairville, Ohio, September 27, 1800.
Cowles, George W., was bom in Otisco, ]
York; graduated at Hamilton College, New Yorl
1845, and was engaged in teaching until 1853; stui
law, aad waa admitted to the bar lu 1854; was elect
848
CONGRESSIONAL DIEECTOBT.
Judse of Wayne Conntf, New York, in 1803, and was
re-elected in 1867; was elected a representative from
New York in the Forty-iirst Congress as a Republi-
can, receiving 17,234 votes against 12,743 votes for
Ross, Democrat, and serving from Marcli 4, 1869, to
March 3, 1871.
Cowles, Henry B., was bom at Hartford, Con-
necticut, Marcli 18, 1798, and removed with his father
to Dutchess County, New Yorlt, ia 1809; received a
classical education, graduating at Union College in
1810; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1819,
and commenced practice in Putnam County; was a
member of the State House of Representatives in
1820, 1827, and 1828; was elected a representative
from New York in the Twenty-flrst Congress, serving
from December 7, 1829, to March 8, 1831 ; removed in
1884 to New York, and practised there.
Cox, Jacob D., was bom at Montreal, Canada,
October 27, 1828, his parents being natives of the
United States, temporarily sojourning there ; and was
reared in the city of New York ; received a classical
education, graduating at Oberlin College in 1851;
studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1853, and
commenced practice at Warren, Ohio; was a meml>er
of the State Senate in 1859; entered the Union army
as brigadier-general of Ohio volunteers April 23,
1861 ; was commissioned brigadier^eneral of United-
States volunteers May 14, 1861 ; served in the Ninth
Corps at the battles of South Mountain and Antie-
tam; was assigned a division of the Twenty-third
Army Corps in the fall of 1863, although there was
no vacancy for his promotion as major-general;
served under Sherman at the siege of Atlanta, and
under Thomas in the campaigns of Franklin and
Nashville; was commissioned as major-general in
December, 1804; was sent with his corps to North
Carolina in 1866, and received the surrender of Gen-
eral Johnston; was elected governor of Ohio In Octo-
ber, 1865, and declined a renomination in 1807; re-
moved to Cincinnati, and there resumed the practice
of law; was secretaiy of the interior in President
Grant's first cabinet, March, 1869 -December, 1870;
returned to Cincinnati and to legal practice; was
made president of the Wabash Railroad in Octotier,
1873, and removed to Toledo to take charge of it; and
was elected a representative from Ohio in the Forty-
fifth Congress, receiving 17,276 votes a^lnst 15,361
votes for Frank H. Hurd, Democrat.
Cox, James (grandfather of S. S. Cox), was
bom at Monmoufii, New Jersey, June 14, 1763; re-
ceived a public-school education; commanded a com-
£any of militia at the battles of Germantown and of
[onmouth, and attained the rank of brigadier-gen-
eral; was for several years a meml)er of the State
Assembly, and one year its speaker; was elected a
representative from New Jersey in the Tenth Con-
gress as a Madison Democrat, serving from May 22,
1809, until he died, while a member of the House, at
Monmouth, Septemlier 12, 1810.
Cox, Leander M., was bom in Virginia; re-
moved to Flemingsburg, Eentuclcy; was grand mas-
ter of Masons in Kentuoky in 1843; was captain in
the Third Kentucicy Volunteers, raised for the Mexi-
can war in October, 1847; was a presidential elector
on the Scott and Graham ticket in 1852 ; was elected
a representative from Kentucky in the Thirty-tliird
Congress as a Whig, receiving 6,006 votes against
6,074 votes for T. M. Rice, and some votes for A.
Yotmg; and was re-elected to the Tliirty-fourth Con-
gress as an American, receiving 8,083 votes against
6,598 votes for Stanton, Democrat, serving from De-
cember 8, 1863, to March 3, 1857; was defeated as
the American candidate for the Thirty-fifth Con-
gress, receiving 7,534 votes against 8,7*J votes for
John W. Stevenson, Democrat.
Cox, Samuel Sullivan (grandson of James
Cox), of New York, was born at ZanesviUe, Ohio,
September 39, 1824; attended Oliio University,
Athens, but graduated at Brown University, Provi-
dence, in tlio class of 1U40; studied and practised
law; was owner and editor of "The CoInmbiH
(Ohio) Statesman" in 1853 and 1^4; was appoint-
ed secretary of legation to Peru in 1855; was a dele-
gate to the Ctiicago, New- York, and St. Louis DcmcH
cratic Conventions of 1864, 1808, and 1870; vai
elected a representative from the Columbus distriit
of Ohio in the Thirty-flfth Congress as a Democrat;
was re-elected to the Thirty-sixUi Congress, recciring
9,560 votes against 8,913 votes for L. Case, Republi-
can; was re-elected to the Thirty-seventh and Thirty-
eighth Congresses, serving from Decemb«r 7, 1857, to
March 3, 1865; was defeated as the Democratic can-
didate for the Tliirty-ninih Congress, receiving 9,567
votes against 12,756 votes for 8. Shetlabaiger, Demo-
crat; removed to New- York City in March, 1865; was
elected a representative from New York in the Forty-
first Congress, receiving 12,362 votes against 9,C^
votes for Starr, Republican; was re-elected to the
Forty-second Congress, receiving 94S28 votes against
8,203 votes for Horace Greeley, Republican, and serv-
ing from March 4, 1869, to March 3, 1873; was defeat-
ed as the Democratic candidate for representative at
large in the Forty-tlUrd Congress, receiving 400,697
votes against 438,436 votes for Lyman Tremaine, Re-
publican ; but was subsequently elected a representa-
tive in the Forty-third Congress as a Democrat (to
fill the vacancy caused by the death of James Brooks),
receiving 12,674 votes against 6,742 for Julius Wads-
worth, Republican; was re-elected to the Forty-
fourth Congress, receiving 13,762 votes against 3,4^
votes for J. H. Campbell, Republican; was appointed
speaker pro tern, of the House June 7, 1876, and defi-
ed speaker pro tern. June 19, 1870, serving until he
vacated the office June 24, 1876; and was re-olccted
to the Forty-fifth Congress, receiving 17,098 votes
against 41 votes for A. J. Duganne, Republican,
serving from Decemljer 1, 1873. Published "The
Buckeye Abroad," 1852; "Ei^t Years in Con-
gress,'* 1865; "Search for Winter Sunbeams;" and
numerous magazine articles and lectures.
■Coxe, Tenoh, was Imm at Philadelphia May 22,
1755; received athoroughEnglisheducation; enga^
in mercantile pursuits, and entered into psutnend^ip
with his father in 1776; was a commissioner to the
Federal Convention at Annapolis in 1780; vas *
delegate to the Continental Congress in 1788; «a*
assistant secretary of the treasury in 17JX); was reve-
nue commissioner in 1792; was purveyor of the putv
lic supplies 1803-1812; and died at Philadelphia July
17, 1824. He published a number of pamphlets oa
American commerce and manufactures.
Coxe, William, was l)om at Burlington, New
Jersey; was a memlxir of the State House of Kepre-
sentatives, serving one year as speaker; was elected
a representative from New Jersey in the Thirteenth
Congress as a Federalist, serving from May 24, 1813,
to March 2, 1815; died at Burlington, New Jersey.
Crabb, Gieorge W., was bom in Tcmiessee,
received a public-echool education; removed to Ala-
bama when young, and settled at Ttiscaloosa;
then the seat of government; was elected assistant
secretary of the State Senate, and subsequently
comptroller of public accounts; served in the Florida
Indian war as iieutenant-colonel of the Alabama
Volunteers; was a memlier of the State Senate of
Alabama, and major-general of militia; was elected
a representative in the Twenty-fifth Congress (to till
a vacancy occasioned by the death of Joab Lawler)
as a Whig, receiving 4,400 votes against 4,303 voles
for Harvey W. Ellis, Democrat; was re-elected to the
Twenty-sixth Congress as a Whig, receiving 1)09 ma-
jority over Harvey W. Ellis, Democrat, serving fn>m
September 4, 1837, to March 8. 1841 ; was an unsuc-
cessful candidate for re-election to Uie T«-cnty-
seventh Congress on general ticket; cspousi'd the
cause of "Polk, Dallas, and Texas," in ltU4; wai
appointed judge of the County Court of Mubilc in
184^; visited Cuba that winter for his health; and,
going to Philadelphia for medical advice, died then
ml847.
STATISTICAL SXLETCHKS.
849
Crabb, Jeremiah, was bom in ilao'lanil, nnJ
was ok'ctol n n.'iin'soiitutive from that Stiito in lUe
Fnurtli C'uni^ress, seniiig tnira Dureinber 7, 1795, to
rlhl, wliun 111' resigned.
Cradlebaugb, John, was bom in Ohio; removed
luCai'win City, Nevada Territory; was elected a dcle-
pite frum Noviula Territory iti the Tidrly-seventli
Congress, servinp from July 4, ISOl, Ui March U, ISO^J;
was apiiointcil United-States district judgo for the
district of Utah.
Crafts, Samuel Chandler, was bom at Wood-
8t<K'lv, Couuecticiit, Oetoliei (i, lICiS', received a classi-
cal education, Kriuluating at Harvard College in I'liO;
removed to Vermont with liis fatlier, who founded
tho town of Craftsbiirj', of wliicli he was fown-clerU,
17lia-182il; w.os the youngest delegate to the Verumnt
Constitutional Convention of 170:1; w;us a member of
tho State House of Kepre.ieiilativcs in 17iKl, 1H(M),
18111, mr.i, and IS^IJ, and clerk of the House in 1711S-
17ift); was register of probate 17Ut')-iyi5; accompanied
the younger M. Midiaui in a liotanicnl rcconnois-
saiico of the Mississip[)i valley in 1S02; wa.s a judge of
the Orleans-county Court IStKVlSlO. and lSi>-ls::8;
wa» elected a representative from New Hampshire
In the Fifteenth, Sixteentli, Seventeenth, and Kigh-
teeiith Congresses, serving from December 1, 1.S17,
until Mart'h 3, 182'); was govi'nior of Vermont 182l>-
IKC; was a member of (he Vermont Constitutional
Convention of 18;J0, and served as its pn-sident; was
appointed by the governor of Vermont, and aulise-
quently elected, to the ITnited-Stalcs .Senate, to fill
tJic v.icancy occasioned by tho resignation of .Saiiiuel
Prentiss, s<'rving from April oil, 1,S4L', until JIareb '\
1S4:J; and died at Craflsbury, Vermont, Xovcmbor
10, 1S.VJ.
Cragin, Aaron H., was bom at Weston, Ver-
mont, February 1, 1821; received an academic edu-
cation; stuilied law; was admitted to the bjir at
Albany, New York, in 1847, and practised at l.elmiion.
New liarapshire; was a member of tlic State House
of Iteprcsentatives 18.")2-18rKi; was elected a repre-
sentative from New Hampshire in the Tliirty-fourtli
Congress as an American, reeeivinej 12.120 votes
against 8,640 votes for W. P. WHieeler, Uemoerat;
and was re-elected to tho Thirty-lifth Congress as a
Republican, receiving lO.OSiJ votes against 0,841 votes
for W. P. Wlie<;ler, Democrat, sen'ing from Decem-
ber 3, IS-W, to March 3, 1859; resumed practice; was
elected United-States senator as a I!c|)ublican to
succeed Jolui P. Ualc, Republican ; and was re-elect-
ed, serving from March 4, 1*15, to March 3, 1877;
was appointed by President Hayes one of the com-
missioners for the sale of the Hot Springs of Ar-
kansas.
Craig, Hector, was born in Orange County,
(Tew Vork; was elected a representative from New
Fork in the Eighteenth Congress as a Jackson Demn-
rsit, serving from December 1, 1823, to Miirch 3, 1825;
|ras again elected to the Ttt'enly-lirst Congress, serv-
Bg from December 7, 1829, to July 12, 1830, when he
esigned.
Craig, James, w.is bom In Pennsylvania May
7, l'<2«); received an Knglisli i^ilueation; studied law;
was admitted to the bar, and commenced practice at
_£t. Joseph, Missouri; ser%-ed in tho war with Mexico
■U captain of tho Missouri Mounted Volunteers; was
IStatc attorney for the twelfth judicial circuit 1852-
185t); was elected a rt'iireseutativo from Misscmri in
the Tliirty-Gfth Congrt'ss as a Democrat, receiving
Tj742 votes against 0,274 votes for Mo.ss, American ;
Dd was re-elected to the Thirty-sixth Congress, re-
•Iving 14,4.39 votes against 7,824 votes for Adams,
Unerican, serving from December 7, 1857, to March
, 18(51 ; was appointed by President Lincoln brigailier-
general of volunteers, and serve*! in the Union army.
Craig, Robert, was bom in Virginia; was elected
representative from Virginia in the Twenly-lirst
MMu'ivss .IS a J.-iekson ncinocrat; and was ri'-eleeted
I the Tweuly-seeond Congress, receivuig 222 major-
roTcr Duvid Smith, serving from December 7, 1B29,
to March 2, 1S33; was defeated as tho Jackson Dcm-
ocrjitic candidate for tho Twenty-thinl Congress,
receiving 1,095 votes again.st 1,757 votes for S. M.
Moore, AVhig; was again elected to the Twenty-fourth
('(ingress, ri'Ceiving 1,100 majority over S. M. Moore,
Whig; was re-elected to the Twenty-tifth Congress,
defeating Edwanl Johnson, Whig; and wsis re-eieeleil
(o the Twenlv-sixtli Congress, serviug from December
7, 18;{.5, to Man-h 3, 1841.
Craige, Burton, was boro In Rowan County,
North Carolina, March 13, 1811; received a classical
(Hlucatioii, griKluating at the University of Nortli
Carolina in 1829; studied law; was admitted to the
bar, anil commenced practice at .Salisbury; was a
memlwr of (iie Ilou.se of Connnons of North Carolina
in 18;i2 and 1834; visited Europe for his bealtli in
18;>J; was elected a representative in the Thirty-third
Congress .is a Democrat, receiving .'J,9tK) votes against
!'i,M\) votes for Osborne, Whig; was n;-elecleil to tho
Thirty-fourth Congress as a Democrat, receiving
0,744 votes against 4,104 votes forStowe, Know-Notli-
ing; w.os re-elected to the Thirty-fifth Congress as a
Democrat, receiving 0,394 voles against 539 scatter-
ing; and was re-elected to the Thiiiy-sixth Congress
as a Democrat, recelTing 5,496 votes against 4.075
votes for Walkup, Opixisition, serving from Decem-
ber 5, 18-Vl, until lie resigned in 1801; was a delegate
to the eonvenlioii which dissolvMl tho union between
North Carolina and the other States; was a delegate
to the Provisional Congress of the Confederate Stales
vvliieli met at Itiehmtmd in July, 18()1; retired to
private life, deciiuiiig to serve in the Constitutional
t'onventifin aflir Hie war, or to apply for a P'mov.il
of his ]iolit)eal disabilities; and died at Salisbury,
North Cimlinn, December 29, 1875.
Craik, William, w.is lK>m near Port Tobacco,
MarjI.and; received a cla.ssical education; studied
law; was admitted to tho bar, and practised; wjis
elected a repn'scnt.ative from Marylaml in the Fourth
Congress in place of Jeremiah Cnibb, resigned; was
re-ciected lo the I''iflli and Sixth Coiigri'f.ses, serving
from December 5, 1790, to March 3, ISOl; was ap-
pointed a judge of the United-Stati'S District Court,
and Rubsei|ueiitly chief justice of tho lifth judicial
district of Maryland.
Cramer, John, was bom at Waterfonl, New
York, .SeptcmlKT 20, 1779; was chosen presidential
elector on the Jefferson and Clinton ticket in 1805;
.scn'pil in tho State Hous*; of licprcscntatives In 1.8(.I0
aud 1811; was State senator 1823-18*25; was a dele-
gate to the. .State Conslitutioniij Convention In 1.821;
1VU8 elected a representative from New York in tho
Twenty-third Congress as a Jackson Democrat ; aud
was reelected to the Twcnly-fotirth Congress, serv-
ing fmm Decctnber 2, 183.3, to March 3, 18:17; died at
Waterfonl, New York, June 1, 1870.
Crane, Joseph Et., w.is boni at Elizal>cthtown,
New Jersey, in 1782; received a liberal education;
studied law, and practised; removed to Dayton,
Ohio; was judge of the Court of Common Picas;
was elected a representative from Ohio in the Twen-
ty-first Congress ns a 'Wlilg; was re-elected to tho
Twenty-second, Twenty-third, and Twenty-fourth
Congresses, sening from December 7, 1821t, to Maix"h
3, 18:i7; liied at Dayloii, Ohio, Novi'IuIkt 12, 18:J2.
Crane, Stephen, was boni in New Jersey, and
was a delegate from that Stale to Uie Continental
Coiign'ss 1774-1770.
Cranston, Henry T., was bom at Newport,
Ubode Island, October 9, 1789; received a public-
scbonl e<lucation; worke<l at a trade, and was a clerk
when a lad; studioil Law; was admitted to the bar in
1809. and commenceil practice at Newport; was cle-k
of the Court of Common Pleas 1818-1833; was a
delegate to the Stale Constitutional Convention; was
a member of the Statu House of Iteprcsentatives
1827-1843; was elected a representative from Rhode
Island in the Twenty-eighth Congress as a Whigt
receiving 1,521 m.ijority; and was re-<?lected to tho
Twenty-ninth Congress, serving from December 4,
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1843, to ^arch 8, 1847; was again a member of the
State House of Kepresentatives, and served three
sessions as speaker, tinally retiring from public life in
1854; died at Kewport, Rhode Island, February 12,
1804.
Cranston, Robert B., was bom at Newport,
Bhodc Island, in 1791 ; received a public-school edu-
cation; was employed in the collection of internal
revenue; was elected sheriff of Newport County; was
elected a representative from Rh»le Island in the
Twenty-fifth Congress as a Whig, and was re-elected
to the Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh Congresses,
serving from September 4, 1837, to March S, 1843;
was cashier of the Newport Exchange Bank, post-
master of Newport, and cashier of the Newport
Traders' Bank; was several years elected to the State
Senate or House of Kepresentatives, serving one year
as speaker of the House; was again elected to the
Thirtieth Congress as a law-and-order Whig, receiv-
ing 3,310 votes against 2,422 votes for B. B. Thurston,
Democrat, and serving from December 6, 1847, to
March 3, 1840; was elected mayor of Newport, but
declined serving. He bequeathed $75,000 to those
poor people in Newport "who are too honest to
steal, and too proud to beg;" and died at Newport,
Shode Island, January 27, 1873.
Crapo, William Wallaoe, was bom at Dart^
mouth, Massachusetts, May 10, 1830; was educated
in the public schools of New Bedford, at Phillips
Academy, Andover, and graduated at Yale College
In 1852; studied law at Dane Law School, Cambridge,
and, with John H. Clifford of Massachusetts, was ad-
mitted to the bar, and practised 'at New Bedford:
was a member of the State legislature in 1857; and
was elected a representative from Massachusetts in
the Forty-fourth Congress as a Republican (to fill the
Tacancy occasioned by the death of Hon. James
Buffinton), receiving 0,658 votes against 6,017 votes
for Charles 6. Davis, Democrat; was re-elected to
the Forty-fifth Congress, receiving 14,153 votes against
6,179 votes for Joseph M. Day, Democrat, serving
from December 6, 1875.
Crary, Isaac E., was bom at Preston, Connect-
icut; received a public-school education; studied
law; was admitted to the bar, and commenced prac-
tice at Marshall, Michigan; was elected a delegate
from Michigan, and was subsequently elected a rep-
resentative in the Twenty-fourUi Congress as a Dem-
ocrat; was re-elected to the Twenty-fifth Congress,
receiving 10,756 votes against 16,552 votes for Wells;
and was re-elected to the Twenty-sixth Congress,
■erving from January 27, 1837, to March 3, 1841 ;
died at Marshall, Michigan, May 8, 1854.
Cravens, James A., was bom in Rockingham
County, Virginia, November 4, 1818, and removed
with his father to Indiana in 1820; received a public-
school education; was a farmer and stock-raiser;
served in the war with Mexico, as major of the Sec-
ond Indiana Volunteers, from June, 1846-1847; was a
member of the State House of Representatives in
1848-1849, and of the State Senate in 1850-1853; was
commissioned as brigadier-^neral of militia in 1854;
was elected a representative from Indiana in the
Thirty-seventh Congress as a Democrat, defeating
John S. Davis, Independent; and was re-elected to
the Tliirty-eighth ConCTess, receiving 10,011 votes
against 6,211 votes for W. Q. Oresham, Union Re-
publican, serving from July 4, 1861, to March 3, 1865;
was a delegate to the National TTnion Convention at
Philadelphia in 1860, and to the National Democratic
Convention at New York in 1868.
Cravens, James H., was bom in Rockingham
County, Virginia, in 1798; removed to Indiana early
In life, and engaged in agricultural pursuits; was
elected a representative from Indiana in the Twenty-
seventh Congress, receiving 1,014 majority, and serv-
ing from May 31, 1841, to March 3, 1843; was defeated
as the Free-soil candidate for governor; scr\'ed in the
War for the suppression of tlie rebellion as colonel of
a regiment of Iiidiaua volunteers.
Crawford, Qeorge W., was bom in CotamUa
County, Georgia, December 22, 17fl8; received a
classical education, graduating at Princeton in 1830;
studied law; was admitted to the bar. and onm-
menoed practice at Augusta, Georgia, in 18S2; was
attomey-general of the State of Georgia 1827-1831;
was a member of the State House of Kepresentstires
1837-1842; was elected a representative from Georgia
in the Twenty-seventh Congress to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of Richard W. Habersham, as s
Whig, serving from Febmary 1, 1843, to March 3,
1843; was elected governor of G«orgia in 184.S, and
re-elected in 1845; was appointed by President Tay-
lor secretary of War, serving from March 7, 1849, to
August 15, 1850; travelled in Europe.
Corawford, Joel, was bom in Columbia County,
Grcorgia, June 15, 1783; was educated by private
tutors; studied law at tiie Litchfield Law School;
was admitted to the bar, and commenced practice in
1808 at Sparta, but soon removed to Milledpeville;
served in the war against the Creek Indians as
second lieutenant, and aide-de-camp to Brigadier-
General Floyd, 1813-1814; resumed practice at MD-
ledgevllle; was a member of the State House of
Representatives 1814-1817; was elected a represen-
tative from Georgia in the Fifteenth Conpess u
a Democrat, and was re-elected to the Sixteenth
Congress, serving from December 1, 1817, to March
3, 1821 1 declined a re-election ; was for several jetn
a member of the State legislature; was appointed
in 1828 a commissioner to run the boandary-line
between Alabama and Greorgia; was elected in 1837
a State commissioner to locate and construct the
Western and Atlantic Railroad; and died in Eariy
County, Georgia, April 5, 1858.
Crawford, Martin J.^was bom in Jasper
County, Georgia, March 17, 1820; received a classical
education at Mercer University; studied law; was
admitted to the bar in February, 1839, and com-
menced practice, but the death of his father forced
him to devote his attention to planting; was a mem-
ber of the State House of Representatives 1846-1847;
was elected a delegate to the Southern Convention at
Nashville in May, 1850; was judge of the superior
courts of the Chattahoochee circuit 1853-1855; was
elected a representative from Georgia in the Thirty-
fourth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 053 major-
ity over Willis A. Hawkins, American ; was re-elected
to the Twenty-fifth Congress, recelvhjg 8,220 votes
against 6,865 votes for S. C. Elane, American ; and
was re-elected to the Thirty-sixth Congress, receiving
8,270 votes against 6,437 votes for M. Douglas, Amer-
ican, and 417 votes for J. N. Bethnne, free-trade
Democrat, serving from Decemlxir 3, 18S5, to Janu-
ary 23, 18i81, when he retired from the House; was
elected by the Secession Convention of Geoniis a
deputy to the Confederate Provisional Congress, senr-
ing from January, 1861, to Febmary 22, 1862 ; was ap-
pointed by President Davis a special commissioner to
the government of the United States at Washington;
raised the Third Georgia Cavalry Regiment in May,
1862 ; 8er\-ed with it one year, and was then placed
on the staff of Major-General Howell Cobb, on which
he served until the close of the war; was appointed,
in September, 1875, judge of the superior courts of
the Chattahiochee circuit to fill the vacancy caused
by the resignation of Judge James Johnson ; and was
re-oppointed in 1877 for eightyears.
Crawford, Thomas Hartley, was bom at
Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, November 14, 1786;
received a classical education, graduating at Prince-
ton College in 1804; studied law; was admitted to
the bar in 1807, and commenced practice at Cham-
bersburg; was elected a representative from Penn-
sylvania in the Twenty-first Congress as a Jackson
Democrat; and was re-elected to the Twenty-wcond
Congr<>ss. serving from December 7, 1829, to March
2, 18.'i3; was a meml)er of the State House of Rpre-
scntatlvcs in 1833; was appointed in 1836 a commis-
sioner to investigate alleged frauds in the tale of the
BTATISTICAL SKETCHES.
851
ok rescrvntlons ; was Appointed by Prosident Van
Biirt'ii cominisPioiuT ni Indiiin lUTairs, senitif; from
October 2:i, ISJiS to October W), IS+'j; was appointed
by I'n-siiloul Polk jiulRe of the Criminal Court of
tlw Dislriot of Columlila, st-rving from 1S45 until his
death, nt Washiiifilon City, January 27. ISti.'?.
Crawford, William, was l>orn nt Paisley,
Scotlaml, In I7(K); received a cl.isslcn! eduo.ttion;
■ttidie<I medieiiic at the University of Kdiiiliur>;li,
ami received his degree in 17111; immiKrjiled Iti the
Unilcil Slatcn; nettled near Get tjTihnrg; ; pureha8e<i a
farm on M:irsh Creek in I7S>5, and passed the rem-
n.int of his life there, prartlsing medicine amoni;
his friends; was an associate juilge for Adams
County; was elected a n^jirtsentative frfim Pennsyl-
vania iti the KIpveiifh Conpress as a Democrat; was
re-elected to the Twelfth, Thirteonlh, anil Four-
teenth Conirresses, sor\ini4 from M.iy 2'J, LSOD, to
Harcli 3, 1S17; resumeil pnu'tlee; and died in 1S2:{.
Crawford, WiUiam Harris, was iMini in Am-
herst Ci>unly, Virginia. February 2-1, 1772; removed
■with his fattier to Cteor;;ia in Hi^il; n'ceived an
acailemic eilucatlon; studied law; was admitted to
the b;ir, .and practised at IiexinRloii ; was ap[H)inteil in
17W to prepare a djijest of the liiws of Oeor).'ia ; was a
member of the Stale Uouse of llepresentativcs IHtKl-
IStyj; was eleeteil United-Slates senator fr.irn Oeor-
Ria in place of Abraham liaMwin, deeeased. serving
from DeceinlHT !•. |y(.)7, to March !l, lKi;i; and was
elected president pro trmporr of the Senate; March
24. 1S12; declined the position of secnMary of war
offerfd him l>y President Madison, and accepted the
mission to France, serviniJ from April :l, isi.'l. to
April 22, I><1.'>; retunie<l to act as .agent for the sale of
the lands donated by Congress to La Fayette; aceepl-
C<1 the position of secretary of war Mart^h 2, lf-l.''i,
MD«1 was transferred to the treasury (Ictober 22, ISKI,
IjgU irint; until March 7, lS2iJ; was defeated as the
"jJemrM-mtic candidate for president in ]S2."). receiving
but 41 electoral voles and four States, when the elec-
tion was thrown into the House; was strieken down
■by illness, and declined the recpiest of President .1.
<J. Adams that he remain secretary of the treasury;
*etiime<l to Oeorgi.o, where he was npfKilnled in 1S27
jitdKe of the Northern Circuit Court, .and held tlie
l¥jsiIion until he die<i, at EUktIoii, Georgia, Seplein-
IK.T 1."., ISIH.
Creamer, Thomas J., was imni in Ireian<I
3Iay 2<l, 1S4.'J; was educated in the cuunnon schools
of the city of New York; engiiged in mercantile
"business at an carlv age; was elected to the New-
Tork State Assembly in IStM, IWl.'i, .and IHfKi; w.as
elected to the .State Senate In imr7. and nM'lected in
3800, serving four years in tli.at body; was appointed
tax coDitnlssioncr for New-York City in 1S(V,1, serv-
ing as such until May, l.S7;l; was iiresldent of the
Toung Democracy General Committee in their con-
"test against Tammany In 187f>; was delegate to the
nialtimore National Convention in 1S72; and was
♦Iccted a represent.ativo from New York in tlin
Torty-third Congress .as a Democrat, receiving 10,1(10
~vote8 against 8.270 votes for C. (ielb, liepnblican,
«erving from Deccmlw-r 1, 187.3, to JIareli :i, 1876.
Crebs, John M., was honi at Middlebnrjt,
Loudon County. Yirgiida. April 0, 18^0; went with
■his parents to Illinois in IW; received a common-
school education, and, during his minority, worked
upon a farm; at the ago of twenly-one he com-
menced the study of law; w.as admitted to the bar
lu 18o2, and settled In White County, Illinois, where
he practised his profession: in 1802 he enlcred the
Vniori army sis lieutenant-colonel; p.articipaleil in nil
the Missiynijipi movements until the c;ipturi; of Vieks-
e, and W!i8 also in the Arkan»:is cam[iaign, coni-
ading a brigade of cavalry in the department of
• Gulf; after the war he returned to his iirofession,
■ W.1S elected a representative from Illinois in the
ty-(irst Ci>ngri.-ss as a Democrrxt, receiving 1-I,7<i4
:»gainst 14,2<(1 votes for ICaniu, nepiiblie.an;
was re-elected to Uic Forty-secoud Congress,
receiving 13,040 votes against IS.-OfW votes for D.
\V. Munn, l{e[mhlican, serving from March 4, IStlO,
lo March :J, 1S7:).
Creighton, "William, Jun., was boni in Berke-
ley County, Virginia, (lelober 20. 177H; received a
classical education; gnaduated at Dickinson College;
studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1791^;
removed to Chlllicotlic, (Ihio, and commcnccil pnic-
liee; w.as seeret.^I•y of the Stat<! of Ohio in ISIW; was
elected to the Thirteenth Congress as a Dcni(/crat,
receiving 177 majority over Abrnin Claj-pool, Demo-
crat; and was re-elected to the Fourteenth Congri'ss,
serving from May 24, 1813, until March .'!, 1817; was
again elected to llic Twentieth Congress, receiving a
inajorily «if l,r)72 over .Iidin Thompson; was rc-
eteeted to the Twentv-tirst Congress as an Adams
man, defealtiigC. Wallace, .lacksonian; and was re-
elected to the Twenty-second Congri'ss, 8er\ing from
Dceeinber.'!, 1.827. until M.areh 3, 18;W; wasappointeil
a judgi; of the l"iiiled-,Slates Court for the district of
Ohio at the expintlion (if his congressional term;
and (lied at Chlllientbe, Ohio, Octol)er 8, l,'<il.
Crisfiold, John W., w,a.s boni in Kent County,
Marylantl. Novi inberr.. IS(I8; received a liberal educo-
Ciitiou at Washington College, Chestertown; sluilied
law; was ailmittrii to Ibe barin 18;l(l, and couiinenccd
praetiee in .Soniersel (;ounly, Marjiand; was a mem-
ber of tlie, Stale legislature in IMilli; w.is elected a rep-
reseiitalive from Marjland in the Tliirlecnlh Congress
as a Whig, receiving 4,41*7 vot<!s against ;i.7ti() votes for
the Democratic candidate, .and serving from Deeem-
IktO, I^il7, to March 3, ItUl); was a ilelegate lo Iho
Stat<! Constitutional Convention in 1830; Wiis a dele-
gate to the Peace Congn'ss in 18<ll ; was again elected
lo the Thirty-seventh Congress as a Union Hepubli-
ean, receiving 7,181 votes against .')..'W1 vrites for D.
M. llenry, p<'ace Democrat, and serving from July 4,
18(!1, to March 3, 18(1:1; was defeated as the Demo-
cratii- candidate for the Thirty-eighth Congress, re-
ceiving .'i.482 votes against il,742 votes for .John A. J.
Crcswell, Union Uepubliean; was a delegate to tho
National Union Convention at Philadelphia In ISIKJ.
Crist, Henry, w.as bom in Virginia In 171(4;
was taken by his father lo Pennsylvania when he w.oa
a (ad. and receiviil a public-school education there;
removed lo IhillitI County. Kentucky, in 17S.S, and
eng.'iged in tlie innnufaclure of salt; was attacked
by a parly of Imlians, and, after having I kmui wound-
ed, saved his life by remaining concealed four days
witliout food; was a member of the State Uouse of
nepresentatives of Kentucky in 170r), and of tho
State Senate In 1S<X)-I8I>4; w.a8 elected a representa-
tive from Kentucky in the Klcvcnth Congress, serv-
ing from M.ay 22. 18(K>. to March 3, 1811; died In Bul-
litt County, kcnlueky. in 1844.
Critcher, John, was bont in Westmoreland
County, Virginia, March 11, 1S20; was graduated at
the Uiiiversity of Virginia in 18,30, and afterwards
studieil thn.'o years at the University of France:
studied law, and pnictised several years; was elected
lo the State Senate of Virginia, and to the State Con-
vention of 1.81)1 ; ser^-ed in the Confederate army as
lieutenant-colonel of cavalry: w.as afterward .ajipfiint-
cd judge of the eighth judicial circuit of Virginia,
but was removed l>y the thirfy-<lay resolution of Con-
gress; was electi'd a representative from Virginia in
the Forty-second Congress as a Conservative, re-
ceiving 10.282 votes against li.OlS votes for W. W.
Douglas, Itepuhllcan, and 5,04:1 votes for D. M. Nor-
ton, coU>reil Kepublican, serving from March 4, 1871,
to March :l. 1873.
Crittenden, John Jordan, was bom In Wood-
forri County. Ki-ntucky, .September 10, 178(1; received
an aradeniie education; sened in the war of 1812 as
a ide to Governor Shelby; studied law; was admitted
lo t!ie bar, and practised at Frankfort, Kentucky;
was a member of the iStnte House of Ileprescntatlvcj
in IhlO; was UnilecUslates senator fn ni Kentuekv.
.serving from December I, 1817, to Mandi :i, IMlil;
practised from 1810 to 183.5, serving several years In
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the State House of Representatives; was again
United-States senator, serving from December 7,
1835, to March 3, 1841 ; was appointed altomey-gen-
eral of the Unite<l States by Presitk^nt Harrison,
serving from March 6, 1841, to September in, IS^I;
was again United - States senator, ^crvitif^ in>m
March 81, 1842, until be resigned in 1848; was
elected governor of Kentuclty lf38-lSjO; was again
appointed attorney-general by Presiilent Fillmore,
serving from July 20, 1850, to Marcli 3, 1853; was
again United-States senator, serving from Deccmlier
8, 1855, to March 3, 1801 ; was clecteil a rfproscnta-
tive from Kentucky in the Tbirty-sevcutli Cnnfrrosa
as a Unionist, receiving 8,272 votes against 5,71X1
votes for Simms, Secessionist, and sen-iiig from July
4, 1861, to March 3, 1863; died at Frankfort, Ken-
tucky, July 26, 1863,
Crittenden, Thomas T., was bom in Shelby
County, Kentuclty, January 2, 1834; graduated at
Centre College, Danville, Kentucky, In April, 18.15;
studied law at Frankfort, Kentucky; was admitted
to the bar, and practised at Warrensburg, Missouri;
was appointed attorney-general of Missouri in )8tU
by Governor WlUard P. Hall to fill out tlie unex-
pired term of Ackroan Welsh, deceased ; was cieetcd
a representative from Missouri In the Forty-tbird
Congress as a Democrat, receiving lit.^l votes
against 14,770 votes for 8. S, Burdett, Kepublican,
and serving from December 1, 1773, to March 3, 1875.
Crooheron, Henry, resided In Richmotul Coun-
ty, New York; was elected a representative from
that State in the Fourteenth Congress as a Demncrut,
serving from December 4, 1815, to March ;j, 1817.
Crooheron. Jacob, was elected a representative
from New York in the Twenty-first Cmigress as a
Jackson Democrat, serving from December 7, 1820,
to March 3, 1831; was a presidential elector on the
Van Buren and Johnson ticket in 1837,
Crocker, Alvah, was bom at Leominster, Mas-
sachusetts, October 14, 1801 ; became a factory opera-
tive at eight years of age; secured an aciulemk edu-
cation; became proprietor of paper manufactories at
Fitchburg; was president of the Boston and Fitcli-
burg Railroad; was a commissioner of the Hocisac
Tunnel; was a member of the State House of Repre-
sentatives in 1836, 1842, and 1843; was a member of
the State Senate two terms ; and was elected a rep-
resentative from Massachusetts in the Forly-sccond
Congress, January 2, 1872, as a Republican (to till the
vacancy occasioned by the resignation of William B.
Washburn, elected governor of Massachusetts); and
was re-elected to the Forty-third Congress, receiving
14,919 votes against 4,588 votes for D. W, Bond,
Democrat, serving from Febraary 14, 1872, until he
died, at Fitchburg, Massachusetts, December 26,
1874.
Crocker, Stunuel L., was bom at Taunton,
Massachusetts, March 31, 1804; received a classical
education, graduating at Brown University in 1822 ;
engaged in manufacturing; was a member of the
Executive Council of Massachusetts In 1840; was
elected a representative from Massacbusctta in the
Thirty-third Congress as a Whig, receiving on the
first ballot 5,303 votes against 2,056 votes for A. M,
. Ide, Democrat, 4,305 votes for G, M, Weston, Free
Soil, and 723 scattering votes, and re-ceiving n plu-
rality on the second trial, serving from December C,
1853, to March 3, 1855.
Crockett, David (father of John W. Crockett ),
was bom in Greene Coimty, Tennessee, August 17,
1780; was reared in the cabin of his father, a Jti'volu-
tionary soldier; became noted as a bcar-liunii r ;ii3il
marksman; commanded a battalion of niouuU'il rilkv
men under General Jackson in the CiveU eaiii[iiilgn
1813-1814; was a member of the State li^gislalure;
was elected a representative from Teiinessi-c in the
Twentieth Congress as a Wliig, receiving ;!,(>4.'t nin-
jority over Adam Alexander, Democrat; and vnm
re.elected to the Twenty-first Congresa, SLTvins' fnmi
December 3, 1827, to March 3, 18:11 ; was dt^fcaied as
the Whig candidate for the Twenty-fonrtli C<inCTc»,
receiving 3,416 votes ;^aiust 4,(!0;] votes for William
Filzgerald, Democrat; was again elected to the Twi-n-
ty-tbird Congnifis. receiving 104 majority over WiJ-
liam Fitzgerald, Demoenit, and serving from Deftnu-
Iht 2, IS;W, to Slart-h 3, 1)^15; went tu Texas to aid
in the struggle there for indej>cmience, au J wasliilJed,
while gallantly fighting at San Antoine de UcEir,
March ti, 18;lfJ. Published several worts writica (or
biro by others.
Crockett, John W. (son of David Crockett),
was l)om at Treuton, Temiessee; received a public-
school education ; was elected a reprcaeiitalive fru'io
Tennessee in the Twenty-fifth Congress as a Whij,
receiving 0,885 votes agwnst 1,413 voles for A. 41.
H»^he«, also a V\Tiig; aud was re-elot't«d t<i tlie
Tweuty-sixth Congress, receiving 5,;404 votes againrt
4,070 votes for S. (.'. Pavalt, Demociut, serving (rum
Septcral)er4, 1837, to March 3, ]&41; was elected Uy
the Slate legislature att-omev^eneral for the itinik
district of TeunCBsee November 1, 1,<JI ; removcil to
New Orleans, and became assix^ialc editor of "Tlia
National" May 22, 1848; remove<l to M«miphis, Teu-
nessec, and died there Novemljer 24, 18.52.
Crooke, Philip S., was bom nt Poughkeep»ie,
New York, March 2, 1811); waa educated at the
Dutchess Academy si Poviglikeepsie; studied law,
and was admit ted to the bar in tlie city of New Tott
in ISii; located at Flatbush in 18:18; was elected a
presidential elector on the Dcraoeratic ticket in 18JS;
was elected a memlier of the Assembly of the State
of New York as a Repulilican in 18<>;j; was a mem-
ber of the board of supervisors of King's Comity in
It44_]Ki^, 18nS-lS70, and chairman of the board m
18(il, I8(>2, IStW, and 180,"]; sen-eil forty years In the
National Guard of the State of New York, from pri-
vate to brigadler-pmeral, and comroandwl the i'iixh
Brigade, National Guard, in Pennsylvania, in Jiwo
ami July, iSlj3; was elected a representative fftiiii
New York in the Forty-third Congress as a Repub-
lican, receiving 11,012 votes against 10,20'i vote* tor
S. J. Colahan, Democrat, and serving from Decetn-
bcr 1, 1873, f'l March 3, 1875.
Cross, Edward, waa bom in Tennessee: re-
ceived a public-3ebai4 education; studieil taw; was
admitted to the bar, antl practised; waa Unitnl-
Statea judge for the district a( Arkatisas; waseleclcd
a representative from Arkansas in the Twenty-sixih
Congress as a Democrat, r<!ci'iving 0,771 votes agaiiist
4,218 votes for Cuitiinitigs, Whig; w.-is re-elected Is
the Twenty-seventh Congress, receiving 7,S70 vot«i
against 5,733 votes for Fowler, Whig; and was re-
elected to the Twenty-eighth Congress, rcceivipg
l),413 votes against 5,315 votes for Cummings, Wliis,
and 1,680 votes for Evans, Independent, serving Imm
December 2, IBW, to March .1, 1845; was apjit'intwi
a judge of the State Supreme Court July 31, ISH
Crosaland, Edward, was bom in Bickman
County, Kentucky, June iiit), 182T, and was educattd
tlierc ; studied law ; waa adrnilted to the bar iu ISJi
and continues to pnvctiao his profession; was a mi'in-
lier of the legislature of the State of Kentucky in
ia'J7-]858; was elected judge of the Court of Conminn
Pleaa in the hrst judicial district of Ketitncky ui Au-
gust, 18(17, for six years, and resif^ied on the 1st iJ
N(>vember, 1670; w.m eleeteil a repreaentattve fmai
Kentucky in the Forty-second Congress as u Demo-
crat, receiving 7,0(50 votes against 2,1180 voles t>>t
N. R. Black, Republican, and 1,41*2 votes for W. C,
Clark, Independent Democrat; and was re-elccl«1 1'>
the Fortj-thinl Congress, receiving 10,27li vutts
against 2,510 votes forTrabue, Itcpublicau, I.TlWfi'f
11. 11. Ilouitfln, Kepublieaii, and 1,473 fur J. Martiii.
Ui'inoerat, serving from March 4, 1871, ti> Mafdi;!,
18T.J.
Crouch, Edward, w^f ■ !..-i. t n iv[,r<-^nii
trori) Pcnnsvlvaniii in tln' I'l'i"
])l:ice of Jolin (ilmiirjf^.r, t, -rj
serving frmn Dcr'ntil"!' ij,
CrbiinsQ^ Loreoao.
J
STATISTICAL SKETCHES.
S53
County, New Tork, January 27, 1S34; received a
commoii-scliool ciliicaiinu, su[iplemeiit^ liy two
terms in a wniinar)-; rumovol In 165o to Fori Plain,
Moulgomer}' County, New Yorlt, and tliere engaged
In Ibe practice of law; raised a battery of liclit ar-
ttillery ia ISOI; entered tbc army aa captain in the
First Regiment New-York State Artillery; was
wo\inde<l. ami rosigiiuil after a year's service; re-
moved in 18(15 to Nebraska Territory; was a member
of the territorial legisbittire in 180(1, and assisted in
framing and securing tlie adoption by Ibe people of
tlie Territory <if its present State Constitution; was
► elected :is8ociate justice of tlie Suiireine Court, and
entered upon his duties in March. 18(i7, when Ne-
br;u>k.i was admitted into the Union; at the expira-
tion of Lis term on the bencb, was elected a reprcseii-
live from Nebraska in the Forty-tliird Congress as a
Itcpublican, receiving 17,124 votes agiUnst 10,41'i
Votes for Warner, Democrat; and was re-elected to
Oie Forty-fourtU Congress, receiving 22,.'Wa vot<'S
» against 8,380 votes for James W. Savage. Democrat,
4,U74 votes for J.imes \Y. Davis. IndeiM-ndenl, and 117-
votes for J. (J. Sliller. TempiTance, serving from
December 1, 1873, to March 3, 1S77.
Crowell, John, was boni in Il.ilifax County,
Alabama; was the son of Ed wan! Crow<dl. who was
a great-nephew of Oliver Cnmiwell; received a pub-
I lie-school e<lucation; was elected delegate from the
Territory of Alabama in the Fifteenth Cmigix'ss,
Bcrvlng from March H, 181S, to March :3, ISID, when
the State Constilulioii went into oiKTatinu; was
elected a representative from Alabiinia in the Six-
teenth Congn-ss, serving from Deceialier 22, ISIll, to
March 3, IJSil; was appointed .igent lor the Cveek
Indians, tlien inhabiting Wratern (jenrgia aud East-
ern Alabama, and occupied the pnsition until they
■were removcil to the Indian Territory in ISWO; tlieil
at Fort -Mitclii'll, Alaliaiiia, June ii. 1H4<!.
Crowell, John, was born in Connecticut; re-
moved to Warren, tiluo; was elected a representative
fTom Ohio in the Thirtieth Congress as a Whig; luid
tyeaa re-<>lected to the Tliirty-llrst Cnngrcss. rcc('lvlag
8,4:^7 votes against 1,'4T^ voles for Iv4mey, Democrat,
Bcr%ing fn>m Deicmborn, 1847, tn Marcii 3, 18.J1.
Crdwninshield, Benjamin Williams, was
born at boston, Massacliusetis, December ^7, 177li:
receive)! an English etlucjitiou; engaged in mercan-
tile pursuits at Satem. M.issiu.'hu8ctt«; was a State
I senator iu 181 1 ; was ap|>f)inted secretary of the navy
liy Prcsidi'Ut Madison Deceiulter 17. 1814; and re-ai>-
j>uinted by President MonriK'. resigning in 1814; w;is
again a Slate senaUir 18^S2. 1823; was elecli-d a rejt-
n-'seutalive from Massachusetts in the Eigbteeiilli
CoieTTcss as a Democrat ; Wiis re-elected to the Nine-
teenth Congress l>y 081 majority; was r(;-clecled to
the Twentieth Congress, receiving 223 votes against
i;W scattering votes; w.as re-elected ti the TxKMily-
lirst Congress, receiving 1,2)<4 votes against 020 votes
lor L. SaltonstaU, ami 18X votes for .1. S. Cabot,
ecr^'ing from December 1, 1S23, to Marcli 3, 1831;
■Was defeated as the DemiKTutic candidate for the
Twciity-seconil Congress, receiving 7(!7 voles against
1,750 voles for Kufus Choale, 3o2 volea for J. S.
Cabot, and 81 8<mtlering voU's; he died at Boston,
llassachusi.'lts, Februan ■">. 18.J1.
Crcwninshield, Jaoob, was born at Salem,
ifassiicliiisetls; cngageil in rnercanlile pursuits; was
^Miefoated as Democratic candidate to till tlie vacancy
^|k the Sixth Congress caused liy the rcslgjiation of
^^Swijjht Foster, by Nathan Itead, Federalist; was a
^Kkeuil>cr of the Massachusetts House of Itepresenta-
BBi-ra: was tendered the position of secrcUiry of the
*%»vy by President Jefferson, but declined it; "was
^leflcfl a represcnUitive from Massachusetts in tlie
Eighth Congress as a Democrat; w.is re-elected tu
lt3o Ninth and Tenth Congresses, serving from Octo-
^Ucr 17, 18(>:l. to Ajirii 15, 1808, when he died at the
^Eitv of Washington.
^F Crozier, John H., was bom in Tennessee; ro-
^^eivcd a public-scbuul educaliou; resided at Kiiox-
vllle ; was elected a representative from Tcmicssce in
the Twenty-ninth Congress as a Whig; and was re-
elected to the Tliirtieth Cougrcss, serving from De-
cember 1, 1845, to March 3, IWO; declined a re-elec-
tion.
Crudup. Josiah, was bom in Wake County,
Nortii Carolina; resided at Ii.alelgh; was elected a
representative from Nortli Carolina in the Seven-
teenth Congress, receiving 1.180 majority over John
Scott, and serving from December 3, 1821, to March
3, IH23.
Cruger, Daniel, was bom at Bath, Now York,
and raised then-, receiving a public-school education;
w:is a nu'mber of the State Ilo\iSe of Kepn?sentative8
1814-1815; was clecteil a representative from New
York in the Fifteenth Congress, serving from Decem-
ber I, 1817, to March 3, ISli).
Crump, George William, was bom in Pow-
lialan Cutinty. Virginia; received a cl.a.ssical educa-
lldii, graduating at Princeton College; Btuilled medi-
cine, and was licensed to pracllse; was a mcinlM-rof
the State Ucmi^.e of Ufpresentatives; was elected a
re[iresetitative fnini Vin;inia in tlie Niueteenlli Cou-
gr<i£S (in the jilace of John llaiidolpb, resigneil) as a
J.ackson Dcinncral, receiving 2-J niajority over Mr.
Uiica, and serving from February (I, 18211, to March 3,
I8;i7; w.as defc.ited as a candidate for the Twentieth
Congress by Ji>1iti Handolph; was appointed by Pres-
ident Jackson chief clerk of the Pension Bureau in
18;32, and served until he died, at Washington City,
in l:-'5').
Crutchfleld, William, was bom tit Greenville,
Tennessee, November 10, 1820; n.'ceived a common-
sdiool eriucation; settleil in McMinn County, where
he rem.'ilued until 1840; was a practical fanner; re-
moved to iUabania in 1844; became, in 18.50, a cilizoii
of Chattanooga, Tennessee; has helil several local
oflSws, and was cleeKsl a representative from Ten-
nessee in the Forty-tliini Congress as a Republican,
receiving 10.(141 votes against 8,000 voU'S for D. M.
Ivey, Democrat, serving from December 1, 1873, to
March ;!, 1875.
Ctilberson, Da^vid B., w;is bom in Troup
County, Georgia, iSepteinl)cr 29, 18;W; received an
aciuleniic eilucation; studied law; was adniille<i to
tlie bar in 1S51, and commenced practice; removed
to Tex.'is; was a meml>er of tlie State Ilouse of Kejt-
resentalivcs of Texas in 1850, and again in 1804, and
to tlie Slate .Senate in 180(S; entered the Confederate
army as a private in 1802, and was pronioled until ho
became ailjutant-general witli the nink of colonel;
was electj'd a representative from Texas in the Forty-
tourtli Congress as a Democrat, defeating F. W. Siuii-
iier, lii'publican, serving from December (1, 1875, to
March 3, 1S77.
Culbreth, Thomas, was Imm in Kent County,
Diilaware, in 178(i; removed to Carolina County,
Maryland ; was a member of the .Slate Ilou.se of
Uepresentatlves in 18i:5; was eiectiil a representative
from Maryland in the Fifteenth Congress aa a Demo-
cral. defeating Colonel Porter. Federalist: and was
re-elected to the SixteenlJi Coiign'ss, si'ning from
December I, 1817, to March 3, 1821; was clerk of tho
Executive C^>UIlcil of JIaryland 182.5-18;{8; and died
at Ills resiuence near Denton, M.aryland, May 17, 1843.
Cullen, Clisha D., was liofn at Georgetown,
Delaware; was <'li'cted a nipresenlative from Dela-
ware in the Thirty-fourth Congress as an American,
receiving 0,.'i20 votes .against (i,;j:J4 votes for (J. II.
IJiiidle, Democrat, and B<!rving from December 3,
1855, to March 3, 1857; was defeated .is tlic Anieriaui
cuididate for the Thirty-fifUi Congrejs, receiving
0,;Kio votes ijg.iinst 8,111 votes for William G. Whito-
ley, Demix'rat.
Cllllom, Al^van, was bom In Kentucky; received
a thorough English education; studied law; was .id-
mitted to the bar, and commenced jiractice at Living-
ston, Tennes-see; wiis several years a memlMT of tho
.State House of Representatives; was elected a repre-
seutalive from Teuuessco iu the Twcuty-ci|;Uth Cuu-
354
COXGBESSIOJIAL DIBECTOKY.
eresf ns a Democrat, recclrlng 5,190 Totes aealiiBt
3,(io0 votes for Bransford, Whig: and was re-elected
to the Twenty-ninth ConRress, BcnMng from Decem-
t>er 4. 1S43, to Mareh 3, 1847; was a delegate to the
Peace Congn-ss nf ISOl.
Cullom, Shelby M., was bom In Wayne Coun-
ty, Kentucky. XovenilKT 22, 1S£9: removed with his
father to Taiewcll County, Illinois, In 1831); was
reared on a farm, receiving an academic education ;
studied law with John T. Stewart: was admittctl to
the bar. and prnclised at Springfield, Illinois; was
city attorney of 8priri;:flcld ; was a pre^idenlial elect-
or In ISiV) on the Fillmore ticket; was clecteil a
member of the State House of Representatives in
1860 and 1800; was appointc<l by President Lincoln,
In 1802, on a commission to eil at Cairo for the ex-
amination of quartermasters' accounts and war
claims; was defeated as a Union candidate for the
State Senate, and for the Constitutional Convention;
was elected a representative from Illinois in the
Thirty-ninth Congress as a Union Republican, re-
ceiving 15,812 votes against 14.027 votes for Stuart.
Democrat; was re-elected to the Fortinth Congress,
receiving 18,023 votes against 14,520 votes for Fowler,
Democrat; and was re-electc<l to the Forty-first Con-
gress, receiving 22,193 votes against 19,;{(»!t votes for
Edwards, Democrat, serving from l)cceml)er4. 1805, to
March 3, 1871 ; was a delegate to the National Repub-
lican Convention at ChiCJ^;o in 1808; returning to
Springfiold, he engaged In banking under the Nation-
al Hanking Law; was again elected a member of the
State Ilouse of Representatives in 1872 and 1874,
serving the first term as Bpealcer; was elected gov-
ernor of Illinois in 1S77.
CuUom, William, was bom In Tennessee; re-
ceived a pulilic-scbool e<lucation; studied law; was
admitted to the bar, and practised at Carthage, Ten-
nessee; was trii-<l for killing a man nameil Davidson,
and acquitted, as it was shown that Ihi- act was com-
raittc<l in self-defence; w.%s elected a representative
from Tennessee in the Thirty-second Congress as a
Whig, receiving 5,190 votes against 4,14.5 votes for
Southard. Democrat; ami was re-elccti>(I to the Thir-
ty-third Congress, receiving 5,(530 votes against 5,593
votes for Chir, serving from December 1, 1851, to
March 3, 1855: was defeateil as the .\nieric.iui candi-
date for the Thirty-fourth Conin^ess, n-ci-iving 6,5(UJ
Totes against 0,01(1 votes for SavSgc. Dc'uocrat; was
elected clerk of the House for theThirty-fourtli Con-
gress, ser%ing from February 4, 1850, to December 0,
1857.
Culpepper, John, was bom in Anson County,
North Carolina; received a public-school education;
l>ecaine interested in religious matters, and was li-
censed to pn-ach to the Baptist denomination; was
elected a representative from North Carolina in the
Tenth Congress as a Federalist; his se.-it wiu con-
tested by Duncan McFarland, and declared vacant,
January 2, 1808, on account of inequalities in elec-
tion; he w.is subsequently re-elected at a new elec-
tion, and look Ids seat February 2:1, 1808, serving to
March 3, 1809 ; was again elected to the Thirteenth
Congress, receiving 200 m.ijority over John A- Cam-
eron ; and was re-elected t<.> the Fourteenth Congress,
sen-ing from May 24, 1813, to Man-h 3, 1817; w.is de-
feated as a caadidato for the Fifteenth Congress;
was anio elected to the Sixteenth Congress, serving
from DecemlKT 0. 1819, to March 3, 1821 ; was de-
feated as a candidate for the Seventeenth Congress
by Archibald McNeill ; was again elected to the
Eighteenth Congress, receiving a majority of 05 vot<'8
over Archibald McNeill, and serving from December
1, 1824, to March 3, 1825; was defeated as a candidate
for the Nineteenth Congress; was again electctl to
the Twentieth Congress, receiving 2,377 votes against
1,089 votes for John A. Cannon, and 1,:K7 votes for
John Gilchrist ; and seniiig from Docemlwr '.i, 1827.
to March 3, 1829; decliued being a candidate for re-
election.
Culver, Charles Vernon, was bom at Logan,
ilS
i
Ohio, September S, 1S30; received a bostncM etae**'
tion, and engaged In mercantile pursuits; becanM
largely interested in the development of the oil re-
gions in Venango County, Pennsylvania, ami estaS-
lished national banks as a part of his extensive
oftcrations; was elected a representative from Penn-
sylvania in the Thirty-ninth Congress as a Republi-
can, receiving i:t,:S50 votes against U.tMO vole* for
Corbctt, Democrat, and scrruig from December 4,
18(^>o, to March 3, 1807; became iNUikrupt while b«
was a mcinlier of Congress, and was imprisoned in
I'SiUJ. but, after a prolonged tri.il, was acquitted ; rc-
sumeil operations in the oil business.
Culver, ErastUS D., was bom in New York;
received a classical education, gradnating at the Un»
versity of Vermont in 182<}: studied law; was admit
ted to the bar, and commenced pnieticc at Grecnwicbj
was a member of the Stale House of Represcnlatires'
in I8;i8 and 1841; was elected a representative fmm
New York in the Twenty-ninth Congress as a WTilft
receiving 7.512 votes against 5,2)!7 voles for Bisbop,^H
Democrat, and 474 votes for Corliss, Abolition, sorr-^^
ing fmm December 1. 184.5. to March 3, 1847; waa
apfwjinted by President Lincoln minister to Venezue-
la. ser\ing from Julv 12, 1802. to June ;in. 1S*W.
Cumback, Will, was bom in Franklin Connty,.^|
Indiana, March 24, 1S29; received a classical rduc»-^|
lion, gnuluaiing at the Miami University, Ohio;
taught school for two years; studie<l law at the
Cincinnati Law School; was admitted to the bar,
and praclis<'d at Grcensburg, Indiana; was elected a
representative from Indiana in the Thirty-fourth
Congress as a Republican, receiving O.OCl votes
against 8,391 votes for Holman, Democrat, and
serving from December 3, 1855, to March .1, 1857;,
was dofeatei] as the Republican candidate for the '
Thirly-liflh Congress, n-cciving 8.1118 votes against |
lO,.^!! votes for J. B. Foley, Dcnuxrat : was a presi-
dential elector on the Lincohi and Hamilton ticket
in 180O; w.-is appointed by President Lincoln a pay-
master in the armv.
Chimming, Thomas W., was bom in Mary-
land; removoti tn Brooklyn. Now York; was cl'X'ted
a n-prcsentativc fmm New York in the Thirty-third
Coni;res3 as a Democrat, receiving 7.2:St voles against
lj,'JSf.t votes for Sanfonl. Whig, and serving from De-
ccmlier 5, 18.53, to March 3, 18.55. ,
Ctmiming, William, was bom at Edenton,
North C-uMlina; studitnl law; w.is adniiltctl to lbs
bur. and pracliseil; w:\sa drieuate to the Conlincii-
t;d Coiisress in H^M. and was elected to tlie House of ,
Commoiis of North Camlina in 17i**.
Cummings, Henry J. B., was Iwm at Newton, j
New Jersey, May 21, 18;J1; received a public-sch'iol
education; edited a newspaper in .Schuylkill County,
Pennsylvania, at the age of nineteen: studied law;
was admitted to the bar at Williainsport. Pennsyl-
vania, and commenced practice at Wintersel, lows,
in January, 1850; was elected county prr>secutingJ
attorney in August, 18.50, aud held the ofiice two]
years and thn.-e months, when it was abolished by J
the new constitution; entered the Union army iii]
July, 1801, and was elected captain of Company F, 1
Fourth Iowa Infantry; was commissioned colonel of |
the Tliirty-nintb Iowa Infjintry, which he command- j
eil until 1805; became editor and proprietor of "ThaJ
Winterset Madisonian" in 1800, and still edita and!
fiiiblishes it; w.is elected a representative from Iowa]
n the Forty-fifth Congress as a Repul>lic;in. receiving
10,496 votes against 11,684 votes forSamuel J. Gilpin,'
Democrat, and 2,156 votes for Andrew Hastie, Inde-
pendent,
Cummins, John D., was bom in Pennsylvania;
receivcil a public-scbool education; studied law; waa
nilniitled to tJie bar, and commenced practice at New i
I'hilailclphia, Ohio; was elected a representative from.!
Ohio in the Twenty-ninth Congress as a Democrat J
and wiis re-elected to the Thirtieth Congress, serrir
from December 1, 1845, to March 3, 1840; died
cholera at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, September U, ISttkl
STATISTICAL SKETCHES.
855
Chinmngham, Franais A., was born in South
Carolina; removed to Eaton, Ohio; was elected a
representative from Ohio in the Twenty-ninth Con-
gress as a Democrat, serving from December 1, 1845,
to March 3, 1&47.
Curry, Jabez Lafayette Monroe, was bom
in Lincoln County, Georgia, June 6, 1825, and re-
moved with his father to Talladega County, Alaba-
ma, in I83S; received a liberal education, graduating
at the University of Georgia in 1843; studied law, re-
ceived the degree of L.B. from the Harvard Law School
in 1843, and commencod practice in Talladega County
in 1845; served in the war with Mexico as a private
in the Texas Bangers in 1840, but resigned on account
of ill health ; was a member of the State House of
Representatives in 1847, 1853, and 1856; was a presi-
dential elector on the Buchanan ticket in 1850; was
elected a representative from Alabama in the Thirty-
tifth Congress as a State-rights Democrat, without
opposition; and was re-elected to tlie Thirty-sixth
Congress without opposition, serving from December
7, 1857, to January 21, 1801, when he retired from the
House ; was a deputy from Alabama to the Provis-
ional Confederate Congress, and a representative to
the First Confederate Congress; served as lieutenant-
colonel of cavalry in the Confederate army; became
a Baptist preacher after the war; was chosen presi-
dent of Howard College, Alabama, in 1866; was
chosen professor in a Virginia college in 1868.
CnrtlS, Caurlton B., was bom in Madison County,
New York, December 17, 1811 ; received an academic
education; studied law, and practised at Warren, and
nibscquently at Erie, Pennsylvania; was elected to
the l^islature of Pennsylvania for the sessions of
ItSM, 1837, and 1838; was elected a representative
from Pennsylvania in the Thirty-second Congress as
a Whig, receiving 6,522 votes against 0,410 votes for
Walker, Democrat; and was re-elected to the Thirty-
third Congress, receiving 8,321 votes against 4,375
votes for Kerr, Democrat, serving from December 1,
1851, to March 3, 1856; served in the Union army as
colonel of a regiment of Pennsylvania volunteers;
and was again elected to the Forty-third Congress as
a Republican, receiving 17,742 votes against 10,235
votes for T. L. Kane, Democrat; was defeated as the
Republican candidate to the Forty-fourth Congress,
receiving 10,381 votes against 10,393 votes for A. G.
Egbert, Democrat.
Curtis, Eidward, was bom in Vermont; re-
ceived a classical education, graduating at Union
College in 1821; studied law: was admitted to the
bar, and commenced practice in New- York City with
his brother, George Curtis, in 1824; was elected a
representative from New York in the Twenty-lifth
Congress as a Whig; and re-elected to the Twenty-
sixth Congress as a Whig, receiving 20,458 votes
against 19,200 votes for I. L. Varian, Democrat,
lerving from September 4, 1837, until March 3, 1841 ;
vas appointed by President Harrison collector of the
port of New York, and held the position for nearly
four years, when he was removed by President Tyler,
to moke room for Governor Van Ness; resumed
practice at Washington City; was, later in life, de-
prived of reason; and died, after a lingering illness,
m New-York City, Aimust 2, 1856.
Curtis, Samuel K., was bom in the State of
New York Febmary 3, 1807; was reared in Ohio,
where he received a public-school education; was
appointed a cadet at West Point in 1827, graduating
In July, 1831, as brevet second lieutcntant in the
Heventh Infantry, and resigned in June, 1832; stud-
k-d law; was admitted to the bar, and commenced
practice in Ohio; was chief engineer of the Mus-
kingum-river improvements April, 1837-May, 1839;
tenrod in the war with Mexico as adjutant-general
of Ohio, and as colonel of the Second Ohio Infantry,
June, 1840-June, 1847, after which he served as act-
ing assistant adjutantrgeneral to Brigadier-General
Wool; resumed uio practice of law; was engineer on
leveral important public works; was elected a repre-
sentative from Iowa In the Thirty-fifth Congress as a
Republican, receiving 18,005 votes against 17,110
votes for Augustus Hall, Democrat ; was re-elected to
the Thirty-sixth Congress ; was re-elected to the Thir-
ty-seventh Congress, receiving 33,930 votes against
30,240 votes for Cole, Democrat, serving from Decem-
ber 7, 1867, to August 0, 1801, when he resigned:
served in the Union army as colonel of the Second
Iowa Volunteers, brigadier and major general, 1881-
1865; was appointed United-States peace commis-
sioner to treat with the Indians 1865; was appointed
commissioner to examine and report on the Union
Pacific Road, and served from November, 1865-April,
18C6; and died at Council Bluffs, Iowa, December
26,1860.
Cushinfir, Caleb, was bom at Salisbury, Massa-
chusetts, January 7, 1800; received a classical edu-
cation, graduating at Harvard College in 1817, and
was tutor of mathematics there 1810-1821 ; studied
law at the Cambridge Law School; was admitted to
the bar, and commenced practice at Newbuirport in
1823; was a member of the State House of Repre-
sentatives in 1825, and of the State Senate in 1827;
visited Europe in 1829; was again a meml>er of the
State House of Representatives in 1833 and 1834;
was elected a representative from Massachusetts as a
Whig in the Twenty-fourth Congress, and re-elected
to the Twenty-fifth, Twenty-sixth, and Twenty-sev-
enth Congresses, serving from December 7, 1£S5, to
March 3, 1843; was appointed by President Tyler
commissioner to China, serving from May 8, 1843, to
March 1.3, 1846; was again a member of the State
House of Representatives in 1846 and 1840; raised a
r^ment of Massachusetts volunteers for the war
with Mexico, and was commissioned its colonel
January 15, 1847; was appointed by President Polk
brigadier-general April 14, 1847, and served until
July 20, 1848; was defeated as the Democratic can-
didate for governor of Massachusetts in 1847, and
again in 1S48; was again a mei^ber of the State
House of Representatives in 1850; declined the posi-
tion of attorney-general of Massachusetts, offered
him in 1851 ; was appointed by Grovemor Boutwell a
judge of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts In
1852; was appointed by President Pierce attorney-
general of the United States March 7, 1863; was pres-
ident of the National Democratic Convention at
Charleston and BsJtimore 1860; was appointed by
President Johnson a commissioner to revise and cod-
ify the statutes of the United States 1806-1870; was
appointed by President Grant counsel for tlie United
States before the Geneva tribunal of arbitration on
the Alabama claims; was nominated by President
Grant to be chief justice of the Supreme Court of the
United States in 1874, but was not confirmed by the
Senate ; was appointed by President Grant minister
to Spain, serving from January 6, 1874, to January 6,
1877. Published a " History of Newburyport," 1826:
" Keminiscences of Spain," 1830; "Growth and
Territorial Progress of the United States," 1839;
"Life of W. H. Harrison," 1840; and numerous
orations and essays.
Cushing, Thomas, was bom at Boston March
24, 1725; received a classical education, graduating
at Harvard College in 1744; studied law; was admit-
ted to the bar, and practised at Boston; was for
many years a member of the Provincial Assembly;
was a member of the Provincial Congress in 1774;
was a delegate from Massachusetts to the Continen-
tal Congress 1774-1776; was commissary-general of
Massachusetts in 1775; was judge of the Court of
Common Pleas and of Probate in Suffolk County in
1777 ; declined a re-election to the Continental Con-
gress in 1779; was lieutenant-governor of Massachu-
setts 1779-1788, and acting-governor in 1788; was an
agent of the British Society for promoting the Gos-
pel in New England, and one of Uie founders of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences; and died
at Boston Febmary 28, 1788.
Cushman, John Paine, was bom at Pomfrct,
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March 4, 1S13, and held the office until it was abol-
ished by law March 3, 1817, when he was appointed
tecund comptroller of the treasury, a position which
he retained until 1829; he died at Washington Ctty
April 7, 1845.
DasS^tt, DafTid, was bom at Attleborough,
Massachusetts, December 31, 1704; received a clas-
sical education, gradnating at Yale College in 1783;
studied law; was admitted to the bar, and com-
menced practice at New HaTen; was initiated into
Freemasonry In Hiram Lodge No. 1, at New Haven,
in 1791, and was a zealous member of the order
through life ; was several years a member of the State
legislature ; was a presidential elector in 1805, voting
for Charles C. Pinckney, in 1809 voting again for
(Varies C. Pinckney, and in 1813 voting lor De Witt
Clinton ; was elected United-States senator from Con-
necticut as a Federalist (in place of Chauncey Good-
rich, resigned), serving from May 24, 1813, to March
3, 1«1».
Daily, Samuel Q., was bom in Indiana in 1819 ;
received a public-school education; removed to the
frontier; settled at Pern, Nebraska Territory; was
elMted a delegate from Nebraska in the Thirty-
sixth Congress as a Republican, receiving (as the
House decided) 2,790 votes against 2,671 votes for
Experience Estabrook, Democrat, who received the
certUicate of election; was re-elected to the Thlrty-
terenth Congress, receiving (as the House decided)
2,!)ll8 votes against 2,758 votes for J. Sterling Morton,
who unsuccessfully contested the seat ; and was again
elected U^e Thirty-eighth Congress, receiving 2,833
votes agnnst 2,180 votes for Keimey, Democrat,
serving from May 18, 1860, to March 3, 1865 ; received
the appointment of deputy-collector of customs at
New Orleans at the ex]>iration of his congressional
tfrra, at the special retjuest of President Lincoln;
and held the position until he died, at New Orleans,
September 14, 1865.
Dallas, (teorse Mifflin, was bom at Philadel-
phia, Pennsylvania, July 10, 1702; received a clas-
sical education, graduating at Princeton 'College In
1810; studied law, and was admitted to the bar, but,
before commencing practice, went abroad as private
secretary to Albert Gallatin, minister to Russia; re-
tanied in 1814, and resumed his legal studies; was
appointed deputy-attomey-gencral at Philadelphia in
1817; was made a Freemason in 1818, and rose to be
grand master of Pennsylvania in 1834; was mayor of
Philadelphia 1825; was ITnited-States district-attor-
ney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania 1829-
1831 ; was elected United-States senator from Penn-
sylvania, on tho eleventh ballot, as a Democrat
(in fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of I. H.
Barnard), serving from December 10, 1831, to March
i, 1833; declined a re-election, and resumed practice;
was appointed by President Yah Buren minister to
Russia, serving from March 7, 1837, to July 29, 1839;
a!;ain resumed practice ; was elected Vice-President in
1*44 on the Polk ticket, receiving 170 electoral votes
ssaiost 106 electoral votes for T. Frelinghuysen,
Whig; was appointed by President Pierce minister to
Great Britain, serving from February 4, 1861, to May
IH, 1861 ; returned to Philadelphia, and died there
UeremberSl, 1884.
Dalton, Tristain, was bom in that part of the
town of Newbury afterwards Newburyport, May 28,
ITSS; received a classical education, graduating at
Harvard College in 1760; studied law, and was ad-
mitted to the bar, but engaged in mercantile pursuits
with his father-in-law, Robert Hooper; took a deep
interest in the cultivation of " Spring Hill," a fertile
t'^te on an eminence overlooking the Merrimack
Uiver, where he entertained Louis Philippe of Or-
leans, Talleyrand, and other distinguished guests;
was a zealous member of the Protestant-EpTscopal
Church and of the Masonic fraternity, occupying
hi;b positions in both; was a leading pre-revolu-
tionlst, and was a delate from Massachusetts in
itie convention of committees of New-England States
which first met at Providence, Rhode Ishind, Decem-
ber 25, 1776; was one of the first United-States
senators from Massachusetts, drawing lot No. 1, and
serving from April 14, 1789, to March 8, 1791; was
persuaded by his personal friend President Washing-
ton to make large investments in real estate In Wash-
ington City, which proved unsuccessful; meeting
aim) with heavy losses in business, he was left desti-
tute, and accepted the position of siureyor of tho
port of Boston, serving from November 10, 1814,
until his death, at Boston, May 30, 1817.
Damrell, William S., was bora at Portsmouth,
New Hampshire, November 20, 1809; received a
public-school education; learned the art of printing,
and became the proprietor of a large printing estab-
lishment at Boston ; was elected a representative from
Massachusetts in the Thirty-fourth Congress as an
American, receiving 0,026 votes against 2,273 votes
for Safford, Whig, and 023 votes for others; and was
re-elected to the Thirty-fifth Congress, receiving
10,433 votes againat6,077 votes for A. W. Austin, Dem-
ocrat, and 1,436 votes for Alfred B. Ely, American,
serving from December 3, 1855, to March 3, 1869;
was partially paralyzed before the expiration of his
term ; and died at Dedham, Massachusetts, May 17,
1860.
Dana, Amasa, resided at Ithaca, New York;
was a member of the State House of Representatives
1828-1829; was elected a representative from New
York in the Twenty-sixth Congress as a Democrat,
receiving0,157 votes against 8,757 votes for William
A. Ely, Whig, and serving from December 2, 1839,
to March 3, 1841 ; was again elected to the Twenty-
eighth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 7,790 votes
against 6,626 votes for Woodworth, Whig, and 294
votes for Whitman, Abolition, and serving from De-
cember 4, 1843, to March 3, 1846.
Dana, BVancis, was bom at Charlestown, Mas-
sachusetts, June 13, 1748; received a classical edu-
cation, graduating at Harvard Collie in 1702; stud-
ied law imder Judge Trowbridge; was admitted to
the bar in 1767, and commenced practice in Boston ;
was a delegate to the Provincial Congress in 1774;
visited England in 1776-1776; was a State councillor
1776-1780; was a delegate to the Continental Con-
gress from Massachusetts 1770-1778 and 1784; was
secretary of legation at London from September 28,
1770, until appointed minister to Russia, December
10, 1780; was re-commissioned secretary of legation
at London Jtme 15, 1781 ; was judge of the Supreme
Court of Massachusetts 1785-1792; was a member of
the State Convention which adopted the Federal
Constitution in 1788; was a founder of the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences; and died at Cam-
bridge, Massachusetts, April 25, 1811.
Danai, Judah, was bom at Pomfret, Connecti-
cut, April 25, 1772; received a classical education,
graduating at Dartmouth College in 1705; studied
law; was admitted to the bar, and commenced prac-
tice at Fryebuig, Massachusetts (afterwards Maine),
in 1708; was county-attorney of Oxford County
1805-1811, and judge of probate 1806-1822; was
judge of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas 1811-
1823: was a delegate to the convention which framed
the Constitution of Maine in 1810; was a member of
the Executive Coimcil in 1834; was appointed a
United-States senator from Maine as a Democrat
(to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of
Ether Shepley), serving from December 21, 1836, to
March 8, 1837; and died at Fryeburg, Malae, Decem-
ber 27, 1845.
Dana,, Samuel, was bom at Groton. Massachu-
setts, June 26, 1767; received a classical education;
studied law; was admitted to the bar, and com-
menced practice at Charlestown, Massachusetts; held
several local offices; was elected a representative
from Massachusetts in tho Thirteenth Congress (in
place of William M. Richardson, resigned), serving
from September 22, 1814, to March 3, 1815; was a
member of the State SeoAte, and its president; waa
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appointed chief jastlce of the Court of Common
Pleas ; and died at Charlestown, Massachusetts, No-
vember 20, 1835.
Dana, Samuel Whittlesey, was born at New
Haven, Connecticut, July, 1757; received a classical
education, graduating at Yale College in 1775; was
elected a representative from Connecticut in the
Fourth Congress as a Federalist (in place of Uriah
Tracy, resigned ) ; and was successively re-elected to
the Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, and Tenth
Congresses; was again re-elected to the Eleventh
Congress, but, before taking his seat, was elected to
the United-States Senate as a Federalist (in place of
James Hillhouse, resigned); and was re-elected in
1815, serving in the two houses from January 8,
1797, until Uarch 3, 1821 ; was for many years mayor
of Middletown, Connecticut, where he died July
21,1830.
Dane, Joseph, was bom at Beverly, Essex Cotin-
ty, Massachusetts, October 25, 1778; received a clas-
sical education, graduating at Harvard College in
1790; studied law; was admitted to the bar, and com-
menced practice at Kennebunk, Maine ; was a delegate
to the State Constitutional Conventions of 1816 and
1819; was elected a representative from Maine in the
Sixteenth Congress (to fill a vacancy caused by the
redgnatlon of Mr. Holmes, elected senator) as a
Federalist; and was re-elected to the Seventeenth
Congress, serving from December 11, 1820, to March
8, 1^; was a member of the State House of Kepre-
■entatlves 1823-1828, and of the State Senate 1829;
declined serving as executive councillor in Maine
1841 ; and died at Kennebunk, Maine, May 1, 1858.
Dane, Nathan, was bom at Ipswich, Massachu-
setts, in 1752 ; received a classical education, gradu-
ating at Harvard College in 1799; studied law; was
admitted to the bar, and commenced practice at
Beverly, Massachusetts ; was a member of the State
House of Representatives 1782-1785 ; was a delegate
from Massachusetts in the Continental Congress
1785-1788; was a member of the State Senate 1790,
1794, 1796-1798; was a commissioner to codify the
laws of Massachusetts in 1705, and again in 1812;
was a member of the Hartford Convention in 1814 ;
was elected a delegate to the State Constitutional
Convention of 1820, but declined serving on account
of his deafness ; endowed the Dane professorship of
law at Harvard College ; and died at Beverly, Mas-
sachusetts, February IS, 1835.
Danford, Lorenzo, was bom in Belmont Coun-
ty, Ohio, October 18, 1829 ; received a common-school
education, and attended college two years at Waynes-
burg, Pennsylvania; studied and practised law at
Saint Clalrsville, Ohio; was elected prosecutlng-at-
tomey of Belmont County in 1857, and again in
1859; entered the Union army as a private at the
breaking-out of the Rebellion, and served as private,
lieutenant, and captain, until August, 1864, when he
resigned on account of sickness ; was a presidential
elector in the Electoral College which gave the vote
of Ohio to Abraham Lincoln in 1864 ; was elected a
representative from Ohio in the Forty-tliird Con-
gress as a Republican, receiving 14,350 votes against
11,062 votes for C. L. Poorman, Lil>eral Republican;
was re-elected to the Forty-fourth Congress, receiv-
liis 13,0()7v()tt>s iigiiiiist 1II.S61 votes for Henry Boyle,
Demitcrat; ami was rf-i>li'rted to the Forty-fifth Con-
gress, receiving lH.ilHst voti-s against 13.837 votes for
3Li»wi*nce. DcfniK-rat, st'rviag from December 1, 1873.
Daniel, Henry, nns bom in Virginia in 1793;
rpct'ivi'it a pulilic-ptliiiol i.'il ucation ; removed to Ken-
tucky vihcii a yomli: i^iiitlied law; was admitted to
tlic Ixir, and pmctiscil at Mount Sterling; was a
nuauber n( th<i Stito Ilmise of Representatives in
1818; Krvrtl in the war against Great Britain as
a4>taln of the Twentv-t/iglith Unlted.States Infantry
InMii May ao, It^i:^, l« May 18, 1816; was again a
nwiubvr of tlio Slala House of Representatives in
181R ami li^; wiis civcted a representative from
Konturky In tlio Tweitiioth Congress as a Jackson
Democrat, defeating Davis, Clay Democrat; wm re-
elected to the Twenty-flret Congress, defeating Har-
rison, Clay Democrat; and was re-elected to ihe
Twenty-second Congress, defeating Davis, Whig,
serving from December 3, 1827, to March 2, IKSi;
had an altercation with his brother-in-law at tlit
court-bouse at Mount Sterling in 1845, and shot him
dead ; died at Mount Sterling, Kentucky, October 5,
1873.
Daniel, John Reeves Jones, was bom in
Halifax County, North Carolina; received a classical
education, graduating at tlie University of North
Carolina in 1821; studied law; was admitted to the
bar, and practised with great success; was a member
of tlie House of Commons of North Carolina in 18:^1,
1832, 1833, and 1834; was elected attorney-general in
1834; was elected a re^esentative in the Twenty-
seventh Congress as a Democrat; was re-elected to
the Twenty-eighth Congress as a Democrat, receiv-
ing 3,644 votes against 3,489 votes for Nash, Whig;
was re-elected to the Twenty-ninth Congress as a
Democrat, receiving 4,872 votes against 2,729 votes
for Bond, Whig; was re-elected to the Thirtieth C«n-
gress as a Democrat, receiving 3,896 votes against
3,419 votes for Arrington, Independent Democrat,
and 214 votes for Toole, Whig; was re-elected to the
Thirty-first Congress as a Democrat, receiving 4,413
votes against 2,430 votes for Clarke, Democrat; and
was elected to Uie Thirty-second Congress as a Demo-
crat without oi^anized opposition, serving from May
1, 1841, until March 3, 1853 ; removed to Louisiaua,
and died there.
Danner, Joel B., resided at Gettysburg, Penn-
sylvania; was elected a representative from Pennsyl-
vania in the Thirty-first Congress (in place of Henry
Nes, deceased) as a Whig, serving from December i,
1850, to March 3, 1851.
Darby, Ezra, was bom in New Jersey in 1766;
was elected a representative from New Jersey in tlie
Ninth Congress; and was re-elected to the Tenth
Congress, serving from December 2, 1806, to Janu-
ary 28, 1808, when he died at Washington City.
Darby, John Fletcher, was bom in Person
County, North Carolina, December 10, 1803; received
a public-school education; his father removed in
1818 to Missouri, where he worked on a farm; went
in 1826 to Frankfort, Kentucky, where he studied lav;
was admitted to the bar in May, 1827, and commenced
practice at St. Louis, Missouri ; was a member of tlw
State Senate ; was prominently coimected with the
city government of St. Louis, serving four terms as
mayor; was elected a representative from Missouri
in the Thirty-second Congress as a Whig, receiving
7,145 votes against 6,600 votes for Rozler, Benton
Democrat, and 6,317 votes for Bowlin, anti-Benton
Democrat, and serving from December 1, 1851, to
March 3, 1853.
Dargan, Edward S., was bom in North Caro-
lina; received a public-school education; removed to
Washington, Alabama, where he studied law; wsi
admitted to the bar, and commenced practice; vss
elected a justice of the peace; removed to Mont-
gomery, and subsequently to Mobile; was elected
mayor of Mobile in 1844; was elected a representa-
tive from Alabama in the Twenty-ninth Congress as
a Democrat, receiving 4,961 votes against 4,650 votes
for W. D. Dunn, Whig, and serving from December
1, 1846, to March 3, 1847; was elected judge of the
Supreme Court in 1847, and became chief justice
in 1849; resiuned the practice of law ; was a del^ate
to the State Convention of 1861, and voted for the
ordinance of secession ; was a member of tiie First
Confederate House of Representatives, but decUncd
a re-election; resiuned practice at Mobile.
Darling, Mason C, was bom at BelUngfaam,
Massachusetts, May 18, 1801 ; received a public-schoul
education; taught school in the State of New York;
studied medicine; graduated at the Berkshire Medi-
cal College in 1824, and practised for thirteen years;
removed to Wiaconsiu in 1837; was one of the otigi-
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nsJ Bettlen at Eond dn Lac, and Ita first mayor; was
aeyeral years a member of the Territorial legislature ;
waa elected one of the first representatives from Wis-
consin in the Thirtieth Congress as a Democrat,
■erring from June 0, 1848, to March 3, 1849.
Carlmg, William A., was bom at Newark,
New Jersey, D^ember 17, 1817; received a public-
achool education; removed to New York when a lad ;
entered a store as clerk, and became a merchant;
was for many years connected with the Seventh
K^ment, National Guard; was deputy-receiver of
taxes for the city of New York 1847-1864: was a
presidential elector on the Lincoln ticket In 1800;
waa elected a representative from New York in the
Tbirty-ninth Congress as a Ilepubllcan, receiving
6,822 votes against 4,749 votes for Fernando Wood,
Mozart Democrat, and 4,397 votes for Anson Horrick,
Tammany Democrat, and serving from December 4,
iaSi>, to Jilarcb 3, 1867; was defeated as the Bepub-
lican candidate for the Fortieth Congress, receiving
7,005 votes against 9,606 votes for Fernando Wood,
IJeniocrat.
Darlinffton, Edward, was bom in Chester
County, Pennsylvania; was elected a representative
from Pennsylvania in the Twenty-third Congress as a
Whig; was re-elected to the Twenty-fourth Congress
as an anti-Mason, receiving 1,321 votes against 1,076
votes for A. J. Dick, Jackson Democrat; and was
re-elected to the Twenty-fifth Congress, receiving
6,524 votes against 4,066 votes for Leiper, Democrat,
serving from December 2, 1833, to March 3, 1839.
Danmfirton, Isaao, was bom at Westtown,
Chester County, Pennsylvania, December 13, 1781;
received a public-school education, and worked in
bis father's blacksmith's shop; studied law; was ad-
mitted to the bar, and commenced practice at West-
town; was a member of the State House of Repre-
sentatives in 1807; served as lieutenant of Pennsyl-
vania volunteers In the war of 1812 ; was elected a
representative from Pennsylvania In the Fifteenth
Congress, serving from December 1, 1817, to March
3, 1810; declined a re-election ; was appointed deputy-
attomey-ceneral for Chester Co\mty In 1820; was
appointed president-judge of the ChesteiHX>unty Court
In 1821, and served until his death, at Westtown,
A^ 27, 1839.
Uarlmerton, William, was bom at Birming-
ham, Chester County, Pennsylvania, April 28, 1732;
was reared on a farm, where ho became a botimist at
an early a^e; received an academic education; stud-
ied medicme, and received the degree of M.D. from
the University of Pennsylvania In 1824; went to the
East Indies as surpeon of a ship; returning in 1807, he
commenced practice at West Chester, and continued
his botanical researches; raised a company of volun-
teers at the commencement of the war of 1812, and
waa major of a volunteer raiment raised after the
burning of the Capitol; was elected a representative
from Pennsylvania in the Fourteenth Congress as a
Democrat, serving from December 4, 1816, to March
3, 1817; waa again elected to the Sixteenth Congress,
and was re-elected to the Seventeenth Congress, serv-
ing from December 6, 1819, to March 3, 1823; was
appointed canal commissioner in 1826; established a
natural-history society at West Chester in 1826; be-
came noted as a botanist, and was made a corre-
sponding meml>er of some forty literary and scientific
societies in Europe and America; and died at West
Chester, Pennsylvania, April 23, 186:3. Published
the "Flora Cestrica" 1826 and 1863, "Agricultural
Botany" 1857, "Correspondence of John Bartram
and Humphrey Marshall '' 1849, with many papers on
botany and natural history.
Darracrh, Cornelius, was bom in Pennsylva-
nia, and resided at Pittsburg; was elected a repre-
sentative from Pennsylvania in the Twenty-eighth
Congress as a Whig (to fill the vacancy caused by the
resignation of WilUam Wilklns, appointed secretary
of war), receiving 1,000 majority; and was re-elected
to the Twenty-mnth Coagteu, serving from March
26, 1844, to March 3, 1847; died at Fittsbnig, Penn-
sylvania, January 20, 1865.
Darrall, Chester B., was lx)m in Somerset
County, Pennsylvania, June 24, 1842; received a
common-school education; studied medicine, and
graduated at the Albany Medical College; entered
the Union army as assistant-suigeon of the Eighty-
sixth New- York Volunteers; was promoted to be
surgeon, and served throughout the war; settled in
Louisiana at the close of the war, and engaged in
mercantile pursuits; was elected to the State Senate
of Louisiana in 1868; was elected a representative
from Louisiana in the Forty-first Congress as a Be-
?ublican, receiving (as was determined by the House)
,436 votes against 7,191 votes for A. Bailey, Demo-
crat; was re-elected to the Forty-seoond Congress,
receiving 13,220 votes against 8,123 for A. Bailey,
Democrat; was re-elected to the Forty-third Con-
gress, receiving 14,396 votes against 7,724 votes for.
Price, Democrat, and 4,214 votes for Gantt, Liberal
Republican; and was re-elected to the Forty-fourth
Congress as a Republican, receiving 13,273 votes
against 11,921 votes for Joseph A. Breaux, Demo-
crat j and was re-elected to the Forty-fifth Congress,
receiving 16,782 votes against 14,(^ votes for Joseph
H. Achlen, Democrat, serving from July 7, 1869.
Davee, Thomas, was born at Plymouth, Mas-
sachusetts, December 9, 1797; received a public-
school education ; removed to Maine, and engu^d in
mercantile pursuits; was several years a member of
the State Senate and House of Representatives ; was
high sheriff of Somerset Coimty; was postmaster at
Blanchard ; was elected a representative from Maine
in the Twenty-fifth Congress as a Democrat; and waa
re-elected to the Twenty-sixth Congress, receiving
7,839 votes against 7,042 votes for Jolm S. Tenney,
Whig, and 228 votes scattering, serving from Sep-
tember 4, 1837, to March 3, 1841 ; died of dropsy at
Blanchard, Maine, December 11, 1841.
Davenixirt, Franklin, was bom in New Je>
sey; received an academic education; studied law;
was admitted to the bar, and practised at Woodbury;
served in the New-Jersey line in the war of Uie Revo-
lution; was appointed judge; was appointed a United-
States senator from New Jersey (in place of John
Rutherford, resigned), serving from December 19,
1798, to March 3, 1799; was not elected to fill the
vacancy when the legislature met; was elected a rep-
resentative from New Jersey in the Sixth Congress,
serving from December 2, 1799, to March 8, 1801.
Davenport, James (brother of John Daven-
port), was bom at Stamford, Connecticut, October
12, 1768; received a classical education, graduating at
Yale College in 1777; served in the commissary de-
partment in the war of the Revolution; was a judge
of the Court of Common Pleas; was elected a repre-
sentative from Connecticut in the Fourth Congress
(m place of James Hillhouse, elected senator) ; and
was re-elected to the Fifth Congress, serving from
Decemlier 6, 1796, to August 3, 1797, when he died at
Stamford, Connecticut.
Davenport, John, Jnn. (brother of James
Davenport), was bom at Stamford, Connecticut,
January 10, 1762: received a classical education,
graduating at Yale College in 1770; was a tutor
there in 1773-1774; studied law; was admitted to
the bar, and practised at Stamford, Connecticut:
served in the commissary department In the war of
the Revolution; was elected a representative from
Connecticut in the Sixth Congress as a Federalist;
and was re-elected to the Seventh, Eighth, Ninth,
Tenth, Eleventh, Twelfth, Thirteenth, and Four-
teenth Congresses, serving from December 2, 1799,
to March 3, 1817; died at Stamford, Connecticut,
November 28, 1830.
Davenport, John, engaged in mercantile pur-
suits at Bamesville, Ohio: waa several years a mem-
ber of the State House of Representatives and of the
State Senate ; was elected a representative from Ohio
in the Twentieth Congress as an Adams man, sorv-
860
CONGEESSIONAL DIKECTOBT.
Ing from December 3, 1827, to March 8, 1829; was
defeated as the Adams candidate for the Twenty-
first Congress by William Kcnnon,- Jackson Demo-
crat; was twice elected by the legislature judge of
the Monroe Judicial Circuit; and died at Woodsfleld,
Ohio, July 25, 1855.
Davenport, Thomas, was bom in Cumberland
County, Vir^nla; receivea an academic education;
studied law ; was admitted to the bar, and practised
at Moadsville; was elected a representative from Vii^
giuia In the Nineteenth Congress as a Federalist, re-
ceiving 1,001 votes against 422 votes for James Lanier,
803 votes for B. Graves, and 135 votes for Urquhart;
was re-elected to the Twentieth, Twenty-first, Twen-
ty-second, and Twenty-third Congresses without op-
position, serving from December 5, 1825, to March 3,
1835; was defeated as the Whig candidate for the
Twenty-fourth Congress by Walter Coles, Democrat;
died near Meadsville, Virginia, November 18, 1838.
Davidson, Bobert H. M., was bom in Gads-
den County, Florida, September 23, 1832; received
an academic education; studied law; was admitted
to the -bar, and practised at Quincy ; was a member of
Uie State House of Representatives 1850-1859, and of
the State Senate in 18(X) ; retired from the Senate, and
entered the Confederate service; was commissioned
captain, major, and lieutenant-colonel ; was a dele-
gate to tlie State Constitutional Convention in 1865;
was a presidential elector on the Greeley and Brown
ticket In 1872; and claimed to have been elected to
the Forty-fifth Congress as a Conservative Democrat,
receiving 13,103 votes against 12,023 votes for Wil-
liam J. Purman, Republican.
Davidson, Thomas Q., was bom in Jefferson
County, Mississippi, August 6, 1805; received an
academic education; stnuied law; was admitted to
the bar, and commenced practice at Baton Rouge,
Louisiana; was a member of the State House of
Representatives 1833-1840 ; was elected a representa-
tive from Louisiana in the Thirty-fourth Congress as
a Democrat, receiving 4,731 votes against 4,010 votes
lor Pond, American; was re-elected to the Thirty-
fifth Congress, receiving 4,270 votes against 3,612
Totes for Watterson, American ; and was re-elected
to the Thirty-sixth Congress, receiving 0,288 votes
against 726 votes for Cannon, Republican, serving
from December 3, 1855, to March 4, 1801.
Davidson, William, was bom in Mecklenburg
County, North Carolina, September 12, 1778; received
an academic education ; was a planter; was a mem-
ber of the State Senate 1813-1817; was elected a
representative from North Carolina in the Fifteenth
Congress (in place of Daniel M. Forney, resigned) as
a Federalist; and was re-elected to the Sixteenth
CoiMTess, receiving 1,708 votes against 1,403 votes for
J. Brevard, and 678 votes lor Henry W. Connor,
Democrat, serving from December 2, 1818, to March
8, 1821 ; was defeated as a candidate for the Seven-
teenth Congress by Henry W. Connor, Democrat,
who received 30 majority; was thrown from his car-
riage, and received injuries which caused his death,
at Charlotte, North Carolina, September 10, 1857.
Davies, Edward, was bom in Pennsylvania;
resided at Churchtown; was elected a representative
from Pennsylvania In the Twenty-fifth Congress as a
Whiff, receivinft l-'i, 178 votes against 11,420 votes for
K. JVsMr, Di'iii'L^rat; and was re-elected to the
TweutT-sixth rniigress, serving from September 4,
ISai, to Marfh 3. 1M41.
Davis, Amos (brother of Garrett Davis), was
burn at. Mount Sterling, Kentucky; received an
acadoitilc Lilucniidn; studied law; was admitted to
fJio har, mill pfiictised at Mount Sterling; was a
member of thi} Siiite House of Representatives 1819,
182ii, IS27, ttiiJ 1828; was elected a representative
trvm K«>(tt(i(;ky in the Twenty-third Congress as a
Wl»ie, dt'featinB J. Crawford, also a Whig, and serv-
ing iniTii Deci.'iiilier 2, 1833, to March 3, 1835; was a
c»hdldnte for re-i.4ectlon, and canvassed his district
klter Ihu aJJiiuniinent of Congress; alter speaking
three hours at Owingsville, KentocVy, he was seized
with bilious colic, and died in a lew hours, June 5,
18:35.
Davis, David, was bom in Cecil County, Mary-
land, March 0, 1816; received a classical edncation,
graduating at Kenyon College, Ohio, in 1832; studied
law at Lenox, Ma^achusetts, and at the New-Haven
Law School ; was admitted to the bar, and oommenoed
practice in Illinois In the fall of 1835, locating in ISSi
at Bloomington ; was a member of the State House of
Representatives In 1844; was a delegate to the State
Constitutional Convention in 1847; was elected hi
1848 a judge of one of the circuit courts In Illinois,
and held the office by repeated elections until he
resigned it in October, 1862; was a delegate to the
National Republican Convention at Chicago in IStSO;
was appointed by President Lincoln a judge of the
Supreme Court of the United States in October, ISffii,
and served until March 5, 1877, when he resigned tu
take Iiis seat as United-States senator from Illinois,
having been elected the previous January, by the
votes of Independents and Democrats, to succemi
John A. Logan, Republican. His term will expire
March 3, 18^.
Davis, Garrett (brother of Amos Davis), was
bom at Mount Sterling, Kentucky, September 10,
1801 ; received an academic education; was employed
in tlie office of the county clerk of Montgomery
County, and afterwards of Bourbon County; studied
law; was admitted to the bar in 1824, and practised at
Paris, Kentucky; wa»a member of the State House
of Representatives 1833-18.35; was elected a repre-
sentative from Kentucky in the Twenty-sixth Con-
gress as a Whig, receiving 4,728 votes against 2,110
votes for Jacob A. Slack, Democrat; was re-eleeted
to the Twenty-seventh Congress without opposition;
was re-elected to the Twenty-eighth Congress, re-
ceiving 6,788 votes agiUnst 4,916 votes for Wickliffe,
Democrat; and was re-elected to the Twenty-ninth
Congress, receiving 5,809 votes against 6,109 votes for
Marshall, Democrat, serving from December 2, 18S),
to March 3, 1837; declined a re-election, and resumed
his professional and ^;ricultural avocations ; declined
a nomination for lieutenant-governor on the ticket
headed by John J. Crittenden In 1848; was a dele-
gate to the State Constitutional Convention in 1819;
was elected United-States senator as an Old-line
Whig (to succeed John C. Breckinridge), and was re-
elected, defeating B. F. Bristow, serving from De-
cember 8, 1861, until his death at Paris, Kentucky,
September 22, 1872.
Davis, Qeorgre T., was bom at Sandwich, Mas-
sachusetts, January 12, 1810; received a classical
education, graduating at Harvard College in 1829;
studied law at Cambridge and at Greenfield; was
admitted to the bar, and commenced practice at
Greenfield in 1832; established " The FrankUn Mer-
cury " in 1833, and conducted It with ability until be
sold it in 1836; was subsequently an editorial con-
tributor to another Greenfield newspaper; was a
member of the State House of Representatives one
year, and of the State Senate for two years; was
elected a representative from Massachusetts ui the
Thirty-second Congress as a Wliig, on the second
trial, defeating Chester W. Chapin, Democrat, and
Huntington, Free-soiler, and serving from December
1, 1851, to March 3, 1853; removed to PorUand on
marrying as a second wile a resident ol that city;
was noted as a brilliant table-talker, eliciting even
the admh-ation ol Thackeray by the efflorescence of
his conversation ; and died at Portland, Maine, Jnne
17,1877.
Davis, Henry Q., was bom In Howard County,
Maryland, November 16, 1823; received a country-
school education ; lived and worked upon a farm unlil
184:3; was in the employ of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad Company for fourteen years; commenced
banking, and iniiimg coal, at Piedmont in 1858; be-
came president of the Piedmont National Bank, and
engaged in mining and shipping coal, manulacturiiig
i
STATISTICAL SKX^CBBB.
861
lomber, ftc. ; was elected to the House of Delegates
o( West Virginia iu 1865; waa a member of the
National Democratic Conyentions at New York in
1HG8, and at Baltimore in 1872; was elected to the
State Senate of West Yitginia in 1868 and 1870; was
elected United-States senator from West Vii^nia as
a Democrat (to succeed W. T. Willey, Republican) ;
and was re-elected, serving from March 4, 1871.
Davis, Henry Winter, was bom at Annapolis,
Maryland, August 10, 1817; received a classical edu-
cation, graduating at Kenyon College in 1887; stud-
ied law at the University of Virginia; was admitted
to the bar, and commenced practice at Alexandria;
removed in 1850 to Baltimore, where he practised,
and engaged in literary pursuits; was elected a rei>-
resentative from Maryland in the Thirty-fourth Con-
gress as a Bepublican, receiving 7,968 votes acainst
7,403 votes for May, Democrat; and was re-elected
to the Thirty-fifth Congress, receiving 10,515 votes
against 3,979 votes for Brooks, Democrat; was re-
elected to the Thirty-sixth Congress, receiving 10,108
votes against .2,790 votes for Harrison, Democrat,
■oring from Decemlwr S, 1856, to March 3, 1801;
was a^n elected to the Thirty-eighth Congress, re-
ceiving 6,200 votes against 20 votes scattering, and
serving from December 7, 1863, to March 8, 1865;
died at Balthnore, Maryland, December 2J, 1805. A
eulogy was pronounced on iiim by his late colleague,
Senator A. J. Cresswell, in the hall of the IIousc of
Bepresentatives at the Capitol, February 22, 1860.
He published " The War of Ormuzd and Ahrimon in
ttie Nineteenth Century," 1852; and his collected
speeches weretniblished in 1867.
Davis, Jefferson, was bom in Christian County,
Kentucky, June 3, 18 J8; received a classical educa-
tion, and entered Transylvania University, but was
appointed a cadet, and graduated at West Point in
l!<28; was commissioned second lieutenant of the
First Infantry July 1, 1828, and promoted first lieu-
tenant of the First Dragoons March 4, 18S3, resign-
ing June 30, 1835; engaged in cotton-planting in
Warren County, Mississippi; was a presidential elect-
or on the Polk and Dallas ticket in 1844; was elected
a representative from Mississippi in the Thirty-ninth
Congress as a Democrat, serving from December 1,
1845, to June, 1810, when ho resigned to command
the First Regiment of Mississippi Riflemen in the
war with Mexico, serving from Juno 20, 1840, to July
12, 1847, and distinguishing himself at Monterey and
Baena Vista; was appointed brigadler^eneral May
S7, 1847, but declined; was appointed United-States
■enator from Mississippi to fill the vacancy caused by
the death of Jesse Speight, and subsequentlv elected,
serving from December 0, 1&17, to November, 1851,
when ne resigned; waa defeated as the Secession
candidate for governor in 1851 by H. S. Foote, Union
candidate; was again elected United-States senator,
but resigned; was appointed secretary of war by
President Pierce, serving from March 7, 1853, to
March 3, 1857; was again elected United-States sen-
ator, serving from March 4, 1857, until he withdrew,
January 21, 1861 ; was chosen President of the Con-
federate States by the Provisional Congress, and was
inaugurated Febraary 18, 1801 ; was elected President
of the Confederate States for six years, and inaugu-
rated February 22, 1862; was captured by the Union
troops at Irwinsville, Georgia, May 10, 1805, impris-
oned two years at Fortress Monroe, and then released
on bail ; became interested in life-iusursnce and im-
migration associations, and visited Europe on busi-
ness therewith connectied.
Davis, JolA, was bom at Northborough, Massa-
cbnsctts, January 13, 1787; received a classical edu-
cation, gradnatii^ at Yale Colle^ in 1812; studied
law; was admitted to the bar in 1815, and commenced
practice at Worcester, Massachusetts; was elected a
representative from Massachusetts iu the Nineteenth
Congress as a Whig, and was re-elected to the Twen-
tieth, Twenty-first, Twenty-second, Twenty-third,
•ad Twenty-fourth Congresses, serving from Decem-
ber, 1825, to June 90, 1831; was governor of Masssr-
chiisetts 1S34-1835; was elected a United-States
senator from Massachusetts, serving from December
7, 1835, to December, 1840, when he resigned; was
again governor of Massachusetts 1840-1841; was
again elected United-States senator, serving from
March 24, 1845, to March 3, 1853; declined a re-elec-
tion; and died suddenly, at Worcester, Massachu-
setts, April 19, 1854.
Davis, John, was tram in Pennsylvania in 1788;
removed to Maryland, where he received a pnblio-
school education; returned to Pennsylvania in 1812,
and located at what is now Davisville; was a farmer
and merchant; served as captain in the war of 1812;
rose to the rank of major-general of militia; was
elected a representative from Pennsylvania in the
Twenty-sixth Congress as a Democrat, receiving4,464
votes against 4,138 votes for Matthias Morris, Whig,
serving from December 2, 1839, to March 3, 1841 ; was
appointed collector of ' the port of Pliiladclpma by
I^^idcnt Polk; was a delegate to many state and
national Democratic conventions; and died at Davis-
ville, Pennsylvania, April 1, 1878.
Davis, John Q., was bom in Fleming County,
Kentucky, October 10, 1810; received a public-school
education.; was a farmer and stock-raiser; removed
to Indiana, and settled at Rockville; was sheriff of
Parke County 1830, 1831 ; was clerk of the Superior
and Inferior Courts of Parke County 1833-1851 ; was
elected a representative from Indiana iu the Thirty-
second ConrTTess as a Democrat, receiving 6,076 votes
against 5,8i4 votes for McGaughey, Whig; and was
re-elected to the Thirty-third Congress, receiving
8,G07 votes against 6,685 votes for Barliour, Whig,
serving from December 1, 1851, to March 3, 1855;
was again elected a representative from Indiana in
the Tliirty-fifth Congress as a Democrat, receiving
11,137 votes against 0,529 votes for Usher, Repul^
lican; and was re-elected to the Thirty-sixth Con-
gress as an anti-Lecompton Democrat, receiving 10,893
votes against 7,584 votes for Secrest, Democrat, serv-
ing from December 7, 1857, to March 3, 1861; died at
Tcrre Haute, Indiana, January 18, 18G6.
Davis, John J., was liom in Clarksburg, West
Virginia, May 1, 1835; was educated at the North-
western Virginia Academy at that place; studied
law; was admitted to the bar when twenty years of
age, and has since practised at Clarksburg; was a
member of the State legislature of Virginia in 1801,
and of West Virginia in 1870; waa a presidential
elector on the McClcllan ticket in 1864; was one of
the delegates from the State at large to the National
Democratic Convention at New York in 1868; and
was elected a representative from West Viiginia in
the Forty-second Congress as a Democrat, receiving
11,630 votes against 10,500 votes for N. Qoif, jun., Re-
publican ; and was ro-elected to the Forty-third Con-
gress as an Independent Democrat, receiving 13,301
votes against 12,048 votes for B. Wilson, Greeley
Democrat, serving from March 4, 1871, to March 3,
1875.
Davis, John W., was bom in Cumberland
County, Pennsylvania, July 17, 1799; received a
classlcai education; studied medicine; and, after
graduating at the Baltimore Medical College in 1821.
removed In 1823 to Carlisle, Indiana; was several
years a member of the State House of Representa-
tives, and speaker in 1632; was a commissioner to
n^otiate an Indian treaty 1834; was elected a repre-
sentative from Indiana in the Twenty-fourth Con-
gress as a Democrat, serving from December 7, 1835,
to March 3, 1837 ; was again elected a representative
from Indiana in the Twenty-sixth Congress as a Dem-
ocrat, receiving 7,516 votes against 6,217 votes for
Ewing, Wliig, serving from December 2, 1839, to
March 3, 1841; was again elected a representative
from Indiana in the Twenty-eighth Congress as a
Democrat, receiving 7,107 votes against 0,205 votes for
Dunn, Whig ; and was re-elected to the Twenty-ninth
Congress, receiving 8,183 votes against 5,253 votes for
862
CONGRESSIONAL DmECTOKT.
Fnrmer, WTiis;, Borving from December 4, 184;!. to
Man'li :5, 1S47; was olivtoil speaker Docemlwr 1. 1S4.");
wag commissioner to (.'bitia Jiiiiuury '.i. ISJivMiiy 2."i,
185'.»; was governor of Oregon 1853-l!<)4; was jiresi-
denl of the National Uemocratic Convention at Bal-
timore in ISO:!; died at Carlisle, Indiana, August 22,
IS.-)!).
Davis, Joseph J., was Unm in Franklin Coun-
ty, North Carolina, April I.'i, 1S2S; was ediieated at
tiie Louisbunj Academy; studied law at Chnjtel Hill,
receiving the »lc.?rco of bachelor of lawa in 18.W,
and has since Imjcii engage<l in practice; served in
the. Confederate army as captain; was a memlier of
the .State le::islalure in IWill, l,Hti7; and was elected a
repreaenlativo from North Carolina in the Furly-
fourth Congress as a Uemocrat, roceiving a majority
of 1.(528 votes over J. II. Harden, Republican; was
reelected to the Forly-lifth Congress, receiving
10,8;)2 votes against 15,220 votes for Yoiuig, Repub-
lican, senin": from Deccmlx'r 0, 1875.
Davis, Noah, w.is born at Haverhill, New
Hampshire, ScptcmlH'r 10, ISl.S; removed in 182.5
with his pan'nis to Albion. New York; received an
aenileniic e<lucation: studied law at Li'wiston; was
admilleil to tlie bar in 1841, and practised at (iains
and at UiifTalo; ri'Uioved in February, l.'*44, to Albion,
and practisi-d Ihero in [Kirtnei-ship with Sanford E.
Church until May, ItilS; was appointed and subse-
quently twice elected judtje of the Supreme Court for
the Eii;hth Judicial Wstrict, serving ia)7-l«)^; re-
moved to New York, and practised in partnership wllli
H. E. Davis; was elected a representativi- from New
York in the Forty-first Congress as a lte]iublieiiii. re-
ceiving 15,o8!) votes against li.tiW votes fur Giirdinrr,
Democrat, and serving from March 4. IStJll. until hi>
n-slgiied, .July 15, 1870; was apiMjinted by Piesidciil
(iriiiit United-States attorney for the .Southerti Dis-
trict of New York, Ber\ing from July, 1870, until he
resigned in Jannar)', IH'J, having been a-;ain elected
a judge of the Supreme Court of the State of Now
York.
Davis, Reuben, vc:ia bom in Tennessee, Jaiui-
ary 18, isi:l; i-eceivcd a public-school education;
studied incHlieine, and was licous(!d to practice, but,
after a few years, abandoned the medical profession,
and studied law; removed to Aberdeen, Jlississi(ipi,
where he prai'lised law; was prosecuting-attoniev for
the Sixlh Judicial District IJ^i-VIAHt; was judge of
the High Court of Appeals in 1842, but resigned after
four months' senioi?; served in the war willi Mexico
OS colonel of the Second Regiment Mississippi Volun-
teers; was a member of tlie Slate House of Repre-
sentatives 185.">-18j7; was elected a reiiresentalive
frtmi Mississippi in the Thirty-tifth Congress as ii
Democrat, receiving 4,i)30 votes against 2,ll2o voles
for Clarke. American; and was re-elect<'d to the
Thirty-sixth Cinigress, receiving 7,fl.'J4 votes against
445 votes for Martin, Republican, serving from De-
cember 7, 18.57, to January 12. IMH, when he retired
from the House; served in the Confederate army iu;
brlgadlcr-geiienil, eoinuiaiiding a brigade of sixty-
days Mississippi militia in Kentucky; resumed prac-
tice; was shut dead while defending a prisoner in the
court-house at Columbus, Mississippi, liy .S. M. Meek,
the proseciitin'j-aftomey, after a verbal altercation,
December 15, 187:5.
Davis, Hichard D., was bom in New York ;
received a classical education, graduating at Yale
College In 1818; studied law; was admitted to the
bar, and commenced pnictlce; was elected a n'pn.^-
sentative from New York in the Twenty-seventh
Congress as a Democrat, n.'ceiviiig 5.1(14 votes against
4,1*47 votes for Charles Johnston, Whig; and was re-
elected to the Twenty-eighth Cougn-ss, receiving
0,(MSO votes against 4,527 votes for Itankin, Whig, and
22 vot<'S for knerels, Alx>lllion, serving from May IJl,
1841, to M.iroh:J. 1845.
Davis, Roger, wiw elected a representative from
Pennsylvania in the Twelfth Congress as a Demo-
crat; oud was ro-clected to Ibo Thirteenth Con-
gress, serving from November 4, 1811, to March 2,
181.5.
Davis, Samuel, was born at Bath, in that {urt
of Massachusetts afterwartls the State of Maine, in
1774: engaged in mercantile pursuits; was a member
of the State House of Representatives in 18'.'3 and
1S()S-1812; was electeil a representative from Massa-
chusetts in the Thirteenth Congress as a Federalist,
receiving 1.752 votes i^ainst t>48 votes for Karnes,
Democrat, ser\dng froni May 24, 181.3, to March 8.
1815; W.18 again a memlicr of the State House of
Heprt-seiitatives in 1815-1810; died at Bath, Maiue,
April 17, 18;!!.
Davis, Thomas, was bf)m in Ireland ; emigrated
to the I'niled States, and located at Providence,
Uhoile Island; was a manufacturing jeweller; was a
member of the State Senate; was elected a repre-
s(!ntativo from Rhode Island in the Thirty-tldixl
Congress as a Democrat, receiring 5,62;j voles a';ainst
4,IM2 votes for Kinir, Whig, and serving from Decem-
ber 5, 1S5;1, to March :!. 1S55.
Davis. Thomas T., w.-is bom at Middlebury.
Addison County, Vermont, August 22. 1810; received
a classical education, graduating at Hamilton College
in 1.8:11; studied taw .at Syracuse, New York; was
admitted to the bar in 18.'!:!, and commenced practice
at Synjcnsf, but turned bis attetition to railroads and
coal-mining; was elected a rt>presentjilive from New
York in the Thirty-eighth Congress as a Unionist,
receiving 1.5,0:32 votes against t),257 votes for Strong,
Democrat; and was re-elected to the Tliirty-ninSi
('on'.rress, receiving 14,.800 votes ag.ilnst 10,*i4 votes
for RugiT, Di-mocrat, serving from December 7, 1803,
to March :5. 18(.;7; died May 2, 1872.
Davis, Timothy, was l)om at Newark. New
.Jersey, March, ITM; received a public-school educa-
tion; removed to Kentucky In 181(5, where he com-
menced practice; removed in 1837 to Dubuque, Iowa;
was elected a representative from Iowa in the Thirty-
fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 22,885 votes
against 6,808 votes for S. Lelller. Dem(K-rat, and serv-
ing from December 7, 1.S.57, to March 3, 18.51).
IJavis, Timothy, was born at Gloucester, Ma»-
.sacbusctts, Ajvril 12, 1821; received a public-school
education; worked two years in a print ing-oliice;
was a clerk, and subsequently a merchant, in Boston,
rt'siding at (Gloucester; was elected a representative
from Massiichiisetts in the Thirty-fourth Congress as
an Aiueric.-in, receiving 7,428 votes against 3,2:11 votes
for C. \V, Upliam, Whig, and 74(5 votes for Nathan-
iel J. J^iird mill others; and v/aa re-elected to the
Thirty-liflh Congri'ss as a Republican, rcceivitlg
10,0.1-1 voles .against 3,214 votes for Nathaniel J. Lord,
Democrat, and 1,121 votes for Ben: Perlcy Poore,
.Vmerican, serving from December 3, 1855, to March.
3, 18.59; was nppoiiited by President Lincoln to ik
(tosition ill the lloston Custom House, which he held
several yciU-s, and then iH'camc an attorney for the
pnisecutiou of cluinis aLjainst goveninient.
Davis, Warren R., was born in South Caro-
lina in 1703; received a classical education, gradn-
aling at the College of South Carolina in 1810;
studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1814, and
pnactised; was State solicitor in 1818; was elected a
reiiresentative from South Carolina in the Twentieth
Congress as a Nullilier, receiving 25 m.ajority over
John Wilson, Union Democrat; was re-elected to Iho
Twenty-lirst f'ongress, receiving (!1 majority over the
Union candidate ; was re-elected to the Twenty-
second Congress, receiving 2,030 votes against 2,.S87
votes for (Jrisham, Union Democrat; and was re-
elected to the Twenty-tliird Congres# receiving 2,930
votes against 2,887 votes for the Union candidate,
serving from December 3, 1827. until his death, at
Washingtim City, January 2!l, 18:5.5.
Davis, Wafren Ransom, was bom at Colum-
bia, South Caiolina, May 8, 1703; received a cl.ossical
education, gniduating at the South-Carolina Collego
in 1810; studied law; was adiuUtcd to the bar at
CUarlcston in ISM, and commenced iiractice at Pen-
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Juilii-ial f'in'uil 1'<IK-1(<2-J; was c'lori<»il a n^prosoiita-
livc (rom .Soutb Tarolina In the Twentieth Cuu;4re):S
na u Stato-riglits Democrat; was re-cleeted to the
Twcnfy-lirst, Twenty-second, and Twenty-third Con-
Ssses, receiving at the last election !i,0.!O votes
iliist 2,'<S7 votes, serving from Deeeiiiher 3, 1S27, to
in.irj' 211, is;;."), when he died at VVashinnton City.
Davis, William Morris, resided at Milestown.
Pennsylvania, ami wa.* elected a n'presentative from
that Slate in the Thirty-seventh (Junjjpvss as a Ro-
publie.in, receiving 10,t»20 votes against tl,724 votes
for Inijersoll, Democrat, .ind 1,170 votes for Uillen-
house, Uni:)ni8t, and serving from July 4, ItiOl, to
Man'h 3, IsiUi.
Davy, John M., was Imrn at Ottawa. Ontario,
Juno 2ii, 18:>.">; remo\-cd in infancy with his |>an'iifs
to Monroe County, New York; was thrown upon his
own resources at an early age; received a common-
school anil acatlemic eiliicalion; studied law in Kocli-
cstcr, and was admitted to the bar; was elected
district-attorney of Monroe County In 1^18 for llie
term of three years; in April, 1872, was appointed
by I^resident Grant collector of cust^ims for the port
of Genesee, which office ho hclil until he was elected
a representative frotn New York in tlio Koriy-fi)urth
Congress as a I!e[>ulrliean, roecivin'.; 12,770 votes
■gainst 12,522 voles for James M. Angle, Democrat,
serving from December (I, l,s7.'>, to March .'), 1S77.
Dawes, Henry L., was lioni at Cummiugton,
Massachusetts, Octnbor 3 i, 1S16; graduated at Yak'
C<dlege; wius a school-teacher, and edited "The
Greenfield (lazette" and "Adams Transcript;''
studied and pnu-tised law; was a menilier of tluf
House of Itepreseutatives of Massachusetts in 1S4,S,
ISli), and 18152; w.is a memlier of the .Senate of Mas-
sachusetts in 1850; was a member of the .State Con-
stitutional Convention of Mass.-ichu.setts in IS-W; was
district-attorney for the Western District uf Massa-
chusetts frf)m 18.")'J until 1X>~; was clecteil a repre-
sentative from MaBsachusctts in the Thirty-fifth
Congress as a Kepublican, receiving 0,82;) votiM against
4,533 votes for J. D. Weston, Democrat, and "4,282
votes for Slark Traf ton, American; was re-<.'leeted to
the Thirty-sixth Congress, ri?ceiv!n'; 7.<'>:3I votes
agabuit 4,1111 votes for I'lunket, Democrat, anil 7
votes scattering; was re-electL-d t:i the Tliirty-scventh
Congress, receiving 10,40!» votes againsl 4,390 votes
for M. T. Leonard, and 607 votes for J. M. Cole;
was re-electe<l to tlio Thirty-eighth Congress, receiv-
ing 7,44!) votes against 5,78.') votes for f'hapin. Peo-
ple's candidate; was re-elected to thi" Thirty-ninth
Congress, receiving ll,.5il4 votes against 0,315 votes
for Ilarvey Arnold, Democrat; was re-elected to the
Fortieth Congress, receiving 8,125 votes against 4,185
votes for Chapin, Democrat ; wiis re-elected to the
Forty-lirst Congress, receiving 12.260 votes againft
7,400 votes for Chapin, Democrat; was nM'leeted to
the Forty-second Congress, n-ceiving S,tr,> votes
against 7.077 votes for Noble, Democrat, and 3tSf
voles for Bosworth, I'rohibitionist; wi^ re-elected to
the Forty-third Congress, receiving 12,200 votes
against 0,027 votes for J. F. Arnold. Democrat, serv-
ing from December 7, 1.857, to March 3, 1875; de-
clined being a candidate forelectiim to the Forty-
fourth Congress ; tll^ was elected lTnited-.States
senator to succeerl Charles .Siunncr (whose unex-
pired tenn had lieen tilled by William B. Wnshbum),
and took his seat March 4, 1875.
Dawson, John, was born in Virginia in 17r.2;
received a classical education, gr.iduating at Ilanard
College in 1782; studied law, and w!is admitted to
the bar; was a presidential elector on the Washing-
ton ticket in 171(3; was a member of the State Uouse
of Representatives; was clecteil a representative from
Viricinia in the Fiftli Congress as a DcniiM?rat ; w.is re-
clcctwl to the .Sixth. Seventh. Kighth. Ninth. Tenth,
Eleventh, Twelfth, and Thirteenth Congresses, serv-
ing fnjm May 15, 171»7, to Marcli SJ, 1814, when he
died ut WaslilngtoD City.
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Dawson, John B., was bom at Nashville,
Tennessee, in 18iH>; removed to Louisiana, where he
lieeame a planter; was several years a iiember of
tlie State House of liepresentiitives ; was judge uf the
Pnrisli Court ; was elected a representative from Lou-
isiana In tlie Twenty-seventh Congress ns a Demo-
crat, receiving 1,0;}3 votes against 1,S>20 votes for
Morgan, Whig; and was n'-elected to the Twenty-
eighth Congress, receiving .W) majority, serving from
May 31, l^il, to March 3, ISK); died at St. Fraucis-
ville, I.,ouisiana, June 20, 1845.
Dawson, John L., was Iwm at Unlontown,
Pennsylvania, I''el)ruary 7, 1813; received a classical
I'ducation. gradu.iting at Washington College; stud-
ied law; w;us admitted to the bar, ami commenced
practice at IJrov.nsville, Pennsylv.ania; was United-
Stati's district-attoniey for the Western District of
Pennsylvania 184.V1848; was elected a representative
from Peiuisylvania in the Thirty-second Congress as
a Democrat, receiving tl,4(M votes against fi.l.'io votes
for Ogle, Wliig; and w.is r<M>lected to the Thirty-
tliird ('ongrcss, receiving 0,701 votes against 7,400
votes for Gowen, Wliig, soning from Deccmiwr 1,
IS5I, to March .3, 18,'i5; was appointed by President
I'ierce governor of Kansas Territorj-, but declined;
wius again elected to the Thirty-eighth Congress, re-
ceiving 10,2;>1 votes against 10,6-';!) votes for .Stewanl,
I'nionlst; and was re-electwi to the Tliirty-iuntli
Congress, receiving lO-S-M votes against 10,730 votes
for Fuller, Unionist, sending fnmi December 7, 1863,
to March 3, 1807; was a delegate to the National
Democratic Cimventions in 1814, 184,8, 1800, and
180S; and died at Unlontown, Pennsylvania, Sep-
tember 18, 1870.
Dawson, William C, was bom in Greene
County, Georgi.a, January 4, 17!l.8; received a clas-
sical education, graduating at Franklin College in
1810; studied law; w.as winiitted to the bar, and
commenced practice at Greensborough. tieorgia; was
grand master of the Fn-cniasons of (;eor.,'ia; was
several years a member of the State .Senate and House
of Kepresentativcs; was elected a representative from
Georgia in the Twenty-fourth Congress (in place of
J.iraes Coffee, deceased) as a State-riglits Wlilg;
was re-elected to the Twcnty-tifth Congress, receiv-
ing 28,004 votes on general ticket; was iv-elocted to
the Twenty-sixtli Congress, receiving .'t},128 votes
against 30,1J."<S) votes for Camplx-ll, Van Burcn Demo-
crat ; anu was re-electcil to the Twenty-seventh Con-
gress, receiving 30,010 votes U'tainst .35,500 votes for
JIark A. Cooper, Van Bureii Democrat, serving from
December 20, 1830, to September 13, 1841, when ho
resigned; was appointed judge of the Ochmulgco
Circuit in 1k45; w.is elected United-States senator
fn»m Georgia, serving frotn December 3, 18-10, to
March .'1. 1855; and died at Greensborough, Georgia,
Mav 5, 185(J.
Dawson, William J., was bom in North Caro-
lina; was elected a represenlalive from Norlli C:iro-
liua in the Third Congress, and 8er\'cd from Decem-
ber 2, 1703, to Slan-h 3, 1705.
Day, Ro'wland, was bom In the State of New
York in 17><8; was a member of the State Uouse
of Representatives in 181()-1817; held several local
offices at .Sempronius, where he resided; was elected
a representative from New York in the Kighteenth
Congress as a Democrat, serving from December 1,
182;], to March 3, 1825; w.as again elected to the
Twenty-third Congress, sening from December 2,
18.f3, to March 3, 1S35.
Day, Timothy C, was bom at Cincinnati,
Ohio; received apublic-school education; was elected
a representative from Ohio in the Thirty-fourtlj Con-
gress as a Republican, receiving 7,710 votes against
4,442 votes for Pennington, Democrat, ond serving
from December 3, 18.')5, to March 3, 1857; and died
at Cincinnati. Ohio. April 15. 1S0!».
Dayan, Charles, was Itom at iVinstcnlam, New
York, July 1(!, 1702; was brought up on a fonn, r«s-
ceiviug a public-school education; luuglit school;
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studied Ukw; was admitted to the bar, and practised
at Lowville; was a member of the State Senate
1827-1829; was acting lieutenant-governor in 1829;
was elected a representative from New York in the
Twenty-second Congress as a Democrat, serving from
December 5, 1831, to March 2, 1833; was a member
of the State House of Representatives in 1835 and
1838; was district-attorney for Lewis County 1840-
1843; died at Lowville December 25, 1877.
Dayton, Eilias (father of Jonathan Dayton),
was l)om at £Uza1)ethtown, New Jersey, In 1735; re-
ceived a good English education ; served in the Jer-
sey Blues in the provincial expedition under Wolfe,
which conquered Canada; was a member of the
Committee of Safety at the breaking out of the war
of the Revolution; was appointed colonel of the
Third New- Jersey Regiment, and promoted, to the
rank of brigadier-general January 7, 1783; was elect-
ed major-general of militia; was elected a delegate
to the Continental Congress 1787-1788; and died at
Elizabethtown, New Jersey, July 17, 1897.
Dayton, Jonathan (son of Elias Dajrton), was
bom in New Jersey October 16, 1760; received a
classical education, graduating at Princeton College
in 1770; studied law; was admitted to the bar, but
entered the Continental army as paymaster in the
regiment commanded' by his father; served through-
ont the war of the Revolution; was several years a
meml>erof the New-Jersey House of Representatives,
and speaker in 1780; was a delegate to the Federal
Constitutional Convention 1787; was elected a rep-
resentative from New Jersey in the Second Congress ;
was re-elected to the Third, Fourth, and Fifth Con-
gresses, serving from Octoiier 24, 1791, to March 3,
1700; served as speaker during the Fourth and Fifth
Congresses; was elected United-States senator from
New Jersey, serving from December 2, 1790, to
March 8, 1805; and died at Elizabethtown, New
Jersey, October 0, 1824.
Dayton, William Lewis, was bom at Baskin-
lidge. New Jersey, February 17, 1807; received a
classical education, graduating at Princeton College
in 1825; studied law at Oould's Law School, Litch-
field, Connecticut; was admitted to the bar in 1830,
and commenced practice at Trenton, New Jersey ;
was a State senator 1836, 1837 ; was judge of the Su-
perior Court from February 28, 1838, to November 1,
1841, when he resigned ; was appointed United-States
senator from New Jersey (to till the vacancy caused
by the decease of Samuel L. Southard), and subse-
quently elected, serving from December 7, 1842, to
March 3, 1851; resumed practice; was nominated in
1856 Republican candidate for Vice-President on the
Fremont ticket, receiving on the informal ballot in
the convention 250 votes against 110 votes for Abra-
ham Lincoln, and received 114 electoral votes against
173 electoral votes for John C. Breckinridge, Demo-
crat, and 8 electoral votes for A. J. Donelson, Ameri-
can; was attorney-general of New Jersey 1857-1801;
was appointed by President Lincoln minister to
France March 18, 1861, and served tmtil he died,
at Paris, December 1, 1664.
Dean, Benjamin, was tram at CUtherve, Eng-
land, Augnst 14, 1824; came to this country at an
early age, and resided at Lowell, Massachusetts;
received a classical education at the public schools
of Lowell and at Dartmouth College; studied law
with Judge Thomas Hopkinson at Lowell, and at the
Cambridge Law School; was admitted to the bar in
1845; practised at Lowell, and subsequently at Bos-
ton; was a member of the Massachusetts Senate in
1862, 1863, and 1869: was elected a representative
from Massachusetts in the Forty-fifth Congress as a
Democrat, receiving (as the House subsequently de-
termined) 0,315 votes against 0,205 votes for Wal-
bridge A. Field, Republican. Mr. Field received the
certificate of election on a different return, and took
the seat; but Mr. Dean contested it, and was declared
entitled to it March 28, 1878, from which day he
served.
Dean, Bzra, was bom in the St&te of Kew Toric
in 1791; removed to Wooster, Ohio; held several
local offices; was elected a representative from Ohio
in the Twenty-seventh Congress as • Democrat;
and was re-elected to the Twenty-eighth Congress,
receiving 3,668 votes against 1,588 votes foi Well-
house, Whig, serving from May 31, 1841, to March 3,
1845; died at Wooster, Ohio.
Dean, Gilbert, was bom at Pleasant Valley,
Dutchess County, New York; received a classical edu-
cation, graduating at Yale College in 1841; studied
law; was admitted to the bar, and commenced prac-
tice at Poughkeepsie in 1844; held several local
offices ; was elected a representative from New York
in the Thirty-second Congress as a Democrat, re-
ceiving 6,218 votes against 5,042 votes for Cruger,
Wliig; and was re-elected to the Thirty-third Con-
gress, receiving 0,037 votes against 0,708 votes for
Cruger, Whig, serving from December 1, 1851, to
July 8, 1854, when he resigned, having been ap-
pointed judge of the Second District of the Supreme
Court (in the place of Seward Barculo, deceased), and
serving until November 6, 1855; died at Pough-
keepsie October 12, 1870.
DeEtn, Josiah, was bom at Raynham, Hassachu-
settB, March 16, 1748; received a public-school educa-
tion; was a presidential elector on the Jefferson
ticket in 1805; was a member of the State Senate
1804-1807 ; was elected a representative from Massa-
chtisetts in the Tenth Congress, serving from Oeto-
be.- 26, 1807, to March 3, 1800; was a member of
the SUte House of Representatives 1810, 1811; died
October 14, 1818.
Dean, Sidney, was bom at Glastenbary, Con-
necticut, November 16, 1818; received a public-school
education; was a manufacturer, and afterwartls be-
came a clergyman ; was a member of the State House
of Representatives; was elected a representative from
Connecticut in the Thirty-fourth Congress as an
American, receiving 8,055 votes against 3,877 votes
for White, Democrat; was re-elected to the Thirty-
fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 6,062 votes
against 5,006 votes for J. A. Hovey, Democrat, serv-
ing from December 8, 1865, to March 3, 1850; re-
moved in 1860 to Rhode Island, where he was pastor
of a church; tiecame the editor of " The Providence
Press."
Deane, Silas, was bom at Oroton, Connecticut,
December 24, 1737; received a classical education,
graduating at Yale College in 1758; engaged in mer-
cantile pursuits at Weathersfield^ Connecticut; was
prominent in the ante-Revolutionary movements;
was a delegate from Connecticut to the Continental
Congress 1774-1776; was sent on a secret mission to
Fruice in March, 1776, and was commissioned as am-
bassador, with Franklin and Lee, in S^tember, 1776;
negotiated and signed the treaty with France of Feb-
ruary 6, 1778, and personally secured the services of
Lafayette, De Kalb, and other foreign officers; was
recalls in 1777, and investigated by Congress, Lee
having charged him with financial irregularities ; re-
turning to ^ance to procure transcripts of his pecu-
niary transactions there, he found that the publication
of some of his confidential despatches had imbittered
the French Government against him, and he was
forced to go to Holland, and thence to Great Britain,
impoverished, and feeling that he had been injured;
he died at Deal, England, August 23, 1789. Congress,
in 1842, vindicated his reputation by deciding tibat a
considerable sum of money was due him, and direct-
ing the payment of it to his heirs. He published
several politicalpamphlets.
Dearborn, Henry (father of Henry A. S. Dear-
bora), was bom at Hampton, New Hampshire, Feb-
ruary 23, 1751; received an academical education;
studied medicine under Dr. Jackson of Portsmouth;
was licensed, and commenced practice at Nottingham
Square in 1772; was captain of a company of rainattf-
men, which he led to Cambridge the day after the
battle of Lexington in 1775, and served with distinc-
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Hon throughout the Revolutionary war; rpraovcd to
Mnmnouth, Mnino, in June, 17<S4; wm elected briga-
dier-Ki'neral nf militia In 17^7, and inaji>r-{;r>nerat
In 17."*'; was apjioinlod l)y Prfnidcnl Wiisliiiij^oii
Unilod-iStati'S marshal for the iJislrict of Maine in
1780; was oli^clcd a rcprpseulativc. fmm one of the
Maine districts of MassachUM-tts in the Tliinl Con-
gress as a Democrat, and wxs rc-clecled to the I'ourlh
Conpress, scrvin? f roni Deceraher i;. 1703, until Marcli
8, 17lt7; was ap|)()intc<l by President .lellerson Rocre-
tnry of war. servin;j from Mareli 4. 1801, unlil Mareli
7. I.SIX); was appointed liy I'n-sidenl Madison eollcctor
of the port of ISostou in INiil, luid served until up-
pointed si'nior major-gi,'nrrid in th(' ['uited-SlaUs
array .Innuary 27, 1!(12, and detailed to llie coiiuuand
of the Northern Ucparlmcnt : he w.xs in couniiaiirl .it
the capture of York (now Toronto) April 27, 1^1.!,
and Fort IVeonje May 27, ISi::, ijut was recalled froru
tlie frontier .July t>, isi:l, and jilaccd in conumind of
the city of New Yoric; was appoinUMl by I'ri'sideiit
Hounxi minister plcnipotentiar>' to I'ortuRal, ser\'ing
from May 7, 1822, until Jtmc 30, 1824, when he was
Tocalled nt his own request; he settled at Ko\bur}%
annually revisitin;; his farm in Maine; and died at
Roxbury, Massachusolls, June 0, lf>2t>.
Dearborn, Honry Alexander Scammell
(son of II. Ucatboni), was born at Exeter, New
Uamiwhire, in 17M'!; received a cUxssical edueatinn,
gnwiuatin!; at William and Mary ('ollejse in ISo;!;
studied law with Judge Story; wjis ailmilted to the
bar, and commenced practice at .Salcui, Mnssaolui-
(otts; w;is eollirctor of cusloius at lioslon 1^12-1821';
was bripiadicr-fjencral conmiaudiii^j the volunteers at
Boston durin!; the war of isl'j; was a memlKT of the
State Constilution.ll Convention of 1820; was a mem-
ber of the State Uousc of liepresentatives 18211, and
State senator 1S:W; wivs elected a ri'prcseutalive from
Hassachusetts in the Twenty-second Con^^ress, serv-
ins from December o, 1S:)1, to March 2, lS:i>; was
adjutant-generiU of M.-issachuselta 18.'}l-IH4;!; w.is
mayor of Roxbury 1847-1851; and died at Portland,
Uuine, Jiily2i», 1851. lie published "The Commerce
of the DIack Sea," " Life of llenry Dearborn, " " Lite
of CommiMlore nainliiiil:;e." and "Lid' of Christ."
Deberry, Bdmund, w;us bom at Mount (iilead,
North Carolina, August 14, 17t^7; received a public-
school cdueatiou; emjaicd in a^icultural pursuits;
was a member of the State Senate 1S<K>-1S11, 1813,
1.S14. 1820, 1S21, 1820-1828; was elected a representa-
tive from North Cart)lina in the Twcuty-lirst Congress
as an .id.ims man, receivins 200 ra.ijority over John
A. Cameron, Jackson Deraocnit, and serving from
December 7, 182i), to March 3, 1S;11; w.is defeated as
the Adams candidate for the Tiventy-seeond Con-
ras, receivinii 3,073 votes atiainst ;l,082 votes for
Bethune, J.ack5on Dc^raocnit; was again re-elected
t4> the Twenty-third Congress, receiving 37 majority
over Laurence IJethune, Jackson Democrat; was re-
elected to the Twenty-fourth Congress as a Wiig,
receiving 4S0 majority over Dethunc, Democrat; was
re-elected to the Twenty-fifth Congress, roceivioK
7U0 raajnrityovcr Bethune, Democrat; was re-elected
to thi Twent)--sixth Ccmgress, receiving 3,040 votes
ag.ainsi 2.753 votes for \V. A. Morris, Democrat; was
re-elccteil to the Twenty-seventh Congn-ss, receiving
891 majority ; and was re-elected to the Twenty-eighth
Congress, receiving 2,003 votes against 1,851 votes for
Mendell, also a Whig, serving fn>m December 2, IRIW,
to March 3, 1945; wivs again elected to the Thirty-first
Congress as a Wliic, receiving 4.8110 votes against
4.21)0 votes for G. W". Caldwell, Democnit, and 8.'rv-
liig from December 3, 1840, to March 3, 1851 : died at
Mount Oileiid. North Carolina, December 12, 1.8,59.
De Bolt, Rezin A., was t>orn in Fairfield Coun-
ty, Ohio, Januar>'20, 1.S28; received a common-school
education; worked on afann until in hisacventei'ntli
year, wlien ho was apjirentieiMl for three years to a
tanner; after s<'r\ing his time, !»<• followed his trade
for a few years. In the mean time studying law; w.is
■doiilted to tho bar m Febniary, 185U; removed to
Trenton, Gnindy County, Missouri, in 1A58, and
eoiniui.'nced jjractico; was appointed in 1.S59 com-
missioner of common schools for Grundy County,
and was elected to the same office in 18(Kl, serving
until tho commcnceineiit of the civil war; entered
the Union army in 1801 as captain in the Twenty-
third .Missouri Volunteer Infantry; was captured at
the ballU^ of Shiloli April 0, 18l'>2, and held as prisoner
until the following October; n-signed his commis-
sion in ISi;! on account fif Impaired health; in 1804
he again eiiten'd the United-,st.iU's service as major
in tlie Forty-fourth Missouri Volunteer Infantry, and
VV.1.S mustereil out in August, 18<i5; was elected judgoi
of tho Circuit CNnirt for the Eleventh Judicial Circuit
of Missoiu-i in Kovenibcr, 18<i:>, which office he held
liy re-election until January 1, 1875; and w.is elected
n reprcsent.itive from Missouri in thrt Forly-fourtli
Congress .as a Democrat, receiving 1 1,722 votes against
11.5tJ5 votes for Ira U. Uyde, lirjmblican, st-rving
from December 0. 1S7.5, to March .'!, 1877.
Deering, Nathaniel C, was born at Denmark,
Maine, .September 22, 1.827; Wiis educated at public
schor)l8 and at North-Hridgeton Academy; was a
menilwr of the Stute House of Uepn'si'iitatives of
Maine in 18.55 and lS5i!; reniovi'd to Osage, Iowa, in
18.57; w;is a clerk of the Utiil4Ml-Stati'« Senate 1801-
1805; was S|)eeial iigeiit of the post-o(lic<,' department
for the ilistrict omiprising .Minnesota, lowik, and Ne-
braska, 18t>.5-18(!U; was nationai-liank examiner for
the .State of Iowa l.soit- 1877; anil was elcrcled a rep-
resrntativi; from Iowa in the rorly-lifth Congress as
a Republican, ri'ceiving 20,770 votes against l),mO
votes for Cynis Foreman. Democrat.
Defrees, Joseph H., wa,s Iwrn at Carth.-^e,
Tennessee, May 13, 1.S12; rt-ceived a public-«chool
education; learned the art of jirinting; removed to
Indiatia, and engagi'd in mercantile pursuits; was
sherill of Elkhart County lSiO-1840; was a member
of the State Uouse of Uepresentatives in l.-^O, and ot
the State .Senate in 1.S50; w.is elected a nipresenta-
tive from Iiuli.ana in the Thirly-nitith Congress as a
Unionist, receiving 14.017 votes (gainst 14,037 votes
for Joseph K. Edgerloii, Democrat, and serving from
D<'cember 4, 1805. to M.arch 3, 1.807.
Degener, Gdward, was lioni in Brunswick,
Geniiaiiy, October 20, 1800; received an nculemlc
educatiim, partly in Kngland and partly in Germany;
vv;i8 twice memlxT of a legislative body in Anhalt-
Dessau, and w;is a membi-r of the tirst GemiiUi par-
liament in Frankfort; came to the Unite<l States in
18.50, and settleil in..Sistcrdale, Texas, as a f.armcr;
was court-martialled and imprisoned by the Confed-
erates for his devotion to the Union aiuse; after his
release ho remained in San Antonio, and engaged in
mercantile pursuits; wiis a member of the Constitu-
tional Convention in 1800. in which he oHered the
first resolution in favor of universal suffrage; w.is
again a member of the Constitutional t^onvenlion in
1808, and was elected a representative from Texas in
tlio Forty-first Congress as a Ue|iublican, receiving
0,312 votes against 11,240 votes forll.aynes. Democrat,
and 040 votes for Varnell, Democrat, scr\'ing from
March 31, 1870, to .March 3, 1,871.
De Graff, John I., was bom at Schenectady,
New York; received an academic education; was
elected a representative from New York in the
Twentieth Congress, sen-ing from December 3, 1827,
to March 3, 182t); was again elected to tlip Twenty-
fifth Congress, sening from Septemljer 4, 1837, to
March 3, 18:j0; died at Schenectaily, Xcw York,
Juno 20, 184.8.
Deitz, William, was liom in .Schoharie County,
New York; received apnblic-schoid (?<lucation; was a
member of the State lioti.se of Kepi-escntatives 1814,
1.815; was elected a representative from New York In
the Nineteenth Coiign'ss, serving from December 3,
1825, to Miwch 3, l.'<27; was a member of the State
Senate ls;il>-1.8;tl; died at .Schoharie, New York.
De Jarnette, Daniel C, was Ixjrn near Bowl-
ing Green, Virginia, in 11^22; received a liberal edu-
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cation; devoted himself to npnicultura.! pnnmltn;
scrvc<l scvcRil yoars in the State Ilouse of Keprt--
Bontalivps; vma elrnlcd a reprewnlativc fnini Virginia
to llie Tliirly-sixtli Conpress an an anti-a<lmiiiislrutif)ii
Democrat, rcceivins B,.)S1 vote* against .'i.-tSl voles
for J. L. Casliie, Dcraoeral, and sening frohi Decem-
ber 6. 18.")!), to Marrli 'A, l.S(Jl ; was eii-cled to the
Thirly-sevenlU Congress, l)ut did not serve; was a
representative from Virginia in llie First and Second
Confederate Congresses l.s02-lS(Ki.
Delano, Charles, was liorn at Dnilnlree, Massa-
chusells, in IS'Ji; received a classical education,
graduating at Ainiicrst College in 1.S40; slndied law;
was admitted lo the bar in IW2, and commenced
practice at Norlliampton, Massachusetts; was ap-
pointixl treasurer of Uampden County in IR50; was
elected a representative from Massachusetts in the
Thirty-sixtli Congn-ss as a rtciiuhllcaii, receiving
6,)<47 vol<-s against a.liTO votes for ()sg<»od. Democrat,
and 508 voles for Traflon, American; and was re-
elected to the Tliirty-sevenlJi Congn-ss, receiving
](),t)21 votes against 2,528 voU-s for Josiah Allis,
Democrat, and t44 votes for U. Leavitt, American,
serving fmin Deceinlier 5, LSM), to March .S, 1*1.3.
Delano, ColumbtlS, was horn at Khoreham,
Vermont, in 18(K1; removed to Mmint Vernon, Ohio,
In l!*17; received an academic echieation; studied
law; was admitted to llio bar in IS-'U, aiicl praetise<!
at Mount Vernoir; was elected a representative fnnii
Ohio in the Twenty-nintli Congress as a Wldg, de-
feating MeXiiltv, Democrat, and 8er\ing from De-
cemlter 1. 1S45, to March ;i, 1S47; was presented to
the Wlxii; State Conveiiticm of l.'<47 as a candidate
for the nomination for governor; was defeated l>y
two votes; w.is a delegate to the \.ation;d Itepuhlicaii
Convention at Chicago which nominated Llnecilri and
Uiimiin; sened as State commissary-general of Ohio
In IHIH; wiia jireseiiteil to the IJepuliliean members
of the Ohio legislature in lS(i2 as a candidate for llie
nomination for United-States senator, hut was de-
feated hy two votes; was a meml>er of tlie Ohio Ilimse
of liepresentatives in 18tkl; was a delegate to the
National Ilepuliliean Convention at Uallimore which
nomitialed Liueidii and Johnson; was .again elected
to tlie Thirty-ninlli Congress as a IJepuhtican, receiv-
ing 11,S7(» votes against ll.Cwl votes for Charles Fol-
let, Democrat ; the eiection was contested, hut the
House decided that he was entitled lo the seat; was
re-elected tii l!u^ Fi)rtletli Congress, receiving (us the
Hmise determined) 12,K4.S voU-s against 12.707 votes
for George W. Morgan, Demnerjit, who obtained the
certiflcate of elect ion, hut was voted out of the seat
June 8, ISfiS, and Mr. Delano recognl/.ed, making his
terra of senice frr>m Deceml)cr 4, IStio, to March 3,
1S(J!»; was appointed hy President Grant commissioner
of iiilenial reveinio March 5. ls(ilt, and transferred
to the position of secretary of the interior, sening
from N'ovember 1, 187l), to October 1(1, 1S7.'), when his
resignation, which had been tendered a year tjcfore,
w.as accepted.
Delaplaine, Isaac C, was born at New York ;
ri'ccive<ra liberal education; studied law; was ad-
mitted to the bar, and practised; was elected n repre-
sentative frriin New Vorij in the Thirty-seven tli Con-
gress OS a Fiisioiust, receiving i;',57lj votes against
9,417 votes for Wakeman, UepuWiean, and serving
from .luly 4, IHOI, to March :), isti'j.
De Large, Robert C, was Inim at .\iken. South
Carolina, March l.l. 1S42; received such an educalimi
as was then attainable; was a farmer; Wiis an agent
of the Kreednieii's Bureau from May, 1^17, to Ajiril,
1808, when he w.as elected a member of the SUUo
Constitutional Convention; was a member of tlio
House of Representatives of the State legislature in
1808-1800 and l-!70; was one of the Slate comuits-
Sioners of the sinking fund; was elected in 18711
State land commissioner, and served until he was
elected a rejiresentative from South Carolina in the
Forty-second Congress as a Uepiihlicau, r<;ceiving
lU.CUD votes against 15,700 votes fur C. C. Bowuu, In-
dependent Republican; was appolnt4?d a trial-Justice,
which oflice he held when be died at Charleston,
South Carolina, Fel»niary LI, 1874.
Dellet, James, was l<om in Ireland In 1788,
and immigrated lo .South Carolina when young; re-
ceived a classical education, graduating al the Uni-
versity of South Carolina in 1810; studieil l.aw; was
admitted to the bar in isi;j, and commence*! prac-
tice; removed to Alaliama in 1818, and located at
Claiborne; was ciectetl to the first House of Repro-
scntatives under the State Government in 18111, and
was its speaker; was re-elected in l.'^21 and 182."(; was
an unsuccessful Whig candidate for Congress in 1S13;
was elected a representative fnmi Alabama in the
Twenty-sixth Cimgre.ss as a Whig, receiving 4,lo2
voles against .I.JtX) votes for Jolm Murphy, Demo-
crat, serving from December 2, 183S1, until March 3,
1841; wiis again elected to the Twenty-iMghth Con-
gress as a Whig, receiving 4,S43 votes against 4.7U8
votes for Henry Goldthwait. Democrat, and serving
from December 1, 184.'>, until March S, 1A47; he after^
wards devoted hiinsclf to the management of his
large proiwrty; and died at Cl!iilK>rne Deceinl)er 21,
184.8.
Deming, Benjamin P., was bom at Danville,
Vermont; received a public-school education; en-
gaged in mercautilo pursuits; was for sixteen years
clerk of Ihc county courts; was elected a representa-
tive fixim Vermont in the Twenty-third Congress a*
a VVHiig. .serving from l)cceml>cr 2, 18;W, to July 11,
l.S.'!4, wlieii tie dleii at Saratoga .Springs, New York.
Deming, Henry C, wa-s born in Connecticut;
receiveil a classical education, graduating al Yale
College in 18;itl; studied law; graduated at the Har-
vanl Law .School in 1S;58; was admitte<i to the bar,
and eomnu'uceti practice at New-York City, con-
trilniling to scvcnd perioilicals; riMnoved in 1847 to
Hiirtforil, Connecticut; was a member nf the Stato
House tif lieim'senUtives 1,S4», IS-jO, 1S.)9, 1800, and
1801, serving the last year as speaker, and of th^
.Stale Senate in 1851 ; was several years mayor of
Hiirtfonl; entered the Union army in 18til as colonel-
of the Twelfth Cormecticut Volunteers, and particl—
p.ated in the occupation of New Orleans; was ap—
pointeil mayor of New Orleans under nuirtial law,
serving from October, l.st!2, to Feluaiary, 180;J, whcm
he resigned Ids commission; w,as elected a represen-
tative from Coimecticut in the Thirty-eighth Con-
gress as a Republican, n.'ceiving 10,4!);j votes against
ln,l.")8 votes for Hyde, DeunK'rat; and was re-elected
to the Thirty-ninth Congress, receiving 10,1119 votes
against 8.o:l;i votes for jlitclieil. Democrat, serving
from December 7, 180.1, Ut Mnrcli H, 1807; was de-
feated as the Republican candidate for the Fortieth
Congress, receiving 11,447 voles against ll,tH>4 votes
for liichard D. Hubbard, Democrat; was appointed
by I'n-sideiit IJncoln collector of internal revcnus
in 18;;(), and served until Ids death, from apoplexy,
at Harlfonl. Coiinectieul, (_)ctol)er 0, 1872.
De Mott, John, was Iwrn in New Jersey; re-
moved at an early age to New York; received a pul>-
lic-scliool education; w.ts a member of the State
legislatun> in 1H;1;J; was prominent as a Freemason;
was elected a representative from New York in the
Twenty-idntli t'ongress as a Democrat, receiving
n.'iSi votes against 0,!>i7 votes for Holley, WHiig, and
i!.i4 voles for tJaylord, AI)oiitlonlst, and serving from
Decetnbcr I, is-l.j, to March :^, 1847.
Denison, Charles, was b<>n\ in the Wyoming
Valley, Peiuisytvaiua, January 2;?, 1818; received a
cla.ssir'al eduealion, graduating at Dickinson College
in i^li\>; fitiidied law; was admitted to the bar, and
couuneiiccd ]>ractii'e at Wiikesliarre; was elected m
representative fri'in Pennsylvania in the Thirty-eighth
f 'iiligrivs as a Demoenit, receiving 1 1,408 votes against
1V>41 voles tor (Jrow, Unionist; was re-elected to tlio
Thirty-ninth Congress, receiving 10,57;) votes against
lu,ikX votes for Wintlin^p W. Kelcham, Unionist;
and was ru-eleeled to the Fortieth Congress, r»-ceiv-
iiig 15,280 votes against 13,274 votes for Archibald,
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Kcpublican, serving from Dpcembor 7, 1803, to June
27. l(Si>7, when ho died at Wilku5l)arre, Pcniisylvniiia.
iDenison, Dudley Chase, was Iwrn at Royal-
ton, ViTinotii, f>t'plfml«>r l;i, ISlil; received a clas-
sical education, fn'odunting at the University of Ver-
mont in 1840; studied law; was admitted to the bar
in 11^14, and has pi-aetiscd since; was a menil>er <if
the .Suite Senate of Veniiont In 1!<J3 and 1W.V1, and «{
tlie State House of Itepresenlatives in 1*1, WW, and
184W; was State's attorney 18o.S-l8<HI; was United-
States districtiattomey for the District of Vennonl;
and was electod, on the second trial, a ropri'sentativo
from Vermont In the Forty-fourth Congress as a Re-
publican, receiving 8.295 votes against 4,070 votes for
Luke I'. Poland, Republican, and 1,534 votes for L. P.
McLane, Democrat; was re-elected to the Forty-fifth
Congress, receiving 14,430 rotes against 5,730 votes
for Dickej, Democrat, serving fromDecemberfi, 1875.
Denning, Williaxn, was born in the State of
Kew York, and was elected a representative from
that State in the Eleventh Congress, but resigned be-
fore that Congress met.
Dennis, dFeorge R., was born at Wliite Haven,
Somerset County, Maryland, April 8, 1822; was grad-
uated at the Pol>technic Institute of Troy, New York,
and then entered the Univcrsily of Virginia; studied
medicine at the University of Pennsylvani.i, being
graduated in that institution in 1843; [iractised his
Srofcssion for many years. Imt retired, ami bus since
evotcd his attention princi[mlly to ai;ricuttiiral pur-
suits; is president of the Eastem-.SIiorc' Railroad;
W08 a delegalo from the Slate at large, to the NiSlioii-
k1 'S\nilg Convention which nomiiialed Fillmore at
Phil.i<lelphia in lS.j(l, and also to the iJemiKTatic X.a-
tional Convention at New York in 18<i8. serving as
one of the vii-e-pre^idenls of that body; was elected
to the State Senate of Maryland in IHM, to the House
of Delegates in 1807, and again to the .Senate in 1871 ;
and, while filling this position, was elected United-
States seniilorfrom .Marylatol ils a nemocrat (to suc-
ceed (Jeorgo Vickcrs), »< niiig from Man'h 4, i.S73.
Dennis, John ( lather ofjtihn Uciniis), was l>oni
In Somerset County, Marjiamt. in 18i)7; received a
classical education; stndiitl law; w.is admitted to
the bar, but devoted himself to aericultur.il ])ursuits;
wos twice a memlR-r of the 8tate ilou.se of Ucpresen-
tatives; w.as electiil a n'present.tlive from M.irylund
In the Fifth ( 'ongress, and was rc-etecled to the Sixth,
S<?venlli, and Kiglith Congresses, serving from May 1."),
J7t»7. to M.irch3, 1805; died at Pbilatlelpiiia August
17. 18<i7.
Dennis, John (son of .John Detmis). was boni in
Somerset County. Slarjiand, in l-ill7; received a libcr-
aJ education, and studied law, but devoted bimself
to agricultural pursuits; w,is twice a member of the
f^t&te House of Representatives; was elected a repre-
•entative from Maryland in the Twenly-lifth Cou-
fpvaa, and was re-elected to the Twenty-sixth Con-
f^rRss, receiving 3,182 votes t^jialust 2,8()| votes for
sStewarf. Democrat, and 30 votes for Donatio, Whig.
«er\'lng from September 4, 1.8:^7, to March 3, 1.S4I; was
A di.'legiite to the .Stale Coiistiiution.il ConvcTitloii of
Z1850; and died of consumption at his niral home,
"xieiir Prince.ss Anne, Marvl.-ind, November 1, 1859.
Dennis, Littleton Purnell, was Imni in Mary-
land; received a cl.isslcul education, graduating nt
Tfale College in 18ii:I; .<icrved several years in the
Ktatc Senate iind House of Representatives; was a
presidential elector in 1800, 1812, 1810, 1824, and 1828;
"was electeil a reprcBcntative from Maryland in the
Twenty-third Congress as a WHiig. recei\ ing 208 ma-
jorily over Stewart, Democrat, and scr\ ing from De-
cember 2, 1.S33, to 1834, when he died at Washington
Cltv.
Dennison, George, was Ixim in Luzerne Csiin-
ty, Pennsylvania; receive<l an aendcmic education;
ctudiod law; was a<)mitted to the bar, and commenced
iiraclice at Wilke*l>iirre; was sevenil yeai-s a mcni-
licr of the .State legislatuiv, and recorder of Luzerne
County ; was clocltid a rcpruscntalivo from Peuusylva-
nia In the Sixteenth Congress as a Democrat, and
was re-elected to the Seventeenth Congress, s<.>r>ing
from December t3, ISIH, to JIarch 3, 1823; died at
Wilkesborro, Pennsylvania, In IKJI.
Denny, Arthur A., was born in Indiana May
7, 1822; was taken by his parents to Knox County,
Illinois, In 1*14; received a public-school education;
was surveyor of Knox County 184;}-l.H51 ; removed to
the I'ticilic coast in 1.851, and loi^ated nt Puget's
Sound, afterwards Washington Territory; wasamem-
Ix-rof the Territorial legislature 185;J-18<11 ; w.-is regis-
ter of the land-ofiice at < llympia 18H1-I805; was elect-
ed a delegate from Washington Territory in the Thir-
tv-iiiiith Congn-ss, serving from December 4, 1805, to
March 3. I8il7.
Denny, Haxmar, was born at Pittsburg, Penn-
sylvania, in 1794; received a classical education,
gmduuting at Dickinson College; studied law; was
admitted to the bar, and practised at Pittsburg; was
a member of the State legislature ; was elected a repre-
sentative from Pciviisylvania in the Twenty-lirst {'on-
gress as an anti-Mason, receiving 4,208 votes against
3,092 votes for .James S. Stevenson ; was re-elected to
the Twenty-second, Twenty-third, and Tweuly-fourtli
Oongrnss«>8 iut a Wlilg. serving from December 7, 1829,
to March 3, 18:57; died at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania,
January 29. 1852.
Denoyelles, Peter, w.is bom in New York; re-
ceived an academic education; w.is elected a repre-
sent.itlvo from New York in the Thirteenth Congress
.IS n Democrat, serving from May 24, 1813, to March
2. 1815,
Dent, George, wos bom In Maryland; received
a fliis.slcal educalion; was eleeteil a repriseiitalivo
from Marjland in the TliinI Congress .is a Democrat,
and was re-elected to the Fourth, Fifth, ami Sixth
OMigri'.'ises, serving from Decemlier 2, 179;), to M:in-li
.'l. 1801; was elected sjK'akerjinWfTOporc April 20, HHi^
(during tlie illness of Mr. Speaker Dayton), and served
two days; was appointed by Pn^siilent .lelTerson. in
1801. United-iStatea marshni for tlie Potfuiiac District.
Dent, "William B. W^., was Iwini in Maryland;
received an academic education; studied law; was
admitted to the bar, an<l commenced prnctlco at
Newiian, Goonjia; was elected a repre.s<inlative from
t Borgia in the Tlurty-thinl Congress as a Democrat, '^
receiving 0,7iMS vote.'' against •l,:K>3 votes for Callioun<
Whig, and serving from December 5, 18.5;), to March
3. I.<i5: died at ills resilience at Ncwiian, ^ieorgia,
after a long illness, SentemlK-r 9, 1.S.55. • -*
Denver, James W., was bom «t Wijichestcr,
Virginia, in 1818; receive(l a public-school education;
removed In 1841 %i MiRsouri,.whi're he taught school;
studied law, and w.is atlmittcd to the bar; served in
the war with Mexico as captain ; removed to t^alifor-
iiia in 18.10; was appointeil secretary of sUite of Cali-
foniio; was elected a representative from California
in the Thirty-fourth Congress as an anti-Broderick
Democrat, receiving 37,070 votes ag.iinst ;jO,524 votes
for Howie, Whig, ami si-rviug from I)eceml>er3, 1853,
to March 3, 18.')7; was appointed by President Bu-
chanan commissioner of Indian affairs April 17, 1857;
resigned, to serve as governor of Kaiis,is, June 17,
1858, and was re-appointed Novembtfr 8, 18.")8, serv-
ing to March 13, 1859; was a delegate to the Soldiers'
Convention at Clevi'land in 1800; located at Wosli-
ington City, and practised there.
Desaussure, William P., was bom at Ch.irle«-
ton. South Carolin.i, in 1702; received a classical
education, graduating at Harvard College In 1810;
studied law; was admitteil to the bur. and practised
at Charleston ; was appointeil United-JStates senator
(to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of R, B.
Uhett, resigned), serving from Decemlier 20, 1852, to
March 3. 18.j3.
Desha, Joseph (brother of Robert Desha), was
born in Pennsylvania December 9. 17(J8; removed to
Kentucky in 1781; served In the Iixlian wars uniler
<;eiierals W.iyne and Harrison; was a memlMT of tlio
State logislat^uru ; was elected a rvpruscutativu Iruia
868
OOHGBESSIOITAL OIBEOTOBT.
Kentucky in the Tentii Congress; was re-elected to
the Eleventh, Twelfth, Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and
Fifteenth Congresses, serving from October 26, 1807,
to March 3, 1819; was governor of Kentucky 1824-
1828; and died at Georgetown, Kentucky, October 13,
1842.
Desha, Robert (brother of Joseph Desha), was
bom in Pennsylvania; removed to Tennessee early in
life; served in the war of 1812 as captain and brigade-
major; was elected a representative from Tennessee
in the Twentieth Congress, and was re-elected to the
Twenty-first Congress without opposition, serving
from December 3, 1827, to March 8, 1831; died Feb-
ruary 8, 1849.
Destrihan, John Noel, was elected United-
States senator from Louisiana, receiving 21 votes
against 16 votes for Mr. Brown, but resigned in 1812,
having never taken his seat
Dewart, Lewis, was bom in Pennsylvania; re-
sided at Sunbury; was elected a representative &om
Pennsylvania in the Twenty-second Congress as a
Jackson Democrat, serving from December 6, 1831,
to March 2, 1833.
Dewart, WiUiam L., was bora in Pennsylva-
nia; received an academic education; studied law;
was admitted to the bar, and commenced practice at
Sunbury, Pennsylvania; was defeated as the Demo-
cratic candidate for the Thirty-fourth Congress, re-
ceiving 6,081 votes against 6,384 votes for James H.
Campbell, Whig; was elected a representative from
Pennsylvania in the Thirty-fifth Congress as a Demo-
crat, receiving 8,050 votes against 6,418 votes for
Camplx)ll, licpubllcan, and serving from December 7,
1857, to March 3, 1850; was defeated as the Demo-
cratic candidate for the Thirty-sixth Congress, re-
ceiving 4,860 votes against 7,163 votes for James H.
Campbell, Kepublican.
Deweese, John T., was bom in Crawford Coun-
ty, Arkansas, June 4, 1835; studied law; was admitted
to the bar, and commenced practice; entered the
Union army in 1861 ; was promoted lieutenant-colonel
In 18G3, and, at the conclusion of the war, was com-
missioned a lieutenant in the army; resigned, and
was appointed register in bankruptcy for North Caro-
lina; was elected a representative from Korth Caro-
lina in the Fortieth Congress as a.RepubUcaii, receiv-
ing a majority of 2,500 votes; and was re-elected to
the Forty-first Congress, receiving 14,793 votes against
13,553 votes for Rogers, Democrat, serving from July
6, 1808, to February 28, 1870, when he resigned.
Dewejr, Daniel, was bom at Shefiield, Massa-
chusetts, January 29, 1766; received a classical edu-
cation, passing two years at Yale College; studied
law with Judge Sedgewick at Stockbridge; was ad-
mitted to the bar, and commenced practice at Wil-
Uamstown, Massachusetts, in May, 1787; was treas-
urer of Williams College 1798-1814; was a member of
the governor's council in 1809 and 1812; was elected
a representative from Massachusetts in the Thir-
teenth Congress, serving from May 24, 1813, to 1814,
when he resigned; was appointed by Governor
Strong a judge of the Supreme Court of Massachu-
setts in 1814, and served until he died. May 26, 1816.
De Witt. Alexander, was bom at New Brain-
tree, Massachusetts, April 2, 1708; received a public-
school education; engaged in manufacturing, :iti<I
erected a large mill for spinning thread at Oxfi'rd ;
was a member of the State House of Represent-'itivi'?
1830-1830; was a commission-merchant in Boston
1837-1840; was a State senator in 1842, 1844, Is-X),
and 1851; was a member of the Constitutional Cuii-
vention of •1853; was' elected a representative friHii
Massachusetts in the Thirty-third Congress as au
American, receiving 10,228 votes against 1,762 votes
for Isaac Davis, Democrat, and 1,015 votes forim il.
Barton, Whig ; and was re-elected to the Thirty-f ou it 1 1
Congress, receiving 8,795 votes of the 11,420 vUcs
cast, serving from December 6, 1853, to Marcli '.i.
1857; was defeated as the American candidate t'ur
the Thirty-fifth Congress, receiving 4,414 voles
against 8,020 votes for Eli Thayer, Bepnblican, 2,967
votes for N. Wood, Democrat, and 282 votes for J. G.
Thurston, National American.
De Witt, Charles, was bom at Kingston, Xew
York, in 1728; received a classical education; wsi
elected a dele^^te from New York in the Continental
Congress 17^1785; and died at Kii^ston, Nev
York, September 12, 1787.
De Witt, Charles Q., was bom at Newbuig,
New York, in 1802; was elected a representative from
New York in the Twenty-first Congress as a Demo-
crat, serving from December 7, 1829, to March 3,
1831; was appointed by President Jackson ckanji
d 'affaires to Central America January 29, 1833. serr-
ing until February, 1839; returned home, and died at
Newburg, New York, April 13, 1830.
De Witt, David Miller, was bom at Patcreon,
New Jersey, November 25, 1837; received his esiij
education at the public schools of Brooklyn, a sclcf t
school at Saugerties, and Kingston Academy; gradn-
ated at Rutgers College, New Brunswick, June, 1838:
studied law in New York and Brooklyn, and practised
at Kingston; was elected district-attorney of UUter
County in the fall of 1862, and re-elected in the fall
of 1866; and was elected a representative from Nev
York in the Forty-third Congress as a Democrat, re-
ceiving 12,031 votes against 12,014 votes for J. Max-
well, Republican, servug from December 1, 1873, to
Marchil875.
De Witt, Jaoob H., was bom in Ulster County,
New York, in 1784 ; was elected a representative from
New York in the Sixteenth Congress as a Democrat,
serving from December 6, 1819, to March 3, 1S21;
was a member of the State House of Representatives
in 1839 and in 1847; and died at Kingstcm, Nev
York. January 30, 1857.
D'Wolfe, James, was bom at Bristol, Rhode
Island, in 1763; was elected United-States senator
from Rhode Island, serving from December 3, 1821,
to December, 1825, when he resigned ; died at New-
York City, December 21, 1837.
Dexter, BamueL was bom in Massachusetts
May 14, 1761 ; received a classical education, gradu-
ating at Harvard College in 1781; studied law it
Worcester with Levi Lincoln; was admitted to the
bar, and commenced practice; was a member of the
State House of Representatives 1788-1790; was elect-
ed a representative from Massachusetts in the Tbird
Congress as a Federalist, serving from December 2,
1793, to March 3, 1705; was elected Unitcd-Sutcs
senator, serving from December 2, 1799, until he re-
signed in June, 1800; was appointed by President
Adams secretary^of war May 13, 1800, and secretary
of thc'treasury December 31, 1800; was removed Ly
President Jefferson, but became an earnest supporter
of his Democratic war-policy; was offered the mis-
sion to Spain by President Madison, and declined it;
was a leading practitioner before the Supreme Court;
and died at Athens, New York, on his way homo
from Washington with his family. May 3, 1810. Pub-
lished "The Progress of Science" (a poem) 17S0,
" Speeches and Political Papers," and several politi-
calpamphlets.
Dibrell, Qeorge Qibbs, was bom in ^Tiite
Cuirnly, TcmiCMeo, April VI, 1822; recti veil a mui-
mnii-sdinol t'dttcatioii, and atti^ndcd Easl-T«in«'*'«
UnivprsUy ono si'^Bloa; is a fiumcr and mcrdiaor,
lias litk) scvi-ral local nffici-g; was elected a nwndlEr
of llic tit.ito Constitiittoniil CoDventiua of Twrnowo
in Ft'bniiiry, 1861, on the Union Uckel; wsi* tlrctnl
ti I till? titiiti! it'gisUiture of Tennessee in Augurt, li*') :
*! n t f 'rci 1 I ht> Ci I iif ede rate a miy an nri vnt c • W3» ••I' ■ >
lieuloiiant-coloni'l, and |>roiniitr!<l i?iiIoncl ami I '
diiT-ficncral i>f ciiv;!!!--- - ■- -i,.' "i-i •-. '■-•-•
I'Xi-i'Utive olKft^rs nir
(_iiiVtT!ini«3lt .iflW 111'
iliil Bii Emm (in-oTislU'i ■
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STATISTICAL SKETCHES.
369
[reset UlWe from Tennessee in the Forty-fourth Con-
as a Democrat, receiving 0,659 votes ag,iinst
[,5J>7 votes for D. M. Nclfion, Republican, ami S72
Totes for William B. Stokes, Inclependcnt Repul>-
llican; and was re-electcO to the Forly-fiftli Congress,
receiving I3,i:J2 votes against 8,218 votes for Drake,
Kopublioan.
• Diok, John, was bom at Mcailville, Pennsjivn-
Bia; received a public-school education; erignge<l in
■mercantile pursuits; was elected a representative
Irom Pennsylvania in the Tfiirty-tliird Congress as a
Whig; was rc-electeil to the Tliirly-fourth Congress,
receiving no o[>poiiitioii; ati<l w.is re-(.-lected to the
Tliiily-hflh Congress as a Uejiuttliran, receiving S.IMJ
Totes against 4,'^15 votes for McKadden, Democrat,
•ening from DeccmlH^r T), 185S, to March ."J, 1851).
Dick, Samuel, was bom in New Jersey; received
^B a classical etiucation; studi«d medicine, and prac-
^Btiscd ; was a delegate from New Jersey in the Couti-
^^ Oontal Congress in nfvi and 1~S4; and died in New
Jersey in NovemlxT, 1S]2.
Dickens, Samuel, was bom in North Carolina;
■ Icceived an academic education; was elected a rep-
Jescnlative from North Carolina in the Fourteenth
Congress (in )ilaco of Ricbanl Stanfurd, deceasedl,
serving from Decnnber '.i. IsKi, In March 3, 1817.
Dickerson, MaMon (brolhcr o( Phik-mon
Dickerson), was born at Hanover, New Jersey. April
I 17, 177l>; received a classical education, graduating
^^ at Princeton College hi 17SU; studied law; was ad-
^Btnilted to the li.ir in 171)3, and commenced practice at
^*^ Philadelphia; was (luartemiaster-gencral nf Pennsji-
Tania 1 ;<:)."»- 1. 'i' is; w.xs rcenrdcr of tlie city court of
Phila'lelphialSOH-lSlO; removed buck to New Jersey,
•ml was ,i memlier of the .State House of Kepres<>n-
talives in IHM; was governor of New Jersey ISl.'i-
11917; was electetl Uniled-Statos senator fnim New
Jersey as a StJil^.'-riplits Democrat, favoring protec-
tion, serving fnmi December 1, 1S17, to March 2,
18.1:3; was appointed by President Jackson secretary
of the navy Juno 31), 1H:M, anrl re-appointeii by Presi-
dent Van Buren, serving until Juno ;H), 1S;}8; was
IUnlted-tJtates district-judge of the District of New
Jersey; was a delegate to the .State Constitutional
Convention in ls}4; was president of the American
Institute 1.'UIJ-1H4H; and died at his resilience, Suca-
»ann_.v, Jiorris County. New Jersey. October 5. 185!!.
Dickerson, Piulemon (brother of Mahlon
Dickerson), was born In Morris County, New Jersey,
In nXK\ received a lilmral education; studied law;
was a<lrailte<l to the bar, and eommenced practice at
Patersnn. New Jersey; was elected a nprcsenlative
from New Jersey In the Twenty-third Congress as a
Democrat, anil was re-elected to the Twenty-fourth
Congrc-ss, serving from December 2, 1W13, to ISS^S.
When ho resigned ; w.as governor of New Jersey in
38:J6; was again elected to the Twentv-Jtixlh Con-
fn-ss, serving from March 10, 1840. to March 3, 1841;
ir.ia juilge of the Unite<l-Htatcs District Court for
Oie Dislrirt of New Jersev; and died at Paterson,
Kcw Jrr*oy, December 10, "l8<>2.
Dickey, Jesse C, was l>om In Chester County,
^^^ennsylv.-inia ; was elected a represcniative from
^^Penn^ylvania in the Thirty-first Congress as a Whig.
^Mccriviug 6,780 votes against r>,l(X) votes for Uemp-
^^ill. Democrat, and serving from December 3, 1S41),
■k> March 3, 18.'>1.
Dickey, John, w.<w bom at Be.aver, Pennsyl-
"Vntiia: received a public-school etlucation; was elect-
a representative fnmi Pennsylvania in the Twen-
r-oiglith Congress as a Wiig, receiving 4,002 voles
tinst 4.0it! votes for Leet, Democrat, and serving
_ wn Decemlicr4, 1843, to March 3, 1845; was again
Icctotl to the Thirtieth Congress, serving from De-
einb<^r <l, 1847, to March 3. 1849; was appointed
Jnltod-Sfatcs marshal for the Western District of
Pennsylvania; and died at Beaver, Pcnnsylvani.i,
larch 14. IS-'t!.
Dickey, Oliver J., w.is bom In Old Brighton,
Pennsylvauia, April 0, 1S23; received an ociuiemic
education ; passed through the junior year at Dick-
inson College; studied law with Tha<ldeus Stevens
in Lancaster, and practised; never held any public
office, except district-attorney for Lancaster County
from 18.V) to ISoO; was elected a representative from
Pennsylvania in the Fortieth Congress (to llll the va-
cancy caused by the death of Tliaddeus .Stevens), and
re-elected to the Forty-first Congress as a Republican,
receiving 14,01)3 votes against 8,674 votes for Swarr,
Democrat; and was re-elected to the Forty-second
Congress, receiving 0.722 votes against 7,411 votes
for A. K. Witncr, Iiideijendcnt, serving from Decem-
IxT 7. ]8()S. to March 3, 1871; died at Lancaster,
Pcnnsvlvania, of typhoid pneumonia, April :;1, 1870.
Dickinson, Daniel Stevens, was bom at
Goshen, Coimecticut, Septeuiln'r 11, ISOO; was taken
liy his father to Chenango County, New York, In
MMi; received a public-school education: taught
school, and studied the clns.'-ics and niathcmalics
without a master; studied law; w.is admitted to the
bar in 1820, and in 1831 conuncnced practice at Biiig*
hainton. New York; w^as a State senator 18.37-1840;
w.is lieutenant-governor, pri'sldent of the .Senate,
.itid president of the Court of Errors, 1842-1844; was
a regent of the Universily of New York In l.'Vl:i; was
a delegate to the N.ilional Democratic Convention,
and a iiresidential elector on the Polk ticket. In 1.944;
Wiis appointed United-Stales senator (to fill tlie va-
cancy occasioned by tho resignation of N. P. Tal-
matlge, appointed povcnior of Wisconsin) as a Demo-
crat, and was subsequently elected, serving from
December 0, 184-t, to March"3, 1801; was a deleg.ite
to the National Democratic Convention of 1R,W; was
electe<l altorney-generaj of the State of New York in
1801; was u delegate to the National Republicin
Conventiim of 1804; was appointed by President
Lincoln Unite<i->StateB district-altonicy for the South-
ern District of New York; died suddenly, at New-
York City, April 12. 1800.
Dickinson, David W., was btim at Franklin,
Tennessee, in lSti7; n-ceived an academic education;
W.IS elected a representative from Teiuiessee in the
Twenty-third Congress as a Democrat, serving fnjm
December 2, 18.");}, to March 3, 1835; was again
elecli'd to the Twenty-eighth Congn'ss as a Whig,
receiving 0,1:17 votes against no opixisition, and serv-
ing from December 4, 184^, to Juno 12, 1844; wu^
prevented by ill health from attending the last ses-
sion of his tenn, and died near Murfreesborough,
Tennessee, April 27, lS4.i.
Dickinson, Edward, was liom at Amherst.
Ma.'isachusetts, Jaiiunry 1. lS(i;3; received a classical
education, gradualing at Yale College in 1823; stud-
led law; was admilled to llio bar in 1820, and prac-
U.-icd at Amherst; was for many years tn-asunT of
Amherst College; w.is a member of the State House
of Representatives in 1*10, of the State Senate in
1S42-1.S4;3, and of tho governor's council in 18.40-
1847; was elected a represent.it ive from Massachu-
setts in tho Thirty-third Congress as a Whig, n>ceiv-
iiig 4,100 votes against 1,025 votes for S. F. Cutler,
Democrat, and 1,607 votes for E. Hopkins, Free-soil
Democrat, and serving from Decemlicr 5, IS.'JS, to
March 3. 18.J5; was .igain a member of the Stale
House of Representatives in 1873; and died June 10,
1874.
Dickinson, Edward P., was hom at Frdmont,
Ohio, Janu.iry 21, 1820; graduated at the St. Xavier
(College, Cincinnati, Ohio; studied law; was admit-
ted to the bar, and practised at Fremont; st-rved over
three years In the Union army as lieutenant and
regimental quartermaster of the Eighth Ohio Infan-
try ; was elected judge of the Sanduslcy-county l*Po-
bato Court in 18«j(t- and was elected a repn^sentativa
from Ohio in tho torty-first Congress as a Democrat,
receiving 10.322 votes against 14.077 votes for Gib-
son, serving from March 4. 18<'0, to March 3. 1871.
Dickinson, John, was bom in Maryland No-
vember 13, 1732; received a classical education;
studied law at Philadelphia, and ofterwanls at the
870
OOJIGBES8IONAL DICECTOBY.
Temple In London; waa admiltcd to the bar, and
communccd pnirtice at Philadclpliia; was n member
of the Pennsylvania Assembly in IT'W; was a dele-
gate from Uelaware to llio Colonial t'oniiress in 17(3,
and to the Continental Conpix'ss in 177-1-I77H and
n"l)-178(); served in the war of the llevolntioii as
briniuiier-generid of Pennsylvania militia; Wiis jircBt-
dent of the State of Delaware in 1781; removed to
Philadelphia; was president of the Stat<! of Pennsyl-
vania 17!S:;-17So; was a member of the convinlions
whieli framed the Federal Constitution and the eon-
stilntioii of Delaware; died at Wlliui»f;lon, Dela-
wair, Febniary 14, 18IW. His p<ilitical writings were
pulilisliid in two volumes in ISOl.
Dickinson, John D., was bom in Middlesex
County, Conneeticut, In 1(07; received a classical
education, (jxadinilinj; at Yale College in 1785; stud-
ied law; was admitle<i to the bar, and eonmieneed
practice at Troy, New York; was a member of the
State House of ItejirestMitatives in 1817 ; was elected
a representative from New York in the Sixteenth
Congrffss as a Federidist, and was re-elected to the
S<"vcntcenth Congress, serving from December (I,
ISll), to JIarch '.i, 1823; was again elected to the
Twentieth Congress as a ^\^^ig, and w.is re-elected
to the Twenty-lirst Congress, ser^'ing from Decetntter
3, i»/J, to March a, 18;J1 ; died at Troy, New York,
January 28, 1S41.
Dickinson, Philemon, was l>om near Dover,
Delaware. April r>, 1731); received a classical educa-
tion; studied medicine with Dr. Allison, and com-
menced practice near Trenton, residing on a small
farm, which he cultivated; served in the army of the
Kevotution, commanding the New-Jersey militia at
the battle of Monmouth; was elected a delegate in
the Continental Congress; waa elected UnitecKStatea
senator from New Ji-rsey (in jilace of William Pat-
terson, ri'signed), scning from December G, 1790, to
March 2, 1"9.3; died at Trenton, New Jersey, Feb-
ruary 4, lS(Mt.
Dickinson, Rudolphus, was bom in Massa-
chusetts in 171)8; received a public-school education;
removed to Lower .Sandusky. Ohio; waa elected a
represent.itive from Ohio in the Thirtieth Congri'ss
OS a Democrat, receiving 7,404 voles against 5,ls4
votes for Watson, Whig, and serving from December
0, 1847. to March 3, 1840; died at Washingtoa City
March 12, 1841).
Dickson, John, was Imm in Vermont; received
a classical education, graduating al MidJlelniry Col-
lege in 1S()8; studied law; waa admitted to the b.ir,
and commenced practice at West Bluomfield, New
York; was a member of the St.ate House of IJepre-
Bcntativcs in 1820, 1830; was elected a representa-
tive from New York in the Twenty-second Congress
as a WTiig; and was re-elected to the Twenty-Third
Congress, serving from December 6, 1831, to March
3, ISv-J-j.
Dickson, Samuel, was boni in New York in
1807; received a classical education; Btu<Iied medi-
cine, and practised at New Scotland, New York; was
elected a representativo from New York in the Thir-
ty-fourth Congress as a Wdg, receiving 4,fi:W votes
against ."3.244 votes for Pruyn, Democrat, 4,270 votes
for Uarcourt, American, and 2,205 for Hamilton,
Democrat, and serving from December 3, IS.'io, to
March 3, 1857; contracted a spinal disease while
faithfuJlv attending the sessions of the House, and
died at New .Soollimd, Now York, May 3, 1858.
Dickson, William, was born in Tennessee;
reeeive<l a public-school education; engagc<l in agri-
cultural pursuits; was elected a represent.itive from
Tennessee in the Seventh Congress; and was re-
elected to the Eiifhth and Ninth Congresses, ser\ing
from Dwember 7. 1801. to March 3, 1807.
DUlingham, Paul, jun., was bom at Shutes-
bur)', JIassachusetts, August (1, ISOO; waa t-akou by
his father to Waterbury, Vermont, in 1805; n'ceivcd
an academic education; studied law; was admitted
to tlie bar In 18;i4, and commenced practice at Wa-
I
terbury; was a justice of the peace 1S2<V-1P44; w.ij
town-clerk of 'Waterbury 1820-1844; was pmseculing-
atlomey for Washington County 18;V>-1SJS; was a
delegiite to the iStale Constitutional Convention Itvai,
1837; was n mendier of the Stale House iif liepre-
cent.itives 18;i»m840, and of the State .Senate ls41,
18-12; was elected a representative from Vermont in
(ho Twenty-eighth Congress as a Demooral, receiv-
ing (1,317 votes against 4,(»57 votes for Chandler,
Whig, 707 votes for Putnam, Abolition, and .177 votes.
for others; ami waa rt'<deeted to the Twenty-ninth^
Congress, serving froivi December 4, IS4;}, to Morels
3, IH.17.
Dimmick, Milo M., was b«m in Honro^
Cuuiity, Pennsylvania; received a classical itlucsc-
(ton by his own exertions; studied law; wasadmitted
to tlie biu-, and commenced pnictice at Stroudsburg,
Pennsylvania; was elected a representative frofu
Pennsylvania in the Thirty-first Congress as a Dern-
(HTat, receiving 7,704 votes against 4.444 voles for
Wheeler, Whig; and was rc-clccled to the Thirty-
second Congress, receiving 0,400 votes against SUO
votes aeattering, serving from Deeemlier ;i. 1849. to
March 3, 1S53; resumed the practice of l.iw; and was
I'lecled in 18."i;t president-jurlgeof the Twenly-secouil
.ludicial Circuit of Pennsylvania; died at M.iuck
Clund;, Pennsylvani.i, Noveml>er2i, 1872.
Dimmiok, William H., was boni ut Milfotd,
Pcnusyhania, DeeeiuiiiT 20, 1815; received a clas-
sical education; studied law; waa .idmitted to the
!>ar. and commenced practice at Honesdale. Penn-
sylvania; was prosecuting-attomey for Wayne County
in 18;W. 1837; was a member of the State .Scn.ilu
1845, 1840, and 1847; was elected a represt-nlalive
fn)ra Pennsylvania in the Thirty-fifth CJongress as a
Democrat, receiving 11,235 votes against S.tXiii votes
for S. E. Dimmick, Unionist; and was re-elected to
the Thirty-sixth Congress, receiving S.dOij votes
against O.rJOO votes for D. K. Shoemaker, Unionist,
serving from December 7, 18.57, to March 3, 1801;
died at Honesdale, Pennsylvania, August 2, 1801.
Dimock, Davis, jun., was Imm in Susque-
hanna County, Pennsylvaida; and was elected a
rcpR'scntative from that .State in tlie Twenty-seventh
Congress, serving from M.ty 31, 1841, until his death
at Montrose, Pennsylvania, of disease conlr.ictcd al
the previous extra session of Congress, January 13,
1842.
Dinsmoor, Samuel, was bom at Windham, .«_ '.
New Ilampsbire, July 1, 17t)ll; received a clas«iraLM:— «l
wiuciitiou, graduating al Uar\-ar<l College in ITSO^ *J
studied law ; was a<lmitted to the bar. .ind commencediK :^m1
practice at Kecne, New Ilanip.'ililre; held several ^ril
commissions successively in tlie militia; w;is electcdK— ^ ■*!
a represcntalivc from New Hiimpsliire in the Twelftl^c::^'-b
Congress as a War Democrat, serving from Novcm — j
her 4. 1811, until March 3, 1813; w.-vs defeated as
candidate for re-<.'lection to the Thirteenth Congress
as a War Democrat, receiving 15.000 votes against .s^'
18,011 votes for R. Vose, Peace Federalist ; was Staler ^■''
councillor in 1821; w,ts a presidential elector on Ihc^ -•"
Munroo ticket in 1821; was defeated as a candidate^' -**
for governor by Levi Wootlbury; was judge of
bate for Cheshire County 182.3-1831; w.as a menibea
of the commission which established the boundaiy-
line between New Hampshire and Massachusetts
1825; was governor of New Hampshire 1S31-1883
and died al Keene, New Hampshire, March 15, 1835-
Disney, David Tieman, w.as bom in Bait!
more, Maryland, in ISttl; received a public-schoo T
education; removed to Ohio wilh his parents in 1807 «
studied law; was admitted to the bar, and com.—
mcnced practice at Cincinnati; was several yean U
member of the Slate House of Kepresentatives, serr-
ing three years as speaker; totik an active pari In
sending men, and munitions of war, to Texas during
tlie smiggle of that State for independence; nnu
elected a representative from Ohio in the Tliirty-Urrt
Congress as a Democrat, receiving 0,202 rotes ogoinit
0,207 votes for Strait, Whig, and 2,158 votes for
BTATISTICAL SEETTCHES.
871
Lewis, Free-eoil Democrat; was re-elected to the
Thirty-second Congress, receiving 10,640 votes, with-
out opposition; and was re-elected to the Thirty-
third Congress, receiving 6,862 votes against 4,S17
votes for CassUIy, Whig, and 82 votes for Jolly, Free-
soil Democrat, serving from December 3, 1840, to
March 3, 1865; was tendered by President Buchanan
the mission to Spain, but declined it; and died at
Washington City, after a brief illness, of long-fever,
Mareh 14, 1857.
Diven, Alexander 8., was bom at Catharine,
Kew Yoit, Februaiy 15, 1809; received an academi-
cal edncation; studied law; was admitted to the bar,
and commenoMl practice at Elmlra; was a member
(jf the State Senate in 1858; was elected a representa-
tive from New York in the Thirty-seventh Congress
as a Bcpublican, receiving 13,482 votes against 10,088
votes for Dowe, Democrat, and serving irom July 4,
181)1, to March 3, 1863.
Drz, John Adams, was bom at Boscawen, Xew
Hampshire, July 24, 1706; received an academical
education ; entered the United-States army as ensign ;
served throughout the war of 1812, and resigned in
182S; travelled in Europe; having studied law while
he was in the army, he was admitted to the bar on
his return, and commenced practice at Cooperstown;
was adjatant-eeneral of Kew Yoric in 1831 ; was sec-
retary of the National Democratic Convention which
renominated Jackson at Baltimore in 1832; was
■ecretory of state of New York in 1833; was a regent
of the university, member of the council, and canal
commissioner; was a member of the State House of
liepresentativcs from Albany in 1842; was elected a
United-States senator from New York (to fill the
vacancy occasioned by the death of Silas Wright)
as a Democrat, and served from January 27, 1846, to
March 8, 1840; was appointed postmaster of the city
of Now York in 1860; was secretary of the treasury
January 11, 1861, to March 3, 1861 ; served in the
Union army as major-general 1801-18C5: declined
the mission to the Netherlands; was naval officer of
the port of New York; was minister to France from
September 24, 1866, to May 23, 18C0; was governor of
the State of New York In 1873-1875 ; was defeated as
the Kepublican candidate for governor in 1874, and
as the Republican candidate for mayor of the city of
New York in 1870.
Dixon, Archibald, was bom in Caswell County,
North Carolina, April 2, 1802; removed with his
father to Henderson County, Kentucky, in 1605; re-
ceivc<l a public-school education; studied law; was
admitted to the bar in 1824, and commenced prac-
tice at Henderson, Kentucky; was a member of the
State House of Representatives in 1830 and 1841, and
uf the State Senate in 1836; was lieutenant-governor
in 1843; was a member of the State Constitutional
Convention iu 1849, and was elected United-States
senator from Kentucky (to fill the vacancy caused by
the death of Henry Clay) as a Whig, serving from
December 20, 1852, to March 8, 1855; was an advo-
cate of peace durhtg the war of the Rebellion, and
was a dclt^ato to the Frankfort Peace Convention in
188:}j died at Henderson, Kentucky, April 24, 1876.
Dixon, James, was bom at Enfield, Connecti-
cut, August 5, 1814; received a classical education,
Enuluoting from Williams College in 1834; studied
law; was admitted to the bar, and practised at Hart-
ford, Connecticut; was a member of the State House
of Representatives in 1837, 1838, and 1844; was
elected a refMresentative from Connecticut in the
Twenty-ninth Congress as a Whig, receiving 7,612
votes against 6,041 votes for Thomas H. Seymour,
Democrat; and was re-elected to the Thirtieth Con-
gress, serving from December 1, 1845, to March 8,
1840; was an editorial contributor to " The Hartford
Courant;" was again a member of the State House
of Itepresentatives in 1854, and an unsuccessful cau-
date for tho Whig nomination fur United-States sen-
ator; was elected United-States senator as a liepub-
Ucaa (to Bocceed Fraucis GMllotte, £Yce-Soiler), and
was re-elected, serving from March 4. 1867, to March
3, 1809; was prominent in the attempt to organize a
Johnson party in 1866; was defeated as the Demo-
cratic candidate for United-States senator in 1868;
was defeated as the Democratic candidate for repre-
sentative in the Forty-flrst Congress, receivingl0,886
votes against 11,620 votes for J. L. Strong, Repub-
lican; died of heaH-disease at Hartford, Connecti-
cut, March 27, 1873.
Uixon, Joseph Henry, was bom in North
Carolina; served in the war of the Bevolution; was
elected a representative from NorQi Carolina in the
Sixth Conraess, serving from December 2, 1709, to
March 3, 1801.
Dixon, Nathan F. (father of Nathan F. Dixon),
was bom at Plainfleld, Connecticut, 1774; received a
classical education, graduating at Brown University
in 1790; studied law; was admitted to the bar in
1802, and commenced practice at Westerly, Rhode
Island; was a member of the General Assembly
1813-1833; was elected a United-States senator from
Rhode Island as a Whig, serving from December 2,
1830, to his death, at Washington, January 20, 1842.
Dizon, Nathan F., was bom at Westerly,
Rhode Island, May 1, 1812; graduated at Brown
University; studied at the Cambridge and New-
Haven Law Schools; practised law; was a member
of the General Assembly of Rhode Island iu 1840-
1840, 1851, 1862, 1855-1863; was one of the govemor'a
council appointed by the General Assemoly during
the troubles in 1842; was presidential elector in 1844;
was elected a representative from Rhode Island in
the Thirty-first Congress as a Whig, receiving 2,822
votes against 2,107 votes for Thurston, CoaliUonist,
and serving from December 3, 1840, to March 3, 1861 ;
was again elected to the Thirty-eighth Congress as a
Republican, receiving 4,202 votes i^ainst 8,180 votes
for Browne, Democrat; was re-elected to the Thirty-
ninth Congress, receiving 2,881 .votes against 1,201
votes for Bradford, Democrat; was re-elected to the
Fortieth Congress, receiving 2,660 votes against 1,480
votes for Carder, Democrat; and was re-elected to
tho Forty-first Congress, receiving 4,136 votes against
2,640 votes for Waterhouse, Democrat, serving from
December 7, 1863, to Mareh 3, 1871 ; declined a re-
election to Congress, and resumed practice; was
again elected to the General Assembly in 1872, 1873,
1874, 1875, 1870, and 1877.
Doane, William, was bom in Maine; received
a public-school education; removed to Ohio; filled
several local offices; was elected a representative
from Ohio in the Twenty-sixth Congress as a Demo-
crat ; and was re-elected to the Twenty-seventh Con-
gress, serving from December 2, 1839, to March 3,
1843.
Dobbin, James Cochrane, was bom at Ffty-
ettcvillo, North Carolina, in 1814; received a classi-
cal education, graduating at the University of North
Carolina in 1832; studied law with Robert Strange;
was admitted to the bar 1836, and practised success-
fully at Fayetteville; was elected a representative
from North Carolina in the Twenty-ninth Congress
OS a Democrat, receiving 5,242 votes against 8,230
votes for Houghtoq, Whig, and served from Decem-
ber 1, 1846, until Mareh 3, 1847, declining a re-elec-
tion ; was a memlier of the House of Commons in
1848, 1850, and 1862, and was chosen speaker in 1860;
was a member of the Democratic National Conven-
tion at Baltimore in 1862; was appointed secretaij
of the navy by President Pieree, serving from March
7, 1853, unUl March 6, 1857; and died at Fayetteville,
North Carolina. August 4, 1857.
Dobbins, Samuel A., was bom in Burlington
County, New Jersey, April 14, 1814; was educated
in common and select schools; is extensively en-
gaged in farming; was high sheriff of Burlington
County from 1854 until 1857; was a member of the
State legislature from 1859 until 1862; was elected a
representative from New Jersey in the Forty-thifd
Congress as a Republican, receiving 14,102 votes
872
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sgainit 11,787 votes forS. C. Forkcr, Democrat; and
was rc-clecled to the Forty-fourth Congross, n-ceiv-
ing 13,U97 votes against 13,U11 votes for A. J. Siaitli.
Dcnocrat, serving from December 1, 1873, to Murch
3, 1877.
Dockery, Alfred, was bom in Riclunond Coun-
ty, North C;irolina, Dt-cemlx'r 11, 17S'7; was a plant-
er; was a inomljer of the House of Commons of
North Carolina in 1822, and State senator in )!s;J(t-
1844; was clecte<l a representative from North Caro-
lina in the Twenty-ninth Congress as a Wliig,
serving from December 1, 184i>, until March 3, 1847,
and declined re-election; was as:aln elected to tlie
Tliirty-second Congress as a Whig, receiving 5,;{5"2
voles against 4,277 votes for G. W. Caldwell, Demo-
crat, and seriing from December 1, 1851, until
March 3, 1853; was defeated as the Whig candidate
for governor in 1SS4, receiving 40,0:iiO votes against
48,705 votes for Bragg, Democrat; was opposed to
secession, and l>ec-am(! a Republican after the war;
and died at his residence in ICichmoud County, North
Carolina, Deceral)er 7, 1875.
Dockery, Oliver H., was bom in Richmond
County, North Carolina, August 12, 18;5!.t; a son of
the lion. Alfred Dockery, an ex-meml»cr of Con-
gress, a miui of prominence and influence in the
Slate of North Carolina for the last thirty years;
he received a good e<iucation, griuiuating at the
University of North Carolina in lli4s; reail law, but
never practised, and was a farmer; represented his
county in the legislature of 1858 and 18.59; was the
district-elector for the Union ticket under Bell and
Even-tt in ISOO; was for a short time in the Confed-
er.ite service, but honorably withdrew therefrom,
and ever afterwards took a bold and manly sUuid for
the re-establishment of the National Government,
and a sixwdy restoration of North Carolina to her
original position therein; he was active and enthu-
siastic in the [H-aco, movement in 18t>4 in his State
under the leadership of (tovernor llolden ; was
elected a representative from North Carolina In the
Fortieth Congress as a Republican, serving from
July 13, 1.808, to March 3, 1871; and was re-elected
to the Forty-first Congress as a Republican, receiving
15,314 votes against 13,3.'j3 votes for McKoy, Demo-
crat.
Dodd, JEidwaxd. was bom at Salem, Washing-
ton County, New York, 1805; received a public-
school education; engaged in mercantile pursuits;
was clerk of Washington County 1S3.'>-1.'*44; was a
delegate to the State Constitutional Convention of
ISAti; was elected a representative from New York
in the Thirty-fourth Congress as a Whig, receiving
6,700 votes against (3,353 votes for Clark, Democrat,
2,428 votes for Hughes, Democrat, and 2,3'.«) votes
for Andrews, Temperance; and was re-elected to the
Thirty-fiflh Congress, receiving 11,717 votes against
5,633 votes for Cramer, American, and 5,373 votes
for Grav, Democrat, serving from December 3, 1855,
to March 3, IS'.l).
Doddridge, Philip, was Iwm at Wellsbury,
Western Virginia, 17li'<; he was reared on a farm,
where ho taught himself L.itin; studied law, and
won distinction at the bar: w.as elected a representa-
tive from Virginia in the Twenty-first Congress, and
re-elected to the Twenty-second Congress without
opposition, sening from December 7, 1829, to his
death at Washington, November 10. 18.32, while in
the perform.anco of official duties as one of a com-
mittee ap|Hiititcd to prepare a code of laws for the
District of Coliimbi.i.
Dodge, Avigusttis C. (son of Henry Do<lge),
was Ixim at St. (.tenevieve, Missouri, Januarv- 2,
1812; receiveil a pul>lic-school education; removed to
Burlington, Iowa, and was register of the laud-
offlee there 183.S-1840; was elect<-'d a deleg.ate from
Iowa in the Twenty-sixth Congress as a Demo<;rat;
was re-elected to iliuTwenly-seventli, Twenty-«Mr;lilli,
and Twenty-ninth CVmgresses, serving from Decem-
ber 8, 164U, to Mareb 3, 1M7; was elected United-
States senator from Iowa on its adm!"' " ■" ^ ■=•"'<■,
serving fmm Decenilwr 2ii, 1848. t'l i.
Fcbrui-.ry H, 1855; was appointed by i ■ ■?
minister to Spain, serving from February I*. IWj, i»
March 12, 1850; was a delegate to the Nation.il
Democratic Convention at Chicago in LStU ; w
electeil mayor of Burlington on an Independeu
ticket Fet)ruary 2, 1K74.
Dodge, Gfenville M., was bom at Danvcrs^^^
Mas!iaclius<*tts, April 12, 1831 ; gniduated at ih^^^
Military University, Norwich, \ crmont ; studiei^y
civil engineering; was engineer in several importanx
public works, and Itecame chief engineer of tho
Union Pacific Railroad; entered the Union army Iq
1801 as captain, and rose to the rank of major-gei>.
eral; was elected a reprcscnt.itivc from Iowa in the
Fortieth Congress as a Republican, receiving H.^t^tl
votes against 0,803 for Tuttle, Democnt, scrviug
from March 4, 1807, to March 3, 1800.
Dodge, Henry (father of Augustas C. Dodge),
was bom at Vinecnnes, Indi.ina, October 12. ITSi;
received a frontior-school education ; removeil to
Missouri ; entered the volunteer serrice when a
young man, and was engaged in the Black-Hawk
and other Indian wars at the North-West; was com-
missioned major of United-.State8 Hangers in .Tune,
1S;?2, and the ftrst colonel of the First United-States
Dragoons March 4, 18:>J. resigning In July, 183<l;
was appointed by President ilacksian governor of
Wisconsin, serving from July 4, 1830, to 1841; was
elected delegate from Wisconsin In the Twenty-
seventh Congress as a Democrat, and was re-electod
to the Twenty-eighth Congn-ss, serving from De-
eemlier 7. 1.S41, to Marcli 3. 1S45: was appointed by
President Polk governor of Wisconsin Feliruary 6,
184<!; was elected one of the first United-States sen-
ators from the State of Wisconsin as a Demo<.Tat,
receiving (JO votes against 23 votes for Collins, Whig;
and was re-elected, serving from June 2:J, 1648, to
March 3, 18.i7.
Dodge, William E,, was bom at Hartford,
Connecticut, September 4, 18U6; received a public-
school education; removed to New York whea
thirtiMin years of age, and entered a store as clerk;
commenced business on his own account in 1820,
establishing the house of Phelps, Dodge, ik Co.. of
which he was the head for forty years; was a dele-
gate to the Peace Convention of 18<)1; claimed to
have been elected a representative from New York
in the Thirty-ninth Congress (James Brooks Iiavitig
receive<l the certificate of election and taken the
scat); and the House decided, April 0, 18IVI, tliat he
had received 8,378 legal votes against 8.302 legal
votes for James Brooks, which entitled him to tlia
seat, serving from April 7, 1800, to March 3, 1807.
Doe, Nicholas jB., was bom in New York, and
W.1S elected a n?prcsentative from that State in the
Twenty-sixth Congn'.M (in the place of Anson
Brown, deceased) as a Wiig, sening from December
7, 1.840, to March 3, 1841.
Doig, Andrew W., was bom In Washingt'
County, New York; received a public-school etluc
lion; taught school; was county surveyor and clerk;.,
was a member of the State Hou.sc of Representatives^
in 18;32; was surrogate of Washington County 18:J5-
1840; was elected a representative from New York
in the Twenty-sixth Congress as a Democrat, receiv-
ing 5,04;) votes against 3,835 votes for Selh Miller,
Whig; and was re-elected to the Twenty-sevcuth
Congress, receiving 0,i.S2 votes against 4.774 votes
for U. W. Dixilittle, Whig, scr\ing from December S,
ISJO, to March 3, 184.3; went to Califoniia in 1840,
but returned to Lowville, New York.
Donley, Joseph B., was bom at Mount Morris,
Pennsylvania, Octol>er 10, 1338; graduate<l at Wayne»>
burg College in 1850; was engaged in teaehiug;
entered the Union army In 1862, serving as a captain
In the Eighty-thinl Illinr>ls Infantry: gradu.ued at
the Law University of AlUmy, New York, in May,
llJtiO; was appoLut^id register lii bankruptcy for th«
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873
Twenty-fourth District in May, 1867 : and -was elected
a representative from Pennsylvania in tlie Forty-first
Congresa aa a Republican, receiving 13,860 votes
against 12,737 votes for Crawford, Democrat, serving
from March 4. 1809. to March 3, 1871.
Donnan, William Q., was Ixim at West Charl-
ton, NewYorli, June 30, 1834; his early education
was received on the farm, at the district-school, and
at the Cambridge Academy; he entered Union Col-
lege, New Yorlt, in 1853, and graduated in 1856; he
removed in Septemlier, 1830, to Independence, Iowa,
where he studied law, and was admitted to the bar
in 1857 ; in September of that year he was elected
treasurer and recorder of Buchanan County, and
held the office by re-election until 1862; he entered
the Union army as a private in 1862, and was pro-
moted to the grade of first lieutenant, and brevetted
captain and major for efficient services in the field,
and served to the close of the Iiel}eliion ; he was a
member of the State Senate of Iowa in 1808 and
ISTO, and was elected a representative from Iowa in
the Forty-second Congress as a Republican, receiving
15,927 vot«a against 10,961 votes for Stoneman, Demo-
crat; and was re-elected to the Forty-third Congress,
receiving 13,054 votes against 11,774 votes for J. T.
Stoneman, Democrat and Liberal; declined being a
candidate for re-election, having served from March
4, 1871, to March 8, 1875.
DonnelL Bichard S., was bom at New Berne,
North Carolina: was elected a representative from
North Carolina in the Thirtieth Congress as a Whig,
receiving 4,293 votes against 3,924 votes for Lane,
Democrat, and serving &om I)eceml>er 0, 1847, to
March 3, 1849.
Donnelly, IsnatiuB, was bom at Philadelphia
November 8, IMl; received a public-school educa-
tion, graduating from the high school of thateitv;
studied and practised law; went to Minnesota in
1867 ; was elected lieutenant-governor of Minnesota
in 1859, and was re-elected in 1861; was elected a
representative from Minnesota in the Thirty-eighth
Congress as a Republican, receiving 0,920 votes
against 4,921 votes for Cullen, Democrat; was
elected to the Thirty-ninth Congress, receiving
10,874 votes against 8,211 votes for John M. Gilman,
Democrat: and was re-elected to the Fortieth Con-
gress as a Republican, receiving 12,022 votes against
7,754 votes for Colville, Democrat, and serving from
December 7, 1863, to March 3, 1809.
Doolittle, James B., was bom at Hampden,
New Yorlt, January 3, 1815; graduated at Geneva
College, New York; studied and practised law; was
district-attorney of Wyoming County, New York, for
several years, and removed to Wisconsin in 1851:
was elected judge of the First Judicial Circuit of
Wisconsin in 1853, and held the office until he re-
signed in 1850; was elected United-States senator
from Wisconsin as a Democratic Republican (to suc-
ceed Henry Dodge, Democrat); and was re-elected,
serving from December 7, 1857, to March 3, 1809.
Dorsey, dement, was bom in Anne Arundel
County, Mai^'land; was elected a representative from
Maryland in the Nineteenth Congress; was re-elected
to the Twentieth and Twenty-first Congresses with-
out opposition, serving from Deceml)er 6, 1825, to
March 8, 1831 ; died August 0, 1840.
Doraey, Stephen w., was bora at Benson,
Vermont, February 28, 1842; received an academical
education; removed, when a boy, to Oberlin, Ohio;
was one of the first to volunteer in the Union army,
in wlilch he served under General Grant at Shiloh,
General Bacll at Penyville, Greneral Rosecrans at
Stone River and Chattanooga, and General Thomas
at Mission Ridge; in 1804 he was transferred to the
Army of the Potomac, and took part in the battles
of the Wilderness and of Cold Harbor^ serving until
the close of the war; returning to Ohio, he resumed
business as an employ^ of the Sandusky Tool Com-
piny, and waa soon chosen its president; on the
lame day be waa elected, without hia knowledge.
president of the Arkansas Central Railway Com-
pany; removing to Arkansas, he was chosen chair-
man of the Republican County and State Commit-
tees; was offered a seat in Congress by the Repub-
licans of the First District, but declined, and was
elected, almost unanimously, United-States senator
from Arkansas as a Republican, and took hia seat
March 4, 1873.
Doty, James Duane, was bom in New York,
1800; received a public-school education; removed
early in life to Wisconsin Territory, and settled at
Menasha; was elected delegate from Wisconsin as a
Democrat In the Twenty-fifth Congress (successfully
contesting the seat wim G. W. Jones), and was re-
elected to the Twenty-sixth Congress, serving from
January 14, 1837, to March 3, 1841 ; was governor of
Wisconsin 1841-1844; was elected a representative
from Wisconsin in the Tliirty-flrst Congress as a
Democrat, receiving 6,740 votes against 3,388 votes
for T. O. Howe, Whig, and 2,330 votes for Judd,
Free-soil Democrat ; and was re-elected to the Thirty-
second Congress as a Free-soil Democrat, receiving
11,169 votes against 6,371 votes for Hol)ert, Whig,
serving from December 3, 1849, to March 8, 1863:
waa appointed by President Lincoln treasurer or
Utah, and governor of that Territory in 1864; died
at Salt-Lake City^Utah, June 11, 1866.
Doubleday, Ulysses P., was bom in Otsego
County, New York, in 1794; received a public-
school education; learned the art of printing;
established a newspaper at Bailston, ana another
at Auburn, publishing the last twenty years; waa
elected a representative from New York in the
Twenty-second Congress as a Jackson Democrat,
serving from December 6, 1831, to March 2, 1883; was
again elected to the Twenty-fourth Congress, serving
from December 7, 1835, to March 3, 1837; removed to
New York, and engaged in the book-trade there;
died at Belvidere, Illinois, March 11, 1866.
Douglas, Beverly B., was bom in New-Kent
County, Virginia, December 21, 1822; received an
academic and collegiate education; studied law;
graduated from the law school of Judge Beverly
Tucker, William and Mary College, 1848, and was
admitted to the bar in 1844; was a member of the
Constitutional Convention to amend the State Con-
stitution in 1850-1851 ; was a member of the State
Senate for twelve years ; was a presidential elector
on the Breckinridge and Lane ticket in 1860; entered
the Confederate army as first lieutenant in Lee's
Rangers, and was successively promoted to the rank
of major of the Fifth Virginia Cavalry; was chosen-
a delegate to the Democratic National Convention
at New York which nominated Seymour and Blair,
but was unable to attend; and was elected a repre-
sentative from Virginia in the Forty-fourth Congress
as a Conservative, receiving 10,783 votes against
10,488 votes for J. B. Sener, Republican; was re-
eiectejl to the Forty-fifth Congress, receiving 14,218
votes against 10,940 votes for Bristow, Republican,
serving from Deceral)er 6, 1875.
Doiiglas, Stephen Arnold, was bom at
Brandon, Vermont, April 23, 1813; received an
academical education ; worked at the cabinet-maker's
tnide ; removed to Canandaigua, New York, where
he commenced the study of law under Mr. Hubble,
and continued under S. I. Andrews at Cleveland,
Ohio, after removing there in 1833; his health fail-
ing, he went to Illinois, where he taught school, and,
having been admitted to the bar, commenced practice
at Jacksonville in March, 1834 ; was elected by_ the
lepislatiire State's attorney for the Morgan Circuit in
1835 ; was elected a member of the State House of
Representatives of Dlinois in 1830-1837; was ap-
pointed register of the land-office at Springfield,
Illinois, in 1837; was defeated in 1838 as a Demo-
cratic candidate for election to the House of Repre-
sentatives of the United States, receiving 18,337
votes against 18,406 votes for John T. Stewart,
Whig; waa appointed secretary of atate of Illinoia
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C0N6BBSSIDKAL OIBSCTOBT.
during the session of the legislature of 1840-1841,
and, before the adjourmnent, was elected one of the
judges of the State Supreme Court; was elected a
representative from Illinois in the Twenty-eighth
Congress as a Democrat, receiving 8,631 votes against
8,110 votes for Browning, Whig; was re-elected to
the Twenty-ninth Congress as a Democrat, receiving
9,628 votes against 6,864 votes for Yandevener, Whi^,
and 805 votes for Wilson, Abolitionist; was again
TQ-elccted to the Thirtieth Congress as a Democrat,
but, before taking his seat, was elected to the Senate
of the United States, taking his seat March 4, 1847;
was re-elected in 1853 as a Popular-Sovereignty
Democrat; and again in 1850, defeating Abraham
Lincoln, serving from December 4, 18&, until he
died at Chicago, June 3, 1801; he received twelve
electoral votes for President in 1800.
Dowdell, James F., was bom in JasperCounty,
Georgia, November 20, 1818; received a classical
education, graduating at Bandolph Macon College in
1840; studied law with n. A. Haralson at La Grange,
6eoi«ia: was admitted to the bar in April, 1841, and
practised at Greenville, Georgia; removed in 1346
to Chambers County, Alabama, and engaged in
agricultural pursuits; was an unsuccessful candidate
for the legislature of Alabama in 1840, and again in
1851; was chosen a presidential elector on the Pierce
and King ticket in 1862; was elected a representative
from Alabama in the Thirtv-third Congress as a
State-rights Democrat, reccivmg 7,338 votes against
4,223 votes forT. G. Garrett, Union Democrat; was
again elected to the Thirty-fourth Co^ress, receiv-
ing 6,342 votes against 5,808 votes for Watts, Ameri-
can ; and was re-elected to the Thirty-fifth Congress,
receiving 0,605 votes against 0j418 votes for T. J.
Judge, American, serving from December 6, 1853, to
March 3, 1859.
Dowiiinsr, Charles, was bom in Ylr^nia; was
elected a delegate from the Territory of Florida in
the Twenty-fifth Congress; and was re-elected to the
Twenty-sixth Congress, receiving 800 majority over
Blatzefl, serving from September 4, 1837, to March 8,
1841 ; died OctoW 24, 1841.
Downs, Solomon W., was bom in Tennessee
in 1801 ; received a classical education, graduating at
Transylvania University; studied law; was admitted
to the bar, and commenced practice at Xew Orleans,
Louisiana, in 1820; was United-States district-attor-
ney 1845-1847; was elected United-States senator
from Louisiana as a Democrat, serving from Decem-
ber 6, 1847, to March 3, 1853: and died at Orchard
Springs, Kentucky, August 14, 1854.
Dowse, Edward, was bom in Norfolk Coun-
ty, Massachusetts ; was elected a representative
from Massachusetts in the Sixteenth Congress, serv-
ing from December 6, 1810, to 1820, when he re-
Bi^ied.
Dowse, William, resided at Otsego, New York,
and was elected a representative from New York in
the Thirteenth Congress as a Federalist, but died be-
fore the commencement of the first session, February
13, 1813.
Doz, Peter M., was bom at Geneva, Ontario
County, New York, September 11, 1813; was edu-
cated at Geneva Academy and at Hobart College,
Geneva, from which he graduated in August, 1833;
was chosen tutor immediately after graduating;
studied and practised law; was a member of the
legislature of New York from Ontario County in
1841-1842; was judge of the Ontario-county courts;
removed to Madison County, Alabama, in 1855, and
has been engaged in agricultural pursuits there; was
a member of the State Constitutional Convention of
1806; was elected a representative from Alabama in
the Forty-first Congress as a Union Democrat, re-
ceiving 0,047 votes against 4,033 votes for Haralson,
Bepublican; and was re-elected to the Forty-second
Congress as a Democrat, rcccivingl0,(180 votes against
4,523 votes for L. J. Standif ee, Republican, serving
from December 7, 1809, to March 8, 1S73.
Drake, Charles D., was bom at Clndimtti,
Ohio, April 11, 1811; studied and practised law;
went to St. Louis in 1834; was a member of the
State House of Bepresentatives of Missouri in 1^9-
1800; was a member in 1803 of the State Convention
of Missouri which had been elected In February, 1861;
was presidential elector in 1804; was a member in
1865 of the Missouri Constitutional Convention which
hod been elected in November, 1804; was el<!cteil
United-States senator from Missouri aa a Bepublican
(to succeed B. Gratz Brown), serving from March 1,
1867, to December 10, 1870, when he resigned, having
been appointed chief justice of the Court of Claimi.
Published a " Treatise on the Law of Suits by At-
tachment in the United States," and a "life of
Daniel Drake."
Drake, John R., was bom in 1783; received a
good English education; was one of the pior.ctr
settlers in Tlc^a Coun^, New York; held seveml
local offices; was elected a representative from \ev
York in the Fifteenth Congress, serving from De-
cember 1, 1817, to March 3, 181SL; was judge of the
Court of Common Fleas for Tioga County 188J-
1838; was a member of the State House of Bepresen-
tatives in 1831; died at Oswego March 21, 1857.
Draper, Joseph, was bom in Yirelnia; Tas
elected a representative from Virginia in the Twenty-
first Congress (In place of Alexander Smyth, do-
ceased); and was re-elected to the Twenty-second
Congress, serving from December 6, 1830, to March
2, 183.3.
Drayton, William, was bom at St. Augustine,
Florida, December 30, 1776; received a thorongh
Fnglish education in England; studied law while
assisting bis brother Jacob Drayton, clerk cf the
county courts of Charleston; was admitted to the
bar December 12, 1797; entered the United-States
army as lieutenant<K)lonel March 12, 1812, and served
through the war of 1812, attaining the rank of in-
spector-general ; was associated with Generals Scott
and Macomb in compiling infantry tactics for the
use of the army and the militia; was recorder of
Charleston 1819^1824; was elected a representatire
from South Carolina in the Nineteenth Congress as
a Union Democrat (to fill the vacancy caused by the
appointment of Joel R. Poinsett, who had been
elected as minister to Mexico), and was successively
re-elected to the Twentieth, Twenty-first, and Twen-
ty-second Congresses, vrithout opposition, servinz
from December 5, 1825, to March 2, 1833; opposed
nullification in 18-30, and consequently left Soath
Carolina, removing to Philadelphia in August, 1833;
was president of the Bank of the United States 18(0-
1841; and died of disease of the heart at Philadel-
phia, Pennsylvania, May 24, 1846.
Drayton, William Henry, was bom at Dray-
ton Hml, on Ashley Eiver, South Carolina, in Sep-
tember, 1742; received a classical education at West-
minster School, London, and at Baliol College, Uni-
versity of Oxford ; studied law, and was admitted to
the bar; returned to England, and was appointed by
Geoifio UI. privy councillor for the Province of Sontn
CaroUna; coming home to discharge the duties of his
ofiSce, he was appointed assistant judge, but took
such an active part in the pre-Eevolutionary contro-
versies, that he was deprived of both positions; was
president of the Council of Safety in 1775, and chief
justice in 1776; was elected a delegate to the Conti-
nental Congress in 1778, and served until he died,
September, 1779. He wrote a " History of the Eevo-
lution " ill three volumes, which was published by
his son in 1821.
Drigsrs, John F., was bom at Kinderhook,
New York, March 8, 1813; received a good common-
school education ; was a master mechuiic and build-
er; is a dealer in lands; was superintendent of the
Now- York Penitentiary in 1844; removed to Michi-
gan in 1850; was president of Saginaw Village in
1858; was a member of the State legislature cf Uichi-
gon in 1&59 and lOGO; was elected a representacivs
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from Ifiehigan in the Thirty-eighth Congress as a
Bepublican, receiving 7,870 votes against 7,340 votes
tor Hoore, Union ; was re-elected to the Thirty-ninth
Consress, receiving 12,490 votes against 10,004 votes
for Willard, Democrat; and was re-elected to the
Fortieth Congress as a Republican, receiving 14,603
votes against 10,564 votes for Rose, Democrat, serv-
ing from December 7, 1863. to March 3, 1860; died at
East Saginaw, Michigan, December 17, 1877.
Dromgoole, Qeorge C, was bom in Virginia;
received a daseical education ; studied law, was ad-
mitted to the bar, and practised ; was several years a
member of the State Senate and House of Represen-
tatives; f ought a duel with Mr. Dugger of Virginia,
in North Carolina, and Idlled him ; was elected a rep-
resentative from Virginia in the Twenty-fourth Con-
gress as a Democrat; was re-elected to the Twenty-
nfth Congress, and was re-elected to the Twenty-sixth
Congress, serving from December 7, 1835, to March 8,
1841 ; declined being a candidate for the Twenty-
seventh Congress; was again elected to the Twenty-
eighth Congress, without opposition; and was re-
elected to the Twenty-ninth Congress, receiving 1,641
votes agMnst 1,620 votes for Boiling, Whig, serving
from December 4, 1843, to March 3, 1847; died AprU
27,1847.
Dnun, Augustus, was bom at Indiana, Penn-
sylvania; received a publio-school education; was
elected a representative from Pennsylvania in the
Thifty-4hitd Congress as a Democrat^receiving 7,068
votes against 6,0^ votes for Kuhns, Whig, and serv-
iDgf rom December 5, 1853, to March 3, 1856.
Daane, Jamec^ was bom at New York Febra-
ary6, 1733; received a classical education; studied
law, and was admitted to the t>ar; was prominent in
the ante-Berolationary movements; was a member of
the Continental Congress from Kew York 1774-1784;
was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention 1770-
1777; was a member of the State Senate 1783-1784;
was the first mayor of New-York City 1784; was a
delegate to the State Convention to consider the
Federal Constitution 1788 ; was United-States district-
judge for the District of New York 1780-1794; and
died at Duanesburg, New York, which he had found-
ed, Febraary 1, 1707.
Du Bose, Dudley Mclver, was bom in Shel-
by County, Tennessee, October 28, 1834; was a stu-
dent at the University of Mississippi ; studied law,
and practised it as a profession; was a brigadier-
general in the Confederate army; was elected a rep-
resentative from Georgia in the Forty-«econd Con-
gress as a Democrat, receiving a majority of over
0,000 votes over J. S. Fannin, Republican, serving
from March 4, 1871, to March 3, 1873.
Dudley, Charles Edward, was bom at John-
ton Hall, StaaorUshire, England, May 23, 1780;
came with his mother in 1794 to Newport, Rhode
Island (where his father had been the king's collector
of customs), and entered a counting-room aa clerk;
went to the East Indies as supercargo; removed to
New-York Citv, and thence to Albany, where he
became a leading merchant; was a member of the
Bute Senate 1820-1825; was mayor of Albany 1821-
1828; was elected United-States senator from New
York as a Democrat (to fill the vacancy caused by
the resignation of Martin Van Buren), and served
from January 20, 1820, to March 2, 1833; and died at
Albany, New York, January 23, 1841. He had dis-
played a fondness for astronomical science ; and his
widow erected and endowed the Dudley Observatory
at Albany, at an expense of over $100,000, as a trit>-
nte to his memory.
Dudley, Sdward B., was bom at Wilmington,
North Carolina, in 1771 ; was a member of the State
House of Bepresentatives in 1810; was elected a rep-
resentative from North Carolina in the Twenty-lirst
Congress as a Jacluon Democrat, defeating Gabriel
Holmes, and serving from December 7, 1820, to
March 3, 1881 ; was governor of North Carolina 1837-
1841; was president of the Wilmington and Baleigh
Railroad Company; and died at Wilmington, North
Carolina, October 80, 1853.
Duell, B. Holland, was bora at Warren, New
York, December 20, 1824; received a common-school
and academic education; studied and practised law;
was district-attorney of Cortland County from 1860
to 1855; was county judge of the same county from
1856 to 1869 ; was assessor of internal revenue for the
Twenty-third District of New York from 1869 to
1871 ; was elected a representative from New York
in the Thirty-sixth Congress, receiving 10,051 votes
i^alnst 8,147 votes for Sands, Democrat; was re-
elected to the Thirty-seventh Congress, receiving
13,960 votes against 4.023 votes for Hitchcock, Demo-
crat, and 3,650 votes lor Nelson Breckinridge, Demo-
crat ; was again elected to the Forty-second Coi^ress
as a Republican, receiving 10,788 votes against 8,734
votes for Denis McCarthy, Independent Democrat;
and was re-elected to the Forty-third Congress, re-
ceiving 15,467 votes against 13,288 votes for F. His-
cock, Democrat, serving from March 4, 1871, to
March 8, 1876; was commissioner of patents 1876-
1877.
Duer, Williain (father of William Duer), was
bom in England March 18, 1747; received a classical
education; served in the Anglo-Indian army as aide-
de-camp to Lord Cllve; came to the Province of
New York in 17G8, and colonized a large tract of
land in Washington County, where he was judge,
colonel of militia, member of the Committee of
Safety, and leader in the ante-Revolutionary move-
ments; was a dele«ite from New York to the Conti-
nental Congress 1777-1778; removed to New- York
City in 17^ ; aided Hamilton in organizing the
Treasury Department 1780-1700; and died at New-
York City May 7^ 1700.
Duer, Wilham (son of William Duer), was
bom at New-York City May 26, 1806; received a
classical education, graduating at Columbia College
in 1824; studied law; was admitted to the bar, and
commenced practice at Oswego; was defeated as a
candidate for the State House ol Representatives in
1832; removed to New York in 1832, and thence to
New Orleans In 1833; retumed to Oswego in 1835;
was a member of the State House of Representatives
in 1840, 1841 ; was district-attorney for Oswego
County 1846-1847; was elected a representative from
New York in the Thirtieth Congress as a Whig; and
was re-elect(Hl to the Thirty-first Congress, receiving
8,107 votes against 0,884 votes for Nye, Van Buren
Democrat, and serving from December 6, 1847, to
March 8, 1851.
Duke, Riohard T. W., was bom in Albemarle
County, Virginia, June 0, 1822; attended school
imtil he was eighteen years of age, and then taught
one year; entered the Virginia Military Institute as
a cadet in 1842, and graduated second in the class of
1846; taught school, reading law at the same time;
attended the law lectures in the University of Vir-
ginia, and graduated in its law school in 1860; prac-
tised law; was elected Commonwealth's attorney for
the county of Albemarle in 1858, and continued in
that ofiSce until all the State ofiicers of Virginia were
removed in I860; was elected a representative from
Virginia in the Forty-first Congress as a Conserva-
tive (to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of
liobert Ridgeway), defeating Rives, Republican; and
was re-elected to the Forty-second Congress as a
Conservative, receiving 12,606 votes agahist 11,480
votes for A. Rives, Republican, serving from Decem-
ber 5, 1870, to March 3, 1873.
Dumont, Ebenezer, was bora at Vevay, Indi-
ana Territory, November 23, 1814; received a classi-
cal education, attending the Indiana University, but
not graduating; studied law; was admitted to the
bar, and commenced practice at Vevay; was a mem-
ber of the State House of Representative^ in 1838;
was treasurer of Vevay County 1830-1846: served in
the war vrith Mexico as lieutenant-colonel of volun-
teers; was a presidential elector on the Pierce ticket
878
OONGKESSIONAI. DIBECTOST.
in 1852; waa a member of the State House of Repre-
aentativet in 1850 and 180-3: served in the Union
army as culonel of Uie Scveutli Indiana Volunteers;
was elected a representative from Indiana in ttie
Tliirty-eiglitli Congress as a Unionist, receiving
12,525 votes against 11,054 votes for A. Connett,
Democrat; and was re-elected to the Tliirty-nintli
Congress, receiving 18,886 votes against 10,898 votes
for Love, Democrat, serving from December 7, 1863,
to March 8, 1807.
Dunbar, William, resided at New Orleans;
was elected a representative from Louisiana in the
Thirty-third Congress as a Democrat, receiving 4,555
votes against 2,691 votes for Oayarre, Independent
Democrat, and serving from December 6, 1853, to
March 3, 1855.
Dunoem, Alezandar, was a physician, and re-
sided at Cincinnati, Ohio ; was elected a representa-
tive from Ohio in the Twenty-flfth Congress, and
was re-elected to the Twenty-sixth Congress, serving
from September 4, 1837, to March 3, 1841 ; was de-
feated as the Whig candidate for the Twenty-seventh
Congress by Kathaniel G. Pendleton, Democrat;
was again elected to the Twenty-eighth Congress,
receiving 6,058 votes against 6,044 votes for Haines,
Independent, and 474 votes for Lewis, Alxtlitionist,
and serving from December 4, 1843, to March 8, 18^;
and died at Cincinnati, Ohio, March 2, 1852.
Dunoan, Daniel, was bom at Shippensburg,
Pennsylvama, July 22, 1806; received a public-school
education; devoted himself to mercantile pursuits
at Lancaster, Ohio; was a memlier of the State legis-
lature in 1843; was defeated as a Wliig candidate for
the State Senate in 1844; was elected a representative
from Oitio in the Thirtieth Congress as a Whig, serv-
ing from Decemlier 6, 1847. to March 3, 1849; was
defeated as the Whig candidate for the Thirty-first
Congress, receiving 8,438 votes against 8,454 votes for
Charles Sweetser, Democrat; and died at Wasliington
CitT, June 18, 1849.
DvmotUQ, (Jamett, was bom in Eentuclcy; re-
ceived a classical education; studied law; was ad-
mitted to the bar, and practised at Louisville; was
elected a representative from Kentucky in the Thir-
tieth Congress as a Whig, receiving 6,703 votes
l^ainst 6,487 votes for Merri wether, Democrat; de-
clined being a candidate for re-election; removed to
New Orleans, where he practised until he retired
from his profession in 1854.
Dunoem, Jamee Henry, was bora at Haverhill,
Massachusetts, Decembers, 1703; received a classical
education, graduating at Harvard College in 1812;
studied law with Leverett Saltonstall at Salem; was
admitted to the bar in 1815, and practised at Haver-
hill, Massachusetts; was an active militia officer,
attaining the rank of colonel ; was a trustee of the
Essex Agricultural Society, and for three years its
president; was a memt>er of the State House of Gep-
resentatives in 1827, 1837, 1838, and 1857; was State
senator 1828-1831; was appointed commissioner in
bankruptcy in 1841 ; was a delegate to the National
Convention at Harrisburg in 18:i9 which nominated
Harrison and Tyler; was elected a representative
from Massachusetts in the Thirty-first Congress as a
Whig, receiving 920 majority; and was re-elected to
the Tliirty-second Congress, receiving 1,064 majority,
serving from December 3, 1840, to March 3, 1853;
was prominently connected with several religious
Bnil edwati'jM.i] institutions; and died at Haverhill,
MiissivcliiiBints. [\>l)raary8, 1869.
Duncan, Joseph, was t)om in Kentucky in
1700; reeoUvdiitliotough English education; studied
law; stinud in tlie war of 1812 as lieutenant of
Uoltcii-St^tes itifMitry, and distinguished liimself at
Oia dofuiice uf !''< >rt Stephenson ; removed to Illinois,
mill swUIfii at Koskaskla; held several local offices;
was clectvil a nipresentative from Illinois in the
Tweutletli Cutii^rii'^ss as a Jackson Democrat; was re-
•bwled to the Twenty-first Congress, receiving 14,609
ot tljo 25,727 votes cast; was re-elected to the
Twenty-second and Twenty-thfad CongresMs, eerr>
iug from December 3, 1827, to Iiis resignation in
November, 1834; he had removed to Jacksonville,
Illinois, in 1820; was governor of Illinois ISSi-lSS^;
and died at Jacksonville, Iliinois, of congestive fever,
January 15, 1844.
Dunham, Cyrus L., was bom in New York;
acquired his education by his own industry; removed
to Salem, Indiana; studied law; taught school, and
was admitted to the l>ar; was a member of the State
legislature in 1846, 1847; tiecame interested in agri-
cultural pursuits; was elected a representative frum
Indiana in the Thirty-first Congress as a Democrat,
receiving 7,823 votes against 7,338 votes forW. M.
Dunn, Whig; was re-elected to the Thirty-second
Congress, receiving 8,088 votes against 7,125 votes
for Martin, Whig; and was re-elected to the Thirty-
third Congress, receiving 8,011 votes a^nst 1,V&)
votes for Marshall, Whig, serving from December 3,
1840, to March 3, 1855; was defeated as the Demo-
cratic candidate for the Thirty-fourth Congress, re-
ceiving 8,320 votes against 0,089 votes for George G.
Dunn, Republican; was again elected a meml^rot
the State House of Representatives; and died at
Valley Farm, Indiana, October 15, 185S.
Dumsyp, Gtoorge W., was bora in Fayette
County, Kentucky, February 22, 1813; received t
classical education, graduating at Transylvania Uni-
veraity; studied law; was admitted to the bar, snd
commenced practice at Lancaster, Kentnclcy; vast
member of the State House of Representatives; was
elected a representative from Kentucky in the Tliirty-
seventh Congress as a Unionist, receiving 8,101 votes
against 152 votes for Smith, Secessionist, and serving
from July 4, 1801, to March 3, 1863; was a presiden-
tial elector on the McClelian and Pendleton ticket in
1864.
Dunlap, Robert P., was bom in Maine in 1789;
received a classical education, graduating at Bowdoin
College in 1815; studied law; was admitted to the bar,
and commenced practice at Brunswick, Maine; was
a member of the State House of Representatives
1821-1823, and of the State Senate 1823-1832, serving
four years as its president; was an executive coan-
cillorin 1833; was governor of Maine 1834-1838; was
elected a representative from Maine in the Twenty-
eighth Congress as a Democrat, and was re-elected to
the Twenty-ninth Congress, serving from December
4, 1843, to Marcli 3, 1847 ; was a prominent Freema-
son, and general grand high priest of the General
Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons 1847-1M3;
was collector of customs at Portland, Maine, 184$,
1840; was postmaster at Brunswick, Maine, 1S!>3-
1857; was chosen president of the Board oi Ove>
seers of Bowdoin Coll^;e; and died at Brunswick,
Maine, October 20, 1850.
Dunlap, William C, was bom in Tennessee;
was elected a representative from Tennessee in the
Twenty-third Congress, and was re-elected to the
Twenty-fourth Congress, serving from December i,
1833, to March 3, 1837; removed to Texas in 1838;
was minister from Texas to Mexico in 1830.
Dunn, G^eorge Q., was Ijom La 1813; received
an academic education; studied law; was admitted
to the bar, and commenced practice at Bedford, In-
diana; was elected a representative from Indiana in
the Thirtieth Congress as a Whig, receiving 7,365
votes against 7,343 votes for Dolison, Democrat, and
serving from Deceml)er 6, 1847, to March 3, 1849;
was again elected to the Thirty-fourth Congress as a
Republican, receiving 9,980 votes against 8,329 votes
for C. L. Dunham, Democrat, and serving from
December 3, 1855, to March 3, 1857; died at Bedford,
Indiana, Septemlier 4^857.
Dunn, Qeocge H., resided at Lawrencebuig.
Indiana; was defeated as the Whig candidate fur
Congress in 1835 by Amos Lane, Democrat; wa»
elected a representative from Indiana in the Twenty-
fifth Congress as a Whig, receiving 6,091 votes a^aiuit
5,057 votes for Amos Lane, Democrat, and scniuj
STATI8TICAI. BKSICBES,
877
from September 4, 1837, to March 3, 1839; was
defeated as the Whig candidate for the Twenty-sixth
Congress bv Thomas Smith, Democrat.
Dunn, Williain MoKee, was bom in Indiana
Territory December 12, 1814; received a classical
education, graduating at the Indiana State College
in 1832, and at Yale College in 1835; studied law;
was admitted to the bar, and practised; was a
member of the State House of Representatives in
lt>18; was a delegate to the State Constitutional Con-
vention in 1850; was elected a representative from
Indiana in the Thirty-stxth Congress as a Republican,
receiving 9,363 votes against 8,885 votes for Hughes,
Democrat; was re-elected to the Thirty-seventh Con-
eress, defeating W. M. Dally, Democrat, serving from
Decembers, 1869, to March 3, 1863; was defeated as
the Bepabltcan candidate for the Thirty-eighth Con-
gress, receiving 10,144 votes against 11,524 votes for
U. W. Harrington, Democrat; was appointed assist-
ant judge-advocate general of the United-States
army; and was promoted In December, 1875, to be
judg&«dvocate^eneral.
Dunnell, Mark H., was bom in Buxton, Maine,
July 2, 1823; graduated at Waterville College (now
Colby University), Maine, In 1849; for five years was
the principal of Norway and Hebron Academies ; in
1854 was a member of the Maine House of Repre-
sentatives, and in 1866 a member of the State Senate ;
during the years 1855, 1857, 1858, and 1850, was State
supenntendent of common schools; in 1850 was a
delegate to the Kational Republican Convention at
Pliiladelphia; in 1800 commenced the practice of the
law at Portland ; in 1801 entered the Union army as
colonel of the Fifth Maine Infantry; in 1862 was
United-States consul at Vera Cruz, Mexico ; in 1864
was tendered the secretaryship of Montana by Presi-
dent Lincoln; in Jonuai?, 1805, became a citizen of
Minnesota; was a member of the Minnesota House
of Representatives In 1807; was State superintendent
of public instruction from April, 1807, to August,
1870; and was elected a representative from Minne-
sota in the Forty-second Congress as a Republican,
receiving 19,006 votes against 14,904 votes for C. F.
Buck, Democrat; was re-elected to the Forty-third
Congress, receiving 20,671 votes against 10,841 votes
for Morton S. Willcinson, Liberal; was re-elected to
the For^-fourth Conra«ss, receiving 10^16 votes
against 1^721 votes for Franklin H. Waite, Democrat;
and was re-elected to the Forty-fifth Congress, receiv-
ing 26,010 votes against 16,065 votes for Stacey,
Democrat, serving from March 4, 1871.
DuTEind, Gteorge H., was bom at CobleskiU,
New York, February 21, 1838; removed to Flint,
Michigan, in 1858, and has since resided there; is a
lawyer by profession ; was elected mayor of the city
of Flint in 1873, and re-elected in 1874; and was
elected a representative from Michigan in the Forty-
fourth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 17,758
votes against 16,122 votes for Josiah W. Begole,
Republican, and serving from Deceml)er 6, 1875, to
March 3, 1877.
Durfee, Job, was bom at Tiverton, Rhode
Island, In 1790; received a classical education,
graduating at Brown University in 1813; studied
taw; was admitted to the bar, and commencedprac-
tice at Tiverton; was a member of the State House
of Representatives 1813-1819 and 1827-1829; was
elected a representative from Rhode Island in
the Seventeenth Congress as a Federalist, receiving
3,563 votes against 2,(^ votes for Nathaniel Hazard,
Democrat; and was re-elected to the Eighteenth
Congress without opposition, serving from Decem-
ber 3, 1821, to March 8, 1825 ; resumed practice ; was
appointed chief justice of Rhode Island; and died
in 1847. Published ' ' What Cheer, or Rc^er Williams
in Exile;" "Pandea," a philosophical treatise; and
several minor articles, which were published, with a
memoir by his son, in 1849.
Dctrfee, Nathaniel B., was bom at Tiver-
ton, Bhodo Island, September 29, 1812; received an
academic education at Newport; engaged in agri-
cultural pursuits; was a member of the Rhode-
Island Gteneral Assembly for eleven years: was
elected a representative £rom Rhode Island in the
Thirty-fourth Congress as an American, receiving
6,283 votes against 1,987 votes for Davis, Democrat,
and 584 votes scattering; and was re-elected to the
Thirty-fifth Congress, receiving 5,442 votes against
1,961 votes for Bumside, Democrat, serving from
December 8, 1855, to March 8, 1859; suffered a shock
of paralysis, caused by being thrown from a carriage,
and, after lingering some years, died at Tiverton,
Rhode Island, November 12, 1872.
Durham, Milton J., was bom In Mercer County
(Boyle County), Kentucky, May 16, 1824; received
his primary education at the common schools in the
neighborhood of his birthplace, and graduated at
Asbury University, Indiana, In 1844; studied law
with Hon. J. F. Bell, and graduated at the Louisville
Law School in 1850; was one of the circuit-judges
of Kentucky in 1801 and 1862, and, with the excep-
tion of that time, has been engaged in the practice
of law at Danville since 1850; was elected a repre-
sentative from Kentucky in the Forty-third Con-
gress as a Democrat, receiving 10,736 votes against
10,063 votes for W. O. Bradley, Republican; was
re-elected to the Forty-fourth Congress, receiving
8,195 votes against 382 votes for McMurtry, Repub-
lican; and was re-elected to the Forty-fifth Congress,
receiving 15,484 votes against 12,654 votes for Bradley,
Republican, serving from December 1, 1873.
Durkee, Charles, was bom at Royalton, Vet*-
mont, December 10, 1605; was educated at public
schools and at Burlington Academy; engaged in
mercantile pursuits; removed to Wisconsin in May,
1838, and was one of the founders of Southpori
(afterwards Kenosha) : was a member of the Terri-
torial legislature in 1837 and 1838; was elected one
of the tirst representatives from the recently ad-
mitted State of Wisconsin, and the first distinctive
antislavery man from the North-West in the
Thirty-first Congress as a Free-Soller, receiving 7,512
votes against 5,674 votes forLynde, Democrat: was
re-elected to the Thirty-second Congress as a Free-
Soiier, receiving 5,088 votes against 4,430 votes for
Lynde, Democrat, and 3,616 votes for Fitch, Whig,
and serving from December 6, 1849, to March 8,
1853; was a delegate to the World's Peace Conven-
tion at Paris; was elected United-States senator
from Wisconsin as a Republican (in the place of
Isaac P. Walker, Democrat), and served from De-
cember 8, 1855, to March 8, 1861; was appointed
governor of Utah, and served from 1806 until fail-
ing health compelled him to leave; and died of
Sneumonia on his way home, at Omalia, Nebraska,
anuary 14, 1870.
Duval, QabrieL was bom in Prince George
County, Maryland, December 6, 1752; received a
classical education; studied law, and was admitted
to the bar; was clerk to the legislature of Maryland;
was elected a representative from Maryland in the
Third Congress (in place of John Francis Mercer,
resigned) as a Democrat, and was re-elected to the
Fourth Congress, serving from November 11, 1704,
to March 28, 1796, when he resigned, having been
elected judge of the Supreme Court of Maryland;
was appointed comptroller of the currency in
December, 1802, and held the office until November
18, 1811, when he was appointed a justice of the
Supreme Court of the United States; he sat on the
bench by the side of Chief Justice Marshall until
1830, when deafness forced him to resign; he died in
Prince George County, Maryland, March 6, 1844.
DuvaL Isaac H., was bom at Wellsburg, Brooke
County, Virginia, September 1, 1824 ; received a
public-school education; entered the United-States
volunteer service June 1, 1861, as major of the
First West-Viiiginia Infantry; was promoted to the
colonelcy of the Ninth West-Virginia Infantry
Septemlier 6, 1802; was promoted as brigadier-
OOSIGBESSIOKiLL DIBECTOBT.
October SO^ US4. aad
ri«nl br bfvrcC; tm cVetrd to the Slate
: Wtst VU^^boim. and tnttd two yean; wma
- : jotaal-ceneial of Weat Viniiiia: wa*
-eacBialiTe fnMn Weat TbRbiia in tbe
:;n>M a* a Rcpablieaa, leceiTiiig lt,SeB
~J^I x<Ata tor Walker, DmtoaM,
4. ]^. to JUtrh 3. WIL
- bom in Tirginia in
ation : reiDOTol in his
I staUicd law, and
<Jed a eoaqMBT a<
Indlaa boatOuiM
}irai>euu(ivefrom Keatuefcy
. -as a* a Democrat, aerriiiK
M.;, ui Marcii 2, 1815; Kaomed
'UTi, Kentucky: wa* appointed
" for the District of Flottda; wa*
•4 Florida by Preiident Honroe,
'''<1 by Preaident Adama and by
og from 1823 to 18M; rc^
: was attacked by paimlysit
■ WashiriKton City.
jDited-.'^
f appoint'
' aiul wa.''
Pn-siil<nt .J.i
miivi-.! ill IM
win'
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Dwight, Henry V.
Ouunty, Mai«achii»utU:
kgUtature in 1818; «..
from JtaMacbasett" --
waa re-elected to lii
tieth. and Twents
a-.is till- original
. Paulding, and
I Inring.
■m in IVrrkshtre
'• State
Illative
iisress;
Twcn-
j, from
December 3. 18l'1, u, UokU a, l»ii; died at New
York City Fdrruary il. 1*45.
Dwignt, Theodore, was bom at Kortfaampton,
MaM.w liu-^ Its. L)<i.';nil«T <>. I7'U; rpccived an aca-
demic cilucatiuu; studied law; waa admitted to tho
bar, and coaimeoeed practice at Hartford; was
•ereral yean a State senator; was eletrted a repre-
MOIatlTe from Connecticut in the Ninth Cqm^^'ss
as a Federalist (in (ilace of John Cotton Smith,
feaigned), servins fn>m Dcci-mber I. 180>l, t<> March
S. ItM; edited "The Ilartf.irJ Mirn>r." which was
too Itauling Federal juumal in Connecticut; was
Mcretaryof the Dartford Convention; removed t<^i
Albany in 1815, and published " The Allmiiy Daily
Advertiser;" removed to New Tork in l.si7, and
esubllahed " Tbe New- York Daily Advertiser." with
which he vrax connected until the preat fire of lS{."i.
when he sold his interest, ami n-move<l with his
family l<.i liartfonl; died at New Vurk .luno II, l^Ski.
Published the "Journals of the Hartford Conven-
tion " in l*M. the • Cliaracter of Jefferson " in 1S37,
and a " Diet ic mar)' i>t Koots and Derivations."
Dwight, Thomas, was iKini in Massachusetts;
receiveda classical education, gn-ulimtin;; at Harvard
College in 1778; was a member of the Mate lesishv
tttie in 17M, 17U6; was a SUte senator llve>-imi and
1818; waa a mcmiicr of the governor's council in
1808 and 1800; was elected a representative from
Hassachusetts in the Eighth Congress, serving (rum
October 17. 1>S<W, to March :i. isi):>: died in l.sfu.
Dwinell, Justill, was bom at ('azenovi.i. New
Tork; received a riasaical education, graduating at
Tale College in 1806; waa a memlN.T of the Stale
Bouse of Keprcscntatives in 18:21, i>*22; was elccte<i
a representative from New York in the Eighteenth
Congress, gen'ing {rum December 1, Iti^i, to March 3,
ltiS».
Dyer, David P., was bom in Henry Cotuity,
Virginia, February 12. 183!i; removed to Lincoln
County. Mifwmri, in June, 1841; was educated at
the coinmoti schools, and at Saint Charles College in
the latter .State; studied law at Bowling Green, Pike
County, Mis8<juri, and was admitted to the bar in
March, IMitt; was elected proseciitinc-atlomcy for
the Third Judicial Circuit in NovemU'r, l.'iMK); was a
mcmbtrr of the State legislature from Pike County
from 1S02 to 1805; recruited and commanded the
Forty-uiuth Ilegiuumt Missouri Volunteer Infantry
fiuiiiiytoe umit
Ootpa; waa '
1808; WM
Cdmrentaaa Is
tive {ram Mlaaonri fat Ike Ttttj-^M f>tiiw
BepabHemi. reccMnc Mt^t »•«• iBiliiitXw
for Switiier. Dfnrral, aefTiag froai March 4, Ut^
to Maick V ISTL
Dyer. Elipliale*, was bom at Wtodhoiu Ceo-
necticnt, Seplemher 36, 1721; maaiisl a
' ' at Tab CoB^e In 17«>;
waa a
reprsMataave to Ihc Gcowal QMOt l*a-17«
ajppointed in 175} eoloael of a Rstmant a(
ticat Tolnntcen, taiaed far Ibe tiuiiMLil of
viaited R^tamd in ITtS aa aeent a< ua 8i
hmad CwpMiy; waa a JihMt* lo tke
Congreas in 17IB; waa appomlcri • j"-*^" '■'
Suprone Court In ITM; waa a deieg "H-
necticnl in the Continenial Coagreaa i -ua4
178i>-17>9; waa chief joaliee oC UwSuHeaie Coort
of Connecticut 17«I>-17W;
C<mnecticut. Mst 1^ IMl.
Eager, 8. W^ ^ras bom la Oiaiigr Ctmmtf, Kcw
York; received a riaaalral ednealioii. pitwattng at
Princeton College in 1809; reaidcd at MoolCMisiNy:
waa elected a lepuaeutattre froaa K«w Todk in lh« «
Twenty-fint ComcRsa (in place of Hector Craig, te- —
signed), serving from Deoemlwr 6^ 1830, to Marvh 3, _
18;{1.
'Ig«»w«»ii, Benjamii; T., was l»ra st TVxIham, .^.
Maasachosetts, June 4, 181;>l; graduated at Y'ale (VI
le^e in 1843; studied law; waa admitted to Ibc bar
1^5, and practised at Providence; was a membci
of the HouseofltepreaentatiTea in tbe General '
Idy of Rhode Island in 1850. 18«ft. and 1»». aerrini
tlie last year as speaker: and was a memlierof tbi
State Senate in 18.%4. 1 >«.>>, 1850, 1850, an'i 110.»; w;
elected a icpnsentative from Rhode Ish-uid in thi
Forty-second Congress as a Republican, rraav
4,003 role* against 1,905 voles for T. A. Jenekes,
publican, 1.0*0 vote* lor T. Davis, Rep '
votes for Nicolas Van Slyck, I)emf>or,i' fi
others; was re-elected to the Kurty-ll
as a Republican, receiving 8,077 votes against U,l:
votes for T. Daris, Liberal: was rr-clertnl tn
Forty-fourth Congress, receiving - • agai:
8'J4 votes for W. U. Bench. Dcm- i was ^^
clect«l to the Forty-tifth Congn,--. r>-" -n iiig 8v5M^*
votes against o.inVl voti-s for E. \V. Brunsou, OeilM^-^
cnil. siTiiini; from Man'li 4, l>i71.
Earle, I^i««, was bom in Frederick Cooiity,
Virxiiiia ; nvcived an academic education ; was
elected a reprcM-ntative from South Capiliiia in the
Ninth Congress as a Democrat. s«'ning from IK-cem-
lier 2, l.Slvr>. to March 3. 181/7; was a^tiii elected to
the Twelfth CongreM, and was re-elected to tbe Thir-
teenth Congress, serving from Nove4ulier 4. Ifill. to
Morvh 2. IHUt; was again electc<l to the Fifteenth
Congress, and was re-elected t<.i tlie Sixteenth CoD-
gresis, Ecr%ing from Decemticr I, 1817, H> March S,
1821.
Elarle, John B., was Ixirn in South Carolina;
re<-eivcd an ao:ulemic education; held scveml locsl
offices; and was elected a representative from South
Carolina in the Eighth Congrvss, serving from Octo-
lier 17. 18(1.1, to March :l, 1816.
Earle, Samuel, wm bom at Char' ■■ • '^nth
Carolina; was actively engaged in thr lu-
tionarv" movements; was elected a f , jimi
from South Carolina In the Fourth Ctuigrvcs, serving
from DecemlHT 7, 17l»5, to March 3, ni>7.
JBarll, Jonas, jtin., was bom in 178ii; received
a pulilic-school education ; n'Sided in Onondaga
County; Wius a member of tlie State llnus*^ of Reprr^
sentalivcs 1.820, 1821; was elected a representative
from New York in the Twentieth Cuugress lu a
Jackson Democrat, and was re-electe«l to tlie Twon-
ty-lirst Congress, serving from December 3. 1827. t
March 3, 1831; was elected a caual commiatluncr,
8TATI8XICAX. SKETOHBB.
879
cerving from Febmary 8, 1842, nntil his death, at
Syracuse, October U, 1846.
Sarll, Nehemiah H., was bom in Onondaga
County, New Yorlc; received a public-school educa-
tion ; was elected a representative from New York in
the Twenty-sixth Congress as a Democrat, receiving
9,180 votes against 0,&6 votes for A. Lawrence Fos-
ter, Whig, and serving from December 2, 1838, to
Karch 3, 1841 ; resided at Syracuse.
Barly, Peter, was bom in Uadison County,
Virginia, June 20, 1773; received a classical educa-
tioD, g;raduating at Princeton College in 1792; stud-
ied law at Philadelphia; was admitted to the bar, and
commenced practice in Madison County, Georgia, in
1705; was elected a representative from Georgia in
the Seventh Congress (in place of John Milledge, re-
signed); was re-elected to the Eighth and Ninth
Congresses, serving from January 10, 1803, to March
3, 1807; was a judge of the State Supreme Court
1807-1813; was a member of the State Senate; and
died at Green County, Oeoi^ia, August 15, 1817.
Basterbrook, Experieaoe, was bom at Leb-
anon, New Hampahire, April SO, 1813; received an
academic education; studied law at Buffalo, and at
the Law School of Marshall College; was aidmitted
to the bar, and commenced practice in Geneva, Wis-
consin, in 1840; was a delegate to the Second State
ConstitnUonal Convention of Wisconsin; was a
member of the State House of Representatives in
1851; was attorney-general of Wisconsin in 1852;
removed to Nebraslca (of which Territory he was
district-attorney) 1854-1859; (flaimed to have been
elected a delegate from Nebrastca Territory as a
Democrat (but the House decided that he haid only
received 2,071 legal votes, and gave the seat to Sam-
uel O. Dally, Republican, as having received 2,790
legal votes), so that Easterbrook served from Decem-
ber 6, 1859, to April 20, 1860; practised at Omaha
City.
Baatman, Benjamin C, received a public-
school education; removed to Platteville, Wisconsin;
held several local offices ; was elected a representa-
tive from Wisconsin in Uie Tliirty-second Congress
as a Democrat, receiving 7,262 votes against 6,852
votes for Cole, Whig; and was re-elected to the
Thirty-third Congress, receiving 10,893 votes against
7,816 votes for Abbott, Whig, and 1,497 votes for
Enoa, Free-Soiler, serving from Deceml>er 1, 1851, to
Marc^ 8, 1855; and died at Platteville, Wisconsin,
EebAary 5, 1856.
Bastman, Ira A., was bom in New Hampshire;
received a classical education, graduating at Dart-
mouth College in 1829; studied law; was admitted
to the bar, and commenced practice at Gilmanton;
was several years a State senator and meml)er of the
State House of Representatives, serving as speaker
of the Bouse 1837-1839; was register of probate; was
elected a representative from New Hampshire in the
Twenty-sixth Congress as a Democrat, and was re-
elected to the Twenty-seventh Congress, serving from
December 2, 1839, to March 3, 1843; was a judge of
the Circuit and State Supreme Court 1844-1859.
ESastman, Nehemiah, was bom in Strafford
Coimty, New Hampshire, in 1800; received an aca-
demic education; studied law; was admitted to the
bar, and commenced practice at Farmlngton, New
Hampshire; was a member of the State S^ate 1820-
1(05; was elected a representative from New Hamp-
sliire in the Nineteenth Congress, serving from De-
cember 6, 1825, to March 8, 1827; died at Farming-
ton. New Hampstiire, January 11, 1856.
Baston, Bufos, was a lawyer by profession,
and was appointed by President Jefferson United-
States judge for the newly-acquired Territory of
Louisiana; located at St. Louis; was elected a dele-
ute from the Territory of Missouri in the Thirteenth
Congress as a Democrat; and was re-elected to the
Fourteenth Congress (defeating John Scott, who oly-
tained the certificate, but was rejected by the House),
serving from November 16, 1814, to March 3, 1817.
Baton, John Henry, was bom in Tennessee
1790; received a thorough English education; stud'
ied law; was admitted to the bar, and practised at
Nashville ; was elected a United-States senator from
Tennessee as a Democrat (in place of George W.
Campbell, resigned), and was unanimously re-elected,
serving from November 16, 1818, to March, 1829,
when he resigned ; was appointed secretary of war
by his personal friend, l4«sident Jackson, serving
from March 9, 1829, to June 18, 1631, when he mar-
ried Mrs. Timberlake, and, the wives of the other
members of the Cabinet refusing to call upon her,
resigned ; was appointed governor of the Tenltory of
Florida, serving 1834-1836; was appointed minister
to Spain, serving from March 16, 1836, to May 1,
1840; resided in Washington City, and died there
November 17, 1856. Published a "Life of Andrew
Jackson."
Baton, Lewis, resided at Duanesburg, Schenec-
tady County, New York; and was elected a represen-
tative from that State in the Eighteenth Congress,
servhig from December 1^1823, to March 3, 1825.
Baton, William W., was bom at Tolland,
Connecticut, October 11, 1816; was educated in the
public schools and by private tutors; studied law;
was admitted to the bar, and was actively engaged in
practice until elected to the Senate; was deni of the
Superior and Supreme Courts of ToUand and Hart-
ford Counties; was for several years one of the
judges of the Hartford City Court, and for four
years recorder of Hartford; was a member of the
State House of Representatives of Connecticut in the
sessions of 1847, 1848, 1853, 1863, 1868, 1870, 1871,
1873, and 1874, and speaker of the House in 1853 and
1873 ; was a memlier of the State Senate of Connec-
ticut in the session of 1830; was elected United-
States senator from Connecticut as a Democrat (to
succeed William A. Buckingham, Republican) for
the term to commence March 4, 1875; and upon the
death of Senator Buckingham in February, 1876,
was appointed to fill the vacancy, serving from Feb-
ruary 13, 1875. His term of service will expire March
3, 1881.
Bckhert, George N., resided at PottsviUe,
Pennsylvania: and was elected a representative from
that State in the Thirtieth Congress as a Whig, serv-
ing from December 6, 1847, to March 3, 1849.
Bckley, Bphraim B., was bom in Jefferson
County, Ohio, December 9, 1812; received an aca-
demic education; studied law; was admitted to the
bar, and practised at Carrollton; was a memlier of
the State Senate of Ohio in 1843, 1844, 1845, 1846,
1849, and 1850; was a meml)er of the House of Rep-
resentatives of Ohio in 1853; served in the Union
army as colonel of the Twenty-sixth and Eightieth
Regiments of Ohio Volunteers, and as a brigadier-
general ; was elected a representative from Ohio in
the Thirty-eighth Congress as a Republican, receiv-
ing 10,018 votes against 9,085 votes for Belden,
Democrat; was re-elected to the Thirty-ninth Con-
riss, receiving 12,758 votes against 8,740 votes for
H. Wallace, Democrat; and was re-elected to the
Fortieth Congress as a Republican, receiving 13,917
votes against 9,275 votes for Schaefer, Democrat,
serving from December 7, 1863, to March 3, 1869.
Eiddy, Norman, was bom in New York, but
removed when young to Indiana, locating at South
Bend ; was elected a representative from Indiana in
the Thirty-third Congress as a Democrat, receiving
8,038 votes against 6,930 votes for Biddle, Whig, and
serving from December 6, 1853, to March 3, 1855;
was defeated as the Democratic candidate for the
Thirty-fourth Congress, receiviug 8,223 votes against
9,980 votes for Schuyler Colfax, Republican; served
in the Union army during the civil war as colonel of
the Forty-eighth Indiana Volunteers; was elected
secretary of state of Indiana in 1870; and died at
Indianapolis, Indiana, January 28, 1872.
Bddy, Samuel, was bom at Johnson, Rhode
Island, March 31, 1769; received a classical educa-
coxQitrasiowAi. imtECTORy.
tlon. graduating at Brown UnlT-ersity In 17S7; slud-
led li\»', nnci was .1(1111111041 lo the Ivtr. but did not
itraclice long; was clerk of the Supreme Court of
Khode Ifland ITO^-lTtCJ; was secretary of state of
RIiimIc Isluiiil 170S-l^ll); was elected a n?prc8enl.i-
tlTO from Khixli- Islniid in the Sixteenth Conpr^sa
(5 ,. Ti. ,,,,.. rit without opf»isition: was n>-elected to i
tli 'nth Congress, receiving 2.H<.»2 votes
»t; . ; votes for Samuel C. Bridgham. Fe<ler-
Blist; iiiid was re-elected to the Eighteenth Congress
without opposition, servinij from December 6, 1810,
to Marrb :(, 182.5; was ■' ' ' ' \'« of the Supreme
Court of Rhode IsIaikI : and died suddenly
at Providence, Rhode 1 bruary 8, 1839. He
published a work on " Anti<|uiiics," and contributed
aeveral papers to the collections of the Massachusetts
^■kUorical Society.
^^%!den, Jobn^.was bom in Bath County, Ken-
^fccky, February 1, IS2(>. but went with his parents.
at an eariy age. to IndL-uia; received a public-school
education; studie<l law; wa$ ailmitte<l to the bar, and
commenced practice at Sullivan, Illinois; was State
attorney for the Seventeenth Judicial District 18Jt>-
ISOii; M la representative from Illinois in
the Til ("ongress as a DennKTat. receiving
11,371 4.^1. o <>,... list lO.tXU votes for McCarthy. Re-
publican, serving from December 7, 186;}, to March
8, 1686; was again elected to the Forty-thinl Con-
rn, receiving 14,053 rotes against 12,2U8 votes for
Hunt, Republican; was re-elected to the Forty-
foorth Congreas, receiring 12.0S4 votes against 10,7»t
TOtcs for Jacob W. Wilkin. lU-puhlioan; and was
le-elected to the Forty-tif lii Congre**, receiviiiK 18^714
Toles against 13,708 rotes for George D. ChaSee, Ke-
pablican, serving from December 1, IS73.
Bdgerton, Alfred P., was bom in the State of
New York, ami rvnic.vod early in life lo Ilicksvilie,
Ohio, wherv he acquired an aead«iaic education by
his own exertions; was elected a repRsentative tma
Ohio in the Thirty-second Congress as a Democrat,
receiving 7,6&1 rotes against .5,!iSl rotes for Kiley,
Whig; and was nselected to the Thirty-third Con-
n«ss, receiving 0,072 rotes against 4..VI1 votes for
Parker, Whig, and 102 votes for Wells. Free-Soller,
serving from'l>ecrnitier 1. 1S51, to March 3. 1865.
Edgerton, Joseph Ketchum. was bora at
Verw'iiin'S, Vermont. February 1(1. IMS; received a
public-school education in Clinton County, New
lork ; studied law at Plattsburg ; was admitted to the
t>^ in the city of New York in ltil90, and commenced
pnctioe there; removed in 18&i lo Fort Wayne, In-
diana: w « >.r..cn]ant of thc FoTt WayiM and Chicago
RailrcKi ted a representatire from Indiana
tn the I !iih Congress as a Democrat, receiv-
in: "t«s against 11,917 rotes for Mitcliell,
V: xl.sernng from December 7, IM-l, to
liwai o. i^'-i; was defeated as the Democratic can-
^■llllfor the Thirtv-nintb Concicas, receiringl4,087
^Hw against 14,C17 votes for J. D. Dcfreea, Sepab-
Ucan.
Ed^rton, Sidney, was bora at Caaenoria,
New lork, in ISIS; received a public-school educa-
tion; removed to Ohio in 1!'^; studied law; was
admitted to the bar, and commenced practice al
Talinadge, Ohio; was for four yean pnisecating-
attoraey for Summit Countv; was decled a rqire-
sentative from Ohio in the "fhirty-stitli Congress as
s Bepublican, receiring 8.181 rotes ag^nst 7,103
Tolas for J. L. Banner, Democrat ; and was re-dected
to the TUrty-serenth Congrtes, receiring 0,730 rotes
a^unst 0,006 rotes for Starkweather, Democrat, senr-
tag tnta Dceember 6, 18S9, lo March S. 18tt3: was
•pointed by Pretfdent Lincoln United-Slates judge
for the Territory of Idaho in 1904, and governor of
llontana in 1865, serving until IMS.
Sdie, John R., was bom at Somenet, Pennsjl-
Tanla; reeeived a pubiie-sebool education; was elect-
ed a ncpresetuatire Cram IVonsyhrania in the Thirty-
fowrth OuMgwMS as a Whig, leeeiriag 8.421 votes
~ ta,StiralMforC(e8SMll,UeaM>cnt; and wasi
re-electod to the Tliirty-fifth Congress as a T' li r.',
recfivin? s.71)2 votf-« against S.."i(«< voles for !'• ">i i;;^,
DeiniH'rat. serving from December 3, 1856, lu ILaitli
.{. 18.M).
Ekimands, J. Wiley, was bom at Boston, Mas-
sachuseits. March 1. IN'.': w;is educated at the dtr
schools: etiten-'l the countiiig-nxim of Abbott i
Amos Lawrence, and in time became a merolwr of
the lirm, from which he retinal in 1n43; was eleottd
a representative from MassachiisoUs in the Thirtjr-
third Congress as a Whic. re.-eivif^ 3.510 votes
against 2.i»7.Svi.i. ■ ' ' " -.:rat and Frwv
Soiler, and 0^2 ■ : serring from
December 6, Ifvi-^. : i.-. - . declined being
a candidate for re-election ; was chosen trvasatvrol
the Pacific Mills at Lawrence in 1S55. and served
nntil his death; was a presidential elector on the
Grant and Colfax ticket in ]8ttlS; was the founder o(
a free public library at Newton, where h -''-',
and wa<4 a patron of sereral charitable ir-
died at Newton, of lieart-disease, January
Eidmond, William, was bora at South bntain,
Connecticut. September 28, 17.W; receivol a riassi-
cal education, graduating at Yale College in 1773;
served in the Revolutionary army, and was wounded
at the battle of Danbury; studied law; was admitted
to the bar in 17>iO, and practise<l: was a member of
the State House of Representatives: was • Judge of
the State .Supreme Conrt; was elected a represeai*-
tive from Connecticut in the Fifth Congres»(iD ftatm
of James Davenport, deceased) as a FederaJIst, and
was re-elected to tbi# Sixth Coogreas, serrinc (rooi
November 13, 1707. lo March 3, 1801: practised until
18U6; was made a judge of the State Supreme Court,
and held the position until the number of jodgea
was reduced, when he retired to private life; and
died at Newton, Connecticut, August 1, 1S3S.
Edmoodson, Henry A., waa born in Viigfnia;;:
received an academic educatian; studied law;
admitted to the bar, and WHWinrnred pntetiee
Salem: was elected a representatire from Virgin
in the Thirty-first Congress as a Democrat. rr<v>iriti
2.804 rotes against 2.101 votes for Anders-
was re-elected lo the Thirty-feooud CoaBrr'-
ing no opposition; was r»«lected to the TLn •.
Congress, receiring no oppMddoo; was re-elected lu,"* •*<>
the Thirty-fourth Congress, leceirin^ 7,409 ro
against 6.385 rotes for Staples, American; was
elected to the Thirty-fifth Ontigiess, rrceiriiM nc
opposition: was re-elected to the Thhrty-aixth T>oa— j
grass, receiring no oppositioii, serring fitan
ber S. 1840, to March 3, 18ia.
Edrntinds, Qeor^re F., was bora at Richmond. **fp°j
Venimul. February 1, ISS*; received a pubUc-scbooi«c^*^'*^^
education and the instruction of a prirate tutor
studied and prrurlisetl law; was a member of
State legislature of Vermont in ISM-ltttS,
three years as speaker; was a meaabcroC the
Senate, and its prv^iilin^ officer t/ro li'sipsi's In :
and 18(a; was a| '« senator 1
Vermont as a R< ;- i ocancy cbu»«.iu ■ _ ^^^
by the death of buluuum Fuut;. and took his acsc^MiB*^ "SI
April 5, 18B0; was eleeted br the tegfahUMW tat f •^'^ "^"^
remainder of the term, dMing Manch 4. 1MB;
eleeted tor the teim eadiiw March 3, 1816, and
ndingMaich 3. 1881.
eieeied for the terra ending J
Coontj^'J
tMJXXf
Edsall, Joseph B., was bon h> I, n., » x^v%ui»j^. — ~ .<kia
New Jcrscv; received a pablkvsdMiol eiutatio^cm**' *"^
resided at Hamburg; was elected a '■ [■■iiiwtlir-^'^ -* ^^ *^
from New Jeney iu the Twenty-ninth Coaneas as ^f^*- * \L
Democrat, receiring 8,T!» rotes agatast 5^18 v ••— » • j» "•''"'"
for Robinson, Whig: and was ie«lee(ed to the 1
Ueth Congress, receiring MM rates against - -
^au* for Rnnk, Whig, serring fnina DeecBbar , -x^v -"
18«. to March 8, 1840L
Bdwards. BeDJamin, wie bora im Star - - ^"^ ''^'"f
County. Vbgmla. in 1733; Mceivad a |wMfc i "*
edueaUoB; was I'agsgid in agrlmluual and mtt:
tile iHirsuils; wasaaMBbarof llMStaie legitlataK^i-* UA;
and a delegate to Iha SlaM Cliaillliai which i
BTATISTICAIi SKETCHES.
881
lied the Federal Constitntlon; vas elected a repre-
icntatire from Maryland in the Third Congress (in
place of Uriah Forrest, resigned), serving from Jan-
nary 2, 1705, to March 3, 1795 ; removed to Todd
County, Kentacky, and died there November 13,
isan.
Edwards, Francis S., was bom at Norvrich,
Connecticut, May 28, 1818; received an academic
education; studied law: was admitted to the bar, and
practised at Fredonia, Chatauque County; held sev-
eral local ofSces; was elected a representative from
New York in the Thirty-fourth Congress as an
American, receiving 8,359 votes against 6,442 votes
for K. E. Fenton, Soft Democrat, and 241 votes for
Lester, Hard Democrat, serving from December 3,
18^, to FebruaiT 28, 1857, when he resigned; was
defeated as the American candidate for the Thirty-
fifth Congress, receiving 8,251 votes against 12,046
votes for R. E. Fenton, Kepublican, and 3,480 votes
for Allen, Democrat.
Edwards, Henry Waggamcui, was bom at
Kew Haven, Connecticut, in 1770; received a classi-
cal education, graduating at Princeton College in
1797 ;> studied law at the Litchfield Law School; was
admitted to the bar, and commenced practice at Xew
Haven, Connecticut; was Initiated into Freemasonry
in 1S09; was elected a representative from Connecti-
CHt In the Sixteenth Congress as a Democrat; was
reelected to the Seventeenth Congress, serving from
December 6, 1819, to March 3, 1823; appointed sena-
tor (in place of Elijah Boardman, deceased), and sub-
sequently elected, serving from December 1, 1823, to
March 4, 1827; was a member of the State Senate
1828, 1829, and of the State House of Representa-
tives in 1830, serving as speaker; was governor of
Connecticut in 1833, and again in 1835-1838; and died
at Xew Haven, Connecticut, July 22, 1847.
Edwards, John, was bom in Jefferson Comity,
Kentucky, October 24, 1815; received a common-
school education; studied law, and practises tb^
profession; was a member of the legislature of the
State of Indiana continuously from 1845 to 1840;
removed to CalUomia, and was elected alcalde there
in 1840; returned to Indiana in 1852, and was the
same year elected to the State Senate ; removed to
Iowa, and was elected in 1855 a member of the Con-
•titntional Convention of that State; was a member
(rf the State legislature of Iowa 1856-1860, serving
the last two years as speaker of the House; was
appointed. May 21, 1861, lieutenant-colonel and aide-
de-camp on the staff of the governor of Iowa, and
or^nized and commanded State troops until May,
18()2, when he was appointed colonel of the Eigh-
teenth Iowa Infantry; was appointed brigadier-
general of volunteers in April, 1864; settled at Fort
Smith at the close of the war; was appointed, August
6, 1866, United-States assessor; and was elected a
representative from Arkansas in the Forty-second
Congress as a Liberal Republican against T. Boles,
Fusion; his election was successfully contested by
Thomas Boles, who took his seat February 9, 1872.
EdWEUrds, John, was bom in Vir^nia, and re-
moved early in life to Fayette County, Kentucky;
was a member of the State House of Representatives
1781-1783 and 1785; was a delegate to the State
CoDRtitutional Convention in 1785, and of the Con-
vention to ratify the Federal Constitution in 1702;
and was elected a United-States senator from Ken-
tucky, serving from October 24, 1791, to March 8,
1795.
Edwards, John, resided at Ephratah, XewTork ;
and was elected a representative from that State in
the Twenty-fifth Congress as a Democrat, serving
from September 4, 1837, to March 3, 1839.
Edwards, John, resided at Ivy Mills, Delaware
CmmtT, Fennsylvanfa; held several local offices;
was elected a representative from Pennsylvania in
the Twenty-«ixth Congress as a Whig; and was re-
elected to the Twenty-seventh Congress, serving
liom Deoeaber 8, isae, to Maich 8, 1843.
Edwards, John C, was bom at Chester,
Pennsylvania; received an academic education; was
elected a representative from Missouri in the
Twenty-seventh Congress, serving from May 81,
1841, to March 8, 18^; was governor of Missouri
1844-1848.
Edwards, Ninian, was bom in Montgomery
County, Maryland, March, 1776; received a classical
education under the direction of William Wirt,-
graduating at Dickinson College; studied law; re-
moved to Kentucky before he became of age; was
admitted to the bar, and commenced practice in the
Qreen-River District; was a member of the State
legislature; was successively elected judge of the
Circuit Court, judge of the Court of Appeals, and
chief justice of the State; was appointed governor
of the Territory of Illinois 1800-1«18; was elected
United-States senator from Illinois as a Democrat,
serving from December 4, 1818, to March 4, 1824,
when he resigned; was appointed minister to
Mexico March 4, 1824, but when he reached New
Orleans, on his way to his post, he was overtaken
by Instructions not to proceed, in consequence of
charges made agaiust him by W. H. Crawford, secre-
tary of the treasury; was again elected governor of
Illinois, serving from 1826 to 1831; and died of
cholera at Belleville, Illinois, July 20, 18.33.
EdWCUXls, Piorrepont, was bom at Northamp-
ton, Massachusetts, April 8, 1750; received a classical
education, graduating at Princeton College In 1708;
studied law ; was admitted to the bar, and commenced
practice at New Haven, Connecticut, in 1771 ; served
in the Revolutionary array; was the first grand'
master of the Grand Lbdge of Connecticut; was
several years a member of the State House of Rep-
resentatives; was a delegate from Connecticut in
the Continental Congress 1787-1788; was appointed
United-States district-judge for the District of Con-
necticut, and held the office at the time of his death
at Bridgeport, Connecticut, April 14, 1826.
Edwards, Seunuel, was bom near Chester,
Pennsylvania; received a public-school education;
was elected a representative from Pennsylvania In
the Sixteenth Congress as a Federalist, receiving
6,090 votes, on a general ticket; was re-elected to
the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Con-
(;rc8ses, serving from December 6, 1810, to March 8,
1827.
Edwards, Thomas M., was bom in Cheshire
County, New Hampshire ; received a classical educa-
tion, graduating at Dartmouth College; studied law;
was admitted to the bar, and commenced practice at
Keene; was several years a member of tJio New-
Hampshire legislature; was a presidential elector on
the Fr(5mont ticket In 1850 ; was elected a representa-
tive from New Hampshire In the Thirty-sixth Con-
gress as a Republican, receiving 11,717 votes against
10,630 votes for W. Bums, Democrat ; and was re-
elected to the Thirty-seventh Congress, receiving
11,778 votes against 0,040 votes for Bums, Democrat,
serving from December 5, 1850, to March 8, 1868.
Edwards, Thomas O., was bom In Maryland ;
received a public-school education; removed to Ohio,
and settled at Lancaster; was elected a representa-
tive from Ohio In the Thirtieth Congress as a Whig,
serving from December 6, 1847, to March 8, 1840;
was defeated as the Whig candidate for the Thirty-
first Congress, receiving 6,984 votes against 6,006
votes for E. B. Olds, Democrat.
Edwards, Weldon Nathaniel, was bom at
Warren, North Carolina, In 1788; received an aca-
demical education; studied law under Judge Hall;
was admitted to the bar in 1810, and practised at
Warrenton; was a member of the House of Com-
mons in 1814 and 1815 ; was elected a representative
from North Carolina to the Fourteenth Congress (in
place of Nathaniel Macon, elected senator) as a
Democrat, and was re-elected to the fifteenth. Six-
teenth, Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth
CoDgreases, serving from February 7, 1810, untU-
882
CONGEESSIONAL DIBECTOItY.
I
I
Mftrch 3, 1827; wn» elected Ptafo icnator In J833,
and successively re-eleotvd iiulil 184-1; was a ninnldT
of tlio NorLli-C'uriilinn ConslituMniial Convention in
1835; was a^ain flwlfd to tho SUU: Senate in 18."»li.
and was cIiobch presiiiont; was president of tbe
State Convention in istjl ; aiul died at Warren, North
Carolina. IleiciulxT 18, ls7;t.
Edwards, William P., was bom In Gcorpia,
and was elected a representative from tbat State in
the Fortieth Congress as a Kepublleau, receiving
12,S0(i votes against 11,581 vott^s for Alexander,
Democrat, and serving from July ■£>, 18(18, to March
8, 18<!0.
EJffner, Valentine, was born in Schoharie
County. New York; ree<'ived a public-sehool educa-
tion; resided at JclTerson; was a nienil>er of the
Stal4i Uous<' of ISepn'scntatives in 182t»; was elected
an-pri'sentjitive from New York in the Twenty-fourth
Congress as a Ueuioi'rat, serving from December 7,
I*!.'-), to MarclkJl, lS.i7.
Egbert, AlDert Q., was bom in Mercer County,
Pennsylvania, April lU. IH^S; was educated prin-
cipally in public schools; was trained a fanner; left
fomdng in 18r>2, and attended two academic courses
in Ohio; coniiucnccd llic study of mediriiiu in IS-W,
and gxadnatn) in March, 185(!; was actively engaged
In the practice of medicine until I8l!l, since when be
haa been inten<sted in the production and maniifac-
turo of |)etroleuni and in fnrtning; and was elected a
ropn'sentative from Pennsylvania in the Forly-fcnirtb
Congress as a Deunierat, ri'oeiving lo.ifj'.i votes
against 10,3S1 voles for C. B. Curtis, lUpubliean,
■ening frf)m December (1, 187.'), to Man b !l, 1S77,
Egbert, Joseph, was Ixim at Iliibmond, New
York; received a public-school education; was
elected a n'presciitative from New York in the
Twenty-seventh Congress as a Democrat, receiving
6,020 votes against 4,780 votes for Ilillyer. Wliig.
anil 80 votes for II. U. Cropsey, and serving froniJklay
31, 1841. to March :{, 1K4;J.
Ege, George, was born in Brf«)k8 County. Penn-
sylvania; received a public-school education: was
elected a representative from Peinisylvania In the
Fourth Congress (in place of Daniel Ileister, re-
signed); anil was re-elected to the Fifth (NingrcFf,
Bcr^•ing from Dcceml>er 8, 17013, to nU7, when he
resigned.
Eggleston, Benjamin, was bom at Corinth,
Now York, .January:!. 1H1((; received a public-school
educition; went U> Cincinnati, where be engiiged in
men.rantilc pursuits, and became interested in ))ublic
works; was presiding ollicer of the City Council of
Cincinnati; was a menilier of the State Senate of
Ohio in 18(!2, 18li;i, ISiU, and mVy; was clecte<l a
representative from Ohio in the Thirty-ninth Con-
gress as a Itepubllcan, receiving 0.803 votes against
7,401 votes for tieorge E. Pugh, Democrat; and was
re-elected to the Fortieth Congress ns a IJepubliciin,
receiving 10.422 votes against 11.400 votes for Pendle-
ton. Democrat, serving from December 4, 1805, to
March ;t. 1800.
Eggleston, Joseph, was bom in Amelia
County, Virginia, November 24, 1754; received a
classical education, graduating at (be College of
William and Marj"; served in tho Kevolulionary
army as captain and major of Lee's I-iglit-IIorse
Cavalry; was several years a member of the Virginia
House of Kepresentatives; was elected a representa^
the from Virginia in the Fifth Congn'ss (in place of
William U. (liles, resigned); and was re-elected to
tlie Sixth Congress, serving from Deceinlier ;!. 1708,
to March 3, 1801 ; and died In Amelia County, Vir-
ginia, February 13, 1811.
Eickhoff, "Anthony, was bom In Westphalia.
Gemiany. .September 11, 1827; studied idiilology;
Bailed for America in 1847; studied law at St. Louis,
and adopted the editorial profession; edited papers
successively at .St, Louis. Duliuiiue. Louisville, and
(hially at New York, where he locate<l in 1k.j2; wiui
appointed commissory-geuerul of Bubsistcuce fur the
Slate of New Tork In 186.3; was a member of the
State House of Representatives in 1863; was elect
coroner in 1873; was elected a representative from'
New York in the Forty-tifth Congr^.ss as a Pemo<Tat,
receiving 13,100 votes .igainst 0,(i51 votes for Wallacet
P. Criiom, (irtH'iibacker and Kcpublicun, and serving
from Octolier lii, 1877.
Ela, Jacob H., was born at Rochester, New
IIanii)shire, .luly 18, 1821); learned the art of print-
ing; is engaged in agriuultur.al pumults; held several
local offices, and was a member of the State Icgisl^
ture of New IIam|).s)ii'rc in 1857 and 1838: w;
United-Stotes marshal from July, 18<U, to (K-loU-r,
1800; W.18 elected a rcprrsentalivc fmm New Uamp<,
shire in the Fortieth (Congress, receiving 1:>,24-I votes
against 12,247 votes for Marcy. DenuKTat; uihI wob
re-elected to the Forty-first Congress us a Kcpub-
licun, receiving 1.700 majority over Hibb.inl, Demiv
crat. serving from March 4, 1807, to March 3, 1>-T1:
was ajipointed by President Grant tilth auditor at
the treasiirv.
Elam, Joseph B., was bom in Ilampsteaxt Conn-
ty, Arkansa.-i. June 12, 1821, and remove<l with his
Lather to Natchitoches, Louisiana, in 1820; studied
law; was admitted to the bar at Alexandria in 1843,
ajid prnctis<>d in Sabine and afterv«'ards in De Soto
Parisli; was a memlK'r of the Slate Uouse of IJcpi
sentatives from Sabine Parish for two terms;
rnovwl to Manslield, De Soto County, In 1851; wa»
delegate to the State Constitutional Convention i;
IStil. and signed the ordinance of secession; wai
again a nienilx^r of the State House of Represent
fives for two terms during the civil w.ir, serving on«E
term as jj)eaker; was again electcfl to the Staler
House of IJepresentatives in 1872, but was couiitc<l*
out by tbe retuniing board; was elected to tlic Stale
•Senate in 1874. but was again counte<l out; w;
elected a re|)re8enttttive from Louisiana in the Forty —
fifth Congress us a Democrat, claiming to have
i-cived I'wI.lJJO votes against 11,540 votes fortieorgi
L, Smith, Rcpublicau. and serving from UcIoIkt l.'i.
1S77.
Eldridfre, Charles A., w-aa bom at Bridpori
Vemioiit. February 27, 1821; went with his pareuti
to Ni'W York; studied iuiil practised law; settled a
Fond du Lac, Wis<'onsin. in 11*48; was a memlier ol
the State Senate of Wisconsin in 18.54 aud 1855; warn
elected a representative from Wisconsin in tbe Thip-
ty-eighth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 1.%:174
voti'S against 0,8:12 votes for Dnicg, Union; was re-
elected to the Thirty-ninth Congress, n'ceiving 15,.'i8t
votes ai;ainst 10.052 votes for A. Scott Sloan. Unionf^'
was re-elected to the Fortieth Congn'ss. receiving
12,t!30 votes against 10,028 v<»tes for Hatch, Repulc
lican; was re-elected to the Forty-first CongT<"SS, re-
ceiving 17,(588 votes against 12,2<:5 voles for Frisbie,
Republican; was n.M'lcct<'d to tbe Forty-second Con-
gress, n.'ceiviiig 15,010 votes ogaiiist l>,ij.50 voles for
Watrous. Kepublicin ; and was re-elected to tho
Forty-thini Congress, receiving 15,587 votes against
12.5117 votes for H. 13atz, Republican, serving from
December 7, 188:1, to March 3, 1875.
Eliot, Samuel Atkins, was bom at Boston,
Massacliusetts, March 5, 1708: received a classical
education, graduating at Harvard College in 1817;
engaged in commercial pursuits; was mayor of Bos-
ton 18:17-18.39; was a senator and a representative in
the State legislature; was elected a representative
from Mass.iclnisclts in the Tldrty-first Congress (in
place of Hobcrl C. Wintbrop, appointed senator)
II Whig, serving from August 22, 1850, to MareU
3, 1851; was for eleven years treasurer of Hurr
College (of which his son, Cli.arles William Eliot, ■«
.iftemanls pnsident); and die<l at Cambridge, M
8acbus<tts, Jaiiiiar>' 20, 1802.
Eliot, i'homas D., was Ijom at Boston. M;
cbusetts, March 20, l.-i08: studied and pr.ictisi'U 1
WHS a niendier of the Senate and of the House in tliA
.Stale legislature of Mass.-ichui>etts: was a rejiresen-
tativc from MassacUusctts in the Thirly-tlunl l^uo-
ranla
8TATI8TI0A1, SKETCHES.
383
J for Iho unexpired term of Z. Scuddcr, ser^'inR
From April 17, 1854, to March 3. IS,*'?; was ro-clcct<>»J
*.o tlio Tliirly-sixth Cuimress, rewiviiiK 4.854 votps
Against l,74i) votes for UiiU's. Deiiiocnil, ami 58 votes
ecattoring; »:is n.M.'leotcd to tlic Thlrly-Rcvonlh Coii-
gxess. roi-olviiig ~.'iV) vot.i'S iu;aitist l.Oill voli.'S for
S>Htii<>l Fialior, jind 1.7^5 votes for otliers; wiis rc-
«?lectetl lo ibe Thirty eiglitli Coiipress, receiving 8..'S(9
■votes ugaiiist 2,7112 voU's f<ir Fisher, Peopli-'s c:iii.li-
«1ste; was ro-eleeled to the Thirty-ninth Congress,
njcelvlng 13,087 votes against 2,85(1 votes for I'hinmy,
IDeinoi'rat; and Wiis reH'lecl«<l to the Kortletli < 'oii-
^rc-ss as a Ueiiubliciin, receiving 8,184 vou-s iigainst
1,0^ votes for Kills, Denioenil, serving from Deeeni-
"ber 5, I8.)l), to Mart-h ;i, 18<in; died at New Uedford,
3Iass;ichus«!tts. June 12, 187(1.
Elkins, Stephen B., was born In Ohio, Sep-
■tenibcr :;0, 1841; moved to the State of Missouri
"when very young; graduatiil at the uiiiversily of
"that State July, 1801); studied law, and was admitted
■to the bar; went to the Territory of New Mexico in
18<i3; was a nieml)er of the Terrilori.il Legislative
Assembly of 18(>4 and 18(r); held the offices of Terri-
torial dislri<'l-attorney, attorney-geneml, and United-
States district-attorney, in Siild Territory ; w.-us elected
a r<?pres<?iitative from New Mexico in the Forly-lhinl
Congniss as a Kepnbliciui, r<>ceiving ;1,S1S majority
over J. M. (Jallegos, Democrat; was rc-elccled to the
Forty-fourth Congn-ss as a Kcpulpliean by 1,580 ma-
jorilv over I'eiiro Valdez. liciiHn-rat.
Eillery, Christopher, was bum at Newport,
I{hi«le Island; recciveil a chissical education, gradu-
ating at Yale College in 1787; studied law; was ad-
milleil to the bar, .vid commenced practice .it New-
port ; was elected a Unlted-Stjit<?8 senator from Uboile
Island (in place of Itay (rrceuc, resi'jiied) as a Demo-
crat, 8er\ing from Deceml)er 7, I8(il, lo March :i,
18(15; was appointisl by Pn.'sident .lellerson Uuiled-
Slates commissioner of loans in l.SCW; was a|)pointi'd
by President J. Q. Adams collector of customs at
Newport in 1828, and held the office until he died, in
184tt.
Ellery, "William, was bom at Nuwpfjrt, Itlindi'
Island, December 22, 1727; received a chissical edu-
cation, graduating at Harvard College in 1747; w;is
naval otHcer of the colony of Kbode Island; studied
1.1W, serving for two years as clerk of a court; was
admitted to the bar in 177il, ami commoiuMiI practice
at NeW|Kirt ; was a delegate from Kboiie Isfaml to
the Ctintiiicntai Congrejis (in pla<?e of Kamiiel Ward,
deceased), taking his tral May 14, 177(1, signing the
Declaration of Indeiwindenee, and serving until nsl:
he was again a delegate 178;}-17iS5; was ap(iointed
chief justice of Rhode Island in 1785; was elected by
Congress loan coniioissbiner for KhcHle Island in
ll>ti\ was appoinlt-d by President Wushinglon col-
lector of the |H)rt of Newport from 17110 until his
death; he was reailing his favorite author, Cicero,
when ho fell from his chair, and expired, February
15. 182(1.
Bllett, Henry T., was elected a representative
from Mississippi in tho Twenty-ninth Congress (in
place of .Jclferson Davis, resigned), sendiig from Jan-
u.irv 2(1. 1847. lo Mandi .3, 1847.
illlicott, Benjamin, received a puWic-scliool
education; resided at Uatavia, Genesee County; was
elected a representative from New Vork in the Fif-
teenth Congress, and served from Dcceinl>cr 1, 1817,
lo March 3. 1811).
Blliot, John, received a classical cducidion,
graduating at Yale College In 17114; stndird law;
Was admitted to the bar, and commenced praciire at
Sunbury, Lilwrty County, Georgia; held several im-
portant local oflBces; was elwted a United-States
lenator from Georgia, sisrving from Dt.'ceiiilier 0.
1810, to March a, 1825; and died at tjunbury,
^Georgia, August 0, 1827.
Slliott, James, was lioni at Ouilford, Vermont,
igust y, 1770; received a public-school education;
Ted in llie ludlou war of IIM as a scrgeuul; waa
clerk in a store at Guilford, Tormont; ttudieil law,
aii<l waa a conttilnitor to severid newspatxTs in Ver-
mont and at Philaililpliia; waa admitteil to (he bar,
and eominenced practice at Brattleliorongh, Vermont;
held several local ollices; w;ia elecli'd ,i representa-
tive from Vcnnont in the Kiglith Congress as a Fed-
eralist, and was r»'-elecled to llio Ninth and Tenth
(^iigri'sses, serving from October 17, 18tU, to March
;l, ]sil!(; died at Nowfane, Vermont, Novenilx'r 10,
18.H». Published a voliuue »if poiary and prose in
Elliott, Jaxnes T., was Iwrn In Monroe County,
Georgia, April 22, 182;t; receivcii a piiblic-schfMd
educ^tlion; studied law; was aihnilteil lo the bar in
1854, and eonnueneed practice al ('aniden. Arkansas;
was elected circuit-judge in l.H(Mi; established and
editeil "The .South-Arkansas Journal " in 18(17: Wiis
eltH'twl a n'pn'seJit;tlive from .\rkaiiRns in the Forti-
etli Congress (in place of James Hinds, assa!^.*>inated)
as a Kepubllcan, stTving from January Ui, 18(11), to
March 3, 18<J0; was defeated as the Kepubllcan can-
didate for tho Forty-lirst Congress, receiving 2,830
votes against 4,H;!2 votes for W. C. .Sherrod. Demo-
crat; nnil died at Canidcn, Arkans.is, July 28, 1875,
Elliott, John M., w.is bom in .Scott County.
Virgiiua, May I)!, ISLiil; n'moveil to Kentucky when
a lad; receivwl a public-school education; studied
law; w;is admitted to the bar. and romiaoni-ed prac-
lico in 1813; Wius a nicinber of llie .Stale House of
Uepresenl.ilives in 1817; w.ls elected a representative
from Kentucky in tho Tliirly-lhinl Congi-ess as a
Dcnioerat, receiving (1,257 votes against 5,.'nii voles
for Pierce, Whig; was re-elected to the Thii-ty-fourth
Congress, receiving 7,(W(! votes against 0,;J41 voles for
Duiilop, American; and was re-elected lo the Thirty-
fifth Congress, receiving 7,470 votes against o.D.V)
votes fur Moore. American, serving from December
r>, l.<);!. to March ;!. 18.J9; was a nrpresentalive from
Kentucky in the First and Second Confederate Con-
gresses.
Elliott, Robert Brown, was bom at Boston,
Miissacliuset Is, August 11, 1842; received his primary
education at private' 8ch(Kjls; in l.SJ3 entrTed High
HollKirn Academy in Lcmdon. Englaml; in ISVi en-
tiTcd i;ton College, England, and graduafiil in 18-iO;
studied law. mid jiradiscs bis profissioii ; nas a mem-
ber fif the State Constitutional Convention of South
( 'arollna in 18(18; was a member of the Llouse of Kcp-
nscntatives of South Carolina from Julyd, 18(18, to
()clober23, 1870; wasapiRiinted on Ilie2.")tli i>f March,
iS(>U, assistant adjutanl-general, which position lio
brid until he was elected u repr*'sentativc from South
Carolina in the Forty-second Congress as a Itepuli-
lican, receiving 20,504 votes against 13,1)1)7 votes for
J. E. Bacon, Democrat, serving from March 4, 1871, to
1873, when ho resigned; and waa re-elected lo tho
Forly-lhinl Congress as a Kepublican, receiving
21,(li7 votes against l.OW voles for W. II. McCan,
Deiuoerat, serving from Decend)er 1, 1.873, to May,
1874. when ho resigneil, having lii'cn elected sherilT.
EUis, Caleb, was bom at Waljiole, Massachu-
setts, in 17117; received a lil)eral cdncalion ; graduated
at ll.irvard College in 17U3; stuiiied l,iw, aiul waa
admilted to practice; he removed to Newport, New
Hampshire, and afterwards to Clan^mont; was elect-
ed to the Senate and House of Representatives of tho
•State legislature; was elected a representative from
New Ilamiislnre in the Ninth Congress, serving from
Deceinl)er2. 1805, to Manh 3, 1807; w.is chosen an
elector on the Clinton and Ingersoll ticket in 1813;
nas ajipointed judge of the .Superior Court of New
Hampshire in 1813, and held tho ollicc until he died.
May (i, 1810.
£lli8, Cheselden, waa horn in New York; re-
ceived a iiublie -school edueatbin; resided at Water-
ford; was eli.-cted a representative from New York in
(lie Twenty-eighth Congress as a Democrat, receiving
7.328 vot<.'S iigainst 7,110 voles for Linn, Whig, and
111 votes for Sunth, Abolitionist, and serving from
December 4, 1843, to March S, 1840; was defeated as
884
OOXGKESSIOKAL. DIEECTOKY.
I
the Democratic cAndidAte for the Twenty-ninth Con-
gress, receiving 8,124 rotes ogAinst 8,428 vote*.
£llis, B. John, was bom at Coringtnn. Louisi-
ana. Oct«l>er 15. 1841 ; received his early education at
Clinton, Louisiana: entered the fn>slimaii cI.ass at
Centeuar> Cnliege, Jackson, Louisiana, in lSo.'>. and
withdrew when in the junior rla.«9 in 1S5S: entered
the Law Department of the University of Lonisi.ina;
gtadustctt in March. 18»>1; joined the Confederate
Army five da>-s afterwarvl, and served throuRhout the
war; was admitted to the bar /if Louisiana in 180t!,
And prai-tised In New Orleans after 18<n; never held
A pablic ofBoj fif any kind until electe<l a representa-
tive from Louisiana in the Forty-fourth Congrew as
a Democrat, receivitiii i:S.9(K) votes a^inst 11,000
rotes for Henry C. Dibble. Republican ; and claimed
to have been re-elected to the Forty-fifth Congress,
receirini; 13,.>t8 votes a^inst li.l'W votes for J. B.
Elam. servini; fnini IVcemlwr 0, 1875.
Tiniii*, Powhatan, was bom in Virjnnia; re-
moved when younp to Mississippi: received an aca-
demic e<luration: studie<] law; was admitted to the
bar, and practised ; was elected a judee of the State
Supreme Court in 1S2:J: was appointed a United-
Stales senator frfim Mississippi (in place of David
Holmes. rp»i;:ned) as a Democnit. ser^■ing from De-
ccmlwr ri. 18ij, to March 11, 1821!, when liis succes-
sor took his seat; was ainin electol a United-States
•enator. serving (pom Decemlicr 3, 1827. to 18:J2,
when he resigned, having been appointed judje of
the Unito<l-States Court : was appointetl by Posident
Jackson rhanjf d'uffnirm to Mexico Jaiiu:u7 r>. IS'Jii,
•Bd cloeeil the lej;ation of the Unite<l States Decem-
ber 2«, 18:10; was appointed by President Van Buren
minister plenipotentiary to Mexico Febroary 15. )8:fii.
And was superse<li>d by Waddy Thompson of South
Camlina April 21. 1S42.
Bllis, William C, was bom in Pennsylvania;
receivi'd a publie-sohixil education: studied law; was
admitted to the bar, anil practised at Huncy, Ly-
coming County; was a prominent Freemason; was
elected a representative from Pennsylvania in the
Gi^htcenth Coiu^ress as a Federalist, and 8ervc<l
fnjm Dec<'mber I. 182.3. to March .i, 1825; resumed
practice: and died at Honey, Pennsylvania, Decem-
ber l:;. 1871.
BllisOD, Andrew, was bom in Ireland; emi-
grated t'j the United .States; received a public-school
edncAtion; locatetlat Gconji-Uiwn, Ohio; w.-is electt-d
a peppesentafive from that .State in the Tliirty-thinl
Co^ress aa a Democrat, receiving; 7,479 votes against
7(906 TOtes for Barrere, WTiia. and served from De-
Msmbcr 5. 1833, to March .3, 1S.W.
EUsT^orth, Charles C, of Greenville, w.is
e)eet.xt n p-presentalive from Michigan in the Forty-
lif ' -» as a Republican, receiving 10,006 votes
nj ■ ;•) votes for Freil. H. Potter, Democrat,
ai,.. - ^ from tVtobor 15, 1877.
Ellsworth, Oliver (father of William W. Ells-
wiirtli). was lH>m at Wiinisor, Connecticut, April 20,
174->; reeeiveii a classical olueation. gradii.ttinc; at
PWnceton Coll«^ in 171'6 ; studio<l l.iw; wasadmittcfl
to the bar, and commenc*"*! pr.ictli-e nt Windsor;!
was A delegate from Connecticut to the t'nntinental
Congress in 1777- wn» an executive councillor lii8-
17.80: was a ' the convention which framed
the Fc<leral ' ■ 'n 1787; was electe<l a United-
States senauir fmra Connecticut as a F<>deralist,
•eninj; from March 4. 178l>, to 17!»l, when he r>?-
•igned; was apinn- ■ ' ' - f justice of the Supreme
Court of the Uni' ii 17'.t>, but resigned, on
account of ill h<a - «>; was apjiointeil envoy
extraonlinary to France in 17W0 to negotiate a treaty;
was a presidential elector on the Pinckney and King
ticket in 18U5. and oi^in in 1807; died at Windsor.
Connecticut. XuveniiNT 2<!. 1807.
Bllsworth, Samuel S., was bom In Vermont :
r»cci»i-d an arailemio cdULMtiim; P'lnovefl to IVnn
Tan, New York; was a inemlx-r of the State House
of lieiwveetitatiTGa in 1^10; was elected a repieasD-
tAtive from Xew Toric in the Twcnty-aiaili (
AS A Democrat, receiving 8,703 votes Aninat
votes for Judd. Whi-r. and •crvlng from December 1,1
184.'). to ilanh .3. I>^t7.
Ellsworth. William W. (son of OUtct ElU-
worth. and twin-brother of Henry L. F"- ';,
commissioner nt ]>atents for manv yearsl. i
in Windsor County. Connecticut. JfoveriiK :
receiveii a classical education, grKl •?
College in 1810; studied law; was j
lx»r, and was professor of law at Truu-
Hartford; was elected a representative
necticut in the Twenty-first Congress as a i'. .,.. ...,»
wa» re-elected to the" Twenty-s.-cond sivd Twonty-
ttdrd Congresses, serving from Decem^'<•r 7. I^it*. to
1834, when he resigned; was goven; octi- -
cut 1838-1842 ; was judge of the - ^emn >
Court from 1847, until he was oUiged, i>y _
tutional provision, to retire In 1881; dwl
an election to tlie United-Stales Senate; u;.^ ..-^ .
Hartfnnl. Connecticut. January 15, l«fi8.
Elmendorf , Lucas, was horn at Kingston. Xeiv«
York, in 1758; received a classical oiuealion, gradu-.s
ating at Princeton College in 1782; studied law:
admitted to tlie bur. and practisetl at Kinr^' - ■ -"
elected a representative from Xew York it
Congress, and was re-elect«i to the Mxth
enth Congresses, serving from May 15. 17W7, to Marel
8, 180C); was a member of the State House of Rejn
sonfatives 18«>4-1805. and of the Sl.ite Senate 18N
1^17; and died at Kingston, New York, August 17C~
184-3.
Elmer, Ebenezer (brother of Jimathan EhnerC '
was iKini at C.-»larville, New Jersey, in 1752; rec«.'ive
nn academic e<lucation; studied medicine, and wa
admitted to practice; served in the Itevolntiona
army as a field-officer, and oJs ■
president of the Society of thi
•Jersey; praclisetlmi.il'- i'" ■' '■
was a meml)er of th^^ '
1780-17!>5, serving a»
elected a representative' ; Jersey in tb-
Seventh Congress, and wn- I to the Eiehtl
and Ninth Con~ -■ -
18<M, to March m
Jefferson collcc: . .. _..._ . ;.. ., ;^- -
manded a brigade of New-Jersey militia on the ease —
em bank of the Delaware in the war of 1812: waav
vice-pre«id<-nt of the Burlington C<dlesje 1S<S-1S|7
.and 1822-1S;2; became the last surviving offrr^-r of
the New-Jersey Itevolulii' .i;...^. ,5,j jjpj ^j
Bridceton. New Jersey. Or -t?.
Elmer, Jonathan (br >eneier Elmerl,
was bom in Cumliertand County, New .Jersey, iti
1745; received an ac.idemie e«lomt!nn: stuHie^l med-
icine; graduatc<1 at t1:' ^- ■ -: ._
sity of Pennsjivani ■
wasadclegate from .N. .. , ,,, I
COngivss i77(V-17T<. 1781-1784. and i' i
sheriff and aftenvartls surrm^ate >. ' <l ;
County; was elected a United-States svu.kior (loti
New Jersev as a Feilcralist, serving frt-m March
17811. to Mar>?h .3. 1791: devoted the closing ;
his lifi' t>i iiterar>' pursuits, and died al
New JetTs«'y. in 1>17.
Elmer, Lucius Q. C, was bora at r
New Jersey, in Vi'Xi; rixfived a classiertl
gradu.-iting at IMiiceton •
lulmitted to the bar. aii<l
Briilgeton. New Jersey: wa.-. r»it i.n
ing-attoniey; was a memlierof the ^
Ri"presi'ntatives 182t>-lS2:?. s»'rviiij i
speaker; was Uniteil-Stati-s di-:'
District of New Jersey 1^24-lh•-■
resentafive from New Jersey iii
Congress as a Demcvrat. and ser
4. 184:}. to Mareh 3, 1845; was it
cnitic cainlidate for the Tw.
r>'ceivinB »l,u>:l voles agsiust 7.
Hampton, Whig; was Appointed aUorue>-grii<-n>i nf
STATISTICAIi SKETOHES.
885
TStm Jtnej In 1890; waa a justice bf the State Su-
preme Court 1850-1862. Published a " Digest of the
Laws of New Jersey" 1838.
Elmore, Franklin Harper, was bom In Lau-
teus District, South Carolina, January 16, 1790; re-
ceived a daasical education, graduating at the Sonth-
Carolina College in 1819; studied law with Judge A.
P. Butler; was admitted to the bar in 1821, and com-
meoced practice at Walterboiougb, South Carolina:
vas solicitor of the South-eastern and afterwards of
the Southern Judicial Circuits 1822-1834; was elected
a repreaeutative from South Carolina In the Twenty-
fourth Congress (to fill a racancy occasioned by the
resignation of General Hammond) as a State-rights
Demoent, and was re-elected to the Twen^-nfth
Congress, serving from December 19, 1836, to March
3, 1830; was president of the Bank of the State of
Soath Carolina from December, 1830, to 1850; de-
clined the position of minister to Great Britain ten-
dered him by President Polk; was appointed United-
States senator (to fill the vacancy occasioned by the
death of John C. Calhoun), serving from May 6, I860,
outil his death at Washington, of neuralgia. May 20,
1^0.
Ely, Alfred, was bom at Lyme, Kew-London
County, Connecticut, February 18, 1815; received an
academic education; removed to Rochester, Kow
Yotii, in 183S; studied law; was admitted to the bar
in IMI, and commenced practice at Rochester; was
elected a representative from New York in the Thir-
ty-sixth Congress as a Republican, receiving 7,276
votes against 5,114 votes for Trimmer, Democrat;
and was re-elected to the Thirty-seventh Congress,
receiving 10,704 votes against 7,314 votes for Rey-
nolds, Democrat, serving from December 6, 1859, to
Ifarch 3, 1868; went as a spectator to the battle-field
of Bull Run in 1861, where he was captured by the
Confederates, and imprisoned at Richmond for nearly
•fat months, when he was exchanged for Charles J.
Faulkner. His journal of prison life at Richmond
was edited and published by Hr. Charles Lauman.
Ely, John, was bom in Connecticut; removed to
Coxsacfcie, New York; received a public-school edu-
cation ; was a member of the State House of Represen-
tatives 1837-1830; was elected a representative from
Kew York In the Twenty-sixth Congress as a Demo-
crat, receiving 0,668 votes against 9,508 votes for
liitchell Sanford, Whig, and serving from December
2, 1830, to March S, 1841.
Ely, Smith, Jan., was bom in New Jersey in
1825; was educated as a lawyer, and admitted to the
bar in 1846, but never practised his profession ; has
been for twenty-four years past e^aged in mercan-
tUe pursuits In the city of New York; was elected
Khool-trastee in 1856, State senator in 1857, and
coonty supervisor in 1800, retaining the latter office
until it was abolished in July, 1870; was elected a
representative from Kew York in the Forty-second
Congress as a Democrat, receiving 12,614 votes
against 8,603 votes for D. H. McAlpin, Republican,
serving from March 4, 1871, to March 3, 1873; and
was re-elected to the Forty-fourth Congress, receiving
7,689 votes i^^ainst 6,418 votes for Spencer, Repub-
lican, serving from December 6, 1875, to December 12,
If^H, when he resigned, having been elected mayor
of New-York City.
Ely, William, was bom in Massachusetts; re-
ceived a dassioU eduiuitlon, graduating at Yale Col-
lege in 1787; was elected a representative from Mas-
sachusetts in the Ninth Congress as a Federalist, and
was re-eleeted to the Tenth, Eleventh, Twelfth, and
Thirteenth Congresses, serving from December 2,
1806, to Mkrch 8, 1816; and died in 1817.
Embree, ESliaha, was bom in Lincoln County,
Kentucky, September 28, 1801: removed with his
father to Indiana in 1811 ; received a public-school
education; studied law; was admitted to the bar, and
cwnmenced practice at Princeton, Indiana ; was a
member of the State Senate of Indiana in 1838;
vas circuit- judge 1836-1845; was elected a repre-
sentative from Indiana In the Thirtieth Congress as
a Whig, receiving 7,446 votes against 7,0(}4 votes for
R. D. Owen, Democrat, and serving from December
6, 1847, to March 3, 1840; was defeated as the Whig
candidate for the Thlr^-first Congress, receiving
7,508 votes agataist 7.823 votes for N. Albertson,
Democrat: engaged in agricultural pursuits, and
died at Princeton, bidlana, March 7, 1863.
Emott, James, was bom at Albany, New Torfc,
in 1770; received an academic education; studied
law; was admitted to the bar, and commenced prac-
tice at Poughkeepsie; was elected a representative
from New York in the Eleventh Congress as a Fed-
eralist, and was re-elected to the Twelfth Congress,
receiving a majority of 131 votes, and serving from
May 22, 1800, to March S, 1813; was a member of the
State House of Representatives 1814-1817 ; was first
judge of the Court of Common Fleas of Dutchess
County from April 8, 1817, to Febmary 3, 1823: was
appointed judge for the Second Judicial Circuit
Febmary 21, 1827, and held the ofBce until he
became sixty years of age, when he had to retire;
he died at Poughkeepsie, New York, April 7, 1860.
Emrie, Joseph Keeoe, resided at Hillsborough, '
Ohio, and was elected a representative from that
State in the Thirty-fourth Congress as a Republican,
receiving 0,990 votes against 6,370 votes for Ellison,
and serving from Decemlier 3, 1865, to March 3, 1857;
was defeated as the Republican candidate for the
Thirty-fifth Congress, receiving 7,460 votes against
8,603 votes for J. R. Cockerell, Democrat, and 1,508
votes for Trimbull, American.
English, James E., was bom In New Haven,
Connecticut, in March, 1812; received a common-
school education; t>ecame a master-builder and
dealer in lumber, engaging subsequently in banking
and manufacturing; was a member of the State
House of Representatives in 1866, and of the State
Senate In 1866-1858, but declined a re-election; was
an unsuccessful candidate for lieutenant-govemor
on the ticket with Colonel Seymour in 1860; was
elected a representative in the Thirty-seventh Con-
gress as a Democrat, and re-elected to the Thirty-
eighth Congress; was elected governor of Connecti-
cut in 1867, defeating J. E. Hawley; re-elected in
1868, defeating M. Jewell ; was an unsuccessful can-
didate in 1869, and again elected in 1870; was again
elected to the State House of Representatives; was
an unsuccessful candidate for representative in tho
Forty-thind Congress; was appointed United-States
senator from Connecticut as a Democrat (to fill the
vacancy occasioned by the death of Orris S. Ferry,
Republican), and served from December 8, 1875, to
May 22, 1876.
liJTigiiah^ William H., was bom In Scott
County, Indiana, August 27, 1822 ; received a
classical educationjpassing three years at the Uni-
versity of South Hanover; studied law; was ad-
mitted to the bar, and commenced practice in 1846,
but devoted most of his time to mricoitural pursuits;
was clerk of the State House of Representatives in
1843; was a clerk in the treasury department at
Washington 1844-1848; was clerk of the Indiana
Constitutional Convention in 1860; was a member of
the State House of Representatives of Indiana in
1861, serving as speaker; was elected a representa-
tive from Indiana in the Thirty-third Congress as a
Democrat, receiving 8,654 votes against 7,094 votes
for Fergason, Whig; was re-elected to the Thirty-
fourth Congress, receiving 8,031 votes against 8,346
votes for Shaulter, Republican; was re-elected to
the Thirty-fifth Congress, receiving 10,677 votes
against 7,027 votes for Wilson, Republican; and was
re-elected to the ThirtV'^ixth Congress, receiving
0,203 votes against 7,434 votes for J. M. Wilson,
Republican, serving from December 5, 18S3, to March
3, 1861.
Eppes, John W., was bom In Virginia in
1773; received an a<»demic education; studied law;
was admitted to the bar, and commenced practice at
CONGRESSIONAl, DIBECTOBT.
I
nond; married Maria, a daughter of Thorooa
Irsori; was (•lcct<!d a representative from Vir-
n in the Eiglitli Congress as a Democrat; was re-
fteil to the Ninth, Tenth, anil Elcventli Con-
liM-s, 8er\lnp fnnn t>eloher 17, 1803, to March 3,
fl; was aiiaiti elected a representative from Vir-
lia in the Thirteenth Congress, receiving a majority
Jl7tJ vot<'S, and »er\'ing from May 24, 1813, to March
11815; Wiis elected a United-Slates senator fi-om
Rrginia, 8cr\ing from December 1, 1817, to 1811).
li""n he n-siipiPd on account of ill health, and
[•lirt-d to his iilantalion in Cheslerfielil County, Vir-
iriia, where he died September 20, 1853.
, Erdman, Jacob, was bom in Pennsylvania; re-
reivcil a publlo-scliool education; resided at Coopers-
fburt;; w.is electe<l a representative from I'ennsyl-
Ivaiiin in the Twenty-ninth Congress as a Democrat.
[serving from December I, 1845, to March:!, 1847; and
died at Conni'rslmrg. I'ennsylvani.'i, July 20, 1807.
Errett, RusselL of Pitt.sburg, w';is elected a
representative from Pennsylvania in the Forty-fifth
Ccmgress as a Kepuhlican, receiving 14..551 votes
against 12,1)13 votes for James IX. Ilopliins, Demo-
crat, anrl serving from Octolier 15, 1877.
Erwin, Jaxaes, wm borti iti Witli.imsburg Dis-
trict, South Carolina, October 17. 1778; received a
classical education, gmdiiating at Brown University
In 17U7; studied law with W. D. James, was admitted
to the bar in 1800. and commenced pntctice in Uie
Pedeo country; was a member of the .Slate House
of Representatives 18II0-180-1; wjis solicitor of the
Northern Judicial Circuit 1804-181(1; was a trustee
of the South-Carolina College 18(it>-1817; was eloctcd
a representative from South Carolina in the Fifleenlh
Congress as a Tariff man, defeating lienjamin IJuger.
and waa re-elected to the .Sixteenth Coiigri'S.s withoiil
ojiiKisition, senlng from Decembi.T 1, 1817, to March
3, 1821; his health failed while he was In Ccmgress,
and he declined a rcK-lection; he w.ia killed by u fall
from his horse, near Darlington Court Uouso, July 7,
ISHl.
Estil, Benjamin, was bom in W.ishington
County, Virginia; received an academic edural ion;
studied law, was admitted to the bar, and practised
at Abington; was elected a representative from Vir-
ginia In the Nineteenth Congress, receiving nearly
every vote, and »er\'ing from December 6, 1825, to
Marih 3, 1827.
Eaty, ConstantineCwasbom at Framingham,
Miiss.-u'bMSelts. I)e<'iiiilier20, 1824; received a clus-stc^il
ednc.-iliiin;grailuallngat Yale College in 1845; studied
law; was atimitted to tiio bar in 1847, and pracllsed
at Framingham; w.as a member of the .Stute Senate
In 18,57 and 18.58, and of the State House of lleprc-
Bcntatives in 18(17; was apiKiintcd assessrirof internal
revenue in 1802, removed in ISOrt, re-appoinled in
1807. and resigned in 1872; was elected a representa-
tive from Massachusetts in tlio Forty-second Congress
(in place of (ieorge M. Brooks, resigned) as a Repub-
lican, receiving 13,583 votes against 5,274 votes for
George Stevens, Democrat and Liberal, and 170 votes
scattering, and serving from December 2, 1872, to
March 3, 1873.
Etheridfire. Emerson, was bom at Currituck,
North Carolina, .ScptemlKrr 28, IMS); rcmoverl to
Tennessee in 1.S31; received a public-school educa-
tion; studied law; was admitted to the bar, and com-
meaccd practice in 1840; was n member of the StJito
House of Representatives 18-15-1R17; was elected a
representative from Tennessee in the Thirty-third
Congress as a Whig, receiving no opposition; and
was re-elected to the Thirty-fourth Congress as an
American, receiving 7,952 votes against 7,:J1»4 votes
for Freeman, Democrat, 8or\ing from Decembers,
1853, to Harcli 3, 1857: was defeated as the American
candidate for the Thirty-fifth Congress by T. C.
Atkins. Democrat : was again elected a representative
from Tennessee in tlie Thirty-sixth Congress as a
NationiU American, receiving 1),*}7 votes against
9,430 votca for T. C. Atkins, l>emocrat, and serving
from December 5, l&5g, te March 3, 1961 ; was cleric
of the Uouso of Representatives from July 4, 1861,
to Decemlier 8, 18413; resumed the practice of law.
Eustis, George, Jvm., was bom at New Orleans.
Louisiana, Septeml)er 2S, 1828; n^celved a classical
education at Jefferson College, Louisiana, and gradu-
ated at the Cambridge Law School; was admitted to
the bar, and commenced practice at New Orleans;
was elected a representative in the Thirty-fourth
CongreM as an American, receiving 2,5t^ votes
agidnst 2,2.58 votes for Fabrc, Democrat; and was
re-elected to the Thirty-tifth Congress, receiving
2.H:iO votes against 1,. 528 votes for Villiers, Deraoernt,
serving from Decemlier .3, 1855, until March 3, 185U;
was appointee] secretary of the Confederate legation
at Paris, and remained in France after the civil war;
was commissioned by Mr. Washbume, the minister
of the United States" at I'aris, to negotiate a postal
treatywith the French Government; and. on the out-
break of the Franco-Pni.ssian war, he voluntarily
contributed his services to the legatiotfof the United
St.ites; he diml at Cannes, France, March 15, 1872.
Eustis, James B., was bom at New Orleans
August 27, 18;J4; received a classical education; was
at the Ilar»ard Law .School in 185.3 and 1854; was
admitted to the bar in 1850, and practised at New
Orleans; entered the C^onfederate ser\ico at the com-
mencement of hostilities as judge-advocate on tbo .
staff of General Miignidcr, and, after one year's ^
ser%'ice, was transferred to the staff of General Joe -m
Johnstim, with whom he served until the close oC^
the Wiir; resumed practice at New Orleans; was.^
elected a member of the State Icgislaturo prior to tLo^
reconstruction acts; was one of the committee scnt^
to \Va.shington to confer with Pn-sidcnt Johnson oimh
Louisiana affairs; was nominated for Congress in^
1872 as a caniiidatc at large, but was left off by th^v
fusion of tickets; was a memlwr of the State IIous^^
of Representatives in 1872; was elected a meral>cr oC
the State Senate for four years in 1874; was clectedt
a Unitcd-.States senator as a Democrat to succeecl-
WillLim Pitt Kellogg, Republican (the scat havincT
l)een vacant since 1873), and took his seat I)ecenib,-r-
10, 1877; Ids term of senice will expire March 3,
1870.
Eustis, William, was bom at Cambridge,
Massachusetts, Juno 10, 17.53; received a classical
education, graduating at Ilarvanl College in 1772;
studied medicine with Dr. Joseph Warren ; ser\-ed in
the Revolutionary anny .is surgeon, and h.id eh.irge
of the hospital opixisite West Point in which Arnold
had hislicad<|uartcrs; resumed his pr.ictice in U<^>stou
after tlio war; was electinl a representative from
Massachusetts in the .Seventh Congress as a Demo-
crat, and was re-<!lccted to the Kigiitli Cimgrcss,
s(;r\ing from Decemlier 7, 1801, to Slarch 3, !><".";
was appointed secretary of war by Pri'sldent M.i<li~ •!i,
serving from March 7, 1800, to Janu.-iry lH, 18l;i; was
minister to the Netherlands, serving from Di'Cemlier
It), 1814. to May 5, 1818; was again elected to the
Sixteenth Congress (in place of Edward Do«<e
resigned), and was re-elected to the Seventi'nili J
Congress, ser>'ing from Noveml)cr 13, 1820. to M.ircl
3, 1823; was elected governor of Massachusetts
1823, and sen'ed unlll his death, of tcr an illness
five days, at Boston, February 0, 1825.
Evans, Alexander, was born at Elkton, Ma
land; received a public-school education; was;
civil-engineer's assistant; studied law, was oduiitti]
to the bar, and commenced practice at Elkton
1845; w.as elected a representative from Mary land J
the Thirtieth Congress as a Whig, receiving 4,
votes against 4,444 votes for Carmichael, Deni' ■
was ro-elected to the Thirty-first Congress, re< ■
4,080 votes against 4,4.87 votes for S. M. Mui^i
DemiM;rat; and was n'-electe<l to the Thlrty-Sf
Congress, receiving 4.\i02 votes against 4.4ijO
for McCullough, Opposition, serving from Decerj
(I, liM7, to March 3, lti53; rcsum'-d the proct J
law.
Ir
BTATISTIOAIi SKETCHES.
887
EraoB, David B., of Batavia, Genesee Connty,
Vev York; received an academic education; was
elected to the Twentietii Congress, but resigned-
before takinghis seat.
Evans, David B., was bom at Westminster,
England, February 20, 1769; his father brought him
to South Carolina in 1784; he received a classical
education at Mount-Zion College ; studied law with
Daniel Brown, and (after having been rejected) was
admitted to Uie bar in 1796; was a member of the
State House of Representatives 1800-1804; was
solicitor of the Middle Judicial Circuit 1804-1811;
was elected a representative from South Carolina in
the Thirteenth Congress as a Democrat, defeating
Rolx:rt Creswell, and serving from May 24, 1813, to
March 3, 1815; declining a re-election, he retired to
bis plantation, and devoted himself to agricultural
pursuits; was State senator 1818-1826, when he
declined a re-election; held several prominent posi-
tions in societies connected with the Presbyterian
Church; and died near Winn's Bridge, Fairfield
District, South Carolina, March 8, 1848.
EiVans, Gheorge, was bom at Hallowell, Massa-
chusetts (afterwards Maine), January 12, 1797; re-
ceived a classical education, graduating at Bowdoin
College in 1815; studied law; was admitted to the
bar in 1818, and practised at Gardiner, removing
afterwards to Hallowell ; was a member of the State
House of Bepresentatives, and its speaker in 1829;
was elected a representative from Maine in the
Twenty-first Congress as a Whig; was re-elected to
the Twenty-second Congress; was re-elected to the
Twentr-third Congress, receiving 3,542 votes against
2,868 votes for White, Democrat; and was re-elected
to the Twenty-fourtb, Twenty-fifth, and Twenty-
sixth Congresses, serving from December 7, 1820, to
March 3, 1841; was elected a United-States senator
from Maine as a Whig, serving from May 31, 1841, to
March 3, 1847; was defeated as the Wlilg candidate
for senator in 1847 by J. W. Bradbury, Democrat;
was a member of the commission to ascertain the
claims against Mexico 1849-1860; was elected attor-
ncy-^neral of Maine in 1860, 1854, and 1856; and
died at Hallowell, Maine, April 5, 1867.
Etvans, Isaac Newton, was bom in East^Kant-
meal Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, July
27, 1827; received an academic education; studied
medicine, graduating in the medical department of
Bowdoin College, Maine, in 1851, and at the Jeffer-
son Medical College of Philadelphia in 1852; prac-
tised at Johnsville, Berks Countv, and Hatborough,
Montgomery County; is a member of the Pennsyl-
vania State Medical Society and of the American
Medical Association ; is president of the Hatborough
National Bank; was elected a representative from
Pennsylvania in the Forty-fifth Congress as a Bepub-
lican, receiving 16,765 votes against 14,247 votes for
Abel Rambo, Democrat, and serving from October
15,1877.
Evans, James La Fayette, was bom in Har-
rison County, Kentucky, March 27, 1825; received a
common-school education; removed to Hancock
County, Indiana, In 1837, and to Noblcsville in 1850;
was by occupation a miller and general trader; and
was elected a representative from Indiana in the
Forty-fourth Congress as a Bepublican, receiving
14.590 rotes against 13,426 votes for J. D. Cox, Dem-
ocrat; and was re-elected to the Forty-fifth Congress,
tecctvlnK 17,930 votes against 16,482 votes for Arm-
strong, Democrat, serving from December 6, 1875.
EivaDB, John, was a delegate from Pennsylvania
in the Continental Congress from 1776 to 1777.
Evans, Jcahtia, was bora in Feimsylvanla; re-
ceived an academic ^ucation; resided at Paoli; was
elected a representative from Pennsylvania in the
Twenty-first Congress as a Jackson Democrat; and
was re-elected to the Twenty-second Congress, serv-
iogfrom December 7, 1829, to March 2, 1833.
ISvaiiS, Joeiah James, was bora in Marlbor-
ough District, South Carolina, November 27, 1780;
was for a time a clerk in a store ; received a classical
education, graduating at the South-Carolina College
in 1808; studied law with liis brother-in-law, Mr.
Hanson; was admitted to the bar in 1811, and com-
menced practice in Marlborough District; was a
member of the State House of Bepresentatives in
1812 and 1813; removed to the estate of his wife in
Darlington District in 1816, and was again elected a
member of the House of Bepresentatives ; was State
solicitor for the Northern District 1816-1829; was a
circuit-judge 1829-1835, and of the higher court
1829-1862; was elected a United-States senator from
South Carolina as a State-rights Democrat, and
served from March 4, 1853, until his sudden death
from heart-disease at Washington City, M^ 6, 1858.
Evans, Lemuel D., was born in Tennessee;
removed to Texas, where he practised law at Mar-
shall; was elected a representative from Texas to
the Thirty-fourth Congress as an American, receiv-
ing 10,342 votes against 10,311 votes for Crosby.
Democrat, serving from December 3, 1855, until
March 3, 1857; was defeated as the American candi-
date for the Thirty-fifth Congress, receiving 10,085
votes against 16.709 votes for J. H. Began, Democrat;
was a circuit-judge; was appointed by President
Grant United-States marshal of the Eastern Judicial
District of Texas.
Evans, Nathan, was born in Belmont County,
Ohio, June 24, 1804; received a public-school educa-
tion; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1831,
and commenced practice at Cambridge, Ohio; was
prosecuting-attorney for Guernsey County 1842-1846,
was elected a representative from Ohio in the Thlr-
tieUi Congress as a Whig, and was re-elected to the
Thirty-first Congress, receiving 6,606 votes against
6,840 votes for Gaston, Democrat, serving from De-
cember 6, 1847, to March 3, 1851 ; resumed his prac-
tice at Cambridge.
Evans, Thomas, was bora in Virginia; received
a public-school education; studied law, and was ad-
mitted to the bar; was elected a representative from
Virginia in' the Fifth Congress; and was re-elected
to the Sixth Congress, serving from May 15, 1797, to
March 8, 1801.
Eveleigh, Nicholas, was a delegate from South
Carolina in the Continental Congress 1781-1782.
Everett, Edward, was bora at Dorchester.
Massachusetts, April 11, 1794; received a classical
education, graduating at Harvard College in 1811:
was a tutor at Harvard 1812; studied theology, and
was ordained pastor of the Brattle-street Unitarian
Church, Boston, February 9, 1814; was elected pro-
fessor of Greek literature at Harvard in 1814, and
passed three years and a half abroad, studying at
Oottingen and other European univeisiUes, before
he entered upon his duties; was elected a represen-
tative from Massachusetts in the Nineteenth Con-
g:ess as a Whig, and was re-elected to the Twentieth,
Twenty-flrst, Twenty-second, and Twenty-third Con-
gresses, serving from December 5, 1825, to March 3,
1836; declined a re-election; was governor of Massa-
chusetts 1836-1840; was appointed commissioner to
China March 3, 1843, but declined; was minister to
Great Britain September 13, 1841-August 8, 1845;
returning, he was elected president of Harvard Col-
lege, serving 1846-1849; was appointed by President
Fillmore secretary of state Vto fill the vacancy
caused by the death of Daniel Webster), serving from
November 6, 1852, to March 3, 1863; was elected
United^tates senator from Massachusetts, serving
from December 6, 1863, to June 1, 1854, when he
resigned ; was defeated as the American compromise
candidate for Vice-President on the ticket headed by
John Bell, receiving 30 electoral votes against 180
electoral votes for Hannibal Hamlin, 72 electoral
votes for Joseph Lane, and 12 electoral votes for H.
V. Johnson; lectured in behalf of the fund for the
purchase of Mount Vernon ; was a presidential elect-
or on the Lincoln and Johnson ticket in 1864 ; and
died at Boston, after a short illness, January 15,
888
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1866. Published "Webster's Works, withaMemolr,"
"The Life of General Stark," " The Mounts Vernon
Papers," an " Abridged Biography of Washington,"
and numerous magazine articles and addresses.
Everett, Horace, was bom in Vermont in
1780; received a classical education; studied law;
was admitted to the bar, and commenced practice at
Windsor, Vermont; was prosecuting -attorney for
Windsor County 1813-1817; was a member of the
State House of BepiesentatiTes in 1820, 1822-1824,
and 1834; was a delegate to the State Constitutional
Convention of 1828; was elected a representative
from Vermont in the Twenty-first Congress as a
Whig, defeating George E. Wales; was re-elected to
the Twenty-second Congress; was re-elected to the
Twenty-third Congress on the second trial, receiving
S04 majority; was re-elected to the Twenty-fourth
Congress, defeating Anderson, Democrat, and Arnold,
Whig; was re-elected to the Twenty-flfth Congress,
and was re-elected to the Twenty-sixth Congress, re-
ceiving 6,183 votes against 3,841 votes for Alden
Partridge, Democrat; and was re-elected to the
Twenty-seventh Congress, receiving 2,222 majority,
serving from December 7, 1829, to March 3, 1843;
died at Windsor, Vermont, January 30, 1851.
EiVerhartt, WiUiam, was bom at West Chester,
Pennsvlvania; received an academic education; was
elected a representative from Pennsylvania In the
Thirty-third Congress as a Whig, receiving 7,641
votes against 6,464 votes for Murton, Democrat, and
serving from December 6. 1863, to March 3, 1865.
Evins, John H., resides at Spartanburg, South
Carolina, and was elected a representative from that
State in the Forty-fifth Congress as a Democrat,
receiving 21,875 votes against 16,071 votes for Alex-
ander S. Wallace, Republican, serving from October
15.1877.
Swing, Andrew, was bom at Nashville, Ten-
nessee; received an academic education; was elected
a representative from Tennessee in the Thirty-first
Congress as a Democrat, receiving 4,804 votes against
4,816 votes for Cullom, Whig, and serving from De-
cember 8, 1840, to March 3, 1861.
Bwinsr, Edwin H., was bom in Tennessee;
received a public-school education ; resided at Nash-
ville: was elected a representative from Tennessee In
the Twenty-ninth Congress as a Whig, serving from
December 1, 1845, to March 3, 1817.
EiWing, John, was bom at sea while his parents
were on their way from Cork to Baltimore, and was
taken by them to Indiana; received a public-school
education; engaged in commercial pursuits at Vin-
cennes; was several years a member of the State
Senate and House of Representatives; was elected a
representative from Indiana in the Twenty-third
Congress, serving from Deceml)er 2, 1833, to Much
8, 1636 ; was again elected to the Twenty-fifth Con-
gress as a Whig, receiving 6,728 votes against 4,887
votes for John Law, Democrat, and serving from
September 4, 1837, to March 3, 1830; was found dead
in his room at Vinoennes in December, 1857, and on
his table was this epitaph, apparently just written, —
" Here He* » man who loved lila Meodi,
His Qod, bl» country, ind VInoenne*."
Ewing, John H., was bom at Washington,
Pennsylvania; received a public-school education;
was elected a representative from Pennsylvania in
the Twenty-ninth Congress as a Whig, serving from
December 1, 1845, to March 3, 1847.
Ewing, Presley, was bom at Russellville, Ken-
tucky; received a classical education; studied law;
was admitted to the bar; travelled in Europe; was
twice elected a member of the State House of Repre-
sentatives ; was elected a representative from Ken-
tucky in the Thirty-second Congress as a Whig,
receiving 6,887 votes against 6,778 votes for Clarke,
Democrat; and was re-elected to the Tliirty-third
Congress, receiving 6,318 votes against no opposition,
serving from December 1, 1861, to September 27, 1864,
when he died at the Mammoth Cave, Kentndcy,
where he had gone for his health.
Ewing, Thomas (father of Thomas Ewing),
was bom near West Liberty, Virginia, December ^
1780; removed with his father's family to Ohio in
1702; worked on his father's farm and in the Kan*-
wha Salt Works, earning the money with which he
received a classical education at the Athens Acad-
emy, which conferred on him the degree of A.B. in
1815, the first granted in Ohio ; studied law at Lan-
caster; was admitted to the bar in 1816, and practised
at Lancaster; was elected a United-States senator
from Ohio as a Whig, serving from December 5, 1831,
to March 3, 1837 ; was defeated for re-election as the
Whig candidate, receivhig 62 l^slatlve votes against
54 legislative votes for W. Allen, and 1 blank legiala^
tive vote ; was appointed secretaiy by President Har-
rison, serving from March 5, 1841, to September 13,
1841; was appointed secretary of the interior by
President Taylor, serving from March 7, 1849, to
July 25, 1850; was appointed senator (in place of
Thomas Corwin, rested), serving from Jaly 27,
1860, to March 3, 1861 ; resumed the practice of law;
was a delegate to the Peace Congress of 1881 ; was a
delegate to the National Union Convention in 1866,
but did not take part in its proceedings; and died at
Lancaster, Ohio, October 26, 1871.
Ewing, Thomas (son of Thomas EwinR), was
lx>m at Lancaster, Ohio; studied law; was admitted
to the bar, and practised at Lancaster; was elected a
representative from Ohio in the Forty-fifth Congress
as a Democrat, receiving 19,628 votes against 14,541
votes for Nash, Republican, and serving from Octo-
ber 15, 1877.
Ewing, William L. D., was bom in 1796; re-
ceived an academic education; studied law; waa ad-
mitted to the bar, and commenced (nactioe at Van-
dalia; was appointed United-States senator from
Illinois (to fill the vacancy caused by the death of .
Ellas Kent Eome, serving from Jannaiy 25, 1836, to
March 8, 1837; was State auditor of Ohio, and died
while holding that office, March 25, 1846.
Failfleld, John, was bom at Saco, Maine, Jan-
uary 30, 1797; received a public-school education;
studied law; was admitted to the bar in 18^^ and
commenced practice at Saco, Maine; was appointed
In 1832 reporter of the State Supreme Court decis-
ions; was elected a representative from Maine in the
Twenty-fourth Congress as a Democrat, and was re-
elected to the Twenty-fifth Congress, serving from
December 7, 1835, to March 3, 18^; was governor of
Maine 1830-1843; was elected a senator from Maine
(in place of Reu.el Williams, resigned) ; and was re-
elected, serving from December 4, 1843, to December
24, 1847, when he died at Washington City, after
having had a suivical operation peiioimed on liim,
December 24, 1847.
Faran, James J., was Ix>ra in Ohio; received
a public-school education; located at Cincinnati;
was elected a representative from Ohio in the Twen-
ty-ninth Congress as a Democrat, and was re-elected
to the Thirtieth Congress, serving from December 1,
1845, to March 3, 1849; became one of the owners of
"The Cincinnati Enquirer."
Farlee, Isaac G., was bom In New JeiKjr; r»>
ceived a public-school education; resided at E^em-
Ington; was elected a representative from New Jer-
sey in the Twenty-eighth Congress, serving from.
December 4, 1843, to March 3, 1845.
Farley, E. Wilder, was bom in Maine in 1818;
received a classical education, graduating at Bowdoin
College in 1836; studied law; was admitted to the
bar, and commenced practice at New Castle; was a
member of the State House of Representatives 1843
and 1851-1863: was elected a representatlTe from
Maine in the Thirty-third Congress as a Whig, re-
ceiving 6,265 votes against 4,724 votes for Kimball,
Democrat, 3,871 votes for Smith, Democrat, and 663
votes for Foster, Free-SoUer, and serving from De-
cember 6, 1863, to March 3, 1655; was defeated as tha
STATISTICAL SKETCHES.
889
WUg candidate for the Thirty-fourth Con^«n, re-
reiring 3,587 votes against 6,006 votes for Ebenezer
Eaiowlton, Democrat, and 4,072 votes for J. G. Dick-
etson, Democrat; was a State senator in 1850.
Parlin, Dudley, of Dudley, New Yorii; received
a public-school education ; was elected a representa-
tive from New York in the Twenty-fourth Congress
as a Democrat, serving from December 7, 1836, to
Harch 3, 1837; and died at Warrensburg, New York,
September 26, 1837.
Famsworth, John F., was bom at Eaton,
Canada East, March 27, 1820; received an academic
education: studied and practised law; wasarepre-
■entative from Illinois in the Tliirty-flfth Congress as
a Bepublican, receiving 21,618 votes against 9,814
votes for Van Nortwlck, Democrat; was re-elected
to the Thirty-sixth Congress, receiving 21,797 votes
against 18,196 votes for Dyer, Democrat, and 701
votes for Blackburn, antl-Lecompton Democrat, serv-
ing from December 7, 1857, to March 8, 1861 ; served
in the Union army as colonel of cavalry and brigadier-
general; was again elected to the Thirty-eighth Con-
gress, receiving 12,612 votes against 4,786 votes for
Donnelly, Democrat; was re-elected to the Thirty-
ninth Congress, receiving 17^^ votes against 6,237
votM for Merrill C. Johnson, Democrat; was re-elect-
ed to the Fortieth Congress, receiving 16,185 votes
against 3,346 votes for Haines, Democrat; was re-
elected to the Forty-flrst Congress, receiving 20,726
votes against 6,307 votes for Herrington, Democrat,
serving from December 7, 1863, to March 8, 1871 ;
and was re-elected to the Forty-second Congress as a
Bepublican, receiving 8,360 votes agaiust 2,349 votes
for R. D. Bishop, Democrat, and 6,316 votes for J. C.
Stoughton, Temperance candidate.
Farquhar, John H., was bom in Frederick
County, Maryland, December 20, 1818; received a
public-school education; removed with his father's
family to Indiana in 1833; was a civil engineer;
studied law; was admitted to the bar, and com-
nenced practice at Brookville ; was secretary of the
State Senate 1842 and 1843; was chief clerk of the
State House of Bepresentatives 1844; was a presi-
dential elector on the Lincoln and Hamlin ticket in
1860; was appointed by President Lincoln captain in
the Nineteenth United-States Infantry in 1861, serv-
ing until he resigned in 1864; was elected a repre-
sentative from Indiana in the Thirty-ninth Congress
as a Bepublican, receiving 10,015 votes against 9,949
votes for George Berry, Democrat, and serving from
December 4, 1865, to March 8, 1867.
Parrelly, John W. (son of Patrick Farrelly),
was bom at Meadville, Pennsylvania, July 7, 1809;
received a public-school education; was a member
of the State Senate of Pennsylvania 1828; was a
State senator 1838-1841 ; was elected a representative
from Pennsylvania in the Thirtieth Congress as a
Whig, serving from December 6, 1847, to March 3,
1M9; was appointed sixth auditor of the treasury by
President Taylor, serving from November 6, 1840,
to April 7, 1853; he died at Washington City.
Farrelly, Patrick (father of John W. FarreUy),
was Ix>m m Ireland in 1700; came to the Uniteid
States; received an academic education ; studied law;
was admitted to the bar, and commenced practice at
Meadville ; was elected a representative from Peim-
sylvanla in the Seventeenth Congress as a Democrat;
was re-elected to the Eighteenth Congress, and was
re-elected to the Nineteenth Congress, serving from
December 3, 1821, to January 12, 1826, when he died
at Meadville. Pennsylvania.
Farrington, James, was bom at Conway, New
Hampshire, in October, 1791 ; received an academic
education at Pryeburg Academy, Maine ; studied med-
icine under Dr. Chandler of Fryebuig, and Dow of
Dover; was licensed July 18, 1818, and commenced
practice in Bochester, New Hampshire, August 9,
1818; was a State representative and State senator,
and was elected a representative from New Hampshire
in tlie Twenty-4f tb Congreaa as a Democrat, ienrtng
from September 4, 183T, nntil March 3, 1839; he was
appointed one of the trustees for the New-Hampshire
Insane Asylum in 1816; and died at Rochester, New
Hampshire, October 29, 1869.
Farrow, Samuel, was bom in Virginia in 1750;
his family removed to South Carolina in 1766, and
settled in Spartanburg District; served in the Bevo-
lutionary war; was wounded in one skirmish, and
taken prisoner in another; studied law with Bobert
Gk)odloe Harper; was admitted to the bar in 1793,
and commenced practice at Spartanbui^; was lieu-
tenant-governor of South Carolina in 1810; was
elected a representative from South Carolina in the
Tliirteenth Congress as a War Democrat, serving
from May 24, 1S13, to March 2, 1816; and was re-
elected to the Fourteenth Congi«s8, but declined to
serve; was a member of the State House of Bepre-
sentatives 1816-1821 ; and died at Colombia, South
Carolina, November 18^824.
Farwell, Charles B., was lx>m at Painted Post,
New York, July 1, 1823; was educated at the Elmira
Academy; removed to Ulinois in 1888; was employed
in government surveying and in farming until 1644,
when he engaged in real-estate business and banldng
in Chicago; was elected county clerk of Cook Coun-
ty in 18^ and re-elected in 1857; subsequently en-
gaged In mercantile pursuits, and is now a member
of the firm of John V. Barwell & Co. of Chicago;
was appointed a member of the State Board of
Equalization in 1867; was chairman of the Board of
Supervisors of Cook County in 1868; was appointed
national-bank examiner in 1860; was elected a rep-
resentative from Illinois in the Forty-second Congress
as a Bepublican, receiving J0,342 votes against 16,025
votes for John Wentworth, Independent Democrat
and Coalition candidate; was re-elected to the Forty-
third Congress, receiving 9,202 votes against 4,962
votes for J. V. Le Moyne, Liberal ; and was re-elected
to the Forty-fourth Con^ss as a Bepublican, receiv-
ing 8,177 votes against 7,991 votes for J. V. Le Moyne,
Democrat, serving from March 4, 1871, to May 6,
1876, when the House decided that J. V. Le Moyne
was entitled to the seat.
Farwell, Nathan A., was bom at Unity, Maine,
in 1812; received a public-school education; studied
law; was admitted to the bar, and commenced Ptac-
tice at Bockland, Maine; was a member of the State
House of BepresentaUves in 1860, 1863, and 1864;
was a State senator in 1853, 1854, 1861, and 1862,
serving the last year as presiding ofBcer; was a dele-
gate to the National Bepublican Convention at Bal-
timore in 1864; was appointed and afterwards elected
a United-States senator as a Bepublican (in place of
William Pitt Fessenden, resigned), serving from De-
cember 6, 1864, to March 3, 1867; was a del^ate to
the Philadelphia Loyalists' Convention in 1866.
Faulkner, Charles Jamee^as bom at Mar-
tlnsburg, Viiginia (afterwards West Viiginia), in
1808; graduated at Georgetown University, District
of Columbia; attended Chancellor Tuckers law lec-
tures at Winchester, Virginia; was admitted to the
bar, and commenced practice in 1829; was a meml>er
of the Virginia House of Bepresentatives in 1831;
was commissioner of Virginia on the disputed bound-
ary between that State and Maryland; was a mem-
ber of the State Senate 1841-1844, but resigned in
1842; was appointed a visitor of the Virginia Military
Institute in 1846; was elected a member of the Be-
visliig Legislature of Virginia in 1848; was elected a
member of the State Constitutional Convention of
Vii^nia in 1860; was elected a representative from
Virginia in the Thirty-second, Thirty-third, Thirty-
fourth, and Thirty-flfth Congresses, serving froift
December 1, 1851, until March 3, 1859; was chair-
man of the resident National Democratic Committee
in charge Of the presidential canvass of 1866; was
appohited by President Buchanan minister to France
in 1859; retumed to the United States in August,
1801, and was held as a prisoner of state, froii> an
apprehension that he would unite bis fortunes with
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CONGEESSIONAL DIKECTORY.
those of the Soulhcm Confederacy; was exchanged
in IJceembcr, 18t'il, for Alfred Ely, luomlM'r of tlio
United-States ilouse uf Hepresentatives from New
York, then a prisoner in Iticliinond; entered the
Confederate army as a uiemlier of (ietieral Sloni!-
wall Jai-ksou's staff, and scjrvr'd until llio dt'ath of
that oflieer; was elected in 1870 president of the
Alartinsburg and I'olomae liailroad, and in 1871
president of the Berkeley-coiuity Agricultural So-
ciety; was a member of the .State Constilutioiial
Convention of West Virpnia in 1872; was appointed
a regent of the West-Virginia University in IS":!;
and was elected a reiiresentative from West Virginia
In the Forty-fourth Congress as a Democrat, receiv-
ing ll,5i)(t voles against ti,(tt}4 votes for Alexander n.
Boteler, Indeinnident, serving from December6, 1875,
to March ;J, 1S77.
Fay, pSrancis B., was bom at Soullihoronph,
Miissacliuselts, June 12, HiU; received a ptililii'-scliool
education; engaged in mercantile pursuits; was a
deputy-sheriff of Worcester County 1824-l.SJli; was a
member of the Massachusetts Geuenil Court 18;Ji)-
18al ; removed in IStl to Chelsea, wliiehhe represented
In the Massachusetts Genenil Court in 1H:U-183<1 and
184(.i; was a member of the Massachusetts Senate in
18+5 and 1845; w.is elected a representative from Miis-
Sachusetls in the Thirty-secoiul Congress us a Whig
(to lill the vacancy occasioned by the death of Robert
Kautoul), receiving 101 plurality, aiul 8cr\ing frora
December 29, lHu2, until March .i, 18M; was mayor
of Chelsea in 18J7; reiuuved in IS-W to South Lan-
caster, that he might be near the Stale Uefomi
School, of which he was a fouBider; was a memlxir
of the Massaehusetts Senate in lS(t8; and died at
South Lancaster, of paralysis, tjctober (I, 1.S70,
Pay, John, was lx>ni in Worcester County, Miis-
iachusetts; received a public-school education; re-
moved to Montgomery County. New York; held
several local oHices; was elected a rcpre*entalive
from New York iii the .Sixteenth Congiieas, serving
from December <J, 1810, to March 3, 1821.
Fearing, Paul, was bom at Wareham, Massa-
chusetts, February 28, 17(i2; recelveil a classical
education, graduating at Harvard College in 178.1 ;
studied law; was .iilniitled to the bar. ami practised;
was elected a delegate from the Xorlh-wesJ Territory
in the Seventh Congress, senriiig from December 7,
1801, to March 3, 1808.
Featherston, W. S., was bom In Tennessee:
received uti iu.-adeniic education; located at Houston,
Mississippi; was elected a representative from that
State in the Thirtieth Congress as a Democrat, re-
ceiving lt,4;W votes against 6,587 votes for McCbnig,
Whig; and was re-elccled to the Thirty-lirst Con-
cress, receiving 7.iKJ7 votes against 11,171' votes for
Harris, Whig, serving from IJecember (I, 18-17, to
March 3, 1S)1; entered the Confederate anny; w,is
appointed, March 0, 1802, brigadici-genenil, .init as-
signed to a brigade composed of the Twelfth, Six-
teenth, Nineteetith, and Forty-eighth Mississipiii
Infantry and Smith's Light Battery; and was killed
in action near Atlanta, Coorgia, Jiily 20, 18lU.
Felch, Alpheus, was born at Limerick, Maine,
SeptemlK'r 28, 1S0(1; received a classical educillon,
graduating at Bowdoin College; studied law; was
admitte<l to tlie bar, and commenced practice at Ann
Arbor, Michigan; was a member of the State House
of Ilepresentatives in lS3d and 1S;!7; w.is appointed
liank commissioner in 18^38, resigning in 18U!); was
elected auditor-general In 1842, but resigned to accept
the positiim of judge of the State Supreme Court;
was governor of Michigan 1845-1.847; was elected a
United-States senator from Michigan as a Democrat,
serving from Decemlwr 0, lfvi7, to March 3, 18.">;i;
was a commissioner for the settlement of CHlifoniia
land claims under the treaty of Oiiadalupe Hidalgo,
serving from March, ISHii, lintil March, 1800; was a
delegate to the National Democratic Couvcntlou at
Chicago in 1804.
Felder, John M., waa bom In Orangeburg
District. South Carolina, July 7, 1782; received a
classical education, graduating at Yale College in
180-1 iii the class with John C. Calhoun and Bishop
(jadsdcn; studied law at the law school of Judge
Cimid at Lltchtield, Connecticut, and, returning to
South Carolina, was admitted to the bar at Columbia
in 18'.J8; cunimencwl practice at Oningeburg; was a
mcmlierof the State Ilouse of Represiintatives, with
the exception of a few years, 181i>-183U; wna a major
of volunteers in the war of 1812; was elected a rep-
resentative frora South Carolina in the Twenty-
second C<mgress as a Democrat, defeating W. C.
I'reslon, Whig; and was re-elected to the Twenty
thiril Congress, serving frora December 5, ISIJl, to
March :{, 1SJ5; declined a re-election, but did noi
iT^'Bumo practice ; wsis electetl a State senator In ISHO,
and was successively re-elected until lie died oi
bilious colic, audderdy and unknown, in a hut liy th
roadsiilf at Union I'oint, tleoi-gia. .SepteniUir 1, 1851
Fell, John, was born in New Jersey ; received
public-school education, and was a delegate fruiE3
New Jersey in the Continental Congress 1778-1780.
Felton, "Williani H., was bom in Oglethorpe
County, Georgia, Juno 111, 1823; gnduated at the
University of fJeorgia at Athens m August. 184;J;
graduated at the Sledical College of Georgia at
Augusta in March, 1844; became a farmer by pro-
fession and practice; was a member of the Slato
House of Kepresentativcs of Georgia from Cass
(now Bartow) County in 1851 ; and was electi-d s
rejjrcsontative from Georgia In the Forty-fourth Con-
gress as an Independent Democrat, receiving 7,.'>87
votes against l.UKi votes for W. H. Dabney, Demo-
crat, ^ud 1U7 votes for N. P. Hanlen, Kcpublican;
and was re-elected to the Forty-lifth Congress, re-
ceiving l.'5.20l) votes against 10,8ii7 votes for W. B.
Dabney, Democrat, serving from December 0, 1875.
Fenn, Stephen S., was bom at Waterlown,
Connecticut, March 28, 1820; his parents removed to
Niagara County, New York, in 1824, when; he re-
ceived a common-school education; removed to
Jackson County, Iowa, in 1841, and there held sev-
eral county ofljces; in 1850 removed to Califonda,
and eng.'iged in mining, merchandising, and ranch-
ing; again removed in i8<'i2 to tliat |>ttrl of Washing-
ton Territory which tvecame a part of the Territory
of Idaho upon its oi^aidzatlon in 1803; there mined,
and [inicliscd taw; was elected a meml)er of the
Legislative Council in lHi"i4, and re-elected in l-'^HB;
was electeii district-attorney for the First Judicial
Uislricl in 1800; w.-is again elected a mciubcr of the
Legislative Assembly in 1872, and served as sjiejiker
of the House of Eepresentativcs; cngagetl in .agri-
cultural pursuits; was elected a delegate from Idaho
Territory In the Forly-fcmrth Congress as a Demo-
crol. receiving 2,1)01) votes agsiinst 2,.33.3 votes for
Thomas W. liennelt. Kcpublican; and was re-e.leete<l
to the Forly-liflh Congress, serving from Juno 23,
1870.
Fetmer, James, was bom at Providence, Rhode
Isl.aiul, in 1771; receivei] a classical education, grad-
uating at Bmwn University in 1780; was for several
years a member of the State House of Kepresenta-
tivcs: was elected a Unite<I-.States senator from
Kliofle Island, serving from DeccmhiT2, 1805. to 1807,
when he resigned, having been elected governor of
Khode Island, which office ho filled 1807-1811, 1824-
18:J1, and 1843-1845; was a presidential elector in
1821 and 1837; was a delegate to the .State Constitu-
tional Convention of 1842, ami Its jiresident; died at
Providence. lUiode Island, April 17, 1840.
Fenton, Reuben E., was bom at Carroll, Chau-
t.au<|Utt County, New York, July 1, 1819; received
an academic education; studied law, but cngage<l in
mercantile pursuits; w.is elected supervisor <if Car-
roll ill 184.3; was governor of the Stale of New Yoric
in 180.T-1800 and 1807-1808; was electeii a representa-
tive from New York in the Thirty-third longrcss,
receiving 8,717 votes against 8.0<il votes for Crocker,
>Vlug, and 48(3 votca for Plummcr, Free-Soilcr, fcrving
i
I
I
STATISTICAL SKETCHES.
891
from December 6, 1853, to March 3, 1855; vaa i^
elected to the Thirty-fifth Congress, receiving 12,040
votes against 3,436 votes for Allen, Democrat, and
3,^1 votes for Edwards, American; was re-elected to
the Thirty-sixth Congress, receiving 10,018 votes
•gainst 4,711 votes for Jenks, Democrat, and 1,886
votes for Johnson, American; was re-elected to the
Thirty-seventh Congress, receiving 14,803 votes
mgainst 7,111 votes for Lee, Democrat; and was re-
elected to the Thirty-eighth Congress, receiving
11,950 votes against 6,982 votes for Caldwell, Demo-
crat, aerving from December 7, 1837, to December 10,
18^ when he resigned, having been elected govern-
or of New York; was elected a senator from Kew
Tork, serving from March 4, 1869, to March 8, 1875.
Fergnson, Fenner, was l>om in Rensselaer
County, Newxoric, April 25, 1814; received an aca-
demic education; studied law; was admitted to the
bar, and commenced practice at Albany, Now York;
removed to Michigan, where he was a member of the
State l^islature; was appointed by President Pierce
chief Justice of Nebraska in 1854: was elected a dele-
rate from Nebraska Territory in the Thirty-fifth
Congress as a Democrat, receiving 1,654 votes against
1,607 votes for Bird B. Chapman, Democrat, 1,386
votes for Ttiayer, Republican, and 1,306 votes for
Bankin, Democrat, serving from December 7, 1857,
to March 3, 1859.
Ferris, Charles Q., was bora In New-York
(^ty; received an academic education; was elected
a representative from New York in the Twenty-third
Congress (in place of Dudley Selden, resigned) as a
Jackson Democrat, serving from Deceml>er 1, 1834,
to March 3, 1835; was a^In elected to the Twenty-
seventh Congress, receiving 21,974. votes against
80,862 votes for James Monroe, Whig, serving from
May 31, 1841, to March 3, 184a
Perriss, Orange, was bom at Glenn's Falls, New
York, November 20, 1814; was educated at the Uni-
versity of Vermont; studied and practised law; was
surrogate of Warren County from 1841 until 1845;
was judge of Warren County from 1851 until 1863;
was elected a representative from New York in the
Fortieth Congress as a Republican, receiving 9,341
votes against 7,412 votes for Hoyle, Democrat; and
was re-elected to the Forty-first Congress, receiving
10,423 votes against 6,284 votes for Wallace, Demo-
crat, serving from March 4, 1867, to March 3, 1871 ;
was appointed by General Grant a member of the
Southern Claims Commission.
Ferry, Orris Sanford, was bom at Bethel,
Connecticut, August IS, 18*^; received a classical
education, graduating at Yale College in 1844; stud-
ied law ; was admitted to the bar in 1846, and com-
menced practice at Norwalk; was appointed judge
of probate in 1849; was a member of the State Senate
in 1855 and 18oC; was State's attorney for FiUrfleld
County 1856-1859; was defeated as the Republican
candidate for the Thirty-fifth Congress, receiving
8,387 votes against 8,403 votes for W. D. Bishop,
Democrat; was elected a representative from Con-
necticut in the Thirty-sixth Congress as a Republican,
receiving 11,533 votes against 10,966 votes, for W. D.
Bishop, Democrat, and serving from December 6,
1859, to March 3, 1801; was defeated as the Repub-
lican candidate for the Thirty-seventh Congress, re-
ceiving 11,668 votes against 11,739 votes for George
C. Woodruff, Democrat; entered the Union army in
July, 1801, as colonel of the Fifth Connecticut Vol-
unteers; was promoted brigadier-general March 17,
1862, and served until the close of the war; was
elected United-States senator from Connecticut as a
Republican (to succeed Lafayette S. Foster, Repub-
lican) ; and was re-elected l>y a combination of Inde-
pendent Republicans and Democrats, serving from
March 4, 1667, to his death, caused by a softening
of the spinal marrow, at Norwalk, Connecticut, No-
vember 21, 1875.
Ferry, Thomas W., was bom at Mackinac,
Michigan, Jane 1, 18S7; receired a public-schoM
education; baa been engaged in business pursuits:
was a member of the House of Representatives ol
Michigan in 1850; was a member of the State Senate
in 1856; was vice-president for Michigan in the Chi-
cago Republican Convention of 1860; was appointed
in 1864 to represent Michigan on the Board of Man-
agers of the Gettysburg Soldiers' National Cemetery,
and was re-appointed in 1867; was elected a repre-
sentative from Michigan in the Thirty-ninth Congress
as a RepubUcan, receiving 13,426 votes against 0,366
votes for Frederick Hall, Democrat; was re-elected
to the Fortieth Congress, receiving 16,306 votes
i^ainst 8,154 votes for Hutchlns, Democrat; was re-
elected to the Forty-first Congress, receiving 23,043
votes against 13,714 votes for Mason, Democrat, serv-
ing from December 4, 1866, to Majch 3, 1871 ; was
re-elected to the Forty-second Congress, but did
not take his seat, having subeequenUy been elected
to the United-States Senate to succeed Jacob M.
Howud, Republican; he took his seat in the Senate
March 4, 1871; was chosen president mo tempore
March 9 and 19, 1875, and again December 20, 1876;
and was re-elected for six years from March 3, 1877.
FessendeiL Samuel C, was bom at New
Gloucester, Maine, March 7, 1816; received a classical
education, graduating at Bowdoin College In 1834:
completed nis studies at the Bangor Theological
Seminary in 1837 ; was pastor of the Second Congrega-
tional Church at Thomaston (afterwards Bocldana),
Maine, 1838-1856; studied law; was admitted to the
bar, and commenced practice In 1838; was elected
judge of the Rockland Municipal Court; was elected
a representative from Maine in the Thirty-seventh
Congress as a Republican, receiving 10,062 votes
against 0,090 votes for Johnson, Democrat, and serv-
ingfromJuly4,1861,toM-irch3,1803; was appointed
one of the examiners in the Patent Office in 1865.
Fessenden, T. A. D., was bom at Portland,
Maine, January 23, 1826; received a classical educa-
tion, graduating at Bowdoin College In 1845; studied
law; was admitted to the bar, and commenced prac-
tice at Lewiston, Maine; was a delegate to the
National Republican Convention In 1^; was a
member of the State House of Representatives In
1860; was prosecuting -attorney for Androsco^n
County 1801-1802; was elected a representative from
Maine lit the Thirty-seventh Congress (in place of
Charles W. Walton, resigned) as a Republican, serv-
ing from December 1, 1862, to March 3, 1863; died
at Lewiston, Maine, September 28, 1868.
Fessenden, William Pitt, was bom at Bos-
cawen. New Hampshire, October 16, 1800; received
a classical education, graduating at Bowdoin College
in 1823; studied law: was admitted to the bar m
1827, and commenced practice at Bridgewater, but
soon afterwards removed to Portland, Maine; was a
memlier of the State House of Representatives in
1832 and 1840; was elected a representative from
Maine in the Twenty-seventh Congress as a Whig,
receiving 200 majority over Albert Smith, Democrat,
and serving from May 31, 1841, to March 3, 1843;
declined being a candidate for re-election; was again
a member of the State House of Representatives in
1845 and 1810; was defeated as a Whig candidate for
the Thirty-second Congress, receiving 5,905 votes
against 5,045 votes for John Appleton, Democrat;
was again a member of the State House of Repn*-
sentatives in 1853 and 1854; was elected United-
States senator from Maine as a Whig (to succeed
J. W. Bradbury, Democrat); and was re-elected as a
Republican, serving from Febmarv 23, 1854, until he
resigned in July, 1864; was appomted by President
Lincoln secretary of the treasury, serving from July
1, 1804, to March 3. 1865: was agidn elected United-
States senator, serving from March 4, 1865, to his
death, at Portland, Maine, September 8, 1869.
Few, William, was bom near Baltimore, Mary-
land, June 8, 1748; removed with his family to North
Carolina in 1758; received an academic education;
studied law; was admitted to the bar, and cono-
892
CX»'GBBSSIOXAL DIBECTOBT.
leneed practice at Aajmsta, G«(nsU; aemd in the
Kerolationary war as colonel. ui<l difHinieuished him-
lelt in several Bkinui»bt-s with the Uritisb and ludi-
aiis: was presiding juiliie of tlic Riclimond-couiity
Court, and siirveyor-Kencral in 177"^; was a delegale
from Georgia to the Continental CAtni^ress ITfO-lT^
and 1785-17)38; was a delegate to the convention
which framed the Federal Constitution in 17K7; was
elected a United-States aenator from Georzia, senr-
ing from March 4. 1780. to Hareh S, ITtH; vaa a
judge of llie Circuit Coort of Geofj[ia 1794-1797; re-
moved to New-York City in July, 1790; was a mem-
ber of the New- York .State Hooae of BepresentatiTes
ISOf-l'HOo; was I'niteil-StatescaDimiasiaoer of loans;
and diol at riMikill. New Toric, July 10, 1828.
Ficklin, Orlando B., was bcnn in Kentncky
in ISlfK; received a thorough EngUsh education:
studied law; graduated at the Tnnsrlvania Law
School: was admitted to the har in 1^. and com-
Hteaeeo practice at Mount Carmel, Illinois; was a
mcmher ot the State House of liepresentatires in
teas, 1838, and 1S42; was elecU>d a n-presenutire
finm niiiiiaia in the Twenty-eighth Congnsa as a
Deaioctst, receiving 0,425 rote* •gainst 6.688 rotes
for Harlan, Whig; was rfr«leet<d to the Twenty-
■tath Congreai, £ui was re-elected to the Thirtieth
Cowgrw, reeeiring 0,473 Totes against 4,780 vote*
for McLao^ilia, Imlependent. and 3U voles for Scott,
AboUtionist, serving from December 4. 1M3, to Itaich
i, It>49; was again elected to the Thirty-aeoond Coo-
Bca, receiving 7,4W voica affkiatt 6,730 roles for
mraa. Whig, and aenriiig from Deeenwer 1, USL, to
iUreh 3. l^t; was a presidential elector on the
Buchanan and Breddnridge ticket in 1866; and be-
canie interested in fanning as well as in his pn>-
Kald, A. P., daimed to have been I^^ly
elected a rejiiMUtlative from Louisiana in the Thir-
ty-ei^th Ooi^tess as a Bepablican, but the oom-
mittee on elertJoos rqiMted adreiady: he retained
to New Orleana, had a new electioa held, and re-
tamed with a certifleate that he had received 1,877
ToleaagaiMt UOEeSretei for A. P. Dostie; a majority
of the oommlttee on eteottans reported that he was
cuitled to a seat; but soch was toe opposition, that
BO rote waa taken on the resolntioo. althoogh on the
last day of the session he waa roled t2,00dfor oom-
iwsmtion, mileage, and expenses.
FiBid, Moees W., was bom at Watertown,
JeSersou County, New Yorfc, Fobmary 10, l&S?; ro-
ceived a public-«chnol education; woriced upon a
farm: i^moved to Michigan, and cmbaiked in mer-
cantile and afoicoltural poisuits; has been a mo^
diant in the city of Detroit for twenty-Are yean, and
aiM> interested In mannfactures and r^ estate; was
•lecled (without oppoeitioD) alderman, and served
two tenna; was elecled chairman of the Board at
Sdiool Inspecton of Bamtzame: and was elected a
M|Msaitative from Michigan in the Forty-thinl
OaagKM as a Bepublican, receiring 11.S03 rotes
•fstast 9,6t3 rotes for Bagg, Greeley I)emocrat. and
US rotes for Lester H. Brown, 'Vitraight" Dem-
ocrat, serring from Decembn 1, 1873, to March i,
1875.
Field, Biohard S., was bom in Xew Jersey;
neetred an academic education: studied taw; was
artwitted to tlte bar, and commenced pvaetioe at
Princetoa; was sppointed a aenator tma New Jer-
sey (in place of John B. Thompson, deceased), serr-
fac from December 1. 1883, to Mardi S, 1803; was
Sfipainted by President Lincoln judge of the I'nited-
Slatea District Court for the Di-ttrict of New Jersey;
aad died at Princeton. New Jersey, May 26, 1810.
Field. Walbrid^ Abner, was bom at Spring-
Idd, Vemont. April -M, 1.S33: iceeired m classical
cdacatioB, giadnating at Dartmouth College in 1866:
•bsdied law at Boston and at the Harvard Law
School, and was admitted to the bar at Boston in
ISO); was appointed assistant attorney of the United
States ior MsssachnsetTs in 1805^ and held the office
luitil .Ariril. 1800, when he was ap|iainted
a neral of the United Statics, and heU this
Aiignat, UTTO, wlien be iesign«d, and r»-
tiiiiiv. - -—ictioe of law in Boston; he received
the ot: '-ate that he had been elected s n^
reseni.i ii Maasadiosetts in the Forty-fifth ^
CoDgreia as a Republi^n, receiring 9^,330 voles ^M
agtdnst 8,315 rotes ftir Beajanin Dean, Dcmocnt, ^M
and took bis seat, but the House gave it to Mr. _
Dean; he thus serred from October 16, 1677,
Mareh Sit. 1S78.
Fields. William C, was bora at Kew-Tc
City Keliruarv l:i, IsiM: received a pabUe-schoo^^
education : went to Laurens, where be tras justice o^^i
the peace for sixteen years, and snboeqisealljr soper-
risor; was cotmtydeik of Otsepo Ooutt^for l~
yean; was elected a representative frooi Hew Yc
in the Fortieth CongT«T%<i .xs a Repablicao, receiviai^
17.277 rotes wainst 1 ' •'■•r Johnson, Dem» —
crat, serring from Ma, : . to Man;h 3, IMR.
F'illinare, Millard, a as bum at Stunner Hill^
Cayuira County, New York. January 7. ItWJ; receivei/
apulJic-achooledocatioB; studied law; was admitted
li> the bar in 182S, and aanmeneed prariitt at Annitm,
New York; was a mnnber of the State House <tf
Bepresentativcs ISawigsi; was elected a repceseala-
tire from New York in the Twenlv-third Ouwgiaw
as a Whig, serring from December i, 1833, to March
3, 1836; was aain elected to ibe Tw«nty-£ftb Con-
gress; was le-eucied to the x,...n>,r^ixth Cooaea^
reodving 6,014 rotes a^i 'tea for G. P,
Barker, Democrat; and was : . lo tlte Twenty- I
seventh Congieas, recdring tififeAt rotes against
3,743 rotes for L. J. Bobots. Democrat, serring
from Sepleml<er 4. 1S:T7, to March 3. iS43; declined a
renomination : was defeated as the Whig candidate
for governor in 1S44 ; was elected Stole comptroller
in 1847; was electvU Vice-President on the Whig
ticket headed by Z. Taylor in liM8, reedriug 130
electoral rotes a^inst iSn electoral rotes for W. O. .
Butler; became President of the United States after i
Qte death of President Taylor, serring from Jnly 0,
1850, to Mard> 3, 1833; tnrdM laSurape; was de-
feated as the Xaiional-Amerieaa candidate for Presi-
dent in 18S0, recdring 8 electoral rotea against 173 ;
dedoral rotes for James Buchanan, and 114 rioct- i
oral votes for John C. Ftcmont; was pierident eCj
the Boffalo Historical Society, and OommaoiM
corps of home gtiaid during the war of the Reliellloajg
was stricken with paralysis Febmaiy 13, 1574, smI
dieil at Buffalo, New York. Mardt 8^ 1S74.
Finch, Isaac, waa bocB ia ttw State of Ne
York: received a publio-eehool edaostloa; resided at]
Jay, Essex County; was rtectej a
from New York in the TwcsitT-tot < _
Democrat, serving from Deeember 1, IBSSTto Mardt
3. IS-Jl.
Findlay, James (brother of Jofm Fiadlor and
William Findlay). was bom at Mercenbuig, Penn-
sylvania, liio: received a pobUfrSCkaol edocatioa;
n.inove«l to Cincinnati, Ohio; was a member of lbs
Territorial liegjalatlre Oosacil, aad afterwards of
the State House of Rffnsentativca; smml ia the
war with Great Britain in 1S12 as coloael of the
Seeood Ohio Volonteer loioatry; was United-SlatflS
receiver of public mooeja stCinciBBati: was elect-
ed a representatire frna Ohio in tbe Ntneteeath
Oai»«m as a Jackson Dsmatsat; was i»elect«i to
the Twentieth C«a^ess,itidili|g 600 ptaraHtr; waa
le-dected to tbe Tventr-Oiat Coa^raas. recdrinc
2,500 m^joritr orer John Woods. snU-Jackaoa; ami
was re-elected to tbe Tweaty-accand Co^rcss, serr-
ing from December &,iai^to Mareh S,l£n; waade-
feated as the Jactaoa Diimniistif, csartMaf fg^
goremorof •»- ' '•' i<34b]r BobcrtLaeas; and dieA
at Cindniui ■xfaba36, 1SS3.
Findlay, nxber of Jsases nnJLay aad
William rmtiU> ), was ban at Mereer^xus. PsaasyKJ
vania; received a pBhli&«eboolcdiieatiaB; localad a*l
ItaBsri^vti'; ^^a* cfaeicd a repte-
8TATISTIC.U, SKETCHES.
893
I
■sntiktiTe fmm PennsylTanin in the Sovcntomtli
Oonjrress as a Drmocrat ; was re-clorlecl to Ilie Einli-
tet-nth Coiicn-ss. niid was re-t^leclpd to the Niiie-
loiMitli Coiiirri'ss, son-iiig from Dpcenilior 3, 1821, to
March 3, lS:i7; was appoiulod {mstmastcr at Cham-
bcrebtirg, Pennsylvatiia, an<l held the office at tlic
IhiiM v..f liis ih'aih, N'riveinlxfr 5, 18:5S.
Pindlay, William (Ijmther of James Findlay
^aiid Juhu Kiiidla_s ,', was Uom at Morcersburu, I'oiin-
•ylvania, June 5o, 17<18; received a public-sclifM)!
education; 8tudic<I law; was admitted to the bar,
and practised at Franklinton, Pciinsylvaiiia; was a
iQomticr of the State House of lU'pn-seiitjilives in
17in and ISlK; was Stale treasurer 1S07-1817; wns
governor of Pennsylvania lsl7-1S2tl; was eleeted a
United-St.ites senator from IVnnsylvania as a Denio-
I frat, serving from DecctulH-r 3, 1S21, to Mareli :!,
P 1«27: was treasurer of the Unlted-,strttes Mint 1827-
1M<(; mill died at HarrisburR \nvenil»T 12. 18411.
Pindley, William, was bum in In-land .Janu-
ary 11, 17J1; n'lriveii a parlsh-schiinl iMlur:ilir>n;
ciune to the linited Sljiles, ami liK-ateil at I'liila-
delphin; sen'ed in tlie Itevohitlonary war; removed
L to Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania; was a mem-
f 1>er of the Stale legislature, and a delepnto to the
State Constitnlional Conventinu ; wius electeil a repre-
sentative from Peiuisylvania in the Seeonil Coiittresx
u a Democrat, and was re-elected to t!ie Third,
Fourth, and Kiflh Conjin'sses, serving from Ortnlwir
24, 1701, to March '-i. 17i»ll: was a^ain eleeted In the
I Eighth, Ninth, Tenth. Elevenlli, Twelftli, Tliir-
t<?enlh, and Fimrteenth Congresses, serving from Oc-
tober 17, 18<«, to Mareh ;l, 1817; he died near
Grcensburg. Pennsylvania. A|iril 7, ls-.;l. He puli-
Ifshed a " Keview of the Funding System " 1704, n
"History of tlie Insurreclimi in Western Pennsyl-
vania" 17W, and several p<ilitieal pamphlets.
Fine, Jonn, was Imm in New Yorlv August 20,
171S4; received a classle.il eduealion, graduating at
Columbia ("ollege, New York, in 18(111; studied law at
the Lrlehtield Law .SehcMil: was admitted to the bar.
and commenced jir.iclice at Ogdensliurg. New York:
■was first judge of the Court of Common Pleiui for SI.
lawrence County from November 21, 1824, to April
18, ISJS; was elected » representative from New
York in the Twenty-si.xtli Congress as a Deiiiocral,
rxcceiring 4,75*1 votes against 4,ii(U votes fur U. Van
ensselaer, Wiig. and serving fmui December 2,
183», to Man-h 3, 1841 : was again tiist judge of tlie
C-ourt of Common Pleas from February HI. 184;!, un-
•til the court was abolished by a clian:.'e of the Stat<'
constitution June. 1847; was a .Slate senatorin 184.8;
and died at Ugdeiishiirg. New York, January 4, 18tl7.
3*iil>lislieil a volume of law lectures.
Fink, William B., was Imrn at Somerset. Ohio,
September 1, 1822; received a jniblic-schmil pduca-
" ion; studied law; was admilted to the bar in Sep-
aber, 184;}; practised at .Sotnerset, Ohio; was a
'^State senatorin 1851; was a delegate to (be National
"Whig Convention which nominated .Seott and Gra-
'bam in 1852; was again a State senator in IHtil : was
eleclcil a representative from Ohio In tlio Thirty-
^ eighth Congress as a Democrat, receiving l;i.721
TotM against 8,087 votes for Trimble, Republican;
and was re-elected to the Thirty-ninth Ciingn-ss. re-
^^ceiving 12,iKt5 votes against 11, .1411 voles for Job E.
^vStevcnson, Kepublican, sening from Decenilier 7,
B imi, to March 3, 18(37; wiui defeated as llie Deiiio-
^k-cratic candidate for judge of the Supreme Court of
^P Ohio in 1808; was ag.iiii elected to the Forly-third
^^ Congress (in place of Hugh J. Jewell, reaicned) as a
^V Democrat, receiving 14.01K) votes ftainst H.:toi votes
^*-for David C. Taylor, liepnbliean. and stjrving from
DecemlK-r 7. 1874. to March H. 1875.
Pinkelnburg, Guatavus A., was iwm near
Cologne. Pnissia, April 0, 18^57; immigratiHl to Misi-
fciari with liis family In 1848; received an acajlemic
etlucalion al .St. Charles Colleje. Missouri; graduated
In the law department of Ohio University at Cincin-
nati; was admitted to the bar al St. Louis in 18(30;
■BCer
served In the Union army for the suppression of the
llelH'llinn; was elecled to the Missouri legislature as
a roiiical in 18(14: re-elected in 18(KI, and chosen
speakerpro tempnrr; was elecled a n'presentative from
Missouri in the Forty-tirst ('ougress as a Kepublican,
receiving 11,.54)(} votes against 8,280 votes for Lin(V
ley, IK'mm-rat; and was re-elected to the Forty-
second Congress, receiving 12.708 votes against l.JISO
votes for A. Van Wormer, Kepublican, serving from
March 4. 18(10. to March .S, 1873.
Pinley, B. B., n-sides at Bucyrus, Ohio, and was
elected a representative from that State in the Forly-
lirtli Congress :is a Democrat, receiving 10,(1.54 votes
jmainst 11,0(17 votes for Grosse, and 8er^•ing from
Oelober 15. 1.877.
Pinley, Jesse J., was bom in Wilson County,
Tennessee, November 18, 1812; received an academic
education; was a captain of ni(mnte<l volunteers In
Ihe Seminole war of 1.8.S0; studied law; was admitted
to the bar in 18:18, and located in Mississippi County,
Arkansas, in 1840; wa.i elected l» the .State Senate of
.Vrkansiui in 18-11: remove<l to Memphis. Teimessee.
in 1842; resumed Ibe practice of l,iw, and w.-is elected
mayor of Memphis in 1845; removed to Mariana,
Fl<»rida, in November. 1840, and n'Stimed the prac-
tice of law ; was elected to the Slate Senate of Florida
in 18.V0; was elected a presidental elector on the
WHiig ticket in 1.8.52; was ajipointed judge of the
Western Circuit of Florida in 18.5;l, and was elected
to the same olllce in l.s.55, and again in 18.51); was ap-
pointed judge of the Confederate-States Court for
the District of Florida In 1801; n!8igned. and volun-
teered as a private in the anny of the Confwlcrate
.StJites in Man-li, 18(12, aiwl was successively pro-
moted to llie rank of captain, colonel, and brigadier-
general; located at Lake City, Florida, in 180,5, and
ri'siimed the practice of law; removed to Jackson-
ville, Florida, in 1.871, and coiitiiuied practice there;
and was elected a represtjiitative from Florida in tlie
Forty-fourth Congress as a (Conservative Democrat,
receiving 8,147 votes against 7,804 votes for J. T.
Walls Kepublican; claimed a re-election to the
Forty-lift h Congress .igaUist BIsbee, Republican, serv-
ing froiu April HI. 18711.
Finney, Darwin A., was bom at .Shrewsbury,
Vennont, August 11. 1814: removed with bis family
to Meadville, Pennsylvania, when a lad; received a
classical education, graduating at the Meadville Col-
lege ; studied law ; was admittml to the bar, and prac-
tised Bt Steudville; was twice elected to the Stale
flouse of Keprescntativcs, and once to the State
Senate; was elected n representative from Pennsyl-
vania in the Fortieth Congress as a Kepublican,
receiving n.HXi votes against 15,222 voles for
McCalmoiit. Democrat, and Ber\-ed from March 4,
18(57, until his dctttU, while travelling in Europe,
Aucust 2.5, 1808.
Pish, Hamilton, was bom at New-York City
August :i. 1.S08; received a classical education, grad-
uating at Columbia College in 1827; studied law; was
admitted to the bar in 1830, and practised in New
York; was commissioner of deeds for tlie city and
county of New York; was elected a representative
from New York in llie Twenty-<'ighth Congress as a
Whig, receiving 6,004 votes against 5,(100 votes for
McKeon, Democrat, and serving from December 4,
I84;l, to March 3, 1845; was State senator in 1847;
was governor of New York 1848-1850; was elect-
ed a senator frcnn New York, B((rvlng from De-
cenilier 1, 1851. to March 3. 1.857; was one of a iMiard
of commissioners for the ndlef of ITiiion prisoners
of war at the .South : Iravelksl in Europe ; was ap-
pointed by tieneral (irant secretary of state, serving
from March 11, 1800, to Mareli 3, 1877; w.-is a mem-
ber of the Joint High (Commission whicli settled the
difTerences lietween tlie I'nited States and (ireat
Britain, and negotiated the Treaty of Washington in
1871; was president of the New-York Historical
Society, and president-general of the Society of the
Cincinnati.
894
CONOEB8SIOKAL DtBECTOBY.
Fisher, Charles, wa» bom in Bowan County,
Nonli Carolina, October 20, 1780; was e(ltio:itif<1
liy nrivate tutors at Poplar Tent and at Raleigh;
BtucIioiJ law; was admitted to the bar, but never
jiractised to any extent: was a State senator in 1S18;
was elected to the Fifteenth Congress (in tlie place
of George Muinfonl, deceased) as a Democrat by a
majority of 3'V) votes over Dr. W. Jones, and was re-
electcil to tlie Siileenlli Congress by a large majority
over John Long, serving from February 11, 181U.
until March 3, ISiil, when he declined re-election;
was a memlxTof the House of Commons of North
Carolina in 1821, 1822, 1823, 182«, 1827, 1S28, 18at,
1830, 1831, 18;!3. and lajO; was a member of the
Constitutional Convention of ]8.Ti; was elected a
represrnUitive in the Twenty-sixtli Congn^ss as a
Democrat, receiving 3,.V>3 votes against 3,370 votes
for Dr. P. Henderson, Whig, serving from Deeemlier
2, 18;{lt, until M;irch 3, 1841; was again nominated
for (yongress in 1S4."> as a Democrat, but W!»s defeated,
receiving 5,342 votes ag.iin8t 5,.'Wi8 votes for the in-
cumlteut, D. M. liarringer, Wliig; declined the
Democratic nomination for governor of North
Carolina in 1S4<); and died, wliile travelling at the
South-West, at Uilisborough, Mississippi, Hay 7,
1»«).
Fisher, David, was bom In Somerset County,
Pennsylv.inia, Deceml>er 3, 171I4; removed to Ohio,
wliere he was reared us a fanner, R-eeiving a scanty
bacl»woo<l8 education; was a lay-preacher and a
newspaper contributor; was a member of tlve .Stale
House of Kepresentativea in 1842; was elected a
representative from Ohio in tlie Tliirtieth Congress
aa a Whig, sen'ing from December 0, 1847, to M.irch
3, l.S4i».
Fisher, Gteorge, was born in Oswego County,
New York; received a pulilic-school education;
claimed to have been elected a representative from
New York In the Twenty-first Congress, but the
election was succcssfnliy contested l>y .Siliks Wright,
jun,, to wlioin the House awarded the seat December
15, 18251; but he refused to take it, and a new election
was held, which resulted iti llic choice of Jonah
Sanford.
Fisher, George P., was lx>m at Milfonl, Dela-
ware, October 13, 1817; niccived a classical edue.v
tion, graduating at Dickinson College in 18;i.8;
studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1841, and
Sravtiseil at Dover, Delaware; was a tuember of liie
Uto House of l{epresent,itives in 1H4.3 and 1844;
was secrotarj' of state of Delaware iu 18411; was
confidential clerk of Secretary Clayton in the Depart-
ment of State at Washington in 1840; w.is app<iinted
by President Taylor a eonunissioner to a<ljudicnte
claims against Brazil 18.'i()-18.'>2 ; was attorney-
general of the State of Delaware 18.')7-18iill; was
elected a rejtreiMntativu from Delaware in llie Tliirty-
seventh Congress as a Union Kepublican, receiving
7,732 votes against 7,475 votes for Biggs, Breckinridge
I)emocrat, and 701 votes for Keed, Douglas Demi>-
crat, and serving from July 4, 18(il, to March 4, 18<»:};
was defeated as the Uiiion-Kepublican candidate for
the Thirty-eighth Congress, receiving 8,014 votes
against 8,015 votes for Temple, Democrat; w.is ap-
pointed by President Lincoln a judge of the District
Supremo Court, which p<isition lie resigned when
appointed district-attorney for tlie District of Colum-
bia, from whicli he was removed in 187.'».
Fisher, John, was bom at Lond<mderr)", New
Ham]>8hirc, March 13, 1800; was reared on his
fatlier's farm, and subsequently engaged lu mer-
cantile pursuits; spent alxmt twenty-one years in
Hamilton, Canada, where he ha<l charge of an iron
manufacturing establishment, and where he was a
memlx-r of the city council, iuid sulise'iuently mayor;
returned to New \ ork in I8.W, and settleil at Batavia;
was subseipiently engaged as a State commissioner
iu erecting the buildings for the Xew-Yurk St.ite
lustitulion for the Blind in Batavla; wsis the presi-
dent of a lirc-lusunuico company ; and was clecteU a
representative from New Torlt In the Forty-first
Congress as a Republican, receiving 13,432 votes
against 10,204 votes for Jaclvson. Democrat, tcrving
from Marcli 4, 1»1», to March 3, 1871.
Fisk, James, was bom in Vermont in 1762;
received a public-school education; studie<l law; wa»
admitted to the bar, and commenced practice at
.Swanton, Vermont; was elected a representatlvo
from Vermont in the Ninth Congress as a DenuK-nit,
and was re-elected to tiie Tenth Congress, serving
from DeccinlK'r2, 18a5, to Marcli 3, 1809; wa» again
elected to tiie Twelftli Congress, receiving 719
majority; and was re-tdected to the Thirteenth
Congress, 8er%ing from NovemlKir 4, 1811, to March
2, 1815; was appointed Unit<!d-States judge for the
Territory of Indiana in 1812, Imt di?eline<l: was a
judge of the .Supreme Court of Vermont 181.V1.S16;
w.-»s elected a senator from Vennont (in place of
Dudley ChiK'e, resigiimi). serving from Deeemlier 1,
1817, to April 20, 1818, when he re.>;igned; was col-
lector of customs for the District of Vermont 181l>-
182(!; died at Swanton, Vennont, Deeemlier 1, 1844.
Fisk, Jonathan, was bom at Newbury, New
York; receiveil a public-whool education: was
elected a representative from New Y'ork in the
Eleventh Congrc>ss as n Democrat, serving from May
22, 1800, to Mareh 3. 1811; was again elected to tlje
Thirteenth Congress, and re-electitl to the Four-
teenth Cimgress, serving from May 24, 181.3, to June,
1815, when lie resigned, before Iiaving taken bis
seat, to accept the |Kisition of United-States attorney
for tiie .Southern District of New Y'ork.
Fitch, Asa, resided at .Salem, Washington
County, New York; and was elected a representa-
tive from that State in the Tweiftb Congress as a
Federalist by an averagi' majorilv of 342 votes, serv-
ing from Novembi'r4, 1811, to March ;3, 1813.
Fitch, Graham N,, was bom at Le Boy, New
York. DecemiR'r 7, 1810; received a classical educa-
tion; studied lucdicinc. and practised at Ixgansport,
Indiana; was a professor in the Bush Medical College
at Chicago 1844-1840; was an Indiana iiresidential
elector in 1S44, 184>S, and 1.8,'H}; was a memln-r of the
Stale legi-sLature in 18;J0 and 1830 ; was elected a rep-
resentative from IndLma in the Thirty-tirst Congress
as a Dcmncral. receiving 8,800 votes against 8,519
votes for Willi.-uiiBon Wright, Whig; and was re-
elected to the Thirtj-seomd Congress, receiving
n,3."^j votes .igainst 0,118 votes for Colfax, \NTjlg,
serving from Dwember 3, 1840, to Mareh 3, 185.3;
was elected a senator from Indiana, serving from
Feliruary 0, l.«57, to March 3, 1801 ; was a delepato
to the N.itional Democratic Couveution at New Y ork
in WVi.
Fitch, Thomas, was bom in New- Y'ork City
January 27. I8;!.s; received a public-school education;
went to Milwaukee In 1855, an<l cugiigiil ua clerk:
was local editor of " The Milwaukee Free Democrat
in l8.J0-18fW; went to California in 18(10; edited "The
San Franci.ico Times" and " Placerville Repulv
lican;" studied law; was a member of the C'alifornia
Assembly in lS(12-18ft3; went to Nevada in June,
18<i;t; was reporter of the Territorial Supreme Court
in 1803; was elected a member of the convention
which framed the StAtc constitution In 18<14; was
the Union nominee for Territorial delegate to Con-
gress in 18(!4; was district-attorney of Washoe
County in 1805 and 1800; was elected a representa-
tive fnim Nevada in the Forty-lirsl Congress as a
Republican, receiving about 10,000 votes against
about 8,0<X) vot<!S for Anderson, Democrat, senring
from Slare-h 4, IHWt, to March 3, 1871.
Fits, Samuel M., was eieotwl, Deeemlier SI,
1S;{4, a representative from Teniies.«ee in the Forty-
fourth Congress as a Di'moenit (to (ill the vucjuicy
caiiseii by tlio deatli •>{ John W. llead|; but he also
dieil befiiri! taking his seat, at llic Hot Springs ot
Arkan.<:i.s, Octolier 23, 187.5,
Fitzgerald, Thomas, received au academio
education; served under General Harrison in tim
I
I
STATISTICAL SKETCITES.
895
I
yixr nf 1813 against Oreat BritAin; atudied law; was
«i|jnitted lo tlic luir, ami coniinciiccd practio! at 8t.
Joscpli, Michigan; was appointed a senator front
Miclilgan (in place of Lewis Cass, n'signed), serving
f r.)in June aO, 1848. to Marcli 3, 1S40; died at Niles,
Wirhignii, Slardi L!.'), lAw.
Fitzgerald, William, was Imm in Tennessee;
received a ihomuu'li Kiiglisli eiluualion; studied law; I
was odiuittcd to the bar, and commoiiced practice at I
Dresden, Tennessee; was elected a rcpreaentalivc
from Tennessee in tlie Twenty-second Congress as a
Jackson Ueinoorat, receivinK-l.lVJO %ole9 against 3,4m
votes for David Croclcett, »Vliig, and serving from
December S. 1831, to Marcli 2, 1S3.'1; was defeated
as the Ueniocratic candidate for the Twenty-third
Congress by David rnx'kett, who had 104 majority.
Fitzhugh, William, was Ijorn at "Boscoliel,"
Stafford C'lHinty, Vli^inla, in 1720; received a classi-
cal ediicalioii from private tutors; was a delegate
fn.>m Virginia to the (Juntineutal Congress n"S)-17S0;
and died .Inly 0, lM>i».
Fitzpatrick, BenJEunin, was bom in Greene
Cotinty, CJeorgia, June 3(), lf!<02; left an orphan, he
■was taken by his elder brother to Alali.ima in 1815;
received a public-school educ.ition; studied law; was
admitted to the bar in 1.h:>1, uiul |>ractise<i until
1820, when he devoted himself to planting; was
eovemor of Alabama 184.5-18-Vj; w.is appointed a
United-States senator from Alabama as a fitate-
righls Deiuiicml (in place of Dison H. Lewis, de-
ceased), serving from December II. l!^M8, u> M.'ircli 3,
1840; was again appointed a Uniloil-ijtales sen.itor
(in place of William K. King, resigned), ,and wiis
jubseijuenfly elected by the legislature, serving from
January 20, 1853, to January 21, I8«il, when ho re-
tired from the Senate, of which he had several times
been president jiro tcmporr; was an eaniest sup-
porter of the Soiilheni C<mfederaey : was a dek'g.itc
to the National Union Convention at rhibulelpliia in
18U0; and died on his plantation, near Wetumpka,
Alab.ima. November 21, 18<10.
Fitzsimons, Thomas, was bom in Belfast,
Ireland, in 1741; reeeiwd a Latin-school education;
emigrated to the rnited Sliites, and entered the
counting-house of George Meade & Co. at Tliila-
delphia as clerk; commanded a company (pf volun-
teer home guard during the Kevolutionai^- war; was
•evcral years a member of the State House of Rep-
resentatives; was a delegale from PenuBylvania to
the Continental Congress in I7S2-17l>J, and to the
XJnited-Slates Constitutional Convention in 1787;
was elected a represent^itive from Pennsylvania in
the First Congress; was re-elected to the Second
Congress, and was re-elected to the Third Congress,
■crvInK from Miirch 4, 1781>, to March 3. 1705; held
seversu local offices; and died at rhiladelphla In
Aiigust, 1811.
Flagler, Thomas T., resided at Loekiwrt,
Niagara County, New Vork; lield several local
offices; was elected a repri'senlative from New York
in the Thirty-third Congress as a Wiig, receiving
6,8.'>8 votes against 5,608 votes for Woods, Democrat,
and 1,368 votes for Murphy, Free-Soiler: and was re-
elect^ to the Thirty-fourlh Congress, receiving 7,100
Totes against 1,2^11 votes for Baker, Democrat, and
002 voles for Ch.tse, Democrat, serving from Decem-
Ikt 5. mw, to March 3, 1857; was a member of the
Stale House of Kepresent.atives in 1800.
Flanagan. J. W., Wiis hom in Allwmarle, Vir-
ginia, .Septembers. 18ti.'>; received a common-school
education; removed in 1810 to Kentucky, where he
engaged in mercantile pursuits, luid was a justice of
the pc-acc for twelve years; removed ift 1843 to
Texas, where he studied law, and entered upon its
practice, planting cotton also; Wiis a mtmber of the
Slate Uouse of Kepresentatives in 1851 and 1852, and
of the State Senate in 1855 and 1850; was .State elector
nn the Fillmore ticket in I'm"; w;is a member of the
State Constitutional Convention of 1,800 and 1808;
wu elcclod by the coDTention as representative to
Congress for the State at large In 1800; was elected
lieutenant-governor in 1800; wos elected Unileil-
Sttttes senator from Texas as a Republican on the
reconstruction of Texas, and served from March 31,
INTO, to March 3. 1875.
Flanders, Alvin, was bom at UopUinton. New
Ilajnpshire, August 2. 1825; received a publlf-sehool
education; learned the machinist's trade in Boston;
removed to CaUfomia in 1851, and was there engaged
in the lumber business until 1858; was one of the
projectors ami proprietors of "The San Francisco
Daily Times;" was a nienil>er of tlie State legisla-
ture ill I.SOI ; was appointed register of tlie Ilum-
bohlt huid-ollice ; removed to Washington Territory,
iuid engaged in business there; was elected a dele-
gate from Wasliiugton Territory as a Kepublican,
receiving 2,3<i8 votes agninst 2,272 votes for Clark,
Democrat, serving from Mar<'h 4, 1807, to March 3,
1*10; was appointeii by I'ri'sident (Jranl governor of
Wnsliiiigton Territory, and served one year.
Flanders, Benjamin F., was iKim at Brisfcd,
New llani(!sbire, .laiiuary 2*1, 1810; received a clas-
sical ediicalion, graduating at Dartmouth College in
1842; Ktudied law; was admitted to the bar, and
coinuieneed [iraetiee at New Orleans; eilited "The
New -Orleans Tropic;" was superiiitendnit of a
selifMit; took an active part in reconstruction; was
elected a representative from Louisiana in the Thip-
ty-scventli Congress ns a Unionist, receiving 2,830
votes against 157 votes for Bouligny. Unionist, and
serving from February 2.!. 1.80:1. to March 3, 1803;
was military' governor of Louisiana 1807-1808.
Flemming, William, was bom in Vii-ginla, and
represeiiti'd thai Slate in the Continental Congress
n-0-178L
Fletcher, Isaac, was bom In Vermont; received
a classical education; was a memlier of the State
House of I!cprc8ent.itives; was elected a ri'preseutn-
tive from Vermont in theTweuty-liflh Congress as an
anti-Masonic Democrat, defeating Henry F. Janes,
Whig; was re-elected to lln! Twenty-sixth Congress by
370 majority, serving from September 4, 18;n, to
March 3, ISil; Wi« defeated as a candidate forro-
election by John Slattocks, Wliig; and died at Lyn-
don, Vermont, October 10, 1842.
Fletcher, Richard, was hom at Cavendish,
Vermont, January 8. 1788; received a classical edu-
cation, graduating at Dartmouth College in 1800;
studied law under Diuiiel Webster; was admitted to
the bar In l.HCP, and commenced pr.K'tice at Salisbury,
New Ilampshire; niuovcd to Boston in 1825; was a
member of the State Uouse of ilepresentatives of
Massaehusells; was elected a representative from
Mn.>isacbusetts iu the Twenty-fifth Congress as a
Wlilg, receiving 4,702 votes against 2,040 votes for
Charles Sumner, Coalilionlst, and 50 scattering votes;
was a judge of the Sujireme Court of Massachusetts
1S4S-1S53; received the degree of LL.D. from Dart-
mouth College, to which he Ix^qucalhcd $100,000;
and died at Boston June 21, 1800.
Fletcher, Thomas, received a public-schooi
education; located in Montgomery County, Ken-
tucky; w.is a meml>or of the Slate legislature in
1803, 1805, and 180«); served in the war against Great
Britain in 1812 as major of Kentucky volunteera
under General Harrison, and distingtiished liimsclf
at the action before Fort Meigs Mayo, 1813; was
elected a representative from Kentucky in the Four-
teenth Congress (in place of James Clark, resigned),
serving froin December 2, 1810, to March 3, 1817;
declined a re-election; was again a member of Jlho
State House of Representatives in 1817, 1820, 1821,
and 1825.
Florence, Ellias, was bom in Virginia; received
a. piiblie-sehool education; removal to Olilo, and
located at Cireleville, Pickaway County; was elected
a representative fnmi Ohio in tlie Twentyn-ighth
Congress as a Whig, receiving 5,420 votes ogainst
4.804 votes for Mcdill. Democrat, and serving froiu
December 4, 181^, to March 3, 1845.
k.
896
CONGRESSIONAL DTBECTOET.
Florence, Thomas B., was bom in the South-
wark District of Philadelphia Jantmi^ 'ii\ 1H|2;
rcceive<l a puhlic-school cilucation; learned the hat-
ter's trade, and went into business for himself In
183:1; was for many years a prominent meml>er of
the Volunteer IIoi>o Hose Company; was a IcadtT
in the Sons of Temperance, and in the Brotherhood
of the Union, a secret organization of working-men;
■was defeated as a Democratic candidate for the Thir-
tieth Congress, reecJvinR 2.832 votes against ;{,4;)7
votes for L. C. Levin, Whii; Native American; and
■was again defeated for the Thirty-first Congress,
receiving S.-IW votes against 4,(!95 votes for L, C.
Levin; was elected a representative from Pennsyl-
vania in tJie Thirty-second Congress as a Democrat,
receiving 5,:i02 votes against 4,1<U votes for L.
C. Levin; was re-elected to the Thirty-third Con-
gress, receiving 4,iKt7 votes against 'i,2M votes for
Price; was re-elected to the Thirty-fourth Congress,
receivin:^ <l,439 votes against o.UUy votes for E. Joy
Morris, Whig; was re-elected to the Thirly-fiftli Con-
cress, receiving 9,4i(.') votes against 7,275 votes for
Knigiit, Union; and was re-elected to the Thirty-
sixtli Congress, receiving (1,82;J votes against tl,41»2
votes for liyan, Kepubliciin, and 2,442 for Nehinger,
anti-Lecompton Democrat, ser%'ing from l)eceral>er
1, 1801, to March 3. 1801; edited "The National
Democratic Iteview;" cstalilished and edited in IW)
"Tlio WasliingtiiAn Couslitutioiial Union," and in
1808 " The WiLshington .Sunday Oaxetle; " retaining
his legal resilience at Philadelphia, he wius defeated
as the Democratic candidate in his old district for
the Forty-Jirst Congress, receiving 1 l,!li;5 votes against
14,533 votes for C. O'Neill, Itcpuldiean; met with an
accident to his right itml during the canvass, which
c.tusi'd iiillammation, followed by dry gangrene,
which finally proved fatal; he was again defeat«i as
tlie Democratic catidiJate for the Forty-fourth Con-
gress, receiving 7,U7l) votes against t),li;J7 votes for
Ch.ipman Freeman, Uepaljlican, and 2,370 votes for
David Br.inson, Indo[)pndent Kepuhlicau; lie would
have contested the (dection, but lie died at W.-vshing-
toii City July 3, l.sT.j.
Ploiirnoy, Tbomaa S., w,ts boni in Virginia;
received a public-schoul education; studied law; was
admitted to the bar, and commenced practice at
Halifax; was elected a representative from Virginia
in the Tliirtieth Cimgress as a Whig, receiving one
majority over T. 11. Averett, Democrat, aiul serving
from December <!, 1847, to Slarch 3, lH4lt; was de-
feated as the Whig candidate for the Thirty-first
Congress, receiving 1,300 votes against l,4olt votes
for Averett, Democrat; entered the Confederate
nrmv, and wiu killed in battle in Virginia in June,
18(14.
Floyd, Charles A., w.is Imni in New York; n:-
ceived a public-school education; resided at Com-
mac, .Suffolk Cotinly; was a memlter of the .State
legislature In 1830 and 18.3S; was elected a repre-
sentative from New York in the Twenty-seven tli
Congress aa a Democrat, iMceiving 0,()(lli votes against
4,880 votes for William P. Buffeit. Whig, and serv-
^tigtTom May 31. l.'Ml, to March :!, 1.S4.'!.
Floyd, John, w.-w Itoru at Beaufort, South Car-
olina, October 3, 1701); removed in 1701 with liis
father to Georgia, wlicre they were successful as
builders of boats for river-navigation; served in the
■war with Great Britain of 1812 as brigiuller-guneral
in tlie expeditions against the Creek Indians, who
■were supplied with arms and ammunition by the
iiritish; was several times a member of tlie St.ito
House of Rcpnjsentatives; was elected a repres(fnta-
tivc from Georgia in the Twentieth C^ongress, serving
from December .S, 1827, to M.arcli ;J, 18211; and died
near Jefferson, Georgi.a, June 24, 1S'19.
Floyd, John, father of John B. Floyd. w;is
l>orn in Jefferson County, Virgiida; received nn
academic education; was for several years a member
of the Stale House of Representatives; was elected
a representative from Virginia in the Fifteenth Con-
gross BS a Stat/>-rights Democrat, defeating ColoncS.
McCianalian, Feilcraiist : was re-elected to the Sis-^H
teenth. Seventeenth, Eighteenth, Nineteeutb, an<ki^|
Twentieth Congresses, ser\-ing from Dccemlier 1«
l>tl7, to March 3, 1829; was governor of Virgini.'m^
1.S2(»-1S;!4; after having been a pi-rsonol friend ani ,
8t.incli supporter of Jefferson, Madison, Cmwf<inJ.j
and Jackson, he became incensed by the procla
tiou of the latter against nullification, and oppuMtf ]
him; he died at the Sweet Springs, Virginia, Augnst '
U!JI837.
Floyd, John Q., was bom in the State of New
York ; received a puijlic-school education ; resided at
Utica; was a memt)er of the State House of Itepns
8entatlv<!s 18;J1>-1843; w.as elected a representative
from New York in the Twenty-sixth Congress as a
Democrat, n'ceivinj; 0,2SC votes against 8,;lti2 votes
for C. P. Kirkland. Wliig; and was re-elected to tlie
Twenty-seventh C'ongress, receiving 11,775 votes
against 11,328 voles for Thomas II. Bond, Wliig,
serving from December 2, 1830, to March 3, 18*5;
was again elected a representative from New York
in the Thirty-second Congress, receiving 4,12o vot«»
agaiuBt 3.(KJI votes for Rose, Whig, and serving from
December 1, 1S.")1. to Marcli 3, 18.")."1.
Floyd, 'William, ■«"as bom at Brookliaven. New
York, December 17, n.'J4; received an academic edu-
cation; took an active part in the ante-Revolutionary
inovcinents; was a delegate from New York to the
Continental Congress 1774-1777, signing the Dcclan-
lion of Inde|)cndence when the British were upon
his estate; was a State senator 1777-1778; was atgiiii
a (!ele;jate to the Continental Congress 1778-1783; wss
elected a representative from New York in the First
Congress, serving from March 4, 178U, to March 'i,
1791; ri'moved in 17114 to Western, in Oneida County,
then a wildenicss; was a |)residential elector in 18ui),
1804, and 1820; was a delegate to the State Conslitu-
tioiiai Convention in IKUl; was again elected State
senator in 1803; and died at Western, New York,
August 4, 1821.
Fogg, Gteorge Q., was bom at Meredith, Bel-
knap County. New Ilampsliire, May 2(1, 181.") ; received
a classical education, graduating at Dartmouth Col-
lege in 18;19; studied law; was admitted to tlie bar
in 1842, and commenced practice at Gilmanton. New
ILimpshire; was secretary of state of Ncw^ Hamp-
sliire in 1840; became an editor of "Tlic Independ-
ent Democrat," then published at Manchester in
I.S47, and afterwards at Concord, .ind w.is editor-in-
cliief l8-">-t-lS(>l ; w^as reporter of the State Supreme
Court 1850-l.SOO; w.is appointed by Pnssidcnt Lincoln
mlni.'!ter resident at Switzerland, serving from March
28. 18111, to October 10, LSM; w:i« appointed a United-
Status senator from New Hampshire as a Republican
[in place of Daniel Clark, resigned), serving from
U.'eeiiilier 3. ls<i(l, to March 3, 1807.
Foley, Jomea B., was bom in Kentucky; re-
ceived tt puljlic-school education; removed to Greens-
burg, In<li.ina; held several local offices; was elected
arejin'sentative from Indiana in the Thirty-lifth Con-
gress as a Demo<'rat, receiving 10,451 votes .igaiiist
8,l»08 votes for Cum)>ack, Republican, and aer\'ing
from DecemlKT 7. 18.J7. U> Mari:h 3, 18oi).
Folger, Walter, jun,, was boni at Nantucket,
Miissuchusetts; received a public-school cilucation;
wiu» a State seuiitor 1S<H>-1815 and in 1822; was elect-
ed u representative fmm Massacliu.sotts In the Fif-
teenth Congress :is aDcmi>crat; and was re-elected
to the Sixteenth Congress, serving from December 1,
1817. to M.irch 3, 1810.
Folsopi, Nathaniel, was l)om at Exeter, New
num[)shire, .September 18, 17;!0; n'ceived a public-
school e<iucation ; scrveil in the Seven Years' War as
captain of a i-onipany In Colonel BlanchaitPs regi-
mpiit; was siiocessivoly major, lieutenant-colonel,
and colonel of the Fourth Regiment of New-Hamp-
shire Militia, which he ccmmande<l at the conimenci.--
nient of the llinolutionary war; was ap|iointed liy the
Convention of New Hampshire, April 21, 1775, Injga-
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dler^neral to command the Kew-Hampshire troops
lent to Moasachtisetts, aad served during the siege of
Boston; was promoted major-general, and made the
details of troops sent from New Hami^hire to Ticon-
deroga; was a delegate from New Hampshire in the
Continental Congress lTf4-1775 and 1TI7-1780; was
executive councillor in 1778; was a delegate to the
State Constitutional Convention of 1783, and its
president; and died at £xeter, New Hampshire, May
26,1790.
Foote, Samuel Allgostus, was bom at Chesh-
ire, Connecticut, November 8, 1780; received a clas-
sical education, graduating at Yale Collie 1797;
engaged in mercantile pursuits at New Haven; was
for WTCral years a meml>er of the State House of
Representatives, and twice its speaker ; was elected a
representative from Connecticut In the Sixteenth
Coneress as a Whig, serving from December 6, 1819,
to Harch 3, 1821; and was again elected to the Eigh-
teenth Congress, serving from December 1, 1823, to
March 3, 1^; was elected a United-States senator
from Connecticut, serving from Decemlwr 3, 1827, to
Uarch 8, 1833; was defeated as a candidate for re-
election as United-States senator by Nathan Smith;
was again elected a representative in the Twenty-
third Congress, serving from Decemt>er 2, 1883, to
May 9, 1834, when he resigned, Iiaving been elected
governor of Connecticut; served as governor 1U31-
1836; was a presidential elector on the Clay and
Frelli^uysen ticlcet in 1844; and died at Cheshire,
Connecticut, September 15, 1846. He was the father
of Admiral Foote, U.S.N.
Foot, Solomon, was bom at Cornwall, Addison
Cunnty, Vermont, November 19, 1802; received a
classical education, graduating at Middlebury College
in 1826; studied law; was admitted to the bar, and
commenced practice at Rutland, Vermont; was elect-
ed a representative from Vermont in the Twenty-
ei^th Congress as a Whig, receiving 6,098 votes
a^dnst 4,926 votes for Harrington, Democrat, 608
votes for Theall, Abolitionist, and 67 votes scatter-
ing; and was re-elected to the Twenty-niuth Con-
gress, serving from December 4, 1843, to March 3,
1847; was defeated as a candidate for clerk of the
House of Representatives in December, 1849; was
elected a United-States senator from Vermont as a
Republican ; and was twice re-elected, serving from
December 1, 1857, to March 28, 1806, when he died,
having served several times as president pro tempore.
Foote, Charles A., was bom in the State of
New York; received an academic education; was
elected a representative from New York in the Eigh-
teenth Congress, serving from December 1, 1823, to
Hatch 3, 1825 ; and died at Delhi, New York, August
1,1828.
Footer Heniy Otoart, was bom in Fauquier
Coonty, Viiginia, September 20, 1800; received a
clxMsica] education, graduating at Washington Col-
lege, Virginia, in 1819; studied law; was admitted to
the bar in 1822, and commenced practice at Tuscum-
bia, Alabama, in 1824, removing in 1826 to Jackson,
Mississippi; was elected a United-States senator from
Mississippi as a Unionist, serving from December 6,
im, to the fall of 1852, when be resigned to success-
fully canvass the State as Union candidate ^or gov-
ernor against Jefferson Davis, Secessionist; was
governor of Mississippi 1862-1864 ; removed to Cali-
fornia in 1854; returned to Vickslmrg, Mississii^i, in
1858; was a member of the Southern Convention at
Knozville in 1859, and spoke against disunion; was
a representative from Tennessee in the First and
Second Confederate Congresses; removed to Wash-
ington City, where he practised law. He published
"Texas and the Texans" 1841, a "History of the
Southern Struggle" 1840, and a volume of "Fer-
•onal Reminiscences."
Forbes, James, was a delegate from Maryland
to the Continental Congress 1778-1780.
Ford, James, resided at LawrencevlUe, Penn-
tjlranla; held several local offices; was elected a
representative from Pennsylvania in the Twenty-first
Congress as a Jackson Democrat; and was re-elected
to the Twenty-second Congress, serving from Decem-
ber 7, 1829jto March 2, 1683.
Ford, William D., was bom at Providence,
Rhode Island; received a public-school education;
removed to Jefferson County, New York; was a
member of the State House of Representatives 1810-
1817 ; was elected a representative from New York in
the Sixteenth Congress, serving from December 6,
1819, to March 3, 1821; died at Watertown, New
York.
Forester, John B., was bom in Tennessee;
received a public-school education; resided at
McMinnsville; was elected a representative from
Tennessee in the Twenty-third Congress, receiving
500 majority over J. C. Isacks ; and was re-elected to
the Twenty-fourth Congress, receiving 1,234 majority
over P. Burum, serving from Deceml)er 2, 1^, to
March 3, 1637.
Forker, Samuel C, was bom at Mount Holly,
New Jersey, March 16, 1821; received a common-
school education; is director and cashier of the Bor-
dentown Banking Company; and was elected a rep-
resentative from New Jersey in the Forty-second
Congress as a Democrat, receiving 15,809 rotes
against 15,452 votes for W. A. Newell, Republican,
serving from March 4, 1871, to March 8, 1873.
Fomanoe, Joe»ph, was bom at Nonistown,
Pennsylvania; received a public-school education;
was elected a representative from Pennsylvania in
the Twenty-sixth Congress as a Democrat, receiving
4,627 votes against 3,723 votes for Joseph Royer,
Whig; and was re-elected to the Twenty-seventh
Congress, receiving 4,480 votes against 3,661 votes
for Potts, Whig, serving from Decemlier 2, 1839, to
March 8, 1843.
Forney, Daniel M. (the eldest son of Peter
Forney), was bom in Lincoln County, North Caro-
lina, ill May, 1784; filled several local ofilces; was
major in the war of 1812 ; was elected a representative
in the Fourteenth Congress as a Democrat, and re-
elected to the Fifteenth Congress, serving from De-
cember 4, 1815, to 1818, when he resigned ; was at^
pointed by President Munroe in 1820 a commissioner
to treat with the Creek Indians ; was a member of the
State Senate of North Carolina in 1823, 1824, 1825,
and 1826; removed to Alabama in 1834; and died
in Lowndes County, Alabama, in October, 1847.
Forney. Peteo:, was liom in Lincoln County,
North Carolina, in April, 1750; was a Revolutionary
soldier; engaged in the manufacture of iron; was a
mcml)er of the House of Commons of North Carolina
in 1794, 1705, and 17C6, and of the State Senate in
1801 and 1802; was elected a representative in the
Thirteenth Congress, serving from May 24, 1813, to
March 3, 1815; was a presidential elector on the
Jefferson ticket in 1800, the Madison ticket in 1813,
the Munroe ticket in 1817, and the Jackson tickets in
1826 and 1829; died at his hospitable home, known
as " Mount Welcome." Lincoln County, North Caro-
lina, February 1, 1834.
Forney, William Henry, was bora at Lln-
colnton. North Carolina, November 9, 1823; received
a classical education, graduating at the University of
Alabama in 1844; served in the war with Mexico as
a first lieutenant in the First Regiment of Alabama
Volunteers; studied law; was admitted to the bar in
1848, and practised ; was elected by the legislature of
Alabama a trustee of the University of Alabama, and
served 1851-1860 ; was a member of the State House
of Representatives of Alabama 1859-1860 ; entered the
Confederate army at the commencement of hosUUties
in 1801 as captain, and was successively promoted
major, lieutenant-colonel, colonel, and briraulier-
general ; surrendered at Appomattox Court House ;
was a memlier of the State Senate of Alabama 1865-
18G0, serving until the State was reconstructed;
was elected a representative from Alabama in the
Forty-fonrth Congress as k Democrat, receiving
CONOBESSIOKAIi DISEOTOBT.
100,060 yotea against 80,900 Totea for C. C. Sheets,
Bepublican; and was re-elected to the Forty-fifth
Congress, receiving no opposition, serving from De-
cember 6, 1875.
Forrest, Thomas, was bom at Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania; received a public-school education;
was elected a representative from Pennsylvania in
the Sixteenth Congress, serving from December 0,
1810, to March 3, 1821 ; was defeated as a candidate
for the Seventeenth Congress, receiving 4,796 votes
against 10,735 votes for Heury Baldwin ; but he was
subsequently elected to the Seventeenth Congress (in
place of William Milnor, resigned to serve as sheriff),
serving from December 2, 1822, to March 8, 1823;
and died at Philadelphia March 20, 1825.
Forrest, Uriah, was bom in Maryland; re-
ceived a public-school education; served In the
Maryland line during the Revolutionary war ; was
wounded at Oermantown, and lost a leg at the
Brandywine ; was a delegate from Maryland in the
Continental CoogreM 1780-1787 ; was elected a repre-
sentative from Maryland in the Third Congress,
serving from December 2, 1703, to November 8, 1794,
when he resigned : and died near Georgetown, Dis-
trict of Columbta, in 1806.
Forsyth, John, was bom at Fredericksburg,
Yirginia, October 2, 1780; received a classical educa-
tion, graduating at Princeton College in 1700; re-
moved with his father to Charleston, and afterwards
to Augusta, Georgia; studied law; was admitted to
the b^ in 1802, and commenced practice at Augusta;
was attorney-general of Georgia 1808; was elected a
representative from Georgia In the Thirteenth Con-
gress as a Democrat, and re-elected to the Four-
teenth and Fifteenth Congresses, serving from May
24, 1813, to November 23, 1818, when he was elected
United-States senator, and took his seat ; he resigned
February 15, 1810, having been appointed minister
to Spain, where he served until March 2, 1823; was
^ain elected a representative in the Eighteenth Con-
gress, and re-elected to the Nineteenth Congress,
serving from December 1, 1823, to March 3, 1827;
was again elected a United-States senator from Geor-
gia (in place of J. McPherson Berrien, resigned),
serving from December 8, 1829, to June 27, 1834,
when ne resigned, havhig been appointed secretary
of state by President Jaclcson; was continued in
ofSce by President Van Buren, serving until March
3, 1841; and died at Washington City, of bilious
fever, October 21. 1841.
Fort, Qreenoury L., was bom in Ohio Octo-
ber, 17, 182j ; removed with his parents to Illinois in
April, 1834; was raised on a farm; was admitted to
the bar, and commenced practice at Lacon; was
elected sheriff, clerk circuit court, and county judge :
volunteered in the Union army April 22, 1861, and
was mustered out of the service March 24, 1806; was
elected to the SUte Senate of Illinois in 1860; was
elected a representative from Illinois iu the Forty-
third Congress as a Republican, receiving 13,461
votes against 8,504 votes for George O. Barnes, the
Coalition candidate; was re-elected to the Forty-
fourth Congress, receiving 9,753 votes against 7,403
votes for J. G. Bayne, Democrat; and was re-elected
to the Foriy-tifth Congress, receiving 15,001 votes
against 12,211 votes for O. W. Parker, Democrat,
serving from December 1, IffTS.
Fort, Tomlinson, of Milledgeville, Geoi^a, was
bom in 1787; received a classical education; studied
medicine, and was admitted to practice in 1810; was
for several years a member of the State House of
Representatives; was elected a representative from
Geoigia in the Twentieth Congress on a general
ticket, serving from December 8, 1827, to March 3,
1820; resumed practice; was chosen president of the
State Bank of Georgia In 1832, and held the position
until his deathjat Milledgeville, May 11, 1850.
Forward, Chauncey (brother of Walter For-
ward), was bom at Old Granbv, Connecticut, in 1703;
removed with his father to Ohio in 1800; received a
classical education, studying at Jefferson College;
studied law; was admitted to the bar at Pittsburg iu
1817, and commenced practice at Somerset; was a
member of the State Senate and House of Representa-
tives ; was elected a representative from Pennsylranis
in the Nineteenth Congress (in place of Alexander
Thomson, resigned) as a Democrat; was re-elected
to the Twentieth and Twenty-first Congresses, serv-
ing from December 4, 1^6, to March 3, 1831; was
appointed by the governor of Pennsylvania in 1S81
prothonotary and recorder of Somerset County ; ideo-
tified himself with the Baptist Church, and 'became
noted as a lay-preacher; and died at Somerset, Penn-
sylvania, October 19, 18S8.
Forward, Walter, was bom in Connecticut in
1786; received an academic education; removed to
Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, in 1803; studied law; was
admitted to the bar in 1806, and practised until 1826;
was elected a representative from Pennsylvania in
the Seventeenth Confess (in place of Henry Bald-
win, resigned) as a Democrat, receiving a majority
of 755 votes over Pentland ; and was re-elected to the
Eighteenth Congress, serving from December 2, 18S2,
to March 3, 1826 ; was a delegate to the State Consti-
tutional Convention in 1837; was appointed by Presi-
dent Harrison first comptroller of the treasury April
6, 1841, serving until be was appointed by President
Tyler secretary of the treasury September 13. 1641,
and serving until March 1, 1843; resumed practice;
was appointed by President Taylor chargtd^ afoot*
to Denmark, serving from November 8, 1849, to Or-
tober 10, 1851 ; returned to serve as president-jud^
of the District Court of Alleghany County, to which
ho had been elected; was attacked by illness while
on the bench, and died the second day afterwards, at
Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, November 2i, 1842.
Fosdiok, Niooll, was bom at New London,
Connecticut, November 0, 1785; received an ar*.
demlc education; removed to Norway, New Torit;
was a prcsidental elector on the Monroe and Tomp-
kins ticket in 1816; was a member of the Stats
House of Representatives 1818-1810; was elected a
representative from New York in the Nineteenth
Congress as a Whig, serving from December 5, 1835,
to March 3, 1827 ; returned to New London in l&tS,
and was collector of customs there 184&-1853; died
at New London May 7, 1868.
Foster, Abiel, was bom at Andover, Maasaehu-
setts, Augusts, 1785: received a classical education,
graduating at Harvard College in 17.')6; studied
theology; was ordained over the Congregations!
Church at Canterbury, New Hampshire, January
21, 1761, and remained its minister until 1770; was
a delegate from New Hampshire in the Continental
Congress in 1783-1784; was judge of the Court of
Common Pleas 1784-1788; was elected a representa-
tive in the First Congress from New Hampshire, scrf-
ing from August 14, 1780, until March S, 1701; was
president of the State Senate of New Hampshire in
1793-1704; was again elected to the Fourth Congress,
and was re-elected to the Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh
Congresses, serving from December 7, 1795, until
March 8, 1803; and died at Canterbury, New Hamp-
shire, Febraary 6, 1806.
Foster, A. Lawrence, resided at Morrisviile,
New York; received a public-school education; was
elected a representative from New York in the
Twenty-seventh Congress as a Whig, receiving
10,826 votes against 10,757 votes for Williain J.
Hough, Democrat, and serving from May 31, 1841,
to March 3, 1843.
Foster, Charles, was bom hi Seneca County,
Ohio, Apnl 12, 1828; was educated at the common
schools and the academy at Norwalk, Ohio ; engaged
in mercantile and banMng business, and never held
any public office until he was elected a representar
tive from Ohio in the Forty-second Congress, receiv-
ing 13,274 votes against 12,498 votes for Edwairl F.
Dicldnson, Democrat: was re-elected to the Forty-
third Congress, receiving 14,097 votes against 14,2^1
STATISTICAL SKETCHES.
899
otos for R. R. Sloanc, Liberal RopuWIran ; Rnd wm
rc-olcotoci to lh>' Forly-fourth Coiiijrojs us a IIi'puMi-
can. rcwiving 1:3.7"!? votes against l.'I.Ollt votes fur
Sciicy, Democrat, and ^89 votes for Mead, Temper-
ance eaniUilate; ami was r»!-eleete»l to the Forty-tifth
Concress. reeeiriii!^ 17..'i24 votes afiaiiist I7,ti5:j votes
for Hudson, Democnit, scrviiif; from March 4, 1871.
Foster, Dwight, w.ts Ixirn at IJrooklielil. Mas-
sachusetts. I)cr<>inl(er 7, 1757; received a eliissieal
education, gradiiatiiic; at Ilrown I'niversity in 1774;
Btudicd law; was admitted to the liar, and eom-
niencod practice at lirooktield; was hi|j;Ii slicrift of
Worcester County, justice of the Court of Common
Pleas, and afUrwanls chief justice; w.is a member
of the State Senate ami House of rtepresetitalives;
was elected a representative from Massachusetts as
a Federalist in the Third. Ftuirth, and Fifth Con-
gresses, 8er>iiij; from December li. 17!>:l, to March 3,
171*11; was a delegate to the St.ite Conslitutional Con-
■yention 17110; was elected a Uniled-Stati'S senator
from Massachusetts (in place of Sanmrl Dexter, re-
signed), serving from June (5. IWK), to March a, lyWJ;
Olid died at Urookiield, Massachusetts, April 21),
1833.
Foster, Ephraim H., received an academic edu-
cation; studii'il law; was admitted to the bar, and
practised at N.isliville, Tennessee; w.is Ji[ipoinled a
Unite<l-States senator from Tenni'ssec (in jilace of
Felix (irundy, resis'ieil) as a Whi;;, drfeatin'^ W.
CamiU, Democrat, and sening from December 3.
18;1>H, tf» March 3, l.SiJll, when he ri-signe<i liecause ho
would not obey instnictions given him by the legis-
lature; he Wiis ngiiin eleete<l a Cnlled-.Slates senator,
scrying from December 4, 1,S43. to March 3, 1S4");
W.1S defealeil .as the Whig candidate for governor of
Tennessee, reciving 50,80.") votes against 5,'^.275 votes
for Aaron .v. Urown, Democrat; died at Nashville,
Tennessee, .September 4, IS.%4.
Poster, Henry A., resi<led at Rome. New York;
received a public--scliiMd education; studii'cl law;
Was ailraitted to the bar, and |)raetised; was a State
senator 18:}1-1834; was elreled a n'jiresentative from
New York In the Tweiity-lifth Congiess as a Demo-
crat, serving from September 4, 18117, U> March 3,
183ti: W.1S again a Slate senator 1841-184-1: was ap-
pointed a United-States senator from New York (in
plate of .Silas Wright, jun., resigned), serving from
I)ec«ral>er U, 1K44, to .lanuary 1!7. 1847, when his suc-
oesaor Uxik his seat; was elected judge of the Fifth
BIstrict of the Supreme Court November 3, l.StKJ, to
^Novenilier. iwm.
Foster, Henry Donnel, was bom at Mercer,
Tcunsylvani.a, Di'cenilier I!1, 1812; received a tilwral
49iluc.ation at Alleghany College. Mendville, P->nnsyl-
Tania; studied law, and practises the profession;
■was elected a representative from rennsylvaiua in
the Twenty-eighth Congress as a Democrat, receiving
xo opposition; and was n"-(lecte<l to the Twrnly-
3iinth Congress, serving from DecemlM^r 4, 184;). to
March 3, ltM7; was elected to the House of Repre-
sentatives of tho legislature of Fcnnsylvania In 1840
and li>47; was the Democratic c.indidate for governor
of Pennsylvania in 1800; was a candid.ate for the
Forty-first Concress, but did not secure tlie seat; and
was again elected to the Forty-second Congress as a
Democrat, receiving 12.;iit!l votes ag.iiiist ]1.(;(H» votes
for A. Stewiirt, Reputilican, scning from March 4,
1871, to March 3, 1873.
Poster, Lafayette S., was horn at Franklin,
Connecticut, Novemlter 22. 1800; received a classical
education, graduating at Brown I'niversity in 1828;
studied law with lion. Calvin Goddard, and at
Centreville, Slaryland, where he taught school for a
year; was admitted to (he bar at Centreville in 1830,
and again at Norwich in I8;il; commenced practice
at Nonvich; removed to Hampton in ]8:}3, but re-
neil ill 1,S35 to Norwich, where ho aflenvards
ctised; was a member of the .State General
lembly in 18:ilt, 184<l, I8W, 1847, 1848, ami 18*54,
erving tliu last three years us speaker; wsis defeated
as tho Whig rnndidato for governor In IMO, 18,51,
and for United-States senator in 1851 ; was mayor of
Norwich in ISM, 1852; w.i8 elected a Unitc<l-State»
senator from Connecticut as a Republican, and was
re-elected, serving from Decemlier 3, 18.55, to March
3. 1.8*17. and Hcling as presi<lent pro tempore of tho
Senate after the [promotion of V ice-President Johnson
to be President ; was elected professor of law at Yale
College in 18011; wiui a judgu of the Supreme Court
of Coiiuecticut 1,870-1870; w.as defeated as tho
Democratic candidate for the Forty-fourth Con-
gress, receiving 5.444 votes ag.ain8t 5,818 votes for
H. H. Slarkwealher.
Poster, Nathaniel G., was bom in Greene
County. (;eor.;ia, August 25, l,8«ll); received a classi-
cal education, graduating at Franklin College In
I8;>0; studied law; was ailmitted to the bar in 1831,
and commenced practice at Madison, Georgia; was
a Stale senator and representative; was for three
years solicitor-general of the Ocmulgee Circuit ; was
elected a representative from Georgia in the Thirty-
fourth Congress as an American, receiving 4,7i)'2
votes against 4.5.80 votes for .Stephens, Democrat,
and serving from December 3, 1855. to March i'.. 1,8.57.
Foster, Stephen C, was bom at Mafhins,
Maine. Decemlier 2t. I7!iti; received a public-school
education; leanii'd the blacksmith's Iniile. but lie-
e.ime a dealer in lumber and a ship-builder; was a
member of tho Slate Ilou.se of Representatives 1834-
18.37; was a .State senator and pri>sidcnt it the .Senate
in 184(); niis again a member of the State House of
Kcpresentalives in 18-17; w.".s elected a repn'sent.ative
from Maine in tho Thirty-lifth Congress .ns a Kr'puli-
Itc.-in, reeeiving8,5('3 votes against 7,50" votes for Amo
Wiswell. ('oalition; and was re-elected to the Thirty-
sixlli Congress, receiving 8.2117 votes against 7.804
votes for Bnidbun', Democrat, serving from Decem-
ber 7, 1857, to Mai-ch 3, 18<;i.
Poster, Theodore, was bom at Brookfield,
Massathusells. April 2'.i. 1752, old style; n'ceivcd a
classical education, graduating .it the lihotlc-Island
College (now Brown University) in 1770. and again
at Darfmoutli College In 178<t; studred law; was ad-
mitted t>> the bar. and commenced pnicticc at Provi-
dence, Khode Island; was a member of the State
nouRi" rif Hepresent.itivcs 1770-1782; was town-clerk
of Pnivideiiee tor many years; was appointed juilge
of t!ie Court of Admiralty in May, 17S5; was elected
United-iStatcs senator from lUioile Island, and twice
re-elected, serving from December 7, 17l!0, imtil
March :!. 181)3; was a member of the Stale House i-f
Itcpresi'ntalives 1S1;.'-|810, rtpresiiiiing the town of
Foster, whidi bnro his name; was an anli(|u;trian
student, and collected the ni.iterials for a "llistory
of IMiode Island," but never completed it; and died
at i'mviilenre J.inunry 13. 1828.
Footer, Thomas P., was bom at Grecnsbcrough,
Georgia, November 2;). 17U0; received a classical edu-
cation, graduating at Franklin College in 1812; stud-
ied law at the Litchfield Lavv.Scbo: I; was admitted
to the bar in 1810, and enmmenced practice at Greens-
bonmgli; was a member of the Stale House of Rep-
resentatives; was elected a repn-sentative from
(•eorgia in the Twenty-first Congress as a Democrat
on a general ticket; was re-elected to the Tv. enty-
second fNmgress on a gcner.il ticket, and was re-
elected to iJio TwcnIy-thinI Congress on a general
ticket, receiving 24,fllHJ voles against 1.S.878 votes for
.Stewart, Whig, ser%*ing from December 7, 1820, to
March 3, 18135; was defeated as tho Democratic can-
didate for tho Twenty-fourth Congress, receiving
25.:i:i7 votes against 27,510 votes for George VT.
Owens, Wiig; was again elected to the Twenty-
seventh Congres.s, serving from May 31, 1841, to
March 3, 184:'.; and died .at Columbusin 1847.
Foster, Thomas J., was a representafivo from
Alabama in the First and Second Confederate Con-
gresses: his political disabilities were removed by
President JolUiSon; he w.as elected a representative
from Alabama tn the Tldrty-ninth Congress, and his
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credentials wore prejientol in tlio IIouso January 10,
1807, but thcv were not acted upon.
Poster, Wilder D., wus Iwm In Orange Coun-
ty, New York, January S, 18X9; received a common-
Bcbool education; moved to Michigan in 1837 while
an apprentice to the tinner's tr.ide; entered into the
general hardware business in Grand Itapids in IS+j;
was city treasurer and alderman of that city, and
was elected mayor in 1S.>1; was elected State senator
for ISTw and ISOtJ; was again elected mayor of Grand
Bapids in I.Stlii and ISifl; was elected a representative
from Michigan In the Forty-second Congress as a
Kcpublicau in April, IS71 (lo till the vacancy ocoii-
sioned by the election o( Thomas W. Ferry to the
United-Stales Senate), receiving iy,4:t7 votes against
l.'S,t)j*) votes for William 51. Ferry, Democrat, scn-iug
from December 4, IS71, to March ;J, 1S7.J.
Fouke, Philip B., was bom at Kaska.skia.
Illinois. Januarj- :;;!. 1S18; received a publio-solionl
education; was a civil engineer; cstablishfid "The
Bclleviilo Advocate" in ItMl, and published it for
four years; studied law; was admitted to the bar,
and commenced practice; was prosecul ing-atton>cy
for the KaskiisUia District 184it-l.'-i50; was a member
of the Illinois lcKisl:ilure in 1S.)1; w.is elected a rcp-
resenlativo from Illinois in the Thirl y-si.'sth t:oni;rr.ss
as a Democrat, receiving 11,41)0 votes against x,Un
votca for Baker, Kcpubliean; was rc-clertcil to I he
Thirty-seventh Congn-ss as a Democrat, ri-coiviiig
l(i,.j8i votes against l.i.240 voles for Gitle.spie, Uopu))-
licnn, ser^■ing from December 1, ISiift, until Jlareh 4,
18(!a; was cfilonel of Illinois volunteers in 18<il-lti«i:i ;
resumed practice, and died at Washington Octobers,
187(1.
Fowler, John, wa.s bom in Virginia in 17.'>.5;
received a public-seliool education; ser\'ed in the
Itevolntiimary war as cjiptain; removed to L<'xing-
ton, Kentucky, soon after |)C.ice was declared; w.is
elected a rcpresenlativo from Kentucky in the Fifth
Congress; was re-elected to the Sixth, Seventh,
£ighth, and Ninth Congresses, sen-ing from May 15,
171)7, to March 1), 18117; and died at Lexington, Ken-
tucky, August 2a, 1.S40.
Fowler, Joseph Smith, was bom at Stcubcn-
rille, I )hio, August ;tl, [HJ-J; graduated nl Franklin
College, Ohio, and was afterwards its professor of
mathematics for four years; stu<lied law in Kentucky,
and went to Tennessee, where he commenced prac-
tice; was .ippointed by Governor Johnson comptrol-
ler of Tennessee, and took an active part In recnii-
stmcling the State fJovemmcnt; was elected United-
States senator from Tennessee as a Union liepublican
after the reconstruction of that Stale, and took his
Beat July 2.>, isilij, scriing until March 3, 1.S7I.
Fowler, Orin, was bom at Lebanon, Connecti-
cut. July 2t), 17!)! ; received a classical education,
graduating at Yalo College in 181.j; studied theology
under Dr. Dwiglit; jierfonned an extensive mission-
ary tour in the Valley of the Mississippi, and, on his
return in isil), w.is settled as minister of a society
at Plainfleld, Connecticut: removed to Fall Kiver,
Massachusetts, in 1821), and was the pastor of a soci-
ety there for twenty years, serving several times as a
State rcpri-sentative and State senator; was etected
to the Tliirty-tirst Congress a.s a Free-soil Whig, re-
ceiving 6,170 votes against 3,4!)7 votes for Morton,
Van Buren Democrat, and 2.418 votes for Hooper,
Cass Democrat ; was re-elected to the Tliirly-ficcond
Congress as a Free-soli Whig, readving (),SOll votes
against 3,047 vot<-s for Little. Coalitii>nist, :J<il votus
for Atwood, 147 votes for IJaylics, Whig, nml ;!."> scat-
tering; he served from Deccnibpr o, 184'J, until he
died at Washington iSeplenilH-r '.i, IS.")2. Ho puli-
lished an "Historical Sketch of Fall Hiver" in ]S*41.
Fowler, Samuel, was bont in New Jersey in
1779; received an academic ediicalinn; studied medi-
cine; was admitted to praclice. and located at Ham-
burg, New Jers*!y; was elected a ivpreseiitalivo from
New Jersey in the Tweniy-thii>l Congress as a Jack-
Bun Demoarat ou ft general tlckol, receiving 23,ti08
votes against 2.3,780 votes for Wright, Clay Democrat;^
and was re-elected to the Twenty-fourth Congress, ■
receiving 30,0tl.'> votes against ai,!".'!! voles for Wright, <
Clay Democrat, serving from December 2, 1.S33, Vai
March H, 18^57 ; died at Hamburg, New^ Jersey, Feh-j
ruary'il, 1844. (
Fox, John, was bom at New York June 30, 1
ISIj; received a public-school education; engaged in j
mechanical pursuits; was an alderman and a supcr-j
visor in New-York City; was elected a represenlatirei
from New York in the Fortieth Congress as a I>croo-]
crat, receiving 14,003 votes against 3,743 votes for
Horace Greeley, Kepublican; and was rt>-electe<l fa
the Forty-lirsl Congress, receiving 20,074 vote
against 4.02-i votes for Lewis, Keprblican.
Franchat, Richard, w.-is born at Morris, Ncv
York, in ISK); received a pubUc-school e«lucalion^^
studied ci>il engineering; become inten'Sled iu agri —
cultural pursuits; engaged in the construction o^
railroads, and was for some years president of tfa^
Albany and Susquehanna liailroad Company; wa«
elected a rcprestintative from New York in tlie Thir-
ty-sevenlh Congress as a Bepubllcan, receiving n.31C
voles against 8.542 votes for Walworth, Democrat i
and seriing from July 4, iJ^ll, to March .3, l.'^KJ; and |
died at .Schenectady, New York, Novemlwr 2:i. 1S7.5.
Francis, John Brown, was bom at I'hiludd-
phia, Pennsylvania, May 31, 17m; his father djing
soon af Icrwanls, he was reared by Nicholas Urown ot
I'rovidence, Rhode Island; received a classical Cflii-
c.ition, graduating at Brown University in 1KI8; at-
tended thoLitcblield LawSchool. but never practisol;
gave great altenlii>n to agricullurjl pursuil.s. and was
secretary of the State Agricultural .Society; was a
rcpresent.itive from Warwick in the State legislature
in 1824, lS2iS-lsi'ti, anil 1.S32; was elccteil governor in
18.'32 as a Jackson luid anti-Masonic candidate, and.
sencd iiiilil 1'%!.'^; was State senator in 1,>*4;J; was"
chancellor of Brown University 1841-1854; was elect-
ed a United-States senator (in platre of William
Sprague, resigned) as a Law-i>nd-Order caiidiilale,
having 41 m.ijoiily over Christopher Si>enccr. Dorr-
ite, and serving from Febnuirv 7, 1844. to March 3,
18).); was again Stale sen.ilor"l.'^7, 1840, 1N')2-1.SW; •
and died at Warwick, Bhode Island, Aimust 0, l&H. .',
Frank, Augustus, was bom at Warsaw, New,]
Y'ork, July 17, 182<i; received a business education,
and engaged in mercantile pursuits; was elected a'
rc])rcsentalive from New York in tlie Thirty-sixth^'
Cougn-ss as a Kepublican, receiving 0.5117 votea I
ag.iinsi 5,:j.V) votes for Skinner, Den\ocrat, and 2,'JM''
voles for Black, ;Vmerican; was re-elected to tho
Thirty-seventh Congress, receiving l.'i.JWa votea
ogaiust 7.;J80 votes for Boblnson, Democrat; and i
was re-elected lo tho Thirty-eighth Congress, receiv-
ing 10,470 votes a^iinst 0.027 votes for Hunt. Demo- '
crat, serving from December 0, 1800, to March 3,
lSl>.'i.
Franklin, Benjamin, was l>om at Boston, Mas-
sachusetts, Januarv 17, 17iXi; n!ceived a public-school
education; learned the art of printing, and, nftc
worldng as a journeyman at rhiladelphia and Lon-
don, established himself at Fhiladelphia; was Stato I
Iiririlcr; was postmaster at I'hiladolphia; wasameni-^
ber of tho I'rovinci.'d Assembly 1744-17.')4; was a
memlH-r of several Indian commissions; was ap-
pointed postmaster-general of the British NortU-
American colonies; w.as agent of Pennsylvania At
London ; was a tlelegale to the Continental Congress
I775-1770, signing tlm Declaration of Indept ndencejj
was sent as a diplomatic commissioner to France by]
the Contiiienlal Congress 1778-17SJ; wna govcniorJ
of Pennsylvania 17.S>-I788; was a delegate to th9^
Convention which framed tho Federal Constitution;*
and dii:il at Philadelphia. Ho published " Poorjl
llicliard s Almaiuic," several works on electricity,,!
and numerous political pamphlets; and left an auto-f
biograjilty, which has bevu published by Jared Sparkal
and John Bigelow.
Franklin, Benjamin J., was bom in Mason
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Coonty, Kentucky; was educated at private schools,
and at an early age entered Bethany College, West
Virgiuia, remaining there only two years; taught
school twelve mouths; studied law; was admitted to
the bar in 1857, end commenced practice at Leaven-
worth, Kansas; removed to Missouri in 18C0, and
located at Kansas City; entered the Confederate
army as a private; was promoted captain, and served
throughout the war; was elected Commonwealth's
attorney of the Twenty-fourth Judicial Circuit of
Missouri in March, 1871 ; was elected a representa-
tive from Missouri in the Forty-fourth Congress as a
Democrat, receiving 11,546 votes against 3,505 votes
for J, P. Alexander, Independent, and 2,020 votes far
W. H. Powell, Republican; and was re-elected to
tbeForty-fifth Congress, recelvingl5,229 votes against
7,160 votes for D. S. Twitchell, Kepublicau, serving
from December 6, 1875.
Franklin, Jesse, was bom in Surry County,
Korth Carolina, In 17^; served as major in the Rev-
olntionaiy war; was a member of the House of
Commons of Korth Carolina In 1794, 1797, and 1798,
and a member of the State Senate in 1605 and 1806;
was elected a representative in the Fourth Cougress
as a Democrat, serving from December 7, 1795, until
Uarrh 3, 1797; was elected a United-States senator
in 1799, serving from March 4, 1799, tmtil March 3,
18%; was again elected a United-States senator in
1807, serving from March 4, 1807, until March 8,
1S13; was governor of North Carolina in 1820-1821;
and died in Suny County, Korth Carolina, in Sep-
tember, 1828.
Franklia, John R., was bom near Snow Hill,
Haiyland, Mliay 0, 1820; received a classical educa-
tion, graduating at Jefferson College in 1836; studied
law; was admitted to the bar in 1841, and commenced
practice at Snow Hill, Maryland ; was a member of
tUe State House of Representatives in 1843, and again
in 18o0, serving the last term as speaker; was chosen
president of the State Board of Public Works in 1851 ;
was elected a representative from Maryland in the
Thirty-third Congress as a Whig, receiving 5,815
Tcites against 5,127 votes for Stevenson, Independent,
and serving from December 5, 1853, to March 3, 1855.
Frankun, Meshaoh, was bom in Surry County,
Xurth Carolina, in 1772; was a member of the House
of Conmions of North Carolina in 18C0, and of the
State Senate in 1828 and 1829; was elected a repre-
■entative from North Carolina as a Democrat in the
Tenth, Eleventh, Twelfth, and Thirteenth Con-
gresses, serving from October 26, 1807, until March
3, 1S15; he died In Surry County, North Carolina,
December 18, 1839.
Freedley, John, was bom at Norrlstown, Penn-
sylvania, May 22, 17^; received a public-school edu-
cation; worked for some years in a bnck-yard; studied
law; was admitted to the bar in 1820, and practised
at Norrlstown; was elected a representative from
Pennsylvania iu the Thirtieth Congress as a Whig,
and was re-elected to the Thirty-flist Congress, re-
ceiving 0,655 votes against 0,477 votes for McKeever,
Democrat, serving from December 6, 1847, to March
it, 1851; died at Norrlstown, Pennsylvania, December
8, 1851.
Freeman, Chapman, was bom at Philadel-
phia, Pennsylvania, October 8, 1832; was educated
at pnblic and private schools, graduating at the Phil-
adelphia High School in July, 1850; commenced the
itudy of the law, but became engaged in mercantile
parsuits until after the breaking-out of the civil war;
entered the United-States navy as acting assistant
paymaster in 1868; was attached to the Umted^tates
steamer " Iron Age " at the time of her destruction at
Lockwood's Folly Inlet, off the coast of North Cai^
olina, and afterwards on special duty in Eastern
Carolina during the attack on New Berne, Little
Washington, and Plymouth, in February, 1864; re-
•igned in consequence of Impidred health in 1864;
resumed the study of the law; was admitted toUie
tar fai 1867, and practised at Philadelphia; was one
of the oommlasioneTt on behalf of the Centeiuiial
from the city of Pliiladelpbia to Vienna, Austria, in
1873; and was elected a representative from Penn-
sylvania in the Forty-fourth Congress as a Repub-
lican, receiving 9,637 votes against 7,970 votes for
Thomas B. Florence, Democrat, and 2,870 votes for
David Branson, Independent Republican ; and was re-
elected to the Forty-fifth Congress, receiving 15,021
votes against 11,281 votes for John S. Thackara,
Democrat, serving from December 6, 1875.
Freeman, Greorfire C, served in the Confed-
erate army as major, and lost a leg in action; was
elected a representative in the Thirty-ninth Congress,
and his credentials were presented ; but he was not
admitted to a seat
Freeman, James C, was bom in Jones Coun-
ty, Georgia, April 1, 1820; received a common-school
education; never studied any profession; was a
planter; was an old-line Whig in politics; opposed
secession; was a Union man before, during, and
after the war; and never held any office before he
was elected a representative from Georgia in the
Forty-third Congress as a Republican, receiving 10,010
votes against 10,631 votes for L. J. Glenn, Democrat^
and serving from December 1, 1873, to March 3, 1875.
Freeman, John D., was bom in New Jersey;
received a public-school education ; removed to Jack-
son, Mississippi; held several local offices; was elected
a representative from Mississippi in the Thirty-second
Congress as a Unionist, receiving 7,774 votes against
7,241 votes for Mc Willie, Democrat, and serving from
December 1, 1851, to March 8, 1858.
Freeman, Jonathan, was bom in New Hamp-
shire in 1745: received a public-school education;
was an executive councillor from 1780 to 1797 ; was an
overseer of Dartmouth College 1793-1806 ; was elected
a representative from New Hampshire in the Fifth
Congress, and re-elected to the Sixth Congress, serv-
ing from May 16, 1797, to March 3, 1801; and died
in 1808.
Freeman, Nathaniel, was bom at Dennis, Mas-
sachusetts, April 8, 1741 ; received a classical educa-
tion; studied medicine, and commenced practice at
Sandwich, Massachusetts, in 1765, also tuiTiing his
attention to the law, which he studied and practised;
served in the Revolutionary war as colonel ; was regis-
ter of probate for Barnstable County 1776-1822; was
judge of the Court of Common Pleas for Barnstable
County 1775-1811; was brigadier-general of militia
1781-1703; was elected a rem«sentative from Massa- '
chusetts in the Fourth and Fifth Congresses, serving
from December 7, 1795, to March 3, 1709; and died
at Sandwich, Massachusetts, Septemlser 20, 1827.
Frelinghuysen, Frederick, was bom in New
Jersey April IS, 1753; received a classical educa-
tion, graduating at Princeton College in 1770; stud-
ied law; was admitted to the bar, and practised; was
a delegate from New Jersey in the Continental Con-
gress in 1776, 1778-1779, and 1782; served in the
Revolution as captain and colonel, and in 1790 was
appointed by President Washington bri^tdier-general
in the campaign against the Western Indians in 1790;
was elected a United-States senator from New Jersey
as a Federalist, serving from December 2, 1703, to
1793, when he resigned: and died April 13, 1804.
FrelinghiiyBen, Frederick T. (nephew and
adopted son of Theodore Frellnghuysen), was bom
at Milltown, New Jersey, August 4, 1817; received a
classical education, graduating at Rutgers College in
1836; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1839,
and practised at Newark, New Jersey ; was appointed
attorney-general of the State of New Jersey in 1801,
and re-appointed in 1866; was appointed a United-
States senator from New Jersey as a Republican (to
fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of William
Wright), and was elected to fill the unexpired term,
serving from December 8, 1866, to March 8, lS60j
was again elected a United-States senator (to succeea
A. O. Cattell, Republican), serving from March 4,
1871, to March 8, 1877; he was offered position of
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minister to Great Britain by President Grant, but
declined it.
Frelinghuysen, Theodore (son of Frederick
Frelinjrliuysi'n), was born at Milltown, New Jersey,
Mardi <i^. 1787: received a classical education, gradu-
ating at Princeton College In 1804; studied law; was
admitted to tbe bar In 1806, and commenced practice
at Xewark, New Jersey; was a captain of volunteer
militia during the war with Great Britain of 1812 ; was
a'toruey-gencnil of Kew Jersey 1817-1820; w.is de-
featecl wlien a candidate for election as Uiiited-.Statcs
senator in 1820 by E. Bateman, who was elected by
bis own vote; was elected to tbe United-States Sen-
ate as an Adams Bepublican, and sen'cd frt>m March
4, 1820, until March .3, 1833; was mayor of Newark,
Xew Jersey, 1S;J7-1838 ; was chancellor of the New-
Tork University 1830-1850; was defeated as the
Wliig candidate for Vice-President in 1844, receiving
1.201.04.3 votes against 1.330,01.3 votes for Dallas,
Democrat, and 00,304 votes for Morris, Free-Soiler;
was president of the American Bible Society, the
American Board of Foreign Missions, the American
Tr.ict Society, and tbe American Temperance Union,
and was prominently connected with several kimlred
organizations ; was president of Rutgers Coll<!ge from
ISiO until his death at New Brunswick, New Jersey,
April 12. 1862.
Fremont, John Charles, was bom at Savan-
nah, Georgia, Janiiar)" 21, 1813; received a classic.il
education, graduating at Charleston College in 1830;
was Instructor In mathematics In tbe Unlted-.states
uavT l^ii-iyS.!; became a civil engineer, and was an
assist,int of Nicollet in 1838-1830 in exploring the
country between the Missouri Blver and the northern
boundary of the United States; was apiM)inted second
lieutenant of topographical engineers, Uidted-States
army, July 7, 1838; commenced in 1842 bis explora-
tions and surveys for an overland route from tbe
Mississippi to the Pacific; was major commandbtg
a battalion of California volunteers from July to No-
vember, 1840; was appointed lietitenant-colonel of
United-States Motmted Rifles in 1840, and ordered to
act OS governor of California by Commodore Stock-
ton, who commanded the United-States S(]uadron ot
San Francisco; General Kearney, United-States ar-
my, revoked this order, and placed him under arrest
for mutiny; he was tried by court-martial at Wash-
ington, found guiltv, .ind panloned by President
Polk, but he resigned; crossed the continent in 1848,
and located in Cidlfomia on the Mariposa grant;
was a commissioner in 1849 to ma the boundary-line
between the Unit«d States and Mexico; was elected
a United-States senator from California as a Free-soil
Democrat, serving from Scpteml)er 10, 1850. to March
8, 1851; crossed the continent fur the fifth time In
18.>J; was defeated as the Republican candidate for
President In 1856, receiving 114 electoral votes ag.ilnst
174 elector,il votes for James Buchanan ; visited Eu-
rope in 1800; was appointed major-general of volun-
teers Ijy President Lincoln May 14, 1801, and placed
in command of the western militaiy district, from
which he was removed November 2, 1801: was aiv
p<.)inted to command the mountain department Feb-
ruary 10, 1802, and resigned In 1803; was again nom-
inated for President by the Cleveland Convention In
1804, but received no electoral votes. He published
•'Fremont's Explorations" 1850, and a number of
rem>rts giving accounts of his expeditions.
French, Ezra B., was bom in New Hampshire;
received an academic education; removed to Maine,
and settled at Damariscotta; was secretary of state
of Maine; was elected a representative from Maine
in the Thirty-sixth Congress as a Republican, re-
ceiving 8,0M votes against 8,931 votes for Johnson,
Democrat, and sening from December 5, 1850, to
March 3, 1801 ; was appointed second auditor of the
treasury August 3, 1861, and continued In office by
Pr»>sidents Johnson. Grant, and Hayes.
French, John R., was bom at Gilmauton, Kew
Hampshire, May 28, 1819; learned the art of print-
ing in the office of "The Xew-Hampshirf St.it
man" at Concord: was for five years j.u
associate editor of "The New-Hauipsi
man;" was f.>r two years editor of ••'Xiir. i. .m.
Journal " at BIddeford, Maine; removed in 1S!4 t
Lake Countv, Obin, and was uji editor for six vi
first of "iTie Telegraph," after^varxls of "-'Tl
Press," and, during the presidential campaign
1850, of "The Cleveland Monihig Leader: "' was
member of the Stale House of Kepresentatives -^^„
1858 and ISIO; received in 1801 an appointment froM^^
Secretary Chase in the Treasury Depaitmeut at Wasi ^
ington : was appointed by President Lincoln in lA^j^
one of the board of direct tax commissioners for t-J|,j
Statu of North Carolina, and removed there ; was «
delegate to the State Couslitutinnal Convention fn
1867; was elected a represcnlative from North C'i»t».
Una in theFurtleth Congress as a Bepubhcan, rvce/r-
ing 14,703 votes against 10,340 votes for Gillaiii,
Conser^•atIve, serving from July 0, 1808 to March 3,
1800; was elected sergeant-at-arma of the Senate lii
December, 1870.
French, Richard, was bom in Kentncky; re-
ceived a puljlic-school education; studied law; irai
admitted to the bar. and practised at Mount Sterllt^g;
was a judge of the Circuit Court; was a meniticr of
the State House of Representatives In 1S20 and \f<!U;
was a presidential elector on the Jackson and Von
Buren ticket in 1829; was elected a representatire
from Kentucky In the Twenty-fourth Congress as a
Democrat, receiving 312 majority over T. A. Mar-
shall, Whig, and ser^-lng from December 7, 1.S30, to
March A, 18:17; was defeated as the Democratic can-
didate for the Twenty-fifth Congress by Richard H.
Mcncsse, Whig; was again elected to the Twenty-
eighth Congress, receiving 5,4*>1 votes against 8,0t3
voles for Landalf W. Andrews, Whig, and serving
from December 4. 1843, to March 3, 1845; was again
elected to the Thirtieth Congress, receiving 0,473
votes against 6,100 votes for Cox, Whig, and servlog
from December 6, 1847, to March 8, 1840.
Frick, Henry, was born at Northui " " ■ !,
Pennsylvania, 1705; received a public-sc!-
tlon; le.imed the art of printing at Pin i-
ser\'ed as a private in the war with Great Britain of
1812: located in 1810 at Milton, Pemisylvania, when
he established a political journal, which lie con-
ducted for upwards of twenty years; was a mi-nil>er
of the State House of Representatives in V
was elected a representative fmiu Penn-
the Twenty-eighth Congress as a Whig, recM ..^ ., .
votes against 0,181 votes for Snyder, Democrat, and
serving fnim December 4, 1843, to March 1, 1844,
when no dieil of consumption at Washington City.
Fries, George, was bom in Pennsylvania; re-
i celved a public-school education; studied medicine,
land practised at Honoverton, Ohio; was elected a
' representative from Ohio In the Twenty-ninth Con-
' grcss, and was re-elected to the Tliirtieth Congress,
I serving from December 1, 1846, to March .3, l.'>49; and
died N^ivcmber 13. 1866.
Fromentin. Elegius, was bom In Louisiana;
received a classic-d education; studied law; was ad-
mitted to the bar, and practised at New Orleans;
was United-States senator from Louisiana, serving
from May 24. 1813, to 3Iarch 8, 1819; was appointed
judge of the Criminal Court at New Orleans in 1821 ;
was appointed United-States district-judge for the
district of Florida in January, 1822, but soon re-
signed, and resumed the practice of law at New Or-
leans. His wife died of yellow fever, and he followed
her within twenty-four hours, ot New Orleans, Oc-
tot>er 0, 1822. He published "Observations on a
Bill respecting Land-Titles In Orleans."
FroBt, George, was Imra at Newr^i*'- y-™
Hampshire, April 20. 1720: received a pu
education; entered the counting-house of
Sir William Pepperili, at Klttery Point, near Puni
mouth, and then followed the seas for twenty yi
u supercargo and captain; returned to 2tew Caatie in
-^»o
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1780, and in 1T70 removed to I>nrham; was a judge
of tie Court of Common Pleas of Stafford County
HT^ITttl, and for some years the chief justice; was
■ delegate from New Hampshire to the Continental
Congress 17i7-lT(0; was executive councillor 1781-
]7<-4; and died at Dortiain, Kew Hampshire, June
21.1780.
Frost, Joel, was bom in Westchester County,
Xew Turk; received a public-school education; was
a member of the State House of Representatives
1800-1810; removed to Schenectady; was elected a
representative from New York in the Eighteenth
Cun;p«s8, serving from December 1, 1828, to March 3,
1825.
Frost, Robert Qrahazn, of St. Louis, claimed
to have been elected a representative from the Third
Diwrict of Missouri in the Forty-fifth Congress, de-
feating L. 8. Metcalfe, to whom the certificate of
election was given.
Frost, BufuB S., was bom at Marlborough, New
Hampshire, July 18, 1826, and removed in 1883 to
Buaton, where he received his education principally
in the public schools; he entered a wholesale dry-
goods store early in life, and after he was twenty-one
years of age was actively engaged In the dry-goods com-
iniesiun business and in manufacturing; was mayor
of the city of Chelsea in 1867 and 1808; was a mem-
ber of the Massachusetts Senate in 1871 and 1872,
and of the governors council in 1873 and 1874;
and was claimed to have been elected a representa-
tive from Massachusetts in the Forty-fourth Con-
gress as a Bepublican (but the House gave the seat
to J. G. Abbott, Democrat, who had contested the
election), and served from December 6, 1S16, until
Jnlv 28, 1876.
S4ry, Jacob, Jun., was bom in Pennsylvania;
received a public-school education; resided at Fry-
burg, Clarion County; was elected a representative
from Pennsylvania in the Twenty-fourth Congress
as a Democrat; and was re-elected to the Twenty-
fifth Congress, serving from December 7, 1836, to
Mareh 3, 1839.
Fry, Joseph, jtm., was bom in Pennsylvania,
and resided at Fry burg. Clarion County; was elected
a representative from Pennsylvania in the Twentieth
Congress; and was re-elected to the Twenty-first
Congress, serving from December 3, 1827, to March
3, 1831.
Prye, William P., was bora at Lewiston, Maine,
September 2, 1831 ; graduated at Bowdoin College,
Maine, in 1850; studied and practised law; was a
member of the SUte legislature in 1861, 1862, and
1*7; was mayor of the city of Lewiston in 1866 and
1S6T; was attorney-general of the State of Maine in
1«$j7, 1868, and 1869; and was elected a representative
from Maine in the Forty-second Congress as a Re-
publican, receiving 10,246 votes against 7,928 votes
for \. Black, Democrat; was re-elected to the Forty-
third Congress, receiving 13,650 votes against 9,465
votes for A. Oaralon, Democrat; was re-elected to
tlie Forty-fourth Congress, ij^ceivlng 9,088 votes
against 6,673 votes for P. Clark, Democrat; and was
re-elected to the Forty-fifth Congress, receiving 13,-
>3».{ votes against 10,223 votes for S. Clifford Belcher,
Democrat, and 650 votes for Solon Chase, Green-
bai-kvr. serving from March 4, 1871.
Puller, Benoni S., was bom in Warrick County,
Indiana, November 13, 1826, and brought up on a
farm, receiving a common-school education; when
twenty-one years of age he became a sdiool-teacher;
was elected sheriff in 1856, and re-elected in 1858 ;
was a member of the State House of Representatives
in 1806 and 186S, and of the State Senate in 1662,
1^), and 1872; was elected a representative from
In<liana In the Forty-fourth Congress as a Democrat,
receiving 12,804 votes against 12,627 votes for Heil-
tnaii, B^mblican; and was re-elected to theForty-
Bfib Congress, receiving 14,727 votes against 13,168
votes for C. A. De Bruler, KqmblicMi, and serving
(r.,m December 6, 1875.
Poller, Gtoorere, was bora in Pennsylvania;
received a public-school education ; resided at Mont-
rose; was elected a representative from Pennsylvania
in the Twenty-eighth Congress (in place of Almon
H. Read, deceased) as a Democrat, serving from De-
cember 2, 1844, to March 3, 1S45.
Fuller, Henry M., was bom at Bethany, Penn-
sylvania, January 8, 1820; received a classical edu-
cation, gi-aduating at Nassau Hall, Princeton, in
1839; studied law ; was admitted to the bar, and com-
menced practice at Wilkesbarre: was elected to the
State House of Representatives in 1848; was elected
a representative from Pennsylvania in the Thirty-
second Congress as a WUg, receiving 6,216 votes
against 6,157 votes for H. B. Wright, Opposition,
and served from December 1, 1851, to March 3, 1863,
his election having been unsuccessfully contested by
Mr. Wright; was defeated as the Whig candidate for
the Thirty-third Congress by Hendrfck B. Wright,
who obtained 100 majority; was again elected to the
Thirty-fourth Congress, receiving 9,116 votes against
7,087 votes for H. B. Wright, Democrat, and serving
from December 3, 1855, to March 3, 1867; died at
Philadelphia December 26, 1860.
Fuller, Philo C, resided atOeneseo, Livingston
County; was a member of the State House of Rep-
resentatives in 1830; was elected a representative
from New York in the Twenty-tUrd Congress as a
Whig, and was re-elected to the Twenty-fourth Con-
gress, serving from December 2, 1833, to 1836, when
he resigned ; was second assistant postmaster-general
1841-1843; was comptroller of New York from De-
cember 18, 1850, to November 4, 1861; died at Ge-
neva, New York, August 16, 1866.
Fuller, Thomas J. D., was bora at Hardwick,
Caledonia County, Vermont, March 17, 1808; received
a public-school education; studied law; was admit-
ted to the bar, and commenced practice at Calais,
Maine; was elected a representative from Maine in
the Tliirty-flrBt Congress as a Democrat, receiving
6,819 votes against 4,289 votes for Downes, Whig,
and 661 votes for Redman, Van Buren Democrat ; was
re-elected to the Thirty-second Congress, receiving
4,814 votes against 4,629 votes for James 8. Pike. Whig,
716 votes for S. C. Foste^ Free-Soil, and 39 scattering ;
was re-elected to the Thirty-third Congress, receiving
6,283 votes against 5,280 votes for Robinson, Whig,
328 votes for S. C. Foster, Free-Soil, and 64 scatter-
ing; and was re-elected to the Thirty-fourth Con-
rss, receiving 4,713 votes against 4,307 votes for
A. Milliken, Republican, 2,099 votes for M.
Smith, jun.. Whig, serving from December 3, 1849,
to March 3, 1857; Ids election was unsuccessfully
contested in 1857 by James A. Milliken; was ap-
pointed by President Buchanan second auditor of
the treasury, serving from April 16, 1857, to August
3, 1801 ; practi8ed law at Washington, and died at the
country residence of his son, near that city, in 1876.
Fuller, Timothy, was bora at Chilmark, Mas-
sachusetts, July 11, 1778; received a classical educa-
tion, graduating at Harvard College in 1801 ; taught
in Leicester Academy; studied law under Levi Lin-
coln at Worcester; was admitted to the bar, and com-
menced practice at Boston, residing at Cambridge;
was a member of the State Senate of Massachusetts
1813-1817, and of the State House of Representatives
1825; was elected a representative from Massachu-
setts in the Fifteenth Coi^ress as a Democratic
Republican, opposed to the Federalists; was succes-
sively re-elected to the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and
Eighteenth Congresses, serving from January 2,
1818, until March 8, 1825; was a State councillor hi
1828; was again elected to the State House of Repre-
sentatives in 1831 from Groton, to which place he
had removed, and where he died suddenly of Asiatic
cholera October 1, 1885.
Fuller, WiUiShin K., resided at Chittenango,
New York; was adjutant-general of New York in
1623; was a member of the State House of Repre-
sentatives in 1829 and 1880; was elected • represeu-
404
CONOBESSIONAL DIBECTORr.
tatlve from New York in the Twenty-third Congreaa
as a Democrat ; and was re-elected to the Twenty-
foiirlli Conitress, serving from December 2, IS^U, to
Martli a, 1S)7.
Pullerton, David, was Ixjm in the Cumberland
Valley, Pfiiiisylvania, In ITTli; received a public-
scliool education: located at Greencaslle: was a
member of the Slate Senate; was elected a represen-
tative from Pennsylvania in the .Sixteenth Congress,
serving from December 0, ISIO, to 1IS2(I, when he
resinned, having been burned in effis^y by some
of liis constituents at Carlisle, and (nisilively de-
clined a rcnomination; was |>re«ifl'>nt of llie bank
at (jrecncTStle, and died there February 1, l.s-i;!.
Fulton, Andrew S., was born near Wytheville,
Vii^nia; received a public-school education: wivs
electwl n representative from Virginia in the Thirti-
eth Congress as a Whig, rcceivint; 2,084 votes against
2.078 votes for McMullen. Democrat, and serving
fnjm December 0, 1847, to March 3, 1849.
Fulton, John H., w.-is boni at Abington, Vir-
ginia; received a cla.ssical education; was electeil a
representative from Virginia in the Twenty-third
Congress as a Whig, receiving 2,tj21 votes against
l,2."it votes for liyass. Democrat, and scr>ing from
December 2, 1S;W, to Starch ;i, iski; was defeated as
the Whig candidate fi>r the Twenty-fourth Congress
by (ieorce W. Hopkins, Democrat.
Fulton, Williain S., wa» Imni in Cecil County,
Maryland, June 2. 17U>; received a classical educi-
tion, graduating at Ualtlmore t'oUege in 1.S13; com-
menced the study of law with Wllli.iui Piuckuey. but
served iu the war against Great IJrit.iin of 1IS12 la a
company of vnhinteers stationed at F'ort McUenrj-;
removed to Tennessee with his fatlier's family after
peace had lieen declared, and rcsumeil ills legal
studies with Felix Orundy; was military secretaiy to
(iencral Jackson during hia Floriila campaign in
1818; located in Alabama; was .ippoinlod by Presi-
dent Jackson secretary of state of the Territory of
Arkans.ts in 1820; was guvernor of Arkansas ISio-
18:W; was elected a Uniled-.States senator from Ar-
kansas as a Democrat, serving fmra December 6,
18:;<1, to August 15, 1844, when' he dietl near Little
Kock, Arkansas.
Qa^e, Joshua, was l>orn in Ma.^sachusetts : re-
ceived a public-school education; was a member of
the State House of Ueprescnt.itivcs 1S(»,5-1808, 1813,
and 1814; was elected a representative frmn Massa-
chusetts in the Fifteenth Congress as a Democrat,
serving from December 1, 1817, to March 3, 181ii;
w.is again a member of the .State House of Repre-
sentatives 182t) and 1821, and was an executive coun-
cillor in 1822 and 182;J.
Qaillard, John, was Iwm In St. Stephen's Dis-
trict. .South Carolina, September 5, 17<Jo; received a
classical educ.Ulon; was elected a United-.Slates sen-
ator from South Carolina (in [ilacc of PiiTce llijtier.
resigned), serving from January 31, 18i)o, until he
died at Washington City F<^l>riiary 2(1. 18iil. He
was chosen president pro tniitiurf of the .Senate In
the Eleventh, Thirteenth. Fourteenth. Fiftii'nth,
.Sixteenth. .Seventeenth, and Kighteentli Congresses.
Gaines, John P., was born .it Waltim, Ken-
tucky; received an academic education; studied law:
was admitted to the bar, and commenced practice at
Walton; served in the Mexican war as major in
Marshall's Kentucky cavalry vulunteers: was made
prisoner at Incamaclon in January, 1847; was ajH
pninted vohinteeraidcMle-catnp to General .Scott, and
dif:inguislied liimself in tlie battle of El Molino; was
•■ler.(f.<|, while lie was in captivity, a representative
from Kentucky in the Thirtieth Congress as a Whig,
receiving 7,41XJ votes against l.HS'i votes for Lucius
Desha, Deinocrnt, and serving from December 0. 1.S47,
to JIareli ?,. 1.8411 ; w.is appointed by President Fillmore
governor of the Territory of (Jri'gon, serving 1850-
ISW; remained in Oregon, and died there in 1,808.
Qaither, Nathan, was born at Columbia, Ken-
tucky, in 17IS5; received a classical edncation; studied
medicine, and pmctised at Columbia ; was a memb_
of the State llouse of Representatives ISLVLSia
was a presidential elector on the Jucksou and Ca'
houn tii'ket in 1829; was elected a represent.il i*
fn>m Kentucky in the Twenty-first and Twenty
second Congresses as a Jackson Democrat, defeatin
Martin Beaity, serving from December 7, I82V»,
Mardi 2, 183:1; w.is a <lelegate to the Stale Const itQ
tional Convention in 1841); was a presidential electa
on the Bell and Everett ticket in 1801 ; and died :
Columbi;u Kentucky, iu l.H(i2.
Galbraith, John, was Imm at Franklin, Pena
sylvania; received an ac.nderaic education; studio
law; was .idmitted to the bar. and commenced pr
lice at Franklin; was a member of the State Ilou
of Representatives for several terms; was elected i
representative from Pennsylvania in tlie TwentJ
third Congress as a democrat, and was re-elected
the Twenty-fourth Ci'Ugress, serving from Dei-i-mV
2, 18.'S3, to March 3, 1837; was again elected to
Twenty-sixth Congress, receiving 0.189 votes again
.j,!ll8 votes for David Uick, WHiig, serving from
comber 2, 1830, to March 8. l.'^l; was appoints
president-judge for tlie Sixth Judicial District; an
died at Erie, Pennsylvania, June l.'j,'18<J»i.
Gede, George, was boni in Maryland, and re-
ceived an ac.idemic education: and w.is elected a
representative from that State in the First Congress,
serving from March 4, 178(>, to March 3, 17U1.
G^e, Levin, wa.s born in Marylaml, and reside
at Elkton; received a public-school education; '
was elected a representative from Maryland in
Tweiitletli Congress, sen'ing from December 3, 182
to March 3, l.S2it.
Gallatin, Albert, was boni at Geneva, Swiiter-
land, January 21). 1701; received a classical educa-
tion, graduating at the University of Geneva in 1779;
dr'clined a military commission offered him by tfag
landgrave of liesse-Cassel ; sailed from Rrest, mid
landed at Boston July 14, 1780; ser\ed with a l»iljr
of Revolutionary triKips at Machias, Maine; was la-
stnietor of French at i]ar> an! College in 1782: prtw*-
eule«l the claim of a Eiirojiean house against lb*
.Slate of Virginia at liichmond 178;}-I784; purcliuod
a large tract of land in Fayette County, Peiin.<Tl-
vatiia (then under the jurisdiction of" Virpiiia),
settled there, ninl became a naturalized citizen in
178."): was a member of the Pennsylvania Constiiu- 1
tionnl Convention of 17S0; was elected to the!
House of Representatives 17UO-171)2; was elrctMl
the United-Slates Senate as a Democrat, and «•*
temiited to take his seat Decemlier 2, 171)3. bat
was urged (hat he had not Ix-en naturalizetl a »ul
ricient length of time to be eligible, and his elect
was dec lured void February 28. 1704: he was aga
electeil a member of tlie State House of Repr
lives, but declined ; w.ns tlie counsel of the " Vil
Insurrection" leaders; was elected a represen*
fn>m Pennsylvania in the Fourth Congn-ss as
Democrat, defeating H. M. Brackenridge ; was "^^i
elected to the Fifth Congress, and re-elected to t^^^
Sixth Congress, serving from Decemiwr", 17S'5, un j^
March 3. 1801 ; wius appointed secretary of the tie;^*^
ury by President Jellerson January 20, 18»I2; n '
re-ttpi)oinled by President Madison, and held t^ ^
ofliee until Febni.iry 0, 1814, when he w.is nppoiiil<^~
one of the joint ministers plenipotentiary to neg'^^
tiato the Treaty of Ghent, which was signed Deror"*^ "
ber24, 1814; was one of the commission wlilcli n.-c"#-^
tiated a commercial convention witli Great I".' ^~
in 181o; was minister pleiiiiMitcntiary to Frnnf
Febmary28, ISl'i, until May 1(5, 182.3, wiil.ln
time he was ileputed to the Netlierlaiicls ii
to Great Britain In 1818; was minister |
tlary to Great Britain from May 10, 182<1, until uc i^^
l*cr 4, 1827; returned to New- York City; becjur.^^
president of the National Bank, and idenlifierl ' ' ^'-'
self with historical, literary, and scientific pii;
be died at the residence of his son-in-law, at A^t'j
August 12, 1649.
Jte-idlii
•Statal
STATISTICAL SEET0HB8.
405
Oaueaoa, Jose M^ was bom in mo Arriba
County, rfew Mexico, November 14, 1816; was edu-
cated at the public schools of Santa F6 and the
Academy of Taos ; studied philosophy and theology at
the Colleee of Durango, republic of Mexico, where he
graduated in 1840 ; was a member of the Legislative As-
sembly of what was then the department of New Mex-
ico, republic of Mexico, in 1813-1846; was a member
of the First L^slative Assembly of the Territory of
New Mexico, United States, in 1850 and 1861 ; was
elected a del^ate from the Territory of New Mexico
in the Thirty-third Congress as a Democrat, receiving
639 majorib)' over Lane, Whig; and was re-elected to
the Thir^-/oiiTth Comgnaa, serving from Decemt)er
5, 1853; his election was successfully contested by
Miguel A. Otero, who took his seat July 23, 1866;
was speaker of the Territorial House of Biepresenta-
tives in 1860, 1881, and 1862; was qnartermaster-
ceneral of the Territorial militia, and treasurer of the
Territory for five years ; was miade prisoner of war
by the Texas Confederate troops under Oeneral
Sibley in 1862, and subjected to a very rigorous con-
finement; was superintendent of Indian aSairs in
New Mexico in 1868; and was elected delegate to the
Forty-second Congress as a Democrat, receiving a
majority of 2,600 votes over J. F. Chaves, Kepublican,
serring from March 4, 1871, to March 8, 1873.
G^allowoy, Joseph, was bom in Maryland in
1730; received a classiutl education; studied law;
was admitted to the ban and practised at Philadel-
phia; was a meml)er of the Pennsylvania Colonial
House of Representatives in 1764 ; was a delegate
from Pennsylvania to the Continental Congress 1776;
rem.iined loyal to the king, joined the British army
in New York in December, 1776, and went In 1778
to England, where he died August 29, 1803. He
pablished a number of political pamphlets.
GKlloway, Samuel, was bom at Gettysburg,
Pennsylvania, March 20, 1811; removed in 1880 to
Highland County, Ohio; received a classical educa-
tion, graduating at BUaml University in 1838; was
professor of Greek at Miami Unlversl^ and after-
wards professor of languages at South-Hanover Col-
le^je. Indiana; studied law; was admitted to the bar
In 1842, and commenced practice in partnership with
K. Massie at Cliillicothe, Ohio ; was elected secretary
of state, and removed to Columbus, Ohio, in 1844;
was elected a representative from Ohio in the Thirty-
fourth Congress as a Republican, receiving 0,698
votes agidnst 6,930 votes for Edson B. Olds, Demo-
crat^ was a candidate for re-election to the Thirty-
fifth Congress, but was defeated, receiving 8,682
Tot'.-s against 8,9^ votes for 8. S. Cox, Democrat,
and SOI votes for Stanberry; was again a candidate
for election to the Thirty-sixth Congress, receiving
1(»,I31 rotes against 11,014 votes for S. 8. Cox;
rcnJered important legal services to the War Depart-
ment of the United States during the war for the
iupprpssion of the Rebellion ; was a leading delegate
It meetings of the Presbyterian Church; died at Co-
lumbus. Ohio, April 5, 1872.
Gallup, Albert, was bom at New Berne, New
Tork; received a public-echooi education; was
•hcriflf of Albany County 1831-1834; was elect-
ed a representative from iJ'ew York in the Twenty-
fifth CouCTess as a Democrat, serving from Septem-
l«r 4. 1837, to March 3, 1839; was defeated as the
Democratic candld.ite for the Twenty-sixth Congress,
fwciving 5,145 votes against 6,080 votes for D. D.
Barnard, "Whig; was appointed by President Polk
collector of customs at Albany; and died at Provi-
dence, Rhode Island, in 1851.
Gamble, James, was bom In Lycoming County,
Pwmsyivania; received a public-school Mucation;
Kuclied law; was admitted to the bar, and com-
menced practice at Jersey Shore ; was elected a rep-
'esctitatlve from Pennsylvania in the Thirty-second
Ctingtvss as a Democrat, receiving 6,832 votes against
6,172 votes for Armstrong, Whig; and was re-elected
to the Thirty-third Congress, receiving 8,742 votes
against 6,026 votes for Irwln, Whig, serving from
December 1, 1851, to March 3, 1855.
Gamble, Ro^r L.,' was bom in Jefferson Coun-
ty, G«orgia; received a thorough English education;
studied law: was admitted to the bax, and practised
at Louisville; was elected a representative from
Georgia In the Twenty-third Congress as a State-
rights Democrat, receiving 23,632 votes against
18,476 votes for Harris, Whig, and serving from De-
cember 2, 1833, to March 3, 1836; was defeated as
the Democratic candidate for the Twenty-fourth
Congress, receiving 27,947 votes against 80,811 votes
for J. F. Cleveland, Union candidate; was again
elected to the Twenty-seventh Congress as a Har-
rison Whig, receiving 39,254 votes against 85,311
votes for Alfred Iverson, Van Buren Democrat, and
serving from MaySl, 1841, to March 8, 1843; was
defeated as the Whig candidate for the Twenty-
eighth Congress, receiving 33,249 votes against 35,307
votes for John B. Lamar, Democrat ; was a judge of
the Superior Court of Georgia; and died at Louis-
ville, Georgia, December 20, 1847.
Ghannevt, Baizillai, was bom In Massachusetts;
received a classical education, graduating at Harvard
College in 1785; studied law, and was admitted to
the bar; was for four years a meml>er of the State
House of Representatives; was elected a represen-
tative from Massachusetts in the Eleventh Congress,
serving from May 22, 1809, to March 3, 1811.
Ghainsevoort, Leonard, was bom at Albany,
New York, and represented that State in the Con-
tinental Congress, serving 1787-1788.
Ganson, John, was bom at Le Roy, New York,
January 1, 1818; received a classical edncatiou,
graduating at Harvard College in 1839; studied law;
was admitted to the bar, and practised at Buffalo;
was a memt)er of the State House of Representatives
in 1862; was elected a representative from New
York in the Thirty-eighth Congress as a Democrat,
receiving 12,400 votes gainst 8,D86 votes for Spauld-
Ing, Union, and serving from December 7, 1863, to
March 3, 1865 ; was a delegate to the National Re-
publican Convention at Baltimore in 1864; and died
at Buffalo, New York, September 28, 1874.
Gtardenier, Barent, was bom in Ulster County,
New York; received an academic education; held
several local offices; was elected a representative
from New York in the Tenth Congress as a Federal-
ist, and was re-elected to the Eleventh Conoiress, re-
ceiving a majority of 500 votes over W. Denning,
Democrat, serving from Octoiier 26, 1807, to Marui
3, 1811 ; and died at Kingston, Ulster County, Janu-
ary 10, 1822.
Qardner, Francis, was bom at Leominster,
Massachusetts, December 27, 1771 ; received a clas-
sical education, graduating at Harvard College;
studied theology, and was the pastor of a church in
New Hampshire ; was elected a representative from
New Hampshire in the Tenth Congress, serving from
October 26, 1807, to March 8, 1809; and died at Roz-
bunr, Massachusetts, June 25, 1836.
Grardner, Gideon, was bom in Massachusetts;
received a public-school education; was elected a rep-
resentative from Massachusetts in the Eleventh Con-
gress, serving from May 22, 1800, to March 3, 1811.
Grardner, Joseph, was horn in Pennsylvania,
and represented that State in the Continental Con-
gress 1784-1786.
Gktrdner, Mills, was bom in Russellvllle, Brown
County, Ohio, January SO, 1830; removed to Fayette
County in 1854; received a common-school education ;
studied law ; was admitted to the l>ar in 1855, and
commenced practice at Washington Court House;
was prosecuthig-attomey of Fayette County for four
years ; was a member of the State Senate of Ohio In
1862-1864; was a presidential elector on the Lincoln
ticket in 1864; was a member of the State House of
Representatives in 1866-1868; was a meml>er of the
State Constitutional Convention of Ohio in 1873 ; and
was elected to the Forty-^fth Congress as a Repuln
406
0O9O&3B88I0NAL DIBEOTOBT.
Ucan, receiving 16,649 Totaa against 16,086 votes for
John S. Savage, Democrat.
Qaxfleld, JameB A., waa bom In Orange, Cnya-
lio^ County, Ohio, November 19, 1831 ; graduated
at Williams College, Massachusetts, in 1850; was
president of a literary institution for several years;
studied and practised law; was a member of the
State Senate of Ohio in 1859 and 1860; entered the
Union army in 1801 as colonel of the Forty-eecond
Ohio Volunteers; was promoted to the rank of briga-
dier-general January 10, 1862; was appointed cluef
of suS of the Army of the Cumberland, and was
promoted to the rank of major-general September 20,
1863 ; was elected a representative from Ohio iu the
Thirty-eighth Congress as a Bepublican, receiving
13,288 votes against 6,763 votes for Wood, Democrat ;
waa re-elected to the Tliirty-nlnth Congress, receiv-
ing 18,086 votes against 0,315 votes for H. H, Muses,
Democrat ; was re-elected to the Fortieth Congress,
receiving 18,362 votes against 7,370 votes for Cool-
man, Democrat; was re-elected to the Forty-first
Congress, receiving 20,187 votes against 9.759 votes
for McEwen, Democrat ; was re-elected to the Forty-
second Congress, receiving 13,538 votes against 7,263
votes for Howard, Democrat; was re-elected to the
Forty-third Conra«s8, receiving 19,189 votes against
8,245 votes for M. SutlifF, Liberal Republican; was
re-elected to the Forty-fourth Congress as a Repub-
lican, receiving 12,591 votes against 6,245 votes for
Woods, and 391 votes for Price, Prohibitionist; and
was re-elected to the Forty-fifth Congress, receiving
20,012 votes against 11,349 votes for Casern, Demo-
crat, serving from December 7, 1863.
Grerflelae, Seluoius, was bom in Shoreham,
Vermont, December 8, la22; removed to Kentucky
in early life; finished his collegiate course at Au-
^sta College ; read law, and was admitted to the bar;
in 1849 was elected a member of the convention to
revise the State Constitution, and spent the follow-
ing vear in South-American travel; emigrated to
California in 1861; was elected a member of the
legislature of that State in 1852, and in 1853 was
selected by that body to codify the laws of the State;
returned to Kentucky iu 1854 ; was a member of the
Cinciimati Katiouai Convention in 1856, and an
elector during that canvass; removed to Washington
Territorv in 1857, where he filled the position of re-
ceiver of public moneys to 1860; in 1861 he was nom-
inated for Congress, but beaten by the secession
wing of the Democratic party; was surveyor-general
from 1866 to 1860, when he was elected a delegate
from Washington Territory in the Forty-first Con-
gress as a Republican, receiving 2,743 votes against
2,595 votes for Moore, Democrat; and was re-elected
to the Forty-second Congress, receiving 3,469 votes
against 2,734 votes for Mix, Democrat, serving from
March 4, 1869, to March 3, 1873.
Oarlaad, Auemstas H., was bom in Tipton
County, Tennessee, June 11, 1882 ; iu 1838 his parents
removed to Arkansas; received a classical education
at St. Mary's College and St. Joseph's College in
Kentucky; studied law, and was admitted to prac-
tice in 1863 at Washington, Arkansas, where he then
lived; in 1856 he removed to Little Rock; was a
delegate to the State Convention that passed the
ordinance of secession in 1861 ; was a member of the
Provisional Congress that met at Montgomery, Ala-
bama, in May, 1861, and subsequently of the Con-
federate Congress, serving in both Houses^ and l)eing
in the Senate when the war closed ; was elected to
the United-States Senate from Ai'kansas for the
term beginning March 4, 1867, but was not admitted
to his seat; maide the test-oath case as to lawyers in
the Supreme Court of the United States, and gained
it (see Garland ex part",, 4 Wallace); followed the
practice of law until the fall of 1874, when he was
elected governor of Arkansas without opposition;
was elected iu January, 1867, by the legislature of
Arkansas, without opposition, to the United-States
Senate, as a Democrat (to succeed Powell ClAyton,
Republican), and took Ua seat March 6, 18T7. His
term of service will expire March 3, 1883.
Qfjrland, David S., was bom in Virginia; re-
ceived an academic education; studied law; was
admitted to the bar, and commenced practice; was
elected a representative from Vii^nia in the Eleventh
Congress (m place of Wilson C. Kicholas, refi<pie<l)
as a Democrat, serving from January 17. 1..U0. to
March 8, 1811; died athis home in Vlisiiiia October
7, 1841.
Garlaxid, James, was bom in Xelson Connty,
Virginia, in 1792; received a thorough English txlii-
cation; studied law; was admitted to the bar, and
practised at Lovingston; was a member of the State
House of Representatives in 1829; was elected a rep-
resentative from Virginia in the Twenty-fourth C*>ii-
gress as a Democrat, receiving 6,660 vot«s sfaiost
6,300 votes forW. F. Gordon, Whig; was re-elected
to the Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth Congresses,
serving from December 7, 1835, to March 3, 1841;
removed to Lynchburg, &nd was judge of the Hust-
ings Court of that city for many yean, having
reached his eigbty-^oorth birthday, when he was
last re-elected by the legislature of Virginia, in
March, 1876.
Qarland, Rioe, was bom in Virginia; received
an academic education; studied law; waa admitted
to the bar, and commenced practice at Opelou<as.
Louisiana; was elected a representative from Louisi-
ana in the Twenty-third Congress (in place of Heuiy
A. Bullard, resigned) as a V^iig, defeating J. Craw-
ford; was re-elected to the Twenty-fourth Congress,
defeating Robert Triplet: was re-elected to the
Twenty-fifth and Twenty-Sixth Congresses without
opposition, serving from Ai>ril 28, 1834, to July 21,
1840, when he resigned, having l>een appointed judge
of the Supreme Court of Loiusiana.
Qamett, James M., was 1x>m at Hmwood,
Essex Coimty, Virginia, June 8, 1770; received an
academic education; served several terms in the
State House of Representatives; was elected a rep-
resentative from Virginia in the Ninth Congress,
and was re-elected to the Tenth Congress, serving
from December 2, 1805, to March 3, 1809; was a
delegate to the State Constitutional Convention in
1829; was president of the Fredericksburg Agricul-
ttiral Society for upwards of twenty years; and died
at Elmwood, Virginia, May "L 1843.
Gtamett, Musooe B. H., waa bom in Essn
County, Virginia; received a classical educatinn,
graduating at the University of Virginia; studied
law; was admitted to the bar, and commenced prac-
tice at Lovett's, Virginia; was a delicate to the btate
Constitutional Convention in 1850; was a member of
the State House of RepresentativM 1853-1866; was
elected a representative from Virginia in the Thirty-
fourth Congress (In place of Thomas H. Bayly, de-
ceased) as a Democrat; was re-elected to the Thirty-
fifth Congress, receiving 1,112 majority over Critcber,
American ; and was re-elected to the Thirty.<ixth Con-
gress without opposition, serving from December 1,
1856, to March 3, 1861 ; was a delegate to the Natiooai
Democratic Conventions at Baltimore in 1S52, and at
Cincinnati in 1856; was a member from Virginia of
the First Confederate Congress.
Qtimett, Robert S., was bom in Essex Connty,
Viiglnia; received an academic education; studied
law; was admitted to the bar, and commenced prac-
tice at Lloyd's ; was elected a representative from Vir-
ginia in the fifteenth Congress as a Democrat; was
re-elected to the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, Etehteendi,
and Nineteenth Congresses, serving from December
1, 1817, to March 8, 1827.
Gkurnsey, Daniel Qt., was bom in Saratoga
County, New Tork; received a liberal education;
studied law; was admitted to the bar, and com-
menced practice at Pomfret, New York; was district-
attorney of Chautauqua County from June 11. 1^1S<
to March 4, 1825; was elected a representative from
New Tork in the Nineteenth Congr«aa by VXO
8TATISXI0AL SKETCHES.
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najority ns n Jacloon Democrnt, and re-elected to
the Twentieth C(mtm>ss, serving from December 5,
liCh. to Murch S, 182n>; removed to Hock Island,
Illinois; was president of the Uarrisou celebration
at Galeuii July 4. 1840.
Garrett, Abrabaxn B., was b<im In Overton
Uarcli (i. liiK); receivi-d his early wlucation in country
»cli(K>ls. and was afterward at Poplar-spring College.
Kentucky; studied law. but was by occupation a
fanner: served in the Union amiy during the war;
wiis elected to the Lower House of the legislature of
Tennessee in 1«»!5, and to the State Senate in 1807;
aiid w;i» elected a repn>senfative from Tennessee in
llie Forly-wcipiid Congress as a Democrat, receiving
6.U70 votes against 4,11(1 votes for W. 11. Stokes,
Republican, serving from March 4, 1871, to March 3,
1873.
Qarrison, Daniel, was bom at Salem, Kew
Jersi/y ; received an academic education; was elected
• representative from Xew Jersey in the Eighteenth
jIDongress ; was re-elected to the Nineteenth Congress,
•erving from December 1. 18^3, to March 3, 1S2".
GkuTOW, Nathaniel, received a public-school
education; resided at Auburn; was electe<l a repre-
sentative from New York in the Twentieth Congress
&s a Jackson Democrat, serving from December 3,
1827. to Man-h :i. isai.
Garth. William W., was Imni in Morgan
County. Alabumu; received a classical education at
Im Grange, and at Emory and Henry College, Vir-
ginia; studied law at the Universitv of Virginia;
"irkS admitted to the bar, and practise<{ at Uuntsville,
Alabama; and was elected to the Forty-Dfth Con-
gress as a Deniotnit. receiving 14,5a) votes against
tj.llln votes for McClellan, Independent Democrat.
Gartrell, Lucius J., was born near Wiushing-
ton, Georgia. January 7, 1821 ; received a classical
education, which was completed at Randolph-Macon
iCollege, Virginia, and Franklin Colle^^e, Georgia;
■tudie<l law; was admitted to the bar, and practised
%t Atlantii. Georgia; was elected by the .Stale ie^ilsl.t-
ture in 184;J sjilicitor-general of theNorthern Judicial
Circuit, and resigned iu 1847; was a member of the
State House of Bepresentatives ll<47-l.S'JO; was a
presidential elector on tlie Buchiuian and Breckin-
ridge ticket in ISiV); was elected a representative
from Geoi-gla in the Thirty-fifth (Congress as a Demo-
crat, receiving 8,iXi» votes agiunst U,l>:il» votes for
il. M. Tidwell. American; autl was re-elected to the
TUirty-sixth Congress, receiving 8,877 votes against
6,ti33 voles for Wright. Opposition, serving from
December 7, IK)', to January 23. ItHil, when he re-
tired from the House, and gave his adherence to the
Soullieni Confederacv; was a representative from
Georgia in the First Confederate Congress; was ap-
piMnted in 1804 brigadier-genend in the Confederate
service, and i)laced in command of the Second
BriB-'wie oi (ieoraia Reserves.
Garvin, William S., was bom at Mercer,
Pennsylvania; received an academic educ.ilion; was
elected a representative fnun Pennsyivaida in the
Twentv-nintli Congress as a Democrat, serving from
Deceni'lH-r 1. lSi-'>. to Slarch 3, l.'*47.
Gaston, Willieun, was lx)rn at New Berne, North
Carolina. .SeplemlK-r lit, 1778; received a classical
education: wiu< a student at Georgetown (District of
ColutiiMa) (.'ollege, and graduat^-d at Princeton Col-
lege 17W1: studied law; was admitted to the b.ir iu
17(18, and attained the head of the legal profession in
the State; w.hs a menil>cr of the State Senate in 18(i0;
was a member of the House of Commons of North
Coruliua in 1808, IStiU, serving the tirst year as
iprnlrr I was a presidential elector in 180l»; was
•leeted a representative in the Thirteenth Congress
as an anti-administration candidate, and was re-
elected to the Fourteenth Congress, serving from
May 24. 1813, until March 3, 1817; was again elected
10 tiie House of Commons <pf North Canilina (to fifl
ITOcancyl in 1827; w.os eiectwl judge of the Supreme
i of' North Carolina lii 1834, and held the posi-
tion until his death; was a meml)eT of the Constitu-
tional Convention of 18.'J.j; declined a noinin.ition to
the United-States .S<>natc In 1841); and died at Itolelgh,
North Carolina, January 23, 1.S44.
Gates, Seth Merrill, was l>om at Wiuileld.
New York, October hi, 180<.i; received a public-school
education; studied law; was admitted to the bar in
1827. and commenced i>ractice at Le Roy, New York;
was a member of the State House of Represenlatives
in 1832, and declined a re-eicetiim; purch.ised "The
Le Roy Gazette " in 1838, and edited it for several
years ; was elected a representative from New York
in the Twenty-fti.xth Congress as an antislavcry
^Vhlg, reci'iving t),t);)3 votes against 3,202 vntes for
William Mitchell, Democrat; and was re-elected to
the Twenty-seventh Congress, receiving tl,070 votes
against 3,881 votes for John B. Skinner, Democrat,
serving from December 2, 18.W, to March .3, 1843;
provoki'd the enmity of the .Southern i»eople by
franking to their governors and other puljlic men
the tiddress adopted at the London World's Anti-
slavery Convention, and a reward of Ave hundred
dollars was at one lime offered for his delivery on a
Southern plantation; was defeated as the Free-soil
candidate for lieutenant-govenior in 1848; and died
at Le Roy, New York. September 1, 1877.
Oatlin, Alfred M., was bom at Edenton, North
Carolina; received a classical education, graduating
at the University of North Carolina; was elected a
representative from North Carolina in the Eiglitecnth
Congress, receiving 2,407 votes against 2,131) votes
for i^cmuel .Saw;yer.
Gaunt, E. W., was bom in Tennessee March
1", 1S;W; received an Elnglish educ.itlon; studied
U-kw; was admitted to tlio bar, and comiiu'uced prac-
tice in Arkansas in 18.50; was elected a roiircsoula-
ttve from Arkiuisas in the Thirty-sixth (.^ingress as
an Inde|)endent Democrat, receiving 10,.")U0 votes
against 13,007 votes for C. B. Mitcliell, reguijir Demo-
crat, but never took his seat; enten'd the Confeder-
ate anny as colonel of the Tnelftb Arkansas In-
fantry; was promoted brigadier-general, and placed
in conimand at Fort Thompson, Missouri; was ap-
pointed in 1873 a commissioner to revise and codify
the statutes of Arkansas ; was the commissioner from
Arkansas to the Centennial Exhibition; and dic<l in
Arkansas June 10, 1874.
Gause, Lucien C, was born in Brunswick
County, North C:irolina, December 23, 18;J8; removed
with his father to Lauderdide County, Tennessee,
when young; received his primary education at the
public schools there, and was subsequently at the
University of Virgiida; studied law at Cumberland
University, Teimessee; graduated there, and com-
menced practice at Jacksouport. Arkans:is, in 18.>1):
enleriMi the Confederate army in 1801. and served
throughout Uie war, attaining the rank of c<.>Ioncl of
the Tidrty-second Arkansas Infanty; resumed prac-
tice at Jacksoni-iort in 180o; was elected a nieniber
of the State legislature in 180*1; was app<jinted one
of the commissioners to represent the State Govern-
ment at Washington; was elected to the Forty-third
Congress, but his competitor was pemdttetl to oc-
cupy the seat without any action on the case; wa«
elected a representative from Arkansjis in the Forty-
fourth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 0,211 votes
against 6,183 votes for W. H. Rogers, Itepulilican;
and was re-elected to the Forty-fifth Congress, re-
ceiving 15,841 votes against 404 votes scattering,
serving from Deceml>er (I, 1875.
Grayarre, Charles A. E., was \>on\ at New Or-
leans, Louisiana, Januarys, 1805; received a clnssi-
cal education, which was completeil iit the New-
Orleans College; studied low ut Pliiludelphia with
William Kawie; was achnitted to the bar in 1820,
and commenced practice at New Orleans ; was elected
to the State House of Reprt'sentatives in ISi*.); was
appointed attorney-general in 1831 ; was appointed
presiding judge of the City Court of New Orleans in
1838; waa elected a United-States senator from
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COKGBX8SIONAL DIBBOTOBX.
Lonisiana in 1834 as a Jackion Democrat, but the
state of his health obliged him to resign before tak-
ing his seat in the Twenty-fourth Congress, and to
travel abroad; returning to Kew Orleans, he was
again elected, in 1R43, a representatlTe from Lonisi-
ana in the Twenty-niulh CongreM as a Democrat,
but resigned t)efore taking his seat, having been
elected secretary of state for Louisiana, which
gnition he held 184&-18&3. He published "An
istorical Essay on Louisiana " 1830, a " History
of Louisiana" 1847, "Romance of the History of
Louisiana" 1848, "Spanish Domination in Louisi-
ana" 1854, "French Domination in Louisiana"
1851 and 1854, "The School of Politics" 1864, and
a number of historical and political essays.
Gkiyle, John, was bom in Sumter District,
South Carolina, September 11, 1792; received a
classical education, graduating at the Sou^-Caro-
lina University; studied law; was admitted to the
bar, and commenced practice at Mobile, Alabama,
In 1813 ; was a meml>er of the Territorial Legislature
in 1817 ; was appointed solicitor of the First Judicial
District in 181B; was elected Judge of the State Su-
preme Court in 1828; was a member of the State
House of Representatives, and ita speaker, in 1829 ;
was governor of Alabama 1831-1836 ; wa9 defeated as
a candidate for presidential elector on the Harrison
ticket in 1836, and again in 1840; was elected a
representative from Alabama in the Tliirtieth Con-
gress as a Whig, receiving 6,060 votes against 4,4(0
votes for John T. Taylor, Democrat, and serving
from December 6, 1847, to March 8, 18M; was ap-
g>inted judge of the United'^tates Court for the
istrict of Alabama in 1848; and died near Mobile
Julv 28, 1859.
Qaylord, James M., was bom In Ohio; re-
ceived an academic education; resided at MacCou-
nellsville ; was elected a representative from Ohio in
the Tliirty-second Congreas^receivlng 6,744 votes
against 5,698 votes for Fink, Whig, serving from De-
cember 1, 1851, to March 3, 1863.
Gazley, James W., was bom in Kew York in
1784; received an acadonic education; removed to
Ohio early in life, and settled in Cincinnati; was
elected a representative from Ohio in the Eighteenth
Congress as a Jackson Free-States man, defeating
WilUam Henry Harrison, an Adams Conservative,
and serving from December 1, 1828, to March 8, 1826 ;
became unpopular on account of his vote to reduce
the national donation to Lafayette, and was defeated
as a candidate for re-election to the Nineteenth Con-
gress by James Fiudlay; and died at Cincinnati
JuW 12, 1874.
Grebhard, John, was bom at Claverack, Kew
York; received a public-school education; was elect-
ed a representative from Kew York in the Seven-
teenth Congress, serving from December 8, 1821, to
March 8, im.
Qeddes, James, was bom near Carlisle, Penn-
sylvania, July 22, 1763 ; received a public-school edu-
cation; removed to the State of Kew York, and
settled at Onondaga, where he established salt-
works in 1794; was elected Justice of the peace in
1800; was a member of the State House oi Repre-
sentatives in 1804, and again in 1821 ; was an asso-
ciate justice of the County Court in 1809; was a
Judge of the Court of Common Fleas in 1809; was
elected a representative from Kew York in the Thir-
teenth Congress as a Federalist, and served from
Hay 24, 1813, to March 2, 1816; was appointed
chief engineer of the Ohio Canal in 1822, and an
engineer on the Chesapeake and Oliio Canal in 1827;
and died August 19, 1888.
Gentry, Mereoith P., was l>om in Korth Caro-
lina in 1811; received an academic education;
studied law; was admitted to the bar, and com-
menced practice at Franklin, Tennessee ; was a mem-
ber of the State House of Representatives 1885-1839;
was elected a representative from Tennessee in the
Twenty-sixth Congress as a Whig, receiving 8,246
votes against 2,744 votes foi fHIliam 6. CliildicM,
Democrat ; and was re-elected to the Twen^-seventh
Congress, serving from December 2, 1830, to March
8, 1843; was again elected to the Twenty-ninth Coo-
gtess, defeating Jacilson, Democrat; was re-elected
to the Thirtieui Congress; was re-elected to ttie
Thirty-fint Congress, receiving 5,766 votes, without
any regular opposition; and was re-elected to the
Tltirty-^econd Congress without opposition, serring
from December 1, 1846, to March 3, 1863; was a
member from Tennessee of the First Confederate
Congress ; and died Kovember 3, 1866.
Qerman, Obadiah, was bom in Dutchess Cous-
ty, Kew York, in 1767; received an academic educa-
tion ; removed in 1792 to Korwich, Chenango County,
Kew York; was a member of the State House of
Representatives in 1798, 1804, 1805, 1807, 1808,
1809 ; was elected a United-States senator from Xew
York as a Democrat, serving from May 22, 1809, to
March 2, 1816; voted against declaring war witb
Oreat Britain, but, after hostilities Iiad been com-
menced, did all in his power to support the war meas-
ures of the administration; was again elected i
member of the State House of Representatives in
1819, and chosen speaker; was for some years first
judge of Chenango Coun^, loan commissioner, and
bij^idier-general; became a zealous Whig; and died
at Korwidi September 24, 1842.
Gtorry, Blbridse (grandfather of Elbridge Gerry j,
was bom at Mwblehead, Massachusetts, July 17,
1744; received a classical education, graduating at
Harvard College in 1762; engaged in mercantile and
maritime pursuits; was a member of the Colonial
House of Representatives 1772-1775; was a delegate
from Massachusetts to the Continental Congress
from February 9, 1776, to February, 1790, and from
1783 to Septeml>er, 1785; was a delegate to the con-
vention which framed the Constitution of the United
States, and one of those who refused to affix their
signatures to the instrument adopted; was elected *
representative from Massachusetts in tl>e First Con-
gress as a Federalist (defeaUng Gorluun, Democrat,
on second trial), and was re-elected to the Second
Congress, serving from March 4, 1789, to March i,
1793; was sent to France on a speciail mission in
1797; was defeated as Democratic candidate for gov-
ernor in 1798 and 1801 ; was elected in 1810 and 1811.
and was defeated in 1812; was elected Vice-Presi-
dent of the United States in 1812 as a Democrat, re-
ceiving 131 electoral votes against 86 electoral vote*
for Jared Ingersoll; and died while in office, it
Washington City, Kovember 23, 1814.
Oerry, Elbridjre (grandson of Elbridge Gerry),
was bom at Waterford, Maine, December 6, 1816;
received an academic »lucation; studied law; was
admitted to the bar in 1839, an*) commenced practice
at Waterford, Maine; was clerk of the State House
of Representatives in 1840; was appointed State's at-
torney for Oxford County in 1842, and elected in
1843 ; was a member of the State Bouse of Repre-
sentatives in 1846 ; was elected a representative from
Maine in the Thirty-first Congress as a Cass Demo-
crat, receiving 5,897 votes against 3,934 votes for
Jameson, WlJg, and 840 votes for D. Gerry, Van
Buren Democrat, and serving from December 3,
1849, to March 3, 1851; removed to Portland, Maine,
where he practised tiis profession.
Qerry, James, was Iwm in Maryland; received
an academic education; removed to Pennsylvania,
and settled at Shrewsbury; was elected a representa-
tive from Pennsylvania in the Twenty-si-vth Con-
gress as a Democrat, receiving4,105 votes against
8,221 votes for C. A- Bamite, Whig; was re-elected
to the Twenty-seventh Congress, serving from De-
cember 2, 1839, to March 8, 1843.
Qervais, John Ii., was bom in South Carolbit.
and represented tliat State in the Continental Con-
gress, serving 1782-1783.
Gtotz, J. Lawrence, was bom at Beading,
Pennsylvania, September 14, 1821; received an aca*
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tie education; studied and practised law; has
been for twenty-five years editor of " The Kemiinp
Gazette and Democrat; " was a member of tlie State
legislature of Pennsylvania in 1850 and 1857, scrvini;
the last year a» speaker of the House; was electe<i
fcl representative from Pennsylvania in the Fortieth
BConijre^? as a Democrat, receiving 13,18.S votes against
tJiWii votes for Lincoln, Republican; wsvs re-elected
to the Forty-first Congress, receiving 13,7;K< voles
against 7,472 votes for Eckert, Republican; was re-
elected to the Forty-second Congress, receiving 10,411
votes affainst 5.045 votes for N. Hunter, Republican,
■ervini; from >Iarch 4, 1807. to March 3. 1873.
Gteyer, Henry 8., was bom in Fre<lerick County,
Marj-l.-ind. in 1708; received an academic education;
removed to Missouri early in life, and settled at St.
Louis; served as captain of militia in the last war
against GR-al Britain; studie<l law; was admitted to
the bar, and practised at .St. Louis; was a delegate
to the convention which framed a State constitution
in 1820; was a member nf the State House of Repre-
sentatives 1821K1S24, serving during the last term as
meaker; was elected a United-States senator from
ulsioari on the fortieth ballot by the legislature, re-
ceiving SO votes against 65 votes for T. H. Benton,
and ^tJ scattering, serving from December 1, 1851, to
March 3, 1857 : was one of the counsel in the Dred
Scott case while he was a senator; and died at St.
Louis Slarch 5. 18.59.
Gholson, James H., was bom la Virginia in
170S: received an acudcmic education; studied law;
was admitted to the bar, and commenced practice at
Percival's; was elected a representative from Vir-
ginia In the Twenty-third Congress as a Democrat,
sen'ing from Deeemt)eri;, 1S;«, ifo March 3, 1835; and
died at Brunswick, Virgiiua, July 2, 1848.
w Qholson, Samuel J., was bom in Virginia; rcr
^Seivcd a classical education; studied law; was ad-
mltte<1 to tho bar. ami commenced practice at Athens,
Mississippi; was elected a representative from Mis-
sissii>pi In the Twenty-fourth Congress (in place of
David Dickson, decease<l) as a Democrat; was re-
elected to the Twenty-Iifth Congress, serving from
Janu.iry 7, 1837, to January 81, 1838, when his seat
was declared vacant by the House; was appointed
United-States district-jijdge for the district of Mis-
sissippi in 18:Jfl; t«x)k an active part in the Rebellion;
was appointed, June 1, 18<U, brigadier-general in the
Confederate st!r>-ice, commanding a brigade of cav-
alry in the Department of Alabama, Mississippi, and
East Louisiana.
Qholson, Thomas, was born in Virginia; re-
ceived an academic education; studied law; was
a<lniitted to tlie bar, and commenced practice in
Brunswick County, Virginia; was elected a repre-
sentative from Virginia in the Tenth Congress (in
place of John Claiborne, deceased] as a Democrat;
was re-elected to the Eleventh, Twelfth, Thirteenth,
and Fourteenth Congresses, serving from November
■J. 18118. to July 4. ISlt), when he died in Bninswick
■Bounty. Viruinia.
m Gibbons, William, was born in Georgia, and
repri'.oenled that State in the Continental Congress
17S4-178I1.
kQibson, James 'King, was Ixim in Abingtfm,
Irgiiiiii. Kebniarj' is, 1.K12; received a coninioii-
„hool education, and was brought up in a store;
went to Liniest'ine C<ninty, Alabania, in 1.8:W. and
engaged in mercantile pursuits; retunieil to Virginia,
antl was deputy-sheriff of Washington County in
1834. and again in 18.>5; was a merchant in Abing-
ton from l.HIi") until 1840; was jMistniaster at Abiiip-
ton (a distributing office) from l.s;W until imtl by the
appointments of Presidents Van Buren, Tyler, and
IV>lk; was .ippointed teller and clerk in tlie t>rancli
of the Exchange Bank of Virginia at Abington in
^W40, also notary-public, and held all these offices
^Bltil after the war, when he became a farmer; and
^ras elected a representative from Virgiina in the
Verty-first Congress as a Democrat, receiving 14,50H
votes asalnst B,t)Ofl votes for Smith, Radical, serving
from Jaiiuar\- •/», 1.870, to March 3, 1871.
Gibson, tlandall Lee, was bom September 10,
18;!2. at .Spring Hill, WixKlford County, Keiiluclcy
(the residence of Xathauiel Hart, his grandfather),
where his parents were on a visit from their home In
Terre-Bonne Parish, Louisiana; was educated by a
private tutor at " Live-Oak Plantation,"' his father's
homestead; at Vale College, where he gradu:iled in
1S53; at the University of Louisiiuia, from the law
dejiartment of which he received a diploma in 1855:
and in EuMpe, where he was engaged in study and
travel for three years ; was a planter when the civil
war began in 1801 ; joined the ConfiKlerate army as a
private soldier, and was promoted to the command
of a company, regiment, brigiide, and division; after
the war, he l)egan and continues the practice of law
in the city of New Orleans, and Is also a sugar-
planter; was elected to the Forty-third Congress
from the Second District by a large majority, but was
counted out by the "Lynch Board;" was i-lected
a represent.ative from Louisiana in the Forty-fourth
Congress from the First District (which ha<l tieen
extended to embrace his residence) as a Conserva-
tive Democrat, receiving 15,720 votes against 11,121
votes for J. H. Sypher, Republican; and was re-
elected to the Forty-fifth Congress, receiving 14..876
votes against 11.978 votes for William M. Burwell,
Republican, serving from December 0, 1.875.
Giddingrs, De Witt C, was bom in Susqne-
haiuia County, Pennsylvania, July 18, 1827; received
an acidemic education; studied law at Honesdale,
Pennsylvania, and, removing to Tcsas, was admitted
to tbebar there in 1852; practised at Brenham imtll
the commencement of hostilities; entered tlie Con-
federate service, and served until the close of the
war; was a member of the State Constitutional Con-
vention of 1.8tW, and was elected a re present. it I ve
from Texas in the Forty-second Congress as a Demo-
crat, receiving 25,301 votes araiinst 19,460 viUes for
W. T. Clark, Radical. Mr. Clark received the cer-
tificate of election, but Mr. Oiddings contested the
seat, and was admitted by a vote of the House May
13, 1872; was re-elected to the Forty-third Congress,
serving frt)ni May 13, 1872, to March 3, 1,S75: was
again elected to the Fortv-fifth Congress, receiving
l."i,28ll votes against 13,277" votes forO. W. Jones. In-
dependent Republican, ser% ing from October 15, 1877.
Giddings, Joshua Reed, was bom at Tioga
Point (now Athens). Pennsylvania. October 0, 1705;
was taken by his parents to Canandalgua, New York,
the next year, and in 18(K) to Ashtabula County,
Ohio; served in the Ohio militia in 1812 In the w.ar
against Great Britain, and look part in the battle of
.Sandusky ; taught school, and acfpiired a good educa-
tion; studied law with Elisha Whittlesey ; was ad-
mitted to the bar In 1.821, and commenced practice
at JeflFerson, Ohio; was a member of the State
House of Representatives in 1820, declining a re-
election in 1827; was elected a represent.alive from
niilo in the Twenty-Iifth Congress as an aniislavery
Whig (to fill the vacancy causetl by the resignation
of Elisha Whittlesey) ; was re-elected to the "fwenty-
sixth and Twenty-seventh Congresses, but resigned
after the pa.ssage of a vote of censure on hini by the
House, serving from December 3, 18.38, tfl Mnrcli 22,
1.842; was again elected to the Twenty-seventh Con-
gress by ft majority of 3,000; was re-elected to the
'fwenly-eighth Congress, receiving 0,140 votes against
3.757 votps for lianney, Democrat, and 797 voles for
Wade, Abolition; was re-electe<l to the Twenty-ninth
and "Thirtieth Congresses; was re-elected to the
Thirty-first Congress as a Free-soil candidate!, n-ceiv-
ing 5,871) votes against 8,155 votes for WTiito, Whig;
was re-elected to the Thirty-second Congress, receiv-
ing 0,81Kt votes against 1,7HJ votes for Kelly, Whig;
was re-elected to the Thirty-thinl Congress, receiving
5,7.5'2 votes against 4,427 votes for W(»ds, Free-Soli,
and 4,n(> votes for Newton, Whig; was re-elected to
the Thirty-fourth Congress, receiving 0,U72 votes
m
C0NOBE88IONAL DmECTOBT.
■gainst -3, 782 votes for Lcc; and was re-elected to the
Tlilrty-tUth Coneress, receiving 0,507 votes against
4,71*5 votes for Burcbard, Democrat, serving from
December 5, 1842, to March 3. 1859; was apmiinted
by President Lincoln consul-general of Canada; and
died suddenly of apoplexy at Hontreal May 27. imu.
He published a work on Florida, and a " History
of till- Great Relx'llion."
Qilbert, Abijah^ was bom at Giltwrtsville, Ot-
sego County, Xew \ork, June 18, 18<I0, being the
eldest of a family of eighteen children; was a student
at Hamilton College, S'ew York; but, ill health pre-
Tenting his engaging in professional pursuits, he
beMme quite extensively engaged in mercantile
operations in New- York City and other |>la4'cs in dif-
ferent States of the Union ; he was an Old-Line Whig,
and, since the inception of the Itepublican party, its
ardent supporter; having retired from ,'u.'tiveliusines»-
pumuils, and removed to Florida for llie healtli of
bis family, he was electe<l to the L'uit<Hi-.Statcs .Sen-
ale as a Republican by more than a full party vote
(in place of A. S. Welch, Republican), and served
from March 4, ISflO. to March 3, 1875.
Gilbert, Edward- was bom In the Slate of New
York; received a public-school education; removed
to California, and located at San Francisco; was
elected a representative from California In the
Thirty-first Congress as a Democrat, ser\'ing from
SeplenilH-r 11, 1850, to March 3, 1851 ; rctume<l to
California, and pnictised law; was shot in a duel by
General .). W. Denver in 1802.
Gilbert, Ezekiel, was bom at Middletown, Con-
neclicul, in 1755; received a cla-ssical educalinn,
gradu-Hling at Yale CoUcjie in 1778; studied law;
was admitted to the bar, and coiumenced practice at
Hudson, New York; was elected a representative
from New York in the Third Congress; was re-
elected to the Fourth Congress, serving from De-
cember 2, 17!t3. to Man-h 3, 17117; whs 8tri<'ken l>y
paralvsis in 1812: and, after thirty years of suffering,
died ill Hudson, New York, July 11, 1842.
Gilbert, Sylvester, was Iwm at Hebron, Con-
necticut, in 17511; received a classical education.
f;nuluating at Dartnioulli College in 1775; sludied
aw; was admitted to the bar in 1777, and com-
menced practice at Hebron; was a member of the
Colonial House of Representatives in 1780; was
State's attorney for Tolland County 1780-18(17; was
chief judge of the County Court and judi;e of the
Court of Probat* 1807-1818; was the principal of a
law school 1810-1818; was elected a representative
from Coiiiieclicut in tlie Fifteenth Congress (in place
of Uriel Holmes, resigned), sernng from November
16, 1818, to March 3, r8Ut; was again chief judge of
the Coixnty Court and judge of tlie Court of Probate
1820-1825; was elected to the Stale House of Kepre-
■entatives in 1820; and died at Hebron, Connecticut,
January 10, 184<l.
Gilbert, William A., was torn in Connecticut ;
received a public-sch'XJl education; removed to
Rochester County, New York; was elected a repre-
aentative from New York in the Thirty-fourth t'on-
grcM as a Wliig, receiving 0,251 votes against 1,513
votes for Browii, DemixTat, and 5.045 rotes for Ives,
Democrat, ami »Kr\iiig froiu December 3, 1855, to
FebrM;ir>- 27, 1857, when he refiiined.
Gilesi, John, was liorn in Rowan County, North
Carolina, July 10. 17S8: received a classical educa-
tion, graduating at the University of North Carolina
tn 18U8; studied Inw; was ndmitled to the bar, and
practised for more than lliirty years at Salisbury;
WM elected a representative in tlie Twenty-first Con-
gress, but declined serving on account of ill health;
was a member of the State Constitutional Conven-
tion In 18.35; and died at Stanly Court House, North
Carolina, wliile there on professional business, March
2. 1840.
Giles, William Branch, was Ixirn in Amelia
Count j% Virginia, August 12, 1702; received a classi-
cal education; graduated at Princeton College in
'-Mt
d
1781; studied law, and was admitted to t<"
only practiced a few years ; was chosen a
elector on the Jefferson ticket in 1801 ; ' ■■.!
as a Democrat to the First Congress (in pl*ie of
Theodore I31and, deceased) : re-elected to the Second,
Thinl, Fourth, and Fifth Congresses, serving from
December 0, 170U, to March 3, 17t>9, when lie re-
signed; was again elected to the Seventh Congress,
serving from Decemb^ 7, 18ul, to March 3, ISOS:
was appointed United-States senator (in place of
Abraham B. Venable. resigned): took his seat No-
vember 5, 1804, and was then elected United-States
senator (in place of Wilson Cary Nicholas, resigned),
serving from March 5, 1804, to March 3, 1815, when
he resigned ; was elected to the Lower House of the
Virginia legislature; was governor of Virginia from
1820 until 1829: and died in Albemarle County,
Virginia, December 4, ISW. He published a num-
Iwr iif iKilitical pamphlets.
Giles, William Fell, was liom in Harford
County. Maryland, April 8, 1807: received an aca-
demic education; studied law with Judge Piirviance;
was admitlcd to the bar in 1820, and commenced
Practice at Baltimore; was elected a representative
rom Mar)iand in the Twenty-ninth Congress as a
Democrat, defciling John P. Kennedy. Whie. serr-
tng from December 1, 184.5, to Marcli 3, 1847; wm
apix>inted United-States district-judge by President
Pierce.
Gilflllan, Calvin W^., was bom near Newcastle,
Pennsylvania, Kelmiary 20, IS:J2; was educated at
Westminster College, Pennsylvania; stu(lie<l and
practised law; in 18<J7 he was eledeil siip<;rinteiMlent
i>f public instruction for Mercer County, holding
the office two years; in 1859 he was iranscrihing-
clerk in the State House of Representatives; in IHtl
he was appointed district-attomey for Venaug
County; in 1802 lie was elected to ibe same position
and held the office for three years; and he wa^^c-J
electe<i a reprcsenlalive from Pennsylvania in th< ^ e
Forty-first Congress as a Republican, receiving 18,0TE^*^
votes aicainst 10,267 votes for De France, Deino
serving from March 4, 1800, to March 3, 1871.
Gillespie, James, was bom in North Carolina^
re<'eivcd a cla.«sii;al education; was elecKnl a repre —
senlalive from North Carolina in the Third, Fourth,-
and Flftli Congresses, serving from Deceml>er 2^'
1793, to March 3, 1790; was again elected to the
Kighth Congress, serving from October 17, 1808, f
January, 1805, when he died.
Gillet, Ransom H., was iioni at New Lebanon. •■^
New Yi«rk. January 27, INX); wag reared on lii^E -*■
father's farm, and by his own labor was able to ob
tjiin an academic education; studied law at Canton
with Sil.T.' Wright, teaching school for his livelihoods-
was admilled to the bar, and pr;i. 'i^
bui^, where ho was postmaster ) ~ ^M
delegate to the National Democraiii t .■uwmi.ii ;it
Baltimore in 1S12 which renoiuinateil Andrew J;M;k —
son; was elected a representative from New York il»
the Twenty-third Congress as a Democrat; was i*-
elected to the Twenty-fourth Congress, serving frooi
Decem)x-r 2, 18:)3, to March 3, 18:^7; was appointed
by President Van Buren commissioner to treat with
the New-York Indians, serving 1837-1R30; was a
delegate to the National Democratic Convention
which renominated Martin Van Bureii in 1840; was
ajipointed by President I'olk register of the treasury,
serving from Ai)ril 1, 1845, to May 27. 1847, when he
was apiKiinted solicitor of the tre.isur)-, 8er\ing until
Octol)er3I. 1849; was appointed by President Pierce
aiislstant attorney-general, serving 18.5.5-18.J8 ; was
appointed by President Buchanan solicitor of the
Court of Claims, serving 185<*-180l ; resumed prac-
tice, and died at W.ishingtun October 24, 1870. He
published a " Life of Silas Wright."
Gillette, Pranois, was bom at Brof^Tr*^- ' ' '^-m.
nectiiut: n'ceive<l a classical education ng
at Yale College in 1829; studied law wu lor
Ellsworth, but ill health forced him to abaiulun the
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411
lanfeasion liefore IteirM admitted to the bar; Was
an early advocate ol the temperance cause, and a
pioneer in the antislavery movement ; was elected a
United-States senator from Conneeticat as a Free-
soil Whig (in place of Truman Smith, resigned),
■erring from May 25, 1864, to March 8, 1855; was
seTeral times defeated as the Temperance and Anti-
slavery candidate for governor; was a member of the
State House of Representatives; was chairman of
the Conoecticnt Board at Education 1849-1866.
QilliB, James L., was bom at Hebron, Washing-
ton County, New York, October 2, 1792 ; received a
public-school education ; served an apprenticeship to
the tanner and currier's trade, at which he after-
wards worked ; served in the last war against Great
Britain in the New-York volunteers; was commis-
sioned lieutenant of volunteers in 1814, and soon
after taken prisoner and carried to Halifax, where
he was detained until peace was declared; re-
moved in 1828 to Ridge way, Pennsylvania; was a
member of the State House of Repres^itatives in
1810, and Main in 1851 ; was ai^inted one of the
judgie* of Jefferson County in 1842; was a State
senator in 1845; was elected a representative from
Pennsylvania in the Thirty-fifth Congress as a Demo-
crat, receiving 9,78S votes against 9,114 votes for
Myers, Union, serving from December 7, 1657, to
March 3, 1859.
QiUon, Alexander, was bom in South Caro-
lina; received an academic education; was elected a
representative from South Carolina in the Third
Congress, serving from December 2, 1798, to 1794,
when he died.
Qilman. Charles J., was bom in New Hamp-
shire; received a classical education; studied law;
was admitted to the bar, and commenced practice at
Brunswick, Maine; was elected a representative
from Maine in the Thirty-fifth Congress as a Repub-
lican, receiving 12,963 votes against 9,670 votes for
E. F. PilUlmry, Coalition, and serving from Decem-
ber 7, 1867, to March 8, 1869.
Oilman, John Taylor (brother of Nicholas Gil-
man ) . was bom at Exeter, New Hampshire, December
19, 17S8; was one of the minute-men who marched
to Cambridge on receiving intelligence of the battle
of Lexington in 1775; was assistant to his father,
who was receiver^generai of New Hampshire; was a
delegate to tlie Convention of the States at Hartford
in Octot>er, 1780; was a delegate from New Hamp-
shire to the Continental Co^fiess in 1782-1788; was
chosen treasurer of New Hampshire in 1793; was
one of the Continental commissioners to settle the
seoounts between the several States 1788-1791, when
be resigned; was again chosen State treasurer in
1701; was elected governor of New Hampshiro as a
Federalist 1794-1806; was defeated as the Federal
candidate for governor in 1806 by John Langdon,
Democrat, who received 4,000 majority; was again
the Federal candidate for (^veraor in 1812, receiving
a plurality of votes, but not a majori^, and the
legislature diose William Plummer, the Demoeratie
candidate; was again elected governor in 1818 by a
majority of 500 votes; was re-elected in 1814 by
a majority of 600 votes; was re-elected in 1816 by a
majori^ of 614 votes, and declined a re-election in
18ia; died at Exeter, New Hampshire, August 21,
1828.
Oilman, Niobolas, was bom at Exeter, New
Hampshire, in 1702: received an academic education ;
•erred during the Revolutionary war as lieutenant,
(apuin, adjutant, and adjutant-general; was a dele-
gate from New Hampshire to the Continental Con-
cress 1786-1788; was elected a representative from
New Hampshire to the First Congress, and succes-
tirely re-elected to the Second, lliird, and Fourth
Congresses, serving from March 4, 1789, until March
8, 1707 ; was elected to the United-States Senate as a
Democrat (making the first break in the Federal
line in New England), and re-elected, serving from
DecoBber 2, 1806^ until h« died, on Ui ratam from
the session, whieh had adjonnted April 18, 1814, at
Philadelphia, May S, 1814.
GHlmer, George B., was bom in Wilkes County,
Georgia, April 11, 1790; received an academic educa-
tion; studied law; was admitted to the bar, and
commenced practice at Lexiiigton; served in the
United-States army in 1818 as first lieutenant of the
Forty-third Infantry, and was engaged in the cam-
paign against the (>eek Indians; resigned in 1818,
and resumed practice at Lexington; was a member
of the State House of Representatives in 1818, 1819,
and 1B24; was governor of Georgia 1829-1831; was
elected a repiesentative from Georgia in the Seven-
teenth Congress as a Democrat, serving from De-
cember 3, 1821, to March 8, 1828; was again elect-
ed to the Twentieth Congress, serving from Decem-
ber 8, 1827, to March 8, 1829; was a^ain elected to
the Twenty-third Congress, serving from December
2, 1888, to March 3, iSS; was a presidential elector
on the Hugh L. White ticket in 1836; was again
governor of Georgia 1837-1839: was a presidential
elector on the Harrison ticket in 1840; and died at
Lexington, Georgia, November 16, 1869. He pub-
lished an historical work entitled "Georgians."
Oilmer, John A., was bom in Guilford County,
North Carolina, November 4, 1806; received an aciv-
demic education by his own exertions; studied law:
was admitted to the l>ar in 1832, and commenced
practice at Greensborough ; was a member of the
State Senate 1846-1856; was defeated as the Whig
candidate for governor of North Carolina in 1656;
was elected a representative from North Carolina in
the Thirty-fifth Congress as an American, receiving
5,692 votes against 4,846 votes for Williams, Demo-
crat : and was re-elected to the Thirty-sixth Congress,
receiving 6,861 votes against 4,612 votes for Williams,
Democrat, serving from December 7, 1857, to March
3, 1861 ; was a member of the Second Confederate
Congress; was a delegate to the National Union
Convention at Philadelphia in 1866; and died at
Greensboron^, North Carolina, May 14, 1868.
Qilmer, Thomas W., was bom in Virginia;
received a public-school education; studied law;
was admitted to the bar, and commenced practice at
Charlottesville; was several years a member of the
State legislature, and for two sessions speaker of the
House; was governor of Viii^iiia 1840-1841 ^ waa
elected a representative from Virginia in the Twen-,
ty-eeventh Congress as a Wliig (but sustained Presi-
dent Tyler's vetoes, and acted with the Democrats),
defeating James Garland, and was re-elected to the
Twenty-eighth Congress as a Democrat, recdvin;;
2,861 votes against 2,341 votes for W. L. Goggin,
Whig, serving from May 81, 1841, to February 18,
1844, when he resided; his election was unsuccess-
fully contested by William L. Goggin; was appointed
secretary of the navy by President Tyler February 15,
1844, and served until he was killed by the bursting
of a gun oil Iward the United-States steamer " Prince-
ton," near Washington City, February 28, 1844.
Oilmore, Alfred, was bom in Pennsylvania;
received a public-school education; resided at Butler;
was elected a representative from Pennsylvania in
the Thirty-first Congress as an Opposition candidate,
receiving 7,260 votes against 6,969 votes for Smith,
Whig, and 209 votes for McLaughlin, Free-Soiler;
was re-elected to the Thirty-second Congress, receiv-
ing 6,613 votes against 6,644 votes for Taylor, Whig,
serving from December 8, 1640, to March 3, 1853.
Oilmore, John, was bom at Butler, Pennsylva-
nia; received a public-school education; was elected
a representative from Permsylvanla in the Twenty-
first Congress as a Jackson Democrat ; was re-elected
to the Twenty-second Congress, serving from Decem-
ber 7, 1829, to March 2, 1833; died at BuUer, Penn-
sylvania, May 18, 1846.
G^t, Joseph, was bom near the mouth of Fair-
forest River, in Union District, South Carolina,
January 12, 1775; his parents removed when he was
thirteen ye«iy of i^ t9 Chwles^on, where bereceived
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a classical education; stadied law with Robert Good-
loe Harper; was admitted to the bar in 179R. and
commenced practice the following year at FincKney-
riUe, South Carolina; was a member of the State
House of Representatives 1801-1810; was elected a
representative from South Carolina in the Seven-
teenth Congress ; was re-elected to the Eighteenth
and Klneteenth Congresses, serving from December
8, 1S21, to March 8, 1827; declined being a candidate
for re-election, on account of ill health; and died at
Pinckneyville, South Carolina, May 8, 1880.
Glasoook, Thomas, was bom in Georgia; set-
tled at Augusta, Georgia; received a public-school
education ; served in the Revolutionary army as lieu-
tenant, and was present at the siege of Savannah ;
was commissioned colonel-commandant of the regi-
ment of volunteers raised by Georgia for protection
against the Creek Indians; was elected a representa-
tive from Georgia in the Twenty-fourth Congress as
a Democrat on a general ticket, receivlngSl,Si47 votes
against 28,168 votes for Richard H. Wilde, Whig;
was re-elected to the Twenty-flfth Congress, receiv-
ing 47,448 votes against 28,994 votes for W. C. Daw-
son, Whig, serving from December 7, 1885, to March
8, 1839; and died at Decatur, Georgia, May 9, 1841.
Glasgow, Hugh, was bom in Pennsylvania;
received a public-school education; was elected a
representative from Pennsylvania in the Fourteenth
Congress, serving from December 4, 1815, to March
8, 1817.
Qlenn, Henry, was bom in Albany County,
New York; received a limited education; served in
the Revolutionary war; was a meml>er of the State
House of Representatives 1788-1787; was elected a
representative from New York in the Third Conra«ss,
and was re-elected to the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth
Congresses, serving from December 2, 1798, to March
8, 1^1; was again a member of the State House of
Representatives in 1810; and died at Schenectady
A^nst 14, 1814.
Gloninger, John, was bom in Petmrrlvuiia;
and was elected a representative from that State in
the Thirteenth Congress, serving from May 24, 1818,
to August 2, 1818, when be resigned.
Glossbrenner, Adam J., was bom at Hagers-
town, Maryland, August 81, 1810; was self-educated;
learned the art of printing; printed " The Western
Telegraph" in Hamilton, Ohio, in 1827 and 1828;
went to York, Pennsylvania, in 1829; edited and pub-
lished "The York Gazette" from 1886 to 1858; was
clerk in the Pennsylvania legislature in 1888; was in
charge of transportation on State railroad at Colum-
bia in 1839 and 1840; was cashier of contingent funds
of the House of Representatives for the Twenty-
eighth and Twenty-ninth Congresses; was a clerk m
the State Department, and confidential clerk to Sec-
retary Buchanan in 1848 and 1849; was elected ser-
geant-at-arms of the House of Representatives for
the Thirty-first, Thirty-second, Thirty-third, Thirty-
fourth, and Thirty-fifth Congresses; was President
Buchanan's private secretary in 1800 and 1801; es-
tablished "The Philadelphia Age" in 1868; was
elected a representative from Pennsylvania in the
Thirty-ninth Conzress, receivingl3,382 votes against
10,576 votes for Joseph Bally, Union ; and was re-
elected in 1866 to the Fortieth Congress as a Demo-
crat, receiving 15,830 votes against 12,389 votes for
R. M. Henderson, Republican, serving from March 4,
1867, to March 3, 1871.
Glover, John Montgomery, was bora in
Mercer County, Kentuckv, September 4, 1824; re-
ceived a regular course of collegiate education, but
left college, in his senior year, before graduating;
studied law, and was admitted to the bar, but prac-
tised but a short time; was appointed a colonel of
cavalry by President Lincoln, and was subsequently
commissioned by thegovemor of Missouri colonel of
the Third Missouri Volunteer Cavalry, with a com-
mission to date from September 4, 1861; resigned in
1864 on account of impaired health; was appointed
in July, 1868, collector (rf internal revienne for the
Third District of Missouri, and performed the duties
of that office from Novemlier, 1866, until Hatch 3,
1887; was elected a representative from Missouri in
the Forty-tliird Congress as a Democrat, receiving
13,006 votes against 10,672 votes for J. F. Benjsmin,
Republican: was re-elected to the Forty-fourth Con-
gress as a Democrat, receiving,12,200 votes against
8,867 votes for H. S. Lipscomb, Republican: and was
re-elected to the Forty-fifth Congress, receiving 16.153
votes against 11,646 votes for J. T. K. Haywvd, Be-
publican, serving from December 1, 1873.
Qoddard, Oalvin, was bom at Shrewsbury.
Massachusetts, July 17, 1768; received a classiod
education, graduating at Dartmouth College in 1738;
studied law with Oliver Ellsworth; was t^mitted to
the bar in 1790, and commenced practice atPlainfield,
Connecticut; was a member of the State House of
Representatives 1791-1806, serving three yean as
speaker of the House; was elected a representative
from Connecticut in the Seventh Congress; was le-
elected to the Eighth Congress, serving from Decem-
ber?, 1801, to March 8, 1805; removed to Norwich
in 1807; was a meml>er of the State Executive Coun-
cil 1808-1815; was a presidential elector on the De
Witt Clinton ticket in 1812; was a delegate to the
Hartford Convention in 1814 ; was Judge of the Su-
perior Court 1815, 1818; was mayor of Norwich for
seventeen years; and died at Norwich, Connecticut,
Mav 2, 1842.
dtog^i, William L., was bom in Bedford
County^iiginia, May 81, 1807; received an academic
education; studied law; was admitted to the bar in
1828, and commenced practice at Winchester, Vir-
ginia; wasameml>er of the State House of Repre-
sentatives in 1886; was elected a representative from
Yirginia in the Twenty-sixth Congress as a Whig,
receiving 1,498 votes against 1,347 votes for Stuart,
Democrat; was re-elected to the Twenty-sevenih
Congress, serving from December 8, 1839, to March
8, 1843; he unsuccessfully contested the election of
Thomas W. Gihner in the Twenty-ei^th Congress,
and was subsequently elected upon me resignation
of Mr. Gilmer, serving from December 2, 1^4, to
March 8, 1845; was wain elected to the Thirtieth
Congress, receiving 2,980 votes gainst 2,870 votes for
Leake, Democrat, serving from December 6, 1847, to
March 3, 1849; rellnquiuied his profession for ^ri-
cultural pursuits; was wpointed by President Fill-
more a member of the Board of Visitors to West
Point; was defeated as the Whig candidate for gov-
emor in 1880, receiving 71,643 votes against 77,112
votes for John Letcher, Democrat; and died at Rich-
mond, Viisinia, January 6, 1870.
Gk>ld, Thomas B., was bom in the State of
New York ; received a classical education, graduating
at Yale CoUege in 1788 ; resided at Whitestown,
Oneida County; was a member of the State Senate
1797-180S, and of the State House of Representatives
in 1806; was elected a representative from New York
in the Eleventh Congress as a Federalist; was re-
elected to the Twelfth Congress by a majority of 438
votes, serving from May 22, 1809, to March 3, 1813;
was again elected to the Fourteenth Congress, serv-
ing from December 4, 1816, to March 3, 1817; and
died at Whitestown, New York, June 22, 1826.
Goldsborough, Charles W., was lx>m in Xa-
ryland; received an academic education; held sev-
eral local offices; was elected a representative from
Maryland in the Ninth Congress as a Federalist ; was
re-elected to the Tenth, Eleventh, Twelfth, Thir-
teenth, and Fourteenth Congresses, serving from
December 2, 1800, to March 3, 1817; was governor of
Maryland 1818-1819; and died at Shoal Creek, Mary-
land, December 18, 1884.
Goldsborough, Robert, was bom at Cam-
bridge, Mainland; received an academic education;
studied medicine, and graduated at the Philadelphia
College in 1780; took an active part in the ante-Revo-
IttttonaiymoTemeata; was a delegate from Maryland
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. th(! First Continental Congress 1774-1775: and
leil at C'ambridKC, Muryland. IJpci-mber 31, 1788.
Goldsborough, Robert Henry, was bom at
ew E^ston, Mar}'laud, in ITtiO; received au aca-
if.' education; was elected Uriiieil-Stales senator
in Slarvland as an anti-Jackson Kepiililican, serv-
ing from 'May 24. 1813, to March 3, ISIl); and was
again elected I'nited-^tates senator as a Whip without
opposition (to fill the vacancy caused liy the resig-
nation of Ezekiel F. C'hamtM.T8). sen-ingfrijni January
8. 1S.3.'), until Ills death at New Easton, Mar^-land,
ktiiber 5, 1.S30.
Goldthwaite, Qeorge, was bom at Boston,
a'sachusetts, December 10, 1809; received an aca-
imic education; removed to Alabama ; studied law,
td was admitted to practice in 182<i; was on the
snch of the Circuit Court, and aftenvard of the
tpreme Court, of which he was chief justice for
nne years; was adjutant-general of the State of
Jaboma during the war; wa.'t elected United-States
mator from Alabama as a Democrat Deeemlwr?,
70 (to succeed Willard Warner, Kcpublican). and
Kik his seat January 15, lU7i!, serving until March
, 1S77.
"Golladay, Edward I., was bom at Lebanon,
Tenncseee, September 0, ISJJl; grailnated In the
literary deiiartment of Cuml>erhind University at
lebaiion; taught school a short time; studied law;
raduated in the law department of Cumberland
niversity, and was admitted to the bar in 1802; was
cted to the State legislature for the session of 1857-
S; was elected a presidential elector on the Bell-
erctt ticket in 1860; serv-ed in tJie Confederate
y with the rank of colonel, and participated in
iveral important engagements; and was elected a
ipresentativc from Tennessee in the Forty-second
pngress as a Democrat, reccivini; 7.il01 votes against
428 votes forW. F. Prosser, Hepublican. and 3,525
»te8 for Bailie Peyton, Independent Democratic
onservative, serving from March 4, 1871, to March
1873.
Golladay, J. B., received a. public-school edu-
»tion; was elected a representntivo from Kentucky
fa the Fortietl) Congress as a Democrat (to fill the
vacancy occasioned by the death of Elijah Hise),
receiving 6,019 votes against 850 votes for Jackman,
Republican, and 1,175 voles for J. T. Curd; was re-
elecfid to the Forty-first Congress, serving from
~ecember 6, 1807, to February 28, 1870, when he
rigned.
Qoooh, Deoiiel W., was bom at Wells, Maine,
uuary 8, 1820; was fitted fnr college at Phillips
adeiny, Aiidover, and graduated at Dartmouth
•liege in 1843; studied law at South Berwick and
irtland, Maine, and at Boston, and was admitted
the bar in 184(1; practised law in Boston; was a
member of the House in the State legislature in
J&52: was a member of the Constitutional Conven-
iU>n in 1853; was elected a representative from Mos-
bchusetts in the Thirty-fifth Congress (in place of
Nathaniel P. Banks, jun., resided) as a Repub-
lican: was re-elected to the Tliirty-sixth Congress,
receiving 7,121) votes against 3,808 votes for C. A.
Welch, Democrat, and 810 votes for Baker, Ameri-
can: was re-elected to the Thirty-seventh Congress,
deceiving 11,373 votes against 0,730 votes for C, A.
IVelch, Democrat, and 703 votes for George Johnson,
Iriierican, and 100 scattering; was re-elected to the
riiirty-eighlh Congress, receiving 8,124 votes against
.52 votes for Perry, People's candidate; wat re-
tod to the Thirty-ninth Congress, but resigned
'ore taking his scat, serving from Januarj' 21, 1858,
March 3, 1865; was navy-agent of the |K>rt of Bos-
1805; was again elected to the Furty-third Con-
ns a RepuWiean, receiving 12,472 votes against
votes for N. P. Ilunks, Liberal and Democrat,
Ing from December 1. 1873, to March 3, 1876;
defeated as the Republican candidate for the
irty-fourth Coiufress, receiving 7,2(1;} votes against
~ 1 \'otes for N. P. Banks, Liberal Republican ; was
appointed by President Grant pension-agent at
Boston.
Goode, John, Jun., was bora in Bedford Coun-
ty. Virginia, May 27, 1829; attended the New-Lon-
diin Academy In early life, and graduated at Emory
and Henry College in 1848; 8tudie<i law with Hon-
orable John W. Brookenliorough at Lexington; was
admitted to the bar in April, 18.")!, and has practised
since; was elected to the Virgiiiia House of Dele-
gates in 1861 and 1850; was on the Democratic ticket
as presidential elector in 1852 and 1854>; was elected
in 1800 a member of the State Convention of Vir-
ginia which passed the ordinance of secession; was
twice elected a member of the Confederate Congress,
and served in tliat capacity from February 22, 1803,
until the close of tlie war; was appointed a member
of the National Democratic Executive Committee
in 18(58, and re-appointed in 1872 for four years;
was elected a representative from Virginia in the
Forty-fourth Congress as a Democrat, receiving
13.521 votes against 13,800 rotes for James H. Piatt,
jun.. Republican; and was re-elected to the Forty-
Uftli Congress, receiving 10,885 votes against 14,1)89
votes for Joseph Segar, Republican, serving from
Deceml)er t). 18(5.
Goode, Patrick Q., was bom in Virginia; re-
ceived an academic education; studied law; was
admitted to the bar, and commenced practice at
Sydney; was elected o representative from Ohio in
the Twenty-flftb Congress as a >VTiig; was rendected
to the Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh Congresses,
serving from Stjptember 4, 18JJ7, to March 3, 184.3.
Qoode, Samuel, was elected a rtjpresentative
from Virginia in the Sixth Congress, serving from
December 2j]7iJl), to March 3, 1801.
Goode, William O., was bom at Inglewood,
Mecklenburg County, Virginia, SeptemlH-r Hi, 17118;
received a classical education, graduating at Williiun
and Mary College; studied law; was admitted to the
bar In 1821, and commenced practice at Boydtown;
was for several years a member of the State legisla-
ture; ■was a delegate to the State Reform Convention
in 182tt; was elected a representative from Vii^ginia
in the Twenty-seventh Congress as a Democrat, 8er\'-
ing from May 31, 1841, to March 3, 1843; was again
(or Bl^veral successive years a member of the State
House of Representatives, and was three times chosen
speaker; was a delegate to the State Constitutional
Convention of 1850; was again elected to the Thirty-
third Congress, receiving but slight opixisition ; was
re-elected to the Thirty-fourth Congress, receiving
4,811 votes against 3,l(Al votes for Tazewell, Amert
can; was re-elected to the Thirty-fifth Congress, re-
ceiving 3.570 votes against 1,132 votes for Collier,
American, ser^'ing from December 6, 18.53, to March
3, 185St; was re-elected to the Thirty-sixth Congress,
defeatina W. C. Flounioy, but died, before taking his
seat, at Boydtown. Virginia, July 3, 1850.
Ooodenow, John M., received a public-school
education; stuilied law; was admitted to the Ijur,
and practised at Steubenville, Ohio; was annimineni
Freemason ; was elected a representative from Ohio
in the Twenty-first Congress as a Jackson Democrat,
receiving 1,040 majority over John C. Wright, Clay
Democrat, serving from December 7, 182C, to April
il, 183(J. when he resigned, having been chosen judge
of the Supreme Court of Ohio.
Gtoodenow, Robert, was bom at Famiington,
New H;impsliire, Jiiiie 10, 1800; received an aca-
demic education; studied law; was admitted to the
bar in 1821, and commenced practice at Famiington:
was county-attorney 1828-18:34 and in 1841 ; removed
to Paris, Maine; was elected a representative from
Maine in the Tliirty-second Congi^ss as a Whig, re-
ceiving 4.8;J1 votes against 4,700 votes for Lot M.
Murriil, Democrat, and 1,274 votes for Seth May,
Free-Soiler, serving from December 1, 1851. to March
3, 18.53; was appointed State bank commissioner
in 1857.
Ooodenow, Bufus K., was bora at Henniker,
414
cas&BXBSiasAt tuBWtd&r.
New HamptiUre, April 24, 1790; removed with hia
father to Brownfleld, Maiiie; received a publio-
•chool education; was a farmer, and also engaged in
the coasting trade; served In the war against Great
Britain as captain of the Thirty-third Infantry from
April, 1813, until the regiment was disbanded in
Jane, 1815; removed to Paris, Maine; was clerk of
the Oxford-connty courts 1821-1837; was a member
of the State House of Representatives; was a presi-
dential elector on the Harrison ticlcet in 1840; was
elected a representative from Maine in the Thirty-
first Congress as a Whig, receiving 6,682 votes against
6,607 votes for McCrate, Democrat, and 1,100 votes
for Vinton, Democrat, serving from December 3,
1840, to March 3, 1861; and died at Paris, Maine,
March 24, 1863. -
Qoodhue, Benjamin, was bom' at Salem,
Massachusetts, October 1, 1748; received a classical
education, graduating at Harvard College in 1706:
engaged in mercantile pursuits; was a member oi
the State Senate 1784-1780; was elected a representa-
tive from Massachusetts in the First Cong^ress; was
re-elected to the Second and Third Congresses, serv-
ing from March 4, 1780, to March 3, 1705; was
elected a United-States senator from Massachu-
setts (in place of George Cabot, resigned), serving
from December 0, 1706, to 1800, when he resigned ;
died at Salem, Massachusetts, July 28, 1814.
Gtoodin, John B., was bom at Tiffin, Ohio,
December 14, 1836; removed to Kenton, Ohio, in'
1844; was educated at Kenton and Oeneva Coll^^,
Ohio; commenced reading law in 1854; was admitted
to the bar in 1867, and engaged in the practice at
Kenton, Ohio; remained at the last-named place
until the spring of 1860, when he removed to his
present place of residence in Kansas, where he con-
tinued his law practice; was elected in November,
1866, to the State House of Representatives; was
elected in November, 1867, judge of the Seventh
Judicial District, Kansas, for the term of four years,
commencing January, 1868; was re-elected in Novem-
ber, 1871, to the same position, which position he
filled until February 1, 1876, at which time he re-
signed his judicial office, having been elected a rep-
resentative from Kansas to Congress, Politically a
Democrat, he was nominated as the Reform and
Opposition candidate, and elected, receiving 14,065
votes against 14,220 votes for Stephen A. Cobb,
Republican, serving from December 6, 1875, to March
8, 1877.
Qoodrioh, Chaunoey, was bom at Durham,
Connecticut, October 20, 1750: received a classical
education, graduating at Yale College in 1776;
studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1781, and
commenced practice at Hartford: was a member of
the State House of Representatives in 1703; was
elected a representative from Connecticut in the
Fourth Congress; was re-elected to the Fifth and
Sixth Congresses, serving from December 7, 1706, to
March 8, 1801 ; was a member of the State Executive
Council 1802-1807; was elected a United-States
senator from Connecticut (in place of Uriah Tracy,
deceased), serving from November 27, 1807, to 1813,
when he resigned ; was mayor of Hartford ; was lieu-
tenant-governor of Connecticut in 1814; and died at
Hartford, Connecticut, August 16, 1823.
Qoodrioh, Elizur, was bom at Durham, Con-
necticut, March 24, 1761 ; received a classical educa-
tion, graduating at Tale College in 1770; was a tutor
at Yale for two years; studied law; was admitted to
the bar, and commenced practice at New Haven in
1783 ; was elected a representative from Connecticut
in the Sixth Congress as a Federalist, serving from
December 2, 1700, to March 3, 1801 ; was appointed
collector of customs at New Haven, but was removed
by Jefferson: was a judge of probate for seventeen
years; was judge of the county court for twelve
years; was professor of law in Yale College for nine
years; was mayor of New Haven 1803-1822; and
died at New Haven, OoniMcttcnt, Kovamher 1, 1849.
Goodrich, John Z., wm bom «t Sheffield,
Massachusetts, September 27, 1801; received an
academic education; studied law; was admitted to
the bfu*, bat engaged in numofacturing; wis a
presidential elector on the Harrison ticket in 1941;
was a member of the State House of Bepresentativea
In 1848 and 1840; was elected a representative from
Massachusetts in the Tliirty-second Congreai; vai
reelected to the Thirty-third Congress, receiving
0,670 votes against 4,842 votes for Griswold, Democrat,
and 816 scattering, serving fnmi December 1, 1851, to
March 3, 1855; was a member of the Peace Coi>.
gress in 1861 ; was appointed liy President Lincoln
cc^ector of customs at Boston, serving from 1881 to
1866.
GKx>dlioh, Milo, was bom at Homer, New Yoi^
January 3, 1820; received an academic education;
studied law, and practises the profession; was a
member of the Constitutional Convention of the
State of New York in 1867-1868; was elected a rep-
resentative Irom New York in the Forty-second
Congress as a Republican, receiving 15,471 votes
against 12,029 votes for Apgar, Democrat, serving
from March 4, 1871, to March 3, 1873.
Goodwin, Henry 0., was twm at De Rnyter,
Madison County, New York, June 25, 1824; received
an academic education; studied law; was admitted
to the bar in 1846, and commenced practice at
Hamilton, New York; was district-attorney 1817-
1860 : was elected a representative from New York in
the Thirty-third Congress (in place of Oerritt Smith,
resigned) as a RepuUican, serving from December 4,
186^ to March 8, 1866; was again elected to the
Thirty-fifth Congress, receiving 14,880 votes against
6,060 votes for Clarke, Democrat, and 1,671 votes for
Culver, American, serving from December 7, 1857, to
March 3, 1860 ; died at Hamilton, New York, Novem-
ber 12, 1860.
Goodwin, John Noble, was bom at South
Berwick, Maine, October 18, 1824; received a classical
education, graduating at Dartmouth College in 1814;
studied law; was admitted to the bar In 1848, and
commenced practice at South Berwick; was a mem-
ber of the State Senate in 1854: was elected a rep-
resentative from Maine in the Thirty-seventh Con-
gress as a Republican, receiving 12,018 votes against
10,560 votes for Hayes, Democrat, serving from July
4, 1861, to March 3, 1863; was appointed chief justice
of Arizona Territory, and removed there in 1863;
was governor of Arizona Territory from Angost,
1863, to September, 1865; was elected a delegate
from Arizona Territory in the Thirty-ninth Congreu
as a Republican, receiving 707 votes against 876 votes
for Charles D. Posten, Republican, and 260 votes
for Joseph P. Allyu, Republican, and spring from
December 4, 1866, to March 8, 1867.
Gk>odwin, Peterson (sometimes spelled Good-
wyu), was bom in Virginia; received an academic
education; studied law; was admitted to the bar,
and practised; was elected a representative from
Virginia in the Eighth Congress as a Democrat; and
was re-elected to the Ninth, Tenth, laeventfa, Twelfth,
Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Congresses,
serving from October 17, 1803, to February 21, 1818,
when he died.
Goodyear, Charles, was liom at Cobleskill,
New York, April 26, 1605; received a classical edu-
cation, graduating at Union College in 1824; stadied
law; was admitted to tite bar in 1827, and commenced
practice at Schoharie, New York; was a member ot
the State House of Representatives in 1830; was ip-
pointed first judge of Schoharie Cotm^ in 1^1 !
was elected a representative from New Yoric in the
Twenty-ninth Conmss as a Democrat,' receiving
0,298 votes against 7,966 votes for Danfortii, Whig,
and 626 votes for North, FTee-Soiler, serving from
December 1, 1845, to March 8, 1847; contbiued the
practice of law until 1862, when he engaged in
private banking at Schoharie and in the dty «
New Twk; was again «laated to ths Thli^-uota
BTATISnCAL 8KEICHX8.
415
Congieia, receiTing 17,487 votM againat 12,912 votes
for Gardiner, Bepublican, aervlng from December 4,
l&joy to March 3, 1867: was a delegate to the
National Union Convention at Philadelphia in 1866,
and to the National Democratic Convention at New
Yorlc in 1868.
Gordon, Jamea, was bom at Klllead, County
Antrim, Ireland, in 1743; came to Kew York, and
became an Indian trader at Schenectady; served in
the Bevolutionary war as colonel of a regiment of
militia, raised in what is now Saratoga County;
located at Ballston; was a member oi the State
House of Representatives 177S-1700; was elected a
representative from New Tork in the Second Con-
gress, and re-elected to the Third Congress, serving
from October 24, 1791, to March 8, 1795; was a State
senator 1797-1804; was for some time county-judge,
and was the first supervisor of Ballston; he died at
Ballston, New York, January 17, 1810.
Gk>r<lon, John B., was oom In Upson County,
Georgia, February 6, 1832; was educated at the
University of Cieorgia; was admitted to the bar, but
practised law only a short time; at the beginning of
the war entered the Confederate army as captain of
infantry, and was promoted major, lieutenant-
olonel, colonel, brigadier^eneral, major-general,
and to the command of the Second Army Corps;
commanded one wing of General Lee's army at
Appomattox Court House; was wounded in battle
eight times; was the Democratic candidate for
goVemor of Georgia in 1868, and his party claimed
is election by a large majority, but nis opponent,
Ruius H. Bullock, was declared elected; was a
mrmber of the National Democratic Convention of
lS(i8 from Georgia; was a delegate from the State at
large to the National Democratic Convention of
1S72; was elected presidential elector for the State at
large on the Sejrmour and Blair ticket in 1868, and
the Greeley and Brown ticket in 1872; was elected
United-States senator from Georgia as a Democrat,
(to succeed Joshua Hill, BepubUcau), serving from
March 4, 197a
Qordon, Samuel, was bom in the State of
New York; received a public-school education;
resided at Delhi, New York; was a member of the
State House of RepresenUtives 1820-1821 and 1834;
was elected a representative from New York in the
Twenty-seventh Congress as a Democrat, receiving
5,9T6 votes against 6,434 votes for Herman D. Gould,
Whig, serving from May 31, 1841, to March 3, 1848;
was again elected to the Twenty-ninth Congress,
receiving 8,646 votes against 8,121 votes for Herman
D. Gould, Whig, serving from December 1, 1815, to
March 3, 1847; was provost-marshal for the Nine-
teenth District of New York 1863-1866.
Gordon, William, was bom In 1763 ; received
a classical education, graduating at Harvard College
in 1779; studied law; was admitted to the bar; was
elected a representative from New Hampshire in the
Fifth Confess, and was le-elected to the Sixth Con-
gress, serving from May 16, 1797, to 1800, when he
resigned ; died in Boston May 8, 1802.
Gordon, William F., was l)om in Albemarle
County, Virginia; received an academic education;
was elected a representative from Viiginia in the
Twenty-fint Congress as a Democrat, receiving a
large majority over Nelson and Bryce, to supply a
vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Bives ; was
reelected to the Twentv-second Congress; was re-
elected to the Twen^-third Congress, serving from
December 7, 1829, to March 8. 18w; died near Lind-
sey's store, Virginia, July 2, 1858.
Gore, Chiistopner, was bom at Boston, Massa-
chusetts, Sej>tember 21, 1768; received a classical edu-
cation, graduating at Harvard College in 1776; stud-
ied law; was admitted to the bar, and commenced
practice at Boston; was United-States attorney for
the dlKiict of Maasachnsetta 1789-1796; was com-
missioner to En^and nnder Jay's treaty 1796-1803;
ntthargi d'affabf at. London 1808-1S04; was a
member of tbe State Senate and Honae of Represen-
tatives; was governor of Massachusetts 1809, 1810;
was elected a United-States senator from Massachu-
setts (in place of James Lloyd, resigned), serving
from May 28, 1813, to 1816, when he resigned; was a
presidential elector on the King ticket in 1817; was
a trustee of Harvard University, and an active mem-
ber of the Massachusetts Historical Society and the
American Academy of Sciences; died at Waltham,
Massachusetts, March 1, 1827.
Qorham, Benjamin (son of Nathaniel Gorham),
was bom at Charlestown, Massachusetts, February
IS, 1775; received a classical education, graduating
at Harvard College in 1796; studied law under The-
ophilus Parsons ; was admitted to the bar, and com-
menced practice at Boston: was elected a represen-
tative from Massachusetts In the Sixteenth Congress
as a Federalist (to fill the vacancy caused by the res-
ignation of Jonathan Mason), serving from Novem-
ber 27, 1820, until March 3, 1821, and declining a
renomination; was again elected to the Twentieth
Congress, and i-e-elected to the Twenty-first Con-
gress, serving from December 8, 1827, until March 8,
1831; was again elected to the Twenty-third Con-
gress by 603 majority, serving from December 2, 1883,
until March 8, 1835; was a memlier of the State
House of Representatives; was especially noted 'as
having given his professional services, without pay.
to defend the newspaper-press in libel suits; ana
died at Boston, Massachusetts, September 27, 1856.
Qorham, Nathaniel (father of Benjamin Gor-
Iiam), was ii>ra at Charlestown, Massachusetts, May
27, 1738; received a public-school education; en-
gaged in mercantile pursuits; was a member of the
Colonial legislature 1771-1776; was a delegate to tiie
Provincial Congress 1774-1775; was a memt>er of
the Board of War 1778-1781 ; was a del^ate to the
State Constitutional Convention in 1779; was a dele-
gate from Massachusetts to the Continental Congress
1782-1788, and again 1786-1787, serving as presiding
officer from June 6, 1787, until the expiration of his
term; was a delate from Massachusetts to tlie
convention which framed the Federal Constitution
in 1788, and, when in committee of the whole, was
called by President Washington to the cliairfor three
months; was for several years a judge of the Court
of Common Pleas; became largely Interested in the
purchase and settlement of lands in the Genesee
Valley, New York, which he placed under the charge
of his eldest son, Nathaniel Gorham, jun. ; and died
at Canandaigna, New York, June 11, 1796.
Gorman, Willis Arnold, was bom near Flem-
ingsbuig, Kentucky, Januai v 12, 1814; received an
academic education; studied law; was admitted to
the bar in 1826, and commenced practice at Bloom-
ington, Indiana, in 1826; was clerk of the Indiana
Senate 1837-1338; was major of Lane's regiment of
Indiana volunteers in the Mexican war; commanded
a rifle battalion at the battle of Buena Vista, and
was afterwards colonel of the Fourth Indiana R^-
mentof Mexican Volunteers; was elected a repre-
sentative from Indiana in the Thirty-first Congress
as a Democrat, receiving 8,466 votes against 7,196
votes for Watts, Whig; was re-elected to the Thirty-
second Congress, receiving 0,474 votes against 4,698
votes for Farmer, Whig, serving from December 3,
1849, to March 8, 1868; was territorial governor of
Minnesota 1863-1867; was a delegate to the Consti-
tutional Convention of Minnesota in 1867; practised
law at St Paul, Minnesota, 1867-1861; entered the
Union army as colonel of the First Minnesota Vol-
unteer Infantry; was commissioned brigadier-general
September 6, 1861: was in the battles of Ball's Bluff
and West Point; led a bayonet-chatge at the battle
of Fair Oaks, and commanded a brigade in Howard's
division of the Second Army Corps at the battle of
Antietam.
Gkiaa, James H., was bom at Union Court
House, Soath Carolina, August 9, 1820; received a
pubiio-scbooledacation; engaged in mercantile pur-
416
OOKGBESSIOKAL DIBBOTOBT.
■nits; VM » delate to the SUta Conatitutional
ConTention in 1867; waa elected a representative
from South Carolina In the Fortieth Congress, serv-
ing from July 1& 1868, to March 8, 1860.
Gott, DanieL was bom in Connecticut; received
a public-school eaucation: yraa elected a representa-
tive from New York In the Thirtieth Congress as a
Whig; was re-elected to the Thirty-first Congress,
receiving 5,403 votes against 4,906 votes for Sedgwick,
Democrat, and 2,493 for Baldwin, Democrat, serving
from December 6, 1847^ March 3, 1861.
Gk>ulcl, Herman U,, was l>om in Connecticnt;
received an academic education; was elected a repre-
sentative from New York in the Thlrty-flrat Congress
as a Whig, receiving 6,267 votes against 4,443 votes
for Edgerton, Democrat, 3,013 votes for Fitch, Anti-
Bent, and 1,953 votes for Wheeler, Democrat, serving
from December 3, 1849, to March 8, 1861.
Qourdin, Theodore, received an academic edu-
cation; was elected a representative from South
Carolina in the Thirteenth Congress as a Democrat,
serving from May 24, 1813, to March 2, 1815.
Oovan, A. &., was bom at Orangeburg, South
Carolina; received a classical education; was elected
a representative from South Carolina in the Seven-
teenth Congress (in place of James Overstreet, de-
ceased) ; was re-elected to the Eighteenth and Nine-
teenth Congresses without opposition, serving from
December 4, 1822, to March 3, 1827.
Gove, Samuel F., was bom at Weymoath,
Massachusetts, March 9, 1822; received a public-
school education ; was elected a representative from
Georgia in the Fortieth Congress, serving from July
25,. 1^, to March 3, 1869.
Ghraham, James (a brother of William A.), was
born in Lincoln Cotwty, North Carolina, in January,
1703; received a classical education, graduating at
the University of North Carolina in 1814; studied
law; was admitted to the bar, and practised for
many years with great success ; removed to Buthei^
ford County, which he represented in the House of
Commons of North Carolina in 1822, 1823, 1S28, and
1829; was elected a representative in the Twenty-
third, Twenty-fourth, Twenty-fifth, Twenty-sixth,
and Twenty-seventh Congresses as a Whig (generally
without opposition), serving from December 2, 1833,
until March 3, 1843, excepting from March 25, 1836,
to December 6, 1830, when a Democratic House de-
clared his seat vacant, although it refused to give it
to his contesting competitor, and at a new election
he was elected, receiving 4,971 votes against 8,177 for
Newland; was a candidate for the Twenty-eighth
Congress as a Whig, but was defeated by T. L. CUng-
man, also a Whig, by 929 majority; was again elected
to the Twenty-ninth Congress as a Whig, receiving
6,244 votes amlnst 4,918 votes for.Clingman, Whig,
and serving from Decemt>er 1, 1845, until March 3,
1847; retiring to private life, he engaged in agricul-
tnral pursuits, until he died, in Kuuierford County,
North Carolina, in September, 1851.
Qraham, James H., received a public-school
education; was elected a representative from New
York in the Thirty-sixth Congress as a Bepublican,
receiving 9.981 votes against 8,142 votes for Parker,
Democrat, and serving from December 5, 1869, to
March 8, 1861.
Qraham, William, was bom March 16, 1782;
received a public-school education; studied law; was
admitted to the bar, and practised at Tallonia; was
a delegate to the State Constitutional Convention;
was a member of the State House of Bepresentatives
and its speaker in 1820; was a member of the State
Senate; was elected a representative from Indiana in
the Twenty-fifth Congress as a Whig, receiving 6,717
votes against 4,390 votes for J. 8. Slmonson, Demo-
crat, and serving from September 4, 1837, to March 3,
1839; devoted mmself to agricultural pursuits; and
died near Tallonia August 17, 1858.
Qraham, William Alexander, was bom in
Lincoln County, North Carolina, September 6, 1804;
received a elassieal edncatloiijgradaating at the Uni-
versity of North Carolina in 1824 ; studied law st Kew
Berne; was admitted to the bar, and oommeDced
practice at Hil Isborou^ ; was a member of the Hoase
of Commons of North Carolina 1833-1840; was elected
a United-States senator (in place of Bobert StraQge,
resigned), serving from December 10, 1840, to Hsich
3, 1S43 ; elected governor of North Carolina in liU as
a Whl£ receiving 42,588 votes against 39,483 rate*
for M. Hoke, Democrat; was re-elected in 1846 as a
Whig, receiving 40,128 votes agiOnst 34,156 votes for
A. H. Shepherd, Democrat, serving in 1845-1849; was
tendered tne Spanish mission by President Taylor in
1849, and declined it; was appointed secretair of the
navy by President FiUmore July 20, 1850, and served
until March 7, 1858; was nominated by the National
Whig Convention at Buffalo June 17, 1852, at the
Whig candidate for Vice-President on the Scott ticket,
and received 42 electoral votes, W. B. King, Demo-
crat, receiving 264 electoral votes ; was a Couederate
senator in the Second Confederate Congress, serving
from February 22, 1864, until the close of the war;
was a delegate to the Pmladelphia Union Convention
in 1866; and died of otganlc disease of the heart,
after an illness of four days, at Saratoga Springs,
New York, August 11, 1875.
Qranger, Amos P., was bom at Suffield, Con-
necticut, June, 1789; received a public-school educa-
tion; removed to Manllus, New York, in 1811, and
was for some years president of the corporation;
served in the war of 1812 as captain, and was at the
battle of Sackett's Harbor; removed to Syracuse,
New York, in 1820, and engaged in mercantile pur-
suits; was elected a representative from New York
in the Thirty-fourth Congress as a Whig, receiving
4,803 votes against 4,109 votes for Alvord, Democrat,
3,409 for Noxon, American, and 487 for Parker,
Democrat; and was re-elected to the Thirty-fifth
Congress, receiving 9,748 votes against 4,625 votes for
Peck, Democrat, and 1,720 votes for Beach, Ameri*
can, serving from December 8, 1865, to March 3,
1859; died at Svracuse, New York, August 20, 186&
Ghranger, Bradley F., was bom m New York;
received a public-school education ; removed to Michi-
gan, and settled at Ann Arbor; was elected a repre-
sentative from Michigan in the Thirty-seventh Con-
Sess as a Bepublican, serving from July 4, 1861, to
arch 8, 1863.
Granger, FVanois (son of Oldeon Granger),
was bom at Suffleld, Connecticut, December 1, 1192;
received a classical education, gradnating at Yale
College in 1811; studied law; was admitted to the
bar in 1816, and commenced practice at Canandai-
gua. New York; was a member of the State Home
of Bepresentatives 1826-1881: was twice the candi-
date of the National Bepabllcans for governor of
New York, and was defeated by the Democratic
candidate; was a delegate to the National Anti-Ma-
sonic Convention at FhiladtUphla September 11, 1830;
was defeated as the National Bepublican candidate for
Vice-President on the Harrison ticket in 1831; was
elected a representative from New York in the Twen-
ty-fourth Congress as a Whig, serving from December
7, 1835, to March 3, 1837; was defeated as the Whig
candidate for the Twenty-4fth Congress by Maik A.
Sibley; was again elected to the Twenty-sixth Con-
gress, serving from December 2, 1880, to March 3,
1841 ; was appointed by President Harrison postnus-
ter-general (a position which his father had held
1801-1814), serving from March 6, 1841, to Septein-
ber 13, 1841 ; was again elected to the Twenty-seventh
Congress as a Whig (in place of John Greig. re-
signed), serving from December 7, 1841, to March 3,
1843; his "silver-gray" hair gave a name to a portion
of the Whig party in New Yoi* which recognlxed
him as Its leader; was a delegate to the Peace Con-
vention in 1861 ; paid great aH»ntion to agricolttirai
progress; died at Canandalgna, New York, Angnst
28,1868.
Grant, Abraham P., wu bom at Oswego,
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CewTork; received a public-soliool education; was
elect«!d a representative from New Torii in the Twen-
ty-fifth CoiigresK »s a Democrat, »en-ing fptim Sejv
teiiiber 4. l><iT, to Miircli a, 1830.
Grajitland, Seaton, was bom In Vlr^nia; re-
ceived an aciidt'inic education; studied law; was
atlmitted to the bar, and comnieiiccd practice at Mil-
leilc>»ville, Georpia: »a» elected a representative from
Georgia in the Twenty-fourth Congress as a Union
candidate i>n a peneral ticket, receiving 27.303 votes
^pgainsl. 24,870 votes for A. H. Chapnell, Stnte-richts;
Bind was re-elected to the Twentv-tlfth Congress, re-
ceiving 2lt..J4;( votes against 28,447 votes for R. W.
Haliersliam. State-rights, serving from December 7.
18;l5. to Aiarch 3, IfSiSti; was chosen a presidential
elector on the Uarrisou and Tyler ticket in 1S40; died
in Georgia.
Gravely, Joseph J., was bom In nenry Coun-
ty. Virginia, in ISU^: n-ceived a public-solwui edu-
cation; was eijgagrMl in agricultural pursuits; was a
ineinl)er of the legislature of tlie .State of Viiyinia in
IWa and 18.>4; removed to Missouri in 18154; was
elected to the Constitutional Convention of Missouri
in 18<!<); was elected to the State Senate of Missouri
in 18tl2 and 18(14; entered the Union army as colonel
of the Eighth Missouri Cavalry, and 8er\'ed in the war
for the suppression of the Keiicliion; was elected a
representative from Missouri in the Fortieth Congress
as a Radical, receiving t),(i83 votes against 1,920 votes
for the Conservative candidate, senring from March
4. 1*17, to March 3. 1^0.
Graves, William J., was bom at New Castle,
Kentucky, in IwiiT}; received an academic education;
studied law; was admitted to the bar, and com-
menced practice; was a member of the State House
of Representatives in 18:54; was elected a n-preseiita-
tive from Kentucky in the Twenty-fourth Congress
as a Whig, defeating P. H. Pope; was re-electeil to
the Twenty-fifth Congress, deifeating Murshnll.
Wliig: anil was re-elected to the Twenty-sixth Con-
gress, defeating E. F. Nuttall, 8er^1ng from Decem-
ber 7, 18:ii. to'M.irch 3, 1841; while" a memljer of
Congress he killed Jonathan Cllley, a representative
fmm Maine, at the third fire, in a duel fought with
rifles at eighty yards' distance, nearWiisliington, Feb-
ruary 24. 1838; was a member of the State legislature
in 184^); and died at Looisville, Kentucky, iiieptcm-
ber 27. 184«.
Gray, Edwin, was bom in Virginia in 17flO;
receivi'd a puljlic-scho<il education; was elected a rep-
reseutative from Virginia to the Sixth Congress, and
Biicci'f-sively elected to tlie Seventh, Eighth, Ninth.
Tenth, Eleventh, and Twelfth Congresses, serving
from December 2. 170tt, to March 3. 1813.
Gray, Hiram, was bom at .Salem, New Tork,
April 10. 1802: received a classical e<Iucation. grad-
uating at Union College in 1821; studied taw; was
admitted to the bar in 1823, and commenced practice
at Elmira; was elected a representative from New
Tork in the Twenty-fifth Congress as a Democrat,
lerrtng from September 4, 1837, to March 3, 1830;
was appointed judge of the Sixth Judicial Circuit In
1840; was a justice of the .Supreme Court 1847-1800.
Gray, John C, was bom in Southampton
C<iunty. Virginia; received an academic education;
was elected a representative from Virpnia in the
Sixteenth Congress (in place of James Johnson, re-
signed), serving from November l.l, 1820. to Ifarch 3,
1S21 : was defeated as a candidate for the Seventeenth
Congress by a majority of ;341 for Arthur Siiiilh.
Grayson, Wllliain, was born in Prince William
County, Virginia; received a classical education in
England, grailuating at the University of Oxford, and
Hudyiug law at the Temple in London; returning
home, he practised law at Dumfries. Virginia; was
appointed aide-de-camp to fieneral Wiishington Au-
gust a, 1776; enterecl the Revolutionary anny as
colonel of a Virginia regiment January 1, 1877; dis-
Uttguished himself at the battle of Monmouth ; was
MffpoiMed a delegate to the Continental Congress
1784-1787 ; was a member of the Virginia Convention
of 1788 on the adoption of the Federal Constitution,
and was one of the minority which opposed its ratifi-
cation: was appointed one of the senators from Vir-
ginia to the First Congress; took his seat Mav 21,
1780. and ser>-ed until he died at Dumfries. Virginia,
on his way to New York, then the seat of govern-
ment, March 12, 17i>0.
Grayson, William J., was bom at Beaufort,
South Carolina, Nr)veml>er 2, 1788; received a clas-
sical education, graduating at .South-Camlina Col-
Ieg6 in 1800; stutJied law; was aiimitted to the bar,
and commenced practice at Beaufort ; was appointed
a commissioner in equity; was a member of the State
House of Representatives In 1813, and of the .State
Senate in 18.31 ; was elected a rei)re8entatlve from
Sfiuth Carolina in the Twenty-thinl Congress as a
Whig, defeating Colonel Alston; and was re-elected
to the Twenty-fourth Congress without opposition,
serving from Decemlier 2, 18:13, to March 3, 18.S7;
was collector of customs at Charleston 1841-1848;
engaged in planting, and died of Illness following a
paralytic stroke at Newberry, South Carolina, Octo-
ber 4, \mi. Ho published '"The Hireling and the
Slave," "Chicovo. and other Poems," "Marion,"
" The Life of J. L. Petigru:" and was a contributor
U> "'Hie Southern Review.
Greeley, Horace, was bom at Amherst, Now
Hampshire, February 3, 1811 ; received a public-
school cflucation ; was apprentlce<l to the art of print-
ing at Poultney, Vemiont. 1820-18:30; wt)rked as a
joumeyraan printer in Erie, Peimsylvania, and after
August, 1831, in New-York City; commenced pub-
lishing "The Morning Post," the first one-cent daily
paper, Januanr 1, 183:5, but it was soon di-^icontinued;
published " Tlie New-Yorker," a literary weekly,
18:54-1841 ; edlte<l a Whig campaign paper, called
" The Log Cabin," in 1840 ;' founded " Tlie New-York
Tribune" April 10, 1841, and edited it until his
death; was elected a representative from New York
in the Thirtieth Congress (in place of David S. Jack-
son, whose seat was declared vacant) as a Wliig, re-
ceiving 0,082 votes a^nst 8,328 votes for Brad'urst,
Democrat, and 1,681 votes for Townsend, Democrat,
and serv-ing from December 4, 184.8, to Manrh 3,
1849; visited Euro|)e in 1851, and was cliaimiun of
one of the juries at the World's Fair; visited Cali-
fornia, by way of Kansas and Utah, in 1850; was a
presidential elector on the Lincoln and Johnson
ticket in 18<!4; was a delegate to the State Constitu-
tional Convention in 1807; advocated universal am-
nesty and universal suffrage at the close of the Re-
bellion, and offered himself as hail for Jefferson Da-
vis in May, 1807; was appointed by President John-
son, in November, 1807, minister to Austria, and was
confirmed, but declined; was nominated in 1872 by
the Refomi Hepublicans at Cincinnati, and by the
Democrats at Baltimore, .as President of the United
States, but was defeated by U. S. Grant; he lost his
reason, and died in an asylum near the city of
New York November 29, 1872. He published
"Hints toward Reforms," "Association Discussed,"
"Glances at Europe." "Art and Industry ns repre-
sented in the Exhibition at the Cr)slal Palace,"
" History of the Struggle for .Slaverj'-Extcnsion from
1787 to 18.'j0," •• History of Uie Aiuericiui Conflict,"
"Recollections of a Busy Life," "Overland Journey
from New York to San Francisco," "Essays on Po-
litical Economy," and many pamphlets and maga-
zine articles.
Green, Byram, was bom in the State of New
York; received a public-school education; was a
member of the State House of Representatives 1818,
1817, 1810, 1820, and 1822; was a State senator 1823,
1824; was elected a representative from New York
in tho Twenty-eighth Congress as a Democrat, re-
ceiving 0,440 votes against 6,811 votes for Adams,
Whig, and 374 rotes for Oaylord, Abolitionist, and
sen-ing from December 4, 1848, to March 3, 1845;
resided at Sodus.
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COKOBBSSIOKAL DtBECTOBT.
Ghreen, Frederick W., was bom in Maryland;
received an academic education; studied law; was
admitted to the bar, and commenced practice at
Tlflfe, Ohio; held several local offices; was elected a
representative from Ohio in the Thirty-second Con-
gress as a Democrat, receiving 7,224 votes against 643
votes scattering; and was re-elected to the Thirty-
third Congress, receiving 8,1^ votes against 2,0U5
votes for G-oodman, Whig, and 788 votes for Samuel,
Abolitionist, serving from December 1, 1891, to March
8, 1855.
Qreen, Innis, was bom in Pennsylvania; re-
ceived an academic education; resided at Dauphin;
was elected a representative from Pennsylvania in
the Twenty-first Congress as a Jackson Democrat,
serving from December 7, 1829, to March 3, 1831.
Qreen, Isaiah L., was bom in Massachusetts:
received a classical education, graduating at Harvard
College in 1781;' studied law; was admitted to the
bar, and practised; was elected a representative from
Massachusetts in the Ninth Congress, and was re-
elected to the Tenth Congress, serving from Decem-
ber 2, 1805, to March 3, 1809; whs again elected to
the Twelfth Congress, serving from November 4,
1811, to March 3, 1813; held several local offices; and
died in 1841.
Green, James, was bom at Dauphin, Pennsyl-
vania; received a common-school education; was
elected a representative from Pennsylvania in the
Twentieth Congress, serving from December 8, 1827,
to March 8, 1829.
Qreen, James 8., was bom in Fauquier County,
Viiginia, Febmary 28, 1817; received a public-school
education; removed to Alabama, and thence to Mis-
souri, where he was admitted to the bar in 1840, and
commenced practice at Canton; was a presidential
elector in 18^ on the Polk and Dallas ticket; was a
delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1845;
was elected a representative from Missouri in the
Thirtieth Congress as a Democrat, and was re-elected
to the Thiny-flrst Congrets, serving from Decemlier
6, 1847, to March 8, 1851 ; was chargi d'affaires to
Colombia May 24, 1863 -August 13, 1854, and was
commissioned as minister resident June 29, 1854, but
did not present his credentials; was again elected to
the Thirty-fifth Congress, but did not take his seat,
having been elected a TTnited-States senator from
Missouri as a Democrat, serving from January 21,
1857, to March 8, 1861; died at St Louis, Missouri,
January 19, 1870.
Qreen, Willis, was bom in the Shenandoah
Valley, Vii^inia; received a public-school education;
located in that part of Virginia then known as Ken-
tucky County, but which afterwards became the
State of Kentucky; was a member of the State Con-
stitutional Convention in 1792; was a surveyor for
locating land-warrants; was a member of the State
House of Bepresentatives 1830-1887 ; was elected a
representative from Kentucky in the Twenty-sixth
Congress as a Whig, receiving a majority of 400 votes
over William T. Willis, Democrat; was re-elected to
the Twenty-seventh Congress, receiving 4,087 votes
against 2,064 votes for the Democratic candidate;
was re-elected to the Twenty-eighth Congress, receiv-
ing 5,218 votes against 4,984 votes for McCreery,
Democrat, serving from December 2, 1889, to March
8, 1845.
Qreene, Albert Collins (brother of General
Kathanael Greene), was bom at East Greenwich,
Rhode Island, in 1792; received an academic educa-
tion; studied law in NewTork, where he was ad-
mitted to the bar; returned to Rhode Island, and
commenced practice; was a member of the State
House of Representatives in 1816, 1822-1825, serving
the last year as speaker; was brigadier-general and
subsequently maior;«eneral of militia; was attomey-
general of Rhode Island 1826-1843; was elected a
United-States senator from Rhode Island as a Whig,
serving from December 1, 1846, to March 8, 1851 ;
was a^n a member of the State House of Repre-
sentatives and of the State Senate; and died at
Providence January 8, 1863.
Qreene, Qeorge VT"., was bom in Orange
County, New York, July 4, 1831 ; received a claisi<»l
education, graduating at the University of Pennsyl-
vania; taught school; studied law; was admitted'to
the bar in 1860, and commenced practice at Oodieii.
New York; was school commissioner for Orsi^
County; was judge of the Orange-county coufis
1861-1864; was elected a representative from New
York in the Forty-first Congress as a Democrat, re-
ceiving 11,620 votes against 11,298 votes for Van
Wyck, Republican, serving from March 4, 1869. to
1870. His election was successfully contested by
Charles H. Van Wyck, who took his seat February
17, 1870.
Qreene, Bay, was bom in Rhode Island; re-
ceived a classical education, graduating at Yale Col-
lie in 1784; studied law; was admitted to the bar,
and commenced practice at Providence; was attor-
ney-general of Rhode Island 1704-1797; was elected
a senator from Rhode Island (in place of William
Bradford, resigned), servhig from November 22, 1797,
to 1801, when ne resigned.
Ghreene, Thomas M., was bom in Virginia;
removed to Mississippi Territory, and located st
Brainsburg, where he became an extensive planter;
enjoyed the personal friendship of Oen«^ Jackson;
was elected a delegate from Mississippi Territorj
in the Seventh Congress (in place of Naisworthy
Hunter, deceased), serving from December 6, 1802, to
March 3, 1808.
Qreenup. Christopher, was bom in Virginia,
and removed to Kentucky when it was the "dait
and bloody ground," locating at Frankfort; wu
elected a representative from Kentucky in the Second
Congress, and was successively re-elected to the
Third and Fourth Congresses, serving from October
24, 1791, to March 8, 1797; was governor of Kentucky
1804-1808; was a presidential elector on the Madison
and Clinton ticket in 1809; died at Frankfort, Ken-
tucky, April 24, 1818.
Qreenwood, Alfred B.,wm bom in Franklm
County, Georgia, July 11, 1811; received a classical
education, graduating at the Univei'sity of Geoigis
at Athens; studied law; was admlttM to the bar,
and commenced practice at BentonviUe, Arlcansas;
was a member of the State House of RepreseuUtii'es
1842-1845 ; was State prosecuting-attomey 1&15-1S51 ;
was circuit-judge 1851-1863; was elected a repre^n-
tative from Arkansas in the Thirty-third Congress as
a Democrat, receiving 7,989 votes against do "opposi-
tion ; was re-elected to the Thirty-fourth Congress,
receiving no regular opposition ; was re-elected to the
Thirty-Mth Congress, receiving 16,399 votes agahist
6,161 votes for Thomason, American, serving from
December 5, 1853, to March 3, 1869; was commissioner
of Indian affairs May 13, 1869-April 13, 1681; was a
representative from Arkansas ui the Confederate
Congress.
QresTGr, Andrew, was bom at Cariisle, Pennsyl-
vania, June 10, 1765; received an academic education;
was for several years a tutor in the University ol
Pennsylvania; was engaged in mercantile pursuits
at Middletown 1783-1^9; became a farmer in the
wilderness; was elected a representative from Penn-
sylvania in the Second Congress, and was re-elected
to the Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth,
and Ninth Congresses, serving from October 24, 1791,
to March 8, 18U7 ; was elected a United-States senator
from Pennsylvania, serving from Octol)er 26, 1807, to
March 8, 1818, a portion of which time he was we^-
dent pro tempore of the Senate; removed to Belle-
fonte in 1814; was appointed secretary of state for
Pennsylvania in 1816; died at Belief onte, Femis.rl-
vanla. May 20, 1886.
Gtregg, James M., was bom in Patrick County,
Virginia, June 26, 1806; received a public-school
education; studied law; was admitted to the bar in
1880, and commenced pnctico at Danville, Indiana:
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■wa« couDty-aarreyor of Hendrick County 1S34-1887;
■was clerk of the Circuit Court 1837-184"); wiis cleeU'd
a representative fn>ni Indiana in the Tliirtj-tiftli
Congress as a Demucral, receiving 11,7S7 votes
asaiui't 10.!<40 votes for Cf«bum, Republican, serving
from Dc'cemlier 7, 1857, to March 3, 186U.
Gregory, Dudley 8., was bom in Connecticut;
receivt'd a puljlii'-ichooi education ; removed to New
York, where lie was eng.ogcd in the inm-mlnes of
llie Adirondack region; setlli'd in Jersey City, where
he was idcntilied with tlie legal State lotl<'ri<.'8 ; was
elfcled a representative from New Jersey in the
Thirtieth Congress as a Whig, receiving 7,322 votes
against 4,1X12 votes for C'as»edy, Democrat, serving
from LK'ormU'rCi, l!<47. to March 3. l,S4li; held sevenu
1 jcal (iflices; died at Jersev City, New Jersey, Decem-
ber 8, 1S74.
Qreig, John, was bom in Dumfriesshire, Scot-
land, August (1, 1771'; was educated at the Edinburgh
Bigh .School; emigrated to America in 1797; studied
\»w: was adinitted to the bar in 1804, and commenced
practice at Canandaigua, New York; was presidt-nt
of the Ontario Bank 1820-1850; was a regent of the
State University 1825-1858, serving as vice-chancellor
from 1845: was one of the founders of tlie Ontario
Female Semin.iry ; was elected a representative from
New York in tlie Twenty-seventh Congress as a
(in the place of Francis Granger, resigned to
t the office of jiostiiuisler-general), sening from
.SI, 1841, to September 25, 1841, when he re-
signed, that Francis Granger (who had bei-n super-
seded as postmiu:ler-generaI) might again be elected ;
was president of the Ontaiio Agriciiltural Society;
died at Canandaigua, April !), 18o8.
Qrennell, George, jun., was bom at Green-
field. Massachusetts, December 25, 178(1; received a
classical education at Deerlicid Academy, and gradu-
ated at Dartmouth College with the highest honors
in 1S08; stuilied law; was admitted to the bar iti
1811, and commenceil practice at Greenfield; was
prosecuting-attomi.y for Franklin County I82(.>-1828;
was a member of the State Senate 1824-1827; was
electe<l a representative from Massjtcbusetts in tlie
TwentN'-first Congress as a Whig, and was re-elected
to the 'fwenty-second. Twenty-third, Twenty-fourth,
and Twenty-fiflli Congresses, serving from December
7, 182U, to March 3, ls;JU; was a trustee of Amherst
College on the part of tlie Commonwealth ls;}8-
1850: was judge of probate l.S41)-ltiJ3; was clerk of
the Franklin-county courts 1853-1805; was one of
the original cor])orators of the Troy and Greenfield
It.iilr>:>ad. and its first president; and, after a serene
old ace. died at Greenfield, Massachusetts, November
20, KS77.
Grey, Benjaonin E., was bom in Kentucky;
received an academic education; studied law, and
commenced practice at Uopkinsville; was a member
of the State House of Kepresentatives 1S,'}8-16:W;
was a member of the State Senate 1847-1851 ; was
ipo,iker of the Senate and acting lieutenant-governor
lu 18.50: was elected a representative from Kentucky
In the Thirty-second Congress as a fliliig, receiving
7,S3U votes against 4,125 votes for Jennings, Whig;
*»» re-elected to the Tliirty-lhird Congress, receiving
7,076 votes against (l.4()8 votes for Davie. Democrat,
•I'rt iiii; from December 1, 1851, to March 3, 1855.
Grider, Henry, was bom in Garrard County,
Kentucky, July I'l. 171K): n^ceived an academic edu-
tjon; studied law: was admitted to the bar, and
ence<l practice at Bowling Green; served as a
vate in the war of 1812; was a meml>er of the
te House of liepresentatives in 1827 and 1831, and
the State Senate 1833-18.37; was elected a repre-
ntatjve from Kentucky in the Twentv-eighlh Con-
ss as a Whig; was re-elected to the twenty-ninth
'on.sress, serving from December 4, 1843, to March
1847: was a^n elected to the Thirty-seventh
ngreas as a Union Wlilg, receiving 10,392 votes
Inst 8,111 votes for Lewis, Secessionist; was re-
ted to the Thirty-eighth Congress, receiving
8,fi54 votes against 1,203 votes for Winfrey, Demo-
crat; and was re-elected to the Thirty-ninth Con-
E*ss, receiving 0,528 votes a^'ainst 4,871 votes for
owrj'. Union Democrat, servinc from July 4, 1801,
to September 14, lt<00, when he died, in Warren
County, Kentucky.
Grimn, Cyrus, was bom in Virginia in 1740;
was sent to England to receive a classical and legal
education, and while there m.irried a lady belonging
to a noble family; returning to Virginia, he was
prominent In pre-i{evoIulionary movcnicnls; was a
member of the Colonial House of Burgesses ; was a
delegate from Virginia to the Continental Congress
1778-1781 and in 1787-1788, and its president in 1788;
was president of the Supreme Court of Adtnirally
from Its creation to its abolition; was commissioner
to the Creek nation in 1780; was judge of the United-
States District Court for the district of Virginia
from December, 1780, until his death at Yorktown,
Virginin, December 14, 1810.
Griffln, Isaa.o, was Iwrn In Pennsylvania; re-
ceived a public-school education; was elected a rep-
resentative from Pennsylvania In the Thirteenth
Congress as a Democrat; was re-clecte<l to the Four-
teenth Congress, serving from May 24, 1813, to March
3, 1817.
Griffin, John K., was bom at Milton, South
Carolina; received an academic education; was
elected a representative from South Carolina in the
Twenty-second Congress as a Stato-rights Whig;
was re-elected to the Twenty-third, Twenty-fourth,
Twentv-fifth, and Twenty-sixth Congresses, serving
from December o, 1831, to March 3, 1841; died at
Milton, .South Carolina, August 1, 1841.
Griffln, Samuel, was bom in Vu^inia ; received
a classical education; studied law, and practised;
was elected a representative from Virginia to the
Second Congress; was re-elected to the Third Con-
gress, serving from October 24, 1701, to March 3,
17ft'i.
Griffln, Thomas, was bom in Virginia; received
acl.issical eilucation; was elected a representative
from Virginia in the Eighth Congress, serving from
October 17, 180.'!, to March :J, 1806.
Griffith, Samuel, was bom In Wales, Great
Britain, Febniary 14, I.'SlO; was educated by a pri-
vate teacher and ut Alleghany College, Meadville;
studied law ; was admitted to the bar In 1840. and
engaged in active practice at Mercer; was elected a
representative from Pennsylvania In the Forty-«ec-
onti Congress as a Democtiit, receiving 14,14(1 votes
against 1.3,.337 votes for C. W. Giinilan, Republican,
serving from March 4, 1871, to March .S. l.'<73.
Grimes, James W., was born at Deering, New
Hampsliire, October20, 1810; was educated al Uarap-
ton Academy and at Dartmouth College, New
Hiunpshire, graduating in 18:J0; studied Taw, and
commenced its practice in Iowa: was elected to the
Cicneral ABsembly of Iowa in 1)^3^, and was n.'-elected
for several years; was gnvemor of Iowa from 1S.">4 to
1858; was elected United-States senator from Iowa
in 1850 as a Republican (to succeed George W. Jones,
Democrat), and was re-elected in 1805, serving from
March 4, 1851), to March 3, 1871; he founded a pro-
fessorship in Iowa College at Griiinell, and fiimished
free tuition per|ietunlly for several sliideuts there
and at Diirlmoulh College, and he estalilisbed a free
public library at Burlington ; soon after leaving the
Senate he had a stroke of paralysis, but a European
tour improved his health; soon after his return be
died at Burlington, Iowa, of heart disease, Febmary
7, 1S72.
Grinnell, Joseph, was bom at New Bedford,
Massachusetts, November 17, 1788; was educated at
private sehtmls and at Friends' Academy ; received a
mercantile training in his father's coiinting-room ;
removed to New York in 1800; commenced business
as a commission-nicrchant, and continued it until
1829, when he retired; travelled In Europe, and, on
his return, removed bock to New Bedford ; was a
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member of the governor's coaneil 183B-1841; wm
elocted a rcpresentative from Massachusetts in the
Twenty-eighth Congress as a Wliig, rec*i\ing 297
majority; was re-elected to tho Twenty-ninth Con-
gress; was re-elected to the Thiriieth Congress, re-
ceiving 3,806 votes against 1,7SW votes for Coffin,
Democrat, and 4(V* Abolition and scattering; was
re-elected to the Thirty-first Cons^ess, receiving 4,719
votes against 2,47U votes for Howland, Democrat,
anil 1,1«9 for Fessenden, Democrat, serving from
December 4, 1843, to March 3, IKol; was president
of the N'ew-Beilf<ini and Taunton Kailrond, of llie
First National Ban);, and of tlie 'VVamsutta cotton
factory.
Grinnell, Joaiab B., was bom at New Haven,
Vennont, Decemt«/r 22, 1821 ; received a classical
and theological education; removed to Iowa in lSi»,
and engaged largely in agricultural pursuits, devoting
himself cspecialij' to wool-growing; was a meral)er of
the State }%cnate for four years; was a special agent
of the Post-offlce Department for two years; was I
eU'cted a representative from Iowa in the Thirty-
eighth Congress as a Republican, receiving 12,0<Xi '
votes against 11,529 votes for Martin, Democrat; w.is
re-elected to the Thirtv-niuth Congress, receiving
lt),!»10 votes against li),5!i2 votes for Ira C. Mitchell,
Democrat, serving fn>m December 7, 1803, to March
a, 1S«I7.
Grinnell, Moses H., was bom at New Bedford,
Massachusetts, March 3, 180:3 ; received an academic
education; entered a counting-room at Nt-w York in
1918; ma<le several voyages as supercargo; iKtcame a
partner in the house of Fish, Grinnell. & Co., which
in 1832 became the house of Grinnell, Mintum, &
Co.. and from which he retired in 18<»0; was clecte<l
a representative from New York in the Twenty-sixth
Congress as a Whig, receiving 2(l.5il3 votes against
19.205 votes for C. (.'. Cambreleng, Democrat, seniiig
from December 2, 18.30, to March 3, 1841; was defeat-
ed as the WTiig candidate to the Twenty-seventh
Congress, receivini; 20,91X1 votes against 22,010 votes
for J. J. Roosevelt, Democrat ; was a presidential
elector on the Fillmore and Dayton ticket: was ])resl-
dcnt of the Chamlx-r of Commerce, presiilent of the
Mirchants' Clerks' Savings Bank, a commissioner of
chaiilies ami corrections, a meml>er of the original
Central-|)ark Commission, and a member of the
Union Defence Committee; wjis collector of the |>ort
of New York March. 18<39-july. 1870; died of heart-
complaint al New York NovemlM-r 24. 1877.
Griswold, Gaylord, was born in Connecticut;
received a classical education, graduatini; at Yale
College in 1787; removed to Herkimer. New York;
was a member of the State House of Representatives
17lKt-171<8; was elected a representative from New
York in the Eighth Congress, serving from October
17. 1S03. to Manh 3, 180.).
Griswold, John A., was Itom at Nassau, New
York, in 1822; received an academic education; en-
gaged in mereantile pursuits, and became a large
manufacturer of Iron and Bessemer steel; was mayor
of the city of Troy in IB-'Ki; was elected a representa-
tive from New York in the Thirty-eighth Congress as
a Democrat, receiving 12,220 votes against 10.9:JO
votes for Dodd, Republican; was re-elected to the
Tliirty-ninth Congress as a Republican, receiving
15,251 votes against 12,928 votes for William A. Van
AistjTie, Democrat; Wiis reelected to the Fortieth
Comnvss. receiving 15.i)80 votes against 10,373 votes
for Mllliman, Democrat, serving from December 7,
18*13, to March 3. 1809; was defeated as the Repub-
lican candidate for governor of New Y'ork In 1808
by .John T. Uoffman, Democrat, who received a
majority of 27,94(5; died at Troy, New York, October
31. 1872.
Griswold, John A., was bom in Greene
County, New York, in 1827; received an academic
education ; studied law; was admitted to the bar,
and commenced practice in Greene County; was
district-attorney of Greene County 1850-1850; was
county-judge 1864-1888; wm electad • i
from New York in the Forty-first Coagttat as •
Democrat, receiving 12,201 votes against 11,068 vote*
for (^'orneil. Republican, serving fi^m March 4, 1800,
to March 3. 1871.
Griswold, Roger, was bom at Lyme. Co
icut. May 21, 1702: received a classical edu
graduating at Yale College in 1780; studied lai
admitted to the bar ii'i lf83, and commenced
at Norwich; removed back to Lyme in 1704;
elected a representative from Connecticut
Fourth Congress as a Federalist : was re-elected to
the (^fth. Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Con
serving from De<:eml>er 7, 17H6, to March
was appointed a judge of the Supreme Court
Connecticut in I8o7; was a presidential '
thePinckneyand King ticket in 1800; wa.-^
governor of Connecticut ISiiO-lSll, and :..
1811-1813; removed in 1814 to Norwich, Coniiectic
and dieil there ( )ctol>er 2."), 1812.
Griswold, Stanley, was lK>m at Torringfor
Connecticut, Novemljer, 17i>8; received a classic
education, graduating at Yale College in 17
studied theology; was pastor of the charch at '.
ford, Connecticut, 179O-1S02; preached a short tii
at Gr(>enfield, Massachusetts; became the editor of i
Democratic paper at Walpolc, New Hampshire, [
1804; was appointed by President Jefferson secreliafj
of the Territory of Michigan in 1805; removed
Ohio; was appointed a Lnited-States senator frr
Ohio (in place of Edward Tiffin, resigTie«l). i
from June 2, 18<X(. to January 12. 1810, when
successor took his seat; was apjiointed United-i
judge for the North-west Territory; died at Shawna
town, Illinois. August 21, 181.5.
Groesbeck, William S., was bom in Ne
York in 1820; received an acailemic educstioor
studied law; was admitted to the bar. and cooh]
mcnced practice at Cincinnati, Ohio; was a memb
of the Slate Constitutional Convention in 1851;
a commissioner to codify the laws of Ohio ir^
was elected a representative from Ohio in t ; T'
fifth Congress as a Democrat, receiving
against 4.343 votes for Gurley, Kepublicuu. .....
for Harrison, Americin, serving from Decen
1857. to March :}. 18.59; w.-vs a member of
Congress of 1801 ; was a member of the State Senal^
of Ohio in 1802 ; was a delegate to the National I'l
Convention at Philadelphia in 180<i; was one of
counsel of President Johns<in when he was
pejuiied liefore the Senate in 1808.
Gross, Ezra C, wiis born in Windsor County^
Veraiont; received u classical education, graduatin
at the University of Vennont in 1800; studied In
was admitted to the bar, and commenced practice
ElizalH-thtown, New York: was surrogate of Ess
County 1819-1821 : was elected a representative
New York in the Sixteenth Congress as a DemiH-r
serving from Decemljer 0, 1819, to March 3, IScJl
was elected to the State House of Representativrs I
182H and 1.S29; and died at KeesevUle. New Yo '
August 0, 18^1.
Gross, Samuel, was bom in Mont(^
County, Pennsylvania; received a pubUc~«cba
education; was elected a representative from
sylvanla In the Si.vteenth C'ongrcss as a
was re-elected to the Seventeenth Congress, i
from December 0, 1810, to March 3, 1823.
Grosvenor, Thomas P., was bom at Pon
Comiecticut, in 1780; receive<l a classical education
graduating at Yale College in 1800; studied
was admitted to the bar, and commenced pr
at Hudson, New York: was a member of the Stal
House of Representatives 1810-1812; was elected i
representative from New York in the Twelfth Con
gress (in place of Robert LeRoy Livingston, n
signed) as a Federalist; was re-elected to the Thl
teenth and Fourteenth Congresses, serving
January 20, 1818, to March 8, 1817. _
Grout, Jonathan, waa bom at LtmenbuigT
8TATI8TICAI< aXBaXXSEB.
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Worceater Conntv, IfaMacfaaaetU, Jnly 28, 1787;
terved in the colonial exp«litlon against Canada
1757-1700; studied law; was admitted to the bar, and
commenced practice at Petersham, Uassachuietts,
where he owned a valuable farm, which he canied
on; served in the Berolutlonary war; was somewhat
Identified with Shays's rebellion; was a member of
the State House of Sepresentatives ; was elected a
representatiTe from Massachusetts in Qie First Con-
gress, after several trials, as a Democrat, serving from
March 4, 1789, to March 3, 1791; became pecuniarily
embarraased, and left Massachusetts in 1803, residing
much of his time at Lunenburg, Vermont; and died
tt Dover, New Hampshire, while attending to pro-
fessioiul bmaneas there, September 8, 1807.
G^rove, "Winiain B., was bom in North Caro-
lina, and was a representative from that State in the
Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh
Cowvaaes, aervlng from October 34, 1701, to March
CfaroTOr, A. P., was bom in Ontario County,
XewToric, February 18, 1818; removed to Kentucky
in 1837; received a collegiate education at Centre
College; atadled law, and commenced practice in
1S43 at Louisville, Kentucky ; was a member of the
State Senate of Kentucky in 1858, 1859, 1800, 1861,
1862, 1863, 1864, and 1865; was elected a representa-
tive from Kentnclcy in the Fortieth Congress as a
Democrat, receiving 7,118 votes against 2,417 votes
for Jacob, Conservative, and 742 for Ballitt, Badical,
serving from December 8, 1867, to March 3, 1869.
Qraver, Lafayette, was bom at Bethel, Oxford
County, Mune:received aclassical education; wastwo
years at Bowdotn College; studied law; was admitted
to the bar in 1860, and commenced practice at Phila-
delphia; removed to Oregon; waselectedbytheTenl-
tonal I^jislature proBecuting-«ttomey for the Second
JadiciaT District, and as auditor of public accounts
for the Territory 1861-1862; was elected a member
of the l^;islatat« in 1863; was appointed by the
Departaient of the Interior as a commissioner to
audit the spoliation claims growing out of the Bogue-
li ver Indian war in 1864 ; was again elected a member
of the legislature in 1856, at which session he served
as speaker of the Honae: was appointed by the
secretary of war as a member of the board of com-
missioners to audit the Indian-war expenses of
Oregon and Washington in 1666; was a delegate
to the convention which framed the constitution
of Oregon in 1857; was elected a representative
from Oregon in the Thirty-fifth Congress as a Demo-
crat, receiving 6,859 votes against 4,199 votes for
Kelly and 47 for McBride, Kepublicans, and serving
from February 16, 1859, to March 3, 1869; was chair-
man of the Democrauc State Central Committee
1866-1870; was elected governor of Oregon In 1870
for the term of four years; was re-elected In 1874,
and served until February 1, 1877, when he resigned,
baring been elected to the United-Statea Senate as a
Democrat jto succeed James K. Kelly, Democrat),
and took his seat March 8, 1877. His term of service
will expire March 3, 1883.
Ghrover, Martin, was bom in the State of New
York; received an English education; studied law;
was admitted to the bar, and practised at Angelica,
\ew York; was elected a representative from Xew
York in the Twenty-ninth Congress as a Native-
American Democrat, receiving 9,115 votes against
•SHW votes for Cady, Whig, serving from December
1. IS45, to March 3, 1847; was elected, in November,
1H57. a justice of the Supreme Court for an unex-
pired term of two years, and was elected in 1869
lor a full term; was elected in 1867 judge of the
Court of Api>eals; and, when that branch of the
Xew-York judiciary was re-organized, he was elected
an associate judge in 1870 for a term of fourteen
rrars; he died at Angelica, New York, August 28,
1S75.
Qtow, Qalxaha A., was bom at Ashford. Con-
aecticttt, AnguatSl, 182S; received a classical edur-
cation, gradnating at Ambent Coll^ in 1844;
studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1847,
and commenced practice at Ashford; removed in
1848 to Glenwood in Pennaylvania, which was in
the famoua "Wilmot Diatrict;" waa elected a rep-
resentative from Pennsylvania in the Thirty-second
Congress as a Republican, receiving 6,880 votes
against 6,730 votes for Adams, Whig; was re-elected
to the Thirty-third Congress, receiving 8,062 votes
wunst 486 votes for Hort<«; was re-elected to the
Thirty-fourth Congress, receiving no opposition; was
re-elected to the Thirty-fifth Congress, receiving
13,320 votes against 6,861 votes for Sherwood, Demo-
crat; was re-elected to the Thirty-sixth Congress, re-
ceivmg 11,166 votes against 3,369 votes for Joel
Parkhtirst, Democrat; waa re-elected to the Thirty-
seventh Congress, receiving 14,922 votes against
6,964 votes for Sherwood, Democrat, serving from
December 1, 1861, to March 8, 1863. During the
Thir^-aeventh Congress he served as speaker of
the House; was a del^ate to the National Bepub-
lican Conventions which nominated Lincoln and
Orant; removed to Philadeli^a in 1869, and en-
gaged in manufacturing; was elected in 1872 presi-
dent of a Texas railroaid, and removed to that State,
where he resided until 1877, when he returned to
Penn^lvania.
Grundy, Felix, waa bom in Berkeley County,
VirginiiL September 11, 1777; when he was two
years of age his family removed to Brownsville,
Pennsylvania, and thence, in 1780, to Kentucky;
received an academic education; studied law; was
admitted to the bar, and jpraetised; waa a member of
the Kentucky Constitutional Convention of 1799;
was a member of the State House of Representatives <
1800-1806; was chosen judge of the Supreme Court ^
of Kentucky in 1806, and soon afterwards chief
justice; removed to Nashville, Tennessee, in 1807;
was elected a representative from Tennessee in the
Twelfth Congress as a War Democrat; waa re-elected
to the ThirteenUi Congress, receiving 8,068 votes
against 769 votes for &nuon. Whig, serving from
November 4, 1811, to 1814, when he rmigned; waa a
member of the Tennessee House of Representatives
1815-1819; was elected a United-States senator from
Tennessee (in place of John H. Eaton, resigned),
serving from December 7, 18%, to July 4, 1838, when
he resigned ; was appointed by President Van Buren
attorney-general of the United States, serving from
July 6, 1838, to December 1, 1840, when he resigned,
having agaiii been elected United-States senator.
Having doubts as to whether he was eligible, he
returned to Tennessee; and, becoming an "in-
habitant" of the State, he waa again elected De-
cember 14, 1840; but he died at Na^vUle, Tennessee,
December 19, 1840.
Gunokel, Lewis B., was bom at 6«rmantown,
Ohio, October 16, 1826; ^uduated at Farmer's Col-
lege in 1848, and at the law-school of Cincinnati
College in 1861 ; was admitted to the bar the same
year, and haa been in active practice in Dayton ever
since; was a delegare to the National Republican
Convention in 1856; waa a member of the Senate of
Ohio during the sessions of 1862, 1863, 1864, and
1866 ; was a presidential elector in the Ohio Electoral
College of 1864; waa appointed by Congress one of
the managers of the National Asylum tor Disabled
Volunteer Soldiers in 1864, and re-appointed for a
term of six years in 1870; was appointed United-
States commissioner to investigate Indian frauds in
1871; was elected a representative from Ohio in the
Forty-third Congress as a Republican, receiving
16,604 votes against 14,627 votes for J. J. Winans,
Liberal Republican, serving from December 1, 1873,
to March 3, 1876; was defeated as the Republican
candidate for the Forty-fourth Congress, receiving
14,312 votes against 16,411 votea for J. A. McMahon,
Democrat.
Qunn, James, was bom in Yiiginia; received
an acad^uic education; studied law; was adsUtted
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OONOBESSIONAL DIBECTOBT.
to the bar, and conimenc«l practice at Sayannali,
Georgia; was elected a United-States senator from
Geoi^a In the First Congress; and was re-elected,
serving from March 4, 17^, to March 8, 1801.
Gunter, Thomas Montioue, was bom in Mid-
dle Tennessee, September 18, 1826 ; received a clas-
sical education, graduating at Irving Cullege in 1850;
studied law; was admitted to the bar, and com-
menced practice at Fayetteville in 1853 ; was a dele-
|»te from Washington County in the Arkansas State
Convention of May, 1861 ; served In the Confederate
army as colonel of the Thirteenth Arlcansas Volun-
teers ; was elected prosecnting-attorney for the Fourth
Judicial Circuit in 1866, and neld the office until his
official position was terminated by the reconstruction
of the State in 1868 ; contested the seat of W. W. Wil-
shire in the Forty-third Congress, and the House
declared that he was entitled to it June 16, 1874;
was re-elected a representative from Arlcansas in the
Forty-fourth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 7,828
votes against 701 votes for W. L. Landers, Bepub-
llcan; and was re-elected to the Forty-fifth Congress,
receiving 12,355 votes against 4,107 votes for Huckle-
berry, Republican, serving from June 16, 1874.
Qurley, Henry H., was bom at Lebanon, Con-
necticut, in 1787; received a classical education,
graduating at Williomstown College; studied law;
was admitted to the bar, and commenced practice at
Baton Rouge, Louisiana: was United-States judge
for the district of Louisiana; was elected a repre-
sentative from Louisiana in the Eighteenth Con-
gress, defeating W. S. Hamilton ; was re-elected to
the Nineteenth Congress without opposition; was
re-elected to the Twentieth Congress, receivinjg 137
majority over W. 8. Hamilton ; was re-elected to the
Twenty-first Congress, serving from December 1,
1823, to March S, 1881; died at Baton Bouge, Louisi-
ana, in 1832.
Gurley, John A., was bom at East Hartford,
Connecticut, December 9, 1818; received an academic
education; studied theology; was ovdalned as pastor
of a Universalist church at Methuen, Massachusetts,
1S34-1S37; removed to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he
was pastor of a society, and editor of " The Star In
the West;" retired from the ministry in 1850; was
defeated as the Republican candidate for the Thirty-
fifth Congress, receiving 4,343 votes against 5,738
votes for W. 8. Groesbeck, Democrat; was elected a
representative from Ohio in the Thirty-sixth Con-
gress as a Republican, receiving 8,054 votes against
7,263 votes forW. S. Groesbeck, Democrat; was re-
elected to the Thirty-seventh Congress, receiving
8,460 votes against 7.580 votes for Long, Democrat,
serving from December 6, 1860, to March 8, 1863;
was appointed by President Lincoln governor of Ari-
zona, and was on his way there, when he died sud-
denly at Cincinnati, Ohio, August 10, 1863.
Gustine, Amos, resided at MiflUntown, Penn-
sylvania; was elected a representative from that
State in the Twenty-seventh Congress as a Demo-
crat (in the place of William S. Ramsey, deceased),
serving from May 81, 1841, to March 8, 1843.
Guthrie. James, was bom in Nelson County,
Kentucky, December 6, 1702; was educated at McAl-
ister's Academy, Bardstown, Kentucky; commenced
life In the Mississippi-river trade, buying up the
produce of the countiy, and taking it to New Orleans
In flatboats, returning by land either on foot or on
horseback ; studied and practised law at Bardstown,
Kentucky; in 1820 moved to Louisville with an ap-
pointment from the governor as Commonwealth's
attorney ; was a member of the legislature of Ken-
tucky for a number of years, first as representative,
and afterwards as senator; was elected a delegate to
and chosen president of the convention that framed
the new constitution of Kentucky ; was president of
the University of Louisville, of the Louisville and
Portland Canal Company, and of the Louisville and
Nashville Railroad Company ; was appointed secre-
tary of the treasury In 1803; was elected United-
States senator from Kentucky as a Democrat (to
succeed L. Powell), serving from March 4, liibd, to
February 7, 1868, when he resigned on accociit cf
ill health; died at Louisville, Kentucky, March 1^
Guyon, Jeunes, jun^, was bom in Richmond
County, New York, in 17T7; received an academic
education; was a member of the State House of
Bepresentatives 1812-1814 ; was elected a representa-
tive from New Tork In the Sixteenth Congress, hav-
ing successfully contested Uie election of Ebenezer
Sage, serving from January 14, 1820, to March 3.
1820 ; died on his ancestral estate in Bichmond Coun-
ty, New York. March 8, 1846.
GKvin, William M., was bom in Summer
County, Tennessee, October 0, 1805 ; receivoi a clas-
sical education, graduating at Transylvania Univer-
sity, Lexington, Keutuct^; studied medicine; was
admitted to practice, and removed to Mississippi;
was appointed United-States marshal for Mississippi
in October, 1833; was elected a representative from
Mississippi in the Twenty-seventh Congress as a
Democrat, serving from December 2i, 1841, to March
3, 1843; was superintendent of the erection of the
Custom House at New Orleans ; removed to Califor-
nia In 1848; was a member of the Constitutional
Convention in 1840; was elected one of tlie tint
United-States senators from California as a Demo-
crat, serving from September 10, 1850, to March 3,
1856 ; was re-elected a senator, serving from Febru-
ary 10, 1857, to March 3, 1861; was identified with
the Southern Confederacy, and with the Mexican
imperial government of Maximilian as the leader of a
proposed southem emigration to Sonora; returned
to California, and engaged In agricultural pursuits. -
Gwinnetrt, Button, was bom in England in
1782; received an academic education; immigrated to
America in 1770, and settled at Charleston, where he
engaged in commercial .pursuits ; removed to St
Catherine's Island, Georgia, and became a planter;
was prominent in the ante-Revolutionary movements ;
was a delegate from Georgia to the Continrntil
Congress 1776-1770, and was one of the signers of the
Declaration of Independence; was a member of the
State Constitutional Convention in February, Im;
was an unsuccessful candidate for governor of Geor-
gia; was mortally wounded in a duel with General
Mcintosh May 16, 1777, and died May 27, 1777.
Habersham, Jolm, was bom at Savannah,
Georgia, in 1754; received a good English education;
engaged in mercantile pursuits; took an active part
in pre-RevoIutionary movements; was major of the
First Georgia Continental Begiment; was a member
of the Continental Congress from G«oigia 1785-1786;
was collector of customs at Savannah 1789-1T9B;
died at his residence, near Savannah, November 19,
1799.
Habersham, Joseph, was bom at Savannah,
Georgia, July 28, 1751; received a thorough English
education; eng^ed in mercantile pursuits: was one
of the originsj Sons of Liberty In July, 1774; toek
an active part in pre-Bevolutionary movements, and
In several seizures of royal munitions of war; served
In the Bevolutionary army as major, and afterwards
as lleutenantx:olonel of the First Georgia Battalion;
was a member of the State Assembly and its speaker
in 1785 and 1700; was postmaster-general of the
United States February 25, 17e5-November 38, ISOl ;
was president of the branch of the United-States
Bank at Savannah from 1802 until the expiiation of
its charter; died at Savannah, Greorgia, November
17^1815.
Habersham, Richard W., was bom at Savan-
nah, Georgia, in 1786; received a classical education,
graduating at Princeton College in 18C5; studied
law; was admitted to the bar, and commenced prac-
tice at Clarkesville, Habersham County; was elected
a representative from Georgia in the Twenty-^ixtli
Congress as a State-rights Democrat, receiving S:!.lo:l
votes against 80,067 rotes for Iverson, Democnt;
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and waa re-elected to the Twenty-seventh Congreas.
receiving 3i>.379 votes against 35,40(5 votes for Edward
J. Blaclc, Democrat, serving irom December '2. ISAQ,
until bis death at ClarkesvlBo, Georgia, December 2,
1842.
Eackett, Thomaa C, was bom In Greorgla;
received a public-school education; resided at Ilome;
waa elected a representative from Georgia in the
Thirty-first Congress as a Democrat, receivln;; 8,773
votes against 5,9d4 votes for Calhoun, Whig, and sorr-
ing from December 3, 1840, to March 3, lt!51 ; died at
Marietta. Georgia, Octobers, 1851.
Hackley, Aaron, jun., waslwm at New Haven,
Conn>.ilicut; reteivt'd a public-school education ; re-
moved to HerkiiniT, New Yorli ; was a ineuilHT of the
New-York State House of Eeproscntatives 1S14, 1S15,
and 1818; was elected a representative from New
York in the Sixteenth Congress, serving from Decem-
ber ti, 181i), to March 3. 1821.
Hagans, John Marshall, was bom at Bran-
donvilie, Virginia, Auf;ust 13, 1838; n'ceived an aci-
demjc education; attended the law-school at Har%-ard
University, and was admitted to the bar in ISJ'J: was
elected prosecuting-attorney for Monougalia Counfv,
West Virginia, in 1862; was re-elecU-d in 18*13, 18(54,
and 1870; was appointed law-reporter of the Supreme
Court of Appeals of West Virginia in January, JS(14,
and held the position until the 4th of March. 1873;
was elected mayor of Morgantowu in 18(J6, 18(57, and
18C0: was the elector on the lV?publican ticket for
the Second Congressional District during the presi-
dential contest in 18G8; was elected a delegate for
the County of Monongalia to the convention which
framed the present constitution of West Virginia
In October, 1871 ; and was elected a representative
from West Virguiia in the Forty-third Congress in
August, 1872, OS a Republican, rei-elving a majority
of 2,841 over his competitors, serving from January
27, 1874, to March 3, 1875; his elect i'Ui was unsuc-
cessfully contested by Benjamin F. Martin.
Hager, John S., was bom in Morris County,
New Jersey, March 12, 1818; was graduated at
Princeton College, New Jersey, in 1830; was ad-
mitted to the bar In 1840, and practised law at
Morristown, New Jersey; went to California in 1840;
In 1S.J2 was elected to the State Senate from the city
and county of San Francisco, and Ber\'ed two years; in
1805 w.TS elected State district^judge for the district
of San Francisco, and served six years; in 18(55, and
again in 18(57. w.is elected to the State Senate from
San Francisco, and served six years; in 1871 waa
elc-cted a regent of the ITni versify of the .State of
California; w.is elected United-States senator from
California as an jVnti-Monopoly Democrat (for the
unexpired term of Eugene Uasserly. resigned), atid
•cr\-e<l from Febraary 9, 1874, to March 3, 1875.
HaJin, John, was Iwrn in Pemisylvania; was
elected a reiiri'seiiliitive from that State in the Four-
teenth Con'.;rcss, serving from December 4, 1816, to
Marcli 3, 1K17.
Hahn, Michaal, was bom at Klingcminster,
Bavaria, November 7, 1830; his family emigrated in
the following year to New-York City, where they
Xenudiied until 184f); they then removed to Texas,
And soon after to New Orlearis; received a public-
•<hool education; studied law in the oUice of
Christian Hoselius; was admitted to the bar before
lie was tweuty-one, and commenced practice at New
Orleans; was appoiutt-d a notary under the Con-
<ederate-Stivt«'s Government, and took an oath of
atllegiancc to the Southern Confederacy; when the
TTnion forces captured New Orle.ins he repudiated
tliis oath, and idcntiUcd himself with the recoustruo
Uon movements; was elected a representative from
liouisiana in the Thirty-seventh Congress as a
Unionist, receiving 2,681 votes against 1,4.50 votes
for Diiroll, Unionist, and 430 votes for Jacob Barker,
Secessionist, and serving from February 17, 1863, to
llarcb S, 1803; was governor of Loiiisiona 186^
Haisht, Charles, was bom at Colt's Neck, Nev
Jersey, January 4. 16,38; graduated at Princeton
College in 1857; studied and practised law; was a
member of the State legislature of New .Jersey in
1601 and 1802, serviiig the last year as speaker of the
House; was commissioned as brigodler-cenerol of
militia In 1801, and was active in raising troops
during the war for the suppression of the Itelieliion;
was elected a representative from New Jersey in the
Fortieth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 18,625
votes against 13,470 votes for Newell, Republican;
and was re-elected to the Forty-flrst Congress, re-
ceiving 10,209 votes against 15,41*4 votes for Rusllng,
Republican, serving from March 4, 1807, to March 3,
1871.
Height, EdwarcL was bom at New York March
20,1817: received a public-school education : engaged
in mercantile pursuits; was president of the Bank
of the Commonwealth, and a director of several
charit.ible institutions; resided at Weslchesler; was
electetl a representative from New York in the Thirty-
seventh Congress as a Democrat, receiving 11,389
votes against 9,882 votes for Nelson, Republican, luid
serving from July 4, 1801, to March 3, ISti;?.
Halle, William, was iwm in 1707; removed to
Mississippi, and settled at Woodville; held several
local otHces; was elected a representative from
Mississippi in the Nineteenth Congress (In place of
Christopher Rankin, deceased), and was re-elected
to the Twentieth Congress, receiving 1,2(55 votes
against 1,010 votes for Bingham, and Oil votes for
Grayson, serving from December 4, 1820, to 1828,
when he rc5igne<l; died at Woo<lville, Mississippi,
Man-h 7. 18;n.
Hailey, John, was born in Smith County, Ten-
nessee, August 29, 1.835; received a limited common-
school education; removed with his parents to Mis-
souri in 1848; l(xft home in 1853, and went to Oregon;
left Oregon in 1803, and settled in Idaho; and was
elected a delegate from Idaho In the Furty-third
Congress as a l)emocrat. rceeiviii;j i.flWi votes against
1,(554 votes for J. W. Uusfon, Kopiiblican, serving
from r)oceml)er 1. 1873, to March 3, 1875.
Hetldeman, Richard J., was bom at Harris-
hurt;, i'ennsylvania. May 10, 18;51 ; studied in the acad-
emy and at Captain Partridge's military school at
Uarrisburg; graduated at Yale College, Connecticut,
in August, 1851; the same year lie ^-iBited Europe,
and studied a short time In the universities of
Berlin and Heidelberg; in 1853 he went with Hon.
John Y. Mason, United-States minister to France,
as attarliiot legation In Paris, and later noconipanied
Hon. Tliomas H. Seymour in a similar eapnclly to
St. Petersburg; ho travelled throughout Scandinavia,
Central and Southern Europe, and the Far Kast; in
1857 purchiised "The Daily and Weekly Patriot and
Union" in Harrisburg, and edited it until 1800; in
180(1 he was a delegate to the Charleston and Balti-
more conventions; he was elected a representative
from Pennsylvania In the Forty-first Congress as a
Democrat, receiving 15,818 votes against 12,51'.) votes
for Small; and was re-elected to the Forty-second
Congress, receiving 13,80(5 votes against 10,410 votes
for W. B. Raber, Republican, serving from Marcli 4,
1800. to March 3, 1873.
Hale, Artemaa, was bom at Winchendon,
Massachusetts, October 20, 1783; worked on a fsirm
mitil ho was twenty-one years of age, receiving a
public-school education ; taught schoal at Uingham
1804-1814; removed to Brldgewater, where he an-
gaged in manufacturing; was a mcmlwr of tlie State
Senate and House of Representatives for several
yeors; was a delegate to 'tl\p State Constitutional
Convention in 18oo; was»Hccted a Representative
from Massachusetts in the Twent^'-nlSni Congress
(in tlie place of Isaac C. Iiate8,.de.eM8ed) as a Whig,
and was re-elected to the Thirtieth Congress, receiv-
ing 4,0;'7 votes against 3,718 votes for Hooper. Demo-
crat, and 1,2(15 votes Abolition and scattering, serving
from December 7, 1840, to March 3, 1849; was a
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OOmSRKBSIOXAI^ DIRECTOBY.
|>wli1fthl atacMr oo the Uacoln and Joluiaoo
lickc* in ISM.
Hale, BagHlfl^ was bont at Ttttner, HaiDe, Jane
ft, IS38; staAed I*w; was adatttrd to the bar in
koT, and rnmmmred ftrntHea at BOaworcli; was for
■iae jiasiiia yean eonatj attrwiwy for Haacoffc
OMUtfr;*** • ■MMtarirf tte fcigMstiiie ot
tai ISn a^ 1MB: waseieetad a iqa tamtattire
Maine ia tke Wattj-tut OMpvas as a BcfnUfeao.
reeerring 14,aaS rotea atalwt U,9n tmcs for Wis-
w«il, Dfocist; was i»«lectad to ike
for P. J. Ovtetoa. Denoemt; was »-«laeted to &e
Fbcty-ikM Oeaacaa, reecHiw H.181 vMes
10,ns Totca forT. A. Ffke, LOwcal Bcimbiicaa;
wshcted to tke Itenr-foaitfc riwaiias.
Mt ^Bt votea fvC. A.
waa w (JBCtod to the Vonjr'Mlk
for W. H. Mrfifibii. Il—uiial, serriK froto ItaRk
4.1MB. nil 111 I llii III III I iiMii iif iiiiKMSslnigianil
ifciiLl hitobrriiaifciii GiaKt ia Jn^ IsKMd
>wr»aiihui Hayes m Mareh, Ifm.
Biale^ James T., was boca ia Bradford CamaXf.
, October, lSU>;reeii««d a peUkf '
■wt witii two
Uat
uUn sntfl he Jtod at Dmv, X«w HaaiAha,
at Qtt UatTeni|;«l
18,180.
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Sqitrtobw- 21. \^3:
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adapted to the . .
Hew Toclc; was Jadgeef ttaes Coeniy:, X«« Tori;
bom l«ad ontil IM«: wto ayprinted a wt^eoxel the
Unirenitj a< New Tack la iaS»: waa a laisMi'iittsI
etoctor fcon the Twiwtj lisl Diauiet ef Xew Tart
ia 1800: was sMetol eoeMsi ct tbe tTwitod Staua
^ Irfiiin a<thB "ibsalrwni aai
Um" fiwa 1MB to mO; ww
farAeUaked Stotoe bctae ito
with
Oe Ttaaty of WasUogtoa ftvm 1871 to 183S; ««
I I liiiiBlill iftiw" T • ' ^ "^•-n
OoiiMies (to fl Ike vaesa^ laeaiil hf m
e( OoBada Kdh«): ^ wm ilirtid to Ite
IMM Totoa a^iaA a^lU TDtoa Cor K I
cnt, servi^ Aw Prinmtor 1, 18a. to Marck i,
18I&.
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laimilTliinii 111 I I mill f '•IVeWalpale reBOtd
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BTATISTICAIi SKETCHES, ^'n
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•entatire from Georgia In the Twelfth Concress as a
War Democrat on a genoral ticket, n^ceivins l.!,l:;(J
TOtes; was re-elecle<l to the Thirteenth and Four-
teenth Congresses from March 4, 1811, to March S,
1817; retired to private life; removed to Alabama,
■where he erii^nged in planting, near Montgomery,
and died March 25, WW.
Hall, Chapin, was bom at Ellicott, Chautauqua
County, New York, July 12. 1816; received a public-
•chool education ; removed to Warren, Pcnnsylv.inia;
engaged in lumbering and mercantile operations;
was elected a representative from Pennsylvania in
the Thirty-sixth Congress as a Itepublican, receiving
8,905 votes against 8.111 votes for James L. Gillis,
Democrat, sen'ing from December 5, 1659, to March
8, 1801.
Hall, Qeorge, was bom at New Haven, Con-
necticut; received a public-school educ-ition; re-
moved to Onondaga, New York; was a member of
^thB State House of Representatives in 181il; was
" " a representative from New York in the .Six-
nth Congress, serving from December 0, 1819, to
March 3, 1821.
Hall, Hiland, was bom at Bennington, Ver-
■ mont. July 2i), 170.^; received a public-school edu-
cation; studied law; was admitted to the bar in
1810, and coimneneed practice at Betuiiiigtou; was
a member of the State House of Kepresentatives
In 1827 : was .State's att/>mey 1828-1831 ; was elected
a representative from Vermont In the Twenty-
Iaecond Congress as a WlUg; was re-elected to the
Twenty-third. Twenty -fourth. Twenty-fifth, and
Twenty -sixth Congresses, receiving at the last
•lection 6,21 1 vote« against 4,328 votes for John
Boberts, Democrat, and 138 scattering; was re-
elected to the Twenty-seventh Congress, receiving
fl,.381 VDtcs against 4,110 votes for Daniel Kellogg,
licmocrat, serving from December 6, ISiJl, to Marcli
8, 1843; w.-u .State bank-commissioner 184.'}-1840;
was judee of the State Supreme Court 1840-1850;
was second conii>tn:iller of the treasurv November
87, 1850-8eptemberl0, 1851; was United^tates land-
oommissiouer for California 1851-18.54: returning to
Vonnont, he resided on the farm on which he was
bom; W.1S governor of Vermont 18ijl(; was a delegate
to the Peace Congress of 1801. He publishod the
Historv of Vermont.
Hall, Joseph, was bom in Essex County, Mossa-
ehiuetts, Jime 26, 17B3; received an ac;wleniical
education at Andover; remove<l to Camden, Maine,
and engaged In mercantile pursuits; was a sheriff,
im) held other local offices; was for four years [Kist-
naster at Camden, Maine; was elected a representa-
tive from Maine in the Twenty-third Congress iis a
Democrat; and was re-elected to the Twenty-fourth
Congress, receiving l,tWO majority, serving from De-
otmber 2, 1W8, to March 3, 18:37; was navy agent of
the port of Boston 1S41M853; was a clerklti the
fiost<.in Cusliini Huuse; died in IS.')".
Hall, Lawrence W., was bom In Lake County,
Ohio, in 1810; rec-eived a classical education, gradu-
ating at Hudson ColKti;8 in 18.%; studied law; was
IHimifted tt) the bar in Isi;!, and eoinnieiiccd prartloe
it Bucyrus; w.os judge of the Court of Common Pleas
601-1**-'''*; was elected a representative from Ohio in
he Thirty-ftfth Congress as a Democrat, receiving
,661 votes against 9,382 votes for Watson, Repulj-
Ucaii, serving from December 7, 1857. to Marrh 0,
l8S9; was imprisoned for alleged disloyalty In 18(12;
Qjod died, shortlv after his release, at Bucvnis, Ohio,
January 2(i, 1863.
TT^^l. Lyman, was bom in Connecticut in 1725 :
f^ceiveu a da-ssical education, graduating at Yale
Oollege in 1747: studied medicine; was licensed to
XtrtucUse. and establishetl himself atSunbury, Georgia ;
took an active p.irt in pre-Revolution,iry movements.
^nd was a raemlier of the conventions held in V14
&lld ITio; was sent as a delegate to the Coutitienlal
Oonirress in March, 1775, by the parish of St. John's;
He was elected in July by the whole province, and
wna re-eleoted several times, serving until 1780, when
he was called home by the invasion of the State by
the British, who contiscated his property; was gov-
ernor of Georgia In 1783; and died In Burke County,
Georgia, October 10, 1700.
Hall, Nathan K., was bom at Mnrcellns, New
York, Mari-h 2S, IKIO; received an academical educa-
tion; studied law at BufI,ilo with Millan.1 Fillmore:
was admitted to the bar In 18.32, and commeneea
practice at Buffalo as a member of the firm of Fill-
more, Hall, & Haven; was a member of the State
House c>f Representatives in 1840; was electeil a rep-
resentative from New York In the Thirtieth Congress
as a Wliig, serving from Deceml)or 0, 1847, to March
3, 1840; was appotnte<l by Mr. Fillmore postmaster-
general, serving from July 23, 1850-Augu8t 31, 1862;
was appointed United-Statos district-judge for the
western district of New York, ami held the position
until his ileath at Buffalo, New York, March 2. 1874.
Hall, Obed, was elected a representative from
New Hampshire in the Twelfth Congress, serving
from November 4, 1811, to March 3, 18i:}.
Hall, Robert B., was bom at Boston, Massachu-
setts. January 28, 1812; received a liberal education;
studied theology, and was ordained; was one of the
twelve original members of Garrison's Antislavory
Society In 1832; rcsraoved to Plymouth, Massachu-
setts; was a member of the State Senate In 1855;
was elected a representative from Massachusetts in
the Thirty-fourth Congress as an Americati, receiving
6,335 votes against 2,2:38 votes for Thomas D. Elllo^
V\^llg, and 854 votes scattering; and was re-i!lecte<i
to the Thirty-fifth Congress as a Republican, receiv-
ing 7.004 votes .igainst 1,8:30 votes for Moses Kates,
Jan., Democrat, and 1,001 votes for Daniel Fisher,
Abolitionist, serving from Decembers, 18.55, t<i March
a, 1869; was a delegate to the Uuion Convention at
Philadelplda In 1800; died at Plymouth, M.issiichu-
setts, of apoplexy.
Hall, Thomas H., was bom In Edgecomlie
County, North ('arolina, in 1733; received a cliLSsical
education ; 8tudla<l medicine, and practised medicina
at Tnrtiorough ; was elcHited a representative from
North Carolina in tlie Fifteenth, Sixteenth, Seven-
teenth, and Eluhteenth Congresses as a Democrat,
serving from December 1. 1817, until Man-h 3, 1825;
was defeated for re-election by Richard Hines: was
again elected to the Twentieth, Twenty-first, Twenty-
second, luid Twenty-third Congresses, serving from
Decembers, 1827, to March 8, 1835; was a member
of the Stale Senate of North Carolina In 18,30; died
.It Tarboroiigh. North Carolina, June iVt. 1853.
Hall, 'Willard, was bom at Westford, Massa-
diiisetts. December 24. 1780; received a classical
education, graduating at Harvard College in 1799:
studied law; was admitted to the bar In 180.3, and
commenced practice at Wilmington, Delaware: was
secri.'tar)- of state of the .State of Delaware 1811-1814;
was elected a representative from Delaware in the
Fifteenth and Sixteenth Congresses, serving from
December 1, 1817, to March 3, 1821 ; was again secre-
tary of state in 1821 ; was a member of the State
House of Repn'sentatlves in 1822; was United-Slates
district-judge for the district of Delaware 1823-1872,
when he resigned ; and die<l at Wilmington, Dtdaware,
May 10, 1875. He published a revision of the State
laws of Delaware in 1829.
Hall, Willard P.. was bom in Virginia; re-
moved to St. Joseph. Missouri; was elected a repre-
sentative from that State in the Thirtieth Congress
as a Democrat; was re-elected to the Tliirty-first
Congress, receiving 10,840 votes against 4,418 votes
for Samuel, ^\'hlg; and was re-elected to the Thirty-
secoiul Congress, receiving 5,006 votes against 5,506
votes for Bowman, \Vhig, and 3.828 votes for Gar-
denhlre, Democrat, serving from December 6, 1847,
to Man.'h 3, LH-^'l; was llentenant-govemor of Mls-
snuri in 1S01-1N<!2, and acting governor.
Hall, William, was born in Virginia in 1774;
received an English education; removed to Green
426
OOKGBBSSION^AI. DIBBOTOBT.
Garden, Tennessee; served in the Indian wars, and
commanded a regiment of Tennessee riflemen under
General Jackson in the war of 1812; was for a num-
ber of years a member of the State legislature, and,
as speaker of the Senate, became governor of Ten-
nessee on the resignation of Grovemor Sam. Houston
in 1820; was major-general of militia; was elected a
representative from Tennessee in the Twenty-second
Congress as a Democrat, receiving 114 majority over
Robert M. Barton, serving from December 5, 1831, to
March 2, 1833: died at Green Garden, Tennessee.
Hall, WiUiam A., was bom in Maine; was
taken in early childhood to Virginia, and removed
thence to Missouri in 1841 ; was a presidential elect-
or on the Polk and Dallas ticket in 1844; was ap-
pointed a judge of the Circuit Court in 1847; was a
delegate to the State Constitutional Convention of
1861; was elected a representative from Missouri in
the TlUrty-seventh Congress (in place of John B.
Clark, expelled) as a Democrat, and was re-elected
to the Thir^-eighth Congress, receiving 6,244 votes
against 6,534 votes for Green, Bepublican, serving
from JanuaiT 20, 1862, to March 3, 1866; was a dele-
gate to the National Democratic Convention at Chi-
cago in 1864
Hallook, John, Jun., was bom in Orange
County, New York; was a member of the State
House of Bepresentatives in 1816, 1817, 1820, and
1821 ; was elected a representative from New York
in the Nineteenth Congress as a Democrat, serving
from December 5, 1825, to March 3, 1829.
Halloway, Ransom, was bom in Dutchess
County, New York; received a thorough English
education; was elected a ropresentative from New
York in the Thirty-flrst Congress as a Whig, receiv-
ing 6,301 votes a^nst 1,681 votes for Bailey, Demo-
crat, and 4,333 votes for Gannun, Cass Democrat,
serving from December 3, 1840, to March 3, 1851 ;
died at Mount Pleasant. Maryland, April 6, 1851.
B.alaey, Qeorge A., was bom at Springfield,
New Jersey. December 7, 1827; was educated at
Springfield Academy; established himself in Newark
as a manufacturer in 1844; was a member of the
State Assembly of New Jersey In 1861 and 1862; was
United-States assessor of internal revenue from
1862 until 1866; was elected a representative from
New Jersey in the Fortieth Congress as a Bepublican,
receiving 12,782 votes against 11,847 votes for Gil-
christ, Democrat, serving from March 4, 1867, to
March 3, 1860; and was again elected to the Forty-
second Congress as a Bepublican, receiving 18,092
votes against 14,694 votes for O. Cleveland, Demo-
crat, and 630 votes for Fitzpatrick, Independent
Democrat, serving from March 4, 1871, to March 3,
1873.
Halsey, Jefaiel H., was bom at Lodi, New
York; rcceived a public-school education; was elect-
ed a representative from New York In the Twenty-
first Congress as a Jackson Democrat, serving from
December 7, 1820, to March 3, 1831 ; was a member
of the State Senate 1832-1835.
HalsOT, Niooll, was bom In Seneca County,
New York; resided at Tmmansburg; was a member
of the State House of Bepresentatives in 1824; was
elected a representative from New York in the
Twenty-third Congress as a Democrat, serving from
December 2, 1833, to March 3, 1835.
Halsey, Silais, was bom In the State of New
York; rcceived a public-school education; was a
memlier of the State House of Reprcsentatives from
Onondaga County 1796-1708, and from Cayuga Coun-
?■ 1800-1804; was elected a ropresentative from New
ork in the Ninth Congress, serving from December
2, 1805, to March 3, 1807; was a State senator in 1800.
Halsted, WiUiam, was bom in New Jersey;
received a classical education, graduating at Prince-
ton College in 1812; was elected a representative
from New Jersey in the Twenty-fifth Congress as a
Whig, serving from September 4, 1837, to March 8,
1880; was refused admissioa to the Twenty-«izth
Congress, althongji he had a certiflcate of dectim
with the broad seal of the State; was again elected
to the Twenty-seventh Congress, receiving 28,102
votes against 27,051 votes for Pltilemon Dlckerson,
Democrat, serving from May 31, 1841, to March 3,
1843.
Hambleton, Samuel, was bom in Tdbot
County, Maryland, in 1812; was educated at the
county academy; studied law, and was admitt«d to
the bar in 1833, and commenced practice at Easton;
was a member of the State House of Delegates in
1834, 1835, and 1863 ; was a member of the State Sen-
ate from 1844 to 1850; was an elector of Presideat
and Vice-President in 1844; was the president of the
Chesapeake and Ohio Carial in 1853 and 1854; wai
elected a representative from Maryland in the Forty-
first Congress as a Democrat, receiving 12,703 Tot«s
against 4,606 votes for Tortiert, Bepublican; and iru
re-elected to the Forty-second Congress as a Demo-
crat, receiving 17,314 votes against 13,348 votes for
H. B. Torbet, Bepublican, serving from March 4,
1869, to March 8, 1873.
Hamer, Thomas L., was bom in Pennyslvaoia;
received an academical education; studied law; was
admitted to the bar in 1821, and conunenced practice
at Greorgetown, Ohio; served for several years in the
Ohio House of Bepresentatives, and was one year its
raker; was elected a representative from Ohio in
Twenty-third Congress as a Democrat; was re-
elected to the Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth Con-
gresses, serving from December 2, 1833, to March S,
1839; while a representative he nominated U. S.
Grant, the son of a constituent, to be a cadet at West
Point; served in the Mexican war, volunteering as t
private, and receiving the next day the commission
of brigadier-general ; died, while in the service, it
Monterey, Mexico, December 8, 1846.
HanuU, Patrick, was bom in the Green Glades,
Alleghany County, Maryland, April 28, 1817; wis
educated at private schools; was appointed collector
of taxes in 1841 and 1842; was a member of the Stats
House of Bepresentatives of Maryland in 1843 and
1844; was appointed and served for three years as
judge of the Orphans' Court of Alleghany County,
and was then elected, and served for four years more;
declined a nomination to the State convention in
1852; engaged in famiing and mercantile pinsoits;
was re-elected In 1867 cUef judge of the Orphans'
Court of Alleghany County; and was elected a rep-
resentative from Maryland in the Forty-fiist Con-
gress as a Democrat, receiving 12,230 votes against
11,653 votes for Welsel, Badical, serving from March
4, 1860, to March 3, 1871.
Hamilton, Alexander, was bom In the Island
of Nevis, British West Indies, January 11, 1757; was
a counting-house clerk at Santa Cruz; was sent to
the United States to be educated in 1772; was a stu-
dent at King's (now Columbia) College 1773-1776;
entered the Continental army in March, 1776, as cap-
tain of artillery; was ^>pointed aide-de-camp by Gen-
eral Washington March 1, 1777, and served imtil
Febmary, 1781; was elected as a Federalist a mem-
ber of the Continental Congress, and served from
November, 1772, until the autumn of 1783; was a
member of the convention at Annapolis in 1786 that
laid the foundation of the general convention adopt-
ing the Constitution; was a member of the legisla-
ture of the State of New York in 1787 ; was a mem-
ber of the Constitutional Convention which met at
Philadelphia in 1787 ; engaged in the practice of law
at New-York City; was secretary of the treasuiy
under President Washington from September 11,
1780, until Febmary 3, 1795; resumed practice at New
York; declined the position of chief justice; was
appointed by General Washington Inspector-general
and second in command of the army in 17%>; m*
distinguished as a political writer; was mortaUr
wounded by Aaron Burr In a duel at Hoboken, and
died at New York the next day, July 12, 180*. He
published "The Fflderallst," of which he wrote the
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larger half; and hi8 works, edited by his son, were
published in seven volumes.
Hamilton, Andrew H., received a conunon-
school education ; studied law ; was admitted to the
bar, and commenced practice at Fort Wayne; was
elected a representative from Indiana in the Forty-
fourth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 14,318 votes
against 12,683 votes for Taylor, Bepublican : and was
re-elected to the Forty-flf th Conn^ss, receiving 19,142
TOtea against 12,7T7 votes for Bonham, Republican,
serving from December 6, 1875.
Hamilton, Andrew J., was l>om in Madison
County, Alabajna, January 28, 1815 ; received a pub-
lic-school education; was clerk of the Circuit Court;
studied law; was admitted to the bar, and com-
menced practice at La Grange, Texas, in 1846; was
attorney-general of Texas ; was a presidential elector
on the Buchanan and Breckinridge ticket in 1856;
was elected a representative from Texas in the
Thirty-sixth Congress as a Republican, receiving
16,409 votes against 15,961 votes for Waul, Democrat,
serving from December 6, 1850, to March 3, 1861;
was appointed 1^ President Lincoln military governor
of Texas in 1862, and provisional governor by Presi-
dent Johnson in 1865; was a delegate to the Loyal-
ists' Convention at Philadelphia in 1866; resided at
Washington as a claim agent; and died at Austin,
Texas, April 11, 1875.
Hamilton, Charles M., was bom in Clinton
County, Pennsylvania, November 1, 1840; received
an academic education; studied law; entered the
Union army as a private in 1861 ; participated in six-
teen battles, and was wounded at Oalues's Mill, at
Antietam, and at Fredericksburg; was appointed a
lieutenant in the Veteran Reserve Corps in October,
1803; was detailed as judge-advocate, and served in
that capacity until 1865; was appointed assistant
commissioner of the Bureau' of Freedmen and Refu-
gees; commenced the practice of law in 1868; was
elected a representative from Florida in the Fortieth
Congress as a Bepablicau; and was re-elected to the
Forty-first Confess, receiving 7,863 votes against
3.846 votes for Barnes, Democrat, and 831 votes for
tianders. Independent, serving from July 1, 1868, to
March 3, 1871.
Hamilton, Ck>meliu8 S., was bom in Mus-
kingum County, Ohio, January 2, 1821 ; received a
public.«chool education ; studied law; was admitted
to the bar, and commenced practice, paying at the
same time some attention to farming, banldng, and
editing a newspaper; was a del^;ate to the State
Constitutional Convention in 1850; was a member of
the State Senate of Ohio in 1866; was appointed an
assessor of internal revenue ; was elected a represen-
tative from Ohio in the Fortieth Congress as a Re-
publican, receiving 11,710 votes against 9,858 votes
for Reid, Democrat, serving from March 4, 1867; he
was summoned home to see a grown son, who had
suddenly become insane, and was killed by that son
at Marysville, Ohio, December 21, 1867.
Hamilton, James, was bom at Charleston,
South Carolina, in 1789; received an academical edu-
cation; studied law; was admitted to the bar, and
commenced practice at Charleston; served in the
war of 1812 as major on the Canadian frontier; was
for several years mayor of Charleston; was a mem-
ber of the State House of Representatives; was
elected a representative from South Carolina in the
Seventeenth Congress (in place of William Lowndes,
resigned) as a State-rights Free-Trader; was re-elect-
ed to the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Twentieth
Congresses, serving from January 6, 1823, to March
3, 18i9; was governor of South Carolina 1830-1832;
was general of the State troops raised under the Nul-
lification Act; removed to Texas, and took an active
Mrt in securing her recognition as a republic by
England and France in 1841 ; aided in procuring the
admission of Texas into the Union; was elected
United-States senator from Texas; was drowned on
his passage from New Orleans to Galveston (the
steamer " Opelousas," on which he was. having been
run into by- the steamer "Galveston") November
15, 1857. He was one of the founders of "The
Southern Quarterly Review."
Hamilton, John, was bom in Washington
County, Pennsylvania, In 1763; was high sheriff of
that county for several years; was elected a repre-
sentative from Pennsylvania in the Ninth Congress,
serving from December 2, 1805, to March 8, 1807;
died at his home in Washington County, Pennsylva-
nia, August 81, 1837.
Hamilton, Morgan C, was bom in the terri-
tory west of Georgia, near what is now Huntsvllle,
Alabama, February 25,1809; received a country-school
education at intervals from labor; was brought up
to and followed mercantile pursuits ; removed to the
republic of Texas in 1837; was a clerk in the War
Department from 1839 until April, 1845, acting as
secretary of war the greater portion of the last three
years; was appointed comptroller of the treasury of
the State by the commander of the Fifth Military
District in September, 1867; was elected a delegate
to the Constitutional Convention in 1868; was elect-
ed United-States senator from Texas as a Republican
on the reconstruction of Texas ; took his seat March
31, 1870; and was re-elected, serving until March 3,
1877.
Hamilton, Robert, was bom at HambtuT;, Sus-
sex County, December 6, 1816; received an academic
education; studied law; was admitted to practice as
an attorney in 1836, and as a counsellor in 1840; was
appointed prosecutor of pleas, and filled that office
fifteen years; was a member of the State legislature
In 1863 and 1864, serving the last year as speaker;
was elected a representative from New Jersey in the
Forty-third Congress as a Democrat, receiving 13,453
votes against 10,904 votes for F. A. Potts, Republican ;
and was re-elected to the Forty-fourth Congress as a
Democrat, receiving 14,686 votes against 9,031 votes
for Charles Place, Republican, serving from Decem-
ber 1, 1878, to March 8, 1877.
Hamilton, William T., was bom in Washing-
ton Countv, Maryland, September 8, 1^0; received
an academic education, and was at Jefferson Collie,
Pennsylvania; studied law^as admitted to the bar,
and commenced practice at Hagerstown ; was a mem-
ber of the State le^latnre in 1846; was elected a
representative from Maryland in the Thirty-first
Congress as a Democrat, receiving 7,807 votes against
7,191 votes for T. J. McKaig, Whig; was re-elected
to the Thirty-second Congress, receiving 6,863 votes
i^ainst 6,626 votes for Roman, Whig; and was re-
elected to the Thirty-third Coi^ss, receiving 7,545
votes against 6,420 votes for Thomas, Independent,
serving from December 3, 1840, to Maroh 8, 1856;
was elected United-States senator from Maryland as
a Democrat (in place of W. P. Whyte, who had been
appointed in place of Reverdy Johnson, resigned),
and served from March 4, 1860, to March 3, 1876.
Hamlin, Edward B., resided at Elyria, Ohio;
was elected a representative from that State in the
Twenty-eighth Congress (in place of Henry R.
Brinkerhofl, deceased), serving from December 2,
1844^ to Maroh 3, 1846.
Hamlin, Hannibal, was bom at Paris, Maine,
August 27, 1809; was prepared for a collegiate edu-
cation, but was obliged, by the death of his father,
to take charge of his home-farm until he was of
age; was a year in a printing-office as a compositor;
studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1833,
continuing in active practice at Hampden until 1848;
was a member of the legislature of Maine 1836-1840
and 1847, presiding as speaker of the House in 1837,
1^, and 1840; was defeated as the Democratic can-
didate for the Twenty-seventh Congress by Elisha H.
Allen, Whig, who received about 250 majority in a
poll of nearly 16,000; was elected a representative
from Maine as a Democrat in the Twenty-eighth
Congress, and was re-elected to the Twenty-ninth
Congress; was elected United-States senator in 1848
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CONGRK88IONA1, DIBKCTOBY.
for four years (to fill a vacancy occasioned by the
death of John Fairfield); was re-elected In 1851, but
resigned in 1857 to act as governor; was aijain elected
United-States senator in 1857, and served until Jan- ,
uary, 1801; having been elected Vice-President on
tlie ticket with Abroliam Lincoln, he presided over
the Senate from March 4. 18U1, to March 3, 18<i5;
was appointed collector of the port of Rjston in
1866, liul resigned in 1800; served as a regent of the
Smithsonian Institution 1801-1805, and was appoints
ed agidn iu 1870; was again elected United-Slates
senator, and re-electeil, serving from March 4, 1860.
His term of service will expire March 3, 1881.
Hammett, William H., wiistom in Virginia;
received a classical education; studied theology; was
chaplain at the University of Virginia; was chap-
lain to the House of Representatives; removed to
Mississippi, and settled at Princeton ; was elected a
representative from Mississippi in the Twenty-eighth
Congress as a Democrat, serving from December 4,
IW:}, to Maivh :i, 1.H45.
Hammond, Edward, was bom at Ellicott's
Mills, Maryland; received a liberal education; was
elected a representative from Maryland in the
Thirty-first Congress as a Democrat, receiving fl.iKW
voles against 4,45d votes for George W. Gray, Whig;
was re-elected to the Thirty-second Congress, n>ceiv-
ing 5,4;J4 votes against 2,908 votes for Ljuch, Inde-
pendent, serving from Decembers, 1841), to March 3,
1853.
Hammond, Jabez D., was bom at New Bed-
ford, M.issachusetts, August 2, 1778; received a
public-school education; taught school; studied
medicine; was licensed to practise, and established
himself at Reading, Vermont, in nW); studied law;
ma admitted to the bar, and commenced practice at
Cherry Valley, New York, in 1805; was elected a
representative from New York in the Fourteenth
Congress as a Democrat, serving from December 4,
1816, to March 3, 1817 ; was a Stale senator 1817-
1821; removed to Albany, and practised there 1822-
1831); was commissioner to settle the claims of New
York on the Federal Government 1825-1820; \i8ited
Europe in ]8;JI, and on his return settled again at
Cherr)' Valley; was elected judge of Otsego County
in is:i>^ ; and died at Cherry Valley, New York, Autrust
18, 18.W. He published " History of P<ilitieal Piirlies
tn the St.ite of New York," " Julius Meiboum," and
" Life and Times of .SiliLS Wright."
Hammond, James Hamilton, was bom in
Newbury District, .South Carolina, November 15,
1807: received a cinssical education, graduating at
South-C'aroliiia College in 1825; studied law; was
admitted to the bar in 1827, and commenced practice;
was appointed a member of the governor's staff, and
aided In organizing the nullification forces raised in
183;^; was elected a representative from .South Caro-
lina in the Twenty-fourth Congress as a Whig, seri--
ing from December 7, 18.35, to ftbruary Hi, 18.30,
when he resigned; was governor of South Carolina
1842-1844; was elected a Unlte<l-States senator from
South Carolina, serving from Deceml>er 7, 1857, to
November 11, 1800; retiring from the Senate, he
resumed the charge of his large landed estates on
the coast; died at Beach's Island November 13, 1804.
He publisheil " The I'roslaverv Argfuraent," and a
"Sketch of (be Life of Calhoun."
Hammond, Robert H., was bom in Pennsyi-
vaniu; resided at Milton; was elected a representa-
tive from Pennsylvania in tlie Twenty-tifth Congress
OS a Van Burf.'ii Democrat; was re-elected to the
Twenty-sixth Congress, receiving 0,227 votes against
6,407 votes for James Merrill. Whig, serving from
September 4, 18.37, to March 3, 1841.
Hammond, Samuel, was bom in Richmond
County, Virginia, Septemlwr 21, 1757; received a
good English education; seri-cd with the Colonial
forces in the Indian war; was prominent in pn--
Bevolutionary movements ; served iu theKevolution-
Aty army, (llstinspilahinghlmnelf at King's Moimtain,
•Uh.
the Cow-Pens, and Eutaw; settled at Savannah after
independence was secured; w«« surveyor-general of
(Jcorgia; commanded a corps of Georgia volunteers
in the Creek war; was a member of the State Houae
of Representatives; w.is elected a representative
from (reorgia in the Eighth Congress as a Democrat,
serving from October 17, 1803, to March 3, 18tJ6: was
civil and raillt.iry governor of tapper Louisiana Ter-
rltoiy 180.5-1824; was daring Uie latter portion of"
this time receiver of public moneys at St. Louis
moved to South Carolina in 1824; was a member oP
the State legislature ; was surveyor-general 1825 ; was
secretary of state of South Carolina ISttl-lSJS; and
died near Augusta. Georgia, .September 11, 1842.
Hammons, David, was bom in Oxford County,
Maine, in 1807; received a public-school education;
studied law; was admitted to the tiar in 1830, and
commenced practice at Lovell, Maine; was a member
of the State Senate 1840-1841; was elected a repre-
sentative from Maine in the Thirtieth Congress asi
Democrat, receiving 5,4;W votes against 3,521 vote*
for Hopkins, ^Miig, and 1,185 votes AI>ulition and
scattering, serving from December 6, 1847, to March
3, 1849; resumed practice at Bethel, Maine.
Hammons, Joseph, was bom at Farmiugton,
New Ilampshire, received a public-school ediicatioo;
wiis elected a representative from New HiUiipshire In
the Twenty-first Congress; wiw re-tlecti-d to the
Twenty-second Congress, eer^-ing from Deceml)er7,
1820, to Marcli 2, 18%i; was apjxiinted postmaster at
Dover in June, 18.33.
Hampton, James Q., was bora in New Jersey;
received a cliLssieal education, graduating at l^ince-
ton College in KSio ; was elected a representative from
New Jersey in the Twenty-ninth Congress ,is a Whig,
receiving 'r,440 votes against 6,063 votes for Ellsler,
Democrat; was re-elected to the Thirtieth CVmgress,
receiving 5,472 votes against 4,tUi votes for Thomp-
son. Democrat, and 1,151 votes for Ilollis, American,
serving from December 1, 1845. to March 3, 1840.
Hainpton, Moses, was liora in Beaver County,
Pennsylvania, October 28, 1803; removed with faja
parents, when young, to Trumbull County, Ohio;
received a classical etlucation, graduating at Wash-
ington College, Pennsylvania; studied law at Union-
town; was adiiiitted to the bar iu 182t): conuuencetl
practice at Somerset, and removed in 18^38 to Pitts-
burg; was elected a representative from Pennsyl-
vania in the Thirtieth Congress as a Wliig: waa
re-elected to the Tliirty-first Congress, receiving
7,flfiO votes against 0,013 votes for S. W. Black,
Democrat, and 200 votes for D. McLaughlin, Free-
Soiler, ser>ing from December 0, 1847, to March 3,
1851 ; and, declining to be a candidate for re-ebciion,
was elected president-judge of the Alleghonv-county
District (^iiirt In 18.53.
Hampton, Wade, was bora In South CaroUna
in 1754; received a thorough English education;
devoted himself to agricultural pursuits; took an
active part iu prc-Revolutionary movements; raised a
company of light horse, with which he served under
Marion and Sumter; was elected a representative
from South Carolina in the Fourth Congress, serving
from D<K.'eml)er 7, 1785, to M.-irch 3, 17i»7; was a
presidential elector on the Jefferson ond Burr ticket
in 1801; was again elected to the Eighth Congress oa
» Democrat, serving from October 17. l8t.>:J, to March
3, 1805; entered the United-States army as colonel in
October, 18ti8; was promoted to be brigadier-general
in Febniary, 1808, and major-general in March. 1813;
ser\ed on the Northern frontier in the war with
Great Britain, and resigned April 0, 1814; iK-came
the proprietor of very large plantations, and was the
owner of more than three thousand slavps wlum ho
died at Columhia. South Carolina. Febn 4.
Hanobett, Luther, was bom in P' i ity,
Ohio, October 25, 1825; received an at;iu<i:i;. ,u ,-du-
Ciition; studied law: was admitted to the bar in
1840, and commenceapractice at Fremont; p.-iniived
to Portage County, 'Wisconsin, in ItMO; engaged in
1
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In— ' -■- 7 and lead-mining; was for four yean
[C' 'mey; was a member of the State Senate
\1> . was elcctpd u ppresentative from Wis-
consin in the Thirty-seventh Congress as a Repub-
lican, reepivinc :W,:i*J>3 votes against 2a.0>i votes for
Reniiort. DemocTut, sening from July 4. ISfil. until
his death at Muilison. Wistousln, November 20. 1S02.
Hanoock, Oeorge, was bom in Virginia in
IIj'i: received a classical education from jirivate
tutors; served in the Revolutionary war as colonel
of inf.intry; was elected a rcpresetitative from Vlr-
ginja in the Third Congress as a Democrat, and was
re-elected to the Fourth Congress, sen'inp from
December 2, 1793, to March 3, 17U7; died at Fother-
Ingnv, Virginia, after a brief illness, Aimist 1,
1S20:
Hancock, John, was bum at Quincy, Massachu-
setts, January 12, 1737; received u classical educa-
tion, graduating at Han-ard College in 1754; was
trained to mercantile pursuits in the counting-room
of his uncle, whose large fortune and extensive
business be afterwards inherited; was for several
years one of the selectmen of Boston; was a member
of the Provincial legislature 1768-1772; was promi-
nently identified with pre-RcvoIntionary measures,
aud, together with Samuel Adams, was exempted
from pardon In Governor Gage's pnKlamatlon June
12. 177o; was a delegate from Massachusetts to the
Continental Congress 1775-1780 and nsvnsfl. serv-
ing as president May 27, 177o-Oct«ber, 1777; was
commissioneil senior major-general of the Massachu-
setts militia February 0, 177S. and in Uie following
August commanded a division in the expedition
against Rhode Island; w.-u a member of the Massa-
chusetts Constitutional Convention of 17S0; was
governor of M.TSsaehuselt8 1780-1765 and 1787, until
his death at IJuiney (October 8, 1792.
Hancock, JoHn, was bom of Virginia parents
in Jaekson County, Alabama. Octol>er 20. 1824; was
eduo.'iled partly in Alabama, and partly in Tennessee;
studied law at Winchester, Teiuiegaee, and was ad-
mitted to the bar in 1S4*3; settled in Texas in 1847,
practising Iiis profession there until August, 18.51,
when he was elected to the district bench of the
State, and served as judge until 18.j5, when he re-
aignetl, and resumed practice and phinting; was a
memlier of the .State legislature in IsiJU and 1801,
when he refused to take the oath of allegiance to the
Confederate States, aud was expelled; was elected a
member of the State Constitutional Convention of
IStKi; was elected a representative from Tex.is in the
Forty-second Congress, defeating E. Degener, Re-
publican ; was re-elected to the Forty-third Congress,
receiving 17,587 votes against 11,024 votes for W. O.
Hutchinson, licpublican; and was re-elected to the
Forty-fourth Congress without any opposing candi-
date, serving from December 2, 1872, to March 3,
1877.
Hand, AugrtlBttlS C, was bom at Shoreham,
Vemionl, in IbUti; received an academical e<lucatiou;
studied law; was admitted to the bar, and com-
menced practice at EUzabethtown, New York; was
surrogate of Essex Comity 1831-1830; was elected a
r<;pn'»entative from New York in the Twenty-sixth
Cormress as a Democrat. n'ceiving4,4S0 votes against
4.4;i'i votes for T. A. Tonilinson, Whig, servhig from
Deceu)t>er2, lb3U, to March 3, 1341; was a member
of the State Senate 1845-1848; was a justice of the
State Supreme Court 1844^1856; resumed the practice
of his profession ; died at EUzabethtown, New Jersey,
March 8. 1878.
Hand, Edward, was bora in Pennsylvania, and
was a dele.^'ate from that State to the Continental
Congress 1784-1786.
Handley, William A., was bom near Frank-
lin, CJeorgia, December 15, 1834; removed when
young to Alabama; received a public-school educa-
tli'/i: was when a youth a Uuited-.States mall-carrier
two years, afterward a post^-olflce clerk iu con-
ctiou with mercantile business, aud then for many
years a contractor for the conveyance of the United-
States mails, which made the postal laws and regu-
lations his especial study; engaged in mercantile
pursuits at Roanoke, Alabama; was in the service of
the Confederate States as a civil and military olficer
If^Ol-lSOS; was elected a representative from Alaba-
ma In the Forty-second Congress as a Democrat,
receiving about 4,000 majority over B. W. Norris,
Republican, 8er>-ing from March 4. 1871, to March 3,
1873: his election was unsuccessfully contested by
B. W. Xorris.
Hanks, Jeimes M., was bom at Helena, Ar-
kansas, February 12, 1833; received a public-school
education; was a student at the college at New Al-
bany, Indi.-uia, and aftem-ard at Jackson College,
Columbia, Teimessee, where he completed the course
of study, with the exception of Greek, In 1851 ; stud-
ied law- graduated at the law department of the
University of Louisville In 1865; conmienced prac-
tice, and continued It at Helena until the breaking-
out of the war; was opjwsed to secession, and took
part in the last canvass prior to hostilities as a
Utdon man; was elected judge of the First Judicial
District of Arkansas in l&U upon the re-organization
of the State, and remained upon the bench nntil
August, 1808; aud was elected a representative from
Arkansas in the Forty-second Congress as a Demo-
crat, receiving 0,318 votes against 7,748 votes for
Roots, Republican, serving from March 4, 1871, to
March 3, 1873.
Hanna, John, was bom In Marion County,
Indiana, Septeinlx?r .3, 1827; n-celved a classical edu-
cation, graduating at Indiana, Asbury University, in
1850; studied law; was admitted to the bar, and
commenced practice at Grcencastle; was mayor of
Oreencastle 1851-1854; removed to Kansas, and was
a member of its Territorial legislature in the winters
of 1857 aud 1658 from the then county of Lykins,
now known as ML-uni; retunied to Indiana; was
presidential elector on the Lincoln and Uamlin tick-
et in 1800; was appointed United-States district-at-
torney for the district of Indiana by Presiilent Lin-
coln in 1861, and re-appointed by him iu 18i)5, but,
when the breach occiured between President John-
sou and the Republican party, his denunciation of
the policy of the administration was followed by his
removal ; he has since devoted his time exclusively
to the practice of law at Indianapolis, and was elect-
ed to the Forty-fifth Congress as a Republican, re-
ceiving lO.iVM votes against 18,236 votes for Fmnklia
Landers, Demiwrat, serving from October 15, 1877.
Hanna, John A., was Ixirn in Pennsylvania;
was elected a representative from that State in the
Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Congresses, serv-
hic from May 15, 1707, to March 3, 1805.
Hanna, tlobert, was born in Laurens District,
South Carolina, April 6, 178(1; removed with his par-
ents to Indian.1, aud subsequeully settled tn Brook-
ville In 18<J2; was sheriif of the Eastern District of
Iowa in 1800, aud held the position until the organi-
zation of the State Government; was a])jxiiutcd regis-
ter of the Land Office, and removed to Indianapolis
in 1825; was appointed a United-States senator from
Indiana as a ^\ hig (hi place of James Nobles, de-
ceased), serving from December 5, 1831, to January
3, 1832, when his successor took his seal; was elected
a State senator, but was defeated when a candidate
for re-election; was killed by a railroad train while
walkhig on the track at Indianapolis November 10,
18.58.
Hannegan, Edward A., was bom in Ohio;
received an aciulemic education at public schools In
Kentucky; studied law; was admitted to the bar,
and commenced practice at Covington, Indiana; was
for several years a member of the State House of
Representatives; was elected a representative from
Indiana In the Twenty-third Congress as a Demo-
crat; was re-elected to" the Twenty-fourth Congress,
serving from December 2, 1883, to March 3, 18:J7;
was elected a United-States senator from Indiana,
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scn-lng from December 4, 1843. to March 8. 1849;
w»s minister to Pnissia March 22, lS41>-January 13,
1850; killed his brother-in-law, Captain Duncan, in
iy.52, wliile iiito.vicalcd; removed to St. lyuuis, Mis-
souri, and died ilicp' Febniarv ij, 1S51).
Hanson, Alexander Contee, was bom In
Mar>iaud; received a liberal education; was a presi-
dential elector on the W-ishington and Adiiins ticket
In nS9and HM; edite<l "The Federal Republican"
at Ballnnore, when in 1812, a raob. irritated by liis
articles denouncing the administration, destroyed his
printing-office; he persisted in issuing his paper the
next day, and the bouse in which he printed it was
attacked, and, after a fight, he and his friends were
escorted to jail, where the mob again attacked them,
and nearly killed him; ho removed "The Federal
Eepublicnn" to Georgetown, District of Columbia,
where he published it immolested; returning to Bal-
timore, he was elected a representative from Mary-
land in the Thirteenth Congress as a Federalist, re-
ceivins 014 majority, and was re-elected to the Four-
teenth Congress, serving from May 24. 181.3. to Jan-
uary 2. 1817. when he took his scat as a United-States
senator from Maryland (in place of Robert (.i. U.irper,
resigned), serving to April 23, 1810, when he died at
Belmont, Marvland.
Hanson, John, was bom in Charles County,
Marj-|and, in 1715; received a thorough English edii-
caliou; was a member of tlie Marjiand House of
Dele^jates, with the exception of a few years, 1757-
1781 ; removed to Frederick County in 1773; took an
active part in pre-Revolutionary measures; was com-
missioned treasurer of Frederick County June 21,
1775; was a delegate from Marj-land to the Conti-
nental Congress from February 22, 1781, until his
death, 8er%-ing one year as President, and, as such,
thanking General Washington for his victoir at
Yorktown; died November 22, 1783, at Oxen Hill,
Prince George County, Maryland, while on a visit
to his nephew, Thom:is Hanson.
Haralson, Hugh Anderson, was bom near
Penfield, Georgia, November 13, 1805; was reared ou
a fann. and n:-ceived a classical education, graduat-
ing at Franklin College in 1825; studied law, and
was admitted to the bar in 1825 by a special .ict of
the legislature; commenced practice at Monroe, and
gubsei|uently located at La Grange, Georgia: w.is a
meraiier of the State Senate in 1837 and'l8;j8; was
defeated as a Democratic candidate for Congress on
ecnenil ticket in 1840; was elected a representative
from Georgia in the Twenty-eighth Congress as a
Democrat on a general ticket, receiving ;i5,Hi3 votes
■gainst 38,827 votes for Augustus H. Kenan. Whig:
was re-elected to the Twenty-ninth Congress, the State
having been districted, receiving 5,771 votes ag.iin8t
6,214 votes for Floyd, Whig; was re-elected to the
Thirtieth Congress.'and was re-elected to the Thirty-
first Congress, sen-ing from December 4, 184:1, to
March 3, 1851; sen-ed in the militia, attaining the
rank of major-general; was a prominent Freemason;
and dieil nt La Grange, Georgia. October ((, 18.j4.
Haralson, Jere, was born in Muscogee County.
Georgia. April 1, 18-10, the slave property of John
Walker; .ifter Walker's death, was sold oh the auc-
tlou-block in the city of Columbus, and bought by
J. W. Thomson, after whose death he became the
pro|>erty of J. Haralson of Selma, and so remained
until emancipated In 1865; received no education un-
til after ho was free, when he instructed himself: was
elected to the State House of Representatives of Ala-
bama in 1870: was elected to the State Senate of
Alabama in 1872; was elected a representative from
Alabama In the Forty-fourth Congress as a Repub-
lican, receiving 111,551 votes against 10,053 votes for
F. G. Brombefg. Democrat, serving from December
8, 1876, to March 3, 1877; was defeated as the Re-
publican candidate for the Fortv-fifth Congress, re-
ceiving 8(075 votes against 9,686 votes for Charles L.
Shelley, Democrat, and 7,230 votes for James T.
Rapier, R«pabUcan.
Hard, Gideon, resided at Albion, New Tork;
was elected a representative from that State in tie
T^venty-thi^I Congress as a Whig; was rt'-i'!ecled to
the Twenty-fourth Congress, serving from Uecemlw
2, 18:^3, to March 3, 18.t7; was a member of tlie
State Senate 1842-1847.
Hardeman, Thomas, jvm., was bon> in Bihb
County, Georgia, Janutiry 12, 1825; receiveil a lib-
erai education; studied law, and was mimitted to the
bar: was a member of the State House of Kepreseii-
tatives: was elected a representative from Geor^aln
the Tliirty-sixth Congress as a National Americao,
receiving 6,030 votes against 6,4t!3 votes for Speer,
Democrat, serving from December 5, 1S50, to Jano-
ary 23, 1801, when he retired from the House, and
Identified himself with the Southern Confederacy,
Hardenbergh, Au&rustus A., was l>om at
Xew Brunswick. Xew Jei-sey. M.iy, 1S.30; entered
Rutgers College in 1.844, but was only enabled to con- ^
tinue his studies through the fresliman year, as b« |
was called upon to act as amanuensis for his father,
Cornelius Hardenbergh, LL.D., who hail been strick-
en with blindness; in 1846 entered a coutitlng-room in
New York, and lookup his residence in Jci-sey City;
in 1852 became connected with the Hudson-<'ountT
Bank, and has been its cashier since 1858: In 1853 i
was elected to the House of Assembly of the Slate j
legislatun;; was an alderm.on of Jersey Citv in 1857-
18«» .ind 1802; in 1808 was elected by the legislature '
.State director of railroads; removing to the county of '
Bergen in 180S, was elected a coimcilman, and repre-
sented that district In the Baltimore National Dem- '
ocratic Convention of 1872; in 1873 he n^moved back
to Hudson County ; was elected a rcpresental ive from
New Jersey in the Forty-fourtli Congress as a Demo-
crat, receivini; 13,180 votes against 0,106 votes for
Isaac W, Scudder, Rcpul)lican; and was re-elected to
the Forty-fifth Congress, receiving 17,2t30 votes against
ll.:Wl votes for Leonard J, Stiaatny, Republican,
serving from Decenitier 0, 1875.
Hardin, Benjamin, was bom In Westmoreland
County, Pennsylvania, in 1784; studied law: was
admitted to the bar in 18<h1, and conmienced practice 1
at Ellzabethtown, but removed to Bardstown in 1808; I
was a member of the State House of Repres^nt^i
tives 1810, 1811, 1824, and 1825; was State senatorJ
182S-1832; was elected a representative from Ken-l
tucky in the Fourteenth Congress as a Whig, serving j
from' Deccnil)er 4, 1815, to March 3, 1817; was avaia j
elected to the Sixteenth Congress, and re-elected to I
the Seventeenth Congress, serving from Decemlier «, i
1810, to March 3, 1823; was again elected to th»\
Twenty-third Congress, and re-elected to the Twenty-
fourth Congress, serving frtim Deceml>er 2. lK3;i, to '
March 3, 1837 ; was secretary of slate of Kentucky
1844-1847; was a member of the State ConstitutiotuU
Convention 1840; was injured by a fail from his J
horse, and died soon after at Bardstown, Kentucky^ j
Septenilipr 24, 18,52.
Hardin, John J. (son of Martin D. Hardin), j
was lioni at Frankfort, Kentucky, in 1810; received
a classical education, graduating at the Tmnsylvania
University; studied law; was admitted to the bar,
and commenced practice at Jacksonville. Illinois;J
was prosecuting-atlomey for several years: was a]
member of the State legislature 183*1-1842; was elect-
e<l a representative from Illinois in the Twenty-]
eighth Congress as a Whig, receiving 0.23(J votet ]
against 5.357 votes for McDougal, Democrat, sening I
from December 4, 1843, to March 3, 1845; command-]
ed a regiment of Illinois volunteers in the Mexicaa |
war. and was killed at the battle of Biiena Vista,
while gallantlv leading his men in the litial chai^ge,
Februar>- 27, iS47.
Heirdin, Martin D. (father of John J. Haniln),
was bom on the Monongahela River, Western Petia-d
sylvaniii, Juno 21. 1780; received an academic edn-f
cation; studied law; was admitted to tlw I
commenced practice In Franklin County. ) ,
was for several years a member of the'St;ii<. ii..'uf<»
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BepresenUtires; was State lecretary of state;
ved in the war of 1812 as major of volunteers;
3 elected a United-Slates sennlor from Keiitucliy
(in place of William T. Bnrr)', resi^icd) as a Dem-
ocrat, sening from Decemlier 5. I6<l(i, to Marcb 3,
1817; and died in Fraulclin County, Kentuclcy, Octo-
t»er S. ISil.
Harding, Aaxoil, was Iwrn in Greene County,
Kentucliy; received a public-school education; slud-
Ie<l law; was admitted to Uie bar in 183;),^and com-
menced pnictice at Greensburg, Kentucky; was a
member of the State House of Itepresontatives in
ISv*); wiia elected a representative from Kentucky in
the Tliirty -seventh Congress as a Unionist, receiving
10,33'J votes against 2,4(30 votes for Tallwt, Secession-
ist; was re-elected to the Thirty-eighth Congress,
receiving 10.435 votes against 2,5t>S votes for Heady,
Democrat; was re-tlecled to the Thirty-ninth Con-
gress, receiving 0,4;J7 votes against 3,1152 votes for
llarion C. Tauor, Itepublican, aen'ing from July 4,
lt«l, to March 3. ISi".
Harding, Abner C, was bom at East Hamp-
ton, ConnectiLMit, February* 10, 1807; received an
academical education; studied law, and practised at
M'Dmouth, Illinois: became interested in railroads:
was a member of the Constitutional Convention of
Liinois in 1848; was a member of the State legisla-
! of Illinois in 1848, 1.S49, and 1850; enliste<l as a
ivate, and rose to the rank of brigadier-general in
|ie Union array; was elected a representative frtrni
linois in the Thirty-ninth Congress as a Republican,
ceiving 13,509 votes against 12,721 votes for Charles
M. Harris, Democrat; and was re-elected to the For-
tieth Congress as a Union Republican, receiving
15,052 Totes against 13,301 votes for Tliompsou,
Deinocrat, serving from December 4, 18C5, to March
3, IfltlO.
Harding, Benjamin P., was l>om in Wyo-
iug Coiuity, I'ennsylvania, January 4, 1823; re-
ived a public-school education; studied law; wits
iltted to the bar in 1847, and commence*! practice
In Illinois the following year; removed to Oregon in
3^48; was clerk of the Territorial iej^islature 1850,
L-rSl; was a memlx-r of the Territorial legislature
and its speaker 1852: was Uniteil-.State9 ilistrict-
Mtomey for Oregon 1853; was secretary of the Tcr-
Bory lS54-185(t; was a member of the State House
K Kepn?sentalivcs 1859-1802, serving the Inst two
Bars as speaker; was elected a United-States sena-
Br from Oregon as a licpublican (in place of Edward
K. Baker, deceased), serving from December 1, 18(i2,
to March ;!, 18i>5,
Hardy. Samuel, was bom In Virginia; was a
bember of the Continental Congress from ns3 until
■ISS; gave evidence of great talents, but died sud-
denly at au earlv a^e.
Haring, John, w,is bom in New York, and was
a deleiiiilo fr>>iu that State to the Continental Con-
fess 1774-1775 and 1785-1788.
Harlaji, Aaron, was bom In Warren County,
"ilo, September 8, 1802; received a public-school
lucation; studied law; was admitted to the bar in
5, and commenced practice; was a member of the
»te House of Representatives in ISil; was a State
[lator in 1838, 183'.l, and 1840; was a presidential
ctor on the Folk and Dallas ticket in 1844; was a
Belegate to the State Constitutional Convention in
1^); was elected a representative from Ohio in the
Thirty-third Congress as a Whig, receiving 7,.'J80
■votes against 6,018 votes for Telfair, Democrat, and
1.252 fur Nixon, Free-Soiler; was re-elected to the
Thirty-fourth Congress as a Itepublican, receiving
Btf>28 Totes against 2,307 votes for Hinkson, Demo-
Hat; was re-elected to the Thirty-fifth Congress,
Teceiving 9,027 votes against 5,070 votes for AVard,
J)emocrat. and l,ou votes for Elsburj', American,
•erving from December 5, 18.53, to Alarch 3, 1850.
Harlan, Andrew J., was bora at Chester, Ohio,
March 20, 1815; received a public-school education;
itadied law; was admitted to the bar, bat never
practised ; was clerk of the Indiana House of Repre-
sentatives in 1842; was a member of the State House
of Representatives 1840-1848; was elected a represen-
tative from Indiana in the Thirty-first Congress as a
Democrat, receiving 7..'WtJ votes against ti,777 votes
f.ir Kilgore, Whig, serving from December 3. 1840. to
March 3. 1851; was again elected to the Thirty-third
Congress, receiving 7,770 votes against 0,007 votes for
Wallace, Whig, serving from ifecember 6, 1853, to
March 3, 185.5.
Harlan, James, was bom In Mercer County.
Kfiiluiky, June 22, 180i); receiveil a public-school
eiluciition; engaged in mercantile pursuits 1S17-1821:
sliulied law; was admitted to the bar in 1823, and
commenced practice at Harrodsburg; was circuit
prosecuting-attomey 1820-18.3:1 ; was electeil a repre-
sentative from Kentucky in the Twenty-fourth Con-
gress as a Wliig, defeating S. H. Aniierson, Whig;
was re-elected to the Twenty-fifth Coiign-ss, serv-
ing from December 7, 18:J5, to March 3, 1830; was
secretitry of state of Kentucky 1840-1844; was a
presidential elector on the Harrison and Tyler ticket
m 1840; was again a member of the State House of
Representatives in 1846: was appointed attorney-
general of Kentuekv in 1850, and held the office until
his lieath at Frankfort Febmary 18, 18C;).
Harlan, James, was bom in Clarke County,
Illinois, August 20, 182*>: received a classical educa-
tion, graduating at the Asbury University, Indiana;
studied law; was the Iowa State superintendent of
public instruction in 1847; was president of the
Wesleyan University, Iowa, in 1848; was elected
United-States senator from Iowa as a Wliig in May,
1855, and, his seat having been declared vacant on
the ground of an informality in his election, he was
again elected in 185(1 for the remainder of the term;
ho was re-elected In 1800; in 1805 he entereil the
cabinet as secretary of the interior, and resigned in
Septcmljer, 1800, having been re-elected to the Unit-
ed-Stales Senate as a Republican (to succeed S. J.
Kirkwood, Republican), and serving from September,
1800, to Man-h 8, 1873.
Harmanson, John H., was bom at Norfolk,
Virginia, Jauuury, 18(>;J: received a classical educa-
tion, graduating at JcfTorson College, Mipsisfippl;
removed to Louisiana, where he devoted himself to
the law, jind aftcrwanls to agricultural pursuits;
was a State senator in 1844; was elected a represen-
tative from Louisiana in the Twenty-ninth Congress
lis a Democrat; was re-elccte<l to the Thirtieth Con-
gress, receiving 3,S109 votes against 3,323 votes for
Saunders, Whig; and was re-elected to the Tliirty-
first Congress, receiving 2.740 votes against 2,206
votes for Stewart, Whig, serving from December I,
1845, to October 25, 1850, when he died at New
Orleans.
Harmer, Alfred Cy was born in fiemiantown
(now part of the city of Philadelphia), Pennsylvania,
Augusts, 1825; received a public-school education;
commenced business as a shoe-manufacturer at
twenty years of age, and became a wholesale dealer;
was elected a member of the city councils of Phila-
delphia in 1850, and sen'ed four years: was elected
recdrder of deeds for Phila<lelpbia in 1800, and served
three j-ears; was a delegate to the last National R»-
publican Convention at Chicago: was elected a rep-
resentative from Pennsylvania in the Forty-second
Congress as a Republican, receiving 11,501 vote*
against 11,401 votes for Dr. John R. Reading, Demo-
crat; and was re-elected to the Forty-third Congress,
receiving 14.74;3 votes against 12,040 votes for S.
Phillips, Democrat, serving from March 4, 1871, to
March 3, 1875; was again elected to the Fnrty-tifth
Congress, receiving 17,073 votes against 14,722' votes
for Duval, Democrat^ serving from October 15, 1877.
Harnett, Cornelius, was a delegate from NorUi
Carolina to the Continental Congress 1777-1780.
Harper, Alexander, was bom in Ireland ; emi-
grated to Ohio, and located at Zanesville; was elect-
ed a rcpiesentative from Ohio in the Twenty-fifth
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Congress as a Whig, defeating Ramer, Van Buren
Democrat, and serving from September 4, 1887, to
Mnn.-ti 3. 1S39; was again elected to the Twenty-
elgtith Consress, receiving 6,198 rotes against 4,t)oa
vote? for .Ii-hiiing«, Democrat; and was re-elected to
the Twenty-ninth Congress, senrUig from December
4, 184;J, to March 3, 1847; was again elected to the
liiirty-second Congress, receiving 6,108 votes against
4,7511 votes for Maxtield, Democrat, serving from De-
cember 1, 1«1, to March 3, 1853.
Harper, Francis J., was bom at Franltford,
Pennsylvania, in 171X1; was a member of the State
House of Representatives In 1832, and of the State
Senate in ISSJ-ISW; was elected a representative in
tlie Twcnty-lifth Congress from Pennsylvania as a
Democrat, defeating Charles Nnylor, Whig; and died
before taking his seat, at Frankfonl, Pennsvlvania,
Mar.'h 18. 1S;57.
Harper, James, was ix)m In Ireland In 177i>;
was a brickmaker; immigrated to the United States,
and located at Philadeliihia; t>ecame a prominent
incml>er of the Masonic fraternity; was elected a
repn-sontative from I'ennsylvania In the Twrnty-
thini Congrress as a Clay Democrat, receiving 5.1t>l
votes against 8,306 votes for Kicliards, Jackson Dem-
ocrat; and was re-elected to the Twenty-fourth Con-
gress as a Whig, receiving Ci.WO votes against 4.674
votes for his Democratic opponent, serving from De-
cember 2. 18.33, to March 3. 18.37; died at PhUadcl-
phin. Pennsylvania, March 31, 1873.
Harper, James C, was bom in Cumberland
County, Pennsylvania, December 6, 1810; removed
In l&il with &is parents to Darke County, Ohio,
where he was raised on a farm, and n-ceivea a com-
mon-school education; removed in 1840 to Caldwell
County, North Carolina, where he engaged in mer-
cantile pursuits, and afterward in manufacturing and
fanning; filled various county oliices; was eleilcd to
the House of Commons of the Stale legislature in
1805 and lS*Vi; was elected to the House of Represen-
tatives of the State legislature in 1868, and was barred
by the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment to the
Constitution of the United States, but his political
disabilities were removed by Act of Contrress in 18tli);
was elected a representative from North Curolinn In
the Forty-second Congress as a Conservative, receiv-
ing 12,130 votes against 0,2.31 voles for A. II. Jones,
Bepublican, serving from March 4, 1871, to March 3,
1873.
Harper, John A., was a native of New Hamp-
shire: received an academic education; studied law;
was admitted to the bar, and commenced practice at
Meredith, New Hampshire; was major of the Twen-
ty-ninth Rj'giment in 1804)-181(i. and lieutenant-colo-
nel in 1811-1814; was aide-de-camp to Governor
Langilon in 1811, and aide-de-camp to Governor
PluraiT in 1812; was elected a representative from
New Hampshire to the IVelfth Congress as n War
Democrat, serving from November 4, 1811, until
March 3, 1813; was defeated as a candidate for re-
election to the Thirteenth Congress as a War Demo-
crat, recehing 15,985 votes against 18,585 votes for
B. Cilly, Pcice Federalist.
Harper, Joseph M., was bom at Limerick,
Maine, June 21, li67; w.is reared on a farm; re-
ceived a public-school education ; studied medicine,
mnd commenced practice at Canterbury, New Hamp-
shire, in 18] 1 ; served in the war ag-ainst Great Britain
as assistant surgeon of the Fourth United-States In-
fantry; was a member of the State House of Repre-
sentatives in 1828 and 1827. and of the State Senate
In 1829 and 1830, serving the last year as president of
the Senate, and ex officio as governor from Febniary
until June, 1831; was elected a representative from
New Hampshire in the Twenty-second Congress as
a Democrat, and was re-<"lectcd to the Twenty-third
Congress, recei\ing 22,992 votes against 0,013 votes
for 8. E. Cones, ^Vhig, and 1,820 votes for D. C. At-
kinson, Anti-Mason, serving from Decemijer 5, 1831,
to March 3, 1836; letlred from practice to his farm
In Canterbury, retaining the presldetjcy of the Me-
chanics' Bank In Concord; and died at Canterbury
Janimr)- 14, 1806.
Harper, Robert Qoodloe, was bom near
Fredeiickslmrg, Virginia, in 1705; received a classi-
cal education, graduating at Princeton College in
1785, and was for a lime a teacher there; studieil
law ; was admitted to the bar in 178<i. and commenceil
practice at Charleston, South Carolina; was elected
a representative from South Carolina In tlie Third
Congress (in place of Alexander Giilon, resipneti) at
a Democrat; was re-elected to the Fourth, Fifth, aiid
Sixth Congresses, serving from February 9, 1795, to
March 3, 1801 ; 8er\-ed in tlie war of 1812, receiving
promotion from the rank of colonel to that of major-
general; married a daiighter of Charles Carroll of
C'arrollton; removed to Baltimore, and practised law
there : was elected a United-States senator from Mary-
land, to serve from January 29, 1810, to March 3, 1821,
but resigned in 1816; visited Europe in 18U>-18S0;
delivered an eloquent address to a jury one day, and
the next morning, while reading a newspaper after
breakfast, fell fnim his chair, and expii^, January
l.*), 1825. He published a nurol)er of pamplilets on
the diplomatic questions of the day.
Harper, William, was bom in the Island of
Aniigua .January 17, 17W; was lirought by his father
to Baltimore, and went from there to Charleston,
South Carolina; recinvcd a classical education, grad-
uating at the South-Carolina College in 1808; studied
law; was admitted to the bar, and commenced prac-
tice at rolumliia; removed to Missouri in 1818; was
State chancellor 1819; was a member of the State
Constitutional Convention in 1821 ; returned to South
Carolina in 1823; was Slate reporter in 1824. 18SS;
was appointed a Unitetl-Statcs senator from Sooth
Carolina (in jilace of Jolm Gaillard. decoi-sod), serv-
ing from March 28, 1826, to Decemlx-r 7, 1820, when
his successor took his seat ; resumed the practice of
law at Charleston ; was a member of the State House
of Representatives, and speaker of the House, in 1S28;
was appointed a judge of the .State Court tpf Appeals
in 18;]l; was chancellor of the Slate of Soutli Caro-
lina from 18.34 until his death in South t'arolina
Octol>er 10, 1847. He publislied a volume of "South-
Carolina Reports," a "Eulogy on Chancellor De
Saussure," and several magazine articles.
Harrington, Henry W., was l)om in Otsego
County, New York, September 12, 1825; received an
academical education; studied law; was admitted to
the bar in 1849. and commenced practice, removing
to Madison, Indiana, in 1850; was a delegate to the
Democratic Convention at Charleston in 1800: was
elected a representative from Indiana In the Thirty-
eighth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 11,5^
votes .igainst 1(1,144 votes for W. McKee Dunn, Re-
publican, sen'uig from December 7, 1803, to March
3, 18<S ; was a delegate to the Democratic Conven-
tion at New York iu 1868; was assessor of internal
revenue In Indiima.
Harris, Benjamin Qwinn, was lx>m near
Leonardstown. St. Mary's County, Maryland, De-
cember, 13, 1800; received an academical e<lucatlon;
was a student at Yale College, and afterwards at the
Cambridge Law School; was admitted to the bar,
and commenced practice at Loonardstown, devoting
Iiimself also to agricultural pursuits; was a member
of the St.ale House of Representatives in 18:J2, 1833,
18:W, I.'mo, 18.")2, and 1866; was elected a represent
tatlve from Maryland in the Thirty-eighth Co;
as a Democrat, receiving 4,039 votes against
votes for Holland, Union, and 2,237 votes for Ci
Constitutional Uiiion; was re-elected to the Thirty-
ninth Congress, receiving 8,830 votes against 3,389
votes for Holland, Union, serving from Decemtjer 7,
186.3, to March 3, 1807; was tried at Washington in
May, 18*'>5, by a court-martial, for having given aid
and comfort to the enemy i)y harboring two paroled
Confederate soldiers, and sentenced to be imprisoned
for three years, and forever disqualified from holding
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mny office under the United-States Govemment; but,
uewevidfiico having been produced, President John-
son rt-niiltcd tlic boiiteucc.
■ Harris, Benjamin "W., was bom at East
jBrld^rwater, Miiss;»chu9etts. >ovenil>er 10, 182.S; re-
ceived an aoiwleinic education; studied law, graduat-
ing at llie D:im' Law ScliOdl. Cambridge, in Itmi,
and was admitted to tlie bar iil Boston in April, l.*!');
commenced practice at East liridgewater in July.
1H.V1, and has been constantly engaged in it since;
W.1S a member of tlie Stale Senate from Plymouth
County in 1857, and a representative in tlie State
legislature from East Brldgewater in ISoS; was dis-
trict-attomev for Ihc South-easteni District of Mas-
sai'husetts from July 1, 1858, until June 30, 1866:
was collector of internal revcnae for the Second
District of Massachusetts from June 20, 186(!, until
Slai-ch 1, 1873, when he resigned; was elected a rep-
resentnlive from Massachusetts in the Forty-tliird
Congress as a IJepublican, receiving 13,752 votes
against 0,1x0 votes for E. Avery, Democrat; was re-
elected to tlie Forty-fourth Congress as a Republican,
receiving B.Ool votes against 0,088 votes for Edward
Avery. Uemncrat; and was re-elected to the Forty-
fifth Congress, receiving 15,5.50 votes against 0,757
votes for Edward Avery, Democrat, serving from
December 1, 1:^73.
Harris, Charles M., was boni at Mnnfordsville,
Kentucky, April 10, 1821; received a public-school
education; studied law; was admitted to tlie bar,
and commenced practice at Oouawka, Illinois; was
elected a representative from Illinois in the Thirty-
eighth Congress as a DemfH?rat, receiving 11.020 votes
against 8,71 1 votes for Lawrence, Kepublicau, sening
from Deceinlwr 7, 1803, to March 3, 18tl5.
Harris, Q. E., was bom in Orange County,
}fortb Carolina, January 0, 1827; was raised In
Caroline County, Tennessee; removed to Mississippi
in 1S44; sludied law without a preceptor; was ad-
mitted to the liar in 1854. and eumnienced practice at
2Ieniando, Mississippi ; was an < Hd-Line Whig, and
opposed to secession, but, when his State severed her
connection witli the Federal Union, he entered the
Confederate army, serviiig until the close of the war;
■was elected district-attoraey in 18<}0. re-elected in
18tM5, and removed from office by the Iteconslruclion
^cts: was elected a representative from Mississippi
%u the Forty-first Congress as a Republican, receiving
10.20<J votes against e,3e<J votes for Wofford, Demo-
crat, and 429 votes for Avery, Independent Demo-
crat; w.ts re-elected to the Forty -second Congress;
■was elected attomey-general of the State of Missis-
eippi.
Harris, Henry R., was bom at Sparta, Georgia,
Tebruary 2. 1828; n-moved to Greenville, (Georgia, in
1833; received a liberal education, graduating at
Imoi^ College in 1847; devoted himself to agricultu-
ral pursuits;" w.is a delegate to the State Coiivcntion
of 1S(!1: was elected a representative from Geon;lu
in the Forty-third Congress as a Democrat, receiving
10,(S)1 votes against 8,400 voles for Marion Belhuue,
Bepublican; was re-elected to the Forty-fourth Con-
gress, receiving (•.2-'50 votes; and was re-elected to
till.' Forty-fifth Confess, receiving 13.707 votes
^gainst 5,785 votes for n. W. Hilliard, Republican,
liBniiig from December 1, 1S73.
1^ Harris, Ira, was l>nni at Cliarleston, New York,
May 31, 1802; was reared on a fann; received a clas-
sical education, graduating at Union College in 1824;
studie<l law at Cortland with Augustus Donnelly, and
•fterwards at Albany with Ambrose Spetu^er; was
admitted to the bar iii 1S27, and commence<l practice
at Albany; was a member of the State House of
Representatives in 1844 and 1345; was a State sen-
ator in 1840; was a dolegate to the State Constitu-
tional Convention in 1846; was a justice of the Su-
preme Court 1S47-1S50; was elected a United-States
senat/^ir from New York as a Repuldican, serving
from July 4, 1801, to March 3, 18tJ7; was a delegate
at largo to the Stat« Constitutional Convention of
1867; was professor of equity, jurispnidence, and
practice in the Albany Law School; was fir many
years president of the Board of Trustees of L'niiu
College; was the first and only chaueullor, until his
death, of the Rochester University; was president
of the American Baptist Missionary Union and sev-
eral other religious institutions; was struck with
paralysis, .md died n'. Albany December 2, ISi.).
Harris, Isbam O., was boni in Franklin Coun-
ty, Tt'nnessee, in isifi; was educated at tlie academy
at Wlncliendon; studied law; was admitted to the
l>ar, and commenced |>ractice at Paris, Tennessee, in
1841 ; was elected to the State legislature as a Demo-
crat in 1847; was defeated as a Democratic candidate
for presidential elector in 1848; was elected a repre-
sentative from Tennessee in the Thirty-first Congress
as a Democrat, receiving 5,433 votes against 4,*)2
votes for Morris. Wliig; and was rt^-clecled lo the
Thirty-second Congn'ss, receiving 4,744 votes against
2.852 votes for Hornberger, Whig, serving from De-
cemt>er 3, 1840, to March .3, 18.5;J; declined a nniomi-
nation, and removed to Memphis; was a presidential
elector on the Buchai\an and Breckinridge ticket in
IS-Jfl; was elected governor of Tennessee as a Demo-
crat in 1857; re-elected in 185t», and again in 1801;
was n volunteer aide upon the staff of the command-
ing general of the Confederate army of Tennessee
for the last three years of the war; returned to the
practice of law at Memphis in 1807, and was engaged
in it when elected to the United-States Senate as a
Democrat, defeating Judge L. L. Hawkins, Repub-
lican (to succeed Henry Cooper, Democrat), and took
his seat March 5. 1877.
Harris, J. Morrison, w.os bom at Baltimore,
Maryland, in 1821; received a classical education,
graduating at Lafayette College, Pernisylvania; stud-
ied law; was admitted to the bar in 1843, and com-
menced practice at Baltimore; was elected a repro-
seulatlve from Maryland in the Thirty-fourth Con-
gn-ss as an Ainericau, receiving 0,.5.38 votes against
0,484 votes for Vansant, Democrat; was re-elected to
the Thirty-fifth Congress, receiving 8,701 votes against
5,455 votes for Wythe, Democrat ; and was r<?-elected
to the Thirty-sixth Congress, receiving i),617 votes
against 4,226 votes for i'reston, Democrat, serving
from December 3, 18.55, to March 3, 18<J1 ; was a dele-
gate to the Niitional Union Convention at Philadel-
phia in 18(U; was defeated as tlie Independent can-
didate for govemor of Maryland in 1807.
Harris, John, was bom in New York; resided in
HcrkimiT County; w.is elected a represt'ntative from
New York in the Tenth Congress, sen'ing from Oc-
tober 20. 1.807, to March 3, 1809.
Harris, John S., w-as bom at Tnutton, Coiiland
County, New York, December 18, 1825; recejved an
academic education ; removed to Milwaukee. Wiscon-
sin, in 184((, wiiere he followed commercial and tbian-
cial ])ursults until 180;j, when he removed to Con-
cordia Parish, Louisiana, and engaged in the cultiva-
tion of cotton; he was elected to the Constitutioual
Convention of that State in 1807, and to the State
Senate in April, 1808; he was elected a LTnltcd-States
senator from Louisiana In July, 1808, as a Republican,
and served from July 17, 1868, to March 3, 1871; en-
gaged In planting in Louisiana; held several State
oHices.
Harris, John T., w-as tiom in Albemarle Coun-
ty, Virginia, May 8, 1825; studied law; was admitted
to llie bar, and commenced practice at Harrisonburg;
was .attorney for the Commonwealth 1852-18.59; was
presidenlial elector on the Buclianan ticket in 1850;
was elected a representative from Virguila in the
Tliirty-sixth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 0,011
votes against 6,080 votes for Skinner, Opposition,
serving from December 6, 1859, to March 3, 1801;
wag ft memlter of the Confederate legislature from
1863 to 1805; was judge of the Twelfth Judicial Cir-
cuit of Virginia from 180*( to 1809; was elected to the
Forty-second Congress as a Deinocnit, receiving 7.300
votes against 620 rotes for lieynolds, Independent,
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and 8,000 votes for Gray, Republican; was reelected
to the Forty-third Confess, receiving 10,894 votes
against 6,736 votes for O'Ferrall, Independent; was
re-elected to the Forty-fourth Congress, receiving
9,620 votes against 7,723 votes for Lewis, Republican ;
and was re-elected to the Forty-fifth Congress, re-
ceiving 17,143 votes against 6,250 votes for Early,
Reput>licau, serving from March 4, 1871.
Harris, Mark, was bom at Ipswich, Massachu-
setts, in 1779; removed to Portland (then in the dis-
trict of Maine) in 1800; was in the grocery business;
was county treasurer for many years ; was a member
of the Massachusetts Senate in 1816 and 1810; was a
State councillor on the organization of Maine as an
independent State; was elected a representative
from Maine in the Seventeenth Congress (in place of
Ezekiel Whitman, resigned), serving from December
20, 1822, to March 3, 1823; was for many years State
treasurer; and died at New-York CityMarah 2, 1843.
Harris, Bobert, was bom in Dauphin County,
Pennsylvania; resided at Harrisburg; was elected a
representative from Pennsylvania in the Eighteenth
Congress as a Democrat; and was re-elected to the
Nineteenth Congress, serving from December 1, 1823,
to March 3, 1827.
Harris, Sampson W., was bom In Elbert
County, Georgia, Febmary 23, 1809; received a clas-
sical education, graduating at the University of Geor-
gia in 1828; studied law; was admitted to the bar,
and commenced practice at Eatonton ; was a member
of the House of Representatives of Georgia; removed
to Wetumpka, Alabama, in 1838; was elected solicit-
or of the Eighth Circuit in 1841 ; was an unsuccess-
ful candidate for circuit-judge; was State senator in
1844, and i^ain in 1846; was elected a representative
from Alabama in the Thirtieth Congress as a Demo-
crat without opposition; was re-elected to the Thlr-
ty-flrst Congress as a Democrat, receiving 6,611 votes
against 4,969 votes for John S. Hunter, Whig; was
reelected to the Thirty-second Congress as a Demo-
crat, receiving 6,677 votes against 6,086 votes for
William S. Mudd, Whig; was re-elected to the Thir-
ty-third Congress as a Democrat, receiving 6,285
votes against 1,560 votes for J. Moore, Whig; and
was re-elected to the Thirty-fourth Congress as a
Democrat, receiving 6,999 votes against 5,220 votes
for W. B. Martin, Know-Nothing, serving from De-
cember G, 1847, to March 3, 1857; declined a re-elec-
tion; was seized before the close of the session with
sore throat, and died at Washington City April, 1857.
HarriR Thomas K., was elected a representa-
tive from Tennessee in the Thirteenth Congress as a
Democrat, serving from May 24, 1813, to March 2,
1815; his election was unsuccessfully contested by
William Kelly; he died from wounds received in a
rencounter with Colonel Simpson, April 18, 1816.
HEUrris, Thomas L., was bom at Xorwich, Con-
necticut, October 29, 1816; received a classical edu-
cation, graduating at Trinity College, Hartford, in
1841 ; studied law ; was admitted to the bar in 1842,
and commenced practice at Springfield, lUinois, but
removed in 1843 to Mound City; was elected to the
State Senate in 1846, but did not accept, as he served
in the Mexican war, distinguishing himself in several
engagements; was elected a representative from Illi-
uols in the Thirty-first Congress as a Democrat, re-
CL-ivInt: 7,-!>l viitcs airainst 7,095 votes for Logan,
Whig, Borviiig ln>ui December 3, 1849, to March 3,
JJiJi; Wii« dtlVatt'll as the Democratic candidate for
Ihc TUirty-iSfCiiiid ("imgress, receiving 6,254 votes
uaiiiM T.tW votfs fur Yates, Whig; was again elect-
ed to the Tliirty-fourtli Congress, receiving 10,090
vtilas aguiiis) VSM votes for Tates, Republican; and
wwi r<H»li!(;tBfi l<) thi* TUlrty-fifth Congress, receiving
li.lOn votes nsiiinst 12,077 votes for Williams, Re-
puUlicftft, lUTViiig from December 3, 1865, to Novem-
ber S4, 1S&,S: ijii the Hrst Monday in that month he
bait l>i't>ii rf.flei'lfd to the Thirty-sixth Congress, re-
ceirlng I6,lu:i votes u^nst 11,643 votes for Matheny,
lUpulillcAn ; but Ms tiflorta during the cauvaas has-
tened his death, from pulmonary con8un4>tion, at
Springfield, Illinois, November 24, 1858.
Harris, Wiley P., was bom in Mississippi; re-
sided at Monticello; was elected a representative
from Mississippi in the Thirty-third Congress as s
Democrat, receiving no opposition, serving from De-
cember 6, 1853, to March 3, 1855; a change in the
congressional districts prevented his r&HElection;
was a deputy to the Provisional Congress of the
Confederate States which assembled at Montgomeiy.
Alabama, Februaij, 1861.
Harris, William A., was bom in Faaqoier
County, Virginia, August 8, 1806; received an aca-
demical education; studied law; was admitted to
the bar, and commenced practice at Luray ; vas x
member of the State House of Ri^resentatives; was
a presidential elector on the Van Buren and Johnson
ticket in 1840; was elected a representative froiD
Virginia in the Twenty-seventh Congress as a Demo-
crat, serving from May 31, 1841, to March 3, lt>43:
was editor of " The Spectator," and subeequentiv of
" The Constitution," published at Washington City:
was charyi d'affcUret to the Argentine Republic F«lv
ruary 19, 1846-Febmai7 27, 1851; removed to Mis-
souri; waB editor of "The Washington Union," and
printer to the United-States Senate, 1857-1859; and
died in Pike County, Missouri, March 28, 1864
Harrison, Albert Q., wm bora in Kentucky;
received a liberal education; studied law; was ad-
mitted to the bar, and commenced practice at Fulton,
Missouri ; was elected a representative from Missouri
in the Twenty-fourth Congress as a Van Barta
Democrat, receiving 4,278 votes against 3,47» votes
for James 3irch White, Whig; and was re-elected
to the Twenty-fifth Confess, receiving 23,425 votes
against 16,708 votes for Wilson, Whig, serving from
December 7, 1836, to March 3, 1889; died at Fulton,
Missouii, September 7, 1839.
Hamson, Benjamin (father of William Brtuy
Harrison, and grandfather of John Scott Harrison),
was bom in Berkeley Cotmty, Virginia, April 5, IT-W;
received a classical education, studying, but not
graduating, at William and Mary College; was a
member of the Colonial House of Burgesses in 1764;
took an active part in pre-Revolutionary movements;
was a delegate from Virginia in the Continental
Congress 1774-1778; resigning, he was again elected
to the House of Bui^sses, and was chosen speaker:
was governor of Virginia 1782-1784; was a dele^te
to the State Convention that ratiJBed the Federal
Constitution, but voted against it ; died at City Faint,
on the James River, Apnl 24, 1791:
Hanison, Carter B., was bom in Charles Coas-
ty, Virginia; received a classical education; iras
elected a representative from Virginia in the Third
Congress, and re-elected to the Fourth and Rftli
Congresses, serving from December 2, 1793, to March
3, 1799.
Harrison, Carter H., was bom in Payette
County, Kentucky, February 15, 1825; received a
classical education, graduating at Yale College in
1845; studied law, but was a farmer in his native
county until 1855; spent two years in foreign travel;
graduated at Transylvania Law School, Lexington.
Kentucky, in 1855; removed to Chicago; did not
enter into active practice of law, but was a real-
estate owner and operator there; was elected a Cook-
county commissioner in 1871, and served tmtil De-
ceml)er, 1874; and was elected a representative from
Illinois in the Forty-fourth Congress as an Opposi-
tionist (Democratic), receiving, according to the rf-
tums, 9,189 votes against 9,181 votes for Jasper D.
Ward, Republican ; Mr. Ward gave notice of contest,
but, a recount of the l>allots increasing Mr. Harrison's
majority to upward of 160, the contest was aban-
doned; was re-elected to the Forty-fifth Congress,
receiving 14,732 votes against 14,090 votes forGeotge
R. Davis, Republican, serving from December 6,
1875.
Harrison, Horaoe H., was bom in Wilwii
STATISTICAL SKETCHES.
486
Dunty, Tennessee, An?ust 7, 1820; rpceiveil an aca-
demic wliicarion; stmifcil law; was admitteil to the
bar in iJvi". aiiJ conimoiiceil practice at Xivshville in
1859: wag rnited-States district-attorney for tbe
Central Tennessee District ISOS-l.'KI'!; was elected
chancellor in the Xashville Chancery Division; was
judge of the State Supreme Court lf<K7, lS<.i8; was
presiileutial elector on the Grant and Colfax ticket
In 18<W; was again United-States dlstrict-atloniey for
the Oiitril Tennessee District 1872-1873; was elect-
e.l Illative from Tennessee in the Forty-tliirrl
f. < a Kepulilican, recei\inc HUtlj votes
a*; -. ...1 votes for E. I. GoUaday. Democrat, and
S.tVvl votes for W. (J. Brien, IiideiM'ndent Di-mocrat,
Bcriintr from Deceinljcr 1, 1873, to March :5. 1.S7.J.
Harrison, James T., of Lowndes County, Mls-
sissifipi, pn'SHUted to ihe House of Representatives
on the 4lli of ,Inne. IH(!*l. credentials siKiied by Gov-
ernor Humiihreys. di'darinj; that In- hiul been elected
to represent the Thinl District of ilississippi in the
Tliirty-sixth ConiiresiS.
Harrison, John Soott (grandson of Benjamin
Harrison, and son of William Henry Harrison), was
boni at North Bend, Ohio; received a liberal eduen-
tion; was elected a representative from Ohio in the
Thirty-thinl Conaress as a Whig, receiving 4,78f) votes
against 3,S41t votes for Uoilins, Democrat, and 142
TOfes for Hine, Free-.Soller; and was re-clect45d to the
Thirty-fourth Congress, receiving 7,562 votes against
3,801 votes for (;ro<>8l>eck, Democrat, serving from
Deceml>er h, 1853, to March 3, 1857; died suddenly
on his farm, near N'orth Bend, Ohio, May 26. IH78.
Hairisoa, Riohard A., was born in Enghuid
In 1S;J7; eraignitwl with his pan-nts to America in
lS3(i, and settled in Ohio; rt^ceived a public-school
education; sened a partiiil apprenticeship to the art
of printing; studied law at the Cincinnati Law
Schotil, graduating In 1840, and commenced pnictici'
It Lonilon; was a memlier of the State House of
Bepresentatives in 1846, and of the State .Senate in
1848; was elected a representative from Ohio in the
Thirty-seventh Congress as a Union Democrat (to fill
the vacincy occisioned by the resignation of Thomas
Corwin. who h.id been .ipiminted minister to Mexico),
•erring from July 4. I8<il. to March 3, 18<B.
Harrison, Samuel S., was born in Maryland;
removed to Pennsylvania, and located at Klttanning;
was elected a representative from Pennsyiv.iuia in
the Twenty-third Congress as a Democrat; ami wiis
re-elecled to the Twenty-fotirth Congress, serving
from December 2. l>c};j, to March 3. 18^57.
Harrison, William, was Iwrn in Mar>iand,
anil wus a delegate from that .State to the Continen-
tal Congri-ss. ser\ing 17.8.'>-1787.
Harrison, William Henry (son of Benjamin
Harrison, ami father of .John .Scott Harrison), wns
bom in Ch.irles County, Virginia, February U, 1773:
received a classical education, studying, but not
graduating, at Hampdcn-Sydncy College ; studied
medicine; w.xs commissione«l by President Washing-
ton, in April, I'iU, ensign, and by gallant conduct in
Indian wars had reached tlie rank of captain win'n
he resigned in 17'J7; was appointed secretarj' of the
North-Wfst Territor)% and was elected its delegate in
the Sixth Congress, serving from Decemlier 2, 1700,
to March, 1800, when he resigned; was governor of
Indiana 18<J1-1I^13, and also Indian agent; was major-
general of volunteers; defeated the British and In-
dians at Tippecanoe November 7, 1811; served with
distinction ni the war of 1812. resigning in 1814; was
It the he.nd of a commission to treat with the Indi-
lu«: v^•as elected a representative from Ohio in the
Fonrteenth Congress (in place of John McLean, rc-
siiTiie-tt M a WTiig; and was re-elected to the Fif-
li . ■■ ,'ress, serving from December 2, 1816. to
M :'; wasameniberof the Stjite Senate 181ft-
1^.. ii'cted a United->Stntes senator from Ohio,
•eiring from December 5, 1825, to May 20, 1828, when
be resigned; was minister to Colombia May 24, 1828,
to September 20, 1^9; was elected President of the
United States In 1840, and was Inaugurated March 4,
1841; died at W.ishington City April 4. 1841.
Hart, Emanuel B., was lH)rn at New York
OctolH?r 29, 1811; received a public-scho<il education:
engaged in mercantile pursuits; was an active militia
officer, .att.iining the rank of lieutenant-colonel; was
a member of the BoanI of Aldermen; was elected a
repr>:'sentative from New York in the Thirty-second
Congress as a Democrat, receiving 3,679 votes against
1,7j5 votes for Bowen, Whig, serving from December
1, 1.<)1. to Mandi 3. 18.")3; was appointed liy President
Buchanan surveyor of llie port of New York.
Hart, E. Kirke, was born at Albion, New York,
April s, 1S41; was educated at Albion Acudeniy;
engaged in banking business in 1860, anil becatnc
cashier of the Orleans-c<mnty National Bank: wag a
member of the State House of Representatives in
1872; was elected a repn^sentalive from New York in
the Forty-ftfth Congress sis a Dem<RTat, receiving
17.7(»7 votes against I7.l;i8 votes for John M. Davy,
Republican, and 167 votes for Alphonso .\. Hopkins,
Prohibitionist, serving from October 15, 1877.
Haxt, JohJl, was 1)om at Hopewell, New .lersey,
in I'lX; received a public-school education; engaged
in agricultural pursuits; took an active part in pre-
Kevolutionary movements; was a delegate frr)m New
Jersey to the Continental Congress 1774-1777; was
hunted by the Hessians, l)Ut escaped capture; and,
after pe.ace was declared, he returned to Ids farm,
where he dieil in I7^>0.
Hart, Roswell, was bom at Rochester, New
York, in 1824; n-ceived a classical education, gradu-
ating at Yale College in 184:i; 8t\idied law; was ad-
mitted to the bar in 1.S47, but did not practise; en-
gaged In mercantilepursuits; was elected a r<'preseii-
tative from New Ywrk in the Thirty-ninth Congress
US a Republican, receiving 13,0S1 votes against 11,841
votes for James L. Angle, Demtjcrat, serving from
Decemlier4, 180.J, to March 3, 1867; was defeated as
the Republican candidate for the Fortieth Conim'ss,
receiving 10,757 votes against 12,701 votes for Lewis
Selve, Independent Republican.
Sartley, Thomas, was Imm at Reading, Penn-
sylvania, Sejitember 7, 1848; received an academical
c<lucalii>n: studied law; was admitted to Ihe bar,
and commenced practice at York, Pennsylvania;
ser\'ed iu Ihe Revolutionary war as colonel of the
Sixth Pennsylvania Regiment; w.is a memlier of the
State House of Representatives in 1778; was elected
a representative from Pennsylvania in the First,
Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Congresses,
serving from March 4, l~Xl), to December 21, 1800,
when Fie died at York, Pennsylvania.
Hartrid^e, Julian, was bom at Savannah,
Georgia; received a collegi.ite e<lucation: attended
the Law .School at f'ambridge. Massacliusetts; prac-
tised law; was solicitor-general of Ihe Eastern ,Midl-
cial Ciri'uit of Georgia; member of the legislature of
Georgia; delegate to the Charleston Democratic Con-
vention in 18'itJ; was in the Confederate army during
the first yciir of the war; w.-is a member of the Con-
federate Congress; was chaimum of the executive
coinmittee of the Democratic [mrty of Georgia in
1871. delegate for the State at large to the National
Democratic Convention in 1872, elector for the State
at large on the Democratic ticket in 1872, and was
elected a repniscntafive from Georgia in the Forty-
fourth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 11,2,52
votes ag.ain8t 6,714 votes for John E. Bryant, Repult-
lican; and was re-elected to the Forty-fifth Congress,
receiving 11,465 votes against 5,022 voles for John E.
Brvant, Rejiublic.in. serving from Decenilier 6. 1S75.
fiartzell, William, was born in .Stark County,
Ohio, Febniary 20, IKYl; removed with his parents
to Illinois in l.S4(>, and thence to the then republic of
Texas in 1844, where he remained until l.Sj3, when
he removed to liandolph County, Illinois, where he
has since residetl; was reared on a fami; graduated
at McKendrcc College, Lebanon, IlUnois, in June,
1859; studied law; was admitted to the bar in June,
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1S04, and has since prnctised; was a Democratic
nominee for tlie Furty-sccond Congn'JS, end was
electeil a repren'iitative fnnu Illinois in the Furty-
foiirlli C'onerpsg iis a Democrat (receiving the vote of
the Liberal Hopuldirans and the Indejiendent Re-
fonii parly) liy lii,8e*l votes against 1>,2S(> votes for
Isaac f'li'ni'.'nts, Republican; and was re-elected to
the Flirty-fifth Congn-ss, receiving 14,fini votes
against 14,071 votes for Benjamin L. Wiley, Repub-
lican, ser\Mng from Deeeml>er 6, l>*~').
Harvey, James M., was bom In Monroe Coun-
ty, VIrijinia, September 21, ls;W; studied principally
in the public and select soliools of Indiana, Iowa, and
Illiniiis; practised sun'eying and civil enjdneering as
a profession until he removed to Kans.is at its settle-
ment In l.SiJ), and has slncv Iveen n fanner there; was
captain In the Fourth and Tenth Regiments of Kan-
sas Volunteer Infantry from IWl until 1S(14; was a
luemlxir of the Lower Ilmise of the State legislature
in If^tio, and .again in 18(10, and a member nf tlie State
■Senate in 1807-18(1)^; was govonior of Kansas in 1S<II>-
1(<7(I. and again in lR7l>-lt<71; was elected a United-
Slates s<-nator from Kansas as a Republican (to till
the vacancy occasioned by the resiimalion of Alexan-
der Caldwell, Rejiublicau, which had In-en teniiK)-
rarily filled by the appointment of Robert Crozier),
serving from Kebninry 12, ll!i74, to March 3, 1877.
Harvey, Jonattian (brother of Matthew Ilar-
vev), was boni in Merrimack County, New llamp-
ihire. in 1780; received a good English education;
resided at Sutton; was for several years a ineniber of
the Slate House of Representatives' anil Senate, serv-
ing as president of the Senate lSI7-l^'-3; was a mem-
ber of the Exwulive Council 182.'}-1S25; Wiis elected
a representative from New Hanjpshire in the Nine-
teenth, Twentieth, amt Twenty-first Congresses, serv-
ing from December."), 1.S2.J, to" March H. 1*^1; died at
.Sutton, New Maniiisbire. August 23, l.soi).
Harvey, Matthew, was burn at Sutton, New
Hampshire, June 21. 1781; received a classical edu-
cation, graduating at Dartmouth College In ISmt;
studied law under .lohii Harris; w.-vs admitted to the
bar, and commenced practice at Hopkinton, New
Hampshire, In ISOtl; was a member of the State
House of Re|)resentatives in 1814. 181.5, 1810. 1S17,
1818, 1811), and 1820, and was speaker the last three
years: was elected a repn-sentative from New Hamp-
shire in the Seventeenth Conaxi?8s on a general ticket
as a Democrat, and was re-elected to the EiitliliH'nlh
Congress, serving fioni December ;j. 1821, until March
3, 1^.5; was a State senator in 1«2.5, 1.'<2(1. and 1827,
serving as president of the Senate; was State council-
lor in 1828 and 1820; w.is governor of New Hanii>-
shire in 18.30-18.31 ; was appointed by President .Jack-
son judge of the Unltcd-.States District Court for
New Hampshire in 18;il, wlncli oflice he held until lie
died at Cuiu'itnl, New Il.inipsbire. April 7, l.'Citl.
Harvie, John, was born in Virginia, and was a
dele-iate from that State to the Continental Congress
177.<- 177(1.
Hasbrouck, Abraham, was bom at Kingston,
Olsler County; was a member of the .State House of
Representatives 1781, 1782, and 1811; was elected a
representative from New York in the Thirteenth
Congress as a Democrat, seniiig from June 28, 1813,
to March 2, 1815; was a member of the State Senate
In 1822.
Hasbrouck, Abraham B., was bom in Vlster
County. New York; n.'Celved a classical education,
graduating at Yale College in 1810; resided at Kings-
ton; was elected a representative from New York
In the Ninet/'enlh Congress, serving from December
5, ]S.<5. to Miut:h 3, 1827; removed to New Jersey,
and was for several years president of Rutgers Col-
lege.
_ Hasbrouck, Josiah, was Ixini at Kingston,
New York; received a public-school education; was
a member of the State House of Representatives
17H0, 1797, 1802. and 1808; was elected a representa-
tive from New York in the Eighth Congress, serving
from October 17. ISO.?, to March 8, 1806; and ' ,
again elected to the Fifteenth Coneress, serving (roial
December 1, 1817, to March 3, 1810,
Hasoall, Augrustus P., was bom in Massarha
setts; removed to New York, and located .it Li'Rny}^
was (•lected a rei>resentativc from New "
Tliirty-seciind Congress as a Whig, re>
votes .igalnst :),nw votes for Sprague, Di.:..
serving from December 1, 1851, to Mtuvh a, 1»5.'4.
Haskell, Dudley C, was boni at Oxfiird.Xei
York. November i.^ 18;J7; lived In Bradfonl Connt]
Pennsylvania, from infancy until \iM)o. when he ;
moved to Topeka. Kansas, and located there:
ceived an academic education: entered the i-oluuto
amiy of the Uiuted States in 1802. and was muslen
out as a c.-iptnin in tlie fall of 1804 on account i
wounds received in the b.ittle of the Wililenn"
was admitted to the practice of law ii
coiinty-attoroey in Kansas for eight suci
was iiBsistant United-States attorney for l\-
1873 to 1877; was electwl a representati^
Kansas In the Forty-fifth Congress as a RepU
receiving 22,088 votes against 17,.518 vote* forjflf
R. Goodm, Democrat, and serving from October 1
1877.
Haskell, William T., was born in Tenne
received .an academical education; studied law;
admitted to tlie bar, and cominence<l practice; «ervt[
in the Mexican war as cohinei of a regiment of Tei
nessoc volunteers, distinguishing himself at Cei
(.Jnrdo; was elected a representative from Tenne'H
in the Thirtieth Congri>ss as a Whig, f — - '- T '
December 0, 1^7. to March 3, 1849; n -
tice: was att.acked with insanity in Au;,_ -,
and died in the lunatic asyliun at Uopldiuviiic,
Kentucky. March 2i», 1859.
Haskm, John B., w.os bom at Fnrdliam. TVmI-
oliester County. New 1 ork. August 7. l'*21 ; reciifftl
a public-school education: studied law: w:i« aJ-
ndtted to the bar, and commenced practice -it New-
York City in 1845; held several city olfii-es; nas
elected a representative from New York in tht
Thirty-fifth Congress as a Democrat, reci'lrine T.lt6
votes iigainst .5.t»35 votes for Strang, Repi ' '
o.O.'il votes for Cid)b. American; nml w
to the Thirty-sixth Congress, receiving '..■ '.
against 7.024 voles for feemble, Democrat, ami ■•Vi
vi>te8 for Andrews. American, senlng from IX'cem-
Iter 7, I8.")7. In March :^. 18<ll.
Hastings, George, was bom at Clinton, OneUi
County. New York. March 1-3. 1807; received a dii«-
sleal education, graduating at Hamilton Colle.T In
18211; studied lavv; was admitted to the bar iii l'^'.
and commenced practice at Clinton; remnveJ to
Mount Morris; was distrlct-altomev for I/n'insiitoa
County 183lt-1.848; was elected a n>i' ^
New York In the Thirty-thirtl Coi
crat, receiving 10.(381 votes again^l
Irvine. Whig, and serving from December .5, 1!*«
to March :^. IS.'!.^: was electe<i judge of the couf
court of Livingston County, serving from Novemt»^^
18.J5, until his death at Mount Morris, New Yc^*T
Au"ust 2!t. 1800.
Eastings, John, resided at Salem, Ohio;
elected a reiircsentative from that State
Twenty-sixth Congress as a Democrat;
elected to the Twenty-seventh Congress,
">4 m.tjority. serving from Deceml>er 2. 1S.W,
March 3,1843; died at Coliunbus, Ohio, Decern^'
21)M8r>4.
Hastings, Samuel Clinton, received on a»-*
deniical education; studied law; was admitted
the bar. and commented practice in Iowa; wa^*'
judge of the State Supreme Court; was elect e<l i
of the first representatives from Iowa in the Ti
ninth Congress, seridng from Decemtwr 2H, 1
March 3, ]xn; removed to California, and prttu,i=
at .San Franeisro.
Hastings, Seth ( father of WllUam 8. Ha
was tiom at Mendon, Massachusetts, in 1701 ; ncd*
<ew Yc^*^r
)hio; i^U
BTATIBTIOAL BKBTOHBS.
487
a classical edncation, graduating at Harvard CoU^e
in 1782; studied law; was adnutt«d to the bar, and
commenced practice in Worcester County: was
elected a representative from Massachusetts In the
Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Congresses, serving from
December 7, 1801, to March 3, 1807; was a member
of the State Senate in 1810 and 1814; was appointed
chief justice of the Court of Sessions; and died at
MendoDj Massachusetts, in 1831.
Hastmgs, William Boden (son of Seth Hast-
ings), wasbom at Mendon, Massachusetts; received
a classical education; was elected a representative
from Massachusetts In the Twenty-fifth Congress as
a Whig; was re-elected to the Twenty-sixth Con-
gress, receiving 4,049 votes against 3,090 votes for
Alexander H. Everett, Democrat; was re-elected to
the Twenty-seventh Congress, serving from Sep-
tember 4, 1837, to June 17, 1842, when he died at the
Red Sulphur Springs, Yirginia.
Hatch, Isra^ T., was bom at Owasco, New
Yurk, iu 1808; received a public-school education;
V3S a grain merchant and forwarder; was elected a
member of the State House of Bcpresentatives; was
elected a representative from New York In the
Thirty-fifth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 7,399
Tot«9 against 6,^ votes for Spauldlng, Republican,
and 5,548 votes for Haven, American, and serving
from December 7, 1857, to March 3, 1859; was
defeated as the Democratic candidate for the
Thirty-sixth Congress, receiving 7,539 votes against
12,-!27 votes for E. G. Spauldlng, Republican ; was
app'iinted by President Buchanan to report on the
workings of the reciprocity treaty, and his adverse
statements were Instrumental in bringing about its
a)>r<igation; was postmaster at Buffalo 1850-1801;
sud died at Buffalo, New Tork, September 24,
ISTJ.
Hatoher, Bobert A., was bom in Buckingham
County, Yiiginta, February 24, 1810; was educated at
private schools in Lynchburg, Virginia; studied law;
was admitted to the bar m Kentucky, and com-
menced practice at New Madrid, Missouri, In 1847;
vas for six years circuit^ittomey of the Tenth
Judicial Circuit of Missouri ; was a member of the
State legislature in 1850 and 1851 ; was a member of
the State Convention in 1862; was a member of the
Cunfedeiate Congress in 1864-1805, and was elected
a representative from Missouri in the Forty-third
Congress as a Democrat, receiving 13,340 votes
against 4,094 votes for M. Ward, Independent Demo-
cnt: was re-elected to the Forty-fourth Congress,
receiving 10,087 votes, without opposition; and
was re-elected to the Forty-fifth Congress, receiving
21,3^) votes against 3,053 votes for L. Davis, Repub-
lican, and 1,737 votes for W. Ballentine, Republican,
servinefrom December 1, 1873.
Hathaway, Samuel G., was bom at Free-
tomi. Massachusetts, July 18, 1780; received a public-
tcUool education; went to sea before the mast; re-
moved to Solon, New York, in 1808; was a member
of the State Assembly in 1814 and 1818, and of the
!>tate Senate In 1823; was elected a representative
from New York in the Twenty-third Congress as a
Uemwrat, serving from December 2, 1833, to March
3. Itcju; declining a re-election, he devoted himself
to agricuitoral pursuits, and died at Solon May 2,
NiT.
Hathom, Henry H., was bom at Greenfield,
Ni--.v York, November 28, 1813; received an academic
''ducation ; was a merchant at SaratOE;a Springs from
I"'".) to 1849, and subsequently largely interested in
till- hotel business there as one of the proprietors of
(^''in'^ress Hall, and also owner of the Hathom
Spriug; was supervisor for Saratoga Springs four
S'l-ars between 1850 and 1800; was eiecte<l sheriff of
!»ratnga County in 1853, and again in 1802, serving
»ii years; was elected a representative from New
Vork in the Forty-third Congress as a Republican,
Kceiving 17,702 votes against 14,750 votes for D. B.
Godson, Gzeeley RepuUicaa; and was re-elected to
the Forty-fourth Congress as a Republican, receiving
15,938 votes against lo,183 votes for Sanders, Demo-
crat, serving from December 1, 1873, to March 3,
1877.
Hathom, John, resided at Warwick, Orange
County, New York; was elected a representative
from Uiat State in the First Congress, serving from
April 23, 1789, to March 3, 1791 ; w&s defeated as the
Federal candidate to the Second and subsequently
to the Third Congress; was again elected to the
Fourth Congress as a Federalist, defeating Lucas
Elmendorph, Democrat, serving from December 7,
1796, to March 3, 1707; was defeated as the Federal
candidate for the Fifth Congress by Lucas Elmen-
dorph, Democrat; was a member of the State Senate
in 1804: was defeated as a candidate for presidential
elector in 1804.
Hatton, Bobert, was bom In Sumner County,
Tennessee, In 1827; received a classical education,
graduating at Harvard College; studied law; was
admitted to the bar in 1849, and commencedpractice
at Lebanon^ was a member of the State Ebuse of
Representatives In 1850 ; was elected a representative
from Tennessee in the Thirty-sixth Congress as a
National American, receiving 0,719 votes against
6,844 votes for Ready, Independent, and serving
from December 5, 1859, to March 3, 1801 ; entered the
Confederate-States army, was appointed brigadier-
general May 23, 1862, and assigned to the command
of the Fifth Brigade, First Division, First Corps,
Army of Yiiginia; was killed in action at Edwards's
Farm June 1, 1862.
Haughey, Thomas, was bom at Glasgow,
Scotland, in 1820; immigrated to the United States,
and located in Alabama in 1840; received a classical
education; studied medicine; graduated at the New-
Orleans Medical College In 1868; served as a surgeon
in the United-States army 1882-1805; was subse-
quently st^-surgeon in the military college at Chal-
tano<^a; was a delegate to the Alabama State Con-
stitutional Convention of 1867; was elected a repre-
sentative from Alabama in tlie Fortieth Congress,
servhig from July 21, 1808, to March 3, 1809.
Haun, H. P., was bom in Scott County, Ken-
tucky, January 18, 1815: received an academic edu-
cation; studied law at Lexington; was admitted to
the bar in 1839, and was elected county-attorney;
removed to Iowa in 1845, and was a member of the
convention which framed the constitution of that
State in 1840; removed to Yuba County, California,
in 1849; was elected county-judge in 1851; was
defeated as the Democratic candidate for governor;
was appointed a United-States senator from Cali-
fornia as a Democrat (in place of David C. Broderick,
deceased), serving from December 5, 1360, to March
6, 1800, when bis successor took his seat; died at
Maysville, California, Mav 0, 1800.
Haven, Nathaniel A., was bom in New Hamp-
shire in 1702 ; received a classical education, gradu-
ating at Harvard College in 1770; was elected a
representative from New Hampshire in the Eleventh
Congress as a Federalist, serving from May 22, 1800,
to March 3, 1811; died March 7, 1831.
Haven, Solomon Q., was bom in New York;
studied and practised law ; was elected a representa-
tive from New York in the Thirty-second Congress
as a Whig, receiving 0,013 votes against 5,305 votes for
Stevens, Democrat ; was re-elected to the Thirty-thinl
Congress, receiving 8,037 votes against 7,054 votes for
Verplanck, Democrat, and 434 votes for Davis, Free-
Soiler; and was re-elected to the Thirty-fourth Con-
gress, receiving 9,075 votes against 0,;J83 votes for
Hatch, Democrat, serving from December 1, 1;^1. to
March 3, 1857; died at Buffalo, New York, December
24, 1801.
Havens, Harrison B., was bom in Franklin
County, Ohio, December 15, 1837; received a com-
mon-school education; studied law In Illinois, and
practised in that State, and afterward In Iowa; re-
moved to Springfield, Missouri, In 1807, and became
COKGKE8SIONAL DIBECTOBT.
editor of "The Srvrino^fij Patriot:" ■vraa elected a
tvpres^ntative t ■ niri in the Forty-second
ConBiess as a i w-pnlilican, receiviiiE 8.830
votes .ipiinst ~.>.^i MiUi fur W. E. Gilmore. bolting
EfpuMican: and was re-elected to the Forty-third
Coneress. receivini; 13.15(1 votes against li..1TS vote*
for C. B. IK-Afee, l>emocrat, aerring from March 4,
1671. to March 3. IST.i.
Havens, Jonathan Nicoll, was bom on
Stilton Island. New York: ri-coivoil a clB.<sical edu-
cation, graduating at Yalo Colli-ge in ITI": was a
member of the State House of Reiiri'S-ntatives 1786-
17W: was elected a n'i>rf»entative fnmi New York
in the Fourth C'oiigre*s, and was re-elected to the
Fifth ConRresa, serving from December 7, 1795, to
Xarch 3, itW; died at his residence on Staten Island
JuIt 7. I'M*.
dawes, Albert G., was a nattre of Kentucky:
resided at lliiwi'sville; was elected a reprDSeutatire
from Kentucky iu the Twenty-second Congress as a
Jackson Democrat, receiring 3.861 votes against
S,8o2 rotes for Chilton, Clay Democrat: was re-
elected to the Twenty-third Congrress, defeating R. R.
Thompson: and was re-elected to the Twenty-fonrlh
<■ - — - ' ' -itine Rol>ert Trinlett, serving from
t. to M.m-h Z, l&H; died at ELawes-
>. .. ;. April 14. 184St.
Hawes, Aylett, was Ixnm in Culpepper County,
Virsinia: received a classical education; studied
medicine, and practised ; was elected a representative
fp>m Virginia in the Twelfth Congress as a Demiv
crat; was re-elected to the Thirteenth and Four-
teenth Congresses, serving from March 4. 1811, to
Slairh 3, isl": resumed practice, and died in Cul-
perper Countv. Virginia. August 31. 18:J3.
Hawes, lUchard, was Iwm in Caroline County.
Virginia, February 6, 1797; received a classical edu-
cation: studied law; was admitted to the bar, and
coouue&ced practice at Windiester, Kentuckr: was
• member at the State House of Representatives in
IffiS, 1S29, and 1830; was elected a representative
from Kentucky in the Twenty-fifth Congress as a
IVhic; and was re-elected to the Twenty-«utth Con-
grv>ss. serving from September 4, 1S37, to March 8,
IMl.
Hawkes, James, was bom at Worcester. Maasa-
diusetts: removed to Richfield. New York, where he
held several local offices; was elected a representa-
tive from New York in the Seventeenth Congress,
•erviug frt>m December 3. 1821, to March .3, 1823.
Hawkins, Benjamin, was l>om in Bute (after-
warrls Warren | County, North Carolina, Angiist 15,
I7M; received a classical education, and was at
Princeton College, but the Revolutionary war sus-
pended the ezmiaes while he was in the senior
daw; baring acquired a knowledge of the French
langnage, Hawkins wms placed on the staff of General
Washington as ioteipt«ter; was at the battle of Mon-
moath and other engagements: waa tent to the
Island of St. Eustatia as pnrchasuig agent of North
Carolina in 178U: was a del^ate to the Continental
Congress 1781-1784 and 178»M787: was api<<>inted by
Congress on eommissinns to negotiate treaties with
the Creeks and C1ierr>ke<>s in 178B; ir«s elected a
tTnited-States aenator to the First Congreas, serving
from January 13. 1790, until March 3. 1796: was ap-
pointed Indian agent for all the trilpes south of the
CHiio River by President Washington in 1790, and
keM the office by successive re-upointments until
be die<l nt the Creek agency June 0^ Iffltl
Hawkins, George S., waa bom In New Tork:
mnoveil to Pon»act>li. Florida: was elected a repre-
aentativt' fmm that St.ite in the Thirty-Bfth CongT»"SS
as a IVnuH-rat, receiving .5,985 votes against 5,226
TOtes fi>r B»kor. American; and was reelected to the
Thiny-«lxth Conncn, receiving 6,406 rotes against
4jno' votes for W«*cott, Tn.Vrwn.l.-nt Domocrat.
•erriuc from IVoemlfr 7. "
Hawkins, Isaac R., ^' iinty.
TenneMee, May 10, 1818; tvccived an academic eda-
rnceiv.
mnOM
I cation; studied and imctised law; served la t^
; Mexican war as a first lieutenant of volunteen; ra
I elected by the Tennessee legislature as a dele pile to
I the Peace Congress of 1S61 : was elected as the CdIod
I candidate l>y a majority of 3.U0O to the Stale cim-
vention called to consider the relatioits of Tennratn
with the General Government: entered the VxAan
army as lieutenant-colonel in 18«i2; was appolotid
chancellor of the Sixth Division in 18SS. but de-
clined: was unanimously chosen to represent fall
district in the Chicago Convention of 1M8: wu
elected a representative from Tennessee in the
Thirty-ninth Congress as a p -■•i !■ — ---..jtUij
3,.^2 votes against 1.819 vote< iK-mw-
crat ; was re-elected to the For rnceiv.
ing 5,0(X) votes against 9^1 voie« f<^-r William
Coldwell, Conservative; and was re-elected
Forty-first Congresa, receiving 2,885 votes
l.i;i() votes for Foote, Democrat, aerHag from
cemlier 3. 186«. to March S, 18(il.
Hawkins, Joseph, was bom in the State ti
New York; received an academic education; statfat
law; was admitted to the l>ar. and commeni
lice at Henderson; was for K>mc years a jodL
electeil Ji representative from New Tork
Twentv-first Concress as an Adams Democrat,
ing Inini December 7. 1829, to March 31, 1881; dli
at Henderson, New York. May 9, lS:Ji
Hawkins, Joseph H., n-^id^l in Lexingtm,
Kentucky: received a liberal e.i -tudied taw;
wa; admitted to the bar. and pr >.sanieiDlfr
of the State House of Represenu^<^.- 1 •i>>-lSi3,»«T-
ing the last two years as speaker: was elected a repic-
sentative from Kentnekj in the Thirteenth Conooi
(in place of Henrr Clay, resigned}, aerring mm
March 29. 1814, to March 2, ISlST
Hawkins, Micajah Thomas, was bom in
Wam^n County, North Cartilina; received a liberil
education at the University of Nort>' r ,n.lin»: m
a member of the House of Commoi ''.ipv
Una iu 1819. and of the State Sen.. - . 1-34.
1S», 1836, 1827. and 1828: was elected a n.-pr(sak-
tatrve fmm North Carolina in the Twentv-aeconJ,
Twenty-thirrl. Twentj-foorth, Twentr-fihh, aii
Twenty-^ixth OongreiMa aa « Democrat, reeeiriii;
at the tirst election iM9 rotea against 883 votes for
Mann, 533 votes for Wyche, and itS TOtes for Pope,
and at the last eIection'l,625 votes against l.SU TOta
for R. C. Hilliard, also a Democrat, serriiig ban
December 5. 1K31, until Maitdi 3, 1S41 ; was a major
general of militia; and died in Warren CoimtyDe-
cemlier 2-2. ISjS.
Hawley, John B., was bora in Fairfield Coun-
ty. Connecticut, Febraaiy 9. 18S1; went to lUinoli
with his parents when quite ypasg; studied Uw;
was admitted to the bar in 1851, and coonieiioed ■
practice at Rock Islaod: in 18B0 he was deeted
State's attorney, serving foar jears; in 1801 he ca-
tered the Union am^ as can^in, and took an actirs
part in the l>attles of Porta Henry and IVinelsoo. re-
ceiving injuries in the last engager 17^4''
it neeesaary (or him to retire firoir. ity ^i<
1863: in I860 he was appcdnted by Prt^Muviu Luicoln
poctmaster of Rock Island, and reaioTcd the y***
following by Presiiient Johnaon; waa «]«etcd a t*^
resentative from Ulinois in the Votty-tm Oosigiji
as a Republican, receiving 17,289 votea agalwW I5><^^
vote* for Singietoa, Democrat; waa re-dtected to **Z.
Forty-aecMid Oongieaa, receiriiig 12,0S3 «o(ea agftA^
11,982 Totea for P. L. Cable, Democrat; and «a» ^
elected to the Forty-third Congreaa as a l(>|WiMK ^"l
receiving 1-3,123 rotea against 7.215 Tx>lea fair
Truesdale, Liberal and -. serriag
March 4. 1869, to lUttb \» appointed
sistant secretary of the treasury Lfeccatbwf
Hawley, Joseph BoswcO. mabMi
artsviUe. North rir..nna.OctDfcOTSl,iaM; 1
removed to C :n \SSt: was edi
Connecticut ai: :-c. and gradoatcd atH-
Utbu College in Ji47; atadied Uw at Caamoria, ?
STATISTICAL 8KET0HBS.
489
Torb. and Farmington, Connecticut, and commenced
practice at Hartford Srotember 1, 1660; became ed-
itor ol " The Hartford ETening Press " In February,
1857; enlisted In the First Beglment Connecticut
Volunteers April 15, 1861, and was commissioned a
captain; served Uiree months, and immediately en-
gaged in recruiting the Seventh Connecticut Volun-
teers, in which he was commissioned lieutenant-colo-
nel ; became colonel in 1862, and brigadier-general in
1864; was brevetted major-general in 1865, and was
mastered out January 16, 1866; was elected governor
of Connecticat in April, 1886, holding the office
one Tear; returned to journalism as editor of " The
Hartford Courant," with which "The Press "had
been consolidated; was president of the National
Bepublican Convention in 1868; was elected a repre-
sentative from Connecticut in the Forty-second Con-
gress as a Republican November 6, 1872 (to succeed
Julius L. Strong, deceased), by 633 majority over W.
W. Eaton, Democrat ; and was re-elected to the Forty-
third Congress, receiving 12,048 votes against 10,766
votes for S. P. Kendall, Democrat, serving from De-
cember 2, 1872, to March 8, 1875; was president of
the Centennial Exhibition at Philadelphia in 1876.
HoWB, J. H. Hobart, was bom at New-Tork
City, and resided there ; was elected s representative
from New York in the Thirty-second Congress as a
Whig, receiving 4,165 votes against 8,824 votes for
Harsh, Democrat, and serving from December 1,
1831, to March 3, 1863.
Hay, Andrew E., was bom in Massachusetts;
received a publio-achool education; removed to Wins-
low, New Jersey; held several local offices; was
elected a representative from New Jersey in the
Thirty-first Congress as a Whig, receiving 7,062 votes
against 62043 votes for Pitney, Democrat, and serv-
iosfrom December 3, 1849, to March 3, 1851.
Hay, John B., was bora at Belleville, nimois,
January 8, 1834; received a common-school educa-
tion ; worked on a farm, and in his sixteenth year
became a printer; subsequently studied law, and de-
voted himself to the profession; was for eight years
State's attorney for the Twenty-fourth Judicial Dis-
trict of Illinois; served in the Union army during
the wax for the suppression of the Bebellion; was
elected a representative from Illinois in the Forty-
firat Congress as a Bepublican, receiving 14,080 votes
against 1.3,338 votes for Snyder, Democrat; and was
re-elected to the Forty-second Congress, receiving
10,003 votes against 10,126 votes for W. Hartzell,
Democrat, serviug from March 4, 1860, to March 3,
187:i.
Hayden, Moees, was bom in Hampshire Coun-
ty, Massachusetts: received a classical education,
graduating at Williams College in 1804; studied law;
was admitted to the bar, and commenced practice at
Tork, Livingston County: was first judge of the
Court of Common Pleas of Livingston County 1821-
18si3; was elected a representative from New York
In the Eighteenth Congress; and was re-elected to
the Nineteenth Congress, serving from December 1,
1823, to March 3, 18^.
Hayes, Philip O., was bom at Oranby, Connec-
ticut, Februarys, 1833, and removed with his father's
itunily to La Salle County, Illinois, during the sum-
mer of the same year; spent the fint twenty years of
bis life on a farm; received a collegiate education:
Kn'ed in the Union army, having been commissioned
luccessively c^itain, lieutenant-colonel, and colonel,
and brevetted brigadier-general: after the war, be-
came one of the publishers of " The Morris Herald ; "
iras elected a representative from Ulinois in the For-
ty-fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 14,840
votes against 13,313 votes for Alexander Campbell,
Democrat, and serving from October 15, 1877.
Hayea, Buthetford B., was bom at Delaware,
Ohio, October 4, 1822; received a classical education,
graduating at Kenyon College, Ohio; studied law at
the Cambridge Law School ; was admitted to the bar,
and oommenoed practice at Cincinnati, Ohio; was
d^soUdtor 1868-1881; entered the Union army in
1862 as major of the Twenty-third Ohio Volunteers;
received rapi'd promotion for brilliant services, and,
when mustered out after the cessation of hostilities,
was brigadier-general ; was elected a representative
from Ohio in uie Thirty-ninth Congress as a Repub-
lican, receiving 10,426 votes against 7,327 votes for
Joseph C. Butler, Democrat; and was re-elected to
the Fortieth Congress, receiving 11,649 votes against
8,901 votes for Theodore Cook, Democrat, serving
from December 4, 1865, to December, 1867, when he
resigned, having been elected governor of Ohio; he
was re-elected in 1860, serving 1868-1872; was again
elected govemor of Ohio, serving 1876-1877; was
elected President of the United States in 1876, and
inaugurated Mareh 4, 1877.
Haymond, Thomas S., was bora In Virginia;
resided at Fairmountjwas elected a representative
from Virginia in the Thirty-first Congress (in place
of Alexander Newm^p, deceased), serving from De-
cember 3, 1840, to March 3, 1851.
Haymond, William 8., was bom near Clarks-
bure, Virginia (now West Vlreinia) ; received a thor-
ough claMical and scientific education; taught school
two yean, and served as a dvil engineer about one
year; studied medicine in his native State, and is a
graduate of two medical colleges, one of which is
the Bellevue Hospital College of New- York City;
commenced practice at Monticello in 1851, and has
continued it since, except when interrupted by other
duties imposed upon him; entered the Union army
in 1861 as a surgeon, and served until 1S63; was the
unsuccessful candidate of the Democrats and Liber-
als in his district for the State Senate in 1866; was
elected resident of the Indianapolis, Delphi, and
Chicago Railroad in 1872, 1873, and 1874; is the pro-
jector of the Chicago and South-Atlantic Railroad,
— a trunk-line which will extend from Chicago to
Charleston and Port Royal, South Carolina; and was
elected a representative from Indiana in the Forty-
fourth Congress as the candidate of the Democrats
and Liberals, receiving 15,088 votes against 14,423
votes for W. H. Calkins, Republican, serving from
December 6, 1875, to Mareh 4, 1877; was defeated as
the Democratic candidate for the Forty-fifth Con-
fess, receiving 15,390 votes against 16,439 votes for
W. H. Calkins, Republican.
Hayne, AnhvacT. (brotherof Robert Y. Hayne),
was bom at Charleston, South Carolina, Mareh 12,
1788; received an English education, and engaged in
mercantile pursuits; served in the war of 1812, re-
ceiving promotion until he became an inspector-gen-
eral; participated in engagements on the Northern
frontier, at Pensacola, and at New Orleans ; studied
law in Pennsylvania, and was admitted to the bar;
served in the Florida war in command of the Tennes-
see volunteers; was a member of the State House of
Representatives of South Carolina; was a presiden-
tial elector on the Jackson and Calhoun ticket in
1828; was United-States naval agent in the Mediter-
ranean for five years; was offered and declined the
Belgian mission; was appointed a United-States
senator from South Carolina (in place of Josiah J.
Evans, deceased), serving from May 20, 1858, to Jan-
uary 6, 1859, when his successor took his seat; died
at Charleston, South Carolina, January 6, 1807.
Hayne, Bobert Y. (brotherof Arthur P. Hayne),
was bom near Charleston, South Carolina, November
10, 1791; received an academic education; studied
law vrith Langdon Cheves and A. B. Northrop; was
admitted to the bar eight days before he was of age,
and commenced practice at Charleston ; was a mem-
ber of the State legislature 1814-1818, serving the last
year as speaker; was attorney-general 1818-1822;
was elected United-States senator from South Caro-
lina as a State-rights Democrat, defeating Judge
William Smith, serving from December 1, 1823, to
Deceml>er, 1882, when he resigned, having been elect-
ed govemor; served as govemor 1832-1834; was in-
tendant and afterwards mayor of Charleston 1686-
440
COUGKESSIONAL DIEECTOKY.
1S36; wns president of the Cincinnati and Charleston
Railroiul 18»l-i83«; and died at Ashville. North Car-
olina, where he was in atlendanco on a railroad con-
vention, September 24, 18.39; was a contributor to
''The Southern Review." Bis life and speeches were
pnWislicil in 1.^.5.
Haynes, Charles EJ., was bom at Brunswicic,
Virginia; roniuved to Georgia, and located at Sparta;
was defeated as a Clarlc Democratic candidate (or the
Eigliteenth C'ongress l>y Crawford, Stale-rights, on
a general lielcct; was electwl a represent,itive from
Georgia in tiie N'ineteenth Conp-ess as a Demucrat;
was re-elected to the Twentieth and Twenty-first
Congresses, sening from December u, 1S25. to March
8, 18;J1; was defeated as a candidate for the Twenty-
second and Twenty-tliird Congresses; wa« again
elected to the Twenty-fourth Congress as a Union
man, receiving 27,tBl votes against 24,734 votes for
Doniell, StJite-rijthts; and was re-eiected to the
Twenty-fifth Congress, recoivinc 29,490 votes against
28,4oO votes for Kins, Stato-riRnts, serving from De-
cember 7, l.S3o, to March 8, 183tl.
Hays, Charles, was liom in Greene County,
Alabama, February 2, 1S34; was cducjiti^d at the
University of Georigia, and matriculated at the Uni-
versity of Vir<;inia in May, 18(14; devoted himself
entirely to agricultural pursuits; was elected to the
Constitutional Convention of Alabama in 1!S07; was
elected to the State Senate of Alabama in ls(i,S, and,
while a member, was elected a repre»ent!itiv(! fnim
AlaUiraa in the Forty-first Congress as a Kepublit'aii,
receiving a maj<irity of 10,000 votes over Dusi in. In-
dependent, and Kead, Democrat; was re-elected to
tlie Forty-second Congress, receiving ld,.17.3 votes
against li),.'j40 votes for J. G. Harris, Democrat; was
re-elected to the Forty-third Congn^ss by a majority
of 5,212 over his competitor; anil was re-elected to
the Forty-fourth Congress as a Republican, receiving
!i!:},i»lKl votes against 18,378 votes for James T, Junes,
Democrat, sei^-ing from December 7, 1800, to March
3, 1877.
Hays, L. Samtiel, was I>om in Pennsylvania;
removed to Virginia, locating at Sluard"s Creek;
was elecltd a reiiresentative from Virginia in the
Tweutv-seventh Congress as a Democrat, serving
from May :)1, 1841. to March 3, 18«.
Hays, Samuel, was born in Virginia; resided at
Pranl<llii, IViiiisylvania; was elected a representative
from that .Sliite in the Twenty-eiglith Congress as a
Deiuocnit, receiving 5,(>t4 votes against 8ti2 votes for
Doughty, Abolition, and serving from December 4,
1843, t4. March 3. 184.5.
Haywood, William 'Henry, jun., was bom
in Wake County, North Carolina, in 1S<)1; received
a classical education, graduating at tlie Univei-sity of
North Carolin.1 in 1819; studied law; wivs admitted to
the bar, and pr-ictised; was a meml)er of tlie House
of Commons of North Carolina in 1831 and It^H-
183<!, sen'ing tlie last year as speaker; was elected
United-States senator in 1842 as a Democrat, serving
from December 4, 1843, until he rcsigneil, July 25,
1846; returned to practice; was a grent sufferr.'r from
a cancer at tlie root of liis tongue, and died at Ra-
leigh, North Carolina, October 0, 1S.")2.
Hazard, Jonathan, wivs l>om in Rhode Island,
and was a delegate from that State to the Continen-
tal Congress in 1787 and in 1788.
Hazard, Nathaniel, was born at Newport,
Rhode Island, in 1773; received a classical education,
graduating at Brown University in 17U2; was elected
a represenUitive from Rliode Island in the Sixteenth
Congress as a Democrat, serving from Deceinln-r (I.
181rt to Ills deatli, after ten days' sickness, at Wasli-
ingtfin City, December 17, 1820. He had l)een de-
feateii the ]jrevlou8 August for re-election as the
Demoeratic candidate for the Seventeenth Congress,
having received 2,(K3;3 vot«s against 3,503 votes for
Job Durfce. Fwleralist.
Hazeltine, Abner, was bom In the State of
New York; resided at Jamestown; was a member of
the State House of Representatives in 1SS9 and 1830;
was elected a representative from New York in tbe
Twenty-third Congress as a Whig; and was re-elected
to the Twenty-fourth Congress, serring from Decem-
ber ■>. ]8;a. to March 3, 1837.
Hazel ton, George C., was bom at ChesKr, New
Ilampshire, January a, 18;J.3; received a classical edu-
cation, gnidualing at Union College. Schenectady.
New York, in 1858; studied law; was odmitled lo tlie
bar in the State of Now York, and commenced prac-
tice at Boficobel, Wisconsin, in l.SO:^; was eiix-ted dis-
trict-attorney of Grant County in ISW, and re-elected
in 18fl6; in 1807 was elected .Stale senator, and clmsen
president pro teiniiore of the Senate, and was re-elect-
ed to the Senate in 18tiO; was elected a representative
from Wisconsin in the Forty-fifth Congress as a Be-
publican, receiving 15,582 votes against 13.034 votes
tor Philo A. C)rton, Democrat, and serving from Oc-
tober 15. 1877.
Hazel ton, Cherry W., was bom at Chester. New
Haiupsliirc, February 24, 1829; educated at the IMnk-
erton Academy, Derr)', New Hampshire, and after-
ward with a private tutor; studied law in New York;
removed to Wisconsin in 1850; elected to the State
Senate of Wisconsin in 18(X), and twice chosen presi-
dent pro tempore; elected district-attorney for Co-
lumbia County hi 1804; appointed collector of inter-
nal revenue for the Second District in the winter of
1800, and removed by Andrew Johnson in the same
year; nprnjinted Uniteil-St.ites attorney for the dis-
trict of WiscJUisin in 18<ilt, which place he held until
elected a representative fnmi Wisconsin in the Forty-
second Congress as a Republican, receiving 13,4(17
votes against 11,568 votes for A. G. Cook, DcmociHt;
and was re-elected to the Forty-third Congress, re-
ceiving 13,745 votes against 9,fWi) votes fr)r"A. War-
den. Democrat, sening from March 4, 1871, t<5 March
3, 1875.
Hazelton, John W., was bom at Mullica Hill,
New Jersey; attended the pubUc schools there, and
the high school at Burlington; was a practical farm'
er; was a delegate to the National Repubhcii
Convention at Chicago in 1868; wos an elcttar oc
the Grant and Colfax ticket in the fall of that year
was elected a representative from New Jersey in lh«
Forty-second Congress as a Republican, receivhi]
14,.502 votes against 12,469 votes for B. F. Lee, Demi
cratj and wa-s re-elected to tiie Forty-third Coi
ivceiving 15,312 votes against 8,048 votes for
Cliute, Liberal Republican, serving from March 4^-J
1871, to March 3, 1875.
Head, John W., was electe<l a representative
fnjin Tennessee in the Forty-fourth Congress as ^a
Democrat, but died before taking his seat. His sue— '
ccssor also died liefore taldng his seat, and Cong
voted each of their widows $1,260.
Healy, Joseph, was twm at Cheshire, Neii
Hampsliire, in 1770; n?ceived a good English educa
tiim; was a member of the State Senate in 1.824; wa
elected a representative from New Hampshire in tlie
Nineteenth Congress as a Democrat, recei\iug 4,00L_-^^^
inajority over E/.ekiel Webster, Federalist; and wa
re-elected to the Twentieth Congress, serving fron
December 6, 1825, to March 3, 1829; was a memb
of the State Executive Council 1829-18:12; died
Washington. Now Haini^liire, October 10, 18<11.
Heath, James P., was bom in Delaware
ceml)er 21, 1777; received an academic education;
fought a duel when nineteen years of age with John
Knight, receiving a ball, whicli was never extracted;
was a lieutenant of engineers in the regular anny
171»'.>-18i)2; was register in chancery at Annapolis;
served thronijhont the war of 1812 as aid'^b.-camp
to General Winder of the Maryland militia ; was
elected a representative from Mar)-l.ind ii- •' ''-I'n-
ty-lhird Congress as a Demo<rral. reci;i> jjt-
jorlty over Benjiunin C. Howard. Wiig, s . >in
December 2, 18^)3, to March 3, 1835; was di-lcated at
the Democratic candidate for re-election t<i the
Twenty-fourth Congress by Benjamin C. Uuirard,
STATISTICAL SKETCHES.
441
ilg; was one of the survivors of the wreck of the
amcr " Pulaski '■ in 1838; mid died al Goorgotovra,
^strict of Columbia. June 12, 1854.
Heath, John, was bom in Virginia; received a
classical education: was elected a representative
from VirKini:\ in the Third Congress, and was re-
elected to the Fourth Congress, serving from De-
cember 2. 170;'-, to M.arch 3, 1797.
Heaton, David, was bom at Hamilton, Ohio,
March Hi, 18:^1: received an academic education;
read law. and was admitted to practice ; was elected
as a Whig to the State Senate of Ohio in ISoo:
advociited the election of FnJmont in 1850; removed
to St. Anthony's Falls, Minnesota, in IW?; was a
member of the .State Senate of Minnesota IS-VS-lSOJi;
was apjKiinted by Secretary Chase special agent of
the Tre4isury Department and United-States Deposi-
tory at N'l'-w Beme. North Carolina, in 1S<>!; was np-
Sointed thinl auditor of the treasury in IStVl, but
edined; w.is the author of the Republican platform
adopted at the I{.ilcigh Convention Man;h 1:7. 18ii7:
a member of the Constitutional Convention I'f
forth Carolina in ISO"; was elected a representative
om North Can>lina in the Fortieth Congress as a
Bblican In April, 18(5S; was re-elected in 1808.
ing I4,8l).'> votes against 12,203 vote* for Kenan,
Democrat ; and was renominated in 1870, serving
from July 15, 1808, until he died at Washington of
oonsumplion June 25, 1870.
^ Hebard, William, was bom in Connecticut;
Keceived an .-loademic educ.ition; studied law; was
admitted to the bar, and commenced practice at
Chelsea, Vermimt; was judge of probate for Orange
County seven years; was several times a ruember of
"be Slate legislature ; was judge of the State Supreme
9ourt 1^42-i84.'i; was elected a representative from
Ferraont in the Thirty-first Congress as a Wliig, re-
eiving 5,tJ0.3 votes against 5,228 votes for Weblier,
temocrat. and 21H) votes for Weston, Cass Democrat;
nd was re-elected to the Thirty-second Congress, re-
eivliig 5,652 votes against 4,;J84 votes for Jefferson
*. Kidder, Democrat, and 206 scattering, serving
rom Deiemb<-r S. l.SiSi. to March 3, ISSJ.
Heflin. Robert 8., was b<3m near Madison,
Jeorgia, April 15. 1815; received an academic edu-
tion; served in the Creek war in ]83t3; was elected
lerk of the Superior Court of Fayette County,
leorgia, 183(i-184<J; studied law, and was admitted to
^le bar in 184(l; was a meml»er of the State Senate of
onria in 1840 and 1841 ; removed to liandolph Coiin-
C',' I. in 1844; was a memlwr of the llouse of
:ives of Georgia in 184S). and of the Senate
Till; , i:is an uncompromising Union man during
the war of the Kehellion, and in August, l8i'4. was
compelled to le<ivc his home to save bis life, passing
through the lines to the Union army at Home,
Oeorcia. and accompanying General Shemian's coin-
and U) Saiannah; was appointed judge of probate
18<'>5 by Provisional-Governor Parsons, and was
ubseqnently elected to that office, which he held
mil the State was admitted into the Union; was a
sldential elector on the Grant and Colfax ticket
. 1872 ; and Wiis elwted a representative from Ala-
ama in the Forty-first Congress as a Republican,
ceiving ii,805 votes against 9,(W2 votes for Parkcii-
Democrat, serving from December 7, 1S09, to
arch 3, 1871.
Heister, Daniel (brother of John Hcister, and
uncle of John Ueister), w.is bom in Berks County,
ennsylvauia, in 1747; received a public-school edii-
ation; engaged in mercantile pursuits in Mont-
r County; was actively engaged in prc-Revolu-
movements; was colonel and afterwards
_ iier-genenil of militia, and saw some service
the Revolutionary war; was a inemlicr of the
premo Exeeiilive Council of Pennsylvania 1784-
7lfe: was appointed a commissioner of the Conneet-
at Land Claims in 1787; was elected a ivpresenta-
Bve from Pennsylvania in the first Congress; was re-
elected to the Second, Third, and Foiurth Congresses,
serving from March 4, 1780, to July 1, 1706, when he
resignwl; removed to Hagerstown, Maryl.and; was
elected a representative from Maryland in the
Seventh Congress, and was re-tdected to the Eighth
Congress, serving from December 7, 1801, to March
8, 18ti4. when ho died at Wiahington City,
Heister, Daniel (stm of John ilclst<ir, and
nephew of Daniel Heister), was bom in Berks
County, Pennsylvania; was elected a representative
from Pennsylvania In the Eleventh Congress, ser^-ing
from May 22, ISO!), to March 3, 1811.
Heister, Isaac G., was liom in Lancaster
County. Pennsylvania; received a classical educa-
tion, graduating at Vale College in 1842; studied
law ; was admitted to the liar, and commenced prac-
tice at Lancaster; was deputy-attorncy-general for
Lancaster County in ltU8; was elected a reprcsi'nta-
tive from Pennsylvania In the Thirty-third Congress
as a Whig, receiving 8,840 voles against 0,45ts votes
for .Sampson, Democrat, serving from Decenil)er 6,
1853, to March 3, li^iS; died at Lancaster, Pennsyl-
vania, Febniary 0, 1871.
Heister, John (brother of Daniel Heister, and
unolf of Daniel Heister), was bom in Bi'rks County,
Peniisylvani.i, April 0. 174<1; was elected a repre-
sentative tnnn Pennsvlvtmia in the Tenth ('tin<;i'rss,
serving from October 20, 1807, to March .3, ISOil; died
October 15, 1821.
Heister, Joseph, was bom at Beme Township,
Berks County, Pennsylvania, November 18. 1752 : re-
ceived a public-school education; engaged in mercan-
tile pursuits; served in the Revolutionary anny as
captain of a company which he raised and I'luipped;
was promoted to the rank of colonel ; was tak'^n jiris-
oner, and confined on the Jersey prison-ship; was
atnemlicrof the Constitutional Convention of 1770;
served five years in the State House of Represen-
tatives, and four years In the State Senate; was a
member of the State Constitutional Convention of
17ix>; was elected a representative from Peniisyl-
viuilii in the Fifth Congress (in place of Cieorge Ege,
resigned); was re-elected to the Sixth, Seventh, and
Eighth Congresses, serving from Deceml>er 1, 1797,
to March 3, 1805; was appointed major-general In
1807 to command the ciuota of Pennsylvania militia
called for by the President; was again elected to the
Fourteenth Congress; w!is re-elected to the Fifteenth
and Sixteenth Congresses, serving from December 4,
1815, to 1820, when he resl.gnc<f; was governor of
Pennsylvania lS20-182;i; retired from pulilic life, and
died at Reading, Pennsylvania, June 10, 1S;}2.
Heister, Williajn (nephew of Daniel Heister
and John Ueiater), was bom at Beme Townsliip,
Berks County, Pennsylvania, In 17D1; received a
[lublic-school education; devoted himself to agri-
cultural pursuits on a form in Lancaster County;
was a leading anti-Mosoii; was elected a representa-
tive from Pennsylvania in the Twenty-second Con-
gress as a Whig; was re-elected to the Twenty-third
Congress, and was re-elected to the Twenty-fourth
Congress, receiving 1,422 votes against 1.0t!7 votes
for B. Chainpneys, Jackson Democrat, serving from
December 5, 1831. to March .3. 1837; was a dflegate
to the State Constitutional Convention of 1837; and
died on his farm in Lancaster County October 14,
18.">3.
Helmick, William, was born in Jefferson
County, Ohio, September 6, 1817; received a public-
school education ; studied law; was admittcil to the
bar in 1845, and commenced practice; w.is elected
pniseiHiting-attomey in 1851; was elected a represen-
tative from Ohio in the Thirty-sixth Congress as a
Repulilican. receiving 8,949 votes acaliist 8,719 votes
for Hums. Democrat, serving from December 5, 1830,
to Miirch 3. 1801; was a clerk in the Department of
till' Interior.
Helms, William, was bom in New .Tersey;
served in the Kevoliitionary war; was cli'cted a
representative from New Jersey in the Seventh Con-
gress as a Democrat; was re-elected to the Eighth,
442
OONGBESSIOKAI. DIBEOTOBT.
Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh Congrewes, serving from
December 7, 1801, to March 8, 1811; removed to
Tennessee, and died there in 1813.
Hemphill, John, was a native of Chester Dis-
trict, South Carolina; located at Sumter, South
Carolina, where he edited a nullification paper in
the crisis of 183^1833; removed to Texas; was for
many years chief justice of the Supreme Court of
that State; was elected a United-States senator from
Texas, serving from December 6, 1850, until he with-
drew, and was subsequently expelled July 10, 1861;
was a deputy to the Provisional Congress of the Con-
federate States which assembled at Montgomery in
February, 1861; was chief justice of Texas ; and died
at Richmond. Virginia, January 4, 1862.
Hemphill, Joseph, was bom in Delaware
County, Pennsylvania, in 1T70; received an aca-
demical education; studied law; was admitted to
the bar, and commenced practice in Chester County;
was elected a representative from Pennsylvania in
the Seventh Congress as a Federalist, serving from
December 7, 1801, to March 3, 1803; removed to
Philadelphia; was appointed the first president-
judge of the city and county; was again elected a
representative in the Sixteenth Congress; was re-
elected to the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nine-
teenth Congresses, serving from December 6, 1819,
to 1826, when he resigned ; was again elected to the
Twenty-first Congress as a Jackson Democrat, serv-
ing from December 7, 1829, to March 3, 1831 ; was a
member of the State House of Representatives 1831,
1832; and died at Philadelphia May 29, 1842.
Hempstead, Edward, was bom at New Lon-
don, Connecticut, June 3, 1780; received an academi-
cal education; studied law; was admitted to the bar
in 1801 ; commenced practice in Rhode Island, and
in 1805 removed to St. Louis; was attorney-general
for the Territory of Upper Louisiana 1809-1811 ; was
elected a delegate from Missouri Territory in the
Twelfth Congress, and re-elected to the Thirteenth
Congress, serving from January 4, 1813, to March 2,
1816; went on several expeditions against the Indi-
ans; was a member of the Territorial Assembly, and
its inieaker; and died at St. Louis August 10, 1817.
Hemslejr, William, resided In Maryland, and
was a delegate from that State in the Continental
Congress 1782-1784.
Etendee, Gtoorge Whitman, was bom at Stow,
Vermont, November SO, 1832 ; received an academic
education; studied law; was admitted to the bar,
and commenced practice at Morrisville; was prose-
cnttng-attomey in 1858-1859; was a member of the
Vermont House of Representatives in 1861 and 1862;
was a member of the State Senate of Vermont in
1866, 1867, and 1868, and president pro tempore the
last year; was lieutenant^ovemor of Vermont in
1869; was governor of Vermont in 1870; and was
elected a representative from Vermont in the Forty-
third Congress as a Republican, receiving 11,473 votes
against 3,182 votes for H, C. Adams, Liberal Repub-
lican; was re-elected to the Forty-fourth Congress,
receiving 9,043 votes against 3,646 votes for Edwards,
Democrat; and was re-elected to the Forty-fifth Con-
gress, receiving 11,974 votes against 6,367 votes for
Edwards, Democrat, serving from December 1, 1873.
Henderson, Archibald, was bom in Salisbury,
North Carolina, August 7, 1868; received a public-
school education; studied law with his father. Judge
Richard Henderson; was admitted to practice, and
became the bead of the bar in North Carolina; was
elected a representative from North Carolina in the
Sixth Congress, defeating Matthew Locke; and was
re-elected to the Seventh Congress, serving from De-
cember 2, 1799, until March 8, 1803; was a member
of the House of Commons of North Carolina in 1807,
1808, and 1819; and died at Salisbury October 21,
1822.
Henderson, Bennett H., was elected a repre-
sentative from Tennessee in the Fourteenth Congress,
serving from December 4, 1816, to Hai«ih 3, 1817.
Henderaon, James PindSaiey, was bom in
Lincoln Coun^, North Carolina, March 31, 1808;
received an academical education ; studied law ; was
admitted to the bar, and commenced practice in Mis-
sissippi; removed to the republic of Texas in 1836;
was appointed by President Houston attomey-^neral.
and siibseanently secretary of state; visited Europe
as the diplomatic representative of Texas, and in
1844 visited the United States as special minister to
negotiate annexation; was a member of the State
Constitutional Convention of 1S45; was governor of
Texas in 1846, and commanded in person the State
volunteers called for by Gkneral Taylor, distinguish-
ing himself at Monterey; received from Congress a
vote of thanks, and a sword which cost $1,5U0: was
elected a United-States senator from Texas as a
State-rights Democrat (in place of Thomas J. Bosk.
deceased), serving from Mareh 1, 1868, to June 4,
1858, when he died at Washington City.
Henderson, John, was bom in 1795; received
an academical education; studied law; was admitted
to the bar, and commenced practice at Pass Chris-
tian, Mississippi; was a brigadier-general of militia:
was elected a United-States senator from Mississippi
as a Whig, serving from December 2, 1839, to Hatch
8, 1845; praotised at New Orleans; was tried at New
Orleans on a charge of having been engaged in fittiog
out an armed expedition against Cuba, and acquitted;
and died at Pass Christian, Mississippi, in 1657.
Henderson, John B., was bom near Danville,
Virginia, November 16, 1826; removed to Missouri
when a child; received an academical education, and
taoght school for several years; studied and practised
law ; was a member of the State legislature of Mis-
souri in 1848 and 1856; originated the State railroad
and banking laws in 1857; was a presldenti;^ elector
in 1856 on the Buchanan ticket, but opposed the ad-
ministration after the President's message on the
Lecompton Constitution of Kansas ; was a candidate
for Congress in 1868 as a friend of Mr. Douglas, bnt
was defeated by Oilchiist Porter; was an elector on
the Douglas ticket in 1860, pledging himself to vote
for either Douglas or Bell to carry the State against
Breckinridge, the Secession .candidate; was beaten
again for Congress in 1660, after a most exciting can-
vass, by James S. Rollins, the majority being aboat
200 in a total vote of 23,000; was a member of the
State Convention in 1861 called to determine whether
Missouri should secede, and took a prominent part in
its proceedings as a Union man ; in June, 18<il, he
procured arms, and equipped a regiment of loyal
State militia, and went into service with them that
fall; was appointed. In January, 1862, to succeed
Trusten Polk in the ITnited-States Senate; was elect-
ed United-States senator from Tennessee Januarr,
1863, to serve out Mr. Folk's unexpired term; and
was re-elected in 1863, serving from Febraarj-, 1863,
to March 8, 1869; was a commissioner to treat with
hostile tribes of Indians in 1867; was appointed as-
sistant United-States district-attorney in 1875 to con-
duct the prosecution of parties accused with having
evaded the revenue laws, but reflected on President
Grant in an argument, and was removed.
Henderson, John H. D., was bom near Salem,
Kentucky, July 23, 1810; was taken to Missouri Ter-
ritory by his parenta In 1817; received a public-school
education; learned the art of printing; entered the
ministry, and was pastor of the Concord congregir
tion, Washington County, Pennsylvania, 1843-I85I;
retumed to Missouri; left April 8, 1852, for Or^on,
across the continent, arriving October 12, 1852; was
defeated as a Temperance candidate for the Territorial
Council by 30 votes in 1854; was elected superin-
tendent of public schools in Lane County in 1850 ; was
elected a representative from Oregon in the Thirty-
ninth Congress as a Republican, receiving 8,710 votes
against 6,992 votes for Kelly, Democrat, serving from
December 4, 1866, to March 3, 1867 ; retired to prirats
life, lecturing and preaching as occasion offered.
Henderson, Joseph, was bom in FennsylTui*;
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448
teceived a pablio-scbool education; was elected a
representative from PennBylvania In the Twenty-
third Congress as a Democrat, defeating James Mil-
ler, Whig; and was re-elected to the Twenty-fourth
Congress, receiving 603 majority, serving from De-
cember 2, 1833, to March 3, 1837.
Henderson, Samuel, was elected a representa-
tive from Pennsylvania in the Thirteenth Congress
(in place of Jonathan Roberts, elected senator), serv-
isgfrom March 29, 1814, to March 2, 1815.
Henderson, Tbomas, was bom In New Jersey;
received a classical education, graduating at Prince-
ton College in 1761; studied law; was admitted to
the bar, and practised ; was a judge of the Court of
Common Pleas; was a delegate to the Continental
Congress from New Jersey 1779-1780; was elected a
representative from New Jersey in the Fourth Con-
gress, serving from December 7, 1796, to March 8,
17OT.
Henderson, Thomas J., was bom at Browns-
ville, Tennessee, November 28, 1824; received an
academic education; removed to Illinois at the age
of eleven; was reued upon a farm; was elected
clerk of the County Commissioners' Court, and then
clerk of the County Court, holding the office from
1S47 until 1853; studied law; was admitted, to the
bar in 1853, and has since practised ; was a member
of the State House of Representatives in 1855-1856,
and of the State Senate m 1857-1861; entered the
rnion army in 1862 as colonel of the One Hundred
»nd Twelfth Regiment of Illinois Volunteer Infan-
try, and was brevetted in January, 1866, for gallant
services in the Georgia and Tennessee ca^ipaigns,
especially at the battle of Franklin, Tennessee; and
was elected a representative from Illinois in the
Fortv-fonrth Congress as a Republican, receiving
9.389 votes against 6,279 votes for Isaac H. Elliott,
Democrat; and was re-elected to the Forty-fifth Con-
pess, receiving 16,660 votes against 9,821 votes for
Charles Dunham, Democrat, serving from December
6, 187.i.
Hendricks, Thomas Andrews (nephew of
William Hendricks), was bom in Muskinjgum Coun-
ty. Ohio, September 7, 1819; was taken when three
years of age to Shelby County, Indiana; received a
classical education, graduating at Hanover College In
1841; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1843,
aiid commenced practice at Shelbyvllle; was a mem-
tier of the State House of Representatives In 1848,
and of the State Senate In 1849; was a delegate to
the State Convention In 1850; was nominated on
the ftfty-thlrd ballot and was elected a representative
from Indiana in the Thirty-second Congress as a
Democrat; and was re-elected to the Thirty-third
Congress, serving from December 1, 1851, to March 8,
ISJ5 ; was defeated as the Democratic candidate for
the Thirty-fourth Congress, receiving 9,288 votes
against 0,824 votes for Lucian Barbour, Republican;
was commissioner of the General Land Office 1866-
li@9; was defeated as Democratic candidate for gov-
ernor bv Oliver P. Morton In 1869; waa elected a
United-States senator from Indiana, serving from
December 7, 1863, to March 3, 1869; was again de-
feated as Democratic candidate for governor in 1868;
was elected governor of Indiana in 1872, and re-elect-
ed, serving until 1877; was nominated for Vice-Pres-
ident on the Democratic ticket at St. Louis in 1876,
and defeated.
Hendricks, Williazn (uncle of Thomas A.
Hendriclcs), was bom in Westmoreland County,
Pennsylvania, in 1783; received a public-school edu-
cation; removed to Indiana, and was one of the first
settlers at Madison In 1814; was secretary of the
first State Convention ; was elected the only represen-
tative from Indiana in the Fourteenth Congress as a
Democrat, receiving 6,160 votes against 1,629 votes
for General Posey ; was re-elected to the Fifteenth
Congress, receiving 5,691 votes against 3,401 votes
for General Posey; was re-elected to the Sixteenth
Congress, defeating Reuben W. Nelson; and was re-
elected to the Seventeenth Congress, serving from
December 2, 1810, to 1822, when he resigned; was
f3vemor of Indiana 1822-1825 ; was elected a TJnited-
tates senator from Indiana as a Democrat, serving
from December 5. 1826, to March 3, 1837; was de-
feated for re-election as United-States senator; and
died at Madison. Indiana, May 16, 1850.
Henkle, Eli Jones, was bom in Baltimore
County, Maryland, November 24, 1828; received an
academic education; taught school three years; stud-
led medicine, and graduated at the Universitv of
Maryland in 1850; has devoted his attention chiefly
to the practice of his profession and to fruit-culture;
was a trustee, and also professor of anatomjr, physi-
ology, and hygiene. In the Maryland AmciUtural
CoU^e; wasjpresident of the Board of visitors of
Washington University of Baltimore, and a director
in the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Company;
was elected to the House of Delegates in 1863; was a
member of the State Constitutional Convention of
1864; was elected to the State Senate in 1866, and
again in 1867, serving in 1867, 1868, and 1870; was
again elected to the House of Delegates in 1871 and
1873; was a delegate to the National Democratic
Convention in 1872; was elected a representative
from Maryland in the Forty-fourth Congress as a
Democrat^receiving 11,862 votes against 10,462 votes
for A. B. Hagner, Republican; and was re-elected to
the Forty-fifth Congress, receiving 14,486 votes against
11,706 votes for John H. Sellman, Republican, serv-
Ingfrom December 1, 1876.
Henley, Thomas J., was bom in Indiana in
1810; was educated at the Indiana State College;
engaged in agricultural pursuits; was a member of
the State House of Representatives 1832-1842; was
elected a representative from Indiana In the Twenty-
eighth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 7,020 votes
against 6,070 votes for White, Whig; was re-elected
to the Twenty-ninth Congress, receiving 7,219 votes
gainst 6,876 votes for Martin, Whig; and was re-
euMSted to the Thirtieth Congress, receiving 7,170
votes against 7,130 votes for John S. Davis, Whig,
serving from December 4, 1843, to March 3, 1849;
removed to California, where he was a member of
the first State legislature; was for seven years super-
intendent of Indian affairs for California; was post-
master at San Francisco.
Henn, Bemhart, waa bom In New York; re-
ceived a public-school education ; removed to Iowa,
locating at Fairfield; was elected a representative
from Iowa in the Thirty-second Congress as a
Democrat, receiving 7,437 votes against 6,085 votes
for Wright, Whig, and 301 votes Free-Soil; and was
re-elected to the Thirty-third Congress, receiving
9,463 votes gainst 7,850 votes for Viele, Whig, serv-
ingfrom December 1, 1851, to March 3, 1855.
Henry, Daniel M., was bom near Cambridge,
Dorchester County, Marvland, February 19, 1823;
was educated at Cambridge Academy, and at St.
John's College, Annapolis; studied law; was ad-
mitted to the bar in 1844, and commenced practice;
was elected a member of the House of Delegates of
Maryland in 1846, and again in 1840; was elected a
member of the State Senate in 1860; was elected a
representative from Maryland in the Forty-fifth Con-
gress as a Democrat, receiving 16,287 votes against
11,005 votes for Thomas A. Spence, Republican, and
serving from October 15, 1877.
Henry, James, was bom in Virginia; received
a classicaJ education; studied law; was admitted to
practice, and was appointed a judge; was a delente
to the Continental Congress from V iiiginla J""
died in Virginia January 17, 1805.
Henry, John, was bom at Easton,
received a classical education, graduating
ton College in 1760; studied law; was t
the bar, and practised at Easton; was
from Maryland to the Continental Con;,
1781 and 1764-1787; was elected a Uni.
senator from Maryland, serving from March
J
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COKGBESSIOIf AL BIBBOTOBT.
to December 10, 1707, when he resigned, having been
elected governor; was governor of Maryland 1707-
1708; and died at Easton, Maryland, December 16,
1708.
Henry, John F. (brother of Roliert P. Henry),
was bom in Scott County, Kentucky, January 17,
1703; devoted himself to agricultural pursuits and to
the practice of medicine ; was elected a representa-
tive from Kentucky in the Nineteenth Congress (in
place of his brother liobert P. Henry, deceased), serv-
Ingfrom December 11, 1826, to March 3, 1827.
Henry, Patrick, was bom at Studley, Hanover
County, Virginia, May 20, 1736; was educated by liis
father; engaged unsuccessfully in mercantile pur-
suits; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1760,
and commenced practice ; removed to Louisa County
in 17(H; was a member of the Colonial House of Bur-
gesses 1705; was a delegate from Virginia to the Con-
tinental Congress 1774-1776; was colonel of the First
Virginia Regbment for afew months ; was governor of
Virginia 1776-1770 and 1784-1786; was a member of
the State Convention which ratified the Federal Con-
stitution in 1788; retired from the bar in 1704, and
devoted himself to agricultural pursuits; declined
the appointment of Federal secretary of state ofEered
by Washington, and that of minister to France
offered by John Adams; was elected to the State
Senate in March, 1700, but never took his seat; and
died on his estate of Red Hill, in Charlotte County,
June 6, 1700. His life was written by William Wirt,
and also by Alexander H. Everett.
Henry, Robert P. (brother of John F. Henry),
was born in Scott County, Kentucky, November 24,
1788; received a classical education, graduating at
Transylvania College; studied law with Henry Clay:
was admitted to the bar in 1800, and commenced
practice; was prosecuting-attomey for his judicial
circuit; served in the war of 1812 as aide-de-camp to
his father, Major-General William Henry; removed
toHopkiusvilie; was again prosecuting-attomey for
his judicial circuit ; was elected a representative from
Kentucky In the Eighteenth Congress as a Clay
Democrat; and was re-elected to the Nineteenth
Congress, serving from December 1, 1823, to August
25, 1826, when he died of fever at Hopkinsville,
Kentucl^.
Henry, Thomas, was bom in Ireland In 1785;
immigrated to the United States, and located at
Beaver, Pennsylvania; was elected a representative
from Pemisylvania in the Twenty-fifth Cougress as a
WMg; was re-elected to the Twenty-sixth Congress,
receiving 5,260 votes against 4,330 votes for James D.
Wliite, Democrat; and was re-elected to the Twenty-
seventh Congress, serving from September 4, 1837, to
March 3, 1843; and died at Beaver, •Pennsylvuiia,
Julv 27, 1840.
Henry, WiUiam, was a delegate from Pennsyl-
vania to the Continental Cougress 1784-1780.
Henry, Williaxn, was bom in New Hampshire;
received a public-school education; removed to Ver-
mont, and settled at Bellows Falls; was elected a
representative from Vermont in the Thirtieth Con-
gress as a Whig, receiving 6,627 votes against 3,071
votes for Bradley, Democrat, and 2,580 votes Aboli-
tion and scattering; and was re-elected to the Thirty-
first Congress, serving from December 6, 1847, to
Marrti 3, IhUil,
^ Herbert, Hillary A., was bom at Laurensville,
Siiuth CuiTiliiiJi, Man li l:i, 1834; removetl to Green-
ville, UutJLT Ciniiity, Akibama, in 1840; attended the
1 in.i.rsiry uf AlitbBni;^ in 1853-1&>4, and the Uni-
vir>!!> o£ Virginia l.v'j.Vltt.MJ ; studied law, and was
U'liiiitti'd to tho liar; entered the Confederate service
as fMimiin; was prijiunied to the colonelcy of the
Eixlitii Alabama Voluiii ei;ra; was disabled at the bat-
tle 'if thw WikU'niesu May 6, 1864; continued the
[irsteiico i>f tho law at Greenville, Alabama, until
1.''7-, (vlieii he removiid to Montgomery; was elected
a ri.it«c*entAttve from Alabama in the Forty-fifth
Qotigresa m u Democrat, lecelving 11,435 votes
against 0,304 votes for Gerald B. Hall, Bepnblican,
and serving from October 15, 1877.
Herbert, John C, was bom in Maryland: vag
elected a representative from that State in the Four-
teenth Congress; was re-elected to the Fifteenth
Congress, serving from December 4, 1815, to Hitch
3, 1810.
Herbert, Philemon T., was bom in Alabama;
removed to California, locating at Mariposa City;
was elected a representative from California in the
Thirty-fourth Congress as a Democrat, receiving
37,400 votes against 36,158 votes for Benham, Whig,
serving from December 3, 1855, to March 3, 1857.
Her^ord, Frank, was bom in Fauquier Coim-
ty, Viiginla, July 4, 1825; graduated in 1645: stud-
ied law, and practised his profession; removed
to California; was district-attorney of Sacramento
County, California, October, 1855-Octoi)er, 1857 ; was
elected a representative from West Virginia in the
Forty-second Congress as a Democrat, receiving (in-
cluding two counties which were not officiaily
counted by reason of their returns not having been
received) 8,082 votes against 7,180 votes for John S.
Witcher, Republican; was re-elected to the Forty-
third Congress, having as a competitor, in August,
J. B. Walker, Republican, and, in October, J. S.
Swan ; and was re-elected to the Forty-fourth Con-
gress, receiving 13,524 votes against 7,745 votes for
Witcher, Republican, serving from March 4, 1S71,
to January 31, 1877, when, having l)een elected a
United-States senator (in place of Allen T. Caperton,
deceased}, he took his seat in the Senate.
Herkimer, John, was bom at Danube. Her-
kimer County, New York, in 1773; received a pnblic-
school education; was a member of the State House
of Representatives 1800-1808; was for several yean
a judge of the Circuit Court; was elected a repre-
sentative from New York in the Fifteenth Congress
as a Democrat, serving from December 1, 18X7, to
March 8, 1810; removed to Meriden, New York; was
again elected to the Eighteenth Congress, serving
from December 1, 1823, to March 3, 1825; retumea
to Danube, and died there June 8, 1845.
Henumdez, Joseph M., was bom at St Aa-
gustine, Florida, when it was a Spanish colony;
transferred his allegiance to the United States: was
elected the first delegate from the Florida Territory
in the Seventeenth Congress, serving from January
3, 1823, to March 3, 1823; was a member of the Ter-
ritorial House of Representatives, and its presiding
officer ; was appointed brigadier-general of voltmteets
during the war gainst the Florida Indians; and died
near Matanzas, Cuba^ Jtine 8, 1857.
Hemdon, WiUiam S., was bom at Rome,
Geoigia, November 27, 1837; removed with his father
to Vvood County, Texas, in May, 1852; received a
collegiate education at McKenzie College. Texas;
studied law, and commenced practice in 18G0; en-
listed in the Confederate army as a private in lt<61,
and remained until the close of the war; resiuned
the practice of the law at Tyler, Smith County; vras
elected a representative from Texas in the Forty-
second Congress as a Democrat, receiving U.'al
votes against 10,200 votes for G. W. Whitmore, Raili-
cal; and was re-elected to the Forty-third Congress,
serving from Mareh 4, 1871, to Mardi 3, 1875.
Herod, William, received a thorough English
education ; studied law; was admitted to the bar. and
commenceid practice at Coltmibus, Indiana; was a
memlier of the Indiana State Senate ; was elected a
representative from Lidiana in the Tweuty-fimrth
Congress (to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death
of Gleorge L. Keimard) as a Whig; and was rc-oltct-
ed to the Twenty-fifth Congress, receiving D.tiSovotis
i^ainst 5,888 votes for J. B. Ray, Democrat, stTving
from January 25, 1837, to March 3, 18:i9; was dcfi at-
ed as the Whig candidate for the Twenty-«ixth Con-
gress by W. W. Wick, who received 800 majority.
Herriok, Anson (son of Ebcnezer Herrick),
was bom at Lewlston, Maine, January 21, 1812; i«-
ttlvcti a pnblic-flchool edacatlon, and learned the art
of priiitiiic;; esuililisheil "Tho Citizen " at Wiscas-
■et. Maiiie^ iu l*ii; removed to New York in l!S30,
d worl<ed as a journeyman printer until 1S:}8, when
he established "The S'ew-York Atlas," a weekly
lewspapor, of which he was the editor until his
death; wjis aldennun from the Nineleenlh Ward of
few-Vork City in l!v)4-18ot) ; was ap|H>iuted by Pres-
denl Buchanan naval storekeeper of the port of
few York, and served l."<")7-lSill ; was elected a rep-
resentative from New York in tho Twenty-eighth
Congress as a Democrat, recei\iiig 7,323 votes against
^OW votes for Muqdjy, Ijnion, scrvini; from Decem-
ber 7, \>r'^i, until Marcii 3. lsti5: was a doli'^^ate to the
Katinniil Union Convention at Philadeliihia in 18(W;
And died at Xew York February 5, IStJS.
Henick, Ebenezer (father of Anson Hcrrick),
K'as tH>m in Lincoln County, Maine; received a pub-
c-8chool education; was secretary of the State Sen-
He of Maine 1820; was elected a representative from
W:uiie in the Seventeenth Congress; was re-t'lei-ted
to tho Eighteenth Congress, defeating M. L. iliU;
twas re-elected to the Nineteenth Congress, defeating
■Bmith and Rose, serving from Deccniber 8, 1S21, un-
til March 3, 1S27; declined a riM^lcction; was a mem-
ber of Iho Stale Senate of Maine isus and 1820; and
died at Lewiston, Maine, May 7, ISIO.
Herriok, Josbtia, was bom at Beverly, Massa-
(jiusetts, March 18, 17iKl; received a |>ublic-sehool
■ducatlon; removed in 1811 to the then district of
Maine, and engaged in the lumbering business on the
TTppcr Androscoggin; served in the war of 1M2, and
was stationed on the Lower Kennebec; removed (o
BrunB«1ck, where he was connected with the Hrat
cotton-factory erected in Maine; was appointed In
1819 depnfy-sheriff of Cumberland Comity, which
Eosition ho held for many yejirs; removed early la
825' to Kennebuukport, and in the snriug of that
^ear was appointed by President Jackson deputy-
Collector ancl inspector of customs, which position
}ie held until March, 1^1; was chainuan of the
county commissioners of York County 1842-16>'W;
was elected a representative from Maine in the
Twenty-eighth Congress as a Democrat, defeating
Kev. Samuel Hopkins, WTiig, serving from December
i, 1S13, to March 3, ISJo; was n^ain deputy-collector
tnd inspector of customs at Kennebuukport ItMT-
IBiS; WM roister of probate of York County ISJU-
1(35; was for several years colonel of militia, and
held various local and municipal offices; was a warm
■ personal friend of Professor Slorse, and aided him in
BestnMishing the first line of lelegrai)b in this countiy
iV^twecn Wasliington and Baltimore in l!<i4; died at
Alfred. JLaine. August 30, 1874.
Herrick, Richard P., was bom in Rensselaer
County. Now York, in 1791; was elected a represen-
tative from New York in tho Twenty-ninth Congress
BS a Whig, receiving li,24:i votes against 5,(ii)2 votes
(or Sejnnour, Democrat, and 175 votes for Griffith.
Anu-rican, and serving from Dee4?mber 1, l.S4o, to
June 20, 1S4I). when lif died at Washington City.
Herrick, Samuel, w,is bom in Dutchess Coun-
ty. New York. April U, 177ii; rt'ceived an academical
education; studied law at Carlisle, Pennsylvania; was
" ailmiiteil til the bar in 180."), and commenced practice;
removed to Zanesville, Ohio, in 1810; held a numljcr
cf local offices; was elected a representative from
Ohio in the Fifteenth Congress as a Democrat; and
"Was re-elected to the iSixteenth Congress, serving
' om December 1, 1817, to March .% 1821 ; his election
as luisuccessfully contested by C. Uammond in the
iftcenth Congress; was a presidentl.il elector on
le Ja«kson and Calhoun ticket in 1828; was an-
ointed United-Stales district-attorney for Ohio in
im>: ilied De.-emlHT 16, 1851.
Hersey, Samuel F., was bom at Sumner,
Maine, April 12, l.M:<; received an academic educa-
tion; engaged in mercantile pursuits at Bangor, and
Was eng>^ed In banking and tho lumber business in
Ellaine, Minnesota, and Wisconsin; was a member of
the legislattir.) of Maine in 1S12, 1857, ISCi, lSr,7, and
1809, and of the Executive Council in 18ol and 1ISJ2;
was a delegate to the National Republican Conven-
tion at Chicago in 1800, also at Baltimore in 181)4,
and was a member of the National Kepublican Com-
mittee from DM'A to 1,S08; and was elected a rejiresen-
tative from Maine In the Forty-thinl Congress as a
Kepulilicau, receiving 13,814 votes against 8,70(1 votes
for M. Emery, Democrat, serving from December 1,
1873, to February 3, 1875, when he died at Bangor,
Maine.
Hewes, Joseph, was bom at Kingston, Xew
Jersey, in 1730; received a classical education,
giMduating at Princeton College; engaged in mercan-
tile pursuits, and, at the age of thirty, located at
Wilmington, where he accumulated a fortune; re-
movt>d to Edenton, and was a member of the House
of Commons of North Carolina in 1774, 1775, and
177d; was a delegate to Uie Continental Congress from
1774 (signing tho Declaration of Independence in 1770)
until liis deatli at Pliiliidelpbia November 10, 1779.
Hewitt, Abrazn Stevens, was l«irii at Haver-
straw, New York, July 31, 1822; received his ele-
mentary education at the public schools of New- York
C'ily, where he received a iirize-scliolarsliip to Co-
lumliia Ctillege, whence he graduated at the heiul of
his class in 1842; was acting professor of mathemat-
ics in 184;i: studied law, and was admitted to prac-
tice in the Statu Supreme Court in October, 1845; his
eyesight failing, he engaged in the iron business, and,
under the (inn of Cooper & Hewitt, established ex-
tensive iron-works mainly in New Jersey and Penn-
sylvania; w;is appointed one of tiio leu United-States
scientitic commissiuaers to visit the French " Expo-
sition Universelie" of 18*17, and made a report on
•' Iivin and Steel," wliich was published by Congress,
and iijis been translated Into most foreign languages;
bus organized and managed the "Coojwr Union for
tlje Advancement of Science and Art," designed
especially for the education of the working-classes;
and he was elected a representative from New York
in the Forty-fourth Congress on the regular Demo-
cratic ticket, receiving 9,603 votes against 8,083 votes
for J. O'Brien, Irregular Democrat; and was re-<.-lcct-
ed to tlio Forty-llflb Congress, receiving 17.130 votes
against 0,81J5 votes for llainilton Babcock, Itepub-
licaii, and 090 votes scattering, serving from Decem-
ber li. 1S75.
Hewitt, Goldsmith W., was bom In Jefferson
County. Alabama, Februar)' 14, 1834; received an
academic education; stiiilied law; was admitted to
the, li;ir in IN'id, ami lias since practised; entered the
Cuiifederalo army la ISCil, and served until severely
wounded at the battle of Chickamauga in 1*13; was
elected to the State House of Itepreseiitatives In 1870,
and to the State Sen.ite in 1872 and 1874, but resigned
when he was elected a representative from Alabama
la the Forty-fourth Congress as a Democrat, lecelv-
iiig 15,048 votes against 0,172 votes for J. U. Sioss,
Independent Democrat; and was again elected to tbe
Forty-liftb Congress, receiving 13,0:3-i votes agiUust
no oiiposition, serving from December 0, 1876.
Heyward, Thomas, was bom in the jjarish of
St. Luke. .South Carolina, in 1740; receiveii .in aca-
demical education; studied law in tbe Temple at
London; was admitted to tlie bar, and commenced
practice; w.is a member of the Colonial Assembly of
North Carolina; was a delegate from North Carolina
in the Continental Congress n7t>-1798; served in the
Rev ulutionary war as captain of artillery; was taken
jirlsouer at tbe capture of Charleston, and carried to
St. Augustine; was u inumber of the State Constitu-
tional Convention in 1790; and died on his plantation
in the pai-ish of St. Luke, South Carolina, in March,
18<Jl».
Heyward, "WilliRTn, Jan., received a classical
education, graduating at Princeton College in 1808;
was elected a representative from Maryland In the
Eighteenth Congress, serving from December 1, 1823,
to March 3, 1825.
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COUGEESSrONAL DEBECTOET.
Hibbard, Bllery A., was bora at St. Jobiubaiy,
Vermont, July 31, 1826; received an academic edu-
cation; studied and practised law; was clerk of the
New-Hampshire House of Representatives in 1852,
1853, and 1864 ; was a meml>er of the New-Hampshire
House of Representatives in 1866 and 1866; and was
elected a representative from New Hampsliire in the
Forty-second Congress as a Democrat, and also as
the candidate of the Lalx>r Reformers, receiving
12,444 votes gainst 12,085 votes for W. B. Small,
Eepublican, 216 votes for B. Van Came, Prohibi-
tionist, and 15 scattering votes, serving from March
4, 1871, to March 3, 1873; was judge of the Supreme
Court of Vermont 1873-1874, declining a re-appoint-
ment under the revised judiciary system, and resum-
ingthe practice of his profession.
Hibbard, Harry, was born at Concord, Ver-
mont, Jvily 1, 1816; received a classical education,
graduating at Dartmouth College in 1835; studied
law; was admitted to the bar in 1830, and com-
menced practice at Bath, New Hampshire; was
assistant clerk of the State House of Representa-
tives 1839, and clerk 1840-1813; was a member of
the State House of Representatives and speaker
1844-1845; was a member of the State Senate 1846-
1849; was elected a representative from New Hamp-
shire in the Thirty-nrst Congress as a Democrat,
receiving 7,363 votes against 3,358 votes for J. Kit-
tredge, Wbig, and 1,712 votes for White, Free-Soller;
was re-elected to the Thirty-second Congress, receiv-
i^ 5,125 votes against 2,248 votes for J. E^ttredge,
■Wnig, and 1,018 votes for WWte, Free-Soiler ; and was
re-elected to the Thirty-third Congress, receiving
9,635 votes against 7,556 votes for Perkins, Whig,
serving from December 3, 1849, to March 8, 1855;
and died at Somersville, New Hampshire, July 27,
1872.
Hibshman, Jacob, was bom at Lancaster,
Pennsylvania; received a public-school education;
held several local offices; was elected a representit-
tlve from Pennsylvania in the Sixteenth Congress,
serving from December 6, 1819, to March 3, 1821.
Hiokman, John, was l)orn in Chester County,
Pennsylvania, September 11, 1810; received an aca-
demical education : commenced the study of medi-
cine, but, finding his health too feeble for the dissect-
ing-room, he studied law ; was admitted to the bar
In 183;J, and commenced practice at West Chester;
was a delegate to the National Democratic Conven-
tion at Baltimore in 1844; was district-attorney for
Chester County 1844-1845 ; was elected a representa-
tive from Pennsylvania in the Thirty-fourth Con-
gress as a Democrat, receiving 8,733 votes against
6,077 votes for Broomall, Whig ; was re-elected to the
Thirty-fifth Congress, receiving 8,024 votes against
7,851 votes for Bowen, Republican, and 532 votes for
Larkin, American; was re-elected to the Thirty-sixth
Congress as a Douglas Democrat, receiving 6,786
votes against 5,185 votes for Manley, Democrat, and
4,676 votes for Broomall, Republican; was re-elected
to the Thirty-seventh Congress as a Republican, re-
ceiving 10,140 votes against 7,701 votes for Brinton,
Democrat, serving from Decemi)er 3, 1855, to March
8, 1863; declined a re-election to the Thirty-eighth
Congress; was a member of the State House of
Representatives in 1869; and died at West Chester,
Pennsylvania, March 23. 1P75.
Hicka, Tiiomaa Hollyday, was bom in Dor-
clitf*ter Cuunty, Manliind, Septemlier 2, 1798; re-
eiilvetl a piibUe-schoit! education; worked on his
fatlier's form : was ulucted constable; was sheriff of
Dorchester Counry in 1.S31; engi^ed in mercantile
pursuits; wasi n mcmljer of the State House of Kep-
reuMtuntives in is;j() ; wM appointed register of wills
in I^JS, and held the office a number of years; was
governor of Miir}'l'in<i 1S58-1862, takinga firm stand
against lecfsssiun ; naa appointed a United-States
•cnntor from Maryland hs a Republican (in place of
Jaiives A. Pearce, ttcceased), and waa subsequently
Atected by the logsstature, serving from Jantiaiy 14, 1
1868, to Febraary 13, 1865. He Injured one of hi*
feet while getting out of the cars when on an eicur-
sion with the Naval Committee of the Senate; ery-
sipelas set in, and amputation became necessary,
while his health was enfeebled, and be died of
paralysis at Washington City February 13, 18(i5.
Hieeter, Isaac EUmaker (son of WUbam
Heister), was bom in Lancaster County. Pennsyl-
vania; received a classical education, graduating at
Yale College; studied law; waa admitted to the bar,
and commenced practice at Lancaster; was elected a
representative from Pennsylvania in the Thirty-thini
Congress as a Whig, receiving 8,840 votes ag^st
6,456 votes for Sampson* Whig, and serving from
December 5, 1853, to March 3, 1855; was defeated u
the Antislavery Whig candidate for the Thirty-
fourth Congress, receiving 5,731 votes against 6.561
votes for Anthony E. Roberts, American 'Whig;
resumed practice, and died at Lancaster, Pennsyl-
vania, Febn^nr 6, 1871.
Higby, WiUiam, was bom at Willsbonmrii,
New York, August 18, 1813; received a classical edu-
cation, graduating at Uie University of Vermont;
studied and practised law; went to California in
1850; was district-attorney rrom 1853 to 1859; was*
meml>er of the State Senate of California in \^i
and 1863; was elected a representative from Cali-
fomla in the Thirty-eighth Congress as a Cnioii
Republican ; was re-elected to the Thirty-ninth Con-
gress, receiving 23,092 votes against 14,557 votes for
Coffroth, Democrat; was re-elected to the Fortieth
Congress, receiving 16,053 votes against 14,786 votes
for Coffroth, Democrat, serving from DeoamberT,
1863, to March 3, 1869.
Hitrstnson, Stephen, was born at Salem.
Hassacnusetts, November 28, 1743; was bred to
mercantile pursuits and navigation; wasadelc^te
from Massachusetts to the Continental Congren
1782-1783; was appointed navy agent at Boston
1707-1801; waa a Federalist, strongly opposed to
Jefferson; was lieutenant-colonel of a r^riment of
volunteers sent from Boston to aid in putting down
the Shays rebellion; was a heavy loser by the war of
1812; and died at Boston November 22, 1828. He
published several political pamphlets.
Hill, Benjamin Harvey, was bom in Jasper
County, Georgia, September 14, 1823; received a
classical education, graduating at the University of
Georgia at Athens in 1844; studied law; was ad-
mitt^ to the bar in 1845, and commenced practice
at La Grange, Georgia; was a member of the State
House of Representatives in 1851, 1859, aad ISfiO;
was defeated as the American candidate for Congress
in 1855, receiving 6,813 votes against 6,883 votM for
H. Warner, Democrat; was defeated as the American
candidate for governor of Georgia in 1857, receiving
46,880 votes against 57,631 votes for J. E. Brown,
Democrat; was a presidential elector on the Bell ami
Everett ticket in 1861 ; was a delegate to the State
Convention of 1861, and advocated the Union until
the secession ordinance had been adopted; was a
delegate from Georgia to the Confederate Provisional
Congress, and subsequently a senator from Georgia
in the Confederate Congress ; was arrested in 1^
and imprisoned in Fort Lafayette; was elected a rep-
resentative from Georgia in the Forty-fourth Con-
gress (to fill the vacancy caused by the death of
Garrett McMillan), and was re-elected to the Forty-
fifth Congress, receiving 14,790 votes without any
opposition; resigned, having been elected a United-
States senator from Georgia, and took his seat March
5, 1877.
Hill, Clement S., was bom in Kentucky; re-
sided at Lebanon ; was elected a representative from
Kentucky in the Tliirty-third Congress as an Inde-
pendent Democrat, receiving 6,1^ votes against
5,996 votes for Stone, Democrat, and serving from
December 5, 1853, to March 3, 1886.
Hill, Hush Li. W., was bom in Tennessee;
resided at Irving College; was elected a representa-
8TATISTICAI, SKETCHES.
447
ftlve from Tenneesee In the Thirtieth CojigreM as a
Deinficrat. wning from December 6, 1847, U> March
3, 1S4!I.
TTill, Isaac, was bom at Sompn-ille, Massachu-
laetts. April 0, 1788; received a publie-sclnxil educa-
tion; his parents remove<l to a farm in Aslil^umliaiii,
chuselts. In 1798; was apprenticed to the art
^^ t^rlutiiiR at Amherst 1802-18UU; removed to Con-
"■cbra; purchased a newspaper, and issued it as " The
Xew-liampsliire l'atrif«t" for twenty years; was a
member of tlie New-IIanipsliire Uouse of Kepre-
•entatives. and was a member of the State Senate
in 18i'i>-l«:i:i and 1827; was deieated as a candidate
Kior the UnlteiKStates Senate in 1828; was second
H comptroller of tlie United-States Treasury March 21,
B 182l»-May 20, 18;»: was elected a United-States
H senator from New Ilampghire as a Democrat, serving
■ from Decemlx-r 5, 18:J1, to May 28, 183iJ, when he
Bresigne<l, having been elected governor; was covem-
0 or of New Ilampshire 18ai(-18;3«; was United-States
sub-treasurer at Boston 1840-1841 ; edited and puti-
Uihed "Hill's Xew-nampsliire Patriot" 18K)-1847;
» edited and publislied "The Farmer's Monthly
Visitor" 1S41-1S51; died at Wasliiiicton City
Harch 22, 1801. His lilopniphy and speeches were
published at Concord in 1835.
pill, John, was born at Crawford, North Caro-
lina; received a public-school education; was a
memlwr of the House of Commons of North
■ Carolina in 1819-1822, and of tlio State Senate
In 182;}-1820; was elected a representative from
North Carolina in the Twenty-sixth Congress as a
Democrat, receh-ing 3,743 votes against .3,(10(1 votes
for A. H. Sheppard, Whig, and serving from De-
cember 2. 18:J9, until March 3, 1841; was reading-
cleric of the State Senate of North Carolina in l.S>0.
Hill, John, was bom in Buckingham County,
Einia; was reared on a plantation, receiving a
Englisli education: was elected a representative
Virginia in the Twenty-sixth Congress as a
Whig, receiving Ol.^i voles against 708 votes for D. A.
Wilson. Van Ijuren Democrat, serving frtmi De-
cember 2. is;;il, to March 3, 1841.
Hill, John, was b<)m at Catsldll. New Tork,
K June 10,1821; received a private-schorjl education;
y engaged in mercantile pursuits; removed to Boon-
tt)n. New .Jersey, where he held several local ofiices;
was » memlier of the Stale Assembly of New Jersey
tin 1801, 1802, and 1800, serving the last year as
(peuker; was active in raising troops for the
Union army during the war for the suppression of
the Rebellion; was elected a representative from
New Jersey in the Fortieth Congress as a Repub-
lican, n-ceivlng 13.801 votes against 13.3WI votes
for Rogers, Democrat, and 104^ votes for Huyler,
.Independent Democrat; was re-elected to the Forty-
|£rst Congress, receiving 10,480 votes against 10.4io
rotes for Philip Rafferty, Democrat; was re-elected
vtbc Forty-second Congress, receiving 18,057 votes
"ast 15,:J04 vofeji for Philip Rafferty. Democrat.
Ins fnim March 4, 1807, to March 3^ 1S73.
Bill, Joshua, was born in Abbeville District,
South Carolina, January 10, 1812; received a public-
Bcbool education; studied law; was arlmitted to the
'bar, and commenced practice at Matlison, Georgia;
elected a representative from Georgia in tlie
["hirty-filth Congress as an American, receiving
votes against 4,525 votes for L. Stephens,
and was re-elected to the Tliirty-sixlh
_^_8, receiving 4,492 votes against 4.353 votes
for Barper, Democrat, serving from Deceml)er 7,
1^7, to January 23, 1801, when he resigned, in
(obedience to the wish of the Georgia Convention;
ITeinaiiiod on Ills plantation during me war; w.is a)>-
jlnted collecl4.ir of customs at Savannah in 1600;
appointed a register In l)ankruptcy in 1807; was
, visitor to WestPouit in 1607; was elected a Unltefl-
Pfitates senator from Georgia, serving from January
jaO;1871. to March 3, 1878.
Hill, Mark L., was bora at Biddeford, Massa-
chusetts (now Maine), Jnne 30, 1772: received a
public-school education; was a member of the
Massachusetts House of Representatives, ami sub-
sequently of ihe Senate of that Slate: was a judge
of the Court of Common Pleas; was elected a rep-
resentative from Mawachusetts in the Sixteenth
Congress, serving from December 6, 1810, to March
3, 1821; was elected a representative from Maine in
the Seventeenth Congress, serving fmni December 3,
1821, to March 3, 1828; was postmaster at Phiops-
burg. Maine; was an overseer of Bowdoin College
for many years; was collector of customs at BatL,
Maine; .ind died at Phlppsburg, Maine, November
20, IS42.
Hill, Ralph, was bom at Jolmson, Ohio, Octotier
12, 1827; received an academical education: studied
law at the New-York Law School; was admitted to
the bar, and commenced practice at Columbus,
Indiana, in 1852; was elected a representative tmia
Indiana in the Thirty-ninth Congress as a Repub-
lican, receiving 12,017 votes against 11,173 votes for
W. Harrington, Democrat, sen'ing from Decemi)er 4,
1.S05. to March 3. 1807.
Hill, Whitmil, was bom in Bertie County,
North Carolina, February 12, 174iJ; received a
classical education, graduating at the University of
Pennsylvania; was a man of fine literary attain-
ments, and entered icalously into the Revolutionary
slnii^gle; w.is a delegate to the Assembly of Freemen
at milsbon«ugh in mS, the State Congress at Halifax
in April, 1770, and the Constitutional Convention at
Haliiax DecemIxT 18, 1770; was lieutenant-colonel
in the North-Carolina militia; was a member of the
House of Commons of North Carolina in 1777, and
of the State Senate in 1778-1780. 1784, and n^l; was
a delegate to the ConlinentiU Congress from North
Carolina 1778-1781 ; died at Hill's Ferry, North Caro-
lina, .Scptenilier 2(1, 1797.
HDl, William H., was born in North Carolina;
studied law; was admitted to the bar, and practised;
was elected a representative from North Carolina in
the iSixth Congr<iS9, and was re-elected to the Seveutb
Congress, serving from December 2. 1799, to March
3, i8(J3; was judge of the United-States District
Court for the district of North Carolina; died in
1609.
Hillen, Bolomon, jun., was bom In Baltimore
County. Maryland, In 1813; received a classical eilu-
cation, grathiating at Georgetown College; studied
law; WII9 admitted to the Imr. and commenced prac-
tice at Baltimore; was a member of the State House
of Representatives 1834-18:18; was elected a repre-
sentative from Maryland in the Twenty-sixth Con-
gress as a Democrat, dbfcatiug Pitts, ^V'hig, sen-ing
from Decemlx?r 2, 18.39, to March 3, 1841 ; was mayor
of Bnltimoro 1842-1845; resigned on account of ill
health, and devoted himself to agricultural pursuits.
Hillhouse, James (son of William Hillhouse),
was born at MontviUe, Connecticut, October 21, 1754;
received a classical education, graduating at Yale
College in 1773; studied law; was admitted to the
bar. and commenced practice at New Haven; .ser>-ed
in the Revolutionary war In the defence of the Con-
necticut coast; was elected a representative from
Connecticut in the Second Congress as a Federalist,
and was re-elected to the Thinl Congress, 8cr%-ing
from October 24, 1791, to March 3. 1795: was elected
a United-States senator from Connecticut (in place
of Oliver Ellsworth, resigned), serving from De-
cemljer 0, 1790, to June 10, 1810, when he resigned
to accept the office of commissioner of the School
Fund, which he held until 1825; was a member of
the Hartford Convention; was president of the
Famiington and Hampshire CanaJ Company; was
treasurer of Yale College 1782-1832; and died at
New Haveu, Connecticut, December 29, 1832.
Hillhouse, William (father of James Hill-
house). was bom at Monlville, Connecticut, In 1720;
received a classical education; studied law; was
admitted to the bar, and practised; was for fifty
448
CONGRESSIOKAL DmECTOBT.
yearti a member of the Colonial and State House of
Representatives; was for forty yeurs a judge of tlie
Court of Comraon Pleas; was a deicgate from Coti-
neriicul ti> the Continental Cnngress 178:)-n80; died
at Moiitvilli', CoiiiR-clicut, Jnnuarv V2, 1810.
Hilliard- Henry Washington, was boni In
CumlKTiantl County, North Carolina, August 8,
1809; received a classical education, gmduatine at
Columbia College, South Carolina, In 182(); studied
law; removed to Athens, Georgia, and was atimitted
to the liar; was elected professor of tlie University
of Alaliania in ISU, but resigned in 1*14 to practise
law III Montgomery, exercising meanwhile tlie func-
tions of a local preacher of the Methodist-Episcopal
Church ; was elected to tlie State legislature of AJa-
'boma in ISW, and again in 18:^8; was a member of
Jthe Wliig National Convention which numinated
Harrison and "A'ler in 1830; was charge d'affaires
to Belgium May 12, 1842-August 15, 1844; was
elected a representative in the Twenty-ninth Con-
gress as a Whig, receiving 2,013 votes against 2,753
votes for John Cochran, Democrat; was re-elected to
the Thirtieth Congress as a \^Tiig without opposi-
tion; was re-electe<l to the Thirty-first Conin'oss,
defeating James L. Pugh, Southern-rights candidate;,
serviii,^ from December 1, 1845, to March 3, 1801;
resuming the practice of law, he published a volume
of his speeches, and occasionally preached ; he com-
mandea a legion of volunteers in the Confederate
gervice, and, soon after the war, removed to Georgia;
was defeated as the Republican candidate for the
Fortv-tifth Congress, receiving 5,785 votes against
1S,"1»7 votes for Henry 11. Hams, Democrat; was ap-
pointed minister to Brazil July 31, 1877.
Hillyer, Junius, was bom In Wilkes County,
Georgia, April 2;{, 18i)7; received a classical educa-
tion, graduating at the State University at Athens
in 18i8: studied law while in college; was admitted
to the bar in one week after graduating, and com-
menced practice at Athens; was elected W the legis-
lature solicitor-general for the Westeni bistrict in
lftJ4: was elected a representative from Georgia in
^tho Thirty-second Congress as a Deniocr:it, receiving
6,U37 votes against 2,81U votes for Jones, Democrat";
and was re-elected to the Thirty-third Congress, re-
ceiving 5,4.30 votes against 2,054 votes forWofford,
Democrat, serving from Dcceml)cr 1, 18-51, to March
3, I8.V1; was solicitor of the United-States Treasury
Decemt)er 1, 1857-Febmary 13, 1801, when he re-
signed.
Hindman, Thomas C, was bom in Tennessee
In 1818; received a public-school education ; studied
law; was admitted to the bar, and commenced prac-
tice in Mississippi; served in the Mexican war as
second lieutenant of Mississi]mi volunteers; removed
to Helcn.'i, Arlcansas; was elected a representative
(trom that State in the Thirty-sixth Congress as a
emocrat, receiving 18,205 votes against 2,85.3 votes
for Crosby. Independent, serving from December 5,
1859, to March 3, 18(il ; was re-elected a representa-
tive from Arkansas to the Thirty-seventh Congress
as a Secessionist, defeating Jesse M. Cyprett, but did
not take his seat; w.is appohited brigadier-general In
the Southern Confederacy September 28, 1801, and
placed in command of eight Arkansas regiments in
the Array of the West; was promoted to be major-
general April 18, 1802, and placed in coimnand of
the brigades of Deas, Walthall, Manigault, and
Anderson, In Polk's corps. Army of the Tennessee ;
after the war he resided for a time in Texas, bnt
returned in 18G8 to Helena, where he was assassinated
at his residence September 28, 1868.
Hindman, 'WiUiam, was bom In Maryland;
received a classical education, from tutors; was
elected a representative from Maryland in the Second
Congress (m place of Joshua Seney. resigned); was
re-elected to the Third, Fourth, "and Fifth Con-
gresses, serving from January 30, 1703, to March 3,
1790; was elected a United-States senator from
Maryland (in place of James Uoyd, resigned), serv-
4
ing from December 15, 180O, to MarcbS, 1908; and
died Januarj' 20, 1822.
Hinds, iJajnes, was bom at Hebron, XewTork,
December 5, 18.'>J; received a liberal education;
studied law, graduating at the Cincinn.-iti Law Col-
lege in 1850, and commencing i)ructice in Miuueisota;
served in the Union army as a private ; scitled at
Little Rock, Arkansas ; was a delegate to the State
Constitutional Convention: was appointed couunis-
sioner to codify the State laws; was elected a repre-
sentative from Arkansas in the Fortieth Congres*,
ser\-ing from June 24, 1808, to October 22, 18*18, when
ho w;i,s assassinated at Monroe, Arlcansas.
Hinds, Thomas, was bom in 1775; settled at
Greenville, Mississippi; served in the w.ir of 1^12,
and distinguished himself at Iho battle of New
Orleans; was elected a representative from Missis-
sippi in the Twentieth Congress (in place of William
Haile, resigned) as a DemtKrat; and was k-
elected to the Twentv-first Congress, serving from
Deccml)er 8, 1828, to March 3. 1831 ; died at Green-
ville. Mississipni, August 23, 1840.
Hines, Ricnard, wiis bom in Edgecom ' ''
Nordi Car:liiia; was elected a reprcsei.
Nnrtli Carolina in the Nineteenth Congi
ing the incumlient. Dr. Thomas H. Hail, and servj
from December 5, 1825, until March 3, 1S27 ; rcmovi
to R'lleigh; was for many years chairman of tbi
\Vliig State Central Committee; and died at Kale
North Carolina, in November. 1S51.
Hiscock, Frank, was bom at Pompey, Ne'
York, September 0, 18:J4; received an academic edu
cation; studied law; was admitted to the bar in ISiS-
and commenced practice at Tuily, Onondaga C'oimty
was elected district-attomey of Onondaga Coun;
serving 1800-180.3; removed to Syracuse; was
member of the State Constitutional Conven" '
1807; was elected a representative from Nev,
in the Forty-fifth Congress as a Kepublican. 1 ■
ing 18,425 "votes against 13.8;!4 votes for Diiii
Pratt, Democrat, serving from October 15, 1S77.
Hise, Elijah, was twni in Kentucky .7uly 4
1802; was defeated as Democratic candidate for lieu
teuant-gDVemor in 1830; was charui d'affairi-a t» -^^ ?•
Guatemala March 31, 184»-June 21, ISIO: was c •
pn!sidential elector on the Buchanan and Pr<'r1d
ridge ticket In 1850; w.-w elected a re] -
from KentucliV in the Thirty -ninth Congi ■
of Henry Griilcr, dccensed) as a Democrii. 1 ■ . .n ui^.-*^^"*
0.4',)3 votes against 2,244 votes for P. B. Hawkins^^-**'
Republican, and serving from December 3, 1806, U^-^^'
March 3, 1807; was re-elected to the Fortieth Con.^:^"*-
gress, but committed suicide at Eussellville, Ke&.^K""'"
tuck7, May 8, 18<!7.
Hitchcock, Peter, was bom at Cheshire, Con^^""
necticut, October 10, 1780; received a ciassic-il e<lnc;to ~
tion, graduating ot Yale College in 1801; studicii law r
was admitted to the bar in 18(4, and commeiiceil pracs^-
tice at Cheshire, Connecticut; removed to (reaogs
County, Ohio; was a member of the State Hotise ot
Representatives in 1810, and of the State Senate in
1812-1810; W.1S elected a representative from Ohio in
the Fifteenth Congress, serving from December 1, ^_
1817, to March 3, 1819: was successively chosen a ^M
judge of the Supremo Court of Ohio, serving 1834- ^|
1852, a part of which time he was chief justice; wm
a delegate to the State Constitutional Convention of
1850: .ind died at Painesvillo. Ohio, May 11, 185.3.
Hitchcock, Phineas W., was Ixim at New
Lelianon, New Vorlj, November 30, 1831; gniJu.iied
at Williams College, Massachusetts, in IS-Vi; studletl
law; was admitted to the bar, and commenced prac-
tice at Nebraska in 18.57 ; was a memlKir of the Na-
tional Republican Convention at Chicago in 1880;
wiis appointed Uulfcd-States marshal in l-'-' ••■. '",'•,.
ing in 18!>l when elected Territorial del. .e
Tliirty-ninth Congress; on the admission i; ..i
as a State was appointed surveyor-Kener,ii, uUich
position be held two years; was elected United-States
senator from Nebraska as a Republican (to succeed
4.
I
STATISTICAL SKETCHES.
449
3enor.ll John M. Thayer), and served from Slnrch 4,
IsTl. until March u. IS77.
Eoag, Truman H., wiw bom at Mnulius. Xew
York. April SMSID ; received ii public-school cducal ion ;
was a clerk in a store at Syracuse 1S32-1S0'.I; euj^ipcd
In the steamboat business on Lake Ontario in 1842:
removed to Tolc<lo in UvlS. and established hinisilf in
the transportali'in business; w.s elected a represen-
tative from t)hio in the Korty-lirst ConRress a.sn Dem-
ocrat, recfiving 1."),5(.I7 votes ajjainst 14,595 votes for
Ashley, KepuljTican. serving from March 4. ItWJ, to
February 5, I'.wti. when ho died at Washington City.
Eoagland, Moses, was bom in Ohio; received
a public-school education; studied law; was admit-
ted to the bar, and practise<l at Millersburg: was
elected a representative from Ohio in the Thirty-first
Congress as m Democrat, receiving 6,104 votes against
5.144 votes for Weeker, Whig, serving from December
3, 1S40, to March 3, 1851 ; was appouited United-
States judge for Wa?him;ton Territory.
Hoar, Ebenezor Roctwood (son of Samuel
Hoar, and brother of George Krisbie Hoar), was bom
at Concord, Massachusetts, February 21, 1810; re-
ceived a classical education, graduating at Ilarvanl
Cylloge in 1S35; studied law; was admitted to the
bur in 184t>. and commenced practice at Concord and
lJ"sion; was judge of the Court of Common Pleas
lM.i-ls5o; was judge of the Supreme Court 1850-
1> i'.i; was attomey'j;eneral of the United States
March, isoo-july, 18(0; was a member of the Joint
High Commission which framed the Treaty of Wash-
in;ston in 1871; was i-lected a representative from
Massachusetts in the Forty-third Congress m a Re-
publican, receiving 11.742 votes against 6,090 votes
for John K. Tarhox, Democrat, serving from Decem-
l>er 1, VS73. to March 3, 1876; resumed the practice
of his profession.
Hoar, George Frisbie (son of Samuel Hoar,
and brother of Eljenezcr Hockwood Hoar), was Iwm
at Concord, Massachusetts. August 29, 1820: studied
in early youth at Concord Academy; gradu.atcd at
Harvard College In 1840: studied law. and graduated
at the Dane Law School, Harvard University; settled
at Worcester, where he practised; was a member of
the .State House of Kepresentatives in 1852, and of
the State .Senate in 1S.J7; was elected a represent^i-
tive from Massachusetts in the Forty-first Con-'ress
as a Kopublican, receiving 14,307 votes against 4,074
votes for Stevens, Democrat; was re-elected to the
Forty-second Congress, receiving 8,487 votes n^-iinst
4,277 votes for Cook, Democrat, l,TH votes for John-
son, Lalior Reformer, and 500 votes for Walker, Pro-
hibitionist; was re-elected to the Forty-third C'ou-
rss, receiving 11.929 votes against 6,829 votes for
F. Verry. Democrat; and was re-elected to the
Forty-fourtli Congress as a Republican, receiving 0,42:J
votes ag.iinst 8,901 votes for Eli Tliayer, Democrat,
sen-inj: from March 4, 1800, to March :i. 1877; declined
a reiiomination, and was elected a United-.States sena-
tor from Massachusetts, serving from Match 4. 1877.
Hoar, Samuel (father of Etwnezer Hockwood
Hoar and George Frisbie Hoar), was twm at Lincoln,
Massachusetts, May 18, 1778; received a cta-ssieai
education, graduating at Cambridge in 1802; was
two years a private tutor in Virginia; studied law;
was admitted to the bar in 180.% and commenced
practice at Concord; was a delegate to the State
Constitntional Convention in 1820; was a member of
the Slate Senate In 1825 and 1833; was elected a
representative from Massachusetts in the Twenty-
fourth Congress as a Whig, serving from December 7,
1S35, to March 3, 1837; was sent as n commissioner
from Massachusetts to South Carolina lu 1844 to test
In the courts tlie constitutionality of State laws au-
tborizing the imprisonment of colored persons enter-
ing It, but was expelled from Charleston December 6,
1S44; was prominently connected with several reli-
gious, charitable, historical, and scientific societies;
Dd died at Coiu»>rd, Idossachusetts, November 2,
Hoard, Charles B., was bom at Sprlnjfleld,
Venuont, June 28, INJo: received a pulilic-fehoci
education; learned a trade; removed to Antwerp,
New York, and was clerk in a private land-office;
removed to Watertown, where no was postmaster
under Presidents Jackson and Van Buren; was a
member of the .State House of Representatives In
lf-"8; was county-clerk of JelTerson County 1844-
IWO; w;is elected a representative from Xew York
in the Thirty-llfth Congress as a Republic.in, receiv-
ing 11, K9 votes against 0,070 votes forDorwin. Dem-
ocrat, and 30 votes for Clark. American ; and was
re-elected to the Thirty-sixth Congress, receiving
9,102 votes against 7,177 votes for Lyon. Democrat,
sen-ing from December 7, 1857. to March 3, 1801.
Hobart, Aaron, was bom at Abiugton, Massa-
chusetts, June 20, 1787; received a classical educa-
tion, graduating at BroHii University in 1806; studied
law with Judge Mitchell of East Bridgewater; was
a<iiTiitted to the bar in 1819, and commenced practice
at Abington; his health fulling, hevis'iled Engl.ind in
1810, and on Lis return in 1811 resumed practice at
Hanover Four Comers, where ho remained until his
removal to East Bridgewater in 1824; was a member
of the State House of Representatives In 1814, and of
the State Senate In ISIO; was elected a represent.i-
tive from Massachusetts In the Sixteenth Congress
(in place of Zabdiel Sampson, resi^^ned) as a Demo-
crat; was re-elected to the Soventoenth, Eighteimth,
and Kineteenlh Congresses, serving from December
18, 1S20, to March 3, 1827; was a member of the State
Executive Council 1827-lSil ; was appointed judge
of probate in IS'l.S, and held the office until it was
abolished March 25, 1.S.58 : died at East Bridgewater,
Mass.ichusetts, July 1, 18.'58.
Hobart, John Sloss, was bom at Fairfield,
Connecticut, in 17:3S; received a classical educatioil,
graduating at Yale College in iVil; studied law; was
admitted to the bar, and commenced practice in the
.Stato of New York; was a deputy to the Provincial
Convention of 1775; was a (lelegato to the First,
.Second, Third, and Fourth Provincial Congresses
1775-1777; was a puisne justice of thcSupreme Court
1777-1798; was elected a United-.St.ites senator fnjm
Now York (in place of Piiliip Schuyler, resigned),
servinij from February 2, 1798, to April, 1798, when
he resigned, h.lvina: been appointed judge of the
United-States Distrrct Court of New York; died Feb-
ruary 4, 1805.
Hobble, Selah R., was bom at Newburg, New
York, March 10, 17l>7; studied law; was admi'ted to
the bar, and commenced pnictico at Delhi ; was dis-
trict-attorney of Delaware County Novemlier 11. 182;j-
Juno 11, 1827; was brigade-major and hispeclor i.f
militia; was elected a rejjrcsentative from New York
in the Twentieth Congress as a Jackson Democrat,
serving from December 3, 1827, to March 3, 1829;
was second assistant postmaster-general I82!>-1830;
was first assistant postmaster-general 1830-1851 ; re-
signed on account of ill health, but recovered, and
was again first assistant postmaster-general March
22, 185;J-March 23. 1854, when he died of pulmonary
consumption at Wa.shington City.
Hodges, Asa, was bom January 22, 1823; re-
moved to Marion, Arkansas, in 1859; studied law;
was admitted to the bar in 1840, and continued to
practise law until 1860; was elected in ISCO as a
delegate from Crittenden County to tiie Constitu-
tional Convention under the Rcconstniction Acts of
Congress: was elected In 1808 a representative in the
Oreueral Assembly of Arkansas; was elected in 1870
a member of the State Senate for four years; and
was elected a representative from Arkansas in the
Forty-third Congress as a Republican, serving from
February 4, 1874, to March 3, 1875.
Hodges, Charles D., resided at Carrollton,
Illinois; was elected a representative from that State
in the Thirty-fifth Congress (in place of Thomas L.
Harris, deceased), serring from January, 1859, to
Marcb 3, 1660.
450
CONGEESSIONAL DERECTORT.
Hodges, (Jeorge T., was bom at Clarendon,
Vi'nn'>ul, July 4, 1789; received a public-school edu-
CHlion: wius tminod to business pursuits, and was for
many years a successful merchant at Rutland; was
for several successive years a meraU'r of ibo State
Hriuse of Kepresontativcs and a memljer of Uic State
Seniiie; was for upwards of twenty-five years presi-
dent of the Bank of Rutliuid; was elected a represen-
tative from Vermont in the Thirty-fourth Congress
(in place of James Meacham, deceased) as a Repub-
lican, serving from December 1, 1S5«1, to Harch 3,
1857; was a leadinc; ofBcer of the Vermont State
Agricultural Society; and died at Rutland, Vermont,
Se|)l<'iiit>iT i», ls«i(i,
Hodges, Jamea L., was bom in Bristol County,
Massachusetts, August 7, 178iJ; received a jmblic-
school education; was a member of the State Senate
of Jlrtssachusetts 1.S2;J-1S24; was eleoteil a represen-
tative from Massachusetts in the Twentieth Congress;
WHS re-eleclcd.to the Twenty-first Congress, and was
re-elected to the Twenty-second Congress on the sev-
enth trial, receiving ;J,4o8 votes against 3.217 votes
for Ruggles, and 147 scattering votes, sen-ing from
Deceml>er;), 1827, to March 2, 1833; died at flristol,
Massachusetts, March H, 184fl.
Hoffman, Henry W., was bom in Maryland;
received a public-schiml education; was elected a
representntive from Maryland in tlie Thirty-fourth
Conin^'ss as an American, receiving 8,320 votes against
l.M'tt votes for Hamilton, Democrat, ser>ing from
DcO'-mber 3, 1855, to March 3, 1.S57; was defeated as
the American cindidate for the Thirty-lifth Congress,
receiving S,71ii votes against 8,849 votes for Kunkel,
Democrat : was elected scrgeant-at^anus of tlic Thir-
ty-sixth Congress; was coUector of cnistoms at Boiti-
jnore I8«il-lS«tl.
Hoffman, Michael, was bom at Clifton Park,
Xew York, in 1788; received an academic e<lucation;
was educated as a physician, but aftenvanis studied
law; h;uh ailmitted to the i>ar. and commenced prac-
tice at Herkimer: was elected a representative fn)m
New York in the Nineteenth Congress as a Democrat ;
was re-elected to the Twentieth, Twenty-first, and
Twenty-si?ciind Congresses, sening from December
6. ISi'.'i. to March 2, ls:W; was canal commissioner of
the .Slate of Xcw York April 4, 183:5-May 0, 18:15;
was apjxiinted register of the land-office at Saginaw,
Illinois, in 18;J0; n;tumetl to Herkimer. New Y'ork,
and w.^s a member of the State House of Representa-
tives in 1)^1. 1842. and 1844; was a delegate to the
State Constitutional Convention 18*J; was naval
ofHccr of the New- Y'ork customs district; and died
at Brooklyn September 27, 1818.
Hoffman, Ogden, was bom in the city of New-
York M.iy •'!. 17li.'{; received a classical education,
graduating at Columbia College in 1812; he soon
after entered the navy as a midshipman, but in three
years he resigned: studied law; was admitted to the
bar, and commenced practice in Orange County ; was
dislrict-atiorney of Orange County May it. 182;:t--J«n-
uary U, 1820; removed to New- York City: was a
memlier of the State House of Representatives 1828;
was ilislriit-attoniey of the city and coujity of New
York Is:r.>-ls;io; was elected a representative from
New York in the Twenty-fifth Congress as a Whig,
aiiil wijs re-elected to the Twenty-sixth Congress, re-
ceiving 2VI.577 votes against 19,287 votes wr John
McKeon. Democrat, serving from Septemlwr 4, 1837,
to March 3, 1841 ; was United-States district-attoniey
at New York 1841-1843; was attorney-general of the
State of New Y'ork Novemljer 8, 18o;J-Noveml)er 7.
1S55; and died suddenly at New- Y'ork City M.tv 1,
18.")<1.
Hogan, John, was bom at Mallow. Cork County,
Ireland. January 2, 1806; immigrated with his father
Ui the Unitetl St.ites in 1817. and i<X!ated at Balti-
more; was apprenticed to the shoemaker's trade; re-
ceived a Sunday-schixil education; went W<>st in 182<):
opened a store in Madison County, Illinois, in 1831 ;
was a member of the State legislature in 1830; was
n'gister of the land-office at Dixon. II ) • ■ • • ^ f ^ 1 1 i ^ i ^^
removed to St. Louis, Missouri, wh'
mercantile pursuits and tuinking; \i .
St. Louis 1857-1861; was elected a r«;pr«-»ent«ii
from Missouri in the Thirty-ninth Congn-M a*
Democrat, receiving (l,02ti votes against ■ ~ ' «1
for Johnson, Radical, and .^,157 votes f>>r i 1-1
ical, serving from December 4, 18^15. to M
He has pur>lished a work on "The lo -.
souri.'" and another on "The Comjn. n •
factures of St. Louis."
Hogan, William, was bom in New I'ork 1
was ttiken by his father to Ca|>e Colony when a
and there learned Dutch; retumeJ to New Y'ork;
ceived a classical education, graduating at Columl
College ; studied law, and was admitted to tlie bi
but did not practise; became largely interested
wild liinds in Franklin County; founded the town
Hogansburg; was county judge of FYaiiklin County;
was electe(f a representative from New Y'ork in
Twenty-second Congress as a Jackson Democ
serving from Dcceiriber 6. 1831, to March 2. 1
was examiner of claims, and afterwards translator
the Department of SUte at Wiishington 1850-18«X».
Hoge, John (brother of William Hi>ge), wasboi
near Carlisle, Pennsylvania, Septemlier 10, 1700;
ceived an English education from a private tu
served in the Revolutionary war as ensign of
Ninth Pennsylvania Regiment: remove<l with
brother William to the wilds of Western Pennsylr;
in 1782, and founded tlie town of Washington ;
a delegate to the convention which fnuneJ the
Constitution in 1789; was a nieml>erof the St
ate 1700-1790; was chosen a member of the
Philosophical Society in 1799; was elected a,
sentativc from Pennsylvania in the Eighth Coi
(in place of William Hoge, resigned), serving
November 27, 1804, to March 3, 18iWi; died neat
WiLshinpton, Pennsvlvania, August 4. 1824.
Hoge, Joseph P., was liorh in Ohio; received!
public-school education; removed to Galenx lUimiti;
held several local offices: was elected a repreMntatin
from niinois in tlie Twenty-eighth Coi^ress u s
Democrat, receiving 7,790 votes against i,222 TOMI
for Walker, Wliig; and was r«M?lected to the Twwiy-
] ninth Congress, defeating M. P. Sweet, Wiiig, ier»-
ingfrom December 4. isti. to Marvh 3, 1847.
Hoge, Solomon La Fayette, was bom In
Logan County, Ohio; received a liln'ral education;
studied law; graduated at the Cincinnati Law Col-
lege in 1859, and practised at B<d!efonlaiiie; entered
the L'nion army in 18<J1 as first lieutenant in ths
Ohio Volunteer Infantry; was promoted captain;
was severely wounded at the second battle of Bull
Run: was twice brevetted for gallant conduct
j battle, and at the close of the war received a con
sion in the regular army; he materially aided in
I reconstruction of South Camlina, and waa
I associ.ite justice of the Supreme Court; was eleeli
a representative from South Carolina in the Ftoit]
Bist Congress as a Republican, and was given
seat which was contested by Mr. Rem) ; whs comi
troller-gencral of South Carolina ! "
again elected to the Forty-fourth «
publican, receiving 10.431 votes ag-.i;i.:-.
for S. McGowan. DemiKrat, serving from I>ecember
0, 1875. to March 3. 18T7.
Hoge, William, was bom near Carlisle, Pe:
sylvania: received a public-«chool education;
moved with his brother John to the wilds of Weel
Pennsylvania in 1782, and founded the town
Washington: was elected a representatire
Pennsylvania in the Seventh Congn'ss, and was i»-
elected to the Eighth Congress, serving from Oecem-
l>er 7, 1801. to 1804, when he ceaigned; was again
elected to the Tenth Congress, sermg from Octobar
20. isfn. to March 3, ISrO; died ne«r Wariiington.
Pennsylvania,
Hogeboom, Jamee L.. resided at
Rensselaer County, New York ; was a member of
fTO»>
STATISTICAIi BEBTCHES.
451
State Honae of Representatives 1804. 1805, and 1808;
was elected a representative from New York In tlie
Eighteenth Congress, serving from Decemlier 1, 1823,
to March 3. 1825.
Hogg, Samuel, was bom in Tir^ia; was eiect-
td a representative from Tennessee in the Fifteenth
C'lueress, serving from December 1, 1817, to March
8. iglP.
Holbrook. TS. D., was bom at Elyrla, Ohio, in
1S38: receivea a public-school educaUon; studied
law; was admitted to the bar, and commenced prac-
tice at Idaho City in Idaho Territory; was elected a
delegate from Idaho Territory in the Thirty-ninth
Congress as a Democrat; was re-elected to the Forti-
eth Congress, receiving 3,641 votes against 2,923 votes
lor Eirkpatriclc, Republican, serving from December
4. 18(t5. to March 3, 1869; was assassinated at Idaho
Citv June 18, 1870.
fioloomb, Gtoorge, was bom at Lambertsville,
New Jersey, in 1786 ; received a classical education,
graduating at Princeton College in 1806; studied
medicine, and practised at Allentown, New Jersey;
was elected a representative from New Jersey in the
Seventeenth Congress as a Democrat; was re-elected
to the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Twentieth Con-
gresses, serving from December 3, 1821, to January
14, 1828, when he died at Allentown, New Jersey.
Holladay, Alexander R., was hom in Vir-
S'nia; received a public-school education; resided at
ansfieid; was elected a representative from Yir-
giuia in the Thirty-first Congress as a Democrat,
receiving 2,163 votes against 2,078 votes for Forbes,
Whig; and was re-elected to the Thirty-second Con-
gress, receiving no opposition, serving from Decem-
ber 8, 184», to March 3, 1853.
Holland. Cornelius, was bom July 0, 1783;
studied medicine, and conmienced practice at Can-
ton, Maine; was a delegate to the Constitutional
Convention which formed the State of Maine in
1819; was a member of the State Honse of Repre-
sentatives in 1820 and 1821; was a member of the
State Senate in 1822, 1825, and 1826; was elected a
representative from Maine in the Twenty-first Con-
gress (in place of James W. Ripley, resigned), and
was re-elected to the Twenty-secojid Congress, serv-
ing from December 6, 1830, to March 2, 1833; died at
Canton, Maine, June 2, 1870.
Holland, James, was bom in North Carolina;
received a public-school education; was elected a
representative from North Carolina in the Fourth
Congress, serving from December 7, 1795, to March
8, 1(97; was re-elected to the Seventh, Eighth,
Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh Congresses, serving from
October 17, 1803, to March 3, 1811.
Holleman, Joel, was bom in Isle of Wight
County, Virginia, Octol)er 1, 1799; received a clas-
sical education, graduating at Chapel Hill, North
Canilina; taught school for some years ; studied law;
was admitted to the bar, and commenced practice at
Burwell Bay; was elected a representative from Vir-
S'nia in the Twenty-sixth Congress as a Van Buren
emocrat, receiWng 140 majority over Francis Mal-
lory, Whig, and serving from December 2, 1839, to
l'^'), when he resigned ; was a member of the State
House of Representatives; and was serving as
spcalter when he died, August 6, 1844.
Holley, John M., was bora at Salisbury, Con-
necticut, November i^^J, received a classical educa-
tion, graduating at Yale College in 1822 ; studied law ;
was admitted to the bar in 1825, and commenced prac-
tice at Lyons, New Yorlc; held several local offices;
was a member of the State House of Representatives
l''^^1841; was elected a representative from New
York in the Thirtieth Congress, serving from Decem-
Wr 6. 1847, to March 8, 1848, when he died at Jack-
»)nville, Florida^here he had gone for his health.
HoUoway. David P., was bom at Waynes-
Tille. Ohio, December 6, 1809; was taken by his
parents to Cincinnati in 1818; received a publlc-
Kbool education; learned the art of printing at
Richmond, Indiana; worked for four years in the
office of "The Cincinnati Gazette;" established
"The Richmond Palladium" in 1832, and edited it
for many years; was a member of the State House
of Representatives In 1843, and of the State Senate
1844-1853 ; was elected a representative from Indiana
in the Thirty-fourth Congress as a Republican, re-
ceiving 9,4,19 votes against 5,242 votes fur Bucklins,
Democrat, serving from Dccemlier 3, 1855, to March
3, 1857; ■was commissioner of patents March 28,
1861-August 17, 1865.
Holnuin, William S., was bom at a pioneer
homestead called Veraestau, in Dearbom County,
Indiana, September 6, 1822; received a common-
school education, and studied at Franklin College,
Indiana, for two years; studied law; was admitted
to the bar, and commenced practice at Aurora ; was
judge of the Court of Probate from 1843 to 1846;
was prosecu ting-attorney from 1847 to 1849; was a
member of the Constitutional Convention of Indiana
in 1850; was a member of the l^slature of Indiana
in 1861 ; was a judge of the Court of Common Pleas
from 1852 to 1866; was elected a representative from
Indiana in the Thirty-sixth Congress as a Democrat,
receiving 9,425 votes against 7,856 votes for Hackle-
man, Republican; was re-elected to the Thirty-
seventh Congress, receiving 10,299 votes ae^inst
10,007 votes for Yatar, Republican; was re-elected
to the Thirty-eighth Congress, receiving 10,926 votes
against 7,992 votes forGavln, Republican, serving from
December 5, 1869, to March 8. 1885 ; was re-elected to
the Fortieth Congress, receiving 11,921 votes against
11,062 votes for Grover, Republican ; was re-elected to
the Forty-first Congress, receiving 15,665 votes against
14,003 votes for Lamb, Republican ; was re-elected
to the Forty-second Confess, receiving 15,396 votes
against 12,272 votes for Pritchard, Republican ; was
re-elected to the Forty-third Congress, receiving
16,367 votes against 16,039 votes for Herod, Repub-
lican ; and was re-elected to the Forty-fourth Con-
gress as a Democrat, receiving 13,302 votes against
10,835 votes for Claypool, Republican, serving from
March 4, 1867, to March 3, 1877.
Holmes, David, was bom in Virginia; received
a good English education ; was elected a representa-
tive from Virginia in the Fifth, Sixth, Seventh,
Eighth, Ninth, and Tenth Congresses, serving from
May 16, 1797, to March 8, 1800; was governor of the
Tenitory of Mississippi by appointment 1809-1817;
was governor of the State of Mississippi 1817-1819:
was elected a United-States senator from Mississippi
(in place of Walter Leake, resigned), serving from
November 13, 1820, to 1825, when he resigned ; and
died at Washington, Mississippi, August 2U, 18.32.
Holmes, Ellas Bellows, was bom at Fletcher,
Vermont, May 27, 1807; received a public-school
education; taught school; studied law at Pittsfield,
New York; was admitted to the bar in 1830, and
commenced practice at Brockport, New York, in
1831 ; became very wealthy by successful investments
in real estate; was elected a representative from
New York in the Twenty-ninth Congress as a Wliig,
receiving 6,807 votes against 6,722 votes for Selden,
Democrat, and 395 votes for Sperry, American ; and
was re-elected to the Thirtieth Congress, serving
from December 1, 1845, to March 8, 1849.
Holmes, Gubriel, was bora in Duplin (now
Sampson) County, North Carolina, in 1704; received
a classical education from Rev. Dr. McCorkle of
Iredell County, and was a student at Harvard
College ; studied law with Judge Taylor at Raleigh ;
was admitted to the bar, and practised at Clinton,
North Carolina; was a State senator in 1807; was
governor of North Carolina 1821-1824; was elected a
representative from North Carolina in the Nineteenth
Congress, and re-elected to the Twentieth Congress,
serving from December 8, 1826, until March 3, 1820;
was re-elected to the Twenty-first Congress, defeat-
ing General Dudley, but died near Clinton, North
Carolina, September 86, 1888.
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COXGBESSIONAI, DrKECTOKT.
Holmes, Isaac Edward, wm Iwm at Charles-
ton, South Carolina, April t), ITOi'.: received a clas-
sical education, prailnaling at Yale College in 1S15;
studied law at Charleston; was admitted to the bar
in ISIS, and commenced practice there; was one
of tUe founders of the Suulh-Carollna association
organized to resist the attacks upon slaverj'; was a
inemlwr of the State lecislalurc in li<2il and lb32;
was elected a represent-itive from South Carolhia in
lh<- Twenly-sixth Congress as a Democrat, receiving
1,!M votes against $54 votes for Hugh H. Logare,
Union; was re-elected to the Twenty-seventh,
Twenty-eighth, Twenty-ninth, and Thirtieth Con-
grt'sses; was re-elected to the Thirly-lirst Congress,
receiving (KK) majority over Barker, Democrat, serving
from DecemlK'r 2, 183lt, to Harch 3. 1H51 ; removed
to California, where he practised 1S51-1857; returned
U) South Carolina; was a State commissioner to
confer with the Federal Government after the cessa-
tion of hostilities; and died at Charleston, South
Canilina. Fcbruarv- 25, 1867.
Holmes, Jolm, w.'u bom at Kingston, Massa-
chusetts, in M.-irch, ITT^i; received a classical educa-
tion, graduating at Browii University in 17U0;
studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1709. and
conunenced practice at Alfred, Massachusetts (now
Maine): was a member of tlie Massachusetts House
of Kepi-escntatives in lS^ri and 1803, and of the
State Senate l!?l:l-l.S17; was a member of the Xorth-
casteni Boundary Commission under the treaty of
1815; was elected a representative from Massachu-
setts in the Fifteentli Congress as a Democrat ; was
re-elected to the Sixteenth Congress, sen'ing from
December 1, 1817, to 1820, when lie resigned; was a
delq^te to the convention wliicli framed the State
Constitution of Maine, and cliairman of the commit-
tee which draughted it; was elected a Unltt'd-States
senator from Maine, serving from November 13, 1820.
to March 3. 1827; was appointed by the legislature of
Maine a commissioner to digest and rcjKirt a system
of government for tlie .State prison, and t<> revise the
criminal cixle of the State; was again elected United-
States senator (in place of Albion K. I'arris. re-
signed), serving from January 26, 1820. to March 2,
1M3: was a nieinber of the .State House of Repre-
sentatives 18;J5-183S; was United-Slates district-
attorney for the district of Maine from 1841 until
his death at Portland, Maine, July 7, 1643. He
published " The Statesman; or. Principles of Legis-
lation and Law."
Holmes, Sidney T., was bom at Scbaghticoke.
Nrw York. August 7. 1815; received au academical
education; studied law; was admitted to the bar in
1841, and commeijced practice at Morrisville; was
loan commissioner for Madison County 1848-1851;
was 8urn>gate for Madison County 1851-1804; was
elected a representative from Jfew York in tlie
Thirty-ninth Congress us a ISepubllcan. receiving
14,r>;is vciti'9 against y,781 votvs for Albcrtus I'erry,
Deiiiocrai, serving from December 4, H^tto, to March
3, 18(17.
Holmes, Uriel, was bom in Connecticnt; re-
ceived a classical education, graduating at Y'alo Col-
lege in 1784 ; studied law ; was admitted to the bar,
and practised; wils elected a representative from
Connecticut in the Fifteenth Congress, serving from
December 1, 1817, to 1818, when he resigned; died
iu |S27.
Holsey. Hopkios, was bom in Virginia in
17W; received an aciulemical education; studied
law at Judge Oould's Litclirieid Law School, and
commenced practice at Hamilton, Georgia; was
elected a representative from Georgia in the Twenty-
fourth Congress as a Union Democrat, receiving
31i,4<V8 votes against 27.47(1 votes for Beall, State-
rights; and was re-elected to the Twenty-fifth Con-
gress, serving from December 7, 1835. to March 3,
1831'; removed to Alliens, Georgia, where he edited
"The Southern Banner;" and died at Columbus,
Georgia, Marcli 31, 1850.
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Holt, Hines, was bom in Georgia; was by pro-
fession a lawyer; was elected a representative from
Georgia in tlie Twenty-sixth Congress (in place of
Walter T. Coliiuitt, resigned), serving from Febnury
1, 1841, to March 3, 1»41.
Holt, Orrin, was bom in Connecticut; resided
at Millinglon ; was elected a representative from ( 'on«
necticut iu tlie Twenty-fourth Con-jr-^^' ■- ■ Hrmo^
crat; and was re-elected to the Tweiu ..res*,
serving from December 0, 18;W, to Jlr '.
Holten, Samuel, was bom at Dan vers. Massa-
chusetts, June 1), 1738; was educatetl for the medical
profession : w:is a member of the C . ' ' ' Con-
gress 1778-1787. serving one term as : was
elected a representative from Mass.ii . .n the
Thinl Congress. senMng from Decern Iwr -j. 17tfJ,
March 8, 17115; was judge of probate for Essex Coi
ty for a number of years; and died January 2, 181(5.
Hook, Enos, was bom in Pennsylvania; residi
at Waynesburg; was elected a representative from'
Pennsylvania in the Twenty-sixtli Congress as
Democrat, serving from December 2, 18;nr, to March
3, 1841; was re-elected to tlie Twemy-eeventh Con-
gress, but was attacked with bleeding of the lungs at
VVasliington in the spring of 1841, and resigned April
18jl841.
Hooker, Charles B., was bom in Union Dis-
trict. South Carolina; studieil law; graduated at tlic
Harvard University Law Schoiil, Cambridse. Mi
chusetts, and practised at Jackson, Mississippi; w;
elected district-attorney of the lUver District in 1850(
was elected to the Mississippi legislature in 1860. am
resigned his scat to enter the Confederate army;
wounded during the siege of 'Viclisl)urg ; was pmmot
ed to tlie rank of colonel of cavalr)', and ussigncfl to
duty on the military court attached to Oeiieri^ Polk'i
command; was elected attorney-general of the State
of Mississippi in 19B6, and re-elected in 18U<s, and, in
common with the other civil oflicers of tlie .State, km
removed by the military autliorities; was elertcd In
the Forty-fourtli Congress as a Democrat, rcceiviiijs
majority of 5,877 votes over James Hill, llcpublican:
and was re-elected to the Forty-lifth Congress, re-
ceiving l!l,8o8 votes against 8,04(1 votes for Shaugli-
nessy. Hepublican, sening from December tl, lt75.
Hooks, Charles, was bom in Bertie County,
North Carolina; was elected a represoiitaiivc fnun
Nortli Carolina in the Fourteenth Congress (iu pliM
of William li. King, resigned) as a Democrat, tervinif
fn>m Decemlwr 2, 1810, to March 3, 1817; was again
elected to the .Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eishl«.ntli
Congresses, ser\ing from December 0. isii), u> liaKh
3, 1825; removed to Alabama, wlicre he died in IsSl.
Hooper, Samuel, was bom at Marblcbesii,
Massacliusetts. February 8, 1808; received au wv
demic education; was Interested in mercantile I"!'-
suits, esjiecialiy the China trade; was a niemlier of
the House of Representatives of Massachusetts i»
1851. 1852. and 1853. declining a re-election: WM »
member of the State Senate in 1S57. declining a
nomination on account of business engagements
was elected a representative from Massachusetts
the Thirty-seventh Congress (iu place of WiiUi
Appleton, resigned) as a Hepublican ; was re-«lect
to the Thirty-eighth Coneress, receiving 5 >v< •• •
against 5,;J51 votes for Abbott, People's ■
was re-elected to the Thirty-ninth Coiigres'.
10,403 votes against 5,485 votes for Abbott, Dvi
crat: was re-elected to the Fortieth Congress, receir-;
Ing 7,002 votes against 3,183 votes for Wightman,
Democrat ; was re-elected to tlie Forty-first Congrestb
receiving 11,328 votes against 8.502 votes for Harvey,
Democrat; was re-elected to the Forty-second Coi
gress, receiving 8,026 votes against 6,005 votes fi
Horse, Democrat, and 688 votes for Sargent. Lai
Ileform; and was re-elected to the Forty-third Coi
frcss, receiving 8,715 votes against 0,203 votes U
lorse. Democrat, servine from December 2, 1801, w]
Febraary 14, 1875, when be died, after a brief illni
at Washington City.
I
STATISTICAL SKETCHES.
468
Hooper, William, was born at Boston. Massa-
chusetts. June 17, 174:i!; receivml a clBSsicoi ednca-
Uoii, graduating .it llarvard College iu 1700; studied
law with James Otis; w.is admitted to the bar, and
commenced practice at Wilmington, North Carolina,
in 1707; was a raeralier of the State House of Repre-
sentatives in 1773: was a delegate to the Continental
Con^;res8 1774-1777 ; was obliged to resign on account
of his embarrxssed [wcuniary condition; and died at
Wilmingtun, Xortti Carolina, in 1790.
Hooper, William H., was bom In Dorchester
Coouty, Maryland, December 13, 1813; received a
common-school education; was early engaged in mer-
cantile pursuits, but subsequently was commander of
a steamer on the Western rivers; was elected United-
States senator from Utah under the State orKauiia-
tion of Deseret adopted by the people of ift.ili in
1802; was elected a delegate to the Tliirty-sixth Con-
gress, scr\'ing from December &, 1851), to March 3,
1861; was again elected to the Thirty-math Congress;
was re-elected to the Fortietli. Fortv-firBt, and Forty-
second Congresses, serving from Decfniljer 4, 1865,
to March :\, 1873; engaged in mercantile pursuits at
Sall-L»k.- City.
Hopkins, Benjamin Franklin, was bom at
Hebron, New York, April 22, 182(); was reared on a
form; received an academic education; became a
telegraph operator; removed to Wisconsin in October,
1849, and settled at Madison ; was secretary of an
insuroDco compauy, and manager of gas-worlcs; was
private secretary to Governor Bashfourd in 1800-1857;
was a member of the State .Senate In 18*11, and of the
State House of Representatives In 18<)5; was nomi-
nated .IS a representative from Wisconsin In the For-
tieth Congr^ after 130 ballots, and elecl4;d as a
Kepublican, receiving 14,121) votes against 8.S;W votes
for Pease, Democrat; was re-elected to the Forty-first
Congress, receiving 18,333 votes against 12,050 votes
for Winans, Demixirat, serving from March 4, 1807,
until he di<>il at Moilison January 1, 1870.
Hopkins, Oteorgo W., w.is bom In Goochland
County. Viriiinia, February 22, 1804; received a pub-
lic-school education; studied law; was admitted to the
bar, and coimnenced practice at Lebanon, Virginia;
was a member of the Stale House of Representatives
1333-1834; was elected a representative from Vir-
ginia in the Twenty-fourth Congress as a Democrat,
defeating .lames H. Gholson; was re-elected to the
Tweuty-tifth Congress, receiving 1,475 majority over
John N. Humes, Whig; was re-elected to the Twen-
ty-sixth Congress, receiving 2,821 votes against 2,308
votes foj George, Whig; was re-elect«d to the Twen-
ty-seventh Congress; was re-elected to the Twenty-
eighth Congress, receiving about I,(M)0 majority over
Pulton, Whig; was re-elec'te<l to the Twenty-ninth
Congress, serving from Deceral)er 7, 18.35. to March 3.
1847 : was chargS d'affaires to Portugal March 3, 1847-
October 18, 1840; was again a memlier of the State
House of Representatives in 1840; was a jixlge of the
Circuit Court; was again elected to the Thirty-flfth
Congress, receiving 5,-'}18 votes against 5,240 votes for
Martin, American, senlni; from Decembor 7, 1857,
to March 3, 18.M); was ag.aiu elected a member of the
State House of Representatives; and died March 2,
1801.
Hopkins, James H., was bom November .3, 1832,
in W.isliington County, Pennsylvania; graduated at
Washiniiton College in 1850; studied l.iw, and was
admitted to the b.ir In 1852 before ha was of age;
practised In Pittsburg for twenty years, then retired,
and (ravelled for some time In £ur(){>c; engaged in
the banking business ; was elected Grand Master of
Knights Templar in the United Stales in 1874 by an
almost unanimous vote; never held any political
ofBce or was a candidate for one until he was defeat-
ed OS representative from the State at large to the
Forty-third Congress, and was elected a reprcsenta-
Uve ^rora Pennsylvania in the Forty-fourth Congress
II a Democrat (the Urst since Judge Wilkins), re-
eeirlng 10,001 votes against 7,777 votes for James S.
Negley, Republican, and 213 votes for Thomas How.
ard. Independent Republican, serving from Decem-
l>er 6, 1875, to March 3, 1877; was defeated as the
Democratic candidate to the Forty-fifth Congress, re-
ceiving 12.0l:i votes agauist 14,501 votes for Russell
Errctt. Rfpul)IIcan.
Hopkins, Samuel, was born iu Albemarle
Comity, Virginia; ser\ed with distinction in the
Revolutionai7 war; removed to Kentucky in 1707;
was for several years a meml)er of the Slate legisla-
ture; commanded on e.X(ieditiou of 2,0IK» volunteers
in a campaign against the KIckapoo Indians in 1812;
was elected a representative from Kentucky In the
Thirteenth Congress as a Democrat, servint; from
June 20, 1813, to March 2, 1815; died in October.
1810.
Hopkins, Samuel M., was bom in New York
In 1702; received a classical education, graduating at
Yale College In 1701; studied law; was admitted to
the bar, and w^mmenced practice in Genesee County;
was elected a representative from New York in the
Thirteenth Congress. ser\-ing from May 24. 1813, to
March 2, 1815 ; was a member of the State House of
Representatives 1820 and 1821 ; and died at Geneva,
New York. October 8, 18:17.
Hopkins, Stephen, was bom at Scituate, Rhode
Island, March 7. 1707; was reared on a farm; re-
ceived a public-school education; removed to Provi-
dence in 1731; engaged in mercantile pursuits and in
land-surveying; wiis a member of the Colonial As-
sembly and Its speaker 1732-1741; was chief justice
of the Court of Common Pleas In 1739, and of the
Superior Court 175I-17.54; was a delegate to the
Colonial Congress wiiich met at Albany in 1754; was
Colonial governor of lUiode Island 17.55. ll'S. n.'iH-
l"'il, 17133, 1704. 1707; was a delegate from Rhode
Island to the Continental dmgress 1774-1778; was
many years chancellor of Brown University; ami died
at Providence, Rhode Island, July 10. 1785. He pub-
lished by order of the lihodc-lsland Assembly, in
1706, "Rights of the Colonies Examined," and an
"Account of Providence," in the Massachusetts His-
torical f'ollcction.
Hopkinson, Francis (father of Joseph Hop-
kliison), was bom at Pliiladclpliia, Pennsylvania, in
1738: received a classical education, graduating at
the University of Pennsylvania; studied law; was
admitted to the bar in no.'), and commenced pr.ictlce;
visited England 17WI-lTtJ8: was appointed royal t.-ix-
receiver in New Jersey, but was reraoveil when he
espouse«1 the popular cause ; was a delegate from New
Jersey In the Continental Congress 1770-1777; was
judge of admiralty for Pennsylvania 1770-1780; was
judge of the United-Slates District Court for the
Eastern District of Pennsylvania 1700-1701 ; dieil of
apoplexy at Phlliidelphia May 0, 1701. Ho wn)te a
number of popular songs, the music for which he
composed ; and his "Essays and Occasional Writings"
was puliiishud In lhn.'e volumes in 1701.
Hopkinson, Joseph (son of Francis Hopkin-
son), was boni at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, No-
vemt>er 12, 1770; receive*! a classical education, grad-
uating at the University of I'ennsylvania in 1780;
studinl law ; was admitted to the bar in 1701, and
commenced practice at Eoston, but soon removed to
Phila<ielplita; was elected a representative from
Pennsylvania In the Fourteenth Congress, and was
re-elected to the Fifteenth Congress, serving from
December 4, 1815, to March 3, 1810; resiiled three
years at Bordentown, New Jersey ; resumed practice
at Phiiadelphia; was judge of the Uuiled->State8
District Court for the Eastem District of Peniisvha-
nia I82»-1842; was n delegate to the State Constitu-
tional Convention in 18^17; dic<I at Philadelphia
January 15, 1842. Ho published a number of scieu-
titic and literary addresses, and was the author of
" Hall Columbia."
Horn, Henry, was bora at Philadelphia, Penn-
sylvania; held several local offices; was elected a
repreaeutAtive from Pennsylvania In the Twenty-
464
COyOBESSIOSAL DmECTOBT.
MCntiil OoujUfM as • Jsricsnn DeotocnC, reortring
619 ID
atiu frikii^nti^iit: t<.*r lu»:
b]r Hoi«c« Binner, Wkig.
\«, MTvlng from De-
■waa defeated as the
rUftj-third CongTMS
JUwmUr of Ibe State of Kev T«ric in IStt, IM.^
iflasi
Hombeck, John W^ m bom in Kew Jer-
tey: rK«irrd a classickl edncarioD, ^radaating at
Union CaU«^. Nev Tock ; Modied lav ; vms admitted
to the bar. and eaanrenecd ptactlee at Allentown.
Pennfj-lraaia: was elected a repreeentaliTe from
PeoBSf traaia In the Thiftielb CoBgreaa, aerrii^ from
Dccoober S, 1»47. to Jaaiiary 1«, ltM», when be died
al AileaUMm, PMinsrhrania.
Hombtower, Joeiali, was born in Staffoidshirp
in ItiS; reccircd a matbematieal and medunical
edactioo; caae to tbe United States in 1751 toboiM
a sleHS-ciignM at tbe oopper-mines near BeOeriUe.
Sew Jenejr; was serena jean a member of ilie
Cokaial IIo«iae of BcfMMBtatim: iooIe aa active
■art in BetelwUusmy iw»f«annu; was a delegate
tmm New Jersey to tbe Contiaeiital Coagieas tai
ITS5-I7i>t$; was iodp of Ibe Eas(s-ea«Bty Oaort
ITt«-tM0; and AedJamary «, ISODl
Honey, Onterbridge^ «*• l^nt bi Delaware
ia ITTT: received an iraiiemiril edneatien: studied
lasr wftb Janes A. Daraid: was adiMtted to the bar.
aad eevaieaced practiee at WUmingtoo. D^waie;
was for muiy yeai* atteneT-geaerU cf Delawaiv;
waseketed a'United^liUs w'listis' tmm Delaware fai
plaee of Saaiaei Wbite, dtwasuJ. serrinf froB Janii-
•nr t^ iStOi, t» Haicb S, VSl; died at Keedwmd,
HMTftMaO. JnaeO. 18(2.
Horton, Thomas R.. was bom in tbe State of
N-w Torfc; resided at PuJionrille; was elected a
iii|ataeatatife ftvaa New York is tbe Tbiity4iMnlb
Oiingiiai aa a Whig, iceeiTing 0,431 votea agaiaat
8JM5 rotas tor Jacftsoa, Densoem, scrrtaig fttoaa De-
cember S, 1»& to Jbreb 3. ISSI.
HcartOD. valentine B^ ww bora at Windsor,
Venaont. Jaaascy Stt, ISltt: waa educated at Par-
ttidse's HilitBtT CoOege, and, wb«n Ibat institoticn
was tweused tnm Tcnsoat to Ooaaectkat, be ae>
I ifsiiii'iil it as a teaser; slvUcd kw at lOddle-
l<»w«.OaBiMcticu; waa admltaed to tbe bar in I8W;
csameaMd ataetiee at PMtibaBg; Pcansjtraaia,
s»l iem0«ed in I83S to aadanati; bi IS35 be m^
teinieJ to Fusfrec, Obios wbere be e^iged ta
adaing aad laaimfai tatiag; was a iltiigate to tbe
StalaOoasUtattaaalOmeatiaBiBlSSO; waseiected
a iit«i'ai'iiliHiii tram Oklo ia tbe Tbirtjr-ftNiitb
Oaa^cas aa a BepdiSeaa, leerhriiig ll,8is wtes
againai 6,101 Totes for Saritb, DMoetat; aad waa
ixtected to tbe TUIrtjr-tttb CMgieas, lewJiIag
M^»aro«ca egabMt «,aar< rotes for MeAiil, OetoocM^
aenri^ fw Pettaiber 3, USBs to Xarcb Z, HB*;
<iirHati a iiii»iiisliiiB to tbe TUity'Sixib 0B»-
ocv; «aaatoeab«of tbe Peace OMgreaa bcM at
WsiMiigtim la BBSl; waa ^da aicctod to Ofe Iblr-
tr-sereatb Ciaifcii ■■ retel»iag 11,MS «a(ea against
UJ73 rotee forXaitia. Desecrat, scrrbH froa Jul V
4. lan. to Xarcb s, laa
Haeford. Jedediali. wm ben ia VemsMt; te-
' to Mew Totk. mat biealed at Xoaeew; was
ttativefraai KewTofk la tbelUr-
I aa a Wl^g. leceiibig 7,137 «<otea
i far Wadssnatb, De^Kicral« aeiT*
■ I, i»i, to ii««b «, lasa.
seyeatsjla
iWjnofiV
and 1W8, and was speaker in 18fi; in
pointed by Goreraor Feotoo State <
pnblic accounts, and beld tbe oAee three]
Jannarr. 18^20. becaaie a dtrector of tbe ^
coonty National Bank; in April, ISTI, 1
by President Gnnt collector of inunial reresae fnr
the Tweuty-nintb Distifct of Xew Tork. and mtoed
upon the dndes of tbe oCoe Stay 1, 1^1, naipaof
March 4. IST^ baTing been eiect«d a r«preseolatit«
from Xew Yoik la tlie iWty-tbird Coagreas as a Be-
paMtcaa, veeeiTtBg tS,2S3 m(es f'"*' S^SfVTOM
for M. 3L Soatbwoctb. Liberal; and '
to the Fbrty-fooTtb Coogiess as a Bepobli^m. j
in? 11,3SS rotes a^iast 9^Bn rotes for J
Bock, Democrat, senring ttam Deeenber 1.
Jfareb & 1871; waa defeated aa tbe ~
raiHlldate tor tbe Fofty-fifib Ooiwcai
11.5(7 Totca apUnst 13.^1 rotea for OiBlea & Bene^
diet, Deawoat, and 2JS7 rotes for n^gltt-, Bepab'
bean.
Hoemer, Hesekiah L., was ei«tct«d a lepn-
seclatire from Xew Yock in tbe nftbCongieM,
serving from Xay la, 1797. to 3iarcb 3, Ttm.
Hosmer, ntna, was bon at Ifiddtetowa, Oi»-
aectieat, in 1T% ; lecerred a ciaisical edaeation,
graduating at Tale CoU^e in 1757; snadied Uw; «ai
ameMbei cftheStateEtecatiTeCoancO; wasaiD(a>>
berof Ibe State House of BepRsentatires 1TI3-17<&
senlug SB ipesl'rr in 1777; was a delegate fiDcn C<ia-
aectieat to Ibe Oentiaenlal Coagresa 1777-1779; was
apptdated, in Jaaaary, KSOL juaae of tbe Xaritinie
Omm cf Appeals for tbe Fatted Statea; died at JOd-
dletown. Ooaaectieat, Ai^Saal4, 17HX
Hoetetter. JaoblK waa bon at Tocfc, VtBatj%-
raaia : recelred a nib5fr«^oal edncaiMB: «*§
cicetea a upttauitame fhaa Peaiayhaala ia tbe
PIfleeatb Cbogreas (ia place of Jaoob Spaaaer. re-
signed), aad wm re-deeted to tbe SbctMBrtb Oa-
Bicaa. serriag fiTjia Horenber Ml, IJ^IS^ to UuA
S,l$21.
HotdikiaB. QOee W» was bon at Wfaada*.
Biooiae Cbonty, Xew Totk. October SB, mS; stadM
aad ptaetised tew: was elected a repreaeatatlre hm
NewTorfc ia tbe Tbirly-ei|^itb Coa^^vae aa a Bcpnb-
Ikan, teeeiriag UJBOt rotes aoiast ft,1$l rotes fir
Day, Deowent; waa t^deetod to tbe Tbiity-nbiib
Oongiess, rccdtliig ItJUi Tstaa a^iast 1030 mia
for Jcbn Magee, DcMooat, serriag ttvm Dtwmhu
7, lasS, to llavdi *, IM7: and wm acofai elected la
the Facty4nt Oonipcaa aa a BeaabSean, rece' '
17.386 roles aodnat 1S,SD voMa Mr Peieiem^l
ocnt. sorii^basB JiaMb 4. 1800^ to Har^ 3, f
HotfihWiilj JnliilB, waa bom in
Oiaaectfcat, July 11, WIO: tcedrcd a
BbakinaL Qeone O., was bora ai rraatasiiai.
New Totk, Deeember M, MM; i«cei*ed aainfialr
Ibe
fait8«caajfadd
joslioe of tbe
fforrikteea
le yeats
M61, aadbeUtbe
s(^ >Uis; waa sapcrriaer bi IMt; was aapabMd
I iiitaiiiHi at Beaadagtoe, SevTofk, byPMMtat
TsjT r mJ bilil Ihi iiBi i flailag ibi silwiaiili^iiiii
uf PtesideBt FOtacee; waa a^ibi appainled prst-
laasaer at Bennington by Presidesit UaeoiB, aad :
InlflCS; was a I
ber ef tbe liftiolalaii «f Oanneeticat fai 18ul sad
1S58: waaelectedaiiiaiwalsilii txtmt CoeacetiCBt
in tbe Fcttietb Cooncas as a Dmsucjat, teteiiUig
14,730 rotea aolaat 12,01 rotea for Xettbrm. Re-
' 4, UR, to Jfaitb i;
Hocrak, JmsoIk Jtm-. «aa ban al Scbobarie,
Xew Tack; receirea a pabfic-a^oul edocatioti: waa
~ a Mteaeatathe tram New Tscit ia tbe Tw«n-
•ttOoagicasaa a Dcnoerat, recdviiM; 11,310
10443 rote* for Jcdedfa* Miller, WWa,
M^r 31. IS41. to XaRb 3. ISO.
Danrid. was bora in New Hsnapbto:
a pabBe-adteoi edacatioa; was eleietBd a
ire front New Hanpabire in the Ei^ltb
i»*it«w4 to tbe Ninib Coagraa,
rcf toe
Booi^ 'WaiiHB J.. W
Sew Taek; icccNad aa
a member of lb* Stale Hoose of
.lad IS3»; waa clecSrd
Tock ia tiM Tweatrointb
>ciai, tetatiiwa MV
'. Caaeaoriai
BTATISTIOAIj bkktohbs.
456
Ledyard, Whig, and 2,968 votes for Brown, Ameri-
can, aerrinK from December 1, 1845, to March 3, 1847.
Houghton, Sherman O., was bom In the city
uf Kew York April 10, 1828; was educated at a com-
mercial institute in Kew York; entered the army as
a private in a volunteer regiment in 1846, and wag
Bent to California, and afterward to Me^co, where
tie served until the close of the war between the
United States and that country, having been pro-
moted to the rank of lieutenant; studied law; was
admitted to the bar, and practised ; was mayor of San
Francisco in 1855-1856; was elected a representative
from California in the Forty-second Congress, receiv-
ing 18,504 votes against 17,308 votes for G. Pearce,
Democrat; and was re-elected to the Forth-third
Congress as a Republican, receiving 10,391 votes
against 0,012 votes for £. J. C. Kewen, Democrat,
serving from December 4, 1871, to March 3, 1875.
House, John F., was bom in WUliamson
County, Tennessee, January 9, 1827; received his
early education at a Vrammar-school ; afterward
entered Transylvania University, I^ezington, Ken-
tacky, but left at the end of the junior year; studied
law, and graduated at the Lebanon Law School,
Tennessee, in 1850, and commenced practice at
Clarkesville ; was a member of the Tennessee legis-
lature in 1853-1864; was presidential elector on the
Bell and Everett ticket m 1860; was a memt>er of
Che Provisional Congress of the Confederate States
from Tennessee; at the expiration of his term of
service in said body, he entered the Confederate
army, and continued therein until the close of the
war, and was panned at Colnmbus, Mississippi, in
June, 1865; was a delegate from Tezmessee to the
National Convention of the Democratic party that
nominated Seymour and Blair in 1868; was a mem-
ber uf the State Constitutional Convention of Ten-
utrssee in 1870; was elected a representative from
Tennessee in the Forty-fonrth Congress as a Demo-
crat, receiving 11,992 votes against 7,227 votes for
Horace H. H^rison, Republican; and was re-elected
to the Forty-fifth Congress, receiving 16,719 votes
against 8,987 votes for W. F. Prosser, Republican,
•erring from December 6, 1876.
Houston, Gtoorge Smith, was bom in Wil-
liamson County, Tennessee, January 17, 1811; re-
moved when a lad to Alabama, where he received
a public-school education; studied law; was ad-
mitted to the bar, and commenced practice In Lime-
stone County; was a member of the State legislature
of Alabama; was elected district-solicitor in 1837;
vaa- elected a representative from Alabama in the
Twenty-seventh Congress as a Democrat on a general
ticket; was re-elected to the Twenty-eighth Congress,
receiving 2,000 majority over Armstrong, Whig; was
re-elected to the Twenty-ninth Congress: was re-
elected to the Thirtieth Congress, receiving4,'^^ votes
against 2,023 votes for David Hubbard, State-rights
Democrat, servinp; from May 31, 1841, to March 3,
1848; declined beine a candidate for the Thirty-first
Congress; was agcin elected to the Thirty-second
Congress as a Union Democrat, receiving 4,720 votes
SMinst 4,268 votes for C. C. Howard, State-ri^ts
Whig; was re-elected to the Thlrtv-tmrd Congress
without opposition; was re-elected to the Thirty-
fourth Congress without opposition; was re-elected
to the Thirty-fifth Congress without opposition, and
was reelected to the Thlr^-sixth Congress wlUiout
opposition, serving from December 6, 1846, until
January 21, 1861, when he resigned, Alabama having
ieceded ; was elected United-States senator in 1866,
Imt w^as not permitted to take tils seat; was an un-
successful candidate for the United-States Senate in
1867: was a delegate to the National Union Conven-
tion at Philadelphia in 1866, and was governor of
Alabama 1874-1(^6.
Houston, John, was one of the four citizens
who originated revolutionary movements in Gieorgla
in 1774: was a delate from Oeoigia to the Con-
tinental Congress 1776-1777; was a member of the
State Council in 1777 ; was governor of Georgia 1778-
1784; was appointed commissioner for establishing
the boundaiy-line between Georgia and South Caro-
lina 1787; was appointed judge oi the State Supreme
Court 1702; and died at Savannah, Georgia, July 20,
1796.
Houston, John Wallace, was bom at Con-
cord, Delaware; received a classical education,
graduating at Yale College in 1834; studied law with
John M. Clayton; was admitted to the bar in 1837,
and commenced practice at Geoi^etown, Delaware,
in 1839; was elected a representative from Delaware
in the Twenty-ninth Congress as a Whig, receiving
6,221 votes against 6,043 votes for Blddle, Democrat;
was re-elect^ to the Thirtieth Congress, receiving
6,164 votes against 6,007 votes for Dillwent, Demo-
crat: and was re-elected to the Thirty-first Congress,
receiving 6,860 votes against 6,026 votes for Whlteley,
Democrat, and serving from December 1, 1845, to
March 8, 18S1 ; was a delegate to the Peace Congress
at Washington in 1861.
Houston, Samuel, was bom near Lexington,
Virginia, March 2, 1703: after his father's death in
1807 his mother removed to Blount County, Tennes-
see, where he was adopted into the Cherokee tribe;
he served with distinction under General Jackson in
the Creek war 1818-1814, receiving a severe wound at
the battle of Tallapoosa; commenced the study of
law at Nashville, March 1, 1818, and was admitted to
the bar; held several local offices; was elected a rep-
resentative from Tennessee in the Fifteenth Con-
gress as a Democrat, and was re-elected to the
Nineteenth Congress, serving from Decemtier 1, 1823,
to March 3, 1827; was governor of Tennessee 1827-
1829, resigning before the expiration of his term
on account <» family trouble, and going to the
Cherokee reservation in Arkansas, where he re-
sided for several years, going to Texas with a
par^ of emigrants in April, 1833; he was a member
of the Constitutional Convention, and in October,
1835, was made commander-in-chief of the Texan
army, terminating the war for independence by the
victory at San Jacinto April 2, 1830, where he was
severely wounded; was elected the first president of
the republic of Texas, serving 183&-1888; being
constitutionally iueligibie for re-election, he became
a member of the Texan Congress 1838-1840, and was
again elected piesident, serving 1841-1844; was one
of the first United-States senators from Texas, serv-
ing from March 80, 1846, to March 3, 1859; was
governor of Texas 1869-1861, and was deposed by a
vote of the convention which had passed the ordi-
nance of secession February 16, 1861, the legislature
confirming the action of the convention February
2021861; died at HuntersvUle, Texas, July 26, 1863.
Houston, William, was a delegate from Geor-
gia to the Continental Congress 1784-1787; was a
delegate from Georgia to the convention which
framed the Federal Constitution, but refused to sign
that document.
Houston, William Churohill, was bom in
New Jersey; received a classical education, gradu-
ating at Princeton College in 1768; was professor of
mathematics in that institution; was a delegate from
New Jersey to the Continental Congress 1779-1782
and 1784-1786.
Howard, Benjamin, was bom in Virginia; re-
ceived an academic education; was elected a repre-
sentative from Kentucky in the Tenth Congress,
and was re-elected to the Eleventh Congress, serving
from October 26, 1807, to April 10, 1810, when he
resigned; was governor of Upper Louisiana 1810-
1812; was appointed brigadier-general in the United-
States army March 12, 1813, and assigned to the
command of the Eighth Military Department, em
bracing the territory west of the Mississippi Rivei
died at St Louis, Missouri, September 18, 1814.
Howard, Benjamin C, was bom at " Belv
dere," Baltimore, Maryland, November 5, 179J
graduated at Princeton College in 1806; studied law
466
OOKQBEaSIOyAI. DIRBCTOBT.
m* admlUed to tlie bar, and comnsenced practice at
Baltimore; eominanded the "Mechani»l Volon-
teera " at the battle of Xorth Point September 18,
IS14: connected himaelf with the Maaonlc fraternity
In 18S3, and waa, before he died, the oMeat past
grand master of that order in Maryland; was a
member of the State Hoose of BepreseotatiTea in
1SS4: was elected a repreaentadre from Maryland In
the Twenty-first Congreaa aa a Democrat, leceiTing
M08 rotes against 4,74S votes for Little, Whig; and
was re-elected to the Twenty^aeeood Congress, serv-
ing from December 7. I8W, to March S, 1833; was
aipiln elected to the TwentT-tDanh Congreaa; was
re-elected to the Twentr-flith Coonesa, reoelTing
7,1S1 votes against 6,968 Totes lor Kennedy, Whig,
•erring from December 7, 18S& to March 8, 1838;
waa reporter nf tbe darisjoas of tke Supreme Coort
of the I'niied SUtea IM3-18tt; decUned the appcdnt-
ment of rniied-Stataa senator in 1S18; waa a dele-
gate to the IVaM OoogiCM in 18S1; and died at
Baltimore Mareh 6. 1.S72.
Ho'ward. Jacob M., was bora at Shaftsboir,
VenBoot, July lu, UW6; eradnatcd at WUliama Col-
Isgc^ Masaadmsetto; snidied law in MaMaehusetta,
aaA cwmmHwed ila pnetioe in Michigan; was a
r ol tbe State Icgialatare «< Mi^^ in 183&;
1 a tranalatiop from U>e Tnadk of tbe secret
I of tbe Emp(«as Joeephine tn 1M7: drew up
tbe piatfonn of the fint convention ever held of the
BepabiieaD party in 18B4, and christened that party:
waa elected attemOT-general of Mirhigan in 1854.
I8BA, and UBfl^ senrtag in afl aix years; was a repre-
aeatative from MiAigao in the Twentr-seventh Con-
Bcaa as a Republican, serving from May 31, Idll, to
Ibrefa 3. 18tf ; was elected United-States senator aa
a Bepnbliean (to fill tbe vaeaa^ caused by tbe de>
ceaae of K. S. Btn^iam); and was i«-eleeted in 18IB,
serving from Janoaryn, ISti, to Mardi 3, 1871.
Howard, John Bagv, waa Inrn in Baltimore
Oomty, Maryland. Jane 4, ITSS; received a daasical
education ; entered the Bevolotionary anny aa cap-
taltt in Hall's regiment, and was promoted after lua
gxIlBBtiy in amacraos Wtiea, baring attained tbe
rank of eoiooel wImxi peace was 'deeiared ; wae a
ikicgstr from Maryland to tbe Coatinental OoBgreas
1187-1788; was governor of Marybutd 178»-179B:
decUaed tbe postUoa of secretary ol war tendered
bfaa hf Piesideat Washington tn 1796; was a member
of Ibe State Seaate 1796: was elected a United-
Stales seiMtar fcnaa Mairland (fai pboe of Bidiard
Pons, resigned), serring from Deeeariier 97. 1796, to
March 3, 1808; waa selected by Wsshingum aa a
bticadier-general, vben, tn anticipation of a war
wtm PniKe. be cnaaiaBd an axmym 1798; and died
atBahimoTe, Mar^aad, October U, 1887.
Howard, TQgfaman A., was born near Ptcfc-
insriUe, South Carolina, Xovember 14, 1797; reeeired
a pabUe-scbocd edncation; tai^t school; studied
law in Tl iim ssiii with Hugh Lawaoo White : waa
admitted to tbe bar, and foamarared practice in
Teaacasee; was a member of tbe State Hooae of
Beptcseatatlrea in 18M; was a p»sidfHal elseter
on Ibe Jackson and Cdbova ticket in UM; iMortd
ia 1890 to BodcviOe, fmHana, wbete be continued to
pnetise: was eleeted a mmaantative from Indiana
fai tbe Twenty-sixth Conmas as a Democrat, reeeir-
iag 1,397 minority over Evana, WUg, aerving from
Oeeenaber 8, 183S, to August 1, iSA, wbon be re-
■tpasd to ran saOeoMKntie raniHdate for governor
polBted cAorytf d'<
Joae 11, 1844;
bat was defeated; waa ap-
lo tbe rqmbUe of Texas
dlei at WaaUagtoo, Tessa,
Amnist 1«. ISM.
Howard, Volney B., was bom at Konldge-
wodc, Maine; received an ^'^«'' edncaliow; stad-
ied Uw; vras admitted to tbe bar, and ooMmeaced
practice at Vickibnig, Misatiatptd ; foogbtadadvttb
Serveant & Prentiss, and another with Alezaado' 6.
McXun; rwnofred to San Antonio, Texaa; waa
■iectsd a representatire from Texas in tbe Thirty-
first Congress aa a
against 2,979 rotes for
Tfanothy PUlabnry, CaJboaa
for Hogb McLeod, Dcm>
Thirty-second Oaanm%
1840. to Man^MSlL
Howard, wiDiam.
ceived a publifracboal ei
and located at BaUvia; waa eleeted anp
from Ohio in the Tbir^^sixdt
erat, receiving 7,798 rotea
Cbuk, BqmbacH^ as ~
1860.toMarchS.18SL
Howard, William A,, ww bom la T(
reeeired a clissicsl edacatiaa, gtatasda^ i
buy College in 18W; stodied Uw; waa ad
tlie bar, sad wunrnraped piaetke at Il«l«i^, -_
elected a reptesentadre bsasMkbipn JatbeTMny-
fourth Congress aa a Beaablcaa, lateitiag MvT
votes sgainst 8,7SS rotas HrStaMt, i
rfr«lected to tbe Tbiity-ffib
13,656 votes against 18,7SI notea for]
crat; and waa re <iwt<d to tbe
greaa, receiving 1,000 asdoiItT, i
ber S. 1866, to Manhi 1»1,
contested tbe electioa of 6.
piration
at Detroit;
mission fai 18091, bat deeflned It
Howe, Albert B„ was ban at 1
sachusetts, January 8, 1810; leeeined a Ebcnl (
cation; enlisted as a private fa
MaasacbuaetSs Infsatiy, la
sively suguaat, aeeosid and ftnt
ing adjutant, participating in tbe canpaieB in Soclh
Carolina under Geaetal A. G. Foaker: afon Ibc ea-
of tbe nin»4Boiitba^ service ok the rcghacai,
mmtNiafied sff^id Heoteaaatte tbe Plflb
MasaathBSfrtsCavalrT.tnwbicbbewaisiisnataity
promoted to be flist Uinteaant, caflaiB. aad maiv.
serving in YtigiBia and Tcxaa aatB Neveaber 31^
1886; aettled in CoaM, Faaola Oooa^, Mladmlpil,
on a eotsoo-plaatatian, ia Deemabar, UK; waa a
I flhi Mimlsiiiiiil mm niiailllalhaial Cam-
rentiaa fai 1808; waa a rlilfgiu to Ibe Cftiema Ka-
tioaal Bepnbliean CtereatfoaiatSaS; was^fs liiiHl
treaaorer of Paaola Ooaaqr ia 1800; waa a aMaifter
of tbe State Icgiatatate of MladmiHii fai UW, tm.
and 1872; and was eleeted a wanes aialfie Cm
Miastasippi in tbe FtatMbM Oaag— m a B(|Nb-
Uean, recelvii^l4,«a ToSta ylil 6^ rales far
187X to Maieb 3, 10IS.
Howe^ John W^ waa boot tai Xcv 1
tcmoved to Pennsylraaia, locat'
eleeted a reareeemtative boas rVwiisjIisala la
Tbirty-Arst Coagrcas aa a Ftee-aoil ^
7,A)0 votes aeyaat 7,160 rotea for &. K^l
Democrat; and waa le Acted to ~
Ooogrcsa, leedrinKOyMftTotea aniaat S,8BBrea(a far
aiattack, Dealeen^ senl^ Craaa Oeeemfasr 1, 18«.
to Marcb 3,1863^
Howe^ Thomaa M.. waa bora ia Vansoai: le-
eetvcd a poMifreebool edataliusi; leiaosed to FBte'
boig, Feaasylraaia; waa far maar ycasa caAier,
tliea uiiaidfBt, of tbe Pittsbarg EUs^aae Baak;::;
waa dected a reaeaeatatira fossa P— wTiaaia ia
tlie Tbirty-seeoad Con^eaa aa a WWb, recMas &,4M
rotea agafaist <»n roles for SalfoEaij. UtaMcxat;
and waa r»eleeted to ibe Tbii^^Aftri riiia|iiai. ra-
eeiriag 4^80 rolaa afainat 1,817 rotea for OilasB,
Demoaat, serring fnaa Deeoabcr 1. ISSL to MmmA
S,1866l
How& Thomaa T- Jon- was bora as AahaiB.
NewTorfc: reeeHed a thocooA Fngllsb adacaHoa;
waa elected a repteacntstire fom New Toib la Ifae
Tbiitj setiaal
7.007 rotes
soiling from ]
Hows^ Ttmotliy 0,« '
Coaneas aa a Democnt, leeeitiaa
liasiXOU roeea for Mocbbb, Widg,
seeiibar li UKL to MaadkVttOa.
BTADDSTIOAIi SKBICHES.
467
Haine, Febnuuy H, 1810; recdTed an academic edu-
cation; studied law, and was admitted to the bar;
was a member of the legislature of the State of Maine
in 1846, in the latter piurt of which year be removed
to Wisconsin; was elected a judge of the Circuit
and Supreme Courts of Wisconsin in 1850, and held
the office until he resigned in 1865; was elected
United-States senator from Wisconsin as a Union
Bepublican (to succeed Charles Durkee), and took
his seat iu 1861; was re-elected in 1867, and again
re-elected in 1873; has served from March 3, 1861.
Howell, David, was bom in New Jersey Janu-
ary 1, 1747; received a classical education, graduating
at New- Jersey College in 1760; studied law: was
admitted to the bar, and commenced practice at
Providence, Bhode Island; was a delegate from
Bhode Island to the Continental Congress 1782-1785;
was attorney-general of Rhode Island in 1780; was
professor of law in Brown University 1790-1824; was
iiidge of the United-States District Court for Rhode
Island 1812-1824; and died at Providence, Rhode
Island, July 29, 1826.
Howell, SawariL was bom in the State of New
York; received a public-school education; resided
at Bath ; was a member of the New- York House of
Representatives in 1832; was elected a representative
from New York iu the Twenty-third Congress as a
Democrat, serving from December 2, 1883; to March
3,1835.
Howell, Elias, was bom in New Jersey; re-
ceived a public-school education; removed to Ohio,
and located at Newark; was elected a representative
from Oiiio in the Twenty-fourth Congress as a Whig,
receiving 2,446 votes against 2,066 votes for his oppo-
nent, serving from December 7, 1836, to March 3,
1S87 ; died of apoplexy at his residence, near New-
ark, in Licking Countyj^May, 1844.
HovreU, James B., was bom in New Jersey
July 4. 1816; removed to Newark, Licking County,
Ohio, m 1810: graduated at Miami University, Ohio,
In 1837; studied law with Hocking H. Hunter of
Lancaster, and was admitted to the bar in 1830;
moved to Iowa in 1841, and settled at Keosauqna,
where he practised law for several years; in 1846 he
porchased the Whig paper, and has ever since been
engaged in the newspaper business, removing to
Keokuk in 1840, where in 1864 he started '^The
D^y WUg," afterwards changing the name to
"The Daily Gate City : " he took a prominent part in
cnganlzing the Bepublican party m Iowa in 1865;
was a delegate to the Fremont Convention in 1866,
and has since taken an active and leading part in the
politics of Iowa; was elected a United-States senator
from fowa as a Republican (to fill the vacancy occa-
sioned by the resignation of James W. Orimes), and
served from January 26, 1870, to March 3, 1871.
Howell, Jeremiah B., was bom in Rhode Is-
land in 1772; received a classical education, gradu-
ating at Brown University in 1780; studied law; was
•dimtted to the bar, and commenced practice at
Providence ; was elected a United-States senator
from Rhode Island, serving from November 4, 1811,
to March 3, 1817; and died at ProTldence, Rhode
Island, in 1822.
Howell, Nathaniel, was bom in the State of
New York; received a classical education, graduating
at Princeton CoU^^ in 1788; was electM a repre-
sentative from New York in the Thirteenth Congress,
serving from May 24, 1813, to March 2, 1»15; died
at Canandidgua, New York, October 16, 1821.
Howland, Benjamin, was bom at Tiverton,
Bhode Island, in 1760; received a publlo-school edu-
cation; held several local offices; was a member of
the State General Assembly; was elected a United-
States senator from Rhode Island as a Democrat (to
fill the vacancy caused by the death of Samuel J.
Potter), and took his seat December 3, 1804, serving
until March 8, 1807; and died at Tiverton, Bhode
Island, May 9, 1821.
Howley, Bidhard, was bom In Liberty County,
Georgia; received a liberal education; studied law;
was admitted to the bar, and practised ; was a mem-
ber of the State House of Representatives; was gov-
ernor of Georria 1780; narrowly escaped capture
when the British troops occupied the sespcoast coun-
ties of Georgia; was a del^ate from Georgia to the
Continental Congress 1780-1781.
Hubard, Bdmtiud W., was bom in Virginia;
resided at Curdsville; was elected a representative
from Virginia in the Twenty-seventh Congress as a
Democrat; was re-elected to the Twenty-ei^th Con-
gress, defeating Toher, Whig; and was re-elected to
the Twenty-ninth Congress, serving from May 31,
1841, to March 3, 1847.
Hubbard, Asahel W., was t)om at Haddam,
Connecticut, January 19, 1818; received a public-
school education; went to Indiana, where he taught
school; studied law, and commenced practice; was a
member of the l^slature of Indiana in 1847, 1848,
and 1849; in 1867 he removed to Iowa, where he was
elected judge of the Fourth Judicial District; was
elected a representative from Iowa in the Thirty-
eighth Congress as a Republican, receiving 6,380
votes against 2,755 votes lor Duncombe, Democrat;
was re-elected to the Thirty-ninth Congress, receiving
8,439 votes against 3,168 votes for L. Chapman, Dem-
ocrat: and was re-elected to the Fortieth Congress
as a Republican, receiving 10,030 votes against 3,968
votes for Thompson, Democrat, serving from Decem-
ber 7, 1863, to March 3, 1869.
Hubbard, Chester D., was bom at Hamden,
Connecticut, November 25, 1814; went with his par-
ents to Pennsylvania in 1816, and thence to Virginia
in 1819; graduated at the Wesleyan University, Con-
necticut, in 1840; engaged in the lumber business
and in banking; was a member of the State legisla-
ture of Virginia in 1852 and 1863; . was a member of
the Virginia (Richmond) Convention in 1861, and of
the West Virginia (Wheeling) Convention a few
months afterwards; was a member of the State Sen-
ate of West Viiglnia in 1863 and 1864: was elected a
representative nom West Virginia in the Thirty-
ninth Congress as a Republican, receiving but little
opposition; and Vas re-elected to the Fortieth Con-
ra«ss, receiving 10,001 votes against 8,230 votes for
Johnson, Democrat, serving from December 4, 1865,
to March 3, 1860.
Hubbard, David, was bom in Virginia; re-
ceived an academic education; removed at an early
age to Alabama; studied and practised law; was so-
licitor of Ills judicial district; was a memt>er of the
Stete House of Representatives in 1831, 1842, 1843,
1846, and 1868, and of the State Senate in 1830; was
elected a representative from Alabama in the Twen-
ty-sixth Congress as a State-rights Democrat, receiv-
ing 1,627 majority over David G. Ligas, Whig, and
serving from December 2, 1830, to March 3, 1841 ; was
a presidential elector on the Polk and Dallas ticket In
1846; was an unsuccessful candidate for Congress
in 1819; was elected a represiintative from Alabama
in the Thirty-first Congress an a State-rights Demo-
crat, receiving 4,576 votes against 8,086 votes for
John Wood, Whig: was a presidential elector on the
Breckinrid^ and Lane ticket in 1860; and removed
after the war to Nashville, Tennessee.
Hubbard, Demas, Jun., was bom at Winfield,
New York, Januaiy 17, 1806; received an academic
education; studied law; was admitted to the bar.
and commenced practice at Smyrna; held several
local offices: was a member of uie State House of
Representatives 1838-1840; was elected a repr
tive from New York in the Thirty-ninth Cong
a Republican, receiving 17,067 votes againr
votes for HezeUah Sturges, Democrat, servi
December 4, 1866, to March 3, 1867; died at
New York, September 2, 1873.
Hubbard, Henry, was bom at Char
New Hampshire, May 8, 1784; received a
education, graduating at Dartmouth College i
studied Ulw ondsr Jeremiah Mason: was aamiv
i
458
CONOBESSIONAL DIBECTOBT.
the bar, and commenced practice at Charlestown In
1800; was a representative in the State legislature in
1812-1.S15, ISllMSBO, 182;i-1827, sen-ing the last three
years as speaker; was State solicitor for Cheshire
County 1823-1828; was judge of probate 1827-1820;
was elected a representative from New Hampshire
In the Twenty-first Congress as a Democrat, and was
re-elected to the Twenty-second and Twenty-third
Congresses, sert'ing from December 7, 182f), until
March 3, 1S35, and as speaker pro tempore May 10,
1834; was elected to tlie United-States Senate as a
Democrat, and served from March 4, 1835, until
March 3, 1841 ; was governor of New Hamiisliirc
1841-1843 ; was Unitcd-Stali.'s sulvtreasurcr at Boston
1840-1841); and died at Charlestown, New Hamp-
shire, June o, 1857.
Hubbard, John H., was born at Salisbury,
Connecticut, in 18c»6; received a public-school educa-
tion; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1820,
and commenced practice at Litchfield; was county-
attorney for five successive years, and was twice
elected a member of the State Senate; w.as clectc<l a
representative from Connecticut in the Thirty-eighth
Congress as a Kepublican. receiving 11.248 votes
against 10.802 votes for Woodruff, Democrat; and
was re-elected to IheTlxIrty-ninth Congress, receiv-
ing 11,747 voles agiiinat fl,li2 votes for "taylor. Dem-
ocrat, serving from December 7, 1803, to' March 3,
1807.
Hubbard, Jonathan H., was born at Windsnr.
Vermont, in 17ik^: received a liberal education; stud-
ied law. and was admitted to practice; was elected a
representative from Vermont in the Eleventh Con-
gress, ser\-ing from May 22, 1809, to March 3, 1811;
was judge of the Slate Supreme Court 18l:i-18'I5;
and died al Windsor, Vermont, .September 20, 1840.
Hubbard, Levi, was l)om m Mas8.ichusetts;
was a moral>er of the State House of Representatives
lS04-lf*0.>; was a State senator 1800-1811 ; w.ts elect-
ed a representative from Massachusetts in the Thir-
teenth Congress as a Democrat, serving from May 24,
1813, to March 2. 1815; was again a State senator In
1810: was for some years counly-tfeasurer; was a
member of the Executive Council in 1820.
Hubbard, Richard D., was boni at Berlin,
Connecticut, .SeptendH'r 7. 1818; graduated at Yale
College; studied and practised law: was electcfl a
representative from Connecticut in the Fortieth Con-
gress as a Democrat, receiving 11,004 votes .igainst
11,447 votes for Deming, liepublican, serving from
March 4, 1807, to March 3, 1800.
Hubbard, Samuel Dickinson, was bom at
Middletown. Connecticut. August 10, 1709; received
a classical education, graduating at Yale College in
1810; studied law, but did not practise, devoting
himself to manufactures; was elected a representa-
tive from Connecticut in tlie Twenty-nintli C'ongress
as a Whig, receiving 7,20<J votes against 5,814 voles
for Stewart, Democrat; and was re-elected to the
Thirtieth Congress, receiving 7,825 votes against
0,000 votes for Ingham, Democrat, and 410 votes
Abolition and scattering, serving from December 1,
1845, to March 3, 1840; was jrostmaster-general of the
United-States August 31, 1852-March 7, 18,>3; retired
to private life, and died at Middletown, Connecticut,
Octolx-r 8, 1855.
Hubbard, Thomas H., was bom at New Ha^
vcn. Connecticut, in 1780; received a classical educa-
tion, gradu.iting at Yale College in 1708; studied law;
was admitted to the bar, and commenced practice at
Hamilton, New York; was surrogate of Madison
County March 20, 1800-February 20, 1810; waa a
presidential elector on tiie Madison and Gerry ticket
in 1812; was elected a representative from New York
in the FIfteentli Congress as a Democrat, serving
from December 1, 181 1. to March 3, 1810; was again
elected to the Seventeenth Congress, serving from
December 3, 1S21, Ui March 3, 1823; removed to
Utica, New York: was a presidential elector on the
Folk and Dallas ticket in lt)44, and on the Pierce and
King ticket In 1862; and died at TTtiea, VewTork,
May 22. 1857. ;
flubbell, Edwin N., was bom at Coxsackie.
New York, August 13, 1816; received an acadcniical
education; engaged in agricultural and mechanical
piu^iills; was for several years supervisor of tlref-ne
Coimty: was elected a representative from New York I
in the Thirty-ninth Congress as a Democrat, receiv- 1
Ing 11,373 votes against 10,028 votes for Theodore B, j
Gates. Republican, serving from December 4, 1805,
to March 3. 1807.
Hubbell, James R., w.is bom in Delaware
Coumy, Ohio, in 1n24; received a public-school edu-
cation; studied law; was admitted to the l>ar, and :
practised; wiia for four successive year? a m>>mber
of the State House of Ilepres«Mitativ. ■ _■ two
years as speaker; was a presidential > lh«
Pw'mont and Dayton ticlict in 1S'>(1; »..- . • . ud a
representative from Ohio in the Tliirty-ninlh Con-
gress as a Republican, receiving KI.H^i;! votes agninit '
8,08;J votes for William Johnston, Democrat. Eerviog']
frciin December 4. 1805, to March 8, 1807. '
Hubbell, Jay A., was l>oro at Avon, Micliigon,
SeplcuiljiT 15, 1.820; graduated at the University uf ^
Michigan in 1853; was admitted to the praelice ef
law in 18.^; removed to Ontonagon, Miebig.-in, in
November, 1855; was elected disirict-attoniey of tie
Upper Peninsula in 1.857, and again in 18.50; removed i
to Houghton, Michigan, in Fetiruary. 18<>0; was elect- I
cd prosecuting-altoniey of Houghton County in JSOi, '
in 1803, and in l.S()5; Wiis engaged in the practice ȣ
law imtil 1870, and luui been idenlified with the de- i
velopment of the mineral Interi'Sts of the Upper
Peninsula; was elected a representative from MIchi<
gan in the Forty-third Congrt'ss as a Republican, re-
ceiving 11,051 votes against 5,.'j40 votes for 8. P. Ely,
Lil)eral Republican and Democrat; was re-«lecied io
the Forty-fourth Congress as a Republican, receiving
12,877 votes against 3,400 votes for II. D. Noble, ,
Democrat; and was re-elected to the Forty-fifth Con-'
press, receiving 18,224 votes against 12.0.'>(! votes for I
.John H. Kilboume, Democrat, serving from Decem-
ber ]. 1S73.
Hubbell, William S., was bom In Steuben {
County, New York; received a imijllc-school educ*- i
tion; was a member of the State House of l£<-prcseu-
talives in 1841; was elected a representative fromJ
New York in tlie Twenty-eighth Congri>ss as a Dent-]
ocrar, receiving 7,002 votes against 0.s47 votes for]
Sherman, AVliig, aud 288 voles for Pills. AI~ilition-
IstjServing from December 4, lt43, to Miirch 3. 1845. .
Hubley, Edward B., was iKim at Philadelphia,!
Pennsylvania; received a public-school educalion;J
was elected a representative frfim Pennsylvania inl
the Twenty-fourth Congress as a Jackson Deiuocrat,]
and was re-<;lccted to the Twenty-lilt h Congress,'
serving fnim December 7. Wj'>. to March 3. 1830;
and died at Philadelphia, Pennsyivani.a, February 2S,l
18.50.
Hudson, Charles, was bom at Marlbor
Massachusetts. November 14, 1705; was reared on
farm; received a public-school education; studie
theology, and was licensed as a UniversaJist preacJie
in 181'J; was a member of the State House of Uepr
senlatives 182d-18:i:j, and of the State Senate 18"
ISJSO; was a member of the Executive Council 1.^
ISlI ; was elected a representative from Ma.ssachusetU
in the Twenty-seventh Congress as a Whig, recei
SOO majority; was re-elected to the Twcnty-e|(
and Twenty-ninth Congresses, and was re-clecti
the Thirtieth Congress, receiving 0,008 votes afl
4,107 votes for Bryant, Democrat, and 1,884
AlMiJilion and scattering, serving from May 31, li
to March 3, 1849; was defeaied as the Wliig cand
date for the Thirty-first Congress by Cliarles Aileu,^
Free-Soiler; was naval ollicer of tlie port of Uostoo
1849-1853; edited "The Boston Daily Atlas;" wa
assessor of Internal revenue 1804-180.8; presided
the centennial celebration of the battle of Lc.\ingto
1876. Ho has published "History of Wesunituter"!
BTAnSTICAIi SKETCHES.
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1832, "History of Marlborongh" 1862, "History of
Lexington " 1868, and a nuiuber of historical pam-
phlets and essays.
Huf ty, Jaoob, was a native of New Jersey, and
was elected a representative from that State in the
Eleventh Congress as a Democrat on a general ticket,
receiving 18,705 votes against 14,702 votes for the
Federal candidate; was re-electeid to the Twelfth
and Tliirteenth Congresses, serving from May 22,
18UU, to Uay 20, 1814, when he died at Salem, New
Jersey.
Huger, Beojaznin, was bom near Charleston,
South Carolina; received an academical education;
was elected a representative from South Carolina in
the Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Congresses, serving
from December 2, 1799, to March 3, 1805 ; was again
elected to the Fourteenth Congress, serving from De-
cember 4, 1815, to March 3, 1817.
Hoger, Daniel, was bom at Limerick Planta-
tion, South Carolina, and was one of five brothers
distinguished in the struggle for independence; he
was a delegate from South Carolina to the Continen-
tal Congress 1786-1788; was elected a representative
from South Carolina in the First Congress; and was
re-elected to the Second Congress, serving from
March 4, 1789, to March 2, 1793.
Huger, Daniel iniio'C, was bom In South Caro-
lina; received a classical education, graduating at
Princeton College in 1798 ; studied law ; was admitted
U) the bar, and commenced practice at Charleston ;
was a member of the State House of Bepresentatives
and of the State Senate ; was elected a United-States
senator from South Carolina as a State-rights Demo-
crat (in place of John C. Calhoun, resigned), serving
from December 7, 1843, to 1845, when he resigned;
was a judge of the Superior Court; and died at
Charleston, South Carolina, August 18, 1854.
Hughes, Charles, was bom in Greorgia; received
a public-school education; removed to the State of
New York, and located at Sandy Hill ; was elected a
representative from New York in the Thirty-third
Cousress as a Democrat, receiving 9,988 votes against
9,683 votes for Northrup, Whig, serving from Decem-
ber 5, 1853, to March 3, 1855 ; was provosts-marshal
for the Sixteenth Congressional District in 1862.
Hagbes, Qeorge W., was bom in New York
in 1808; was educated at the West-Point Military
Academy, graduating in 1827; left the military service,
and was a civil engineer at New- York City; was re-
appointed to the army as an officer of topographical
eiigineers in 1838 ; served in the Mexican war, re-
ceiving two brevets; resigned his commission in 1851,
and was made president of the Northern Central
Bailroad; was elected a representative from Mary-
land in the Thirty-sixth Congress as a Democrat,
receiving 6,302 votes against 5,354 votes for Hi«uer,
Republican, serving from December 5, 1859, to March
3, ISil ; died at West River, Maryland, in 1870.
Hughes, James, was bom at Hampstead, Mary-
land, November 24, 1823; received a classical educa-
tion, graduating at the State TTniversity of Indiana;
studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1842, and
commenced practice at Bloomington, Indiana; served
in the Mexican war in the Sixteenth Regiment Unit-
ed-States Infantry; was circuit-judge 1852-1857 ; was
professor of law at the University of Indiana 1853-
1S56; was elected a representative from Indiana in
the Thirty-iif th Congress as a Democrat, receiving
10,(320 votes gainst 9,113 votes for Hendricks, Re-
publican, serving from December 7, 1857, to March 3,
1S39; was a judge of the Court of Claims 1861-1865;
was appointed a cotton-agent of the Treasury Depart-
meal 1860-1888; located at Washington City as a le-
Kalpractitioner.
Hughes, James M.. was bom in Kentucky;
removed to Missouri, and located at Liberty; was
elected a representative from Missouri in the Twenty-
eighth Congress as a Democrat, serving from Decem-
ber 4. 1843. to March 3, 1846.
Hughes, Thomaa H., was bom la New Jeney ;
received a public-school education; resided at Cold
Spring; was elected a representative from New Jer-
sey in the Twenty-first and Twenty-second Con-
gresses, serving from December 7, 1829, to March 2,
183.S.
Hughston, Jonas A., was bom in New York;
received an academical education; studied law; was
admitted to the bar, and commenced practice at
Delhi; was district-attorney of Delaware County
1842-1845; was elected a representative from New
York in the Thirty-fourth Congress as a Whig, re-
ceiving 6,744 votes against 6,444 votes for Palmer,
Democrat, and 1,389 votes for Hawes, Free-Soiler,
serving from December 8, 1855, to March 3, 1857 ; was
appointed by Secretary Seward marshal of the Consu-
lar Court at Shanghai, China, and died there in 1862.
Hugunia, DanieL Jun., was bom in Mont-
gomery County, New York, in 1791 ; received a lib-
eral education; served in the war of 1812; was elect-
ed a representative from Ne\r York in the Nineteenth
Congress, serving from December 5, 1825, to March 3,
1827; was appointed by President Harrison -United-
States marshal for the Territory of Wyoming; and
died at Kenosha, Wisconsin, June 21, 1860.
Hulbert, JohnW., was bom In Massachusetts;
received an academical education; was elected a rep-
resentative from Massachusetts in the Thirteenth
Congress (in place of Daniel Dewey, resigned) as a
Federalist; and was re-elected to the Fourteenth
Congress, serving from September 26, 1814, to March
3, 1817.
Hnlburd, Calvin T., was bom at Stockholm,
New York, June 6, 1809; graduated at Middlebury
College, Vermont; was a student at the Yale-College
Law Sdiool ; was engaged in mercantile and agricul-
tural pursuits; was a member of the State legislature
of New York hi 1842, 1843, 1844, and 1862 : was elected
a representative from New York in the Thirty-eighth
Congress as a Republican, receiving 12,015 votes
against 6,867 votes for Judson, Democrat; was
re-elected to the Thirty-ninth Congress, receiving
13,183 votes against 5,650 votes for William J.
Averill, Democrat; and was re-elected to the Fortieth
Congress aa a Republican, receiving 13,449 votes
against 5,116 votes for Lawrence, Democrat, serving
from December 7, 1863, to March 3, 1869.
Htmiphrey, Charles, was bom in Orange
County, New York, in 1791 ; received a public-school
education; resided at Ithaca, Tompkins County;
was elected a representative from New York in the
Nineteenth Corup^ss, serving from December 5, 1826,
to March 3, 1827 ; was a member of the State House
of Representatives 1834-1836 and 1842, serving as
speaker January 6, 1836-May 26, 1836; died at
Albany, New York, July 18, 1850.
Humphrey, Charles, was bom at Haverford,
Pennsylvania, in 1811 ; received a public-school educa-
tion; became a miller, and dealer in breadstuSs ; was
actively engaged in pre-RevoIationary measures;
was a meml^r of the Provincial Congress 1764-1774:
was a delegate from Pennsylvania to the Continental
Congress 1774-1776; died at Haverford, Pennsyl-
vania, March 11, 1786.
Humphrey, Herman L., was bom at Candor.
New York, March 14, 1830; received a public-school
education, with the addition of one year in Cort-
land Academy; became a merchant's clerk at the
age of sixteen in Ithaca, New York, and remained
there for several years; studied law in the office ol
Walbridge & Finch; was admitted to the bar in
July, 1854, and removed to Hudson, Wiser "
where he commenced practice in January, 18'
soon after appointed district^attomey of f
County to nil a vacancy; was appointed
governor county-judge of St. Croix County
vacancy; in the fall of 1860, and in the t
1861, was elected for the full terra of foi
from the following January; was elected
State Senate for two years, and in Febraary,
resigned the office d cour -<9 elb
]
460
00KOBE88IOKAI. DIBXOIOBT.
mayor of Hudscai for one year; waa elected in the
spring of 1806 judge of the Eighth Judicial Circuit,
and was re-elected in 1872, serving from January,
1867, until March, 1877; was elected a representa-
tive from Wisconsin in the Forty-fifth Congress as a
Bepublican, receiving 20,702 votes aj^lnst ia,220
votes for Milton B. Gage, Democrat, serving from
October 16, 1877.
Humphrey, James, was bom at Fairfield.
Connecticut, October 0, 1811; received a classical
education, graduating at Amherst College (of which
his father was president) in 1881; taught school:
studied law: was admitted to the oar; commenced
pi-actice at Louisville, Kentucky, in 1^, and, after
remaining there one year, removed to Xew-Tork
City; was elected a representative from New York
in the Thirty-sixth Congress as a Bepublican, re-
ceiving 6,476 votes ag^nst 4,678 votes for Taylor,
Demosrat, 5,581 votes for Litchfield, Independent
Democrat, and 074 votes for Humphrey, American,
and serving from Decemlier 6, 1860, to March 8,
1861; was again elected to the Thirty-ninth Con-
0«8s, receiving 11,752 votes against 11,168 votes for
Pavon, Democrat, serving from December 4, 1866, to
June 16, 1866, when he died at Brooklyn, Hew York.
Humphrey, James M., was bom at Holland,
New Yore, September 21, 1810; received a public-
school education; studied and practised law; was
district-attorney for Erie County In 1857, 1858, and
1860; was a member of the State Senate of New
York in 1863, 1864, and 1866; was elected a repre-
sentative from New York in the Thirty-ninth Con-
gress as a Democrat, receiving 13,231 votes against
12,861 votes for Samuel J. HoUey, Bepublican; and
was re-elected to the Fortieth Congress, receiving
13,402 votes against 12,086 votes for Clapp, Repub-
lican, serving from December 4, 1866, to March 8,
1860.
Humphrey, Beuben, was bom in the State of
New York; received an academic education; resided
atMarcenus, Onondaga County; was a member of
the State Senate 1811-1814; was elected a representa-
tive from New York in the Tenth Congress, serving
from October 26, 1807, to March 8, 1800.
Humphreys, Perry W., was elected a repre-
sentative from Tennessee in the Thirteenth Congress
as a Democrat, serving from May 24, 1813, to March
2, 1816; removed to Hernando, Mississippi, and died
there March 1, 1830.
Hungerford, John M., was bom at Yemon,
New York, December 81, 18^; graduated at Hamil-
ton College in 1846; engaged in the business of
banking in 1848 at Coming ; was a delegate to the
National Bepublican Convention at Philadelphia in
1872 which nominated Grant and Wilson; was
elected a representative from New York in the
Forty-fifth Congress as a Bepublican, receiving 21,087
votes against 17,078 votes for Edwin D. Iioveiidge,
Democrat, serving from October 16, 1877.
Hunererford, John P., was bom in 1769; re-
ceived an acadeniic education; served in the Revolu-
tionary war; was elected a representative from Vii^
ginia in the Twelfth Congress as a Democrat, serving
nom November 4, 1811, to December 2, 1811 (his elec-
tion having been successfully contested by John
Taliaferro, who obtained possession of the seat);
was again elected to the Thirteenth Congress (John
Taliaferro again contesting his election, but tills
time unsuccessfully); and was re-elected to the
Fourteenth Congress, serving from May 24, 1813, to
March 8, 1817 ; served In the war of 1812 as brigadier-
general of nulitia, and was active in the defence of
lie Virginia bank of the Potomac; and died in
Westmoreland County, Virginia, December 21, 1833.
Hungerford, Orville, was bom in Connecticut
in 1790; received a public-school education; removed
to Watertown, New York: held several local offices;
was elected a representative from New York in the
Twenty-eighth Congress as a Democrat, receiving
6,679 TotM against 4,810 Totea for Merrick, Whig,
sod 276 votes for Keyes, Abolitionist; and waa re-
elected to the Twenty-ninth Congress, raxivi&g
6,804 votes against 6,687 votes for Bradley, WUg,
and 717 votes for Porter, American, servmg from
December 4, 1843, to March 8, 1847; and died at
Watertown, New York, April 6, 1855.
Hunt, HirHTn P., was bom in New York; re-
ceived a public-school education; was elected a
representative from New York in the Twenty-fonrth
Congress as a Whig, serving from December 7, 1835,
to March 8, 1837; was defeated as the Whig candi-
date for the Twenty-fifth Congress by Henry Vail;
was again elected to the Twenty-sixth Congress, and
was re-elected to the TwenU-seventh Congress, serr-
ing from December 2, 1839, to March 3, 1843; pub-
lished a circular-letter in 18^ declining a re-election;
died at Troy, New York.
Hunt, James B., was bom in New York ia
1790; received an academical education ; studied lav;
waa admitted to the bar, and commenced practice at
New- York Citjr; removed to Michigan in- 1S36, and
located at Pontiac; was elected a representative from
Michigan in the Twenty-eighth Congress as a Demo-
crat, and was re-elected to the Twenty-ninth Con-
gress, serving from December 4, 1643, to March 3,
1847; died at Washington August 16, 1857.
Hunt, Jonathan, was bom in the State of Ver-
mont; received a classical education, graduating at
Dartmouth College in 1807; studied law; was ad-
mitted to the bar, and commenced practice at
Brattieborough; was elected a repr^entative from
Vermont in the Twentieth Congress; was re-elected
to the Twenty-first and Twenty-second Congresses,
serving from December 3, 1827, to May 14, l&S,
when he died at Washington City.
Hunt, Samuel, studied law, and was admitted
to practice in 1700 ; settled in Alstead, New Hamp-
shire, and removed to Keene; left the practice m
1706; was a member of the State l^islature of Xew
Hampshire; was elected a representative from Xew
Hampshire in the Seventh Congress (in place of
Joseph Pierce, resigned) ; and was re-elected to the
Eighth Congress, serving from December 6, 1802, to
March 3, 1805; died inOhlo in 1807.
Hunt, Theodore G., was bom in South Caro-
lina; received a public-school education; studied
law; was admitted to the bar, and commenced prac-
tice at New Orleans; was elected a represenutiTe
from liOuisiana in tlie Thirty-third Congress as a
Whig, receiving 6,666 votes against 6,446 vott-s for
Davis, Democrat, serving from December 5, 1SJ3, to
March 3, 1856.
Hunt, Washinffton, was bom at Windham,
Greene County, NewYork, August 5, 1811; received
a pubUc-Bchool education; studied law ; was admitted
to the bar in 1834, and commenced practice at Lock-
port; was appointed first judge of Niagara County in
1836; was elected a representative from New York
in the Twenty-eighth Congress as a Wlug, receiving
4,672 votes against 4,347 votes for Piper. Democrat,
and 226 votes for Hutchinson, Abolitionist; waa re-
elected to the Twenty-ninth Congress, receiving 5,733
votes against 4,048 votes for Piper. Democrat, and
662 votes for Hutchinson, Abolitionist; and was
re-elected to the Thirtieth Congress, serving from
December 4, 1843, to March 3, 1840; was comptroller
of the State of New York February 17, 1849-Decem-
l)er 18, 1850; was elected governor of New York as a
Whig, receiving 214,614 votes against 214,352 votes
for Horatio Beymour^Democrat, serving 1850-1S52;
was defeated as the Whig candidate for governor iu
1852 by Horatio Seymour and Minthome Tompldns;
retired to his farm near Lockport; was a delegate to
the Chicago Convention of 1884; died at New-York
CityFebTOary2, 1867.
Hunter, John, was bom in South Carolina;
received an academical education; waa engaged in
agricultural pursuits; was elected a representative
from South Carolina in the Tliird Congress, serring
from Decembers, 1703, to March 3, 1706; was elected
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» TTnited-States senator from Sonth Carolina (in
pl&ce of Pierce Butler, resimed), serving from Jaa-
nary 27, 1797, to 1798, when he resigned.
Hunter, John W.. was bom at Bedford, King's
County, Kew York (now within the limits of the city
of Brooklyn), October 15, 1807; engaged in business
porsnits; was a clerk in the New-Tork Custom
Bouse 1831-1836, and was assistant auditor 18S6-1866 ;
was sei rbuu7 of a baiiulng institution at Brooklyn in
IS65 ; was elected a representative from New York in
the Thirty-ninth Congress (in place of James Hum-
£hrey, deceased), vervmg from December 4, 1866, to
[arch 8. 1807.
Hunter, Morton C, was i>om at Versailles,
Indiana, February 6, 1826; was educated at the Indi-
ana State University, from the law department of
wliich he was graduated in 1849; was elected a mem-
ber of the House of Representatives of Indiana from
Monroe County in 1868; was colonel of the Eighty-
second Regiment of Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and
command^ it until the fall of Atlanta; was brevetted
brigadier-general for "gallant and meritorious ser-
vice ; ' ' commanded the First Brigade, Third Division,
Fourteenth Army Corps, from the fall of Atlanta
until the close of the war; was in Sherman's "march
to the sea," and participated in the great review at
Washington after the termination of hostilities ; was
elected a representative from Indiana in the Forti-
eth Congress as a Republican, receiving 13,848 votes
against 13,168 votes for Harrington, Democrat, serv-
ing from March 4, 1867, to March 3, 1869; was again
elected to the Foity-third Congress as a Republican,
receiving 18,792 votes against 18,135 votes for D. W.
Voorhees,' Democrat; was r»-elected to the Forty-
fourth Congress, receiving 14,006 votes against 13,708
votes for Rice, Democrat; and was re-elected to the
Forty-fifth Congress, receiving 14,266 votes against
13,166 votes for McLean, Democrat, and 4,704 votes
for Davis, Greenback, serving from December 1, 1873.
Hunter, Naisworthy, was elected a delegate
from Mississippi Territory in the Seventh Congress,
serving from December 7, 1801, to March 11, 1802,
when he died.
Hunter, Robert M. T., was bom in Essex
County, Virginia, April 21, 1809; received a classical
education, graduatii^; at the UiUversity of Virginia:
studied law; was aifinitted to the bar in 1830, and
commenced practice; was elected a representative
from Virginia in the Twentv-tifth Congress as a
Democrat; was re-elected to the Twenty^lxth Con-
gress, receiving 1,203 votes against 1,109 votes for
Scott, Whig, and served as speaker; was re-elected
to the Twenty-eeventh Congress, serving from Sep-
tember 4, 1837, to March 3, 1843; was defeated as the
Democratic candidate to the Twenty-eighth Con-
eress, receiving 1,079 votes against 1,249 votes for
Newton, Whig: was again elected to the Twenty-ninth
Congress, serving from December 1, 1846, to March
8, 1847; was elected a United-States senator from
Virginia, serving from December 6, 1847, until he
withdrew from the Senate on the secession of Vir-
ginia, and was afterward expelled in July, 1861; was
a delegate from Vlighiia to the Provisional Congress
which assembled at Richmond in July, 1861; was a
Confederate-States senator from Virginia in Hie First
Confederate Congress; was Confederate secretary
of state; was arrested after the war, and pardoned
in 1867; was elected State tteasnrer of Vliiginia in
1877.
Hunter, WiHiam^was bom at Newport, Rhode
Island, November 28, 1775; received a classical edu-
cation, graduating at Brown Uuiveisity In 1791:
went to London, where he studied medicine, and
afterwards the law; retnmed to Newport, and was
admitted to the bar 1796; was several times a mem-
ber of the State House of Representattves; was
elected a United-States senator from Rhode Island
(In place of Christopher O. Champlin. resigned),
and waa re-elected, serving from November 26, 1811,
to March 8, 1821; wu commlnloned eJKargi d'e^atna
to Brazil June 28, 1834, and minister plenipotentiary
September 13, 1841, serving until December 9, 1843:
returned to Newport, Rhode Island, and resided
there until his death December 3, 1849.
Hunter, WilliaoitWas bom in Vermont; was a
member of the State House of Representatives in
1807 and 1809; was a State counciUor In 1809, 1814,
and 1815 ; was elected a representative from Vermont
in the Fifteenth Congress, serving from December
1, 1817, to March 3, 1819.
Hunter, Willuun F., was bom at Alexandria,
Viiffinia, December 10, 1808; received a public-school
education; learned the cabinet-maker's trade; stud-
ied law; was admitted to the bar, and commenced
practice at Woodsfleld, Ohio; held several local
offices; was elected a representative from Ohio in the
Thirty-first Congress as a Whig, receiving 6,711 votes
against 6,338 votes for Kennon, Democrat ; and was
re-elected to the Thirty-second Congress, receiving
6,751 votes against 6,606 votes for Jewett, Democrat,
and 1,120 votes for Root, Free-Soiler, serving from
December 3, 1849, to March 3, 1868.
Hunter, William H., resided at Sandusky,
Ohio; was elected a representative from that State in
the Twenty-fifth Congress as a Van Buren Democrat,
serving from September 4, 1837, to March 8, 1838.
Huntington, Abel, was bom at Norwich, Con-
necticut, in 1776; received a classical education;
studied medicine, and removed to East Hampton,
Long Island, where be was for sixty years a prac-
tising physician; was elected a representative from
New York in the Twenty-third Congress as a Demo-
crat, and was re-elected to the Twenty-fourth Con-
gress, serving from December 2, 1833, to March 8,
1837 ; was collector of customs at Sag Harbor 1846-
1849; died at East Hampton May 18, 1868.
Huntington, Benjamin, was l>om at Norwich,
Connecticut, Apm 19, 1736; received a classical edu-
cation, graduating at Yale College In 1761; stud-
ied law; was admitted to the bar, and commenced
practice at Norwich; was a delegate from Connecti-
cut in the Continental Congress 1780-1784 and 1787-
1788; was elected a representative from Connecticut
in the First Congress, serving from Mareh 4, 1789,
to Mareh 3, 1791 ; was a member of the State Sen-
ate 1781-1791 and 1701-1793; was judge of the State
Superior Court 1703-1798; was mayor of Norwich
1784-1796; died at Norwich, Connecticut, October
16^1800.
Huntington, Ebenezer, was bom at Norwich.
Connecticut, December26, 1764: received a classical
education, graduatiiiK at Yale College in 1776 ; left
college to join the Revolutionary army, and served
throughout the war; was selected for appointment as
brigadler^eneral by Washington when a war with
£^wice seemed imminent in 1790; was elected a rep-
resentative from Connecticut in the Eleventh Con-
gress (in place of Samuel W. Dana, elected senator),
serving from Decembers, 1810, to March 8, 1811 ; was
again elected to the Fifteenth Congress, serving from
December 1, 1817, to March 3, 1819; and died at
Norwich, Connecticut, June 17. 1834.
Huntingrton, Jabez Williams, was bom at
Norwich, Connecticut, November 8, 1788; received a
classical education, graduating at Yale College in
1806; studied law; was admitted to the bar, and
commenced practice at Litchfield ; was a member of
the State House of Representatives In 1820; waa
elected a representative from Connecticut in the
Twenty-first, Twenty-second, and Twen^thlid Con-
gresses, serving from December 7, 1829. to 1884,
when he resigned, having been appointed judge of
the State Supreme Court of Errors; removed to Nor-
wich; was elected a United-States senator from Con-
necticut as a Whig (in place of Thaddeus Betts, de-
ceased), serving from June 2, 1840, to November 1,
1847, when he died at Norwich, Connecticut.
Huntinffton, Sconuel, was bom at Windham,
Connecticut, July 8, 1782; received a public-school
edtication; woriced ai the coiner's tnde; studied
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CONGKE88IOKAL DIEBCTOEY.
law ; was admitted to the bar in 1759, and commenced
pravtice at Norwich; was a member of the Colonial
Assembly in IH'A; was ai)p«)inte<l Crown's attorney
In 1705; was a member of the Executive Council In
1703; was a delegate from Connecticut to the Contl-
ueutal ConsrcRs January 1(1, 17iWV-Xovember 4, 1783,
serving ns president Septemlier '2S, 177f>-Jnly (!, 17S1 ;
was judge of the State SuiMjrior Court 1774-17'<4,
and rhief justice 1784; was lieutenant-governor 1785;
was governor of Connecticut 178(»-17tK); died at Nor-
wich. ConnectiiMit, January 6, 1700.
Hunton, Eppa, was bom in Fauquier Coanty,
Virginia. September 23, 1823; his early education
was limited: studied and practised law; was Com-
monwealth attorney for the county of Prince William
from 184;i up to 1802; was elected to the State Con-
yenlion of Virginia which ass<?mhlcd at Kichmond in
Febniary, ISCl ; serveil through its first session, and
then entered the Confederate army as colonel of the
Eighth Virginia Infantry; was promoted after tlie
battle of Gettvsburs, and sened through the residue
of the war as brigadier-general, succeeding Brigsulier-
Gcneral Gamett ; was captured at Sailor's Creek
A|irll II. 1805, and was released from Fort Warren in
July, lSi'>5; was elected a representative frimi Vir-
ginia in the Forty-thinI Congress as a Democr.it, re-
ceiving 11.782 votes again8t0il78 votes forE. Daniels,
Republican; was re-elected to the Forty-fourth Con-
gress a.s a Democrat, receiving 9,S(il) votes against
9,£i'l votes for Barbour, Republican; and was re-
elected to the Forty-fifth Congress, receiving 18,600
Votes against 10,175 votes for J. C. O'Neal, Repub-
lican, s<"rving from December 1. 1873.
Huntsman, Adam, was bom in Virginia; re-
moved to Tennessee!, and settled at Jackson; was
elected a representative from Tennessee in the "Twen-
ty-fourth Congress as a Whig, receiving S0<) majority
over David Crockett. Whig, ser^'ing from DeceralK-r
7, 18:35, to March 3, 1837; was defeated for re-electiou
to the Tweiity-tifth Congress by David Crockett.
Hurd, Frank H., was born at Mount Vemon,
Ohio, December 25, 1841 ; received a liberal education,
grailiinting at Kenyon College in 1858; studied law;
was admitted to the b.'ir, and has since practi-sed; w.as
county prosecutlng-altoniey in 1803; w.as a member
of the State Senate of Ohio in 1800; w.as apiKiinted
to ccxlify the criminal laws of Ohio in 1SI'>8; and was
elected a represenl.alive from Ohio in the Forty-
fourth Congress as a Democrat, receivingl3,108 votes
against 11. "^71 votes fi>r Pratt, Rcjiublican, serving
from Deccmlx-rO, 1875, to Slarch 3, 1877; was defeat-
ed as l\v Democratic candidate to the Forty-fifth
Congress, receiving 15,.301 votes against 17,270 votes
for J. D. Cox, Republican.
Hnrlbut, Stephen A., was bom at Charleston,
South Carolina, November 20. 1815; was thoroughly
and liberally educated ; studied l,i w, and was admitted
to the bar in Ik.37; removed to Illinois, settling at Bel-
vldere; was elected as a ^Vllig to the Constitutional
Conveutioii of Illinois in 1847; w.os a presidential
elector on the Wliig ticket in 1848- was a member of
the State legislature in 185!), 18(11, and 1807; was
presidential elector at Large on the Republican ticket
in 1808; was appointed brigadier-general of volun-
teers, dating from May 27. 1801; commanded the
Fourth Division at Pittsburg Landing in 1802; was
promoted major-general in .September, 1802: was as-
slpied to the command of the Sixteenth Army Corps
St Memphis, and to the command of the Department
of the Gulf In 1804-1805; was honorably nmstered
otlt in July, 1805; was minister resident to the Unil-
ed States of Colombia from 1H19 to 1872; was elected
a representative from Illinois in the Forty-third Gon-
Kreas as a Republican, receiving 15,532 votes against
6,144 votes for S. E. Bronson, Lilxiral and Democrat;
and was re-elected to the Forty-fourth Congress as n
Kepublican, receiving 8.770 votes agairst 7,608 votes
for John F. Famsworth, Opposition, serving from
December 1, 1673, to Slarch 8, 1877.
Eutohina, John, waa bom at Vienna, Ohio,
July 25, 1812; received a classical education, and
studied one year at the Western-Heser^-e College;
studied law; was admitte<l to the bar in lSi7, uul
commenced practice; was clerk of the Court of Com-
mon Pleas for Trumbull County 1838-18*?: wai t
meralier of the State House of Represent:! ■;
was elected a representative from Ohio in
sixth Congress as a Republican, receiving ■-■.■, ^, .■■.^i
against 4,541 votes for D. Tod. Democrat, and 38&
votes scattering; and was re-<>lecled to the Thirty-
seventh Congress, receiving 10,840 vol<'9 against 4.2A
votes for Wilson, Democrat, serving fniiu Dccemtxr
5. 1850, to March 3. ISOJi.
Hutchins, Wells A., w.-u bom at Hartforl,
Ohio, Octol)er8, 1818; received a public-school eda-
cation: taught school ; studied law; was .admitted to
the bar in 1841, and commenced practice; was ■
member of the State House of Representatives in
185!; was appointed one of the six United-State*
provost-marslialB for Ohio in 1802; w.as elected a rep-
resentative from Ohio in the Thirty-eighth Congiva
as a Democrat, receiving 8,0jj5 votes against O.Ttfi
votes for Bundv, Republican, serving from DecembeCi
7. 1863, to March 3, 1805.
Hutson, Richard, was bom in South Carolina;
received a classical education, graduating at Prince-
ton College in 1805; was a delegate from bouth Caro-
lina to the Continental Congress 1778-17711.
Huyler, John, wius bom in New-York City
Juno 10, 1801); n?ceived a pubhc-school education;
removed to Hackeiisack, New Jersey, in 1840. and eit-
gaged in the lumber business; was s .ranis
elected to the board of supervisors o£ '. inty,
and became president of that body;
of the State House of Representatives in 1;
serving the last year as president; was judge
Court of Appeals 18.53-1850; was elected a rcpi
t.itive from New Jersey in the Thirty-fifth Coi
08 a Democrat, receiving 0,105 votes against
votes for Osborne, Itopubliean, and 2,:355 voles for.
Inglis, American, serving from December 5, liSiT, '
until March 3, 1850; was a candidate for re-cle<'
to the Thirty-sixth Congress as a Lecompton Di
crat, but was defeated, receiving S.l.>t votes
8,8:i7 votes for H. K. Riggs, Republican; die<l
seijuenco of an unprovoked assault which hi
m.'ide upon him by a drunken man in the street
Uackensack, New Jersey, January, 1870.
Hyde, Ira B., was born at Guilford, New Toi
Jaiuiary 18, 18.38; worked on a farm in early
received an academic education at Oberlin Col
Ohio; studied law, and was .admitted to the l>ar'ia
the spring of 1801 at St. Paul, Minnesota; entered
the Union array as a private in a Minnesota cavalry
regiment in August, 1802; removed to Missoiui iq
May, 1800, and engaged in the practice of law;
apjiointed secretary and attorney of the C. and D. M.
Railroad inl8<J8; was appointed prosecuting-attomef]
iti February, 1872; and was elected a rcpresentatl
from Missoiui in the Forty-third Congress as a
publican, receiving 13,053 votes against 12.;tl8 votet
for C. H. Mausur, Democrat, serving from December
1, 187.3, to March 3. 1.S7.5.
Hyman, John Adams, was bom in Wi
County, Nortli Caroliniv, July 23. 1840, a slave; he
acijuirod the rudiments of an Eni^lish education, ai-
Ihoiigh he was sold and sent to Alabama when a lad
because he was found studying a spelling-book; w;
emancipated in 18<.15; returned to North Carolio;
and engaged in farming; w:is a trustee of the
luiblic school in Wan-en (bounty; was a delegate
the State Constitutional Convention of 1808;
meml)er of the State Scn.ate 18<'i8-1874; was el
representative from North Candina in the
fourth Congress as a Republican, receiving
votes against 11,144 votes for G. U. Blouut.
crat. and 1,001 votes for Gariai ' " "' ■
pendent Republican ; and was :i
internal revenue for the Secona i_'^u,
Carolina in June, 1877-
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STATlSTICAl, SKETCHES.
468
Hyneman, John M., was bom in Berks Coun-
f, Pennsylvania ; received a thorough English edu-
Mioa ; was a inenil>er of the Stjite House of Repre-
ntatives ISiW; wjis cleric of the Berks-county
phans' Court l.SU>-1816; was elected a representa-
► from Pennsylvania in the Twelfth Concress, luid
jtre-electrd to the Thirteenth Congress, serving
B Jfovember 4, 1811, to 1S13, when he resiciied ;
was counly-siirvevor of Berks County 1814-1824.
Hynes, WilliajB J,, was bom in the county of
Bare, Ireland, Manh 31, 1843; iminisrated to the
BTnited States; landed in Now York Sovember 2fl.
, was educated in public and priv.ite schools In
Ireland, and the common schooCs of Springfield,
Massachusetts, until sixteen years of a^e. after that
Bfrom private tuition and unassisted study; learned
Hbe art of printing in the office of the Springfield,
I Massachusetts) " fopublican," and has been printer,
clerk, lecturer, and editor; was a student at the
iunior and senior courses of law-lectures in Columbia
ollego in 18i.>',>-187(), and was admitted to the bar at
Jttle Rock, Ark.insas, in August, 1870; was elected
representative from Arkansas in the Forty-lliird
ongress from the State at large as a Reform Reimb-
Bcan by a majority of 12,4.37, serving from Decem-
Iwr 1, 1'573, to March 3, 1875; removed to Chicago in
JbVd. aii<l practised bis profession.
E Hirie, Feter, ]un., was bom In Pennsylvania;
Heaided at E.iston ; was elected a representative from
FeiiMBylvania in the Twenty-first Congress as a Jack-
son Dt'niocrjit, defi'ating George Wolf; and was re-
jected to the Twenty -second Congress, serving from
>eeember 7. 1820, to March 2, 1833.
Ilsley. Daniel, w.-is bom at Falmouth, Massa-
Tiusetts (aft<!rwar<I» Maine), in 1740; received a ihor-
5h English education ; engaged in mercantile pur-
lits, niid bcc'irae a distiller; was a delegate to the
lie Convention which adopted the Federal Consti-
mion; wiis a member of the State House of Repre-
ittvtives; was elected a representative from Mossa-
_ tinsolts In the Tenth Congress as a Democrat, serv-
ing fr»)m October 2ti. DOT, to March 3, 1809.
Imlay, James H., was bom in Now Jersey; re-
Esived a cl.issical education, graduating at Princeton
ollege in 178t); was a tutor In that institution: was
ectcd a reprcaentativo from New Jersey in the Fifth
Congress, and was re-elected to the Sixth Congress,
•ervhig from May 1,'j, 1797, to Marcli 3, 1801.
K^Ingalls, John James, was Irom at Middloton,
Blasf.icliusctts, Doceinber 29, 1833; was educated at
^Williams Collegi.-, AVilliamstown, Massachusetts;
Htadied law, ami was admitted to the bar in 1857;
■emoved to K.ansas in Oct*)ber. 1858; was a member
of the Wyandot Constitutional Convention in 1859;
w.-vs secretary of the Territorial Council in 1800; was
cret.ary of the State .Senate in 1801 ; was a member
I the .State Senate of Kans.is from Atchison C'ounlv
iJaitt; was editor of "The .itchlson Chnmpkm'"'
, 1804, and ISiio; was defeated as "anti-Lane"
lidate for lieutenant-governor In 1802, and a^ain
1 18ftl; has since been engaged In the practice of
»w; was elected United-States senator from Kansas
a Republican (to succeed S. C. Pomeroy, Repul>-
tican). and took his seat March 4, 1873. His term of
office will expire Slarch .3, 1879,
Inge, Samuel W., was bom tn North Carolina,
and removed to Greene County, Alabama, when a
lad; received a public-school education; studied l.iw;
was admitted to the bar, and commenced practice in
■Livingston County ; was a member of the .State House
■( Representatives in 1844-1845: was elected a repro-
■■ent.itive from .\labama to the Thirtieth Congress as
a Democrat, receiving 4,528 votes against 4,370 votes
for W. M. Murphy, Whig; and was re-elected to the
tiirty-first Congress as a Democrat, receiving 4,tM)5
Dtes ngaiust 4.245 votes for J. O. Baldwin, Whig,
ervingfrom December 6, 1847, to March 3, 1851;
'hile in Congress he fought a duel at Bladensburg
1th Honorable E<Iward Stanly of North Carolina,
either receiving serious injury ; resiuning practice,
ho was appointed by President Pierce United-States
attorney for the district of California; and died at
San Francisco In 1807.
Ing^e, William M., was bom in Teiujessce;
was I'leeted a representative from Tennessee in the
Twentv-third Congress as a Democrat, serving from
December 2, 1833, to March 3, 18.35; removed to
.Sumter County, Alabama, 1836, and resumed prac-
tice at Lexington in partnership with Robert H.
Smith ; was a 'member of the Slate House of Rt>pre-
sentatives In 1840, 1844, and 1M5; and died at Lex-
ington, Alabama, of iieurt-fllsease, in 1840.
In^ersoU, Charles J. (brother of Josei)h R.
Ingersoil), w.is bom at Philadelphia. Pennsylvania,
October 3, 1782; received an academical education;
studied law; was admitted to the l)ar, and commenced
practice at Philadelphia; was elected a rcpn'sentative
from Pennsylvania in the Thirteenth Congress as a
Democrat, serving from May i4. 1813. to M.irch 2. 1815;
was United-States distriet-altomey for Peiuisylvania
1815-1829; was secretary of legation to Pmssia 18-37;
was ajain elected to the Twenty-seventh Congress,
receivmg 1.203 majority; was re-elected to the
Twenty-eighth Congress, receiving 3,316 votea
against 2,()<t4 votes for Conrad, Whig; was re-elected
to thf Twenty-ninth Congress; was re-elected to the
Thirtieth Congress, serving from May 31, 1841, to
Mart-h 3, 1849; was appointed by President Polk
minister to France tn 1847, but was rejected by the
Sen:ito; died at Phi!a<lelphla May 14, 1802,
Ingersoil, Colin M. (son of lialph J. Ingersoil),
was bora in Connecticut in 1820; received an aca-
demical education; studied law; was admitted to
the bar, and commenced practice at New Haven;
WHS appointed by President Polk secretary of lega-
tion at St. Petersburg; was elected a representative
from Connecticut in tlic Thirty-second Congress as
a Democrat, receiving 7.:i;!l votes against 0,7S0 votes
for Babcock, Whig, and 5;K) votes for Booth. Frce-
Soiler; and w.is re-elected to the Thirty-third Con-
gress, sen-ing from December 1, 1851, to Mar«;h .3.
1855.
Ingersoil, Ebon C, was bom in Oneida County,
New York. Decemlter 12, 1831; wm taken l>y his
parents to Illinois in 184;!; received a classical edu-
cation, which he completed at Pa<lucah, Kentucky;
studied law; was admitted to the bar in 18.VI, and
comieenccd prnoticc: was elected a representative
from Illinois In the Tliirty-eighth Congress (in place
of Owen Lovejoy, deceased) as a Republican; was
re-electetl to the Thirty-ninth Congress, n-ceiving
18,152 votes against 11,282 votes for Eckels, Demo-
crat; was re-elected to the Fortieth Congress, receiv-
ing 18,437 votes against 9,005 votes for Kamscy,
Democrat; and was re-elected to the Forty-first Con-
gress, receiving 20,991 votes against 13.08<) votes for
Nigl.is, Democnit, serving from May 2<), 18<>4, to
March 3, 1871; engaged In the practice of his pro-
fession at Washington City.
Ingersoil, Jared (father of Joseph R. Ingersoil),
was T)orn in Connecticut in 1740 : receiveil a classi-
cal education, graduating at Yale College in 1706;
"Studied law at the Middle Teni()le In London; was
.iiliiiiited to the bar, and commenced pr.iclice at
Philadelphia; was a delegate from Pennsylvania to
the Continental Congress 1780-1781 ; was a repre-
sentative la the convention which framed the Fed-
eral Constitution in 1787; was twice attorney-general
of Pennsylvania; was United-States district-attorney
for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania; was de-
feated In 1812 as the Federal caiididate for V'ice-
President of tlie United States; w.is presiding judge
of the District Court of Philadelphia County; died
.It Philadelphia October 31. 1822.
Ingersoil, Joseph Reed (son of Jared Inger-
soil i. was bom at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June
14, 1780; received a classical education, graduating
at Princeton College in 1804; studied law; was ad-
mitted to the bar, and commenced practice at
Pliilodelphia; waa elected a representative from
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Pennsylvania In the Twenty-fourth Congreas m a
\\liig,"riM'i<iv1ng 6,560 votes acainst 4,574 votes for
a Di-mocrikl, serving from December 7, 1835, to
Marv-h 3, 1.SI7; was agaiu elected to the Tweoty-
•ovcnth Congress (in place of John Sei^geant, r«-
aifiiftl). receiving 0,031 votes against 4,330 votes for
• Ucmoerut ; wiis re-elected to the Twenty-eighth
Congress, recolviiig 5,414 votes against 3.153 votes
for Nivil, Demoorai; was re-elected to the Twenty-
ulntU and Thirtieth Congrwaw, aecTing from De-
cember 9, 1(41, to March 8, IMS; declined a re-
eled ion; was appointed by President Fillmore
minister to Ureal Britain, aerving August SI, 1652-
▲ogust 33, lsa3: died at PhUadelBliia Febniatjao.
IM^ He published a "MeiMlrof Samnd Breck"
1883, and a number of pnliUeal puqibleta.
laffaraoU, Balph J. (father a< CoUn )L Jager-
•oU I, was bom at New Haven, Omnwrrtrat: rtcenred
a classical education, graduating at Tale CoPBgw ia
I90S; studied law: was admitted to the bar. aad
|K*etiaed at New Bavea; wis^for se*cnl ytatm
■HBtber of the State Hoose of
■licwA a rraresestatire tram Owiiwu'ttcQl in the
Mk Coi^Mi M m Piwnmt; waa re-deoed
to Harch 3, 1831; removed to Baleigli. vben ke
praetieed, and was reporter of the dr^-iJanm of Uie
Supreme Court; and died at Edeaton, XonkOuo-
lina. April 13. 1853.
Irvin, Alexander, was bom in Fcna^ffaota;
resided at Cle&riield: was elected a msisi iilsliw
from Pennsylvania in the Thirtieth Coograas ■§ •
Whig, serving from December 6, 1847. to Kaidi t.
IjMS".
Irviu, James, was bom in Peuaajtrwaii^ i*-
sided at Hik-«burg; was elected a irisisiiitsilii
from Pennsvlvania in the Twesty-Mveatli OangNM
M a Whig; and was reelected to the Twcnty-eulh
Ocogress, receiTiag 800 saioritT, aerriqK teat anr
31. 18U, to March 3, 1845.
Irvin. William W.. reeehed an aeadeaiai
edocatiaa; studied law; was "'*™'««»^ to Ae bar,
at LoGMler, Ohio; ttM
STATISTICAL SKETCHES.
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Irwin, William W., was bom at Pittsburg,
Peniisylvaiiiu: receivcil an academic (.•ducalioii: was
electtHi a reprt'sciitutive from Peunsylvania iu the
Twenty-seveiilh CoiitfK'SS as a Wliig. serving from
May 31, 1841. to March i. 18*1; wag clianje d'ulVninn
to Denmark March 3. lt<4d-June 12, 1847; died at
Pittsburg. Pontisylvania. Septemtier 15, 1850.
IsaCKis, Jacob C, was born in Montgomery
County, Pennsylvania: removed to 'Winclicsler. Ten-
nessee; wn.<< elected a representative from Tennessee
in the Eighteenth Congress; was re-elected to the
Nineteentlj. Twentieth, Twenty-first, and Twenty-
second Congresses, serving from December 1, 1825),
to March 2, 18;W; was defeated by 600 votes as a
candidate for the Tweuty-tliird Congress by John B,
Forester.
Ittner^ Anthony, was bom at Lebanon, Warren
County, Ohio, October 8, 1837 ; recciveil a common-
school education; become a bricklayer and builder;
served as a private iu Company U of the National
Guards, C4illed into service during Price's raid in
18<}4; was elected a member of the City Council of
8t. Louis in April, 1807, and was re-elected in April,
1808; was elected a member of the Lower House of
the General Assembly of Missouri in the fall of 18<>8,
of the State Senate in 1870, and re-elected to tliii
latter body in 1874; was elected a representative
from Missouri in the Forty-liftU Congress .is a
Republican, receiving 7.043 votes against 0,834 votes
for E. C. Kehr, Democrat, serving from October 15,
1677.
Iveraon, Alfred, was bom In Burke County.
Georgia, December 3, 1708; received a classical edu-
cation, graduating at Princeton College in 1820;
studied law; was admitted to the bar, and com-
menced practice at Columbus; was a member of the
State House of Representatives for three years, and
of the State Senate for one year; was judge of the
State Supreme Court for seven years; was a presi-
deutial eleelor on the Polk and Dallas ticket in 1.S14;
was elected a representative from G«!orgia in the
Thirtieth Congress as a Democrat, serving from De-
cemlx^r 0, 1847, to March 3, 1840; was elected a
I."nited-.State8 senator from Georgia, sening Irom
Deceuilier 3, 1855, to January 28, 1801, when he
retired from the Senate ; was an ardent advocate of
secession; served in the war of the liebellion as
colonel of a Georgia regiment, and was appointed
brigadier-general in November, 1802; died at Macon,
Georgia. March 6, 1874.
Ives, Willard, was bom at Watertown, Nevr
Tork, July 7. Ist.N'i; received a public-school educa-
tion; engaged in agricultural pursuits; was elected a
representauve from New York in the Tliirty-secoml
Congress as a Democrat, receiving 5,477 votes against
5,058 votes for Clarke, Wliig, serving from December
1, 1851, to March 3, 1853.
Izard, Ralph, was bom near Cbarleston, South
Carolina, in lil2; n'ceived a classical education,
graduating at Cauibridi;e University, England; was
elected by the Continental Congress comniiseioner to
Tuscany May 7, 1777, and, as he did not gel lieyond
Paris, was recalled June 8, 1770; pledged his large
estate in South Carolina for the pajTiient for ships
of war; was a deleg;ite from South Carolina to the
Continental Congress 1781-1783 ; was elected a
United-States senattir from Soutli Carolina, serving
from March 4, 178t>, to March 3, 1705; died near
Charieston. South CaroHna, May 30. 1804.
Jack, William, was bom m Pennsylvania; re-
sided at Brookville; was elected a representative
from Pemisylvania In the Twenty-seventh Congress
as a Democrat, serving from May 31, 1841, to March
3, 1843.
Jacket T. M., was elected a representative from
the First District of Arkansas to the Thirty-eighth
Congress in March, 1864, as a Unionist, receiving
S,9K^Totes against 15 votes cast for others; the
House committee on elections reported in favor of
giving bim the seal February 17, 1806, but the Bouse
refused to take action on the resolution, voting him,
on the iW of March, 1805, 82,000 for compensation,
expenses, and mileage.
Jackson, Andrew, was Imm in the Waxhaw
sell lenient. North Carolina, March 15, 1707; his edu-
cation was limited, and he was passionately fond of
athletic sports; accompanying the militia of bis
nciplitxjrhood, he was captured by the British, and
brutally struck liy an officer whose Ixjots he refused
to clean; left destitute by the death of his mother,
he worked for a time in a saddler's shop, and after-
words taught school; studied law at Salisbury. North
Carolina, and was admitted to llu! bar before he was
twenty years of age; was appointed in 1788 solicitor
of the Western District of North Carolina, embracing
what is now the State of Tennessee; was a delegate
to the convention which met in 171)0 to frame a con-
stitution for the new State; was elected a repre-
sentative from Tennessee in the Fourth Congress as
a Democrat, serving from December 5, 1700, until
March .1, 1707; was elected a United-States senator,
serving from November 22. 1707, until he resigned in
April, 1798; was elected a judge of the State Supreme
Court of Tennessee, serving 1706-1804; entered into
mercantile pursuits, dealing in cotton, wheat, horses,
and mules; served in the Creek war of 1813. and was
commissioned major-general in the United-States
anny May 31, 1814; captured Florid.i, then a Spanish
provuice occupied by the British, and then led his
army to New Orletms, wliere he defeated the Britiiih
January 8, 1815; commiuuled on expedition which
captured Florida in 1817; was governor of Florida
March 10, 1821-July 18, 1821; was offered and de-
clined the position of minister to Mexico; was grand
master of Masons in Tennessee 1822-1823; was again
elected a United-States senator, serving frtmi Decem-
ber 1, 1823, to 1825, when he resigned; was defeated
as the Democratic candidate for President iu 1824;
was elected President, and re-<!lected, serving from
March 4, I82t), to March 3, 1S;]7; rctinnl to the Her-
mitiigo, his estate, near Nashville, Tennessee, where
he liii'il J.-iiiuary 8, 184.5.
Jackson, David, was a native of Pennsylvania,
anil was a delegate from that State to the Conti-
nental Congress 17S5-1786.
Jackson, David S., was bom In New-York
City; received a piiblic-«cliool eilucation; was elected
a representative from New York in the Thirtieth
Congress as a Democrat, receiving 0.071 votes against
5,0^ votes for James Monroe, Whig, serving from
December 6, 1847, to April 11). 1(^, when his seat,
having been contested by James Monroe, was de-
clared vacant by the House, and Horace Greeley was
elected to fill it.
Jackson, Ebenezer, Jiin., was bom in Con-
necticut; resided at Middlelown ; was elected a rep-
resentative from Connecticut in the Twenty-third
Congress (in place of Samuel A. Foot, rcsigncil) as a
'PHiig. receiving 10,178 votes against 16,020 votes for
.Samuel Ingham, Democrat, serving from December
1, ls;J4, to March 3, 18;J5.
Jackson, Edward B., was bom in Harrison
County, Virginia; received an academical education;
studied nieaicine; was admitted to practice, and
practised at Clarkshun;; was elected a representative
from Virginia in the Sixteenth Congress (in place of
James Plndall, resigned); was re-elected to the Sev-
enteenth Congress, receiving 1,2.37 votes against 721
votes for Lcfler, and 02 votes for Mark A. Chilton,
serving from Novemlier 13, 1S20, to March 3, 1823;
died at Clarksburg, Virginia, September 8, 1820.
Jackson, Qeorgre, was bom in Virginia, and
was elected a representative from that State iu the
Fourth Congress as a Democrat, serving from De-
cember 7, 1795, to March 3, 1707; was again elected
to the Sixth Congress, and re-elected to the Seventh
Congress, serving from December 2, 1700, to March
3, imi.
jEUskson, Jabes, was bom in Georgia; resided
at ClariuvUlei was elected a representative from
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CONOEESSIONAL DIRECTORT.
Georgia in the Twenty-fourth Congresi as a Union
Democrat on a geneni'l ticket, receivlnc JJOiSj?! votcg
against :i8.12S votes for Thomas F. Foster, Stale-
rights Deimicrat; was re-elected to the Twenty-fifth
CoiiKTess, receiving '^,'221 votes against 28,273 votes
for Juseph W. Jackson. Statc-righls Democrat, serv-
ing from December 7, IS*), to lilaivh ii, ISatt.
•Jackson, James, was \xim in Devonshire, Eng-
lanil. ill IT')?. nuiJ immigrated to Oenrgla In 1772; re-
ceived the niiisouic degrees in King Solomon's Lodge
at Savannah in 1775; entered the Revolutionary
army as captain, became brigade-major in 177S, and
commander of the Georgia legionary forces in 17c»l;
fought a duel with Lieutenant-Governor Wells in
l"8tl, and killed him, hut was woiuided in both knees :
received the keys of Savannah when the British evac-
uated that city July 12, 17iS2; was prewnted with a
house at Savannah by the Assembly of the State u(
Georgia; was grand master of Masons in Georgia
17t<t)-1784'; was a member of the convention which
adopted the first State Constitution of Geoivia: w;»s
elected a representative from Georgia in tlie First
Congress, serving from April 20, 17S9, to JIurch 3,
1791 ; he contested the seat of Anthony Wayne iu the
Second Congress, and it was declared vacant by the
House March 21, 1792; was elected a Unilcd-,States
senator from Georgia, serving from Decemlwr 2. 17!1H,
to 1795. when he resigned; was governor of Georgia
179!*-1S01 ; was again elected a senator, serving from
December 7, 1801, to March 10, 1800, when he died
at Washington City.
Jackson, James, was bom In Jefferson County.
Genrgia, in l(?l!t; rei-eivcd a classical education, prail-
uating at tlie University of Georgia in 1*J7; studied
law; was admitie<l to the bar, and commeuced prac-
tice at Alliens in 1840; was secretary of the St.ito
Senate In 1842; was elected to the State House of
Representatives In 1845, and re-elected In 1847; was
chosen by the legislature judge of the Western Judi-
cial Cinnitt In 184:i; was elected by the people in
185:?, anil again in 1857, to the same office, but re-
signed in June, 1857; was elected a representative
from Georgia in the Thirty-fifth Congress us a Dem-
ocrat, receiving 7,751 voles against 6,9.5il votes for
Simmons. Independent Democrat; and was re-elected
to the Thirty-sixth Congress, receiving lt,l>44 votes
against 3,251 votes for Lytic. OpiHislllon. seiTing
from Deceml)er 7, 1S57. to January 2;J, IBdl, when
he retired from the House.
Jackson, James 8., was bom In Madison
County. Kentucky, iu 1822; riX'elvcd a classiciU educa-
tion, which wiui conijileted at Centre College; studied
law; was adinittet! to the bar in 184."}, and soinmenced
practice at Greenupslnirg, removing afterwards to
Hopkinsville; fought several duels, one of them with
Thomas F. Marshall; scn'cd In the Mexican war as
a captain of mounted volunteers; was elected a rep-
resentative from Kentucky in the Thirty-seventh Con-
gress as a Unionist, receiving 9.281 votes against
8,804 votes for Bunch, Secessionist; raised a com-
pany f if cavalry at tlie commencement of tlie war of
the Rebellion; was comiiiissloned colonel of the
Third Kentucky Cavali-y; took his seat in Congress
July 4. 18iil, but was absent la the field much of the
time; was [iroraoted to be brigadier-general of Union
volunteers July 10, 1802; coinmauded a brij^.'ulo at
the battle of Perryvlllc, where he was killed, October
8, 1802.
Jackson, John Georgre, was bom In Vii^nln
In 1774; received an English educallon; was a]i-
pointed a surveyor of public Uinds in what is now the
State of Ohio In 171*3; was a memlx'r of the State
House of Representatives of Virginia 17!17-1801; was
electcil a representative from Virginia Iu the Eighth
Congress as a Democrat; was re-elected to the Ninth,
TenUi, and Eleventh Congresses, serving from March
8, 1807, to 1810, when he resigned; he fought a duel
with Joseph Pearson, representative from Nortli
Carolina, near Washington. December 4, 1800, and
wounded him on the second fire; was agaia elected
; engaged
r. Patricia
the Pi^
e 1«UH
iie^HIH
bu
I
a meml>er of the State Housf! of Representatf
1811; was chosen biigadier-general of militia: wi
again elected to the Thirteenth (.'ougre«s, and
elected to the Fourteenth Congress, scning fi
May 24, 1813, to March 3. 1817; declined a ie-eli
tiou; was appointed by President Madison judge
the Western District of Virginia in 1.8)9, and li<
the office until his death at Clarksburg, Virgi:
in 1825.
Jackson, Jonathan, was born at Boston. Haa>'
snehusetts, June 4. 17*1; received a classical educa-
tion, graduating at Harvard College In 17Ut; engaged
in memmtile pursuits with his f alner-in-law. Patri
Tracy, at Newburyport; was a memt>er of
vincial Congress iu 1775, and of the Stale
mre in 1777; was a delegate from Massachui
the Continental Congress in 1782; was a mi
tlie State Senate 1789; was United-States manlial
for the district of Massachusetts; was president of
the Stale Bank; and died at Boston March .5, 18ir
lie published " Thoughts n|X)n the Political Sit
tiou of the United States" 1788, and other politli
essays.
Jackson, Joseph W.. was bom In Geo: _
received a public-school education; was for seve
years a meml)er of the municipal councils of Sav
nah, and for two years mayor of that city; wn*
member of the State Senate and of the State lioi
of Kepresentatlves ; was elected a representative fioi
Georgia In the Thirty-first Congress (in pl.'u-e of
Thomas Butler King, resigned) as a State-rigbts
Democrat; was re-elected to the Thirty-.iecond Coi
gn>S9, receiving 4,279 votes against 3,011 votes
Uopkins, Union, serving from March 4, 18ot>,
Marcli 3, 1853; declined a re-election; die»l at S^
vaunali, Georgia, of the yellow-fever, September 20^
1854.
Jackson, Richard, jun., was bom in Rhode
Island in 17t>4; rcccivc<i a good English education;
eng.-iged in domestic manufactures and mercantile
pursuits; was electeJ a representative from lihoJe
Island in the Tenth Congress (in place of XcbemiiJi
Knight, deceased); and was re-elected to the Elev-
enth, Twelfth, and Tliirleenth Ctingresses, scr»lng
from November 11, 1808, to March 2. 1815; died «l
Providence, Khoite Island, April 18, l.S!8.
Jackson, Thomas B., was bom on Lonj Is-
land, New York; received a public-school education;
was a member of the State House of liepresciitativrt
18;i'J-lS35; was elected a representative from New
York in the Twenty-fifth Congress as a Democrat)
was re-elected to the Twenty-sixth Congress, serving
from September 4. 18:37, to March ;t. 1811.
Jackson, William, w;is liom in Massarhoietti
Septemlier l), 1783 ; received a public-schot>I education;
engaged in business pursuits ; was one of the lint t"
engage in the construction of railroads in MaM«ha-
setts; was a member of the State Hi ■! ■' '•' '««•
tatives 182i>-lS32; was elected a rej: (rom
Massachusetts in the Thirty-third Coi,,,.,.-- .... .. \nilg
on the second trial, receiving 2,872 votes against 1,W
votes for Dearl>om, tJ84 votes for Thurbur, and OJ
scattering votes; was re-elected to the Twenty-fi>urth
Congress, serving from March 17, 1834, to March 3,
I8:i7; declined a renominatiou; wiis president of itw
Newton Bank; died at Newton, Massachusetts, frb-
ruarj- ■_7, 1855.
Jackson, W. T., was bom at Chester. Ke'
York. December 20, 1704; receive<l n publlc-Kli™
education; engaged in mercantile pursuits at U^
vana. New Y'ork; was a justice of the [lesceiU"'
sulisequently county-judge of t^range County f'T
four years; was elected a representative (roiu ^'"
York In the Thirtv-first Congress as n Wilis, tit"'''"
ing 0,444 votes against 6,396 votes for Wisiier, P"""
crat, and 3,117 foV Hathaway, Cass Democrat, wnrii'S
from ]>i ceiulier 3. 184!), to March 3, 1851. ,
Jaxsobs, Israel, was bom In Germany; renn)'™
when a lad to the United States; was elected a ^
resentative from Peiuisylvania in the Socotid t""'
STATISTICAL SKETCHES.
467
serrinif from October 24, 1701, to March 2,
U71W.
Jacobs, Orange, was liom In Genesoe County.
Jfew Vnrk. in isai; n-moved to the new Tcrrilorv of
^^ Jiicliiizan in 1^12, where he rocelve<i his ediicatfon;
^K-is a Inwyer: removed to tlie new Territory of Oregon
^Kln 1802, remniniiig there until ISoO; wiis ap|H>iii(ei)
^Bone of the iissociate justices of Wiishinut'm Territory
^Hln the "spring of ISciit, and !i"ld fliat ottice for nearly
^■« year: was then ajtixiinted cliief justice of the Terri-
tory, and re-appointed at tlie expiration of four years,
which ixuition he occupied when elected a delegate
from Washinpton Territory in the Forty-fourth Con-
Igress as a I!e[iul)liean, receiving 4.705 votes again.it
S,.V)5 votes for Shariwlie, Democrat; and wa.s re-
electe<l to the Forty-tiftli (7oii;jrcss, receiving '2:i!*
majority over John P. Judsun, Peiuocrat, serving
frfun DeccmlH'r II. IS".').
James, Amaziah B., was bom at Stephentown,
3few York, .luly 1. 1?<I2; received an academic edu-
cation; removed in 1S14 to Sweden, Monroe County;
^_ Ctudied law in Ogdensburg; was admitted to the bar
^Biu January. 183k. ami commenced practice at Ogdens-
^Vt>urg: was elected a justice of the Supreme Court iu
ISaJ. and resigned in 1870; was elected a representa-
tive from New York in the Forty-fifth Congress as a
Kepiitilican, receiving 17.27.'5 votes against 8,7.10 votes
for Miuione. Democrat, serving from October I.j. 1877.
» James, Charles Tilliaghast, was iKim at
West Greenwich, Hhode Island, in 1804; received a
public-school education; learned the carimnter's
trade, and at on early age manifested extraordinary
mechanical talent; became sufjcrintendent of .Slater's
steam cotton-mill at Pn)vidence; was chosen major-
general of the militia of lUiodc Island ; received the
honorary degree of A.JI. at Brown University in
183S; Buperintendeil the construction of steam cotton-
mills at NewliuPi'port and Salem, and furnished plans
for other mills In New York. Pennsylvania, Lidiana.
and Tetmessec; built tlie Allanlic De Laine Mill at
Olneyville, Rh(Kle Island; was elected United-iStales
senator from Ithode Island as a Protective Tarilf
Democrat, sening from Slarch 4, ISol, to March S,
1657; he invented a rifled cannon, and lost his life
while exiH'rimentiiig with one at fjag Harbor Octol)er
17, 1802. Ue published pampblets on the cultivation
and manufacture of cotton at the South, and on rilled
cannon.
James, Prancis, w.is bom at West Chester,
Pemjsylvania; received a public-school education;
^^iras elected a representative from Pennsylvania hi
^Vthe Twenty-sixth Congn'ss as a Whig; was re-elected
^^ U' the Twentv-sevenlh t^'ongress, serving from Dc-
cenil>er2. ISJl'i. to March :!, 184:3.
Jameson, John, was bom In Kentucky; received
[jublic-snhool education ; studied law; w.a8 atlniit-
t<> the bar, and commenced practice at Fulton,
IlHsouri; held several local oJBccs; was elected a
eprt'sent.itive from Missouri In the Twenty-sixth
jress as a Van Biireu Democrat, ser\'iiig from
iber2, 18;!'.l, to March iJ. 1841; was again elect-
I the Twenty-eighth Congress, serving from De-
emlwr 4, 184;1. to M.iri'h y, 184.5; was again elected
the Thirtli^h Congress, serving from Decciniier 0,
■ltvl7. to March ;1, J^a«.
Jones, Henry F., was bom at Drimficld, Mas-
i*acliusetts. Ocliiber 10. 17SI2; received an academical
lucatiou; studied law at Uurlingtoii, Vermont; was
Itnitled to the bar In 1817, and commenced practice
Wa'erbury, Vennont; was [Mistmaslcr at Water-
ry 182()-lK:ii>: was a meralier of the .State legisla-
Ive council 18:iO-lSVt; was elected a ri'presentative
from Vermont in the Twenty-lfiird Congress (in place
d1 lieiijamin F. Deming, deceased) as a Whig and
itl-M.ason, defeating Isaac FletchiT, Democrat; was
elected to the Twenty-fourth Congress, serving
om December 2, ISM. to" March 3, 18:17; was defeats
I ss the anti-Masonic candidate for the Twenty-tifth
Dng7«fl9 by Isaac Fletcher, Democrat; was State
easurer of Vermont 183S-184I ; was a member of
the .State Council of Censors in Ifl+S; was a member
of the .Stale House of He[iresentativi'S in 18."«.
Jarnagin, Spencer, w.vi iMim in Gmnger Coun-
ty. Tennes.see; received a classical education, gradu-
ating at Greenville College in 181.'i; studieil law; was
a<lmitted to the bar in 1817, and commenced practice
at Athens. Tennessee; was a member of ihe .State
House of Representalives; w;is elected a United-
States senator from Teune8.«i>e as a Whig, i-ening
from Decemlier 4. lS4:j. to Mareli S, 1847; died at
Memphis, Tennessee. June 24. 18.51.
Jarvis, Leoneird, was horu in Massachusetts
October 10, 1781 ; received a classical education,
graduating at Harvard University in l.siNl; was sheriff
of Hancock County, Maine, IS2I-1S2'.I: was collector
of customs for the Penol»scol District 182i»-18;!li: was
elei-leil a rejireseiitatlve from Maine in the Twenty-
first Congress as a JiK-kson Democrat : w.'is re-elected
to tlie Twenty-second, Twi^nly-third. anil Twenty-
fourth Cimgresses, .serving from DeeriTilier 0. 18:i0, to
March :j. ]S:I7; in 183.5 he challengril K O. J. Smith
(a DenKK-rutic colleague from the Portland district),
who refused to accept; was navy agent of the (Kirt of
Boston 18:iH-184I ; removed to Siirry, Maine, and died
tliere .September 18, 1804.
Jay, John, was bom at New York Decenilier 1
(old style). 174.5; received a classical education,
graduating at Columbia College in 17iW; stuiUed law
under Mr. Kissani; was admitted to the bar in 1708;
entered into partnership with R. R. Livingston, and
soon attained a large practice; was a delegate from
New York to the Continental Congress 1774-1777
and 1778-1770, but was recalled for some months in
1770 to aid In forming the State Constitution of New
York, and was conseiuently absent when the Decla-
ration of Independence W.18 adopteil; was appointed
chief justice of the State of New York in May, 1777,
and resigned wlien elected president of Congress
DecemlMT 10, 1778; was appointed minister pleni-
]>otei>liary to Spain September 27. 1770; was appoint-
ed tine of the ministers to negotiate peace with Great
Britain June 14. 1781, and signed the treaty at Paris
September .1, 1783; was apivnnted one of the minis-
ters to negotiate commercinl treaties with European
powers May 1, 178:3; returne<l to New York in July,
I7N-1; was appointed secretary of foreign nfTairs De-
cemlier, 17S4; wiis appointed chief justice of the
luiteil States September 24, 1789; was the Federal
candiilate for governor of the State of New York in
17i»2, Init was defeated by George Clinton, Democrat;
was npptiinted envoy extraonlinary to ffreat Britain
April 111. 17114, and served until Aiiril 8. 170.5: was
governor of the State of New York 1705-1801 ; de-
clined re-eleeiion, and also re-nppoinlment as chief
justice of the United St.ites; retiivd to his farm at
Bedf'jrd, near New- York City, when- he diwl May 17,
18211, He wrote several numbers of "TUe Federal-
ist," and many able state papers.
Jayne, William, was born at Springfield, Illi-
nois. October 8. 1820; received a thorough English
educ.itioii; studied medicine; was admitted to prac-
tice, and practised for eleven years; was elected
mayor of Spriuglield in 18.50 and 1801 ; was apixiinted
by I'n'sident Liiieoln governor of Dakota Territory,
seniiig in 18i;l and 1.802; was elected a delegate from
Dakota Territory in the Thirlv-eighth dingress as a
Kepublicaii, scrv ing from Decemlicr 7, 18<i3. to June
l.'l, 1804. when he vacated his seat, which had been
successfully coivtestcd by .Jolin B. S. Todd.
Jefferson, Thomas, was born at .Shadwell,
Virginia, April 2. 174:!; received a classical edui'.i-
tion, which he eoniplettd at the college of Willi.im
and Mary; studieil law with George Wythe; was ,id-
rnitted to the bar, and commenced practice in 1707;
wiis a memlier of the Colonial House of Burgesses
1789-1774 ; was prominent in pre- Revolutionary move-
ments; was a delegate from Virginia to the Conti-
nental Congress, serving 1776-1778; was governor of
Virginia 1770-1781 ; was a mcmljer of the State
Hotisc of Representatives 1782; was again a delegate
468
CONQBESSIONAIi DIRECTORY.
to the Continental Coneress nS2-1783; wm appoint-
ed minister |)leni|MPteiitfaiT to Europe, and af terwanls
to Franco alone, seniug ITM-nSU; was secrettiry of
slate of tbe Uuite<l SuiU'S March, nuO-DeeenilHT 8.
17113; was elected Vice-President of the United
fStates, receiving U8 of the 1*) votes cast, serving
|2farch 4. ni>7-Mnrch 3, 1801; received "3 of the
|J28 electoral votes cast for President of the United
Stales ill ISiil, and, Aaron Burr liavlnR received the
'saine nunilier. the election was carried into tlic llouse
nf KejiresiMitatives, where JeflTersou was elected on
th<! thirty-sijrth ballot; was r«;-elected Presi<lent in
ISiJ-j, receiving 1(52 of the 17il electoral votes cast;
was President of the United States, serving March 4,
IWiI-March 3, 1800; retired to his estate called Mon-
tlcello; took an active part in founding the present
University of Virginia ; and died at Muiilicello July
4, 1820. He puhlished "Notes on Virginia," a
" Manual of Parliamentary Practice," a " Life of
f'aptiiiii Lewis," and a number of puiiers on le^iisla-
tive, philosophical, and aj^icultiiral topics. Portions
of his manuscripts have been edited bv U. A. Wimh-
jngton, T. J. Randolph, G. Tucker, and H. S. Ran-
dal.
Jenokes, ThomaB A., was bom at Cumber-
land. Rhode Island, November 2. 1818; received a
classical education, i^radxiating at Brown Univereity
in 18:18; w.is afterwanis a tutor there, studying law
at the same time with .Samuel Y. Atwell; was admit-
ted to the bar in September, 1840, and commenced
practice at Providence; was a clerk of the State
House of Representativeji 1840-1844; was one of the
secretaries oi the Landholders' Convention of 1841;
was secretary of the Stale Constitutional Convention
of 1842; was adjutant-general of Ithwie Island I84I>-
1855: served in one or the other House of the Slate
legislatiin' 1854-18511; was one of the coniinissiioners
to revise the laws of the Slate in 1S.V); w;is elerted
a representative from KIkhIc Island in tlie Thirty-
eighth Congress as a KepuliliciUi. receiving (!..j;i2 votes
agiiinsi 4.<11(J votes for Bradl<^y. Democrat; was re-
elected to the Thirty-ninth Congress, receiving o,<!8.'5
votes without opixisition : was re-elected to the Forti-
eth Congress without opposition; w.ns re-elected to
llie Forty-first Congress, receiving 7.Wt5 votes ag.iinst
4,080 voU's for Aniold, Democrat, serving from De-
ceml)er 7, ISti;}, to March 3, 1871 : was defeated as a
Repuiilicaii eandidati! for the Forty-second Congress,
receiving l,(itl5 votes against 4.ttii2 votes for U. T.
Eames, Republican. 1.040 votes for T. Davis. Repnli-
lican, l,;i*iO votes for X. Van Slyck. DenuHrat. and
37tJ R<'atleriiig; died on the estate where he was born.
at Cunil>erland, Rhode Island. NoveiiilxT 4, 187.J.
He was a contributor to "The Providence Journal,"
and. while in Congress, wrote able reiKirls on "The
Bankrupt L.iw." "Civil Service," "The Ventilation
of the Capitol," and other subject*.
Jenifer, Daniel, of st. Thonnis (father of Daniel
Jenifer), was Imrii in Maryland 1723; lonU nn active
part in the pre-Kevohition;ir)- niovenivnts; wus ailele-
gate from Maryland tu the ('onlinenlat Congress 1778-
17S2; wus 11 delegate from Maryhuid to the National
Constitutional Convention; and died November ti,
17H0.
Jenifer, Daniel (sim of Daniel Jenifer), was
l»orn in MarjI.ind; received a lilieral education; waa
a memlwr of the State llimse of IJeprcsentatives;
was a local magistrate; was elected a representative
from Maryland in the Twenty-second t:ongri-»s as a
Whig, serving from Deceml)er 5, l.SH, to March 2,
ISiJ; was defeated as the Whig candidate for the
Tweuty-thinl Congress by John T. ,St«Idert, Demo-
crat; was again elected U> tiie Twenty-fourth Con-
gress, defeating Stoddert, Democrat; was re-elected
to the Twenty-fifth Congress without opfKisKion. and
was re-elected to the Twenty-sixth Congress, receiv-
ing 521 majority, 8er\lng from Deeemlier 7, 18:15, to
March 3. 1841 ; was minister to Austria August 27,
1841-July 7. 1845; died December 18, 1855, near Port
Tobacco, Maryluid.
Jenkins, Albert G., was bom ' '^ " " Coi
ty, Virginia, Noveinlwr 10, 1S;J0; r> ■ i?sic«l'
education, gra*luating at Jefferson I > .. --, . unsy
vania; studied law at the Cambridge Law Schi
and was admitted to the liar, but never pnu-ttsed'
devoted himself to agricultural pursuits ; was a d<
gate to the National Democratic Convcnti<in at Cii
einnati in ISo*!; was elected a represeiitativ(
Virginia in the Tliirty-liftli (Jongress as n De
receiving 7,758 votes against VtXM vote« for '
jVmerican; and was n?-elected to the Thi:
Congress, receiving 0,038 votes against
for Laidlev. Opixisition, serving from Deeei
1857, to March 3, 1801 ; was a delegate from Vi
to the Provisional Confederate C'''i '■ ■
entered the Confederate 8<Tvice; wa- 1 bi
adier-general August 5, 1>S<;2, and i
mand of a cavalry brigiide in the army of Northei
Virginia; was killed hi action at Dublin, Virgi
Mav 7. IS'U.
Jenkins, Lemuel, was l)om at Bloomingbi
New York; w;ks elecled a representiitive from N
York in the Eighteenth Comtress, serving from "
ceniber 1, 1823, to Marcli 8, 182.5.
Jenkins, Robert, was liom in Pennsylvanii
and W.IS i-lectetl a representative fn^m that State
the Tenth Congress; was re-elected to the Eleven'
Congress, serving from October 26, 1807, to Marrh
1811.
Jenkins, Timothy, was bom at B&rre,
chusetts, January 2S>, 1790; received au aesidCTni'
education; studied law; was admitted t<' ' :a
1824, and commenced practice at Oneida
York; was district-attorney for Oneida Coul.,, .-,.»-
1845 ; was elected a representative from New York
the Twenty-ninth Congress as a Democrat, n«eivi
7.017 votes" against 7,004 votes for White, Whig,
l,ii80 votes for Allen, American; and was re-t^lec
to the Thirtieth Congress, serving from !'■ 1.
1S45. to March 3, 1840; w,is ilefcati'-l an
cratic candidate for the Thirty-lirsI C'ongii.. . . . J.
Mattes<m, Wliig; was re-elected to the Thirty-secoul'
Congress, n-eelving 7,828 votes against 7.711 voic»f«P
Miitteson. Whig, serving from DecemlH-r 1. ISjl, to
March 3, 1K53; was defeated as the Democratic cnii-
iliilate for the Thirty-thiril (;i)ngn.-s8 liy O. B. M»il«-
son. Whig: died at Martinsburg, New York, Decem-
ber 24. ISoP.
Jenks, George A., was bom in Jefferson Conn-
ty, Pennsylvania. March 20. ISU!; learned tlie ^l^
I)entcr ami ji>iiier's traile: taught school eiL-Ii^v"
months: graduated at JeHerson College in Aii:.' 'i
l.'vi8; studied law; was admitted to the bar Kdru
aiy 1(1. 1850, and commencetl practice at BrrnikTiUe;
and was elected a representative fmm Peuiisylvarui
in the Forty-fourth Congress as a Democj-at, reedt-
iiig 11.027 votes against 11. lOB votes for Harry Wliif,
Uepulilican, seiTing from December 0, 1875, to March
:}, 1877.
Jenks, Michael Hutobinson, was Iwni it
Bridgetown Mills, near Middlctown, Peniisylvanls,
May 21, 1705; receiveil an academical educatinu;
engaged in agricultural pursuits, l>ut aftervinnls I*-
ctune a surveyor, conveyancer, and real-estaie a^ciii;
was a commissioner of Bucks County ISSO-lSCl: wm
treasurer of Bucks Coiuily 18:J3-1ISJ5; removed to
Newtown, Bucks County, in 18:J7; was associate juJs*
of the Court of Cominon Pleas of Bucks CouDiy
1838-1843; w»s elected a representative from IVnu-
sylvania in the Twenty-eighth Congress as s Whlf,
receiving .5.750 votes against 5,110 votes for John
Davis, l>eniiK-rat, serving from Deceml>er 4, 1843, to
March 3. 1845; was defeated as the ^\^lig caniliil»W
for the Twenty-ninth Congress by Jacob Erdman;
resumeil bis business as conveyancer and real-««t»'J
agent : was elected chief burgess of Newtown. wU™
onic(! lie hel<l for many years; and died at NewtoWJii
Pennsylvania, Octolier 1(1, 18<}7.
Jenness, Bennin^ W., was bora at SttoSonl,
New Hampshire; received on academic ediicsUou;
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I jndge of probate for Straffonl County 1841-1845;
I appc)itit«l a UnittHl-States »t?nati>r fn)ni New
Eampskire (in place nf Levi Woodbury, rusigucdj,
Beiriue from December 1, 1845, to June 22, 1840,
when his successor took bis seat.
JerminKS, David, was bom in Hunterdon Coun-
ty, New Jitrsey ; received a pul)lic-8eliool cducatjou ;
removed to St. Cluirsvllle, Ohio; held several local
offices; was elected a representative fr<jm Ohio in the
Nineteenth Congress, serving from Decembers, 1825,
to May 25, 1820, when he resignc<l.
Jemungs, Jonathan, was bom in Hunterdon
County, New Jersey; received an academical educa-
tion; emigrated to the Norlh-west Territory, and,
when the Territory of Indiana was organized, was its
flnt delegate, tal<ing liis seat in the Eleventh Con-
gress after some opposition; was re-elected to the
Twelfth, Thirteenth, and Fourteenth Congresses,
serving from November 27. 1800, to April 80, 1810;
on the admission of Indiana as a .State in December,
1818, he was elected governor, serving until 1822;
was appointed Indian commissioner by President
Monroe in 1818; jvas elected a representative from
Indiana in the Seventeenth Congress (in place of
William Hendriclcs, resigned), and was successively
re-elected to the EighUjenth, Nineteenth, Twentieth,
and Twenty-first Congresses, serving from December
2. 1822, to March .3, 1831 ; was grajid master of Free-
Jiasous in Indiana in 1824; died near Charlestown,
Indiana, July 2H, 18*4.
I Jewett, Freeborn Q., was torn at Sknncatelcs,
^^Kew York, in 17110; received an acjuiemic education;
^H Studied law with Colonel Samuel Young; was admit-
^B ted to the bar in 1818, and commenced practice at
^B Skaneateles In partnership with Ilonorable James
^r Porter; was surrogate of Onondaga County 1824-
1831 ; was elected a representative from New York in
the Twenty-second Congress as a Jackson Democrat,
serving from Decemlwr 5, 1831, to March 2, 18311;
was appointed a puisne justice of the Supreme Court
March 5, 1845; was elected judge of the Court of
Appeals in 1840, and re-elected in 1853, but resigned
In 1853 on account of ill health; died at Skaneateles,
New York. February 2:i, 1868.
Je'wett, Hugh J., was bom at Deer Creek,
Maryland; received a thorough English education;
Studied law in Cecil County. Maryland, and w;is lul-
mltted to the bar; removed to Ohio, and conmienced
practice at Columbus; held no public position untli
elected a representative from Ohio in the Forty-third
Congress as a Democrat, n-celviug ]5,(il3 votes against
10,036 votes for J. Taylor, Kepublican; served from
^■December 1, 1873, until the close of the first session,
^Bjune 23. 1874; resigned to accept the position of
^■president of the Erie Itailroad Company.
Jewett, Joshua H., was bom at Deer Creek,
Harford County, Maryland, Septemlier 13, 1812; re-
ceived a pul)lic-scho<d education; studied law; was
admitti'd to the liar, and commenced practice at
^_ £lizab(.uhtown. Kentucky; was county proserutltig-
^■ftttomey; was elected a representative from Ken-
^Vtncky in the Thirty-fourth Congress as a Democmt ;
' *as re-elected to the Thirty-tifth Congress, receiving
7,877 votes against 4.011(1 votes for Young, American,
serving from Deoeml>er 3, IS.V). to March 3, 18.57.
Je\7ett, Luther, was bom at Canterbury, Con-
1 nccticiit, DecemlKM- 24, 1772; received a classical
iSducation, gnutuatinK at Dartmouth Collegt^ In 17115;
Lidied raedieine, and commenced pracliee at Putney,
Tennont ; was for fifteen years a member of the State
louse of Representatives; was elected a representa-
from Vermont in the Fourteenth t'ongress as a
rt-deralist, receiving 17.(K>5 votes against Ki.lC)" votes
sr William Stnmg. Democrat, serving from Decem-
sr4, 1815, to March 3, 1817; removed to St. Jotins-
studie<l divinity; was pastor of a church at
Tewburv. Vermont, 1821-1828; returned to St, Johns-
»viTy; nliblishe*! "The Fanner's Herald" 1828-1K32,
r«nd"The Freemason's Friend" 183(V-1832; died at
St- Johnsbury, Vermont, March 8, 1800.
Johns, Kenaey (father of Kensey Johns, jun. ),
was born at New Castle, Delaware ; reeeiveil a classi-
cal education from a tutor; studied law, and prac-
tised; was chancellor of the State of Delaware; was
appointed by the governor of Delaware a senator for
that State (to fill a vacancy caused by the resignation
uf George Read), and presented his credentials March
24, 1708; the committee on elections, to whom the
credentials were n-fi-rred, re]>orted on the 28th of
March that be was not entitled to a seat in the .Sen-
ate, a session of the legislature of Delaware having
intervened between the resignation of Senator Read
and bis ap|)ointment; the Senate sustained the re|)ort
by a vote of 20 ye.is against 7 nays.
Johns, Kensey, jun. (son of Kensey Johns),
was boni at New Castle, Delaware, DecemlH-r 10,
1701 ; received a classical education, graduating at
Princeton College in 1810; studied law; was ad-
mitted to the bar in 1813, and commenced practice
at New Castle, Delawart<; was elected a representa-
tive from Delaware In the Twentieth Congress;
was re-electc<l to tlie Twenty-first Congress, receiving
744 votes against 325 votes for Bayard, sening from
Decembers, 1827, to March .3. 1831; was appointed
chancellor of the State of Delaware in 1*^2, and
servwl until his death at New Castle, Delaware,
March 28, 1857.
Johnson, Andrew, was bom at Raleigh. North
Carolina, December 20, 1808; extreme poverty pre-
vented him from receiving any schooling, and, at the
age of ten, he was opprenticed to a tailnr, learning
the trade; in September, 1820, he removed to Ten-
nessee, and settled at Greenville, where, under his
wife's instruction, he learned to re.irl. write, and
cipher; he organized in 1828 a worklng-niHii's party,
which elected him aldemian. and re-elected him the
two following years; was mayor of Greenville IS^jO-
18.3;^; was a member of the Tennessee House of
Representatives in IKIS and 18.30; was defeated as a
cojididate for presidential elector on the Van Bureu
ticket in 1840; was a memlter of the .Sttite .Senate in
1841; was elected a representative from Tennessee
in the Twenty-eighth Congress as a Democrat, re-
ceiving 5,405 votes against 4.052 votes for Aiken,
Whig; was re-elected to the Twenty-ninth Congress;
was re-elected to the Tliirtieth Congress, "lofe.iting
Taylor, Whig; was re-elected to the 'Thirty-llrst Con-
gress, receiving 0,008 votes against 5,000 votes for
Taylor, Whig, and 404 votes for Campbell, Demo-
crat; was re-elected to the Thirty-second Congress,
receiving 6,638 votes against 4,844 votes for Hayns.
Wliig, 8er\lng from December 4, 184;J, to March 3,
185.3; was governor of Tennessee 18.''):}-1857; was a
United-States senalur frrnn Tennessee, serving from
December 7, 18.'J7, until he was api>ointed by Presi-
dent Lincoln to be military governor of Tennessee
March 4, 1802; was elected Vice-President of the
United States (on the Republican ticket with
Abraham Lincoln), receiving 212 electoral votes
against 21 electoral votes for G. H. Pendleton, and
was inaugurated March 4, 1805; became Presiilent
after the assassination of President Lincoln April
16, 1805; was ImiM-ached, and ac(]Uitted May 20,
1808, by a vote of So guilty against 10 not guilty,
and served until March 3, I8*!0; was defeated as a
candidate for the UnlteiUStates .Senate before the
legislature of Tennessee in 1870; was defeated as an
independent candidate for congressman-at-large in
the Forty-third Congress, receiving 87,900 votes
against 80,825 votes for Horace Maynard, Repu>>-
llcon, and 65,188 votes for U. F. Cheatham, Demo-
crat; was again elected a United-States senator from
Tennessee in 1875, serving at the B|>ecial session
from March 4, 1875, to March 24, 1875; and died of
heart-<lisea.se, after a brief llliiesa, at the residence of
his <laughter, Mrs. W. R Brown, in Carter County,
Tennessee, July 31. 1875. His speeches, with a
memoir of him by Frank Moore, were published in
1805.
Johnson, Cave, was bom In Robertson County,
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Tennessee, January 11, 1793; received nn academtcal
cducalioii; !UU(ii('<l law; was admitted tn tlic Imr,
and commenced practice at C'larksvillc, Tennessee;
was appointed circuit-judge; was elected a repre-
■entativc from Tennessee in llie Twcnty-tirst t'on-
gri'BS as a Democrat, defeating John n. Marable; was
re-elected to tlie Twenty-secHjiid Congress, defeat-
ing Hicliard Cheatliam, \Vliig: was re-elected to tlie
Twcnty-tliini I'migress, defeating Hicliard Cheatbum
and John II. Maralile; and w.-is re-elected tn the
Twenly-fourfli CoiiKress, defeating Richard Cheut-
bam, serving from Dwemlier 7, 182li, to March 3, 1837 ;
was defeated as the Democratic candidate for the
Twenty-f'iurlli Congress liy Itichard Chcalhani, who
received 123 majority; was again elected to the
Twenty-sixth Congress, receiving 4,7C>4 votes against
3,3Ct9 votes for Richard Cheatham, ^Vhig; was re-
elected to the Twenty-seventh Congress, defeating
Riclnird Cheatham; and was re-elected to the
Twenty-eighth Congress, receiving 4,(i04 votes against
4,tt7(i voles for Henry, ^AHiig. serving fnmi December
2, 18.30, to March 3, IS45; was appointed |)Ostm.i»ter-
Seneral by President Polli, servmg March 6, If^J."*-
liirch 7, iS4l>; was president of the Slate Bank of
Tennessee 1860-1850; was elected to the State Senate
during the war as u iJnionist, but was prevented by
feeble be.illh from taking his seat; died at Ciarks-
ville, Tennessee. November 13. 18tXt.
Johnson, Charles, was bom in Cliowan County,
North Carolina; received an academic education:
was a member of the State Senate ih 1781-1784, 178,8,
nt>f)-1792; was elected a rei)resenlative from North
Carnliua in the Seventh Congress, serving from
Deceinl>er 7, iwil, niitil his death in 1802.
Johnson, Francis, was bom In Caroline Coun-
ty, Virginia; received a classical education; studied
law; was admitted to tlie bar, and commenced prac-
tice; was a member of the State House of Kepre-
sent.itives; removed to Kentucky, and practised at
Bowling Green; w.is elected a ft'presentativo from
Kentucky in the Sixteenth Congress (in place of
David Walker, deceased) as an Adams Kcpublicaii;
was re-elected to the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and
Nineteenlli Congresses, serving from Novemt>er 13,
1,820. to March .3, 1827; removed to Louisville, where
he died DcccmbiT 14, 18.51.
Johnson, Harvey H., was l>oni in Vermont;
received a [luliiic-scbofil education: rtanovcd to
Ohio, and settled at Ashland; was elected a rspre-
sciitatlvo from Ohio in tlie Thirty-third Congress as
a Democrat, receiving 7,51>1 votes against 4.703 votes
for Loekwodd, Whig, and 3,030 "votes for N. S.
Townsheiid, Kree-Soiler, serving from December 5,
18J3. to Marcti 3, ISTk"!; waa defeated as the Demo-
cratic canilidate for the Thirty-fourth Congress, re-
ceiving 0,041 votes against 8,788 votes for Philemon
Bliss, Republican.
Johnson, Henry, was bom in Tennessee Se]>-
tember 14, 1783: received an tiuademical education :
removed to Louisiana; studied law; was admitted
to the bar. and commeneed practice at Bringiers ;
was clerk of tlie Territorial Court in 1800; was judge
of tlie Parish Court in 1811; was a delegate to the
State Constitutional Convention in 1812; was de-
feated as a candidate for the National House of
Itepresentatives by Thomas B. Kobertson in 1812;
was elected a I'nited-States 8<'nator fnira Louisiana
(in place of William C. C. Claiborne, deceased, who
never took his seat), and waa re-elected, 8er\'ing
from Fdmiary 21), 1818, to May 27, 1824, when lie
resiuned; WiW defeated as a candidate for the
United-.State3 Senate liy Edward Livingston In 18^1;
was elected a representative from Louisiana in the
Twenty-third Congress (in place of Edward D.
White, resigned) as a Wliig, receiving 375 majority
over Gayarre and Nicholls, Democrats; was re-
elected to the Twenty-fourth Congress, receiving
•'ild majority over White, Democrat ; was re-elncted
to the Twenty-liflh Congress without opposition,
serving from December 1, 1834, to March 3, 1839;
initff I fir m
was defeated as the Whig candidate tore'
1842 by A. Mouton, Democrat: w;i« agai;
senator (in place of Alexander Porter, . ..
serving from March 4. 1844, to March 3. l?4i';
at Point Coupee. Louisiana, September 4. 18«VJ.
Johnson, Herschel V., was bf)ni In Burk
County. Georgia, .September 18, 1812: received
classical education, gradnatine at Franklin Collegj
in 18.34; studied law; wa.s admitted to the bar, an
commenced practice at Augusta, removing to Jeflil
son County in 18:J0, and fnjm tliere to MilledgrvHh
in 1844; was appointcii a United-States Retii<l"r fmi
'•1
12 elector
Hamlin,
Georgia (in place of Walter T. Coli|ulti.
scr\-ing from February 14, 1848, to M
was judge of the Superior Court N'>'
August, 1853; was governor of (J«
was defeated as candidate for Vice-I
Douglas Democratic ticket, receiving
votes against 180 elcctomi votes for
electoral votes for Lane, and 39 electoral votes f«
Everett; was a senator from Georgia in the Secoi
Confederate Congress.
Johnson, James, was bom in Virginia:
ceived an English education; w;is a menilier of
.State House of Representatives: was elected a r»'
re.sentative from Virginia in the Thirteenth Coi
gress as a Democrat, and was r»eleci' ' • '
Fourteenth, Fifteenth, and Sixteenth i
serving from Deceiulicr l.j, 1813, to y
1820, when he resigned to accept the inisiiioa
collector of customs of the port of Norfolk; died
Norfolk, Virginia, December 7, 1825,
Johnson^ James (brother of Richard M. Jo!
son), was liorn in Orange County, Virginia, Janu;
1. 1774; was t,akcn by his parents to Kentucky wlici
lie was five
dangers and hardships of frontier life on "' the darit
and bloody ground ; '' served as second in command
to bis bmtlipr (Colonel R. M. Johnson) during the
war of 1812. and commanded tlie right wingol tb«
United-States forces in tlie battle of the ThaiiiM
Oct«i)er 5, 1813; was a large contractor for supplyiiij
the troops on the Mississippi and Missotiri Rivers in
1810-1820; was elected a representative from Kcn-
tuclty in the Nineteenth Congress as a Dem'xml,
and served from December 6, 1825. until his deatli,
of fever, at Great Crossings, Kentucky, August 14,
18215.
Johnson, James, was bom in Robinson Connty,
North t'arolina, in 1811; received a classical edncn-
tinn, graduating at the State University in 1832;
taught soliool; studied law; was admitted to tlio
bar, and couimencod practice at Columbus, Georgia;
was prosecu ting-attorney; was elected a representa-
tive from Georgia in the Thirty-second Congress is •
Unionist, receiving 8,107 votes against 0,085 to(m
for Bening, Calhoun Democrat; serving from De-
ccmljer 1, 1851, to March .i. 1853; was appoinurf
provisional governor of Georgia by President Juhn-
snn in 1805; was collector of customs at Sarnimlli
IN^KWistiO; was appointed judge of the Circuit Court
of Georgia in 1870.
Johnson, James A., was bom at Spartanbuis,
South Carolina, May 10. 1.829; received a cuminon-
sehool education; studied medicine and law; re-
moved to California, where he practised law •'
Itownieville; was a memlicr of the legislatun o'
California in 1,S51>-1800 ; was elected a represcnt»ti«
from California in tlio Fortlelli Congress as a Detpo-
crat, receiving 14.707 votes against 14,304 votes tot
Ihirtsliorn, I'iiion Hei>ublic.in ; and was re-«lccteil w
the Forty-first (Niiigress as a Dt^mocrat, recelviijS
15.778 voies against 15,498 votes for Horrison, Bepu^
licaii, serving fnmi March 4, 1807, to March 3, 1871-
Johnson, James H., was bom in New U*"''''
shire; recelveil a public-.ichool ediicati(m; l^i'l'^-J.
Bath; was a member of the State Senate in i^'
was a member of the State Council in 1842 and '>'
1845 ; was elected a representative from New Hsfl*;
shire in the Twenty-ninth Congross; waa re-elccw'
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to tlie Thirtieth CoiureM by about 1,300 majority,
Ben in? fn>ni Decern Iwr 1, 18*5, to Marth 3. 1849.
* Johnson, James L., was bom in Kentucky;
rosidi'd nt (iweusburough ; was elected a representa-
tive from Kentucky in the Thlrty-lirst Congress as a
Whig, rccei\ing 8,035 votes against 3,878 votes for
Peyton. Whig, serving from l)eceml>cr 3, 1849, to
Uarch 3. ISM; committ«<l suicide while suffering
under mental depression caused by ill liealth, at
Oweusborough, February 12, 1877.
Johnson, J. M., was elected a representative
from the Tliird Disliicl of Arkansas in the Twenty-
eighth Congress in March, 18«V4, us a Unionist, re-
ceiving over 4,000 votes; the House Committee on
Elections reported in favor of giving him the seat Feb-
raarv 17, 18(i6, but the House refused to take action
on the resolution, voting him, on the Sd of March,
18tV5, t>2.<KiO for compensation, esiienses and mileage.
Johnson, Jeromus, was tioni in King's CounTy.
KewYork: rec<-ivi-d a public-school education; re-
moved to New-York City; was electoi a representa-
tive from New York in the Nineteenth Congress as a
Jackson Dcmi>crat; was re-elected to the Twentieth
Congress, Ber\'ing from December 5, 1825, to March
8, 1829; removed to Goshen, Orange County, and
died there .Septemtwr 7, 184(1.
Johnson, John, was bom in Tyrone County.
Ireland, in 1S08; received a public-school education;
Immigrated to the United States in 1824, and settled
at Coshocton, Ohio, where he engaged In agricultural
unuits; was a member of the State .Senate; was a
ielegate to the State Constitutional Convention; was
elected a representative from Ohio in the Thirty-
second Congress as an Independent, receiving 6,458
votes against 5,1.'')0 votes for Hoagliind, Dennxirat,
serving from Dewmber 1, 1851, to March 3, 185.?.
Johnson, John T., was lx)m in Scott Ccmnty,
Kentucky; received an academical education; stud-
led law; was admitted to the bar, and practised at
Georgetowii; was elected a representative from Ken-
tucky in the Seventeenth Congress, defeating Thomas
A. Grimes; was re-elected to the Elghteentli Con-
nms, serving from Decenilwr 3, 1821, to March 3.
was appointed a judge in the new Court of
^ lals April 20, 182(1; was ior thirty years a preach-
iD^ the gospel without p-iy; died at Lexington, Mis-
ionri. December 18, 1!<)7.
Johnson, Joseph, was bom In Orange County,
New York, DecemlMT 19, 1785, and, when fifteen years
of age, removed with his mother and a jrounger
brother to Bridgeport, Virginia (now West Virginia),
where he resided for more tlian seventy years ; worked
on a farm, and educated lumself ; served in the war
of 1812 as captain of a voUmteer company of rifle-
men: was elected a representative from Virginia in
the Eighteenth Congress as a Demo<;rat; was re-
elect«'d to the Nineteenth Congress, rec«'lvlng a mu^
1'ority of 651 votes over P. Doddridge, Ber\ing from
)ecember 1, 1823, to March 3, 1827; was defe.ited as
the Democratic candidate for the Twentieth Con-
gress, receiving ,378 votes against 792 votes for Isaac
Leffier. and 1 Iti votes for Ilaymond : was again elected
to the Twenty-second Congress (in place of Philip
Doddridge, deceased), serving from January 21, ISU,
to March 2, 1833; was again elected to the Twenty-
fourth Congress, defeating J. J. Allen, Whig; was
re-«lecte<l to the Twenty-fifth Congress, receiving
2,(587 votes against 1,.574 votes for .John S. Jackson,
Whig : was re-elected to the Twenty-sixth Congress,
defeating Sliinn, Democrat, and Camden, Wiig,
•erring from December 7, 18.35, to March 8, 1841;
was a delegate to the National Democratic Conven-
tion at Baltimore in 1844; was again elected to the
Twenty-ninth Congress, receiving 300 majority over
G. W. Summers, s<!r\-ing from December 1, 1845. to
March 3. 1.S47; was governor of Virginia 1832-18')0;
kwas a Rupi>ortcr of the Southern Confederacy 1801-
1805; died at Bridgeport, West Virginia, February
27, 1877. He h.-»d shaken hands with every President
from WashingtoD to Johnson inclusive.
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^Johnson, Noadiah, was bom In the State of
New York; received an academic education; studied
law ; was admitted to the bar, and conuiienced prac-
tice at Delhi; was district-attorney; w.is elected a
representative from New York In the Twenty-third
Congress as a Jackson Democrat, serving from De-
cember 2, 1833, to March 3, 18:}5; was a member of
the State Senat« 1837-18^9; died while a State sena-
tor at Albany, New York, April 4, 1839.
Johnson, Perley B., was born In Ohio; re-
sided at McConnellsville; was elected a representa-
tive from Ohio In the Twcnty-eiglith Congress as a
%Vhig, receiving 4,058 votes against 4,410 votes for
Barker, Dcmr>crat, and 09 votes for Buckingham,
Abolitionist, serving from December 4, 1843, to
March 3, 1.S45.
Johnson, Philip, was bora In Warren County,
New Jersey, January 17, 1818; removed with his
father to Pennsylvania In l.Si9; received a cliissicai
education at Lafayette College; taught schiKil at the
South for two years; studied law; was admitted to
the bar in 1848, and commenced practice at Easton,
Pennsylvania; was clerk of the county court.*; was
a member of the State House of Hepresentatives in
lS.j;^ and 1854 ; was revenue comnjissioner of the
Tliird Judicial District in IHJO; was elected a repre-
seutntive from Pennsylvania in the Thirty-seventh
Congress as a Democrat, receiving 12,208 votes
against 9,090 votes for Shoemaker, Itepubhcan; was
re-elected to tlie Thirty-eighth Congress, receiving
11.(570 votes against 2,592 ^otes for Kouch. Kepul)-
lican; was re-elected to the Thirty-ninth Congress,
receiving 13,007 vote* against (S.'.iSi votes for Sel-
fridge, llepublican, serving from July 4, 1801, to
JaiiiL-xr)' 20, 1807, wlien he died at Waahlncton City.
Johnson, Reverdy, was liora at Annapolis,
Mainland, JSI.-jy 21, 1790; received a classical educa-
tion, graduating at St. John's College ; studied law
with his father. Chief Justice Johnson; was admitted
to the bar In 1815, and commenced practice at An-
naiMjlis, where he was apixiintcd State's attorney;
removed to Baltimore in 1817; was chief conunls-
sioiier of insolvent debtors 1820-1821; was a member
of the State Senate of Maryland 1821-1827; was
elected a United-States senator from Maryland as a
Whig, Bcning from Deceml)er 1, 1845, to March 7,
1849; was appolnteil by President Taylor attoniey-
general, serving March 7, 1841>-July 2<.l, ISJO; was a
delegate to the Peace Convention in Fel)ruary, 18(S1 ;
was a memlHT of the State Unujc of Krpreseiitalives
in 1801; w;is again elected Uniled-Stntes senator,
serving from March 4, 1803, to July 10, 1808; was
minister to England 18(18-1809; died from injuries
received by a fall at Annapolis, ]tlaryland, Fel)niary
10, 1870. He partially edited seven volumes of the
Reports of the Jlanland Court of Appeals 1820-1827.
Johnson, Richard Mentor (bnaher of James
Johnson), was born at Bryant's Station, Kentucky,
fictober 17, 1781; received a classical education at
Transylvania University; studied law; was admitted
to the bar, and practised at Great (Jrossings; was a
member of the State House of Heprcsenlalives in
1B05; served in the war of 1812 as colonel of volun-
teer cavalry, distinguishing himself in a slurmish at
Chatham, Canada, October 4, 1813. and in the battle
of the Thames October 5, 1813; was elected a repre-
sentative from Kentucky in the Tenth Congress as a
Jackson Democrat, and was re-elected to the Elev-
enth and Twelfth Congresses, serving from Octoiwr
26, IWJ", to March 3, 1813; was again elected to tlie
Thirteenth Congress, and re-elected to the Four-
teenth and Fifteenth Congresses, serving from March
7, 1814. to March 3, 1819: was elected a United-Stales
senator from Kentucky (in place of Jolin J. Critten-
den, resigned), and was re-elected, serving fr')ra Jan-
uary ;i. 1m;o. to March 3. 182ii; was again elected a
representative in the Twenty-first Congress, and
re-elected to the Twenty-second, Twenty-third, and
Twenty-fourth Congresses, serving from December
7, 1820, to March 3, 1887 ; was chosen Vice-President
472
CONGEKSSIONAL DIBECTORT.
of the United States by the Senate, no candidate
having receivwl a majority of the electoral vote,
serving from March 4, ISIi", to March 3, 1841 ; was
defeated as the t)c>mocnilii- candidate for Vicc-Prc«l-
dent on tliu Van Hurcii ticliet in 1840, receiving 48
electoral votes against 2:>4 electoral votes for John
Tyler, Whig, 11 electoral votes for L. W. Tazewell,
and 1 electoral vote for James K. Polk; was a
memlier of the State House of Representatives;
died at Frankfort, Kentucky, of paralysis, November
1», ls.->(».
Johnson, Robert W., was bom in Kentncky
in IS14; rfcoived an Englisli education; studied l.iw;
wiiB admitted to the bar. and practised at Pine Bluffs,
Arkansas; was electeil a representative from Arkan-
saa in the Thirtieth Congress as a Democrat without
opposition, receiving MA'Mi votes against 101 scat-
tering votes ; was re-elected lo the Thirty-first Con-
gress, receiving 14,4{)0 votes against 9,224 votes for
Thomas W. Newton. Wiig; was re-elocted to the
Thirty-second Congress, receiving 11,075 votes against
8,87tJ votes for Preston, Whig, serving from Decem-
ber 6, 1847, lo Slan-h a, 1*VJ;' was elected a United-
States senator from Arkansas (in place of Solon
Borland, resigned), serving from Decemlwr .1, 1853.
until he withdrew in 18<jl; was a member of the
Confederate Senate frtim Arkansas, serving from
February 22, 18<J2, to the final adjouninieiit; prac-
tised law Bt Washington City in partnership with
General Albert Pike.
Johnson, Thomas, was born in Calvert. Coun-
ty, Marjland, November 4, 1732; received an acji-
demical education; studied law at Annapolis; was
admltteil to the bar. and c(mimenced practice; took an
active part in pre-Revolutionary movements; was a
briga<lic'r-general of Maryland troops January 6, 17715-
June, 1770; was elected a delegate from Maryland to
the First Continental Congress, 8er\iiig 1774-1777;
nominated George Washington to tx; coiiimander-iii-
chief; was present when the Declaration of Inde-
pendence was adopted, Julj 4, 1770, but was necessa-
rily absent, on accoiuit of illness in Ids family, when
it was signed, Augusta. 1770; w,%s a delegate to the
First Constitutional Conventiou of Maryland; screed
in the Revolutionary war as brigadier^^eneral com-
manding the Maryland line, and distinguished him-
self under General Washington in the Jersey cam-
paign; W.1S elected while In the field the first gnv-
emor of the St4»te of Mar>lmid, starving 1777-1 i7t);
removed after his gulx-matoriai tenn to Frederick-
town, Marj'iand, which was thenceforth his home;
was several times elected a memlier of the Maryland
House of Delegates; w-is apfwinted chief judge of
the (ieneral Court of Maryl.ind, and held the office
until he W!i8 jiersuadcd by President Washington to
accept a seat uiwin the bench of the Supn^me Court
of the United St.ites. serving 1701-1703; he ha<! de-
clined till' position of sfKrretary of state in Washing-
ton's cabinet, but accepted the appointment of com-
missioner of llie District of Columbia, and aided in
laying tiut the city of Washington ; he then r<;tired
lo"Rose Hill," near Fredericktown, where he died
October 10, 1810.
Johnson, T. M., was elected a representative
from Arkansa-s in tlie Thirty-eighth Congress as a
Republican, and presented his credentials ; a m.ijority
of the Committee on Etections, to whom they were
referred, reported that he was entitled to a seat; but
such was the oppo.'iition, that no vote was taken on
the resolution, altliougii, on the last day of the
session, he was voted $2,000 for compensation, mile-
age and expenses.
Johnson, Waldo P., was elected a United-
States si'iintor from Missouri as a Democrat, serving
from July 4, IHOl, to January 10, 1802, when he was
expelled by the .Senate,
Johnson, William, was bom In Ireland in
1810; immigrated to the United Slates in early life,
and sett lc<l In Ohio; received a public-eehool educa-
tion; studied taw; was admitted to the bar, and
commenced practice at Mansfield. Ohio ; held a i
ber of local offices; was elected a repr
from Ohio in the Thlrty-eiglith Congress as a 1
crat, receiving 9,012 votes against 8,(142 vote
Godman, Repul)lican, serving from Deeeint«er 7,J
18fl3, to March 3, 18a5: was defeated as thf Demo
cralic candidate for the Twenty-niulh Congress,
ceiving 8,383 votes against 10,0i>3 votes for James ': _
Hubbell, Republican; died at Mansfield, Ohio, lltj
3, 1800.
Johnson, William Cost, was hom in Fred-
erii-k County, Marjiand, in bSit!; receivetl an aca-
demical education; sttuliod law; wasudniiitcd to the
bnr in 1831, and conmienced practice at Je^erson,
Maryland ; was a member of the .State House of Bc^
resentatives; w.is a delegate to the Constitutions'
vention of Slaryland; Was president of the
Men's National Whig Convention which met
limore on the first Monday in May. 18;j2, to non
Henry Clay for President ; was elected a repr
tive from Marvland in the Twenty-third CongrfSSi
a Wliig, receiving 00(1 majority over Dorsey, Den
crat, sers'ing from Decemlier 2. 18;$). to March
ISi"); was again elected to the Twenty-tiflli Congr
as a Whig, receiving 05 majority over Ki
Whig: was re-elected to the Twenty-sixth Con
receiving 347 majority overO. W. Duvall, Dem _
was re-elected to the Twenty-seventh Congrrt*.
ceiling l,4-3!l majority, sening from Sf'ptemtvr
18;}7. to March 3, 1843: resumed practice at W«
ington City, and died thei-e April 10. 1>W.
Johnson, William Samuel, was bora .
Stratford, Connecticut, (Ictolwr 7, 1727; received »1
classical education, graduating at Yale Colle.ji' In*
1744; studied law at Cambridge; viaa mh
ihe bar in, and commenced practice at.
was a delegate from Connecticut to th<
tion of the Colonies at New York in 1705; w*
agent of the Colony of Connecticut at Lfind
17(!(i-1771; was a judge of the .Supreme Court
Connecticut 1772-1774; was a delegate from Con-
necticut in tlie Continental Congress 1784-17S7:i
was a delegate from Connecticut to the National I
Constitutional Convention; was elected a United- (
States senator from Connecticut in the First Con- 1
gress, serving from March 4, 1880, to 1701, when
he resigned; was president of Columbia College U
New-York City 1702-1800; returned to Stratfoni,
Connecticut, where he died November 14, 1819. A
sketch of his life was published by John T. Irrisg
in 1830.
Johnston, Charles, was bom in Connecticnt;
received a publlc-schixil education ; removed to
Ponglikeepsie, New York ; held several local offiMi;
was elected a repri'Sentalive from New York in lie
Twenty-alsth Congress as a Whig, receiving 5.2flJ
votes against 4,(M5 votes forObadiali Titus. Denrv
crat. and serving from Dec<!mber 2, 18.30, to Mircb
3, 1841 ; was defeated as the Wliig candidate for the ,
Twenty-seventh Congress by Richard D. Davis, D«i»-]
ocrat.
Johnston, Charles C, was bom at Abingdon|
Virginia; received an academic e<iucation; stiidie"
law; was admitted to the bar, and commenced finfc.*"
tice at Abingdon; was elected a renresentallve frc***
Virginia in the Twenty-second Congress, servi:»-^
from I>ccember 6, 1831, to Juno 17, 18:i2, when ^^'
went to Alexandria lo visit a friend, and, on tc^^
return at night, fell from the wharf into the Potom^^^
and w.-is drownc<l.
Johnston, John W., was bora at Panicel^' ^
near Abingdon, September 0, 1818; was edneafd
the Abingdon Academy, and the Soulli '' ' r
lege, at Columbia. .South Carolina:
the University of Virginia; was lioeiiM : ...
practised at Abingdon; was Common weal 1 1 ""
ncy for Tazewell County two years; w;is a in "^
the Senate of the State of Virginia in 1840-1.-47 aiJ^^
1847-1848; was judge of the Circuit Court of Virgin*^*'
for a year; was elected Uniied-Staies fMoiator oo^^^^
STATISTICAL SKETCHES.
473
»
Viilginia as a ConservBtive, and took his seat Jann-
ary 24, 1870; was re-olected in 1871, aiid again re-
elected in 1870. His tenu of service will expire
Marcli 3. 1!H8;J.
Johnston, Josiah Btoddard, was bom at
Salisbury. Coiint'cllcut, XriveinluT 2.5, 171** ; was
taken by his fntlier In Kentucky in l"Oil; received a
classical etiucaiion, gT-iiiuHtiiig at Transylvauin Uni-
versity iu 18()5; studied law; was admitted to the
bar, and ei^tnmenced j)ractlce at Aiexiuidrin, Louisi-
aJia; wiis n member of tlie State House of Kepreseu-
tatives: niiirehed to the defence of New Urle.iiis at
head of a regiment, but did nut arrive tictll tbu
ha<l lieen fnuylit; was a .State district-judge;
elected a re|)reseiitative from Louisiaua in the
'Beventeentli Congress as a CIny Democrat, serriiiK
ttqm D<--oeml>er 3, 1H:>1, to March 3, 182:j; was elected
nited-Si.ites senator from Louisiana (in place of
BS Brown, resigned), and was twice re-elected,
ng from Miirch 12, 1.S24, to May 19, 18^3. when
he died from the effect of an explosion of gun-
powder on the steam-pocket "Lioness" on the Red
River.
Johnston, Samuel, was bom in Scotland in
IT^. iiiid inmiigrated emly iu life to Chowan Coun-
ty, North Carolin.i; was a delegate to the geueml
meeting at New Berne in 1775, and, as its ra<xlerator,
^as the chief magistrate of Nortli Carolina between
the al)dication of the last of the royal governors and
the accession of the first Ktate governor; was elected
ft delegate to tlio Continental Congress 1780-178;i;
■wus president of the convention of 1788 to consider
the Federal Constitution, which was then rejected,
and of the convention of 1789 which ratified that
Instrument; was elected to tlie United-States Senate
in the Fii-at Congress as a Federalist, serving from
January 20, 171X). until March 2, 17!l3; w!is nppninttti
Judge of the .Superior Court of North ('arolina in
Fetaiiary, ls<»l, which position he resigned in Novem-
ber, 1803, declining all further public ser\'ice : he died
St " Sherwarkey," near Edenton, North Carolina,
Aueust 18, 1810.
Jones, Alexander H., was bom in Buncoml)e
County, North Carolina, July 21, 1822; received an
academic educatloti; was raised a famier; was a
merchant at y\jheville; had a limite<] experience as
an editor at the l)eginning of the Kebcllion; look an
tiuoompromising stand for the Union; iu the early
summer of 18<>3 he fled into the Union lines; was
commissioned by General Bumside to raise a regi-
ment of loyal North-Cai-olinlaiis, and. while engaged
in recruiting white men, was captured in East Ten-
nessee by the Cunfederatcs; was imprisoned and
Ironed at Asheville; imprisoned at Camp Vance,
Camp Holmes, and in tlie Libby at Richmond, Vir-
1«; was conscripted; made his esc!ii>c November,
without fierfomiing any seniec; succeeded iu
"ng the Union lines ahout the 7th December,
at CumlM^rlond, Maryland; was cared for at
Cincinnati, and Knoxville, I'ennessce, in a bad state
of heahh, until the surrender of General Lee; he re-
turned h'ime. and was elected to the State Conven-
tion in Ibii.'); was lOeeted a representative from North
Caruliua in the Thirty-ninth Congress as a Repulv
lic*n, but, for the lack of an established civil govem-
t in the State, failcil to be received; was re-
ilected to the Fortieth Congress, and obtained a seat
Jaly iO. 1S(>8: was re-elerted to the Forty-first Con-
greas, serving fium July 2o, I8'j8, to ilnrvh 3, 1871;
iraa defeated as the Hepiililican eondidute for the
orty-second Congress, receiving 9.2;)1 votes against
1,1») votes for James C. Harper, Conservative.
Jones, Allen (bruther of Willie Jones), was
bom in Uallfux County, North Carolina; was a dele-
taie to the .State Conventions at New Benie August
3, !"■•. and ilalil'ox .\pril 4. 1770. mid to the Consti-
tutional Convention iit Halifax November, n7ti; was
Vrlgadier-gencral of the Revolutionary forces in tlie
Halifax district in 1776; was a delegate to the Con-
ti&a&bU Cougrese 1779-1780; wu a member of the
SUte Senate of North Carolina in 17&i-1787 ; was a
member of the State Convention which met In 1788
to ratify the Federal Constitution.
Jones, Benjamin, was bom In Virginia; re-
ceived a pnblie-schiHjl education; removed to Ohio,
and settled at Wwister; wa.s elected a representative
from t)hio in tlie Twenty-third Congress us a .lack-
son Democrat; was re-elected to the Twenty-fourth
Congress, serving from December 2, 1833, to March
3, 18;}7.
Jones, Charles W., w.is bom in Ireland In
1S.J4; immigrated to the I niled States in 1844, and,
after residing temporarily in dilTerent parts of the
South while working at his trade, settled at I'ensa-
colainl854: was self-educated; studied law. and was
admitted to the bar in 1857. and practised at Pensuv-
cola; was a member of the National Democratic Con-
vention at Baltimore in 1872; was defeated as the
Democratic candidate for the State at largi: to the
Forty-third Congress, receiving 15,811 votes against
17,537 votes for William J. Purmun. nepuliliean ; was
a meral>er of tlie State House of Representatives of
Florida In 1874; w.is elected a United-States senator
from Florida as a Consenative Democrat (to sureewl
Abijali Gilliert, RepuhUcan), and took bis seat March
5, 1875. His term of service will expire March 3,
1881.
Jones, Daniel T., was bom In Connecticut; re-
ceived a public-school education ; removed to the
.State of New York, and located at Baldwinsville;
was elected a representative from New York in the
Tliirty-second Congress as a Democrat, receiving
0.186 votes against 5,410 votes for Smith. Whig, and
273 votes for Pyrae, AUditlonist ; was re-elected to the
Thirty-third Congress, receiving 6,605 votes unainst
(l,I2>l) 'votes for Gott, Whig, and 1,456 votes for Ray,
Abolitionist, serving from December 1, 1851, to
March 3. 1*5.
Jones, Francis, resided at Wlnchest<!r, Ten-
nessee; wi« elected a representative from that State
in the Fifteenth Congress, was re-elected to the Six-
teenth Cf)ngress, and was unanimously re-elected to
the Seventeenth Congress, ser>ing from Deceml)cr 1,
1817, to March ,3, 18^.
Jones, Frank, was bom at Barrington, New
Oampshire, .September 1.5, 1832; removed to Ports-
nioutli In 1849, and has since been engaged in mer-
cantile pursuits and in brewing; was elected mayor
of Portsmoutli In 1808, and re-elected in 18'!9; and
was elected a representative from New Hampshire in
the Forty-fourth Congress as a Democrat, receiving
13.'.K17 votes against 13,631 votes for Charles 8,
Whitehouse, Republican, and 3;W scattering: and
was re-elected to the Forty-fifth Congress, receiving
13,9£i votes against 13,885 votes forGiJman Marston,
Republican, serving from December 6, 1875.
Jones, George, was appointed a Uiiitc<l-,State»
senator from Georgia (in place of Abniham Baldwin,
deceased), serving from October 2<l, 1.807, to Decern-
Jier 0, 1807, when his successor took his seat.
Jones, George W^., was bom at Vlncennes, In-
diana; received a classical education, graduating at
Transylvania University, Kentucky, in 182."); sliulied
law; was admitted to the bar, but was prevented by
feeble hi;alMi from practising; was clerk of the United-
Slates courts In Missouri in 1826; served ax an aidcMle-
comp to (rencral Henry Dodge In the Cluck H.iwk
war; removed to Wisconsin Territory, and settled at
Slnslnawa Mound; was judee of the County Court;
was colonel and subseijuently major-general of mili-
tia; was elected a delegate from Wisconsiu Territory
in the Twenty-fourth Congress as a Democrat; was
re-elected to the Twenty-fifth Congress, serving from
December 7, 1835, to 1*37, wlien his seat was suc-
cesstully contested by James Duane Doty, Whig;
was apjiointed surveyor-general of the North-west
Territory by President Van Buren; was removed by
President Harrison, and was re-appointed by Presi-
dent Polk: wiis elected a United-States senator from
Iowa, and re-elected, Betving from December 26,
474
CONGBE88IONAL DmECTOET.
1S43. to Marcli 3. 1S50: was minister resident to the
United States of Colombia March 8, lS.")(t-Novcra-
ber 4, 1801; on his return to the United Stales he
^08 charged with disloyulty, and was Imprisoned In
Fort Warren ; resided at Duliuquo ; becjime Interest-
ed In agriculture, and purchased a fann.
Jones, Ooorpo W"., was bom in King and
Queen County, Virginia, March 15, ISCXl; was taken
by his'parcnts to Tennessee, and was apprenticed ti>
learn the saddler's trade at Fayetteville, where he
afterwards i-esided; received a imbllc-school and an
academical education; was a justice of the |ieace
1832-18;36; was a member of the State Houso of
Keprescntatives 1835-1*39, and of the State Senate
18:j(*-l.'MU; was defeated as a candidate for presi-
denllal elector on the Van Buren ticl;ct in 1S40;
served as clerk of the County Court by apj)ointment,
and afterwards by election ; was elected a rcprcsent.v
live fnnn Tennessee in the Twculy-cighlh Conjn'i'ss
as a Ocmncrat, rucciving o.lll votes against 2,041
votes for M. A. Long, Democrat ; was re-ciertcd to
the Twenty-ninth, Thirlielh, Tlurty-firtt, Thirty-
second, and Thirty-tUlrd Congresses without any op-
position; was re-elected to the Thirty-fourth Con-
gress, receiving 8,005 votes against 4,245 voles for P.
Gordon, American; was re-ei"ectcd to the Thirly-tifth
Congress without opposition, serving from December
4, 184;j, to March 3, 1850; was a delegate from Ten-
nessee to the Peace Congress of IStki, but did not
attend; was a represpntativo from Tennessee in tlie
First Confederate Congress, serving from tVhruary
18, 1802, to February 18, 1804; was not a candidnte
for re-election; was a delegate to the State Constllu-
tioual Convention of 1870; was appointed a member
of the Board ot Trustees for tlie Tennessee Hospital
for the Insane in 1871, and was ro-appotnted in 1877.
Jones, Isaao D., was Ijoni in Maryland; re-
ceiveil an academical education; studied law; was
a^linilted to Ihe Ijar, and practised in Princess Anne
County ; was elected a representative from Maryland
In the Twenty-seventh Congress as a Whig, receiv-
ing 3 majority over Cottman, Wlilg, and serving from
May 31, 1841, to March 3, 1843; was elected attorney-
general of Maryland in 1803.
Jones, Jaxnes, was bom in Maryland, and ac-
companied liis parents to Georgia when a lad ; studied
law; was admitted to the l)ar, and commenced prac-
tice at Savannah ; was for several years a ineml)er of
the State Uouse of llcpresentatives; was elected a
representative from Georgia In the .Sixth Congress,
serving from Decemlwr 2, 17iK). to January 13, 1801,
when lie died at Washington City.
Jones, James, was liorn in Amelia County, Vir-
ginia; resided at llcndersonville; was elected a rep-
resentative from Virginia in the Sixteenth Congress,
defeating John Pegram; was re-elected to the Seven-
teenth Congress, servuig from December 0, ISIU, to
March 3, 1823.
Jones, James C, was bom In Wilson County,
TennesBL-e, June 8, 18IX); received » public-sclmul
education; devoted himself lo aitricultural pursuits;
was a member of the Slate Ilouse of Itepresentativea
in 1839; was defeated as a candidate for prcsidenti.il
elector on the Van Buren ticket In 1840; wsis gov-
ernor of Tennessee 1841-1845; was a presidential
elector on tlio Taylor electoral ticket in 1848; was
elected a United-States senator from Tennessee as a
Whig, serving from December 1, 1851, to March S,
18.57; resided at Memphis, Tennessee, where he died
October 2il, ia59.
Jones, James Taylor, was bom at Blchmond,
Vir^ini.'v, in r<j2; w:is l.ilcen in 1.8:34 to M.irengo
County, Alabama, where ho subsequently resided;
received a classical educ.ilion at Princeton College;
studied law, and graduated in the law-school of the
University of Virginia; enlisted in xVprll, 18<tl, in
the Confederate sen'ico as a private in the Fourth
Alabama Itegiment, and was promoted to be captain
of his company in 1802; was a delegate In 1805 to the
State Constitutional Convention; was elected a rep-
resentative from Alabama in the Forty-fifth Coi
OS a Democrat, receiving 10,.'>82 voles against 8.71
votes for F. C. Bromberg, Republican, serving itxitA
October 15, 1877.
Jones, John QIancy, was bom on Concstoga
Piher, Penn.sylvania, October 7, 1811; p .. iml %
liberal education: studied theology, and
was admitted to the bar, and practised u:
Peansylvania; was deputy-attotney-gencraj > J Plou-
sylvauia; was elected a representative from PennsyW'
vania in the Thirty-second Congress .is a D< ninerat,
receiving 5.277 votes against 4.8-iT voles for Kciiii,
Whig, 8er\Mng from Dccemlier 1, 1851. to March 3,
1853; was again elected to the Thirty-third Con^
(in place of Ilcnry W. Muhlenberg,' deceased) ;"wi
re-elected to the Thirty-f mrth Congress, red '
8,152 votes against 5,480 votes for Myers, Whi_.
re-elected to^he Thirty-Uflh Con'^ftss, receiving
votes against 3,&47 votes for Ynder. Republican,
ing from February 13, 1854, to Oetolx-r oil, 1Sj8,
he resigned ; w.as minister resilient November 1, 1I^5S^
and euvojrcxtraonlinary and minister iileQiuutentiatyt
to Austria December 15. 1858, serving to Kovcmbtf]
14. 1801 ; died at Heading, Pennsylvania, March 24,
1877.
Jones, John J., was bom in Burke Countfji
Georgia, Noveiulicr 13, iS-4; received a classit^l
education, graduating at Emory College ; studied law
was admitted to the bar in 1848. and commenced
practice: was elected a rcpresenLitive from Geor^A:
ill the Thirty-sixth Congress as a Denmcrat, receive
ing 4,912 votes against 4,607 votes for Wright, Oppo-
sition, serving from December 6, 1.809, to Januarx
23, 1801, when he retired from the House.
Jones. John P., was bom at Ilay, in Wales, in
IS^iO, and came with his parents to tliis countx;
v/hen he was less than a year old, settling in ths
northern part of Ohio, where he attended public
school in Cleveland for a few years; in ihe early part
of the California excitement he went to that Stat«i
and engaged in famiing and niininc in one of the In-
land coimties, which he subsequently represented In
both Houses of the Stale Assembly; went to NevaJ*
in 180U, and became engaged in the development of tlid
mineral resources of that State ; was elected United- ,
States senator from Nevada as a Itepublican (t'>siK-
cced J. W. Nye, HepubliciUi), and took his .seal ilntvh
4, 1873. His term of service will expire Man-ti 'i,
1879.
Jones, John S., was bom in Champaign Couth
ty. Ohio, Fcbraary 12, 1.8;)5; graduated in the scien-
tUic course at the Oliio Woslcyan University ia 1855,
and received the degree of M.A. pro honore fn»
that institution in 1875; studied law with Powell snl
Vniidermann, and was admitted to the bar June 15,
18.57; w.TS elected prosecuting-attomey for Delawsl*
County in 1800; resigned, anit i.-nlisted as a private in
Company C, Fourtli Ohio Infantry, April 10, 1801 1
was soon after elected first heutenaut; was re-con*
missioned first lieutenant in the three-years' scrvica
Juno 4, 1801; was promoted captain September
18tV2 ; was mustered out at the expiration of the ter"*^
of service of his regiment June 21. 1804; was no«-*l^
Inated by acclamation for the State legislature 'jj
1804, but resigned to accept the command of the O"^^,
Hundred ami Seventy-fourth Oliio Infantry Septe^^*
ber21, 1864; was commissioned brigadier-giuiTal 1^
brevet June 27, 1805, for " gall.int anil meritorio' '^
conduct during tlie war," and was mustered o^ "^
with his command July 7, 1805; rcsumeii the practi«' ■*-
of law; wos elected mayor of Dela>vare by unai-"*-
mous vote in April, 1800; was elected prosecutin ^^ '
attorney of Delaware County for three suceessi
terms, 8er%ing 1805-1872, when he declined a
election ; was a member of the board of mana-^rs
the Ohio Soldiers' and Sailors' Orfihans' Home IS""
l.?74; was a trustee of the Wcsleyan Female Colli
at Delaware 1805-1875; was a presidental eleci
on the Grant and Wilson ticket in 1872; and w.
elected a representative from Ohio iu the Forty-fif-
BIAXIBTICAL SKETCHES.
476
I
I
ConttreaB as a Republlcnn, roceivhig 115,068 votes
a^iiist 15.175 votes for Early F. I'oppli'lon, Demo-
crat, iirid ■iW votfs for Levi S. Bviison, Proliil)ilioii-
isl, si'rviiig from Octohor 15, 1877.
Jones, John W., was bom at Chesterfield, Vir-
einia: received a classical eilticatiuii, graduating at
William aiid Mary College in l)s<);i; resided at Peters-
burg; was olocted a representative from Virginia in
the Twenty-fourth Congress as a Democrat, defeat-
ing W. S. Archer, anti-Jackson, by 254 majority;
was re-elected to the Twenty-tifth, Twenty-«i.\tii,
Twenty-seventh, and Tweuty-eiglitli Congresses, re-
ceiving at the last election 30 majority over J. M.
Botts, Wliig (who unsuccessfully contested the seat),
serving from December 7, 1S:15, to March 3, li>45,
when he declined a re-election; was speaker of the
House In the Twenty-eighth Congress; died Jaiiuarj'
2», 1.S48.
Jones, John W., was bom In Montgomery
County, M.irylund, April 14. ISfKi; was taken when a
lad by his parents to Kentucky ; rt^ceived an aca-
demical education; studied medicine at the Pennsyl-
vania Academy, and received the degree of doctor
of medicine from Jefferson College; practised at
Griffin, Georgia; was a zealous Free-Mason; was
elected a representative from Georgia in the Thirtieth
Congress as a Whig, receiving 4,0*3 votes against
S.004 votes for Towns, Democrat, serving from De-
cember 0, 1847, to Ma^:h 3, Itmi; removed to Ala-
bama, where lie engaged In planting, but relumeil to
Georgia, where he was appointed a medical professor
In the State Medical College.
Jones, Joseph, was bom in Virginia, and rep-
resented that Stale ni the Continental Congress 1777
-177«. and was again elected 17*)-178.3.
Jones, Morgan, was Imrn at New York Febru-
uy 'Jti. ls:J2; was educated at the St. James Church
•choul; was apprenticed to a machinist, and subse-
quently became a plumlwr; was a member of the
city council 1858-18112; was a member of the boanl
• of aldermen 1S»13-1804; was elected a representa-
tive from New Tork in the Thirty-nintli Congress as
a Democrat, receiving P.OOJ votes against 5,512 votes
for William Walsh, Democrat, and C. O'B. Bryant,
Kepublican, serving from December 4, 1805, to March
3, 18(17.
Jones, Nathaniel, was bom in Oninge County,
New York; received a common-school education;
studied suncying and civil engineering; was a member
cf the State Uouse of ItepresetiUitives 1827 and 1828;
was elected a rt/presentatlve from New York in the
Twenty-lifih Congress as a Democrat, and was re-
elected to the Twenty-sixth Congress, receiving 4,184
votes against ;5,U78 votes for Thomas McKissock,
Whig, serving from SeptcmbiT 4, 1837, to March 8,
1841 ; was a State canal commissioner Novemlicr 4,
1M-1-Deccml)er 31, 1847; was a State senator 1852-
185.1; died of asthma at Newburg, New York, July
21, 1S0«.
Jones, Noble Wimberly, was born near Lon-
don. England, in 1724; immigrated to Savannah,
Georgia, with Ids father, witii whom ho studied
medicine and was associated in practice 1748-1750;
was active in civil and niilitiiry pre-Kevoluilonary
movements; was a memU'r of the Colonial Assemldy, ■
and of the sul)5e<]uent State Douse of Itepn'senta-
tlves: was a delegate from Gcuriia to the Continen-
tal CVmgress 1775-1780; lost a son at the capture of
Savannah in 1778; was himself made prisoner at tlie
(all ot Charleston in 178<l, and curried to St. Augus-
tine, where he was t!ii;irisoned ; was cxdiangeil in
July, 1781 ; was again a deleijatc from Georgia to the
Continental Congress 1781-178.'3; practised in Charles-
Ion, December, 178:i-Dccemlier, 17Sf(; returned to
Buvaiinah ; was a delegate to the .State Constitutional
Convention in 1795, and its president ; died at Savan-
lah. lioorgia, January 0, 1803.
Jones, Owen, was Ixjm in Pennsylvania; re-
ceived n classical education; studied law; was ad-
mitted to the bar, and practised at Philadelphia;
was elected a representative from Pennsylvania tn
the 'I'hirty-tifth (_'ongress as a Democrat, receiving
11,(174 votes against 7^1H(1 votes for Mulrany, Kepul^
llcan, sening from December 7, 1857, to March 3,
1850; was defeated as the Democratic candidate for
the Thirty-sixth Congress, receiving 7,2o0 votes
against 11,701 votes for John Wooil, Unionist.
Jones, Roland, was bom in North Carolina;
removed to Louisiana, and settled at Shreveport;
was elected a representative from Louisiana in the
Thirty-third Congress as a Detnocrat, receiving 7,4M
votes against 6,61)6 votes for Smith, Wliig, serving
from December 5, 1853, to March 3, 1855.
Jones, Seaborn, was bom at Augusta. Georgia,
in 1788: received a classical education, which was
completed at Princeton College; studied law; was
admitted to the bar in 1808 by special act of the legis-
l.itiire, he being under o^e; commenced practice at
Columbus; was made solicitor-general of Georgia In
182:j; was elected a representative from Georgia in
the Twenty-third Congress as a Democrat on a gen-
eral ticket, receiving 21.680 votes against 15,830 votes
for Lamar, State-rights, serving from Decemlwr 2,
1833, to March 3, 1835; was again elected to the
Twenty-ninth Congress, serving from December 1,
1845. to March 3, 1847; died at Columbus, Georgia,
in 1874.
Jones, Thomas Laurens, was bom in Huiher-
ford County, North Carolina, January '22, 1810; grad-
uated tti the Preparatory School at Columbia, South
Carolina, and at Princeton College, New Jersey: re-
ceived tlie degree of bachelor of laws In the law-
school of UarvanI University; passed ten years in
Etiro[)ean travel, and on his return iji 1840 was ad-
mitted to the bar at Cliarlestnn, South Carolina;
commenced practice at New-York City In 1847; re-
moved to Newport, Kentucky, and has since prac-
tised there; was a member of the General Assembly
of Kentucky in 1853 and 1854; was a representative
fnmi Kentucky' In the Fortieth Congress as a Demo-
crat, receiving (1. 488 votes against 3,83tj votes for W.
S. Itankin, Kepublican ; was re-elected to the Forty-
first Congress, receiving 14,082 votes against tj,120
votes for Boot, Bepublican, serving from Decemlier
4. 1807, to March 3, 1871 ; was again elected to the
Forty-fourth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 7,2t)8
votes a^iUiist 4,141 votes for Hogan, Eejmbllcan,
sening from December 6, 1875, to ftlarch 3, 1877.
Jones, Walter (father of Waiter Jones), was
boni in Virginia In 1745; received a classical educiv-
tioii, graduating at William and Mary College In 1700;
sluiiied medicine at Edinbitrgli, Scotland, where he
received the degree of doctor in medicine; returneil
to Virginia, and commenced practice In Northumber-
land C(mnty; was appointed by the Continental Con-
gress physician-general of the Middle Military De-
partment; W.1S elected a representative from Virginia
in the Fifth Congress as a Democrat, servinir from
May 15. 17i)7, to March 3, 17W0: was .again elected
to the Eighth Congress; was re-elected tn the Ninth,
Tenth, and Eleventh Congresses, ser^'ing from Octo-
ber 17, 1803, to March 3, 1811 ; died in Westmoreland
County, Virginia, December 31, 1815.
Jones, Wilie (brother of Allen Jones), was bom
in Halifax County, North Carolina; was iiresldcnt
of the State Committee of Safety in 1775; was a
member of the First Constitutir>iuil Convention in
1770; was a member of the Douse of Conmions of
North Carf)lina in 1770, 1777, and 1778; was a delegate
to the Continental Congress 1780-1781 ; was elected
to the United-States Constitutional fJonvention In
1787, but declined; was a member of the State Con-
vention called to ratify the Constitution of the Unit-
ed States July 21. 1788; removed to the vicinity of
lialelgh, where he died.
Jones, William, was bom at Phlladrljihla,
Pennsylvania, in 17(50; received a classical educition:
joined a volunteer company when sl.vteeu years of
age, and participated in the battles of Trenton and
Princeton; entered the Continental naval service
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under Commodore Tmzton, and served gallantly;
removed to Charleston, South Carolina, where ho
resided 1700-1793; was elected a representative from
Pcimsylvariitt In the Seventh Congress as a Demo-
crat, sorviiig frtim Uecemlwr 7, 1801, to March 3, ISItJ ;
was secR'tary of the navy January 12, ISlIJ-Decem-
ber7, 1814; was president of IheUnilcd-StatesBanV;;
was collector of customs at the port of Philadelphia;
died at Bethlehem, Pennsvlvania, September 5, 1831.
He published " Winter Navigation of the Dela-
ware " ISiT.'.
Jones, William T., was born at Cor>-dou. Indi-
ana, Fel>ru.iry I'll, ],s42; received an acndeniic educa-
tion, and afterward studied at the itliimii University,
Oxford, Ohio; studied law; 8er%ed in the Union
army as lieutenant, captain, and major cif the Seven-
teenth Indiana Volunteers; was presidential elector
for till' .St'cond District of Indiana in isil^; was ap-
pointed associate justice of the Supreme Court of
\rVyoining April 0, IWlO; and was elected a delegate
from Wyuming to the Forty-«econd Congress as a
Bepublican, receiving b majority of 227 votes over
Colonel Wanless. Di'mocrat.
Jorgenson, Joseph, was bom at Philadelphia,
PennsylvHuiii, Februarj' 11, l(iv44; graduated at the
medical department of the University of Pennsyl-
vania; was assistant surgeon United-.Slate8 army
lSfl5-18((8; was elected to the legislature of Virginia
from Prince Edward County in NovemlK-r, 1871 ; was
appointed postmaster of Petersburg; was elected a
representative fmm Virginia in the Forty-fiftii Con-
gresa as a Kepublican, receiving 13,896 votes against
12,492 votes for W. E. Ilinton, jun., Democrat, serv-
Ing from Oclol>er 15, 1877.
Joyce, Charles H., was boni near Andover,
England, Jaiuiar>' 30, WJO; was educated at Waits-
field Ac-idemy and Newbury Seminary; studied law;
was admitted to the bar, and commenced practice at
Rutland. Vermont ; was two years State librarian, and
two years district-attorney for Washington County ;
■erred in the Union army as major and lieutenant-
colonel of the Second Vermont Volunteers; was a
meml»er of the House of Representatives In ISllO,
1870, and 1871, and was speaker of the House in 1870
and 1871: was elected a representative from Ver-
mont in the Forty-fourth Congress as a Kepublican,
receiving 9,038 votes against 2,597 votes for Ileaton,
Democrat, and 1,(135 votes for Charies W. Willard,
Independent Kepublican; and was re-elected to the
Forty-tiflh Congn-ss, receiving 14,4tHI votes against
7,(W7 voti'9 for ("iiilds. Democrat, and 18 votes scat-
tering, serving from December 0, 1875.
Judd, Nomiaii B., was boni at Kome, New
York, .lanuiiry HI, 1815; studied law there, and was
admitlod tu tlic ha^r; removed to Chicago in 183fl,
and commenced the practice of his profession; held
several munieipal ofhces; was a member of the St.ite
Senate of Illinois for sixteen consecutive years, his
first tenn commencing in 1844, and hist ending in
18C0; was ndiiister plenipotentiary to Prussia from
18(U until 18<15; was elected a representative from
Illinois in the Fortieth Congress as a KepiiliUcan,
receiving 1-"j,247 votes against 3.007 votes fiir Wal-
lace, Demiicrat; and was re-electe<l to the Forty-first
Congress, receiving 27,414 votes against 10.23;j votes
for Wall.iee, Democriit, ser\ing from March 4, 18(i7,
to March .3, 1871 ; waa ap)><iinte<l colleot<ir of customs
at the pnrt of f'hiciigo by President Gninl.
JudBOn, Andrew 1"., was b<irn at Eustford. Con-
necticut. Ni)venibi.'r',i9, 17f<4; received ii public-Bchool
education; studied law; was admitted tu the Imr In
1800, and commenced practice at Jlmitpelier, \'er-
mont; returned to ('nnnecticut, and in IW.O settled
at Canterbury; was State's attorney for Windham
County 18H>-18;i.'i; was several times respectively a
member of the .state Senate and House of Kepresen-
talives; was elected a representative fmm Connecti-
cut In the Twenty-fourth Congress as a Democrat,
serving from December 7, 1S3S, to July 1, 18.37. when
he retlgned to accept the position of United-State*
dlstrict-jndee for the district of Connecticut (mo-
ceeding William Bristol, deceased), and occupieit the
position until his death at Canterbur>°, Coiuiectlcut,
Marcii 17, 18.i3.
Julian, George "W., was bom near Centrevllie,
Indiana, May 6, 1817; received a common-seliool
education, and was s teacher more thiui three yean;
studied law, and practised nearly twenty years: wu
a member of the State legislature of Indiana in 1^5;
was a candidate for Vice-President on the Free-soil
ticket with John P. Hale in 18.02; was a delegate to
the First National Kepublican Convention, held at
Pittsburg in February, 1850, where he served iw a vice-
president and as chairman of the committee on organ-
ization; was elected a representative from Indiana
in the Tldrty-tirst Congress as a Bepublican. receiv-
ing 4,737 votes against 4,583 votes for Parkir. Whig,
serving from December 3, 1840, to March 3, 1851;
was again elected to the Tliirty-sevcntU Congress, r^^
ceiving 12.237 votes against l.iMl votes for UieUe,
Democrat; was re-elected to the Tliirty-eightli Con-
gress, receiving 9,272 votes against 7.414 votes for
Johnson, Democrat; was re-elected to the Thirty-
ninlli Congress, receiving 13,.')29 votes against H,1(j1
votes for James Brown, Democrat; w.is re-«'lected to
the Fortieth Congress, receiving 13,410 votes against
7,188 votes for Bundy, Democrat; and was re-elected
to the Forty-first Congress from his new district,
given above, as a Repuhlican, receiving 13,413 vole*
against 13,2!I7 votes for Keld, Democrat, serving from
Jidy 4. 1.801, to March 3, l-STl.
Junkin, Benjaxnin F.. was bom in Cumber-
land Comity, Pennsylvania, November 12, 1822; re-
ceived a classical education, graduating at Fayette
College; studied law; was admitted to the bar in
1844, and commenced practice at Bloomfield; wu
district-attorney from Perry County ISijO-lSoS: was
elected a reprtjsentatlve from Pennsylvania in the
Thirty-sixth Congress as a Kepublican, receiving
8,640 votes against 8,000 votes for Fisher, Democrat,
serving from December 6, 1860, to March 3, 1861;
W.-UI defeated as the Kepublicin candidate (or the
Thirty-seventh Congress, receiving 11,712 votes
against 12,009 votes for Joseph Bailey, War Demo-
crat.
Kalbfleisoh, Martin, was bom at Flushing,
Netherlands, February 0, 1804; received a public-
school education; studied chemistry: immigrated to
the Unitetl States, and located at New-York Citv;
was health-warden in 18.32, and school-trustee in
1830; removed to Bushwick, where he was supe^
visor 1852-1854; was president of a commission for
consolidating Bushwick and Williamsburg with
BriMiklyn in 1854; was an alderman of Bro<>klyii
ISo.VlliOl; was mayor of Brooklyn 1801-1802: wM
elected a representative from New York In the Tliir-
ty-eighth Congress as a Democrat, recei%-ing 10,&!ft
votes against 5,381 votes for WiUI, Kepublican, serv-
ing from December 7, ISO;}, to March 3, 1805; was a»
delegate to the National Union Convention of 1806 "^
was again mayor of Brooklyn 1807-180S; died »-^
Brooklyn February 12, 1873.
Kane, EHias K., was bom In New York Ju;
7, 1790; received a public-school education; studie
law: was admitted to the bar; commenced practi(
at Nashville, Tennessee, and subsequently located
Kasknskia, Illinois Territor>', in 1815; was a dele
to the convention tliat framed a State Constitu
for Illinois; was the first State secretary of state
a member of the .State House of Representatives ; w
elected a United-States senator from Illinuis as
Jackson Democrat, and was re-elected, serving froK
December 5, 1825, to December 11, 1835, when t
died at Washington City.
Kasson, John A., was bom near BurlingtoK
Vermunt, Jauu.iry 11, 1S22; received a classical ed*^
cation, graduating at the University of Vermont X
1842; studiiMl law in Massachusetts; removed r
St. Louis, Missouri, where he practised until 185
when he removed to Des Moines, Iowa; was Si
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[-director in the organization for the State Bank
Tof Iowa in 1I?.V;; was fjtate commissioner to invesli-
fate and report on the condition of the executive
epartment of Iowa in 1850; was ctialruian of the
fBepuMican State Coromitlee in 185S-18tlO; was a
Ldelegato to the Republican Convention at Chicago in
llMiU; was first assistant postmaster-general in I'resi-
[dent Lincoln's administration in 1S(11, and rrsii^ned
In the fall of \dH'2 to accept a candidacy for Con^;re!;5;
[was United-States commissioner to the International
I Fustal Congress at Paris i u X8(i3 ; was elected a reii-
I l¥S<.'ntative from Iowa In tlie Thirty-eighth Congress
[ as a Republican, receiving 10,300 votes against T,:M0
votes for Finch, Democrat; was re-elected to tlie
i Thirty-nintli Conin^ss, receiving 13,640 votes against
[7,108 votes for Sf. V. McUenry, Democrat . serving
[from December 7, lSti3, to March 3, \i^l; was com-
'missioner in 1S07 from the Unitwl States to nego-
' tiate jwstal conventions with Great Britain, France,
[Belgium, llolland, Oenuany, Switzerland, and Italy;
[signed conventions with all except France; was a
[member of the State House of Representatives lt<<5):*-
[1873; was again elected to the Forty-third Congress,
' recci\Tng 14,009 votes against 7.702 votes for O. L.
Palmer, Liberal and Democrat; was re-elected to the
Forty-fourth Congress, receiving 12,274 vot^s against
» 9.073 votes for Wliltman, anli-Monopolist, senlng
Irom December I. 1873. to March 3. 1.S77; was ap-
pointed by President Hayes In 1877 minister to
Austria.
Katifman, David S., was bom at Boiling
Springs, Pennsylvania, Decemlxjr 18, 1813; received
a classical education, graduating at Princeton Col-
^m lege in 18.33; studied law at Natchez, Mississippi,
^m with C^neral Quitman; was admitted U) the bar, and
^K commenced practice at Natchitoches, Louisiana; re-
move<l in 18:37 to Nacogdoches, Texas; distinguished
himself in the campaigns of Texas volunteers against
the Indians; was a representative in Uie fuxas
House of Representatives 1K19-1S43; was a member
of the Texan Senate l.S4;i-]84o ; was appointed rhanji
d'affiiiren of Texas in the United States, but the an-
tiexatiou of Texas vacated his office; was elected a
representative from Tex.os in the Twenty-ninth Con-
gress, receiving i>K» majority over his six competitors ;
was roelected to the Thirtieth and Thirty-first Con-
gresses without opposition, serving from June 1,
184<J. to .January ;}l, ]8.'>1, when he died very sud-
denly at W.ishineton City.
KavanEigh, "Edward, was bom April 27, 1705;
received an acidemical education; studied law: was
admitted to the bar, and coimnenced prai.'tice at Dnm-
aiiscotta, Maine; was a mcml>er of the State House
of Representatives in 1820 and 1828; was secretary
of the .State Senate in 18!K); was elected a representa-
tive from Maine in the Twenty^iecond Congress as a
Jackson Democrat; was re-elect<;d to the Twenty-
third Congress, serving fnrai December 5, 1831, to
March 3, 1835; was defe.ited as the Democratic
candidate for the Twenty-fourth Congress by Jere-
miah Bailey. Whig ; was char'jid 'iijl'aire» to Portugal
March 3, ISSS-June 28, 1841; was a member of the
joint commission for establishing the North-eastern
boundary in 1842; w.is acting governor of Maine
» after the election of Governor Fairfield to the United-
States Senate 1843-1844; died at New Castle, Miiiae,
January 20, 1*14.
ELean, John, was a delegate from .South Caro-
lina to the Continental Congress 1785-1787.
Kearney, Dyre, was a delegate from Delaware
to the ContinentiU Congress 1780-1788.
Keese, Richard, was bom at Peru, New York,
November 23, 17D4; received a public-school educa-
tion; founded the town of Keesevillo; was elected a
lepreseutative from New York in the Twentieth
Congress as a Jackson Democrat, serving from De-
eemKcra. 1827, to March 3, 1820; removed to Penn-
(ylvania.
Kebr, Edward C, was bom of German parent-
<ge In the county of St. Louis, Missouri, Novem-
I
I
I
berS, 1837; received on academic education : studied
law; was admitted to the bar Febru.iry 18, 18.18,
in St. Louis, and practised there; was elected a rep-
resentative from Missouri in the Forty-fourth Con-
gress 08 a Democrat, receiving 5,871 votes against
5,tit>3 votes for Edwin O. Stanard, Republican, serv-
ing from December 0, 1875, to March 3. L^77; was
defeated as the Democratic candidate for the Forty-
liftli Congress, receiving 0,824 votes against 7,043
votes for iVnthony Ittner, Republican.
Keifer, Joseph Warren, was bom in Clark
County, Ohio, January 30, 1830; was reared on a
fann, and cilucateil in common schools and at An-
tioch College; commenced the study of law at
Springlieid in 1850; was admitted to (he liar January
12. 1858. and commenced practice at Sprincfleld. con-
tinuing It until April 19, 1801, when he enlisted in
tlie Union amiy; was commissioned major of the
Third Ohio Volunteer Infantry April 27. 18<!1; was
promoted lieutenant-eolrjnel of the same regiment
February 12. 1802; was appointed colonel of the
(.hie Ilundn^il and Tenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry
Septcndier 30, 1802; was appointed brigadier-gen-
eral by brevet November 3t», 1804; was appointed,
July 1, IStio, major-general of volunteers by brevet;
was" mustered out of service June 27, 1805 (having
Iweji in the annv four years and two months, and
four times wouniicd) ; resumed practice at .Springfield
in July, 1805; was appointed lieutenant-colonel of the
Twenty-sixth Unite(l-Statcs Infantry November iJO,
IStXJ, but declined; was a member of the State Senate
lSOA-1800 ; W.1S commander of the Department of the
Ohio, Grand Amiy of (he Republic, 1808-1870; and
was elected vice-cormuander-ln-i-hief of that organi-
zation May 8, 1872; was appointed trustee of the Ohio
.Soldiers' and .S.iilors' Orphans' Home April 10, 1870;
was a delegate to the National Republican Conven-
tion 1870: was elected a nipresentative from Ohio in
the Forty-fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving
17,7:;8 votes against 14,012 votes for George Arthur,
Democrat, aiul 18;J votes for William Pollard, Prohi-
bitionist, and sening from October 15, 1877.
Keightley, Edwin William, was Imm In
Van Buren 'I'ownship, La Grange Coimly, Indiana,
August 7, 184;i; received a common-school educa-
tion, and for one ye.-ir was a student at tlic Valpa-
raiso Collegiate Institute; entered the law-depart-
ment of the L' niversity of Michigan; graduated in
Marcli, ISthi, and commenced practice in St. Joseph's
County, Michigan; was elected in 1872 prosecuting-
attorney of the county for two years, commencing
Januar)' 1. 1873; was appointed judge of the Fif-
teenth Juilicial Circuit of Michigan to till a vacancy;
in April, 1875, was nominated by both purlies. and
elected circuit-judge of the Flfteentli Judicial Dis-
trict for the term of six years, beginning May 1,
1870; was elected a representative from Michigan in
tlie Forty-fifth Congress as a BepubHcan, receiving
18,710 votes against 16,330 votes for Henry Chamber-
lain, Detnocrat and Greenback, and serving from
October 15. 1877.
Keim, George May, was bom at Reading,
Pennsylvania, March 23, 18(i5; received a classical
educ.ition, which was finished at Princeton College;
stmlied law; was admitted to the bar in 1820, and
commenced practice at Reading; became prt>ml-
nently connected with the Free-Masons, and major-
genetul In the militia; was for many years cashier of
tlic Farmers' Bank at Reading; was a delegate to
the .State Constitutional Convention in 1837; was
electeil a representative from Pennsylvania In the
Twenty-Hflh Congn.'ss (in place of Henry A. Muhlen-
berg, resigned to accept the Austrian mission) as a
Democnit without opposition; was re-elected to the
Twenty-sixth Congress, and was re-elected to the
Twenty-seventh Congress, serving from March 17,
1838, to March 3, 1843; was ap]Minited by President
Taylor in 184;i United-States marshal for the Eastern
District of Pennsylvania, and was re-appointed by
President Polk; was defeated as a candidate for
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ptetidentia] elector on tlie Democratic ticket In 1800;
WU active in raising jueu for tlic Union anny after
hostilities were commenced in 1801; wim stricken
with paraiysis wliile drilling a company of home
guards, of which he was captain, and died lire days
afterwards, Juno 10, 1801, at Reading, Pennsyl-
vania.
Keim, William High, was bom near Rpadlng,
Peiiii!<ylvnnia, June i:l. lKi;j; received an aca<leniical
education a( the Mount-Airy Military School; was
£romiuently connected with the State militia, attain-
ig the rank of major-general ; was mayor of Head-
ing in 1S48; was elected a representative from
Pennsylvania in the Thirty-fifth Congress (in place
of J. (ilancy Jones, resigned) as a Democrat, serving
Irfjm Decemljer7, 1858, to March 3, IS'i!'; was sur-
veyor-peueral of the State of Pennsylvania; entered
the Union army in 1801, and was placed iu command
of a division on the Upper Potomac; wjis appointeil
brigadier-gctierid of volunteers; served in the ad-
vance upon Itichmond on the peninsula; contracted
a typhoiil-fcver; died at Hamsburg, Pennsylvania,
May 18. 18'tt.
£teitt, Lawrence M., was bom In Orange-
burg District, South Carolina, Octolier 4, 1854; re-
ceived a classical education, graduating at South-
Carolina College in 184;i; studied law; was admitted
to the bar in 184o, and commenced practice at
Orangeburg Court House; was elected a represen-
tative from South Carolina In the Thirty-ihirtI
Congress aa a State-rights Democrat, receiving 45(i
majority over W. A. Owens, State-richts Wiig;
was re-elected to the Thirty-fourth, Thirty-fiftli,
and Tliirty-slxth Congresses without opposition,
■erving from December 6, 1853, until he with-
drew in December, 1800, having been elected n
delegate to the Secession Convention of South
Carolina; was a deputy to the Provisional Con-
gress of the Confederate States which assembled
at Montgomery in February, 1801, and at Kic-hinoud
in July, 1801; raised the TAvontieth South-Carolina
Volunicers, and was coinmissioncd its colonel Janu-
ary 11, 1802; was wounded in the Confederate attack
at Cold Uarbor, and died the next day, June 2, 18<M,
at Uiehmond, Virginia.
Kelley, William D., was bom at Philadelphia.
Pennsylvania, April li, 1814; received a Ihorougb
Englisli education; was reader in a priiiting-ofiice,
and aflerwiirds an apprentice in a jewelry eslaldisli-
ment ; reracived to Doston, where be worked five years
as a journeyman jeweller; ri'tumeil to Philadutphia,
where he studied and practised law, devoting tiini-
self also to literary pursuits; was twice proseciitiug-
attoniey for the city and county of Philadelpbia,
and for ten years judge of the Court of Common
Pleas of Philadelphia; was elected a representative
from Pennsylvania in tlie Thlrty-.scvcnlh Con.(;ress
as a Republican, receiving ]1,.'>08 votes against HMro
voles for Morgan, Democrat, and 1,715 votes lor
Kobinson, Unionist; w,-is re-elected to the Thirty-
eighth Concress, receiving 8,W0 votes against 8,1 J8
votes for Nicholson, Democrat; was re-elecled to the
Thirty-ninth Congress, receiving 13,088 votes against
9,.344 Votes for Northmp, Republican; wius re-elected
to the Fortieth Congress, receiving 14,5.il votes
against 12,l;i0 votes for Mcdrath, Democrat; was
re-elected to tlie Forty-lirst Congress, receiving 17.H^7
votes against 15,248 votes for Nicholson, Democrat;
was re-elected to the Forty-second Congress, receiv-
ing 14,324 votes against 11,022 votes for W. D.
Thomas, Democrat; was re-elected to the Forty-
third Concress, receiving 20,l'!55 votes against ]3,!W1
votes for W. B. Mitchell, Democrat ; was re-elected
to the Forty-fourth Congress, receiving 12,4;iO votes
against 0,040 votes for McOrath. Democrat; and
was re-elected to the Forty-fifth Congress, receiving
18,820 votes against 12,4:52 votes for John T. School,
Deinocnil, serving from July 4, 1801.
KellogK, Chajrles, was bom in Berkshire Coun-
ter, Haaaacuusetts; received a public-school educa-
tion; removed to Cayuga County, New York;]
niemlier of the .State House of Representative
1810 and 182(>-182:i; was elected a repre&
from New York in the Nineteenth Conureas, serrln
from December 5, 1825, to March 3, 1827.
Kellogg, Francis W^., was bom at Worthin
ton, Massacliusclts. -May 30, 1810; received a pobUi
school education ; removed to Michigan, and
at Grand Rapids, where he engaged in lum'
was a member of the State House of Kepi
lives in 1S50 and 1807; was elected a repres^ntaill
from Michigan in the Thirty-«ix1li Congress as ;
Republican, receiving 21,t)50 votes against 17,4'
votes for Church, Democrat; was re-elected to "'
Thirty-seventh Congress, receiving 21i,012 voU
against 10,070 votes for Church, Democrat ; and '
re-elected to the Thirty-eighth Congress, receivn
10,013 votes against 7.3i)S votes for Church. Den
crat, serving from Deceml)er 5, 1850, t<j March
1805; was appointed by President Johnson collect
of internal rcveinu' for the Southern District of Al)
bama; resided at Mobile ; was elected a representatis
from Alabama in the Fortieth Congress as a Hepuli
lican, serving fr<jin July 22, 1808. to March 3, l^^j
Kellogg, Orlando, was born at Elizal)et'
New York. June is, 1800; receiveil an aca '
education; studied law; was admitted to tlie'
1SJ8. and commenced practice at Elizabethtown:
surrog.ite of Essex County 1.840-1844; w.-is olect
representative from New York in the Thirtieth Con-
gress as a Republican, serving from Decenilx'r 0. ls)T,
to March .3, 1840; was again elected to the Tliiny-
eighth Congress, receiving 7,654 votes against 0.1*7
votes for Burhans, Democrat, serving from Decou-
ber 7, 1803, to March 3, 1805: was re-elected to the
Thirty-ninth Cimgress, but died, before taking hii
seatj iit Eiiznliethtown, August 24, 1805.
Elellogg, Stephen W., was boni at Shelbunw,
Massachusetts, April 5. 1822 ; graduated at Yale Col-
lege in 1840; studied law; was admitted to the Inf,
and has since practised at Waterbury; was clerk li
the State Senate of Connecticut In 1861 ; was a mem-
ber of the State Senate In 1863, and of the Slate
House of Representatives in 1856 ; was judge o( tlw
New-Haven County Court in 1854; was eiecied imln
of probate In 1854, and held the office six • '
a delegate to the National liepuidican i
of 1800 and 1808, and w.as elected a repi ;
from Connecticut in the Forty-first Congress us » he-
publican, receiving 13,012 votes against 12,fi7S totrt
for Babeock, Democrat; was re-elected to the Fnrty-
second Congress, receiving lil,3<W votes against l3,TiT
votes for Kcndriek, Democrat; was re-elected to tls
Forty-thinl Congn-ss, receiving 12,777 votes oguinrt
12.18t) votes for English, Democrat, and 610 votes (nr
Caleff, Prohibitionist, serving from April 0, IStW, lo
March .3, 1875; was defeated as the Republican Cin-
ilidate for the Forty-third Congress, receiving l3,iW
votes against 15.440 votes for Jiunes Plielps. DfBio-
crat. and 560 votes for Harrington, Proliibitlonirt;
was defeated as the Republican candiilate for the
Forty-fourth Concress, n'ceiving 10,777 votes n^nilBt
11),6<X) votes for Barnes Phelps, Democrat, and aS
votes for Cummiiigs. PMhibitionist.
Kellogg, William, was bom in Ashixbnl*
County, Ohio, Jiilv 8, 1814; received a publir-scln*'j
education: studiiiliaw; w.-ks admitted to the bar, wa
commenced practice at Canton ; was a memlier""'*
State House of Representatives In 1840 and ItwO; "•
judge of the State Circuit Court lt<i2-IS.>i: *»»
elected a rejirescntative from Illinois in the Thlf'T"
fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 10,175 Tot"
against 14,474 votes for Davidson, Democmt; ""^
re-elected to the Thirty-sixth Congress, recci""?
10,487 votes against 10,800 votes for Davidwii, Vf^
crat ; and was re-elected to the Thirty-seventb ^"^
cress, receiving 25,060 votes against 20,1)07 vote's ['.'
IngersoII, Democrat, servins from DecemlH-r 7, !*'•
to March 8, 1863; was appoiute<l by President UJ!'
coin tuiaister resident at Onatemala April 21, i'"*''
STATISTICAL SKETCHES.
479
' but declineil scniiiR: was appointed by Presldt-nt
JobnsDii chief uiMice of Ni-liraska Tcrriiory in ISWl.
ELellogg, Williaia Pitt, was born Uecemlier
8, iSSl), in V'ennont; was educated nt Norwich Uni-
vemlty: removed to Illinois in 184*1; studit'cl law at
r Peoria, Illinois, and was admitted to the liar in ISM,
commencing praclice in Fulton County; in 1800
served ua presidential elector on the Lincoln ticket;
WM appointed chief justice of Xeljraska by Mr. Lin-
coln in 1S<51; resigned, and accepted the colonelcy of
the Seventh Illinois Cavalrj-; served under General
Pope in Missouri, and commanded General Granger's
^ cavalry bripidc until tlie evacuation of Corinth ; was,
^P In April, IHtJo, apiHiiiited collector of the port of New
~^ Orleans, his commission being sipied by Mr. Lin-
coln on the afternoon before the evening on which
he was assassinated; was elected United-Suites seiia-
Itor from Louisiana in July, 18U8, as a Republican,
serving from July 17, 1808, to November 1, 1872,
■wlicn he resigned ; was governor of Louisiana from
January 5, 1S7;3, to January 6, 1S77; was again
electe<l to the United-States Senate, and was ad-
mitte<I to his seat Deceml)er 1, 1S77. His term of
service will expire March 3, 1883.
Kelly, James, was bom in Pennsylvania; re-
ceived a classical education; studied law; was ad-
mitted to the bar, and practised; was elected a
representative in Congress from the State of Penn-
sylvania in the Ninth Congress, and was re-elected
to the Tenth Congress, serving from December 2,
1805, to March 3, 1800; died at Philadelphia Febni-
arv 4, 1H19.
]SLelly, James K., was bom In Centre County,
Fcunsylvania, February 10, 1810 ; gra<luate<I at
Princeton College, New Jersey, in IS-W; studied law,
and was admitted to the bar in Pennsylvania in 1M2;
went to California in 1840, and from thence to the
Territory of Oregon In 1851; was elected by the
Legislativo Assembly of Oregon In 1S52 one of three
commissioners to prepare a code of laws for that
Terri tory ; was a member of tlie Legislative Council
from 1853 to 1857; in 1855 he was chosen lieutenant-
colonel of the First Regiment of Oregon Mounted
Volunteers, and in that capacity was engaged in the
Yakima Indian war in 1855 and 1S50; was elected n
member of the convention which framed the Consti-
tution of Oregon in 1857; was a senator in the Legis-
tlstive Assembly of Oregon from IKtJo to 1804; was
lippointed by I^sident Buchanan United-States dis-
trict-attorney for Oregon in 1800, but declined to
accept the appointment; he was elected Unitcd-
Btates senator from Oregon as a Democrat ( to succeed
G. H. Williams, Republican), serving from March 4,
1S71, to Man-h .3, 1877.
Kelly, John, was bom at New Tork April 21.
1821; received a public-school education; leanied
tlie mason's trade, and worked at it; was for two
years an alderman; wits elected a representative
from New York in the Thirty-fourth Congress as a
Democrat, recelvuig 3,008 votes against 3,IH7 voles
for Walsh, Democrat, and 1,51)4 votes for Brj'ce,
American; and was re-€lecte<l to the Thirty-tiftli
» Congress, receiving 8.3U» votes against 1,7.15 votes
for Gould, American, and 1.407 votes for Ryckman,
Republican. ser\in;< from December 3, 1855, to De-
cemlwr 25. 1S58. when he resigned, having been
elected hic;h sheriff of the city and county of New
iforic; was a deiesate to the National Democratic
Conventions in ISiM. I80R, 1872, and 1870.
Kelly, William, was bom in '^nnessee; re-
ceived a classical education; studied law; was ad-
mitted to the bar, and commenced pnictice at liunts-
vlUe. Alabama; was elected a United-States senator
from Alab.ima as a Jackson Democrat (In place of
John W. Walker, resigned), serving from January
21, 182:3, to March 3, 1825; removed to Louisiana,
Wliere he died.
Kelsey, William H., was bom at Smyrna.
3?ew York, Octoijcr 2, 1812; studied and practised
law ; was appointed surrogate of Livingston County
in February, 1840; was elected district-attorney of
Livingston County in 18.^1; was elecleil a represen-
tative from New i'ork in the Thirty-fourth Congress
as a Whig, receiving 11,001 votes against 4,4.')0 votes
for HiLStings, Democrat, and 110 votes for Gibbs,
Democrat ; ~ was re-elected to the Thirty-lifth Con-
gress, receiving 10,500 votes against 4,200 votes for
Angell, Democrat, and 4,81)5 votes for liallel, Ameri-
can, serving from Dec(!ml)<;r 3, llW), to March 3,
1850; was again elected to the Fortieth Congress as
a Republican, receiving 12,037 votes agaijist 8,334
votes for Chesebro, Democrat; and was re-elected to
the Forty-first Congress, receiving 17,234 votes against
12,71:5 votes for Koss, Democrat, serving from March
4, 1807, to Marc-h .3, 1871.
Kelso, John R., was Ixim In Franklin County,
Oldo, Murcli 21, 1831; received a classical education,
graduating at Pleasant-Ridge College, Missouri; was
the principal of an academy in Missouri; served
through the war in the Union Army as lieutenant
and captain; was elected a representative from Mis-
souri in the Thirty-ninth Congress as an Independ-
ent Rorllcal, ri>ceiving 3,.s41 votes against 3,548 votes
for S. II. Boyd, Radical, and 400 votes for M. J.
Hubble, Democrat, and serving from December 4,
1806, to March 3, 1807.
Kemble, Gouvemeur, was borp at New York
in I78U; received an Kuglish educulion, arid eiigageil
In mercantile pursuits; was appointed by I'resideiil
Monroe consul at Cadiz, and while there studied the
firocess of casting cannon; on his return he estab-
ished a cannon-foundcry at Cold Springs, opposite
West Point, wliere cannon were for the first time
cast in this comitry with any degree of perfection;
was elected a representative from New Tiork in the
Twenty-flfth Congress as a Democrat ; was re-elected
to the Twenty-sixth Congress, receiving 4,080 votes
against 4,203 votes for Joshua W. Bowron, Whig,
serving from September 4, 1837, to March 3, 1841;
was a delegate to the State Constitutional Conven-
tion of 1840; died at Cold Springs, New York, Sep-
tember 2, 1875.
KempshaU, Tbomeia. was bom in England ;
recei»-ed a public-scliool education; immigrated to
the United States, and was one of the first settlers
at Rochester, New York ; held several local offices;
was elected a represtjiitative fnim New York in the
Twenty-sixth Congress as a Wliig, receiving 6.470
votes against 4,441 votes for Henry R. Selden, Demo-
crat, serving from December 2, 1830, to March 3,
1841 ; died at Rochester, New York, January 14,
isor..
Kenan, Thomas, was bom In Duplin County,
North Carolina, in 1771 ; was a niemlier of the House
<if Coninions of North Carolina in 1700, and of the
State Senate in 1804; was elected a representative in
the Ninth Congress without opposition; was re-
elected to the Tenth Congress, and was r»>-clected
to tlie Eleventh Congress, ser^ingfrom I)eoenil>er 2,
1805, until March 3, 1811; removed to the vicinity of
Selma, Alabama, where he was several times elected
to the State legislature, and died October 22, 184.S.
Kendall, Charles West, was born at Searv
mont, SlBiiie, April 22. 18-J8; was educated at Phil-
lips Academy, MaBsachupeits, and attended a partial
course of studies at Yale College; n-niovod to the
P.iclHc coast; sliiilied law in Sacramento, California,
and commenced practice ; was a member of the
legislature of the State of California In 1801 and
1K12; removed to Hamilton, Nevada; wos elected a
representative from Nevada in the Forty-second
Congress as a Democrat, receiving 6,821 votes
against 0,491 votes for T. Fitch, Republican; was
re-elected to the Forty-third Congress, receiving 7,847
voles against 7.140 votes for C. C. Goodwin, Repub-
lican, serving from March 4, 1871, to March 3, 1875.
Kendall, Jonas, was bom at Worcester, Mas-
sachusetts, June 0, 1767; received an academical
education; was a member of the State House of
Representatives for several years from the town of
480
COXGKK88IOKAL DIKECTOKY.
Lcomiiistor; was elected a repreaentative from Ma»-
sacliusotta in tlie Sixteentli Congress, seniiig from
December 0, 1819, to March 3, 1821 ; died at Leomin-
ster, Massaoliusetts, Octol>cr 29, 1844.
Kendall, Joseph Q., was bom at Leominster,
Massacliusi'tts, iii 1(88; received a cl.issical educa-
tion, gr.idiiating at Ilanard College in I81U; was a
tutur there 1812-1819; was elected a representative
from Massachusetts in the Twenty-first Congress,
and was re-elected to the Twenty-second Congress,
serving from December 7, 1820, to March 2, IStt;
was cierlv of the courts of Worcester County; died at
Wnri-ester. Massachusetts, October 2, 1847,
Kenna, John B., was bora at Valcoulon, Vir-
ginia (now West Virfjiuia), April 10, 1848; lived and
worked on a fann ; entered the Confederate array as
a private soldier; was wounded in that sen'ice in
1664, and w.is surrendered at ShreveiMirl, Louisiana,
in lS(Wj; aflerwards attended St. Vincent's College.
Wieeling; studied law willi Miller and Quarrier at
Charleston; was admitted to the bar June 20, 1870,
and commenced practice; was elected prosecutin^-
attoniey for Kanawha County on Uic Democratic
ticket in 1.S72, and served until January 1, 1877; in
1875 was elected by the bar in the respecUve counties,
under statuton," provision, to hold the circuit courts
of Lincoln ancj \Va\iie; and was elected a repres(!nla-
live from West Virginia In the Forty-fifth Congress
as a Democrat, receiving 20,102 votes against 12,719
votes for B. J. Redmond, serving from October Iii,
1877.
Kennedy, Andrew, was bom in Oliio In 1810;
wa.") apprenticed to a blacksmith; educated himself
after he became of age; removed to Muncietown,
Indiana: studied law; was admitted to the bar, and
practised; was a member of the State Senate; was
elected a representative from Indiana in the Twenty-
seventh Congress as a Democrat ; was re-elected to the
Twcntv-cighlh and Twenty-ninth Congresses, serv-
ing from May .31, 1841, to March 3, 1847; died at
Muncietown, Indiana, December 31, 1847.
Kennedy, Anthony, was bom at Baltimore,
Maryland, in 1811 ; removed with his parents to Vir-
ginia in 1821 ; received a classical education, grad-
uating at Jeffersiiu Academy, Charlcstown, Vii-ginia;
studied law, and was admitted to the bar, but did
not practise; was a member of the Slate House of
Representatives 18.3{>-1843; was defeated as the Wing
candidate to the Twenty-ninth Congress, receiving
2,740 votes against 3,0X1 votes tor Ilenry Bedinger,
Democrat; returned to Baltimore in lS.'i(); was elect-
ed a United-.States senator from Marjiaiul as a
Unionist, serving from March 4, 1857, to March 3,
18(«.
Kennedy, John P., waa bom at Baltimore,
Maryland. Octipher 2.'3, 1795; received a classical
educaiion, graduating at Bidtimore College in 1812;
studied law with William Wirt; was admitted to the
bar in ISKJ, and commenced practice at Baltlmori!;
served in the war with Great Britain, aTid was at the
battles of Bladensburg and North Point; was a
menilKT of the Slate House of Representatives in
1820 and 1822 ; was commissioned secretary of lega^
tlon to Chili January 27. 1823, but resigned without
going there; was defeated as the Whig candidate for
the Twenty-fifth Congress by Isaac ilcKim, Demo-
crat, who received 2;12 majority; was elected a repre-
sentative from Maryland in the Twenty-fifth Con-
gress (in place of Isaac McKim, deceased) as a Whig,
receiving 7.1.W votes against (■>,9o2 votes for W. It.
Mariott, Democrat, serving from April 30, 1838, to
March 3, IKJO; waa defeated as the Whig candidate
for the Twenty-sixth Congress, receiving 7,0:}2 votes
against 8,018 votes for James Carroll, Democrat;
was a presidential elector on the Harrison ticket in
1840; was again elected to the Twenty-seventh Con-
gress, receiving 7,733 votes against 7,(B4 votes for
Gallagher, Democrat; and was re-elected to the
Twenty-eighth Congress, sening from May 81, 1841,
to March 8, 1&45 ; was appointed secretary of the
inth^
h iM
:« o^M
tJ«i'
navy by President Fillmore, serving July 29,
March 3, 1V)S ; died at Newport. Rb>:>de Island
August 18, 1870. He pubhshed "Tlio IJ-d B.jofc'
1818-1810, " A Review of the Cimil.r Ii
Report" 1830, " Report on United-,-- uen
and Navigation" It^, " Re[>ort on tii.' (»;irvhou
System " 1843, " Defence of the WhigB " 1>
"Swallow Bam" ]8;J2, "Horse-Shoe Robinson'
18.35, "Rob of the Bowl" 18.38, "Quoil Libet'l
1840, " Memoirs of William Wirt " ItHU, and monjf
other political essays, historical sketches, and re-'
views. His life was pubhshed by H. T. Tuckermoa
in 1871.
Kennedy, William, was bom In Xorth Caro-
lina; studied and practised law; was elected a repre-
sentative from North CaroUna in Uie Eighth CongreM
as a Federalist, scr\'ing from October 17, 1808, to
March 3, 1805; was again elected to the Kleventhi
Congress, ser\ing from May 22, 18lX>. to March i
1811; was defeated as the Federal candidate fori
Twelfth Congress by Thom.is Blount, Democrat;
iigain elected to the Twelfth Congress (in placet
Tliomas Blount, dcceaseil); was re-elected to the
Thirteenth Congress, serving from January 30, 1813,
to JLvch 2, 1815. mi
Kennett, Luther M., was bora at Falmooth^f
Kentucky, March 15, 1807; received an academicsjH
education; was deputy-clerk of the Pendletou-count; '
Court; studied law, and was admitted to the bar;
removed to Missouri in 1825, and engaged in roercma-
tile pursuits, finally locating at St. Louis; was i
member of the city council In 1842; was chainoao
of the Pacific Railroad Convention held at St. Looil
in 1850, and a vice-president of the Pacific Roilroail
Company subsequently formed; was mayor of SL
Louis 1850-1853 ; was president of the St. Louis sad
ln)n-Mountain Railroad 1853; was elected a repre-
sentative from Missouri in tlie Thirty-fourth Con-
gress as an Americau, receiving 0.259 votes agaioit
5,298 votes for Benton, Democrat, serving from De-
cember 3, 1855, to March 3, 1857; was defeated at
the American candidate for the Thirty-fifth Con-
gress, receiving 5,.540 votes against 6,035 voles forF.
P. Blair. Free-Soiler, and 2,181 votes for Rcynoidi,
Democrat.
Kennon, William, was bora in Pennsylvania;
received a public-school education; removed to SL
Clairsviile, Ohio; waa a member of the State HooM
of Representatives ; was elected a representatin
from Ohio in the Twenty-first Congress as a Jsck-
son Democrat; was re-elected to the Twenty-second
Congress, serving from Decemln'r 7. 1829. to iittcb
2, 1883; wos again elected to the Twenty-fourth
Congress, 8e^vil^; from December 7, 1836, to Msrch
8, 1837; was again elected to the Thirtieth Consno,
ser\'ing from December 0, 1847, to Man?h 3. I'^U.
Kent, Joseph, was bom in Calvert County,
Marjiand, In 174l); received an acodemic.il educ»-
tion; studied medicine, and was admitted to pne-
tice; also carried on a landed estate near Bladens-
burg ; waa elected a representative from Maryland la
the Twelfth Congress as a Federalist, defeating C.f-
Mercer, Federalist; waa re-elected to the Thirteeatt
Congress, serving from Noveml)er 4, 1811, to MaT^
2, 1815; was again elected to the Sixteenth Congre«i»ii
and re-elected to the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, **"
Nineteenth Congresses, serving from December
1819, to January 0, 182(8, when he resigned, h»ri'
been elected governor of Maryland, serving _.
1820; was elected a United-States senator from lla^*
land as a Whig, serving from December 2, 18^ '"
November 24, 1837, when he died at bis borne, n^*'
Bladensburg, Marjiand.
Kent, Moss, waa bora in Rensselaer ConntTt
New York; studie<l law with his brother, Chancell*'
James Kent, atid commenced practice at L« "Rikjt-
ville, Jefferson County; was a member of the StalS
House of Representatives in 1807 and in 1810: wu
elected a representative from New York in the TbiN
teenlh Congress as a Federalist; wu re-elected 10
i
^
STATISTICAL SKETCHES.
481
> the Fourteenth Congress, servinR from May 24, 1S13,
to March •'>, 1817; "waa register ol the State Court of
Chnnccry.
Kenyon, William S., was bnm at Kingston.
New Yurk; rccoivoil a puhlic-sclnupl educiitiou; was
elected a reprcwntatlve from New York in the
I TUirty-sixtl> C'ongri'ss as a Republican, receiving
6,100 Votes agaiiisl 8.(10" votes I'.ir .Strong, Deinucrnl,
scnintr from UiXi^nil>er .j. IS-Jl), to Marcli 3, ItWl.
Kernan, Francis, was iwrn at Tyrone, New
York. January 14, 181i>; finished his education at
[Georgetciwn College, District of Coluniliia: studied
[law at Utica with Joshua II. Spencer; was atlniitKMl
I to the bar. and became Mr. Si>cncer's partner; was
[reporter of the Court uf ApiieiUs; was elected u
|.iuenil>er of the General Assembly of the State legis-
Llature in 1801 ; was elected n representative from
[Kew York in tlje Thirty-<'lghth Congress .is a Demo-
Icrat, receiving (I,1U;J vou^s against" l),S4u votes for
iBoacoe Conkiing, Itepubliean; was defeated ,is the
■Deniocratic CHudidate (or the Thirfy-idnth Congress.
Txt-cclving 10,810 votes against ll.lHJO votes for Iloscoe
iCoukling. liepublican; was a mcml>er of the State
jConstitiilionid Convention iti 1807-18(58; w.os the
JDemocralic and Liberal candidate for governor of
llTew York in 1802; was elected a Uiuied-Slates
r«enator from New York as a Democrat (to succeed
R. E. Fcnton, Liberal), and took his seat March 4,
187.5. His tenn of ser%ice will expire March 3, 1881.
Kerr, John, was elected n representative from
Virgini.i in the Thirteenth Congress lu a Democrat;
and was re-elected to the Fourteeutli Congress, serv-
Ingfrom May 24, 1813, to March 3, 1817.
ICerr, John, was b<>rn in North Carolina; re-
iceivcd an academical education; studied law; was
l«dmitted to the bar, and commenced practice at
lYanceyviile: was elected a representative Irf)m North
[Ciroliiia in the Tliirty-thlnl Congress as a WHug, re-
ceiving 0,0;j7 votes against 1H53 voles for Ilanclier,
Democrat, serving from December 5, IS-W, to March
18, l*w ; was defcateil as the Conservative candidate
ffor the Thirty-fourtli Congress, receiving 3,447 votes
igalust n.''i2 votes for E<lward G. Beade, American.
"Kerr," John Bozman, was boni at Easton,
I Maryland. M.irch H, IMMl; received a clasaiciU edii-
|C!ition. gradualing at Harv'anl University in 1S30;
■tudicd law; was admitted to the bar in 18:):), and
ie')mmenced practice at Easton ; was a member of the
■Jtale House of Representatives 1S38-1S;1S; was cici>-
Ity-atlorney-general for Talbot County 1847-1^41*;
ra* elected a rcpresenijitii'o from Marjland in the
Thirty-first Congress as a Whig, receiving 3,457 votes,
_ without opposition, siTvlng from December 3. 1841),
March :i, 1H.>1; was re-elected to the Thirty-
Ercoad Congress, but resigned, h.iving been comrais-
lloned rhnrji' d'ajTiiires to Nicaragua, serving Marcli
I8."jl-June I, 18J3; retuniing home, he resumeil
^r<M:tice at Baltimore, and subseijucntly at St.
Hchael's, Maryland; was appointed a United-States
jllcitor before the Cotu-t of Claims; w.ts a clerk
the othce of the sixth auditor of the treasury; and
Je<i at Washington City of heart-disease, after a few
ours' Illness, .lanu.iry 28. 1878.
Klerr, John L., w:>s horn at Greenbury Point,
jear .\nnapolis. M:iiylan<l, January 13, 178:1; received
classical education, gradualing at St. John's Col-
_ 111 17'J1); studied law with Jolin Leeds Bozman;
ras admitted to the bar, and coninicaccd practice at
ston; was elected a repn-scntative from Marjland
the Nineteenth Congress as a Whig, receiving '27
aajority over Th'unas Emory; was n'-clected to the
Twentieth Congress, receiving 218 majority, ser\'ing
om December 6, 182.1, to March 3, 1820; was de-
eiited as the Whig candidate for the Twenty-first
i^onsress by Richard Sjiencer, and was again elected
U) the Twenty-Sec(m<l C\)ngre5s, serving from De-
emlwr 5, 1831, to March 2. 18;>1; was a presidential
tlector on the II;irrison and Tyler ticket in 1840;
irm elected a United-States senator from Maryland
^lu place of John S. Speuce, deceased), serving from
January 13, 1841, to March 3, 1S43; died near Easton,
Manland, Februar)- 21, 1844.
Kerr, Joseph, was elected a United-States sen-
ator from Ohio in place of Thomas Worlhington,
resigned, 8er\'in:g from Ucccmlier 3ti, 1814, to March
2, isl.").
Kerr, Michael C, was Iwni at Tiiusville,"
Pennsylvania, March l.'i, 1827; received an ucudemic
education; graduated with tlie degree of bachelor
of laws at the Louisville University in 1801; com-
menced the practice of law in 1S.j2 in New Albany;
was elected city-attorney in l>v'>4, and prosecuting-
attomey of Floyd County in 185.'i: was a memlterof
the State legislature in I80O .•uid 18o7; w.hs elected
reporter of the Supreme Court of Indiana in 1862,
and edited five volumes if reports; w.ts elected a
representative from Indiana in the Thirty-ninth
Congress as a Democrat, receiving 11.407 votes
against 0,014 votes for W. W. Curry, Kepublican;
was re-elected to the Fortieth Congress, receiving
13,421 votes against 11,078 votes for Gresham, Re-
publican; was re-elected to the Forty-first Congress,
r<!Ceiving 18,770 votes against 12,34:) votes for
Gresham, Republican; was re-elected to the Forty-
second Congress, receiving 10,iioO votes against
11,110 votes for Carr, Reputilican, serving from De-
cember 4, 1805, to March 3, 1873; was defeated as
a Democratic candidate at large for the Forty-third
Congress, receiving 188,502 votes against 188,661
votes for Godlove S. Orth, Republican; was elected
to the Forty-fourth Congress as a Democrat, re-
ceiving 13,801 votes against 12.582 voles for James A.
Cravens, Independent Granger and Infiation Demo-
crat; was elected spe.ikcr; but consumption had
marked him as a victim, and, retiring to Rock-Alum
Springs, Virginia, he died tliero August 10, 1870,
Kerrigran, James E., was bom in Ireland;
refeived a public-school education; immigrated to
the United States, and located at New-York City;
was clerk of the Police Court; was a inomber of the
City Council; was elected a representative from New
York in the Tliirty-seventh Congress as a Detnocrat,
receiving 5,145 votes agaii.sl 3.iiS0 votes for Thomy,
Fusion, and 3,324 votes forCouiinerford, Republican,
serving from July 4, IStJl, to Marcli 3. 18(i3; com-
inandect a regiment of New-York volunteer infantry
in the Union army while holding his seat in Con-
gress.
Kershaw, John, was bom in South C.irolina;
reccivi'd a thorougli English education; was elected
a representative from South Carohna in the Tldr-
teenth Congress as a Democrat, serving from May
24. 1813, to March 2, 1815; was appointeil by Presi-
dent Matlison a meml)cr of the commission to estab-
lish the Itoundaries of the Creek Nation.
Ketcbam, John H., was born at Dover, New
York, December 21, 1S:.'.2; received an academic edu-
cation; lieciuue interested in agricultural pursuits;
was town-supervisor in 1854 and 1855; was a mem-
ber of the State Assembly of New York in 1850 and
18.57; wiis a menil«r of the Slate Senote of New
York In 1800 and I^'l; entered tin? Union army as
colonel of the One flundred and Fiftieth Vohinteers
in 1802, and was appointed brigadier-general, serving
until he resigned iu March, 1850, to take the seat lu
Congress to which he hail Iwen elected; he was
afterwards appointed major-general by brevet; wa<!
elected a representative from New York in the Th'r-
ty-ninth Congress as a Republican, receiving 12,229
votes against 11, .559 votes for Ilomer A. Nelson,
Democrat; was re-elected to the Fortieth Congress,
receiving 12,535 votes against 10,840 votes for C. P.
Collier, Democrat ; was re-elected to the Forty-first
Congress, receiving 13,560 votes against 13, 141 votes
for \\lioaton. Democrat; was re-elected to the Forty-
Sficond Congress, receiving 14,4:)2 votes against 11,748
votes for Pliilip, Democrat, serving from December
4, 1806, to Marcn 3, 1873 ; was defeated as the Repub-
lican candidate for the Forty-thii-d Congress, receiv-
ing 13,082 votea against 14,800 votes for John O.
482
CONGRESSIONAL DIEECTOKY.
Whitehonse, Liberal Democrat; was a commis«ioner
of the District of CoUimbia July 3, 1874-Jaiie 'AJ,
18T7; was again electt^d to tlie Forty-tifth Congress,
receiving 18.2a5 votes against 1(1.113 votes for Uiivlfs,
Democrat, and 223 votes for Peter Denny, Pruliilii-
tionist.
Ketchum, Winthrop W., was twni at Willii's-
barre Jniie 211. 1S20; roci-ived an academic eiluca-
tion; was leaclu-r of langiuges and malln'inalics in
tlie Wyoming Seminary tor four years; sludied law,
and was admitted to tlio bar in 18.J0; was iirotfiono-
tary of Luzi-rne County tliroe years; was a nn-mher
of ilie Stale House of Itepresenlalives in l-^W, and of
the State Senate in 1S5U; was solicitor of tlie Unilcd-
States Court of Claims In IStM-lStK); and was elecled
a representalive from Pennsylvania in tlic Forty-
fourth Conjiress as a RepuljUcau, reeeiviiii; l.IWi
votes against 7,li}5 vou-s for Hendrick B. \Vriahl,
D«m(X'rat, aud (ili) votes for Smith, Proliihitlfiiiist,
serving from M.^rth 4, 1S75, to March 3, 1S77: was
appointed judge of the United-States courts for the
Western District of Pennsylvania.
Key, David McKendree, was bom in Greene
County, Tennessee, .laimary 21, 1S24; his family
moved in 1820 into Monroe County, wliore he was
raised on a farm, studying at the winter schools;
entered Hiawassec College in 1845, and graduated in
1850; studied law; was admitted to the bar, and
entered into practice at Chattanooga in l^i; was a
presidential elector on the Buchanan and Breckin-
ridge ticket In I85(i, and on the Breckinridge and
Blair ticket in 18(50; entered the Confederate army in
18U1, and served through the entire war as lieutenant-
colonel of the Forty-third Tennessee Infantry; was a
member of the State Constitutional Convention of
Tennessee in 1870; was chancellor of the Third
Cliancery District 187!)-187o; was defeated as the
Democratic candidate to the Forty-third Congress,
receiving 8,000 votes against 10,041 voles for William
Crutchfield, Republican; was anpiiliited by Governor
Porter United-States senator from Tennessee as a
Democrat (to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death
of Andrew Jolinson), serving from December il, 187o,
to January 29, 1877; was defeated as a candidate for
election to the United-States Senate (receiving all
the Kepiiblican votes) by J.araes E. Bailey, Demo-
crat ; was appointed by President Hayes postmaster-
general. scr\'lng from Marcli 12, 1877.
Key, Philip, was bom in St. Mary's County.
Maryl;iinl. in 17-JO; reoeived an academical educa-
tion; devoted himself to agricultural pursuits; was
a local magistrate; served in the State House of Rep-
resentatives, and was one year its speaker ; was
elected a representalive from Maryland In the Sec-
ond Congress, serving from October 24, 17111, to
March 2, I71'3: died on his estate, in St. Mary's
County. .Tiiuuary 4. 1820.
Key, Philip Barton, was bom in Cecil County,
MarjL^nd, in niV); received an academical educa-
tion; joined the British army after the declaration of
Independence, and received in 1778 a commission In
the Maryland Loyalists' Regiment; served in Florida,
was made jjrisoner there, aud, wlien rcleascil rjii
f)arole, went to England; after peace was declared
le retired on half-pay, which he resigned in 1807;
returned to Maryland in 1785, and settled at An-
napolis in 17»liJ; was elected a memlier of the State
House of Representatives in 171M, and was re-elected
several times; was elected a representjilive frtmi
Maryland in the Tenth CongR'SS as a Federalist,
defe.'iting Wampler, and, after much opixjsilion, was
admitted to his seat; was re-elected to the Eleventh
and Twelfth Congre-ises, 8er\ing from October 20,
1807, to Marcli :i, 1813; died at Georgetown, District
of Coluiuliia, .July 28, ISl.'i.
Keyes, Elias, was l>om at Ashford, Connecti-
cut; received a public-school education; removed to
Stoekbridgc, Vermont; was a State councillor 180.3-
1818. and a member of the Stale House of Repre-
sentatives for eighteen years; was elected a repre-
sentative from Vermont in the Seventeenth Con-
gress, sen'ing from December 3, 1S21, to Muvb
3, 1823.
Kidder, David, was liorn at Dresden, Maine
December 8, 17S7; received an academical educalioa]
studied law; was admitted to the bar in, and
raeiiced practice at, Norridgcwock; wa.< county-atto
ney of Somerset County l.M 1-1823; was an editori
contributor to "The Somersel-eounty Journal}
was elected a representative from Maine in
Eighteenth Congress as a ^^'hig; was re-tMecied
the Nineteenth Congress, serving fnirn Di-ci-mlx
I, 182;!, to March ;J, 1827; was a member of the Sts
House of Representatives in 182U; died at Nurrid
wock, Maine, November 1, 1800.
Kidder, Jefferson P., was bom af '"
Vcrnionl; received a common-sdiool edi • d|
tmini'd t<> agricultural pursuits; taught ;- ..
ceived a classical education, graduating at the No
wich University, and was a tutor therein; rvceiv
in 1848 the degree of master of arts from the Uni-
versity of Vermont ; studied and practised law ; wu
a meinber of the State Coustitution.'U Convention
of Vemiont In 184;J; was Suite's attoniey in 1S12-
1847; was a member of the State Senate of Vermotil
in 1847-1848; was lieutcnant-govemnr of Vermont in
185.1-1854; removed to St. Paul, Minnesota, in 11*7;
was elected a provisional delegate from Dakota Tt'r-
rilorv while visiting there in 18.19; was a, meml^riif
the ilinries<il:i House of Repn'sentatives in l-'l,
18i'>3. and 1804; was apixiinted in 1865 an aR'i'<i.>''
justice of the Supreme Court for Dakota Tern-
torv, and removed there; was re-appointed in 18ill,
ana again in 1873, aud resigned alter having i\\t-
charged the duties of that ollice for ten years; ainl
was clect<-'d a delegate fnnn Dakota in the Fortj-
fourth Congress as a Republican, receiving a majority
of 2,408 votes over Moses K. Armstrong. DenniTJl ,
was re-elected to tlie Forty-fifth Congress, receiving
0.100 votes against 2,413 votes for S. L. Spihli,
Democrat, serving from M.treh 4, 1670.
Kidwell, Zeaekiah; w:is bom in Fairfax Coun-
ty, Virginia, January 4, 1814; received a thorimdi
Englisli education; studied medicine, gr.-ulualiiii: ii
JelTerson Medical Collegi' of Philadelphia in H?',
after practising medicine for several years, lie luni' 1
his attention to the law; was admiltiHl to the l>;tr lu
1849, and practised at Fairmont, Virginia; sen-'i "'
the State House of Representatives; was a d.-l^ c ■
to the .Slate Constitutional Convention in IM'.': •*i-
a presidential elector on the Pierre .ind Kinj: I'k'
In 1852; was elected a representative from Virgn; i
the Thirty-third Congress as a Democrat, reeeivir : ..
opposition; wos re-electe<l to the Thirty-fourth ' iii-
gress, receiving 7,452 votes against 0,240 votes if!
Pendleton, American, sening from December S,
1853, to March 3. 18.j7; was elected a menilHT of tie
Stale Board of Public Works in 1857; died at F»ir-
mtint, Virginia, April 27, 1872.
Kilboum, James, was l>om at New Britalo,
Connecticut, Octol«'r HI, 1770; received a cl«JiJc»l
education; studied theology, and look orders In llM
Episcopal Church; was the founder of the towB of ,
Worlbington, Ohio, under the auspices of theSciol4 j
Land Coiupiiny; was one of the founders of Se»-J
England Lodge of Freemasons at Worthington; w«l (
ap])olnte(l United-States surveyor of public laaJi In '
1805; »vas appointed one of the commissioners to it
the boundary of the Virginia resi.'rvation; was prMi-
dent of the Iruslees of Worthington College; »M
electi'd to the Thirteenth Congress as a Democral,
and was re-elected to the Fourteenth Congress. i*if- 1
iug from May 24, 1813. until Mandi 3, 1817; »«« »
member of the House of Representatives in tlie Ohio
leKislature in 1823, and again in 182S; and died »t
Wortbiii;itoii. Ohio. April 24. 1850.
Kilgensmith, John, jtin., was bom In Pew^*
sylvania; resided at Stew.irt8ville; was elected » kP"
resentative from Pennsylvania in the Twenty-foo"''
Congress as a Democrat; was re-eJected to tlieTva-
BTATI8TICAL SKETCHES.
«88
ronsrross, serving from December 7, 1835, to
Mur.-li :{. M<)ii.
Kileore, Daniel, was bom in Virginia; received
a gOiKl Eiiglisli eilueation; removed to Oliio. and
located at t'iMlli!; wiis elccled a representative from
Ohio in till' Twcnly-tliird Congress (in plaoe of Hum-
pUri'y H. Leavitt, rt'siijiied) as a Jaokson Deniucrat;
was re-uleeled to ibe Twonty-fourtli and Twcnly-tifth
Conjn^sscs. serving from Ueoeml>er 1. 1S;14, to lH:is,
when lie resisned ; died at New Vorlv Decemltor 12,
ISil.
Kilgore, David, was born in Harrison County,
Koutiicliy. April ;J. l.<4: remove*! with his father tn
Franklin Dmniy. Indiana, in isili; rewivcd a juiblif-
sch<.H>l education: .stnilled law; was admitted to the
bar in 18*», and commenoc<l practice at Yorktown,
Indiana: was a membicr of the State House of Rep-
resentatives lS;tJ-ls;ls: was electeil by tlie legislature
president-judce of his judicial circuit, serving 1S;JI»-
1844: W.XS a di'leg.ite to the Slate Constitutional Con-
vention in is.'jo: was luiain ft member of the State
House of Kepresentalives and its speaker 1854:
was eleoled a representative from Indiana in the
Thirly-fiflh Congress as a Republican, rweivliig
11.1:12 voles ,i!jn«inst 7.1H3 voles for Johnson, Demo-
crat; was re-«-'lected to the Thirty-sixih Congress,
receiving il,;!S:j votes against 5,1)21 votes for Develin,
Deniocnit, serving from December 7, It^l. to March
8, IStil ; was a delegate to the National Union Con-
vention at Philadelphia in 1800.
KJlle, Joseph, was bonv in New Jersey; re-
ceived an academical eduealion; resided at Salem;
was elected a represt-ntatlve from New Jersey in llie
Twenty-sixth Congress as a Democrat, defeating W.
Balsted on a general ticket, serving from March 10,
1840, to March :}, 1841; the election of Mr. Killc and
four other reprc>spntatives was unsnccessfully con-
tested, and they were finally ailmitted t-o their seats.
Killinger, John W., was bom .Septemlwr IK,
l.S2o: gr.'uluated (rum Marsiiiill College, reniisylvania,
in ItvlO; studied law, and was nihivttteil to tlu! bar in
January, lt>4<l; was prosecuting-attoruey for Leba-
non Coiinty until lS4tt; was elected to the House of
Representatives of Pennsylvania for the sessions of
ISV) ami l.V)!; was elected to the Stale Senate in
1654. serving three years: Wiis elected a representative
from Pennsylvania in the Thir(y-«ixth Congress as a
Repiibliean, receiving 8.897 votes against 5,5W votes
tor Weidle, Democrat; w.is re-elected to the Thirty-
•eventli Congress, receiving 12,24ll votes against 7,488
Totes for Wiirrell, Democrat; was re-elected lo the
Forty-secoiiil Congress, receiving ]l,:!lt) votes against
10,tHitJ votes forC. D. Gloninger, Democrat; and was
re-elected to the Forlv-thlrd Congress, receiving
14,419 votes against 11,049 votes for B. Reilly, Dem-
ocrat.
Kimball, Alanson M., was born at Buxton,
Maine. Jlaix-b 12, I8:!7; received an academic aiul
business educatinn; rt'moved to Wisconsin in 1852,
and engaged in fanning and mercamile pursuits;
was A meralier of the .State Senate of Wisconsin in
18fl3-18<^. and was elected a representative from
Wisconsin in the Forly-fiiurth Congress, receiving
14,7-iJ votes against 14,(141 voles for liabriel liouck,
Detn')crat. ser\ing from DecemlHTtl. 1875, to March
3. 1877; was <lefeated as the liepublican candidate
for representative to the Forty-fourth Congri'ss, re-
ceiving 17.*»7 votes against 20,023 votes for Gabriel
Bouck, Democrat.
Kiminell, William, was bom at Baltimore.
Maryland: rec<Mvcd a classical education, which was
coDipleted at St. Mary's and Ualtimore Colleges;
studied law; was admitted to the bar, and practised
at Baltimore; devoted much time to agricultural
ptinuits, and to the study of the commercial oiid
manufacturing interests of the country; was a St.ate
director in the B.iltituore and Ohio Railroad, and a
director in the Canton Company of Baltimore, in the
Union Railroiul Company, and in the Western Mary-
land Extension; was a member of the State Demo-
cratic Committee from 1802 to 1.800; was a delegate to
the Natioiml DemiK'ratic Convention which nomi-
nated (jeorge B, McClellan for President in 1>MH;
was defeate<l as .the Democratic candidate for the
Thirty-ninth Congress, receiving 9.50 votes against
4,'i77 votes for John L. Tlumias. jun.. Republican;
sened in the Maryland .State Senate from 180(1 to 1871 ;
was elected a re|)resentative from Maryland in the
Forty-fifth Congress as a Democrai, rei'.-lving 14,251
votes against H,f>\)-2 votes for Goldsborougb, Repub-
lican, serving from October 15, 1877.
Kincaid, John, was bom in Kentuclty; tw?elved
a public-school education; resided at Stanfonl; was
eitctc'ii a repre.Hentutive from Kentucky in theTwi'nty-
tirs! C'omrress as a Jackson Democrat, 8er\ing from
December 7. 1S21I, to March :i, 18.S1,
Kinff, Adam, was born at York, Pennsylvania;
receiveilan academical education; studied medicine,
and iiractise<l at Vork; was elected a repn'senlative
from Pennsylvania in the Twentieth Ciuigress as a
Jackson DemcKTat : was re-elected to the Twenty-first
and Twenty-second Cf>ngresses, 8er\ini; from Decem-
ber ;}, 1827i to ilarch 2. IS'H; was defeated as the
,lack8on DeuKK'nitic candidate for the Twenty-third
Congress by Charles A. Ramitz, Clay Democrat; died
at York. Pennsylvania, M.iy il. 18;!5.
King, Andrew, was bom in (Jreenbrier County,
Virginia. Miirch 20, 1812; received a common-school
eilueation; studied law, and practised at .St, Charles,
Missouri ; was elected to the State .Senate of Missouri
in 1840; was elected to the State House of Repn'sen-
tatives in 18.").8; was judge of the Circuit Court rif the
Nineteenth .ludicial J.'ircuit of Missouri from 1859 to
1804; and was elected a representative from Missouri
in the Forty-second Congress as a Democrat, receiv-
ing I0,.390 votes against' a,227 votes for E. Draper,
Administration Repiibllcim, and 3.80:3 votes for D. P.
Dver, Liberal Itepnblican.
^ing, Austin A., was l)om in Sullivan County,
Tennessee, September 20. 1801 ; received a public-
school education; studied law; wius admitted to the
bar in 1822; remove<l to Missouri in 18;J0, and prac-
tiseil at Richmond; was a meml>eri)f tin' .State House
of Repre8<Milatives In l.S:l4 and In l.SIO; was circuit-
judge for Ray County 1837-1848; was governor of
Missouri 1848-185,S; was again circuit-judge for Ray
County 1802-180:1; resigned, h,iving been elected a
representative from Missouri in the Thirty-eighth
Congress as a D<'mocrat, receiving 4,24:) votes against
2,.s57 votes for Birch, Secession, and tU4 votes for
Bomon, Secession, snrl ser^-ing from December 7,
18IW, to Marcli 3, 1805; was defeated as a Democratic
eanilidate (or the Thirty-nintli Congress, receiving
OiKi voles against 3,498 votes for Burt Van Horn,
Radical, anil 3,220 votes for Elijah H. Norton, Dem-
ocrat ; .U»d al St. Louis April 22, 1870.
King, Cyrus (half-brother of Rufus King), was
bom at Scarborough, Massachusetts (afterwards
Mainel. September 10, 1772; recfiverl a classical edu-
cation, graduating at Columbia I'ollege in 1794; was
private secretary to Rufus King; studied law; was
admitte<l to the bar in. and coirmieiieecl practice at,
Saco; was eliteted a representative from Massachu-
setts in ilie Thirteenth Congress as a Fedenilist; was
re-elected to the Fourteenth (-Congress, serving from
May 24. 1813, to March 8, 1817; died at Saco April
23. 1817.
King, Daniel Putnam, was bom at Danvers,
MiissacluiM'ti^ ill INK): receive*! a classical education,
grailualing at llnrvanl College in 182:!: studied law,
and was adiiiifted to ibe liar, but abandoned the pro-
fessiuu. and devoted himself to the cultivatioti of a
farm Inherited by his wife at Danvers: was a mem-
ber of the State House of Representatives 183(W-1837 ;
Wits a member of the State Senate 18:iS-1841, serving
the last term as its president: was auain a member
of the State Hous*? of I{epri?8entatlvcs 184:1-1844, and
speaker of tliat body ; was a trustee of the State Lu-
natic Hospital; several unsuccessful attempts having
been mode to elect a representative from his district,
464
CO>-GEESSIOSAL DIBECTORY.
he was elected a representative from MassachaMtts
iu the Twenty-eighth Congress as a Wliii;, receiving
S3 majority; was iv-t'lected to the Twent j-niuth Con-
gRSS, receiving 1,:W0 majority over all other caiiili-
ottea; was re-electeJ to the Thirtieth Congn-ss on
the second trial, receiving :J.7-'w votes against l,i>:il
votes for Dike, Deiui*cmt, and iv.s scattering: and
was rc-electwl to the Thirty-lir>t (-'i.ncre»s. s<.Tving
from December 4. li^W, to 'July 25, ISitJ, wh-'n he
died (having returned from Washington suffering
frriTu dys<iitcry) at South Danvers, Miissachuietls.
KAnig, QeOTge C, was lK>ni in Kluxle Is-land:
reo'ived a c-la»sic:U education, graduating al Br>wn
University iu 1&J5; studied law; was admitted to
the h.ir, and practised at Newport; was a meraher
nf ihe House of nepresentalives. and one year its
S|>eaker; was a presidenti.il elector on the Taylor iuid
Fillmore ticket in ISW): was electeil a representative
Irom KliiHl.? Islauil in the Tliirty-lirst CuugA>ss as a
VTIiig, n-ooiving 2,i»5 votes against 1,250 votes for
Brown. Drmocrat; was re-electe<l to the Thirty-sec-
ond r'oa!irv*s, receiving '-i.iiKi votes against 3,270 votes
(or Sayle*, Democrat, 9er\ing from Decemt)er 3, ISW,
to March 3. 1k>"; died at Newport July 17, 1870.
Kins, Henry, was bont at Hampden, MaMacha-
<tett<. ill I':*); n-ccived a classical education; ctadied
law al Wilkesl>arre, Pennsylvania; was admitted to
the bar in 1315, and commenced practice at Allen-
town: was a member of the State Seiute in 1830;
was elected a representative from Pennsylvania in
the Twenty-second Congress as a Jackson Democrat;
was re-electe<l to the Twenty-third Congress, serving
from December .5, 1831, to March 3, LSJo; rcsumeu
bis lesal practice; died at Allentown July 1-3, l-^Ol.
Tfing, James Gore (son of RufusKing), was
ix)m at New-York City May 8, 1791 ; his father took
hiiu to England, where he reci ivfd a classical educa-
tion. .ind on his return 'jraduati'd at Harwird CoIIi-jtc
in IMO; he studi«l lawat theLilchlield (Connecticut)
.Vho<il, but engage*! in mercantile pursuits in the
sucresjivi.' firms of King 4 Gracic Prince. Ward, A
King, ami James G. ICiiig «fc .'ions; was elected a rep-
rei<Mitativ.- from New Jersey in the Tliirty-first C<m-
gi«ss as a Whig, receiving U.ti"!) voles .igainst »3.71G
rote* for Hollingworth. I&mocrat. and il77 votes for
Opdyke, Democrat, and serving from Decem1>er 3.
liilO. to March 3. 1851; was for several years a lead-
ing member of the New- York Chaml«erof Commerce,
and its president when he die/i at Highwood. New
Jersey, opposite New- York City. October 3, IS.*?.
Kiilg, John, was bom in 1775: resided at New
L>-'l>anon: was elected a representative from New
Yi>rk in the Twenty-second Congress as a Jackson
Di-mo<-rat. serving frum Decembers. 1n{1. to March
2. l^:^3; died at New Lebanon, New York, September
1. !•<{-<.
Tfing, John Alsop (elilest son of Rufus King).
wn« Iwm at New-York City January .3. 178S; was
ifdiioated at Harrow .Scho<:>l. England, and at Paris;
s^r.—<l throughout the war of iNl2 as lieutenant of
c.u ilry ; was a member of the State House of Repre-
vriit.irives 1^1S>-1821; was State senator in 182:}; wa«
f.jiiimissione<l secretary of the legation at L<-ir, ' -
his (.ither being minister. May .5, 1825: was cl
d'')fnirfii from June 15 to August 8, ISdl; resi,; ,
Auioist 12, 1826; was again a member of the State
H'>use of Representatives in I'>32 and in 1840; was
elected a representative from New York in the Tliirty-
hrst Congress as a Wliig. receinng 4.:i!>7 votes against
2.4."i7 votes for Jones. Democrat, and 2.;i't2 voles for
l;iii\vn.C;iss Dt>moorat, and serving from DecemlierS.
1 -4'.'. to March 3, Is.'il ; was governor of the State of
New York 185«l-l.So8; was a presidential elector on
the Lincoln and Hamlin ticket in 1860; was a dele-
gate from New York to the Peace Congress of 1801;
was devoted to agricultural pursuits." and was for
years prominently connected with the Queen's-coua-
ty AgricuituraJ S<iciety, tlie New- York State Agricul-
tural Society, and the United-States Agricultural
Society; died at Jamaica, Long Island, Ju^ 7, IStiT.
Ausasta.
2,1SS!,I
King, John P., resided at
held several local offices; was •
senator from Georgia (in plac>
re*igni?d) as a State-rights D< :
elected in 18:54, serving frvim
Ni'vemlxT 1, l>>:r7. when he K-so.i:
Eling, Perkins, was Nim at New 31arlhenn(ti,
Massatliii.sett*. .lanuary 12. 1784; rreeived
demicai education; studied law;
the bar, and commence>l prnctirw »» 0*v>enT
York, in ISiTi ; was •
Isi'iVlSl'jii: was a m.
res»Mitatives in 1827. ..
from New York in the .
Jackson Democrat, servii
to March 3. is:;r. died at EiL-chuld, Grv«fie I
November 20, 1875.
King, Preston, was bom at Ojrtwishnifc 1
York. t)ctolH'r 14. IsiMt; received a rliiMJtfal I '
graduating at Union College in l^Tl^ studied
was admitted to tiie bar. and coiiim>-uce.]
OgdensburK; established and edited "7
rence Itepublican" as an advocate of Gi :: . J ,.-
ton; was postmaster at Ogdeusburg; war i ip >i>>-r
of the State House of Represi- • '■• - ■ - i--U-:</;;
was elected a representative ft ; rk i h*
Twenty-eighth Congress as a ■, n^ • r. ,
6fi1S votes against 4,785 votes for Shenuan. V'' .
and 335 rotes for Northnip, Abolitionist; «..~
elected to the Twenty-ninth Congress, receiving b,H5
votes against tt.2tK5 votes for Hopkins, Whig, aod Kit
votes for Mitchell, American, serving from Decem'T
4. 184;$, to March 3, 1&I7; was aeaSt elected : ii
Thirty-Bret Congress as a Free-sou Democrat, r^<i'-
ing 7,300 votes against 5,i:33 votes for S<)uire, '
and 1,825 votes for Do<lge. Cass Democrat: was i
elected to the Tliirty-5.'coml C'
votes against 4,806' votes for '
from December 3, 184!». to 3»ar. ;. ,
a United-States senator fpr>m New "i
lican, serving from March 4. l'^">~. ■
resumed the practice of law at '
a presidential elector on the I
ticket in 18«M; was p.r ' ■ • '
New York by Pn-
committed suicide '. , . _
from a ferry-boat into the Uudaon River, NoveuibCf
1.3, 18<J3.
King, KufUB n - - . t
father of John A i
lx>m at Scarl«)n>iii;ii.
Maine), Man-h 24. 17.M:
tion, graduating .It n.irv
law with Theophilu~ aNewl.ui
aide-de-camp to G' : ■ r in th.-
juiainst the British '•<■ .
177S: was admitted to th-
tice at Xewburj-fwrt iu 17c- .
State Bouse of Representatives in 1 7
:mtr fr"m Massachusetts to the Com
: was a delegate to the State C
n in 1787: was a delegate to V.
• u'liional Convention; removr ' •
in 17SS; was a memlier of th-
. ,.ilature in 1789; was elected a Ui;.
tor from New York as a Federalist, seniiiij iruia
March 4, 17851. to May 18. 170>l. when lie rv*iait<l.
having received a diplom t; wai jp-
point«»d liv President Wa> r to lirtst
Britain, se'rving May 20, 17^< ....... . . . --.; »Tisag«lB
elected a senator from New York, and re-elected,
serving from May -M, 181.3. to Man li ". I^'•.^^: wu
again appointed minister to Great ! !'n^
dent John Qnincy Adams, serving Ji '"i"
10, IJ^; on his return he r»;tired Ui iii< coiii.ir5«»t
at Jamaica, Lottg Island, and died there April 9,
1827.
King, Rufus H., was bom in New York; i«-
sided at CatskiU, Greene County; was electwl snp-
reaentative from New York in the Thirty-fovf'
STATISTICAL SKETCHES.
485
as a Wliig, receiving 8,^70 votes against
6,04^ votes for Strong, Democn»t, ser\ing from De-
cembers, 1855, to Mufdi :i, 1857; removed to Albany,
where he became president tif the State National
Bank and of the Albany Insurance Company.
King, T. Butler, was born at IIumiHlcn. Massa-
chusetts, Aujnist 27, 1804; received an academical
education; stmlied law; was admitted to the bar in,
mnd commenced pructice at, Waynesville, Georgia;
was a member of the State Senate in 1832, IKU.
1835, and 1837; became interested in agricultunii
pnrsnits; was defeated as a State-rights Wlilg can-
didate for the Twenty-fifth Congress on a g<'nenU
ticket; was elected a representative from Oeorsia in
the Twenty-sixth Congress as a Slato-rtghts \VTiig,
receiving Mi.OIX) votes agjiinst .3'),912 votes forPatler-
■on, Democrat; and was n.'H'lected to the Twenty-
seventh Congress, receiving 39,257 votes against
35,357 votes for Junius Illllyer, Democrat, serving
from December 2, 1839, to March .3, 18+3; was ile-
feated as the Wliig candidate to the Thirty-eiglill)
Congress; was again electeil to the Twenty-nintli
Congress, receiving 3,808 votes against 3,074 votes
for Spalding, Democrat; and was re-elected to tlie
Thirtieth Congress, receiving 3.324 votes against
2,227 votes for Cohen, Democnit, senine from De-
cember 1, 184.'), to Marcli 3, 1849; Wiis tlefeated as
the Whig candidate for election to the Tliirty-ftrst
Congress, receiving 3,549 votes lu^ainst 4.379 votes for
Joseph W. Jaclcson, Stale-rights Democrat ; was aj>-
pointed by President Taylor collector of the port of
San Francisco, serving ]8.'j0-18')l; returned to Geor-
gia; was sent by the Confederate Government in
18*52 a commissioner to Europe; and died utWnynes-
borou!;li, Georgia, Mav 10. 1SC4.
Eliag, William llufus, was bom in Sainfison
County, North Carolina, April 7, 178(1: received a
classical education, graduating at the University of
North Carolina in 1!*I3; studlefi law under Williara
Duffy of Fayetteville; was admitted to the liar in
1806, and commenced practice at Clinton ; was a mem-
ber of the House of Connuons of Alabama in 1808
and 1809; was elected a representative from North
Carolina in the Twelflli, Thirteenth, and Fourteenth
Congresses as a War Democrat, 8or>'lng from Novem-
ber 4, 1811, until he resigned to accompany William
Pinckney of Marj'land to Russia as secretary of lega-
tion April 2;?, 1810; returned from Europe in 1818,
and settled at Cahawba, Alabama, as acoltoit-planter;
was a member of the convention which framed the
Constitution of Alabama; was elected United-States
senator, serving from M.irch 4, 1819, until he n^signed
to accept from President Tyler the appointment of
minister to France April 9, 1S44, having presided
the six last years as president ]iro tempore ; was inin-'
ister to France from April 9. 1.S44, mitll Septeml)er
15, 1840; w;is again appointed to llie United-States
Senate (in the place of A. P. B.igby, resigned), and
\rsta then n'-elected, serving from Decendwr 7, 184ti,
to March 4, 1K.>:3, and again presiding as president pro
lem/i'Tf' ; was elected Vice-President on the Pierce
ticket in 18,52 as a Democrat, receiving 2.'>4 electoral
fotes aijainst 42 electoral votes fi>r \V. H. Graham,
WTiig; having gone to Cuba for his lieaith, he t(xik
lli» oath of office at Havana, March 4, 1853; n^turn-
ng to his liorae nt Cahawl)a, Alabauiii, he died th<'re
Lhe next dav. April 18. 1.8.i.S.
Kling, William 8., was born at .Malone, New
Fork. Ueeemlier Ul, 1828; received a common-scFiool
Sducation : is by occupation a farmer and stoi'k-
"aiser; was postmaster of the flouse of Representa-
tives in Ihc Tliirty-sevciidi. Tliirty-eis;hth. Fortieth,
?c»rty-tirsl, and Furty-seenni! Cniigresses; and was
elected a representative frura Minnesota in the Forty-
fourth Congress as a Republican, receivingl8,179
riites against 15,8H() votes for Eugene M. Wilson,
Democrat, serving from December 0, 1875, to March
i, 1877.
Kingsbury, William W., was bom at To-
■randa, Pennsylvania, June 4, 1828; received a pub-
lic-school education, and was reared on a f.imi; n--
moved to Minnesota, and locateil at Endinn; was a
member of the Territorial legislature in 18.J5, and
again in IS^); was a delegate to the cimveution
which framed the State Constitution ; was elect<.'fl a
delegate from Minnesota Territory in tlie Tliirly-
tifth Congress as a Democrat, serving from Decem-
ber 7, 1^57, to March .3, l.S")9.
Kinloch, Francis, was a delegate from South
Carolina to the Continental Congress 1780-1781.
Kinnard, George L., was liorn in 180:3; re-
moved to Indiana, and located at Indianapolis; was
elected a representative from Indiana in the Twenty-
third Congress as a Democrat, defeating J. Crawford,
National Republiciin ; and was reH>lectcd to the
Twenty-fourth Congress, serving from I)eeeml>er 2,
18:j3, until he died at Cincinnati, Oliio, November
25, 18:{t). from injuries n-ceived near there on the
liith of fliul month l)v the explosion of the boiler of
tlie steamer " Flora.'' He Wiis im his way t<i Phila-
delphia to be married, and iiis bride was to have ac-
eonifianied liim to W:ishliigton.
Kinney, John Pitch, was bom at New Haven,
New York, Ajiril 2, IKKi; received an academical
education; 8tu<iled law; was admitted to the bar in
li^n, and commenced practice at Marysville, Ohio;
removed in 1830 to Mount Vemon, Ohio, and again
in 1844 to Lee County, Iowa; was secretar)- of the
Territorial Legislative Council of Iowa; was a judge
of the Supn'nie Coiirt of Iowa 1840-18'J3; was ap-
liointed by Pri'Sident Pierce chief justice of the .Su-
preme Court of Utali, serving 18.'>4-1857; removed to
S'eliraska in 1S.57, and practised law there; was ap-
pointed by President liuchanan chief justice of the
.Supreme Court of IJt.ili, .serving 180(>-I8<1.3: was
elected a delegate from Utah Territory in tlie Thirty-
eighth Congn-ss as a Democnit, receiving no opposi-
tion, servitig from Deceml)er 7, 180;^, to M^arch 3, IHO,").
Elinsella, Thomas, was liom in Ireland in 1832;
received a common-school education; stmlied the art
of printing at the compositor's case, and the profes-
sion of editing at the reporter's desk, graduating as
the editor of " The Brooklj-n Eagle," a position
which he has occupied for many years; he has held
various l<x;al offices at Brooklyn, among them tlii»e
of water commissioner and memlier of the lioard of
education; was nominated as imstmaster of llial city
in 18*10, and again in 18(17 by President JohiiBoii. ijut
was each time rejected liy the Senate; and was
elected a representative from New York in the Forty-
second Congress as a Dimiocrat, receiving 20,7tU
votes against 12.482 votes for S. B. Dutcher, Keputi-
lican, ser\ing from Marcli 4, 1871, to March 3, 1873.
Kinsey, Charles, was bom at Paterson, New
Jersey; received an academic education; was elected
a representative from New Jersey in tlie Fifteentli
Congress; was re-elected to the .Sixteenth Congress,
defeating John Condlct, serving from December 1,
1817, to March 3, 1819.
Kinsey, James, was bom at Burlington, New
Jersey, in 17*J; took a leailiug part in colimial
affairs, and was prominently identified with j>re-
Revolutiouary movements; was a delegate from New
Jersey to the Continental Congress 1774-1775; w:w
appointed chief justice of New Jersey in 1789; died
at Hurlinglon, New Jersey, January 4, 1802.
Kinsley, Martin, was born at Bridgewater.
Massachusetts, June 2, n'A; received a classical
education, graduating at Uan'ard College in 1778 ;
stmlied medicine, and practised at Bridgewater;
sen-ed in the Revolutionary war as purveyor of
medical supplies; was a delegate to the State Con-
stilulicinal f'nnvenlion; was for thirty years a mem-
ber of the Slate House of Representatives; was a
judge of probate, and a judge of the C!ourt of Com-
mon Pleas; was electe<l a representative from Massa-
chusetts in the .Sixteenth Congress, ser\-ing from
Dwemlier (1, 1819, to March .1. 1821 ; was defeated as
a candidate for the Seventeenth Congress; died at
Bridgewater, June 20, 1835.
«B
CONGEK88IONAL DIRECTOKr.
Kirkland, Joseph, was l>om at Old Norwich.
Connecticut. J:inui>rv IS, 177(t; received a classical
education, p-iidiialiiig at Yale College in ITW;
studied law; was admitted to the liar, and com-
menced practice at New Hart.fonI, New York; was
a member of the State House of KepresenUilives
1804-1W«; removed to Ulica in 18ia, and was ap-
pointed State disiriel-altomey; was a.<;ain a memljer
of the .St.tte House of Kepresentatives in 181!^. lisai,
1S21, and ISi"); was elected a n.-presentatlve from
New York in the Seventeenth Congress, scr^'ing
from DeceinlKT 3, ISai, to March 3, IS23; was mayor
of Ullca 18.">'J, 1S34, and ItCJO; died at Ulica January
2tJ, 1X44.
Kirkpatrick, Littleton, was bom at New
Brunswick. New. Jersey; received a classical educa-
tion, graduating at Princeton College in 181.'): studied
law; was admitted to the bar, and commenced prac-
tice at Now Urunswick ; w.is elected a representative
from New Jersey in the Twenly-i-iglitli Congress as
a Democrat, serving from DeceniluT 4. 11^3. to
March 3, ls4.'); was surrogate of Middlesex County ;
diet! at N'ew Urunswick August 15. 18511.
Kirkpatrick, 'William, w.is bom at Amwell.
New Jersey, November, l7iiH; received a classical
education, graduating at Princeton College in I7SS;
studied medicine; was mlmitled to practice in Hlio,
and practised at Amwell; removed to balina. New
York, in 180<1, and liecanie sui>erintendent of the Salt
Springs; was elected a representative from New York
In the Tenth Congress, Rer\ing from October *2(),
1807. to March 3, 180l»; died of cholera ut Salina,
New York, Sei>teml«T 2, 18.32.
Kirkwood, Samuel J., was bom In H.irtford
Counts-, Maryland. December 2(1, 1813; received a
limited education ,it the ac.idemy of John McLend,
in Washington City; removed to Richland County,
Ohio, in IsSij. and studied Liw there; was admittcil
to the bar in 184^!; was elected proseculing-attoniey
in 1845, and again in 1847; was in l.S5<t-1851 a mem-
ljer of the convention that framed the present Consti-
tution of the State of Ohio: removed to Johnson
County, Iowa, in 1855; was elected to the State Sen-
ate in 1850; was elected governor in 18.V.», and .igaiii
In IsiH ; was in 1863 nominated by President Lincoln
and confinned as minister to Denmark, but declined
the appointment; waselected a United-States senator
from Iowa as a Republican (in pK-U'C of James Har-
lan, resigned), serving from Jamiary 24. 18(16. to
M.irch 3, 18(17; was again elect*-)! governor of Iowa
in 1875; was again elected a senator from Iowa, serv-
ing from March 4. 1877. His term of service will
expire March 3. 18'*3.
Kirtland, Dorranoe, was bom at Coxsackle.
New York; receiveil a classical education, graduating
at Yale College in 178!*; was elected a representative
from New York in the Fifteenth Congress, serving
from December 1. 1817. to March 3, IHlil.
Kitohell, Aaron, was l>oni at Hanover, New
Jersey. July Id. 1844; received a i)ublic-school educa-
tion: learned the bl.-icksmitb's trade, anil worked at
it; was actively engaged in prc-l{evo|utioiiar)' move-
ments; waselected a representative from New Jersey
in the Second Coniress as an anti-Federiilisi; was
re-elected to the Third and Fourth Coti-jresses, serv-
ing from October 24, 1701, to March 3, 17!)7; Wiis
tu;ain elected to the Sixth Congress, serving from
December 2. 17lH». to March 3, 1801 ; was elected a
United-States senator from New Jersey, sersing from
Deeember 2. 1805. to 181)0. when he resigned; was a
presidential elector on the Monroe and Tompkins
lickel in 1817; died nt Hanover, New Jersey, June
25, 1S21I.
Kitchen, Bethuel M., was bom in Berkeley
County, West Vir;iida, March 21, 1812; received "a
0 >mmon-8cho()l education; engaged in agiicultural
pursuits; was a member of the State legislature of
Virginia in l-Mll and 18(i2; was a member of the Stale
Senateof West Virginia in 18<M and 18(Ki; waselected
to Lho Thirty-eighth Cuugreis, but not admitted; and
was elected a representative from West Virjtois Iqj
the Fortieth Congress as a Republican, reci'ivi
8,20(( votes against 5,19!J votes for .Vmln-wH. l)en
crat, sen'iiig from March 4, 18(>7, to March 3.
Kittera, John W., was bom in IVnnsylv*
received a classical education, graduating alB
ton College in 177(i; studied law: was adniif
the bar, and practised; was elected a repres
from Pennsylvania in the .Second Congna
Federalist ; and was re-elected to the Third,
Fifth, and Sixth Congresses, ier%'iug from
24. 171)1. to March 3, 1801.
Kittera, Thomas, was bom in Pii -
received an ac.idemic education: 6tudi<
admitted to the bar. and practised at Vl
was elected a representative from Peniisylv
the Nineteenth Cimgress (in place of Josepkt
hill, reslgneil), ser\ing from December 4, If
March 3, 1827; died at Philadelphia June 10. 1S3U.
_Kittre<ige, Qeorge W., was inini at Eppin
New Hani|ishire; received an academical educalin
studied medicine: was admitted to practice, and I
cate<l at Newmarket; was a nieml>er of the 8t
House of Representatives in 1847. 1S51, and IS
serving the List year as speaker; w«is elei'ted a n-prt
seutative from New Hampshire in the Tbiily-thllj
Congress as an anti-Nebniska DetnocraV
lO.KW votes against 8.(»(12 votes for 'lii.
serving from DecemlH-r 5, 185:/, to Miii'
was defeated as the Dcmf)cratic candidaie to
Thirty-fourth Congress, receiving 1).750 votes i
12,01 1 votes for Jium-s Pike. American ; died oif apo-'
plexy at Newmarket, New Hampshire, January Hi,
1878.
Knapp, Anthony L., waslwru at MiddletnwD,
New York, June 14, 1828; removed with his f»tb(r
to Illinois in 1830; received on academical education:
stiidied law; was admitted to the bar in 1849, awl
commenced practice at Jerseyvllle; was a memberof
the Stiite Senate 18.50-18(11 : was elected a represent*-
live from Illinois in the Thirty-seventh Congre» (In
place of John A. McClemam!, resigned) as » Dani>-
crat: was re-elected to the Thirty-eighth CoucnM,
receiving 14.2.59 votes against 7,712 votes forlfoiii-
loii, Hepublican, serving from Decemlicr 12, WU, lo
March 3, 18(>5.
Knapp, Charles, was bom at Colchester, Dela-
ware (I'ounty, N^ew York, October 8, 1707; w»a bwl
a fanner; was chiefly educated at home, but t.inclil
s<'hool for a time; entered upon mercantile imniiit*
in 1825; was a meml>er of the legislature of the Suiie
of New York in 1841; settled In the Tillage of D*"
Kisit. Delaware County, in 184.8; oii^nniied the
eposit Bank in 18.54, which became a national bulE
ill 1804. and of which he w.is pn'sident; and wm
elected a representative from New York in the Forty-
iirst Congn'ss as a Hepublican, receiving 17,tmt vote*
amJnst 14.584 votes for (Jilbert, Democrat, serring
from March 4. 1.8(1'.). to March :i, 1871.
Knapp, Chauncey L., was bom at Berlin.
Vcmiont. February 20, ISflt); received a public-scliwl
education; served an apprenticeship to the art »(
printing at Montpelier; was elecleil official leiiiii-
tive reporter in 183:^; was forseveral years the wli«"
and proprietor of "The State Journal;" was Mscn-
tnry of state of Vermont 18:!0-184(); remove<l »
Lowell, Massachusetts; was secret.iry of the Ma***
chusetts .Senate in 1851 ; was elected a reprtsentaUW
from Miu>sacliusctts in the Thirty-fourth Congresaa
nil American, receiving 7.215 votes acainst :i.7l'2volrt
r>r Wentworth. ;\niig. 708 votes for Needhiuu. l^'O''-
crat. ami 14 scattering; and was re-elected to llif
Tbirly-lifth Congress as a Repui)licau. recei'''''?
0,010 votes against 3,68(J votes for B. F. Batler,
Democrat, and 8(U votes for A. S. Lewis. Abolitienhl.
serving from December 3, 1S55, to March 3. ISM;
resumed the editorship of "The Lowell News."
Knapp, Robert M., was bom at Jer«yrill'i
Illinois; received a classical education; studied lafj
was admitted to the bar, and practised at JetwfTitl*!
STATISTICAL SKETCHES.
48r
clectwl a rpprosentatlve frfim ninola in the
Forty-Tliinl CVmiin-ss as ii DcmiHrat and Liiifral,
retfiViug ia.818 voles agaiust ULl'Slt vofs fur A. C.
Mallheu'S, Republican, sening from DecemlaT 1,
lS";i. to March 3, 1875; was again elected to the
Forty-lilth Congress, receiving i".lM9 votes aijainst
I'^MJJ votes for Roljbins, Repul>lican, and serving
from < lotober 15, 1S77.
Knickerbocker, Henneui, was liom at Al-
bany, New York, July 27, l~H'i: received a cliiBslciil
a^ucdtiun; sludie<l law with John V. Henry; was
"wbuitted to the bar, and coniinenced practice at
Albany: inherited a large property, and removed to
Scagliticoke, nineteen miles north of Albany, where
Le 3ispense«l such generous hos]>itality that he be-
came known as "tlie Prince of Scagliticoke;" was
elected a representative from New York In the
Eleventh Congress as a Federalist, serving from May
22. 1800. to March 3, IKll ; was a member of the .State
House of Kojiresentatives in ISIO; was a county-
judge: became ix-cuiiiarilv involved in the later
years of his life; died at Williamsburg. New York,
January 30, 1855. Ho ia alluded to by Washington
lr\infi. in " Knickerbix-ker's History of New Ynrfc,"
as "my cousin the congreasmau;" and, when Mr.
Irving visited Washington, he introduced hi in to
Presicient Madison as " uiy cousin Diedrich Knicker-
bocker, the gri'at liisturian of New York."
Knisht, Jonathan, was boni in Bucks County,
rftennsyTvaniii. November 2M, 1787; received a imliHc-
pcbi^il education; removed witli his parents in 1801
to East llefhleliem. Washington County; became a
land-.surveyor and civil engineer; served three years
as county commissioner: was ap[)ointed a commis-
sioner to construct the N'ational Road, and served
tliree years; was a memlwr of the State House of
Representatives 1822-182**; visited England to exam-
ine the railroads there, and, on his return, was
appointed chief engineer on the Baltimore and Ohio
liailroad; was elected a representative from Penn-
sylvania in the Thirty-fourth Congress as a Whig,
receiving 0,()12 votes against 7,552 votes for Mont-
gomery, Democrat, serving from December 3, 1855,
to Manji 3, 1857; engagc^d in agricultural pursuits;
and died at East Bethlehem, Peiuisylvaoia, Novem-
ber 2-J. 1K.">8.
Knight, Nehetoiah (father of Nehemiah U.
£ni:.:lil|. was boni in Rhode Island; was elected a.
■epresentatlve from Rhotle Island in the Eighth Con-
Sbcss as a Federalist; was re-elected to the Ninth and
Tenth Congresses, serving from October 17, 1803, to
18il8. when lie died.
Knig-ht, Nehemiah R. (son of Nehemiah
Kni^;lil), WHS boni at Cninsldii, Rhode Island. De-
cember 31, 178-0; received a public-school education;
was a member of tlie .State House of Representatives
in 18(J2; was electeil clerk of the Court of Common
Pleas in 1805, and removed to Providence; was clerk
of the Circuit Court 1812-1817; was for many years
president of the Roger Williimis Bank; was governor
of Rhode Island 1817-18;il; was appointed by Presi-
dent Maiiison collector of customs at Providence;
was elect»'d a United-Stales senator from Rhode
Island as a Whig (in place of James Burritl, jun.. de-
ceased |, and was thr<.'« times pe-eleeli'd, sening from
January 20, 1820, to March 3, 1841; w;ts a delegate to
tlie .Stale Constitutional (.'onvention in 1843; died at
Providence, Rhode Isl.ind, Aiiril ll>, ia>J.
Knott, J. Proctor, was bom near Lebanon,
Kentucky. August 211, 18:^0; studied law; removed to
Missouri in May, IS-V), and was admitted to the bar
in lt<51 ; was elected to the State House of Represen-
tatives of Missouri in 1857, and rcsiinied in August,
1859: was .iitpointed attorney-general of Missouri in
the same niontli; was unanimously nominated for
the same fMisftion by the Democratic Convention, and
elected in -Vugust, 1802; relumed to Kentucky, and
coniinenced the practice of law in Lebanon in 18ti3;
and was elected a represcntalive from Kentucky in
the Fortieth CouKress as a Democrat, receiving 8,1M)
I votes against 2.277 votes for Taylor, Republican, and
|!)ii8 vi>ti-s for W. I. Heady; was re^'lected to the
I Forty-iirst Congress, receiving 13,lti(i votes against
1,811 votes for Hays, Republican, serving from
December 3, 1807, to March 3. 1871 ; was again elected
to the Forty-fourth Congress as a Democrat, receiv-
ing 8.182 votes against 4,fi01 votes for C. S. Hill,
Republican; and was re-elected to the Forty-fifth
Congress, receiving 15,735 votes against 0.1)62 votes
for Lewis, Republican, serving from December 6,
1875.
Knowltoo, Sbenezer, was bom In New Hamp-
shire; received a public-scnool eilucntion; studied
theology; resided at .South Monlville. Maine: was a
member of the State House of Representatives 1844-
18.j0, serving as speaker in 1.S44; was elected a rep-
resentative from Maine in the Tliirty-fourth Con-
gress as a Republican, receiving 6,Vlt>5" votes against
4,072 votes for J. G. Dickorson. Democrat, and 3.587
votes for E. W. Farley, Wliig, 8er%ing frtim Decem-
l)er 3, 1.S55. to M-iich 3. 1SJ7.
Knox, James, was bom at Canajoharie, New
York, July 4, 1HJ7; reci-iviil a classical education,
griuluating at Yale College in 1830; studied law; was
admitted to the bar in IKl:!. and commenced practice
at I'lica; removed to Illinois, and founded the town
of Knoxvllle in iif^Hi; devoted himself to agricultu-
ral and mercantile pursuits; was a delegate to the
.State Constitutional Convention in 1847; w.is elected
a representative frfpm Illinois iu the Thirty-thinl
Congress as a Whig, receiving 0,80*! votes against
!l,(V84' votes for Ross, Democrat, and 1,2(K) votes for
Curtis, Free-Soller; and was re-elected to the Thirty-
fourth Congress, receiving 10,140 votes against 7,587
votes for McMurtry, Democrat, serving from Decem-
l)er.5. 185.J, to March ,3, 1857: lost his ""sight, and vis-
ited EuroiJe to consult celebrated oculists without
receiving any benefit.
Knox, SamueL received a public-scluwl educa-
tion; resided at St. Louis; was elected a representa-
tive from Mi.ssouri in the TliirtV-elghth Congress
(having successfully conteste<l the seat of Fnincls P.
Blair. Jiin. ) as a Republican, serving from June 15,
18(M, to M.irch 3. 1805.
Koontz, Williain H., was bom at Somerset,
Pennsylvania, July 15, 1830; received a public-school
education; stuilied and practised law; was district-
attoniey of Somerset County in 1854, 1855, anil IS.')!);
was clerk and prothonotary for the courts of Somer-
set County in 1801, 1802, and 186:J; was elected a
representative from Pennsylvania in the Thirty-ninth
Congress as a R*!publican, receiving 11.2:>0 votes
against 11.106 votes for Coffroth, Democrat; and was
re-elected to the Fortieth Congress, receiving 13,6811
votes against 12.0;14 votes for Sharpe, Democrat,
serving from July 18, 1800, to Man'h 3, 1860.
Kreba, Jacob, was bum in I'ennsylvanla; re-
ceived a imWic-school education: resiilcil at Orwigs-
burg; was elected a represeiit.itive from Pennsylva-
nia iu the Niueteenth Coiign'ss (In phvce of Henry
Wilson, deceased) as a Democrat, serving from De-
cember 4, 1820, to March 3, 1827.
Kramer, Qeorge, was bom in Dau[ihiii County,
Pennsylvania, in 1775; received a pul'lie-schiwd edu-
cation; resided at Lewisburg; was elected a repre-
sentative from Pennsylvania in tlie Eighteenth
Congress as a Democrat ; was re-elected to the Nine-
te^jnth and Twentieth Congresses, serving from De-
cember 1, 1823, to March 3, 1829.
Kuhns, Joseph H., was l)oni in Pennsylvania;
resided at lireeusbure; was elected a representative
from Pennsylvania in the Thirty-second Congress
as a Whig, receiving 6,745 votes against 4,IVS8 votes
for Siiodicrass. Democrat, 8er%'iiig from Deci'iiitier 1,
lail, to March 3, 1853; was defeateil as the Wlilg
candidate for the Thirty-third Congress, receiving
5,li.")fi votes .igainst 7,Ot58 votes for Drum, Democrat.
Knnkel. Jacob M., was bom at Frederick,
Maryliiud. JiUy 2:!. 1822; received a classical educa-
tion, graduating at the University of Virgiuiu in
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COKGEE88IONAL, DIBECTOBY.
1843; studied law wlUi Francis Tliomas; was admit-
ted to the bar in lS4(t, and cunnucnccd practicu nt
Fredericlt ; was elected to the .State Senate in 1850,
hut the change in the Slate Constitution abridged
Ills term; was elected a rf^presentative from Mary-
land in the Tiiirty-fifth Conijress as a Democrat, re-
ceiving 8,370 voles against 8,2!)ti votes for H. W.
lloffman, American; was re-elected to the Thirty-
sixtli (-'ongress, receiving S.S41( votes against 8,710
votes for II. \V. Hoffman, American, serving from
December 7, 1S57. to March 3, 1801 ; was a delegate
to the Loyalists' Convention at Philadelphia in 1800;
died at Frederick, Maryland, after a protracted Ill-
ness, April 9, 1,S70.
KunJcel, John C, w.ts bom In Pennsylvania;
received an academical education; studied law; was
admitted to tlie bar, and commenced practice
at Harrisburg; was elected a represe:itative from
Pennsylvania in the Thirty-fourth Congress as a
Whig, receiving 8,6(X) votes against 0,04!t vot<'s for
Eyer, Democrat; was re-elected to the Thirty-tiflh
Congress, receiving 0,227 votes against 7,30i) votes for
Eyer, Democrat, serving from December 3, 1866, to
March 3, 1809.
Kurtz, William H., was bom at Tork, Penn-
sylvania, when; he resided ; was elected a representa-
tive from Pennsylvania in tlio Tliirty-socond Con-
fress as a Democrat, receiving 5,70-5 votes against
,372 votes forSniyser, Whig; was re-elected to the
Thirty-tliird Congress, receiving 9,523 votes against
7,3'JO votes for Diddle, Whig, serving from December
1, 1S51, t4> March 3, 1.S5.5.
Kuykendall, Andrew Z., was bora in Gal-
latin County, Illinoi.s, Marcli 3, 1815; received n
public-school education; studied law: was admitted
to the l)ar, and commenced pnictice at Vienna;
was a memijer of the Stale House of Representa-
tives 18t'-l&4tl, and of the Sute Senate 18.'>0-18(t2;
entered the ITuion anny In 1801 as major of tlie
Thirty-llrst Illinois Volunteers, and served until his
health forced him to resign in 1862; was elected a
represeutative from Illinois in the Thirty-ninth Con-
gress 08 a Republican, receiving 11,742 votes against
10,759 votes for William J. Allen, Democrat, and
•ervlng from Decemlier 4, ISIC, to March 3, 18(J7.
Eyle, G. H., claimed tti have l)oen elected a rep-
resentative from Arlians.is in tiic Thirty-ninth Con-
gress; his credentials were presented on the 20th of
Decemlier, 1865, and were referred to the select Joint
Committee on Kecoiistniction ; a motion Inviting him
to occupy a seat in the liall of the House of Repre-
sentatives w;is lost Januar)- 30, 1800.
Labranche, Alc^e, was bom at New Orleans,
Louisiana; was ap[iyiiiled by President Van Burcn
charye d' ntf'(iiri:» to Te.xas, serving from March 7,
1837, to April 2, IWO, when he resigned ; was elected
a representative from Louisiana in tlie Twenty-
eighth Congress as a Democrat, serving from Decem-
ber 4, 184.), to March 3, 1*43.
Lacock, Abner, was bom In Viiiglula in 1770;
received a public-school education; removed to
Pemisylvania, and settled in Beaver County; w,!*
a member, for several successive years, of the State
Senate and of the State House of Representatives;
was elect(;d a representative from Pennsylvania in
the Twelflti Coiignsa as a Democrat, defeating A.
TannerhUl, also a Democrat, senliig from November
4, 1811, to March 3, 1813; was an earnest supporter
of the war against Great Britain, but an opponent
of General Jackson; was elected a United-States
senator from Pennsylvania, serving from May 24,
1813, to March 3. 1819; w.as president of the Penn-
sylvania and Ohio Canal Company ; died at Freedom,
Pennsylvania, At""'' 1^!. 1837.
La Dow, George A., was bom In Cayuga
County. New York, March 18, 1828; removed with his
parents to McUenry County, Illinois; reeelvi^d a
public-school education : studied law; was admitted
to Uie bar in lS5f), and commenced practice in Wis-
consin in 1851; was elected district-attorney in 180O;
removed to Minnesota In 1862; was a nv
State House of Representatives of M
l.'?<17; removed to Oregon in 18;.9; w;is a
the State House of Representatives of Oi
1872; was electe<i a representative from O;
The Flirty-fourth Congress as a Republican, buT
May 8, 1875, liaving never taken his seal,
Laflin, Addison H., w;is ixiru at I ■ " ■ -i
chusetts, October 24, 1823; grailuatcd :
College, Massachusetts, hi 18l;j; went I" , r^
County, New Vork, in 1*4!), and became iBtgel;
Interested in the manufacture of paper; w;« a
ber of tlie State Senate of Ni'w York in 1
1S.J9; was elected a representative from Ne
in the Thirty-ninth Congn-ss as n Republici
ceiving 10,441 votes against 12,704 votes for F!
Hubb.ord, Democrat; was re-elected to the Fortii
Congress, receiving 10,498 votes aj;ahist 11,734 vol
for Lansing, Democrat; and wiis re-elected to
Forty-lirst Congn.'ss, receiving 10,850 votes
13..)i:8 votes for Comwall, Democrat, scrinni
December 4, 1805, to March 3, 1S71; was api_
bv President Grant naval officer of the port of X(
Vork.
Laiim, Samuel, w.is born at Leiter«l
Inud, April 22, 1S12; was educated by h:
lions, studying at Washington College, Pi-m -, iv
removed in Marcii, 1835, to ludiaua, wli^
studied law with Oliver H. Smith; was adm
practice in 1830, and settled at C'anton, Ohio, whi
he entered into partnership with A. W. Lnoini
representative in Congress; was appoii:
in chancery 1837-18:39; was elected i
attorney in 1838, and re-elected in I.-.- . t,
member of the .State Senate in 1S42 ; was a d(
to »he National Democratic Convention at Bail
in 1*14 which nominated Polk and Dallas; VKS if-
feated .is a Democratic candidate for the TweniJ-
ninth Congress by David A. Starkweather. Wiic;
was elected a represent.itivc frcau Ohio in the Thir-
tieth Cnncrress as an Independent Democrat, ncm-
ing a majority of 206 over David A. Starkwcatlirr,
Wnlg, and serving from December 0, 1847, to Jlurii
3, 1!*19; held several commissions in the mllili.!,
attaining the rank of brigadier-general.
Lake, William A., was born in Maryland; tf-
celved a classical education, gra.luallrig ill Wajlilnr-
toii College, Pennsylvania; studied law; was m-
milted to the bar, and commencijd pr.iclice iu M»n-
land ; was a member of the Stale Hom«»» of Kcit*-
scntatives; removed to Viclcsburg, V- .vas
a memlier of the .State Senate; w;i- it:-
sentative from Mississippi in the Tin... .-.■■.!..:. Con-
gress as an American, receiving 5.tH)7 votes n^iiiil
5,729 votes for Otlio R. .Singleton, Democrat, senlng
from Decemticr 3, lt.'>5, to March 3, 18.")7; was il(-
feated as the American candidate for the Tliirtv-filtli
Congress, receiving 6,1.10 votes against 0,27U vows
for t>tho R. Singleton. Democrat.
Lamar, Henry G., was Inirn In Georgia; r^
celved an academical education; studied law; »«
mlmiited to the bar, and practised at Macon; «*
a judge of the State Superior Court; vras elirtnl
a representative from Georgia in the Twcntj-lirs'
Congi-ess .is a .State-rights Democrat; wa» w-
elected to the Twenty-second Congress, servinj
from December 7, 1829, to March 2. IS.*"; »M
tlie president of the National aiitl Van Bun'n Con-
ventioii which assembled at MLlledgeviile in 1^
and nominated White and Tyler.
Lamar, Lucius Q. C, was bom In Putmn
County, Georgia, September 17, 1825; was elucatwl
at Oxford, Grflorgla, and gnuliiate<l at Lmory f'<'lii'g«-
Georgia, in 1845; studied law at Macon,' Gmrsifc
under the Hon. A. H. Chai)pell. and was Bdiiillti'J J''
the l)ar in 1847; moved to Oxf^rtl, Mi.'slsflrpi- '"
1840; was elected ailjunct professor of inulIi'iM'''^
in the I'niversitv of the State, and liel.l ih'- ["?!''' ^
as nssistant to Dr. A. T. Bledsoe (editor l! "T"'
Southern Review"), which he resigned lu 1850,""'
i
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STATISTICAL SKETCHES.
489
r-jMimcd to Covington, Georjriii, where he resumed
tlio prnclice of law; was electwl to the legislature nf
IUi'orgia in 1853; in lsi4 moved to his plantation In
lififayctto County, Mississippi, and was elected a
representative from Mississippi in the Thirty-fifth
Congress as a Deinocral. nnrfiving 4,818 votes ni^ainst
S.Titet votes for Alconi, American ; was re-elected to
the Thirty-sixtli (Jonaross, receiving 7,301 votes
■without op|x>sitiiin, scrvinn from December 7, 1S57,
to Januar>' VZ. 1801, when lie retired from tlie House
to take a seat in tlie Secession Convention of his
Btate; in 1)^1 entered the Confederate army as
lieutenant-colonel of the Nineteenth IJegiment, and
•was promoted to the eolonelcj-; in 18<t3 was intrusted
by President D.ivis with an iraiiortant diplomatic
iniwioD to Russia; in 18('i(! Wiis elected professor of
political economy anrl social science in the I'niverslty
of Jiississippi, and in lt<ti7 was transferred to the
professorship of law ; was again elected to the Forty-
third Conuress, receiving li,07l> votes against 4,it34
Totea forU. W. Flournoy, Repiihlican; was re<'lected
to the Forty-fourth Congress, Si-rvingfrom December
1,1873, tolIarcti3. 1877; was elected a United-States
■enator from Mississippi (to succeed .lames Lusk
Alcorn, ln<Iependeiit), ser\ing from Marcli 4, 1877.
I His tenn of srrviee will expire March 3, 188;J.
Lamb, Alfred W., was l)oni In New York; re-
iceivcd a iiublic-sdiool ciliuMilon; removed to Mis-
Qllri, and Si'tlled at Ilannihal; was elected a repre-
Mive from Missouri in the Thirty-third Congress
, Democrat, receiving 7,t>J7 votes against 6.224
Frotei for I'orter, Whig, and serving from December
[6, IHiM, to M.ar<;h .3, IfWi.
Lambert, John, was boni in New Jersey in
1748; received an ae.idemical education; served in
the State House of Itcpri.'sentatives; was vice-presi-
■ dent of the council and aeliug-govenior In 18'02 and
1803; was elected a representative from Now Jersey
In the Ninth Congress, and was re-elected to the
Tenth Congress, serving fn>m December 2, 1S()5, to
March 3, 1800; was elected a United-States senator
from New Jersey, serving from May 22, 1801), to
March 2, 1815; died at Am well, New Jersey, Febm-
Br%-4, is;»3.
Lamison, Charles N., waa bom in Columbia
• County, Pennsylvania, in 18iyj; was educated at
private schools ami academies; became a student
at law wlien seventeen years of age; was admit led
to practice In Woostcr, Wayne County, Ohio, and
has practised since, except while in the army; was
prosecuting-attoniey for Allen County, Ohio, one
year by appointment, and four years by elections;
raised a company in 18*11, and entered the Union
army as its captain in the Twentieth Ohio Volun-
I tecrs, of which regiment he was afterwards elected
^L major, and served' under Generals McClellan. Hill,
^P and Roseerans in West Virginia until the expiration
of tenn of enlistment; w.os afterward major of the
Eighty-first Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and resigned
because of 111 he.illli in 18*)2; elected a repre-
Kntative fnim Ohio in the Forty-second Congri-ss
M a Democrat, receiving 11,(K):3 votes against 8,Sit4
I Totes for Clark, Republican; and w.is re-elected to
the Forty-third Congress, receiving l.'i,530 votes
•gainst 10.224 votes for S. Lybrund, Republican,
•erving from March 4, 1871, to March 3, 187.5.
Lamport, William H,, wasbominPittstown,
New York, May i7, ImU; received a district-school
education; has been a farmer; was elected suix'r-
K*1»or of GortL-im, New York, in 1848 and 1849; w.is
^■elected sheriff of Ont.irio ('ounty In 18.51 ; was elected
^"a member of the Assembly of itie State of New York
til 1.H.54; w;u< elected trustee of the village of Canan-
,flaigua ill IxiW and 1h<;7, and president of the
illago; and w.os elected a representative from New
fork in the Forty-second Congress as a Republican,
ceiving 12,11.5 votes against ll,3il7 votes for Com-
ek. Democrat, and 7" for J. C. Jackson, Independ-
and was re-elected to the Forty-third Congress,
eivlng 12,8ti5 votes against 0,730 votes for W. M.
White, Democrat, Bervlng from March 4, 1871, to
March .3, 1S7.5.
Lancaster, Columbia, removed to St. Helena,
Washington Territory, where he filled 8ev<'r(il local
offices; was elected a delegate from W.i.shington
Territory in the Thirty-thinl Congress, sen'ing from
April 12, 1854, to Man-h 3, 18.').5.
Landers, Franklin, was bf)m in Morgan
County, Indiana, March 22, 18;^.'); reeeiveil a ci^m-
mon-»chool eiiucation; was r.iisetl on a farm, and
bos since been engaged in agricultural pursuits; has
been interested in tlie <lr>--go(«ls trade since 1850,
jobbing at Indianniiolis since 1805, and also engaged
in the pork-packing business at Indiana[KJlia since
1.873; was elected to the State Senate of Indiana
18HIM804; was a candidate for presidential elector
in 1S(M on the Democratic ticket headed by (Jcorge B.
McClellan; and was elected a representative from In-
diana in the Forty-fourth Congress as a Demoeral,
receiving 10,1)77 votes against 10,411 votes for John
Cobum, Republican, ser\-ing from December 0, 1875,
to Man-li 3, 1877.
Landers, Georgre M., was bom at Lenox,
Massachusetts, February 2L', 1813; received a publlc-
schoid education; removed to Hartford C<iiuity,
Connecticut, in 1829, and engaged in hardware
manufacturing; was a meml«.'r of the St.ite House
of Kepn'sentatives in 18.51, 1807, and 1874, ami of
the State .Senate in 1853, 180!). and 1.873; was ap-
pointed State bank commissioner in 1874 for three
years, and resigned in 1875: was elected a represen-
tative from Connecticut in the Forty-fourth Con'.n'ess
as a Democrat, receiving 13,432 votes against 12,1)44
votes for Joseph It. Hawlcy, Republican, and 226
votes for Lyons, Prohihitionist; and was r>.'-<"lected
to the Forty-fifth Congress, receiving 15,52!) votes
against 15,31)0 votes for Jose|)li R. Hawley, Repul>-
lican, and 106 votes scattering, and serving from
Decemlier 0, 1875.
Landrum, John M., was bom in Edgefield
District. South Carolina, July 3, 1815; received a
ehissical edueatiim, gmdualiiig at South-Carolina
College In 1842; taught school; studied law; was
adinitt<!d to the bar, and commenced practice at
.Shreveport, Louisiana; was elected a representative
from Louisiana in the Thirty-sixth Congress as a
Democrat, receiving 8,823 votes against 3,22<l votes
for Jones, Opposition, and serving from December 0,
18.511. to M.ircli 3, I SOI.
Landry, J. Aristide, was bom In Louisiana;
resirled at Donaldsonville; was elected a representa-
tive from Louisiana in the Thirty-second Congress
ivs a Whig, receiving 5,1):SJ votes against 4,.50() votes
for Van Winder, OpfHisitlon, serving from December
1, 18.51. to March 3. 18.V}.
Landy, James, was bom at Philadelphia. Penn-
sylvania, Octolier 13, 1813; received a pnblie-scbool
education; worked as a builder; studied law. but
abaniloned tlie profession, and devoted himself to
mercantile pursuits; w;is a schtKil comnii.<sioner;
wiia elected a representative fmra Pennsylvania in
the Tiiirty-fifth Congress as a Democrat, receiving
7,0.3:1 votes ag,iinst 0^53 votes for Mlllward, Repub-
lican, serving from December 7, 1857, to March 8,
18.51); was defeated an the Democratic candidate for
the Thirty-sixth Congress, receiving 5,>CU votes
iigalnst 0,1)77 votes for Verree, Union liepiibllcan.
Lane, Amos (fatlier of James n. Lane), was
born in the State of New York; receivQ<l u pulilic-
schoed education; studied law; was admitted to the
bar, and commenced practice at Lawrenceburg. In-
diana; was a memlier of the .State legislature, and
Bcrvea one year as speaker; was elected a repre-
seiitative from Indiana in the Twenty-third Congress
as a Democrat, receiving Oil) majority over Test,
Whig; and was re-elected to the Twenty-fourth
Congress, defeating George H. Dnmi, Whig, serving
from December 2, 18.1;i, to M.irch 3, 18;J7; was de-
feated as the Whig candidate for the Tweuty-lifth
Congress by Geoige 11. Dunn, who received 1,034
490
C0NGBES8I0KAL DIRBCTOBT.
majority; died at Lawrcnceburg, Indiana. July 18,
185<i.
Lane, Henry 8., was bom in Montgomery Coun-
ty, Kontuoky, Februnry 24, 1811; received a public-
Bchnol education; studied law; was admitted to tlie
Ijar in Indiana, and commenced practice at Craw-
fonlsviile; was elected a member of tlic State Senate
in 1$%); was elected a representative from Indiana in
the Twe.nty-slxlli Congress (in place of Tilglimun A.
Howanl, resigned) as a Republican, receiving 1,4,t(1
majority; was re-elected to the Twenty-seventh Con-
gress, serving from December 7, lS4t), to March 3.
1S43; served in the Mexican war as lieuten.int-colonel
of Indiana volunteers; contested the scut of .J. H.
Bright in the United-States Senate in ISJO, but it
was not given to him; was elected governor of Indi-
ana in 18U1, and was inaugurated, Imt resigned two
days afterwards; was elected a United-Stat<."9 senator
from Indiana, serving from ,Iuly 4, 18()1. to March 3,
1807: was a delegate to the Chicago Nalioniil llepulv
lican Conveiilion of 1808, and to the Cincinnati Na-
tional Kepiiblican Conventiim of 1870.
Lane, James Henry (s<m of Amos Lane), was
born at Law rencelmrg. Indiana, June '2'J, 1814; re-
ceived a pulilic-schooi education; was for several
years a member of the City Council of Lawrence-
Iturg; served in the Mexican war: was lieutenant-
governor of Indiana in 184lt; was elected a represen-
tative from Indiana in the Thirty-third Ccui|j;ress as
a Democrat, receiving 8,7S3 votes againsi 7,7811 votes
for Farquhar, Whig, and serving from Ueceniber h,
1$.5.'), to March 3, ISm ; removed to Kansas, and was
prominent in the disturbances there; was eleuteil a
United-States senator from Kansas as a Rcpulilican;
and was ru-elect<!d, serving from July 4, isfil, to
July 11, 1800, when he committed suicide by slioot-
ing himself near Fort Leavenworth.
Lane, Joseph (father of Lafayette Lane), was
boni iu liunciimbe County, North Carolina, Decem-
ber 14, 1801; received a public-school education: re-
moved to Indiana; was for several successive years a
member of the .State legislature; served iu the Mexi-
can war as colonel of the Second Indiana Volunteers;
was promoled t-o lie brigadier-general and major-gen-
eral by brevet; was appointed governor of Oregon
Territory In August, 1848; w.-ws elected a dekijate
from Oregon Territory in tlie Thirty-second ('(in-
gress as a Democrat, receiving 1,004 votes against
308 votes for Wilson, Opposition; was re-elected to
the Thirty-third Congress, receiving 4.5a* votes
against ".i,!).!!! votes for Skinner, Whig; was re-elected
to the Tliirty-fourth Congress, receiving 0,178 votes
against 3,114:5 votes for tiaincs, American, serving
from December 1. 18,51, to March 3, 1857; w.is again
elected governor for a short time in 1SJ3; was elected
a United-States senator from Oregon, serving from
February 14, 18.51), to March 3, 1801 ; had been nomi-
nated for Vice-President on the Breckinridge ticket
in 1860.
Lane, Lafayette (son of Joseph Lane), was
elected a representative from Oregon in tlie Forty-
fourth Congress as a Democrat (to fill the vacancy
occasioned by the death of fU'orge A. La Dow), re-
ceiving J),,373 votes against 1),1(K) votes for Warren,
Republican, 837 votes for Whitney, Independent, and
&1.5 voles for Diniick, Temperance, serving from De-
cemU-r 0, 187-j, to March 3, 1877; was uefeated as
the Democratic candidate for the Forty-fifth Con-
gress, receiving 14,v!:iy votes against 15,S47 votes for
Richard Williams, Hepnblican.
Lanedon, Charles C, was Iwrn at the North;
received an academic education; removed to Ala-
bama, and engaged in mercantile pursuits in Perry
County; removed to Moliile, where he liecame pro-
prietor and editor of "Tlie Mobile Advertiser," a
Whig newspaper; was a member of the State House
of Represientatives in bSJO. 1840, 185,5, and 18t51; was
an unsuccessful Whig candidate for Congress in 1851 ;
was elected mayor of Mobile: established large
orchards, vineyards, and aurseries at Cltronville,
I thirty miles north of Mobile ; was elected a repre-
I sentalive from Alabama iu the Thirty-ninth Coo-
gress, but was deiiieri a seat.
I Langdon, Chauncey, was bom in Vermont;
I received a classical education, graduating at Yale
I College in 1787; was for several years a niemlierof
; the State House of Representatives, and aftirwards
of the St.ite Council; was elected a repn - "
from Vennont In the Fourteenth Cungre*--
eralist on a general ticket, receiving 17.^
against 16.074 votes for Richard Skinner, Denii<t«l,
seriing from December 4, ISI.5, to March .3. 1817.
Langdon, John (brother of WocKlliury Lang-
don), was born at Portsmouth, New n:unf>shire,
June 2o, 1741; received a public-school eduniliun;
engaged in mercantile pursuits; was active in gre-
Revolutionary movements; W!is a delegate from ?»cw
nampshire to the Continental Congress 177.5-1776;
was Continental navy agent, and, bv large (xrsoual
sacrifices, eijuippcd the l)rig.idc witli whicii General
Stark won the battle of Benniii^iton; w;is rc|»eatedly
a menilter of the State llouse of Representativei, and
several times its speaker: was again delegiile from
New Hampshire to the Continent.il Congress 1783;
was presiilent of New Hampshire in 1785; was a
delegate from New Hampshire to llie Convention that
framed the Federal Constitution in 1787; was govern-
or of New H.impshire in 1788: w;is elected a t'nitoi-
States senator from New Ham|)8hire as a Democrat,
serving from March 4, 1780, to March 3, 1801; wai
chosen president of the Senate, in order that the
electoral votes for President of Uie United Statei
miglit be counted (so a president of the .Senate hsd
a iegal existence before there w.is either a President
or Vice-President of the United .States); was ogaio
governor of New Hampshire 18:i5-1809 and 1810-
1811; was offered the position of secretary of tlM
navy by Jefferson in 1811, and declined it; wu
selected In 1812 by the Democratic rept ' isin
Congnfss as a candidate for the Vice-I Iml
declined : died at Portsmouth, Ncu i..-;..,chire,
September 18, 1811).
Langdon, Woodbury (brother of John Lai^-
don), was bom at Portsmouth. New Hampshire, in
1731); n;rei veil a public-school education; eng.igediii
Kiercaiitile pursuits; took an active part in VK-
Ui.'volulionar)' movements; was a delegate fmra >e»
Httinpshlre to the Continental Congress 1771^-1780;
was a member of the Executive Council 1781-liSl;
was a judge of the Supreme Court of New HaDp
shire in l782 and 17SO-171KI: died at Portsmouth,
New Ilanipsliire, January l:), 180.5.
Langworthy, Edwarti, was a delegate from
Georgia to the Continental CongrcBS, serving 1771-
17711.
Lanman, James, was bom at Norwich, Con-
necticut, June 14, 1700; n'celved a classical educa-
tion, graduating at Yale Cidlege in 1788: studied law:
was admitted to the bar in 171)1, and commenced
practice at Norwich; was State's atloroey fur New-
London County 1814-1811); wasameraberof the State
House of Representatives in 1817; was a delegare to
the First State Constitutional Convention in 1818;
was a member of the Slate Senate In ISIO; was
elected a United-States senator from Conneeticut ai
a Democrat, serving from Deceml>or 0, 1819. to
March 3, ISio; was appointed by the gi>vernor of
Connecticut to serve a second term, but the .Senata
declared that he was not entitled to a neat; was judge
of the State Superior and Supreme Courts 1S3*-
1820; was mayor of Nonvich 1831-18.34; was again
a memlK'r of the State Senate In ISH; died at Nor-j
wlcli, Connecticut. August 7, 1841.
Lansing, Gtenit Y., was bom at Albany, New
York, in 178;}; received a classical education; was K,
meraljer of the State House of Repri-sentativps 1
1801; was elected a representative fpini New Yorl
in the Twenty-second Congress as a .larkson Demo-
crat, receiving 250 majority over Ambrose Spi-ncer;
was re-elected to the Twenty-thinl and Tweaty-
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fourth Congresses, serving from December 5, 1831. to
Mitrch 3, l>t)7; was chanwllor of the rensents of the
IStal« University 1842-184U; died at Albany Janu-
ary 3, ISdJ.
Xjansing, John, was bnrn at Albany, New York;
was » delP>;ato from New York to the Coiiliiieiital
Congress nsi-17SS: was a dolcgalc fr<jni X<;w York
to the Couveiitiou that franu'd the Fedvnil Constitu-
tion; was for several years a nienil)er of the .State
House of Ut-prcsentatives.
Lansing, William E., was bom at Sullivan,
Jfew York, in ls£i; ruceivcd an aciKleinic eilucalion;
studied law at Utiov, and coinnuMici-d praclico at
ChitlL-nonjEO in 1845; was elected cUstriet-attoruey of
Madison County in im*l, and ser%'ed tliree years; was
elected clerk of Madison Coiuity in 1857; was elected
a representative from New York In the Thiriy-
seveiith (.'ongress as a Ucpublicau, receiving 15,i'.").i
votes a4;ain9t 8,(182 votes for Chapman, Democrat ;
Mnn again elected to the Forty-second Concress, re-
pajtring 13,450 votes against 0,780 votes torShoecraft,
Democrat, and 50:1 votes for Calkins, Temperance
cuidiilate; and was re-elected to the Forty-third
Conttrt'S-s. n.^ceivlng 15,410 votes against 10,841 vote*
for H. A. Foster. Democrat.
ILapham, EUbridge Q., was torn at Farming-
tou, NewY'ork, October 18, 1814; w.is brought upon
a farm, attending the winter public schools, and was
Bulisenuenlly at the Cananduigua .\cademy: sttidiwl
civil engineering, and was employed on the Michigan
Southern Railroad Line; afterwant studied liiw; was
a«iniitted to tlie bar in 1844, and commenced practice
at Canandaigua; was a meml>erof tlie Constitutinnal
Convention of New York in 1807; was elected a
representative from New York in the Forty-fourtli
• Congress .is a Republican, receiving 10,814 voles
a^n»t 0,770 votes for Pifri)ont. Demwrat; was
again elected to the Forty-dt'th Cfmgress, receiving
14,7:S5 votes against ll.S.'ii voles for Harlow L. Com-
Btock. Democrat, and 08 votes for A. J. Abbott, Pro-
hibiiicm, and serving from Deceiiilier 0, 187.5.
Laporte, John, was born in Pennsylvania; re-
» Sided at Asylum; was elected a reprcsciltative from
Pennsylvania in the Twenty-third Congress as a
Democrat; was re-elected to the Twenty-fourth
Congress, serving from December 2, 1833, to March
8, 18J7.
liOmecU Simon, was bom in Massaf'husetts in
1751; received a puiilic-school education; was for
several years sheriff of Berkshire County; was
I elected a representative from Miis9achus<-tla in the
I Eigbtti Congress (in place of Thompson J. Skinner,
(leslened), serving from Novembers, 18(H, to Marcli
fS. l.s'.ij; died at Piltsiield, Massachusetts, November
le. 1S17.
Larrabee, Chaxles H., was bom at Rome, New
Tork. November 0, ISUi); when a lad, accompanied
tiis fatlier to Ohio, and was educjited at Granville
^oIIcot; studied engineering, but subsequently de-
voted Ills attention to the law; was admitted to the
liar in 1841, and commenced praclice at Pontotoc,
jMissirslppi; removed in 18-14 lo Chicago, Illinois;
<?tlil*'i| "The Democratic Advocate;" was city-attor-
»iey of Chicago from Mnjcli 10, 1840, lo March 12,
jr>4~: removed to Iloricon, Wisconsin, anil was a
<UcIo?ate to the State Conslitutional Convention in
Jecemlx-r, 1847; was judge of the Third Judicial
Circuit of Wisconsin and of the Supreme Court of
sat Slate from August 7. 1848, to his resignation in
Auijvist, 18."),S: was ejected a representative from Wis-
consin in the Thirty-sixth Congn^ss as a Democrat,
*-ecei\ iu'^ 2:!.0;15 votes against 2;i,01l votes for Billing-
liurst. Kepublican, serving fnim Decembers, 1850, to
larch 8, 1801; w,is defeat«'<l as the Democrat ic cun-
idato for the Thirty-si-ventli Congress, receiving
i.Ott t votes against ';j4,0O2 votes for A. S. Sloan,
epuhlican; entered the Union army April 17, 1801;
misetl Company C, First Wisconsin Volunteers;
Jccllned the captaincy, but accepted a lieutenant's
ommission April 25, 18U1 ; was appointed major of
the Fifth Wisconsin Volunteers May 28. 1861 ; served
in the Anny of the Potomac through the Peninsula
campaign under (jcneral McClellan; was appointed
colonel of the Twenty-fourtli Wisconsin Volunteers
August 22, 18<J2; served in the Anny of the Teimes-
see and of the Cumberland under Generals Buell
and liosecrans; n-slgneU Septeinl>er, 180.'t, and en-
tered the Invalid corps; removed to Seattle, Washing-
ton Territory.
La Sere, Ehnile, was bom in Louisiana; re-
ceived a liberal education; resided at New Drloans;
was elected a representative fnmi Louisiana in the
Twenly-ninlh Congress (in place of Jolin Slidcll. re-
signed) as a Democrat; was re-elected to the Thir-
tieth C'ongn;ss, receiving 2,813 votes against 1,013
votes for Slontegut, Whig; was re-elected to the
Thlrty-lirst Congress, r«?CKiving 3.2t»5 votes against
2,.JtKi votes for Jackscm, Whig, serving from January
! 2t», isin, to March 3, 1851.
Lash, Israel G., was bom at Bethania, North
Cunilina, August 18, 1810; worlced on the farm unlll
hSiO, then become a merchant and manufacturer,
and in 1847 a banker at Salem; he was elected .i rep-
resentative from North Carolitia in the FoUietli Con-
cress iis a RepublicLiii; *vas i-e-clected to tlie Forty-
(irst fjongress as a Kepublican, receiving 14,525 votes
against 11,123 votes for Browii, Democrat.
Lathana, George R., was bom in Prince Wil-
liam Counly, Virginia, JIarcli t), 1832; received a
[Miblic-Bchool education; studied law while teaching
school; was .idnutted to the bar rii 1850, and com-
menced practice at Grafton, West Vrrjjinia; edited a
campaign newspaper at Grafton In 18(!0; entered the
Union anny in 1801, and was made captain of the
Second Virginia Infantry; wius elected a representa-
tive from West Virginia to the Tliirty-ninth Con-
gress as a Republican, receiving a majority of the
votes cast at every polling-place in the district over
W. B. ZInn, Democrat ; was appointed by President
Johnson, hi February. 18<J7, consul at Melbotime,
Australia, and served until 1870, when he returned;
was superintendent of public schools for Upshur
County. West Virginia, from September 1, 1875, to
August 31. 1877.
Latham, Milton S., was bom at Columbus,
Ohio, May 23, 1827; received a classical education,
craduatlng at Jefferson College, Pennsylvania, in
1845; removed to Russell County, Alabama, where
be tnught school, and studied law with Judge Hey-
derifeldt; was admitted to the bar in 1848, and ap-
pointed clerk of tlie Ciri'uit (.'oiirt; w.is an unsuc-
cessful cindidate for solicitor of the ninth circuit in
1840; removed to California, wliere he was appointed
clerk of the Recorder's Court of .San Francisco in
}XM, and district-attorney for the .Sacramento Dis-
trict in IS'jI; vrnn elected a n'pn:sentative fnira Cali-
fornia to the Thirty-tliird Congress as a Democrat
on a general ticket, receiving an average maj<irily of
4,002. and serving from December 6, LS-M, to March
3, 1853; declined n re-election; was collector of tlie
jxirt of San Fnuicisco 1855-1857; was elected govern-
or of C'alifoniia in 1850 as a Democrat, receiving a
majority of 30,0."i7 over ('urrj-, anti-Lecompton Demo-
crat, and 52,14-") over Stunfortl, Republican, and wai
inaugurated in January, 1800; three days aftem-anls
he was elected United-States senator (in place of
Dnvld C. Broclerick. deceased), scr\-ing from March
5, 18<i0, until Jlarch 4, 1805; after the expiration of
Ills term be returned to San B'rancisco, and engaged
ill l>usiiiess, and was president of the Bank of Cali-
fornia.
Lathrop, Samuel, was bom in Hampden Coun-
ty, Massadiusetts, in 1771; received a classical edu-
cation, graduaihig at Yale College in 1702; studied
law; w!« admitted to the bar, and commenced prac-
tice at West .Springfield ; was elected a representative
from Massachusetts in the Sixteenth Congress, and
was re-elected to the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and
Nineteenth Congresses, 8er%'ing from December 6,
1810, to Morcli 3, 1827; woa for ten successive yean
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CONGBESSIONAL DIBECTOBT.
a member of the Stnt« Senate, aiid Its president in
1820 and 1830; died at West SpringBuld July 11,
13*3.
Lathrop, William, was bom in Genesee Coun-
ty, New York, April 17, 182u; received a public-
tcbool education; removed to Illinois; studied law;
was admitted to the bar in 1851, und practised at
RiKkford ; was a memlier of tbe Slate House of Kep-
rcseutatives in 18.Vt; was elected a representative
from Illinois in tlie Fortv-fiftb Congress as a Re-
publican, receiving 13,241 votes against 8,1+1) votes
for John F. Fanisworth, Democrat, and 5.0SI1 votes
for S, ^V. Hurlbut, Inde|>endent Republican, aud
serving from Octol>er 15, 1877.
Lattimer, Henry, was born at Xewjjorl, Dela-
ware, April '2i. 1752; n-ccived a classical education;
studied medicine at rhiludelpliia and at Edinburgh;
returned borne, and practised; served in the Revolu-
tionary anny as surgeon of the flying bospiial; re-
sumed practice after peace was declared: was a
nienilier of the State House of Representiitives; was
electeil a representative from Delaware in the Third
Congress as a Federalist, senlng from Fel)niary 14,
171W, to PVbmary 28, HUi, when he took his seat as
a United-States senator from Delaware (having been
elected in pKice of George Rejid, resigned, Kensey
Johns not having been admitted), serving until
March 3, 1801; died at Philadelphia December 10.
1810.
Lattimore, William, was bom at Norfolk,
Virginia. Febni.iry 0, 1774; received a public-sch(M)l
educati(m: studied medicine, and removed to Missis-
sippi, where he commenced practice; was elected a
delegate from Mississippi Tenltory In the Eighth
Congress, and re-elected to the Ninth Congress, serv-
ing from October 17, 1803, to March 3, 1807; was
sgain elected a delegate to the Thirteenth and Four-
teenth Congresses, serving from December 0, 1813, to
March .3, 1817; was a delegate to the First Constitu-
tional Convention of Mississippi; died April 3, 1843.
Laurens, Henry, was bom at Charleston, South
Can)lina, in 172;j; was sent to England lo acquire a
Uiorongh business cducaii(/n. and, on his return honte,
engagi^ In mercantile pursuits; served in a campaign
against the Cherokee Indians; visited Europe In 1771
to superintend the education of his sons, and re-
turned in 1774; was president of tlie Cliartealon
Committee of Safety and of the Provincial Congress;
was a delegate from South Carolina to the Conti-
nental Congress 1777-178tt, serving .is president there-
of Novonil»er 1, 1777-Decemlier 10, 1778; was elected
by the Continental Congress, October 21, 1771t, min-
ister lo Holland; was captured on his voyage thither
by the BritiRli, carried to London, and imprisoned in
the Tower for nearly (if teen mouths; was appointfd
by Congress, June 15, 1781, one of the cominis.sUm-
er« to negotiate a treaty of peace with Great Britain,
and signed the preliminary treaty at Paris Novem-
ber Sii, 1782; his health having been affected by his
imprlRonment, he retired to his plantation on his re-
turn to South Carolina, and eiigsvged in agricultural
pursuits until he died, DecftnUcr 8, 1702, mIku his
remains were cremated in obedience to an injunc-
tion in his will. Some of bis pajiers on diplomatic
and political questions have been pulilished in tlje
collections of the South-Camlina Historical Society.
Law, John (son of Lyman Law, grandson of
Richani Law and of Amasa Learned), was bom at
New London, Connecticut, in 1701); received a clas-
sicid education, graduating at Yale College in 1814;
studied law; was aiimitted to the bar in 1817, and
commenced practice at Vinccnnes, Indiana; was
prosecutiny-altorney for his iudicial district; was a
member of tlie .State legislature in I82;J: was judge
of the Circuit Court for eight years: was apiminted
by President Van Burcn receiver at the Vincenncs
land-office, serving 1838-1842; was appointed by
President Pierce judge of the Court <pf Land Claims,
serving 18.'»5-1807; removed to Evansville, Indiana,
aud practised there; waa elected a representative
from Indiana in the Tliirty-seventh Congrp«» aa •
Democrat, receiving 13.470 votes against l(),7i51 votes
forDe Uruler, Republican; and was re-elected to the
Thirty-eighth Congress, receiving 1 1,0<>J votes jig.iiusl
0,563 votes for Johnson, Republican, serving trnni
July 4. 1801, to March :}, 1800; declined a renomiiui-
tion; died at Evansville, Indiana, October 7, 187:).
Law, Ljnnan (son of Richard Law, and father
of John Law), was bom at New London. Connecti-
cut. August 10, 1770; received a classical wlucation,
grailuating at Y'ale College in 1701 ; studied law; was
admitted to the b.ir In 1703, and commenced practice
at New London; was a member of the State House
of Representatives, and one year its speaker; was
elected a representative from Connecticut in the
Twelfth Congri'ss as a Federalist; was r»'-elected to
the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Congresses, serving
from November 4, 1811, to March ;J, 1.817: died a(
New Lonilon. Connecticut, Febnnuy 3, 1S42.
Law, Richard (father of Lyman Law, and grand-
father of John Law), was bom at Milford, Connecti-
cut, March 1", 17*?: reci-ived a elatsical education,
graduating at Y'ale College in 17.'il: studied law
under Jared Ingersoll; was admitted to the bar at
New Haven in WA, and soon afterwards removed to
New London, where he commenced practice; was
appointed chief judge of the County Court, and in
May, 1784, a judite of the Su(ierior Court; was a.
member of the Council of the Assembly of Connect-
icut from May, 1770, imtll May, 1780. when an act
was passed excluding judges; was a delegate to the
Continental Congress fnim Connecticut 1777-1778
and 1781-1784; was mayor of New London from the
.idoption of the city charter in 1784 until 1800; wu
a coniinissioner with Roger Sherman to codify tlii'
statute laws of Connecticut; was apix>inted chief
judge of the Sup<'rior Court of Cfninecticut in May,
1780; was appointed by President Washington United-
Stales district-judge for the district of Connecticut,
and held tbe position until he died at New Lundoa
January 20, 1800.
Lawler, Joab, was bom in North CaroUns
June 12, 1700; received a public-school education;
studied theologv'; become a licensed preacher; w-
nioved to Mardisville, Alabama; was a member of
the State House of Representatives 1826-1831 ; wasi
State senator 183I-1S32 ; was receiver of public mon-
eys for the Coosa Land District 18;J2-18.'J.'>: wjj
treasurer of the Uidvcrsity of Alabama l.StJ-lSfti;
was elected a representative from Alab.aiua in the
Tweiitv-fourth Congress as a Whig; was re-eleclfJ
to the 'rwenty-fifth Congress, sening from December
7. isa, to May 8, 1838, when he died at Washington
Citv.
Lawrence, Abbott, was bom at Groton. 5C.1S-
Bachusetts, December 10, 17i'2; was educaU'd »l
Groton Ac.idemy; went to Boston, where he became
a clerk In the store of his brother, Amos Lawrence,
in 1808. and a partner in 1814; made repeated visits
to England to purclnise goods; was .active in securing
tbe enactment of a protective tariff; was a memlwr
of the Boston common council in IN'jl ; was elected
a representative from Massachusetts in the Twenty-
fourth Congress as a Whig, ser\-ing from December
7, ]8;», until Marcli 3, 1837; declined a re-election
to the Twenty-fifth Congress; waa again elected lo
the Twenty-sixth Congress, serving from December
1. 18,<{0, until 1840, when he resigned: was a member
of the North-east boundary conmiission In 1842;
visited Europe in 1843-1844; was offered by President
Taylor a seat In his cabinet as secretary of the na^-y,
and then as secretary of the hiterior. but, having suc-
cessively declined, was appointed minister to <;r«>«t
ISritain August 20, 11*40, and sen-eil until Octolitr,
1852; advocated the election of General Scott as
President; founded the Lawrence Scientific Si.hool
at Cambridge; and ilied at Boston, after a long tick-
nejs, August 18, 18.V),
La'wrence, Cornelius Van Wyck, was bom
at Flushing, Long Island, February 28, 1701 ; re>c«iv«d
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493
« pnblic-flchool education; waa reared on his father's
farm; went to New-Tork City in 1B12, and engaged
in mercantile pursuits; was elected a representative
from New Yorlc in the Twenty-third Congress as a
Jaclcson Democrat, serving from December 2, 1833,
to Hay, 1834, when he resigned, having lieen elected
mayor pf the city of New York ; was a presidential
elector on the Van Buren and Johnson ticket in 1836 ;
was president of a number of banks and Insurance
companies ; retired from business in 1856 to Flushing,
where he died February W.l&ai.
LawTenoe, George v., was born in Washing-
ton County, Pennsylvania, 1818; received a public-
school education; was engued in atricultural pur-
suits ; was a member of the House of Bepresentatives
in the State legislature of Pennsylvania in 1844, 1847,
1858, and 1850; was a member of the State Senate in
ItUO, 1850, and 1861, and again in 1861, 1862, and
1863, serving the last term as Its presiding officer;
was elected a representative from Pennsylvania in
the Thirty-ninth Congress as a Bepublican, receiving
11,727 votes against 10,112 votes for Jesse Lazear,
Democrat; and was re-elected to the Fortieth Con-
gress as a Republican, receiving 13,301 votes against
11,853 votes for William Montgomery, Democrat,
serving from Deceml>er 4, 1866, to March 3, 1860.
IiOWrenoe, John, was bom In Cornwall County,
England, in 1750, and Immigrated to New- York City
in 1767; received an academical education; studied
law ; was admitted to the bar in 1772, and commenced
practice at New York ; served throu^out the Revolu-
tionary war in the First New- York Regiment, and as
aide-de-camp and judge-advocate on the staff of Gen-
eral McDongall; serv«l as judge-advocate-general on
the staff of General Washington, and on the court-
martial lief ore wlxich Major Aiidr^ was tried and con-
victed ; resumed his practice after peace was declared ;
was a delegate from New York in the Continental
Congress fZ85-1787; was a State senator in 1789;
was elected a representative from New York in the
First Congress, and was re-elected to the Second
Congress, serving from March 4, 1780, to March 2,
1703; was appointed by President Washington
judge of the United-States Circuit Court; was
elected a United-States senator from New York (In
place of Rufus King, resigned), serving from Decem-
ber 8, 1796, to August, 1800, when he resigned, having
•erved as president pro tempore of the Senate in De-
cember, 1798; died at New- York City November 7,
1810.
Lawrenoe, John W., was bom at Flushing,
Long Island ; was a member of the State House of
Bepresentatives 1841-1842; was elected a representa-
tive from New York In the Twenty-ninth Congress
as a Democrat, receiving 6,132 votes a^inst 4,035
votes for Cogswell, Whig, serving from Decemljer 1,
184.5, to March 3, 1847.
La'wrence, Joseph, was bom in Adams County,
Pennsylvania, in 1788; removed when a child to
Washington County; received a public-school educa-
tion; was raised on a farm, and devoted himself to
^zricultural pursuits; was a member of the State
House of Representatives for nine successive ses-
sions, serving the last four as speaker; was elected a
representative from Pennsylvania in the Nineteenth
Congress as a Democrat, and was re-elected to the
Twentieth Congress, serving from December 5, 1826,
to March 3, 1829; was again a member of the State
House of Representatives; was State treasurer of
Pennsylvania; was again elected to the Twenty-
seventh Congress, serving from May 81, 1841, to
April 17, 1842; he was summoned home to attend
the death-beds of a sun and a daughter, and, when
he returned to Ids post, brought with him the seeds
of the malady which had roblied him of his children,
and died at Washington City April 17, 1S42.
Liawrenoe, SsmaeL was bom in the State of
New York; resided at Johnson's Settlement; was a
memt>er of the State House of Bepresentatives 180S-
1800 sad 1818; was elected a representative from
New York in the Eighteenth Congress, serving from
December 1, 1823, to March 3, 1825.
Lawrence, Sidney, was bom in Vermont; re-
ceived a public-school education; removed to Moira,
Franklin County, New York; was elected a represen-
tative from New York in the Thirtieth Congress,
serving from December 6, 1847, to Marcli 8, 1840.
Lawrence, William, was Iram at Washington,
Ohio, September 2, 1814; received a classical educa-
tion, graduating at Jefierson College, Pennsylvania,
in 18^; became a farmer and a merchant; was a
member of the State House of Representatives in
1843; was a presidential elector on the Cass and But-
ler ticket in 1846; was a delegate to the State Consti-
tutional Convention in 1850; was a member of the
State Senate 1850-1857 ; was elected a representative
from Ohio in the Thirty-fifth Congress as a Demo-
crat, receiving 8,065 votes against 6,806 votes for
Albright, Republican, serving from December 7,
1857, to March 3, 1850.
Lawrence, W illitun, was Ixim at Mount Pleas-
ant, Ohio, June 26, 1810; graduated at Franklin Col-
lege, Ohio, and aiterwara at the Cincinnati Law
School; was a reporter for "The Columbus State
Journal," and subsequently edited " The Logan Ga-
zette" and "The Western Law Monthly;" was
bankrupt commissioner for Logan County in 1842;
was prosecuting-attomey for L^an County in 1845 ;
was a member of the State House of Representatives
of Ohio in 1846 and 1847; was a member of the State
Senate of Ohio in 1848 and 1853; was elected re-
porter of the Supreme Court of Ohio in 1861; was
elected judge of the Court of Common Pleas in 1860
for five years, re-elected in 1861, and resigned In
1864; was in the Union army in 1862 as colonel of
the Eighty-fourth Ohio Volunteers; was appointed
United-States judge in Florida in 1863; elected a
representative from Ohio in the Thirty-ninth Con-
gress as a Republican, receiving 12,242 votes against
0,678 votes for James F. McKinney, Democrat; was
re-elected to the Fortieth Congress, receiving 13,8U8
votes against 11,060 votes for McKinney, Democrat;
was re-elected to the Forty-first Congress, receiving
13,656 votes against 13,027 votes for Leedom, Demo-
crat, serving from Deceml)er 4, 1866, to March 3,
1871 ; was again elected to the Forty-third Congress,
receiving 14,748 votes against 10,705 votes for J. J.
Masson, Democrat; and was re-elected to the Forty-
fourth Congress, receiving 10,756 votes against 10,378
votes for Pearson, Democrat, serving from Decem-
ber 1, 1873, to March 8, 1877.
Lawrence, WUIiain T., was bom at New
York May 7, 1788; received a public-school educa-
tion; engaged in mercantile pursuits; served in the
war of 1812 as captain of volunteer artillery; re-
moved to Cayutaviile, New York, in 1823, and be-
came a farmer; was coimty-judge of Cayuga County
in 1838; was a delegate to several politick conven-
tions; was elected a rcpresentative from New York
in the Thirtieth Congress, serving from December
6, 1847, to March 3, 1840.
Lawson, John D., was bom at Montgomery,
New York, Febraary 18, 1816; was educated at the
high school of his native village ; was a merchant in
the city of New York, hnporting English and Conti-
nental goods for over twenty-flve years, and retired
from business in 1868; was a delegate to the National
Republican Conventions of 1868 and 1872; declined
pubUc office until elected a representative from New
York in the Forty-third Congress as a Republican,
receiving 13,.%6 votes against 0,806 votes for Charles
P. Shaw, Libenl Republican and Democrat, serving
from December 1, 1878, to March 8, 1876.
Lawyer, Thomas, was bom at CobleskUl,
New York; was a member of the State House of
Representatives in 1816; was elected a representative
from New York in the Fifteenth Congress, serving
from December 1, 1817, to March 8, 1810.
Lay, Qeorge W., was bora in New York: r».
ceived a classical education; studied law; was aomit-
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ted to the bar, and commenced practice at Dntavia
as a member of the firm of Merrill, Lay, & Soper;
was a le.iMcr in the political movements based on the
alleged abduclion of William Morgan fnim BatAvia
by the Freemastms ; was elected a representative from
New York in the Twenty-third foiipress as a Whig,
and was re-elected to the Twenty-fourth Congress,
•ening from December 2, ltl3;{, to March 3, 18:37;
was a member of the State House of Representatives
In 1840; was appointed by President Tyler chcayi
d'qffairea to Swwlen. serving May 12. 1842-Octobcr
29, 1845; was confined to his house from the effects
of a paralytic stroke and other distressing maladies
during the later vears of his life, and died at Bataviii,
New York. Uctoi>er 2S. 1S(K>.
Lazear, Jesse, was Iwrn in Greene County,
Pennsylvania, Ueccniber 12, li^U; was reared on a
farm, receiving a home education; was clerk in the
office of the county it' corder and register, and, when
he became of age, was elected to' that office; was
cashier of the Fanners' and Drovers' Bank at Waynes-
burg 1832-1804; was elect<'d a representative from
Pennsylvania in the Thirty-seventh Congress as a
Democrat, receiving 10,«t07 votes against U.443 votes
for Stewart, Republican; was re-elected to the Thlr-
ty-«'iglith Congri'ss, receiving l',ii84 votes against S1.&47
votes for Wallace, Republican, serving from July 4.
1861, to March 3, 1805; was a delegate to tlie National
Union Convention at Philadelphia in IS«kl; died in
Baltimore County, MarjI.ind, Septemlier 2, 1877.
Lea, Luke, was Iwm in Surry County, North
Carolina, J.inuary 2<1, 1782; received a public-school
education; removed In 1790 with his father to Ten-
nessee; was clerk of the State House of Representa-
tives: served as an olllccr of volunteers under Gen-
eral Jackson in the Creek and the Seminole wars:
was for many years cashier of the .State Bank of
Tennessee, and rt'gister of the State land-office; was
elected a representative from Tennessee in the Twen-
ty-third Congress as a Democrat, defeating Williams
and Gillespie; was re-elected to the Twenty-fourth
Congress as a Union Democrat, receiving 4,213 votes
against 4,038 votes for Clowney, Nullifier, serving
from Deceint>er 2. 18.3.'5. to Marcli 3. 18:17: was ap-
pointed by President Taylor Indian agent at Fort
Leavenworth; and. while returning from a visit to
the tribes connected with his agency, he was tlirown
from his horse and billed June 17, 18.M.
Lea, Pryor, was Inini In Knox County, Tennes-
•ee. in HIU; received a classical education, graduat-
ing at Greenville College; studied law; was admitted
to the l)ar in ISl". and conitneiiced jiractice at Knox-
vllle: ser\cd under General Jackson as an officer of
volunteers in the Creek war in 1813: was clerk to the
State legislature in 1810; was United-States attorney
for the district of Tennessee in 1824; was eiecteil a
repreMriitative from Tennessee in the Twentieth
Coneress as a Jackson Democrat, defeating Thomas
D. Arnold. anti-Jackson IK-mocrat; was re-elected
to the Twenty-first Coi\gress, receiving 4.713 votes
against 4,4S'<1 votes for Thomas D. Arnold, serving
from December 8, 1827, to March 3. 18:51 ; was defeat-
ed as the Democratic candidate for the Twenty-sec-
ond Congress by Thomas I). Arnold, Whig; removed
to Jackson. Alissi.ssippi, in 1S"J7, and thence to Goliad.
Texas, in 1847.
Leach, DeWitt C, was bom at Clarence, New
Yorlc. Novemlier 23, 1822; received a public-school
education ; w;is reared on a farm ; was a member ol
the State House of Representatives in 184t» and 1850;
was a delegate to the St.ate Constitutional Conven-
tion in 18.J0; was State librarian in 186.5 and I860;
was elected a representative from Micliigan In the
Thirty-fifth Congress as a Republican, recei\1ng 18,248
TOtes against 14.524 votes for Peck, Democrat; was
re-elected to the Thirty-sixtli Congress, receiving
l(l.i:!.j votes ajiainst 14,1116 votes for Davis. Democrat,
sen-lng frvim U.cenilver 7, 1857, to March 3, 1801.
Leach, James M., was bom in Randolph Coun-
ty, North Carolina; received a clmaical education;
studied law, and practised the profession ; w.ts a
l)er of the House of Commons of North Can:)lil
re-eli.-ctions, for ten years; was a presidential
on the Fillmore ticket in 1806; was elected a repl
tative from Nortli Carolina in the Thirty-sixth
gress as a Whig, n-ceiving 8..t<!0 voir = - ".(W
votes for Scales, Democrat, Ber^•ing i inhnr
5, 1859, to March 8, 1801 ; was a meuii . ; Con-
federate Congress of 1K64-1806; was elected to the
State Senate of North Carolina twice after the w.ir;
was again elected to the Forty-seconil Ci>ri i
Conservative, receiving I2.&41 votes aiia
votes forW. L. Scott, Repuliiican; and Wi\s !■ — ,
to the Forty-thinl Congress by a majority of 2.5S
over Juilge Thomas Settle, Republican, serving
March 4. 1871, to .March 3. 1875.
Leadbetter, Daniel P., was bom in Pennajrhra-
nla; removed to Millersburg, Ohio; was elected a
representative frnm Oliio in the Twenty-lifth Con-
gress OS a Van Ciiren Democrat ; was nvelectett to
the Twenty-sixth Congress, serving from September
4, 18:i7, to MuTvh 3, 1841.
LeaJce, Shelton F., was bom in AlW-marle
County. Virginia. Novemlier 30, 1812; received a
public-school e<lucation; taught school ; studied law;
was admitted to the b.-ir in 1835, and comnienc«l
practice at Charlottesville; was a member of the
State House of Representatives in 1842; was elect«il
a representative from Virginia in the Twenly-niulh
Congress as a Democrat, serving from Decemlwr I,
184.'5, to March 3, 1847; was a presidential el«-ctorm
1848 on the Cass and Butler ticket; was elected Hint-
tenant-governor of Virginia in 1851; was defcat«l d
a candidate for governor in IS.'VI; was again eleclnl
to the Thirty-sixth Congress as on Independent Dem-
ocrat, receiving 6,003 votes against 3,4.03 votes fur P.
Powell, Democrat, serving from December 5, lS3li,
to March 3. 1861.
Leake, Walter, was bom in Virginin; remorsl
to Hind's County, Mississippi; was elected a Uni!«i-
States senator frtim Mississippi, serving from Dec^ni-
ber II, 1817, to 1820, when he resigned; was gor-
emorof Mississipjd 1821-1825; died at Mount Saliu,
Mississippi. Novemlier 17. 1825.
Learned, Amasa, was torn at Killingly. Con-
necticut, November 15, 175<;); received a clasilfil
education, graduating at Yale College in 1772: stud-
ied theology, and was licensed to pre.ich, but won
turned his attention to politics; was elected a repiT-
sentative from Coimecticut in the Second Congiwi;
was re-elected to the Third Congress, serving {tnm
October 24, 1791, to March 3, nwj; w.is a delegate to
the State Constitutional Convention of 1818; wis
several years a memlier of the State House c<f Btp-
resentatives; died at New London, Connecticut, Maf
4, 182,5.
Leary, Cornelius L. L., was bom at Baltimcfc,
Maryland. October 22. 1813; was educated at St.
Mary's College; removed to Louisville, Kentucky, in
1835, and returned to Baltimore in 18;07 ; was a nieis-
b«"r of the Maryland House of Representatives in
1847; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1847,
and practised at Baltimore; was a presidential elect-
or on the Fillmore and Donelson ticket in 1850; wi»
elected a representative from Mar)-land in the
s<;venth Congress as a Unionist, receiving 6,703
against rt,200 votes for Preston, Peace cam"
serving from July 4, M^n. to March 3. 1863.
Leavenworth, Elias Warren, was bom at
Canaan. New York, Deceiiilier2tl. 18tio. and was raited
at Great Barrington, Massachusetts; was prepared
for college at the Hudson Academy; gnkdiiated at
Yale College in 1824; commenced the study of lair
the same year with William Cullcn Bryant nt Great
Biirrington, and completed it at the LItcii: ■ : ■ ?
School in 1825-1820; removed to Syracu-
and practised law there until IH-SO: was pr
the Tillage of Syracuse in 1838-1840. I.s4<l, nml
was supervisor of the town of S:ilina In 18;J0
and mayor of the city In 1849 and lbu9 ; was a membei
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of the State legislature in 1S50 ami 1857; wm secre-
tary of ilate of New York in 1854-180.') ; was presi-
dent of the Board of Quarantine Comniissioners and
of the State RepuWlean Convention in IStVI;
electetl a regent of liie University, and ap|Kiinled
» commissioner under tlie convention with New Gra-
nada in 18(')1; was appninted president of the Board
of Commissioners to locate the State Asylutn for the
Blind, and a trustee of the State Asylum for Idiots
in 18^; was elected a trustee of Hamilton College in
IdOT; was appointed a constitutional commissioner
in 1872; was president of the SjTaeuse Savings Bank,
of the Gas-Llght Company of Syracuse, of the Syra-
cuse Water- Works Company, and of Oak wood Ceme-
tery; ami was elected a representative from New
York in the Forty-fourth Congress as a Kepublican,
receiving 14,W!( voles against 11,158 votes for Oeorge
F. Comstock, Democrat, ser%ing from December 0.
1X75, to March 3, IM77. I
Leavitt, Humphrey H., was bom at Suffleld. |
Conned icut, June, 171X1; removed when a lad with!
Lis father to Ohio; received an academical educa-
tion; studied law; was admitted to the ))ar in ItSlO,
and commenced practice at Stculwnville; was a
member of the Slate House of Representatives in
1825 and 182fl, and of the State Senate in 1827; was
eleoteil a representative from Ohio in the Twenty-
first Congress (in jilacc of John M. Goodenow, re-
signed) as a Jackson Democrat; was re-electe<l to
the Twenty-second and Twcnty-tlilrd Congresses,
serving from December 0, 1830, to June 18, IKM,
when he resigned, ha%1ng been apiwinted by Presi-
dent Jackson judge of the United-Stalea District
Court for the District of Ohio.
Le Blond, Pranci3 C, was bom In Ohio; re-
ceived an academical education; studied law; was
admitted to the ))ar, and commenced practice at
Celina, Ohio; was a member of the State House of
Keprescntatives 1851-1855, serving the last two years
af speaker; was elected a representative from Ohio
in the Thirtv-eighth Congress as a Democrat, recelv-
iue 10,5(11 votes against 0,202 votes for Gatdi, Re-
ptiblican; was re-elected to the Thirty-ninth Con-
ireceiving ll,i348 votes against 8,S)57 votes for
•B> Walker, llepulilic.tn, serving from Decem-
1803, to March 3. 18<i7.
Leoompte, Joseph, was bom in Woodfonl
County, Kentucky; resided at New Castle; was
electe<i a representative from Kentucky in the Nine-
teenth Congress as a Jackson Democrat; was re-
elected to the Twentieth, Twenty-first, and Twenty-
Second Congresses, serving from Decemiier 6, 1S25,
to March 2. 1833.
Lee, Arthur (brt)ther of Francis Ligbtfoot Lc«),
"w«« bom at Stratfonl. Virginia, December 20, 174<l;
received a classical education at Eton, in England;
■tudie<l medicine at the University of Edinburgh,
graduating in 17U5; travelled in EuMpu, and, n?-
tuming to Virginia, commenced practice at Wil-
liamsburg; preferring the law, he went to Lon-
don to study that profession in 17(30, and was
sdmltted to the bar In 1770; acted as agent for
Slassachusetts in England and France; was ap- 1
pointed the corrcsimndent of Congrt^ss at London I
In November, 1775; was appointed a commissioner
Irom Congress to France in September, 17711, and j
aiao a commissioner to Spain in May, 1777; returned )
to the United Stales In August, 1780; was a member
of the Virginia House of Representatives In 17S1:
~was a deli'gate from Virginia in the Continental
<;ongress 1782-1785; was a member of the Treastiry
.Soanl 17f<5-178W; retired to a fann on the banks of
.he Rappahannock River, Virginia, where he died
mber 14, 1792. His "Life and Correspond-
nce " was publishe<l by his grand-nephew, R. II.
le. In 1.820.
Liee, Francia Lightfoot (brother of Richard
Benry Lee), was bom at .Stratfonl, Virginia, Octo-
Ver 14, 17;J4; rcci.'ived a classical education under
Vha direction of Rev. Mr. CraJg; was a member of
the Virginia Honse of Burgesses 170.5-1772; was a
delegate from Virginia to the Continental Congress
177.>-177((; was a memln'r of the .State Senate; died
at Richmond. Virginia. April 3, 1707.
Lee, Gideon, was bom at Amlierst, Ma.ssachu-
setls. In 1777; received a public-school education;
learned the shoemaker's trade at Northampton; re-
moval to New York, where he entered into business
as a tanner, and dealer In leather: was a member of
the State House of Representatives in 1822; was an
aldennan of the city of New York In 1828; was
mayor of the city of New York in 18.33: was elected
a n'presetitntlve from New York in the Twenty-
fourth Congress as a Jackson Democrat, receiving
10,0.37 votes against 8,920 votes for James Monroe,
and 3,577 votes for C. G. Ferris, serving from Decem-
ber 7, laSo. to March 8, l><il; n-movcd in 18;i8 to
(jeneva. New York, and tiled there August 21. 1841.
Lee, Henry, was Imin in Westmoreland County,
Virginia, Jjinuary 20, 17.50; received a cln.'isical edu-
cation; graduated at Princeton College 1754; entered
the Revolutionary amiy in 177(t as a captain of light
horse, and served until after the surrender at York-
town in 17IS1; was chosen a delegate to the Conti-
neiital Congress In 1786; was a meinljer of the Vir-
ginia Coiivenlicm of 1708 on the adoption of the
Federal Constitution, which he advocated; was gov-
ernor of Virginia 1702-1705; was appointed by Gen-
eral Wastdngton to command the Virginia forces
called out to suppress the Whiskey Insurrection ; was
elected to the Sixth Congress as a Federalist, and
Ben'e<l from December 2, 1700, until March 3. KSOl,
when he retired tJ) private life; becoming involved,
he was imprisoned for debt in ISOO, and, while in jail,
wrote " Memoirs of the Southeni Catupaigti ; '" while
aiding In the defence of the Baltimori! " Federal
Republican" against the attack of a i>olitical mob
in 1812, he was so severely Injured that he never
recovered; a visit to the West Indies failed to restore
his health, and, after his return, he died at Cumbei^
land Island March 25, 1818.
Lee, Henry B., was bom at New- York City;
was elected a representative from New York in the
Fifteenth Congress, but died iR'fore taking his seat,
at New York. Febmary 18. 1817.
Lee, John, was Imm In Maryland; resided at
Pelersville; was electe<i a representative from Mary-
land in the Eighteenth Congress as a Federalist,
receiving 52 majority over the Democratic candidate,
serving from December 1, 1823, to March 8, 1825.
Lee, Joshua, was l>om in New Y'ork; resided
at I'l-n Yaii: w.'« a member of tiie State House of
Ue)iresent.itive8 1833; was elected a representative
from New Y'ork in the Twenty-fourth Congress as
a Democrat, serving from December7, 18.35, to March
.3, 18.37.
Lee, M. Lindley, was b»m at MInisink, New
York, May 20, 18(fc5; was reared tm a farm ; by his own
industrj' received a classical education, graduating at
Union College in 1827; studied meillcine, graduating
from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of
Western New York In 18;J<); practised medicine at
Fulton. Orange County; was postmaster at Fulton
I84i>-1844; was a memlwr of the State House of l{ep-
rcse.ntativcs In I84(t and 1S47; was State commis-
sioner of loans 1847-185<J: was elected State senator
In 18(J5: was elected a representative from New York
In the Thirty-sixth Congress .is a Republican, receiv-
ing 11,4.W votes against 7.425 votes for Tyler, Demo-
crat, and 1.005 for Penr, American, serving from
December 5, 18.50, to Marcli 3, ISdl.
Lee, Richard Bland, was bom In Virginia in
1702; was electeil a representative from Virginia in
the First Congress; was re-electc<l to the Second and
Thinl Congresses, serving from March 4, 1780, to
March 3, 1705; died March 12. 1827.
Lee, Richard Henry, was bom at Stratford,
Virgiiua. January 20, 1732; was sent to England to
receive his education at Wakefleld Academy, York-
shire, and retomed in 1751 ; tendered his services to
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General Braddock as captain of rangers in 1755, but
tbey were declined; was cbosen a delegate to the
House of Burgesses in 1757, and took an active part
in Revolutionary movements; was a member of the
First Congress in 1774, and drew up the most im-
Sortant documents adopted; introduced a motion
une 7. 177ft, to declare independence, and, when it
was adopted, would have been the cbainnan of the
committee appointed to draw up the di.'Claration
bad not illne.ss in his family called him liume, when
Mr. Jefferson was substituted; was re-elected to
Congress in 1778, but retired in 1780, and declined
being agiiiu elected until ni<i, 8cr\'ing meanwhile in
the State legislature, and, as colonel of the militia of
his county, repelled the Invading Britons; was uniui-
ituously chosen president of Congress in 17S4. but
retired at the end of the year, and in 17.S(I was again
elected a member of the General Assembly; vaia a
meml)er of the Virginia Convention of 17fSS on the
adoption of the Fcder.al Constitution; was appointed
one of tlie senat4)rs from Virginia in the First Con-
gress; took his scat April 0. 17S0; was chosen presi-
dent pro tnnjiurf, and resigned on account of ill
health in the fall of 1792; died at Chantilly, Virginia,
Jiuie 10, 171M.
Lee, Silas, was bom in Massachusetts; receive<l
a classical education, gra/luating at Harvard College
ill 1784; studied law; was admitted to the bar, and
commenced practice; was a member of the State
House of Kepresentatives in 1793, 1797, and 179S;
was elected a repn'sentative from Massachusetts in
the Sixth and Seventh Congresses as a Federulist,
serving from Dccctnlwjr 2, 17'J0, to 1802, when he re-
signed; was judge of probate 180,^-1814; w.is chief
judge of the Court of Common Pleas; was United-
States district-attorney; died in 1814.
Lee, Thomas, was bom in New Jersey; resided
at Port Elizaljcth; was elected a representative fnmi
New ,Ierscy in tlic Twenty-third Congress as a Jack-
son Demwtrat; and was re-elected to the Twenty-
lonrtli Congress, sening from December 2, 1833, to
March ,3, 18:17.
Lee, Thomas Sim, was bom In Frederick
County, Virglnin, in 1744; received a thorough edu-
cation fR>ni [irlvate tutors; removed to Maiyland;
held several local offices; was governor of Maryland
1779-1783; was a delegate from Maryland to the
Continental Congress 178;{-1784; was a delegate to
the State Convention which ratllied the Federal
Constitution; was .•i!;ain governor of Marylimd 17!ii'-
1704; was elected Tj'nited-Stntes senator from Mary-
land in 1704, but declined; died at Needwood, Fred-
crick County, Virginia, November 0, 1810.
Leet, Isaac, w.ts Itom at Washington. Pennsyl-
vania, in 1W)2; received an academic education: was
a member of tlie State Senate for four years- lield at
different periods of liis life tlio offices of deputy
Slate's attorney nrd county treasurer; was elected a
representative from I'eiuisylvania in the Twetity-
slxth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 3,5(J0 vf)tus
against ."5.48;) votes for Joseph Lawrence, Whig,
serving from Dccemlx-r 2, INIO, to M.irch ."3, 1S41 :
was defeated as the Democratic candidate for the
Twenly-sevciith Congress by Joseph Lawrence,
Wliig, "who dill not live to take his seat; died at
Wjisdington, Pennsylvania, June 10, 1844.
Lefever, Joseph, was elected a representative
from Pennsylvania in the Twelfth Congress, son'ing
from Nineinber4, 1811, to March ;J, 1813.
Lefferts, John, was boni at Brooklyn, New
Vork; received a public-.school education; was elect-
ed a representative from New York in the Tliirtecnth
Congress as a Democrat, scr\-ing from May 24, 1813,
to March 2, 181.'3; was a delegate to the State Consti-
tutional Convention In 1821; was a meml>er of the
Sute Senate 1822-1825; died at Brooklyn May 7,
1841.
LefQer, Isaac, was bom in Washington County,
Pennsylvania, >rovember, 1788; received a classical
education, graduating at Jefferson College; studied
law; was admitted to the bar, and commenced prac-
tice ot Wheeling, Virginia; was a member of the
State House of Representatives 1817-1^1:5; was a
member of the .State B>5ard of Pulilic Works 1827; h
was elected a represent.itive from Virginia in the ^|
Twentieth Congress, receiving 702 votes against 87? W
votes for Johuson, and 118 voles for Haymc<nd. serv-
ing from Decemljer 3, 1827, to Man'h 3, lt>2Vi; was
again a member of the Vii^inia House of Repre-.
scntatives in 1832; removed to Wisconsin in I8:i5;]
was a memljer of the Wisconsin House of Repre-'
scntatives in 1SJ7 and l.s38, ser»ing the l.vst year as
sjwaiver; removed to Iowa in IfsW; was a memlierof i
the Iowa House of Representatives; w.is marshal]
of Iowa in 184:j; was appointed register of the lond-f
office at Stillwater in 1840, but declined; was ap-4
pointed receiver at the land-office at Stillwater uk|
l.Ho2, and served \mtil 1857.
Leffler, Shepherd, w.-«s bom in Pennsylvania;
received an academical educatiim; studied law; wot j
admitted to the bar, but removed to Burlington, I
Iowa, and devoted himself to agricultural pursuits;!
was elected a representative from Iowa in the Twcn-l
ty-ninth Congress .is a Democrat ; was re-elected tal
the thirtieth Congress, receiving 5,159 votes against]
4,873 votes for McKniyht, Wiig; and was re-elected T
to the Thirty-first Congress, receiving 5.780 votesl
against 5,,'5J>8 votes for Da^is, Wliic, serving froin '
December 20, 1840, to March 3, 1801 ; was defeated
as the Democratic candidate for governor of Iowa
in 1875.
Leftwich, Jabez, was bom in Bedford County,
Virginia; received a public-school education;
ciccled a representative from Virgijiia iu the 8e»-|
enteenth Congress, receiving (181 majority over Cal-
loway; was re-elected to the Eighteenth Congress i
receiving 210 majority over N. II. Clnt I— ■ '■
from December ;1, 1821. to March 3.
featcd as a candidate for the Nineteen ■
N. H. Claiborne.
Leftwich, John W., was bom in Bedfordi
County, Virginia, September", 182(1; received a l>ub>|
lie-school education ; si udlcil medicine at tlie Puil»-T
dclphia Medical College, graduating in IKjO; removed]
to SIemi)his, Teiuiessee, where he engaged in mei^l
cantile pursuits; was elected o representative fronl
Tennessee in the Thirty-ninth Congress as a Con-1
servatlve, receiving 1,3(18 votes against .125 votes fori
Saunders, and serving from July 23, 18(50. to MarcU j
3. 1807; was a delegate to the National DeuiocraticJ
Convention at New York in 1S08; died at Lynch-
burg, Virginia, in June, l.'^70.
Legate, Hugh Swinton, was bom at Charles-
ton. Soutli Carolina, Januarj* 2, 1707; received •
liberal education, graduating at the College of South |
Carolina in 1814; studied law; went abroad, when
he attended lectuns on jurispruilence at Paris and
Edinburgh; was admitted to the bar at Charleston in
1^22, and jiractised there; was an anti-nuilitication i
member of the Lower House of the legislature of'
South Carolina in 1820-1822, 1824-18;30; was attor-
ney-general of South C,'ux)lina in 18.3<V1S.'52; was the
principal contributor to "The Southern Review"
1827-1*32; was rharijf d'ajl'aires at Brussels 1839-
18:30; returned home, and was elected a representa-
tive from South Carolina in the Twenty-fifth Con- ^
gress as a Union Democrat, receiving a small majority .H
over Henry L. Pinckney, NuUifier; was an unsuo-
cessful Union canilidatc against S. E. Holmes for
re-election to the Thirty-sixth Congress; resumed
practice; contrilmted to "The New-York Review;"
was appointed attorney-general of the United StAtO
September 1:3, 1841; and died suddenly at Boaton,
where he bad gone with the President to attend a
celebration of the battle of Bunker Hill, June SO^ ^
184:3. ■
Lehman, William E., was bom at PhiladeU B
phia, Pennsylvania, August 21, 1822; received a clas-
sical education, graduating at the University of
Pennsylrouia lu 1843; studied law; was admitted to
STATISTICAL SKETCHES.
497
I
Lthe hot, and pracliM><l nt Philadelphia; Tlsited Eu-
irope; wa» appoiutiil liy Prfsiilent Polk an examiner
of po8t-offlci"9 ill Peiuisylvaiiiu and New York; was
elected a representative from Pennsylvania in Ilic
Thirty-seventli Congress as a Democrat, defeating
Butler, Kepuljlican, serving from July 4, IHil, to
I March 3, IStU; was a Unitw-States pruvost-uiarshal
Leib, Michael, was Itoni at Phila<ieli)hia, Peim-
^•ylvaiiia. in IToli; received a puliiic-sehool education;
ctiidied luedicine, and practised at Philadelphia; was
a memlier of the State House of EepresentJitives;
Pwas elected a representative from Pennsylvania In
the Sixtli Contiress iis a Denii>cnit, receiving 1.111
votes against 847 voles for Anthony Morris, Feder-
alist; was re-elected to the Seventh, Eighth, and
Ninth Congresses, serving fn)m December 2, 1"1»9,
■ to l&Mi, when lie resigned: was a presidential elector
oil the Miidison and Clinton ticket in ISOS; was
elected a United-Stales senator from Pennsylvania
(in place of Samuel Maclay. resigned), serving from
Junu.try lU, li^iKI, to 1814, when he resigned, having
been appointed jxistmiister of Phitadelpliia; was
tg^n A raemlter of the State House of Represent&-
lives; died nt Philiidel[.hia December 28, 1822.
Leib, Owen D., w;i» l«>rn at Schuylkill, Penn-
ieylvania: received a chissicai education; studied med-
icine, and practise<l at C'atawissa, Pennsylvania; was
elected a representative from Pennsylvania in the
Twenty-ninth Congress as a Democrat, ser>ing from
I>ecem1>er 1, 1845, to March .3, 1847; was defeated as
the Demixratic candidate for the Thirtieth Congress
l«y CHiesler Butler, Wiig; died at Catawissa, Penn-
sylvania. June 17, 1848.
Leidy, Pavil, was bom at Hemlock, Pennayl-
Irania, Novemlier 21, 1813; received a public-school
education: was reared on a farm; was apprenticed
to the tailor's trade; taught school, studying law at
the some lime: was ailmilted to the bar, and eora-
meiiced practice at Danville, Pennsylvanio ; was
,district-attorney for his judicial district for five
lyeara; was county sujierintendent of schools; was
.elected a representative from Pennsylvania in the
Thirty-fifth Congress as a Democrat, receiving a large
majority over .Smilli B. Tlionipson, Wliig, serving
Irom Decemi)er 7, IKj", to March 3, 18.J9.
Leigh, Benjamin Watkine, whs bom in Clies-
terticid County, Virginia, June 18. 1781; received a
clussic.'d iHlucation, gniduating at William and Mary
College in l8t)2; studied law; was admitted to the
bar in 18(t2; commenced practice at Petersburg, and
xetnoved in 1813 to Richmond, Virginia; was a mem-
ber of the State legislature, and a delegate to the
SUte Constitutional Convention of 183t>-1831; was
, for twelve years official reptjrter of the State Court
^fcof Appt'.ils : was elected a United-States senator from
^■Virginia in 1S.'}4 as a \Vliig (to fill the vacancy caused
^Hby the resignation of Williiim C. Uives, Democrat,
^B«rho had declined to obey the liistructions of tlie
^Blegislaturij), and was ri--e)ect4?d at the next session
of the legislature for six years, defeating Mr. Kives
by four votes; in 1830 the political complexion of the
^w legislature of Virginia hiul changed; Mr. Leigh re-
^Bcigued lieciuse he could not ol>ey the iiislnictiuna
^B^ven him, and Mr. Rives was again elected to fill the
^BTarancy thus create<l ; Mr. Leigh served from March
^U, 1834, to July 4, 1.m3(I. and retired to private life,
^Kdyiiig at Richmond, Virginia. February 2, 1841).
^■Be published twelve volumes of Vlrgiiilu Reports
^182!>-1H41.
Leiper, Gteorge C, was bom at Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, in 1780; received a public-school edu-
f cation'; engaged in qunrn-ing stone; built in 1800
tlie flnl railroad on the Ainerican continent from his
quarries in Delaware County to Ridley Creek, a
distance of one mile; was elected a representative
from Pennsylvania in the Twenty-fh^t Congress as a
Jackson Democrat, 8er\'ing from December 7, 1829,
to March 3, 1831 ; died at Leipidia, Peuusylvaula,
Kovember 17, 18e&
Leiter, Benjamin P., was bom at Leitersburg,
Maryland, Octob<?r 13, 1813: received a home eiluca-
tion; taught school 1830-I.t(4; removed to Ohio,
where he taught school aud studied law; was ad-
mitted to the bar in 1842. anil commenced practice
at Canton; was a meml)er of the State legi.«ljiture of
Ohio in 1848 and 184i). serving llie last year as s|M?ak-
er; was elected a representative from Ohio in the
Tliirty-fourth Congress as a Republican, receiving
8,7:58 votes against 5,()23 votes for Spalding. Demo-
crat; was re-elected to the Thirty-fifth Congress, re-
ceiving 9,:iU4 votes against 0,7t»i> votes foi- I.ahm,
Democrat, serving from Doceml>er 3, 185o, to March
.'J, 1.S.MI.
Le Moyne, J. V., was bom in Washington
County, Pennsylvania, in 1828; re'ceived a clas-slcal
education, graduating from Washington College in
1847; studied law at Pittsburg, Peimsylvani.i, and
was admitted to the bar there ui 1^2; removed im-
mediately to Chicago, and has practised law there
ever since, never hofding any public office; was nom-
inated for Congre>ss in 1872 by the Lil>erals, and was
dcf«!ated by C. B. Farwell, Republican, by 4,240 ma-
jority; was elected a representative from Illinois in
the Forty-fourth Congress as a Democrat, receiving
1(10 majority over Cliarlcs B. Farwell, Republican,
serving from May 0, 1870, to March 3, 1877 ; was de-
feated aa the Democratic candidate for the Forty-
fifth Confess, receiving ll,4;5ij votes against 11,843
votes for L. Bretans, Repulilican.
Lent, James, was born at Newtown, New York;
engiiged in mereantile pursuits at New-York City,
and visited India and China; was elected a repre-
sentative from New York in the Twenty-first Con-
gress as a Jackson Democrat ; was re-elected to the
Twenty-second Congress, serving from December 7,
1820, to Fobraary 20, 18.^3, when he died, after a
short but exceedingly severe illness, at Washington
City.
Leonard, Qeorge, was bom at Norton, Massa-
cliusetts, July 4, 17211; received a classical education,
graduating at Harvard College in 1748; was ap-
pointed by Govemor Shirley register of prol)ato in
1743; studied law; was admitted to the bar, and
commenced practice in his native town, rather as an
amusement than an occupation, so large was his
estate; was a member of the Provinci.il House of
Representatives, a Provincial councillor, and judge
of proiiate; was elticted a representative from Massa-
chusetts in tlie First Congress, serving from March
4, 178U, until March ti, 1701 ; and was again elected to
the Fourth Congress, serving from Decemtier 7, 17U5,
until March 3, 17il7; was a judge of the Court of
Common Pleas; was again a member of the State
House of Representatives; was a State senator; died
at Raynham, Massachusetts, July 20, 1810.
Leonard, Moses G., was bom in Connecticut;
received a public-school education; removed to New-
York City; was elected a representative from New
York in the Twenty-eighth Coiigress as a Democrat,
receiving 6,282 votes against 4,389 votes for Scales,
■Wliig, serving from Decemlier 4, 1843, to March 3,
184."i; was defeated as the Democratic candidate for
the Twenty-ninth Congress, receiving O.iHiO votes
against 0,214 votes for Thomas iL Woodruff, Native
American; was for several years commissioner of
emigration at New- York City.
Leoneo'd, Stephen B.. was bom In New York;
received a public-scliool euucation; was elected a
representative fn^m New Y'ork in the Twenty-fourth
Congress as a Democrat, serving from Deccml)er 7,
1835, to March 3, 1837; was defeated us the Demo-
cratic candidate for the Twenty-fifth Congress by
Abraham P. Grant ; was again elected to the Twen-
ty-sixth Congress, receiving 0,152 votes against 8,725
votes for Jolin Miller, ^Vhlg, serving from December
2, 18:!0, to Mareh 3, 1>U1.
Leonards, John Edward, was bom in Cheater
County, Pennsylvania, September 22, 1845; was ed-
ucated iu early jouth at FbiUipe Exeter Academy,
498
CONGKE8SIONAL DtRECTORy.
Xew Hampshire; praduatfd at Harvard Oillcge in
1S07; studied the civil law In Germany, and n-ceived
the degree of doctor of laws from the Universitj' at
Eeidellx>rf!; settled in Louisiana upon ihe comple-
tion of his studies, and l)egan the practice of the law
In the Thirteenth Judicial District; was for some
time district-atlomcy; was appointed a jud^ of the
Supreme Court of Louisiana; was elected a repre-
■entative from Louisiana In the Forty-fifth Congress
as ft Republican, receiving 13.881 votes a^inst i),'2V2
Toles for W. W. Farmer, I)emocrat, acconling to the
certificate of Governor Kellogg, and 14.423 votes
against 13,010 votes for W. W. Rinuer, according to
the certificate of Gfjvernor Nicholls; visited Cuba to
lee a young i.idy to whom he had become attached, and
was seized by the yellow-fever, of which lie died at
Havana March 16, 1878. His remains were brought
to the Unit(>d States, and interred in Chester County,
Pennsylvania.
Letcher, John, was bom at Lexington, Rock-
bridge County, Vii^inia. March 28, 1813; received a
classical education, graduating at Haiidolph Macon
College; studied law; was ailmitte<l to the bar in
1S30, and corhmenccd practice at Lexington. Vir-
ginia; established and edited "The Valley .Star;"
was a presidential elector on the Cass and Butler
ticket in 1S48; was a delegate to the State Constitu-
tional Convention in 1850; was elected a representa-
tive from Virginia in the Thirty-second Congress as
a Democrat, receiving no opjiosition; was re-elected
to the Thirty-third Congress, receiving no oppositiou ;
was re-elected to the Tliirty-fourth Congress, receiv-
ing no opposition; and was re-elected to the Thirty-
fifth Congress, receiving no opposition, ser%'ing from
December 1, l.'-'fil, to March 3, 1859; was governor of
Virginia 18flO-lS(U.
Letcher, Robert P., was bom in Goochland
County, Vii-gi'iiiv; received an academic education;
studied law; was aduiittcd to the bar, and com-
menced i>ractice at Lancaster, Kentucky; was for
aeveral successive ycirs a memlier of the State House
of Representatives, serving one year as sjwaker; was
elected a reprcscntative from Kentucky in the
Eighteenth Cimgress af^ a Clay Democrat, receiving
288 majority ; was re-elected to the Nineteenth Con-
gress, defeating John Speed Smith; was re-elected
to the Twentieth, Twenty-first, and Twenty-second
Congresses; was re-clecte<l to the Twenty-third Con-
gress as a Whig, receiving 3,0.j5 votes against 3,Oi4
votes for Thomas P. Moore, Democrat, who, how-
ever, claimed to have received 85 more votes, and
obtained a certificate of election, but the House,
after prolonged discussion, gave the seal to Mr.
Letcher, who ser\'ed from December 1, 1823, to
March 8, 18.33; was a presidential elector on t!ie
Harrison and Granger ticket in 183(3; was governor
of Kentucky 184(>-l.'-44; was appointed by President
Fillmore minister plenii)ot<'ntiar>- to Mexico, serving
from August 1). l-MO, until August .1, 1832; died at
Frankfort, Kcntuck\-, January 24, 1801.
Levin, Lewis C, was bom at Charleston. Sonth
Cnrfilina, November 10. 1808; received a classical
education, graduating at Columbia College. South
Carolina; studied law; was admitted to the bar, and
practised successively in M.arylaiid, Louisiana. Ken-
tucky, and Pennsylvania, finally locating at Phihidei-
phla; was elected a representative from Pennsylv.-inia
In theTwenty-nintli Congress as a Native American;
was re-clecte<l to the Thirtieth and Thirty-tirst Con-
gresses, serving from Deceml>er 1, 1845, to March 3,
1851.
Levy, David, was bom at St. Thomas in 1811,
but was taken by his father to Virginia early In life,
and received a classical education; removed to Flori-
da in 1824; studied law, and engaged in planting;
was elected a delegate from Florida Territory in the
Twenty-seven 111 C^ongress as a Democrat; was re-
elected to the Twenty-eighth Congress, serving from
May 81, 1841, to March 3, 1845; changed his name to
David Levy Yulee; was a delegate to the State Con-
stitutional Convention; was a TJnilPd-.Sli'-
fi-om Florida from December 1, 1845, un:
drew in I8<10 to follow tlie fortunes of iii
Confederacy ; was confined in Fort PiUaaki lu a pcil
oner of stale in 18f«.
Levy, William M., was bom in Isle of Wle
County. Virginia. ( ictober .30. 1827; received a cu
sical and collegiate educatiou; studied law in
ginia. and was admitted to the bar; served in the Fill
Virginia Volunteers in tlie Me:dcan war; romov«l|
Louisiana in 18.52. and engage<l in the pr.octice
law; was a member of the State House of Uepres
tatives of Louisiana in lS'JU-18iil : was a presid
elector on the Breckinridge and Lane ticket
served in the Confoiierate anny, participating
engagements on the Pcniusula in 18i>l and 1802.
thereafter, until the close of the war, in the adjuu
ami Inspector general's dep.irtment on the stail i
General Dick Taylor; and was •■It-cted a represent)
tive from Louisiana in the Forty-fourth Congress i
a Democrat, receiving 11,785 votes against T.-iUUvot**
for George L. Smith, Republican, serving from !>»•_
cember «, 1875, to March 3, 1877.
Lewis, Abner, was Ixini In Chautaufiia Coo
ty, New York; received a public-school • '
resided at Panama; was a memlwr ct
House of Representatives in 18-'!8 and i -,.. .
I'iected a representative from New York in
Twenty-nintli Congress as a Whig, receiving 8,2
votes against 3.440 votes for Canipl)ell, Democn
and 2,114 votes for Allen, Atiolitiouist, serving
December 1. lftJ5, to March 3. 1847.
Lewis, Barbour, was b<.>ni at Albur^, Vermoni,
in 1824 j received his early education in commoo
schools 111 Canada, Vermont, and New York ; gndo-
nted at Illinois College, at Jacksonville, Illinois. In
184(]; was a teacher for some years at Mobile. Ali-
baina, and then studied law at the law-schools 4l
Albany, New York, and at Cambridge, Ma.«jachii-
setts, and is a lawyer by profession; eiiter\Ml tie
Union army as a captain of volunteers August 1,
1801, and served until November, 18<>4; in Mirrh,
18(13. was appointed judge for the district of Jleni-
pliis by the militaiT authorities, and senwl as such
during 18(53 and 1S(U: in March. 1S(J7, was appnintpl
by Governor Brownlow president of the Board I'f
County Commissioners of Shelby County, and lieH
theofilee until Noveml«'i-, 18(iH; was elected arfprt-
sentativp from Tennessee in the Forty-thinl Consrn'rt
as a Republican, receiving 13,781 votes against lij.MI
votes for L. C. Haines. Democrat, serving from De-
cember 1, 1S73, to March 3. 1875.
Lewis, Burwell Boykin, was bom at Mont-
gomery, AJabiima, July 7, 1838; received a cliufical
education, gniduating at tlie University of AUbSlM
in 1857; studied law; was admitted to the Imr la
18.10, and coinmenceii practice at Montevallo; wm »
pri!sidential elector in 1808 on the Seymour iwi
Blair ticket ; 8er^■ed in the Confederate army ii W
officer In the Second Alabama C!avalry ; was a mnii-
ber of the State House of Representatives of Al»-
bama in 1870-1872; removed to Tuscaloosa In IsWj
was largely interested in developing tlic mint™
resources of Alabama, and is the principal owuenrf
the Central Iron Works at Helena; was elected •
representative from Alabama in the Forty-fourtli
Congress as a Democrat, receiving lOfl.023 voia
against 00,038 votes for A. ^VTiite, Republican. Mf-
Uv' from December 0, 1875, to March H, 1877.
Lewis, Cbetrles S., was l)om at Clarktburl,
Virginia; receiveil a thorough English education;
was elected a representative from Virginia in th*
Thirty-third Congress (in place of John F. Snod-
grass, deceased) as a Democrat, serving from DeceO"
ber 4. 18.54. to March 3. laSi.
Lewis, Dixon Hall, was l>om in Dinwl'i'll'
County, Virginia, August 10, 1802; his family"*"
moved wlien he was young to Hancock Chud'T'
Georgia; he received a classical education at Mouc'-
Zion Academy, and graduated at the Univeniij "i
STATISTIC^U. SKETCHES.
499
(fioutli Camlina; removinR to Aiilanga County, Ala-
'bama. in 1S22, he muilivil law; was a<lniiltcil to tlii-
I bar, and coininonci'il iirnclioi-; when Iwcnty-oiie
' years cf age lie weighed three hundred aii<l tiiirty
jxjuuds, and sulwequenliy wciglied four hundred and
thirty pounds, which made it uecessiiry for him to
pay for two seats in the stage-coaches, and to have
D«d8te)ids and chairs in.tde for his especial use; he
w»« a membt'r of (he State House of Reiiri'Sentalives
iof Alabama in ISi.VlS-J"; he was elected a repre-
sentative from Alabama in the Twenty-first Congress
na a State-riglits Democrat; was successively re-
elected to the Twenty-second, Twenty-third, Twenty-
fourlli. Twenfy-lifth. Twenty-sixth, i"wenty-sevenlh,
aiid TwentyH'ighlh Congresses, serving from Decem-
ber 7, 1829, until he was apixiinted Uiiiled-^States
senator in IS+t (to fill a vacancy caused l>y the
resignation of W. R. King, apjiointed minister to
France); and was elected senator in 1847, defeating
W. R. King, Democrat, and A. F. Hopiiins, Whig,
een'ing frf>m M.iy 7. lf^4, until his death, while on a
visit to the city of New York, October ij, 184S.
Lewis, Francis, wsis Irom at Llandaff, Wales,
^^ March, 1713; ri'ceived an education at Westminster
^L l^hr>ol. Lrondon; immigrated to North America in
^B 1735, and established himself in mercantile pursuits
^^ at the city of New York; w.is an agent for supplying
the -British troops in the exfiedition against Canada
in 17o0; was taken prisoner at Fort Oswego, and
was sent to Quebec, and thence to France, as a
^^ prisoner of war; on his release he returned to New
^K York, where he took an active part in pre-Revolu-
^H tionary movements; was a delegate from New York
™^ to the Continental Congress 1770-1770; after a suc-
cessful business career, his property was sacriflciHl
to Jiis patriotism ; he died in comparative poverty at
New York Decern l)er,'}0, 1808.
Lewis, John P., was bom near Port Republic,
Virginia, March 1, l.tlH; was raised as a farmer,
which occupation he fdllowed; was elected In 18«}1
to the convention called for the purpose of determin-
ing whether Virginia should remain in the Union or
cast her lot with the Gulf States, and was the only
|inember of that body who rcfuse<l to sign tlie ordi-
1 nance of secession; was the Union candidal* fur
[Congress in the Sixth District in ]8<i5, and was
fdefeated liy A. H. II. Stuart; was nominated by Die
■' inie Republican party" in istjl) as a candidate for
Heufenant-govemor on the ticket with GiUiert C.
ItValfcer, and was elected by uIkjuI 2<),<JOO majority,
lleailing his ticket sevenil ihousand votes ; w;is elected
Jnlled-.Stiitc3 senator from Virginia as a Republican
' In November, ISd'.i; took his seat January 24, IKTO,
and served until March a, IS'T).
Le'wia, Joseph, Jun., was bom in Virginia in
1772; resided at Clifton; w;ifi elected a representative
from Virginia in the Eighth Congress as a Federalist;
P*-as iv-'-elected to the Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, Twelfth.
Thirteentli.und Fourteenth Congresses, serving fn>m
October 17, iwi.'i, to March 3. lsi7; died at Clifton,
Virginia. March :iO. I.s.'t4.
Lewis, Joseph H., was bom in Barren County,
Centnckv, October 21), 1824; graduated in 1S*43 at
Centre f'ollege, Danville, Kentucky; studied and
1' ■ ' law; w.is a memlK'r of the House of Rep-
. H of Kentucky in 1S50-1S51, ]l|«)l-l.'«2,
,1 .- . ... and lStitt-lf<70; and was elected a repre-
eutaiive from Kentucky in the Forty-first Congress
f{in place of J. S. Gollad'ay, resigned) in April, 187<i,
a Democrat, defeating Lowry, Republican; and
fwas re-elected to the Forty-second Congress, receiv-
^fag 7,314 votes against 5,(lij7 votes for'D. It Carr,
■"epublicau, serving from May 10, 1870, to March 3,
ri873.
Lewis, Thomas, was bom In Virginia; received
a public-school education; was electe<l a representa^
■ live from Virginia in the Eighth Congress as a
Democrat, ser^'ing from October 17, 1808, to March
6, 1804, when {his cli'Ctton having been successfully
contested by Andrew Moore) he was superseded.
' Lewis, William J., was bom near Lynchburg,
Vin;inia; received a pulilie-school education: was
fur several years a member n( the State House of
Representatives; was elecled a representative from
Virginia in tin; Fifteenth Congress b.s a Democrat
withtmt opposition, sening from Deceml)er 1, 1S17.
I to March :!, 1!S10; Wiis a zealous friend of internal
^ imprnveini-nl; and died near Lyucliburg, Vinilnla,
November 1. IS-j.s.
I L'Hommedieu, Ezra, was l>om at .Southold.
L<ing Island, New York, August 30, 1724; received a
I cla-ssieal education, graduating at Y.ale College in
11744; studied law; was admitted to the bar, and
' practised at New- York City; was a delegate to the
Provincial Congress 1775-177S; was a niemlier of the
S(!iti' House of Representatives 1777-171^1; was n
delegate fmni New York to the Continental Congress
177!), n.'il. n^^o. 17S7, and 178t*; was a State senator
1T!SI-17!I2 ami 17l>4-18il0; was a n?gent nf the Uni-
versity of the Slate of New York 17.>-7-l><ll; died at
.Southold, Long Islainl, .September 2.S, ISll.
Ligon, RoDert F., was bom in Clarke County,
Georgia; received an academic education; removed
to Alaliama l>efore his majority; studied law; was
admitted to the bar, and is now a practising lawyer
and planter; was engaged in the war with Mexico as
captain of a volunteer company; w;us a memlx'r < f
the Slate House of Representatives in liv41>-1850,
ami of the .State Senate in ]S(Kl, and re-eleetid in
16(13; scned in the Confederate annv as captain:
was lieutenant-governor of Alabama in 1874; was
elected a representative from Alabama In the Forty-
fiftli Congress as a Democrat, receiving I.'!,107 voles
against fi..S21 votes for D. 13. Booth, Republican,
serving from October !,:>. 1877.
Ligon, Thomas Watkina, was bom in Prince
Edward County, Virginia; received a classical etlu-
cation. gnuliiatlng at the University of Virginia;
studied law at the Yale Law School; was admitteil
to the bar, and commenced practice at Baltimore;
removed to Ellicott's Mills, and thence to Elkton;
was elected a representative from Maryland in the
Twenty-ninth Congress as a Democrat; was re-
elected to the Thirtieth Congress, serving from De-
cember 1, ],'v4.'5, to March ,3, 1S49; was governor of
M.irjlaml I.-^-hJ-IB-W.
Lilly, Samuel, was bom in New York; re-
ceivi'il It cla.>islcal education; studied medicine, and
practised at Lambertville; was eleeteri a representa-
tive from New .lersey in Iho Tliirty-ihinl Congress
as a Democrat, receiving 111,1113 voles against 8,315
voti-s for Iti-own, Whig, serving from Dccemlwr B,
ISVl, to JlHreli 3, IS.T.'i.
Lincoln, Abraham, was liorn In Hardin
County, Kentucky, Febniair 12, 1HU9; Ills parents
removed in 181(t to Pigeon Creek, Indiana; worked
on his father's fami, receiving some education at the
village school; when nineteen years of age made a
trip to New Orleans as a boatman; removed to
Macon County, Illinois, In 18.%; was a private in
the ttiirty-d.iys' ser>'ice in the Black Hawk war, and
was electetl captain when the call lor sixty days'
service was made; in 1832 was BpgKiintcti |K>stmaster
at New Salem : was a land-surveyor, and began to
study law; was a member of the Slate legislature
l.S:!4-I.<4I ; was admitted to the bar in iKV'i, and
commeneed practice at Si>rinplield in 1837; can-
vassed the State of Illinois for Henry Clay in 1844;
was elected a representative from Illinois In the
Thirtieth Congress as a Whig, receiving 0,340 votes
against 4,82!) voles for Cartwrlght, Democrat, and
24ll votes for Wnlcolt, Abolitionist, and serving from
Decemlier 6, 1M47, to March :i, l.H4ii; applied for ajj-
pointment as coinraissioner of the General Land
OfHcc; canvassed Illinois In 18.^ as candidate for
United-States senator in opjHisltion to Stephen A.
Douglas, who was elected by the legislature, although
the fHjpular vote gave Lincoln a majority of over
4,000; was elected Preslrtent of the United States in
I860 as a Bepublican, receiving 180 electoral votes
500
CONGEESSIONAL DtBECTOET.
•gainst 72 electoral Tot«8 for Jolm C. Breckinridge, |
89 electoral votes for John Bell, anil 12 electorul
votes for H. A. Douglas; was inaugurated ilarcli 4,
1801; issued tliu first call for troops April 15, 1801,
and the pn>clamation of emancipation Januarj' 1,
1IW3; was re-eloeted President in 1804, receiving 212
electoral votes against 21 electoral votes for George
13. McClellan; was assassinated by J. Wilkes Booth
April 14, and died Aiiril 15, lSt!6.
Liinooln, Enocu (son of Levi Lincoln, and
brother of Levi Lincoln), was bom at Worcester,
Massachusetts, December 28, 1788; received a clas-
sical education, graduating at Ha^^'ard College in
1807; studied law; was admitted to the bar, and
commenced practice at Salem ; he soon removed to
Worcester, thence to Fryeburg (now Maine), and
thence t<i Piiris (now Maine), where he located jK-r-
manently; was elected a representative from a dis-
trict In Massachusetts (now in Maine) in the Fif-
teenth Congress (in place of Albion K. Parris,
resigned), and was re-elected to the Sixteenth Con-
r»9, serving from November 10, 1818, to March
1821; Maine became a State ; was elected a repre-
sentative from Maine in the Seventeenth Congress;
was re-elected to the Eighteenth Congress, and was
re-elected to the Nineteenth Congress, serving from
December .3, 1821, to 1820, when he resigned, having
been elected governor of Maine; served as governor
until his death, which took place at Augusta, Maine
(whither he hod gone to att4.-nd the examination of
a female academy), after three days' illness, October
S, 1829.
Lincoln, Levi (father of Enoch Lincoln and of
Levi Lincoln), was born at Uingham, Massachu-
setts, May 15, 174U; received a chls^ical c<lucalion,
graduating at Harvard College in 1772; studietl law;
was a<lmitted to the bar in 1774. and commenced
practice at Worcester; was elected a representative
from Massachusetts in the Sixth Ci'ngrefs (in place
of Dwiaht Foster, elected senator) asa Whig, serv-
Inc frotii Februiu-y 0, 1801, to March 3, 1801.
Lincoln, Levi (son of Levi Lincoln, anil tirother
of Enoch Lincoln), was boni in Massachusetts Octo-
ber 25, 1782; received a classical e<lucation, pnidu-
ating at Han'ard College in 1802; studied law with
his father; was admitted to the liar in isi)5. and
ciinuncnceil practice; was a Dcmix'ralic menilwr of
the .Stale Senate in 1812, and of the .Stale Uouse of
Represent.itives 1814-1822; was a delegate to the
State Constitutional Convention of 1820:"was elected
lieutenant-governor of Massacliusetls in 182.3; was
apixiinti'd B*siiciate justice of the .Supreme Court in
1824; was elected governor of Miissuchusetts 182.">-
IS-'M; was elected a representative from Mass.ichu-
■etts in the Twenty-thinI Congress (in place of John
Davis, resigned) as a Whig; Wiis re-elected to the
Twenty-fourth Congress; was re-eleeteil to the Twen-
ty-lifth Congress, receiving 4,t'>.S4 voles ag.iinst 2,."j;J0
votes for other candidates; and was re-elected to the
Twenty-sixth Congress, serving from March 5. 1><U,
to March 3, l.-^l ; was collector of the piTt of Boston
l&ll ; was again elected a member of the State Senate,
and its president; w.is u presidential elector on the
T.nylor and Fillmore ticket; was the first mayor of
Worcester in 1.'<4S; was a meml>er of several anti-
quarian, historical, and agricultural societies; and
died at Worcester, Slassiichusetts, May 21*. 18<>8.
Lincoln, William S., was bom In Newark
Valley, New York, August 13, 1818; received a pul)-
lic-Bchool education; engaged in mercantile pursuits,
and subsequently in the manufacture of leather; was
postmaster of Newark Valley from 1838 to 18(it?; was
elected a n-presentative from New York In the For-
tieth Congress as a Republican, receiving 1(1,204
votes against 10,8«» votes for McCormick, Democrat,
•erving"'from March 4, 1807, to March 3, 180(1.
Lindley, James J., was bom at Mansfield,
Ohio. January 1, 1822; was reared at Cynthia, Ken-
tucky; received a classical education at Wof>dvllle
College, Ohio; studied law; was admitted to the bar,
I
and commenced prsctlce at Montioello, Hisaoail,
1840; was elected circuit-attorney in 1848, and J^,
elected in 1852; was elected a representative fron
Missouri in the Thirty-third Congress as sWUg,
receiving 0,828 votes against 0.074 votes for Jackaon,
anti-Benton Democrat; and was re-elected to l]ie
Thirty-fourth Congress, receiving 8,150 votes agalMt
7,380 votes for Foumoy, anti-Beuton
serving from Decemlier 5, ISW. to March
removed to Davenport, Iowa, and practised I
Lindsey, Stephen D., was l)oni at Norridi
wock. Maine, M.-irch 3. 1828; receiv«l sn «c;
eilucatlou; studied law; wasadmiti'-'
commenced practice in 1S")3; was
dicial courts in Somerset County I
memljer of the State Uouse of !!■
1800, and of the .Senate in 18<t<-lf-7
of the Senate in 18<i9; was a delej;ato.lo llio X|
Republican Conventions of I8«W and 1808;
member of the Executive Council of M:i'- ^ '
was elected a representative from M
Forty-fifth Congress as a Republican, rece
votes against 12,788 votes for Edward K. O'briuu,
Democrat, 8er\-iiig from October 15, 1877.
Lindsley, William D., was bom In Connecti-
cut; receivc<l a pulilic-school education; rcmoveil tn
Siindusky, Ohio; wiis elected a representative from
Ohio in the Thirty-third Congress as a Democrat,
n.'ceiving 0,739 voles against 0,035 votes fur Saddler,
Whig, and 2,390 votes for BrinkerholT, Free-.S'il>r,
and serving from Decembers, 185:J, to March '■>. I.v.o;
was defeated as the Democratic candidate for th«
Thirty-fourth Congress, receiving 5,7(4 votes igainit
8,017 votes for John Sherman, Rcpiiblicuu.
Linn, Archibald L., w.-is born in New York in
1,802; received a clas.sical education, cr.ndu.itln- «t
Uidon College; studied law; was
bar, and commenced practice at S'
elected mayor of Schenijctady, ami w,i-
was elected a represtnitative (rnni New ■!
Twenty-seventh Congn-ss as a Whip, rec
votes against 5.n7U votes for John Cramei
sen-ing from May 31, 1841, lo JIan'li 3. !
member of the SUjte House of Ri-:
1844; died at Graj=slield. New York. '
Linn, John, w.is bom in New .;. .
was elected a representative from New .!•
Fifteenth Congress; was re-elected to tin ^
Congress, serving from December 1, 1817, to JaaiuJj
5, 1821, when he died.
Linn, Lewis Fields (half-brother of Henrj
DiMlije), wa-s l)orn near Louisville. Kentuckj. Xo
vember 6, 171.0; was left an orphan when eleroi
years of age; received an academic education;
studied medicine witli Dr. Gaiik at Louisville;
served In the war against Great Brit.Tin as surewu
In Colonel Henrj- Dodge's Mounted Ritle Voluiiteen;
completed his ine<lical studies at PhihKlolphia: »«
admitted to prac'tice, and located at Si. Geueviftr,
Missouri; was a member of the State House of Bifp-
resentativea in 18'27; was appointed by Presldtnl
Jackson in 1832 a member of a commission to Mttle
the old French land-claims in Missouri: w« 'P-
pointed United-States senator as a Democrat (tofiil
the vacancy caused by the death of Colonel AlexM-
der Buclmer) ; was elected by the State It^Utnn |
when it met, and was twice re-elected, serving fntu j
Deceml)er 10, \Si&. until his death at St. G«neri«T«, (
Missouri, October 3, 1843.
Litchfield, Elisba, was Iwra at CanterbtjiTi
Connecticut, in 17l>.'>; receivisl a public-school (duo I
tion ; learned the trade of carjwnter and joiner: ru-
mored to Pompey (now Delphi), New York; »«•
appoiutcd postmaster there, and justice of the pesi*;
abandoned his trade, and engaged in mercantile pw-
Buita; was a meml>er of the State Assembly in It^'^i
was elected a representative from New York In ll*
Seventeenth Congress as a Democrat, and wu »•
elected to the Eighteenth Congress, serring tnm
December 3, 1621, untU Maxch 3, 1835; wn iplB
8TATISTI0AL SKXTCHES.
501
rto the State Anaernbly In 1832, 1833, 1834, and
1344, serving the last year as speaker; remove*! in
1838 to Cazenovia, New Vurk, where he died August
4, 1859.
liittle, Edward P., was bom In Masaachu-
setta ill 178S; received a public-school education;
served as a midsliipmuii in the war of 1812 on board
of a man-of-war commanded by his father. Captain
Georee Little, U.S.N. ; resided at Marshfield; was a
member of the State Housi; of Rcpresenlativcs 18:20-
1S34 and 1835-1838; was elected a representative
from Massachusetts in the Thirty-second Congress (In
place of Orin Kowler. deceased) as a Democrat, serv-
ing from Decern IXT 30, 1852, to March 3, 185;!; was
appointed by Presideut Pierce collector of customs
»l Plymouth, Massachusetts, serving 185.'V1857,
Little, Peter, was Imm at Petersburg, Pcnnsyl-
vania; receiix-d a public-sclKX)l education; was a
mechanic; removed to M.iryland, locating at Free-
dom; was elected from his workshop a rcpresejita-
tive from Maryland in the Twelfth Congress as a
Democrat, defeating Moore, Federalist, serving from
Ifovemt>er 4, ISll, to March S, 1813; was elected a
representative from Maryland in tlie Fourteenth Con-
gress (in place of William Pinkney, resigned); was
Te-«lected to the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, Seventeenth,
Klghteenth, Nineteenth, and Twentieth Congresses,
serving from December 2, IUKI, to March 3, 1820;
retired to rural life; dietl in Ualtimore County, Mary-
land, F.'l)niar>- 5. ISiO.
Littlefield, Nathaniel 8., was born at Wells.
Maine, Septenilx'r 2i>, 1S04; received a public-school
education: studied law; w.'is iidmitted to the bar,
and commenced practice at Bridgeton; was a member
of the State Senate in 18:57-183»; was elected a repre-
sentative from Maine in the Twenty-seventh Congress
OS a Democrat, defeating Zadoc Long, Wliig, and
Parris, Democrat, »er>'ing from M.iy 81 , 184!, to March
8, 1843; was again elected to the Thirty-tirst Cong^ress
•• a Cass Democrat, receiving 6, 100 votes against 4,407
Totee for Lincoln, Whig, and 1,488 votes for Fes-
sendcn. Van Buren Democrat, serving from Decem-
ber 3. 1840, to March 3. 1851 ; was a member of the
StatP nouse of Rejjresentatives in 1854.
Littlejohn, DeWitt C, w-is bom at Bridgc-
.Ifater. New York, February 7, 1818; received an
|KBdemical education ; t>ecame engaged in the eom-
IJBerce of the lakes and canals, and in the manufac-
'tnre of Hour; was president of the village of Oswego,
and, when it became a city, became a member of its
board of aldennen, and was twice its mayor; was a
member of the State House of IJepresentallvcs 185:}-
1857, IS'A^-lKIl, serving the first five years as speaker;
was eli-oted a representative from New York in the
TUiny-eighth Congress as a Kepublican, receiving
Vl,fyyi votes against H,4o3 vote."" for Titus, Democrat,
and serving fn>m December 7, 18l"3, to Marcii 3, HM'^i;
jas at;ain a member of the State House of ICepresen-
■gves in lS(t(l, ISH". 1S70, and 1871.
^njivermore, Arthvir (son of Samuel Liver-
more), was born at Londnndcrry. New Hampshire,
July 2tl. 1770; received a el.issical education; stutlied
law: was admitted to the bar, and practised at Cun-
conl ami Chester; was a member of the .Slate House
of Hepresentatives and of the .State Senate; was a
jtisticeiif the Superior Court 17VK)-1S1«, presiding as
chief justice 18<K)-18I3; was a presidential elector on
^^ John Adams ticket in 18111 ; was elected a repn;-
^Btative frnra New Hampshire to the Fifteenth Con-
^Rms as a Democrat, and re-elected to the Sixteenth
Congri'ss, serving from Decern l>er 1, 1K17, until March
8, 1821; was a-^ain elected to the Eighteenth Con-
gress, serving from Decemlwr 1. IKil, until March 3,
1^5; was chief justice of the Court of Common
^feas 1'^2.5-1S3:!; tuid died at Campton, New Hainj)-
■Ure. .Inly 1, ISi^:;.
■Xiivermore, Edward St. Loe (.son of Samuel
Livennore). was bom at Londotnlerrj', New Hamjv
sMre, in 1752; received a classical education; studied
■br; was admitted to the bar, and practised succes-
sively at Concord, Portsmouth, Newburyport, and
Boston; was State solicitor for ilockingham County
17itl-nfl3; was justice of the Supreme Court of New
Hampshire 1797-1700; removed to Boston, Massachu-
setts; was elected a representative from Massachu-
setts to the Tenth Congress, and was re-elected to
the Eleventh Congress, serving from December 7,
IKU, until March :(. isll ; and died at Concord, New
Uanifishire, .September 22, 18:12.
Livennore, Samuel (father of Arthur Livet^
more and Edgar .St. Loe Livemiore), was bom at WoJ-
tham, Massachusetts, May 14, 1732 (old style); re-
ceived a classical education, graduating at Nassau
Hall. Priucetxm, in 1752; studied law with Hon. Ed-
mund Trowbridge; was admitted to the bar In 1757,
and the next year commenced practice at Portsmouth,
New Hampshire ; was a mnmlx-r of the General Court
of that Province in I7ilS, 1700, and 1770; removed In
1 1 (5 to the town of Huldemess, of which he was one
of the original grantees, and the principal proprietor;
was appointed king's attorney in 17lil», and, alfter the
change of government, was State's attorney for three
years; was a delegate to the Continental Congress
from Febraary 7, 1780, until he resigned, June 21,
17H2; wijs chief justice of the State Supri.'me Court.
1782-1780J was ag.iin elected to the Continental Con-
gress In November, 1784, and attended the session of
that body In 1785, but did not resign his seat on the
bench; he was elected a representative from New
Hampshire In the First Congress, and re-elected to
the .Second Congress, ser^'lng from March 4, 17x0, to
Marcli 2, 17tKJ; was elected a riiited-States senator in
ntW, serving as president of the .Senate pro tfmpore
during two sessions, and resigning on account of ill
health in ISOI ; he died at Holdemess May 18, 1803.
Livingston, Edward, was bom at Claremont,
Livingston Manor, New York, in 17fW; received a
classical education, graduating at Princeton College
in 1781; studied law; was admitted to the bar in
1785, and commenced practice at New-Y'ork City;
was elected a representative from New Y'ork in tlie
Fourth Congress as a Democrat; was re-elected to
the Fifth C^ongrtMs, receiving 1,7.34 votes against 1,6.50
voles for P. Livingston; was re-elected to the Sixth
Congress, serving from December 7, 1705, to March
3, 1801; was United-States district-attorney March
27, 1801-.July 26, 18(W; was mayor of the city of New
Y'ork 1301-1803; became a public defaulter in conse-
quence of the dishonesty of a clerk, and removed to
New Orleans in Febniary, 1804; prepared a civil and
criminal code for Louisiana; served as aide-de-camp
to General Jackson at the battle of New Orleans
January 8, 1815; was elected a representative from
Louisiana in the Eighteenth Congress aa a Jackson
Democrat without opposition: was re-elected to the
Ninet<'cnth Congress, receivmg 290 majority over
Foucher; was re-elected to the Twentieth Congress,
receiving 310 majority, serving from Deceinl)er 1.
1823, to March 3, 1820: was defeated as the Demo-
cratic candidate for the Twenty-first Congress by
EdwanJ D. WlUte ; was installed in 1830 as general
grand high priest of the tJeueral Grand Royal Arch
Chapter of Ireeniasons; was elected a LTnited-Statea
senator from Louisiana, serving from December 7.
1820, to May 24, 18:11, when he resigned; was ap-
pointed by President Jackson secretary of state,
serving from May 24, 18:^1, until May 20, 1833; was
appointed minister plenipotentiary tf) France May
20, 1K:33, and asked for his passports that he might
withdraw, under Instructions from the President,
April 28, 18.36; he died at Kliinebeck, New Y'ork,
May 23, 1830. He published "Judicial Opinions
delivenul in the Mayor's Court, New Y'ork, ' 1802.
" Report to the Assembly of Louisiana of llie Plan
of the Penal Code" 1822, "System of Penal Law
for Louisiana " 1820, and " System of Penal Law
for the United St.itea" 1828. "Reminiscences of
Livingston," by A. Davezac, appeared in "The
Democratic Review;" and C. H. Himl published
"Life of Livingston" in 1804.
602
CONOSBB8I0KAI. DIBECTOBY.
Livingston, Henry Walter, was bom In 1764;
rpffiveil n dassiciil education, (rradimtingat Yale Col-
lect" in 178<t; studied law; was admitted to the bar,
and ciiinmonceil practice at New-York City; went
to France in 17lt2 as secretary to Gouvemeur Mor-
ris, minister plenipotentiary, and returned with him
In 171*4: was a judge of the Court of Common Pleas
of Colurahia County; was elected a representative
from New York in the Eighth Congress, and re-
elected to the Ninth Congress, serving front October
17, 1SI)3. to March 3, 1807; died at Linlithgow, New
York, DeceinlKsr 22, ISIO.
Livingston, Philip, was bom at Albany, New
York, Jniiuarj- 15, 1710; received a classical educa-
tion, graduating at Yale College In 1737; became a
merchant at New- York City; was an aldemian 1754-
17-j8; Wiis a member of tlie Provincial House of
Representatives 175l>-17rtO; was actively engaged in
iiri'-Rcvolutionary movements; was a delegate from
New York to the ConlinentAl Congress 1774-1778;
was chosen president of tie New- York Provincial
Congress April 20, 177,5, and was unanimously
elected a member of the First State Uouse of Rcpr«j-
Btnitntives February 1, 1770; was a meinlwr of the
State Senate; founded the professorship of divinity
at Yale College; rendered great sen ice to Colurii-
l)ia College, to the New- York Society Llbniry, and to
the New- York Chamiier of Coimncrce; died while
attending a session of the Continental Congress at
York, IVnnsylviinia, ,Juno 12, 177X.
Livingston, Robert Le Roy, was bom in
New York ; received a classical education, graduating
at Princeton College in 1784; was elected a represen-
tative from New York in the Eleventh Congress aa a
Federalist, and was rc-electeil to the Twelfth Con-
gress by 'U'2 majority, scn-ing from May 22, 1801), to
May 0, 1812, when he resigned to accept a lieuteiiant-
i-olonel's commission in the army of the United
States given him bv President Madison.
Livingston, Robert R., was bom at New
York November 27, 1747; received a classical educa-
tion, graduating at King's College in 1705; sttidled
law; was admitted to the bar, and commenced prac-
tice at New York; was appointed ci^ recorder, and
served 177;i-1776; was a metnlwr of the Colonial As-
sembly 1775; was a delegate from New York to the
Coutlnental Congress, 8er\-ing 1775-1777 and 177!>-
1781 ; was secrctaiy of foreign alTalrs from August,
1781, to August, 17*3; was a delegate to the State
Constitutional Convention In April, 1777; Wiis chan-
cellor of the State of New York 1777-1801, and, as
such, administen-d the oath of office to Washington
uixjn his inaupiratlon as President; was minister
pleni|>otentiary to France 1801-1804, and procured
the cession of Louisiana; was president of the New-
York State Agricultural Socicly and of the New-
York Aoulemy of Finance; died February 20, 1813.
He published "Oration before the Cincinnati,"
"Address to the Society for Promoting the Arts,"
"Essays on Agriculture," " Essay on Sheep."
Livingston, Walter, was bom in New York:
was a rleliyati- from New York in the Continental
Conp^jss 1784-178,5.
Livingston, William, was bom at Albany,
New York, November .'10, 1723; received a classical
education, graduating at Yale College in 1741 ; stud-
iert law; was admitted to the bar. and practised in
New York and New Jersey; established and edited
"The Independent lietlector " In 17.V2; removed to
Eli/.abethtown, New .Jersey, In 1773; was a delegate
from New .Jersey to tlie Continental Congress 1774-
177tt; was made brigailier-general commanding the
New-Jersey .Stale troops In 1775; was governor of
New Jersey 1770-17110: was a delegate to the conven-
tion which fr.imed the Federal Constitution in 1787;
declined tlie appointment of commissioner to super-
intend the erection of public buildings at the Federal
capital, and that of minister to the Netherlands In
1787; died at Ellztd)ethtown, New Jersey, July 2.5,
1790. He published " Digest of the Colony Laws '*
1752, " lievlew of the Military OperatloDs So Nortli,
America," a defence of Governor Shirley 17.'i7. aiiil i
number of poems and political pamphlets. A"M«
moir of William Livingston," by Theodore Sedg
wick, was published in 18.32.
Lloyd, Ed'ward, of Maryland, was a '^■^'■■
the Continental Congress from that Stat<
Lloyd, Edward, was bom in Maryl:.^
was elected a representative from Mar^litJid m ih
Ninth Congress (in place of Joseph H. Nicboltoa
resigned]; was re-elected to the Tenth Congrys
serving from December 3, 1.800, to March 3. 1809sl
was governor of Maryland 180!)-1811; was elected i
United-States senator from Marjland, sening
December 0, 181l>, to January, 182tl. when he rpsipie
on account of continued indls|irmition ; was elect*
Stale senator, and president of the Senate. 1836-1S31{
died at .Vnn.ipolls, Maryl.ind. June 2. 1834.
Lloyd, James, was bom in Mar>'land : receive
a classical education; was elected a Unite»l-Stat<
senator from Mar\'land (in place of John Hem
resigne<l), serving from January 11, 1708, to May 1
18<K), when he resieniHl.
Lloyd, James, was bom at Boston, Maasacbn
setts, in 17i(t): receive<l a classical education, grulo
ating at II.^n•ard College In 1787; engaged in mer^
cantile pursuits; visited Europe, residing a year M
St. Petersburg; returning to Boston, was elected hi
1800 a member of the State House of Represent*-
lives, and, after having been re-elected, he whs
elected to the St.ite .Senate; was elected a Unitcil-
Statcs senator from Massachusetts as a Federalist (Id
place of John Quincy Adams, reslgnetl), serving from
November 7, 1808, to 1813, when he resigned; waj
again elected a senator from M.issachusetts (in place
of n.irrison Gray Otis, resigned), servmg frnm
Diwember 2. 1822, to May 23, 1820, when he r«*igiie<I;
resided in Philadelphia the last years of his life; dial
at New York April 5, 1831.
Loan, Benjamin P., was bom at Hardlnsli r;.
Kentucky, October 4, 1819; received an acail.";. •■
education; studied and practised law; went to Mis-
souri in 18!38; ser\ed as brigndier-general in the
Union army in the war for the suppression of th»
rtehellion ; was elected a representative from Missoorl
In the Thirty-eighth Congress .is an Emancipatioiiiit,
receiving 5,572 votes against 4,.>'>4 votes for Brace,
Democrat, and 2,675 votes for Bninch, Independent;
was re-elected to the Tliirty-ninth Congress, receir-
iiig 10.34<> votes against 1,774 votes for H. B. Branch,
Independent, and 35 scattering; and was re-elccloi
to the Fortieth Congress as a Radical, receivins
10,tM2 votes against .3,080 votes for a Democrat, swr-
ing from Deceml>er 7, 1863, to March 3, 1869,
Locke, Franois (nephew of Matthew I-ocbl,
was bom in Rnwan County, North CivrolinajOctoljcr
31, 17<XI; studied and practised law: was electd »
judge of the Superior Court of North Carolina in
1803, and resigned In 1814, when he was el«t*d
United-States senator; he never took his seat In ihf
Senate, and resigned in 1815; died Januarys, ISSi
Locke, John, was bom at Hopkiuton, Mu»
chusetts, in 1704; received a classical educalioo,
graduating at C.imbrldge in 1702; studied law; «*
admitted to the bar in 1780, and commenced praetic*
at Ashbv; was a memlwr of the State Honte of B«p-
resentatlves In 1804, 1805, 1813, and 182:i; was s ile^
gate to the State Constitutional Com '' • '" '^''
was elected a representative from M 'l"
the Eighteenth Congress; wasre-elecL Ni"*"
teenth and Twentieth Congresses, serving imta De-
cember 1, 182.3, to March 3, 1820; was a member of
the State Senate In 18.30; was a raemlier of tlio EmJ-
ulive Council in 1.831; removed to Lowell In l^>l•
and thence to Boston in 1840; died at B<jstoii iiucli
2it. IS;-^.
Locke, Matthew (uncle of Francis Locke). «••
boni in Itowsui County, North Carolina, in ITJII: ^
an ejirly and devoted friend to the Revolullim, »'"
had at one time four sous in the Continental ■c'^
STATISTICAL SKETCHES.
603
Mi
One of whom was ktllcd by the British ; was one of a
coujiiiissiou s<.'lcot<'(l by Ihe pei.ipie of North Carolina
iu mi to receive the fees of Bliriiifs and other Colo-
[nlal oOirors; was a member of the House of Com-
mons of North Carolina in 1775 ; was a member of
the convention wliich framed the Constitution of
North Carolina in 1770; was elected a representative
in the Third. Fourth, nnd Fifth Congresses, serving
"rom December 2, 17fK}, until March 3. 1797; was
defeated as n candidate for the blxth Congress by
lArchlbald Henderson; died at Salisbury, North Car-
dina, September 7, 1801.
Lockhart, James, was bom at Auburn, New
York, Feliniary 1;1, 1806; removed to Indiana in
1832; studied law; was admitted tu the bar in 19^,
and commenced practice atEvauatille, Indiana; was
elected prosecutine-attomcy in 1841 and ls42; was
ludgc of the Fourth Judicial District 1846-1851. when
he resigned; was a delegate to the State Constitu-
tional Convention in 1S.")<); was elected a repres<.'nt»-
tive from Indiana in the Thirty-second Congress ns a
Democrat, receiving .S,17;J votes against 7,S47 votes
for De Bruler, Whig, serving from December 1, 1S51,
to March 3, 1853; died at Evansvllle, Indiana, Sep-
tember 7. 18vi7.
liOckwood, Daniel N., was bom at Hamburg,
Xrie County. New York, June 1, 1S44; grraduated at
Union College, Schenectatly, New Tork, in 1865;
Studied law; was admitted tu the bar of the Supreme
Court in May, IBB6, and has practised since at IBufla-
lo; wa» elected district-altoniey for Erie County in
JS74 for the term of three years; was elected a rep-
ifsentative from New York in the Fortj'-fifth Con-
gress as a Democrat, receiving 'A\V26 votes against
fu.'lil votes for Elbridge O. Spaulding, Republican,
icrving from October 15, 1877,
Lionand, Jcunes B., was bom at Milford, Del-
aware. November i. 18^3; received a classical educa-
tion, graduating at Delaware College in 1845; studied
~ was admitted to the bar In 1S40, and practised
at Milford; was secretary of the Senate of the State
of Delaware in 1840; was a member of the conven-
on to revise the state Constitution in 1653; was
aecretary of state for the State of Delaware in 1855-
1859; was appointed a paymaster in the army by
resident Lincoln in 180:), and resigned that position
In 1807; and wiis elected a representative from Dela-
ware in tlie Forty-third Congrt.-ss as a licpuhlicaii,
receiWng 11.337 votes against 11,015 votes for A. W.
Wriuht, Democrat, serving from December 1, 1873,
fa> M.irch 3, 1875.
Logan, Gteorge, was bom at Stanton, Penn-
sylvania. ScpleralxT It, 1753; received a classical edu-
cation; studied medicine abroad, graduating at the
Edinburgh Medical School; travelled on the conti-
Jient of feurope, and returned home in 1770; devoted
bimseif to scientiflc agriculture; was for several
jpears a member of the .State House of Representa-
tives; visited France as aself-conftituted pc>aGC nego-
tiator, and was successful, but Congress enacted a
llaw making it a iiigli misdemeanor for citizens of the
United .States to take part as individuals in diplo-
.tic negotiations; was elected a United-States sen-
itor from Pennsylvania (in place of Peter Mulilen-
rp. resigned) as .■» Democrat, Ber\ing frfim Decem-
ler 7, 1801. to March 3. 1S()7; went to England in
,810 to again avert threatened hostilities, but was
nsucccssful; died at Stanton, Pennsylvania, April
Iftil. He puliliahed " Experiments on Gy|)8um,"
*' The Rotation of Crops," and several pampliiels on
Bgricullural subjects.
Logan, Henry, was bom In Pennsylvania; re-
sided jit Dillsburg; was eleclwl a representative from
Pennsylvania in the Twenty-fourth Congress as a
^ftjackson Democrat, receiving (103 majority; was re-
^P«lecteil to the Twenty-fifth Congress, serving from
December 7. 18.05, to March 3. 1835).
Logan, John Alexander, was bom in Jaek-
Kon County. Illinois, February 9, 1826; received a
public-«chool education; (erreu in the Mexican war
as adjutant of the First Illinois Infantry; studied
law with his uncle, A. M. Jenkins, and at the Univer-
sity of Louisville; was admitted to the bar in 1852, and
commenced practice; was elected prosecuting-altor-
ney for the Third Judicial District of Illinois in 1802;
was a member of the State House of Representatives
1852-1850; was a presidential elector on the Buchan-
an and Breckinridge ticket in 1850; was elected a
repn-sentative from Illinois in the Tliirty-sixih Con-
gress as a Douglas Democrat, receiving 10,878 votes
against 2,700 votes for Fhlliips. Itepublican, and 144
votes scattering; and was re-elected to the Tliirty-
seventh Congress, receiving 21.881 votes against 5,439
vcites for Lincgar, Republican, serving from Decem-
ber 5, 1859, to 1801, when he resigned to enter the
Union army; was commissioned, in Septemlwr. 18<31,
colonel of the Thirty-first Illinois Volunteers; was
promote<l to be brigadier-general in 18<'.2. and as
major-general In 184};i, especially distinguishing him-
self at Belmont, Fort Donelson, Pittsi'iurg L.iiiding,
Vick.sburg, Chattanooga. Atlanta, and as commander
of the Army of the Tennessee ; was appointeil by I'res-
Idcut Johnson to be minister to Mexico in IHi'lO, but
declined; was a delegate to the Soldiers' National
Convention at Pittsburg in 1800; was elected con-
gressman at large from Illinois in the Fortieth Con-
gress OS a Republican, receiving 203,(M5 vote* against
147,0.58 votes for Dickey, Democrat ; and wiis ri'-elect-
ed to the Forty-first Congress, serving from Slarch 4,
1*17, to March 3, 1.871; was elected a United-States
senntor from Illinois, serving from March 4, 1871, to
March 3, 1877.
Logan, William, the first white native of Ken-
tucky, was bom at Ilarrodsburg Decemljer 8, 1770;
received a classical education; studied law; was
admitted to the bar, and practised; was a delegate
to the State Constitutional Convention in 1799; was
for several years a member of the State House of
Representatives, and twice Us speaker; was twice
chosen judge of the Stale Court of Appeals; was
elected a United-States seimtor from Kentucky, serv-
ing from Decembers, 1810, to 1820, when he resigned;
died at Harrfxlsburg, Kentucky, August 8, 1822.
Long, Alexander, was bom at Greenville,
PennsyKania, December 24, 1810; received an aca-
demical education; studied law; was a<linittc<l to the
bar in 18;i2, and commenced practice at Cineinnuli,
Ohio; was a member of the Stale House of Repre-
sentatives in 1848 and 1849; was elected a represen-
tative from Ohio in tlie Thirty-eighth Congress as a
DemiKrat, receiving 7,212 votes against 7,081 voles
for J. A. Guriey, Republican, serving from Decem-
ber 7, 1803, to March 3, 1806; was a delegate to the
National Democratic Convention at Chicago in 1804.
Long, Edward H., was Imm in Maryland in
1808; received a classical education, graduating at
Vale College; studied law; was admitted to the bar,
and commenced practice in Princess Anne County ;
was for several years a memlx'r of the Stale House
of Representatives; was elected a representative from
Mar>land In Uie Twenty-ninth Congress as a VVTiig,
receiving 3,7.35 votes against 3,577 votes for Martin,
Democrat, serving from December 1, 1845, to March
3, 1847: died in Somerset County, Miiryland, Octoi>er
12, 1805.
Long, John, was bom in Loudon County, Vir-
ginia; removed to Randolph County, North Carolina,
where he was a farmer; was n member of the State
Senate of North Carolina in 1815 ; was elected a rep-
resentative in the Seventeenth Congress, ami was
suecuBsively re-elected to the Eighteenth, Nineteenth,
and Twentieth Congresses, serving from December
3, 1821, until March 3, 1829.
Long, Pierce, was bom at Portsmouth, New
nampsliire, in 17:10; received a good English educa-
tion; entered the counting-room of his fattier, and
became his partner in the shipping busniess; was a
delegate to the Provincial Congress of New Ilamp-
shire in 1775 ; served m tlie lU-volutionary amiy as
colonel of the First New-Hampshire Begimeut, dis-
604
CONOBS38IOKAL DIBECTOBT.
ttngoishine himself at Ticonderoga; was a volunteer
at Uie battle of Saratoga; was a delegate from New
Hampsbirv to the Continental Congress 1784-1786;
was a Stale councillor 178<)-1 780 ; was a delegate to
the Constitutional Conrenlion 1788; was appointed by
President Wasbin^on collector of customs at Ports-
mouth in January, 17^9; and died at Portsmouth,
New Hamiwhire, April -i. 1789.
Longfellow, Stephen, was bom at Gorham,
Hassachusetts (nuvr Maine), June 23, li<5; received
a classical •.iluciition, graduating at Harvard College
in 1798: studii-d law; was adinitted to the bar in
1801, and commenced practice at Portland : was a
delegate to the Hartford Convention in 1814: was
elected a representative from Maine in the Eighteenth
Congreaa as a Federalist, serving from December 1,
1828, to March 3. 1825; was president of the Maine
Historical S*x;iety In 18:J4; dieil at Portland, Maine.
August 2, 1H49. He compiled sixteen volunics of
Massachusetts Reports and twelve volumes of Maine
Beports.
IjODgnecker, Henry C, was bom at Allen
Township, Cuiul)erlaiid Connty, Pennsylvania, April
17, 1825; received a classical education, graduating
at the Norwich Military University of Vermont, and
Lafayette College, Pennsylvania: studied law, and
was admitted to the bar; served in the Mexican war
as first lieutenant and atljutant of voltigeurs Febru-
ary 10, 11147-August 2\l, 1848, and was wounded at
Chepuitepec; was elected district-attoraey of Lehigh
Coimty in 1848; was elected a representative from
Pennsylvania in the Thirty-sixth Congress as a Re-
pablican, receiving 8,324 votes against 8,070 votes
for Bolierts, Democrat, serving from December 6,
1869, to March 3, 1801 ; entered the Union army in
1861 as colonel of tlie Ninth Pennsylvania Volunteer
Infantry; commanded a brigade in Western Vir-
ginia, and subsequently commanded a brigade of
militia at Antiet;tm; w.<is appointed in 1807 an asso-
ciate judge of Lehigh County; died at Lehigh, Penn-
sylvania, September 18, 1871.
Longyear, John VT., was bom at Shandaken,
New York, October 22, 1820; received a classical
education; removed to Michigan In 1844; studied
law; was admitted to the bar in 1844, and com-
menced practice at Lansing; was elected a represen-
tative from Michigan in the Thirty-eighth Congress
as a Republican, receiving 12,317 votes against 11,407
votes for Granger, Union; and was re-eleeted to the
Thirty-ninth Congress, receiving 15,432 votes against
12,758 voles for David Johnson, Democrat, serving
from December 7, 1803, to March 3. 1S07; was a
judge of the District Court of Michigan in 1870.
Loomis, Andrew W,, resided at New Lislran,
Ohio; was elei'ted u representative from Ohio in the
Twenty-fifth Congress as a Whig, serving from Sep-
tember 4, 1837, to October 20, 1837, when ho re-
signed.
Lioomis, Arphazad, was bom in Herkimer
County, New York; received a public-school educa-
tion; resided at Little Falls; was elected a represen-
tative from New York In the Twenty-flfth Congress
as a Democrat, serving from September 4. 1837, to
March 3, 1839; was a racml>er of the Slate House of
Representatives in 18il, 1842, and 1853.
Loomis, Dwight, wns bom at Columbia, Con-
necticut. July 27, 18i!l; was reared on a fumi; re-
ceived a public-school education: studied law, com-
pleting his studies at the New-Haven Law School ;
was aidmilted to the bar in 1847, and commenced
practice at Hockvllle, Connecticut; was a member of
the State House of Representatives In 1851; was
elected a representative from Connecticut in the
Thirty-sixth Congress as a Republican, receiving
0,706 votes against 9,701 votes for Hyde, Democrat,
and 220 votes for Ezra Clark, jun. ; and was re-<'lect-
ed to the Thirty-seventh Congress, receiving 10,701
votes against 10,503 votes for Hyde, Democrat, serv-
ing from December 6, 1859, to March 3, 18)i3; was
appointed a judge of the State Supreme Court.
own^l
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dical
trine
VII
I8fr ,
Lord, Frederick William, was bom at Lyiift'"
Connecticut, December II, 1800; received aciaMkal
education, graduating at Yale College in 1>321; wsf
professor of mathematics at Wasliingtoo CoUees far
two years; was principal of an academy at Banbaon
for three years; studied meilioine at Baltimore. ■a4
received a diploma of dncior of medicine from Tate
College in 1^9; practised medicine fur fifteen j
at Sag Harbor, New York, and then retired ; i
to Greenport, Long Island; was elected a rrp
live from New York in the Tliirtieth Congress, i
iug from Dtcember 0, 1847, to March 3, 1848; i
at New-York City May 24. 1S«10.
Lord, Scott, was IxtTn at Nelson. Madison <
ty. New York, Decemlx-r 11, 1S20; was educated i
common schools, and at Morrisville and
Academies; studied law, and iirartised^at Utica; <
judge of Livingston County from July 1. 1847, nnii
J.iuuiiry 1, 18.54; and was electe<l a rpfiresentadre
from New York in the Forty-fourth Congress as a
DonitK-rat, receiving 11.022 votes against liX4IM vot<«
for Ellis H. Roberts, Republican, sorvin; fr.-rm De-
cemljcr 6, 1875, to March 3. 1877; '■ d ••
the Democratic candidate for the i Cco-
ere«s, receiving l.'J.iTfiO votes against 1..,...' v.jiea for
W. J. B.icon, Republican.
Loring, George Bafley, wa« bom at No
Andover, Mnss.-ichusotls. November 8. l-**!'
tilted for collide at Franklin Academy in that townJ_
was graduated at Harvard University in ISSS; ps-"
celved the degree of M.D. at the Harvard )(edical
College in 1842 ; was apitointcd surgeon of the Marine
Hospital at Chelsea, Massachusetts, In 1843: «il
surgeon of the Seventh Regiment, M. V. M., In 18C}- .
1844; was appointed commissioner to revise
United-States Marine-Hospital system In 1840:
.ipjvointed postmaster of Salem, M:i- " :
1S53; was a member of the Massacli tse^
ReprescnUtives In 180O-18C7; wns j,, ,..,.. ...f i
Massachusetu Senate In 1873-1870; was a delects
to the Republican National Conventions of IwS,
1872, and 1870; was appointed United-States centen-
nial commissioner for Massachusetts in 1872: wii
elected a representative from Mass;i' ' • 'ii lbs
Forty-fifth Congress as a Republican . ; ■-',819
votes against 11,171 votes for Charlc? . . i.. -i^isoD,
Democrat, serN-iiig from October 15, 1877.
Loughridge, William, was bom at Young^
town, Ohio, July 11, 1S-J7; received a common-school
education ; studied law, and commenced practice U
Mansfield, Ohio; removed to Iowa in 1S52: wm i
member of the State Senate of Iowa in 1857. ISi?,
1859, and 1800; was elected judge of the Sixlli Ju-
dicial Circuit of Iowa in 1801, which (Kisiiioii li«
held until January, 18'J7; and was elected a repre-
sentative from Iowa in tlie Fortieth Congress as a
Republican, receiving 18,475 votes against 12,8M I
votes for Mackey, Democrat; was re-elected to the I
Forty-first Congress, receiving 24,067 votes agaioit '
10,.J31 votes for Irish, Democrat, ser\-ing from March]
4, 1807, to March 3, 1871 : was re-elected to the FdrT
third Congress as a Republican, receiving U.'K
votes against 11,703 votes for H. H. Trimble, Den
crat and Liberal, serving from December 1, 1873, i
March 3, 1><75.
Love, James, received a public-school edoc
tion; resided at Barboursville ; was elected a rep
sentative from Kentucky in the Twenty-third Co*
gress, defeating John White, and senlng from
ceml>er 2, 18.3:}, to March .3, 1835.
Love, John, was liom in Virginia; received t^^
academical education: was elected a representatliP^*
from Virginia in the Tenth Congress as a Democra^^
was re-elected to the Eleventh Congress, serving Irwc:^
October 26, 1807, to March 3, 1811; died August 13
1822.
Love, Peter E., was bom near Dni^ii" <>
July 7. 1818; received a classical edu
ing at Franklin College; attended me. 1 i
Philadelphia; abandoned medicine, and suuU*
STATISTICAL BKETOHSS.
505
I
adm!U«d to the bar in 1830, and cominenMd
practice atTliomsville, Georgia; was solicitor-gyneral
lor tlie Sijutlu'ni District of Georgia in \S4ii; wiis a
member of the Stat^ Senate in 1S40; was appointed
a judge for the Southern District of Georgia in 1853;
was elected a representative from Georgia In the
Thlrty-siith Congress as a Democrat, receiving 7,247
votes against 3,!^I votes for Mclntyre, Opposition,
•erring (mm Decemix'r 5, ls.ji), to January 23, 1861,
when lie retired from the House on the secession of
Georgia fmm tlic Union.
Liove, Thomas C, was a practising lawyer at
Buffalo, New Y^irk; was a judge of Erie County in
1828; was district-attorney of Erie County in ISStV-
1835; WM elecU'.<i a representative from New York in
the Twenty-fourth Congress lis a Whig, serving from
December 7, 1S:}5, to March 3, 1837; was surrogate
lor Erie Count vl»U-184a; died at Buffalo, New Yorlt,
September 17. 185;}.
XjOVe, William C, w.-is bom In Virginia, and
reared at Oie UiiiviTsily of that State, at whicli liis
father was steward in 17911; studied law; was admit-
ted to the bar, and practised at S.ilisbury, North Car-
olina; was elected a representative from Ohio in the
Fourtcentli Contn"ess as a Democrat, scr\'ing from
Decemt)er 4, isl.'i, until March 3, 1817.
LiOvejoy, Owen, was bom at Albion, Maine.
January i>, l^ll ; rf;ceived a classical education, which
he completed at Bowdoin College; studied theology;
removed to Illinois in It^ili, and w.os ordained as pas-
tor of the Congregational church at Princeton, serv-
ing 18;ii»-lS6t5; was a member of tlie State House of
Hepresentativea in IKVl; was elected a representative
from Illinois In the Thirty-lifth Congress as a Rcpul>-
Uoan, receiving l!»,0(t8 viltes against 13,007 votes for
Osgood, Democrat; was re-elected to the Thirty-sixth
Congress, receiving 22,313 votes against 14,088 votes
for Armstrong, Douglas Democrat, and 1,.328 votes
for Le Koy, .inli-Lecomptoii Democrat; was re-elect-
ed to the Thirty-seventh Congress, receiving 29,001
votes against 19,744 votes for Murray, Democrat;
and was re-elected to the Thirty-eighth Congress,
receiving 11,683 votes against 11,020 votes for Hen-
derson, Democrat, an<l 1)13 votes for Graham, Inde-
pendent, ser\-ing from December 7, 1857, to March 25,
1864, when he died at Brooklyn, New York, having
left VVashinglf)n to visit a more genial clim.itc.
LiOVelL James, was l»ra at Boston. Massachu-
setts, OctoberSI, 1737; received a classical education,
graduating at Harvard College in 1756; taught school;
was imprisoned by General Gage immediately after
the battle of Bunker Hill; he was conveyed to Hali-
fax as a [)risoner of war, and kept in close confinement
until exchangi'd for Governor .Skene in 1776; was a
delegate from Hassachusetts to the Continental Cim-
gress 1776-1782; was receiver of taxes 1784-17aH;
waa collector of customs at the port of Boston 1788-
1780: was naval oflicer 17iN>-1814.
LiOvett, John, was bom at Norwich, Connecti-
cut; received a classicil education, graduating at
aJe College; removed to Albany, New York; was a
ember of the .State House of Representatives in
and 1801; was elected a representative from
.6 w York in the Thirteenth Congress as a Federalist
in the Peace and Commerce ticket; was re-elected
the Fourteenth Congress, »<;rvlng from May 24,
1813, to March 3, 1817; died tn Ohio in 1818.
Low, Frederick P., was bom in Maine in 1828;
received a business education In Boston; removed to
California in 1849. and engaged in mercantile jiur-
BOils at San Francisco; removed to Marysville in ISVJ,
and established a b.-inkiiig-house; was elected a re]>-
teaentative from California in the Tliirty-sevenih
Congress as a Republican; was appointed by I'resi-
dent Lincoln in IStW collector of the port of San
Francisco, and. in September of that year, was ap-
pointed governor, serving until 18(}7; was appointed
by President Grant In 1809 minister to China, serv-
ing until l'>74.
Low, Isaao, waa bom in New York; trained as
a business-man; was active in pre-Revolutlonary
miivements; was a delicate from New York to the
Continental Congress lii4-177o; was a member of
the New-York Provincial Congress in 1775: was
arrested In 1770 on suspicion of holding correspond-
ence with the enemy; was president of the New- York
Chamber of Commerce 1782; w.is attainted of trea-
son, his property was confiseateii. and he was exiled,
and went to Eni;land; died in England in 1791.
Lowe, David P., was bom in Oneida County,
New York, August 22, 1823; graduated at the law-
department of the Cincinnati College in 18fil ; prac-
tised law at Cincinnati until 1.S61, when he removed
to Kansas, and resumed practice there ; was a mem-
ber of the State Senate of Knns.a8 In l.S0.'J-ls<)4; was
judge of the Sixth Judicial District of Kansas from
March. 16l'.7, until March. l.'<71 ; and was elected a
representative from Kansas in the Forty-second Con-
gress .18 a Republican, receiving 40,017 votes against
20,.H41 votes for 11, C. Foster, Democrat; and was re-
elected to the Forty-third Congress from the Stale at
large, receiving 07.4(K> votes against 34.4.'yi votes for
S. A. Higgs, Liheral Republicau, serving from March
4, 1,S71. toMarch 3, 1875; was appointed by President
Grant commissioner of pensions March 17, 187.'>. but
declined; was chief jtistlce of the Territory of Utah;
resumed practice at Fort Scott, Kansas.
Lowell, John, was born at Newburyport. Mas-
sachusetts, in 1744; received a classical education,
graduating at H.irvard College in 1760; studied law:
was admitted to the bar in 1702, and commenced
practice at Newburyport ; was an officer of militia,
and a member of the State House of Representatives
in 1776, removing to Boston in 1777; he wius acjiin a
member of the State House of Reprcseiitativi.s in
1778; was a delegate to the .State Constitutional Con-
venlfon in 1780; was a delegate from Massachusetts
in ihc Continental Congress 1782-1783; was a com-
missioner to establish the boundary-line between
New York and Massacliusetts in 1784; was a judge of
the State Court of Appeals 1784-1789; was a judge
of the United-States District Court for tho District
of UnasochusetU 1780-1801 ; was justice of the Unit-
ed-States Circuit Court for Maine, New Hampshire,
Massachusetts, and Rhode Island, 1801-1802; was one
of the fomiders of the American Academy of Arts
and Sciences; and died at Roxbury, Massachusetts,
May II. 1.802.
Lowell, Joshua A., w.as bom at Thomaston,
Massachusetts (aftemards Maine), March 20, 1801;
received a public-school education; taught school:
studied low; was adinitteil to the bar in 1826, and
practised at East Macliias; was a memtier of the
Stale House of Represeiit.itives in 18.32, 18:13, 1836,
and 18.37; was elected a representative from Maine in
the Twenty-sixth Congress as a Democrat, receiving
fi,0;?:S votes against 4.66*1 votes for Joseph C. Noyes,
V\niig, and 11 votes scnttering; was re-elected to the
Tweiity-seveutli Congress, his election Iwing imsuc-
cessfully contested, ser\-ing from December 2, 18.39,
to March 3. 1.S43; was a presidential elector on the
Polk and D.allas ticket in 1844; died at East Machias,
Maine, March 1.'), 1874.
Lower, Christian, vvas elected a representative
from Heansytvaiiia in the Ninth Congn'ss, as his
name ajiiwurs on a list of those whose credeutials
enliile tlieni to seats in the House, rei>orted from the
Committee of Elections December 20, 1805; but there
is no other mention of his name on the journals.
Lowndes, Lloyd, jun., was bom at Clarks-
ImrK, West V'irciiiia, Febru.irj- 21. 1845; graduated at
Allegliaiiy College. Mcadville. Pennsylvania, in 1865;
altendeil law-lectures at the irniversity of Pennsyl-
vania; graduated, and was admitted to practice in
1807; removed the same year to Cumberland; was
elected a representative from Mar}-land in the Forty-
third Congress as a Rejiubliciui. receiving 14,258
votes against 12,545 voles for J. Ritchie. Democrat,
serving from Decemlwr 1, 1873, to March 3, 1875.
Lowndee, Thomas, was bom at Charleston,
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COKOEESSIOXAL DIEECTORT.
Soath Carolina, in 1765; received an mcademicAl edn-
catUm; engaged in business parBuits: was elect«<i a
represnnuitive from South Carolina in the Serentli
Conjoew; was re-elected to the Eif;hth Congress,
sening from December 7. 1801. to March 3, 1JS05;
dietl at Charlestnn July 8. Itv43.
Lowndes, WUliam, vas born at Cbarieston,
So>ith Camliua. February 7, 1782; was taken to
EiiL'l.tiid vb'^n a lad, and studied tluve years at an
Eij.:ii.'h grammiir-school, and, on his return, received
a ciiissical education from Rev. Dr. Gailasher, a
Catholic priest; studied law with Clmncvllcir De
Saussure: was admitted to the bar in March. l^Ot.
and commenced practice at Charleston, but, in con-
sequence of the injury done to his plantation by the
equinoctial storm of that year, he abandoned the
law, and deroted himself to aKricnltunU pursaits;
was the first captain of the Washington Light In-
fantry of Charleston when it was otganized Ld 1807;
was eleoteil a representative from South Carolina in
the Twelfth Congrew as a Democrat without oppo-
sition, and was incoeaiively elected without oppo-
sition to the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, Fifteenth.
Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Congresses, serving fmm
November 4. ISII, until he resigned, on account of
ill health. May 8, 1S22; he had found his health im-
proved by a visit to ^gland in 1819, and he deter-
mined t I n'jRMt the trip, embarking with his family
from I'bil.-idi^lphia for London; but he died at sea
OctolHT ■r,. l-:-2.
Lovme, Walter, was bom at Edinburgh. Scot-
laud. Deci-mlM^r 10. 1784; immigrated to the United
States with his parents in 1701, and located in Dutler
County, Pennsylvania; received a classical educa-
tion; was a member of the State House of Bepre-
Mmtatives for several years; was elected a United-
States senator from Pennsvlvania, serving from
December 6, 1819, to March 3, 1826: was secretary
of the United-SUtes .Senate 1S25-1830; was secretary
of the Presbyterian Boanl of Foreign Missions 183&-
laSS; and died at New-York City January 14. 1808.
Loyall, Qeor^ was Irani at Norfolk, Virginia,
May Ji). 17N0: received a classical education, gradu-
ating at William and Mary Collwe in 1806; visited
Bi^and in 1S1.5; was a member m the State House
ot Reprf>«<>iitntives 1817-1827; was a delegate to the
State < tial Convention in 1829; was elected
a repi from Virginia in the Twenty-first
Cr- ■ 2 successfully contested the election
ton) M a Diemocrat, serving from
.M ! : > March 3, 1831; was again elected
to tlie Twenty-third Congress, and re-elected to the
Twenty-fourth Congress, serving from December 8,
IS.S.'i. to March 3. 18:^; was appointed navy agent at
Norfolk in 1SJ7. and held the position (with the ex-
ception of two vears) until the secession of Virginia
In 1*«}1.
Lucas, Edward, was bora in Virginia; re-
ceived a public-school education; was an officer
in the war of 1812; was for several successive
years a member of the State House of Representa-
tives: was elected a representative from Virginia in
the Twenty-third Congress as a Jackson Donocrat,
receiving 702 majority over Smith; was re-elected to
the Twenty-fourth Congress, serving from December
2, 18:};?, to' March -3, is:;7: was appointed military
storekeeper and paym-istt-r at the Harper's-Ferry
Armory M.iv 12. 1S47, and held the position until he
die<l at"narp«r's F-.Try Marvh 4, 18.58.
Lucas, John B. C, was born in Normandy,
France, in 1702; received a classical education,
gradnatinsT at the University of Caen as doctor of
civil .1' ' 'H law in 1782: practised in France
until \'. :ie immizratod to the United States,
af'i ' .. u farm near Pittsburg, Pennsylvania;
a .<> English language, he was a member of
1 1 J ;< 'Use of Kepresentatives 1793-1798, and a
jud^t uf tin; Criurt of Common Pleas in 1784; was
elected a representative from Pennsylvania in the
Eighth Congreat •• a Democrat, serring from 0<Ao-
..f ^Vilaoa
vtioci. i>»r-
udied law
was aiihnitt«^ to
her 17, 1803, to March 3, 1805; waa re-d«eled lo Os
Ninth Congress, but resigned before taking his SMt;
was appointed by President JvBenoa ju^e of the
United'^tates Court in the Northern IMstnct o( iht
Territory of Louisiana, and removeil to St. Leoii;
was also a member of the Coromissioo for tint Ad-
justment of Land-Titles 18i>5-l>^12: coattaoed tosA
as United-Sutes dis'.rict-judge until IttS): ictirtlto
a farm near St. Louis, where he died Septemhv A
1842.
Lucas, William, was bora in Virginia; leociml
a pnblic-echool education; resided at Clutflestowit;
was elected a repreeentative from yiipnia In t>M
Tweoty-sLxth Congress as a Democrat, tiefeadac
It. W. Barton. Whig, serving from Deoember 8, ISiC
I to March 3, 1841 : was defeated as th« DrnMiaatie
candidate for the Twenty-seventh Coogreas hf
Bidtard W. Barton. Whic:;' w.is acain elected to
the Twenty-oighlh ConBn.M, P'-.i-iviug 3.290 votes
against 2.i<0<> votes for C. J. F.iul'Ki.fr, Whig, serv-
ing from December 4, 184.", to >'
Ltimpkin, John Henry
Lumpkin), was born in Oglelb'
June i:J. 1S12; received a cl.i-
tially at Franklin and Yale C ..
with his uncle. Wilsoa Lumpkin:
the bar in March. 1834, and commenced praetiec at
Rome, Georgia: was a memlnr of the State HouM
of Kepreseutatives in 18:>5: w.is solicitor-eeneial of
the Cherokee Circuit in ixj^: ■ ■■ ■ -• • i as a
Democratic can<lidate on a C' r Ike
Twenty-seventh Congress; was . , ^^enta-
live from Georgia in the Twenty-eighth Congress m
a Democrat on a general ticket, receiving 3S,m
votes against 32,822 votes for Thomas B. Kii^
Whig; was re-elected to the TKenty-ninth CongRSi,
receiving 7,730 votes against 4.i«r» votes for Miller,
Whig; was re-elected to tlie Thirtieth Couziess, le-
ceiv^ 5,033 vote* against 1,24:! votes for Crook,
Whig, serving from December 4. l?4-3. to March S,
1849; was again elected to the Thirty-fi-.nrth Con-
peas, receiviing 4,486 votes against °J.' - tar-
ing from December 3, 18SS, to Mar< ns
for several years a judge of the ; .. -jinane
Court; was a prominent Freemason; dted at Boas,
Georgia. June 0, 1800.
Lumpkin, Wilson (uncle of John llenir
Lumpkin I, was born in Pittsylvania County, Tir-
ginia, January 14. 1783; removetl to Oglethorpe
CotmtT, Georgia, with his father, in 1784: received
a public^chool education; studied law; was ad-
mitted to the bar, and practised at Athetis, Georgii;
was for several years a member of the State Home
of BepreseDtatives; was elected a representatin
from Georgia in the Fourteenth Congress as •
Democrat, serving from Decern'""- ^ ''^''i. to Msitb
3. 1817 : was appomted by Presi< ' le a men-
ber of the commission to eat.i lioirndsiy-
line between Georgia and Florida; wu <tgain elected
to the Twentieth Congress; was re-elected to ttg
Twenty-first Congress, serving from Deeonberl^r
to March 3, 1831; was goveraor of Geoigia t
1835; was appointed by President Jackson ft
missioner under the treaty with the Cherokces
1835; was elected a United-States senator
Georgia (in place of John P. Kin^ resigned),
ing from December i:3, 18J7, to March SjUMl: ^
member of the State Board of Public Works; di^="
at Athens. Georgia, in 1871.
Luttrcdl, John K., was bom near EnoxviLK^
Knox County, Tennessee, June 27. 18:}1, but tm-:^
resided in California twenty-two years; waa »«■*"
educated ; studied and practised law, and is *
farmer; was elected to the legislattue of Califorc^HJ*
in 1863, and served in the seaitois of 180>-I8^^
1871-1872; was elected a representsitire ban C^»^'
fornia in the Forty-third Congress as a Deiunci -^y
receiving 14,033 votes against 13.105 vote-
Coghlan, Republican; was re-elected to
fotuth Congress, receiving 9,113 votes ^^osi <>,'<----
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STATISTICAL SKETCHES.
507
I
I
for C. B. Denio, Republican, and 1,018 votes
for James Kfod, Iiidepenilciil; and Wiis riM-leclcd
lo the Forty-tiftli Congress, receiving lil,640 votes
Bgainst 18.int(> votes for McKenna, Republican, eerv-
lac from December 1, It^T-i.
Liyle, Aaron, was bom in Pennsylvania; re-
received a public-school education; was elected a
representative from Pennsylvania in the Eleventh
ConRreBS as a Democrat; and was re-elected to the
Twelfth, Thirteenth, and Fourteenth Congresses,
serving from May 22, 1809, to March 8, IblT; died
Kcpteml>er 24, 1S25.
Liyman, Joseph S., was bom at Hamp<len,
Massiuhuselts; received a public-school education;
removed to Otsego County, New York; held several
offices; was elected a representative from New York
Jfi Iho Sixteenth Congress, senMng from December (t,
1810, to March 3, 1821; died at Cooperstown, New
York.
Lyman, Samuel, was bom In Massachusetts;
received a classical education, gnulualing at Yale
College in 1770; was a member of tlie State House
of Repnsentalives 1780-1788; was a member of the
Btate Senate 1790-1703; was elected a representative
irom Massachusetts in the Kourth Congress; was
r«^*lected to the Fifth and Sixth Congresses, serving
from December 7, IlK^, to 1801, when he resigned ou
account of ill health; and died in 1802.
Lijrman, William, was bom at Northampton,
Massachusetts, iu 1733; received a classical educa-
tloti, graduating at Yale CoUejje in 1770; was a
lueintter of the State Senate in 17811; was elected
brigadier-general of militia; was elected a representa-
tive from Massachusetts in the Thinl Congress, and
re-elected to the Fourth Congress, serving from De-
cember 2, 17113, to March 3, 1797; was appointed by
President Jefferson consul at London in 1800, and
held the office until his death in Uctober, 1811.
Ljmch, John, was bom at Portland, Maine,
Februar)' 18, 1825; received a public-school educa-
tion, anil gratluated at the Lallii High School of that
city In 1842; engaged In mercantile pursuits; was a
member of the State legislature of Maine in 1802 and
18(54: was elected a representative from Maine in tlie
Thirty-ninth Congress as a Republican, n-ceiving
l.j,l»»tt votes against 12,578 votes for L. D. M. Sweat,
Democrat; was re-elected to the Fortieth Congress,
receiving 15,011 votes against 11,0.>J votes forX. 1). M.
Sweat, Democmt; was re-elected to the torty-first
Congress, receiving 10,718 votes against 14,670 votes
for Shaw, Democrat; and was re-elected lo the Forty-
second Congress as a Republican, receiving 12,.171
votes against 11,075 votes for W. P. Haines, Demo-
ent, servitig from December 4, 1k05, to March 3,
187;$: engaged iu the manufacture of t<'rra-cotta n<'ar
WasiUngton City; waa editor of "The Washington
Union •'^1870-1877.
Lynch, John R., was bom in Concordia Parish,
Louisiana, September 10, 1847, a slave; and lie ri'-
maiued in slavery until einancipaled by Ibe results
of the IlelK'llion, receivins no early education; a
purchaser of his mother cajried her wiih her cliildren
to Natchez, where, when the Union troops took pos-
session, he attended evening school for a few months,
and ho has since, by private study, ac'iuired a ko<mI
English education; he eiij;.aycd in tlic business of
jihotograiiliy at Natchez until 18011, when Governor
Ames appointed him a justice of the peace; he was
elected a member of the State legislature from Adams
County, and re-elected in 1871, serving the last tenn
AS speaker of the House; waa clecU'd a represetilu.-
tlve from Mississippi in the Forty-thini Congress as a
Bepubiicm, receiving 1.5,391 votes against 8,430 votes
for H. Cassidy, sen.t Democrat; and has re-elected
to the Forty-fourth Con;.;ress as a Republican (de-
feating Roderick Seals, Democrat ), sen-ing from De-
ccmbi'r 1. 187.{. to March 3, ls77.
Lynch, Thomas (father of Thomas Lynch,
Jnn. ), was bom u\ South Carolina; took an active
part ill pre-Bevolutlonary movements; was a dele-
gate from South Carolina to the Colonial Congress
in lIKi; w,ts a delegate from South Carolliwi to the
Continental Cmiirress 1774-1770, when he resigned
on account of ill ln-allh, and soon afterwanls died.
Lynch, Thomas, Jun. (sun of Thomas
Lyudi), was bom on the North Stuitee River, Prince
Oeorge Parish, South Carolina, August 5, 1740;
was educated at Eton and Cambridge, England;
studied law at the Temple, but, bewre complete
ing his course, returned to America in 1772; relin-
quishing the law, he became a |)lanter on the North
Santee River; was chos«'u in 1775 a captain in tlie
First .South-Carolina Continental Regiment, hut
resigned in a few months, having tioen elected
as the successor of his father ( who had lieeti taken
ill) in the Continental Congress, where he served
1770-1777; his health failing, he embarked for St.
Eustatius with the intention of visiting Europe, and
by some unknown accident perished, with all the
shUrs comjiaiiy, at sea, in the latter part of 1771>.
Lynde, William P., was born at Shiirbume,
Chentuigo County, New York, December 10, 1817;
graduated at Yale College in 18:i8; studied law; waa
admitted to the bar In New York in 184J, and re-
moved the same year to Wisconsin, where he has
pmctlscd since; was appointed attorney-general of
Wisconsin in 1844; was oppointe<l United-States
district-attorney for the district of Wisconsin in
1845 ; was elected a representative from Wisconsin In
the Thirtieth Congress as a Democrat, serving from
June 5, 1.S48, to March 3, 1849; was elected mayor of
Milwaukee in 180O; was a member of the Legislative
Assembly of Wisconsin in 18(10, and a member of the
State Senate in 1808 and 1800; was again elected to
the Forty-fourth Con^Tcss, receiving 12,tl40 votes
against 0,545 votes for Harrison Ludington, Liberal
liepublican; and was re-elected to the Forty-tifth
Clongress, receiving 17,053 votes against 11,952 votes
fur W. £. .Smith, Republican, and serving from De-
cember 0, 1S75.
Lynn, James, was bom at Trenton, New Jer-
sey; received a classical education, graduating at
Princeton College in 1709; studied law; was ad-
mitted to the bar, and commenced practice; was
elected a representative from New Jersey in the
.Sixth Congress .is a Democrat, saving from Decem-
ber 2, 1700, to March 3, 1801; was appointed by
President Jefferson supervisor of tlie revenue; was
for mimy years secret,-u7 of state of the State of New
Jersev ; died at Treuton, New Jersey, December
•UK 1820.
Lyon, AEta, was bom at Pomfrot. Connecticut,
December 31, 1103; received a classical education,
graduating at Dartmouth College in 1701 ; studied
law; was admitted to the bar, and commenced prac-
tice at South Hero, Vermont; was chief judge of
trraixl-lslaiid County 1805-1814 ; was a meniln'r of the
State House of Representatives from South Hero In
ISIKI, 1802, l.-WH, ]8l).5, 18IK1, and 180,'*, and from
(irand Isle in 1810, ISU, 1812, 18l;J, and 1814; was a
meraberof the Executis-c Council in 18<J8; was a mem-
ber of the corporation of the University of Veraiont
1814-1821; was elected a representative from Ver-
mont in the Fourteenth Congress as a Federalist
on n general ticket, receiving 17,718 votes against
10,874 votes for his Democratic opijonent, sei-ving
from December 4, 1815, to March 3, 1817; although
never licensed, he was, during the last years of his
life, a Calvinlstic preacher; died at South Hero
April 4, 1841.
Lyon, Caleb, " of Lyondale,'' was bom at Grclg,
New York, December 7, 1822; received a classical
education, grailuating at the Norwich University of
Vermont in 1841 ; was appointed by President Polk
consul at Shanghai, serving 1845-1849; 8toi)ped at
('allfomia on his return voyage, and was secretary
of the Constitutional Convention; visited Europe
and Egypt ; was a mcml^er of the State House of
Representatives in 1851 ; resigned, and was the same
year elected to the State Senate ; was elected a rep-
608
CONGEESSIONAIi DIBECTOBY.
resentAtlTe from New York In the Thirty-third Con-
eress u an Indopenilent, receiving 8,037 voti'S agaliiBt
7,881 votes for Mundy, Democrat, and seninK from
December 5, 1853, to March 3, 1855; removed from
" Lyoiisdali?," after the mansion had boon burned, to
Staten Island: was appointed by President Lincoln
governor of Idaho Territory, serving 1S()4-1H(«1; on
his return to Washinpton, he was robbed of S47,000
of public money in a sleeping-car between New Yorlt
and Washin^on; died near Kossville, Staten Island,
Septeiiilx'rS, 1875.
Lyon, Chittenden (son of Matthew Lyon), was
boni in Vertuout in 178*1; receive<l a public-school
education; removed to Kentucky with his father in
18(11 ; was a member of the State House of Kepre-
sentAtivcs, and subsequently of the State Senate;
W.1S elected a representative from Kentucky in the
Twentieth Congress as a Jackson Democrat; was
re-elected to the Twenty-first, Twenty-second, and
Twenty-third Congresses, serving from Decembers,
1827, to March 3, 1835; was defeated as a candidate
for presidential elector on the Van Buren ticket in
ISiO; died in Caldwell County, Kentucky, Novem-
ber 8, 11*42.
Lyon, Frauicis S., was bom in North Carolina;
received a pul)lic-«eh(iol education; removed to Ala-
bama, and located at Deniopolis; was elected a rep-
resentative from Alabama in the Twenty-fourth
Congress as a Whig; was re-elected to the Twenty-
fifth Congress, receiving 3,(>51 votes against .'},0()4
votea for Baylor, \Vliig, sening from iJeucmlK'r 7,
1836, to March 3, 1839; was elected a representative
from Alabama to the Second Confederate Congress
in 18U.3.
Lyon, Lucius, was bom in Vermont; received
a public-BchiHil eiluc.itloii; removed wlien a young
man to Bronson, MicliiganTerritorj'; was a land-«ur-
veyor; w.is elected a delegate from Michigan Terri-
tory in the Twenty-tliird Congress as a Uemocrnt,
serving from December 2, 1*13, to March 3, 1835;
was electee] a United-States senator from Midiigan,
serving from January 2(5. 18:W, to March 3, 1830;
was again elected a representative to the Twenty-
eighth Congress, serving from DecemlKT 4, 1843, to
March 3, 1846; was surveyor-general of public lands
in the North-Wesl; died at Detroit, Michigan, Sep-
tember 25, ISSI.
Lyon, Matthew (father of Chittenden Lyon),
was Ixjni in Wicklow County, Ireland, in 174«); Im-
migrated to America in 1750; took an active part in
the pre-Kevolutionary niovenients; w.h8 a deputy-
paymaster in the Revolutionary army in 177H; was
clerk of the Court of Confiscation in 17Hfl; founded
the town of Fairfield, Vennont, in 178:5; was a
member of the Slate IJou.se of Representatives 1784-
1704; edited "The Freeman's Library" newspaijer;
was cl(H.ted a representative from Vemiout in the
Fifth Congress, and was re-elected to the Sixth
Congress, serving from May 15, 17it7, to March 3,
1801; in January, 1708. a motion was made to have
him expelled for having spiit in the face of Roger
Griswold. a representiilive from Coiuiecticut, but it
failed; in October, ]7i>8, he wjis indicted in Vennont
for writing for publication a letter calculativd '* to
stir up sedition, and to bring the President and
Government of the United States into conternpt;*'
he was found guilty, and sentenced Uv be imprisoned
four montlis, and to pay costs and a fine; nf ?1,01X>; lie
was accordingly in\prisoned four numths in the de|itli.s
of winter in a conifortloss cell, and he paid the tine,
which Congress refunded to his heii-s with interest;
Mr. Lyon Is said to have revenged his wrongs Uy
giving the vote tliat made Jeflersun President; he
afterwards removed to Kentucky, from which State
he was elected a rf-'presentative in the Eighth Con-
gress, and re-elected to the Ninth, Tenth, and Elev-
enth Congresses, serving from t>ctob<."r 17, ISOil, to
March 3, 1811; he l)ecarae bankrupt after having
cotitnicted to build a fleet of gun-boats for service in
the war of 1812; was appointed United-States factor
among the Cherokee Indians in Arkansas, and re-
moved to that Territory; was the first delegate elect-
ed to Cong^ress, but died before taking his seat, at
Spadra Bluff. Arkansas, August 1. 1822.
Ljrtle, Robert T., resided at Cincinnati; wm
elected a representative from Ohio in the Twenty-
third Congress as a Jackson Demwrat, serving fpjtn
Decemljer 2, 1833, to March 10, 1(S34; was defeajetl
as the Democratic candidate for the Twenty-fourth
Congress by Bellamy Storer, VTliig. who received 1<I5
majority; was again elected to the Twenty-third
Congress (to supply the vac.incy caused by Iiis own
resignation), receiving 2,002 votes against 2,5-i5 vol>?8
for Mason, Whig, ser\'ing from Deceml«r 27. IStt.
to March 3, 18.35; was appointed surveyor-general of
public lands in Ohio, serving 18;1>-18.'J» ; died at New
Orleans, wliile on his way to Texas, Dec*'inl>er 21,
18;)1.
McAllister, Archibald, was bom in Dauphin
County, Pennsylvania, in 1814; receivc<l a public-
8ch<x»l education; engaged in the m.inufacture of
iron at the Springfielil furnace; was electetl a repre-
sentative fnJin Pennsylvar'i in the Tliirty-ei^lh
Congress as a Democrat, receiving 8,328 votes against
".S-Vi votes for Blair, Ri.publican. serving from De-
cenibiT 7, 18<W, to Slarch 3, 18<j5.
McArthUTj Duncan, was l)oni in Dutchess
County, New 1 ork, in 1772; removed with his father
to Western Pennsylvania in 1780; Iwcame a pioneer
land-surveyor in Oliio. locating at Chillicothe; was t
niemlxT of the State House of Representatives in
18115; was elected colonel of militia in ISi-X). and
brig.idier-general in 1808: served in the war of 1812
as colonel of the First Ohio Volunteers from Mav 7,
1812; was promoted brigadier-general March 12, 1^13,
anil was mustered out June 16, 1815; was elected a
rcprcM'ntalive from Ohio in the Thirteenth Congress,
but declined leaving the army; was again a member
of the State House of Representatives in 1815; was i
commissioner to negotiate treaties with the Indians
In 1810; was again a meml>er of the State House of
Representatives 1817-1810; was elected a repreiento-
tive from Ohio in the Eighteenth Congress as a Clay
Democrat, serving from December 1, 182:3, to March
3, 1825; was governor of Ohio 1830-1.<32; was de-
feated OS a Clay Democratic candidate for the Twen-
ty-third Congress by one majority, which elected
William Allen, Jackson Democrat; died at his resi-
dence near Chillicotlie, after an excruciating illness
of four years, preceded by paralytic affliction, April
28, 18;i0.
McBride, Archibald, was bom In Moore Conn-
fy. North Carolina; was elected a representative
from that State in the Eleventh Congress as a Demo-
crat; and was re-elected to the Twelfth Congress,
defeating J. Cul|M(pi>er, serving from May 22, laW,
to March 3, 1813; was a member of the State Senate
for t wo years.
McBride, John R., was bom in Franklin Coun-
ty, Missouri, August 22, 18-32; received a pubUe-
scliool education; removed to Oregon in lS4(i: was
chosen sufH-riiitendeiit of schools in 1854; studied
law; was admitted to the b.ir in 1855, and practised-
at Lafayette; was a delegate to the State Constiiu — ■
tional Convention; wot .i member of the State Senates
for four years; was elected a representative fromM
Oregon in the Thirty-eighth Congress as a Rrpub —
lieaii, r»'ceiving (1,8<I0 votes against 3,11-32 v ■ ' — 5
Wait, Democrat, serving from Deceinbt-r 7
March 3, 18116; was app<jiuted by Preside.]
Tfiiifed-.Stat('S judge for the district of Idaho.
McCarthy, Dennis, was bom at Salino, N. ■ -
York, March 10, 1814; received an academic educj- -
(ion; engaged in mercantile pursuits and the manu— -
facture of salt; was a member of the General Assem--«
illy of New York in 1840; was mayor of SjTacuse \r-»
185:J; wiis elected a representative from Now Tor'-*
In the Fortieth Congress as a Republican, •■•
16,200 votes against 0,966 votes for Ruger, D
and was re-elected to the Forty-first Congreu,
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«!vliig 10,470 rotes against 11,455 votes for Porter,
Domocril. scr^inir from Mnrrli 4, IS)", to Mart'li 8,
1S>71; WHS dofentcd as the Itulupendvut Democratic
canilldate for the Fortv-second Congress, receiving
8..'I74 votes against 10,78H voles for B. Holland Duell,
Ki-jiuliliriin.
McCarty, Andrew Z., was born in New York;
r<?*i<leil at Piilaiki; w.is elected a representative from
New York in the Thirty-fourth Congress as a ^^^lia;,
receiving 'iiS-Jj votes against 4,728 votes for Balicock,
Democrat, and 3,1152 votes for Case, Free-iSoiier, ser>--
in^ f n>ra December .3, ISM, to March 3, 1867.
McCarty, Jonathan, was bom in Tennessee:
received a publio-school education; removed with
his parents to Indiana, and K)cated in Franklin
County; was a member of the Stale House of Kep-
resentatives; was instrumental in fonuing the new
county of Fayette; was elected clerk of Its courts,
and removed to Connorsville, its county-seat; was
elected a representative from Indiana in the Twenty-
second Congress as a Whig; was re-<'lectcd to the
Twenty-third Congress, and was re-elected to the
Twenty-fourth CongreM, defeating James Kariden,
Whig, ser%-ing from December 6, 1831, to March 3,
1837; vag defeated as the Whig candidate for the
Twenty-flfth Congress, receiving 3,0.59 votes against
0,23o votej for James Rariden, ^V^l^g; removed to
Keokuk, Iowa, when; he died in 1855,
McCarty, Richard, was bom at Albany, New
Tork ; received a public-school education ; was elected
a representative from New York In the .Seventeenth
Congress, sen'ing from December 3, 1821, to March
8, 182:}.
McCarty, William M., was bom In Loudon
County, Virginia; was elected a representative from
Virginia in the Twenty-aiith Congress (in place of
Cliarles F. Mercer, resigned) as a Wliig, receiving
1.219 votes against 8«8 votes for James \V. Pegnim.
Democrat, serving from January 25, 1840, to March
R, 1S41.
McClauslen, William C, was bom In Ohio;
received a public-school education; located at Steu-
benville; was elected a representative from Ohio in
the Twenty-eighth Congress as a Democrat, receiv-
ing 6.741 votes against 5,883 votes for Hanna, Whig,
serving from Dcocmbcr 4, 1843, to March 3, 1845.
McClean, Moses, was bom at Geityslmrg.
Pennsylvania, In lso4; received an academical edu-
cation; studied law; was admitted to the bar in
1825, and commenced practice nt Gettysburg; was
elected a representative from Pennsylvania in the
Twentv-ninth Congress, ser\'ing from December 1,
lf«5, to March .3, 1847; was a member of the State
House of Representatives in 18.i5; was for many
years president of the Board of Trustees of Pennsyl-
vania College; died at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania,
Octolier 1, 1870.
McCleary, James, was elected a representa-
tive from Louisiana in the Forty-second Congress
as a Kepublican (receiving 11,780 votes against 7,171
votes for M, Ryan. Democrat); visited Cuba in tlie
hope of finding relief from a pulmonary complaint;
was not well enough to return at the commencement
of the session, and died November 5, 1871. He
served in the Union anny, where he lost an ann : was
subserjuent I y connected with the Freedmen"s Bureau
in North Carolina and in Louisiana, and entered
into the practice of law in the last-named State.
McClellan, Abraham, was horn in Tennessee;
resided at Blountsville; was »-lecled a representative
from Tennessee in thu Twftily-liftli Congress as a
Democrat, receiving 3,012 votes against 2,351 votes
for Samuel Bunch, Whig, and 8»(5 votes for Eliot,
Whi'^; was re-elected to tJie Twenty-sixth Congress,
receiving 1,001 majority over John A. McKinney,
Whig; was re-elected to the Twenty-seventh Con-
gress, serving from .September 4, 1837, to March 8,
IS*!.
McClellan, Robert, was bom In Schoharie
County, New York; was elected a represeatative
from New York In the Twenty-fifth Congress, aerr-
ing from September 4. 1S37, to March 3, 1830; was
again elected to the TwHUty-seveiitli Congress as a
Democrat, receiving 11,114 votes against 10,1311 votes
for Justus McKinstry, Whig, serving from May 31,
1841, to March 3, It*}; died at Middiebury June 7,
18(10.
McClelland, Robert, was bom at Greencastle,
Pennsylvania, August 1, 1807; received a classical
education, giaduating at Dickinson College in 1820;
stuilied law; was admitted to the bar In 18^31, and
commenced practice at Pittsburg; removed to Mon-
roe. Michigan, in IStt: was a di-legate to the State
Constitutional Convention in 18:i5; was a member of
the State House of Representatives 1838-1843, serv-
ing the last year as speaker; was elected a represen-
tative from Michigan in the Twenty-eighth Congress
as a Democrat; was re-elected to the Twentj- -ninth
Congress, and was re-elected to the Thirtieili Con-
gress, receiving 7.877 votes against 6,442 votes for
Lawrence, Whig, Be^^^ng from December 4, 1843, to
March 3, 1840; was a delegate to the National Demo-
cratic Conventions in 184S, 1862, and 1808; was gov-
ernor of Michigan 1852-1853; was appointed by
President Pierce secretary of the interior 186.3-1857;
removed to Detroit, Michigan, and resumed prac-
tice.
McClelland, William, was bom at Mount
Jackson, PeniiRylvaiiia, March 2, 1842; niceived a
commou-sciiool education, and, for a time, attended
Westminster College at New Wilmington, Pennsyl-
vania; at the outbreak of the late war, enlisted as a
private in Battery B, First Artillery, P. R. V. C, and,
at the close of the war, was mustered out as its com-
mander, having served over four years, and partici-
pated in all the battles fought by the Amiy of the
Potomac, except Chancellorsville and Gettysburg;
subsequently attended Alleghany College at Mead-
ville, Pennsylvania, but did not graduate; studied
law, and was adniitteil to practice in June, 1870; and
was elected a riipresentalive from Pennsylvania In
the Forty-oeconil Congress as a Democrat, receiving
12,277 Votes against 1 1,305 votes for J. B. Donley,
Republican, serving from March 4, 1871, to March 3,
1873; was defeated as the Democratic candidate for
the Forty-thinI Congress, receiving 13,100 votes
against 14,105 votes for William 8. Moore, Repub-
lican.
McClenachan, Blair, was bom in Pennsylva-
nia; was elected a representative from Pennsylvania
in the Fifth Congress, ser>iug from May 16, 1707, to
March 3, 1700.
McClene, James, was a delegate from Pennsyl-
vania til the (_'ontinental Congress 1778-1780.
McClemand, John Alexander, was bom in
Breckeiu-idge Comity, Kentucky, May 30, 1812; re-
moved with his parents to Illinois ; received a public-
school ikIu cat ion; studied law with Henr>' Kddy; was
admitted to tlie bar in 18.32. and commenced practice
at Shawiieetowu; served in the Black Hawk war as
a private; established and edited "The Shawneetown
Demfx;rat;" was a member of the State House of
Representatives In 1830, 1840, 1842, and 1843; was a
presidential elector on the Van Burcn and Johnson
ticket In 1830; was elected a representative from
nitnois in the Twenty-eighth Congress as a Democrat,
defeating Zadoc Casey, Whig; was re-clect«d to the
Twenty-ninth, Tliirtielh, and Thirty-first Congresses,
serving from December 4, 1843, to March 3, 1861;
was again elected to tlie Thirty-sixth Congress, serv-
ing from Deeenil)er 5, 1859, until the commencement
of hostilities in 1801, when he resigned, and retttmed
to Illinois, where he recruited a brigade for the Union
amiy, serving through the war.
McCloud^ John B., of Mobile, claimed to have
been elected a representative from the Second Dis-
trict of Virginia in the Thirty-seventh Congress, re-
ceiving 645 votes against 041 votes for Wing, 116 for
Cowper, and 20 scattering, The House Committee
on Elections reported in February, 1803, that this was
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in no sense an elecUon, as the district usually polled
over 10,000 votes, and only four precincts were
opened.
McClure, Charles, was Jjom in Pennsylvania;
rPBiili'd at riltflmrg; was elected a representative
from I'ennsylv.inia in the Twenty-tiflh Congress us a
Democmt. serving from September 4, 1S37, to March
8, liNJlt; was again elected to the Twenty-sixth Con-
gress (in place of William S. Ramsay, deceased),
serving frum December 7, 184<1, to March 3, 1841;
was .State secretary of state; died in conse<|ueiice of
a fall, which broke his neck, at Pittsburg, Pennsyl-
vania. Kebnmry 8. lS4<i.
McClurg, Joseph W., was bom in St. Louis
County. Slissouri, Keliniary 22, 1X18; was educated
at Xenia Academy and Oxford College, Ohio; was a
teacher in Louisiana and MLssissippi [n 18:]5 and IB^Di ;
went to Texas, where he was admitted to the bar.
and made clerk of the Circuit Court In 1S40; after-
wards returned to Missouri, and In 1K44 engaged in
mercantile pursuits; served as colonel of home
guards early in IHOl, and afterwanis .is colonel of
cavalry in tlie Union army for the suppression of the
Rebellion ; was a member of the State Convention of
Hissourl of 18<tl, 18(i2, and 1803; was elected a rep-
resentative from Missouri in the Thirty-eiijlilh Con-
gress as an Emancipation candidate, receiving 4,lJ;JiJ
votes against i,i3S votes for Price, Democrat; was re-
elected to the Thirty-ninth Congress as a Radical
candidate, receiving 0,970 votes against 2.555 votes
for Orr, Democrat; and was re-elected to the Fortieth
Congress in 1800 as a Radical, receiving 7.IU7 votes
agaln.st 4.l>84 vot4!a for Thomas L. Price, Consen-a-
tlve. serving from Deceml>er 7, 18tJ3, to 1808, when he
resigned.
McComos, Williani, was bom In Virginia;
was elected a representative from Virginia in the
Twenty-third Congress as a ^^^lig. d"fi'ating Williani
Smith by 41 ;0 majority ; was re-elected totheTwenty-
fourth Congress, defeating D. Smith by AK) ni.ijorit)-,
and serving from December 2, IKU, to March 3, 1837.
McComb, Bleazer, was a delegate to the Con-
tini-nliil C<^nl^reps from Delaware 17^2-1784.
McConnell, Felix Q., was born in Lincoln
County. Tennessee, but removed In 1824 to Tiillailc-
ga, Alabanni; studied l.iw; was ailmitteil to the bar.
and commenced ])ractice; was elected a representa-
tive from Alabam.i in the Twenty-eighth Congress as
a Democrat, defeating Willi.-ini P. Chilton, Whig;
was re-elected to the Twenty-ninth Congress, serving
from Deccmher 4, I84;i, to' .Sfpieiiiber 10. 184<1; he
coiuniitted suicide in a (it of drlirium at the St.
Cliarl<'S Hotel, Washington, by stalibing himself in
the alidiimen. and then cuttlne his throat.
McCook, Anson Q., w.i.« iKim .ti Steubenvillo.
Ohio, October in, bsjj.'i; received a common-school
eiluciition; in llie spring of 18.>l crossed the plains ti>
California: returned in the autumn of lS"jit. and, at
the outbreak of the ]{el>elllon. was engaged in the
study of the law ; entered the Union army as captain
In the .Second Regiment of Ohio Infantry, and was
at the first battle of Bull Run; on the re-organlz-ation
of the regiment, was commissioneil major, and after-
ward promoted to be lieutenant-colnnel and colonel,
Serving with the regiment In the .\nny of the Cum-
berland ; at the m\ister-<jut of the regiment, was com-
missioned colonel of the One Hundred and Ninety-
fourth Ohio Infantry, and, at the close of the war,
was brevetted brigatlicr-general ; was appointed as-
sessor of Internarn'venne In the Seventeenth Ohio
DIsirlct in Noveml«?r, 18<j5; removed to New York
in M«v, 1873, and was elected a representative from
New i'ork in the Forty-llfth Congress as a Repub-
llciui, receiving 13,221 votes against 12,408 votes for
Elilah Ward, Democrat, serving from October 10,
1877.
^McCord, Andrew, was bom In Ulster County,
New York; was a member of the .State House of
Representatives 1800. 1801, 1802, and 1S07; was elect-
ed a representiitire from New York In the Eighth
Congress, sending from October 17, 1803, to ManJi S,
18<i.5.
McCorkle, Joseph W., was bom in Ohio; re-
moved to Marysvlllc, California; was elected a ivpre"
sentative from California in the Tliirty-s<'Cond Con-
gress as a Democrat, receiving 2.'1.4ii3 voti-s against
19,071 votes for Moore. Whig, serving from Decembcri
1, 1W51, to March .3, IS-W.
McCormick, James R., was i«>m in Washim
ton County, Missouri. August I, 1S24; received *'
public-school education; studied medicine; was li-
censed to practise in 1840; was a delegate to tlifll
State Constituticmal Convention of 18*11: was a .Stal
senator in 1,S02: served as a brigailier-general of ml
lilia in l.SO;{; was ap]>otnted by President Lincobi
surgeon fn the anny, which he declined; was agai
elected L'nitcd-.States senator in ISOO; was elected
n'liresentative from Missouri in the Fortieth Congrei*
(inpliiciMif Thom.as E.Noell, deceased) us a Democrat;
was re-<>lected to the Forty-tirst Congri'«. receiving
.i.l.'io votes against 4,220 votes for Uus>li. Hopubllcan^
was re-elected to the Forty-seeonil Congres-s, receiving'
7,572 votes against 2,;3.')1 votes for G. I. V.in .Vllea,
Republican, and 2,015 votes forW. Nalle, IiulependJ
ent Democrat, serving from December 17, 1807, to
March 3, 1873.
McCormick, Biohord C, was bom at New
York in 1NJ2; received a classical education: entered
into business In Wall .Street in 1850: visited Europe
(hiring the Crimean war; edited " The Young Mcn'i
Magazine" In bSjO; was a war-correspondent for
several leading journals In 18(il ; was chief clerk of
the Department of Agriculture in 1802; was »p-
Iiolnted secretary of Arizona Territory in li^'A, and
governor of the Territory in 1800; was elected a
delegate from Arizona Territory in the Forty-firrt
Congress as an Independent Union candidate, re-
ceivfug l,2ti3 Totes against t}44 vot»'8 for Rush, anil
ISO votes for Atl.ims; was re-elected to the Forty-
second Congress, receiving 970 majority over P. K.
Brady, Democrat; and was re-elected to the Forty-
third Congress, serving from March 4, 18<I9, to March
3, 187.'); was a commissioner to the Centennial Ex-
hibition 187.V1.870; was assistant secretary of the
Ireasiiry 1S77-1878; was chief commissioner to the
Paris ExiKisltlon 1878.
McCoy, Robert, was bom at Carlisle, Peniiiyl-
vaaia; received a public-school education; was State
canal commissioner; was elected a repn-sentalivn
from Pennsylvania In the Twenty-second Congrefi.
serving from December .5, 18:31, to March 2, 1(38;
dii'd at \^^leclin)t. Virginia, .Tunc 7, 1849.
McCoy, Wliliam, was bom in Augusta Cotinty,
Virginia; was elected a representative from Virginii
In the Twelfth Congress as a Jackson Democrat:
was re-elected to the Tlilrteenth, Fourteenth, Fif-
teenth, .Sixteenth, .Seventeenth, Eighteenth. Nine-
teenth, Twentieth, Twenty-tirst, and Tweiily-«con<l
Concresses, serving from November 4, 1811, to "
2, 1833.
MoCrary, George W., was bom near Eran:
ville. Indiana, August 29, 1.8;J5; removed with hi
parents to the Territory which now forms the Stat
of Iowa in 18:30; was educated in the public schi
and .icademy; studietl l.iw, and was admitted to
bar i»t Keokuk, Iowa, In 1850; In 1857 he was elect
to the State legislature; in 1801 he was elected
the State .Senate for four years; and, after devoti
all his time to the practice of his profession unt
1808, he was elected a representative from Iowa 1
the Forty-first Congrws as a Republicati, receivi™
17,718 votes against 12,705 votes for Clagcett. D.i;.*
crat; was re-elected to the Forty-second '
receiving 13,327 votes against 9,901 votes foi
Jager, Democrat; was re-elected to the Fui'.y-tlii»
Congress, receiving 15,140 votes against 1ii,1h;i vot-
for Shelley, Lilx-ral Republican; and was p.-iMecta
to the Fofty-fourlh Congress, receiving ll,.*^! vol
against 9,521 votes for Leroy G. Palmer, Libenil im
Democrat, serving from March 4, 1800, to March
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li*77: was appfilnffd by President Hayes secretary of
■war MaroJi ll', 1>77.
McCrate, John D., was boni at Wiscasset,
Maine, May 1, 18(IU; received a classical education,
graduating at Bowdoin College in 1810; studied law;
■was admitted to tlie bar, and commenced practice at
Wiscasset; was a luemtjer of the State Uduse of
Begresentatlves 1831-183t); was collector of customs
AtWiacanet li!v30-lS41: was tslectcd a representative
from Maine in the Twenty-ninth Congress as a Demo-
crat, serving from December 1, 184d, to March 3,
1847.
McCroary, John, was bom in Chester District.
South t'arolina: was elected a represeiilalive from
South Carolina in the Sixteenth Congress, serving
from Deeemlx-r (1, 1810. to March 8, 1821.
McCreedy, William, was bom in Pennsyl-
vaaia; was elected a representative from Pennsyl-
vania in the Twenty-flrst Congress, serving from De-
cemlwr 7. ISiiO, to March S, 1831.
McCreery, Thomas C, was bom In Kentucky
In 1.S17; studied law, but, in8tea<l of pracllsins; the
profession, ttirned his attention to agricultural pur-
Buits; was a presidential elector in 1852; was a
member of the lx)ard of visitors to the Military
Academy at West Point in 18.W; was elected In 1»)"8
Uuited-btates senator from Kentucky (in the place
' James Guthrie, resipried); took bis seat Februarj-
', 1808, and served until March 3, 1871 ; and w,is re-
'elected as a Democrat (in the place of W. B. Mochcn,
ppointed in the place of Garrett Davis, dece.-ised),
and took his seat Starch 4, 1873. His tcnn of service
w^il! expire M.urli .'5, 1S71I.
MoCreery, William, w,h8 elected a representa-
tive from Marj'land in the Eighth Congress; was re-
elected to the Ninth and Tenth Congresses, serving
from October 17, 1*W, to March 3, 1809.
McCulloch, QooTge, was bom In Pennsylvania;
resided at Centre Line; was elected a representative
from Pennsylvania in tlie Twenty-sixth Congress
(In place ot Williaiu W. Potter, deceased) as a
Democrat, serving from December 2, 1838, to March
8, 1841.
McCulloch, John, was bom in Pennsylvania;
received u pwlilic-sehool education; was elected a
representative from Pennsylvania in the Thlrty-ihird
Congress as a \Vhlg. ree'eiviug 7,847 votes against
6,112 votes for Shaffer, Democrat, serving from De-
cember 5. lS.%i. U> Miireh 3, 1SS5.
McCullough, Hiram, was bom In Cecil County,
Maryland, Septeml>er2<l, IS18; received an academic
etiucation; studied and priictised law; was a meml^er
of the Slate Senate of Marjiiujd in 1845-18.)1 ; was
appointed one of tlie codifiers of the laws of Mary-
land in 1852; was elected a representative from Mary-
land In the Thirty-ninth Congress as a Democrat,
receivins 0,'!77 votes against 0,307 votes for J. A. J.
Creswell, Republican ; and was re-elected to the
Fortieth Congress, receiving 11,729 votes against
4,052 votes for Russum, Rcpuldiaui, serving from
December 4, 1S(K, to March 3. 18(19.
McCullough, Thomas G., was bom In Fmnk-
n County, Pennsylvania; received a public-school
ucatioii; was elected a representative from Penn-
^ivania in the Sixteenth Congnss (In place of David
'ullertvn, ivsigiied), serving from November 13,
S20, to Mareh 3, 1S21.
McDaniel, William, was elected a representa-
tive from Missouri in the Twenty-ninth Congress (In
lace of .Sterling Price, resigned) as a Democrat,
efcating Kincaiil. Whig, serving from December 7,
18*1, t<> Mi\nU 3. 1H47.
McDill, Alexander S., was bom in Crawford
County, PeniiBylvania, March 18, 1822; after a partial
course of studies at Allcghimy College, studied and
gtaduated in medicine at the Cleveland Medical Col-
lege; was engaged in the general practice of his pn»-
fession in his native State from 1848 until 1850, when
he removed to his present place of residence In
Portage County, Wisconsin; was elected to the
House of Representatives of the Wisconsin legisla-
ture In 1801, and to the State .Senate of Wisconsin
in 1802; was chosen a presidential elector in 1S<(4;
was one of the Iward of managers of the Wisconsin
State Hospital for the Insane from 1802 to 1868,
when he was elected medical sufH-rintendent. which
position he resigned to take his seat in the Forty-
thirtl Congress, to which he was elected a repre-
sent.itive from Wisconsin as a Republican, receiving
li>,7ll votes against 7,2;18 votes for W. Carson, Demo-
crat, serving from December 1, 1873, to March 4,
1875; was defeated as the Republican candidate for
the Forty-fourth Congress, receiving 0,444 votes
against 9.440 votes for (Jeorge M. Cate, In<lei)endent
Kefonner; resumed his position as medical supei^
intendent of the Hospital for the Insane, near Madi-
son, W^isconsin; and died there November 12, 1876.
McDill, James Wilson, was horn at Monroe,
Ohio, March 4, 1834; received an early education at
tlic Si:>utli-^Blem Acailemy, ond gnidiinted at the
Miami University at Oxford, Ohio, in 1S.">3; studied
law at C'olumhus. Ohio, with Sam. Galloway; was
admitted to tlie biir In 1850. and removed to Iowa in
that year; was elected county-judge of Union County,
Iowa, In IWO; was ap|M)lnted In 1601 clerk of tlie
Senate Committee on the District of Columbia, of
which Hon. J. W, Grimes was cbaimiuii, and sul>-
sequently a clerk In the office of the third auditor
of the treasury, in which he served until the spring
of 1805, when he resigned, and returned to Iowa;
was elected circuit-judge of the Second District,
Tliinl Judicial Circuit of Iowa, In 1808; was ap-
pointed in lK7n, Olid then electad, di.strict-judge of
the Tlilni .Judicial Circuit of Iowa, which ixiBitlon
lie held when lie was elected a representative from
Iowa in the Forty-third Congress as a Republican,
receiving 12,075 votes against 10,204 votes for W. W.
Merrltt, Democrat and Liberal; and was re-elected
to the Forty-fourth Congress, receiving 14,150 votes
against 10,7^6 votes for Anson Rood, anti-Monopolist
and (Jrancer, serving from December 1, 1873, to
March 3, 1877.
McDonald, Alexander, was bom In Clinton
County, Pennsylvania, April 10, 18.32; was educated
at tlie Lewisilmrg University; removed to K.insns in
18')7; eng.aged in mercantile pursuits; took a le.-iding
part in raising and eijuipplng Union troops during
the war for t!ie suppression of the Rebellion; estab-
lished himself in Arkansas as a merchant in 1803;
was the founder and first president of the Na-
tional Bank at Fort Smith, and afterwards of the
Merchants' Nation.il Bank at Little Rock; was the
first signer of the call for the State Convention under
tliu reconstruction acts, and was elected a member of
that convention; was ele«te<l United-States senator
from Arkansas as a Republican, serving from Jmie
23, 18*18. to March 3. 1871.
McDonald, Joseph E., was bom In Butler
County, Ohio, August 211, 1811); was taken to Indiana
in 1820; was apprenticed to the saddler's trade at
Lafayette; was two years in college, but did not
gnuluate; studied low. and was admitted to the bar
'in 1843, and coninieiiced practice; w.-is prosecnting-
alforncy In 184.'1-1S47; was elected a n.'pro8entutive
from Indiana In tlie Thirty-first Congress as a Demo-
crat, recel villi; 7,432 votes against 7,0t(8 votes for Lane,
Whig, serving from December 3, 1840, to March 3,
1851 ; was elected attorney-general of Indiana In 1850,
and re-elected in 1858; removed to Indianapolis in
I8.1O; was the unsuccessful Democratic candidate for
governor of Indiana in 18(i4; was elected Ifnited-
States senator from Indiana as a Democrat (to suc-
ceed Daniel D. Pratt, Republican), and took his seat
March 6, 1875. His term of service will expire March
3, l-'«l.
MacDonald, Moses, was bom at Limerick,
Miftne, April 8, 1815; received an academical educ.i-
tion; Btudied law; was aflmitted to the bar In l!^37,
and commenced practice at Limerick, Maine ; was a
member of the State House of Representatives in
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1841, IftiS, and 1846, serving the last ^ear as speaker
of Uic Ilouge; was State senator 1847; was State
treasurer of Maine 1847-1&49; was elected a represen-
tative from Maine in the Thirty-second Coujjress as
a Democrat, receiving 5,173 votes against 4,t)Si votes
for N. 1). Appleton, Wliig, and 6*1 votes for M.
Sweat, Free-Soiler; and was re-elected t<i the Thirty-
third Con(jres8, receiving 9.218 votes against 6,,'tW
votes for N. D. Appletoii, Whig, and l.iMiS votes for
Fesscnden, Free-Soiler, serving from December 1,
1801. to March 3, 185.5; was appointed by President
Buchanan collector of customs at Portland, serving
lS57-l.SiI; died at .Saco, Maine, Octoljer 1.^ 1801).
McDougall, Alexander, was bom in Scotland
inlT^Jl; immifj;ratcd lo New York in 1755; learned
the urt of printuig. ami was imprisoned as the author
and printer of Kevolulionarj' documents; served in
the Itevolulionary army as colonel of the First New-
Tork Regiment; was commissioned l>rigadier-general
August U, 1770, and major-general October 20, 1777;
was a delegate from New York to the Continental
Congress in 1781 and in 1784-17S5; was elecltnl a
member of (he State Senate 1783-1780; died at New
York June R. 17H6.
MacDougaJl, Clinton Dugald, was bom in
Scotland Juiit; 14, 1830; came to America with his
parents in 1842; received an academic education:
studied law; was engaged in the banking business
1856-1809; raised a company for the Seventy-llfth
New-York Volunteere in 1801; went to Florida with
his regiment; was made lieutenant-colonel of the
One Hundred and Eleventh New-York Volunteers
in August, 1802, and colonel In January, 1803; com-
manded the post at Centreville, Virginia, to June,
1803; joined the Army of the Potomac, in which he
commanded the Third Brigade, Third Division. Sec-
ond C<)ri>s, at Gettysburg, and afterward the Third
Brig;ide, First Division, Seciinil Corps, until the close
of the war; was brevetted brigadier-general in 1804;
returned home at the close of the war to pursue his
banking business; was apj)ointi-d postmaster of the
city of Auburn in M.irch. 1S(W; was elected a. repre-
sentative from New York in thu Forty-thiiil Congress
a; a Republican, receiving 10,4.S0 votes for W. T.
Graves, Democrat; and was re-elected to the Forty-
fourth Congress as a Republican, receiving 14.4^
votes against 11,857 votes for Wilson, Democrat,
serving from December 1, 1873, to March 3, 1S77;
declined the position of treasurer of the United
States, offered him in June. 1870, and also th.it of
commissioner of internal revenue, offered hini in
July, 1870; was appointiHl by President Grant mar-
shal for the Western Judicial District of New Y'ork
In 1S77.
McDougall, James A., was bom at Bethle-
hem. All)any County, New York, November lU, 1817;
was eiiucilfd at the All)nny Grammar School ; was a
surveyor's assistant on the Albany and Sehenecta.dy
Railroad ; studied law ; was admitted to the bar, and
commi-nced pr.icUce in Pike County, Illinois, in 18.37;
was attorney-general of Illinois 1842-1840; organized
anil accompanied an expedition to explore the Rio
del Norte, the Gila, and the Colorado Rivers; re-
moved to Califonua, and practised at .San Francisco;
was elected attorney-general of California in 185U;
was elected u representative from California in the
Thirty-third Congress as a Democrat, serving from
December 6, laW, to March 3, 1855; declined a
renomination to the Thirty-fourth Congress; was
elected a United-States senator from CaUloniia as a
Democrat, serving from July 4, 1801, to March 3,
1807; was a delegate to the National Democratic
Convention at Chicago in 1804; died at Albany, New
York, !>eptember 3, 1807.
McDowell, Jajnes, was bom in Rockbridge
County. Virginia, in 179tt; received a classical edu-
cation, graduating at Princeton College iu 1817; was
elected a representative from Virginia in the Twen-
ty-ninth Congress (in place of William Taylor, de-
ceased) aa a Democrat; waa re-elected to the Thir-
tieth Congress, receiving 2,0% vot«a •gi^nst . .
votes for Gray, Whig; was re-elected to the Thittj*'
first Congress, receiving 6,1.54 votes without oppo-'
sition, 8er\ing from March 0, 1840, to March .3, 1851;
died near Lexington. Virginia, August 24, liSSl.
McDowell, James Foster, was bom in Mif-
llin County. I'eunsylvaiiia, Dec-ember 3, 1825: wta
with his parents to Ohio in 18:}5; reci;ived a publi(
school education; worked in a prinling-otfic»^
studied law; was admitted to the b.ir in ls40.
commenced practice; removed to Indian.^, ami estal
lished "The Marion Journal;" was elcettMl a rei
reseatative from Indiana in the Thirty-eighth Coi
gress aa a Democrat, receiving 13,142 vot<?A aeaini
12,219 votes forSh.inks, Republican, serving from Di
ceiiiber 7, \>^i, to March 3, 18il5; was defeated as the
Democratic cindidate for the Thirty-ninth Congress,
receiving 13.3.^3 votes against 15,023 votes for Thomas
F. Stillwrll. Union.
McDowell, Joseph (father of J<jseph J. Ue-
Dowell), was l>orn at Winchester, Virginia; and
father soon afterwards removetl to Burke Countfi
North Can)lina; was active in the Revolutions
movements, commanding a jiortion of the righl^
under his brother Joseph at the battle of
Mountain October 7, 1780; was a member of t]
House of Commons of North Carolina 1782-1788;
was a member of the convention of 1788 to consider
the adoption of the Federal Constitution, which he
opposed; was elected to the Third Congress, serriog
from December 2, 1793, until March 3, 1795; was
again elected to the Fifth Congress, serving from
May 15, 1797. to Maich 3, 1709.
McDowell, Joseph J. (son of Joseph McDow-
ell), was bom in North Carolina; was elet'ted a reiv
resentative from Ohio in the Twenty-eighth CougreJi
as a Democrat, receiving 5,:37fl votes against 5,0oi
votes for Thompson, \Vhig, and 341 votes for Keys,
Abolitionist; was re-elected to the Twenty-ninth Con-
gress, serving from December 4, 1843, to March 3,
1847.
McDuffie, C^eorge, was bom in Columbia
County, Georgia, in 17.S3; attended public schools;
was a clerk at Augusta, Georgia; was sent by Wil-
liam Calhoun to Dr. WaddeU's school at Wilniiiigtan,
and paduated at the South-Carolina College in ISU;
studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1814, and
commenced practice at Pendleton. South Canmoa;.
was a member of the State House of RepresentativM
in 1818-1S2U; was elected a representative from Soatb
Carolina in the Seventeenth Congress as a Democnt;
was re-elected to the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, Twen-
tieth, Twenty-first, Twenty-second, and Twentjr-
llilrd Congresses, serving from December 3, ISSl,
to l&U, when he resigned; was elected g<}venior
of South Carolina; waa elected a United -States aeoa-
tor from South Carolina (in place of William C
Preston, resigned), serving from January, 1843, »
January 17, 1840, when he resigned; died in Sumter
District. North Carolina, March 11, 1301.
McFadden, Obadiah B., was bom in Wiilh
iivgton County. IVnusylvaniiV, in the year 1817; Uby
profession a lawyer; was elected to the legielatuiea
Pennsylvania in the year 1843; waa elected pro-
thonotary for the Court of Common Pleas of Waili-
ingtou County, Pennsylvania, in 1845; in ISM bi
was appointed associate justice of the SupWM
Court for the Territory of Oregon; in 1854 h«»»»
apiMiinted associate justice of the Sapreme Court for
Washington Territory; in 1858 he wa8_apj
intoi
chief justice of the Supreme Court for Woshiogtoa
Territory, and discharged the duties of that pcsitloD
until the fall of 1801; has represented liis district in
the Legislative Couticil; and was elected a delrt*!*
from Washington Territory in the Forty-third Con-
gress as a Denuxrat by a majority of 708 "nt^
Garfielde, Republiciui, serving from December 1, 18Wi
tij March 3, 1877; died at Olympia, Washington T«^
ritory, June 25, 1875.
McFarlan, Dvtnoan, was bom iu North Cuo-
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rlina: received a public-school edncat ion; was elected
I » re;irfseiitativi' from North Carolina in llie Ninth
I Cjii.^n'ss. s^.•^vin^; Iroin l)ec<.'uil)t'r 2. 18l!o, to March
1S)7; was f jr thr-o years a member of the btalc
fbenaUi; di.-d September 7, 1810.
McFarland, William, was bom nt Dandridae,
Tfniii.'Ssec. .Sti>lcmlK'r 10, 1821; received a coiniiion-
1 Eoliuol idiicalion; studied law ia early lifi". but abau-
I doncd it; was a clerk in a store, and afterward in a
tannini; and mercantile business on his own acc<iunt
' until Iho commencement of the war In 1801; after
the war he resumed the practice of law, in which he
: l« yet eng.'igcil; was for many years a masislrale; was
■ ciiiUrman <.f thi? County Court; was .ippointed judge
vt the Circuit Court in 1S70; and w;is elected a rep-
I tfseutative from Tennessee in the Forty-fourth Con-
[ press as a Conservative and Democr.il, receiving
[5,707 votes a^nst (J,iit4 voles for K. R Butler,
J Republie.'in, senin'i from December (1, 1875, to March
fS. 18ii; was defeated as the Dcmocrntic c.tndidaie
I for the F.irty-fifth Couijrefs, receiving ll.;il5 votes
■gainst I2.:W9 votes for James Henry Kandolph,
Kci>ublican. _^
iMcQauffhey, Edward W., was bom in In<U-
aiia; received a public-school education; w.is elected
• ropr^'seutative from Indiana In the Twenty-ninth
Conurcss as a Wliig, receiving 0.183 votes .i.gain6t
6,01:i votes forWripiil, Dem<icr,it, scrvin;; from De-
cember 1. 184.% to Harch ■I, 1847; was again elected
to the Tlurty-first Congress, receiving 0,7S2 votes
■gainst 4,009 votes for Cookerly, Democrat, sen'ing
from Decembers. 1S49, to March .3, 18.51; was de-
feated .oii the Wliig canilidate for the Thirty-second
Coiipx-ss. receiving 5,814 votes against 0,078 Votes for
Dnvi», Democrat; died at Greeucastle, Indiana,
Aiitnist IS, 1852.
McGowaxt, J. H., was bom at Smlthtown, Ohio,
I April 'J. 18;17; in 1854 removed v,ilh his parents to
Oiland. Indiana; in 18ij7 he entered the University
of Sliclii'.'aii, and irraduatcd in June, 18'tl; tauuht in
the city schools of Coldw.xter, Michigan, for one year,
&nd then enlisted as a private in the Fifth Michigan
C.ivalr\' \'olunteer8; wag afterward promoted to a
captaincy; mised a company for the Ninth Michigan
Ciivttlrj-, and went Into active service with that ivgi-
tnent in the spring of 18(13; by rcison of injuries
rv-ceived in a cavalry char;;e, he was disabled, and
n-si^eJ his commission iu I^'ebraary. 18;4. returning
to Coldwa'.er. where he studied law with the Hon. C.
D. I!«ndall, and was admitted to the bar in 1S07;
.from 18<18 to IHTi he was prosccuting-attortiey;
► •■rved one term as State senator, and seven years as
^regent of the University of Michigan, rvsi^jning to
I take his seat in the Forty-lifth Congress, to which ho
I was elected as a Kepublican, receiving 19.87S votes
■^inst I7,22;3 votes for Fidus Livenuore, Democrat,
I sen-ing fn>m Ortolwr l-i, 1877.
McGrew, James C, was boni In what is now
Prest'jn County. West Virginia (then a part <.f Mo-
Jliougalia County, Virginia), SeplcmVier 14, 1813;
[tiecefved a substjintial. practical Encrlish eilucation;
|trlien not iu school, worked on his father's f.irm; at
ie age of twenty, engaged in inercnntile pursuits.
rliicli he followed steadily Jiud with fair success for
'lliirty years, when he engaged in bankt:ig, which is
Jiis present business; was a delegate to tiie Virginia
^State Convention in ISdl; wiis ameiubcrof the iegis-
"nure of West Virginia in 180:J, 1804, and 1805; has
sen a managing director of the West-Virginia Hos-
;>ital for the Insane since IS*33 ; was <dected a represcn-
itive from West Virginia in the Forty-lirst Congress
a Union Republican, receiving 9,14'.» votes against
>,518 votes for Brown, Democrat; and was re-elected
the Forty-secoiul Congress, receiving 0,011 votes
Cigainst 8,(»i»8 votes for O. D. Dowtiey, Democrat,
•erring from March 4, ISiiB. to March a, 1873.
^L ISI'Hatton, Robert, was Ixim in Virginia; re-
^Pknoved to Kentucky, and located at Georgetown; was
^^Slectcd A representative from Kentucky in the Nine-
%eeuth Congress (in place of James Johnson,
deceased) as a Jackson Democrat, receiving 1,470
votes against 1,107 votes for .S.'inlord, and 1)87 for
Coleman; was re-elected to the Twentieth Congress,
defeating Sanford, and serving from De<renilM?r 7,
1820, to March 3. 182i>; was detoated as a Democratic
candidate to the Twenly-lirst ("ongress by Ex-benator
Richard M. Johnson, Democrat ; died at Georgetown,
I Ki'ntucky.
I MoHenry, Hemr' D., was born at Hartford,
I Kentuckv, February ;;7, 1820; graduated at the Tran-
sylvania Law School in 1845; was a member of the
House of Kepresentatives in the State legislature iu
1.851-1852 and lS.")2-18.j3. of the State .Semite in 1861-
1S''.2, 1802-180;), ISOi^-LSfU. and 1804-1805. nn<l again
of Ihe .State House of Representatives iti 1805-18C0
ami 1800-1807; and was elccttd a representative
from Kentucky in the Forty-s<;cond Congress aa a
Democrat, receiving 8,214 votes a^jainst 5,490 votes
for M. J. Roark, ivepublican, serving from March 4,
1871. to March 3. 1873.
MoHenry, James, w.is bom in Maryland iu
17.VJ; served in the Revolution as .aidc-<le-camp to
Geuenil Lafayette; was a delegate from Maryland to
the Continental Congress 178*-178t); was a memlier
of the Federal Constitutional Convention in 1787;
w,i8 secretary of war Jantiar}' 27, 1700, to May 13,
iSWl; died at Baltimon- May 8, 1810.
McHonry, John H.,"wa8 Iwm In Kentucky;
resided at Hartloni ; was elected a representative
from Kentucky in tlie Twenty-ninth Congress as a
Whig, receiving 085 niajoritv, serving from December
1, 1S45. to Man'h 3, 1.847.
M 'Ilvaine, Abraham Robinson, was bom nt
Crum Creek, I'ennsylvania. August 14, 1804; re-
ceived a practical English education; devoted him-
self to agricultural (tui-suits, .iiid settled on a form In
the northern part of Chester CounU'. Pennsylvania;
was a memlK-r of the State House of Representatives
in 18.30 and 18.37; declined a nomination to the Stale
Si'inite in 18^W; w:is chosen a presidential elector In
1840 on the Harrisou and Tyler ticket; was elected a
representative from Pemisylvanla in the Twenty-
eighth Congress as a Whig, receiving 4, .391 votes
against 4,li)0 votes for Allison, Democrat; was re-
elect«Ki to the Twenty-ninth and Thirtieth Congresses,
serving from December 4, 18W, to March 3, 1S40;
died in Chester County, Pemisylvanla, August 14,
18<!3.
Mcllvaine, Joseph, was bom at Bristol, Bucks
County, I'ennsylvania, in 1708; received an .ii^adera-
ical education; studied law; was admitted to the
bar in 1791, and commenced practice at Burlington,
New Jersey; was clerk of the courts In Burlington
County 18i)0-1823; was United-States attorney for
the district of New Jersey 1.801-1820; was elected a
United-.Statca senator from New Jersey as a Demo-
crat (in place of .Samuel L. Southard, resigned),
serving from Deceniber 1, 182.3, to August 19, ISiO,
when lie dicil nt Burlington.
Mclndoe, Walter D., was bom Ui Scotland,
M.ircli 3;i, 1819; immigrated to tiie United States In
his liltwiitli year; engaged in mercantile pursuits
at New York, Charleston, and St. Louis; located
In Wisconsin, where he engagid in the lumber busi-
ness; wna a member of the Wisconsin House of Rep-
resentatives In 1850, 18-'>4. and l.S'jo; was a presiden-
tial elector on the Fri'mont ticket in ISVi, and the
Lincoln ticket in ISC.U; was elected a representative
from Wisconsin in the Thirty-seventh Congress (Iu
place of Luther Hanchetl, deceased) as a Repub-
lican; was re-<!loclcd to Ihe Thirty-eighth Congress,
receiving 13.092 votes against 0,.879 votes for Henry
Reed, Demrn'rat; and was re-elected to I lie Tliirty-
ninth Cojigiiiss, serving from January 20, 1803, 10
Marcli 3, I8il7.
Mclntire, Rufus, was bom at York, Maine,
December 19, 1774; received a classical education,
graduating at Dartmouth College in 18(AI; studied
law; was admitted to tlie bar in 1812, and commenced
practice ut Parsoaslield, Maine ; served in the war of
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1S12 as captain of Maine volunteers; resiimeii prac-
tice at York; was a memlierof tlie State IInuso of
Representatives; was ooiiuty-altoniey; was a mem-
ber of thf boundar)' commlssi'Pii in 1S20; was electod
a representative from Maine in tlie Twentietli Con-
Sress (in place of Alliion K. Parris. n-signeil) b.s a
BcliBon Democrat, recjivin;; :iy) majority ovi-r Jolni
'Holmes; was re-electeil to llie Tvvenly-lirst, Twcnty-
BWon<l, and Twcnty-tliini Congresses, serving from
1S23 to March S. 18 So; was again a raeml)er i)f tUe
Slate House of Hepri'sentalivcs in 1S:W: was Statv'
l.iml-a^ent in 1>^}'.>-1'*J; was United-Stales marshul
for Ibo district of Maine; was snrveynr Df tin- jKjrt
of Portland; died at Parsonstield, Maine, April iS,
Mclntyre, Archibald Thompaon, of Thom-
asville. WiLS b>rn in Twi;:;^s Counly, Gfiriia. Octo-
iM.'r 27, 182-; was educaliil at the Tlioiiiasvillc
Academy; studied law at Monticello, Floriila. and
Macon, (ieorgia; w:is a member of the State lc;;isla-
turc of CJeorKJa in 1849; was a member of the State
Conslilutional Convention of Georgia in 18()o; and
was elected a representative from Georgia in the
Korty-second Congress as a Dcmocnit, receiving
(after the exclusion of the votes of Bullock and
Wavne Counlies) I'y.iyxi voles against O.OCiJ votes for
V. "lllllyer. Radical. 2,14') votes for A. A. Bra<lley,
Kailical, and 13 votes f >r R. W. While, Radical, »er\--
iu;,' fn.m March 4, 1871, to March 3, 167..!.
McJunkin, Ebenezer, was bom in Builer
County, Pennsylvania, M.'ircli 2S, ISIO; praduateii at
Jcdcrson CoUose, W^isliin^ton Counly, Pennsylvania,
In 1S41; studied law, and w.-is admitted to llie bar in
September, 1S4:5; was a dele^te to I he National Ke-
puhlic.an Convention at Chicago in 180'J; was on tlie
Republican electoral ticket In Pennsylvania in 1*14;
wiis elected a representative front Pennsylvania in
the Forty-second Congress as a licpublican, recciv-
ins 12..")i(l votes against S,8l)l votes for W. Sirwell,
Democrat; and was re-«lected to the Forty-third
Congress, receiving 17.431 votes for W. J. Koiint?.,
Independent Democrat, and 3..32"> votes for W. K.
J,->hnston, Liberal, sors-ing from March 4, 1S71, to
JanJiarv 1. IST.">, wlien he resigned.
Mc^ay, James J., w.ts born in Bladen Coun-
ty. Xortli Carolina, in 1710; received a classie.ii eUuc:i-
lion ; 8tiidie<l law, and enjoyed an extensive praclice ;
W.1S Uniteil-States attorney for the district of Norlli
Carolina for sevenil vears; was elected to the.Stale
Senate nf North Carolina In ISlo-lSlI), 1S22, 182:1,
and I8:}!1; was electe<l as a Democrat to the Twenty-
gecond Congress, and successively n.'-elecled to the
Twenty-third, Twenty-fourUi, Twenty-fifth (defeal-
in-; Hawkins), Twenty-si.sth (defeating Ililliard),
Twenty-seventh (ilefealing Leach), Twenty-cicihth
(defenlln.i; Meares), Twenty-ninth (defeating IIol-
comb), and Thirtieth Congresses (defealiiig Hall),
serving from Decemt>er 2, lt>i:}, until Mart-li ;). 1.^!);
was voted for by the North-Carolina delcia'i'ia as
their candidate for Vice-President in the National
Denio'Talic Convention of lS4y at Baltimore, whicli
nominated Cass and Butler; died at Goldsboroiigh,
North Carolina, suddenly, of bilious colic, Scplenilier
14. ISVJ.
McKean, James Bedell, was bom at Hoosick,
New York, Auijust .5, ls21; received an academical
education; studied law; was ailmitled to the bar in
lS4lt, and commenced praclice at Saratoga Springs;
was county-judge for .Saratoga Counly 1854-I.S."i.S;
was elected u represent alive from New York in the
Thirly-sixth Congress as a Republican, receiving
1 1,42!* votes against !I,K(1H votes for Odell, Democrat ;
was re-electcif to the Thirty-«eventh Congress, re-
ceiving 14,924 votes against 10,474 votes for Davis,
Democrat, ser\lng from Dec(Mnb(T b. 18.10. to Marcli
S. 18*J; recruited the Sixty-seventh Redment of New-
York Infantry while he was a representative in Con-
gress, and coinraanded it in the Army of the Potomac;
was appointed chief justice of Utah by President
Lincoln, and was superseded in 1875.
McKean, Samuel, was bom in nnntingn
County, Penn.iylvania: receivcil a public-fcliiMil mIi
cation; was elected a represi'ntativc from Peiuijyl
nia in the Eighteenth ("ongress as a Ueiuocral; vr.if
re-t'lecied to the Niuetcenlh and Twentieth Con-
gresses, serving from Uecoml>er 1. 1M2;), to Marvh
IS2U; was elecie<l a Unili'd-Stales senator from Pen
sylvanla, serving trom Di-cember 2, I.^'h), In M;ircU
IS-'Xi; died in McKean Cuuuty, PeDiisvlvania, Jact
2a, 1*40.
McKean, Thomas, was iwim in Cliester Co
fy. Pennsylvania. Jlarcli lit, IT-H\ received .au
dumical education; studied law; was adiiv" ■■■' '
bar, and commenced practice at New '
ware; was a menilM.>r uf the Delaware H'
reSHUtatives 1702-17(11); was a delegate to the Ge
Cnn-rress at New Yi>rk in 17(15; was elected a
gale from Delaware to the Continental C<
1774. and was annually r<?-elected until 1
Ihe delegate who w;is a continuous nieinlicr
in llie Revolutionary anuy as capt.iin of volunte
removed to Peimf ylvania; was a delegate to the ~
Constitutional Convention; was governor of Pci
svlvanla 1700-1808; died at Philadelphia June
1817.
McKee, George C, w.as liom at Joliet. Ulim
October 2, 1S;}7; was educated In the ncidcmlc
[)artn)ent of Knox College, and received a pi
collegi.'ite education nt Lombard University: wn
milled to the bar at twenly-one years of age;
elected city-attorney of Centralia, Illinois, and pi
Used law until the outbreak of llie Rebelliou,
he niilisted (in April, 18111) as a private in t
eiith Illinois Infantry, ihrce-monllis' troops
the re-organization for three years' service, he ttm
elected captain of his com[M»ny; he served tlirougb-
out the war In various capacities and ranks, and w.l>
woumled at Fori Dcmelson. Shiloh. and VicL-lmr
commanding a picked corps during the siege fl tlie
last-named pliu-e; when in command of his o'
regiment and oilier detachments, on the secoml Y
7.0O exix-'dition, be defeated the rebel assatiitat Yai""
City Slarch 5, 1804, after which he was ordert-d. as
brigadier-general, to ennill and equip fnur regiiii'ms
of ccdored militia; at llie close of the war. kC't
having liecn continuously in Mi-ssissippi since 1-"..'. h"
settled at Vicksburg, where he assumed the pr.i. i"'
of his profession, and also engaged in planiin.' ■■'
Madison County; was appoinfetl register in bank-
niplcyin li^il; was a member of the Constitutionil
Convention of Mis.'issippi ; was elected ;i r ■ - '■
llvi! from Missi.ssippi in the Fortieth ('
the Stale was refused admission; and w;.^
to the Forty-first Congress as a Rcpubllcau, reccoiiw
25,l),-!2 votes against 0,811 votes for Fisk, Conserva-
tive; was re-elected to the Forty-second Coiigrwi,
receiving 2.'>,082 votes against 0,811 votes for Fist
f 'oiiser\alive and Democrat; was re-elected to th<
Fiirty-thinl Congress, receiving 14,81!) votes assinll
8,1)7:5 votes for \v. B. .Shelby, Dem^jcrat, serving from
Fel)^lar^■ 2.!, 1870, to March 3, 1S75.
McKee, John, was bom in Rockbridge Connty.
Tinrinia; received an academical education; went
to Alabama as agent to the Choctjiw Inili.tii»; I*
cated at Tuscaloosa; was electe^I a represciiUtivif
frtmi Alab.ima in the Eighteenth Congress: WM re-
elected to the Nineteenth Congn'ss. receiving IT"
ni.ijorily over Baylor; was re-elected to the TweD-
lietli Congress, serving from Decemlier 1, 18i3, W
Marcli .'i, 1S20; died at Tuscalotisa, Alab.im».
McKee, Samuel, was bom in Vlrizinia; removed
to Kentucky; w.xs a delegate to the ConslitulioBil
Convention; was elected a representative from Keo-
tuckv in the Eleventh Conaress as a Democrat; vu
rc-electerl to the Twelfth, Thirteenth, and Fourteentk
Congresses, s<;rving from May 22, 18150, to Mudi 8.
1817.
McKee, Samuel, was bom in Mont^'mery
Countv, Kentucky. November 6, 183:1; was rfimi
upon iiis father's farm, working there In tlie fuB'
STATISTIC^VL SKETCHES.
616
ler*. and attemllng public »rhoi>l« in the winters.
ntil he w;i5 nini'ti-eii. ycnre of ai^i.'; c^rixliiatiMl nt
iami L'liivi-rsitv. Ohio, in IS'j"; grailuatt-d nt llic
incinii.'iti Law Siliool in 19.>t>. and i-unimenccd pnu?-
cv at MnunI Stt-riing. Keiitiu-ky: enliTcil the Tnlon
anuy in July. l.Sli2, a« captain «{ the Fourteenlli
Kentuclcy Ca\-alry, and served until March 22, ISt.!;!,
hen he was eaplnred. and can-ic-d l4> Kichinimd.
^Irherfi he remaini'd in Lilil)y Prison until April 30.
^.St>4. nhen lie was released, and honorably mustered
lUt of serviee; \\-.\s elected a representative from
"entncky in flie Thirty-ninth Congress as a Kepub-
caii. receivin-; t<.l(>j vfites against ij,241 votes for J.
milh Hiirtt, I'nion Democrat; was rendected to the
'ortleth Coiiui'ess. servini; from December 4, ISilj, to
rch 3. is<iii; was appointed by President Grant
gent for payine fiensions at Louisville, Kentucky,
rviiiij from INHI to lo71 ; resumed the practice of
vr .It Louisville. Kentucky.
McKenaan, Tiiomaa M. T., was boni in Penn-
sylvania; rcreived an ae.ideniical edue.Tti'in ; studied
law; was admitted to the bar. and couunenced prac-
ce at \Vasliin;;ton; was elected a repres<'nlalivp
Pennsylvania in the Twenty-second t'oiipn'ss
.kWbig; was re-electei! to the Twenty-third t'on-
WBS re-<dected to the- Twenty-fourth Con-
defeating Thomas Kingland, Van Buren Dem-
rat; was re-eleeti-d to the Tweniy-lifth Congress,
efeating Thornas Kingland. Van Buren Democrat,
lierving from Decemliero, IKil, to March '.i, ItvW; de-
tlinc<J being a candidate for re-election; was again
ilectud to the Twenty -seventli Congress, 8crvi)ig from
'ay :il. 1S41, to March H. 1S14;3; was secretary of the
Interior from August 1.5, 185;), to September 12, ISoO;
die<l at Heading, Pennsylvania, July 0, l.'v)2.
McKensiei, James A., was born in Christian
bunty. Kentucky, August 1. l.H4<3; was educated in
;ie common schools of Christian County, and at
entre College, Danville, Kentucky; read law, and
celvwi license to )>ractiso; is by occupation a
ner; was aniember of the Kentucky legislature
Sl>"-1871; was Democratic elector for the State at
e in 1S72; wius elected a representative from Ken-
iclcy in the Forfy-liftli Congress as a Democrat,
eiving n.-'wT votes against l»,il74 votes for James
Z. MiMire, It'^publiran. serving from Octolx^r 1.5, 1S77.
McKenty, Jacob K., w-ns bom at Douglasville.
Pennsylvania, in 1S27; received a cKissieal education,
luating at Yale College in ISIS; studied law; was
milted to tlie bar in 1»<.51. and commenced practice
,t Reading; w.ns elected district-atloniey for Berks
ounty in l.So<l: was elected a rt'prescntative from
ennsylvania in the Tlnrty-sixth Congress (in place
■ John Schwartz, dece.ised), serving from December
^8, 1*1), to .March :i. IHiil ; died at Douglasville, Peun-
gylvania. J.-inuarj' .). IStitl.
Md^enzie, Lewis, was bom at Alexandria,
ii^nnia. October 7, 1810; recelve<l an academic edu-
tlon; w.as place<l in a counting-room when he was
!iirt(«en years of agi-. and engaged in mercantile
i-suils and the shipping business; was for twenty
ars a memln'r of the city council of Alex.andria;
a inemlx.'r of the Stale House of Representatives
rO-lHill; W!is mayor of .Mexandria in lS(il; was
lecleil a n»pn'S"ntative from Viririuia in the tliird
sion of the Thirty-seventh fimgressas a Unioidst,
ei%-ing 22" rotes against 21.5 votes for Andrew
ylie, 71 votes fir I'liarlcs H. Upton, and 41 seal- i
'ring votes, and was ,'i<linlileil to his seat February I
18ti;{. serving until March ;i, IS<>1; was for many '
president of tlie Alexandria. Loudon, and
'umpshire Railroad, and of the Firet National Bank
Alexandria: was again elected to the Forty-lirst
ngrcss as a Union Conservative, receiving 1.5.87.S
te« against 11,1173 votes for Whittlesey. Railical,
irving from Januaiy 31, islt), to Mnrcti 3, Ifi"! ;
defeated as the Republican canrlidate for thif
'©rty-»econd Cimgrcss, receiving 11, IW votes against
it* voles for Elliot M. Braxton, Democrat; was
iJenl of the Washington and Ohio Railroad ; was
nppoiuteil by President Hayes postmaster at Alexan-
dria in Juiii'. 1!S7H.
McKeon, John, was bom in N'ew York: re-
ceived a classical educati<m at Culumliia College;
studied law wiih Joiui L. JIason: w.is admitted to
the bar, and connneiiceil practice at New York; was
a member of the State ilouse of Representatives
ls:J5-lli>37 and l.'m-HStS; Wiis elected a n-presenta-
tive frt)m New York in the THenly-l'ourth ('ongress
as a Democrat, »*'rving from December 7, 18.'J.5. to
March 3. l.SH; was defeated as the Democratic can-
didate for the Twenty-liflh Congress by the Native
American candidate; was again elected to the Twen-
ty-seventh Congri'ss, receiving 21.7-Jy votes against,
2<),st)2 votes for Roliert Smith, Whig, and serving
from May ;U, 1^41, to March 3, l'*43; was defeated
as the Democratic candidate for the Twenty-eighth
Congress, receiving b,i\W votes against 5,1IU4 voles
for Fish, Whig; Wiis prosecuting-attorney at New
York by appoiiitment, and then liy election; visiletl
Europe in l.'i.51; w;ls appointed l)y President Pierce
In lS5;i district-attorney of the United States at New
York.
McKibbin, Joseph C, was bom in Pennsyl-
vania: received an ncailemical education; removeil
to California; was elected a representiitive frimi Cali-
fornia in the TInrty-lifth Coiigre.«s as an ,anti-Le-
conipton Democrat, serving from Decemlier7, 18.57,
to March :J, 18.5ti; was defeateil as the anti-Lecoinp-
ton Democratic c.indiilate for the Thirty-sixth Con-
gress, receiving 40,474 votes against 5<).lt08 votes for
Scoll, Democrat, and 301 votes for Sibley, liepub-
licau.
McKim, Alexander, was bom at Baltimore In
174,S; received an academical e<lucalion; was elected
a representative from Maryland in the Eleventh
ConBress as a Democrat; was re-elected to the
Twelfth Congress, defeating Joshua Barney, Fed-
eralist; was re-<;lcctcd to the Thiriccnih Congress,
servfiig from May 22, 1800, to March 2. 11^1.5.
MoKim, Isaac, w.as born at Baltimore, Marj-
larnl; received a public-school ediicatiiin; engaged in
niercantiU' ]inrsults; was elected a representative
from Marvland in the .Seventeenth Congress (in place
of .Sainui'l .Smith, resigned) as a Jackson Democrat,
receiving 2,l».55 votes against 2.112.5 votes for William
U. Winder, ami l.sli) votes for John Barney; was
re-elected to the Eighti!<-nth Con:^'SS. receiving 2.6.51
votes against 2,ij;34 votes for Wililani 11. Winder, and
l..'*12 votes for .lohn Barney, serving from January
8. 1823. to March 3, 182.5; Wi\s defeated as a candi-
date for the Nineteenih ll'cmgress. receiving 3.448
votes against 3..50.5 votes for John Barney; was again
elertt'il to the Twenty-third Congrcs!*. receiving 371
majority over William .Stewart. Democrat; was re-
elected io the Twenty-fourth Congress; was re-elected
to ihe Twenty-fifth Congix.'ss. receiving 7,144 voles
against 0.871 votes for Kvdgely, Whig, serving from
Di'cember 2. ls;W, to April 1, 1838, when ho died at
Gadsbv's Hotel, Washington City.
Mckinley, John, w.us Ihu-u in Culpejiper Coun-
ty, Virginia; stuiiied taw; was admitted to the liar.
and commeneeti practice at Louisville, Kentucky;
removed t<> lluntsville. Alabama: was a meniln-r of
the State House of Representatives; was elected a
l'niled-.St.atcs seiialor from Alabama (in place of
Henry Chanibers, ileceased) as a Jackson Democnit,
serving from Deceml)er 21, l.'>2<). to March 3. 1S.J] ;
was elected a representative from Alabama in the
Twenty-third Congress, serving from Deceml>er 2,
18.1:3. to March 3, llS;j.5; w.-is api>oiiiteil by President
Van Buren a justice of the .Supreme Court April 22,
1837; ilit'd at Louisville, Kentucky, July IH, 1802.
McKinley, W^illicun, was bom In Virginia;
was elected a representative from Virginia in the
Eleventh Congress (in place of John (j. Jackson,
resigneil) as a Democrat, receiving 1').5 majority over
T. Wilson, Federalist, serving front Decemljer 21,
1810, to March 3, 1811.
McKinley, William, was bom at Nllea, Ohio,
516
CONGBE88IONAL DIHECTOBT.
Fpbrunn- 26. 1844 ; enllsKM In the ITiiItcd-States »nny
ill May. 1N<I1, lis a private soldier in the Twonty-
tliinl bhii> Volunteer Iiifiiiitry, and was mustered
out fts captuiu of the sunte regiment and hrcvet
major: was proseculing-atlomey of Stnrk Cciuiify,
Ohio. lSi'.li-ls"l; and was electetl a representative
from Ohio to tlie Forty-lit'th Congress as a Itopulj-
lican. reieiving lO.+SK votes ajiainst I.j.18.) votes fur
L. L. .Siinlxim, Democnit, and ".',+41 votes for John
It. rowell. (Jreenback candidate, serving from Uc-
tobir 1."). 1ST7.
McKinney, John F., was bom near PIqua.
Ohio, April IJ. 1H27; was raised a farmer: receiveil
a coinin' Ill-school ednoalion ; attended an ac.ideniy for
four years, and a oolle;,'e one year; studied law; was
Hdinitt4.<i1 to the har In ISoX, and has since practised
his profession at Pi<|ua; was elected u representative
from Ohio in the Thirty-eighth Congress as ii Ueino-
crat, receivinj; 10,'JIH Votes against U,4.3j votes for
West, Iiepuhlican, and serving from December 7,
lS:i;J. to .M.irch :i, is*;.'); w.os defeated as the Demo-
rnitic candidate, for the Thirty-iiiiitli Congress, ri"-
<!eiving (1.578 votes against lU,'^4i votes for William
Lawrence, Union; never was a candidate for, or held,
any other public office; and was again elected to the
Forty-second Congress, receiving ll,lXUi votes against
11.741 votes for W. B. MeClung, Repnblican, and
117 v<ite8 for Calahan, Prohlliilioiiist, 8er%-ing from
March 4. 11*71, to March 3, 187S.
McKissock, Thomas, was honi in Flster
County. New York, in 17118; received an academical
educat ion ; was lirst a student of medicine, and then of
law; was admitted to the bar, and i)racti8ed at New-
burg; w.^ apiHiinted a puisne justice of the .Su-
preme Court July 1, 1847; was elected a representa-
tive from Ni?w York in the Thirty-tirst Congress as a
Whig, receiving ,'>,870 votes against 4,(107 vot<'s for
Woodward, Democrat, and l,f<74 votes for Curtis,
Van Bun-ii Democrat, and Bcrving fr.im December S,
1841', to Jl.arch S. ls.")l ; was clefi'ated as the Whig
candidate for the Thirty-second Congress, receiving
o.oiB Votes agaiuit 6,810 votes for Murray. Dem-
ocrat.
McKnight, Robert, was bom at Plttsbuiiz,
Pennsylvania, in IS'JO; received a classical educa-
tion, graduating at I'rinceton College in 18.'51l: stud-
ied law; was ndmittcd to the bar in lH4:i, and com-
menced practice at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania; was a
memlier of the city council of that city 1847-1849;
was elected n representative from Peiiiieylvania in
the Tliirty-si.xth Congri'ss as a Kepublican, receiving
0,4:18 voles against ijl)2 votes for Pinningham. Demo-
crat; and was re-elected to the Thirty-seventh Con-
gress, receiving 7.1'78 voles against 'J.M'i) votes for
Mitchell. Democrat, serving from December 5, 18ol),
to March .). I8<W.
MoLane, Lewis (father of Holwrt M. McLane),
was buni at Smyrna. Delaware. May .8. 17811; entered
the I'tiited-States navy as inidsliipniaii in 17H8. and
cruised one year In "The Philaib-lpliia." Coinmc>-
ilore Decatur; commenced the study of law willi
James A. Bay.ini in l.S(i4; was admitted to the bar
in 18)7, and commenced practice at Smyrna: served
in the w.ir of 1812 as a private, and marched to the
relief of Ualtimore when that ciiy was nilackeil by
the British; was elected a represeiilaiive from Delii-
warc in the Fifteenth CiHigress ii^ a DenuKTat; was
rtf-elected to the Si.\leenth, Seventeenth. Kiyhleentb.
and Nineteenth Congresses, sen'ing fnmi December
1. 1X17. to March 3, 1827; was elected a United-States
senator from Delaware, serving from Deccmlier 3,
1S27, to April l(i, 18211. when he resigned; was a[>-
p liiited by President Jackson tniiiisler to England,
sjning -Viiril 18. l>'2ii-July li, 18;J1 : was appointed
by President Jackson secretary of the treasury,
serving August 8, ISU-May 2li, 1k;K; was trans-
ferred by (Veneral Jackson to the .Stale Departineiit,
where he remained unlil ho retired fnnu political
life in June, 18:14; was president of the Ualtimore and
Ohio Uallroad Company 1837-1847; waa api>oUited by
President Polk minister to England. Be
It). 184o-August 18. 184H: retired in 1,S47 i
in Cecil County, Marjiaud; was a del'.
.State Constitutional Convention tu ItSoU; died
Baltimore, Mar^lund, Octolier 7, 1^7.
McLane, Ilobert MiUigan (son of L««
McLiiiU"), Wiis born at Smyrna. Delawnn-, June
1815; received a classical education at Wash'
College. District of Columbia, ami .St. Mai-j
lege. Baltimore: was a cadet at the Military Ac
at West Point l.s;):}-l><;i7 ; serve<l in the artillenrMl
topographical engineers, resigning Xovemlier 1. I* '
studii-d law; was adniittc<l to the bar. aixl
menced practice at Baltimore in 1844: was a meiniM
of the Slate House of Kepresenlatives 184.0-1847:
elected a representative fnmi Maryland in theTliit
tieth Congress as a Democrat, rect'iving 7,tH9 vo*
ag:ilnst 7,1()8 votes for Kennedy. Whig: wnis
elected to the Thirty-Brst Congrvss. receiving 7.
voles against Vi.S'M votes for John K. Keuly. VTbk
serving from December <t. 1M7. to March :>. 1.851:
a presidential elector on the Pierce anil King ticket I
1.SJ2; was appointed by President Pierce comn
sioner to China, serving Octolwr 18. 180:l-DecetaIi
12, 18.54 ; resumed practice at Ualtimore
return; was appointed by President Buchau
ister to Mexico, serving March ~, 185l>-r
22. 1.8(!i).
McLean, Alney, was bom in Burke Coant!
North Carolina, Septembers, 1770; studied and pr
itscd law; was a meml>ei of the .State House of Red
re.sentatives; served in the warof 1S12 as a captsia
of volunteer rillemeu, and dislintruished himself i"
the battle of New Orleans; was elected a represeiil
live from Kentucky in the Fourteenth Coiigrvs^l
serving from December 4. 1815. to March 3, I^lIiT
was ag.'iln elected to the Sixteenth Corigrew, servjnfj
fnmi Dc'cemlM.'r 0, 1810, to March 3, IS:;!; wn»»l
circuit-juilge from 1821 until his death of biliud
]>iieiiinoiiia.
McLean, Finis B., was bom in Kentnc
silled at Elkton; was a member of (lie Stnt«']
of Uei)rcsentalives; waselected a represeniatlf
Kentucky In the Thirty-first Congress as a
without opi>osition, serving fmm iJecember 3, 181!^
to March :!. l.<"il.
McLean, John, was bom in Morris Conntr.
New Jersey. March 11, 1783; his father moved »iih
his family to Morgantown, Virginia, in 178t», tb«nw
to Niclicdasville. Kentucky, in 170<\ thenc<> In Ms.f-
sllde, Kentucky, in 171>3, and thence to tli'
I Lebanon, Ohio, in 17li7; he n'ceived n \"
I education while at these diffeivnt places: ■
imder A. St. Clair at Cincinnati, snppuri
by copying in the ofiice of the connty-t'lii i :
yeiirs; was admitted to the bar in 1807, and cuut-
menced i>ractlc<J at Lebanon, Ohio; was electni »
representative from Ohio in the Thirteenth Coiigns*
I as a War DeiniM-rat by a large majority over ill bit
[ ci>mpelitors; and was re-elected to the Fourtienili
! Congress without opposition, serving from May :'4,
j 1813, until he resigned in the siiiumer of 18H>: wa
, elected judge of the Ohio Supreme Court iu ISllI
was appointed by President Monroe commissioner of
I the General Land Office Se|)tember 11, 1822: w»
' apiioiiited by President Monroe postraiister-gentnl
I December 1), l;-"-'3; was continued in office bv rr.?i-
! deni J. i). .\dams; was askeil to remain I •
Jiu-kson, and. on Ids declining, was -
tendered the War and the Navy Departim ;
of which he was willing to accept; wa-
justice of the Supn'me Court of tlie Uioow ■••>'•>
March 7. 1820; and died at Cincinnati, Ohio. April 4,
l.M»ll.
McLean, John, received an academic education;
OMiioved to Ulinois at an early ace; studied law: vo
arlniitleil to the bar, and commenied !■
iieetown: was a memlier of the Staii
rcsentatives, and its presiding officer ; .■. ..* ^ ,. , ..-. -
tirst representative from Illinois in tlie FUten^tb
STATISTICAL SKETCHES.
617
' €onjjro«8, servinR from December 4. 1818, until March
3, IM'.i; was a mcmbi-r of the l'uiteii-.SUilC'8 Seiiato
(in |ilace of Niiiiaii Kdwanls, rcsigneiJ) from Dfcciii-
ber 2:). 18^4, until Maruli 3, 1825; was again elected
to the Uniteil-Stales Senate for «i.t years unanimous-
serving from Decpml)er 7, 18211, until May 31,
rfbSfi; anil diet! at Shawneotown, Illinois, after a
»h'irt, illness. Octoher 14, 18;{0.
McLean, Samuel, was elected a delecrate from
_ Montana Territory in the Tliirty-eighth Congress as
. Democrat, receivins 1,2:>4 majority over Sanders,
L'publican: w-is re-elected to the Thirty-ninth Con-
receiving 3,808 TOtes against 2,422 votes for
1, Republican, eerring from January 0, I80D, to
eh 3. 18<17.
McLean, William (brother of John McLean),
was born in Morris County, New Jersey ; received a
iblic-school education; removed to Ohio; was np-
Dinted receiver of public moneys at Piqua, Ohio;
ras elected a representative from Ohio in the
Sighteenth Congress, r<?ccivins 170 majority over
Prane: was ro-clected to tlio Nineteenth an<l Twen-
Bth Congresses, servuig from December 1. 1823, to
larch 3, 1829; entered into business at Cincinnati
ader the firm of Reeves & McLean; died at Cincin-
nati October 12. is;«i.
McLean, William P., w^as bom in Hinds
County. Mississippi, Auinist 0, 1S.3H; removed with
Iiis parents to Tex.is in in.il); received his curly cdu-
c:ilii^n mainly in Marshall, Texas, and (^ailuated at
the University of North Carolina (Chapel Uilll in
1S.57; studied law there with Judije Battle, associate
ju(l'.;e of the Supreme Court of North Carolina; was
^_4lecied to the letcislature of Texas in 18'jl, iuid re-
^■fgned his seat in the winter of that year to enter the
^Bbonfederate army, in which he serveil until the close
^H)f the war; was again a member of the legislature
^Kf Texas in 18iy.>: luid w.os elected a representative
from Texas in the Forty-third Cousress as a Demo-
crat, receiving atiout 12,(>')i) majjritv, 8er\-ing from
December 1, 1873, to March 3, 1875. '
McLene, Jeremiah, was bom in 17^17; received
A public-«chool education; removed to Columbus,
Ohio; was for more than twenty-one years secre-
tary of state of Ohio; was elected a representative
om Ohio In the Twenty-third Congress as a Dcmo-
iiL, defeating E. 13. ("lids; was re-<'lected to the
(renty-fourtli t'ouCTess. receiviuf; 2,.')4!) votes against
bS9 votes for Wliite, Whig, servlns from D.-'cember
18*5. to March 3, 18:37; he died nt W.-ishington
3ity March Irt. 18^37, of influenza, probably con-
cted at the inauguration.
McMahon, John A., was bom in Frederick
aunty. Marylaml. February 111, 1.S.53; w:is educated
St. Xavier's C.illege. Cincltinali, graduating in
40; besan the study of law in January, 1851, at
nylon, with Hon. Clement L. Vallandigh.im; was
Imitted to the bar in June, 18.'>4, and has practised
; Dayton ever since; was a delegate at large to the
Jntlo:ial Democratic Conventinn at Baltimore in
1872. an<i w.ts elected a representative from Ohio in
_the Korty-fourlh Congnjss as a Democrat, reeeiviiii;
\411 votes against 14,;)12 votes for L. H. Giinckel,
epublican; mid was n'-elocted to the Forty-fifth
Ciiign'ss, receivini: is,.'i57 votes against 18,4l>l votes
Howanl, lU'publican, serving from December 0,
sto.
McManus, William, was l)orn in Rensselaer
ouiitv, New^ York; was elected a representative
New York in the Nineteenth Congress, serving
cm D<-cember 5, 1825, to March ,3, 1827; died at
■f>v. Ni-w York.
McMillan, Garrett, was elected a representa-
frun lieoriria in the Forty-fourth Congress as a
nocrat, receiviu'; 7,885 votes against 2.318 votes
)*Neall, Republican; he died before the meetins
CnnET>'SS. and the House voted three months' pay
1 his willow.
McMillan, Samuel J. R., was born at Bmwns-
'Ue, Penasylratiia, February 22, 182ti; received a
classical education, graduating at Diiqnrsne College.
Pittsburg, in 184li; studied law witli Edwin .M. Stan-
ton; wasmlniitted to the bar in 18411, and coninienccd
{•ractice at Stillwater, Minnesota, in 1852; was elected
judge of the First Judicial Circuit in 1.S57; was ai>-
pointed associate justice of the Supreme Court in
18tM (to fill a vacancy); was elected and re-elteted. and
resigned in 1874; was appointed in 1874. and nfter-
waril re-elected, chief justice of tlie Supreme Court,
and resigned when he was elected United-States sen-
ator from Minnesota as a Republican (to succeed
Alexander Ramsey, Republican), and took his seat
March 4, 1S75. His term of service will expire
M;ireh .3. ISSl.
McMillan, William, was bom in Virginia
17(Ki; received a classical education; graduuted at
William and Mary Colleije, Virginia; studied law;
removed to Fort Washiiii;ton (now Cincinnati) in
1787; was admitted to tlie^iar, and comineuced priio-
tice; was elected magistrate in 171)0, and sikiu after-
wards judge; waslnitiateil into Freemasonry in Nova
Cesarea Lodge, No. ID, at Cincinnati, Ajiril ?<. 171»5;
was elected to tlie Territorial legislature in 1711V);
was elected delegate from the Nortli-west Territory to
the Sixth Consfress (in tlie place of Willinni Henry
Harrison, resigned), and served from NoveniU'r 24.
18iK>, to March3. ISOI; declined a re-election; was
appointed United-States district-attorney for Ohio,
Inn soon afterwards resiened his office and his |inic-
tice, and retinid to his fann near Cincinnati, wlicie
he received a fatal injury while ploughing, and died
in Juni-. m)4.
McMulIen, Fayette, was bom in Virginia;
received an .iciulemic education; waselected a ivyire-
Bentative from Virginia in the Thirty-fii-st Congress
as a Democrat, receiving 4,421 votes against 2,155
votes for George, Democrat; w.is re-elected to the
Thirty-second and Tlilrty-third Congresses, receiving
no opposition; was re-elected to the Thirty-fourth
Congress, receiving 7,;383 votes against 3.1)82 votes f ir
Trigg, American, serving from December 3, 1><-IH, to
March 3, 18.57; was appointed by President Duchanan
governor of Washington Territ<:iry, serving 18.57-18'Jl ;
was elected a represL'ntative in the Second Confed-
erate Congress fnini Vlrgini.i, 8cr%'ing fmm February
22, 18U4, to the overthrow of the Confederacy.
McNair, John, w.-is bom In Pennsylvania in
18U(); resided at Norristowu ; was elected a repn-sen-
tative from Pennsylvania in the Thirty-seconil Con-
gress as a Democrat, receiving 5,925 votes against
.■i,l(tO voles for Freedley, Wliig; was re-i'leoted to the
Thirty-thinl Congress," receiving 7,lil8 votes a-jainst
ii.SJO votes for Hiltner, Whig, serving fi-oin Decem-
ber 1, 18:51, to March .3, 1855; died at JEvansport, Vir-
ginia, August 7. IStil.
MoNeely, Thompson W., was born at Jack-
BouvUle Octolier 5, l.'vi5; graduated at the Lombard
University, Galesburg, in 1850; studied law, and
earae to the bar In 1857; graduated at the Law I'ni-
versify of Louisville, Kentucky, in 1850; was a niem-
iK-r of the Conslilutional Convention of Illinois la
18112: was elected a representative from Illinois in
the Forty-flrst Congress as a Democrat, n-cciving
17,877 votes against 15,279 votes for Ross. Itepuldi-
can; and was n'.-<'lected to the Forty-second Concress,
rereiving 12.tini votes against 10,297 votes for 13. F.
West lake, liepiiblican, serving from March 4, 1801), to
Miirch M. I87;3.
McNeill, Archibald, was horn in Cumberland
County, North CuroHiia; was a member of the State
House of Representatives in 18<iK and l.'O)!), and of
the State Senate in 181 1 and 1815; was elected a
representative from Norlh Carolina in the .Seven-
teenth Congress, serving from December ;j, 1.821, to
March 3, 1823; was again elected to the Nineteenth
Congress, receiving 345 majority over John Cul-
(>epper, serving from December 5, 1825, to March 3,
1827.
McNtllta, John, was l>om at New- York City
November 9, 1837; received an academical educii-
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tion; visited tbe Wcst-Iudia islands and Europe;
removwl to Attica, Indiana, in iBftJ. and Icamt-d the
trade of cisjar-makint;: removed to Blooininiirton.
lUiniiis, in IHoO. and entered into tlie ci^ar-niaking
liusiiiess, devoting his leisure to tlie study of law:
entered tlie Union army as private in the Ninety-
fonrlh Illinois Infantry in April, l.Sil, and was suc-
eessively promoted until he became its colonel,
receiving the brevet of briiiadier-general when
mtistered out at the close oi the war; was ad-
mitted to the bar in October, 18(15, and commenced
pntctiee at Dlo(.iniington; was a member of the State
Senate ]H(il)-liS73; was elected a represenlative from
Illinois in the Forty-third Congn-ss as a Itepublican,
receiving ia,4!K) votes against 10,85() votes f(T C. H.
Moore, Democrat; was defeated as the Kepultlican
candidate to the Forty-fourth Congress, receiving
0,l):i;J voles against IllJo votes for A. E, Stevenson,
Imlependont Kctormer.
McPherson, Edward, was born at Gettysburg,
Pennsylvania, .Inly Ml, ll>'k); re<'eived a classical
education, graduating at Pennsylvania College in
184.'^; edited a newspaper at llarrisburg. but ill health
forced him to tuni his attention to agricultura) ptir-
Buils; was elected a ri'present.itive from Pennsyl-
vania in the Thirty-sixth Congress as a Republican,
receiving lt,:M8 votes against U.USI votes for Heilly,
Democrat; was re-elected to the Tliirly-sevenlh Con-
gress, receiving ll,',)4o votes against 11,:172 votes for
.Schell, Democrat, serving from December 5, ISoU, to
March !i, IHftJ; was defeated as the Hepublican c.tn-
did.ite for the Thirlv-eighth Congress, reci'iving
U),4l'6 votes against KMKIJ} votes for Coffroth, Demo-
crat ; was appointed deputy-commissioner of internal
revenue in 18(W; was elected clerk of the House of
Kepresentatives in the Thirty-ciglith, Thirty-ninth,
Fortieth, Forty-lirst, and Forty-second Congresses,
serving from December 7, 18().'5, to March 3, 1M73;
w.TS appointed by President Hayes chief of the treas-
ury bureau of engravimt and printing. IIo pub-
lished "The Political History of tbe United States
of America during the Great Itebelliou " and n series
of ■• Political Manuals," besides numerous essays,
orations, and pamphlets.
McQueen, Jolin, was l>om In Robinson County.
Norlli Cirolina, i:i ISU'S; received a good education:
studied law at home and in South Carolina; was
a<lniitted to tbe bar in 18i'S, and practised at Den-
nettsville, South Carolina; held several militia com-
missions durin;; the niiiiiiic.ntion excitement of l.Si;)-
18;)7: w.as elected a reiiresenlalivc fmni South Caro-
liii!) In the Tliirtiedi Congress (in place of Alexander
D. ."^inis, deceiised ) a.s a Democrat; was re-elected to
lh(i Thirty-tirsl Congress, receiving no opposition;
was re-elecleri to the Thirty-second Congress, receiv-
ing no opposition; w,'is re-elected to the Thirty-third
r'ongre.ss, receiving no opposition; Vas re-elected to
the Thirty-fourth Congri'ss, receiving .'i.l-i.'j votes
against ;i."4,S8 voles for Wilson; was re-elected to the
Thirty-fifth Confrress, receiving no opposition; was
re-elected to the Thirty-sixth Congress, n-cciving no
opposition, se^^■ing from February 12, \f-^\\K to De-
i.'eniber 21, l&M), when be retired from the IIou.se;
was a re[irc.sentative from South Carolina in the
First Confi^ler.il^' Con^jross, sening from Febrnary
22. 1*32, to February 21, 1804; died at Society Hill,
South Carolina, Aupust B'J, l.'^H.
MoRae, John J., was born in Wayne County,
Mississippi: received an academical education; stud-
b^l law; was admitted to the bar, and commenced
prn.-tice; was elected for sovenil successive years a
inemtier of the State House < f Kepresentatives, and
uf the St.ate .Sen,ate; wius a;)piiiiitcd a irnited-States
senator from Mississippi (iu nlaci- of Jefferson Davis,
resi'.:ned) as a Slate-rights Democrat, serving from
December 10, ISil, to Man-h 17, 1.SJ2, when his suc-
cessor took ills seat; was i-lectcii a representative
f.-oni Mississippi in the Tliirly-liflh Congress (in
jilaco of John A. Quitman, deceased) os a Stale-
rights Democrat; was ra-elected to the Thirty-aUth
Congress, receiving 0,6(58 votes against no ot>i,r.<!itir,ri,^
8i!rvinK from December 7, IS-OS, to Janu.i
when ne retired from the House: wiis n
tivc from Missitsippi in the First <
gress, serving from February 22. l>' N
21. l.s<>4; died at BaUze, British Hi 'imiM..?. jlil
IStiH.
McRoberts, Samuel, w,as Ijoni in Illinois;
ceived a classical education, gnuluaring at Traneyt
vania University: studied law: wab admitted
the bar, and commenced pnictice at Danville:
United-States attorney for the Illinois District:
a niember of the .State .Senate: w.as elected a United
Slates senator from Illinois as a Democrat, serviii
from May :J1, 1S41, to March 27, \M:',; he contraclO
a cold in crossing the mountains on his return Iron
a session of Congress, and died at Cincinnati Mati~
27, If^liJ.
McRuer, Donald C, was boru in Maine :
182tl; received an academical education; removed I
California; was h.arbor commi.«sioner at San Fr
Cisco; was elected a representative from Califm
in the Thirty-ninth Congress as a Kepublicau. recti?
ing 20,1)77 votes against 14,821 votes for James ~
Crockett. Democrat, and serving from Deceml>er i
18(;.). to March :i. l.Mi7.
McSherry, James, w.-jslmni In Ad,tmsCounCfJ
Pennsylvania : was for twenty successive jejira
member of the .Slate House of R>-pre«en'fafirr«;|
was elected a representative from I n
tbe Seventeenth Congress as a ¥<
from Dccemlier.'!, 18;;i, to March ;i, i-- ., .jlw H
Littlestown, Pmnsylvania, Febrnary .3, l.s49.
MoVean, Chaxles, w-.ts Ixim at Johnstown,
New York, in 18112; received an academical educa-
tion; studied law; w.as admitted to tlie bar, ti»t
cominenceil jiractice at Canajobarie, New York; ■»ras
elected a repn-sentative from New York in the
Twenty-third Congress aa a Jackaon Dcuiocrat,
serving from Decemlier 2, 18."!-'1, to March 3. 1*35:
removed to the city of New York; was apprmilBl
surrogate January 24, 1844: was United-Slaiti
attorney for tlic Southern District of New York;
died at New York Decemlier 20, 1848.
McWillie, William, was Iwrn in Eershi*'
District, South Carolina, N'ovcmber 17, 17ft"): serveJ
iu tlio war of 1812 as adjutant of tbe regiment of
volunteers commanded by his father; graduated tt
Sonth-Cai-olina College in 1817; studied law wiib
Cliaiiinan Levy; was admitted to the bar in 1*1',
and conmience<l practice at Camden, South Cari'liim.
continuing until October 1, LSW, when, he was cl«lecl
Iiresident of the B.ank of Camden; wa* a mi-n]t»r
of tbe State Senate 183(W*10; removed to ili- >-
sippi in September, 1845; was elected a rcpn.<'i"j-
live from Mississiiipi in the Thirty-lirst Congreat u i
Democrat, receiving 7,4i.i6 votes against fl,tfiS Tola
for Gray, Whig, serving from December 8, 184'.' t"
March :i, 18.51; was defeated as the Democratio ■ -
didate for the Thirty-second Congress, rec ■ -
7.241 votes against 7,774 votes for Freeman. Ir
was governor of the State of Mississippi l.S>-'
was an active supporter of the Confederacy; ili
Kirkwood, Misj^issippi, March .% 1S<H).
Mace, Daniel, was bom in Pickaway O uj , .
Ohio, September 6, 1811; received a public-R'linol
education; studied Law; was admitted to the bar,
and commenced practice at Lafayette, Indiana; ww
a member of the Slate House of Hepresentatives in
ISJtt; was clerk of the Stale House of i; - •■■"
lives in 18i7; was United-States attorney ■
trici of Indiana 184S)-18.>'J: was elected a v •
live from Indiana in the Thirty-second Congress »*»
Democrat, receiving 7,&62 voles against 7.244^ vote* to
Drier. Wiig: was re-elccte«l to the Thirty-thinl Con-
gress, receiving 8,740 votes against 7,3:37 votx-s t" j
(iregory. Whig; was re-elected to the Thirty-fouiti j
Congress as a Itepublican, rec<iviug 10.337 voWl
against 7,838 votes for Davis, Democrat, serving fB«»|
December 1, 1851, to March 3, 1857 ; was sppoiQlM^
8TAT18TICA1, SKETCHES.
519
\ by Prosiilont Lincoln postmnster at Lafayette. Indi-
I ana; ilied by suiciilo ul Liit'iiyettc, Indiana, July 2ii,
IS.iT.
Machea, Willis B., was bom in Caldwell
Coiinly, Kentucky, Ajiril 10, 1810; received a public-
I Bcliool education; en5a^;ed in ai^ricultural puraiiits;
I was a delegate to llie State Conslitutit'Ual Conven-
tion in li*4U; was a nienil)erof the Slate Senate in
lSi4: was a member of the State House of Itopre-
■entatives in ISoii and 18(50; was a represeutative
from Kentucky in the First Congress of the C'oii-
lederato States, and was re-elected to the Second
Con^at?s3, sening from February 22, 1802, to April,
IS'iU: was appointed a United-Slates senator from
Kentucky (in place of Garrett Davis, deceased) as a
Democrat, serving from December 2, 1872, to ilarch
S, 1S73.
Machir, Jaxaes, was Iwrn in Virginia; was
elected a representative from that State in the Fifth
'^m Coii'zress. serviiii: from May 15, 1707, to March 3,
B 1711'.! : diod June 2."). 1827.
^B Mackey, Edmund W. M., was bum at
Charl-'sUni, South Camlina, March 8,1840; received
I a classical education, but was prevented by the war
from entering college; studied law, and was ad-
mitted to the bar November 22, 1808; was appointed
assistant assessor of internal revenue in the Second
District of Suulh Carolina September 8, l)-i0.j; w:is
elected a delegate to the State Constitutional Con-
vention; was elected sheriil of Charleston County
Judo 2 and 3, 1808, for the term of four years; was
elected an alderman of the city of Charleston in
KoTember, 1808, and re-elected in October, 187J;
was appointed by the governor, January 24, 1872,
colonel of tlie Fifteenth Ro;;lnient National Guards
of South Carolina; was a delegate to the National
Bepubliean Convention at Philadelphia June, 1872;
W.IS a delegate to every Republican State Convention
lielJ in Soulh Carolina since tlie iinianizalion of the
{larty in that State; was elected. In November, 1S7-3,
a ineml>er of the State House of Hcpresenlatives;
was editor and proprietor of "The Chiirlestou lie-
k publican" during 1871-1872; and was elected a rej)-
rvsentative from South Carolina in the Forty-fourth
•Ctu tress as an Independent Republican, recoivinc;
10,742 votes a'^ainst 14.2l>4 voles for Charles W.
ButU, Republican, serving from December 0. 1S7.J,
in iluiy 111, 1870, when his seat.waa declare<l vacant
liy the House.
Mackey, L. A., was bom in AVIiilo-Doer Town-
IaUip, PcunKvlvajiia, November 2.j, 1810; when ten
rears of a^e ho removed with Ids parents to Miltnn,
Pennsylvania: received an acailemie educ.Ttion under
Bcv. David Kirkpatrick, and graduated from Ifiuoii
CoUe:J^;, Scli^uectady, iu 18'j7, with the highest
lionors of a class of one hundred and eight, of which
Ite was the youngest member; studied law witli Ex-
■Goremor James I'ollock. and then at the law-school
of Dickinson College at Carlisle, where he w;vs ad-
aiitte.l to tlie bar in 1841; commenced practice at
Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, in 1841, and continued
It with success until 1.S."j">, wlien, upon the organiza-
tion of the Lock-Haven Bank, he w;i3 elected Its lirst
president; was a delegal-t? to the Whi'^ National Cou-
LTention at Baltimore which nominated (Jeneral
C3tt in 18.")2; Wiis the U^'mocralic camlidate fur
88 in 1808. but was defeated by \V. H. Anu-
aj: was the lirst mayor of Lock Haven on its
_ nization as a city in 1870; was a delegate to the
National Democratic Convention at Baltimore in
6T2; was president of the Bald-Eagle- Valley Kailro.i<l
J!ompany, an<l of several other corporations; was
elected a representative from Pennsylvania in the
?i>ny-fourth Congress a.5 a Democrat, receiving 12, 14!>
roles agiinst 8.0(57 votes for Cyrus J. Alexander,
tjdcpondeut Democrat and Republican; and was re-
(lecttd to the Forty-Kflh Congress, receiving 10,22(1
rotes against ll.l'.H v.ites f )r J. S. Lincoln, Kepub-
'Bcan. serving from December 0, 1875.
Max^anahaa, James X., was bom at Antrim,
Pennsylvania, In 1800; received a classical education,
graduating at Dickinson College in 1820; studied law;
was admitted to the bur, and commenced practice at
Chaml)ersburg; was a member of iJu; State Senate
in 1841 ; w.as elected a representative from Peiuisyl-
vaiiia iu the Thirty-first Congress as a Democrat,
receiving 8,182 votes against 8,015 votes for J. E.
Brady, Whig; was re-elected to the Thirty-second
Congress, receiving 7,270 votes against 0,705 votes
for Bard, Whig, serving from DocemlKjr a, 1840, to
March ;J, 185.'5; died at Chambersburg in 1804.
Mt^tclay, Saxauel, was bom in Pennsylvania;
w-HS elected a representative l'rr>m Pennsylvania in
the Fourth Congress, ser%ing from December 7, 1795,
to March li, 17l>7; w.-is elected a United-States senator
from Pennsylvania, serving from October 17, 1803, to
1808. when he resigned.
Maclay, Williaxn, was bom in Permsylvania;
was elected a I'liited-y tales aeiuitor from I'eiinsyl-
vania .is a Democrat, sening from March 4, 1780, to
March i, 17J1; was a presiileiitial elector on the Jef-
ferson ticket ^lied in April, 18('4.
Maclay, William, was born August 4, 1706;
studied law; was admitted to tlie bar, and com-
menced practice; wjis associate judge; was county-
commissioner; was a memlier of the State House of
Rcjiresentalives; was elected a re[ircsentative from
I*enusylvania in the Fourteenth Congress; was re-
elected to the Fifteenth Congress, serving from De-
cember 4, 1815, to March 8, 1810; died January 4,
lS2i>.
Mctclay, William Brown, was bom at -New
York in 1815; riH;eiv(!,l a classical education, grailu-
atiii'-c at the University of New York, wlierc he was
afterwards professor of Latin; studied law; was ad-
mitted to the bar, and commenced practice at New
Y'ork ; was associate editor of " The New-Y'ork Quai^
terly Review " in 1830; was defeated as a candidate
for the .St;Ue House of Rci)resentativi;8 in 1838, but
Wiis elected in 18;3;), ll^l,and 18-52; was elected a rcjv
resentative from New Y'ork in tlie Twenty-eighth
Congress as a Democrat, receiving 5,540 votes against
4.777 votes for Williams, Whig; was re-elected to the
Twenty-ninth Congress, receiving 0,783 votes against
0,428 votes for Lawrence, American ; was re-elected
to the Thirtieth Congress, receiving 4.740 votes
against 4,057 votes for VViliiains. Whig, serving from
ijeccmber 4, 184;J, to M;uth -i, 184U; was again elect-
ed to the Tliirty-lifth Congress, i-eceiving 5,80;J vote*
against 3,274 votes for Andrews, Republican, and
:i ,708 votes for Northrup, American ; was re-elocted
t.) the Thirty-sixth Congress, receiving 0,78(1 vot«9
against 4,982 votes for llamilton. Republican, and
821 votes for Dean, American, serving from Decem-
ber 7, 18.57, to March 3, 18(51.
Maclay, William P., was bom in Northumber-
lan<i County, Peansylvania; received a public-whcxil
education; was a member of the State House of Iiei>-
resentatives; was elected a representative from Penn-
sylvania in the Fourteenth Congress (In place of
Thomas Dunislde, resigned) as a lieniocrat; was re-
elected to the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Congresses,
serving from December S, 1810, to Marcli 3, 1821.
Macon, Nathaniel, was born in Warren Coun-
ty. North (^'arolinii. In 17.57; received a classical edu-
cation, and was at Princeton College, but loft l)efore
gnwhiating, when the exercises were suspended at
the commeacement of the Revolutiunarj' war; was
tendered a lieutenant's commission in a company
commanded by liis brother, but declined it, and
served as a private; was a member of the State Sen-
ate of North Carolina in 178), 1781, 1782, 1784, and
1785; was elected a representative in the Second
Congress as a Democrat, and was successively re-
elected eleven times, generally without opijosition,
ending with the Thirteenth Congress; was elected
UiiiteiUStates senator in 1815, and re-elected until he
declined in 1828, serving from Uetol)cr 24, 1791, until
Marcli 3, 1815, — thirty-seven years' continuous ser-
vice ; was speaker of the House of Representatives
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from ISOl until 1806, and president pro tempore of
the Senate in ISA"). iy2rt, ami I8i7: received tVie
twenty-four electoral votes of Virginia for Vice-Pres-
ident In 182-1: was preiiilent of the Constitutional
Convention of North Carolina in 1835; was chosen a
jircsldential elector on the Van BurcMi and Johnson
ticket in ISSl; was, through his political career of
lifty-B«.'ven years, a " strict, severe, and slrinnent "
Democnit ; and died suddenly at his farm in Warren
County, North Carolina, June 20, 18;i7.
Macy, John B., received a public-jichool educi-
tion; removed to Wisconsin, and resided at Fond du
L.ic: WHS electeil a re[)resenf alive from Wisconsin In
the Tliirty-third Coiigivss as a Democrat, ri'ceiving
14,5\)7 votes against U.iJlS votes for Shaftcr, Whicr,
and 2.108 votes for McKeo, Free-Soiler, serving from
December 5, 185:J, to March 3, 185.'>; was defeatetl as
the Democratic candidate for the Thirty-fourth Con-
gress, receiving H.OiKI votes against 13,351t votes for
diaries Biilinghurst, Republican; was lost by the
burning of Ih;- steamer " Niagara " on Lake Michigan
Septeml>er 24, lS."»<i.
Madison, James, was Ijom at Port Conway, on
the l{iippaliann"ok Kiver, in Vir^nia, March HI, 1751 ;
received a classical education, graduating at Prince-
ton College in 1771; studie<l law, and w,t8 admitted
to the bar; was a member of the Virginia House of
RepreseuUitivcs In 177H; was a member of the Ex-
ecutive Council of Virginia in 1778; was a delefrate
from Virginia to tlie Continental Congress 17W)-i783
and 17StV1788; was a delegate to the Convention
which framed the Federal Constitution in 1787; wns
elected a representative from Virginia In the First
Congress as a Denuierat, and re-elected to the Second,
Third, anil Fourth CouKreises, serving from March
4, 178U, to March 3, 17tr7; was secretary of state of
the United-.St,ites 18!»l-l«0f>; was President of the
Uniled-St,'ites Marcli 4, ISUt^-March 3, 1817; retired
to his farm at Montpelicr, Virginia, where he diol
June 23, I8:3(i. His works have been pulillshed by
Congress in six volumes. His " Reports of tlm De-
bates In Uie Convention of 1787 was published
under the editorial direction of H. D. Giliiiii. A
" Life of Madison " by John Quiiicy Adams was pub-
lished in iJviii, and a " Life and Times of M.idison"
was pulilislK'd liy William C. Rives iu 1859-18(18.
Magee, John, was l>om in New York; received a
public-school education- resided at Bath; was elected
a represeut.itivo from New York in the Twentieth
Congress as a Jackson Democrat; was re-cloctod to
the Twenty-first Congress, serving from Decomlx'r 3,
1827, to March 3, 18:J1 ; died at Watkina, New York,
April 5, 18<)8.
Magee, John A., was bom at Landlsburg.
Pennsylvania, Octolier 14, 1827; learned the art of
printing; worked in the city of Washington as a
journeyman in 1S.VJ; was for twenty years the editor
and proprietor of " The Perry-County DenK)crat ; "
was a member of the le.;islatnre of Pennsylvania in
18();1, a delegate to the National Demoer.ilic Conven-
tion at New York in 18(18, and was elected a repre-
sentative from Pennsylvania in the Forty-third Con-
gress as a Democrat, receiving 15,:!.j8 votes against
13,532 votes for W. A. Sponsler. Republican, serving
from Di-eembiT 1. IS73, to March 3, 1875.
Maginnis, Martin, was bom lii Wavue Coun-
ty, New York. October 27, 184'1: removed witli his
parents to Minnesota at an early i^e; receivetl an
academic education, and was a student of Hamllne
University, but left to lake charge of a Democratic
newspaper; enlisted as a privateln the First Minne-
sota Volunteer Infiintrj- on the ISth of April, I8(U;
was maile second lieutenant after the first battle
of Bull Run, promoted to first lieutenant in Septem-
ber, 18(12, and to captain in July, 18(1.3; served In
the line of his regiment in all the campaigns and
nearly all the battles of the Army of the Potoniiic
until September, 1804, when he was appointed major
of the Eleventh Minnesota Volunteers, and ordered to
join the Army of the Cumlierland, where he served,
under commond of General Tliomos, nnfi'
out with his regiment in July, ISfSS; he :
Montana the next year; engaged in ni'
sutjsequently in publishing and editing " The Uelrui
Dally Crazctte," in which ho was occupied whi
elected a dele-rate from Montana in the Foi
Congress as a Democrat, receiving 4.515 votes
4,100 votes for W. H. CIngett, Republicoji
elected to the Forty-fourth Congress, reci'ivi
votes against 3.1125 votes for Hodges, Repnl
and was re-elected to the Forty-fifth Congresi,
ceiving 3.S27 votes against 2.1)80 votes for E.
Le.ivitt. Republican, serving from Decern'' ' '
Magoon, Henry 8., was bom at
Wisconsin, January 31, 1832; was educa .
Rock-river Semin.iry ot Mount Morris, Iliinoj«. nu(
at the Western Militaiy Colle;^e at Drenruip. K'-il
tucky, graduating from lh>! lost-immed n
with tlio highest honors if his class .Jui .;
atlendeil the Montrose Law School at 1 i.u
Kentuclcy; was appointed in 1 W>5 prtif essor of anciei
lauguases In the N.isliville University, TennesS'
where lie remaincfl until 1.8.57, when, resigning,
returned to Wisconsin, ami began the practice of la\r)
was elected district-attorney in 18.58; was a mem'
of the State Senate of Wisconsin In 1871 and 1"
he was ihe first native of Wisconsin elected ei
the State Senate or to Congress ; and he was
a repivsentative from Wisconsin in flie Fi>rty-
Congress as a Republican, ri'iidving 1I..V;5
against 10.;}4;J votes for Charles F. Thompson. Deni'
enit, serving from December (I, 1875, to Marvb
1877.
Mogruder, Allan B., was bom in Kentucky]
r(."ceived an academical e<lucatlon; s'.ndied lnw
Lexington; was admitted to the bar, and pracfls»J|
reinoveii to Louisiana; was a memlx'r of the Stal
House of Representatives; was elei-tcd a ITuI
States senator from Louisi.ina as a Democrat, se:
ing from November 18. 1812. to March 3. 1813: dii<c|
at Opelousas. Louisiana, April Itl, 1822. He puM
llsheil "Rellectlons on the Cession of Lonisians"'
and "A Character of Mr. Jefferson;"' and. at th(
time of ills death, he had collected materials for*
" History of the North-American Indians.
Magruder, Patrick, was bom in Montgomery
County, Maryland, In 17'I8; ree<'lved a classical edu-
cation^ graduating at Prineton College; studied l»w;
was admitted to the bar. and practised; was cleclfl
a representative from Maryland in the Ninth Con-
grt>ss, serving from December 2, 1805, to March 3,
18'»7; was clerk of the Uniteil-States House of Itepiv-
sentativi^s. and ex-nffii-io librarian of Congress, 18)7-
18I">; (lifil at Peter8burg,Virginia, Deeemb'T 24. Iflft
Maish, Levi, was born in Conew.ago Town-
ship, Pennsylvania, November 22, 1.8:17; wjis edueilnl
at common schools, and subsequently at the Vort-
county Academy, working on a farm when not nihil
studies; was appifnticeil in 18.54 to a m.ichinist. mJ
remained with him two years; recruited a couipM?
for the Uniiiii army in 18,i2, and with it joineil Ih'
One Hundti'd and Thirtieth Pennsylvania Iiifsiitry,
of which he was soon promoted to be licnlenMI-
colonol ; he was wounded at the battle of Antieumi'
was promoted colonel after the battle of FreUericI*
burg, and was again wounded while leading his roji-
nient at the battle of Chancellorsville: after hiring
Iwen mustered out with his regiment at the eipii*-
tlon of its terra of service, he attendetl lectun't I"
the InwHlepartment of the Universii^ ■ T ■ '""i-
iila, niirl was ndmitttMl to the bar iti
member of the State House of Ri-,
18(17 and 18(58; was appointed by tl
1S72 one of the commission to re-<\
audit the accounts of certain public otlieers ul V'rJ>
County ; was elected a representative from IVntujI-
vaiita in the Forty-fourth Congress as a Deinwnit,
receiving 14.5:14 votes against 7.252 votes for llinniiv
JIcNair. Republican, and 2.1)KS voles for W. Mct'ol-
key, Lidependeut Republican; uid was re-el«ct<i<lw
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521
' the Forty-fifth Congress, receiving 18,032 votes against
13,8i»S vo(f8 for C. H. Bressler, Rcpulilican, serving
from DocinilxT 0, IST").
MEdbone, Francis, was bom in Rliode Island;
was electifil n representative from Ithode Island in
the Tliird Congn-ss as a Federalist: was re-elected
to the Fourdi Coiietress, serving from Decenilwr 'i,
1793. to March 3, 1711"; was elccteil a United-States
senator from Ithndo Island as a Federalist, serving
from liay 'II, IS'JJ, to June 4, 18U9, when he died at
WiisliiiiL'ton City.
Madlary, Bollin C, was bom at New Haven,
Connectiout, In I7'*4; reeeived a classical education,
nsiluatint; ut Midillebury College in I'^Oo; resided at
Ponllney. Vcmiiiiit ; was elecicd a represoulative from
Vermont in the Sixteenth Congress (having success-
fully contested the election of Orasinus C. Merrill);
waa re-elected to the Seventeenth, Eighteenth (re-
ceiving 3.132 majority), Nineteenlli, Twentieth, and
■ Tweniv-lirst Congresses, serving from January 14,
jaaO, to Marcli 3, 1831 ; died at Baltimore, Morvland,
April HI, 1*11.
Mallory, Francis, was bom in Virginia; re-
ceived a pulilic-sclioci education; resided at Uam[>-
ton; was eli/cu-il a representative from Virginia in
the Twenty-fifth Congress as a \Vliig; was re-elected
to the Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh Congn-sses
without opposition. ser\i!ig froin Septenilier 4, 1S.'}7,
to March 3, l>>Vi\ was appointed navy .agent at Nor-
folk NoveinlH>r 1, 1850; died at Norfolk, Virginia,
March M, im>.
Meillory, Meredith, was Iwni in Connecticut ;
received a pulilic-school education; removed toHam-
monds[>ort, New York; held several local ollices; was
elected a representative from New York in the Twenty-
sixth Congn.'ss as a Ucuiocrat, receiving o,438 votes
against b.M^'i votes for Thomas A. Johnson, Whig,
aervine from December 2, 18;J9, to March 3, ItHl.
Mallory, Robert, was lioru In Miwlison County,
Vlrgiiii:i, Noveinl)er 1.1, IHlo; received a classical
PeducAlion, graduating at the University of Vircinia
111 1827; removed to the vicinity of Li Grange, lien-
tacky, and devuted liimself to agricultural pursuits;
was el<!cted a representative from Kentucky in the
Thirty-sixtli Congress as a Union Democrat, receiv-
ing 6,"41i( votes against.'), 07-5 votes for Bi'll, American ;
was re-elccte<l to the Thirty-seventh Congn'ss, receiv-
ing 11,0:15 votes against 2.a02 voti'S for Bruce, Seces-
•ton; was re-elected to the Thirty -eighth Congress,
receiving n,2o7 votes against 2.477 votes for Wolfe,
Democrat, serving from December 5, l.STjl), to March
3, lSfl5; was defeated as the Conservative candidate
for the Thirty-ninth Congress, receiving 4,7i>4 votes
against 5,7.">1 votes for Lovell II. Uipusscau, Union,
and 173 votes for Munday, Conservative; was a dele-
gate to the National Union Convention at Phila-
delphia in 18(10; w.t» a vici'-president of the Centen-
nial Exhibition in l.s7.)-I87U.
Mallory, Rufus, was bom at Coventry, New
York, .lunuary 10. isjl : received an academic edu-
cation; reraoveil in 1805 to Iowa, and in 1S>8 to
Or^fon; stuilied law; w-is admitted to the bar in
■1860, and pr.ictised at .Salem; was district-attorney
of the First Judicial District iti IWC), and of the Tbiril
Judicial District fr.'iii ls(iL' until 18H<i; was a member
of the Stati' le^i.';l iture of ijre'^on In 18112; and w.is
elected a representative tnmi Oregon in tlie Fortieth
Congress as a Union liepuhlican by a majority of
60O over Fav, Democrat, serving from March 4, 1807,
toMiin-li'l.'lS'K).
Mallory, Stephen R., was bom at Trinidad in
ISl't on the vessel of his father, a sea-capt.iin from
Bridgc|H>rt. C>inneeticut ; his father died at Key
West in 1821, and his mother opened a hotel there;
he was educated in Connecticut .ind New York;
Ittidied law at Key West; was adinitteil to the bar
there in 18;J3, and practised; was appointed by Prcsl- '
dent Jackson inspector of customs at Key West ; was
made county and probate judge for Monroe County;
was appointed by President Folk collector at Key
^ -r »
West in 1.S45; waa elected a United-States senator
from Florida as a Democrat, serving from December
1, 1851, to January 21, 18*11, when ho retired from
the Senate on tht^ secession of Florida; was appoint-
ed by Prcsiilent Davis secn^tary of tiie navy of the
Confederate States; was arrested after the sunriHlcr
at Appomattox, and Imprisoned in Fort L.ifayette on
a charge of treason, but was soon releas<-d; resumed
practice at Pensacola; died at Pensocola of gout
November (». 1873.
Mangum, Willie Person, was bom in Orange
County. Nurtli Carolina, in ni>2: received u classical
education, graduating at the University of Nortli
Carolina in 1815; studieil law; was admitted to the
bar In 1817, and commenced practice at Ited Moun-
tain ; was a member of the .St;ito House of liepreseii-
tattves hi 1818; w.is elected a judge of the Suiierinr
Court; was elected a representative from North
Carolina in the Eightcentii Congress as a Whig, re-
ceiving 2,523 votes against 1.721) votes for Barringer;
was re-elected to the Nineteenth Congress, reeoiving
BO majority over Crudup. ser\'ing from December 1,
1.S23, to March 18, 182tl, when lie n-signed: was again
elected » judge of the Superior Court; was elected a
United-States senator from North C.'irolina as a
Whig, ser\'ing from December 5, 18:11, to 183<t. when
he resigned; declined being a candidate for the
ilousi' of Ke[)resenlatives J illy 0, 18:J7; was again
'elected a senator (in place of Bedford Drown, re-
signed), serving from December 0, 1840, to March 3,
185;}; he retired to his rural home; the loss of his
only son, who was mortally wounded in the Confed-
erate ranks at the first b.itlle of Bull Run. caused a
mental depression, and he died nt lied Mountain,
North Carolina, .SeptonilKT 14. 1801.
Mann, Abijah, ]un., was bom at Fairfield, Her-
kiiner County, New York. September 24. 171*3; re-
ceived a public-school eilucation; taught school;
engaged In mercantile pursuits; was justice of the
peace, and postmaster; was a member of the State
honse of Kepresentatives 1827-1830; was elected a
representative from New York in the Twenty-tlilrd
Congress as a Jackson Democrat; was re-elected to
the Twenty-fourth Congress, serv-ing from Decemtjer
2, \9Sii, to'March :l, 1S;!7; was again elected to Uie
State House of Iteprescntatives in 1837 ; removed to
New-Y'ork City; died at Auburn, New York, Septem-
ber (1, l.SW.
Mann, Horace, was born at Franklin, Mossa-
ciiusetts. May 4, 17!ltJ; received a classical education,
graduating at Brown University ui 1810, and remain-
ing there two years as tutor of Greek and Latin:
stmiied law at Litchfield. Connecticut; wa.s admitted
to the bar, ,inil commeneetl practice at Dedhiini. Mas-
sachusetts. In 1820; was a member of the JState House
of Representatives in 1828. 182U, 1830, and 18:il : was
a commissioner for revising the Statutes of Miissachu-
setts in 18:J5: removed to Boston in bSW; was a State
sen:itor in 18;Ji>-18;38, ami president of the Senate;
was secretary of tiie Miu<sachusetts Board of Educa-
tion 1.SJ7-1848, jiulilishing twelve successive annual
reports, which g.-we him a iiigh position among teach-
ers; was elected a representative from M.issachu-
sctts (to till the vacancy in the Thirtieth t^ongress
occasioned by the death of John Quincy Ailams) oa
a Whig, receiving 4,254 votes agahist l.^J'J votes for
Wlilttaker. Democrat, and l.lKlo scattering votes;
was re-elected to the Thirty-first Congress as a Free-
Soiler, receiving 0,902 votes against 4,.374 votes for
S. H. Walley. VV'hig, 2,302 votes for E. K. Whlttaker,
Democrat, and 50 scattering; was re-elected to the
Thirty-second Congress as a Free-Soiler, receiving
0,1I7!I of the 13,31f* votes cast, serNing from April 13,
1848, until March 3, 1853; was defeated as the Free-
soil candidate for governor in 18.52. receiving 35,880
votes against (il.222 voles for Clifford. Whig, and
3s,020 vi.les for Bishop. Democrat; w.iselectc'l presi-
dent of Anlioch College, Ohio, in 180;j, and occupied
the position until he died at Yellow Springs, Ohio,
August 2, 183U.
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CONGRESSIOXAL DIRECTOBT.
Mann, Jamos, was bom at Gorlinm, Maiuc, In
1822; W.19 a member of the Slate Senate; Wiis treas-
urer of Cumbcrlnml County; was an officer in the
Custom House at Porthiiiil: entered the Union anny
as captain of volunteer infantry, and liecanie pay-
master; was BlationeJ at New Orleans; was apfioint-
ed by President Lincoln treasury agent for Louisiana ;
took an active part in iy07 in re-organi/,ing the Demo-
cratic party in Louisiana; was electe<l a repwrsenta-
tive trom Louisiana in the Fortieth Congreiis. serving
from Julv 18. 1808, to his death at New Orleans Au-
gust 211, isiis.
Mann, Job, was bom in Beihel Township, Penn-
sylvania, March 31, 1705; ri^ceived a public-schiMil
^U<?ation: was appointed clerk to the county com-
missioners in ISIO; was register, recorder, and cleik
of the courts of Bedford County ISLS-ISST); was
elected a representative from Pennsylv.inia in the
Twenty-fourth Congress as a Democrat, serving from
December 7, lSsJ5, to March 3, 1.Sj7; was defriiled as
the Democratic candidate for the Tweiity-liflh Con-
gress, rceeivinR 4,15t> votes aicainst 6.Ui5 votes for
Charles Oijle. \\Tiig; was admiiteil to the bar in l><iU;
was .State treasurer 1M2-I84**; was ag.iin elected to
the Thirtietli Congress; was re-elected to the Thirfy-
lirst Ctmjress, receiving D.IW votes iujcainsl (l.JWl
votes f'lr LivergocMl, Wliig, s«r\ing from December
C, 1'<-17, to March :;, IS-jl.
MnJin, JoelK., was l)oni in Pennsylvania in I7.S0;
received a jiublic-school education; resided at J<'n-
kintown; Wiis elected a representative from Penn-
sylvania in the Twenty-second Coniiress as a .lackvin
Demicrat; was re-elected to the Twent.y-thinH'on-
gress. serving from December 6, 1831, to March ;i,
18ij; dii'd in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania,
September 'j. 1S,"]7.
Mann, W. D., was elected a representative from
Louisiana in the Thirty-eighlli Coniiress as a Ite-
publioaji; a m-ijority of the Committee on Elections
reported that he was entitled to a seat, but such was
the opposition that no vote was taken on the resolu-
tion, altliough on the last day of the session he was
voted $2,(X)iJ for compensation, mileage, and ex-
penses.
Manning, James, was bom at Elizabetlitown,
New Jc'rsey, October 22, 17;J8; received a classical
education, gr.iduating at Princeton College in 1702;
studied theology, and became famous as a Baptist
preacher: removed to Warren, Rhode Island, in 17i'>4,
to take charge of the collegi; establt.ibed tbiMi' by the
Baptists, which in 1770 was nnnoved to Prfividence,
and was named Brown University in 18(M; was a
delegate from Rhode Isl.and to the Continental Con-
gress in 178(5; resigneil the presidency of Bmnii
University in 1701, and tlie p.nsloratc of the t'lrst
Baptist Church in Providence (which lie had held
since 1770) in April, 17U1 : died at I'lovidenro. Rhode
Island, July 20, 1701. The "Life of James Man-
ning" w.TS pulilished bv It. A. Guild in 18<J4.
Manning, John, Jiin., was iHim at E<lenton,
North Carolina, July 3, ls:jO; received a classical
education, graduating at the L'nivcrsity of North
Carolina; studied law; was admitted to the bar in
ISai, and commenced practice at Pitlsborougli. North
Carolina; was a delegate to the Constitutional Coii-
Tcution of 1801; was elected a reiiresentativo from
North Carolina in the Forty-first Congress (in place
of John T. Deweese, rcsii^ned) sis a Democrat, re-
ceiving a majority of 32.'! votes over Holden, Repub-
lican, and sening from December 7, 1870, to Marcli
3. 1871.
Manning, Richard Irvine, was bom in Sum-
ter District, South Carolina, May 1, 1780; received
m classical education, graduating at the .State Col-
lie at Colimibia in 181] ; served in the war of 1812
as ca|>tain of a volunteer company raised for the
defence of Charleston; w.ns a meml)cr of the State
House of Representatives in 1822; w.-ia governor of
Soutli Carolina 1824-1820; was defeated as the Union
candidate for Congress ; was s member of the State
iterw
r tli«
f
Senate ; was elected a repreMntat! ve from 1
olina in the Twenty-third Cons;rc.ss (in pl.icc
James Blair, deceased) as a Union Democmt: si;<H
was re-elected to the Twenty-fourth Coi!'.
ing from Decemlier 8, 1.'>:J4, to May 1, I
he ilied at Philadelphia, where he had goie- i i >
eal advice.
Manning, Van H., w:is Imni in Martin Conur
North Carolina, July 2il, 18:10; reima.-d to Ml>» )
sippi in 18-11; recfiveil a classical edura:ioti fti Ho
Lake Male Academy. Dp Soto Con. ,!
and at the Uiuversi'ly of Nashville:
kansas in I8it0; studied law, and u
the bar; served in the Confeder.tle anny as
and suliseinently as colonel of tin- Third Ail
Infantry .inil Second Arkansas '■
f.ee'samiy; was captured in lb
Wilderness, and remained a [jrismii r om u
the war; was el.'Cted a rt'present itive Ii
sippi in the Forly-hfth Congress as a Dtu.
ceivin-j; 20..'}20 votes against l;^,oUS votes tot Thon
Walloii. Republican.
^ Manson, Mahlon D., was Honi at Piqua, OWo^
February 2J. 1>-2U: received a commoti-sch"ol ihIuca-:
tiou: studied tiie profession of drugsisl. and settled,
at Crawfiirdsville. Indiana; was a ni<niber •■f (h«'
.state House of Representatives in l^.'il-l.s.'2: wa»
eaptuiu in the Fil'tli Indiiuia Volunteers during th«
Mexie.-tii war: eulistetl .ts a private on the lin-nking
out of the Rebellion, and liecame eolimel of Ui9
Tenth Indiana Inluntn.', which be commamh^l at
the b.attle of Rich Mountain in July. l.s<jl; com-,
inandcd the Second Bri;;.id<'. First Divi-sinn, Anny
• if tlie Ohio, at the Ijattle of Mill Siirinr':. Kfiitucfcyj—
in January, I.SV^; was appointed bnt' ral of
volunteers in March, 1802, and was < ; -Lir-
mislies in front of Corinth, Missiwiiipi ; < ' I
the United-.States forces at the battle of I
Kentucky, August. 1.S02; was wounded
prisoner, and exchanged in December, 1NJ2;
manded in a skirmish with Pe^n'ara in >r:irfh,
and during the Moppjan raid in Indi •• - 'Aoiit-
July, 180;}; was with liurnslde in East vat
assigned, in .Septemb<ir. l.stKJ, to the eitiom.uio mi ihe
Twenty-thinl Army Corps; was in the sieae of Knoi-
viile, Tennessee, and various Ijattles in that Mate;
was severely wounded at the battlo of Hesacn. oiiil
was forced to resign by reason of disabilities rwull-
ing from wounds contracted in the service: vm can-
didate for lieutenant-governor on tlie Democratic
ticket in 1804, and for secretary of state; and mil
elected a representative from Indiana in th<' Forty-
second Congress as a Democr.it, receiving l-vi*
votes against 1.5,140 votes for L. Wallace, Repub-
lican, serving from March 4, 1871, to March 3. ISH;
was defeated as the Democratic candidate for the
Forty-third Congress, receiving 17,7.J(t votes againat
17.it'-0 votes for Thomas J. Cason, Republican.
Marable, John H., was bom in Brmisiriclc
County, Virginia; received an academical ciluca-
tion ; removed to Tennessee, and settled at Tfilett
Creek; w.is elected a representative from Ti unes!««
ill the Nineteenth Congress, defeating lieyiwlil*;
was re-elected to the Twentieth Congress, «TTlng
fnim Deccml>er .5. 1825, to March 3, ISfl); wai dt-
foated as a candidate for the Twenty-first Coagrai
by Cave Johnson.
Marchand, Albert Q., was bom at GrMM-
biirg, Pennsylvania; received a pulilic-sehool pdiic»-
lion; Wiis elected a reprisentative from r -i iiili
in the Twenty-sixth Congress as a D' i'^"
ing 5,801 votes against 3,780 voles for .i "I*-
Whig; was re-elected to the Twenly-sev'eiiili L'""-
gress, receiving 2.2:>8 majority, se^^•iug from Vtcem-
Iver 2, 1S30, to March 3, 184:1; died at Oreensbu*
Pennsylvania. Foliniary 6, hS48.
MarchEind, David, was born in Westinoi»UM
County, Pennsylvania; received a public-sclioololjl'
cation; was elected a representative from Peiuilj''
vauia iu the Fifteenth Congress; was re-electol K*
STATISTICAL SKETCHES.
623
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I
tlie Sixteenth Cornjress, serving from December 1,
lyl7. to Marcli ;}, l)*n.
Marchant, Henry, was born at JJurtUa's Vlne-
yiinl. Miissacliuselts, April 11, 1741; receiveii a cliis-
sical eiliication, gradualin!; at Pliiliulelpliia Cnllcgu
ill 17u2; studii'd law under Judjse Trowbridge at
Cambridge; was admitted to the bar, and comiueiiced
practice at Newport, Rbiide Island; was attorney-
general of Khode Island 17711-1777; took an active
nart in pre-Itevoiutionary movements; w.is a delegate
from Uliode Island to the Contiiieiital Cou'iTcss, serv-
ing 17 1 i-178'J and 1783-171*4; was a member of the
blale Convention to adopt the Federal Constitution;
■wiis judce of the United-States Court for the dis-
trict of Rhode Island 17Ui)-171>0; died at Newport,
lUiode Island, Aiit.'ust 3J, 1790.
Maroy, Daxuel, wiis bom In New Hampshire
November 7, li.iOl»; received a puhlic-8cho4)l educa-
tion ; went to sea before the mast when twelve years
of a'^e, and became master of a ship when he was
twenty; was a member of the New-ilampshire House
of Kcprescntatives l(>'i3-lSo4; was a member of the
Ktate Senate l>i5(J-1857; engaged in mcn-antilo pur-
suits and shi[>-building; was elected a representative
from New Uiuupshiru in the Thirty-eighth Congress
&s a Democrat, rereiving 12,0oU votes against 11,1*70
votes for Eastman, llepublican, senlno! Irom Deeera-
l>er7, 1»;W, to March 3, Itjtlo; was defeated as the
Deraueratic candidate for the Thirty-uinUi Congress,
receiving 10, 11(0 votes against 12,tKtil votes for Oilman
Hnrsiou, liepublican ; was a member of the .State
Sonafo .ind House of Representatives; was defeated
as tlio Democratic candidate for governor in 177(1 and
1777.
Maroy, William Learned, was honi at Snir-
biidv.e. jlassachuselts, Uecomber 12. 17(<ll; received
K classical education, graduating at Brown Univer-
Bity ill 1808; tauijht school at Newport, Rhode Is-
land : studied law ; was admitted to the bur in 181U,
»uU commenced practice at Troy, New York : com-
mondi-d a volunteer company in the war of 1^12, and
dls;l:i-;nishcd himself at the battle of >St. Itegis; was
recorder of Troy lu l.SIO; edited "The Troy Bud-
" was adjutant-general of New York In 1321;
slate comptroller in 1S23; was associate justice
of llio State Su])reme Court in 1S20; was elected a
L'nile'l-tjlates senator fn^m New York as a Jackson
Democrat, serving from Di^cember 5, 1831, to July,
li"J2. when he resigned; was govcmnrof the St«te of
Nevr York 18:ll-18.jl»; wiis a commissioner on Mexi-
rin claims 1M!>-1842; was secretary of war under
l»i-e»i.lent Polk March 5, 184.')-3Iarch 3, 1840; was
secrit:iry of st.-ite miiler President Pierce March 7,
Isji}- -March 4, I8j7; died at Uallslon Spa, New York,
July 4, IS57.
Blordis, Samuel W., was horn In Alabama in
ISOI : rc'C'ived an ac^idcmical education; was elected
u rcjiiv'sennilive from iiJabama in the Twenty-second
Con:n'«9 as a Democrat, reccivin-; 880 majority over
J. \V. Girth. Whig; was re-electwl to the Tw^enty-
ttiird Congress, defeating Baylor, Nullilier, serviug
l.om December 5, IS^ll. to March 3, 1835; died at
Talladega, Alab.-jua, December 2, lB:iti.
MrJTion, Robert, was bom lii South Carolina;
received on academical education; w.-is elected a rep-
resentative fr.im South Carolina in the Ninth Con-
cress: was re-elected to the Tenth and Eleventh
t'on\nvsses, sen'lng from December 2, 1805, to De-
cember 4, 1311. when ho resigned.
Markell, Henry, was lx>rn in Montgomery
(.'ounty. New York; received a jiublic-school educa-
tion; was elected a representative from New York
111 till- Ninc-tcenfh Congress as an Adams Democnit ;
*a» re-.-lected to the Twentieth Congress, serving
Irum Dcceml>cr 5, 1823, to March S, 182U; died at
Palntinc, New York.
Markell, Jacob, was bom In Schenectady Coun-
ty, New York. Jlay 8. 177); received a iiublic-school
tiliicatiun ; I'joiued at Manheim, New York, and
devoleJ lUs life to agricultural pursuits; was for
twenty years a sufienMsor, and for many years a
county-jmlge; was elected a repiVBt'iitatlve tmtn New
York in the Thirteenth Congress us u Federalist,
sening from May 24, 1M3, to''M.irch 2. 1815; was a
member of the State House of Representatives in
1820; died at 3Iunhcim, New York, Novemlier 20,
1852.
Markley, Philip 8., was bom In Montgomery
County, Pi niisylvania; received an academical edu-
cation; resided at NoiTistowu; was elected o repre-
sentative from Pennsylvania in the Eighteenth Con-
gress ns a Democrat ; wivs re-elected to the Nineteenth
Congress, ser^-lng from December 1. 1.823, to March
3. 1827; WHS defeated as the Democratic candidate
for the Twentieth Congress by John B. Sterigere;
was apiHiinteil by President Jackson naval officer for
the port of Phil.iileliilii.i.
Marks, William, was bom In 1780, and taken
when a child to Ueaver, Pennsylvania, by his father,
who was a pioneer; received scanty eilucatlon; was
a member of the State House of Representatives
ISlO-lMlt. and of the State Senate lS20-l.s-.i7, serving
the b'.st six ye.irs as presiding oflTicer; was electe<l to
the United-States Senate as a Democrat, and served
from December 3. 1827, until March 3, 18'i;J; was a
warm personal friend of Colonel Benton (they were
iilK)ut the same age, died on the same day, ami with-
in n fi'w liours of each other); ho died at Beaver,
Pennsylvania, April 10, 185,8.
Marquette, Turner M., w.os bom in Oliio; re-
ceivi'd a classical education; studied law; was ad-
milted to the bar, and commenceil practice at Piatts-
moiJth, Nebraska, In 1.^50; was elected for several
successive years a member of the Territorial House
of Itepresentatives; was elected a representative from
Nebraska in the Thirty-ninth Congress as a Re-
publican, receiving 4,280 votes against 4,072 votes for
J. M. Brooke, Democrat, and took his seat after the
admission of the State, serving from March 2, 1807,
to March 8, 1807, — one day.
Man*, Alan, was bom In Pcimsylvania; received
a classical education, graduating at Princeton Col-
lege in 1807; resided at Danville; was elected a rep-
resentative from Pennsylvania in the Twenty-first
Congress as a Jackson Democrat, serving from De-
cember 7, 1820, to March 3, 18:31,
Marr, George W. L., received a public-school
education; w.is elected a rcpresent.itivc from Teu-
lu'ssee in the Fifteenth Congress, serving fronj De-
cemlier 1, 1817, to March 3, 1819.
Marsh, Benjamin P., resided at Warsaw, Illi-
nois; was elected a representative from Illinois in
the Forty-tlfth Congress as a Republican, receiving
14.2.")2 votes against 13.41XJ vote's for John H. Hun-
gate, Democrat. serving from Octolwr 15, 1877.
Marsh, Charles, was born .it Lebanon, Connect-
icut, July 10, 1705. but removed with his father's
family to Vermont Ix'fore the Revolution; received a
classical education, graduating at D:irtmoulh CollegO
in 1780; studied law; was admitted to the bar, and
commenced pr.ictiw at Woodstock, Vennont; was
elected n representative from Vennont in the Four-
teenth Congress as a Federalist, receiving 17,719
votes against Kl.OflO votes for James Fisk, Democrat,
serving Irom December 4, 1815, to March 3, 1817;
was one of the founders of the American Coloniza-
tion Society; died at Woodstock, Vennont, Jauuaiy
II, 1840.
Marsh, Greorge Perkins, was bom at Wood-
stock, Vermont, March 1-5. 1801; received a classical
education, graduating at Dartmouth College In 1820:
studied law ; was admitted to the bar, and commenced
practice at Buiiiugtou, Vermont; was a member of
the State legislature and Executive Council lu lSi)5;
was elected a representative from Vennont lu the
Twenty-eighth Congress as a Wiig, receiving 6,254
votes against 4,5(»5 votes for Smith, Democrat, 718
voles for Frencli. Abolitionist, and 13;} votes scatter-
ing; Wiis re-elected to the Twenty-ninth Congress,
receiving WIO majority; was re-elected to the Thir-
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ttetU Congr^js, receiving j.ftW votes against 3,207
voVp.s for~IIul>beli, Democrat, and 1.014 Abolition
and scattering, serving from December 4, 184:j, to
Marcli;!, l*4Jt, was reelected to the Thirty-first Con-
eress, receiving 0,872 votes against i.'I'yi votes for
Pt«ck, Van Buren Democrat, and 1.17(1 votes for
Keyi'S, Cuss Ucmwrat ; resigned in 1.S40, having
' never l,iken his seat; was appointed minister resident
to Turlcey 1S42-1(>U, and the List year was charged
with a special mission to Greece; was fish commis-
sioner of Vermont in 18-'>7; was railroad commis-
aioner of Vermont lSo7-l.S.')0; was appointed in 1801
minister resident to Italy, and has since lield the
iMSilion. Has published " The Goths in New Eng-
land." " Lectures on the English Language," "Man
and Nature," and ntunerous essays and magazine
articles.
Marshall, Alexander K., was bom in Ken-
tucky; r.«id.'d at Xichohisville; was elected a repre-
Bvnlalivu from Kentucky in the Tliirty-fourth Con-
gress as an American, receiving 7.0;iSi votes against
6,536 votes for H;vrri8on, Dcinocrat, serving from
DiH'f-mber 3, 18J.J. to March 3. ISO".
Marshall, Alfred, resided at China. Maine ; was
a memlM'r of the State House of Representatives
1827. lSi8. 18 M. an<l l>a>; w.is elected a represi'nta-
livo from Maine in tlie Twcnty-9e\euth Conijrcss as
a Van Buren Democrat, receiving 2.10'J majority
over Sanfonl \. Kingsbury, Whig, sening from May
31, 1^1. to March 3, li>4:); was collector of the port
of Bclf.tft I.s4)>-1!^0.
Marshall, Edward C, was bom in Kentucky;
removed to t'alifornia, and settled at Sonora; was
elected a n-presentative from California in the Thir-
ty-second Congress, receiving 23.024 votes against
&),4y7 VDtes for Kewen, Whig, serving from Decem-
ber 1. 1.s."il. t!> Mareli 3. lS.i:$.
Marshall, Humphrey, was bom in Virginia in
1780; rocivcJ a public-school education; removed
t:i Kentucky; w.as a deles^tc to tlie State Cousti tu-
tional Convention; was for several years a member
of the State House of Itepresent.itives ; was elected a
United-States senator from Kentucky as a Federalist,
seri-ing from Decemlier 7, 1705, to March 3, 1801;
died at Lexington, Kentucky, July 1, 1841. He pub-
lished a "History of Kentucky" 1812, which was
enl.ir^ed and r;>j>riiited in 1824.
Marshall, Humphrey, was bom at Franlvfort,
Kentucky, January 13, 1812; received a military edu-
cation at West Point, graduating in 1828; was com-
missioned as lieutenant in the Mounted Rangers,
and subsequently in the First Dra;o(jns, but resigned
April 30, 18SJ; studieii law; was .idmitte<l to the
bar, and commenced practice at Louisville, Ken-
tucky: was an active officer of the State militia;
sen-ed in the Mexican war; was a colonel of the
First Kentucky Cavalry, distinguishing himself at
Buena Vist.i; retumeil home, .and engaged in agri-
cultural pursuits; was cIccIliI a represcnt;»tive from
Kentucky in the Thiny-tirst Con-ovs* as a Whig, re-
ceiving 0,201 votes against 0,1117 votes for Lane,
Democrat : was re-elected to the Thirty-second Con-
gress, n-ceiving 0,333 votes against 0^216 votes for
M'Tiwother. Democrat, serving from December 3,
184'.l, to Au'Tust 4, 18.'i2, when he resigned, having
been apjxonted minister to Cluna. whenj he remained
until January 27. 1854; was again elected to the
Thirty-fourth Cnnnn'ss as a S'ational American,
receiving 0,ft{2 vote's against 4,378 votes for Preston,
Demorj-.kt; and was re-elected to the Tliirty-fifth Con-
gress, receiving ll.t*V> vntes .igainst 4.117'.) votes for
Holt. DeiU'icrat, s<?rving fn>m Deceml>er .3, 185-5, to
March 3. I8jy: was a briga<lier-;ieneral in the Con-
federite service: dieil at Louisville. Kentucky. 1871.
Marshall, John (uncle of John Mnrsball), was
boro at (.rtirraantimn, Virginia, September 24, 17-55:
servcii in the Revdlutionary war as lieutenant and
captain: studied law; was admitted to the liar in
1781, and commenced practice at Richmond: was a
delegue to the State Convention which ratified the
' lo
ll.'pnS
Federal Constitution; was a member of the St
House of Kepresentatives; was minister to Fi
June 6, 171>7-April 3, 17l»8; was elected a reprv
tive from Virginia in the Sixth Congress,
from December 2, 17119, to 1800, when he
was ap[)ointed by President Adam-
state May 13. 1800; was appointed ■ .; i f
the United .States January 31, 1801, uj. . n.'il
his death at Philadelphia July 0, 1835. Hi'
"The Life of Washington" 1806, "Uisi
Colonies Planted l)y the English in N'orth Amtncx"
1-S:^. His legal decisions on the Virginia and North-
Carolina circuits were published in isn.
Marshall, Sstmuel S., was iMim in GalUiiit
County, Illiui>is. in 1824; studied and practised law;
was a meml>er of the legislature of the State of Illi-
nois in 1847; was Staters attomey in 1847 and 0^;
was a judge of the Circuit Court from 18-51 to 18-54,
and ar;ain from 1801 to 1.S04; was a delegate fur the
State at large to the Charl.- ' "■"■ ''■■■■
veulions of 1800, the Chi
and the Xational Union C ' I _ .
in 1.806; received the vote ot llie Demt^cnuic party
for United-States senator in Illinois in 18til. and f^r
speaker of the Fortieth Congress in 18'.!7; w '
a representative from Illinois in the Thr
Congress as a Democrat. n-r.iviTi.r s 4'i-< v..
2,1)11 votes for Tumcy, K' •■ i- i
lo the Thirty-fifth Coni^r.- i
again8t3,410votesforWiley, liepulilie.;ri. ^ •
December 3, 18-56, to March;!. 18.511; w.i.- : :
to the Thirty-ninth f - -
against li),«(ttl vot4s f ■ .
re-elected to the Fori: . '
votes against 14,378 votes for K
was re-elected to the Forty-fir?; '
20,475 votes against l(l.ti42 Votes Xur ilirtin
licAn; was re-elected to the Forty-second t'<'n:rcss.
receiving 1.5..571 votes i^.iii!" ''in v. -tes for W. II.
Robinson, R''publican; w.i : to the Forty-
third Congress, receiving 1- . - against ll,2l>2
votes for G. B. Raum, Repubiiciiu: was defeateil si
the Democratic candidate for the Forty-fourth Con-
gress, receiving 7,.V)«) votes agabist 8,2ti3 voten for
W. B. Aniierson, Indepemlent Reformer, and 5,4si
votes for G. B. ifaimi. Republican.
Marshall, Thomas Alexander (son of Hom-
5 hrey Marshall), w.as bum near Versailles, KeuEnckj.
anuary 15, 1704; received a classical education,
graduating at Tale College in 1815: studied law; wis
admitteil to the bar in 1810; commenced practice «l
Fninkfort, and removed in 1811) to Paris. Kentucky;
was elected a n-presentative from Kentucky in
the Twenty-second Congress as a Wliig; was n-
electeil to the Twenty-third Congress, receiving 381
majority, »er\-ing from December is 18;J1. to Man'Ii.i
1-8.35; was defeated as the Whig candid.ile for the
Thirty-fourth Congress by Richanl F- • ■ ''mo-
cr»t: was nominated and continued .i- 'li<
Court of Appeals in April. 18J5. ainl : "«-
tion until ISjO, acting a part of Uie time as uijuf jns-
tice; was a professor in the Transylvania L^w School
1.83i!-1^9; removed to Chicago in " ;^
there for nearly a year, when li ^'i-
tucky; was a member of the St.^;. i;.,.-. . . .. i'nr-
sentatives in 18ti3; was chief justice wf the Court of
Appeals 180«-18fJ7; resiiled at Versailles; liecamc »
drunkard, dependent upon charity for his fooJi
and dieil suddenly at Louisville, Kentucky. April IT.
1871. His sp*'eches wer\! edited and publisbed ^
W. L. BaiT.' KvS.
Marshall, Thomas Francis (ri>i'ii''»- < f -'""!'
Marshall), was born at Frankfort, Kei ' '■
1801; received a cl.assical education. • '"'
studies in Virginia, but lost liis healti y
the study of law. when twenty-five ye ^ J"
John J. Crittenden; w,ia admittc' • • '-/>
and CJinmenced practice at VeT>. ""
delates of the Virginia Conveni ; " *
member of the Sute legislature in U>j:i-i«iivi i*"
I
jtm^M
I
I
¥
to LouIbHIIo In 1833: was defeatod as an In-
it candidate for tlie Twenty-fiftliCoiisfress
by"W. J. Graves. Whig, by over 'J.lKXl majority'; re-
turned to Versailles in 1837; was elected to tin- State
Icgislatiire. but refused n seat, as Inuiig iiieUuible for
want of a year's residence; was a niemlxT of llie
State legislature In 1838 and 1S;!1), refusinit to be a
candidate In 1840; was elected a n-presentative from
Keiiturky In the Tweiity-M-vonlli Ci^uCTfss as a Whii;
witlnmt <ipposilion: deeliniMl a rf-election, Init ran in
1S15 as an Indepi.-ndent Whig, and was defeati^i by
Garrett Dnvls. Wliig, by 71(1 votes; served in the war
against Mexico as cai)taiu in Colonel Humphrey Mar-
siiall's regiment of Kentucky volunteer cavaln.'
184<l. 1S47; was defeated as a candidate for the Ken-
tucky Conslituiioual Convention; was again elected
to tlie .State legislature in 18.54; removed to Chicay;o
ill 1S.VI; and died near Versailles, Kentucky, .Septem-
lK?r 22, mw.
Marston, Gilman, was bom at OxfonI, New
Il;un|isliire. August 'M, l.Hll; received a olassical
education, graduating at Dartmouth College In
l.'>37; studied law at the Dane Law School; w.is
admitted U> the bar in 1.S41, and commenced prac-
tice at Kxetcr; was a member of the .State House of
Uepresenlatives 184.5-1849; was a delegate to the
"itate Constitutional Convention in 18.50; was elected
^pn'sentative from New IlEunpshire in theThirty-
'^ '111 Congress as a Kepnbllcan, receiring 12,8'Jll
votes against 12,062 votes for Marcy, Democrat; was
re-elected to the Thirty-seven 111 Congress, receiving
13,056 votes aeainst 11. W2 votes for Marcy. Demo-
crat, serving from December 5, 1.S.50, to March ;},
lb<}3; served In the Union army as colonel ot the
Second New-Hampshire, and as bripadifr-iieiieral
after November 20, lStl2, distinguishing himself in
numerous engagements, in one of which he was
severely wounded; was again elected to the Tliirty-
liinth Congress, receiving 12,!KXI votes against 10,100
votes for Marcy, Democrat, gen'ingfrom I)ecc'ml)cr4,
18(1.5, to March 3, 1807; was appointed governor of
Idaho in 1870, but declined; was defc.itcd as the
Republican c.iiididate for the Forty-fifth Congress,
receiving 13,8^1 votes against 1.3,()24 votes (or Frank
Jones. Democrat.
Martin, Alexander, was Ixini In New Jersey
In 17-10: received :i classical education, praduatiiig at
Princeton College ii; 17-5<>; studied law; was.idniittcd
to the bar, and commenced jinictice in North Caro-
lina in 1772; was a member of theColoid.il Assembly;
served in the Kevohitionary war as colonel of a North-
Carolina regiment of the line, and was in the battles
of Bnindywine and Gennanfown ; was a member of
the .State Senate 1771)-17S2, 17.'*.5-17.S7, and 17Ss; was
governor of North C.irolina 1782-178.5 and nxO-HDi;
was a delegate to the convention to adojit the Federal
Constitution; was elected a United-States senator
from North Carolina, serving frtun December 2. 170:!,
to M.irch 3. 17119; died at Danbury, North Carolina,
November, I!*07.
Martin, Barclay, was born in South Cnrollua;
received an .nc.ideniical education; removed to Ti.'n-
nessee, and settled at Columbia: was elected a re[f-
resenlallve from Tennessee In the Tweiily-niiitli
Congress, serving from December 1, 1S45, to March
1K47.
Martin, Benjamin P., was lioni in Marion
County, Virginia, October 2, 182y; lived and worked
Xipon a farm until he was twenty-one years of age;
■was educated at AIU"jhany College, Meadvllle, Penn-
sylvania, where lie gradtiiiled in .lune, 1854; tanglit
Bclioid at Falrmounl, Marion Coimty, for eighteen
months; studied law; was admitted to (lie liar, ami
ominienced practice in March, 18.50, removing in the
following November to Pruntytown, where he has
since resided; was a memlier of the Constitutional
jCoiivenlion of West Virginia in 1S72; was a delegate
Sr> the National Democratic Conventicm at Baltimore
■fn 1872, and voted against the nomination of Mr.
Oreclcy, but yielded him active and earnest support
in the cunpai^ ; w.is elected a representative from
West Virginia in the Forty-lifth Congress as a Demo-
enit, receiving 18,1.50 votes ogiilnst 14,2{i;J votes for
WanI H. Laiiiou, Republican, serving from October
15. 1S77.
Martin, Charles D., was bom in Ohio; received
a publlo-selinol education; was elected a representa-
tive from Ohio in the Thirty-sixth Con;:ress as a
Democrat, receiving 0,723 votes against O.-i-io votes for
Van Voorhecs. Republican, serving from December
.5, 1850, to Marcli 3. 1801 ; was defeated as the Demo-
cratic canilidate for the Thirty-seventh Congress,
receiving 11.275 votes against ll,Wi5 votes for V. D.
Horton. Republioan.
Martin, Elbert 8., was Iwm in Virginia; re-
ceived a pulilic-schoul education; was elected n
representative from Virginia in the Thirty-sixth
Congress as an Indc|>cndent Democrat, receiving
6,382 votes against 5.570 votes for Floyd, Democrat,
serving from DeceTnl)er 5, 18.50, to Marcli 3, 1^«11.
Martin, Frederick S., w.-is l>om in Rutland
County. Vennont. April 25, 1704; received a public-
school education; was a sailor on Lake Champlivin,
and afterwanis on the seas; settled at Glean, New
Vork, OS a trader and hotel-keeper; was a member
of the State House of Representatives in l.'toO; waa
elected a representative from New York in the
Thirty-second Congress as a Wliig, receiving 7,210
votes against 0,540 votes for Waite, Di^rnocrat, serv-
ing from December 1, l.SOl, to March .3, 1.S53.
Martin, James 8., was Iwm in Scott County.
Virglida, August 10, 1S2U; receivetl a cominf>n-«ehool
education; removed to Salem, Illinois, with his par-
ents, in l,H-kJ; served as a non-commissioned officer In
the war with Mexico; was elected clerk of the
Marlon-county Court in 1840, and held the position
for twelve years: studied and practised law; was a
memlx'r of the Republican State Central Committee
for a nuinlwr of years; entered the Union army as
colonel In 1802, and was brevetlcd brigotller-general;
was elected county-judge of Marlon County at tlie
close of the w.ir; was appoiiite<l jiension-agent In
18(i8, but resigned the same on being elected a repre-
sentative from Illinois in the Forty-third Congress as
a Republican, receiving 12.200 votes against 12,016
votes for .S. L. Bryant. Democrat and Liberal, serv-
ing from D"'i'<'ml)(."r 1, l.S7:{, to March 3, 1875.
Martin, John P., was bom In Lee ("ounty. Vir-
ginia. Oetolx.T II. 1811; received an academical edu-
cation; removed to Kentucky in 1.828. and settled at
Pri'Stonburg; was a member of the State House of
Representatives in IfUl and 1842; was elected a rep-
resentative from Keiitncliy In the Twenty-idntU
Congress as a Democrat, reci'iving4,074 votes against
3.0.5~' votes for Adams, Whig, and 3,240 votes for
McKei;, AVliig, sen'ing froiir December 1, 184.5, to
March ;!, 1S17'; was a member of the State Senate of
Kenliiekv in 1S57.
Martin, Joshua L., received pn academical
cdvicatiou; studied law; was admitted to the bar,
and commenced practice in North Alalnuna; was
judge of the Circuit Court; was elected a rejiresentiv-
tive from Alabama In the Twenty-fourth Congress
as a Democrat, and was ro-elccted to the Twenty-
tiflh Congress as a Democrat, serving from Septem-
ber 4. bS^j". to March 3, 1841 ; was chancellor of Mid-
dle Alabama; was governor of Alabama 1845-1847,
during which time the seat of tlie State Government
was transferred to Montgomery ; and died at Tusca-
loosa November 2, 1.S50.
Martin, Luther, was bom at New Bmnswlck,
New .Jersey, in 1744; received a classical education,
giTulnating at Princeton College in 1700; taught
school for several years at Queenstown, Maryland;
studied law; was admitted to tlic bar in 1771, and
commenced practice in Accomack and adjacent coun-
ties of Virginia; was a member of the Annapolis
Convention; was a delegate from Maryland to tlie
Continental Congress 1784-1785; was appointed at-
torney-general of Maryland February 11, 1778; was a
k.
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defender of Judge Chase when !•"'-• .'--i in 1904,
and of Aaron Burr when tric'l t in 1807;
■was aprn>inled ohief juFiice of thf ' ' Iyer and
Terminer in I8I4; was ngsna appuuiirU a:iomeT-
general of MarvJand In 181i<: died at New York July
10. ISM. He published a •• Defence of Captain Cre-
cup from the Charge of Murder, made in Jefferson's
' Notes on Virginia,' " and several poUtical pam-
phlcls.
Martin, Morgan L., was horn In XewTork;
removed to Green Bay, vTisoonsin Territory; was
elected a delegate from Wisconsin Territory iu the
Tw*nty-iunth Congress as a Democrat, receiving
000 majoritv over Collins. Wliig, serving from De-
cember 1. 1^5. to March 3. IMl
Martin, Robert N., was bom In Dorchester
County, Maryland; received a public-school educa-
tion; was elected a representative from Maryland in
the Xineteenlh C"nCT>-9s. receiving 234 majority over
John S. Spence, serving from Deceml>er 5, ISHb. to
March 3, 1^27.
Marian, William D., was bom at Martintown,
Soaita Carvdina, Octolier 20, 1780; received an aca-
demical education: studied law; attended a coarse
of lectures at the LilehtioM Law School ; was admit-
ted to the bar in Xovimlier. 1-<11, and commenced
practice at Edgefield Coun House, removing in 18i;{
to Coosawhatchie; was a member of thte State House
of Kepresenutivea in isi'f. 1817, and 181M: was clerk
of the State .Senate 1818-lj>2tJ; was elected a renre-
■entative from South Carolina in the Twentieth
Congress as a State-rights Democrat, receiring 307
majority over AiMirew R. Govan; was re-elected to
the Twenty-first Congreaa withom oppoeition. serv-
ing from December 3. 1627, to March 3. 1^1 ; was
elected a judge of tlte Circuit Court of Law ; removed
to Columbia; and died suddenly at night in Jones's
Hotel, Charleston, South Carolina, Xovemlier 17,
lS33w
Martindale, Henry C, was bom in Berkshire
Coanty. Ma»uu-hu»etts, May 6, 17*); received a clas-
iJcal education, graduating at Williams College in
1930; removed to Kew York, and settled at Ssindy
Hill; was elected a rq>resentative from Xew York in
the Eigliteenth Coiigress as a ^^*hig: was re-elected
to the Xineteenth, "Twentieth, ami Twenry-first Con-
gresses, serving from December 1. l&Si. to M.«r»-h ;>.
1S31; was again elected to the Twenfy-thiril Om-
grrs5, serving fri>m December 2, is-fi. to JIarch ;i.
1S3".: ili^i atS.indy Hill, Xew York. April i.'. laW.
?.f ■' — '-. Dudley, was Iwm at Lyme, Connect-
i' IT^"'; received an academic etlucation
a: !i'-5ler .Seminary; removed to Canandni-
gtta. New York, where he studied law with John
Gregg: was admittol to the bar in lt^7. and com-
menced practice: was elected a representative from
Xew York in the Eighteenth Cimgrvfs a* an Adam*
Dem<xrat; was re-elected to the Xinetc»'r'' <" ■
Ktces. and again to the Twentieth Cnnzre?-
trwn December 1, 18l'3, to March :J. It'iy : rt-:
the city of Xew York in 1SJ.5, and again to lU|>iey
in 1**5; was again elected a representative in the
Thirtieth Congress as a Whig, ser^inz from December
8, 1^7. to March S, 1840; reaomed practice, and died
at Ripley June 25. 18-Vl.
Marvin, James M., was bom at B.'dlston, Xew
York. IVbruary :r7. lS.it»; received a pablic-scliool
education; was reared on a farm ; wa* a member of
^^ the (State House of Kepresentatives in 1S40; was a
^^^B omnty-supervisor for three terms; becune the pm-
^^^B prietor cf a iai^ hotel at Saratoga Springs; was
^^^F elected a renresontative from Xew York in the Thir-
■ Q^eig)- > as a Republican, receiving 13,006
■ Totes :> >-:> votes r>r Blood, Democrat; was
H re-electoU to the Tliirtv-ninth Concreaa, receirtng
■ 14.4S:) Totca against 13.572 votes for Alooxo C. Paige,
■ Democrat ; was re-elected to the Fortieth Congress,
■ receiving 1&,4(K5 v«Aes against 12,»42 votes for Horton,
■ Deaiocrat, serving trom December 7, 1S03, to March
^ k = .
imnBIH
efintlknB
1
Marvii!. P''^'-''^-' Pratt, »»• h<wB l» Jfi
York; rer< -<'hool educatton; si'
law; was ;i' .r. and pracri**^ a? J.
town: was a iu<rmU-r uf ;l ^
senutives in 1830: was el- fnM
Xew York in the Th •■«» a«
was re-elected to the oiimw, |
inp 7.053 votes agaiii>: . r Charii*
Williams, Democrat, serving fnim .>e|«Triber 4,
to March 3. 11*41 : was elected a jtidgr *it tiw
Supreme O'Urt for eight yean June 7, l>»47;
{elected Xovember il, 1S55; and was again
November 3. liS0-"5.
Mason, Annistead Thomson, «■• hon ta
Loudon County, Virginia, in J7S5: received a ciMri-
I cal education, grailuating at William aod Mary C«l-
I lege: engaze"! in atrricultural pursuits: 8«n««l in lb*
I war of 1811' <-l (f Viigiiiia volunteen: wa*
I elected a i es senator from Viigioia (in
place of \\ >M, i.. Giles, resigned), •erring finrn
January- 2-j. 181i>, to Marv-b 3. 1817: was defeated at
a candidate for the Fifteenth Congress by CkMJM
F. Mercer, and contested the seat witboat
challenged his br^ither-in-law, John M.
and the}' fought ii>-ar Washington City with
he received a ball through liis breast on the
and died February (t. 1819.
Mason, Qeorge, was lx>m at Doeg's Xecfc. Fair-
fax County. Vinriuia. in ITHi; received an academical
education; took a leading part in pre-Be%'olutiooai7
measures: was a delegate from Vitginia to the
Continental Congress in 1777; was a member of IlW
State Convention which ntitied the Federal CoMti-
tntion in 17!^; was elected United-States
from Virginia, but declined, and devoted the tvft ti
his life to studv and to hunting and fishing: died •!
Gunston Hail October 7, 1782.
Mason, Jamea B., was bom in Rhode Isimd
in 1774: received a classical edocadon: studied met-
icine; was admitted to practice, and ptmtiitei at
Charleston, South Carolina: after renkainlng then
thrve years, he returned to Rhode Island, and entered
into business at Providence with liis father-in-U*.
John Brown; was for aewral years a member of the
8t:ite House of Representatives, and. during the lalier
part of the time, its speaker; was elected • repctMit-
tative from Khotle Island in the Fourteenth Conm*
.IS a Federalist; was re-elected to the Fifteenth CM-
gre»». 9er%-ing frcm December 4. 1815, to March I.
isr.i: die<.l at Providence, Rhode Island, Scpteint)«r
n. i-;io.
Mason, James M., was bom on An
Inland, Virginia )near Washington), Xoveml
1708: received a clasaical education, graduating)
the I'tiiversity cf PennsTlrania in 1818; studied Is'
at Willi.'un and Mary Colicae; was admitted to the
liar in 1>2 ), and commenced practice at Windtclter;
- ■' '. member of the State House of Repirwiitatltw
' 1 02 ; was a presidential elector on the Jacfcum
• in 1833; was electi-<l a representative fnim
Virginia in the Twenty-tifth Congn-ss as a JadBMO
, Democrat, serving froni Soptemljer 4, 1837, to Mini
:t. 18:K): was electe<i a I'tiiieri-States senator fnw
I Vin;inia I in place of kaac S. Pennybacker, dw.fsw<).
serving from January -i/i. 15>17. to MarrK :l i.i.;! • wm
a delegate from Virginia to the Provl .>.«
of the Confederate States: was apT^ irrti-
dent Davis commissioner from tlv ' mic S(at«i
to Great Britain; was captured .i^ there,
brought to Boston, imprisoned lu r i>n i^ aircn, aixl
released; when he retnmed bome he found that hit
residence at Winchester had been bnm.'-l. iin! he li>-
cateil near AU'X;uidria, where he die-: "71.
Mason, Jeremiah, was iwm a: . ' '*
necticut, April i." . oeivpd a cLsisical HO*
tian,gradnattag "ge in 1788; sUuUeilU*;
was admitted to i.i<. ..i i.. llui; ccsnnioieedpMaw'
at Westmoreland : removed to Wal^ai* in llM, iw
to Portamouth in 1797; was amiMed aOani*r-»
CBl of New Hampshire in 18(0; was a BMBMr ■
ating H
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627
( the State House of Represcnfativps several sessions;
' ■was elected aUniled-StJitfS senator fnjiii New Ilaiiip-
, BUire (111 place of Charles Cutis, appuiiiled [iro Imi-
I p<ire). ser\-ing from June 21, 1813, to 1817, when lie
I resigned; whs again a riifmber of the State House fif
t Jtepresenlalives; removed to Boston in 18S2, and
Jiractisi-d there until he became seventy years of age;
died at Boston f (ctoln-r 14, 1848.
Mason, John C, was Imm in Kentucky; resided
at Uwensville: was elected art-presiMitativefroni Ken-
tucky in the Tliirty-lirst Congress as a .lackson dem-
ocrat, receiving 0,882 votes against (5,l(i4 votes for
»John B. Houston, Whig; was re-elected to the Thir-
ty-second Congress, n.'ceiving 0,4i».5 votes against
2,'^)1 votes for >Ioiitg(inier>', Whig, 8er%iiig from De-
cember 3, 184'.t, to March 3, 1853; was again elected
to the Tliirty-fifih Congress, receiving 8,148 votes
against 7,534 votes for Cox, American, serving from
l^ceniber 7, 1857, to March 3, 18511; declined Ijeiiig a
caiidldati- for re-election.
Mason, John Thomson, was bom at Slont-
• jielier, Jlar>laiid, May li, 1815; received a classical
e<lucation, graduating at Princeton College in 183tl;
studied law; was a<Jmitted to the bar in 18:i8, and
commenced practice at Hagerstown, Maryland; was
a menilier of the Slate House of Kepi^'sentatives
1S:;S-18;3'.I; was elected a representative from M.iry-
land in the Twenty-seventh Congress as a Democrat,
serving from May 31, 1S41, to March 3, 184;J; was a
^L judge of the Court of Appeals 1851-1S'>7, when he
^P resigned; was appointed by President Buchanan col-
lector of customs at Baltimore, serving 1857-18(11;
removed to Annapolis, and died there March 28,
1873.
Mason, John Y., w.is bom at Greensville, Vir-
ginia. April 18, 171*11; received a classical education,
• graduating at tlie Uuiversity of North Carolina In
1810; studied law; was admitted to the bar, and
commenced practice at Hicksford ; was a niernlier of
the .Sl.ite House of Kepresentatives 18iy-lsill; was a
^^ judge of the United-States Court for the Ejistem Dls-
^B trict of Virginia; was elected a representative from
^1 Virginia in the Twenty-second Congress as a Demo-
^^crat; was re-elected to the Twentv-tliird aiidTwenty-
^K fourth Congresses, serving from Ilccember 5, l.'^ll, to
^K January 11. 18:17, when he resigned; was elected by
^B the legislature judge of the (Jennral Court (to till the
^M vacancy caused by the resignation nf .f. K. May);
^B was a delegate to the State Constitutional Conven-
^B tions of 1828 and 1840; was appointed hy Pix-sident
^V Tyler secr<-"tary of the navy March 14, 1844-March3,
^M 184.5; w.as .ippointed by I'resident PolU attoniey-gen-
^M enil March 5, 1845, and transferred to the Xavy He-
H partment, ser\ing Scptenilwr U, lS4<>-March 3, 1841»;
V was appointe<l by Presiilent Pierce minister to Eng-
land January 22, 1864, and held the iKisiti<in until he
died, very siiddenlv. at Paris, October:}, 1859.
Mason, Jonathan, was burn at Boston August
St), 17.<:i: reeeivi'd a classical education, grailualing
at Princeton College in 1774; 8tudic<i law under .loliii
Adams; was admitted to the bar in 1777, and coni-
menced practice at Boston ; was tine of the witues.'ies
of the Boston massacre, and delivered the annual
oration thereon .March 5, 1780; was a inenibcr nf the
bt.tre House of Kepresentatives; was ainemlHTnf
the Executive Council in 171»8; was elected a Unitcil-
States senator from Massachusetts (in place of Ben-
jamin OofHlliue, resigned), serving from December
19, 1800, to March 3, 18(«; was elected a representa-
»tive fnjm Mnssjichusetts in the Fifteeiitli Congress as
a Fe<leralist; was re-elected to the .Sixteentli Con-
gress, serving from Decemlwr 1, 1817, to May 15, 1820,
When he resigned; died at Bo8t<m Noveinlwr 1, 1S;11,
Sdason, Moses, was born In Oxford County,
Hb^assachuselts (afterwards Maine), in 17(11; was a
f^ounty commissioner 18:Jl-18;i4; w.is elected a rcpre-
Heiitative from Maine in the Twenty-third Congress
AH a Democrat; wiis re-elected to the Twenty-fourth
Cotigress, receiving (537 majority, ser\'lng from Dc-
fsember 2, 1833, to March 3, 1837 ; was a member of
the State Executive Council ; died at Bethel June 25,
1811(1.
Mason, Bamson, was boni in Ohio: received ii
pul iic-sehool education: was elected a represenlHtlve
from Ohio in the Twenty-fourth Congress as a Whig;
was re-elocted to the Twenty-tiflh. Twenly-.'iixth, ami
Tuenty-seveiilh Congresses, serving from December
7, iK"), to March 3. 1><4;J.
Mason, Stevens Thomson, was bom at
ChaiiaHanslc. Virginia, in 17iKi; reeeiveil a classical
education, graduating at William and Mary College;
served in the Hevolulionnry war. attaining the rank
of brigadier-genenil ; was a member of the Stale
House of Kepn-sentatives; was a delegate to the State
Const itutional Convention in 1788; was elected a
United-States senator from Virginia, serving from
December 7, 171»5. to March 3, 1803; died at Philadel-
pliia May It), 1803.
Mason, Willietm, was bom in Connecttcnt; re-
moveil iti Preston, New York ; was a member of the
Stale House of Rennaienlatlves 1821-1822: win
elected a representative from New York in tlie
Twenty-fourth Congress as a Democrat, serving from
Decemlwr 7. 1835, to March 3, 18:57.
Masters, Josiah, was bom at Woodbury, Con-
necticut, October 22, niCJ; receivL-d a classical edu-
cation, graduating at Yale College in 17S4; studied
law; was admitted to the bar, and conuiienced prac-
tice at S*-haghticoke, New York; was a iiiemi)er of
the State House of Kepresentatives In 171'2, 180ii. anil
1801 ; was associate judge of Bensselaer County 18tJl-
1805; was electetl a representative from New York hi
the Ninth Congress as n Democrat; was re-elected to
the Tenth Congresa, sen'ing from Decemlwr 2, 1805,
to March 3, 1800; was first judge of the Court of
Common Pleas of Rensselaer County from 1808 until
his dealli at .Schaghticoke June 30, 1832.
Mathews, James, was born lu Ohio; received
a public-school education ; resided .it Coshocton : was
elected a representative from Ohio in the Twenty-
seventh Congress as a Democrat; was re-elected to
the Twenty-eighth Congress, receiving 4,427 votes
against 3,624 votes for Douglass, Whig, serving from
May 31. 1.H41, to March 3. 1.S15.
Mathews, Vincent, was bom in Orange Coun-
ty, New York, June 20, 17i!tl; received an aciulemical
education; studied taw; was admitted to the bar in
nut), nnd commenced practice at Elinira, New York;
was a tneinberof the State House of Representatives
in 17113. and a State senator in 17(i*l; was a commis-
sioner to adjust bounty-lanil claims in 171>8; was
elected a representative from New Y'ork in the
Eloveiilli Congress as a Federalist, serving from May
22, 1801), to March .3, 1811 ; was State district-attorney
1812-1815; removed from Elmlra to Bath, and fmm
Bath to Koeliester. continuing his ])ractlce ; was again
a nienitier of the State House of Ke])resentatlves in
182li; died at Uochcster. New York. August 23. 1846.
Mathewson, Elisha, was bom in lUiode Island
in 1707; received an academical education; was for
several years a inemlx-r of the State House of Kepre-
sentatives. serving one year as speaker; was elected
a United-vStatessenalorfrom Khode Island as a Dem-
ocrat (in place of James Fenner, resigned), serving
from November 20, 1807. to March 3, 1811; died at
Sctluatc, Khode Island, October 14, 185:!.
Mathiot, Joshua, was bom in Ohio; received a
public-schoul education; was elected a representative
from Ohio in the Twenty-seventh Congress as a WTiig,
serving from May 31, 1.841, to March 3, 1843; died at
Newark, Ohio, July ;W. 1840.
Matlack, James, was bom in Gloucester Coun-
ty, New Jersey; received a public-school education;
was elected a representative from New Jersey In the
Seventeenth Congress; was re-elected to the Eigh-
teenth Congress, serving from December 3, 1821,
to March 3, 1825 ; died at Woodbury, New Jersey,
January 15, 1840.
Matlack, Timothy, was born at Haddenfteld,
New Jersey, in 1730; received an academical educa-
528
CONGRESSIONAL DUIECTORT.
tlon ; look an active part In pre-Bevolntlonary move-
ments as one of the "Fiirliting Quakers;" coniinandeil
a l>attalioii of Pennsylvania volunteers in the Uevolu-
tinnury anny, wliicli did good senicc; was adelegati;
from IVunsylvania to Ihe Continental Congress 1780^
17f>l; was f.ir many years master of the rolls, resid-
ing at Lancivster; removed to Philadelphia, where he
was jirothonotary of one of the courts; died near
n<)liuisl'urs, Pennsvlvanis, In the full (wssesslon of
his facullles, April 15, 1829.
Matson, Aaron, was boni at Pljinouih, Mossa-
chuvltK. in 1770; removed to Cheshire County, New
Iliuniishiri'; was judge of probate; was a member of
the Exi>eulive Council 1811>-l)f>21; was elected a rep-
resentative from New Ilampsliire In the .Seventeenth
Congress; was re-elected to the Eighteenth Con-
gress, serving from December .3, 1S21, to March 8,
ISJ.'i: died at Newport, Vermont, July 18, 1855.
Matteson, Orsamus B., was bom in New
York: resided at Utica; w.is elected a representative
from New York in the Thirty-first Congress as a
\Vliig. receiving 0,004 vot<>8 against 5,0ti9 votes for
Munii. Democrat, and 3.214 votes for Williams,
Cass Demnrrat, sending from December 3, 184il, to
March 3. InjI; was defeated as the Whig candidate
fur Ihe Thirty-second Congress, receiving 7.711 votes
against 7,8"28 votes for Tlmotliy .Icnidns, Democrat;
was again elected to the Thirty-third Congress, re-
ceiving H.ihH) votes against 0,(W0 votes for Moulton,
Democrat, and 1,542 votes for .Spencer, Wliig; was
re-elected to the Thirty-fourth Congress, receiving
C.4H2 votes against 6,172 votes for Johnson, Demo-
crat, and 4.7.59 votes for Huntington, Whig, serving
from December 5, 1853, to Febntary 27, lts57, when
he resigned; was agaiti elected to the Thirty-fifth
Congress, receiving 10,(118 votes against 8,275 voles
for Johnson, Democrat, serving from December 7,
l.s'»7. lo March :), l.S">9.
Matthews, George, was bom in Augusta
County, Virginia, in 17:!S); distinguished himself in
the Indian iiud the Itevolutionary wars: removed in
17o^'i to ( iglethoqie County. Georgia, where he en-
piiged in agricultural pursuits; was governor of
Georgia 1'>'X 17!t:V17llti; was elected a reprcseut.ative
from tjeoi-gla in tlie First Cotign-'ss, serving frntii June
17, 1789, to March 3, 17U1 ; served as brigadier-general
in the exiiedition wliich captured West Florida in
ISU; died at Augusta. Georgia, August 3(». 1812.
Matthews, John, was born at Charleston,
South Carolina, in 1744; studied law, and was ad-
mitted to the bar; was an associate judge of tlie
State .Supreme Court in 1770; was a delegate fnmi
S'lUth Carolina to the Continental Congress 1778-
1782; was apfminted on a committee of Congress to
visit the muliiiieil troops; was governor of South
Carolina 17S2-178.j; was api>ointud a jmlge of the
Court of Eijuity 1784; died at Charleston, South
Carolina. Xoven'iber 17. 1802.
Matthews, Stanley, was born at Cincinnati,
OhiM, July 21, 1S24; received an academic education
at Woodwaril High School, and graduateil ul Kenyon
College in 1.840; studied law; wius admitteil to Ihe
bar, and pr.ictised at Cincinnati; was elected judge
of the Court of Common Pleas of Hamilton County
In 1851. and resigned January 1, 18.5;j; was elected
to the State Senate in 185;): was appointed United-
States attorney for the Southern District of <.»hio In
1858. and resigned in March, 1801 ; was connnissioned
lieutenant-culoriel of the Twenly-tliird Ohio Volun-
teer Infantry in June, IStll, and colonel of the Fifty-
flrsl Ohio Volunteer Infantry in Novemtwr, l.'<<li ;
was elected judge of the Superior Court of Cincin-
nati in April. 180.9, and resigned In July, 1804; was
a presidential elector on the Lincoln and Johnson
ticket in 1S(;4, and the Grant and Colfax ticket in
1808: was Ihe Itepubtican candidate for Congn-ss in
October, 1S70, in the Second District of Ohio, against
H. B. Banning, who was returned elected by 75
rotes; and was elected to the United-States Senate
as a Kepublican March 20, 1877 (to fill tho vacancy
occasioned by the resignation of John Sbennau),
serving from October 15, 1877. His term of iervi(
will expire March 8. 1879.
Matthews, William, was lx>m In Marylonill
was elected a representative from that State in t
Fifth Concress, sen-ing from May 15, 1797, to Mi
a, 1790.
Mattocks, John, was bom at Hartford, Coi
necticut, June 10, 1770; received au acuileraic edi
cation; studied law; was admitted to the bar.
cominenceil practice at Pe.ochaiu, Vermont: ser\i
for a imml^er of years in tlie State militia, attainii
the rank of brigadier-general; was judge of ll
Supreme Court of Vermont for two years; was a
representative from Vermont in the Seventeenth
Congress, ser\'ing from Deccmiier 3. 1S21. uni"
March 3, 1823; was defeated as the Wliig candidal
to the Eighteenth Congress; w:i5 again eli-cted
the Nineteenth Congress, ser\-ing from December
1825, to March 3, 1827; was again electrd to t
Twenty-seventh Congn-ss as a \\ hig. receiving 5,1
votes against 4,924 voles for Isaac Fletcher, Dcroi
crat, and 84 scattering, and serving frum May
1841, initil March 3. 184:5; declineil a re-e|.riion
Congress; was elected governor of Vomiout,
served 184.1-1844, but declined a re-election; died
Peaeham, Vermont. August 14, 1847.
Mattoon, Ebenezer, was bom at Amhi
Miissachusetts, August 10. 1755; receive<l a clasfi(
education, graduating at Dartmouth College in 1778f
was a presidential elector in 1797; was elected s rep-
resentative from Massachusetts in the Sixth Congrm
(in place of Samuel Lyman, resigned) ; wa^ re-elecMd
to the Seventh Congress, stirvihg from February 4
1801, to March .1, 1803; served In the war of 181JM
major of volunteers; was high sheriff of Uampsbire
County; w.is State .ailjutant-general ; died at Am-
herst. Masa.icliuselts, September 11. \<Ui.
Maurice, James, w.-is Iwrn in New York; re-
ceived a public-school education; resided at iUi-
pelh; was elected a representative from NewYort
in the Twenty-third Congress as a Democrat, retdr-
ing 7.801 votes against ts.l.JO votes fur King, ttTii|,
.ind .585 votes for iftalph. Democrat, serving fromD»-
cemlwr 5, 1863, to March :i, 1855.
Maury, Abraham P., received an academical
education; resided at Franklin. Tennessee: WM •
memlxT of the State House of Re|)resenl,ilivw; »M
elected a representative from Tennessee In the
Twenty-fourth Congress as a Wiig; wiis re-electol
to the Twenty-fifth Congress, receiving 2,8<>4 vow
against 2102 votes for Jolm William Crocket, l)ai»-
crat. serving from December 7, 1835, to March 3,
I8;ili: died at Knuvklln, Tennessee, July 22, ISW.
Maxey, Sam Bell, was bom in Slonroc CoudIt,
Kejitucky, March '■>», 1825; received his prira»ry
education there; entered the West-Point jlilllarf
Academy in 1842, and graduated in 1840; joinN
the Seventh Infantry, Unittd-States array, •*
Monterey, Mexico, as brevet second lieuteiwnt;
was brevetted first lieutenant for gallant serricrt
at Contreras and Churubusco; served thntiigh tlw
Mexican war; resigned in 1849; rf;tunied to K»n-
incfcy; studied law, and was admitted to the bur
in 1850; removed to Texas in 1857, and pncli«<l
law ; was elected State scmitor for four years la 1881,
but declined, and raised the Ninth Texas InfsnfT
for the Conlt'derate-St.itcs army, of which he w
e(>)onel; was i)n>moted brigadier-general in lS)2,»ii'l
major-general in 1804; commanded the Inili»n-Tef-
rltory military district 1803-1866, and was also taftr-
intendent of Indian affairs; remained in tUeMr»l«
until tlie surrender of the trans-Mississippi Deput'
ment May 26, 1865; resumed the practice of W"!
was commissioned as judge of the Eighth PiJlri'|
of Texas Ai)ril 18, 1873, but declined , was olectol
United-States senator from Texas as a Deni<.icr»' I'?
succeed James W. Flanagan, Republican), and '<»*
bis seat March 6, 1876. His term of service «>l'
expire March 3, 1881.
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STATISTICAL SKETCHES.
529
Hazwell, AugruBtua E., waa bom at £lli«rton,
'"Dtorgia, tSep(oiulx'r 21, 18:211; received a i'la6.sii-al
edtteation, ^nulualing ut the University of Vii-giiiiu
in 1S41; studied law; was admitted to the bar, oiid
coiunienced (iractice at Tallahassee, Florida; was a
imember nf the State House of Representatives In
"I"; was secretary of stat« of Florida in 1,S4.S; Wiis
I State senator in ltU9; was elected a representative
cini Florida in the Thirty-third Congress as a Deino-
rnt, receiving 4,027 votes against 4,587 voles for
Pabel, AMiig; was re-elected to the Tliirty-fourth
oiicress, serving frotu Deeeuibcr 5. IS*'?, to March
, 1!*57; was ap|>ointed liy President Buchanan navy
^eut at I'ensacola, Florida, servility lSj7-18<Jl; was
i Confederate-States senator from Februarj- 22, l.S!2.
to the overthrow of the Confederacy; was elected
president of the Pensacola and Montgomery Hail-
r<j£id IStWJ.
Maxwell, George C, was bom in New Jersey;
eeived a classical education, graduating at Priiice-
[>u Colleia' in 17U2; was elected a representative
am New .Jersey in the Twelfth Congress aa a
liig, serving from November 4, 1811, to March S,
Maxwell, J. P. B., was bom In New Jersey in
ISiJo: received a classical education, graduating at
^Princeton College in 1823; studied law; was ad-
jtted to the bar in 1827, and commenced practice
. Bclvidere; was elected a representative from New
sey in the Twenty-fifth Congress as a Whig on a
enenil ticket, serving from September 4, 1837, to
[arcli 3, 1830; was defeated as the Wliig candidate
Br the Twenty-sixth Congress, although the governor
kve him and his colleagues certificates of election,
ug the "broad seal of the State," which the
louse refused to recognize; was again elected to the
rwentv-sevetith Coiign.'88. serving from May 31,
1?41, to March 3, 184;!; riled at Belvidere, New
Jersey, November 14, 1845.
Maxwell, Lewis, was bom in Virginia; re-
sidi.'d at Weston; was elected a representative fn>m
"Tirginia in the Twentietli Congress aa a Whig, re-
eiving 1,750 votes against 1,040 votes for Joseph
jvell; was re-elected to the Twenty-first Congress,
i-eiving 1,578 Totes against 1,571 voles for Joseph
civell, and TVi votes for W. Uinith j was re-»dette<l to
bo Twenty-second Congress, njceiving 222 majority
Per Daniel .Smith, serving from December 3, 1827,
"to March 2, Is;W.
Maxwell, Thomas, resided at Elmira; was
gltcied II representative from New Yoric in the
"woiilv-tirst Congress aa a Jackson Democrat, serv-
12 from Deeembor 7, 1829, to March 3, 1831.
May, Henry, was bom in the District of Colum-
bia: recoive<l an academical education; studied law;
wns admitted to the b.ir. and commenced practice;
wa* sent by President Pierce to Mexico to investi-
tte the '• Gardiner claim ; *" was elected a representa-
i-e from Maryland in tlie Tlilrty-lhinl Congn'S^ as a
sinocrat, receiving 0,702 votes against 0,440 votes
pr Walsh, ludenendent, serving fnira Dcceml)er 6,
53, to March 3, 1855; wiis defeated as the Demo-
"txatic candidate for the Tlilrty-fourth Congress, re-
ceiving 7.403 votes agiiinst 7,0!if votes for H. Winter
^Davis. Know-Nothing ; was again elected to the
Hbirly-»eveiith Congress, receiving 8,424 votes against
1^14 votes for Davis, Kepublican, serving from July
4. 1.S}1, to M.-irch :3, 1803; died at Baltimore, Mar}-
laud, .September 25, 1803.
May, William L., was bom in Kentucky; re-
ceived a puli]lc-schiK>l education; removed to Illinois,
lid Settled at ypringlield; was elected a rc]>reseiita-
fve from Illinois in the Twenty-third Congress (in
'»ce of Joseph Duncan, resigned) as a Jackson
emocrat; waa re-elected to the Twenty-fourth Con-
ss, receiving 000 majority over G. W. P. Maxwell,
at ; waa re-elected to the Twenty-fifth Con-
I receiving l,.j<.)0 majority over John F. Stuart,
serving from December I, 18^ to March 3,
Mayall, Samuel, was bora In Maine: received
a public-school eilucation; resided at Gray; was a
incinbcr of Uie State House of Keprvsentatives In
1845, 1847, and 184S; waa elected a representative
from Maine in the Thirty-third Congress as a Demo-
crat, receiving 0,017 votes against IMHi votes for
Charles J. Gilm.ili, Whig, 8ii3 votes for Pease. Free-
.Siiilcr, and 2211 votes scattering, serving from Decem-
ber 5. l.-vV). to March 3, 18.15.
Maybam, Stephen L., was l)om at Blenheim,
New York, October 8, 1825; received an academic
educjition; studied law at Ithaca, New York; waa
admitted to the bar in 184S, and has since continued
to practise; was superintendent of puMic scliools at
Schoharie 1852-1857, and su|i('rvlsor l.S')7-1800; was
elected district-attorney of bis county in 1S6U, and
held that office until 1803, wlien he was elected a
niemlHir of the New- York State Assembly from Scho-
liarie County; was electe\l in 1807 a representative
from New York in the Forty-lirst Congress as a
Democrat, receiving 18,478 votes against 15,7;W voles
for Ramsay, Kepublican, serving from Marcli 4, 1800,
U) March 3, 1871 ; was again elected to the Forty-fifth
Congress, receiving 20,408 votes against 10,207 votes
tor Thomas 11. Trempcr, Republlciui, serving from
October 15, 1877.
Maynard, Horace, waa born at Westborough,
Massachusetts, August %>, 1814; received his e«rly
eihicutiou ut the high school taught by Rev. Dr.
Dana of Charleston, South Carolina, and was subae-
nuently at the Miilbury Academy; graduated in
August, 18:J8, at Amherst College, Massachusetts;
nnuoved l»i Tennessee, and stuiiied law at Knoxville:
from October. ISJ8, until March, 1844, was tutor and
afteirward professor in the University of East Ten-
nessee: after that time he entered upon the practice
of the law ; from 1863 to 18<V) ho was attoniey-genenil
of Tennessee; in 1852 and in 1804 he was presidential
eleeti.ir; in January, 1805, he was a member of the
Constitutional Convention of Tennessee, and he has
also held several unimportant and local offices; he
was elected a representative from Tcnnesstte in the
Tlilrty-fifth Congress as an American, receiving 5,6(i6
votes against 5,;J60 votes for Wallace, Democrat;
waa re-elected to the Thirty-sixlh Congress, receiv-
ing 0,470 votes against 4,03U votes for Kamsay,
Democrat; waa re-elected ti> the Thirty-seventh
Congress, serving from Deceml)er 7, 1857, to March
3. 1803; wosogain elected to the Thirty-ninth Con-
gress, receiving 7,150 votes against 2,.323 votes for
J. A. Cooper, Democrat, 1.8,50 voles for Honk. Inde-
jHMident, and 1,210 votes for Boyd, Secession; waa
re-elected to the Fortieth Congn'Ss, receiving 11,004
votes against 3,040 votes for Jrdm Williams, Con-
servative; waa re-elected to the Forty-first Congress,
receiving 10,4a3 votes against 2,081 votes for Uoiik,
Independent; waa re-elected to the Forty-second
Congress, receiving 8,351 votes against 7,809 votes
for A. Bliziird, Democrat; was re-elected to the
Fortv-thinl Congress by the State at large, receiving
80,825 votes iigaiiist li5,I88 voles for B. F. Cheatham,
Democrat, and 37,tKX( votes for A. Johnson, Demo-
crat, scnlng from July 24, 180«J, to March 3, 1875;
was appointed by President Grant minister resident
at Constantinople.
Maynard, John, was bom In New York; re-
ceived a cias.'!lcal education, graduating at Union
Cnllcge in IKIU; studied law; was ailmltted to the
bar; commenced prtictice at Seneca Falls, and re-
moved to Auburn; was elected a representative from
New Yorli in the Twentieth Congress as a Whig,
seniiig from December 3, 1827, U) March 3, 1820;
was B member of the State Senate 1838-1840; was
again elected to the Twenty-seventh Congresa, re-
ceiving 0,749 votes against 0,561 votes for John De
Molt, Democrat, and ser^'ing from May 31, 1841, to
March 3, 1.84:1; was a judge of the Seventh-District
Supreme Court June 7, 1847, tuiUl his death at
Auburn, New York, March 24, 1850.
Mayrant, William, was bom In South Caro-
530
C0KGEE88I0NAL DIRECTOKY.
Una; was elected a representative from SoutU Caro-
lina in the Fourteentli Congress (<lefcating John
Kerelmw), serving from December 4, 1815, to Oc-
tolieril, isiil, wlu'U lio roslgneil. (iiult liaving been
found «ilh Ills vote on llio coniiionsuliiin tiill; was
defi'atcd as a candidate for tlie Fifteenth Congress
by ^Sll■|llll■ll O. Miller.
Meacham, James, was bom at Rutland, Ver-
mont, in I.SIO; received a classical education, gradu-
ating at MIddleburj' College in 1.S32; studied tlieology
■whiio a tutor at Middlebury College; was nnlaiiicil.
»nd settled as pastor of a church at New llavmi,
Vermont ; was chosen professor of elocution and
English literature at Middlebury College; wascli.'cted
a representative from Vcnnont in the Thirty-Iirst
Congress (in place of George P. Marsh, resigned) as
a Wliig, i-ecciving tl,04o votes against 4,7W votes
for Peck, Coalition, and 835 votes fi>r Harrington
and scattering; was re-elected to the Thirty-second
Congress, receiving 0,945 votes against U.SKIO votes
for Beardsley, Democrat, and 1,521 for H.-irrington;
was re-elected to the Thirty-third Congress, receiv-
ing 7,138 votes against 2,8'Jl votes for Pierpont, Frce-
Soller, and 2,704 votes for Tucker, Democrat; was
re-elected to the Thirty-fourth Congress, nfceiviiig
8,0^ votes against ;l,4l!4 votes for S. W. Jewetl,
Democrat, and 174 scattering, sen-lng from Decem-
ber ;i, 1H40, to August 22, 1850, when he died.
Mead, Cowles, was Iwm iu Georgia; studied
and practised law; was elected a representative from
Georgia in the Nintli Congress as a Democrat, serv-
ing frfjm December 2, 1,SD5, to Decemltor 25, IWtt,
when, his election having been successfully contested,
his successor took his seat ; was appointed by Presi-
dent Jefferson secretary of Mississippi Territory In
1800.
Meade, Edwin Buthven, was bom at Nor-
wich, New Yiirk. July (i, l*j<>; received an academic
education; studied law; wsjs admitted to the bar in
1858, and practised at New York; had never held
any public office of Importance, when he was elected
a representative from New York In the Forty-fourth
Congress as aDemocrat, receiving t»,191l vt)tes against
9,024 votes for Edward Hogan, Independent Demo-
crat anil Republican, anil serving from December 0,
1875, to March ;{, 1877.
Meade, Richard K., was bom in Virginia;
received an academical education; studied law; was
admitted to the bar, and commenced practice at
Petersluin;; was elected a representative from Vir-
ginia in the Thirtieth Congress as a Democrat ; was
re-elected to the Thirty-first Congress, receiving no
opposition; was re-elected to the Tbirty-.second Con-
eress, receiving no opposition, serving from Decem-
ber 8, 1847, to March 3, 185.3; was .aripiiiuted l>y
President Pierce minister to Sardinia May 24, IftW,
but declined: wjis appointed by President Buchanan
minister to Brazil, serving July 27, IS'iT-July U, IStil ;
returned to Virginia, and died there April 2b. ].S(i2.
Mebane, Alexander, was born at Ilaivtields.
North Carolina, November 20, 1707; w.is a member
of the Constitutional Convention of North Carolina
in 1770; was a member of the House of Commons of
Nortli Carolina n87-n'.>2; was elected a rej)rescnla-
tive from North Carolina In the Tliinl Congress,
serving from December 2, 17U3, until March H, 1705 ;
and died at his home in Orange County, North Caro-
lina. July 5, 17(15.
Medill, William, was bom in New-Castle
County, Delaware; received an academical educa-
tion ; studied haw ; Wiis admittetl to the bar in 18:j2,
and commenced practice at Lancaster, Oliio; was for
several years a metnber of the State legislature;
was elected a represeutalive from Ohio in tlie Twen-
ty-sixth Congress as a Democrat; was re-elected ti>
the Twenlv-seventh Congress, 8er^•ing from Decem-
ber 2. 183)9, to March A, 184.S; was appointed by
President Polk first assistant postmoster-eeneral,
iervlng a few months; was appointed comnolssioner
of Indian affairs, serving October 28, 184&-May 20,
1850; was a delegate to the Stale Constitntionil Con-
vention of Ohio In 1860; was lieutenant-govenmrol
Ohio in 1831 and 1.852; was appointed by Prwiili
Buchanan first comptroller of the treasiirv. seni
March 2'). lS57-April 10. 1801; died at I,ancasioi
Pennsylvania. Sepienilwr 2, 1805.
Meech, Ezra, w.is bom at New London. Coi
nuclicut. July 20, 177;}; received a pul>lic-."ho ■! •"!
cation; went to the North- West, and enu le
fur-trade; contracted with the Briiish (■ it
fur the su|)ply of masts, sjiars, and shl|>-tii!ii»r ii
Canaila; removed to Shelbume, Vemiont; was
member of tlie Stiite House of Rcpn-sentative* in 1
and 1807; was elected a representative from Vennoi
in the SLxteenth Congress, serring fnjm Deceml
0. 18111, to March 3, 1.821 ; was a delegate to the St
Constitutional C uiventlons of 1822 and 1820
chief justice of Crittenden County: was again el
cd to the Nineteenth Congress, scniiig from D»?cm
ber 5, 182.5, to March 3,' 1827; devo'ted himself
agricultural pursuits; was a prcsident.'il elector on t
Harrison ticket in 1841; died at Shelbume,Vermoii
.September 23, l.SVt.
Meigs, Henry, was bom at New Haven, O
nwlicut. Octolter 28, 1782; received a cl:i«"-
cation. graduating ut Vale College in IT I
law; was admitted to the bar, and conun
tice iu Now- York City; was elected a re|
from New York In tlie Sixteenth Coii_ i
Democrat, serving from Deceml)er 0. 1811', t" .^lanii
3, 1821; was for nmny years reconling secretary "(
the ilmerican Institute at New York, and a
of its annual fairs; died at New York May 20,
Meigs, Betum Jonathan, was Ixim at "
town, Connecticut; received a classical edu
graduating at Yale College In 1785: studied law;
adniltteil to the bar, and commenced iiractiee
Marietta, Ohio; participated In the Indian war on
the frontier; was appointed a judge of the Supreme
Court of Ohio; was elected a United-States S'.'uatur
frimi Ohio (In place of John Smith, resignedl as t
Democrat, serving from January 6. 1809, to M«y 1,
1810, when he resigned; was governor of Ohio ISIO-
1814; was appointed fxistmaster-genoral l)y President
Madison, serving March 17, I814^Jiine 2t), 1823; dinl
at Marietta, Ohio. March 29, 182i5.
Mellen, Prentiss, was liom at Sterling, Msssa-
ehusetts, Octolx-r 11, 1704; received a classical edu-
cation, gr.iduatii^; at Cambridge in 1784; sludiiil
la«v; was admitted to the bar in 178<j, and com-
menced practice at Bridgewater, Mnssaehnsolfj; i*^
moved In 1792 to Biddcford, and in l.soo to Ponlainl.
Massachnsetts (afterwards Maine); w.as a metnber nf
the Executive Council of M.assachnsetts 1S0!>-1hS
and 1817; was a tmstee of Bowdoin College 1S17-
]8:}0; wiis elected a United-States senator from Hay
8,'ichusetts (In place of Eli P. Ashmun, r»3ij;iieii),
serving from Noveraljcr 10, 1818, to May 1,%' IS*),
when he resigneil on account of the separation
of Maine; was elected the first chief justice of
Maitie, servitig 1820-1S;U, when he was disi|iiallfi«l
by age; resumed the practice of law at Poitliunl,
Maine, anil dieil tlicre December 31, 1840. Uii il(-
cisions are published in tlie first eleven TolumM o<
the Maine Keports.
Mellish, David B., was bom at Oxford, Ms**-
clm.si'tiB. January 2, ISJl; received a publlc-adiool
education; learned the art of printing in the offlctof
"The \Vorcester(Mass,ichu8ett.«)Spy;" taughtschcol
in Massachusetts. Maryland, and Pennsylvanis; '">
pr<x)f-reader in New- York City two years: acquiroi
Pitman's phonographic system of verbatim report-
ing; for two years, 1860 aiid 1801, was general ni;«">
and short-hand reporter for " Tiie New-York Tril>-
une;" was stenogragher to the Metro|K)lit»ii "i"'
subsequently to the Municipal Boanl of I'<ili« "'
New-York City nearly ten yejjrs, me.-inwhllc i"""'
tributing articles to the press; was appointt?d «»s''''
ant appraiser of the port of New York In K''T1;_ »••
elected a representative from New York in the fortj-
STATISTICAL SKETCHES.
681
irt\ Conffress ns a Republican, receiving 7,841 votes
ainst ".IK K votos for J. Iliinly, Apullo-IIall Dpmo-
at, anil 5.,*47 votes for M. Connolly, T;miiiiany-Hall
Democrat, aii<l serving from December 1, 1S73, to
Mkv :i:}. 1S74, when ho illed at the Govoniment Hos-
pital fi>r llie Insane, liavini; lost his n.-ason.
Mesifee, Richard H., was bom in Kentucky;
recfivi-il an acaikmieal education; gludteJ law; was
admiitefl to the bar, anil commenceil praclice at Lex-
ini^on: was elected a representative from Kentucky In
the Twenty-fifth Congress as a Whie: (defeating Rich-
ard French, Deraix'rat), serving from S<!pteinl)er 4,
1837, to March 3. l.S:JO: declined a re-election; re-
moved to Lexinj;ton, an<I devoted himself to profes-
sional pursuits: died at Frankfort February 21, 1S41.
Menziea, John W., was born in F.iyette Coun-
ty, Kentucky, April 12, 1810; received a classical
education, gfadualinc: at the University of Virginia
in 1!>4<): studied law; wasaijraitted to the bar in 1841,
and commenced practice at Covington, Kentucky;
was a member of the .State House of Representa-
tlvcj in 1848 and l.SVj; was elecle<] a representative
from Kentucky in the Thirty-seventh Congress as a
Unionist, receiving 8,373 votes against 3,774 votes
for Hogan, Secessionist, and (S>S votes for Jones,
ser^-ini; from July 4, ISM, to March 3, IStiJ; was de-
feated as the Democratic candidate for the Thirty-
eighth Congress, receiving 2,283 votes against (i.iWO
votes for Smith, Union, and 1,1)70 votes for Leathers,
Democrat; w.is a delegate to the Chicago National
Convention of 18<J4, which nominated McClellan.
Mercer, Charles Penton, was bom at Freder-
icksbun;, Virginia, June 0, 1778; received a clas-
sical educatiou. Kradualing at Princeton College In
1797; served In the United-States army as lieutenant
and captain nttH-lSO*!; studied law, and was a<l-
mitted to the bar; vlsiU-d Europe; returned in 1803,
and commenced practice; was a memlwr of the State
House of Representatives 1810-1817; served In the
war of 1812 as brigadier-general; w.is defeated as a
Fedcriil candidate for the Twelfth Congress by
Joseph Kent, Democrat; was the first president of
the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal C(tmnany; was
elected a representative from Virginia in the Fif-
teenth Congress as a Democrat, and was succes-
sively re-elected to the Sixteenth, Seventeenth,
Eighteenth, Nineteenth, Twentieth, Twenty-first.
Twenty-second, Twenty-third, Twenty-fourth, Twen-
ty-fifth, and Twenty-sixth Congresses, serving from
Decemb.-r 1, 1817, to Dec-ember 2«, ISJO; visite<l
Europe in 1.85;) to confer vvilli the gr<»at powers on
the aliolition of the sl.ive-triiile; died at HowanI,
near Alexandria, Virginia, M.iy 4, l.S."j8.
Mercer, James, was born in Hampshire C<iun-
ty. Virginia, in 1707; received a classical education,
gr.nduating at William and &lary College in 17ti7;
was earnestly engaged in [ire- Revolutionary nuive-
ments; was a deleg;ite to the several ConstitutioMii!
Conventions; was one of tlie Committee of Public
Safety: w.is a delegate from Viririni.^ in the Conti-
nental Congress, serving 1770-1786; was appointed a
judge of .-ulmiralty and of the First Court of Appeals
In 1770 and H.-^D; "died In Virginia in July, 1703.
Mercer, John Francis, was bom in 1758; re-
ceivi-l a classical eilui-ation, graduating from William
and Mar)' College in lu.i: was a delegate from Vir-
ginia n.^J-K-SJ: removed to Marjl.ond; was a dele-
gate from Maryland to the Conveiillon which framed
the Federal Constitution; was elected a representa-
tive from Marjiatid in the .Second Congress (in place
of William Pinkiiey. resigned); was re-<;lecte<l to the
Third Congress, servitig from February il, 1702, t<i
April i;), 1704, when lie resigned; was a memlM-r
of the Stale House of Representatives; died at Pliila-
delphia August :V\ 1821.
MercUT, Ulysses, was bom at Towanda, Penn-
sylvania, August 12. 1818; graduated at Jefferson
College, Pennsylvania; studied and pr.ictised law;
was n delegate to the National Republican Conven-
tion wbicli nominated Fremont; was a Republican
presidential elector In 1800; was appointed pn'sident-
juilgo of the Tbirteeiith Judifial I)istriei of Penn-
sylvania in March, LStll, and in the Octol)er follow-
ing was elected to the same office for a fenn of ten
years from Decemlwr, 1801 ; was elected a repre-
sentative from Pennsylvania in the Tbirty-nlnth
Congress as a Remiblican, receiving l»,724 votes
against 8,723 votes lor V. E. Piojlet, Democrat, luid
resigned his judgeship March 4, 18<">."i; w.is re-tdeetej
to the Fortieth (Congress, receiving ll,H4<t votes
against U),Wi:j votes for Elwell, Democrat ; was re-
elected to the Forty-first Con'.;ress, receiving 12,T23
votes i^;alnBt 12.412 votes for Piollet. Democrat: and
was re-elected to the Forty-second Congn-ss, receiv-
ing 11,117 votes against 10.'0()3 votes for C. 11. IJrock-
way, DemiK-rat, serving from December 4, IStlO, to
Deeeinl»-r 2, 1872, whi.-n he resigned.
Meredith, Samuel, was Ipom at Philadelphia,
Peiuisylvania, in I".")"; received a mercantile educa-
tion; was a member of the Colonial legislature;
ser^•ed in the Revoliitionai-y army as major of the
Thinl Pcnnsylvaida Rattalion : was a delegate from
Pcmisylvania to the Continental Congress 1787-17.88;
was treasurer of the United States September 11,
17.S<i-Decembcr 1. l.'^U; died at Belmont, Pennsyl-
vania, March 10, 1817.
Meriwether, David, was bom In Virginia in
17.Vj: receivi'd an Kii'/lish edueation; entered the
Revoliulniiary army lielore he was fif age as lieuten-
ant, and served in New Jersey and in Georgia; was
taken prisoner at the battle of .Savann.ah by the
British, and held as a hostage; settled, after the war,
in Wilkes County, Georgia ; was elected a representa-
tive from Georgia in the Seventh Congress (in place
of Benjamin Taliaferro, resigned) as a Democrat;
was re-elected to the Eighth and Nintli Congresses,
serving from December (1, 1802, to Mon.di 3, 1807;
w:ui appointed by President Jefferson in 1804 n com-
niissiiiner to treat with the Creek Indians; died near
Athens. (Jeorgia, Novemlier 111, 18;i2.
Meriwether, David, w.os l>om and reared in
Kentucky; studied law; w.as admitted to the bar,
and j)ractised ; was appointed a United-JStates sena-
tor from Kentucky (in place of Henry Clay, re-
siijned). s<^rviiig from July 15, 18J2. to December 20,
1.852, when hissuccessor took his seat; w.as appointed
by President Pierce governor of New Mexico, serv-
ins from Mav 0, IS'i.'!, to January 5, 18,5.').
Meriwether, James, was l)oni in Wilkes Coun-
ty, (Jeorgia; received a imblic-school education; was
I'lected a representative from Georgia in the Nine-
teenth Congress, serving from December 6, 1825, to
Jlareh :i. 1.S27.
Meriwether, James A,, was boni in Georgia;
residi'd at F/lenton ; was elected a repn-sentative from
Georgia in the Twenty-seventh Congress as a Whig,
receiving .30,141 votes against 3.5,201 votes for Josiah
S. Patterson, Democrat, serving from May 31, 1841,
to March :!. 1.84.3.
Merriam, Clinton L., was bom at Leyden,
New York, March 25, 1824; receiveil an academic
(!ducation; eng.aged at an early age in b.anking and
men.'antile pursuits in Northern >few Vork; removed
to New-York City In 1847, where, for B<n-eral years,
lie conducted an Impiprling ami jobbing business,
and in 1.800 established a baidiiiig and stock-coimnis-
sion bouse, from which he retireil in 1804 to his
native town; and was elected to (he Forty-second
Congress os a Republican, recetvirig 14,8(13 votes
against 12.800 votes for Cornwall, Democrat; and
w-as re-<.'lected to the Fortv-thinl Congress, receiving
17,-337 voti-s against 13.220 voles for B. Brockway, Lib-
eral, serving from Manh 4. 1871, to March 3, l>^'o.
Merrick, Willicun D. (father of William M.
Merrick), was bom In Maryland; received an aca-
demical education; held several local positions; was
elected a Unlled->State8 senator from Maryland (in
place of Joseph Kent, deceased) as a Whig, serving
from January 5, 1.8.38, to March 3, 1845; died at
Washington City Febroary 5, 1857.
632
CONGBESSIOiTAL DmECTOKY.
Merrick, William M. (son of William D.
Mt-rriok). vox \mm In Diarlfs County. Miir>l:imi.
SeptcniluT 1, 1H18; received a classical education;
studied law; was lulmitted to tJie bar in lt<j't), and
commenced practice at Fit^derick, Mai-vland, in 1.S44:
was (lefiuty attorney-general for FreilerieU County
liS-t.")-lh*6(); removed lo WasluuBton City in l.S">4;
was apjioinled associate judge of the United-States
Circuit Court for the District of Columbia, se^^■ing
ISo-J-ltMt;^ : was senior professor of law in Columbian
ColleKe ISm and 1807; was a delegate to tlie State
Constitutional Convention ItHyj; was a nieinl«;r of
the Slate House of llepresentatives in IsTO; w:»s
'elected a representative fruin Maryland in the Forty-
* BMKlQd Congress as a Democrat, receiving lb,'2i'il
TOttt against 13,.S4U -votes for James A. Gary, Kepub-
UCMI, serving from March 4, 1871, to JIareh .'1. 1.>7;1:
was defeated as the Democratic candidate for the
Fortv-third Congress, receiving U>,;}(jii votes against
ll.aiij votes for William F. Albert, Kepuiilicaii.
Merrill, Orsamus C, was born in Vermont
in 177t5; received an academical education; studied
law; was admitted to the bar, and conmieiiced prac-
tice; was county-attorney, register of probate, and
judge of probate ; was elected a representative from
Vermont in the Fifteenth Contiress as a Jackson
Democrat ; was re-<'lectwl to tlic Sixteenth Congress
on a general ticket, receiving (?,IKJ.5 votes acalnst
(J,87» votes for Rollin C. Midlury, and obtained the
certificate of election, serviiig fn.int December 1,
1817, to January 14, 1820, when, his election having
been successfully contested, Mr. Mallory took his
seat; held several local offices; died at Bennington
April 11, l.S(15.
Merrimon, Aucrustus Summerfleld, was
l)orn in Buncombe (now Transylvania) County, in
North Carolina, Septeini>er 15, IfiW; received a com-
mon-school education; studied l.iw; was admit-
ted to the bar in 1851, and is a practising lawyer;
w.is often elected county-attorney in sovoral coun-
ties; was a member of the legislature of Xr)rlh Can>-
llna in 1S*)0-18«1 ; was solicitor of the Eighth Judicial
District of North Candina from liHlI to lS<1.o; was
elected by the legislature a judge of the Superinr
Courts in 18(10, and continued to liold that ottjit-
until August, 1807, when ho resigned his office rather
than oliey a military order, silting as ii civil jiid:;e;
he was elected a United->State8 senator frnm N'ortli
Carolina as a Democrat (to succeed Jolin P(«if, Ri,*-
publican), and took liis seat March 4, 1S73; his term
of s<Tvice will expire March 3, 1870.
Merritt, Samuel A., was bom at Staunton.
Virginia. August l.'i, IS'Jti; receiveil his early educa-
tion at tlie .Staunton Academy, ami graduated from
Wiishlngfon College, Lexington. Virginia. June IX,
1848; studied law, and pniclises the profession; was
county-clerk in Callfomia in 1850; was a member of
the State Assembly of Califoniia in 1851 and 18,52;
was a member of the State Senate of Califoniia in
1857. 1*58, 1S51). 1.800, 1801, and IstlL'; and was elected
a delegate from Idaho in the Forty-second Congress
as a Democrat by alniut l.ixjn majority over T. J.
Butler. Kepublicaii, serving from March 4. 1871, to
March ;). 1873.
Mervin, Orange, was bom at Litchfield. Con-
necticut; received an academical education; resided
at NewMilford; was elected a representative from
Connecticut in the Nineteenth Congress; w.is re-
elected to the Twentieth (Congress, serving from De-
cenilier .5. 1S25, to Miircb 3, 1829.
Messervy, William S., was bom at .Salem,
Ma»8;ichusetts; removed to New Slexico; was elected
a delegate from New Mexico before llie Territory w.is
admitted; Ids cn.Mlentials were presented December
10, 1850, and rejKirted on jidversely Febmary 6, 1861;
returning to Salem, he was elected mayor.
Metcalf, Arnnah, was lx>rn in S'ewTork; re-
ceived a publlc-sctiool education; resided at Otsego;
was elected a representative from New York in the
Twelfth Congress aa a Democrat, receiving 877 ma-
jority, serving from November 4. 1811, lo Uorch S,
181;J; was a meml)erof tlie State House of Kepreseti-
talives in 1S14-1S10 and in 1828.
Metcalfe, Henry B., was Iwm at AJljany, New
York, January 20. 18<)5; removed with his parents la
1811 to the city of New York, and in 18111 to "" '
mond County; studieil law with his father, Geot;
Metcalfe, and was admitted to the bar In the city i
New York in 1820; succetnled his father in the 1
part of that ye.ir as districl-atloniey of Hichmo
County, which otiice he held six years :" was appoi
first judge of Riclimond County in ISWt, but i
the following year to accept a p<jsilion iu the '
De|)arlnirut. whicli lie lielil until lS4:i; was!
county-judge and surrogate of Riclituourl Cooi
1847, and was annually re-elected until ls75;
was elected a representative from New York iu
Forty-fourtli Congress as a Democrat, recfi'
12,li84 Votes against 11,002 votes for S. B. Frend
Republican, serving from December 0, 1875, to 1
3, 1877.
Metcalfe, Lyne S., was bom in Madis<mvillp,
Kentucky, April 21, 1822; received a common-
education, followed by a partial course at .Sli;^
and Illinois Colleges; left Kentucky for Illiii ■
is;i8; .ind in 1844, at Alton, Illinois, engaged in t: . -
cintlle pursuits; wasamemiierof the lioa^d of u i.-
men for several years, and afterwanl mayor i^f I'm".
city; entered the United-States service at tlie .cc..
mencement of the civil war as assistant qu.irtcr-
master, with rank as captain, and was promoted :r>a
colonelcy; removed to St. Louis in 180.3: wascngagtU
in manufacluring there after 18(VI, and served u s
member of the city council of that city; was eiertfj
to tlio Forty-fifth Congress as a Republican, recfivini;
8,il'.ll votes against 8,072 votes for ii. M. Frost, D(!mi>^
crat. serving from October 1.5, 1877.
Metcalfe, Thomas, v;!a bom in Famiuiiir
County, Virginia. March 20, 17.80; received a puiilic-
scliool education in Fayette County. Kentucky, when
his father had removed; learned tiie ma-iou's tradr:
served in tlie war of 1812, and distinguished hiiiiwlf
at the liattle of Fort Meigs; was for several yean »
niemln'r of the State House of lieprevnt.'itive*; « i»
elected a representative from Kentucky hi the six-
teenth Congress as a Clay Deniocr.i' '
Desha; w.is re-elected totheSevent" ■
Nineteenth, )iml Twentieth Congre-- - ■■.il
DeccmlH-r 6, 1811), to June 1. 1828. wlien he resTgnsi
was governor of Kentucky l.S21>-18:if!; was n nK-mtx
of the .State Senate 18:54; was president if ' " 1'
of Internal improvement in 1.S40: was
UniteiI-,Statcs senator fnmi Kentucky (.,, |.,» • i
John J. Crittenden, resigned), serNing fn^ra JnlvS.
1848, to JIarch .3, 184!1; retired to his'fanu. and iiti
in Nicholas County, Kentucky, August 18, 1853.
Meyers, Beiijamin P.", was bom near Stw
Centreville. Pennsylvania, July 0, 18."U; received in
academic education at Somerset and Jefferson 04-
lege, Pennsylvania; studied law, and was admittol
to the bar in 1S55; was a memlx;r of the State Idgt*"
lature of Pennsylvania in 1804; was a delegate to tlia
Democratic National Conventhm in 18(lj
etlitor and proprietor of " Tlie Bedford Cf
18.57, and one of the proprietors and editor-
of "Tlie Ilarrisburg Daily Patriot" in 1"
which journals he is still connected; and w;
a representative from Pennsylvania In the
second Congress as a Democrat, rpreivins:
votes against 12.844 votes for John • Ft<
llciui, Ber\-ing from March 4, 1871, i
was defeated as the Democratic c.ii....v..... I'>l
Fort>--third Congress, receivinit IS.mi rottt sgniB*
14.;iS:? votes for John Cessna, Republican.
Middleswaxth, Ner, w:is liom in New Jenej;
received an acidemical education; removed toPi'Dii-
sylvania, and settled at Beavertowu: was elecleJ »
representative from Pennsylvania in the Thirty-tW™
Congress as a Whig, receiving 7,921 volw apintt
0,27o votes for Seiner, Democrat, serving from 0^
STATISTICAL SESTCHES.
588
cember 5. 1S53, to March 3, 1855; died at Beavcrtown
June 2. 1*L').
Middleton, Arthur (son of Henry Middleton,
&nd father of Henry Middlrton), wag bom at the
family-seat on Asliley River, Soiilli Carolina, in 1745;
receired a clas!>ical education in England, njjailuatinK
at Canibriilfre University in 17(U; aifter tnivelling at
home aud abroad, he settled dowii as a South-Caro-
lina planter in 1773; was one of the Council of Safety
in 1775; was one of the committee to frame a State
Constitution in 1770; was a delegate from South Car-
olina to the Continental ConsJTess 1770-1778 ; declint'd
the goTernorship of South Carolina in 1778; entered
the lievolutionary army as a South-Carolina volun-
teer in 1771»; was made prisoner by the British on
the fall of Cliarleston in 1780. and exchanired in July,
1781; was again a delegate from South Carolina to
the Continental Congress 178]-17S-'5; having acquired
the art of stenoijraphy, he look notes of many :>f the
debates iu which he participated; died in .South Car-
olina January 1, 1788. He publisbei) some elTectlve
political essays over the signature of Andrew llar-
vell.
Middleton, Qeorgre, was bom at Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania. October 14, 1811; remove<l with bis
father to Burliujjton, New Jersey; learned the tan-
ner's trade; received a public-school education; re-
moved to Allcnlown; held several local oflices ; was
for two successive years a memlwrof the State House
of Representatives; was elected a representative from
New Jersey in the Thirty-i4gbtb Congress as a Dem-
ocrat, receiving 12,182 votes against 10,834 votes for
Brown, Kepublican, serving from December 7, IStW,
to Marcli .3, 1805; was defeated as tlie Democratic
candidate (or tlie Thirty-ninth Congress, receiving
1;3,0H1 votes against 13,4.'>3 votes for William A.
Ken<!ll. Union.
Middleton, Henry (father of Arthur Middle-
ton, and grandlather of Henry Middleton). w:is born
in Siouth Carolina; was a delegate from South Caro-
lina iu the Continental Congress 1774-1770; dTed at
Charleston. South Carolina.
Middleton, Henry (son of Arthur Middleton,
and grandson of Henry Middleton), was born iu
South Carolina in 1770; received a chissical educa-
tion ; was a member of the State House of Uepresen-
tatives 1801-1810; was governor of .South Carolina
1310-1812; was elected a representative from South
Carolina in the Fourteenth Congress; was re-elected
to the Fifle<;nth Congress, serving from December 4,
1S15. to March 3, I81H; was minister to Uussia April
fl, 182'J-Aueiist 3, 18:}0; died at Charleston, South
Carolina. June 14, 1840.
Mifflin, Thomaa, was born at Philadelphia,
Penusyivani.i, iu 1744; was educated In Pbiliideliihia
College; visited Europe in ITCt."), aud, after bis re-
turn, entered into partiiersiiip with an elder lirother;
was a member of the Colonial leijisl.ilure in 1772
and 1773; w.is a delegate from Pennsylvania to the
Kirst Congn-ss in 1774: entered the Revolutionary
army as major of a Philadelphia regiment; accom-
r>.vnied V\';ishiugton to t^ainbridge as aide-de-camp,
with llie rank of colonel; was made quartermimter-
Kxineral in August: was made ailjutant-gonenil In
September; was commiiisioned brigadier-general May
3U, 1770. and major-genenil Februnry 19, 1777; he
s«.TV.'d with distinction on Long Island and in New
l>ut became dissatisfied with General Wash-
. and w.'is one of these who conspired to re-
in..i.- njjn: was a delegate from Pennsylvania to the
<Jontini'ntHl Congress 1782-178:5; w:is a member of
the Stale House of Representatives and its speaker
]i> 17 S5 ; wa.s a delegate to the convention t^) frame
the Federtd Constitution 1787: was president of the
Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania Octolier.
^"H.'UOetoUT, 17S>J; was president of tlip convention
■which framed the State Constitution 17iK); was gov-
ernor of Pennsylvania 17l'l-i800; died at Lancaster,
3*ennsvlvania. January 21, 1800.
Miles, Nathaniel, was elected a representative
from Vermont In the Second Congress; was re-eloct-
c<i to the Thirtl Congress, serving from Oclol>er24,
1701, to March .3, 1795.
MUes, W. Porcher, was Ijom at Charleston,
South Carolina, July, 1828; received a cl.issieal edu-
cation. gniUiuuing at the Charleston College : studied
lu\A anil was .admitted to the bar; was mayor of
Ch.irIeston ]8-')0-18.')7; was elected a representative
from South Carolina In the ndrly-lif tli Congres? as a
State-rights Democrat; was re-elected to thie Thirty-
sixth Congress, serving from December 7, 18.'J7, to his
withdrawal on the secession of South Carolina; was
a deputy from Sonth Carolina to the Provisional
Congress of the Confederate States, which assembled
at Mimtiomerj- in February, 1801; wija a representa-
tive from South Carolina in the First and .Second
Confederate Congresses, serving from February 22,
iy-2. to March. 18'U.
Milledge, John, vrast bom at Savannah, Georgia,
in 17)7; took up arms early in the Revolutionary
slrujr^'le, and distinguished himself In the local en-
uagenients; was attoniey-gcneral of Georgia in 1780;
was elected a representative from Georgia in the
Second Congress (in place of Anthony Wayne, whose
seat hail been declared vacant by the House), serving
from Novemlicr 22, 1702, to March 2, 179;5: w;is again
elected to tlio Fourth Congress, and re-elected to the
Fifth Congress, serving from December 7, 1795, to
March 3, 1709; w.as again elected to the Seventh
Congn.'ss, sening from December 7, 1801, to May.
18<»2, when ho resi,!;neil; w.as governor of Georgia
18()2-180<l; was elected a United-States senator froiu
Georgia (In place of James Jackson, dece.iseil). serv-
ing from December II, 180(), to 1809, when he resigned ;
died at the Sand Hills February 0, 1819.
Millen, John, was bom at Savannah, Georeia.
iu 181)4; received an academiciil education; stuJled
law; was admitted to the bar, and commenced prac-
tice at .Savannah ; was a member of the State House
of Representatives; was elected a representative from
Georgia in the Twenty-eighth Congress as a Demi*-
crat, receiving .3.1,020 votes against 32,544 votes for
Henry P. Smead, Whig; died October 15, 1843 (hav-
ing never taken Ids seat), at his residence, near Sa-
vannah.
Miller. Daniel F., was bom In Alleghany Coun-
ty, Maryland, October 4, 1814; received an aca-
deralcal education; studied law at Pittsburg; was
(vlniltted to the bar In 1838, and commenced practice
in Iowa in !H;Ji); was a meml>er of the Territorial
House of Representatives; w^as elected a repn-sent.i-
tive from Iowa in the Thirty-first Congress as a ^Vhig,
receiving 0,091 votes against 0,477 votes for William
Thompson, the Monnon vote having been thrown
out; Mr. Thompson received the certificate of elec-
tion, and Mr. Miller contested the seat, the House
deciding, June 20, I8.)0, that the seat w.is vacmt;
at the iicw election Miller received 5,403 votes against
4,«(.i4 votes for Thompson, and 305 votes for Smith,
Fn.'e-.SolIer, serving from December 20, 18.50, to .March
3. 18.')1 ; was a presidential elector on the Frdmont
IJckot in IHTrn.
MiUer, Daniel H., was bom at Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania; was cleeteil a n-presentative from
Peruisylvania in the Eighteenth Congress as a Jack-
son Democrat; was re-elected to the Nineteenth,
Twentieth, and Twentv-first Congresses, serving
from DecemlHT 1, 182.3," to March 3, 1831; died at
Philadelphia in 1840.
Miller, George P., was bom at Cliillisquaque,
Pennsylvania. .Septomlter 6, 1800; received an aca-
demic education; studied aud practised law; was sec-
retary of the Lewisbiira University, in the State of
Pennsylvania, 184-S-18<M; was elected a representative
from Pennsylvania In the Thirty-idnth Congress as a
Republican, receiving 11.019 votes against 11.092
votes for W. H. Miller, Demfwrat; and was re-«"lecteil
to the Fortieth Congress as a Republican, receiving
14,190 votes against 12,075 votes for Bowers, Demo-
crat, serving from December 4, 1886, to MatvhS, 1800.
584
CONGRES8IOXAX DIRECTOEr.
Miller, Jacob W^., was bora lu Morris County,
New JtTdoy, iu 18;)2; reccivt-ii an iiciuleiuicul e<luca-
tion; stiiilieil Ian'; was ailmitU'd tu the har, nud
Ciinimcnceil practice at Norristown : was elected a
Unlled-vStAtes seuatvr from Xcw Jersey as u Wbig,
serving from May 31, IfMl, to Mtircli 3, 1853; died at
MorristDWii. New Jersey, SepleiuIxT 2>). 1SI2.
Miller, Jesse (father of VVilham 11. Miller), was
Ixini at Laiidisluiri;. Pennsylvania; re<-eived a jiublic-
school edui-atioii: studied law; was admitted to the
bar, and praelis<!d; was elected a representative from
Pennsylvania iu the Twenty-third Congress as a J aclc-
son Democrat: was re-elected to the Twenty-fourth
Congress, n-ceivinfj .S4*} majority over Thomas White-
sides, Wilis, serving from Uecember 2, 1(>33, to Octo-
ber 30, 1830, when he resigned; was appointed by
President Jackson first auditor of the treasury, serv-
ing November 1, 1830-June 17, 1842; was cjuud com-
missioner of Pennsylvania I84o and 1S40: was ^itate
secretary of state 184(1-1848; died at Harrisburg,
Pi'nnsvhania, August 20, 1850.
Miller, John, was born at Ameuia, New York,
November 10. 1774; received a privat<3 education;
studied medicine; attended lectures at the Univer-
sity of Peifnsylv.inla. ami practised at TruxUm, New
York; was postmaster at Truxlon lS05-18i5; was a
justice of the peace 1812-1821; was a member of the
State House of Itepresenlatives iu 1817 and 182i);
was elected n repn'sentiilive from New York iu tlie
Nineteenth Congress, serving from December 5, 182.5,
t» March 3, 1827; was again a member of the State
House of HeprescTitativcs in 1845; was a delegate to
the State Constitutional Convention in 1840; died at
Truxton, New York. Marcli 5, 1802.
Miller, John, wiis bom at St«ubenrille, Ohio;
received a puldic-school education; scn'ed in the war
of 1S12, ent<Tiug the army March 12, 1812, as lieu-
tenant-colonel of the Seventeenth Infanlr)'; distin-
guished Iiimstlf in several engagements, and resigned
February 10, 1818: removed to Missouri; was goveni-
cjr of Missouri 1820-1832; wiis elected a representa-
tive from Missouri in the Twenty-lifth Congress as a
Van Buren Democrat, defeating Samuel C. Owens,
While Democrat; was re-elected to the Twenty-sixtli
Congress, receiving 2;i,187 votes against 17,1U;3 vote*
for Allen, Whig; was re-elected to the Twenty-
si'venth Congress, svrving from Seplember 4, 18;i7, 1«
Miu-ch 3, IS'W; ilied near Florissant, Missouri, March
IS, l-iKl.
Miller, John Q., was bora in Kentucky, Octo-
ber 4, 1812: recelve<l a public-.school education; re-
moved 1^1 Uoonville, Missouri, in 1835; w.ia a niein-
iK-r of the Stal<! House of Representatives in 1840;
was elected a representative from Missouri iu the
Thirty-second Congress as a Whig, receiving 0,578
votes against t^uiM votes for Grf^en, anli-lienton
Democrat, and 2.411 votes for J. Miller, IJt^nlon Dem-
ocntl; was re-elected to the Thirty-third Congress,
receiving 8.21)7 votes against 7,8<11> votes for Green,
Democrat; wtui re-electetl to the Thirty-fourth Con-
fress, receiviug 0,372 votes agaliust 4,W>4 vole? for
'rice, Benton Democrat, and 2,540 votes for Hough,
anti-Uenlon Democrat, serving from December I,
1851, to May 11, 1850, when he died in Saline County,
Missouri.
Miller, John K., was bom in Ohio; received a
public-school education; located at Moutil Vernon,
Ohio; was elected a representative from Ohio iu the
Thirtieth Congress as a Democrat; and was re-elected
to the Tliirlv-lirst Congn;ss, serving from Deceml>er
ti, 1S47, to Miin-h 3. 18.J1.
Miller, Joseph, was bom in Ohio; was c<Iucated
at Chillicothe; was elected a rcpresentativo from
Ohio in the Thirty-lifth Congress as a Democrat, re-
ceiving 7,40;j votes against 5,0.'{3 votes for Hofliuan,
Kepiiblican, and 4,320 votes for Moore, American,
and serving from December 7, 1857, to March 3, 1850:
was defeated as the Democratic candidate for the
Thirty-sixth Congress, receiving 8,043 votes against
10,582 votes for Trimble, KepubUcan; was aptjolnted
United-States judge of the District ConrU for
Territory of Noi>raska.
Miller, Killian, was bom at Clavcrack, V
York, JulySJ, 1785; received au academical cJu<
tion: studied law; was ailmitted to (be |.;ir In
and commenced practice at Li»ini:-
WBS a menilK-r of the State House "■
in 1825 and 1828; removed to Uuii» ■.. i . , m
was county-clerk 1837-1840; was elected a ropfywii-
tative from New York in the Tiiirty-fourth Congrcat
as a Whig, receiving 8,370 votes against 5.54^1 Tot ^
for McClellan, American, and 2.480 votes for Mill(
Denux'rat, serving from December .'). 1855. to
3, ls.-,7.
Miller, Morris S., was bom in I77»: p»iided
Utica; was elected a rtpixsentaiive from New Yi
in the Tliirteenth Congress as a Federalist, ser>"
from May 24, 1813, to M.irch 2. 1815; was a St;
commissioner to negotiate a treaty with the .Vtu
Indians 1810: w:ts judge of the Oneid»-i»^uill
Court ; died at Utica Novemlier 15. 1824.
MiUer, Nathan, was born in UIkhIc Island ;
a brigadier-general of militia: was a delegsito fi
Rhoile Island to the Coutincntal Cuugrvss iu 171
and 178(1.
Miller, Pleasant M., w.-is elected a represent
tive fioin Tennessee in the Eleventh Congress, tei
ing from May 22. 18(MI, to Maivh 3. 1811.
Miller, Rutger B.. was liom in New York
sided at Utica; was cicctuti a representative
New York iu the Twenty-fourth Congress (in pi:
of Samuel Ueardsley, resigned), serving from
comber 5, 18;30, to March 3, 1837; died at Utica, Nei
York, November 13, 1877.
Miller, Samuel F., was bom at Franklin. N«
York, May 27, 1827; pursued his academic studii
at the Delaware Literary Institute; graduateil
Hamilton College in 1852; studied law at the Hamij
ton-college Law School, and was admitted to tli>>
in 18534 did not practise, but engaged in business
a fiU'iuer and lumberman; was a member of tb*1
State legislature of New Y'ork in 1854; was sajicr
visor of the town of Franklin in 1865 and 1850; WM
elected a represent-itive from New Y'ork in thu
Thirty-eighth Congress as a Republican, reoening
14,iH8 votes against 13,523 votes for Parker, Denii>
cnit, serving from December 7, 1803, to Maa-b .1,
18<!5; was a member of the St.ite Consiituliooil
Convention of New York in 1807; was appointed »
commissioner on the State Board of Charities in
1807, and was re-iipi)oiutod In 1873; was ap|)oint»i
collector of internal revenue May 20, 18(ii), aiiJ tt-
signed May 23, 1873; and was again elected to the
Forty-fourth Congress, receiving 15.574 votes sgaiast
14,4;J1 votes for O. M. Allal)eiu Dcmi>cr3t, tervim;
from necoinU'r o; 1875, to March 3, 1.877.
Miller, Smith, was bom in North Carolina: n-
moveil wiien a iacl to Indiana with his parents, aud
settled at Patoka; was n'ared on a farm, slid re-
ceived a scanty public-school education; w« «
member of the State House of Rcpresentativti;
was elected a representative from Iniliaria in llw
Thirty-third Congress as a Democrat, receiving P.OtW
votes against 0,252 votes for Kcal, Whig; wu re-
elected to the Tliirty-fourth Congress, recpiting
'.1,804 votes against (t.oill votes for Hall, Repulilicui,
serving from Decemlrer 5, 185;?, to March 3, 1855.
Miller, Stephen Decattir, was b<3ra in the
Waxhaw Settlement of Lancaster District, Snutli
Candiua, May 8, 1787; received a chissical edncalion.
graduating at the College of South Can'linn in ISfj
studied law under John .S. Richiuilson; wasoJmittol
to the bar lu 1811, and commenced practice at Siuniw-
ville; was elected a representative from South Cir>-
Una In the Fourteenth Congress (to till thcvucaacy
caused by the resignation of William M.iytraiill »
au aiiti-Callioun Democrat, and was rv-«loct«l W
the Fifteenth Congress, starving from Janiwrj ->
1817, until March '3, 1819; declined a re-clecuw.
and resumed practice ; was a State senator ISv*
STATISTICAL SKETCHES.
535
was goTemor of South Carolina 1S2S^1830;
rejected United-States senator from South Cftro-
_ ■» a Nuliifier, defeating Judge William Smith,
ii3 serving from Dccenit)cr 5, 18;n, to Marcli 2,
iH^i, when he resigned on account of ill liealth;
ras a meuiher of tlie Nullitication Conventions of
1£S0 and 1832; ^removed to Mississippi in 1835, and
engaged largely' In the cultivation of cotton; and
died at IlayiDond, Slississippi, March 8, 1838.
Miller, Williaxa H. (son of Jesse Miller), was
Ikhu in I'erry County, Pennsylvania, Janmiry 2!l,
!>-^: received a classical education, graduating at
M.i]i.hall College, Franklin, Pennsylvania; was clerk
of the Supreme Court of Peiiusylviuiia 1S54-18U;1;
was elected a representative from Peunsylvatiia in
the Thirty-eightli Congress as a Dem(x;rat, receiv-
Uig 10.(}3(> votes against lO.Kjy votes for Patterson,
epublican. ser\ing from Dccemtjcr 7, 18<)3, to March
ISio; was dcf<'ate<l as (he Democratic candidate
br the Thirty-ninth Congress, receiving ll,01l:J votes
ainst U.'Jll* votes for (ieorgeF. Miller, Kepublican;
lied at Hiirrisburg, Pennsylvania, Sepleml)er 12,
'If 70.
Miller, William S., was bom at New-Tork
City: Wiis elected a representative from New York
Iti the Twentv-niulh Congress, sening from Decem-
ber 1, 18i."). to March 3, 1847; died at New-York
City Noveml)er l». 1S>4.
IVIilligan, John J., was bom In Cecil Cotuity,
M.arylund. Docemlicr 10, 17t>5; received a classical
eilucation. studying three years at Princeton College;
studied law; was admitted tu the bar in 1818, and
commenced practice in New-Castle County, Dela-
ware; retired In 1828 to his country-seat near Wll-
ingtoD ; was elected a representative from Delaware
I Uie Twenty-second Congress as a Whig; was ro-
dected to the Twenty-third, Twenty-fourth, and
" renty-flflh Congresses, serving from December 3,
iisil, to ilarch 3, lS31t: was appointed In 1839 judge
of the Slate Sui)erior Court.
Millikin, Cbaxles W., was bom In Graves
■County, Kentucky, August 16, 1827, and was taken
Ho Simpson County, Kentucky, when he was two
"years of age; graduated in June, 1840; studied law,
and followci it as a profession; was county-attoniey
of Simiisiin County five years; was appointed, in
January, 18(17, Commonwealth attorney for the
Fourth Judicial District of Kentucky (to fill a
v.ieancy); was elected the following August to serve
out the unexpired term; was re-elected in August,
isiis, for a full term r)f six years, and resigned on
the 2-lih of February, 1.S72; was elected a represen-
tative from Kentucky in the Forty-third Congress
as a Democrat, receiving 8,790 votes against 4,853
votes for J. S. Uollailay, Independent Democrat;
and w;is re-elected to the Forty-fourth Congress, re-
ceiving rt.M75 votes jigainst 2,08.5 votes for Goren,
Kepnhlican. and 471 votes for W. H. Butler, Inde-
pendent Uepublican, serving from Decemiier 1, 1873,
to M.irch 3. 1S77.
Mills, E!lijah Hunt, was boni in 1778; received
a classical cdiic.Uion, grailuating at Williams College
in 17117; stiicli>.'d law; was admitted to the bar, and
coniinencoil practice at Nortlianipton. Massivchusetts;
was eleeted a rcpresentjilive from Massachusetts in
Hbe Fouiieeiith Congress as a Federalist; was re-
spected to the Fifteenth Congress, serving from De-
^Kniber 4, ll!<lo, to March 3, 1810; was elected a
Bcnited-States senator from Massachusetts (in place
^f Prentiss Mellen, resigned); and was re-elected,
»er%ing from DecemU-r 1, 1820, to March 3, 1827;
died nt Northanipt(>n. Masoachusetts, May 5, 1820.
Mills, Roger Q., of Corslcana, Texas, studied
and pr.ictiscd law ; was elected a reprcsent.-itivc
rom Texas in the Forty-third Congress as a Demo-
st; was re-elected to the Forty-fourth Congress,
lefeating Pleasant M. Yell, Kepublicuu; was re-
ilccte<I to the Forty-liftli Congress, receiving 20,7:51
otes against 8.889 votes for J. P. Osterhout, Bepub-
u, serving from December 1, 1873.
Millson. John 8., was bom at Norfolk, Vir-
ginia, Octolier 1, 18(l6: n-Ceived an academical educa-
tion; studied law; wus admitted to the bar in 1^29, and
commenced practice at Norfolk; was a presidential
elector in 1844 and 1848; was t'lected a representative
from Virginia in the Thirtj-lirsl Congress as a Dem-
ocrat, receiving 2,730 votes against 2..V)8 votes for
Watson, Whig; was re-elected to the 'Iliirty-secoiid
Congress, receiving 2.271 votes against l,.'i41 votes
for Con^wr, Wide; was re-elected to the Thirty-third
Congress, receiving 3,200 votes against 2,1771 votes
for i'hauibliss, Wliig; was re-elected to the Thirty-
fourth Congress, receiving 4,7lJ0 votes against 4,224
votes for Watts, American: was re-elected to the
Thirty-tifth Congress, receiving no opposition; was
re-elecie»l to the Thirty-sixth Congress, ri'ceiving no
opi)osilion, sening from December 3, 1.840, to Marcli
3, 1801 ; he took no part in the Rebellion, but re-
mained (juietly at his home at Norfolk; died at Nor-
folk. Virginia. Feimiar)- 2tl, 1873.
MiUwaxd, WilliMn, was bom at Philadelphia,
Pennsylviuiia; received a public-school education;
was elected a representative from Pcrnisylv.-inia in
the Thirty-fourth Congress as a Whig, receiving
.5,888 votes against 6.525 votes for Landy, Democrat,
scn-ing from Deceml)er 8, lS.w, to March 3, 1H17; wa-s
defeated as tlie Union candidate for the Thirty-fifth
Congress, receiving 6,763 votes against 7,1*53 votes
for Landy, Democrat; was again clectetl to the
Thirty-sixth Congress, receiving 9,740 votes against
0.4,51 votes for Phillips, Democrat, antl 263 voles for
UnK>m. American, serving from December 6, 1869, to
Mareli 3. 1801.
Milnes, Williaxn, ]un., was bom in York-
shire, Kngloiid, December 8, 1827; in the second
year of his age his father emigrated to America, and
settled in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, where he en-
caged in mining ami manufacturing: after complet-
ing an academic education, he apprenticed himself
to a firm engaged in the machine and blacksmitliing
business; at the ex])inition of his apprenticeship he
enter»Hl into inisiness with his father and brother in
the raining and shipping of coal; in IsOTi he rt'moved
to Virginia, liaving previously disiwsed of his busi-
ness interests in Pennsylvania, and purchasi'il tlie
extensive property located in Page and Hocking-
ham Counties known as the Shenandoah Iron
Works; he was electe<l a rt^presentative fn^m Vir-
ginia in the Forty-first Congress as a Conservative
itepublicaii, receiving 12,123 votes again8tO,sl.5 votes
for Harris, the opposition candidate, serving from
Janu-iry 27, 1870, to March 3, 18,71.
Milnor, James, was iwrii at Philadelphia,
Peiuisylvania, June 20, 1773 ; received a classical
education, graduating at the University of Pennsyl-
vania; studied l;iw; was admitted to the bar in 17W,
and commenced practice at I'hiladrlpliia; was a
leading member of the Freemasons, and grand mas-
ter of Pennsylvania; was elected a, representative
from Pennsylvania in tlie Twelfth Congress, receiv-
ing 4,%0 votes against 3,143 votes for John Porter,
serving fnira Novciulier 4, 1811, to MaiX'h 3, 1813;
abandoning the law fur theology, he was ordained by
Uisho]) White of the Pmtcstiint-Episcopal Cliurch in
1814, and in 1810 became the rector of St. George's
Church at New Y'ork; was for many years the grand
chaplain of the Grand Lodge of Freemasons of New
York; after spending the evening with his fellow-
directors of the New-York Deaf and Dumb Institu-
tion, he died suddenly, April 8, 1845.
Milnor, William, was liom at Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania; received an academical education;
was elected a representative from Pennsylvania to
the Tenth Congress as a Federalist; was re-elected
to the Eleventh Congress, serving from October 2*1,
1807, to March 3, 181 1 ; was again elected to the
Fourteenth Congress, receiving 886 majority, serv-
ing from Dceera"ber 4, 1815, to March 3, 1817; was
ogaiu elected to the Seventeenth Congress, receiving
6,0911 majority, serving from December 3, 1821, to
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ISSS, when he resigned ; iras elected sheriff of Phila-
delphia.
Miner, AViiTn»».Ti L., wm born tn Vermont; re-
ceived an academical education; wai clerk of the
Vermont House of RepreseutaUves in 1836 and 1837;
was a member of the State House of RepresentatiTe*
in 1838. 1830, and 1)M5; was a State senator in 1840;
was oounty-attomey, register of probate, and judge
of probate; was elected a representatiTe from Ver-
mont in the Thirty-second Congress as a Whig, re-
ceiving 4.306 votes against 4,lAi votes for A. P.
Lyman. Whig, 2,680 votes for D. Boberts, jun. , Demo-
crat, and 4f& scattering, serving from December 1,
1S51. to ilATvh 3, 1^>3.
Miner, Charles, was bom at Norwich, Connect-
icut, Foliruar)- 17, ITO: receiveii a pablic-school e«lu-
catiou; n-'mored in 1797 with his father to Wilki»-
barre. Fennsvlvania, and thence tn West Cliester;
published " "the Village Record " at West Chester for
some years; was elected a representative from Penn-
sylvania in the Xineteentb Congress as a Federalist;
was re-elected to the Twentieth Congress, ser\-ing
from December 5, ItSS, to March 3, 18:j9: declined a
re-election on account of deafnen; died at Wiikee-
harre, Pennsylvania. October S6, 18SB. Published a
"History of Wviiuiiiig."
Miner, Phlneaa, was bom in Coimecticut in
1779; received an academical education; studied
law; was admitted to the liar, and commenced prac-
tice at Lltctifieid, Connecticut; was electe<l a repre-
sentative from Connecticut in the Twenty-third Con-
grees (in place of Jabex W. Uuntin^^ton. resigned),
receiving 10,244 votes against lo.dM votes for his
opponent, serving from December I, 1^34, tn March
3, 1835; died at LitchSeld, Connecticut, September
10,1830.
Mitchell, Alexander, was bom in Aberdeen-
shin', Scotliimi, Ootot>er 1", 1817; received an aca-
demic oduL'ation in Scotland; Immigrated to the
United States; located at Milwaukee, and enjnged in
bankini; : was elected a representative from Wtscun-
sin in the Forty-second Congress as a Democrat, re-
ceiving 16,i>38 votes against 12,350 votes for W. P.
Lyon, Republican : and was re-elected to the Forty-
third Congress, receiving 13.281 votes against 7,120
votes for F. C. Winkler, Republican, serving from
March 4, 1S71, to March 3, 1875.
Mitchell, Anderson, waa bom in Caawell
County. Xorth Carolina, in 1S30; received a classical
educaUon. graduating at the University of Xorth
Carolina in 1821; studied law; was admitted to the
bar in 1S:)U, and commenced practice at Wilkes-
botvugh: was elected a representative from Xorth
CaroUna in the Twenty-seventh Congress (in place
of Lewis Williams, deceased), serving from Apnl 27,
1842. to March 3. 1*4:1.
Mitchell, Charles B., was elected Fnited-
Staies setidtor fruin Alabama for six years from
March 4, 1841 ; he did not appear to take his seat at
the extra session, and he was expelled July 11, 1801.
Mitchell, Charles P., was bom in Xew York;
recfiviii a pulilio-sch'"'! eilucation; resiiled at I/<ick-
port; was fl>--cti-tl a reprvscutative from Xew York in
the Twenty-fifth Con;^;res8 as a Whig; was re-elected
to the Twenty.«i.vth Congreaa, receiving 4.690 vote*
ag^biM 3,840 votes for Henry R Curtis, Democrat,
•erring from September 4. 1837, to March 3, l^^l ;
was convicted of forgery in lS4i and sentenced to
three years' imprisonment in the State prison at
Sing Sing, from which he was jiardoned by Uovemor
Bouch in Xovember. 184:), on accoimt of his ill
health; went to the West, and engaged in the milling
boainess, enjoying the confidence of the people
amoiiK whom he redded.
Mitohell, Oeorse E., was bom in Cecil Conn-
IT, Kaiyland ; received a lilieral education ; was
wected a representative from Maryland in the eigh-
teenth Congress as a Democrat; was re-elected to
the Nineteenth Congress, serving from December 1,
1823, to Match S, 1837; wa* tffda elected to the
Twenty-first CoogreM, receiv
Williams; was re-eleetied to the '
grass, serving from Decemlier 7, 1480^ to JNae SB)!
1832, when he died at Wachington Citr.
Mitchell, Henry, was bora at Wumlbwry, Oeo>
necticut. in 17S4: received a Hassicaledocatkm; timi-
ied medicine, and finally settled down in ptaelfee tt
Norwich. New York ; was a memlier of the ~
House of Representatives in 1827; was eteel«dl
resentative from New York in the TweDty-(
gress as a Jackson Democrat, serving frooi I
2, 18:S. to March 8, 1635; died at Noiwieh, Ne
York. January 12. 18S8l
Mitchell, James C, was bom 1b MecUeataif
County, North Carolina; was elected a fcpreaenl»'
live from Tennessee in the Nineteenth Ctmfnm,
defeating James Standefer: was re-elected to tkt
Twentieth Congress, serving from December 5, IKS,
to March i, l*M\ was defeated as a candidate for
the Twenty-first Congress by James Standefer: was
judge of the Circuit Court of Teniieaeee: removed ia
ls¥> to the vicinity of Jackson. Mississippi, and eD>
gaged in agriculttu^ pursuits: was a member of the
tate House nf Representatives; and died near Jack-
son. Mississippi. August 7. 1843.
Mitchell, Jeanes S., was bom at
Pennsylvania; received a public-school edtl ^
was elected a representative fn>m Pennsylvania hr
the Seventeenth Congress as a Democrat; was »»-
elected to the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Congrean^
serving from Decembers, 1821. to March 3, lOT.
Mitchell. John, was bom in Perry CotaXf,
Pennsylvania; received a pnblic-scliool edneatiaa;
resided at Bellefonte: was elected a rvpresentastve
from Peniuylvania in the Nineteenth Con'.;ress as a
Democrat; and was re-elected u> the Twentieth Con- j
gress, serving from Decemtier 5, 18:25, to March
1820.
Mitchell, John H., was bom in Waahiu^
County, Pennsylvania. June 22, 18:15; reoeivetl a
public-school education and the instruction of a
private tutor; studied and practised law; remorcd
to CaUfomia. and practised law, first in San Lois
Obispo, and then in San Francisco; removed to Awt-
land, Oregon, in 1800, and ttere eontinaed his ■*»■
fession; was elected oorporatioa attorney of Portund
in 1861, and served one year; was elected as a Re-
publican to the State Senate in 1802, and served four
years, the last two as president of that body; was
commissioned by the governor of Oregon in 18S
lieatenant-colonel in the State militia; wasacaoili-
date for United-Sutes senator in 1806, and wm de-
feated in the party caucus by one vole; was chosai
professor of medical jurisprudenee in Will
University at Salem, Oregon, in 1807, and sei
that posiUoD nearly four years; was elected Ui
States senator from Oregon as a Republicao (to
ceed Henry W. Corbett, Republican), and look hi*
seat March 4, 1873. His term of service will expire
March 3, 1.>?J9.
Mitchell, John I., was bom in Tioea County,
Pennsylvania, .July i>. 1838; spent his b«jyhood upon
his f ather s farm : received a common-school educa-
tion and private instruction, and passed vome time
at the University of Lewislmrg, Pennsylvania (I«57-
ItS9). but di<l not graduate; taught aehool; servol
in the Union array as lieutenant and captain: ww
admitted to the bar in I8&4, and lias since practised
law; was elected district-attorney of Itis native ooao-
ty in 18*», serving three yeaia ; edited "The Tiog*-
County Agiutor'^ during the year 1870: was a nxst-
ber of the State House of Representatives five yesn
from 1827 to 187t) inclusive, and served as chainnsn
of the Judiciary General and Ways and M«aBi;
was elected to ttte Forty-4fth Congiwac as a Rrpa)*-
lican, receiving 13.505 votes againat 12.007 votes for
Henry White, Democrat, and 1,590 voces for J, t
Davis, In<lependent Oreenbaefcer, serving from Octo-
ber 1.5, 1877.
Mitchell, Nahtim, was born at bK Bitd|»-
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637
water, MaMachusetU, February 12, 1700; rcoeWed a
Claaaical education, graduiitiiig at Harvard IJoIlcge in
1780; sttidie<l law under Hon. Jolin Davis at Plym-
outh; WM admitted to llie bar November 24, 1792,
uid commenced practice at Katit Uridgewatcr; was
judge of the Court of Common Plea* 1811-1821 ; was
a member of the State Uouse of Representatives
1606, ISOi, 1805, 18:11*, and 1840, and Slate senator
1813 and 1814; was elooled a representalive from
MaMscbiuelts in the Eii;hili Congress, ser\'ing from
October 17, IHtti, uniil March 8, 1805; was a member
of the governor's council 1814-1820; was treasurer
of the Commonwealth 1822-18:^7: was one of tlie
fint commissioners for establishing a railroad be-
tween BostOb and Alt>any; wns librarian and treas-
urer of the Massachusel Is Llistorical Society; and
died suddenly, after discovering that his p>i>cket had
been picked, while attending the celebration of the
eraliarkation of the Pilgrims at PIvmouth, Massa-
chusetts, August 1, 1853. He publisbed a " History
<rf Bridgewaler" and "The IJridgewater Collection
of SacrM Music."
Mitchell, Nathaniel, was a delegate from Dela-
ware to the Continental Congress nS<J-n88.
Mitchell, Robert, was born la Pennsylvania;
received a public-school education; removed to
Zanesville, Ohio; lield several local offices; was
elected a representative from Ohio in the Twenty-
third (.Congress as a Jackson Democrat, serving from
Decern her 2. I*!:!, tn Miu-ch -l, IKitJ.
Mitchell, Samuel Latham, was bom at
Hampstead, Xew Vork, August 2(i, 17tU; recelve<l a
claMical education, and studied medicine with Dr.
8. Latham, his maternal uncle; was in 1788 a com-
missioner to purchase the lands of the Iroquois In-
dians in Western New York; was a member of the
State Uouse of Kepresentatives in 17U1 ; was ap-
point«d professor of chemistry and natural history
In Columltia College in 17U2; was one of the founden>
of the StaU! .Society for the Promotion of Agricullure
in 17IC; was an editor of "The Quarterly Medical
Repository" 1797-1818; was again a member of the
State Uouse of liepresentatlves 1766; was elected a
tepreseutative from New York In the Seventh Con-
grw as a Democrat, and was re-elected to the Eighth
Oongress, serving from December 1. 1801, to his res-
ignation November 22, 1804; was elected a United-
Btates senator from New York (in place of John
Armstrong, resigned), serving from November 'iS,
16M, to March 3, 1809; was again elected u represen-
tative in the Eleventh Congress (in place of William
Denning, wlio was elected, but never qualified), and
was re-elected to the Twelfth Congress, receiving a
majority of 680 votes, 8er%lMg from Ui-ceuilu'r4. 1810,
to March li, 1813; was professor t4 natural history in
the New-York College of Pbysici.'iiis and .Surgeons
180&-1820, and of boumy and miiteria mediea l.S2t>-
1826; was vice-pri.'sideut of the Itiitgers Medical
School 18aO-18;j(.i; was one of the foundt-rs of the
New-York Literary and Philosophical SiX'iety iu
1615: died at New York September 7, 18-31. He
published •'Ol)serv(itions on the Absorbent Tubes of
Animal liodies," " Xomeiiclature of the New Chem-
istry," " Present State of Ivcamliig in the Collejte of
New York," " I>ife of Tamm.iny," "Synopsis of
Chemical Nomenclature," " History of the iiotani-
oal Writers of America," "Treatise on the Fishes of
Nevir Y<irk." liisiiles numerous a^ldresses.
I Mitchell, Stephen Mix, was bom at Wethers-
IfieUl, Connecticut, Deeemtier 27, 174;}; received a
nlaasical education, graduating at Yale College in
3703; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1772,
And commenced pmelice at WelhersfieU! ; was ass«h-
eiate judge of the Hartford-county Court 177l>-l7!>i);
waa a delegate from Connecticut to (lie Continental
Congress 1783-1785; was presiding judge of tlie Harl-
junty Court I'Wi-nftJ: was eiecled a United-
senutiir from Connecticut (in place of l{<iger
aan. decea-sed), serving from Decemlier2, 17li3,
to March 3, 17tt5; was judge of the Superior Court
I
I
of Connecticut n<»-1807; was chief justice of the
Su|H;rior Court of Connecticut 1807-1814; died at
Wethersflehl, Connecticut, Septcmtier 3<», lS;tt.
MitohelL Thomas R., was bom at (Georgetown,
South Carolina: received a classical education,
graduating at Uar>'ard University in 1802; studied
law; wius ailmitted to the bar, and jiractiseil at
tteorgetown; was elected a represent.itlve from
South Carolina in the Seventeenth Congress, rcceiv-
iag a majority of 017 votes over Colonel Cami)l>ell,
serving from December 3, 18il, to March 3, 1823;
was defeatetl as a candidate for the Eighteenth Con-
gress l>y Colonel Campl>cll: was again elected to the
Nineteenth Congress, defeating Colonel Campbell;
was re-elected to the Twentieth Congress, receiving
a majority of 75 votes over Colonel Campbell, serv-
ing from December 5, 1825, to March 3, 182V; was
defeated as a candidate for the Twenty-flrst Con-
gress; was again elected to the Twenty-second
Ciiugress, defeating Colonel Campbell, serving from
December 5, 1831, to March 2, IS;}:!; died at George-
town. South Carolina, Novejnbcr 2, 18;;7.
Mitchell, William, was liom in New York;
received a public-scliool education; removetl to Indi-
ana; studied law; was admitted to the bar, and
practised at Kendallsville : was elected a reprt-senta-
tive from Indiana in the Thirty-seventh Congress as
a Itepubliean, receiving 14.207 votes against 1],.373
votes for P. M, Ueukle, Democrat, serving from
July 4, 1S«1, to March 3, 180:1; was defeated as the
Keimblican candidate for the Thirty-eighth Con-
giTss, receiving 11,917 votes against 12,:j5:i votes for
Eilgerton, Democrat; died at Macon, Georgia, Sep-
teinlier 11, 1805.
Moffet, John, was bom in County Antrim. Ire-
land, in 1.8:32; was brought to the United States by
iiis parents wlien he was a child; was educated at
the public schools of Phihuletphiiv, and In the medi-
cal cli.'partnient of the University of Pennsylvania;
entered iiiUj business at Phil.iiielpliia as an apothe-
cary; claimed to have been elected a representative
from Pennsylvania in the Forty-lirat Congress as a
Democrat, serving from March 4, 1869, to April 0,
18S9, when, his election having l>een successfully
contested, his competitor, Leonard Myers, took
his seat.
Moffit, Hosea, was lM>m In Rensselaer County,
New York; was a meml>er of the State House of
Kepresentatives 17W-1801 ; was elected a representa-
tive frf)m New York In the Tliirtcenlh (Congress as a
Federalist; was re-elected to the Fourteenth Con-
gress, serving from May 24, 1813, to March 3, 1817;
was brigadier-general of militia.
Molony, Richard 8., was bom at Northfleld,
New Iliunpsliire: receiveil a classical education, and
was a student at Dartmouth College; studied medi-
cine ; was licensed, and eouimenced practice at Bel-
videre, Illinois; was elected a representative fmm
Illinois iu the Thirty-second Congress as a Democmt,
receiving 11,:}21 votes against 10,&87 votes for ColBug,
Whig, serving from December 1, 1851, to March 3,
1853.
Monell, Robert, was iKirn in Columbia County.
New York; received a classical education; studien
law; was admitted to the bar, and practised at
Greene, Chenango County; was a mcml)er of the
State House of Representatives 1814-1815; w.i8
elected a representative from New York in the Six-
teenth Congress as a Democrat, serving from Dei-em-
ber 0, 1819, to March 8, 1821 : was again a memlwr
of the State House of Representatives 1823, 1820,
and 1828; was again elected to the Twenty-lirst Con-
gress, serving from Decemltcr 7, 1829. to Feliruary
al, 18:11, when he resigned; was a circuit-judge; died
at Greene, New York. l.'^XJ.
Money, Hernando De Soto, was bom in
Holmes County, Mississippi, August 20, 18;)9; edu-
cated at the University of Mississipiii, at (Xxford;
studied law; adopted the editorial profession: was
elect<;d a representative from Mississippi iu the Forty-
538
CONGEE88IONAL DmECTOBT.
fourth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 13,811
votes against 0,781 votes for Hidgi'ly C. Powers,
Repulilicmi, and .'i,022 votes for Finis H. Lilile, Ke-
publicon; and was re-elected to tlie Forly-liflh Con-
gress, receiving 17,053 votes against 0,320 votes for
W, W. CliislioTin, Hepublicaii, serving from Decem-
Ikt il, 1.S7").
Monroe, James, was bom in Westmoreland
County, Virginia, April 2S, 1758; received a classical
education, gntilu.'iling at William and Mary College
In n7'l; joined the Hevolutiouary anuy us a cadet in
I77ti; W.1S promoted to a captaincy, and participated
In several engagi'ments ; studied law under Thomas
JelTi.Tsiin; was appointed military coininissioner for
Virginia in 178<J, and visilfd the Southern anuy
under General DeKalb: was a raemlKjr of Ihe fjtatc
House of Representatives in 1782; waa a delegate
from Virginia to the Continental Congress nS-'i-Hi^tl;
was .again a member of the State Ilnuse of Represen-
tatives in 17S<); was a United-Stales wnator from
Virginia 171lt)-17S>4; wa.4 minister plenipt)leiitiary to
France May 28, 1794-Deceniber *), 17(H!: was gov-
eniorof Virginia 17yw-1802: was again minister pleni-
potentiary to France .January 12, ISrtj-July 12, 18(J;J;
was minister pleni|K>tenliary toKnglaud in 18(1:}, and
to .Spain in 18111; returning hnme in 1.'^I8, he w.is
again elected a member of the State House of Repru-
semalives; was guvernor of Virginiii in 1811; was
secreliiry of slate of the United States November 2.'),
IHll-March ;i, 1817; was elected and re-elected Presi-
dent of the United States, serving Marcli -4, 1817, to
March 3. 182o; retired to his fann in Loudon Cimiity.
Virginia, and resided there until lHii\, when he re-
movi'd to New-York Cilv, where he died July 4,
18;)1.
Monroe, James, was torn at Plainfield, Con-
necticut, July 18, 1821: received his early education
at the common school and at Plainfield Acatlemy:
graduated at Oberlin College in lR4(i, a.ui\ aftcrwanl
pursued a course of theological study there; was a
professor in Oberliu College from 1.S41I until 1802:
was a member of the House of Representatives of
the StJite of Ohio in ISSO-IRJO, and of the Ohio Sen-
ate in 18(iO-18(i2; was cho.'en president jiro tempore
ot the Ohio .Senate in 18<il, and again in l.S()2; re-
Blgncd his seat in the Senate in October, l.Hia, tn
accept the position of United-States consul at Rio di-
Janeiro, tendered him by Pnsident Lincoln; h<'ld
the office of consul at thai capital from l.Stl3 to 18ilU,
serring for some months of 1.8<j9 as rliarpe d'affaires
ad interim ; was elected a repnisentative from Ohio
lu the Forty-seeonil Congress as a Rc|iublican, re-
ceiving 12,271 votes against ll,.'>4.'i votes for L. R.
Critchlield, Democrat, anil 85 voles for Whiton,
Prohibitionist; w.is re-elected to the Forty-third
Congress, receiving 14,(tD2 votes against 10,298 votes
for N. S. Townscnd, Democrat; was re-elected to
the Forty-fourth Congress as a Republican, receiving
12,221* votes ag.iinst lU.W.'i votes for John K. Mc-
Bride, Democrat, and 105 votes for Miller, Prohibi-
tionist; was re-elected to tlie Forty-iifth Congress,
rweiving lO.lNKJ votes against 12,772 votes for Jolm
Hall, DemcK-rat.
Montanya, J. Dela, was bom In New York;
resiiled al Ilaverstraw; was elected a representative
from New Yorlc in the Twenty-eixtli CDiigress as a
Democrat, receiving 4.405 votes against 3/750 Totes
for John S. Gumee. Wliig, serving from December
2, 18,;!!, to March 3, 1841.
Montgomery, David, Jun., was elected a
represenl.itive from IVMinxylvania in the Tenth Con-
gR-ss. serving fmm October 20, 1SJ7, to March 3, 1801t.
Montgomery, John, w.is bom in Maryland;
received a el:ts.Hic,il eilucation; was elected a repre-
sentative from Marylanil in the Tenth Congress as a
Democrat; w.-is re-^eleL-tcd to the Eleventh Congress
(defeat inn SjH'ncer), servhig from October 20, 1807, to
March 3. 1811.
Monigomery, John G., was born at North-
umberland, Peimsylvauja, in 1805; rocoired a classi-
cal education, graduating at Washington >^'
1.S24; studied law; was admitted to Ihe 1
and commenced practice at Danville. Peii
was a member of the State House of Repri-wntuiiv**
In 1Sj5; w,18 elected a representative from fVimn'
vanla in the Thirty-tifth Congrefs as a !
receiving 10.442 voles against 7.t<.>7 votes
Unionist ; contracted the disease which s.
of the guests at the National Hotel. Wash
before the Inauguration of President Bucban
die<l, before taking his scat, at Danville, Pei
vanla, April 24. 18o7.
Montgomery, Joseph, was iiom In ^
vanta; received a cl.TSsio.iil education, gni
Princeton College in nvi; was a deli
I'ennsylvania to Ihe Cnntineutal Cougress 1T."S»-I7t>fc
Montgomery, Thomas, wits txim in Nelson
County, Virginia; receivi'd a thorough English edu-
cation; studied law; was admitted tn the bar. and
practised at Stanford, Kentucky; Wivs a county-
judge; was elected a representative fioni Kentucky
iu the Thirteenth Congress as a Democrat, servinj
from May 24. 1813, to March 2, 1815: iras ai^
elected to the Sixteenth Congress (in pla<M» r-f TnnJ
stall Qunrles. resigned); was re-flected tri ;"
teenth Congress, serving from November :
March 3. 1823; died at Stanford. Kenluck.. ..[
1828.
Montgomery, William, was eh>cte<l a n.>pr»'
sentative from Pennsylvania in the Third <'i>ngre««,
ser\-ing from Decemlx^r 2. 17ttl, to March 3, 171
Montgomery, William, w.is bom ii ■ : ' 1
County. North Carolina, in 17Sil; studieil
and practised in Orange Comity; was a a. ..
the State .Senate 1824-1827 and l.s2V>-18;i4; was
a representative from North Can)lina iu the T
fourth Congress as a Democrat ; wiui re-elected lo"il
Twenty-tifth Congress as a Democrat, receivine
majority over Barringer; was re-<-lected to the Twei
ty-sixth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 2.'.ilii voti
against 2.553 votes for G. W. Hayward. Wlii
Ing from Deceml>er7, 1835, until March 3, 1841, when'
he declined a re-election; died November 27, 1844.
Montgomery, William, was bom at Can
Pennsylvania, Ai)ril U, 1810; received a classi(
education, graduating at W.i.shington College
studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1
commence?)! practice at Wiishingtun, Peniisy
was elected a representative from Penusyl\;inia ia
the Thirtv-flfth Congress as a Dcmocrai, r. iiivlng
in,2.'j« voles against 0,411 votes for J- ' "' i^ht,
Republican ; Wiis re-elect<'d to the T '. i.'on-
grcss, receiving 0,:i.>4 votes iicainst ... . s for
Jonatlian Knight, Republican, serving tn>m lieceiu-
ber 7, 1-857. to March .3, 1801; died at Wa.sJuni,too,
Pennsylviuiia, May 2, l."s70.
Moor, Wyman B. S., was hom at Waterrllle,
Maine, November 3, 1814; received a classical edoci^
tlon, graduating at Waterville College; studied lawtl
Cambridge; was admitted to the bar iu 1834, ami
commenced practice at Bangor; was a memberof tlie
State House of Representatives in 1.S39; was Stats
attorney-general 1844-1.848; was appointed a United-
States senator from Maine (in place of John Fair-
Held, deceasedl, serving from Janin'-' '7 '^!'^. to
June 12, 1848, wlien ills successor ti" 'fa»
appointed by President Buchanan coi n for
Bntish America, serving 1857-1801; died alLynck-
burg, Virgini.i, February 16, 1809.
Moore, Andrew, was bom in Rockbridge Cooa-
ly, Virginia; received an .icademical education; wa»
elected a representative fiiim Virginia in the Rn'
Congress, and was re-elected to the Second, TliiW<
and Fourth Congresses, Ber>ing frim March 4. IW
to March 3, 1707; successfully conti-- li""
of Thom.i» Lewis in the Eighth C • '-^
from March .5, 18<>t, to November f.. ■- i. iii-n h«
was apiwinted a United-States senator from Vindni*
(iu [ilace of Wilson Cary Nicholas, resigneil); **•
Babscqucntly ejected a United-States senator (iu plac*
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539
of Abrahtim D. Venable, rpsisned), wnriiiB from De-
cenil«(.T IT, ISI14. to Mareli .!. lsi>0; ilieii May 24. 1S21.
Moore, EHiakiin Hastings, was Ixiru in
Worii'sIiT County, M^Lssailmsiils. June 11>, 1S12; re-
liiovL-il tv Atlions County wilh his fathi-r's family in
l!*!"; received a common-soliool cdiicatiun; was
I coiinly-sarvevor of Athens County lS-W-184i;; was
'amlitorof Athens County 1S4<HS(I0; was a director
and then president for many years of the Athens
1 branch of the State Banl» of Ohio, and 8ulisei|uenlly
, of tlie Kiml National Bank of Athens, which he
lOrganizeil; was ai>iioint>'d in ]StW a collector of in-
ternal revenue, from wliich office he was r»TtioMHl hy
Andrew Johnson in 1S(5(1; and was elected a repre-
) Bentalive from Ohio in the Forty-first Conjfruss as a
Itepuhlicaii. receiving 1:5,773 voles against 12,S17
' Totes for Follett, Democrat, sening from March 4,
I ItkMt. to M.ircli 3. 1S71.
Moore, Ely, was bom In New Jersey; rcceiveij a
I public-school education; learned the .irt of printing;
'edited a paper at New York devoted to the advance-
ment of lalwr; was elected a representative fmm New
York in the Twenty-fourth Coimri'ss iis a Democrat;
■ was rcMjIccteil to the Twenty-Ufth Coiu;res8, reccivini;
ltl,tJT3 votes aKainst l.j,!)i0 Votes for Wlieeler, Whig,
■orving from I)eceml«>r 2t), 1835, to March 3, 1S31I;
was defeated as the Dcmoeralic cindidate for the
Twenty-sixth Congress, receiving; l.S,,S4;J votes against
■ 2<),4-'>t votes for James Monn>e. VVIiig; wiis aitpoliilcd
liv President Polk Indian agent, and hy President
Pierce reiiister of a land-office iu Kansas; died Janu-
ary :i\. is<io.
Moore, Qabriel, was bom In Stukcs County,
tiforlh Carolina; received an uca<leraical education;
studied law; was lulmitled to the bar, and com-
inenceil practice at Iluiilsville, Alabanm; held sev-
eral local offices; was elected a representative from
Alabama in the Seventeenth Congress; was re-elect-
^^ed to the EighUaenth, Nineteenth, and Twentieth
^■Congresses witliout opposition; was governor of
B Alabama 18:AV1S:S1 ; was a United->States senator
H from Alabama, serving December 5, l)S31-Marcb 3,
■^ Istn: ilied at Ciwldo. Texas, June 0, ISU.
Moore, Heman Allen, was Iwm at Plaiidleld,
Vermont, in Ibbl; received an acaderaiciil education;
»atu<lied law at Ilocbester, New York; was admitted
to tlie bar. and cimuneneed practice at Columbus,
Ohio; wasSt.-ite a<ljulaiit-f:ener.d; was elected a rep-
rescut.it.ive from Ohio in tin- Twenty-eighth ConL,Te8s
as a Democrat, serving from December 4, 1843, to
April 3, 1.S44. wlien he died at Columbus, Ohio.
Moore, Henry B., was boni at Goshen, New
I Tork. April 13, I.S17; removed with his parents to
iKew-York City in 1828; received a public-school iiiu-
hcalion ; was apprenticed to a merchant tailor, and.
Ion attaining his majority, eii;;atfed in business t-n his
town .account; rt'moved to Philadi'lpltia, .-uid became
llnterested in the marble and nuihogany bualneas
ith Mr. Eckstein, bis father-in-law; was elected a
epn-sentative from Pennsylvania in the Tlilrty-first
ICoiieress as a Wbii;, receiving (.1,8(12 votes against
1.0t(7 votes for Uallowell, Democrat; was re-elected
[to the Thirly-seci>nd Congress, receiving 5,(K)4 votes
liust D,;>}H votes for Lundy, Deraocmt, serving
fom Decemlier 3, 1.S41I, to March 3, ISoS; was for
Bvcnil years .Stjite treasurer of Pennsylvania.
Moore, Jease H., w;u) b ira near Lebanon, .St.
Clair County. Illinois, April 22. l!<17; graduated at
KMcKeudrce Colle^-e, Lebanon, Illinois, la lfS42; en-
lereU upon the profession of tt'uchin;;. which he pur-
sued for thirteen years, duriiiit which time he w.os at
the head of three literary Institutions in the West;
he aliso studied law, and w.as iulmitte<l to the bar. but
I never pr,ictised ; in l.SI)2 he raised the One Ilumlrv'd
and Fifl'cnlh Illinois Volunteer Infantry, of wliicli
he wa.1 c 'mmissioneil colonel; during the last year n!
tlic war he commanded the Second Brigade, First
Division, Foiirlli Army Corps, of the Department of
the Cumberland, and in April, IStS, he received the
brevet of brig.adier-gencrul ; he has been an ordained
minister of the Methodist-Episcopal Church since
lS4y; and he was presiding elder of the Decatur
District, Illinois Conference, in llSdtt, when lie was
elected a representative from Illinois in the Forty-
lirst Congress as a Uepubllcau, receiving 22,321 vote*
against 17,171 votes for Brewer, Democrat; and was
re-i?lected to the Forty-second Congress, receiving
14,()80 votes against 13,418 votes ifor Andrew J.
Hunter, Democrat, serving from March 4, 180!), to
Man-li 3, 1873.
Moore, John, was lx)ni in Berkeley County,
Virginia, in 178S; received an academical education*
removed to Franklin, Louisiana; w.is a mi.-iiiber of
the State House of R<'presentatives 1825-18;J4; was
elected a representative from Louisiana in the Twen-
ty-sixth Congress (in place of Kice Garland, resigned)
as a Whig, defeating Wiim. Democrat, serving from
December 17, 1840, to Maivh .{, 1843; was a presiilen-
tial elector on the Taylor and Fillmore ticket in )s4ll;
was again elected to the Thirty-second Congreiss as a
Whig, receiving .'j,8,J2 votes against •'j,37'.l votes for
Isaac E, >Ii>rse, Democrat, serving from December 1,
18.11, to March :i, 18.>3; was a d(?legate to the .State
( Nmvention which adopted the ortllnance of secessiou
in 1.'^<I1: died at FraLdvlin, Louisiana, Jiuie 17. 18(17.
Moore, Labon T., was boni in Cabell County,
Virginia, •Janu;u-y 13, 1820; received a public-school
education; studied law; was admitted to the bar, and
eouimeni'iHl practice at Loui.sa, Kentucky; was elected
a representative from Kentucky in tlie Thirty-sl.tth
Congress as a National American, receiving S.o05
votes against 8.227 votes for J. W. Moore, Democrat,
serving from Decembers, 18.5S>, to March 3, 18'Jl.
Moore, Nicholas R., was iMim at Baltimore,
Maryl.uiil; received a public-school education; was
elected a representative from Maryland in the Eighth
Congress as a Democrat; was re-elected to the Ninth,
Tenth, and Eleveiilh Congress<!S, serving from (Dcto-
•l>er 17, 1803, to March 3, 1811: was defeated as the
Democratic caudid.^le for the Twelfth Congress: was
again elected to the Thirteenth Congress, serving
from May 24, 1S1:3, to Marcli 2, 1815; died at Bolti-
mon-. .Maryland, March t», 181(3.
Moore, Oscar P., was bom in Ohio; received a
public-schixil education; resided at Portsmouth; was
elected a representative from Ohio in the Thirty-
fourth Congress as a Kepubllcan, receiving S,8(J5
votes .igainst 4.71X1 votes for Davis. Democnit, ser\'-
iiig from December .3, l.S.'i.'), to March 3. 18")7; was
defeated as the American candidate for the Thirty-
liflU Congress, receiving 4,320 votes against 7.403
votes for Miller, Democrat, and 5,(133 votes for Hotl-
ra.m, Ki'puhlican.
Moore, Robert, was born In Washington Coun-
ty, Pennsylvania; received an academical education;
was elected a n^prcsentative from Pennsylvania in
the Fifteentli Congr(.-8s; was re-elected to the Six-
teenth Congress, serving from December 1, 1817, to
March 3, 1821.
Moore, Samuel, was bom in Cumberland Coun-
ty, New Jersey; received an acadenncal education;
studied medicine; w.is licensed, and practised at
Uoylestown. Pennsylvania; was elected a representa-
tive from Pennsylvania in the Fifteenth Congress (iu
place of Samuel D. Ingham, resigned) as a Democrat;
was re-elected to the Sixteenth and Seventeenth
('ongresses, serving from November 1(1, 1818, to M.iy
20, 1822. when lie resigned; died at Doylestown,
Pennsylvania. Febnmry'l8, 1801.
Moore, S. McDowell, was bom in Virginia;
received a public-school education; resided at Lex-
ington; was elected a representative from Virginia
in the Twenty-third Coicress a« a Wliig, recriving
1,~')1 votes against l.iV.lo votes for Kobert Craig, .State-
rights Democrat, s-Tving from December 2, I.83:{, to
Maicli 3. bsij; was drfealed as the Whig candidate
for the Twenty-third Congress by Kobert Cniig, State-
rights Democrat, wlio received 1,160 majority; served
in the Confederate aniiy.
Moore, Sydenham, was born Iu Rutherford
County, Tennessee; received a dassical education,
graduating at the Uoiveralty of Alalmma; studied
law; was admitted to the bar, and coninieiiced priic-
tlce at Greenslxinrngh, Alabama; was judge nl the
Greene-county Court, and then of the Circuit Cnurt;
served in tlie war against Mexico as captain in Colo-
nel Coffey's regiment of Alaliama infiintry June,
lS4<(-June, 1847; was elected brigadier-general of
Alabama militia; was elected a representative from
Alabama in the Tliirty-fifth Congress as a Democrat,
defeating William K. Smith; was re-electe<l to the
Thirty-sixth Congress, serving from December 7.
18.57. to January '21, ISOl, when he retired from the
House on the secession of Alabama; entered the
Confetlerate army as colonel of the Eleventh Alabama
Infantry, and served through the war.
Moore, Thomas, was electe<l a representative
from South Carolina in the .Seventh Congress; was
re-elected to the Eighth, Ninth, Tenth. Eleventh, and
Twelfth Congresses, serving from Deccmlier 7, 18tJl,
to March ;i l.si:j; was again elect«d to the Fourteenth
Congress, serving from December 4, 1S15, to March
8, 1817.
Moore, Thomas L., was bom in Jefferson
County, Virginia; received an academicil education;
was elected a representative from Virginia in the
Sixteenth Congress (in pl.ace of George L. Strolher,
resigned), receiving 1,771 votes against 1.702 votes for
Craig; was re-elected to tlie Seventeenth Congress,
receiving 373 majority over Mark A. Smith, serving
from November 13, 1820. to March 8, 182:3.
Moore, Thomas P., was bom In Charlotte
County, Virginia, in 17115; received a public-school
education; was an oflicer in the war with Great
Britain of 1812; was elected a representative from
Kentucky in the Eighteenth Congress as n Jackson
Democrat; was re-elected to the Nineteenth and
Twcntietli Congresses, serving from Deceinl)cr 1,
182.3, until March 3, 1829; was ap(K)inted by Presidetit
Jackson minister plenipotentiary to the United .States
of Colomiria March 13, 182H, and served until April
16, 1833; returned to Kentucky, and received a certifi-
cate of election as a representative in the Twenty-
third Congress as a Democrat, having received S.fnil*
votes against 3,tV>5 votes for R, P. Letcher, Wliig,
but the House, after much discussion, rejected some
of the voles given to each candidate, and declared
that L<!tcher ha<l eleven majority; was appointed
lieutenant-colonel of the Third United-States Dra-
goons in (lie war with Mexico, servijig from March 3,
1847, to July 31, 1S48; was a deleg.-ite fnmi Mercer
County to tlie Kentucky Constitutional Convention
of I84!>-I8.")il; and died at Harrodsburg, Kentucky,
July 21, IHoli.
Moore, William, was bom in Montgomery
Comity, Peunsyh■anil^ December 25. ISIO; received
a pulilic-school fduCLjtiou; w.os interested in mercan-
tile pursuits and iron-works; was judge of the (^ourt
of Common Plcras for Atlantic County from l.S>') to
1805; was elected to the Fortieth Congress as a Re-
publican, receiving 12,408 votes against 0.108 votes
for Sla|>e, Democrat; was re-elected to the Forty-flrst
Congress, ix'ceiving 1.'>.214 votes .igaiusl ll.MO votes
for Bayard. Democrat, serving from Mareli 4. 1807, to
March 3. 187J ; died at May's Landing, New Jersey,
April 2(1. 1878.
Moore, William S., was born at West Bethle-
hem, Pennsylvania, November 18, 1822; graduated
at Washington College in 1847; studied law; was
chosen prothonotary of Washington County in 18,54;
has been engageil in the newspa|K'r business since
1867; and was elected a representative from Penusyl-
vania in the Forty-thinl Congress as a Hepublican,
receiving 14,tit5 votes against 13.pi9 votes f or W,
McClelland, Democrat, serving from December 1,
1873. to March 3, 187.5.
Moorhead, James Kennedy, was bom at
Halifax, Pennsylvania. September 7, 18'J(5; received
a common-school education; served an apprentice-
ahip to the tanner's business, after which be became
a canal contractor, and tlien snperlntendent and to-
pervisor on the Juniata Canal; in 18;}-5 he projected
and established the first passenger packet-line on the
Pennsylvania Canal; he was appointed adjutant-gen-
eral of Pennsylvania in 1838; he constructed the
Monongalicia navigation, and has been president of
tlie company for twenty-one years; he was el'-'cled a
representative from Pennsylvania in the Tbirty-sixih
Congress as a Republican, receiving 6,539 votes
against 4,879 votes for Burke, Democrat; was re-
elected to the Thirty-seventh Congress, receiving
10,607 votes against (i.tKil votes for Kerr, Democrat;
was re-elected to the Thirty-eighth Congress, receiv-
ing 8,o;J7 votes against 5,ti78 votes for Hamilton.
Democrat; was re-elected to the Thirty-ninth Con-
gress, receiving 11.233 votes against 7,013 votes for
James H. Hopkins, Democrat; and was re-elected to
the Fortieth Congress, receiving 12,720 votes against
9.066 votes for Sweitzer. Democrat, serving from De-
cember 6. 18.50, to March 3. 18<H).
Morehead, Charles S., was bom In Nelson
County, Kentucky, in 1802; received a public-school
education; studied law; was admitted to the bar,
and commenced practice at Frankfort, Kentnckv;
was a member of the SUile House of Representatives
1828 and 1829; was attorney-general of Kentucky
18:iO-1836; w.is again a member of the State House
of Representatives 18:18-1842 and l^i44, serving the
last three years as speaker of the House; was el'ectcal
a representative from Kentucky in the Thirtieth
Congress as a Whig, receiving 4,348 voles against
8,l4.s votes forS. F. J. Trabuc, American; wsis re-
elected to the Thirty-flrst Congress, receiving .5,11>5
votes against 4,6<J6 votes for S. F. J. Trubue. Aiueri-
can, serving from Decemlwr 6, 1^7, to March 3,
1.<.51 ; was again a memK-r of the State legislatur« in
18.53; Wiis governor of Kentucky in lli5.5; was a
delegate from Kentucky to the Peiioo C'onveutioa
belli at Washington in 18(il ; died at Greenville, Mi»-
sisshipi. December 2:). 18(18.
Morehead, James T., was bom at Covington,
Kentucky, May 24, 1797; received an academical edu-
cation; studied law; was admitted to the bar ia
1818, and commenced practice at Covington, Ken-
tucky; was a member of the State House of Repre-
sentatives 1827-18.30; was elected lieuten.-int-govem-
or of Kentucky in 1832, and, after the death of Gov-
ernor Breathitt, became governor 1S44-1JM0: was
again a member of the House of Representatires in
1837; was president of the State Board nf inteniaJ
Improvements 183,8-1841 ; was elected a Unlted-8tatei
senator from Kentucky as a Whig (in the place of
Crittenden, declined), servMng irnin May 31, 1841, to
March 3, 1847; reluming to Covington, he resumed
his practice, and died December 28," 1854.
Morehead, James T., was l>om at Green*-
borough, North C'aroiina; received a public-school
ednc.atiou; wiis elected a repn-sentative from Norfli
Carolina in the Thirty-second Congress as s^TiIiti
receiving no opposition, serving from December!,
1S51, to Marcli 3, 18.5:1.
Morey, Frank, was bom at Boston, Matsacha-
setts, July 11, 1840; was e<lucated in the Boston
public schixiis; removed to Illinois In 1867, whM?
Ills study of law was Intermpted by entering the
Union anuy In 1801 in the Thirty-third Illlnoij In-
fantry; served till the close of the war, prineipaUj
on staff duty, with the rank of captain: settled In
Louisiana in 1800, in wliich State he had been M-
tioned for two years while In military service, and
engaged in cotton-planting and tlie insnrauce husi-
ness; was a member of the General Assembly ol
Louisiana in 1808 and 1809; was appointed a oid)-
missioner to revise the statutes ami codes of ilw
State; was a commissioner to the Vienna ExposliloB
In 1873; was elected a n.'presentatlve from LouiNan*
In the Forty-first Congress as a RepuM' ••■'■■ • ■' " "'•
elected to the Forty-second Congn'ss, i -'
votes against 0,7l:j votes for J. D. AV.i
crat; was re-elected to the Forty-ihirU C«usn:i«i
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641
reeeWnp 14,080 rotes against 8,507 votes for G. W.
McCranie, Ik-mocrat; aiid was re-elected to the For-
ty-fourth Congress as a Kepulilicaii, rL-celvlng 12.370
^ votes agaiust 11,0!}3 votes for William D. .Spencer,
Democrat.
Morgan, Charles Henryt '»» '>"ni in Alle-
gliany County, Ni-w York ; w;i9 cilucaieil in Wisconsin
. at common schools, and at the High t>chiKil ut Fond
' du Lac; enlisted in the Union amiy as a private in
the First Wisconsin Infanlrj- ujKin the HrsI call fur
troops in 1801, and was scrmant and sergeant-major
of that regiment; was pronioteil in August. l.SJii, to
be second lieutenant in llio Twenly-tirsl Wisconsin
' Infantry, and was subsequently promoted to l>e tirsC
lieutenant and captain, huldiug the liist rank when
the regiment was musten'd out at ttie cinw of the
■war; studied law; gniduated at the Albany (New
York) Law School in LStKl, and commenced jirac-
tice at Lamar, Mississippi; was prosecuting-attor-
uey; was a member of die State legislature of Mis-
> sourl in 1873 and 1874; was elcca>d to tlie Forty-
fourth Congress as a Democrat, receiving li.8<)9
votes against 10,640 votes for C. W. Thrasher. Re-
publican ; and was re-elected to the Forty-fifth Con-
Ki-ess, receiving 18,081 votes against 17,;J57 votes for
U. £. Havens, liepublican, serving from Decemt)er6,
187.J.
Morgan, Cbriatopher (brother of Edwin B.
Morgan), was lx)ni at Aurora, New York, June 4,
1808; received a classical education, gnulmitiug at
Yale College in 1830; studied law; wasiulmittedtothe
bar, and commenced practici; at Auburn, New York,
■s the partner of Willhun H. .Seward ; was elected a
representative from New Yorlc in tlie Twenty-sixth
Cougren as a Whig, receiving iJMil votes against
4,404 votes for W. H. Noble, l>emi(orat; was re-
elected to the Twenty-seventh Congress, receiving
' 6,148 votes against 4,lt35 votes for Peler Yawgcr,
Democrat, serving frtim December 2, 1830, to March
8, 1*43; was defeated as the Whig candidate for tliu
Twenty-elghll) Congress, receiving (i,f')80 votes against
7,177 votes for Hatlibun, DemtK'rat, and 48<) votes fur
Cuyler, Abolitionist; was secretary of Slate of tlie
Stale of New York 1848-16.52; was mayor of Auburn
in 1800; was for many years a tnistee of the State
Lunatic Asylum at Utlca; died at Auburn, New
York, April 3. 1877.
Morgan, Daniel, was bom in Hunterdon Coun-
ty, New Jersey, 17:tt; was a fanii-lat'on-r; removed
to Virginia, where he was employeil as an overst-er;
entered the army commanded by (ienerid Braddock
in 1755 as a wagoner; entered the Continental am>y,
and served through the Revolution, attaining the
rank of brigadier-general; retired, after llu' war, to
his estate, known as "Saratosia,"' near Winchester;
commanded tlie Virginia militia onlennl out by Presi-
dent Wa.sliii)^on iii 171U to suppress the Wliiskey
Insurrection in Pennsylvania; was a candidate for
election to the Fourtli Congress, but was defeated;
was elected to the Fifth Congress as a Federalist,
defeating Kobert itutherford. who unsuccessfully
contested the seat, and served from May !.">, 1707, to
March .3, 1700; his healtli failing, lie decihied a re-
cleolion, and died at Winchester, Virginia, July 0,
18IW.
Morgan, Edwin B. (brother of Chrlstoplier
Moi-^an), was born at Aurora, Cayuga County, New-
York, May 2, 1800; received a publir-scliuol educa-
tion ; was elected a representative fnim New York in
the Thirty-third Congress as a Kcpublican, receiving
t>,15() votes agaiust 8,0W votes for How, Democrat;
was re-<'lected to the Thirty-fourth Congress, receiv-
ing 7.084 votes against 0,010 votes for Jllddleton,
American, and 1,200 votes for Aldrich, Uemocrat;
was n.'-i'lecteil to the Thirty-fiftli Congress, receiving
]2,tj;il votes against 3,(18."> votes for Kielmiund, Dem-
ocrat, and 3,(544 votes for Fosgatt, American, serving
' from December 5, 18.53, to March 3, 1859.
Morgan, Edwin D., was Iwm at Washington,
Massachusetts, February 8, 1811; received a public-
school education; engaged in the grocery business In
Hartford, Connecticut, and afterwards in the city of
New York; was a memlier of the city cnuneil of
Hartforil In 1832; was an alderman of New-Y'orlc
City in 1.S4U; was a memlwr of the State Senate of
New Y'ork 18.5i)-18.53; was State commissioner of
emigration 18-5.5-18D8; was chairman of tlie Kcpub-
lican National Committee 18.50-1804; was chairman
of the Union Ccmgressional Cmnmlttee in IWW; was
govenii^r of tlie State of New York in 18.50-18(12: waa
major-general of volunteers from Septemlier 2!*, 1801,
to Januar}- 1, 180:}, rendering efficient service in re-
cruiting troops at the commencement of the war for
tlie suppression of the Kelwlllon, and down to the
close of its second year, at whicli time he had raised,
and to a laree extent e(|uipped, 220.000 volunteers;
was elected Uuitetl-States senator from New York as
a Union Kcpublican (to succeed Preston King. Kepub-
lican), serving from Marcli 4. 180;), to March 3, 1809.
Morgan, George W., was boni at Wasliing-
ton. Pennsylvania, Septemlier 20, 1820; left college
In 18-Sti; enlisted in a company commanded by his
brother, and went to assist Texas in gaining her
independence. In whicli service he rose to the ranlt
of captain; returning to the United States, he stud-
led law; was admitted to tlie bar, and commenced
practice in 1843 at Mt. Vernon, Ohio; in 1840 he
commanded the Second Ohio Volunteers in the Mezi-
can war until the expiration of its tenn of service
under Oeui-nii Taylor; in tlie winter of 1840-1847 he
was ai)pointed colonel of the new Fifteenth Infantry,
whicli he cocuiianded, under General Scott, until
the close of the war; for his services at the battles
of Contreras and Cliunibu.sco he was brevetted a
brigadier-general In the n'gulararmy; in 1856 he was
appointed consul at Marseilles; in 1858 he was ap-
pointed minister resident at Lisbon; on the breaking
out of the Uebcllion, as brigadier-general of volun-
teers lie had conimand of the Seventh Division of
the Army of the Ohio; wras with General Sherman
at Vicksirtirg; was assigned to the Thirteenth Army
Corps, and was in comiiiatid at the taking of Fort
Himlniaii in Arkansas; and, on account of his loss
of health, resigned Ills conimand in 1803; in 18(i5 he
was the unsuccessful Deiuocratlc candidate for gov-
ernor of t>Iiio; claimed to have been elected a repre-
sentative from Ohio to tlie Fortieth Congrvss as a
DciniKTat, but the House gave tlie seat to Columbus
Delano, Wliig; was elected to the Forty-iirst Con-
gress as a Democrat, receiving 14,(il4 votes against
12.080 votes for Charles Cooper, Kepubllcan; was re-
elected to tlie Forty-second Congress, receiving I4.1M
votes against 12,047 votes for C. W. Patwin. Repub-
lican; WHS defeated os the Democratic candidate for
the Forty-tliinl Congress, receiving 13.140 votes
against 13,573 votes for James W. Robinson. Hepub-
licaii, and 229 votes for C W. Townsetjd, rri>liihl-
tionist ; was a delegate at large to the National Dem-
ocratic Convention'at St. Louis in 1876.
Morgan, James, was born at Amboy, New
Jersey, in 17.50: received a public-school education;
served as an oflicer in tlie New-Jersey line during
the Revolutionary war; was elected a representative
from New Jersey in the Twelfth Congress as a Fetler-
alist, serving from November 4, 1811, to March 8,
1813; Ix'came a major-general of militia; died at
Soiitii Aiiiljoy, New Jersey, September 14, 1822.
Morgan, John J. (father-in-law of John A.
Dix), wiis liorii In Queen's County, New York, in 1700;
received un aciidemlcal education; was a meml>erof
the State House of Representatives in 1819; was
elected a njpresentatlve from New York in the Seven-
teenth Congress as a Democrat; was re-elected to the
Eighteenth Congress, serving from December 3, 1811,
to March 3, 1825: was again elected to the Twenty-
third Congress (In place of Cornelius W. Lawrence,
resigned) as a Democrat, serving from December 1,
1834, to March 3, 1830; was again a member of the
State House of Representatives in 1830 and 1840;
died at Port Chester, New York, July 20, 1849.
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CONGRESSIONAL DtRECTOBr.
Morgan, John T., was bom at Athens, Ten-
nes9>»e. .Tuiu' 2(1, 18l'4: rccciveil iin aomleniic educa-
tion, chiefly in AJiibama, to which .State he t-miiirated
when nine years olj, and has since resided there;
studied law; was adniitt«d to the bar In lS4o, and
practised until liis election to the Senate: was a
presidcniial elector in IsOO for the .StJite at large,
and voted for Breckinridge and Lane; was a delegate
in ISiSl from Dallas County to the State Convention
which passed the ordinance of secession; joined the
Confederate anny in May, 18<il, as a private in Com-
pany I, Cahawba Rilles, and, when that company was
assijtned to the Fifth Alabama Reciinent under Colo-
nel Itohert E. Kodes, he Wiis elected major, and
afterward lieutenant-colonel, of that re-rfmeiit; was
commissioned in 18<i2 as colonel, and raised the Fifty-
first Alabama Hegimont; w.os apfHiinted brigailier-
general in 18*53, and assigned to a brigiuie in Virginia.
but resigned to rejoin Ids regiment, whose colonel
had been killed in battle; later in 1W>-') he was again
appointed brig.idier-general, and assigned to an Ala-
b.nma brigtuie, which included his ri^giment; .after
the war he resumed the practice t>f his profession at
Selma; was chosen a presidential clectorfor the Stale
at lar^e in 187t). and voted for Tilden and Hendricks;
Wiis elected to the United-States senate as a Uenio-
cnit (to succeed (ieorge Uoldthwaite, Democrivt ), and
took his seat March 5, 1877; his term of service will
exnire March ."i, 18M3.
Morgan, William 8., was bom in Monongtdia
County, Virginia, .September 7, 1801; received a pulv
lie-school education, and was reared on a farm; w.-js
elecleil a representative from Virginia in the Twenty-
fourth Congress as a Democrat, receiving .IWJ major-
ity over E. C. Wilson, \Vliig: w;is re-elected to the
Twenty-fifth Congress, serving from December 7,
ISSo, to March 3, 18ul); was appointed a clerk in the
House of Kcpresentatives in 1840; was a meinl>cr of
the State Uouae of Keprcsentatives; was a [iresideu-
tlal elector on the Tolk .and Dall;is ticket in 1844;
was appointed to a clerliship in the Treasury Dep;irt-
uient.
Morphia, Joseph L., was born in McNairy
County, Tennessee, April 17. ISil ; was brought iijl
RS a planter; was a Whig member of the State legis-
lature of Tennessee in ISTilt; entered the Confederate
army as captain in August, Isoi, and served until
the surn.-nder; removed to Mississippi in 18(>;t; was
elected to the Statu Constitutional Convention of
Mississip[ii in 1805; wa« a member of the .State legis-
lature of Mississippi in l.StWi, 18i;7. and 18ti!>; and w.ts
eiecteil a representative from Mississippi in the Forty-
first Congress as a Hepnblican, receiving 0,071 voles
against 4,840 votes for Kellogg, ConserrBtive, and
l,4.).j votes for Tatuni, Demoor.at; was re-t'lected to
the Forty-second Congress, serving from February
2S, 1870, to March 3. 1873; w.is apponited ni.irshal of
the Northern District of Mississippi by President
Hayes.
Morrell, Daniel J., was bom at North Berwick.
Maine, August S, 1821; received a pnblic-schoid eilii-
cation; removed to Philadelphia in 1830; enten;d a
counting-room as clerk, and became " inteiestc«l in
business: removed in 18.1.5 t<t Johnstown, Pennsylva-
nia, where he nianitfaclured Iron: held several local
offices; was elected a representative from Pcimsylva-
iiia in tlie Fortieth Congress as a Kepublican, receiv-
ing 11,2!I8 votes agaiiisl i.>,97» votes for Johnston,
Democrat; was re-elected to the Fortj'-first Congress,
receiving 12,100 votes ag.'iinst 1 l.OstO votes for Linton,
Democrat, serving from March 4, 1807. to Slarch 3.
1871 : was defeated as the llepublican candidate for
the Forty-second Congress, receiving 10.334 votes
against 10,33o votes for lioberl Milton Sl>eor, Demo-
crat.
Morril, David La-wrenoe, was bom at Epping,
New Hampshire, June 10, 1772; received an academ-
ical education: studied medicine, and commenced
practice at Epping in 1703; turned his attention to
theology, and was made pastor of the Congregational
Chnrch at Goffstown 1S02-1811; p^aotis<^<^ mfAl
|.8<J7-18;i0: was a member of the St.afe Hi.u»e nf \it\
rescntativcs 1808-1817: was elected a L'nileil-Stati
senator from New Hainpshirc as an Adams Dei
crat, serving from December 1, 1817. to Jliirch
1823; w.as elected a member of the .State Sen.ite, am
sensed l.t2:j-1824; Wiis a candidate for governor
New Hampshire in 1824; there was ehoic*; by tht]
[leople. and he was elected by the convention, an "
the next two years w.is elected by the i>eoi)|e to t
same oftice; reraoveil In 1831 to Concortl, where li
edited "The New-Hampshire 01)server;" and d
January 28, l.-ill).
Morrill, Anson P., wns bon> at nelgmdi
Maine, June In, 18il3: received a public-school eili
cation; enga'^-d in mercantile ami manufacturiii
pursuits; wasamemberof the St.-ile House of Ueji
sentalives; was governornf Maine in 18.V>; w.aselei
ed a representative from Maine in theThirty-scTentl
Coiign'fS as a Reimblican. receiving 12.ttliil vot(
■igaiiist 7,244 votes f-.r Fuller, Democrat, serving f;
July 4, ISOI, to March ;1, l.SiKJ.
Morrill, Justin S., wis boni at Strafford. Ver<]
mont, April 14. l.'<10; received an academicnl edni-a«.'
tlon; was a merchant, and afterwards •
agincultural pursuits: was elected a rep
from Vemn)nt in the Thirty-f<mrth Congr< >
pul)licau, receiving 8.;i80 votes against .'■>..848 votes fi
Parker, Democrat, and 2,473 votes for O. I^. Shafti
and scattering; was re-elected to the Thirty-tifih Coi
gress, receiving 13,(;05 votes against 4,:J.>"^ vi.t^s f<
Chase, Democrat: was re-eh-cted to the Ti
Congress, receiving 1 1 ,.570 votes against I
for Chase, Democrat; w.-ts re-electtd to il
seventh Congress, receiving 12,555 votes against 3.1
votes for DavenfKirt, Democrat; was re-elected toti
Thirty-eighth Congress, receiving ll,.'i58 votes
4,785 votes for Davenport, Democrat; waa re-
to the Thirty-ninth Congress, receiving 12,409^
against 4,71)3 votes for Ormsby, Democrat
from Deceml>er 3, IS.'Jo, to Marcli .3, 1807; was el
a United-States senator from Vermont, serving from'
March 4, lS(i7; his term of service will expire March
3. 18711.
Morrill, Lot M., was bom at Belgrade, Mninf,
May ;J, 181.'>; was a sttident of Watervill <' " "•
Maine: studied and prai-tiseil law; was n <
the State legislature in 1N'>4 and 1S}<!, pn -
the Senate the last year; was governor of Mnine m
18.58, 18.'ill, and 1S<10; was elected United-States sen-
ator from Maine as a Republican (to till the vacatio)
created by the election of Hannibal Hamlin to llw
Vice-Presidency), and Uiok his seat Jann.ir>' 17, l!?lll:
was re-<>lecteil in 180;l; was appointed in DeceinUr.
ISttO, and afterward elected by the legislature, to flU
llie vacancy occasioned by the death of Williiun Pitt
Fessenden; was re-elected as a Kepublican in l^^l.
and his t<nn of sendee expired M.arch 3, 1.'<T7; liewM
appointed by President Hayes collector of customs >l
Portland in 1877.
Morrill, Saxnuel P., was bom at ChcsterviU*.
Franklin County. .Maine. February 11, 181ti; receM
an academic education, and adopted the ])n>f»silon
of a clergyman ; in 1337 he was elected, for five van-
register of deeds for Franklin County, and was n^
elected to the siune office in lS<i7; was elected ft rep-
resentative from Maine in the Forty-first Congress f
a Kepublican, receiving 14.281 votes against 0,tiSi
votes for Garcelon, Democrat, serving from M«Jtii4.
l.Stil). to March 3. 1,S71.
Morris, Calvary, w.is bom in Virginia; receirtd
a public-schoid education ; n^raoved to Ohio, »i«l '"■
cated at Athens; waa elected a represenL-xtlve frum
Ohio in the Twenty-fifth Congress as a Wlili?: «»
re-elected to the Twenty-sixth and Twentv-Mvetilb
Congresses, serving from September 4, 1S.37, to Mwt"
3, l.-iK!.
Morris, Charles, was a delegate from I'cnluT'-
vania to the Continental Congress 1783-17^4.
Morris, Daniel, was bom in Seuecft Count;,
STATISTICAL SKETCHES.
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Tork, Janiiarv 4. 1812; received a public-school
lion; studied law while tenchiiiy wlioul: was
tied to the bar, and couunf-nct-d prui.'tice at
Peiin Yan; was district-attorney for Yates County:
was a member of the State Houde of Ilepn'sentatives
in 1850; was elected a repri'sentative from New York
in the Thirty-eighth Conirress as a Itepiiblieaii, re-
ceiving ll.tiis votes against 8,157 votes for Lonl,
Demix-rat; was ro-iMected to the Thirty-ninth Con-
KTess, receiving 12.703 votes against 8,li62 votes for
Barzillai .Slosson, Democrat, serving from December
7, ltV3. to March 3, )S(!7.
Morris, Edward Joy, was bom at Philadel-
phia, IVtiiisylviuiia, July HI. 1S15; received a clfwst-
cal educjition, uraduatinB at Harvard College in ISJii;
was a member of the .Stale House of Hepn-sentntives
in Itill-l.'yH: Wiis elected a representative from Ponn-
t)'lvania in the Tweiity-eiglilh Congress as a Wliig,
receiving S.^Tw votes against 2.371) votes for MeCully,
Democrat, and 1,072 votes for Crouset, Democrat,
•orviiig from December 4, 184^}, to M.irch 3, 1S4J;
■was cliiiniK il'itffaireii to Naples January 2iJ, IS^iit-
August 2»!, ItS^^i; was again a member of the State
House of Representatives in 1850; was chosen a di-
rect/jr of Girard College; w.t.8 again elected to tlic
Thirty-fifth Congress, receiving (1,411 votes against
6,018 votes for Marshall, Democrat ; and was re-elected
to the Thirty-sijith Congress, receiving fj.tlM votes
against 4,u:j(i votes for Martin, Demoenil, serving
frum December 7, 1857, to March 3, 18<il; wsis ap-
pointed by President Lincoln minister resident to
Turkey June 8, lW51-October 25, 1870. Published
"A Tour through Turkey, Greece, and Egypt;"
"The Turkish Empire, Social and Political:" "Life
and lyfjvo in Norway;" and "Corsica, Social and Po-
litical."
Morris, Gtouvemeur (brother of Lewis Morris),
was bfini at Morris.iana, New Y'ork, January 31, 1752;
graduated at King's College (now Columbia), New
York, in 17(W; studied law; was .idmitled to the bar
In 1771. and commenced practice at New York; was
Boon after elected a member of the New-York Pro-
vincial Congress ; was a delegate from New York to
the Continental Congress 1787-1788, but was not rc-
electeil; was appointed assistant financier in 1781, and
dniugliled the act Incorporating the Bank of North
Amerir.i; was a memlH-r of tlie Conventiim which
framed the Constitution of the United Stat4'8 in 1787;
went U) France in 1788; was appointed minister
plenipotentiary tjyi'resident Washington January 12,
17(*2; served until August 15, 1704, and retumeil
home in 17U(i; wa« electeil UnitciKStates sen.-jlor from
Pennsylvania as a Federalist April 7, 1S(K) (in tlie
£lace of James Watson, resigno<l), and ser\'ed from
[ay 3, 18.'H), t<i March 8. lstl3; resided for seven years
at Philadelphia; removed to New York, and was ap-
pointed chairman of the canal commission in 181(1;
died at Morrisiana, New York, November ti, IHKi,
He published "Eulogies on Washington, Hamilton,
and Clinton," and several pamphlets on financial
matters. .Selectinns from his pajiers, w^ith a sketch of
his life, were edited l)v Jared Sparks.
Morris, Isaac N'. (son of Thomas Morris, and
brtither of Jonathan D. Morris), vras bom in Ohio
January 22, 1812; received an aciulemical e<lucalion;
studieil law; w.as admitted to the bar in 18:55, and
commenced practice at liuincy, Illinois, in IS^W; was
appointed secrettiry of state for Illinois In 184(1, but
declined; was chosen president of the Illinois and
Michigan Canal Company in 1841 ; was a member of
the Suite Hous(! of Kepresentatlves in 1841; was
elected a n^presentative from Illinois in the Thirty-
fifth Congress as a Democrat, n-ceiving 12,(i.')U votes
against l(),2t>4 votes for Grimshaw, Kepublic.an; was
Te-elected to the Thiny-«i.\th Congress, receiving
18,529 votes against 11,(J48 votes for'Orimshaw, Kc-
pnblican, 8er\'ing from December 7, 18.17, to March 3,
1^1; was appointed a commissioner for the Pacific
3lailroa<l in 186<l.
Morris, James B. (son of Joseph Morris), was
bom in Greene County, Pennsylvania, January 10,
1820; received a pul)lic-*chool education: was taken
by Ills father to Ohio; was a member of the .State
House of Keprt'sentatives In 1848; was elected a R'p-
resentativc from Ohio in the Thirty-seventh Congress
as a Democrat, receiving 0,<K)lt votes against 8,570
votes for Theaker, Kepublican ; was re-elected to the
Thirty-eighth Congress, receiving lil,:W2 votes against
V>,18;! votes for Cutler. Kirpubliean, serving from July
4, 18<!l, to March 3, 18t>5; was defeated as the Demo-
cratic candidate tor the'Ililrty-ninth Congress, receiv-
ing li,5tl4 votes against 12,847 votes for T. A. Plants,
JStjiulilican.
Morris, Jonathan D. (son of Thomas Morris,
anil l)rother of Isaiie N. Morris), was bom In Ohio;
received an academical education; studieil law; was
admitted to the bar, and con>meneed practice at Ba-
tavia; served for twenty years as clerk of the courts
of Clermont County; was elected a representative
from Ohio in the Thirtieth Congress as a Democrat;
w.as re-elected to the Thirty-first Congress, rw'clvlng
7,135 voles against 3,.'>83 votes for Joliff, Free-Soiler,
serving from December 6, 1847, to Marcli 3, 1851;
died at Connersvllle, Indiana, May 10, 1875.
Morns, Joseph (father of James U. Morris),
was born in Greene County, Pennsylvania, October
16, 17i>5; received a public-school education; learned
the wheelwright's tnide. and worked at it until he waa
twenty-live years r>f age; was sheriff of Greene Coun-
ty in 1824; removed' in 1821) to Woo<islield, Ohio,
where he engaged in mercantile pursuits; was a
member of the State House of Representatives in
is:i;j and 18.'54; was treasurer of Monroe County; was
elected a Representative from Ohio in the Twenty-
eighth Congress as a Democrat, ri'ceivlng 5.:521 votes
.igainst 4,017 votes for Cowen, WlUg, ami 5:15 vote*
for I^e, Abolitionist; was re-elected to the Twenty-
ninth Congress, serving from December 4, 184-3, to
March 3, 1847; died at Woodsfield, Ohio, October 23,
18.>J.
Morris, Le^wis (brother of Gouvemeur Morris),
was iKirn at Morrisiana, New York, in 1720; recclve<i
a classical education, graduating at Yale College in
1740; devoted himself to agricultural pursuits; wa»
a delegate from New York to tlie Continental Con-
gri-ss n7.")-1777; held the commission of miijor-aener-
iil of militia: died at Morrisiana .luniiary 22, 17118.
Morris, Lewis R., w.is hnm in Yennont in
1753; received a public-school education; was electeil
a representative from Vermont In the Fifth Congress;
was re-electeil to the Sixth and Seventh Congresses,
serving from May 15, 17i)7, to March 3. 1803.
Morris, Maihias, was bom at Hilltown, Penn-
sylvani.i. in 1785; received a good English education;
ri'slded at Doylestown; was elected a representative
from Pennsylvania In the Twenty-fourth Congress as
a Whig, di'feating Chapman Henry by 7(>0 majority;
was re-eleetecl to the "Twenty-fifth Congress, defeat-
ing Kuckmaii. Di'mncrat, serving from December 7,
18:15, to March 3, 18.'W; was defeated as the Whig
candidate for the Twenty-sixth Congress, receiving
•1.138 votes against 4,440 votes for John Davis, Dem-
ocrat ; died at Doylestown, Pennsylvania, November
0, bS-W.
Morris, Robert, was bom at Liverpool, Eng-
Iniid. .Iiuiiuiry 20. 17:B: came In 1747 to Oxford,
Maryland, where his f.ather had pn^eedcd him; re-
ceived an academic education; was placed in the
countlng-rix)m of Charles Willing at Philadelphia;
went on several voyages .as supercargo, and, on the
death of Mr. Willing in 17.54, entered Into partner-
ship with his son; was a delegate from Pennsylvania
to the Continental Congn'ss, and a signer of the Dec-
lanition of Iniiependence; rendereil imjmrtant aid
to the Revolutionary army by procuring funds for Its
use, and was superintendent of finance 1781-1784;
was a member of the Pennsylv.ania legislature 1786;
was a delegate from I'ennsylv.inia to the convention
which fnimed the Federal Constitution 1787; w;i» a
Uoitud-Statcs senator from Pennsylvania 1780-1706;
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COKOBESSIOJrAL DIBECTOBT.
was offered and declined the potltlrm of wcreUtry of
the treasury by President \Va»liiii(fton ; engageif In
iiii«iicoe»s(ul land spcculatioiu, which were the cause
of his passing the latter years of bis life in a debtor's
jail; suffered much with attacks of the asthma, and
dii-.l at Pliilad.-lphia Mav 7, 1806.
Morris, Samuel W., was bom in Pennsylrania
ill 17S.S; received an academical education; studied
law; was admitted to the bar, and commenced prac-
tice at Wellsborough ; was elected a representallTe
fnjm Pennsylvania in the Twenty-fifth Congress as a
Democrat ; was reelected to the Twenty-sixth Con-
urt-'s, rei-eiving 0.150 votes against 4,.W0 votes for
William Willard, VVliig, servingfrom September 4,
1S;7. to March 3. 1H41; died at Wellsborough, Penn-
sylvania, Mnv :i.i, 1S47.
Morris, Thomas, resided in Canandaigna; was
a member of the State House of Representatives
17114-17(16; was elected a representative from New
York in the Seventh Congress, serving from Decem-
ber 7. ISiil. u> Marcli 3. 1«03.
Morris, Thomas (father of Isaac N. Morris and
Jonaihan U. Morris), was bom in Virginia January
3. 1770; received a pnblic-school education; removed
when nineteen yean of age to Ohio, and finally
located at Bethel; was a member of the State Senate
or Rouse of Representatives 1806-1830; was chief
judge of Oliio 1830-1833; waa elected a United-States
senator from Ohio as a Democrat, serving from De-
cember 2, 18:i3. to March 3, 1839; died at Bethel,
Ohio, D<.'cemi>er 7, 1844. His life and writings were
[lublislieil by his Ron. Itev. B. F. Morris.
Morrison, George W., was l>om In Vermont;
receive^l a pulilic-schuol education: removed to Man-
chester, New Hampshire; studied law; was admitted
to the bar, and pracli.ied; was elected a representa-
tive from New Hampshire in the Tliirty-(ir»t Con-
gre» (in place of James Wilson, resigned) as a Dem-
ocrat, receiving 8,240 votes against 0,1 lit votes for
Perkins, Whig, and serving fniin December 2, 18.50, to
March 3. 18.J1 ; was defeated as the Democratic can-
didate for the Thirty-second Congress, r<.'ceiving 7,777
vote* against 8,71.5 votes for Perkins, Whig and Free-
Soiler; was again elected to the Twenty-third Con-
gress, receivitig 9,050 vote* against 4.:iW votes for
Hughes, Wliig, and 2,822 votes for Preston, Free-
Soiler, serving from December 5, 185:}, to March 3,
1S55; was defeated as the Democratic candidate for
the Thirty-fourth Congress, receiving 8,tio0 votes
against 12,129 votes for M. W. Tappan, American.
Morrison, James L. D., waa Imtu in Illinois;
rec'civiii an acadenilciil education; studied law; was
admitted to the bar, and commence<l practice at
Belleville: served in the Mexican war os lieutenant-
colonel of Bissell's r^menl of Illinoia volunteers
July 1, 1846-July 1, 1847; was a member of the State
Senate of Illinois in 1854; was elected a representa-
tive from Illinois in the Thirty-fourth Congress (in
tiace of LjTnan Tmmliull, electt^d senator) as an Olil-
iue Whig, receiving 10,75<3 votes against 8.230 votes
for Thom,-is, Republican, and serving from December
1, M<A\. to March 3, 1857.
Morrison, John A., was bom In Pennsylvania:
received a pulilic-school education; reside<l at Coch-
ransville: was elected a representative frt>m Pennsyl-
vania in the Thirty-seconil Congress as a Den\ocrat,
receiviiuj; 4,(171 votes against 4,(W1 votes for Dickey,
Whig, serving from December 1, 1861, to March 8,
ISM."
Morrison, William R., was bom in Monroe
County. Illinois, Septenilier 14, 1825; was reared
on a fann; received a commoti-school education,
and was afterwards a student at McKcndree Col-
lie, Illinois : served in the Mexican war as a
pnvate In Colonel Bissell's regiment of Illinois vol-
unteers; was clerk of the Circuit Court of Monroe
County is.53-l<54; studietl law; was admitted to the
bar in l.s5o, and commenced practice at Waterloo;
was a meml>er of the State House of Representa-
tives 1864-1860, serving m (ptaJker the last two yeacs;
served in the Union army as ooloticl of the
ninth Dlinois Infantry, wliich he eoamaaded at Foi
Douelson, where he was severely voonded;
elected a representative from Ulinois in the Tblity-
eighth Congress as a Democrat, receiving IO,(WS tdIm
against 6,864 votes for Smith, Republican, serring
from December 7. 1863, to March :i. lSe5: was de-
feated as ttie Democratic candidate to the Thirty-
ninth Congress, n-ceiving 11.741 votes against 11,817
votes for Jehu Baker, Unionist: was ddested as the
Democratic candidate to the Fortieth Congreai, re-
ceiving 11.056 votes against 13,032 votes for Jetin
Baker. Republican; waa again elected a member of
the State House of Representatives 1870-1871; waa
again elected to the Forty-third Congms a* a Demo-
crat, receiving 13,215 votes against ll,316Toteafor J.
B. Hay, Republican; was re-elected to the For^
fourth Congress, receiving 13.i:>8<3 votes against 8,413
votes for John J. Rinaker, Republican; was re-decMl
to the Forty-fifth Congress, receiving 17.090 votes
against i'.i,('rM vot<>s for Henry S. Baker, Bepablieu,
serving from December 1, liHS.
Morrissey, John, was bora in Tipperary Comi-
ty, Ireland, February 12, 1831; came to this country
In IS:}:) with his parents, who settled at South Troy,
New York: received a limited public-school ednea-
tlon : worked as a moulder in an iroti-foundery : weat
to New York in the presidential campaign of 1848
as an onti-Tommany shoulder-hitter: went to Gili-
fomia in 1851 ; fought a prize-tight at Mare Island
with Thompson for 92.000 a side, and won: retomeil
to New York, and fought a prize-fiiiht at T
Comers October 12, IxjS, with Yankee i
$1,000 a side, and won after thirty-seven
fought a prize-fight at Long-Point Island, Ca
October 20, 1858, with John C. Heenan, for $2,
side, and won on the eleventh round; retired tram
tlie prize-ring, and became the pn^prietor of gambUnf-
houses at New York and at Saratoga; purchaaed tM
controlling interest in the Saratoga race-cotttae in
180:} ; was elected a representative from New York
in the Fortieth CongreM as a Democrat, receiving
0.162 votes against 6,603 votes for Nelson Tayior,
Independent Democrat, and 2,293 votes for Eaett
Elliott, Republican; was re-elected to the Forty-fint
Congress, receiving 16,0&1 votes against 4,404 voM
for J. M. McCartin, Independent Democrat, and
2.583 votes for George Francis Train, RepubKean:
engaged in New-York politics as an opponent of
Tn'mmanv Hall ; was elected to the State Senate ei
New York in IS'75, and was re-elected in 1877; visiletl
Florida for his health, and returned to die at Sarv
toaa Springs May 1, 1878.
Morrow, iJereniiah, was bom in PennsylvsnJi
in 177"; received aimblic-school education; remor*!
to the North-west Territory (now the State of Ohio)
In 1795; was a member of the Territorial House of
Representatives in 1800; was elected the first rejire-
sentative from the State of Ohio in the Eiju^th (-on-
gress as a Democrat; was re-elected to the Ninth,
Tenth, Eleventh, and Twelfth Congresses, sarriat
from October 17, 1803, to March 3, 1813; was sJeelsa
a United-Stafes senator from Ohio, serving tnm
May 24, 181:}, to March 3, 1819; was a presldetttlsl
elector on the Monroe ticket in 1821 ; waa eoveraor
of Ohio 1822-1826; was State canal commissioDcr;
was again elected to the Twenty-sixth CongicM (l»
place of Thomas Corwin, resigned) as a MTUg; «*<
re-elected to the Twenty-seventh Congress, serrin?
from Deccinlier 7, l»tO, to March 3, 1843; died «
Twenty-mile Stand, Ohio, March 22, 1852.
Morrow, John, was elected a represent»ii«
from Virginia in the Ninth Congress; was re-eleeUO
to the Tenth Consress, serving from December li
l*lo. to March :}, l*Jt>.
Morse, Freeman H., was bom at Bath, Miln'.
February 18, 1807; received a public>«chovl edotS'
tion ; was a member of tlie State House of Bepreiw-
tatives 1840-1844; was mayor of Bath: wai«l««l«»»
representative from Maine In the Tw«iitr4i|>t>
■ifa
STATISTICAL. SKETCHES.
545
li
ICfinare** u a Whig, seirlng from December 4, 1843,
to Mnrcii 3, 1846: was iutaiii u meiulier i>f the State
House of Representatives livV) ami ISotl; vras aeain
I elecleil to the Tliirty-fiflli (.'oiigress as a lle|>ul)licnii,
I receivini; i;!.".')! voles against 7.078 votes for David
Bronsoii, Coalition: ami wiis re-electe<I to the Tliirty-
>«ixtU Coiiiiress, receiviiiis 10,552 votes against it.UliO
; votes for (tile, DeiniK-rai, »er^•ing frfnu Deei'iiilK?r 7,
1857. t<i M:m'li :1. iNil : whs a nieinl>er of tlu' Peace
Coni:re5S of IMII ; wns Hp|ioiute(l by Presiilent Lin-
coln consul nt London.
Morse, Isaac Edward, was l)om at Attakapas,
Louisiaiiiu May 22, ls,il»; recci\"e<l a military ami clas-
[ sical ediiealioii at tlie acaileiiiies of C'ni>liiin Piirtridiie
'l and at Harvard College, graduating at the latter in-
fstitution in 1829; studied law at New Orleans, and
lat Paris, France; was adniilt<-<l to the bar, and com-
[meuced practice at New Iberia; was a meml<erof the
■ State Senate; was elected a reprMentative from
Louisiana in the Twenty-<'is!htli Conyress (in place
of Peler E. Bossier, deceased) as a Di'uiocrat:
was re-elected to tlie Tnenly-ninth Congress; was
fpe-«lectcd to the Tliirtieth Consress, receiviui;
^4,138 votes against 3.(5(>t votes for VVnddell, Whig";
kre-elccteu to the 'rhirty-firBt Congress, receiving
Totu agiiinsl 4,521 votes for Ogden, Whig,
lug from December 2, 18-14, to March 3, 1851 ;
was def.Mted .is the Democratic candidate for the
Cllirty-fecond Concress, receiving 5,370 votes against
votes for Joliii Moore, Whig; was attoniey-
al of Louisiana; was appointed by President
■•ierce minister to New Granada to demand indeta-
Jiity for the murder of American citizens crossing
Uie isthmus; followed the fortunes of Louisiana in
[ her secession from the Union; died at New Orleans
' Felirnary 11. 18«W.
Morse. Leopold, was l)om at Waehenhelm,
Bavaria. August 15, ls;Jl ; received a cominon-selKxil
educjilion at Waehenhelm; came to the Cniled-
[fitates in early life; is a nicTchaiil; Wiis twice ehetcd
deleirate to the National Democratic Coiivenlion;
[was twice a candidate for Congress in the Fourth
[District against Hon. Samuel Hooiicr; was elected a
Irepresenlative from Miuisachusetts in the Forty-fifth
"angress as a Democrat, receiving 10,240 votes
against li.215 votes for Kufns S. Frost, Republican,
^•er^ins from OcIoImt 15, I!^77.
Morse, Oliver Andrew, was iiom at Cherry
^Valley. Otsego Coiuity, New York. M.ircli 21", 1815;
iived a classical education, gnuiuatiugat Uamil-
Jtnn College, New York, in IStJ: studied law; was
[admitted to the bar. and commenced practice at
ICherrj' Valley; was elected a representative from
^Kew York in the Thirty-lifth Congress as a Ilepulv
llican, receiving r),724 votes against 8,881 votes for
lOrejP'ry. Democrat, serving from December 7, 18.57,
fto March 3. 1850; died at Cherry Valley, New York,
April 211. 1S7I).
Morton, Jackson, w.is boni In Virginia; re-
i-ceived a public-school education; removed to Pensa-
cola, Florida, wliere he entered Into the lumber busi-
ness; w;is electe<i a United-Slates senator from
Florida .IS a Wlug, serving from December 3, 1849.
to Mar<.di 3, 18.55; wius a deputy to the Provisional
Conj.T. ss of the Soulhern States, which assembled at
Mont;iomery in Febniary, 18tU.
Morton, Jeremiah, was bom in Virginia; re-
'•ided at Racoon Ford; was elected a representative
from Virginia in llie Thirty-first Congress as n
Democrat, receivin;; 2.798 voU-s against 2,:181 votes
for John S. Pendleton. Whig, serving from De-
cember -3, 1*19. to March ;5, 1851 ; was defeated
H the Democratic candidate for the Thirty-second
Congress, reci'lving 1,8<18 votes against 2,307 votes
for StrothiT. Whig!
Morton, John, was bom at Ridley, Pennsylva-
riia, in 1724; received a public-.'^chool ediic.ition;
iras for many years a land-surveyor; was a njember
of the Colonial Ueneral Assembly 1750-1775, serving
the last four years as speaker; was high sheri£r 1700-
1770; was judgeof the Supreme Court of the prorince;
was a delegate to the Continental Congress from
Pennsylvania 1774-1777, and gave tlie easlTiig vote in
the Peiuisylvania delegation on the adoption of the
Declaration of Independence.
Morton, Marcus, was Iwm at Freetown, Mas-
sachusetts, December 19, 1784; received a classical
education, graduating at Brown University in 1S04;
studied law; was admitted to the bar, "and com-
menced practice at Taunton; was clerk of the Mossa-
cliu.selts Senate in 1811; was elected a representative
fn>m Massachusetts in the Fifteenth Congress as a
Ueniocral; was re-elected to the Sixteenth Congress
(defeating Frmicis Baylies), serving from December 1,
1817, to March 3, 1821 ; was an executive councillor In
1823; w.-is elected lieutenant-governor in 1823; was a
judge of the Supreme Court 182.5-1840; was governor
of Mass.ichusetcs 1840-1841. and again 184.3-1844; wna
apiMiinted by President Polk collector of customs at
Boston, serving 184.5-1849; was a delegate to the
State Constitutional Convention of 18.53; was a
inemlier of the State House of Representatives In
18.58; died at Taunton February 0, 1804.
Morton, Oliver P., was bom in Wayne Coun-
ty, Indiana, Augtist 4, 1823; was appreiitlce<I to a
hatter at the age of fifteen, and worked at the trade
four years, spending his leisure In study; entered
tlieMi.-imi University, and graduated in 1843; studied
law with John S. Newman; was admitted to the
bar in 1847, an<l cmnnenced practice at Centreville,
Indiana; was elected circuit-judge in 18.52; was de-
feated OS the Republican nominee for governor
in 18.50; was elected lieutenant-governor in 1800
with the understanding that General H. 8. Lane,
who was placed at the Tvead of the ticket, was to be
elected to the United-Stales Senate in the event of
Iiepublican success, which plan was carried out, and
be iH'c.ime governor of Indiana; was elected governor
in 18<t4; W.IS elected United-States senator as a Union
Uepiiblican (to succeed Henry .S. Liine, Union Re-
publicuii), aiul was re-elected, serving from March 4,
18«17, until his death at Indiiuiapolls November 1,
1877. In the fall of 1805 he was stricken down by
partial paralysis, from which be never recovered. He
was compelled to do his work by secretaries, to be
carried in and out of the Senate Chamber, and to
address the Senate seateil.
Moseley, Jonathan Ogden, was Iwm at East
Hndiiam, Connecticut, in 17ii2; received a classical
education, graduating at Yale College in 1780; was
eiecteil a representative from Connecticut in the
Ninth Congress as a Federalist; was re-elected to the
Tenth, Eleventh, Twelfth. Thirteenth, Fourteenth,
Fifteenth, and Sixteenth Congresses, serving from
December 2, l.S<)5, to M.irch 3, 1821; removed to
Saginaw, Michigan, and died there September 9,
I8;i9.
Moseley, 'William Abbott, received a clas-
sical education, grad\iating at Yale College in 1810;
resided at Buffalo; was a member of the State House
of Representatives in 18i)5, and of the State Senate
18-38-1841 ; was elected a representative from New
Ytirk in the Twenty-eighth Congress as a Whig, re-
ceiving 4,820 votes against 4.113 votes for Vosbergh,
Democrat, and .307 votes for Phelps, Alwlltlonist ; w.is
re-«l«cted to the Tweiity-ninlh Congress, receiving
0.810 votes against 5,081 votes for Stevens, Democrat,
and 400 votes for Pheljis, Abolitionist, serving from
December 4, 1843. to March 3, 1847; died at New
York November 19, 187.3.
Mott, Qorden N., w.is born at Zanesville, Ohio,
0ctolH'r21, 1812; received an academical education;
studierl law; was admitted to the Ijar in ISJIO, and
commenced practice at Zanesville; emigrated to
Texas during its stniggle for iiideiiendence, and
serve<l nine months as a volunteer; returned to Ohio,
and resnnii-d practice; niised a comfxiny, which he
commanded in the Mexican war; removed to Call-
foriua in 1840; was elected judge of Sutter County
In 1850; was appointed a district-judge in 1851; was
646
COXGEESSIOSAL DIUECTOBr.
•n>oii>t«d a justice of the Supreme Court of yerada: t
was elected ■ ddegBle from Neradm Temtorr in the
TUity-ei^lh ComgreM a* a Repoblican, serving from
Jann-irr II. l-«4. toMarrhS, 18i». J
Mott, James, tu bom in Xew Jersey; was
elect'M a rKfireaeailatiTe from Sew Jersey'tn the |
Se^'entb Co>DTma; was re-elected t<-i the Ei^tb Coo- 1
fTRS, serring tnm Deeember 7, 1J^)I. to~lIardi S. |
1S15; was for many rears treasurer of the State of |
Xev- Jeney ; died at his restdeoce near Shrewsbury.
Jfew Jftser. December 10» 1813^
Mott, Richard, wa* bom at Vamaroneck, Xew
Tort. July 21. li^Ut; was educated at the Qnakcr
Seminaty in Duleheas County, New York; engaged
in mercantile |Mina!ts: remored to Toledo, Ohio, in
MS6, attil entered into busiucaa there; was elected a
refwesentatire fnnn Ohio in the Thirty-footth Con-
cress as a Bcpablieaa, teeeiTiiig 8,^o3' rotes aeainst
0,141 rotes fcrOoooMger, Democrat; was re-eSected
to the Thiity-flflh CooxieM, receiring 10.018 rotea
a^inst 0,157 r««es for EdgeitOD, Democrat, and 474
Toles for Paige, American, setTiiiK from December S,
M otte^ laaao, was a dd^ate from South Caro-
lina to the Contittenial CoogreM 1TK>-178;2.
MonHoo, Maoe^ waa bom in Xew Hampshire;
reeeired a pablie-aehool education; was sheriff of
HHUbarmKB CWmty in 1S45; was a State councUIor
la IMS aad 1849; was cteeted a rcfireaentatiTe from
KewHaaiBiUre In tlw Twenty-vialh Coiwresa, aerr-
tec from Deeember 1. 1S4&. to Mwdi S, 1847.
ICoattoo, «»mnal W.. waa bom at Wcnham,
Miiisafbmtltl, Janoary XI, ISIS; reeeired a pabtic-
•diool «daeatfa«; went to the South-Weat when
twenty years of age; tat^ht school; etodied law;
was admitted to tlie bar in iAti, and cMnmenced
llTir!) li:' r.-si'jTKiil .Iirlr.lr IJSA;
«<tlieSttto
nUaaia, in 18G0; was a mem-
tt ffefwwtirlTes 18S3-1SS0;
tor OB the Btschanan ticket in
Mwlrifiil of the State Board of
in 1890: left the DeaMtentie party on the
Dent ef hoatilities la ISSl; wa* chgaen
of theGfandOaaiMilaf the Union Leagne
waa eieeied a icncaeatatira at large froin
fai tfaeThbiy-iriaih Co^remas a BmabUeaa,
Dttty, and aerriag Crom Deeember
taeeiring 4SL611 mE^ority,
4. 1<«3. to Xarrh 3, l>»J7.
MoatOQ, Alexander, waa bom in Attakapas
Farisk. l/misiana. Xorember 18, 1894; receiTed a
daaaical edacatioo. etadaatiBg at GeoiiBeiowB Col-
lege, Dittriet of Colomhia; atadted law with Jadgr
VoarbJea; was admitted to the bar, aad wmiariwad
■mctjee ia bis mtire parish (then known aa Ia-
Inctte Fatisht: was a member of the State Hoose
•f >e|a»wntatlT«i 1897-1812; waa defeated aa the
Damoiratie i aiidMsir far the Twenty-aecon4 Ch»-
nem by Henry A. BuBard. Whig; was a^aia a mam-
her of the Stale Bonae of Bqatamtiiires in MB;
«M cieeted a raited-States iraaiiw from I iialataim
(to fli the raeancy eecaiinatd by the rrsigaittosi «f
Ateiamler Poctcr), aerrtng from Febmarr 2. IS37.
aatil be icssgned Xareh I, t&O: was pyrtntor of
~ ' Mti-lSIS; wm pwsMenl of the South-
Ttdlaace
USa; was pnahiun of the
of Lafayette Faiish ia 1868:
lc< the State Ooavcatioa wtii^ trated
i oat of the Uakm Jaaaarr St, ISSl; was
, Sorcmber S9^ 1881. at aa efccthm held for
J in the Coafedente CkmgreM.
Mbwry. Daniel, jhel. wm bom at SmHhfcM.
Ihade Island, aad resided there; waa jadge «t the
Ckmit of rimaiiiia Pteas; took aa aettra fart in
Ibwiy.
i Cwitlaeaial Congrem ia na.
•» ~
,ial8»; recdred a mffitatr
at the Uiuiad^talm JDataiT Aea*
failSB: aerrcd ia tte Fhat VaiMd-Siala
lfr«mJa^l,iaBi^
OMI-
of Arisau
latlhr
biU crv.u:i.(; a Tvxnlarui nnjaaliafhai faifad
become a law, so be nercr took hia i
pointed by PKcideMt narhsiani in
sioacr to establish the hoaadmy-Ci
foniia and Nerada. aad waa SHpcnBAed by 1
Lincoln in 18S1 on political paoaids; was
and im;>rT«nned at Fort Tama on a char^ of dis-
toy-.)!' -t^tsbed his iaaaaenee; weatatamd
for 1 .tad died at lioadtm Oeloher 11, OJL
Be (M.^..«..^.^ - Geography aad Pcsuawm td Arimaa
andSonota."
MoUenberg, Francis Samtiel fbeathmif
F. A. MuhJenberz aad J. P. G. Me
bom at Philadelphia, Pennsyirania.
reotiTrd an aeadeaiieal <
adaiitte<l to the I
private secretary to Goscraor B«
tnored to Pickaway Coonty. Ohio; was a member «(
the Stale Hoose of Bepvesentatircs; waa
reptesentatire from OUo ia the Twentisth ^
(in place of William CkeWMoa. joa.. luljpwd). mn-
ioc f rom Deceaiber 19, Vrat; to Sfarch S. ;
Mnhleabos, Frederick Aasnst
of F. S. MnUealiag aad J. P. G. Mohleahaigl. wm
bom at
ccired
was ordained ia Gemmay
Lathenn Chardi; preached ia PaaaajlTaaia
New Toik. which aty h* left vhca the Briliift
entered; waa a dfifgatw from Feaaiqtraaia to lh(
Coatiaental Ciaigiim 17TB aad 1780; was ■ tsevihir
of the State Hooae of B«|aisni«artri
waa a dd^ite to the State Oaiuitatlc
tion of 1790; was pitaidua of Iha Staae Conte
called to ratifythe^deral OoaatltM
a repeeaentailTe frem PBaiisylimila fai the Flat,
Seeaad. TTitod. aad Foarth Oaagtiimta, aerTiaf fna
Mareb 4, 178BI. to March 3, 17«^
Mumenbeis. Heoiy Aognstaa f^htrrf
Heary Aagaatas Hahknbetg), was horn at Laa-
d La Tkapoe, Peaasyiraaia, Jane X, ITSfi; r*-
a classical edaeatiaa: staOed theatogr, akl
adaiaed ia Gemmay aa a miaiatrr of the
, rwagBlsaaja^^lfay U, 1788 ;
theolegT.
to the T nihi I aa miaistiy ia icjtti;
Trinity Church at Beading 18aEi-182S, i
aceoont of ill health; was decfed
from Peanajiraaia ia the TwentHInt Ooa^maist
Jacfcaoa Democrat; waa re elected to the T^neal^
aeeond. Tweaty-third. Twcn^-lootth, aad Taca9-
Mlh Coagreaaes (defcaHag; at the last ihilim,
Sml^ aiflfasaaie Whig), aerriag fram Vaemlta
7, 18W, to F^ebtaaiT 9. 183^. wbea he iiajgaed; «*
gOevcd by PrraMmt Tan Borcn the paafetam if
aenetary of ths aawr aad of miaiater to Bmaii
bott of which he Mtead; waamhdMer to AmOii
FrtnMiT8>iaW0<|mmbir>8.M«>; waanumiMi''
aa the Deaaooatic mndMatiw for gunesuac it :^<
bat, before the dectioa, he <ied at gumlhii'. <
cnddenlr. August 1^ ISM.
Mtihlenberg, Henry Atignstus (saa ^
AuBStB* Mnblrabeigj. waa bom at
law for foar years; was aA^tted to the bar ia Jalr.
1844. aad comaaeaeed pcactiee at Beadiag; wis •
moaber of the Stale Seaalelhfeeyaaia: waseieaef
a njuKieuiartie flam ftMfUsnia ia the JUitt
third Coagrcm m a Deaastat, reeerring7.Mt*aM>
8,470 traces lar Be*cr, Whig, atnlag bm
5, 1803, to Jaaaaiy «, UMLjrhm be ifcd
of tiahidd fewrat Wmhingfwn CUg. Beafreaielis
the Howe of RepieaeatatiTea bat eae day. — tlis da
oa which to wm isaaiiliid Be padiiihcid the 'U*
ef Majer Cenmy Isha Feter fiatrid Matihatrrg."
hfeaadew
. M nhlenbecB, John FMer Qttaaal rbrsA^r
of F. A. Meidmbag Md F. S^ lfablrwi«ig>. «•
■" ■ - - —
ST^VTISTICAL SKETCHES.
547
'tvea H classical education; studied tlioology nt
Iftlle, (.rt'nurtiiy, and was ordniiiod a priest in tlic
5(«isrii])al (.'hun'li April 21, 177:.', tiy iJie Uisliop of
Loniiiiii: returning home, he was placed In charge of
a parish in Vir^riiila; was a ineuilier of tlie Colonial
House of Bnrge»8C!i In 1774; was prominent in pre-
Kevolutioiiary movements; entered the Kevoliition-
ary aniiy as colonel of the Eiu'htli Virjiinia (German)
Rejiment, and rose lo the rank of lirigadier-geneml.
^distinguisliing himself in several battles; was elected
rice-president of Pennsylvania; was a presidential
[lector in 1797: was elected a representative from
?ennsylvania in the First CongrcM, serving from
larcli 4, 1781), to March :J, 1791; was again electe<l
ito llie Third Congress, serving from Uecemlx'r 2,
'\~',y-j, to March ii. 17'.i5; was again elected to the
Sixth Congress, serving from December 2, 17110. to
"larch :J, 1*»1 ; was elected a United-States senator
om Peunsylvauin as a Democrat, but did not take
llissejil; was appointed liy I'n'sident Jefferson super-
Ifisor of the revenue fi>r the district of Pennsylvania
In IW'l, and collector of customs at the pt^rl of
Philadelphia I.HdS; died near Schuylkill, Pennsyl-
rania. October!. 1W7.
Muldrow, H. L., was bom in Lowndes County,
|Mlssissippi; grailuaied at the University of Missis-
•ippi. ami received the ilegree of A.B. in the year
p8o0. and the degree of LL.li. in 185.H; was admitted
' the bar as attorney and solicitor in 18.10; entered
die Confederate urmy in IStll ; held various positions
I tlie line, and, at the close of the war, surrendered
kt Forsyth, Georgia, as a colonel of cavalry; held
Uie position of district-attorney for the Sixth .Judicial
■Jistrict of Mississippi from lt«?lUol871; was elected
0 the State legislature hi 1.S75; and was elected a
epresenlAtive from Mississippi in the Forty-fifth
Congress as a Democrat, receiving 20.&tl7 votes
_ igaiiist 0,420 votes for James W. Lee, Republican,
"eervini; from October Li, 1877.
Miuler, Nicholsis, was Iwm In the Grand Dnchy
rof LiLxemboiirg Noveniljcr Ih, 183d; received a
ominiin-school education in the cities of Luxem-
jurg and Met/,, ami afterward attended the Luxem-
bourg Athenteum; immiijrated to the city of New
York, where he was <!ng!»ged in business as a rail-
uad-ticket agent for over twenty years; was one of
ihe promoters and original directors of theGennania
pank in the Bowery, New York; w.as a member of
lie State Asseml'ly in ISTo and 1.S7'3, and of the
State Central Committee in 1875; and was elected a
t;prcsentative from New York in the Forty-lifth
[Jongr^'ss as a Democrat, receiving iri,2.>Sl votes
gainst 4.7.V> votes for James Kerrigan, Iiide[(endent,
urving from October 15, 1.S77.
Mullin, Joseph, w.-is Iwrn in Ireland; immi-
atod to the United .States; was elected a repre-
entative from New Y'ork in the Thirtieth Congress,
i-n Inn from Dee.-ml>er (I, 1847, to March 3. Ityi'X
Mullins, James, was bom near the Three
Forks (pf Duck liiver. Uedforil County, Tennessee,
eptember l.'i. 18l»7; wiis reared on his toiler's fann.
►nd educated at public schools; served an apprentice-
Tiip to tlie millwright's tr.idc; w.is elected colonel
■ militia In IS-II; was high «heri« of Bedfiinl
!?ounly l';4i>-l.*4t3; was cotni>oiU>d to flee from his
ome in 18i)2 on account of his devotion to the
Inlon; served on the staff of General Rosecrniis,
llid was in several sUimiishes and battles lietwi-en
lti2 and l^U; was a member of the State House of
Bepresentatives In 18<15. and its speaker; attended
all National and Stiite Whig, Union, and Hepiiblican
* Conventions after 1840; was elected a representative
from Tennessee in the Fortieth Congress as a Kepuli-
Ucui, reeelving U,448 votes against 3,221 votes for
Edward Coojier. Democrat, and serving from Novem-
Vr i'l. ist)7, to March 3, IWO.
Mtunford, Gteorge, w.-is bom in Rowan Coiuity,
North Carolina; was a member of the House of
^^Coininons of North Carolina in 1810 and 1811; wsis
^HtlccteU a representative from Norlli Carolina in tlie
Keon
Fifteenth Congress, serving from December 1, 1817,
until his death at Washington December 31. 1818.
Mumford, Gtirdoii S., wi » l.orn at New York:
recfivi.cl a pulilic-j<idiool eiluc.ilion; Wivs elected a
representative from New \"ork in the Ninth Congress
as a Democrat; was re-eleeteil to the Tenth and
Eleventh Congresses, serNing fn>iu December 2,
18(t5. to March 3. 1811.
Mumford, Paial, was bom in Rhode Island;
was chief justice of the province; was eleeted a
delegate fnjin Rhode Island to the Continental Con-
gress in M.iy. 177"). but never took his scat.
Mungen, William, was boni at Baltimore,
Maryland, M.-iy 12. 1N21 ; went to Ohio in IXU); re-
ceived a common-school education; studied Latin
and German and the physical seitnri's to some extent
at home: studied and practised law; wa." eililor and
publisher of "Tlie Finill.iy Democratic (Courier;"
was chosen auditor of Hancock County in IMO, and
again in 1S4S; was elected to the State Senate of
Ohio in 1801; entered the I'liion uriuy in 18t'l as
ciilonel of the Kifty-sevenlli Ohio Volunteers, which
he lind raise*!; i. tiring the time he resided in Ohio,
held several local oliires; was elected a representative
from Ohio in the Fortieth Congress as a iJemocnit,
receiving 13,.Vi4 voles against 10,872 voles for Walker.
Republican; and was re-elected to the Forty-tirst
Congri'ss. receiving l.'j,4:35 voles against !o.r*SV votes
for Gussell. Rcpublicim, ser\-lng from March 4, 18b7.
to Miux-h ;t. 1871.
Munroe, James, was bom In Virginia; received
a military education, graduating at West Point in
ISl.'V; removed to New York; was elected a repre-
sentative from New Y'ork in the Twenty-sixth Con-
gress as a Wniig, receiving 2il.4o4 votes against 18,843
votes for Eli Moore, Democrat, and serving from De-
cember 2, 1839, to March 3, 184 1; was defeated as
the \Vliig candidiitc for the Twenty-seventh Con-
cress, receiving 20.8(12 votes against 21,074 votes for
Charles G. Ferris. Democrat ; removed to Onomlaga
County, New Y'ork; was a meuilx^r of the State
Senate 18.")2-180!>; removed to New Jersey, where lie
died in 1870.
Murfree, William Hardee, was iwni in Hert-
ford County. Nortii Carolina; received a classical
education, graduating at the Universitv of NortA
Carolina in 18(>1; studied law; wits adniitted lo the
bar, and practised at Edenton; was a member of
the House of Commons of North Carolina 180.) and
1812; was a prvsidentiid elector on the Madison
ticket in 1813; was elected a representative from
North Carolina in the Tliirteenth Congress as a War
Democrat; and was OM-leeted to the Fi'iirteenth Con-
gn'ss, serving from May 24, 181:;. to March 3, 1817;
n."rn<)ved to Tennessee In 1825, and died soon after
at Nashville.
Murphy, Charles, was bom in South Caro-
lina; removed to Georgia, .ind resided at Decatur;
was elected a representative from Georgia In the
Thirty-second Congress as a Unionist, receiving
7,7-M) votes against .'j.dOl votes for Stelltnaii. State-
rights, serving from December 1, 1851. to March 3,
18*i.
Murphy, Henry C, was honi at Brooklyn,
New York. H) IMd; received a classical eilucation,
graduating at Columbia College in 18;j(i: studied law;
was adniitted to the bar in 18:1;), and commenced
jiractiie at Brooklyn; was county-attorney of King's
County; was iniiyorr)f Brooklyn in 1842; was elected
a reiircsentativc from New Y'ork in the Twenty-
eighth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 4.6tKJ votes
aguiiist 4,214 votes for Silliniiui, Whig, ami 111 votes
for Whiting, Abolitionist, sening from Deeeiulier 4.
1S4;J. to March 3. 1845; was defeated as tlie Demo-
eratic candidate for the Twenty-ninth Congress, re-
ceiving 5,()8<) votes against (J,!i'>4 votes for Henry J.
Seaman, \VTiig : was again eleeted to the Thirtietli
Congress, serving from Decemlier 0, 18-17, fo March
.3, 1840; was .appointed by President Buclian.m iiiin-
Ister to the Netherlands, serving June 1, 1857-June
548
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8. 1801. Re published several tr«n»lalIoti8 anil essaj-s
illustraliTu: the early histoi-y of New Vnrk.
Murphy, Jotm, wiis bom at Cohimbia, South
Carolina, in n^l; received a ciaMienI eiluealioii.
graduatiniiat the South-Carr>liiia College in l.si).S: was
clerk of the .Senate of South Canilina lS10-l.--'n: re-
moved to Alabama in bSlS; studied law; was admit ted
to the bar. and oiimineneeil practice; was p)veruorof
Alabama ISiVls:?,!; was defe^ited as tlie I'nion can-
didate fur rejirejientative in thi' Twenry-lirsl and
Twent>-Becond Congresses by Uixou 11. Lewis,
State-richts Democrat; was elected a representative
frfim Alabama in the Twentv-tliird Consix'ss as a
Tnion Democrat (dcfeatina Delicti, Xullilicr. bytioi)
majority), servinj; from December "J. ISW. to Marcli
:i. lS;i5; retiring from pultlic life, he died in Clark
County, Alaliama, September 21, 1S4I.
Murray, Ambrose S., was born in New York;
rei'eived a public-HciiiMil eilucation ; resided at friv
shell ; was elected a representative from New Turk
in the Tliirly-fourth Congri>ss as a lli'puliliean,
receivinij '>,'*&.> voles against 4,o74 votes for Wood-
ward, American, and 2,l).'j:l votes for Strattcm, Demo-
crat; W.1S re-elected to the Thirty-fifth C'ongresa, re-
ceiving n.lM votes against b.bxi votes for Fowler,
Democrat, and S.VWO votes for Trotter, American,
sening from D»cember.3, 18.V>. tn March .% 18-MK
Murray, John, was born at Lancaster, Penn-
sylvania; receive*! a publlc-scliooi educ.ition; was
elected a representative from reiinsylv.inia in tin-
Fifteenth Congress; was re-elected to the Sixteenth
Congress, serving from December 1, bSn, to Marcli
3, mi.
Murray, John L., w.as bom at Wadesborough,
Kentucky; received an academical education; was
elected a representative from Kentucky in tlie
Twenty-fifth fiongress as a Democrat, serving from
Seriteniber 4, 1SCJ7,' to March 3. 18:5ii.
Murray, Thomas, wiis bom in Northumljcr-
land County. Pennsylvania; received an academical
education; was elected a representative from Penn-
sylvania in the Seventeenth Ccmgress as a' Democrat,
serving from December .1, 1S21. to March 3, lS:Ki.
Murray, William, was born at Goshen. New
Vork: received a pulp|ic-«chool education; was
elected a representalive from New York in the
Tlilrly-seconil Coiifiresg as a Demi«'rat, receiving
5,sp) votes against o.Mi votes for MeKissock, Wliig;
was re-elected to the Thirty-tliird Congress, receiv-
ing 7,708 votes against (t,407 votes for Famhum,
Wliig, serving from December 1, ISol, to March 3,
ltv..'>.
Murray, William "Vans, was born In Mary-
land ill I7il2; reeeiveil a classic;il ediuation: studied
law it! the Temple at London, and, on his relurn
home in 17S.'i, commenced practice; was a meralicrof
the Slate Iloiise of Hepreseiitalives; was elected a
rejiresentalive from Maryland in the .Second <'on-
gnss as a Federalist; was nM'lected to the Third
and Fourth Congresses, serving from October 24,
17nl, lo March .3, 171)7; was appointed by Pn'sident
Washington minister resideni to the Netherlands,
serving March 2, 17l)7-Septeml«'r 2, isal; died at
Cambridge. Maryland, Deeeniher 11, isil.'j.
Mutcnler, William, was liorn in Northampton
rounty. Pennsylvania. Decenilier 21. 1^*:U: rei'eived
an academic education; studied law, and has since
practised; was clectetl [irothonotary of his native
county In 1800, and re-elected in IHKl": was apfiointed
assessor of internal revenue by President Johnson
ill March, lsrt7, and served uVilil M.ay, ISiU); was
chainnaii of the Democratic St.ate Committee of
Pennsylvania in l.S0'.>-lS7i): and was elected a repre-
sentative from Pennsylvania in the Forty-fourth
Congress as a Dem^vcrat, receiving l:1.7;f7 votes
against 0.710 votes for Kachliiie, Independent
Democrat, and 044 votes for W. H. Plituier. liepuli-
lican, serving from December 0, IW), to March 3,
1877.
Myers, Amos, was bom in Lancaster County,
liMiite
Pennsylrania, April 23, 1.S24; recelred an )ics<1<^IO
eilucation; studied law; w.-is adinitteil to the luri
1S40, and commenced practice at Clarion; was a^
pointed district-attomey in 1847; wiiS elecle<l » i
resenlative from Pennsylvania in the Thirty-eight
Congress as a Kepulilicaii, receiving 12,4)14 voa
against ll.iVSO votes for Church. Deinocmt. and scp
iiw from D>H'cmber 7. 1H<!.!, to March :}, 18io.
Myers, Leonard, was bom at AiilelKirougl
Pennsylvania, November lo, ISl'7: received a lil^il
education: studied and practised law; digisted
onlinances for the consolidation of the city
Philadelphia; was silicitor for two of the munirip
districts of Philailelphia; was elected a rein^enl
live from Pennsylvania in the Tliirty-eigliUiJ
press as a liepublican, receiving S,Z^ voles
8,2+! votes for Kline, Democnit; w.as re-«-lc
the Tliirty-iiinth Congress, receiving 11.407
against it,liP2 votes for Charles Uuckwaiter. T
crat; wrus riM'Iccted to the Fortieth Congre**,
ceiving |-.i,.")2i votes iMjainst ll,")lil votes for Cb»ri«
Uuckwaiter, Democrat; was re-elected to the T
lirst Congress, receiving 8,209 votes ngaina
votes for MolTott, Democrat ; was re-elected ;
Forty-second Congress, receiving il,778 role*
8,453 votes for John Moffett, Democrat:
elected to the Forty-third Congress, r
votes against 10,104 votes for II
Democrat, serving from DecemlM-r 7. i
3, 187.'); was defeated as (he Hepubiicnn Candida
for the Forty-fourth Congress, receiving 7."'7f» '
against 10,22.S votes for John Robbins.
and l>.09."> votes for Aifn-d C. Iluniier, K- ;
Nabers, Benjamin D., wjis ixjrn iii i.i
Bee; received a pulilic-school education; reniov*
to Hickory Flat, Tennessee; wa.s elected a represen
tative from Mississippi in the Thirty-second
gress as a Unionist, receiving 0,ISVi rotes oga
7,I5.5 votes for Thompson. State-rights, s>?i
from December 1, 1S51, to March 3. ]8."):{; was i
feated as the \\niig candidate for the Thirtj
Congress, receiving 8,414 votes against 8.tt
for D. B. Wright. Democrat; retnrnetl to Tplill
was a presidential elector in 1801 on the Bel)
Everett ticket.
Nash, Abner, was bom in Prince EArui
County. Viivinia; received a legal education, mi
practised: w.is a memlier of the Ilous<< of tVimmnni
of North Candlna in 1777, 1778. 1782, and 17s.>: wu
governor of North Caridina 177t>-17."<it. but w»» J*
feattnl when a candidate for r<.*-eli'ctlon by TboniM
Burke; was a delegate from North C.ii^nliua tu tb«
Continental Congress from 1782 until he died, onNi
wav to Pliiladclphia, at New York, DecetoUff X
1-sO.
Nash, Charles E., was l>om at Oik-Ioumi,
Louisiana: n-ceived a common-school ediiciiti'in il
New Orleans; w.is a bricklayer l)y trade: eulisledn
private in the Kighty-thinriteglmcnt Cnitcd-.St»l<»
Chasseurs d'.\frii|ue April 2J, 1S«13, an<l W35 jin)-
luoted until he became acting seivcint-major of tin
regiment; lost a leg at the storming of Fort Blik*-
ley, and was honorably discharged from the »nn.T
May .30, 18<a; was clectcil a representative Irna
Louisiana in the Forty-fourth '' " ' '
lican, n.'ceiviiig IS.bV) votes a.-
Joseph M. Moore. Democrat, sn ...
It. 187"), to March 3, 1877; w.as ■ Uie
Republican candidate for the Fort> -W*
receiving 11,147 votes against 15,520 voles fur LiJ»"»bI
White liobertson. Democrat.
Naudain, Arnold, was l)om In ''^ ' ■•: rt*
ceived a classical education, griulua: , 'ti'ii
C-ollege in 1800; was eh-cted a I'nil. . ~ i-iM
from Delaware (in place of Louis McLane, n-signwll
as a Whig, serving from J.-umary l;'., ISOX to Juix
10. lS;ii;. When he n>signed; died at Odessa, Dil>
Wiire, Jaiiiiarv 4, 1H72.
Naylor, Charles, was bom in Phil«iM|'l>'»
County, Pennsylvania, October 6, ISOO; recelv«sl r"
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academical edticatiun; studied law; waa luiniittud
to the bar in 1828, and coniini'iiced praclicn at Pliila-
detpbia; was elcctCKl a reiireBeutallvu from Peiiusyl-
Taiiia in the Twenty-tiitU Cougresa (in place of
Francis J. Harper, deceased) as a Whig, defeating
C. J. Ineers<pll l>y flOO majority; was re-elected to
the Twenly-sixtli Congress, receiving (i.tKltt votes
against 5,Sil4 votes for C. J. Ingersoll, Democrat,
sening from September 4, 18:57, to March ;J, 1S41;
served in the Mexican war as captain of a company
of volunteers, and subsequently iis governor of llie
national palace: died at Fliilailetphia, Pennsylvania,
December 24, 1S72.
Neal, Henry S., was Imrn at GallipoUs, Ohio,
August 2J, lsJ8; graduated at Marietta College in
1S47 ; studietl law, and was atlmltted to tlie bar in
1861; was elected to the State Senate in 1IS<!1, and
lected in 18(Vj; was appointed consul to Lisbon,
_ >ugal, in lS(iO; by the nsignatiou of the minister
TCridcnt, became c/icri/i? J' (ifi'airen in December,
1800; in July, 1S70, resigned, and returned to Oliio;
waa elected delegate to the Ohio Constitutional Con-
vention in 1873; and was elected a representative
from Ohio in the Forty-flfth Congress as a Itepul)-
llcan, receiving 15,213 voles against l'l,aiO votes for
John L. Vance, Democrat, serving from OctoLier la,
1877.
Neal, Lawrence Talbott, was boni at Parkers-
burg, Virginia (now West Virginia), September 22,
lt»44; Ivos educated at the Asbury Academy at that
place; removed to Chillicotlie in 1804; studied law
there, and was admitted to the bar liy the Supreme
Court of Ohio in IStW; was solicitor of the city of
ChiUicotlie from April. 18<i7, U> April, 16t58, and de-
cline<l a re-election ; was elected to tlie Ohio legisla-
ture in 1867; served two years, and declined a re-
election: was elected prosecuting-attoniey of Hoss
County in 1870, and held that ottice until October,
1872. when he resigned; was elected a representa-
tlTe from Ohio in" the Forty-third Congress oa a
Democrat, receiving 1.3,:i7l) votes against 12,100 votes
for J. T. Wilson, Kepublican; and was re-elected to
the Forty-fourth Congress as a Democrat, receiving
11.333 voles against 0,108 votes for Oonlou, Repub-
lican, serving from I>eccmt>er 1, 1873, to March :l,
1877.
Neale, Raphael, was bom in St. Mary's County,
Maryland : resided at Lconanlstown ; was elected a
repre.sentative from Maryland In the Sixteenth Con-
gress; was re-elected to the Seveiiteentli Congress,
receiving 207 majority over Stonestreet; was ro-
clecteil to the Eighteenth Congress, serving from
Decenilier 0, 1810, to March 3, 182o; died at Lcon-
anlstown October 10, l.S:W.
Negley, James 8., was bom in Alleghany
County, Pennsylv.uiia, Deceml)cr22, 1S2(); was edu-
cated at theWesleni L'niversily; served in theMi'xi-
can war in thi' First Pennsylvania Volunteers;
entered the Union anny as brigiulier-geiicral April
10, 1-801 ; organized and eiiuip|K>d a briamle of troops,
with a battery of artillery, and joined General Sher-
man with his brigade in Octolier, 18(11 ; recr'jvcd
■[tccial commendation for the manner in wbicti lie
defended Nashville in 1S02; w.ia nromoteil to ni.ijor-
Iteneral for defeating Breckinriilge's corps iit the
battle of Stone Itiver, and for gallantry on that iield;
participale<l with credit in the campaigns of Tullo-
uoma. Alabama, and Oi?orgia, and w:is elected a
tupresontative from Pennsylvania in the Forty-lirsl
;r<.'ss as a Republican, receiving 1.1.175 votes
i»t lO.ilDO votes for Uurt, Democrat; was re-
fected to the Forly-seeond Congress, receiving
11,2:10 voles a'^ainst 8,018 votes for J. H. Uopkins.
Detnocrat, and 4.372 votes for JYew, Indcfiendenl
cui'lidnte; and was re-elected to the Forty-thinl
Conmvfs. receiving 17,248 votes against 10.9:10 votes
lor .J. King, Democrat, servins from March 4, lf*CO.
to JLirih 3. 1875: was defeatrd as tlie Rtipublican
candidate for tUe Forty-fourth Congress, receiving
^im votes agaiofit 10,001 votes for Jamea U. Hop-
kins, Democrat, and 213 votes for Thomas Howard,
Indep<'tident Renublican.
Neilson, Jonn, was bom near Xew Brunswick,
New Jersey, March 11, 1745; received an academic
education at Philadelphia; engaged in mercantile
pursuits at New Brunswick 17liv>-1775; entered the
Revolutionary army as ciiptain of a cnm|iuny of
minute-men in 1775; was api>ointed colonel. August
;J1. I ((5, of a regiment of minute-men, and was ac-
tively engaged Tu repelling British inroads until
.September, 1780, when he was made deputy iituirter-
miister-general for New Jersey : was a delegate from
New Jersey to the Continental Congress 1778-1770;
was a delegate to the .State Convention to ratify the
Federal Constitution; died near New Bnuiswick,
New Jersey, March 3, 18.13.
Nelson, Homer A., was l)om at Poughkeepsie,
New York, August 31, 1820; received an iieadendcal
education; studied law; was admitted to the bar,
and couwnenced practice at Pouglikeepsie; was judge
of Dutchess County ISjO-ISOI; entereil the Union
army as colonel of tlie One Himdred and Fifty-ninth
New- York Volunteer Infantry, which he resigned in
1S«W; was elected a representative from Xew York
in the Thirty-eighth Congress as a Democnit. receiv-
ing 10,712 votes against 0,512 votes for Beale, liepuli-
licin, serving from December 7, 18(J.S, to MaR-li .3,
18(i5; was defeated as the Democratic candidate for
the Thirty-ninth Congress, receiving ll..'wO votes
aijaiiisl 12.220 votes for John H. Ketcham. Repul>-
licin; was a delegate to the State Constitutional
Convention of ]S07; was secretary of st.Ve of the
Slate of New York lSli7-1870.
Nelson, Hugh, was bom in Virginia; received
an acadeniieal edueution; was a member of the Slate
House of Hcpn>8entalives, and its speaker; was a
judge of the tJenend Court; was a firesidential
elector on the Pinckney ticket in 1800; was elected a
representavive from Virginia in the Twelfth Congress
as a Democrat; was rt'-elect«d to tlie Thirteenth,
Fourteenth, Fifteenth, .Sixteenth, and Seventeenth
Congresses, serving from November 4, 1811, to Jan-
uary 14, 1823, when he resigned; was minister to
Spain January 15, 182;l-November 2:J, 1824: died at
his countn'-scat, in Albemarle County, Virginia,
Marcli 18. l.SK).
Nelson, Jeremiah, was twm at Rowley, Mas-
sachusetts, September 14, 17H0; received a classical
education, gra<luating at Dartmouth College in 1700;
engaged in mercantile pursuits at Ncwtnir}-port,
Massachusetts; wiis elected a representative from
Massachusetts in llic Ninth Congress as a Federalist,
serving from December 2, ISXi, to March 3, 1807;
was again elected to the Fourteenth, Fifteenth, Six-
leenlli, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Congresses,
serving from December 4, 181.5, to March ;1, 1825;
was again ciectctl to the Twenty-second Congress,
serving from December (!, 1832. to March 2, 18:W;
died at Newlmnport, Jlassaehusi'tts, Octol)er2, 1SJ8.
Nelson, John (sou of Roger Nilson), was born
at Frederick Town, Maryland, Juno 1. 1701 ; received a
cla.<:sioal education, graduating at William and Mary
College in ISll; studied tuw; was a<lmitted to tlie
bar in lsl3, and commenced practice at Frederick
ToTvii, Maryland; was elected a representative from
Jlaryland in the Seventeenth Congrgss, serving from
Decern Iwr 3, 1821, to March 3, 182:1; was appointed
minister to Naples, serving t)ctob<!r 24, 18;)l-t)ctol)er
15, 18;t2; was appointed attoniey-general of the Unit-
ed .States by President Tyler, serving July 1, 1843-
M;ircli 3, 1845; died at Baliimorc, Maryland', Januiuy
8, l!MV).
Nelson, Roger (son of John Nelson), was bom
Sit Frederick Town, Mnrj-land; served in the Revolu-
tionary war, attaining tlic rank of brigadier-geni'ral,
and was severely wounded at the bttttlo of CfUUileii ;
studied law; was admitted to the bar, and practised
at Freilerick Town; was elected a n^presentative
from Maryland in tlie Eighth Congress (in place of
Daniel licUter, deceased); was re-elected to the
550
CONGBESSIOlfAL DIRECTOBr.
Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh ConcreMes. serving from
NovcmlH-T ft, imn, III May 14, ISIO. when he resigned
to accejit the aji|KiintTnent of assi^iciate justice of thi.'
Fifth Juilicial t'ircuit of Miir}'lan(l (in the place of
W. Clatfett. iltHi-asod); died at Fredcriclc Town,
Mrtr>l.tiiil. .Iniie 7, 1815.
Nelson, Thomas, jun., was bom «t York, Vlr-
giiiia. Uocemlii-r •Ji'i, 173S: reeeived a classical educa-
tion, graduating at Trinity College, England: while
on his i)as.<.Hge home, he was elected, although scarce
of H'ie, a niemlRT of the Hfiuse of Burgesses; was a
member of the First Provincial Convention at Wil-
liamsburg in Augii.i!t, 1774; was a delegate from
Virginia to the ('ontinental Congri'Ss 177.V1777: was
appointed, in August, 1777, commander of the State
forces, and raise<l a C(>m[iany of cavalry, with which
he repaired to Phila<lelpliia; was again a delegate in
the Continental Congress 177(»-17s.i; was govemor
of Virginia 1781, ami participated in the siege of
Yorktown; his constitution having Ix'corae Impaired,
he parsed the remainder of ills days in retin;ment
and poverty, dying near Yorktown, Virginia, Janu-
ary- 4, 17S0.
Nielsen, Thomas A. R., was bom in East
Tennessee; n-ceived an aca<lemical education; stud-
ied law; was adniilted to the har, and practised at
Knoxville, Tennessee; was a presidential elector on
the Taylor and Filliuore ticket in 1S48; was ap-
iminted l»y President Fillmore commissioner to
China Mari:h 0, 1K51, but did not go there, and
resigned .July 2. 1851; w.is elected a representative
from Tenness«"e in the Thirty-sixth Congress as a
Ufiiimist, receiving 7.'.»3I votes against 7,S27 votes for
Haynes, Democrat, serving from Deceml>er 5, 1859,
to March 3, 18<11 ; was re-elected to the Tliirty-seventh
Congress, but prevented by the Confetlerates from
?oing to Wa«l\inglon to take his seat; was a delegate
rom Tennessee to the Nation.il Uuinn Convention
at Pliil:ii|elphia in IbtW; was one of President John-
son's counsel before Uie Senate sitting as ii court of
impeachment in I8<!S; was a delegate from Tennessee
to the National Ueniocratic Convention at New York
■lulv 4, 18(t8; died at Knoxville, Temiessee, August
8, 187M.
Nelson, Thomas M., was bom In Virginia In
l~''2: served in tlie war of 1S12 its captain of the
Tenth Regular Infantrj-, and major of the Thirtieth
and the Elt'hleenth Infantry; was reduced to the
rank of c,'i(itnin on the n.'-organizatlon of the army
after the war, and resigned May 15. 1815; was electeil
a representative from Virginia in the Fourteenth
Congress (In place of Thomas (iholson, ileccascd) as
a Democrat ; was re-elected to the Fifteenth Congress,
serving from December 4, 1810, to March 3, 1S19;
declined a n^-electlon; died near Columbus, Georgia,
Novemlier U). 1.H.V!.
Nelson, William, was bom at Clinton, New
York, .June 2,1. 1784; received an academical educa-
tion; studied law; was iidmitted to the bar In 1807,
and commenced practice at Peekskill, New York;
was district-attorney for the counties of Putnam,
Rockland, and Westchester for thirty years; was a
meini>er of the State House of Uepresenl;itives in
ISUt anil 1S2*>, and of the Stiite Senate in 1823; was
elected a representative from New York in the
Thirtieth Congnifi as a Wliig; was re-elected to the
Tliirly-lii-st Congress, receiving 4.948 votes against
:i.i;« votes for N. Blauvelt, Cass Democrat, and
1.754 votes for .1. C. Blauvelt. Van Bureu Democrat,
serving from Decemlwr 0, 1847. to March 3, 1851;
died at IVekskill, New York, Octol)i^r 2, 18(!9.
Nea, Henry, was bom at York, Pennsylvania,
in 1791); reoeiveii a lil)eral education; studied iiiedl-
clne, and pnietised for many years; filled several
local ofjices; was elected a representative from Penn-
sylvania in the Twenty-oighth Congress as an Inde-
pendent, receiving 4,llli) votes against 3,413 votes for
Small, Democrat, ser\-ing from December 4, 184>3, to
March 3, 1845; was again elected to the Thirtieth
Congress as a Whig; and was re-elected to the Thirty-
I first Congress, recelvfne 6,506 votes agaltiaj
I voles for J. C. Danner, Demiioral, s^rriu.; fr
I cemlKT <5. 1847. to .September 10, 1850, when
I at York, Pennsvlvania.
I Nesbitt, William, of .Spananborg. was ^tfcb
a representative from South Carolina in tli' ""
Congress, defeating .James MoKidilen .'ti
Rio!, serving from Dei-emlK-r 1, 1817, t,
1819.
Nesmith, James W., waslwm in Wa^«htnt;tn
County, Maine, .Tuly 23. 18-20; he was t ii|
young to New Hampshire, then U> Oh ii
Mi.ssouri, receiving no education, and
cn>sscd the plains to Orepiii; w.as the
184."*, and again in 18.5;}. of expeditions .tg.i
Indians; was appointe<l United-States ni
Ori'gon in ISo-l. but resigned iu 18.55 to con
regiment of volunteers; was ap[M.dnt«;d supei
ent of Indian alTalrs for <_)regon ami Was
Territories in 1857; was elected to tlv >-
United States, talving his seat M:i
serving six years; was apixiinted mir. \ istr
but the nomination was not conhnued; settled
Oregon as a farmer and stock-raiser; was rosd-oui
visor in Polk County In 18(18. and « ' ' ' .\
reseiitative from Oregon in the Fort ■
.IS a Democrat (to till the vacancy f.L .. ... l.ytlie
death of J. G. Wilson), receiving S.Utl votes against
6.123 votes for H. Smith, Kepublicoii, serving from
Decemixr 1. 1873. to March 3, 1875.
Neville, Joseph, was bom in 1730; served En
the Revolutionary army; was a commissioner to ren
the boundary-line between Virginia and Pennsjl-
vania; was elected a representative fnim Virgini*
in the Tliird Congress, sening from Decemlier it,
nm, to March 3. 1795; died In Hardy County, Vir-
ginia. Marrli 4. 1810.
New, Anthony, was bom in Gloucester County,
Virginia, in 1747: was elected a repre=--' ■'■•— from
Virginia In the Third Congress as a ' : ww
re-electetl to the Fourth, Fifth. Six; 1 - ii. anJ
Eighth Congresses, serving from Deeeuilmr 2, ITlft M
March 8, 1805; removed to Elkton, Kenriickr; wm
again elected a representative from K in 'Ik
Twelfth Congress as a Democrat, J.HT-i
votes against 738 votes for Maltliev, r,!.
ist, 8er\ing from Novemlwr 4, 1811, t
was s^ain elected to the Fifteenth <
from Decemlier 1, 1817. to March .% I.-^ID; wa* ..-.
elected to the Seventeenth Congress, servlns ("■ ' '
Decemlier 3, 1821, to March 3. 1823; died near til-
ton. Todd County. Kentucky, March 2, ISil
New, Jeptha D., was bom at Vernon, Lndiant.
November 28, 18:10; was educated at Vcnion Aade-
my and Bethany College, Virginia; studied Isw: itm
admitted to the bar, and practised until 1*' •
two years of that time as district proser -
ney ; was elected in lSd4 jud^ie of tli-- I '■
of Common Ple.TS. and served until i
his term in 1808, when he resumed pr
elected a representative from Indiana in the F"tt)'-
fourth Congress as a Demo<:rat, receiving 13,(V>3vi)t«i
against 12,:!.8;1 votes for W. .1. Robinson, Ki.'puliticsn,
sening from Decemlier (1, 1875, to March 3, 18(i.
Newbold, Thomas, was elected a represent*-
tlve from New .Jersey in the Tenth Congress u »
Democr.it; was re-elected to the Eleventli Congress
on a general ticket, receiving 18,705 rotes naoJt
14,702 votes for his Federal opiwneiit ; was pe-«l«««<l
to the Twelfth Congn'.»8. 8er\inc from OctobiT SO,
1S07, to March 3, 1813: died in Burlington County,
New Jersey, of apoplexy, December 4, 1823.
Newcomb, Carman A., was liom In Mw«r
County, Pennsylvania. July 1, 18:10; received mn*
demic education; studied and pnietised law; wi-nlW
Iowa, where he was a judge for five yc-irs: w^'ii' '"
Missouri: was a member of the ]■■■:'■-' — ■■' tb«
State of Missouri in 1805 and ISrti; v • nf-
resentative from Missouri In tlie F' hxtbH
as • Radical, receiving 0,501 votes agaiusi iiyiH vcM
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' for his opponent, serving from March 4, 1867, to
Miinh 3. lt*iilP.
Newell, William A., was bom in Ohio; re-
^ceived a ulassival tnlucation, gmduatine at Rutgers
ICoUuge In ISiW; studied incciiciiie, and conuniMiced
Ipractic-e nl AJIeulown; was tlected a representative
Itrom New Jersey in the Tliirlietli Congress as a
IWhig; was re-eleeted to the Thirty-firat Cungress. re-
Iceiving 0,S77 vot<>s a!;aingt 8,:J82 votes for Pr)tts,
[Democrat, scn-ing from DecemljerO. lt>47, to March
I'S, Ijlol; was governor of New Jersey 18o(i-l.S(!0; was
. delegate from New Jersey to the National Hepub-
[lican Convention at Baltimore in 18(14; was a^ain
^elected to the Thirty-ninth Congn-ss as a licpiiU-
'Jcan. receiving i;}.4o;j votes against 13,tl01 v.iios fur
I George Middlelon, Democrat, sen'ing from Decemlier
ISiij, to March 3, 18<!7; was defeated as llie lie-
gublican camliilate for the Fortieth Congress, reeeiv-
ig 13.470 votes against 13,825 votes for Ilaighl. Dera-
locrat; wiis d'-fcalcd as the Republican candidate for
j govenior of New Jersey by G. U. McClcllan in 1S77.
Newhaxd, Peter, was bom in Pennsylvania;
tlesided at Alientown; was elected a r<.<pre8entAtive
f from Pennsylvania in the Twouty-sixlh Congress as a
lipemocmt, ivceiviiig 4.(i:jt) votes against 3,878 volea
tfor W. C. Livingston, \V1ilg; was re-elected to the
twenty-seventh Congress, receiving 2,2811 votes
"ast 2,013 votes for King, Wliig, servhig from Do-
ber 2. INW. to March 3, 184;j.
Newman, Daniel, was Imrn in North Carolina;
WM ap[>oinled ensign of the Fourth United-iStates
Infantry March 2, 17011: promoted to t»c first lieu-
tenant November 1, 17111), and resigned January 1,
1802: commanded the Georgia volunteers in the wars
with the Creek and Florida Indians 1812-1814, re-
ceiving several wounds; carried on his plantation near
McDonough, (reorgia; was major-general of militia;
was elected a representative from Georgia in the
» Twenty-second Congress as a State-rights Democrat,
aemiri from December 6, 1831, to March 2, 18.tJ:
was Mate inspector-genend of militia; died in Walker
County, (Jeorgia, January Irt, 1!<)I,
Newsham, Joseph Parkinson, was bom Iti
Monroe County, Illinois, in 18;JH; educated himself;
waa a clerk in a store fur two years; studied law, and
[ was admitted to the bar by the Supreme Courts of the
3tates of Illiniiis and Mis8<mri in 18<i0; practised law
|«t the St. Louis bar; entered the Union army on tlie
|«ta£f of General Fremont; was afterw.irds on that nf
lOeneral .Smith during his entire campaign from I'u-
Iducah, Kentucky, to .Slilloh; was adjutant of the
iThirtv-second Missouri Volunteer Infantrj', and re-
Isignetl July 4, lS(i4; reuKJved the same yearto Luuisi-
lana, and took an active part in reconstruction : was
|app<iintcd by <T<jvemor Halm cierk of the Fourth Dls-
Itrict Court for Ascension Parish; was admitted to
[tlie bar of Louisiana in 18tJo; was a iiicMnber of llie
Oiistructiun Convention of 18(17 and Ifii^: found-
iir«nd edited " The Feliciana Republican, wiiioh
the lirst Reipulilicau newspaijer ever published
hi that section of the State; was elected a repre-
sentative from Louisiana in the Fortieth Congress
U m Republican, and was a candidate for re-c-lecllon
to the Forty-first Congress; Michael Kyun, Demo-
crat, obtained the seal, but it w;is decided that he
bad oidy obtained it by fraud and Intimidation, and
the House declared Mr. Newsham entitled to it by a
vote "f J»& to 76 on the 2otli of May, 187(1, whon"ho
WH» sworn in, serving until December o, 1870.
Newton, Eben, was torn at Goshen, Litciifleld
County, Coimeclicut, October Kl. 17i).i; n'Celved a
[lablic-school education; removed to Portage Cimn-
Obio, and workwl on a farm; studied law; was
ulmitte<i to the bar in 1S23, and coimueuced practice
Kt Caiilield, Ohio, as a partner of Elisha VVIiittlesey ;
ras a metrilier of the .State Senate in 1842; was
elected prcRiding jtidge of the Third Judicial Circuit;
ravelled in EuroiM-; w;is elected a representative
om Ohio in the Thirty-second Congress as a Whig,
iviog 8,277 votes Bgalnst 0,382 vot«8 for Day,
Democrat, serving fr<mi December 1, 1851, to March
:V, 18.')3; was defeated as the Whig candidate for the
Thirty-thirfl Congress, receiving 4,17l> votes against
6,752 votes for Joshua R Giddings, Free-Soiler, and
4,427 votes for Woods, Democrat; was pn«i<lent of
the Ashtabula and New-Lisbon Railroad Company
lSo4)-lS59; devoted liimself to a^ricultund pursuits.
Newton. Thomas, w:is bom at Norfolk, Vir-
ginia, in 1700; recelvetl an Jicademic education; stud-
ied 1.-4W; was admitted to the liar, and practised at
Norfolk; was elected a representative from Virginia
in the Seventh Congress as a Democrat, and was suc-
cessivelv re-elected (genenilly without opiiositiDii) to
the Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, Twelfth. Tliir-
teenth. Fourteenth, Fifteenth, Sixteenth, Seven-
teenlh. Eighteenth, Nineteenlli, Twentieth, and
Tw»>ntv-first Congresses, serving from Deceml)er 7,
1801, to. March «, 1831, when the House, by 13 nja-
jority, pve his seat to George Loyall, who h:id con-
lestetl It; was again elected to the Twenty-fecond
Coiign-ss, defeating George Loyall by 31 majority;
died at Norfolk. Virginia. August 5. 1847.
Newton, Thomas Willoughby, w.ia bom at
Ale.'caiulri.i, Virginia, January IS, lsi:i; removed in
1820 to Little Rock. Arkansas, to serve as assistant
secretary of the Territory ; removed in 18;i2 to Shelby
County, Kentucky, and returned in 1>nJ7 to Little
Uock, wliere he was made cashier of the real-estate
bank of Arkans.as; was elected a representjilive from
Arkansas in the Twenty-ninth Congress (to fill the
vacancy (K-oisioned by tiio resignation of Archibald
Veil), serving from Februar)- tl. 1S47, uiilil March 3,
1847; was engaged in several duels during his resi-
dence in Arkansas, one of them with Ambrose U.
Sevier, afterwanls senator, in which Sevier was
wounded; and died at New York in 185:3.
Newton, Willoughby, w.is bom in Wnsimore-
land t'ouiity, Virginia; resided at Hai;ne Post Office;
w.is elected a representative friun Virginia in Ijio
Twenty-eighth Congress as a Whig, receiving 170
niajoritv over Hunter, Democrat, serving from De-
cember 4, 184:1. to March .S, 1846.
Niblack, Silas N., was elected a representative
from Florida in the Forty-second Congress, having
successfully contested the election of Josiali T. Walls,
serving from January 2i), 1873, to March 3, 1.H73; was
defeated as the Democratic candidate at large for tlie
Forty-third Congress, receiving 15,881 votes agiiiust
17j.V)3 votes for Jusiah T. Walls. Republican.
Niblack, William E., was bom at Vinecnnes,
Indiana, May 10, 1822; was educated at the Indiiuin
University at Illoomington ; studied law; was ad-
mitted to the bsir, iind practised; Wiis a member of
the Indiana House of Representatives in 1840, and
again in ]8ti;}, and of the Iniliana Senate 18.ji>-1852;
was appoiiitc<i circuit-judge in January, 18.>t, and
elected his own successor In the Octolier' following for
six years, but resigned in Octolier, 1857, after having
been elected to the Thirty-lifth Congress in place ol
James Lockhart, dece.^Sl•d; was elected a rcpre.s<mta-
tive from Indiana in the Thirty-sixth Congress as a
Democrat, receiving 10,321* votes against 8,040 voles
for Hovey, anti-Lecomptoii Uenujcnit ; Wfis re-elected
to the Thirty-ninth Coiign?ss. receiving 14,720 votes
against 12,010 votes forC. M. Allen, Kepublic.in;
was re-elected to the Fortieth C'ongress, receiving
17,265 votes against 15,905 votes for De Uruler, Re-
publican; was re-elected to the Forty-first Congress,
receiving 18,110 votes against lii,(!.!l votes forVeatch,
Republican; was re-elected to the Forty-second Con-
gress, receiving 17,577 voles against 15,327 votes for
H. C. Gooding, Republican; w.is re-elected to the
Forly-tbird Congress, receiving 10.250 votes against
H>,127 voles for VV. Heilman, liepubllcim; was a del-
egate at largo from Indiana to llie DennK'ratlc Na-
tional Convention at Chicago in 1804, at New York
in 1808, and at St. Louis in 1870; w.is a memlter of
the National Democratic Committee for Indiana from
1864 to 1872.
Nicholas, John, was bom in Wcstmorulond
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COKORESSIONAI. DIBECTOBY.
County in 1703; was elected a representative from
VirBlniain the Tliinl Cungress as a DemtK-rat; was
re-cTected to tlie F(jurtli, Fifth, and Sixth ConCTesses,
serving from December 2, 1793, to March 3, 1801 ;
reniove<l to Geneva, New York, and deroted himself
to a^ricultunil pursuits; was a memluT nf the State
Senate of New York I8'J(V-18'Xl; was jiresiilinc judge
of tlu! Oneida-county Court; superintended the edu-
cation of a large family; and, after a long illness,
died .It Geneva, New York. December 31, 1S19.
Nicholas, Robert Certer, was boni in Han-
over, Virpnia; reeeived a classic.il education, cradu-
atlng at William and Mary College; served in the
war of 1S12 as captain and major of the Twelfth In-
fiinlry. and lieutenant-colonel of the Forty-fourth
and Fortieth Infantry, In the army stationed on tlie
C.ina<iian frontier; removed to Louisiana, and en-
gaged in sugar-plan lh>g; was secretary of slate of
Louisiiuia; was elected a United-States senator from
Louisiana as a Democrat (in place of Charles E. A.
Gayarre, who never took his seat), sen'inc: from
March 4, !*$<!, to March 3. 1841; was superintend-
ent of public instruction In Louisiana; died on his
plantation in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, Decem-
ber 24, ]S'.7.
Nicholas, Wilson Gary, was born at Han-
over, \'irginia; received a classical education at
William and Mary College; served lu the llevoln-
tlonary war as commander of Washingincton's Life
Guanl; was a delegate to the St.ate Convention
which ratified the Federal Constitution ; was elected
a United-.States senator from Virginia (in pl.ioe of
Henrj' T.izewell, deceased) as a Democrat, serving
from January 3, 18lX), to 1S04, when he resigned;
waa collector of customs at the port of Norfolk 1804-
1807; was elected a representative from Virginia in
the Tenth Congress, and re-elected U> the Eleventh
Congress, 8er\'ing from Octolwr 20, 18<)7, to Novem-
ber 27, 180(), when he resigned on account of a severe
rheumatism wlule on his way to Washington ; was
governor of Virginia 1814-1817; died at Milton, Vlr-
giniii, Octolior lit. li^2().
Nichols, Matthias H., was bom at Sharps-
town. New Jersey, Octol>er 3, 1824; received a j)ubltc-
school education; learned the art of printing; re-
moved to Ohio in 1842; acquired an education while
working in a printlng-olnce; studied law; was
admitted to the liar in 1849, and commenced (iractice
at Lima, Ohio; was prosecuting-attoniey for Allen
County; was elected a representative {nitn tUito in
tlie Tliirty-third Congress as a R(?publican, receiving
7,548 votes against tl,378 votes for Plunkelt, WHiig,
and 189 voles for (jilman, Free-Soiler; was re-elecle(l
to the Tliirty-fourth Congress, receiving 10,8(»7 votes
against 4,377 votes for Dorsey, Democrat; and was
re-elected to the Thirty-Iifth Congress, reeeiviiig
0,41.'> votes against 9,172 votes for Dorsey, Democrat,
and .309 votes for lleinan, American, sening frtmv
Decemlier 5, 1853, to Mart-h 3, 1359; died at Cincin-
nati. Ohio, September 1."). 18(12.
Nicholson, Alfred Osbom Pope, was bom
lu Williamson County, Tennessee, August 31, 1808;
received a classical e(Uieali<m, gr.iduatiiig at Chafjel-
hill University, North Carolina, in 1827; studied
law; was admilU'd to the bar in 1$;)1, and com-
raeneed practice at (Jolumbia, Tennessee; editei!
" The Western Mercury " at Columbia ]a32-18,Vj; was
a member of the State House of Representatives ISJtJ
-I83!t; was appointed a United-Stales senator from
Tennessee (in place of Felix Grundy, decease<]) as
a Demi>crat, sening from .January II, 1841, to March
3, 1.'*}; edited "The Nashville Union" 1844-1841);
was chancellor of the middle division of Tennessee
]845-l,S.'51; was ^)rinler of the Federal House of Rep-
resentatives during llie Thirty-thinl, and of the Sen-
ate daring the Forty-fourth, Confess; was editor
of " Tlie Washington Union " 1853-1.8.5<J; Was again
elected a Unlted-.SIates senator from Tennessee, serv-
ing from December 5, 18.19, to March 3, ISfU, when he
retired, but was expelled July 3, 1801 ; WM appoluted
chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Ten;
died at Columbia, Tennessee, March 23, 1S7«. H(
was the author of the famous " Nicholson Letter,'
addressed to aspirants for the presidential nonUnv
tion in 1848.
Nicholson, John, was bom at Herkimer. N
York, in l"ilo; was clecti-d a representative
New York in the Eleventh Congress as a Dcmotri
serving from Mav 22, 1800, to March 3, 1811; died
Herkimer, New York, January 20, 1820.
Nicholson, John A., was iiom in L ■
ware, November 17, 182i; w.is apj«'inti
teiidcnt of free schools for Kent County in ; -m
brig<idler-geiieral of militia in Kent County in
was educated at Dickinson College, Penn»)dvi
studieil law, and practised a few years; was
represent.itive from Delaware in the Tlil
Concress as a Democrat, receiving 8. 7-
8,2.ji5 votes for Nathaniel B. .Smitli. u\]
and was re-elected to the Fortieth ( ■ ..^
ing 9.9.33 votes against 8.5.5:{ votes for McKim.
publican, serving from December 4, ISCi, to Mi
3, 18<:9.
Nicholson, Joseph Hopper, was bom in
Maryland in 1770; received an academical • '
studieil law; was admitted to the bar.
nienced practice ; was elected a represeni .;.
Maryland in tlie Sixth Congiess as a Democrat ; wi
re-elected to the Seventli, Eighth, and Ninth Coi
presses, serving from December 2, 1799. to March
i8t)tV, when he resigned; was appointeil chief jud;
of the Sixth Judicial Circuit; was a judge of
Court of Appeals; died March 4. 1817.
Nicoll, Henry, was bom at New York Octo!
23, 1812; received a classical education, gradaati
at Columbia College In 18.30; studie<l law; was
milled to the bar, and commenced practice
York; was a delegate to the State Const!
Convention in 1847; w.ns elected ii -••—■■'
fr«m New York in tlic Thirtieth Coijl
crat, receiving 4,ti09 votes against •
Phoenix, Whig, serving from December 0, 1847,
March 8, 1840.
Niles, Jason, resldinl at Kosciusko, Ml
was elected a representative from thai State in
Forly-thlrd Congress as a Kepublicai' "..-.iiiti
2t)(l voles without any organized oji]
from December 1, 1873, to March 3, INT
as the Republican candidate for tlie Forly-f..unh
^.'ss ((!)tlio R. Singleton, Democrat, receiving a
jorily of 9,tV)2 votes).
Niles, John Milton, was bom at Windjor,
Connecticut, in 1787; received an acadejnicai eflurt-
lion; studied law; was admitted to the Kir in 1!>17,
and commenced practice at Hartfonl, Connecticut;
established and edited "The Hartford Times," W
whifh he contributed for thirty years; was juds* "*
the Hnrlford<'ounly Court 1821-182i;; ■■■•' - mba
of the State Housi> of Representati . «M
appointed by President Jackson jiosii Hurt-
ford In 1829; was appointed a Unitcd-Siaie* ieiuUof
from Connecticut (in place of Nathan Smith, d*
ceased) as a \\liig, and subsequently elected, scniiii;
from December 21, 18:J-J, to Mart'h 3. li^IU; wa' «[>
pointed postmaster-general by President Van Biiroii
serving -May 19, 1.>M0-March «. 1S4'1 ; was again elert
eil a senator, serving from Decemlier 4, 18*}. I*
March .3, 1849; p.i8s*d~his later years in horticulturtl
fmrsuits; l)e(|uealhed twenty tliousand dollare to b*
leld in trust for the Hartfonl poor, and donated llil
lilir.iry to the Connecticut Historical Society; JifJ
at Hartford Mav 31, 18.j«. He published "A Uwt-
teer of Connecticut," "The Civil Officer," "'A
History of South America and Mexico," "Lift"'
Covniiiodoi-e Perry," and a large number of oisliw*
and aildresses on a variety of subjects,
Niles, Nathaniel, was imm at Sr."-'- o.-...«.(on,
Rhotle Islanil. in 1741; n.>ceived a cl.< ""•
grsvluating at Princeton College in l"i" '•'"■•
and was admitted to the bar; studied uieilit^ati
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studied theology under Rev. Dr. Bellamy, receiving a
license to preach; removed after the Ke%'olutiou to
OrnngcCiiunty, Vermont; was a memlx^rof the State
House of Kepreseotatives and ita speaker in 17S4;
was for gevenU years judge of the State Supreme
Court; was elected a representative from Vermont
In the Second Congress; was re-elected to the Third
Congreas. ser>-ing from October 24, ITSU, to March 3,
I 1795; was one of the ccneors for revising tlie State
I Constitution ; died at West Fnirlee, Vermont, Oc-
tober 31, liS°28. ile publiahe<l four discourses on
"Silent I'rayer," two discourses ou "Confession of
Sin and For;;iveiies8," two sennons on " The Per-
fection of (Jod, Iho Fountain of Good," a sermon
oo "Vain Amusements," and "A Letter to a
Friend " ISOi); he also wrote " The American Hero,"
A Sapphic ode.
Nisbet, EugeniuB A., was horn in Hancock
Coiuity, Georgia, in IhUJ ; received an academical edu-
cation ; studi'.-d law ; was admitted to the liar by an act
of tlie iccislatiire l>efore he became of age, and coui-
mence<l ]>r.'ictice at Macon, Oeoiigia; was a member of
llie State House of Kcpresentatives : was defeated as
the Whig candidate for the Twenty-fifth Congress ; was
elected a rp[irosentative from Georgia in the Twenty-
sixth Conuress as a Whig, receiving 31,8.17 votes
against ;}.i,l;o7 vot«s for Junius HiUyor, Van Buren
Itemocrat; was re-clectc*l to the Twenty-seventh
Congress, 8er\'ing from December 2, ISIO, to March
3, ISil; was a judge of the Supreme (.'ourt of Georgia;
was a dt'iuity from (ieorgia to the I'rovisional Con-
gress of the Confederate States at Montgomery, Alo-
hjuno, Febniary, li:Kil; died at Macon, Georgia, March
18, 1871.
Niven, Archibald C, was bom In New York;
residtil at Miinlii.<-llo; w.os elected a representative
from Ni-w York in the Twenty-ninth Coii'^^'SS as a
Democrat, receiving 7,102 votes against (j,-474 votes
for Ua.sbrouck, Wliig, and 50 votes for Scofleld,
American, serving from December 1, 1S45, to March
8, 1847.
Nixon, John T., was bom in Cumberland
County, S'ew .Jersey, In l.'^20; received a ciossical
education, grailiiating at I'rinceton College in 1841:
studied law: was admitted to (he bar in 184.1, and
commenced practice at IJridgetou, New Jersey; was
a memlHT of the State House of liepresentatives
1848-18oU, serving tlio last year as speaker; was
elected a representailvo from New Jersey in the
Thirty-sixth Congress as a Republican, receiving
8,3ffl votes against .5,.'542 votes for Walker, Democrat,
and :},7-i'.) voles for Junes, American ; was re-elected to
the Thirty-seventh Congress, receiving 10,843 votes
■ sgaiust U,737 votes for Learning, Democrat, ser\'ing
' from Deceralx'r 5, 1859, to March 3, 1803; was ajy-
pointed in 1870 United-Stales judge for the district
of New .lorsey.
Noble, David A., was bom in Massachusetts;
received a classical education, graduating at Wil-
liams College in 1:^25; studied law; was admitted
to the bar, and commenced practice at Monroe,
Michigan; was elected a representative from Michi-
gan iJi the Thirty-thini Cungress as a Democrat,
receiving 10,(i24 votes asiiinst li,3(i7 votes for Wil-
liams, \Vliig, serving from December 5, l)So3, to
j' Harch 3, l(<&o; was defeated as tiie Democratic can-
' didate for the Thirty-fourth Congrefs, receiving
8,113 votes against ll,{l55 votes for VValdron, Kepulv
lican.
Noble, James, was born at Battletown, Vir-
ginia; went to the frontier when n youth; located in
Kentucky, niul atli'rwards in Indiana: was elected
one of the lirst United-States senators from Indiana,
serving fmm December 12, 1810, to February 20,
1831. when he died at Washington City.
Noble, Warren P., w.is'bom in Pennsylvania
June 14. 1821; received a public-school education;
remove<l tof)hio; studied law; was admittetl to the
bar, and commenced practice at Tiffin, Ohio; was a
BMmber of the State House of Representatives ISoO-
18t)0; was elected a representative from Ohio in the
Thirty-seventh Congress as a Democrat, receiving
12,050 votes against 12,00(1 votes for C'arey, RepulK
lican; was re-elected to the Thirty-eighth Congress,
receiving 11,70.5 votes against 10,623 votes for Wor-
cester, Republican, serving from July 4, 18(U, to
March 3, 18tSo; was defe.ited as tlie Democnitic can-
didate for the Thirty-ninth Congress, receiving
11,717 votes against 13,511 votes for Ralph P. Buck-
land, Republican.
Noble, William H., was bom In New York in
1788; resided ul (ato, Cuyuga County; was a mem-
ber of the Sl.'ite House of'Repre.sentfttiveR 1828-ISW;
was eli'cted n represent.itive from New York in the
Twenty-fifth Congress as a Democrat, serving from
September 4, 18;i7, to March 3, ISJO; was defeated as
the Democratic candidate for the Twenty-sixth
Congress, receiving 4,41^ votes against 4,ll;31 voles
for Christopher Morgan, Whig; died at Rwhester,
New York, Fi'brunry .I, 1SV1.
Noel, Thomas E., was bom at Perryville, Mis-
souri, April ;i, ISj!'; receiveil a public-school educa-
tion; studied law; was admitted to the bar In 1818,
and commenced practice at Perryville; was ap-
jMiinled a military commissioner for the arrest of
dislnyal persons in 1801; wjis major of the St.ite
Loyal Militia 18*11-1H02; was appointed capt.iin in
the Nineteenth Infiuitrj-, United-Slates army, in
1802, but resigiieil in 1H03; was elected a represento-
tivo from Missouri in the Thirty-ninth Congress iis a
Itadical, receiving 4,(175 votes against 1,8>S votes for
TulUe, Democrat, and 059 votes for Leei)er, Inde-
pendent Radie.-d; was re-elected to the Fortieth
Coiigresa, receiving 2,705 votes against 2,758 voles for
Scott, Democrat, and 191 votes for Lawson, Inde-
pendent, serving fn>m December 4, 18<tj. to October
4, 1807, when he died at SI. Louis, Mi«sr>uri.
Noell, John W., w-.is Ixim in Bradford County.
Virginia, Febnmry 1."), 1810; received an acaderaical
education; n.'inovc<l with his parents to Missouri
ill 18ii2; studied law; was oilniitted to the bar, and
commenced practice at Perryville, Missouri; was
clerk of the Circuit (.'ourt of Perry County 1841-
18>0; was a member of the State Senate four years;
was elected a representative from Missouri in the
Thirty-sixth Congress as a Democrat, n-ceiving
10,404 votes against 5,808 voles for Zeigler, Repul^
lican ; was re-elected to the Tlurty-seventh Congress,
receiving 11.191 votes against 4,007 votes for I'erry-
man. Republican, and MS rotes scattering, serving
from December 5, 1810, to Marcli 3, 1S<13; was re-
elected to the Thirty-eighth Congress, but died at
Washington City March 14, 1803.
Norcross, Amasa, was bom In Rindge. New
Hamiisliire, January 20, 1S24; received an oiiiideudc
education; studied law, and was adniitled to the bar
in 1847; has since been engaged in practice; was a
lueralier of the State House of Representatives of
the Ma.«siichusetts legislature in 18>', 1819, and
1S02, and of the State Senate of M.i.ssachusetts in
1S74; wos assessor of internal revenue for the
Tenth Congressional District from August. 1802,
until May. 1873, when the ollice was alpolislird: was
mayor of the city of Fitcliluirg in 18":) and 1874 : and
was electeil a representative fniin Mnssacinisetts In
the Forty-tiflh Congress as a Republican, rereiving
15,779 votes against 8,028 voles for S. O. Lamb,
Demticrat, servlni; from October 15, 1877.
Norris, Benjamin W., was bom at Mon-
moulh, Maine, in I.">lt»; graduated at Watervilic Col-
lege (now Colby University) in 184;!; engaged in
mercantile pursuits; was a delegate to the Free-soil
Convention at Buffalo which nominated Van Buren
nnd Adams in 1848; w.is land agent of Maine in
1800-1803; was commissioner from Maine of the
Soldiers' Naliouai Cemetery at Gettysburg; was a
delegate to the Republican Convention nt Baltimore
which nominated Lincoln and Johnson inl8l$4: was
a paymaster in the Union army 1S(>1-1.S<)5; after the
close of the war, settled on a plantation in Alabama;
654
CONGBESSIONAL DIEECTOEY.
was elected to the Constitntlonnl Cnnvonlton of
Alabama in 1808; was elecUMl to the Fortieth Con-
gress OS a Republican, servini.' from .luly -21, 1808, to
March 3, lSCi>; and died at Montgomer}-, Alabama,
Ja!iuar\- 27, 1HT3.
Norris, Moses, jun., was bom at Pittsficld,
New Ilaniiishire. Nfivcinljor 8, 17(HI; rtceivod a clas-
sical educ;ilion, gradiiatiiin at Dartmouth College in
182,S: studied law; was admitted to the bar, and
conuniMiced practice at Barnstead; was a member of
the State House of Iiepivseiit.'illvcs 18;>;>-lt'40; was
Stale solicitor for Merriiuaek County in 1843: was
eleclcd a re])resentative from New Ilamps'aire in the
Twenty-eighth Congress as a Democrat on n general
ticket, anifwas re-elected to the Twenty-nintli Cou-
frcss, sers'ing from December 4, 18*}, until March
, 1847 ; was again a memljer of the State House of
Representatives In 1847, and was chosen si>eaker;
was elected to the United-States Senate, and served
from March 4, 1849, until hiii death at Washington,
January 11, IK").
North, William, was bom In New York in
ISM; sen-ed in the Kevolutionary army as aide-<lc-
comp to Major-General Baron de Steulieu; was aj>-
pointed a Unilod-Slates senator from New York (in
place of John Sloss Hobart, resigned), servin;{ from
May 21, 1708, to March 3, IV.ni; was appointi'd adju-
laut-gi'ueral of the anuv, with the rank of hrigadier-
gcncral, serving from July 10, 17!)8, uiitil the army
w-is disbanded June 10, ISW; was again appointeil
adjutant-general of the anny March 27, 1812, but
declined; died at Duanesburg, New York, January
4, isyi.
Norton, Daniel S., was bom at Mount Vei^
• non, Ohio, April 12, 1820; w.as educated at Kenyon
College, Oliio; sensed in the Ohio volunteers in the
Mexican war; visited California and Nicanigiia; then
returned to Ohio, where he studied law; wus admit-
ted to the bar in 1852, and conunenced practice;
removing to Minnesota, he was a tnomljer of the
Senate of that State in 1S57, 1858, laio, 18(11, l.S«3,
and IsiU; was elected United-States senator from
Minnesnta ns a Union Conser^'alive (to succeed M,
5. Wilkinson, Union Kepubllcan), serving frtnn
March 4, 1S71, to his death at Washington July 14,
1870.
Norton, Ebenezer F., was born in New York;
resided at Buffalo; was a member of the State House
of Representatives in 1823; was electrd a representa-
tive friim New York in the Twenty-first Coniiress as
a Democrjit, serving from Deceml)er 7, 1829, to
March 3, la'Jl.
Norton, Blijah H,, w.-is bom In Logan County,
Kentucky, Nt)veinber24, 1821 ; received an-acidemical
educ.itlon; stmlied law; WM admitted to the bar,
and commenced practice at Platte City; was a judge
of the Circuit Court of Missouri 18.52-I8HO; was
elected a representative from Missouri in the Thirty-
seventh Congress as a Democrat, nfcelving 13,797
votes against 8.350 votes for .Scott, Republican, serv-
iiig from July 4, 18i)l, to March 3, 1803.
Norton, Jesse O., was bom in Vermont; re-
ceived a classical education, graduating at Willimns
College, Miissaehuselts; removed t.> Illinois; studied
law ; was .admitted to the bar in 1S40, and eimimeneed
practice at Jollel, Illinois; was a delegate to the
Slate Constitutional Convention in 1847; was a
member of the Stale House of Representatives iu
1851 and 1852; was elected a representative from
Illinois In the Thirty-Uiird Congress as a Reputillcan,
receiving 8,208 votes ajjainst 8,087 voles for Heddy,
Democrat, and 1,033 votes for Bryant, Free-Soiler ;
was re-elected to the Thirty-fourth Congress, receiving
10,474 votes against 0,210 votes for Drake, Democrat,
Ber>-ing from December H, 186.3, to March 3, 1857;
was elected judge of the Eleventh District of Illinois,
seriini: 18.57-18*12; was again elected to the Thirty-
eighth Congn-iss, receiving 10,004 voles .igainst 8,410
votes for Dickev, Democrat, serving from December
7, liJOa, to March 3, 1806; was a delegate to the Net-
tional Union Convention at Philadctpliia in
died at Chicago, Illinois, August 3, 1875.
Norton, Nelson I., was iiorn in Cattflraugni
County, New York, Slareh Hi), 1820; was bmuuhl up
on a farm, attending the winter schools: eni,-a'.'ed la
merc'intilc pursuits, but retuHR-V ' wai
a justice of the peace, county iimy
super\-isor; was a memlx'r of tin. .. ...iilycf
New York in 1801 ; was a presidential elector on llis
Grant .and Wilson ticket in 1872; and was elcctet! t
representative from New York in the Forty-f ounU
Congress in 1875 as a Republican I to 1111 the v,icaQCT
caused by the death nf Augustus F. Allen), leceiviiig
10.770 voles against 0,130 votes for Charles IS. Cary,
Democrat, serving from December 0, 1875, to Maich
3, 1877.
Norvell, John, w.as bom In PennsylTaali;
learned the art of printing: editeil n ni'ws|ii|jer ia
Philadelphia; removed to Detroit, Mii-hiiK^ii: w»$
appointed by President Jacksi>n postmaslir at De-
troit, and held the office until he resigned in ISUi);
was elected one of the Jirsl United-t>t~ates s<-iiaton
from Michigan as a Democrat, serving from January
20, 1837, to'Man-h 3, lt41 : died of apoplexy at De-
tr(.)it, Michigan, April 11, 185ii.
Norwood, Tnomas Manson, was Imm in
Tiilbfjt County, Georgia, Ai'nl 20, Is:": " ■•• m-d ta
academic education at Culloden. J. uity,
Georgia; was graduated at Emory ( i.»nl,
Georgia, in 1850; studied l.iv,-. and w\ii iul.ui;iiil to
jiractice in February, 1852; removed to ,^qv:iiiii.'Ji in
March, 1852, where ho has pnictis<;d law r- ■
was a memlHT of the Cleorgia legislature-- in
was elected alternate Democratic elector fc I
at liirge In 1808 on the Sejrmour and Blair ticket; mi
elected United-Stales senator from Georgia u »
Demc)cnit Noveml>cr 14, 1871 ; after a contest for hiJ
seat with Foster Blodgett, was admitted to the Sen-
ate December IP, 1871, and served until March i,
1.877.
Nott, Abraham, was Iwm at Saybrook, Con-
necticut, in 1707; was educated lor the minlstrj,
graduating at Yale College in 1787; went in Gwijii
ns tnlor in the f.-imily of the father of Goveniur
Troup, who was one of his jiupils; remuvc<l to Cam-
den, .South Carolina, in 1789; studie*! law thi're with
Daniel Brown, and was admitted to the bar tt
Charleston May 27, 1701; conuacncod pr.iollcc il
Union Court House, and then at his planti;iiun on
the Pacolet River; was elected a re|;res<iUlaiiio from
South Carolina in the Sixth Congress as a FcilcrallJl
(after aiding in casting the vote of South I'arolin*
in favor of Aaron Burr for thirty-live balloiin», lie
witlidrew, and on the thirty-sixth ballot, llie remain-
ing representatives from South Carolina beine IlKii
equally divided, the Stale voted blank, and Jettenou
was elected); served in Congress from Deo'tulM-ri
1700, to Marcli 3, 1801 ; resmuitig practice, hereiuotwi
to Columbia In 1804; was elected a law-judge in ISIO,
and president of the Court of At)iieal8 in 1844; be
was att.icked by consumption at Charleston in Jui-
uary, 18:30, and died at the residence of a friend In
Falrtield District, while on Lis way home, Juno IB,
18:li).
NouTSe, Amos, was bom in 1795; received i
classical education, graduating at Harvard Collegia
1812; studied medicine, and practiseil at Balli; wM
a medical lecturer at Bowdoin College 184<1-1^U
and (lien medical professor; was |>ostniiiiter at B»l-
lowcll; was collector of customs at B.^ih; v.iis tp"
]iointed aUnited-,Stales senator from Maine (in pluw
of Hannibal Hamlin, resigned), serving fnim Jann-
ary 24, 1857, to Marcli 3, 1857; was jud;;e of pri.tal*
of Sagadahoc County; died at Bath, Maine, April 17,
1877.
Noyes, John, was bom in 1703; rcceivi>d a tuu-
sical education, graduating at DarlT>n"''i i ..ii.ji.in
1795; was a tutor in that institution I •
representative from Vermont in the 1- > ' ""-
gresa as a Federalist, receiving 17,&U; vui.
STATISTIC^VX, SKETCHES.
555
16,97r) voles for Ezra Butlor, Democrat, serving from
DeccmlKT 4. Isl.'), lo Mareh 3. Isl7.
Noyes, Joseph C, was lioni at Portland,
Miiine. iu 1711.S; rut-eiveil u publie-school education;
engaL'i'd in niercaiitile jiui suits al EastfKirt; was a
ineml)cr of llie State Ilouse of Kopi-esenlatives in
1S;>J: was elected a represontalive from Maine in llie
Twenty-fifth Congress as a Wliig on the Kftli ballot
(Oofeating Jar\i». Democrat), sen-iug from Septemlier
4. IftiV. to March 3. lajf); was defeated as the Wliig
fandiilate for the Tncuty-sixih Congress by Joshua
A. Lowell, Democrat: was collector of customs in
the PasxaniaijuiMldy District lS-ll-ls4;i; removed to
Portland, when- he became treasurer of the savings
biink: died at Portland. Maine. July il, 1K<!S.
Nuckolls, Btephen P., was bom August 10,
18ij, ill Grayson dunly, Virginia; roceivetl an aca-
demic education; removed to Missouri in \^i, and
enpa^eil iu niere.intile pursuits; in 1S.j4 removed to
Xebniska Tenitory; was one of the founders of
Nehnnka City, and was a member of the Nebraska
legislature in l.S.')(>; in ISOO went to Colorado Terri-
tory, juid for four years was enij.tged In mining
and nierchandisln?;; from 18<'>4 to l^>07 resided in
New- York City; settle*! in Cheyenne (then in Da-
kota Territorj) In 1807; and, upon the organization of
Wyoming Territory in Hylil, was elected delegate from
Wyoniini in the Forty-first Congress as a Democrat,
receiving 3,301 votes against l.siW rotes for Corlclt,
Ke|)iiblican, serving from March 4, ItWl), to March 3,
1871.
Nuckolls, William C, was bom In .South Car-
olina: received a classical education, graduating at
the South-Canjllna University in 1820; studied I.iw;
was admitted to the bar, and commenced practice at
SiMirtanburg, South Camlina; was elected a repre-
sentative from South Carolina in the Twentieth
Cou'^ress; was re-elected to the Twenty-first and
Twentv-second Congresses, serving from December
a, 1827". to March 2, 18:M.
Nugen, Robert H., was bom in Washington
County, Pennsylvania, In 1800; removed with his
liai'ents Ut Colunil>iana County, Ohio, in 1811, and
thence to Tuscarawas f!onnty in 1.828; was elected a
reiiresiiitative from Ohio in (lie Thirty-seventh Con-
gress lis a Demf>crat, receiving 10,281 votes against
|i.4:>ii votes for Ilehnlck, Kepalilican, serving from
July 4, 18()1. to March 3, 18<13; declined being a can-
didali- for re-election.
Nunn, David A., was bom In Haywood County,
TeniM'ssee, in l^i-'j; received a collegiate education;
studied law: was admitteil to the bar. and pi-actised
at Brownsville; was a member of the W]\vs party
until it ceased lo exist; was a presidential elector iu
1S«J0 on the Bell ticket, and again presidential elector
ill 18r4 on the Republican ticket; was a member of
the legislature of the State of Tennessee in IXIK) and
18(57; was elected a representative from Tennessee
In the Fortieth (.'ongress as a RepubUcaii. receiving
SK051 votes against il,18i> voles f.ir J. F. Leflwlck,
Democrat, serving trtmi XoveiulH'r 21, 18(i7, to March
3. IWli'; w.TS defeated as the Imlefiendent Republican
candidate for the Forty-first Congress, receiving 2,4:5!)
votes against .j..'{l)3 votes for William J. Smith, Re-
publican, and 4,082 votes for J. F. Leftwiek. Demo-
crat; and WHS ag.ain elected to the Forty-third Con-
eivss, receiving 7..580 votes against .5.007 votes for A.
W. Cainpljell. Democrat, 4,41(1 votes for W. P. Cald-
well, Dt^mncrat. and I.IW vot<'S for T. H. Bell, Deni-
(xTat, serving from December I. 1873, to March 3,
187.J: was ilefeated as the KeiHibliean candidate for
the Forty-fourth Congress, receiving 4,;J.3(J votes
agaiust 11,128 votes for William P. Caldwell, Demo-
crat.
Nye, James W^., was horn in Madison County,
New York, June HI, 181.'): received a public-school
edu(»li'<n, and was reared on a farm; studied law;
was admitted to the bar, and practised in M.idison
County: was district-attorney, and subsequently
county-judge ; was defeated aa the Antislavery can-
didate for the Thirtieth Congress; removed to Syra-
cuse; was a State police commissioner in New-York
City in 18«W; was appointed by President Lincoln in
18(51 governor of Washoe (.ifterwards Nevada Terri-
torj'); when Nevada b<;came a State he was elected
United -.States senator as a Republican, and was re-
elected, Rer\ing from December 4, 180,'), to March 3,
1873; after leaving public life, his reason became im-
paired ; and he died at White Plains, New York, De-
cemlK'r 25, 1^70.
Oakley, Thomas Jackson, was born in
Dutchess Countv. New York, in 1783; received a
classical education, graduating at Yale C'dlege in
1801; studied \arv: was admitted to the bar, and
commenced practice at Poughkeepsie; was apjioiuted
surrogate of Dutchess County 1810, 1811 ; was elected
a representative from New York in the Thirteenth
Congress as a Federalist, sen ing from May 24, 1813,
to Sfarch 2, 181.5; was a meinl)er of the State House
of Representatives 1810. 181.8-1820 ; was altorney-
genenil of the State of New York; was again elected
to the Twentieth Congress as a Clinton Democrat,
serving from December 3, 1827, to 1828, when he
resipied; was appointed a judge of the Suptirlor
Court of the State of New York 182il-18:3ti; on the
re-tirganization of the Supri'ine Court, was elected
chief justice, servins from 1840 ixnlll his death at
New-York City Slay 11, 1857.
O'Brien, Jeremiah, was bom at Machias,
Maine (then Mass.ichiisetts), in 1708; received a
public-school education; engaged In agricultural and
mercantile pursuits; was elected a representative
from Maine in the Eighteenth Congress; was re-
elected to tlieNuieteenth oud Twentieth Congresses,
serving from December 1, 182.3, to March 3, 182lt;
was defeated as a candidate for the Twenty-first
Congress on the third trial; was a member of the
Slate House of Representatives for six successive
terms; died at Boston, Massijchusctts, May 3li, ISoS.
O'Brien, William J., was bom at Baltimore,
Marjland, May 28, USW; was educated at St. Mary's
College, Baltimore; studied law, and was admitted
to the bar in 18,58; was elected a representative from
Maryland in the Forty-third Congress as a Democrat,
receiving l),07o votes against 8..340 votes for R. Turner,
Independent Republican; and was re-elected to the
Forty-fourth Congress, receiving 0,287 voles against
4,8.34 votes for James S. Suter, Republican, servbig
from Decemt)er 1, 1873, to March 3, 1877.
Odell, Moses F., was bom at "Tarrytowii, New
York, Februar)- 24, 1818; reccMved a public-school
education; etigaged in mercantile pursuits; was ap-
pointed an entry-clerk in the New-York Custom
House in 184.5 under Collector Van Ness, and served
continuously under Collectors Lawrence, Maxwell,
Brtinson, and Ri.'dfield, receiving several promotions
until he became i>ublic appraiser; was elected a ri'i>-
resentalive from New York in the Thirty-seventh
Congress as a Fusion Democrat, receiving 13,322
votes against 10,870 votes for James Humphrey,
Republican; and was re-elected to the Tliirty-eighlh
Congress as a War Democrat, receiving 8,liir» votes
against 7,5fX) votes for James Humphrey, Republican,
serving from July 4, 1801, lo March 3, 18(»5; was ap-
poinleij navy agent at the city of New York in 180o;
and died at New York of a cancer in the mouth
June 13. 18^10,
Odell. N. Holmes, was born near Tarrytown,
New York, Octolier 10, 1828; received an academic
education; was engaged in the steamboat business
on the North River; was a inenilM-r of tlie .State
(Jenoral Assembly 18.57-18(!1; established the First
National Bank at Tarrytown, of which he was the
cashier 18'i2-1804: w.as elected county treasurer of
Westchester County in 1866, and re-elected in 1860,
and again in 1872: and was elected a representative
from New York in the Forty-fourth Congress as a
Democrat, receiving 12,082 votes agiiiiisl 8.:i01 votes
for Wright, Republican, serving from March 3, lt)75|
to December t), 1877. ■»
s»
CONOBE8SIONAL DIBECTOBV.
Ogdan, Aaron, was bom at Elijalmthtown,
New Jersey, December 3, 1750; received a chuisicai
education, grodualing at Nassau Hall in 1T7:J; served
iu the KevoUitionary army with distinction; studied
law; was admitted to the bar, and practised; was a
presidential elector in ISIX); was elected a United-
States senator from New Jersey (in vAaca of James
Scbureman, resigned), 8er\ing from March 3, 1801,
to Miirclj 3, 181)3; was governor of New Jersey In
1812 ; was offered by President Madison a commission
as major-aeueral In the array of the United States,
but declined It on the ground that he had been
coraraandcr-in-cbief of the arme<l forces of New
Jersey ; was prcsident-generaJ of the Society of the
Cincinnati; died al Jersey City April lit, ISSil.
Ogden, David A., was l)om at Morristown,
New Jersey; received an academical education; stud-
ied law; was admitted to the bar, and coiumenceil
practice at Madrid, St. Lawrence County, New York;
■was a member of the State House of Representatives
1814 and 1815; was elected a representative from
New York in the Fifteenth Congress, serving from
January 8, 1818, to March 3, 181l>; died at Montreal,
Canada, June It, 1820.
Oglo, Alexander (father of Charles Ogle, and
grandfather of Andrew J. Ogle), was born in Mary-
land, August 10, niJ5; recelvea an academical edu-
cation ; removed at an early age to Somerset, Penn-
sylvania; was a member of the State legislature of
Pennsylvania 18J(i-1812; was elected a representative
from IVnnsylvania in the Fifteenth Congri'ss, serving
from Deceml)cr 1, 1817, to March 3, 1810; was pro-
thonotary of Somerset County; died at Somerset,
Pennsylvania, October 14, 18o2.
Ogle, Andrew J. (grandson of Alexander
Ogle), was iiorn at Somerset, Pennsylvaiiift, in 18'J2;
was prothnnotary of Somerset County in 1810; was
elected a n.'presentative fmra Pennsylvania in the
Thirty-first Congress as a WTiig, receiving (l,9i)2 votes
against 11,(140 votes for J. L. Dawson, Democmt,
serving from December 3, 1840, to March 3, 1851;
was defeated as the Whig candidate for the Thirty-
aecond Congress, receiving (l.i;>5 votes against 0,404
votes for J. Ij. Dawson, Democrat; was appointed by
President Fillmore chartii d'uffnirvs to Denmark
January 22, 1802, but died shortly afterwards of apo-
plexy at Somerset, Petinsylvaniiu
Ogle, Gbaxles (son of Alexander Ogle), was
boni at Somerset, Pennsylvania, in 1798; received
an aca<lemical education; studied law; was admitted
to the bar, and commenced practice at Somerset;
was elected a representative from Pennsylvania in
the Twenty-fifth Congress as a Wliig; was re-elected
to the Twenty-sixth Congress as a SVhig and auti-
Hosonic candidate, defeating Job Man, Dcmoemt,
seirlng from September 4, 18^17, to March 3, 1841;
was re-elected to the Twenty-seventh Congress, but
died Iwfore taking his scat, at Somerset, May 10,
1841.
Oglesby, Richard J., was bom iu Oldham
County, Kentucky, July 25, 1824; settled in Illinois,
al Decatur, in ISiiO; received less than a commoa-
achool education; was a carpenter for two years;
studied law in 1844, and was a<lmitted to tlie bar in
1845; served one year in the Mexican war; worke<l
two years in the mines in California; was elected
to the State Senate of Illinois in 18'!0, served one
session, and resigned to enter the volunteer service
In 18'Jl at the commencement of the war for the
suppression of the nebolllon; was chosen colonel,
afterward ajipoinled brl'tadicr-general, and, in 1803
(to take rank from November, lt^l2), a major-general ;
resigned in 18tH, and was elected that year governor
of Illinois for the term whicli expired in January,
1809; was re-elected governor of Illinois in Novem-
ber, 1872; entered upon the duties of bis otlice Janu-
ary 13. 1873; and on the 21st of the same month
was elected United-States senator from Illinois as a
Kepublican (to succeed Lyman Trumbull, Liberal).
Hia term will expire March 3, 1870.
Oloott, Simeon, was bom in Connecticut Id
1737; received a classical education, graduating al
Yale College in 1761; studied law; was admitted t«
the bar, and commenced practice at Charlestown,
New Ilampshire; was appointee!, December 2.5, 1784,
chief justice of the Court of Common Pleas: Janu-
ary 25, 171K), a judge of the Superior Court; and
March 23, 1705, chief judge of the Superior Court;
was elected a Unitcd-iitates senator from Ntw
Hampshire (in place of Samuel Livermore, re-
si/;ned) as a Federalist, se^^•ing from December 7,
isill, to March 3, 1805; died at Charlestown, New
Uamiishire, in 1815.
Olds, Eidson B., was bom In Vermont; re-
ceived an academical education; studied medicine,
and jiractised the profession ; was for several years it
member of the Stale Senate and House of Repre-
sentatives; was elected a reprc-sijntalive from Ohio in
the Thirty-first Congress as a Democrat, rec<>ivi!ii;
U, 1)84 votes against (),000 votes for Edwards, WUig~;
was re-elected to the Thirty-second Congress, re-
ceiving {\,'ii>i votes against 0,110 rotes for Vou
Tn:mp, Whig; and was re-clecte<l to the Thirty-
thini Congress, receiving 8,,>40 vcjtes against 8,480
votes for Galloway, Whig, and 3;W voles for Gnv-
Iiimi. Free-i)oiler, serving from Decembers, 1840, to
.Maix'h 3, 18.>5; was defeated as the Democratic can-
didate for the Thirty-fourth Congress, receiving
0,3t)0 votes against 0,008 votes for Galloway. WTiig;
was arrested In 1802 on a charge of disloyalty, and
imprisoned in Fort Lafayette ; while there, lie was
elected a member of the (Jhio House of Reprvsenia-
tives;^ died at Lancaster. Ohio, January ^4, 1809.
OLm, Abram B. (sou of Gideon OlinJ, was
bom at Shaftsbury, Vermont, in 1812; received a
classical education, graduating at WilUiims College,
Massachusetts, In l.S"Jo; studied law; was admitted
to the bar in 1838, and commenced practice al Troy.
New York; was elected a representative from New
York in the Thirty-llfth Congress as a Republican,
receiving 5,200 votes against 4,758 votes for Gri5-
wold. Democrat, and 4,108 votes for Fonda, Ameri-
can; was re-elected to the Thirty-sixth Congress,
receiving 8,267 votes against S.a-M votes for S.-'jiiiour,
Democrat; and was re-elected to the Tbirty-seventi
Congress, receiving 8,650 votes against 8,208 votes for
McConihe, Democrat, scning from December 7.
1657, to March 3, 1803; was appointed by President
Lincoln a judge of the Supreme Court of the District
of Columbia In 18<15, which be bus announced his lie-
tennination to resign September 1, 1878.
OHn, Gideon (lather of Abram B. Olin). wn
bom in Rhode Island; removed to Vermont, ukI
was one of the founders of the State; was a member
of the State House of Representatives, and one term
speaker of the House; was a jud;;e of Ceiminstoii-
oounty Oiurt ; was elected a representative from
Vermont in the Eighth Congruss, and was rc-el«teil
to the Ninth Congress, 8er\ing from October 17,
180:3, to Miuth 3, 1807; died at Shaflsburv, Vermont,
Au^iist «, 1822.
Olin, Henry, was bora in 1767, and reared In
Addison County, Vermont; was a memljer of the
Slate House of Representatives, with the exception
of four years, 1700-1825; was a delegate to the Sl«l«
C'oustituttonal Conventions of 1814, 1,S22. and IW
was an associate judge of the Addison-coutity Court
I.S(tl-lSOO and 1810-1824; was elected a reprtfi^nl*-
live from Vermont in the Eighteenth Coiigwss (in
place of Charles Rich, decca.sed), serving from U*-
comber 13, 1824, to March 3, 1825; died at Salisburr,
Vemiont, in l.S.'{7.
Oliver, Addison, was bom in Wasbii^tsn
County. Pennsylvania, in lS;iS; received » claMi«l
education, gra<luating at Waslilngton CoUi^i.' Ii
1S5U; taught schoi)l for two years in Arkansa*: f*"
tnmeil to Peiinsylvania; studied law with Hon-
William Montgomery; was admitted to the liar, and
commenced practice in Western Iowa in 18>")7; »i"
member of the State House of B«prcsenla)iT(!i iB
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1963, and of the State Senate In 1805; was elected
judge of the Fourth JudiciiU Circuit In IStiS. and
twice re-eloctcd tu the same |M)Bition. whicli he
resigned when elected a representative from Iowa iu
the Korly-fourth CongreM as a Kepublican, receiving
I2.ll.07 votes against 6,808 votes for Whilliis. anti-
Monopolist; and was re-«lectiMl to the Foflv-lifth
Couiiri.'ss, receiving 11>,5(V5 voles against 10.6.H:i votes
for Samuel liees, Democrat, seniiii! from Uecember
tl, ls7J.
Oliver, Andrew, was l>om at Sprinorfield, New
Yorlv; received a cliissicai education, graduating at
Union College in ISlii); studicil law; was admitted
to the bar in ISJS, and commenced [)raoticc at I'eii
Tan; was first judge of the Court of Comiuon Pleas
lt^43-ls47; was elected judge of the Surrogate and
County Courts In 1840; was elected a representative
from New York in the Thiny-tliird Congress as a
Democrat, receiving 8,540 voti-s against 8.529 votes
for Woods, Wliig, and 21)0 votes for Frisby, Kree-
Soiler; was re-elected U) the Thirty-fourth Consress,
receiving 6,880 votes against 5,;jii4 votes for .Scely,
Whig, and 2,163 votes for Howell, Free-Soiler, sening
from December 6, 1863. to March 3, 18.17; wiui defeat-
Odutbe Americin candidate for the Thirty-fifth Con-
'MBHt raceiving 4,21 1 votes against (),:iO^ votes for I'ot-
tle. Republican, and ;!.8ll7 votes forOgden, Democrat.
Oliver, Mordecai, was bom in Anderson
County, Kentucky, October 22, 1810; received a
puhl!c-«chool education ; studied law ; was admitted
to the bar In 1842, and commenced practice at Kicb-
mond, Missouri; was elected circuitrattomey for the
Fifth Judicial Circuit of Missouri in 1848; was elect-
ed a representative from Missouri in the Thirty-third
Congress as a Whig, receiving 7.012 votes against
4,4.52 votes for Bircti, aiiti-Uenlon Democrat, and
4,244} votes for King, Democrat; was re-elected to
the Thirty-fourth Congress, receiving 0,129 votes
against 4.1)08 votes for Leoniini, aiill-Benlon Deraf*-
crat, and 2,787 votes for lyowe. Democrat, serving
from December 5^ 1S.V5, to March 3, 1857.
Oliver, 'William M., was born at Springfield,
New York; received a public-school education;
studied law; wasadndtled to the t>ar, .ind commenced
practice at Pen Yan ; was api>oinled first judge for tiie
Court of Common Pleas for Yates County 182.1, and
again in 18^18: was a State sciialor and iientenant-
gnvernor In 183(>; wa.s elected a representative from
5«ew York in the Twenty-seventh Congress as a
Democrat, receiving 0.949 votes against 0,17ii votes
for Thomas A.. Johnson, Wliig, ser\ing frtmi May
31, l>i-)l, to March ?,. 184.3.*
O'Neill, Charles, was bom in Philaileiphia
M.ircli 21, 1821; graduated at DiciiJrison College in
184*1; studieil and practised law: was admitted to the
bar in 184;J ; was a member of the Himse of Itejirvsen-
tatives of Pennsylvania iu ^'^.W. 18.51, ia'J2, and 18011;
was a member of the State .Senate of Pennsylvania
in 18.'>;J; was elected a represeiit.ative from I'ennsyl-
vani.i in the Thirty-eighth Congress as a Kepuldican.
receiving 8,014 votes against O.OOS votes for Diddle,
Democrat; was rc-electtMl to the Thirty-ninth Con-
receiving 11,707 votes against 7,290 votes for
ly. Democrat; was re-elecleil to the Fortieth
receiving 12,012 votes ag.alnst 9,47.i votes
te, Democrat; was re-elected to the Forty-
Congress, receiving 14,.>::i3 votes against 11,913
vot«s for Florence, Democrat, st;nlng from Decem-
ber 7, 180;), to March 3, 1871 ; was defeated as the
Independent candidate for the Forty-second Con-
gress, receiving 10,1.^ votes against ]i,061l votes for
John V. Creeiy, Hepublican; was again electe<l to
the Forty-thiixi Congress, receiving 17,2r>.3 votes
■gainst 0,728 votes for E. Joy Morris, Liberal and
Democrat; was re-elected to the Forty-fourtli Con-
Svss, receiving 11,H1>2 votes against 9,000 votes for
enjamln Rush, DeniotTat; and was re-elected to the
Forty-fifth Congress, receiving 15,201 votes against
11,881 votes for Charles II. Gibson, Democrat, serv-
lug from December 1, 1873.
O'Neill, John, was bom at Pliiladelphia, Penn-
sylvania. Deceml)er 17. 1821; received a cliissicai
education, graduating at St. John's College. Mary-
land; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1842,
and commenced practice; removed in 1844 to Ohio;
was elected In 1845 prosecuting-attomey for Mus-
kingum County; was elected a represeeitative from
Ohio in the Tldrty-eighth Congress .is a Democrat,
receiving 12.7ii;3 votes against ll.ilnO votes for Wright,
Repul)lican. servinif from December 7, 180;$, to March
3. lSit5.
Onnsby, Stephen, was bom In Virginia; re-
ceived a lil>eiul education; studied law; was admit-
ted to the bar; located in Kentucky; was a judge of
the Circuit Court ; was a lirigade-major under Gen-
eral Harmer in the cam|>aign of 17IK^; was elected a
representative from Kentucky in the Twelfth Con-
gress, receiving 00 majority over Mr. tjuinton; was
defeated as a candidate for re-election to the Thir-
teenth Congress l)y John Simpson, who was soon
afterwards killed at the battln of the River Itaisin;
Ormsby was then re-elected to the Thirteenth Con-
gress, taking Ids seat at the opening of the session;
was re-elected to tlie Fourteenth Congress, serving
from November 4, 1811, to March 3, 1817; died at
Louisville, Konlncky, in 1840.
Orr, Alexander D., wiis bom at Alexandria,
Virginia, in 17'Vi; was one of the pioneer settlers of
Kentucky, locating in Mason County; was a member
of the State House of Representatives in 1792; upon
the admission of Kentucky into the Union, was
elected one of its repn-sentatives in the Second
Congress; was re-elected to the Third Congress; and
was re-elected to the Fourth Congress, serving from
(»ctober 24, 1791, to March 3, 1797; died at Paris,
Kentucfcv, June2t, 1835.
OlT, Senjamin, was bom at Bedfoni, New
Hampshire, Deceinl>er 1, 1772; received a classical
education, graduating at Dartmouth College in 1798;
studied law; Wiis admitted to the bar in 1801, and
conmienced practice at Topsham, Maine; removed
to Brunswick; was elected a representative from
Mass.ii'husetts in the Fifteenth Congress, serving
from Deceml)er 1, 1817, to March 3, 1810; died at
bnuiswick, Maine, September 1, 1828.
Orr, Jackson, was Inini in Fayette County,
Ohio. .Septemlier 21, 18;i2; received a common-school
education, and attended a part of an irregular course
at the University of Indiana; studied law. but has
devoted the last eight years to mercantile pursuits;
serveil in the Union army as captain in the Tenth
Iowa Infantry; was a memlier of the legislature of
Iowa in 180is; was elected a representative from Iowa
in the Forty-second Congress as a Republican, re-
ceiving 10.y,-<0 votes against 5,077 votes for C. C.
SuieltziT. Democrat ; and was re-elected to tlie Forty-
third Congress, receiving 12,4(U votes against 0,153
votes for J. F. Duncombc, Democrat and Libeml,
serving from March 4, 1.S71, to March ,3, 1875.
Orr, James L., was bom at Claytonville, .South
Carolina, May 12, 1822; was a clerk in Ida fathers
store; received a classical education, which was fin-
tsheil at the University of Virginia in l.*41 : studied
law with Juilge Wliitner; was admitted to the bar in
IS43, and commenced practice at Anderson. South
Carolina; edited "The Anderson Gazette;" was a
meurlier of the .State House of Representatives in
1^14 ; was elected a representative from South Caro-
lina in the Thirty-first Congress as a Democrat,
receiving 4,4.')4 votes against 3,790 votes for B. F.
Perry, Democrat; was ro-elected to the Thirty-second
Congress, receiving no opposition j was re-elected to
the Thirty-thinI Congress, receivnig no opposition;
was re-elected to the Thirty-fourth Congress, receiv-
ing no opposition ; was re-elected to the Thirty-fifth
Congress, receiving no opposition, serving from
DecemlH'rS, 1840, to March ;}, 1850; was a delegate
to the State Convention which voted that South
Carolina sliould secede from the Union; was one of
tliree coraniissiouers sent to Washington to treat for
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a »urrender of the national property; was elected In |
1862 a nieuilier of the Confederate Senate, and sen'cd
68 such until the end of the war in IWJo: vras elected
governor of South Carolina aj9 a Hemililiean, receiv-
ing 9,7(X1 votes atpiinst O.luil votes for Wade Hampton,
Denioenit, and held the jKjsition until the !>tale was
reconstructed : wivs gi'and master of Freemasons of
the J>tate of .Snutli Carolina; was appointed a Uniteil-
Slutes circuit-judge; was a delegate to the National
Republican Convention at Philadelphia in ]Ni4; was
appointed by President Grant minister to Russia;
and died at St. Petersburg May 0, ISTA. He pub-
lishe<l a number of political, masonic, and literar}'
orations.
Orr, Robert, was bom in Westmoreland County.
Pennsylvjinia, in 17S5; resided at Kittaiuiing; 8er>-ed
in the war of ]!<12; was a memlMT of the State House
of Representatives in ISlti, 1817; wag elected a
representative from Pennsylvania iu the Nineteenth
Congress as a Democrat; was re-elected to the
Twentieth Congress, sening from Decembers. 1.S2.'),
lo March .3. \S'M; and died at Kitlaiming, Pennsyl-
vania. May 20. 1870.
Orth, Godlove S., was bom near Lebanon,
Pennsylvania, April 22, 1S17 ; was rditcnted at Gettys-
burg College, Peimsylvania; studied lav.-; was ad-
nillted to the bar in Iftlil, ami eoinnienced practice
In Indiana; w.-is a member of the State Senate of
Indiana in lM;i, 18«, 1845. 184*1, l.s47, and 184.S,
ger\ing one year as president of that body; was a
presidential elector In 1848; was a nienil)er of the
Peace Conference in 1801; served as c.iptain of a
company of volunteers during the war for the sufF
pression of the Rebellion ; was elected a representative
from Indiana in the Thirty-eighth Congress as a
Republican, receiving 12,032 votes against 11.181
voles for Poltit, Democrat; was re-elected to the
Thirty-ninth Congress, receiving 13.6;3<} voles against
12.;J40 votes for Harney, DemiKTat; was re-electeil to
the Fortieth Congress, receiving 14, (i:):} votes againsl
14,72!5 votes for Purdue, Inilejiendent ; was re-elected
to the Forty-first Congress, receiving 10,117 votes
against I.i.iKKi votes for Mans<jn, Democnxt, serving
from December 7. 18<W, lo March :S. 1S71; was elected
to llie Forly-third ("ongn'ss for the State at large as a
Republican, receiving 188.004 votes against 188,002
voles for M. C. Kerr, Democrat, serving from Decem-
ber 1, 187:3, to March ;i, 187r>.
Osborn, ThomEts W., was bom at Scoieh
Plains, New Jei-sey. March SI. ISM; removetl with
liis piirents to Wilna, New York. In 1842: graduated
from Madison I'niversity in 18<;0; studied law in
Walertown. New York, and, as soon as admitted to
the bar, in 1801 lie entered the Union army; first com-
m^issioned Iisc3|itjin in the Rrst New-York Artillery,
ho afterwards sen-eil successively as chief of artillen-
of the .Second Division, Third Army Corps, as chief
of artillery to the Thinl. Eleventh, and Fourth Army
Coqjs. and as chief of artillery of the Army of tlii'
Tennessee; was assistant commissioner of the Bnn'au
of Refugees and Freedmen for Florid.i, with the rank
of colonel, from June, 18(S, to August. 184)0; jirac-
tised law in Tallahassee, and held the office of regis-
ter in bankruptcy: was a member fif the Constitu-
tioiud Convention of Floriila under the reconstruction
acts; removed from Tallahassee to Pens.icola; was
elected United-States senator from Florida as a Re-
Jiublloan, receiving 61 votes against 18 votes fori
William Margin, Democrat, serving from June 3U, j
1808. to March ;1. IS":).
Osborne, ThomGis B., was bom at Fairfield, '
Connecticut, in 171'7; received a classical etlucation, 1
graduating at Yale College In 1817; studied law ; was
admitted to the bar, and commenced practice at
Fairfield, Connecticut; was elected a representative
from Connecticut in the Twenty-sixth Congress as a
Whig, receiving 4,02:1 votes against y.lOl votes for
r. T. Wliitllesey, Democrat; was re-elected to the
fwenty-seventh Congress, serving fnim December 2,
1839, to March 8, 1843; removed to New Haven In
1848, and became a professor in the law-scliool fob-
necled v.ith Vale College; died at New Hu\en, Coii- j
neeticu;, Scptemlier 2, I81IO.
Osgood, Grayton Pickman, was iHini ttl
Salem, M;i5sachusetls, July 4, 17I>7; received aj
el.issical education, graduating at Harvard College j
in I8I0; studied law: was admitted to the bar, uiil 1
practised in Salem until he ivmoveil to North An-i
dover in 181II, at which time he abaiidcmed his |>ri>-']
fession entirely; w.is a member of the SNtl«? Huuie]
of Representatives in 1821) and 1831; was the Deniix
cratie nominee for Congress in the Esspie Xooh Plu-I
Irlct In ISI2. Inivimj at first as opjiu;' 1
by the National llcpublicans, Caleb 1
kittredge, Jeremi.ih Nelson, and Eb< ;: .. ;
among whom the opimsition vote tti Mr. Usgo'id wuj
divided at si.'vcnteen successive elcclioiis. roniiuen-,
eing ill 18;^!, extemling over l)-'32. and ending in the]
election of Mr, t;sgood June 8, IS^W. a rfprestMilativel
fn m Massachusetts in the Twenty-third f ■ •
a Democrat, receiving :'.272 votes againsl .
for Cashing, National Republican, and ■_
ing. sen ing from December 2. IS^j. to M;uvli :i, ISij _
and died at North Andover, Massachusetts, June ^1
l.Sill.
Osgood, Samuel, was bom at Andover, Mmi
chusetts; received a classical education. Kraduatinf
at Harvard College in 1770; studied tlicoligy. but,]
losing his health, engaged in mercantile pursniM;!
was for several years a member of the State House iif]
Representatives; was a delegate lo the Kssex-counirl
Convention of 1774, and a member of the I^rovinciw I
Congress: entered the Revoliilionar)- army .-i* 0 cap>|
tain at Lexington and Cambridge in April, 1773; J
was aide-de-camp to General Ward in 177.V1770, and j
left the anny with the rank of colonel and n??!si»nt '
rjuartermaster; was a delegate from M.i^
to tlic Continental Congress; was first cm
of the United-Slates Treasurj- in 178.>-
appointed by President Washington |
general, serving from September 20, 178l>, 1 '
10, I7SI1; removed to the city of New York; wiu • 1
member of the State House of Representative* ISOIt 1
18112; was super\isor of New Y^ork 1801-180.'?; mu 1
naval oflicer of the port of New York to his death «l
New Y'ork August 12, 1813. He published n work j
on chruuologj-, and several volumes on rellgiiHii (
topics.
Otero. Miguel A., was l)om at Valencia, Xew
Mexico, .June 21. 1S211; received a classical wluca-
tion, graduating at the St. Louis Universily. Ml*-
sourf; studied law; was admitted lo the barlnl^ji,
and commenced practice at Albuqueri|Uc; vtu »
nieiiiber of the Territorial House of Represcntatit»»;
was apiM>inted by I'resident Pierce I'nited-SUW
district-attorney for New Me.sieo, but decUned; »u
atlornev-general for the Territory: w:is elietwl >
delegate from New-Mexico Territon- In the Tliirtj-
fourth Congress, having successfully contested llie
election of Jos<5 Manuel Gallegos; was r>--elected is
the Tliirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth Congresses, tcrving
from July 23, 1850, to M.irch 3, 1861.
Otis, Harrison Gray (son of Samuel Allyne
Otis), was born in IJoston, Massachusetts, UetolierS,
I7Uo; received a liberal education, graduating »l
Harvard College 178:^; studied law under Joliu
Lowell; was admittetl to the bar in 1780, and wm-
ineitced practice at Boston; was a member of li*
State House of Representatives In 17WJ, 180.1. ISM.
mid 1805, serving the last three years as speaker; inu
a member of the State Senate in ]8<)5-1811, scrviilj!
as president; was elected a representative in Con-
gress from Massachusetts, succeeding Fisher AmoW
the Fifth Conpess as a Federalist, and v.n? r-MJod*!
to the Sixth Congress as a Federal!^ i"'"'
May 15, 1797, until March 3. 1801 ; w I ^y
President John Adams United ^■■•' ''■"'"
ney for the district of Massacln "''■
nent member of tlie Federalisi 1 ii '''"
ford in December, 1814; was judge of tiic Court of
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Common Pleas 1814-1818: was elected to the United-
States Senate 33 a Federalist, and served fruni March
l.'-n, until he rpsiini' 1 in June, 1822; was the
Pederal caiulidate f>r governor iu 182:J, but was
Sefeated by W. Eustis, Derawrat; was mayor of
nstou 18"Ji)-liS.')2; an<l died at Boston, M:t»S!tchu-
etts. Octolxr -2% 1S4S.
Otis, John, >vas born In Maine in li^Ol : received
a, classical educjition, graduating at Bovrdoln College
ill 182;J; studied law; was admitted to the bar, and
commenced practice at Ilalluwell; was a memlier of
the Slate Uouge of Rciiresentatives for live years,
E— d was subseijuently a uieniber of the State Senate;
18 a commissioner for settling the North-eastcni
undary; was elected a ntprescntative from Maine
In the Thirty-first Congress as a Whig, receiving
6,274 voles against 4,130 votes for Moses Sherburne,
Cass Demoenit, and 2,525 votes for EzcUiel Holmes,
Van llurun Democrat, seniii'^ frtua L)eceml>er 3, 1^0.
to Miircti 3, Itiol; died at Ilallowcll, Maine, October
n, l,s.V).
Otis, Samuel Allyne (father of Ilarrisou
>ray Otis), was boni at Barnstable, Mass.ichusctts.
lovemlier 24, 1740; received a classical education,
raduating at Ilarvanl College In 17jl); commenced
he study (if law, but abandoned it, and engaged In
Bercaiitlle pursuits in Boston; wasa member of the
ate House of liepresentativcs in 1771); was a mem-
erof the Convention which fr.imed the Constitution
of Massachusetts; was on the Bo.ird of War during
llie Revolution; wasa delcgat<> from Massachusetts
^lo the Conthiental Congress 17S7-1788; was chosen
crotary of the United-States Senate after the
Hoption of the Federal Constitution, and Itlletl the
Ece witli gre.it fidelity and amenity (without being
ent from Ids desk a single day for thirty years)
' uulil his death at W,i8hington City April 22, 1814.
Outlaw, David, was liom in Bertie County,
North Carolina; received a classical e<Iucalion, grad-
imting at the university of tliat State in 1824; stud-
ied law; was admitted to the bar in 1827, and com-
bnenccd practice at Wind«(>r, North Carolina; was a
Jnember for three yeai-s of the State Ilotiso of Repre-
Bentalives; Wiis eh'ctcd solicitor of Eflenton District
Hn IS'J'i; was elected a representative fmm North
■CaroUiia in th>' Thirtieth Congress as a Whig, re-
ceiving H.Tio votes .against 3,<l71 votes for Dlorgs,
Democrat; was re-vlected to the Thirty-first Congress,
receiving 4,U'>:J votes against 3,477 votes for Person,
Democrat; was re-elected to tlie Thirty-second Con-
gress, recoiving 2,8(58 votes against 1,7j9 votes for
Maitia, Democrat, serving from December (J, 1847,
X'j March 3, 1)S.j3; w.ts defeated as the \Aliig candi-
date for the thirty-third Congress, receiving 4,740
votes against 4.833 voles for .Shaw, Democrat.
Outlaw, Gl-eorge, was born in Bertie County,
North Carolina; w:us elcc'.ed a nieinbrr of the Mouse
of Commons of the State k'i;isla!ure in 17S'0 and 17117,
and of the State Senate in 18(.i2, ls(X>-18Cl8, lsltJ-lyl4,
1817, 1821, and 1IS22; vras elected a representative
from Nt>rlli Carolina in tlic Eighteenth Con.'^tress (in
Slace of rintchinsG. Burton, resigned), serving from
anuar\- li), 1825, to March 3, 1625; and died August
15, bSil
Overstreet, James, was bom in Bnrwell Dis-
trict, Soutti Carolina; was elected a representative
from .South Carolina in the Sixteenth Coiign>»s; was
re-electe<l to the Seventeenth Congress, S(!r>ing from
DeccmlxTrt, 1810, to April 24, 1822; he was return-
■I&2; home from Washington, accompanied by his wife,
Kd whom he had but nfcently been married, wlien he
^^as taken ill on the road near Salisbury, North Caro-
lina, and died in a few hours, April 24, 1822.
Overton, Edward, Jun., was born at Towan-
da, Pennsylvania, February 4, 183'J; graduated at
Princeton College, New Jersey, in 1850; was nd-
nitted to the bar in May, 18.'>8; entered the Union
ny in Sefjtember, 18(!!, as major of the Fiftieth
:!ment of Pennsylvania Volunteers ; was promoted
lieutenant-colonel in 1803, and from mat time
commanded the regiment until mustered out October,
18*14; 8cr%-ed as register iu bankruptcy from 18(17
until elec'ed in 1871 a n-pres 'ntative fr.mi Pennsyl-
vania in the Forty-fifth Congress os a Republican, re-
ceiving 111.954 votes ogainst 14,i).W voles for Joseph
Powell, Democrat, serviim from Octol)er 15. 1877.
Overton, Welter H., was born in Tennessee
in ni^J; entered the army ;;s first lieutenant of infan-
117 May 3, 18iW; was pnmioted to be major of the
Third Rifles February 21, 1814; was brevetted lieu-
tenant-colonel fi'r gallant cimduct at the battle of
New Orleans ; commanded Fort St. Philip during the
bonibardraent by the British Heel In Jauu.-u-y, iSl,");
ri'sipned October 31. 1815; s.-ttled in Loui.iiana, ami
became interested in planting in the Reil-River coun-
try; w,is elected a representative from Louisiana in
the Twenty-first Congress as u Democrat, serving
from December 7, 182!>, to March 3, 18.31 ; died on
bis |>lanlalion, near Alexandria, Louisiana, January
4, li-Uli.
Owen, Allen F., was bom in North Carolina;
removed to (Jeorgia, and resided at Talliotton; was
elected a repreHent,itive fnjm Georgia in the Thirfy-
lirst Congress ns a Whig, receiving 4,7.54 votes aiiainst
4,2t')0 votes for Cary. Democrat, serving from Decem-
ber .'1. 18411. to March 3, 1851; was appointed cotisul-
general at Uavana.
Owen, George W., w.is bom In Brunswick
County. Virginia, in 17^8; n-ceived an academical
educ.ition; removed to Mobile. Alabama; was mayor
of Mobile; was elected a representative from ALa-
bama in the Eighteenth Congress, defeating Dagby
and DInsmore; was re-elected to the Nineteenth
!ind Twentieth Congresses, scr^•ing from December
I, 1823, to March 3, 182«; was appointed collector cf
the port of Mobile in 1820; died at Mobile, Alabama,
August 18, 1830.
Owen, James, was bom in Bladen County,
North Carolina, in December, 1784; was educated at
Pittsborough under Mr. Bingham; was a planter;
w.as a raemlx-r of the .state Douse ( f Representatives
in 1808-1811 ; was elected a representative from North
Carolina in the Fifteenth Congress as a Democrat,
serving from Docetuber 1. 1817, until March 3, 1811);
was president of the Wilmington and Raleigh Rail-
ro.td.
Ow^en, Robert Dale, was bom at Glasgow,
Scotland, November 7, 1801 ; received a classical edu-
cation, graduating at Uofwyl College, near Beme,
Switzerland; Immigrated to this country with his
father In 1.823, and Joined him in establishing a social
community at New Harmony, Indiana; was an editor
of "The Free Enquirer," jmlilished at New York
1828-18:11 ; returned to New^ Hannony In 18.32; was a
member of the State House of Representatives 1835-
ISIS: was elected ii representative from Indiana in
the Twenty-eighth Congress as a Democrat, receiving
(1.704 votes against 0,102 votes for Payne, Whig; and
was re-elected to the Twenty-ninth Coiis;ress. receiv-
ing 7,i34»i votes against 0,:33rvote8 for Wils^m, Whig,
si-rving fnmi December 4, 18-i;i, to March 3, 1847; was
defeated as the Democratic candidate for the Thir-
tieth Congress, receiving 7,054 votes against 7,44.'5
votes for Embree, Whig;' was ap[«>iiited l)y President
Pierce chitrtii d' nffaire* at Naples in J85.3, and min-
ister In 18.^, remaining there until 1858; was an
earnest »up|M>rter of the Union in 1801, and ser^-ed
on a commission to Investigate frauds in the purchase
of amis; became a Spiritualist, and lost his reason,
which he partially recovered; died at his sunmier
residence on Lake George June 24, 1877. He pub-
lished "An Outline of the System of Education at
New Lanark;" Moral Philosophy;" Discussion with
Origcn Bachelor on the Personality of God, and the
AutiieiUicity of the Bible:" "Pocahontas," on histori-
cal drama; "Hints on Pidilic Architecture," with a
hundred nnd thirteen illustntllons; "Footfalls on
the Boundary of Another W'orld;" "Tlie Wrong of
.Slaverj', .ind the Right of Emancipation;" " Beyond
the BrookefB," a noyel; " Ttie Debatable Land be-
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twMn this World and the Kext;" and "Threading
my Way," being twemy-seFCU years of autobiog-
ra'pby.
Owens, George "W., was bom in Georgia; re-
ceived nil ucadeinioal education: Etudied law; was
aUiiiittfd to ilio liar, and conuueuced practice at
bavannab : was elected a representatiTe from Georgia
in I be Twenty-fourth CongFess as a Unionist on a
general ticket, receiving 27,510 voles against 25,337
votes for Foster, Slate-ngbts; and was re-elected to
the Twenty-fifth Congress, receiving 2il,337 votes
against 28.41U votes for Nisbet, State-rights, serving
fniu L>ooemlw;r 7, I8:j5, to March 3, lii39; died at
Savannah in ISV).
Owsley, Bryan "Y., was Ijom in Kentucky; re-
sided at .lauiestown; was elected a representative
from Kentucky in the Tvventv-«eventh Congress as a
Whi?. sMTving from May31,'l)Ml, to March 3, 1&I3;
wa$ di^fi-ated as the Whig candidate for the Twenty-
eiglitli Cuiipjress, receiving 4,090 votes against 4,0(11)
rotes for Caldwell, Democrat, and l,fiU7 votes for
Stone. Whig.
Paca, William, was bom at Wye Hall, Mary-
land, Octobt-r Ml, 1740; received a classical education,
graduating at Philailelphia C<illege in 1758; went
abroad, and studied law at the Middle Temple; was
admitted to the bar; returned home, and practised at
Auiuipolis; was a member of the State House of
Representatives 1771-1774; was a delegate from
Maryland to the Continental Congress 1774-1770;
was a inemljer of the State Senate 1777-1770: was
chief justice of Maryland 177-S-1790; was chief jus-
tice of the Court of Appeals 1780-1782; was governor
of Maryland 1782 and 1786; was a delegate to the
State Convention whicli ratitied tlie Federal Consti-
tution in 17.S.S: was United-States judge for the dis-
trict of Maryland fmni 1789 until his death in nOi*.
Pacheoo, Romualdo, w.is Iwm at Santa B.ir-
•lara, California, October :il, ItOI; was educated by
private tutors; engaged in nautical pursuits, and
suh<M"|H(»ntly in arfriculture; was a memiwr of the
St.. :• ' ^- ' ■ ' i, -. iitatires in IS-M; was elected
t" '-erving for four years ; was a
mtii.w.. ..: ,,.. iii.a.i Senate in Itvil, and again in
1801 ; was elected State treasurer in WU; was elected
lieutenant-governor in 1871, and Iwcame governor
when Governor Booth was elected to the United-
States Senate; and was elected a representative from
California in the Forty-fifth Congress as a liepublican,
receiving 19,104 votes .igainst Ul.lu:i votes f(ir Peter
D. Wigginton, Democrat, as declared by I he gov-
ernor's certificate, but the House awarded the seat
to Mr. Wigginton, who was admitted February -7,
1878. He was the first native Caiiforaian elected to
Coiign'ss.
Packard, Jasper, was bom in Mahoning (for-
merly Tnirabuli) Cininty, Ohio, Februan,- 1. l.S;)2; re-
moved with bis father to Indiana in 1835; was
brought up on a farm; was a student at Ot>erlin Col-
lege, and afterwards at the University of Michigan,
where he graduated in Ittto; taught Bcho<jl: settled
at Laporte, and edited "Tlic Union:" studied law.
and was admitted to the bar in 1801; entered the
Union array at the commencement of the war for
the suppression of the Rebellion as a private; served
as a lieutenant in the Vicksburg cimpaign, and, dur-
ing the assault on that place, was wounded in the face;
was commissioned captain, and was in the march
from Memphis to Chattanooga: received two pronio-
tioDS during the Atlanta c-tmpaign, and in 1865 was
appointed a brigadier-general by brevet for meritori-
ous services; on being mustered out of service in
181)0. he was chosen auditor of Laporte County,
holding the ofSce until 1808, when ho was elected a
representative from Indiana in the Forty-first Con-
gresi as a Republican, receiving l.'>,480 votes ai,'ajiist
14,968 votca for Farrand, Democrat: was re-elected
to the Forty-second Congress, receiving 14.4iK) votes
■gainst 13,052 votes for S. L Anthony, Democrat;
and was reelected to the Forty-third Congress, le-
I edncft-
celving 16,813 votes against 15,838 votes (or H«B>M%
Liberal Republican, serving from Maich 4, lM8t **
ilarrh 3. 1875.
Packer, Asa, was bom at Groton, Connecticnt,
Decemlx-r 'Jii. Ih4)i3; received a public-school edncft-
tion; removed t<.> Springville, .'•i^-'""'' ■
rennsylvania. in 18;:2: learned t!
removed to Mauch Chunk in 1~
interested in the pruductiou of v.i
was a meml>er of the State Housi . ;
was elected a representative I'l
the TiUrty-third Congress as a
8.000 votes against 3,035 votes f' I
was re-elected to the Thirty-founh Coii.
Xebraska Democrat, receiving 9,i:W voi
0,4:J:{ votes for Stewart, WTiig, serving fnjiu Dioein-
iH-r 5, ISW, to March '.i, 1857: founded and endowed
the Leliigh University; was a delegate to the
National Democratic Convention of 1068 at New
Vorfc.
Packer, John B., was liom at Sunbury, Feii»-
sylvania, March 21, 1824; received an acad»-mic edu-
cation; stuiiied law, and has, since 1<) -onto
the bar in 1844, continued in the pm< • pro-
fession; was district-attorney Irn?" '^ ;; was
a member of the legislature of I : tSSO
and 1851; was elected a represei I : ;insyl-
vania in the Forty-first Congress as a RepubUcaii,
receiving 15,508 votes against 12.002 votns fnr Knipr,
Democrat; was re-elected to tin " •
rsa, receiving 13,507 votes ac..
G. Scott, Democrat: was resti. ...... „.
third Congress, receiving 17,546 votes acu'
votes for A. Rutherford, Democrat, Xi
publican, and Labor Reformer; and was re-L'ii.i'tiHl !o
the Forty-fourth Congress as a Republican, receiving
12,528 votes aeainst 0,678 votes lor W. M. Breslia,
Democrat, serving from March 4, 1860, to March 3,
1877.
Paddock, Algremon S., was bom at Glenn's
Falls, New York, in l>>i»: educated at the Gleua'fr
Fails Academy, taking the regular Union-Coliegt
course; studied l.tw; removed to Omalia, Nebraska,
in the spring of l.So7; was a candidate for the Terri-
torial les'slature in 18.^; was a deifgate to the First
Territorial Republican Convention of Nebnuka in
lSi}d; was a delegate to the National Repultlicui
Convention at Cliicago In 18*J0; wa-s apiinint^d secre-
tary of Nebraska in April, ISiJl, by ' ' : Lin-
coln, which oliice he held until ail: i the
State in 1807, acting as governor a cu.. •. part
of this perio<l; was a del^ate to the Natii>nal Re-
publican Convention at Baltimore in 18»y: washt-
de|iendent Repul)lican c.indidatc for Congress in IMd;
wius ap|>ointed governor of Wyoming Territory in 188S,
and declined; was elected a United-States senator
from Nebraska as a Republican (to succeml Thoinia
W. Tipton), receiving all votes, liepubiican aitd
Democratic, in joint convention, but twelve; took
his seat in March, 1875. His term of service will ex-
pirv Man-h 4, 1881.
Page, Horace Freuaois, was bom in Orleans
County, New York, Octol)er 20, 1*13; received a
public-school education; emigrated to California in
1854; is a stage-proprietor and mail-contractor; was
unanimously tiominated for the State Senate t^ the
Republican Convention of El Dorado Coimty in 18(1^
and defeated ; and was electc<l a representative from
California in the Forty-third (.Congress as a Repub-
lican, receiving 13,803 votes against 12.S10 votes for
P. Coggins, Liberal Republican, Indorsed by the
Democratic Convention; was re-elected to the Forty-
fourth Congress as a Republican, receiviui; i:i,02S
votes a^sinst 12,2S7 votes for U. Larkin, Demivrst,
and 6,^4 votes for C. A. Tuttic, Independent; was
re-elected to the Forty-fifth Concrcss, receiving
2<),815 votes against 15.010 votes for C. J. Carpenter,
Democrat, serving from Deceraijer 1, 1873.
Page, John, was bom at " Rosewell," Gloaoe*-
ter County, Vitginla, April 17, 1743; roceived a oU»-
I
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STATISTICAL SKETCHES.
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leal cdticatlon, gra(luatin<; nt William atii) Mnry
'olK'gi> in ITtVJ; was prominent in pre-K<?volmioniiry
inuveinents; wiis ii dplogote in I'Ttl to tlio Constitu-
tional Convention; served in tlie Revolutionary unny
as colonel of a rej^raent raised to repel the Ilritish;
»vas elected a repn^sentative fn>m Vin^inin in the
First (.'oni:r(!SS :is a OennK-rat; was re-elected to the
lecoiid. Third, and Fourlli (,"ongress<?s, sening from
'arch 4. 17t*it, to Mareii ;J, 1707; was commissioner nf
'ans from Virginia from 18IM{ until his death at
Richmond. Virginia, October 11, 1S08. He published
"Political Addresses" 17l)(V-171«>.
Page, John, was born at Haverhill. New ITnmp-
shire, Miiy ;il. I7S7; received an academical e<lura-
tioii. and cultivated liis ancestral acres; was ap-
pointed assistant United-Slates tax-assessor in 1S13,
and assessor in 1815; was a meml>«r of the State
legislature in 1818-1820 and 18.S5; was annually
elected (with the exception of one year) reijrfsler of
deeds for Grafton County 1828-1*}4; was" elected
State councillor in March, IKWi; and the following
June was elected to the lIuited-.Slates Senate as a
Democrat (to till the vacancy caused by the resipia-
natlon of Isaac Hill), serving from Jtine l;), 18:}(t,
until March 3, 1837; was itgain elected State council-
lor In 1S'J8; was govenvor of New HauijisUire 1840-
184:2; was a Itoyal Arch Mason; and died at H.iver-
hill, New Hampshire, September 8, 1805.
Page, Mann, was a delegate from Virginia to
the Coiitinental Congress in 1777.
Page, Robert, was bom In Virginia; was a mem-
ber oT the State House of KepresentativM; was
electe<i a representative from Vii^inia in the .Sixth
Congress as a Federalist, serving from December 2,
nW. to March .S, isol.
Page, Sherman, was bom In Connecticut; re-
ceiveu a iiublic-school education; removed to New
York, and settled at Un.idilla; was a memljer of the
State House of Kepresimtativcs in 1827; was a judjte
of the Court of Common I'leas in Otsejio County;
was elected a repres<'ntalive from New York in the
Twenty-third Congress as a Jackson Dcmi>crat; was
re-elected to the Twenty-fourth Congress, ser\ing
' ra Deceml>er 2, 18*1, to March 3, 18:17; died at
nadilliL
Paine, EUiJatl, was bom at Brooklyn, Connecti-
cut. January lil. 17.'j7; recpive<l a classical education,
luating ill Harvard College in 1781; stiulii-d law;
as a<lniilte4 to the bar in 1784, and conuiienced
tice; also engaged In agriculture and niaiiufac-
res: was a delegate to the Constitulional ( unven-
u in 17"^; was a mi.'mlKT of the State House of
prescntalives 1787-17»1; was a judge of the Statu
ipreraeCourt 1701-17115; was elected a United-States
nator from Vemiont as a Federalist, serving from
•ccmber7. 17'.!.'), to March 3, 18I>1 ; was United-States
i\ge for llie district of Vemiont from 18()1 until
Is death at Williamslown, Vemiont. April 28. 1842.
Paine, Ephraim, was a delegate from New York
to the Continental < 'ongress I7f<4-1"85.
Paine, HaJbert E., was born at Chardon, Oliio,
February 4. 182U; received a cljVEsical eilueation.
gnuluating at the Western-Kesene College in 1845:
studied law; was tt<lmilted to the bar In 1S4-H, and
commenced pitictice at Cleveland. Ohio; n'liioved to
Milwaukee, WisciMisin. in is.'j"; entered llie Union
annv in May, 18<il. as colonel of the Fourth Wiscon-
sin Volunteers; was promoted to the Mnk of briga-
dier-general in Janiiar)', 18<tM; lost a leg the following
line, while in command of the Third Division of
e Nineteenth Corps, at the last assault on Port
uds.in; w.is brevetted major-general in March,
1805: hanng resigntHl in May, 18(15, was elected a
representative from Wisconsin in the Thirty-ninth
"" as a Republican, receiving 13,8<i<) votes
nst 13.278 votes for .lohn W. Cary, Democrat;
re-elected to the Fi'rtieth Congress, receiving
79 votes against 1'>,21'S votes for Brown, Demo-
.,.; was re-elected U> the Forly-first Congress, re-
iving 17,513 votes against l7,UiM votes for Mitchell,
m
Democrat, serving from December 4, IW), to March
^. 1871; resumed the practice of law at Washington
City.
Paine, Robert T., was bom at Edenton, North
Carolina; was elected a representative from North
Carolina In the Thirty-fourth Congress as an Ameri-
can, receiving 5,228 votes against 4,882 votes for
Shaw, Democrat, serving from December 3, 1865, to
Man-h :i, 18.">7.
Paine, Robert Treat, was bom at Boston,
Massachusetts, March 11, 1731; ri'celveil a classical
education, gradualing at Harvard University In 1740;
ke[it school; stmlied ibeology. and acted as chaplain
lo the Northern Provincial troung; studied law; was
admitted to the bar in 1750, and commenceil practice
at Taunton; was a member of the Colonial House of
IJeprt'si'ntatives 1773; was a delegate to the Provin-
cial tl'ongress 1774-1775; was a delegate from MassA-
chuselts to the Continental Congress 1774-1778; was
attoniey-general of Massachusetts, and a member of
tile E.^cculive Council : was a delegate to the Consti-
tutional Convention in 1770; removed to Boston in
1780 ; was a judge of the Supremo Court of MaMM-
chusetts 171K>-18(>4; died at Boston Mav 11, 1814.
Palen, Rufus, was Imm in .Sullivan County,
New York; received a public-school education- re-
sided at Fallsburg; was elected a representative from
New York in the Twenty-sixth Congress as a Wliig,
receiving 5,453 votes against 4,015 votes for Anthony
Hasbrouck, Democrat, serving from December 2,
1830, to March 3, 1841 ; dietl at Albany, New York,
April 2(1, 1841.
Palfrey, John Gorham, was bom at Boston,
Mass.ichus«tts, May 2, niH); receivefl a classical edu-
cation, gr.'uluating at Harvanl College in 1815; stud-
ied theology; was oniainetl minister of Brattle-
si|uare Church, Bostim, lus successor of Edward
Everett, June 17, 1818; was professor of sacred
literature and dean of the dlvinitv-school at Cam-
bridge 1831-18;30; w.is editor of "The North-Ameri-
can Iteview ■' 18;}5-1843; was a meml)er of the State
House of Representatives 1842-1843; was secretary
of state of Massachnsctis 1844-1848; was elected
a representative from Ma-ssachusetts in the Thir-
tieth Congress as a Whig, receiving 4,513 votes against
3.754 votes for Robinson. DemiHTat, and t!50 votes
At>olltlon and scatterinc. .serving from December 6,
18.17, to .Marcli 3. 1840; was defeated as the Free-soil
candidate for the Tliirty-first Congress; was one of
the editors of "The Boston Commonwealth;" was
appointed by President Lincoln postmaster at Boston
1M(1I-18<«I. He has publlslied " History of New Eng-
land to 1088" in three volumes, "History of Brattle-
square Church," " Life of Colonel William Palfrey,"
"Lectures on the Jewish Scriptures and .iVjitiquities,"
"Lectures on the Evidences of Christitinity," " RJe-
view of Lord Mahon's History of England," "Rela-
tion bi!tween Judaism .ind Cbristiaiuty," "Centen-
nial Discourse at Ilanislalde." "The Progress of the
Slave Power," and a number of essays, orations, and
addresses.
Pfdmer, Beriah, was bom In New York; re-
ceive<l a public-school education; w.is a member of
the State House of Represt'iitatlves 17!'2-1705; re-
sided at Ballston; was elected a representative from
New York in the Eighth Congress, serving from Oc-
tober 17, 18<«, to March 3, 1805.
Palmer, Frank W., was bom at Manchester.
Indiunii, October 11, 1827; received a comnioii-scho<il
eitucit/ion; w.is apprenticed to the art of printing in
Jamestown. New York; l)ecame joint proprietor and
editor of "The Jamestown Journal " in 1818; in 185;J
and in 18.54 was electe<l a memluT of the legislature
of New York: in 1858 he removed to Dubui|ue, Iowa,
and liecamc editor and one of the proprietors of "The
Dubuijue Daily Times;" in 1800 he was elected State
[irititcr of Iowa, and was re-elected in 1802, 1S.)4, and
1800: VTMi editor and proprietor of "The Iowa State
Re-^8ler" from May, 1801, to Decemlter, 1800, and
editor-in-chiof from December, 1800, to June, 1608;
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CONGRESSIONAL DIRECTORY.
waa elected a representative from Iowa in the Fortj-
flrst Cougregg as a ISepublican, receiving 2O,401i votes
l^Tiinst i:i.402 votes for P. Gad Bryan, Democrat;
and was re-elected to the Forty-second Congress as a
Kepntilican, receiving ll>,7i>B vot«» against IS.Slit
votes for H. F. MontijoTnery, Democrat, serving frr)m
Marcli -J, isilf. III Marnli 3. iiS73; removed toCliicago;
wilted "Tlie Chlciigo Inter-Ocean;" was aimointed
a member of the Postal Commission cn-ated by Con-
gress in 1870; was appointed by President Hayes
poBtm.ist>'r at Cliicago Keliruary 27, 1877.
Peilmer, George W., was born at Hoosicl<, New
Yorlv. January l:J, 1818; received a put)llc-sch<xil
education; studied law; was admitted to the l)ar,
and commenced iir,actice at Plattsbui^; was surro-
fate of Clinton County January 24, lS-14-.Iune 7.
847; was elected a representative from New York
in the Thirty-fifth Congress as a Republican, receiv-
ing C,7TO votes against 4,:)iy votes for Averill, Demo-
crat, and 4. 120 votes for Koss, American ; was re-elect-
ed to the Thirty-sixth Congress, receiving 7,0.58 votes
■gainst 6,</70 votes for Wajdo, Democrat, and l.^i-SO
votes for Watson. American, serving from December
7, 1857. to March 3, 18G1; was a delegate to the Na-
tional Republican Convention at B.iltimnre in 18<!4;
was appointed in l.H(i<i a judge of the Mixe<l C'nurt at
Sierra Leone, under the treaty with Great Britain
for the suppression of the slave-trade.
Palmer, John, was born at Uooslck, New York,
In 1785; received an aculemical education; studied
law; was admitted to the barin 1810, and commenced
practice .it Platlsburg in partnership with Chancellor
Walworth; was elected a representative from New
Yiirk in the Fifteenth Congress as a Democrat, serv-
ing from Decemljer 1. 1817, to March 3, 18111; was
district-attorney for Clinton County 1817-1841 ; was
again electe<l to the Twentv-tifth Congress, sen-ing
from September 4, 18:^7, to March 3, 1839; was first
Judge of Clinton County; his health failing, he visit-
ed the West Indies for his health, and died of con-
samption at .St. Bartholomew Deceml)er 8, 1840.
Ptdmer, William Adam.8, was txirn in Ver-
mont; rweived an academical education; studied
law; wjis admitted to the bar, an<l commeticeii prac-
tice at Danville. Vennont ; was a member for six
years of the State House of Kepre.sentallves, and for
two years of the State Senate; was for eiglit years
clerk of the Ctledonia-countv courts; was a judge of
the Supreme Court 181lW18ia'; was elected a United-
States senator from Vermont {in ])lace of .lames
Flsk, resigned), serving from November V\ 1818, to
March 3, 1825; was a delegate to the Constitutional
Convention of 1828; was governor of Vennimt 1.S31-
1835; w.-ts a delegate to the Constitutional Conven-
tion of 1835; died at Danville, Vermont, December
12. mm.
Park, Benjamin, was bom In New Jersey
September 2, 1777; received a public-school educa-
tion: removed to that portion of the North-western
Territory which afterwards became the Stale of In-
diana in 1801; was elected a delegate from Indiana
Territory in the Niutli Congress as a Democrat; was
Te-electe"d to the Tenth Congress, ser^•inl; from De-
cember 12, 1805, to March 1, 1808, when he resigned,
havinj iK-en appointetl by President Jefferson judge
of the United-States District Court, wluch position
he held until his death at Salem, Indiivn.a, July 12,
1835.
Parker, Amasa J., was bom at Sharon, Con-
necticut, in 18<i7; received a classical education,
paduating at Union College, New York; studieil
law: was admitted to the liar in October, 1828, and
coramenceil practice at Delhi, New York ; was a mem-
ber of tlie State Houst- of Kepnjsentalives in 1.8:J;j,
•nd a ra;ent of tlie .State University in 18:i"); was
elected a representative from New York in the
Tv"^tv-i,(ii, i ■..,<.rr..58 Kg a Democrat, serving from
' March 8, 18.'S(); was appointed
i rdge, and Tice-cbancellor of the
Cttuit in iMjuiiy; was ejected a Justice ot the Su-
I preme Court for the Tliird District Jnne 7, IM"-
June 7, 1853; was ap])oinied by President BuoluiLiii
in 18.W United-States attorney for the dlsitki •.!
New York: was a delegate to the State Consiits-
tional C<mvention in 1807.
Parker, Andrew, was t)oni In prt-^- ' — -v
resided at Mifllint'iwn; was elected a P'
from Pennsylvania in the Thirty-s<'Coi ' ' -
as a Democrat, receiving 7,270 vole's uguiiisi «..-;«iJ
votes for McCulloch, Democrat, serving fmm D»-
cemlier 1. 1851. to March 3, l.l.'i.l.
Parker, Hosea W., was l)om at Lerap»t«,
New Hampshire. May .'JO, 18.'{:i: recelvefl an aiaulenik
education at South Wondstock, Vermont; euti-ml
Tufts College in \S^m. and left during his stipli'ininr?
year; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in
1S')1»; was a menilwrof the legislature of New llamp-
sliii-e in 18.'J9-18i!0: removed to Claremont ii "'
and comnieneetl the practice of l.iw, in win
has since Iteen engaged ; was a member of tin
ocratic Nationiil Convention in 1808; was eli >
representative from New Hampshire In the i
second Congress as a Democrat, receiving 127 iiajur-
ity overs. G. Griffin, Kepublic.in; and was re-electnl
to the Fortv-tliird Congress, serving from March i
l.'<71, to March :}. 1875.
Parker, Isaac, was bom at Boston, Massachu-
setts, June 17, 17<i8; received a classical eda>;.iii"ii.
graduating at Har\-ar«l College in 1780; studif.l i.n
was admitted to the bar. and comniern ■
at Castinc. in the district of Maine; w
representative from Massiwhusetts in tln' 1 .> ^ -
grcss, serving from May 15, 17fi7, to March .;. I7i'':
was appointed by President Adains Uniteil-v'^t.ii'i
marshal for the district of Maine; removeil ii' Ivn-
land; was appointed in 180li o judge of the Siiiimh.'
Court, and was chief justice of the Sni :
1814-1820; was professor of law at Har\
sity 1810-1827; was a delegate to the il
Convention for the revision of the Coi -
1820, and Its pn'sident; died at Boston,
setts, May2«l, 18;W. He published a "Sketch of Uie
Character of Judge Parsons."
Parker, Isaac C, was ixini !u Belmont CminrT.
Ohio, OctoIxT 15, l.'^iS; worked on a farm iimI ! •
w.ns seventeen years of age; received an acaiJii:!!'
education; taught school for four years; studinl
law; was admitted to the bar in IS,"!!*; remorisl ti)
St. Joseph, Missouri, and conmiencwl practice; wx
elected city-attomey of St. Jos«;ph in IS'Jl, 18«K, loi
18(W; raised a company for the First Nebraska In-
fantr>- in 1><<31 ; Wiis in the milit.irj' servic* in 1D»-
souri during the Reliellion, holding the rank of «rpi>
ral: was elected a member of the Electoral Colli :
Missouri in 18ft4; was elected circuit-attorney iri '."•-
and held the oHice until he resigned in 18<r7: wx«ili ■-
ed in is<t8 circuit-judge for sis years, but r»'5ii:ii"l
in October, 1870: was elected a represeii' • •■ -■ '■•
Missouri in the Forty.«ec!oud Congress
lican. receivhig 13,714 votes ag.iinst 10.7
J. H. Ellis, Democrat; and was re-el-
Forty-third Congress, receiving 13,2:>3 \
13.0i"k) votes for B. Pike, Democrat, servioi; m™
March 4. 1871, to March :1, 187.5.
Parker, James, was bom at Bost.m. v«jj>
chusetis, in 1768; received an ac.idernic:^
studied medicine; was admitted to praei.
cated at Gardiner, Maine (then Massachusetts);
several local oflices; was elected a repr
from Massachusetts in the Thirteenth Cone
Democrat, 8er\-ing from May 24. 1.><1.H. to Marrb i,
1815; was again elected to the Sixteenth Conpnii ^
serving fmm December 6, 1819. M March 8, ISU-
died at Gardiner, Maine, Novemlier tV is:??. I_
Parker, James, was lH)m at r. ■ ' Toib- '
ship, Hunterdon County, New J h 1.
1770; received a classical educatii.i,. _,„...,..:.nj »l ,
Columbia College, New York, In nitJ; entciwlij
counting-room In New York, and remained tterej
until 17U7, when be removed to Perth Amboy; «mJ
BTATISTICAJL SKETCHES.
668
elected eleven years a inemljer of the State House of
Repivseulalives; was a pn>sidential eli'clor on tlie
Jackson ticUot in IWJ; was collector of the customs
at Perth Amboy 1829-18iW: was elected a rt.'presentu-
tive friiiii New Jersey in the Twenty-third CongR^ss
as a JaeUson Democrat; Wiis re-elected to the
Twcnty-fi Mirth Conjin'ess, flcrving from December i,
1!W;J, to March a, 1SJ7; was om- of the commission-
ers appoinlcil in 18i)T, l'Sl'7, and 1S33, to obtain u set-
tlement of the boundarj- question l>elween New York
and X-w Jersey; was a delegate to the Conatitu-
tional Convention in lsl4.
Parker, John, w :is a delegate from South Caro-
lina lu llic C'MiliiMMilal <.'oiit;rcss Hf^l-l'SS.
Parker, John Mason, was bom at Granville,
New York, June 14, LSOo; n.'eeived a classical edu-
cation, gra'luating at Jlidillebury College, Vermont,
in 1S:28: studicil law; w.as admitted to the bar in
1S3J, aJid commenced practice at Owego, New York;
was elccled a representative from New York in the
ThirtTp'-fourth Congress as a Whig, receiving 7,U1.j
votes against 3,4<i7 votes for McUowell, Deniocrjit,
and l,Vitj4 votes for Cushing, Democrat; was nt-
electeil to the Thirty-Ufth (Joiigress, receiving I2,.'JS3
votes ajiainst !;i,;J74 votes for Hathaway, Democrat,
and l,:d:il» votes for Lawnnice, American, serving
f nmi December 3. 18.Vi, u> March 3, 185i».
Paxker, Josiah, was boni in Eastern Virginia;
■was elected a representative from Virginia in the
First Congress; was re-elected to the Second, Third.
Fourth. Fifth, and Sixth Congresses, ser\'ing from
Harch 4, 17W», to March 3. IS<tl, when a n>-district-
ing of the State exclmled him from the Norf(jlk
district; died in Isle-of-Wight County, Virginia,
Mai-ch il. 1810.
Parker, Nahum, was born In New Hampshire
3n 175'.'; wiis State councillor 1806-1807; was elected
K^ United-States senator from New Hampshire,
■•■erving from October 20, 1,^07, to 1810, when ho re-
•igned; was judge of the Court of Common Pleas
for Hillsborough County 1822-1825; was a meanber
of the State Senate and its president in 1828; died
in HillRborough County in 1*10.
Parker, Richard, was bom in Clarke County,
Virginia; received an academic education; studied
law; was lUlmilteJ to the bar, and commenced prac-
tice at lierryville, Virginia; was elected a repn-sen-
Ijitive from Virginia in the Thirty-tirst Congress as a
Democrat, receiving liSii majority over Charles J.
Faulkner, Whig, serving froxn December 3. 184it. to
March 3. 1851 ; was elected by the legislature of Vir-
gini.i. while a member of Conp'ess, to be jutige of
the Thirteenth Judicial Circmt of that State (iti
the place of Judge Doughiss, deceased).
Parker, Richard E., was born In Loudon
County. Vipjiiiiia. In 1777; received a public-school
education; studied law; was admitteil to the bar,
and iiractised: was a member of the State House <if
Representatives; was for many years successively a
judge of the Genenil Court and the Circuit Court of
Virginia: was elected a United-St.'ites senator from
Virginia (in place of Denjamin W. Leigli, resigned),
serving from Decembtir 15, 1*W, to Febmary 13,
1837. when lie resigned, Imving been eli'ctcd by the
legislature of Virginia one of the judges of the
Court of Apiwals (in the pliice of Tabney Carr,
deceastMl); die<l at Snickcrsville, Virginia, November
6, 184 >.
Parker, Samtiel W., was bom in Jefferson
County, New York, SeptemU'r 0, 1805; received a
classical education, grailualing at Miami University.
Ohio, in 182S; studied law; was admitted to the bar
in litJl. and commenced practice at Connersvilie;
was a member of the State House of Keprescntatives
18.'i(J-1641 ; was for two years State attorney ; was
elected a representative from Indiana In the Thirty-
Becon<l Congress .is a Whig, receiving 6,102 voles
against 4,540 votes for Julian, Democrat; was re-
el©et<^l to the Thirty-third Congress, receiving 7,181
votes against 6,163 votes for Grose, Democrat, serv-
I ing from Decemlier 1, ISol, to March 3. 18.55; was a
presidential elector on theCI;iy ticket in 1!<45, lUid on
the Fremont ticket in ISVl; w;i» elected president of
the Junction Itaiiway Company of Indiana; became
largely inleresti'd in agricultunil pursuits.
Parker, Severn E., was born in Northampton
County, \'irgiiiia; received a public-school educa-
tion; studied law; was admitted to the bar, and
coninienccii practice; was for several years a mem-
ber of the Slate House of Reprvsentalives; held
several county ofllces; was electeil a n-presentalive
from Virginia in the Sixteeulh Congress, serving
from DecemW-r (1, IMSl, to March 3, isjl; died in
Northampton County, Virgini.a, OcIoImt 21, ISW.
_Paxks, GorhEim, was bom in Ma.>:sa<'husetts in
17U3: received a classical education, graduating at
Harvard College in 1813; studied law; was admitted
to the bar, and commenced practice at Dangor; was
elected a representative from Maine in the Twenty-
Ihinl Congress as a Dem<H.'rat: was re-elected to the
Twenty-fourth Congress, receiving 1,210 majority,
st-rving fn>m December 2. 1S:J.3. to March 3, 1837;
was United-States m.irshal for the district of Maine
1S;}8-1841; was United-States atlomey for tlie dis-
trict of Maine 184-'i-lS45; was United-States consul
at Kio Janeiro 184.V1S41).
Parmenter, William, was Iwm in East Cam-
bridge, Mx-'sachusi'tts, Man'h 30, 1780; received an
academical e<lui'ation; was elected a represtMitative
from M.assacbusetts in the Twcnty-tifth Congress as
a Democrat and nnti-Moson, receiving 4,034 votes
ag.iinst 3,110 votes for S. Hoar, Whig, and others;
was re-elected to the Twenty-sixth Congress, receiv-
ing 4.3U7 votes against 4,307 votes for Nathan Brooks,
Whig; was re-elected to the Twenty-seventh Con-
gress, and was re-elected to the Twenty-eighth Con-
gress, serving from Septemlwr 4, 18;57, to March 3,
1845; was ajipointed by President I'olk n.ival officer
at the port of Boston, 8er\'ing from 1845 to 1840 ;
(lied at East Cambridge, Massachusetts, Febmary 35,
18<i<V
Parria, Albion Keith, was bom at Hebron,
Maine. January 11*, 17SS; was reared on a farm; re-
ceived a cla-sslcai education, graduating at Dart-
mouth College in i8(kl; studiiil law: was admitted
to the b;ir in 1801), and coaimenecd jiractice at Paris,
Maine; was prosecuting-attoniey for Oxford County
in 1811 ; was a member of the State House of ISepre-
sent.itlves in 1813, and a State senator in 1814; was
elected a representative from Massachusetts in the
Fourteenth Congress as a Democrat, and was re-
elected to the Fifteenth Congress, serving from De-
cember 4, l."<15, to 1818, when he resigned ; was a
delegate to the St.xte Constltnllonal Convention of
1819; was ajipoitited judge of probate for Cumber-
land County in 1820; was elected govemor of Maine,
receiving U'^9 majority over tw^o other camliilates,
and was four times re-elected, serving from 1822 to
ISL'7; was elected a United-States senator from
Maine, serving from December 3, 1827, to August 20,
1828, when he resigned; was a judge of the Supreme
Court of Maine 1828-18.30; was second comptroller
of the United-States Treasury June is, lS.JO-Novem-
lier 27, 18.5(J; returned to I'ortliuid, Maine, and was
electeil m.iyor of the city in 1852; died at Portland,
Maine, February 11. 1857.
Parris, Virgil Delphini, was l>om in Maine;
receiveil an academical education; studied law; was
admitted to the bar, and commenced practice at
Bucktield; was a memlnrr of the State House of
li'eprest^nlatives 18-'{-'j-ls;JS; was elected a representa-
tive from Maine in the Twenty-fifth Congress (in
pl.Tce of Timothy J. Carter, deceased) as a Demo-
crat, receiving 4,412 votes against 3,680 votes for
Zadock Long, Whig, and 242 votes scattering; was
re-elected to the Twenty-sixth Congress, serving
from May 2ft, 18:18, to March 3, 1841; was a member
of the State Senate in 1842 and 1843, serving a short
time as president pro tempore and acting-governor of
the State; was United-States marsLal for Uie district
664
CONGRESSIONAL DrBECTOEY.
of Maine 1844-1848, United-States sytecM ninil
a^eiit 1Sj3-185<1, and nnval Rt()ri'keu|>er at the Kit-
ten* Navy Yanl; died iit Paris. Maine, June 14. I.'>70.
Parriah, Isaac, was born in Ohio; resided at
Canihrldvie: was eleeted n n-presentalive from Ohio
in the Twenty-elxlli ('ongregs ns a Demncmf, serving
from Deeemher 2. li<.'5l», to March 3, ISII ; « as ;ipain
elected to the Twentv-ninth C'oiigres.8, serving Iruiu
Decemher 1, 184.'), to March li, 1S47.
Parrott, John P., was Imm in Greenland, New
naniiisliiri', in 17t>8; received a iiiil>lic-*<.'lio<il edii-
calion; was a member of the .State House of Kepre-
senlatlves in ISll; was defeated as ii War cnndidiite
for ri']iresentatlve in the Thirteenth Coniiress. receiv-
ing l(!.(l')l votes on n general ticket against I-h.-DSO
voles for Daniel Webster, Peace canilidatc: was
electiHl a ri'iiresentntlve from New Ham|ishire In
the Fifteenth Congress as a Deni'icrat. ser\int: from
Decemlier 1, 1817, to March 3, ISlD; was elected a
I'nited-States senator from New Hamiishire, serving
from Decemlier 0, 1811', M March 3, lS2.j; was n|>-
pointed postmaster at Portsmouth in 18:iO; died at
Greenland. New Hampshire, July 0. lS3t!.
Parrott, Marcus J,, was liom at Hamburg,
South Carolina, ()ctot>cr 27, 1828; received a classical
education, gr.'uluating at Dickinson Collegf\ Penn-
sylvania, in 1849; studied law at Cambridge; was
•dmittea to the bar, and commenced practice in
Ohio; was a member of the Ohio State House of
Representatives in 18r>3 and 18o4; removed to Leav-
onworth City, Kansas; was elected a delegate from
Kansas Territory in the Thirty-fifth Congress as a
Republican; was rr-elected to the Thii1y-*ixtli Con-
grt^ss, serving from December 7, l!S57, to March 3,
fstu.
Parsons, Edward Young, was bom at Mid-
dletown, Kentucky, DecemlK-r 12, 1842; atlendetl
the public schools at Louisville until he was twelve
years of age, when he studitMl a year at the High Sclnxil
of St. Louis; retuminc to Ivouisville. he entere<l the
universitv of the ]iubilc schools of that city, ami
griduatei) with first honors in June, 18C1;" after
teaching in that school for three vears, during which
time he studied law, he receiveil t1ic degriM> of master
ot arts; entering tlie Louisville Law School, he
gnu1uate<l in 18t>5; after practising law a few months
at Henilerson, Kentucky, commi-nced practice at
Louisville, ami hai since lieen eiic.iged in it, holding
no public offices; he was electeii a n-pn'Sentative
Ironi KentuclcT in the Forty-fourth Congress as a
Denux-rat. receiving 4,:?tX> votes - • "'i voles fi>r
John T. Gray. IVnux'rat, and '■■' Logon A.
Winid. Democrat, serving fnim 1 i'. 187o, to
Julv .:*. 187(t. when he liietl at Wa*"limgton City.
Parsons, Lewis E,, was oppolntetl provisional
u ■'{ Al.ibama by President Johnsim in lislo:
\ da senator from A!at',ima in IHi.) fur the
I. .n. . uuiiig March .3. 1871. and -his crjtlentials were
jir»-s.-n;oil Fcbruiin. i;!. 18lit(. but not actwl on.
Parsons, Richard C, was imrn at New London.
Connecticut, tK-tol>er 1(\ l."*2t5: rec<.ive<l a kil>eral
education; nanovetl to Ohio at the ape of twenty
JVian, and entered upon the study rf the law ; vras
•dmined to practice in October. 1851: in the same
TMw was elected a member of the ''"^ .. ,.iT,.-ii of
i^levelaod, and the subseqaent year ^ ' that
boily ; in 1857 he vras elected to !hi> < ■ . urv.
and in 18.W was r«»-elected. and • .• r i f the
House of Kcpresentatives: in i- - tendered
by President Lincoln the mission i ■ < i.^ii. which he
declined, and su)«<-<|ucnily was appointed consul at
Rio Janeiro, where h.' v rvtd oar year, resigning in
1S»^; was apnoluled •' iutenial revenue at
Cleveland, whictt jJs. , f<>r four years, when
be was reBHyrcd by Andrew Johnson: in 1S(S6 he re-
ceirrd tlie l^pnol■tlnent of marshal of the Supreme
f .._ .1 ,i„ ct^ted StateSs and served six years:
•xteO • repivsentative from Ohio in the
i \ Caogttta as a Republican, receivini;
Aul vwt«» agalBM 10,377 vxMm (or S. Chamberlain,
Liberal iiepublican, 8cr^ing from December 1, IS
to Slarcli 3, 1875; was defeate<l as the UepuliUci
candidate for the Fortv-fourth Congress, receiviii
ll,;iJO votes against IS.WU votes for Henry BT
Pajnie, Democrat, and StH votes for Goodman, Pro-
hibitionist.
Partridge, Qeorge, was bom at Duiburv. Hai-
sachusetts, Kebniary (S, 174<>; received a cLmial
education, graduating at Hanrord College in 176!;
studied flivinity, but w:is never orilain>>d: tsnrti'
school at Kingston, Sln.^sachusetts; was t
the Provincial Congress 1774-1775: was
the .State Hou.se of liei/resi-ntatives 1775-i "• i-.-. ■■■ i- 1
delegate from Ma.ss;icbu.setts to the Contineiiial
Congress I771»-17ti2 and 17)S}-1785; was sheriff m(
Pljnnouth County for 8«!veral years; was eieoi.cl i
ri'piiesentative frvtm Mass.-U!husetts in the First Cnn-
grvss, 6er\'ing fnmi March 4, 1780. to 17'.'0, when he
resigned; died at Duxbury, Massachusetts, JtUy S
1828.
Partridge, Samuel, was bom in New Tort:
resided at Elmira; was clectc<l a representative fmra
New York in the Twenty-seventh Congress as i
Democrat, receiving 10.H74 votes tigninst i(i.245 vota
for Ezra S. Sweet. >Vhig, sening from May 31, 1S41,
to March n. 184;^.
Paterson, William, was bom at sea, of Iri»li
parents, in 1745; received a classical educaii..ii,
graduating at Princeton College in 17D3; stmlinl
law; was admitted to the bar in 17(;!>, and coac
menced practice ; was a delegate to the .State Consti-
tutional Convention in 177*>; w.ns attorney-general t<
the State of New Jersey 177<5-178<I; was a df legate to
the Continental Congress in 17S() and 1781; wu
elected one of the first L'nite<l-i5tates senators fmra
New Jersey, serving from March 4. 1789, fo ifnrrh J,
17P0. when he reslgne<] ; w.is governor of ^'
17111-1703; was appointed by Pn-sident '^
a justice of the .Supreme Court of the I'l,.,...
serving from March 4, 1793, until his de.irl] i:
Albany. New York. Septemlwr ti, IStJJJ. He ju!.-
lished'in 1790 a revised edition of "The Lawi U
New Jersey."
Patterson, David T., was bom *"
County, Tennessee. February 28, 18111: :
academical edticotion; was eneaee<l in :
ing pursuits; studied aud practised law :
a judge of the Circuit Court in ]'^M. a*
in 18«2; was electeil t
Tennessee as a Conserva;
' of that State, serving from .iiii\ ->i. i-^^.. i ■ .u . . ■
I 18<;9.
Patterson, George W., was l>oni at I, ir •
derry. New Hampshire. Noveraln-r U. 17'
an ocademic education; taught school .
removed to Livingston County. N- ■ ^"
thence to Warsaw. New York, in 1 -
iu 1825. t.- ' ■:■•■.•■■-. New York " '
a farm, a- .iged in tli-
cultural h: . -: wasconui -
school eouiiuissioiier. justice of the %m-.
paymaster, and supervisor of Leice*ter:
l>er I'f the State As- ' ' ' ' '
of which. 1839 aii!
House; ^lr■,.,^.,l i . ;, . i
to take . , '
continue*
commis*i<>iier a: Al!>iuy '■
commissioner at New Y'
quarantine oonuniseioner
I by Goremor Xorgan: was a drtiywt to the Natioiiil
' Republican CooTciitloii tbttt nomtnatcd John C.
I Frdmont for pmidcnt, and to th« Xational Bepi^
lican Convention thai ifiiiMiitwalisd Abrabaa Uacah
for a second pteaUeatial term; has been saperriMr
of WestSeM diree jcan: mwmmteJ Oaataav^
I CoantT in the Slate CViastitvHaaal OonrcBlMa In
1844; was elected Ueatenant-fOVOMirofttoSBttK
New York in 1848: and waa elcdei a - .^
fivm New Torfc la tte Fbtty-fiflk
iiqua laii>.
: iva< apt'
T lue JXTl *'i
■ilUC
.IBd
Voct
STATISTICAL SKETCHES.
565
to March 4, 1S73; was n jirofessor at Dartmouth Col-
lege; was .-isaiii a iiiciuWr of tiie State Uouso of
Republican, receiving 10,010 votes agAlnst lO.flOI
vote* for James Freland, Democrat, servbig from
October 15, 1877.
Patterson. James A^., was Iwrn at Ilenniker,
New Hampslihc. July 2, l^ij; yrailuatwl at Durt-
moiitli College; was secretary uf llie Slate Board of
Education frc>m 18o7 to 1801 ; was a uieiiil>er of the
SlaUi Uuuse of lieiireseiitalives in 18<>2; was a
representative from New Uaiujjsliire in the Tliirty-
eighth Congress as a Repulilieiui. receiving lU.WT
votes against 10,571 voles for W. Bums, Democrat;
■was re-elected to the Thirty-ninth Congress, receiv-
ing 11,U87 votes against 0,{M) votes for Uingham,
Democrat, ser>-ing from Decemlier 7, 180;}, to M.irch
S, 18fi7; was elected a UnitwI-Statcs senator (to suc-
ceed Geor;^ G. Fogg, RepuMican), ser\ing from lH(i7
, iirole
uWr <
Kepn-sentatives in 1S77 and 1878.
Patterson, John, was iKim In Tioga County,
New York; held several local offices; was elected a
representative from New York in the Eighth Con-
gress, serving from Oetober 17, 180;J, to Marcli .'I, 180.").
Patterson, John, resided at St. Clairsville,
Ohio; Wiis elected a representative from that Stale
in ilie Eighteenth Congress, serving from Deccnilwr
1, 182:J, to Marcli .3, ISiV
Patterson, Jonn James, was bom at Waier-
lofj, Juniata County, Pennsylvania, August 8, ISJd;
gnuluated at Jefferson College, Pennsylvania, in
1S48; was etiitor of "The Jujiiuta S«;ntinel " in the
Sjcott presidential campaign of 1852, and for ten
years afterward was e<litor of " The Harrisburij
Telegraph;" was engaged in banking, and in the
management of raiiroatls; was a member of the
SUte legislature of Pennsylvania in ISV*, 18.W, 18«i»,
and 18(!1; removetl to .South Carolina In lH<i9; seri'o<l
in the Uidon army on the staff of General Williams
of Pennsylvania; was elected United-States senator
from South Carolina as a Itepublican (to sueceed
Frederick A. Sawyer, Republicati), and took his seat
Jttarch 4, 1873, Uis term of service will expire March
8, 187il.
Patterson, Thomas, was bom in Lancaster
County, Peimsylvania; resided at West Middleton;
waa elected a representative from Pennsylvania in
the Fifteenth Congress as a Democrat ; was re-elected
to the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighlecath Con-
gresses, serving from December 1, 1817, to March 3,
1825.
Patterson, Thomas J., was bom in New
York; resided at IJochester; was elected a represen-
tative frt^m New York in the Twenty-eighth (Con-
gress as a Whig, receiving 5,.i;i3 vot<!S against 5.2118
votes for Sampson, Democrat, and 281 votes for
Sfierrv, AlKiliiionist, 8er\ing from DecenilKT 4, 1843,
to Marcli 3, 1K4.>.
Patterson, Thomas M., was born in the
Outinty of Carlow. Irelami, Noveml)er 4, U^); im-
migrated to the United .Suites when young, and
received a cominon-school ediicntion In Indiana,
f,jllowe<l by a year's studies at Aslmry University,
Grecncastle. Indiana, and a year's studies at Wabash
Colleae. Crawfordsville, Iiuliruia; studied law; was
luimilted to the b.tr. and (inictised at Denver, Colo-
rado; never iu'ld public oflice until he was elecleil a
delegate from ("olorailo in the Forty-fourth Con-
gress as a Democrat, receiving l),li:l:! votes against
*.470 votes for H. Broinwell, I!e])u!>lican; was rr-
..1... r.,.| to the Forty-fifth Congress, liul the certilicjite
Ion was awardwl to James B. Jjelford; Mr.
i .-'in contested the s<>at, and it was given to liiin
by til-' House Decemlier 13, 1877.
Patterson, Walter, was born in Columbia
County, New York; resided at LIvlnsstoii: w.^s a
Wemlier of the .State House of IteiHTsenlatives in
IS'IS: was elected a representative from New York
in the Seventeenth Congress, serving from December
3, 1S21. to March 3, 18-3.
Patterson, William, was bora In Maryland;
removed to Ohio, and settled at Mansfield; was
elected a representJitive from Ohio in the Twenty-
third Congress as a Jackson Democrat ; was re-elected
to the Twenty-fourth Congress, servuig from De-
cemlwr 2, 18;j:l, to .March .3, 18:57.
Patterson, William, was l>om at Londonderry,
New Hamj>shire, June 4, I78t); removed to the Gene-
see Valley, New York, in ISl.'); was elected a rei>-
resentative from New York In the Twenty-fifth Con-
gress as a Whig, serving from September 4, IS'J7, to
.\ugust 18, 18;^8, when he clled at Warsaw, his health
having Iweii impaired by night sessions.
Patton, John, was Ijorn in Kent County, Dela-
ware, In 17411; received a public-school education;
served in ttie Itevolutlonars- war as an officer of the
Delaware line, or "Blue iTen's Chickens;" was u
delegate from Delaware to the Continental Congress
from 178.'5 to 1780; was elected a representative from
Delaware in tlio Thinl Congress, serving from De-
cemlK."r 2, 171*3, to February 14, 17114, when Iiis elec-
tion was successfully contested by Mr. Latimer, who
took the seat ; was again elected to the Fourth Con-
gress, serving from December 7, nil.'i, to March 8,
i71»7; died at'Dover, Delaware, June 17, 18iJl.
Patton, John, was bom in Peimsylvania: re-
side<l at Curwensvillc; was electcil a representative
from Pennsylvania in the Thirty-seventh Congress as
a I{4!publican, receiving l/,OIX) votes against 8,43U
votes for Kerr, Democrat, serving from July 4, 1801,
to Slarch 3, 1803.
Patton, John Mercer, w.is bom in Virginia in
17iW; received a classical educ.ition, graduating Rt
Princeton College; studied medicine, and gradiuited
at the Philailelpbia Metlical College, but never prac-
tised, as he preferred the legal profession; «as ad-
mitted to the bar, ami commenced practice at Fred-
ericksburg, Virginia; w.is elected a representative
in the Twenty-tlrst Congivss (to till a vacancy occa-
sioned by the death of Philip P. Barbour) as a Demo-
crat; was re-elected lo the Twenty-second. Twenty-
third, Twenty-fourth, and Tweuty-liftli Congresses,
without even a nominal opposition, serving from
18.'30 until 18:38; opposed the election of Van Buren,
and resigned to resume pnictice; removed to Kich-
nioiid, and iM-came there the leader of the bar of
Virginia; and tiled at Kiclirnond October 29, 1858.
Paulding, William, jun., was bom at Tarry-
town, New York, in 17(i!t; received an academical
etlucalion; studied law; n-as admitted to the bar, and
commiuiced practice at New York; was a delegate to
the State Constitutional Convention in 1.S21; was
elected a representative from New York in the
Twelfth Congress as a Democrat, rweivlng a major-
ity of 580 votes, serving from November 4, 1811, to
March 3, 1813; was aliscnt from his seat the last
session, having taken the field as brigarlier-general of
volunteer militia; was mayor of tlie citv of New
York March (i, 1824-March 5, 1820; retired' to his
estate at Tarrytown, where he died February 11,
I8.W.
Pawling, Levi, was elected a representative
from Pennsvlvaiiia in the Fifteenth Congress, sening
fnuii Decenlbi-r 1, 1817, to March ;1, I81U.
Payne, Henry B., was born in Hivmillon Coun-
ty, New York, NovemlMT ;lu, 18111; was eilucated at
IlamiUon College, New York; studied law under
John C. SlK'iicer of Canandaigua; was admitted to
the bar, and commenced pnictice at Clevel.ind, Ohio,
in 18:14; has bfen for the last twenty years largel^r
interested in railroad and manufacturing eute^prlscs^
was a me miter of the State .Sen.ite of Ohio In 1.840-
1850; was chosen a presidenti.il elector in 184.8; was
the Democratic cindldate for tlie Uiiiled->States seiia-
torshlp in the protracted contest of 1851; was the
Democratic candidate for govemor against Salmon P.
Cliase in 18.57; Wiis a delegate to tiio Cincinnati Con-
vention in 1.8.54, the Charleston Convention in l.SilO,
and the Baltimore Convention in 1.872; and was
olecteil a represent.itive from Ohio in the Forty-fourth
Congress by the Democrats and Liberal Hepubllcans,
CONQBESSIOXAl, DIRECTOEY.
recoirine IS.MO votM againiit 1I,3S0 vol** for Richard
(.'. Parsons, Republican, ami 3<'4 voles (or GiXMlman,
Probiliiliimist, seniris fmiu December 0, 1875, to
March 8. l.^TT; was defeated as the Domoeratic coii-
diilale for the Fnrty-ftfth Constres?, receiving 14,.VJ1
votes against n.STl votes for Amos Townsend, Re-
publican.
Paynej William Winter, was bom in Fauquier
County. Virginia, Januar) •^. 1(S07: received an aca-
demical etlucation; removed to Franklin County,
Alabama, in If-ii: ri'iiresented that countv in Uie
State House of Representatives in lAil, and, remov-
ing to Sumter County, was successively elected from
Uiat county from IsA until l^i.'JS; was an unsuccess-
ful candidate for the State Senate in 18^(9; wiis a^in
elected to the House in 1^40: was elected a repre-
sentative from Alabama in the Twenty-seventh Con-
((Tvss as a Democrat on a gem-ral ticket; was re-
elected to the Twenty-eighth Coium-ss as a Demi>-
crat, receivina; 3,2."il votes against 2.Jt5rt votes for
Elishs Young. WJiip; w^ re-elected to the Twenty-
ninth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 4,S!H) votes
against 2,7tW votes for John Erwin, fiidependeut,
serving fmm May M. IsMl. to March 3, 1.S47: was an
unsuccessful cainlidute for renominatioii in 1847:
remove<l to Virginia in 1848, and settled on a planta-
tion near WamMilon.
Paynter, Lemuel, was bom in Delaware; re-
ceived a public-schixil education: resided at Phila-
delphia; was elected a re|>resentative from Pennsyl-
vania in the Twenty-Rfih t'ongpess as a Democpjt,
recelrins 2,2«i(> votes against I.IM votes for J. B.
Sutherland, Whig; and was re-elected to the Twen-
ty-sisth Congress, receiving 3,(175 votes against HMH
votes for J. B, Sutherland, Wliig, serving from Sep-
tember 4, 1837, to March .3. 1841.
Peabody, Nathaniel, was bom at Topsfield,
MaBsichusetts, Man-h 1. 1741; received an academic
education at Leominster. Massachusetts; studied
medicine thct« with his father. Dr. Jacob PealxHly;
was licensed, and commenced practice at Plaistow.
Xew naui<slilre, in 17lU ; was commissioned lieuteu-
ant-colonel in 1774, but ardently espoused the Revo
1 ■■ - .'.luse, and was the first man in the prov-
A llani|)shire to resiim a royal commission;
< I one of the Committee of Safetv January
lo, I77it; was appoiuteil ailjulant-gencral of the \ew-
Ham|i«hire militia July 1», 1777, and served in com-
mand of a brii;aile in Rhmle Island inlnO: was a
■ leli-iT'ite from New Haniiishire in the Continental
< on:m>ss in 177!*-n8U: was » nieml>er of the State
On^titutional Convention in 1782-178:$: was again
flireteil a delegate to the Continental Coneresa in
1~8(). but did not act ; was a member for eignt years
of the State It^slature. serviitg as speaker in ITW;
held many otlier important tnists during the Revolo-
tjonary straggle, but liecame |>ecuuiarily embar-
T-,t....i .....1 had to pass the latter vears of bis life
delitor's limits of the jail at Exeter, New
1 : . where he died June 27, 1,823.
Pearce, Duttee J., was bom on the Island of
Prudence. KluHie Island, in 1789; received a classical
nlucatiou. graduating at Brown University in 1806;
studied law ; was admitted to the bar. and eommeaced
i,r..-i,-.' :vt Xi>»o..rt: was United-State* attorney for
Island ; was adjutant-general
-1&25; was a presidential elector
in 1821; was for several years a
House of Representative; was
' '-rtm Rhode Island in the
\ Democrat ; was re-elected
-»; was reelected to the
T»euty-lir5i Coucre^, r»\'eivinc 1,871 majority: was
re-eleoied t" the Tw»'nty-!«econ5 Congress, receiving
rtlp major .teil to the Twenty-third
Congress: ■ the Twenty-fourth Con-
stcs6, r«c<.;..i.^ -■- ^. ritv over R. B. Cranston,
wUk, actrriag from Uecrm'ber 5. 1825, to Mardi
a. ^: died at Newport. Rhode Island, May 9. ISML
Pearoe^ James Alfred, wm boin at AJexan-
I dria (then In the District of Colnnil.i':ii ■Dc.-.ml-j^
14, 180.5; received a classical educ
at Princeton College in 1822; studii-cl
Glenn at Baltimore: was .idmitted i
and commenced practice at Cambri>l
moved to Louisiana in 1820. and eii_ l4
but, in 1827. retunieil to Maryland,
practice of law in Kent County; ■■
the lower House of the legislature of Maryland '
j 18.31; was elected a repr<^P!itative from Maryl
fin the Twenlv-fourth C"
' electe<l to thetwenty-fifil
ing a majority of 28 ovei .....,.-. .
' from Deceml>er 7, 18;S, to March ."5, i
I date for re-election t<r the Twentv-'.i
was defeated, receiving .S.l>48 v-
for P. F. Thomas, Democrat : >
I Twenty-seventh Congress as a V\ ni. ; "
I the Uniti'd-States Senate in IM:5 as a Whig.
i four times succes.»ively re-elecled (tlie hist t
as a Democrat). si'r>inc from March 4. l.'*41. un
dieil at Chestertown. Maryland. Deeeralier 20.
Pearce, John J., was bom in Pen
received a public-school e<lucation, and was
as a minister in the Metli<Mlist-Epi.«c<-ipal
when eighteen j-e.irs of aire: he continued in
ministry as a member of the Wyoming and Phil.i
pbia Conferences until 18->t, when, while in ch<
of a church at Lock Haven, he was electw! s t^i
seutstlve from Pennsylvania in the Tl
Congress as a Whig, receiving V»,.V<8 v -i
7,628 votes for Allison ^\"hile. Democrat, - ;i
December 3, 1855, to March 3. l.Sj"; h. »
re-election; and, four years later, while i I t
a church at Owego, New York, he declined auuiiicr
Congressional nomination.
Peetrson, Joseph, was bom at Salisbury, NorlJ)
Carolina; receivd an .icademic e<luc.ition: studi«<l
law; was ailmitted to the l>ar. and practised at Salis-
bury ; was a member of the House of Commom vt
North Carolina in 1804 and 1805; was elected a n-p-
reaentative from North Carolina to the Elefeoih
Cofigresa as a Federalist; was re-elected to Die
Twelfth Congresa, and was re-elected to the Thir-
teenth Congress, serving from May 22, 1809, oalil
March 8, 1815; he fought a duct, while in Com.
with General John G. Jackstm. after a poHtii
quarrel, and was severely wounded on the jeomi
Ore; died at Salisburv, North Carolina, October J7,
1834.
Petise, Henry B-, was bom In Conixcrirai
Feltniary 19, 188.5: received an academic edor«::'>r..
and normal training for tlie prafeasion of tesi-Inr:;
followed the profession for eleven years; studied lav,
and was admitted to the bar; entered the U&i<
army as a private soldier, and was promoted to
rank of captain; sened principally oo staff ivtj'
was appointed in 18(i5 su[ierintendent of edacalioa
for the State of LoaisUna while under military role;
was appointed in 1887 saperinlendent of the nines-
tion of freedmen In Mississippi ; took an aetire put
in the reconstmction of the State ; was elected tofs-
intendent of education of tbe State in I-'"- ■ '■•-'
and published "The MiwJMtppI Educa'
nal," the first magaane ever devote<]
education at the South; was
senator foom MisaiaBippi as a 1:
of February, 1874 (to fill the vacai
the resignation of Adelbert Amee, I;
ing from Febmary IS, 1874. lo Man i
Peaslee, Charlee Haaen, wa.^ -omc-
ton. New Hampshire. Febniary 0, - itrd •
classical education, graduating at Daniuouiii Col-
' lexe in 1S84; studied^law with Stei^en Moaly: n>
I a<{mitted to the bar. and cominmced ptactice >l
' Concorxt, New Hampshire; wis a nemixr of tli«
State li^slature: was appointed in ISW adjiit:'!!:-
general of the militia; was elected a repmei:'
m the Thirtieth Congiesa as a DemoeraiL, iec<
St9I3 rolei againM 4^Z]S Totea for gaatman, Wlu«i
Jkii
STATISTICAL SKETCHES.
567
ad 2,356 votes for Steveas, Freo-Soller; was re-
elecu-d lo the Thiny-tirst Cunproes, receiving 8,020
Iroteg against 3,07'! rolos for Kuslinaii, Whig, and
l)i4voti.'S for Stewart, Frec'-Soiler; was re-t'lrcted
t tte Thirty-second Con^iress, rvcpiviiic 7,170 votes
Jjflnst ii.iklii vou^s for Colby, Whig, and 2,0SO votc-s
for Fowler, Freo-Soiler, serving from December 0,
1847, until March 3, 1S53; was apixiinted. In March,
1854, colli'clorof customs for the port of Boston; and
died at St, Paul, Minnesota, September 2J, IStW.
Peck, Grasmus D., was liom in Connecticut,
Septcralier Hi, ISIS; studied medicine, and graduated
_at the Berkshire Medical College in IS21I; r-moved
I Oliio in 1*10: was elected a member of Uie (Jhio
^slature in 185*1 ami IS-V; was cxaminln,^ surgeon
or the anny and for pensions; and was elected a rej>-
esentative from Ohio in the Forty-first Congress as
f« Republican in April. 1K70 (to fill the vacancy caused
by the death of Hon. T. H. Hoas), n-celving 13,:i2S
votes against 10,.>s;j votes for Ilill, Democrat, and
9S3 votes for Carter, Repudiation Democrat; and was
re-elected to the Forty-second Congress, receiving
11,312 votes against 1ii,l'42 votes for William F. Lock-
wood, Democrat, and SO votes for Pease, Independ-
ent, serviiig from April 2.'!, ls70, to March 3, 1873.
Peck, George W., was bom in New York June
4, 181.S; received an ocailemical education; removed
to Michigan, and resided at Lansing; was a member
of the Slate House of Representatives in 1840 and
1847. serving the last year as speaker; was secretary
of state of Michigan; was editor of "The Lansing
_State Journal : " was elected a representative from
ichigan in the Tlurty-foiirtii Congress as a Demo-
■at, receiving 11. 2.33 votes against J>,803 votes for
nsner. Republican, serving from December 3, 18.>5,
March 3. lS-"i7; was defeated as the Democratic
kndidate for the Thirty-fifth Cougress, receiving
14,524 votes agivlnst 18,248 vot«s for Leach, Repub-
lican.
Peck, Jaxed V., was bom in New York; re-
8lde<l at Port Chester; was elected a representative
v|roin New York in the Thirty-third Congress as a
BDemorrat, n-ceiving 8.5.33 votes against .'5,827 votes
»w>r Clark, Republican, ser^'iiig from December C,
l.S-iJ, to March .3, 18.55.
Peck, Lucius Benedict, was bom at Watcr-
^>ur>', Vermont, in 1804; received two years of mili-
Bnry education at West Point; studied law at Barrc,
■Temiont; w.ts admitted to the bur in 182(5, and com-
uiencf-d practice at IJarre with Hon. Dennison .Smith;
after his death, removed to Montpelicr, Vermont;
was elected a representative from Vermont in the
Thirtieth Congress as a Democrat, receiving C.5!(4
urtites against 5.1)59 votes for Chandler, Whig; and
■iras reH'li.'cted to the Thirty-tlrst Congress, receiving
■6.1.38 votes against 4,2«7 votes for Buck. Whig, and
2,484 votes for Rowell, Van Buron Democrat, serv-
ing from Deceml)er 0, 1847, to March 3, 1K51 ; was
United-Slates attorney for the district of Venuont
ISW-IS-I"; was president of the Vennont and Cana-
da R.iilro.td until his death at lyowell, Massachusetts,
DeeemlK-r 2'^, l.'^UU.
Peck, Luther C, was born In Connecticut ; re-
eived a public-school education; removed to Penii-
jrlvania, and thence to Pike, Alleghany County;
ras I'leeled a representative from ycvt if ork in the
fweMty-filih Cougr<;ss as a Wiig; was re-eiected to
Twcnty-si.vth Con.rress. receiving (1,.521 votes
ainst 4,7(W votes for Cilvin T. Chamberlain,
ocrat. serving front .September 4, 18;17, to March
1841 ; died at Nunda, Xew Yorli, February It),
7tV
Peckham, Rvifus "W., was born in New York;
ceiled an aeiuleiiiic eduratiun; studied law; was
Imilted to the bar, and practised at Albany; was
•d a representative from New York in the
birty-thlril ("onaress as a Denioerat. receiving 8.3(W
against 7,100 votes for Egberts, Whig, and 71
1 for Williams, Free-Soiler, serving from Decem-
5, 1833, to March 3, 1855 ; was elected a justice
of the Supreme Court for the TTilnl Judicial District,
and re-elected, serving November 18, 18t51-18(HI; w:iS
lost on the steamer " Ville du Havre."
Peddie, Thomas B., was bom at Edinburgh,
.Scotland, and came to America in 183;J; he located
in Ncw.irk. New Jersey, and is now one of the most
extensive manufacturers in that city; he was elected
a memlier of the State legislature In 18(U, and re-
electe<l in 18(M; he was twice mayor of the city of
Newark, ser\-|ng in that oflice during the years 18(15-
18«)8; was president of tlie>'ewark"Bo.ard of Trade
in 1873; and was elected a representative from New
Jersey in the Forty-fifth Congress as a Republican,
receiving H.&iS votes against 10.041 votes for \Vil-
, liiun A. Rigiiler, Democrat, serving from Octiilwr 15,
1K77.
I Peek, Hermanus, was bom at Albany, New
York: resided at Schenectady; was a member of tlie
.State House of Re^iresentatives; was elected a n-p-
rescntative from New York in the Sixteenth Con-
gress, ser^'ing from December 6, 18111, to March 3,
1821.
Peery, William, was a delegate fnmi Delaware
to the Continental Congress 17.S5-1780.
Pegram, John, was born In Virginia; was
elected a re|)rosentalive from Virgiiua In the Fif-
teenth Congress (in place of Peterson G«xKlwin, de-
ceased), rijcelvlng 102 majority over Dr. Jones, serv-
ing from November 10, 1818, to March 3, 1810.
Pelham, Charles, was bom in Person flounty,
North Carolina. March 12. 1S:!5; his family removed
to Alaluuna in 1SJ8; studied law; was admitted to
the l>ar in 1858, and practised law at Talladega until
18(52, when he entered the Confederate service; was
elected judge of the Tenth Judicial Circuit in 1,808,
and w:is discharging the duties of that office when
he was elected a representative from Alabiuna in the
Forty-thinI Congress as a Rcpuldican, receiving a
majority of 000 over W. H. Handley, Democrat, 8er\--
ing from Dei;eml)er 1, 1873, to March 3, 1875.
Pelton, Guy R., was twru at Great Barrington,
Massachusetts, August 3, 1825; re<"eived an ac.idcml-
cal education; taught school ; studied law at Kinder-
hook; was admitted to the bar in 1850, and com-
menced practice at New York in 1851 ; was elected a
representative from New York in the Thirty-fourth
Congress as a Wlilg, receiving 4.084 votes iigainsl
2,550 votes for Clinton, Democral, and 1.123 votes
for Miner, Democrat, serv'ing from December;,, 1855,
to March 3. 1857; w.as defciiled as the Ilepublicim
candidate for the Thirty-liflh Congress, receiving
2,120 votes against 5,710 votes for Sickles, Democrat,
an<l 2,1105 votes for Duganne, American.
Pendleton, Edniund, was bom in Caroline
County, Virginia, in 1741; received a defective clas-
sical education : studied law; w.is admitted to the
bar, and became a successful practitioner; was ap-
pointed presiding judge of the VirgiiUa Court of
Appeals; was a member of tlic C'ontincnt.al Congress
in 1774 and 1775; was a member of the Virgiida
Constitutlunal Convention of 17 =7. and was chosen
its jiresidcnt; w.is apitoinfeil by President Washing-
ton United-Stales district-judge in 1780, and do-
ciined; died at Riclunond, Virginia, October 11,
1823.
Pendleton, Edmund H., resided at Hyde
Park. New York; was electi'd a representative from
that State in the Tnenly-second Congress as a Whig,
serving from Deceml>er 5, IS'U, to March 2, |H,3.3.
Pendleton, Q«orge H. (son of Nathaniel
Greene Petidletou), was bom at Cincinnati, Ohio,
July 2.5, 1825; received an academical education;
studied law; was admitted to the bar. and com-
menced practice at Cincinnati; was a member of
the State Senate of Ohio in 18-54 and 18.55; was
elected a rcprescntativo from (;)hio in tlie Thirty-
fifth C^ongrcss as a Democrat, receiving (l.l-'W votes
against 4.250 votes for Tafl, Republican, and 2,(M2
votes for Torrence, American ; was re-elecled to the
TlUrty-slxtb Congress, receiving 7,131 votes against
568
COKOBE88IOKAL DIBEOIOBT.
OiTSS votes for T. C. Day, Republican; was reelected
to the Thirty-seventh Congress, reoeiving 7,485 votes
against 6,682 votes for Spencer, Bepublican; and
vras re-elected to the Thirty-eighth Congress, receiv-
ing 7,645 votes against 6,418 votes for Oroesbeck,
Repulilican, serving from December 7, 1857, to March
3, 1805; was defeated in 1864 as the Democratic can-
didate for Vice-President on the ticket headed by
Geoi^e B. McClellan; was appointed president of
the Kontucky Central Railroad Company in 1860;
was elected United-States senator from Ohio (to suc-
ceed Stanley Matthews, Republican). His term of
service will commence March 4, 1870.
Pendleton, James M., was bom at Pendleton
Hill, in North Stonington, Connecticut, January 10,
1822; received an academic education; was engaged
seven years in mercantile business at Westerley,
Rhode Island, and then in banking, insurance, and
manufacturing; was a member of the State Senate
of Rhode Island in 1862, 1803, 1864, and 1865; was a
delegate to the National Republican Convention at
Chicago in 1868, and was elected presidential elector
on the Grant-Colfax ticket the same year; and was
elected a representative from Rhode Island in the
Forty-second Congress as a Republican, receiving
1^634 votes against 047 votes for S. Rodman, Demo-
crat, and 131 scattering; and was re-elected to the
Forty-third Congress, receiving 4,310 votes i^alnst
2,605 votes for George H. Brown, Democrat, serving
from March 4, 1871, to March 3, 1875.
Pendleton, John 8., was bom in Virginia;
received an academical education; resided at Cul-
pepper Court House; was appointed by President
Tyler chargi d'ufaires to Chill, serving August 16,
1841-June 10, 1844; was elected a representative
from Virginia in the Twenty-ninth Congress as a
Whig; was re-elected to the Thirtieth Congress,
receiving 2,801 votes against 2,045 votes for Hunter,
Democrat, serving from December 1, 1846, to March
S, 1840; was appointed by President Fillmore chargi
d'affalrea to the Ainentine Confederation, serving
from February 27, 1851, to March 4, 1864; died near
Culpepper Court House, Virginia, November 10, 1868.
Pendleton, Nathaniel Gtreene (father of
George H. Pendleton), was bom at Savannah,
Geord|a, August, 1703; removed with his father to
Kew-York City early in life; received a classical
education, graduating at Columbia College in 1813;
studied law, and was admitted to the bar ; served in
the war with Great Britain as aide-de-camp to
General Gaines 1813-1816; removed to Cincinnati,
Ohio, In 1818, and commenced practice; was a mem-
ber of the State Senate 1826-1829; was elected a
representative from Ohio in the Twenty-seventh
Congress as a Whig, receiving 254 majority over Dr.
Alexander Duncan, Democrat, serving from May 81,
1311, to March 3, 1843; was defeated as the Whig
candidate for the Twenty-eighth Congress by Dr. A.
Duncan, Democrat.
Penn, Aleztuider Q., was bom In Yliglnia;
received an academical education; removed to
Louisiana in 1812, and settled in the parish of St.
Tammany; engaged largely in agricultui-al and me-
chanical pursuits; was a member of the State House
of Representatives; was appointed by President Polk
postmaster at New Orleans 1845-1840; was elected
a representative from Louisiana in the Thirty-first
Congress (in place of John H. Harmanson, de-
ceased) as a Democrat, defeating R. M. Stewart; and
was re-elected to the Thirty-second Congress, receiv-
ing 4,740 votes against 3,500 votes for Upton, Whig,
serving from December 33, 1850, to March 8, 1853;
was appointed by President Pierce a commissioner
to superintend the erection of the new custom-house
at New Orleans ; died, while on a visit to Washington
City, May 8, 1866.
Penn, John, was bom in Caroline County,
YiKlula, May 17, 1741 ; his education, by the death
of nls father, was deficient; studied law with Ed-
mund Pendleton, his relative; was admitted to prac-
tice in 1762, and displayed great genins and elo-
quence in his practice ; removed to Granville County,
North Carolina, In 1774; was elected a delegate to
the Continental Congress in 1775, signed the Declsr
ration of Independence in 1776, and was re-elected
in 1777 and 1779; was appointed by Robert Morris
in 17S4 receiver of internal-revenue taxes for the
State of North Carolina, but soon resigned; and dinl
in September, 1788.
Pennixnan. Ebenezer Jenckes, was bom at
Lansingburg, New York; when thirteen years of
age he was apprenticed to the art of printing iu the
office of " The New-Hampshire Sentinel " at Eeene;
when eighteen years of age he purchased his inden-
tures, and went to New York, where he engaged in
mercantile pursuits; removed to Plymouth, Michi-
gan, in 1835, and entered into business there: was
elected a representative from Michigan in the Thirty-
second Congress as a Whig and Free-Soiler, receiving
10,741 votes against 8,909 votes for Buel, Democrsi,
serving from December 1, 1851, to March 3, 1853.
Pennington, Alexander C. IS.., was bom at
Newark, New Jersey, in 1811 ; received an academical
education; studied law; was admitted to the bar,
and commenced practice; was elected a representa-
tive from New Jersey in the Thirty-third Congress
as a Whig, receiving 7,636 votes against 7.460 votes
for Price, Democrat ; was re-elected to the Thirty-
fourth Congress, receiving 8,137 rotes against 6,8ld
votes for Darcy, Democrat, serving from December
5, 1853, to MaixJi 3, 1857 ; was for two years a member
of the State House of Representatives ; removed to the
city of New York, where he died January 25, 1867.
Pennington, William, was bom at Newark,
New Jersey, in 1707; received an academical educa-
tion; studied law; was admitted to the bar, and
commenced practice at Newark; was governor and
ex officio chancellor of New Jersey 1837-1843, during
which time some of his commissions to congress-
men, bearing the broad seal of the State, were the
subjects of much comment; was appointed by Presi-
dent Taylor governor of Minnesota, and declined;
was o&oed by President Fillmore one of the judge-
ships in California to settle land-titles under toe
treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ; was elected a repre-
sentative from New Jersey In the Thirty-sixth Con-
gress as a Whig, receiving 11,641 votes against 9,982
votes for Wortendyke, Democrat, serving from De-
cember 5, 1860, to March 3, 1861 ; was elected speaker
of the House; was defeated as the Republican can-
didate for the Thirty-seventh Congress, receiving
10,141 votes against 16,615 votes for Nehemiah Perry,
Fusion Democrat; died at Newark, New Jersey,
from having accidentally taken an overdose of mor-
phine, Febraary 16, 1802.
Pennybaoker, Isaao S., was bom in Shenan-
doah County, Virginia, in 1800; received an aca-
demical education; studied law; was admitted to
the bar, and commenced practice at Harrisonburg;
was elected a representative from Virginia in the
Twenty-fifth Congress as a Democrat (defeating
David Steele, Democrat), serving from September 4,
1837, to March 3jl830; was United-States judge for
the district of Western Virginia; was elected s
United-States senator from Virginia (in the place
of W. C. Rives, whose term had expired) as a Demo-
crat, serving from December 1, 1845, to January 12,
1847, when he died.
Perce, Legrand W., was bom at Buffalo, New
York, June 10, 1836 ; received an academic education ;
studied law at the Albany Law University in 185(>-
1857; practised law; entered the volunteer service in
April, 1801 ; was appointed second lieutenant of the
Sixth Michigan Volunteers in August, 1861, and cap-
tain in June, 1802; was brevetted major at Port
Hudson in May, 1863; was appointed captain of
United-States volunteers in August, 186:>, and wu
brevetted lieutenantHMlonel and colonel in 1865;
settled at Natchez, Mississippi, and was elected s
representative from Mississippi in the Forty-fiist
STATISTICAL SKETCHES.
569
ongteas m a Repnblican. receiving 10,475 votes
Jnst 8,080 votes for Brown, Democrat; and was
elected to tJie Forty-second Congress, serving from
February 2:{, 1870, lo"Marcli 3, 1S73.
Perea, Francisco, was hom at Zadlllas, New
fexicii. JiUiujir>' \K liSill ; was elected n delegate from
Jew-Mexicri Territory in the Tliirty-<»iL:lith Congress
a Kei)uliiicaii, serving from December 7, 18(i3, to
Jlarcb ;l, ISIS.
Perham, Sidney, was bom at Wo<»dBtock,
Maine, March 27. l><iy; received an academic educa-
tion; was a Hciiooi-teacbcruiul a farmer; was a mem-
ber of the Maine Slate Boani of Agriculture in lHif2
and ISSJJ; was elected a member of the State legis-
lature of Maine in 1854, and was 8|M-aker of the
House; was county-clerk of Oxfonl County from
ltl50 to 1803; was electe<l a representative from
Maine in tlie Tbirty-ciglilli I'ongress as a Kepublican,
receiving 11,51)2 voles against 1,'2S1 voles for Bates,
Democrat: was re-i.'iected t^) tbe Thirty-ninth Con-
gress, receiving li,(S;JJ votes against 8,i44 votes for
Andrews, Democrat; and w,is re-elected to tbe Forti-
eth Congress as a Kepublican. receiving l;l,7,S4 votes
against '..Mi^i votes for Moi-riii, Dem'Kral, 9er\ing
from Det'embcr 7, lH<l:i, to March 3, ISOO; was gov-
ernor of Maine 1871-1874; was .ippobiusd in 1877
appraiser in lh<! Portland Custiini House.
Perkins, Bishop, was Imrn in New Hampshire;
removed to New York, and settled at Ogdensburg;
was eliM-ted a lepR'suntalive from New York in the
TUirty-tliird Congress as a Democrat, receiving lO.liNi
votes .igainst 7.274 voles for Van HenssclajT. Whig,
serving from December 6, 1853, to Marr'h 3, 1855.
Perkins, Elias, w:is bom at Norwich, Connect-
icut, April o, 17(17; received a classical education,
graduating at Yale College in 1780; studied law;
wa« mlmitled to the bar, and commenced prnclice,
but soon ri'lin>|uislieil tlie profession; was a presi-
dential elector in 1797; was elected a representative
from Connecticut in the Seventh Congress, serving
from December 7, 1801, to Marcli 3, 180:1 ; was judge
of Uie New-London County Court until ho became
ineligible by age; w.-vs mayor of the city of New I><in-
don June, 182it, to 18:{2, when he declined a re-elec-
tion; and died at New London, Connecticut, Septem-
ber 27, 1845.
Perkins, Jared, W!is bom in New Hampshire;
received a public-sctiocd education; resided at Win-
chester; was State councillor 184(5-184!); was a mem-
ber of the State House of Kepresentatives ; was elect-
ed a representative from New Hampshire in the
Thirty-second Congress as a Whig and hYec-Soller,
receiving 8,715 votes against 7,777 votes for Morrison,
Democrat, serving from December 1, 1851, to March
3. 1S.M; Wiis defeated as the Wliig candidate for the
Thirty-thini Congress, receiving 7.550 votes against
9,(t35 votes for H. Ilililiard. Democrat; died at N<ishua,
New Hiunpshire, tlctober 14, 18.J4.
Perkins, John, jun., was born in Louisiana,
Jixly 1, 18111: received a classical education, graduat-
ing at Yale College in 1840; stmlicd law at Harvard
University; was ."uimitted to the b.ir. and conmieiiced
pnictieeal New Orleans: his healtii failing. lie visilcd
Europe, and. while there, bad several volumes of tlie
Colonial n-cords cupied, which, on his return, he
presented to the Slate: he was ap^ioiuled a judge of
the Circuit Court in 1851; was elected a representa-
tive from Louisiana in the Tldrty-third Congress as
a DemiKTat, receiving 4.1K15 votesagaiiist ;J,7S7 votes
for Pond, Whig, serving from Dcceialier o, 1853, lo
March 3. 18,55; was a deputy fntm Louisiana to the
Provisional C<ingress of tliu Confederate Slates at
Montgotii'ry Fchmary, 18()1, and a memljer of the
First and Second Confederate Congresses, serving
from Kihniary 22, lsi;2, in i[n' dose I'f Ihi- w.-ir.
Porrill, Augustus L., w:i8 born in Virghda:
remuved to IJhio, and seltleil at Litliopolis; was
elected a representative from Ohio in tlie Twi'ii'y-
ninlli Congress, sun'ing from December 1, 1845, to
c:
Perry, Aaron F., was bom nt Leicester, Vcn
moot, January 1, 1815; received a common-school
and academic e<lucation; studied law at tbe Yale
Law School, New Haven, Connecticut; practis<'d at
Columbus, Ohio, and afterward at Cinciniiali; was
a member of the Slate House of Representalives of
Oliio in 1H47-I848; and w;is elected a representative
from Ohio in the Forty-second Congress as a nejiub-
liean, receiving 8,0;jl) votes against 7,21M votes (»r M.
Sayler, Democrat, serving from March 4, 1871, to
1872. wlien he resigned.
Perry, Benjamin F., was appointed by Presl-
deiil Jcduison provisional governor of .South C.irolina
in 1805; was elected rhited-.States senator from
Soutli Carolina for Ibe tenu of six years, commen-
cing on the 4th of March. 1805; his credentials were
presented in the .Senate February 2S, 1800, read, and
orticriii l» lie on the talde.
Perry, Elli, was Ixirn in Washington County,
New York, December a5, 1802; received a common-
school education until he was tin-own upon his own
resources at fifteen years of age; coniineiiced business
at Albany, when twenty-one yeare of age. as a dealer
ill provisions, and continued it for twenty-five years;
was elected alderman for I wo years, and afterward
niemljer of the tienerai .-Vssembly of the State of
New York; in 1851 was elected mayor of the cily of
Albany, which office he held by re-elections twelve
years;' and was elected a ri'presentative from New
York in tlie Forty-second Congress as a Democrat,
receiving 17,710 votes against 14,720 votes for Hard-
er. Kepublican, and 3;J41 voles for Haslings, tlie Work-
ing-niaii's candidale; and was re-elected to the Forly-
thlnl ('.digress, reti-iving IS.OOD voles against n.tUiO
voles for C. II. Adams. Kepublican, serving from
March 4. 1S71, to March 3, 1875; was defeated as the
Independent Democralic candidate for the Forty-
fourlb Congress, receiving 0.108 votes against 12. 020
voles for Cliarles H. Adams, Kepublican, and 1),903
votes for T. .1. Quliiii, Democrat.
Perry, John J., was bom at Portsmotith, New
Hampshire, AurusI 2, 1811; received an academical
education; studied law; was adraitteil to the bar in
1844, and eoranienced pra<!tice at Oxfonl, Maine;
was a member of the State House of K(|'presentalives
in lS.ft), 1842, and 184:}, and of tbe State Senate in
1810 and 1847; was elected a representative from
Maine in the Tliirty-fourth Congress as a Republican,
receiving 10,007 votes against 7,313 votes for William
Kinilmll, Democrat, serving from Decemlw-T S, 1S>5,
to March 3, 1857; was again elected to the TUIrly-
slxtlj Congress, receiving 12,031 votes against ]ii,il;12
votes for David R. Hastings, Democrat, serving from
Deceinl)er C, 1850, to Maivli 3, 1801 ; was a delegate
to the Peace Congress in 1801; edited "Tbe Oxford
Democrat; " was a member of the Executive Council
of Maine; removed to Portland.
Perry, Nebemiah, was bom at RIdgeficld. Con-
necticut, March 30, 1810; received an academical
education; removed to Newark, New Jersey, and en-
g.iged in the cloth and clothing business; was for
Several years a niemlier of the State House of Repn"-
Kcnlalives. and iiresident of the common council of
Newark; was elected a represeulalive from New
Jersey in the Thirty-seventh Congress as a Democrat,
receiving 10,200 votes against 15,802 votes for Pen-
nington. Republican; was re-elected to Ihe Thirty-
eighth Congress, receiving 10,771) votes against 7,022
votes for Bradley, Republican, sening from July 4,
isoi, lo March 3, 180.i.
Perry, Thomas, was born in Maryland in 1808;
reieivedan academical eilucalion; studied law; was
udniiileil to tbe bar, and commenced practice at
Ciiiiiberlaiid ; was elecled a represenlalivo from
.Maryland In tbe Twenty-ninth Coiign-ss as a Demo-
crat, serving fnmi Deceuibi'r 1. 1845, to JIarcli 3, 1847;
was a cin-uit-jiidgc- 1S51-180I and 1804-1871; died at
Cnmiierland, Miiryland. June 27, 1871.
Peter, George, was Imni at Georgetown, Maiy-
laud (uow the District of Columbia), .September :&,
670
CONOBB88IONAL DIBECTOBT.
1T79; received a claaslcal education, gradnating at
Georgetown College; entered the United-States army
as second lieutenant in the Ninth Infantry in July,
1790 ; was transferred to the artillery, and promoted,
and in May, 1808, organized and commanded the
first light battery of artillery in the country, resign-
ing June 11, 1800; commanded a battalion of volun-
teers for the defence of Washington City, May to
June, 1814; was elected a representative from Mary-
land in the Fourteenth Congress (in place of Alex-
ander C. Hanson, resigned) as a Democrat, receiving
1,602 votes against 1,444 votes for (ireorge C. Wash-
ington, and 1,223 votes for H. R. Wai-field ; was re-
elected to the Fifteenth Congress, serving from De-
cember 2, 1816, to March S, 1810; was a meml}er of
the State House of Bepresentatives; was again elect-
ed to the Nineteenth Congress, serving from Decem-
ber 5, 182S, to March 3_, 1827; was defeated as a
candidate for the Twentieth Congress by George C.
Washington, Whig; devoted himself to agricultural
pursuits ; was elected in 1856 a member of the Board
of Public Works of Maryland ; died on Ids farm near
Damestown, Maryland, June 22, 1861.
Peters, John A., was bom at Kllsworth, Maine,
October 0, 1822; graduated at Yale College ; studied
law at Uie Cambridge Law School: practised law;
was a member of the legislature of Maine in 1862,
1863, and 1864; was elected attorney-general of the
State in 1864, 1865, and 1866; and was elected a rep-
resentative from Maine in the Fortieth Congress as a
Bepublican, receiving 12,059 votes against 6,564
votes for Weston, Democrat; was re-elected to the
Forty-first Congress, receiving 13,387 votes against
8,87<i votes forXadd, Democrat; and was re-elected
to the Forty-second Congress, receiving 0,062 votes
against 7,322 votes for M. Emery, Democrat, serving
from March 4, 1867, to March 8, 1873; was appointed
a Judge of the Supreme Court of Maine in 1872.
jPeters, Richard, was bom near Philadelphia,
Pemisylvania, August 22, 1744; received a classical
education, graduating at Philadelphia College;
studied law; was admitted to the bar, and com-
menced practice at Philadelphia; entered the Bevo-
lutionary army as captain of volunteer infantry, but
was soon transferred by Congress to the secretary-
ship of the Board of War, which he filled June 13,
1776-June 8, 1781 ; was a delegate from Pennsylva-
nia to the Continental Congress 1782-1788; was ap-
pointed by Washington comptroller of the treasuiTr,
out decliiied, accepting the position of United-States
iudge of the District Court of Pennsylvania, which
te held from 1780 to his death at Philadelphia Au-
gust 21, 1828. He published manj contributions in
the transactions of the Philadelphia Agricultural So-
ciety, of which he was president, and " Admiralty
Decisions in the United-States District Court of
Pennsylvania 1780-1807." A sketch of his life was
published by Samuel Breck.
Petrie, Qeorge, was bom in New York ; resided
at Little Falls; was elected a representative from
New York in the Thirtieth Congress, serving from
December 6, 1S47, to March 3, 1840.
Petriken, David, was bom in Pennsylvania;
resided at Danville; was elected a representative
from Pennsylvania in the Twenty-fifth Congress as a
Democrat ; was re-elected to the Twenty-sixth Con-
g'ess, receiving 5,156 votes against 3,943 votes for
avid Hubley, Whig, serving from September 4,
1837, to March 3, 1841 ; died at Danville, Pennsyl-
vania, March 1, 1847.
Pettiere'W, Sbenezer, was bora in North Caro-
lina; resided at Cool Spring; was elected a represen-
tative from North Carolina in the Twenty-fourth
Congress as a Whig (defeating Dr. Hall), serving from
December 7, 1835, to March 3, 1837.
Pettis, Spencer, was bom in Virginia in 1802;
received an academical education; studied law; was
admitted to the bar, and commenced practice at Fay-
ette, Missouri; was elected a representative from
Missouri in the Twenty-first Congress, serving from
December 7, 1820, to March 3, 1831 ; was kiUed in t
duel which he fought with Major Tliomas Biddle at
St. Louis August 26, 1831.
Pettis, S. Newton, was bom in Ashtabula
County, Ohio, in 18^; received an academical edu-
cation ; studied law with Joshua B. Giddings ; wasad-
mitted to the bar in Pennsylvania In 184S, and com-
menced practice at MeadvUle; was appointed )iy
President Lincoln an associate justice fur the Terri-
tory of Colorado, serving 1861, 1862; returned to
Meadville; was elected a representative from Penn-
sylvania in the Fortieth Congress (in place of Dar-
win A. Finney, deceased) as a Bepublican, receiviug
17,006 votes against 16,300 votes for Knox. Deini>-
crat, serving from Decemtier 7, 1868, to March 3,
1860.
Pettit, Charles, was bom in New Jertev in
1737; received a classical education; studied laiv,
and practised ; was secretary under Governor Frank-
lin, and was continued in office by (Jovemor Liv-
ingston until called by General Nathanael Greene to
serve as assistant quartermaster-general ; when Gen-
eral Greene resigned, he was tendered promotion as
quartennaster-general, but declined; after the war
he entered into business as an importing merchant
at Philadelphia; was a member of the State House
of Bepresentatives, and originated the debt-funding
system; was a delegate from Philadelphia to the
Continental Congress 1785-1787; died at Philadelphia
September 4, 1806.
Pettit, John, was bora at Sackett's Harbor,
Jefferson County, New York, July 24, 1807; received
an academical education; studied law; was admitted
to the bar in 1838, and commenced practice at La-
fayette, Ladiana; was a member of the State Honse
of Bepresentatives for two terms; was United-States
district-attorney; was elected a representative from
Indiana in the Twenty-eighth Congress as a Demo-
crat, receiving 6,403 votes against 5,985 votes for
Bryant, Whig; was re-elected to the Twenty-ninth
Congress, receiviug 6,260 votes against 6,745 votes
for Holmes, Whig; and was re-elected to the Thir-
tieth Congress, receiving 6,780 votes against 6.471
votes for Brier, Whig, serving from December 4,
184.% to March 3, 1840; was a delegate to the State
Constitutional Convention in 1850; was a presi-
dential elector on the Pierce and King ticket in
1852; was elected a United-States senator from In-
diana (in place of James Whitcomb, deceased), serv-
ing from January 18, 185.3, to March 3, 1855: was
appointed by President Buchanan chief justice of
the United-States courts in Kansas ; was elected in
1870 supreme judge of Indiana; the Democratic
party renominated him for the same position in
1876, but owing to scandals in connection with the
court, that excited popular indignation, he was
forced oS the ticket, and the name of Judge Perkins
substituted; he died at Lafayette, Indiana, June 17,
1877.
Pettit, John U., was bom in New Yoi*; re-
ceived a classical education, graduating at Union
College in 1830; studied law; was admitted to the
bar, and commenced practice at Wabash, Indiana, in
1841 ; was United-States consul at Maranham, Bra-
zil, 1850-1858 ; was appointed, on his return, judge of
the Upper Wabash Circuit of Indiana; was elected a
representative from Indiana in the Thirty-fourth
Congress as a Bepublican, receiving 9,389 votes
against 7,201 votes for Slack, Democrat; was re-
elected to the Thirty-fifth Congress, receiving 11,235
votes against 10,443 votes for Garver, Democrat; was
ro-eiected to the Thirty-sixth Congress, receiving
10,748 votes against 10,088 votes for J. B. Coflroth,
Democrat, serving from Decem1>er 3, 1855, to Match
3, 1861.
Peyton, Bailie, was bora In Snmner County,
Tennessee; received an acadeinicad education;
studied law; was admitted to the bar, and com-
menced practice at Gallatin, Tennessee ; was elected
a representative from Tennrasee in the Twenty-third
STATISTICAL SKETCHES.
671
Conffwss as a Whig; wju re-elected to the Twenty-
fiiurlU CouKress, serving from Derfml)er :i, ItviS, to
Marcli 3, is;!?; was aijiioinleil by President Taylor
ininister to Cliili, aerriDg August' U, If^Htf-Scptember
14, If.'iS; removed to New Drienna; was United-
States attorney fur the district of Louisiana; removed
to Sun Francisco, Califonua, where he practised;
returned In Tennessee; was a presidential elector on
the IJcIl and Kvi-rett ticket in mM).
Peyton, E. Q., of Copiah County, Mississippi,
presented to llie House of IJeprewntaiives on the
4th of June, ISOO, credentials sijined hy (Jovenior
Hunijihreys, declaring that he had been elected to
n^prescnt the Fifth District of Slississippi in the
Thirty-sixth I'oiiiiress.
Peyton, Joseph H., was born in Sumner Coun-
ty, Teiuiessce, in isi:!; received an academical edu-
cation: studied medicine, but soon abandoned his
profession for jioiitics; held several local offices: wius
k member of the State Senate; was elected a repre-
Dtalive from Tennessee in the Twenty-eighth Con-
F|^«M as a Whig, receiving 4,85.3 votes against 3,8A4
votes for Donelson, Democrat, serving from Uecem-
•wr 4, l*i;J, to March .3, 1845; was re-elected to the
Twen'y-ninlh Congress, hut died before taking his
Beat, ai Gallatin. Tennessee, November 12, \S4').
Peyton, Samuel O., was bom tu Bullitt
Counly, Kentucky, in ISOi; received a public-selioul
e4lucation; studied medicine; graduated at Transyl-
vnnia University in l!S27, and commenced practice at
Hartford, Kentucky; was a member of the State
House of Representatives in 1S33; was elected a
representative from Kentucky in the Thirtieth Con-
gress OS a Democrat, receiving (1,0t)8 votes mjainst
0,Vo6 votes for Waddill, Whig, serving fnim Decem-
ber (!. 1847, to March 8, 1841)'; was d(-feated os the
Democratic camlidate for the Thirfy-lirst C'ongress,
receiving a,87.S votes against S.O^W votes for .Johnson.
Wlii^;; was again elected to the Thirty-fifth Con-
gress, receiving 7,212 votes .against iullH votes for
Johnson, American; was re-elected to the Tliirty-
sistU (i^ongress, receiving 7,y;Jl) votes against 7,t(»f»
votes for Jackson, Araencnn, sen'Ing from Decera-
bcr7, 1857, to March 3, ItWl ; died at Ilartford, Ken-
tuekv. Januan- 4, 1870.
Pfielps, Charles E., was bom at Guilford, Ver-
mont, May 1, ls:j:j; removed with his parents to
I'ennsylvania in 1,'<;J7, and to Maryland in 1841 ; was
eductiied at private schools in Baltimore, at Prince-
ton College, and at the Cambridge Law School; con-
tinued the sttidy of law in Baltimore with Robert J,
Brent, Esr|.; was adniitti.'d to the bar, and com-
menced practice at Baltimori' in I8o,j; was elected to
the city council of Baltimore in IStiO; was major of
the Maryland Guard and volunteer battalion (many
of whose meml>ers afterwards joined the Con-
federacy), and resigned April lit, l.Sdl ; entered the
Union army in 1.H(!2 as liputenant-coloncl of the Sev-
enth Regiment Maryland Volunteers: was promoted
to the colouidcy in IstW; was brevetted brigadier-
general for gallant conduct at the battle of Spottsyl-
vania May .*<. 18<t4, in wliich he was wouiideti and
taken iiri8<jner. but afterwards recaptured by GeniTal
Sheridan's cavalry; was elected a represenlative
from Maryland in the Thirty-ninth Congress ns the
Uni-ui War candidate (succeeding Henry Winter
Davis), n'ceiving ll.;Jl:l votes lujainst 1,753 votes for
A. Leo Knott, Democratic and Peace candidate; was
re-elected to the Fortieth C^ongrt-ss as the Union
Conservative camlidttte, receiving 5,.545 votes against
4,5US votes for Joseph J. Stewart, Radical Repub-
liean. wlio contested the seat, but sulweriuenlly ivith-
drcw; pending this contest, lie d<;clined an execulivf
appointni<5nt as jud^e ef the Court of Appe-nts <>f
Maryland; after leaving Congress, he practised law
at 6:dtimore. holding no other public ollices than
the honoran,- ones of State manager of the Colored
House of Itefomiation, and commissioner of public
schools.
Phelps, Darwin, was bom at East Oranby, Cou-
necflcut; when quite young he hccarae an orphan,
anil went to reside with his grand-pun'nts in Portage
Co\uity, Ohio; received a pood education at tuB
Western University, and after studying law In
Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, with his kinsman, Walter
For^vard, settled at Kittauning, Pennsylvatda. io
ISiJi), devoting himself to the practice of his profes-
sion; he was a member of the State legii-lature lit
l.S.">5; he was a delegate to the Cbicoao Convention
of 18<l(l, and was elected a representative from Peuii-
sylvauia in the Forty-llrst Congress as a Republican,
receiving lH.tJt© votes against ll.()4lt votes for Mit-
chell, Democnit, serving from Majxh 4, 1800, to
March .!, 1871.
Phelps, Elisha (father of Jidin Smith Phelps),
was boni at Slmsbury, Conuecticut, Novi'mber 7,
17711; received a cl.issical education, graduating at
Vale College in li^lMj; studied law at Litchtield; was
admitted to the bar, and commenced practice at
.Sinisbury; was for several years a member of the
St.itc Senate and State House of Representatives,
serving as speaker In 1821 and 1820; wsis elected a
representative from Connecticut in the .Sixteenth
Congress ns a Democrat, serving from December 6,
181!», to March .3, 1821; was again elected to the
Nineteenth Congress; was re-elected to the Twen-
tieth Concress, scr\ing from December 5, 18i5, to
March :t, r8:;li; was State comptroller 18.30-l.S;i4; was
a couunissloner to n'vise and codify the State laws in
1*15; died at Simsbury, Connecticut, April iH, 1847.
Phelps, James, was bom atColebrook. Con-
necticut. Janiujry 12, 1822; received a thorough
academic education; was a student in the law de-
partment vt Yale College; was admitted to the bar
in 1845, ond practiseil until 18(i:!, during which time
he was several years judge of probate; was a member
of the State House of Representatives in 185:}, 1,864,
and 18151), and of the Stote Senate in l.SJS .-uul 1850;
w.is elected judge of the Superior C'r)urt of Con-
necticut in 18(J3 for a term of eight years, and re-
elected for a simil.-u' term in 1871 ; was elected judge
of the Supreme Court of Errors in 1873, and held
that oflice until he resigned in 1875, when he waa
elected a repri'sentative fr«m Connecticut In the
Fortv-fourth Congress as a Democrat, receiving
15,440 votes .Tgainst l.';,844 votes for S. W. Kellogg,
Republican, and ■hA) voles for Harrington, Proluui-
tionist; and was re-elected to the Forty-lifth Congress,
receiving l«,Gt)0 votes against 10,777 votes for S. W.
Kellogg. Republican, and 2tJ8 votes for Cunmiings,
Prohibitionist. ser%'ing from Decend)er(t, 1.875.
Phelps, John Smith (son of Elislia I'helps),
waa born at Siiusliury, Connecticut, Decemlier 22,
1814; rc^ceived a classical education, graduating at
Washington (now Trinity) College, Hartfonl, Con-
necticut; studied law with his father; was admitted
to the bar, and conunenced pra<'tice at Simsl)ury, but
removed in 184.3 to Springfield, Missouri: wasamem-
lM;r of the State House of Repivsentatives; was
a])pointcd in 1.841 brigade-major and inspector of
militia; was elected a representative from Missouri
in the Twenty-innth Congress as a Democrat; was
re-elected to tlie Thirtieth Congress; was n--i;lected
to the Thirty-first Congress, receiving 11,(X>2 votes
against .'i.84S votes for Winston, Whig; was re<'lected
I'l the Thirty-second Congress, receiving ,><,478 votes
against 6,(i(i7 votes for Woodson, Whig, and 2,036
votes for Shields, anti-Benton ; w,i8 re-elected to Uie
Tlijrty-lhlrd Congress, receiving 11,:JH2 votes against
.'V.4.'j8 votes for Price, Wliig; w.is re-<,'leeteil to the
Thirty-fourth Congress, receiving 8,;>12 votes agiiiiist
7,1»82 votes for Johnson, Benton Detnocrat; was re-
elected to the Thirty-fifth Congress, receiving 0,718
voti's against 0.011 votes for Emerson, American,
and 110 votes for Larrimorc, Benton Democrat; was
re-i-lecte<l to the Thirty-sixth Congress, receiving
1^,424 votes against 8,0.io votes for Richardson, Re-
pnblic.in; and was re-elected to the Thlrty-«<-vcnth
Congress, receiving ll,:3i)3 votes against 0,301 votes
for Bains, RepubQcou, serving from December 1,
CONGBESSIONAL DIBECTOBY.
1S15, to March 3, 18(53; served in the Union army as
colonel of the Twcnty-fifUi Missouri Vnhintecrs, and
was wounded at the buttle of I'eii liidge; was ap-
pointed by President Lincoln military governor of
Arkansas; was defeated as the Uemocratic candidate
for the Thirty-eighth Congress, recoixina; l.biO votes
against 3,i>T2 voles for lioyd, Emiuuipuliunist; was
api>ointed in li*i7 a commissioner to adjust the Indian-
war claims: was (lovernor of Missouri 1777-1781.
Phelps, Launcelot, was bom in Connecticut;
resided at Uitchcockville; was elected a representa-
tive from Connecticut in tlie Twenty-fourth Congress
at a Democrat; was re-elected to the Twenty-iifth
Congress, serving from December 7, ISOo, to Marcli
3, ItWi).
Phelps, Oliver, was Iwrn at Wimisor, Coii-
uectieut, in 174U; received a mercantile edueutiou at
Suflield, Connecticut; entered into uiercantile pur-
suits ut Granville, Massachusetts; ser\ed during the
IJcvolution in tlie commissary department of Mas-
sachusetts; in 1788 he purchase<l, with iissix'iates, a
tract of two million two hundred thousand acres of
land in the Genesee valley of Xew York; oiXMicd in
Canandaigua the tirst land-office in America, and his
system of suney by t-outiship ami ranges hua since
been followi'd by the (General Govenniicnt; in ITilo
Le, with iissiiciates, bought of Connecticut the tract
of land in Ohio known as the Western Heserve,
comprising three million three hiuidrcd thousand
acres; was elecled a repnisentative from Xew York
In the Eighth Congress, serving from October 17,
1803, to March 3, 18;i5; was a judge of the Circuit
Court; and died at Canandaigua, New York, Febru-
ary 21, ]8«)0.
Phelps, Samuel Shethar, was bom at Litch-
field, Connecticut, May 1:5, 171^: received a classical
education, graduating at Yale College in 1811 ; stud-
led law; served in the war of 1812 as a paynLister,
and aftcrwanls commenced practice at Middlebury,
Vennont; was a member of the Council of Censors
in 1827; was a member of the Legislative Council In
1831 ; wa« a judge of the Supreme Court of Vermont
1831-1838; was elecled a United-States s<-tiator from
Vennont as a Wliig, serving from December 2, ISi!).
to March :l, 1851; was ap|)ointed a senator (in place
of William Uphain, deceased), serving fmm Jatnmry
10, 18X3, until the Senate decidefl, Miu\-h HJ, IHM,
that he could not lioli] his seat by appointment; died
at Middlrburv. Vennont. March 25, 1S55.
Phelps, Timothy Q-., was bom in New York;
removed to California, and settled at San Mateo;
was elected a representative from California in the
Thirtv-seventh Congress as a KepuUican, serving
from July 4, l.'^til. to March .3. 18(33.
Phelps, William W., was born in Oakland
County, Mlcbi^iin, June 1, 182tl; recciveil a classical
education, grmluatliig at the University of Michigan
in 184(3; studied law; was axlniitted in the bar in
184.'*. and commenced practice; editi-d a Democratic
iiewspniM^r 18.>I-1K.'>,"); was county commissioner for
Oakland County 18o2 and 18i>3; was appointed by
President Pierce in 18.'>4 register of the United-States
land-otlice at Ited Wing, Minnesota: was elected a
I'epresentative from Minnesota in the Thirly-liflh
Congress as a Democrat, serving from May 22," 1H08,
to Alarch 3, 18.511; became the editor of "The Kcd-
Wiiig Sentinel " in 18(W); died in 1873.
Phelps, William Walter, hhs imm at New
York, August 24. l.SJK; was gradiialcil at Yale Col-
lege in ISCO with high honors; afterwani lie pursued
his studies in Europe, and later at Coluiiibia-CMllcge
Law School of New York, when; he received the vale-
dictory appointment of his class; then entered im-
mediately uj)oii the practice of law; he was a direclor
of the Natir>ual City Bank and Second National Hank
of New York, tlie United-Slates Trust C<mipany. and
Fanners' L<jan and Trust Company: also in tlie fol-
lowing railniad companies, — viz., Delaware, Lacka-
'Wanna and Westem, Oswego ami Syracuse, Synicuse
and Bingham ton, Cayuga and SusqueUanua, Inter-
national of Texas. Houston and Great Korrherv,
New Haven and Northampton, Moiris and Essex,
and others; he was elected Fellow of Vale College in
July, 1872, and was elected a representative from
New Jersey in the Forty-third Congress by a vote of
12,7'U against 9,08(3 vote* for A. B. Woodruff, st.-rving
from December 1, 187-3, to Marcli :>. iS7o; Wiis de-
feated as the Independent Kepublicuii candidate fur
the Forty-fourth Congress, receiving ll,tl7ll voir*
against 11,(377 voles for Augustus \V. Cutler, Demo-
crat.
Philips, John Finis, was born in Boone Coun-
ty, Mis.souri, December 31, IfVM; was educated at
the State L'niven<ity of Missouri, and at Centre Col-
lege, Danville. Kentucky, graduating at the latter
institution in 18o5; studied law with O-Mientl Jului
B. Clark at F.iyelte, Missouri, and practised at Sed,t-
lia, Miss<iuri; was a member of the Coustitutii>nal
Convention of Missouri in 18iil; was conimissiuned
as c< loncl in 18(>2, and omimandiHl a regiment of
cavalry in the Fe<lcral army until the close of the
war; was a delegate to the National Democratic
Convention at New York in I8(I)S; and was elected a
represf-ntative from Misstiuri in the Forty-fourtl»
(Jongress as a Di'UKKral, receiving 14,44ti vul<^«
ngiiiiist 12,1:32 voles for J.imcs H. Lay, IVopW*
candiilale, serving froni December 13, lb7o, to March
.■3, i.'^T7.
Phillips, Henry M., was bom In Pennsylvania;
received a public-school education; resided at Phila-
delphia; was elccteil a representative from Pennsyl-
vania in the Thirty-fifth Congress as a Democrat,
receiving 9,279 votes against K.-'itlO votes for Fi-uM,
American, serving fnmi December 7, 1N>7. to Manh
3, 1)S09; was defeated as the Democratic candliUte
for the Thirty-sixth Congress, receiving 6,461 toIM
ag;iiiist 0,749 votes for Miliward, Union.
Phillips, John, was bom in Chester County,
Peiiniiylvauia; resided at Humraelstown; waseJinrUsd
a representative from Pennsylvania iii the Seven-
teenth Congress as a Federalist, serving firmi De-
eemtier 3, 1821. to March 3, 1823.
Phillips, Philip, was bom at Charleston, South
Carolina, December 13, 1807; recciveii a cla.<>iic]il
education at the Military Academy at Norwich. Ver-
mont; studied law, and was admitted to the bariit
Charleston, December 14, 182.S: was a mem'ier of
the South-Carolina State Convention of 1832. «iiJ
voted against nullilication; was a meml>er of ilis
SUtle liouse of Uepresentatlves of South Carolius
in 1834 and ISIT); removc<l to Mobile, Alabama, and
practised law there; was president of the Mate
Democratic Convention in 1.S17; was a memlxT o(
the State House of Iteprescntatives of Alabama In
1844 ami ISiVl; was a member of the National Demo-
cnific Convention which nominated Pierce and King
in 18.j2; was elected a representative from Alalmias
In tlieThirty-tiiirdCongivssas a Democrat, recetvliil
4.880 votes against 4,777 votes for E. L<K-k«ooil,
Whig, and serving from Dccemlx-r 5, 18.03, to M.irch
3, 18.5.'), when he declined a re-election; he has itsict
pnietlscd at Wasihington City.
Phillips, Stephen Clarendon, was bom at
Sab'ui. Massacliusctts, N'ovcniber 1, l.SJl; recojvi.'J >
classical education, graduating at Har^anl Univirsily
in 1810; studied law, but became a men-haiit il
Salem; was a member of the State Hou.se I'f Kepre-
sentativcs 1824-1829, and of the .Senate in 18:30; w«
elected a representative from Ma8sachus<.'ll» lu lli«
Twenty-third Congress (in place of Rufus Cliual*
resigned) as a Whig: was re-elected to the TurulT-
frnirth Congress, and was rc-electi.-d to the Twenty-
fifth Congress, receiving 3,020 votes against 3,7ji
voti'S for all others, serving from December 1, HvMi
to l.S;iS when he resigned; was mayor of .Salciu
December, iaj8-March, 184i; was defeattJ »» llif
Free-sidl candidate for governor of Mns»iuhn»cl!>
ill 1>48 and 1849; was a meml>er of Hie .State hoafJ
of Education, and a trostee of the .Simii Laiiollo
Hospital at Wuroeater; engaged exteutively lu llio
STATISTICAL SKETCHES.
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InmlMjring business In Canada; and waa Inst by the
burning of the stfiamer "Montreal" ou the itiver
St. LiiwTfnce June 20, 1857.
Phillipaj William A., warf bom at Paisley,
Scotland, January 14, Ih2(); imini;;rate(t to the
United States with his father in 18:18; practistnl
Uw, and edited a newspaixir until hS.'ij; neiil to
Kaniuis on the staff of "The New- York Trilrune;"
entered t!ie Uiiii^u anny as major in ISdl ; c^nn-
luauded the Indian and other regiinenis durini; t!ie
war in the West; was a member of the State leicislu-
ture of KAnsas: w.ia elected a representative from
Kansas in the Forty-third Con'in.-ss as a Republican,
receivint; 07,114 votes against oij.274 votes for Laui;li-
lin. Democrat; and waa re-elected to the Forty-fourth
Coniiress as a Republican, receiving 20,0*7 votes
against 11,23:3 votes for M. J. Parrott, Democrat,
and 2,074 votes for N. Green, Independent; and
was re-elected to the Forty-tifth Congress, receiving
29.352 votes against l.'),(U2 votes for Thomas P.
Fentiiu, Democrat, scr%'ing from Deceratwr 1, 187:1.
Philaon, Robert, was bom at Dom-gal, Irt'land ;
inunigntted to the United States; was elected a
representative from Pennsylvania in the Sixteenth
Congr(>»s, serving from December 6, 1810, to March
3.1821.
PhcBHix, J. Phillips, was bom at Morristown,
New .Jersey; received a pnl)lic-5ehiiol education; en-
gaged In mercantile pursuits at New-York City; was
tor s<-veml years a member of the numtolpal govem-
tuent: was a presidential elector on the Harrison
and Tyler ticket in 1841 ; was elected a representa-
tive from New York in Iho Twenty-eighth Congress
as a AVhig, P.'celving 5,(J84 votes against 4,l.V}vote8
for Nioll, Democnit, and 2>» vote* for Kennedy,
Abolitionist. 9er\ing from Decomber 4, 1K4;J, to
March 3, 1845; was amcmlierof the State House of
Representatives in 1(J48; was again elected to the
Thirty-flrat Congress, receiving j.fiOl votes against
3,788 vi>lcs for Hart, Cass Democnit, and 7tt! votes
for Smith, Van Buren Democrat, ser\"iiig from De-
cember a, 1.84!), to March S, 1851; died suddenly, at
an a«lvanced age, at New- York City, May 4, 18.w".
Pickens, Andrew, was born at Paxton. Penn-
sylvania, .September 111, 17:iU; received a pulitic-
Bch<H)l education; removed with his parents in 17.')2
to the Waxhaw .Settlement, South Carolina; serveil
as a volunteer in Grant's exivdition against the
Cherokees in 1701; entered the Revolutionary anny
as captain, and rose to the rank of brigadier-generaf,
rendering distinguished senices throughout tlie war;
commanded an exp<'dition against the Cherokees in
17.82, by which he idjtaiiied a large ees-^ion nf terri-
tory; was a member of the South-Carolina House of
Representatives for several years; w.-u elected a rep-
resentative from South Carolina in the Tiiini t'on-
gress. serving from Dee(!mb«T 2, 170:t, to Mareli :).
17lio; was elected major-geiu'ral of niititia in 17Vl.'>;
was a commissioner to negotiate sevenil treaties with
tlie Cherokee linlians; and died in Pendleton Dis-
trict. South Carolina, August 17, 1817.
Pickens, Francis W., w.is Ixirn at Togmloo,
South Carolina, April 7. 1807; received an academical
education; studied law; was admitted to the bar in
182fi. and commenced practice In Edgetield District;
engaged largely ill planting, and paid mueli attention
t<i scientilic agriculture; was for several years a
meml^er of the State House of Representatives,
where he made a report in li<Vi that Congress, as
the mere agent of the several St.'ites, had no claim
to allegiance, and could exercise no sovereignty;
was elected a representative from South Ciirnlina
In the Twenty-thinl Congress (in pbice of Gciorge
McDuflie. resigned) as a Nnllilier; was rcMdcctcd
to the Twenty-fourth. Twenty-fifth, Twenty-sixth,
and Twenty-seventh Congresses, serving from De-
CemlKT 8. i8:U, to March .3. 184.'{; was a memlwr
of the State House of Representatives in 1844; was
a dcdegate from S<.iuth Carolina to the Southern
Convention at Nashville In It^ and 1851; was a I
delegate to the National Democratic Convention at
Cincinnati in KM; v,m> appointed by Mr. iluchanan
minister to Russia, serving fnmi .lanuary 11, 18.VS, to
September I', 18<10; when South Carolina seceded
from the Union, he was chosen governor, ami was an
active ailvocale of the Keliellion; died ut Edgelield,
South Carolina, .January 25, 1800.
Pickens, Israel, was iHim in Cabarrus (then
Meckleiilmrsr) County, North Carolina; settled in
Burke County; was a member of the State Senate
of North Carolina in ISOl); was elected a reiiresenta-
tivp from North Ciurdina in the Twelfth Congress as
a Democrat. rt>ceiving 2,070 votes against 2.:J42 vi>tes
for Felix W.ilker, and :i70 votes for I. H. Stencils;
was re-elected to the Thirteenth Congres-s, and was
re-elected to tin; Fourteenth Congress, scr%lng from
Novcml)er4, ISU, until March 3, 1817; was ,appolnt-
ed register of the land-office of Mississippi Territory
(which incluilett the jiresent State of Alabaiua) 1817;
was governor of Alabama 1821-1825; was app<^)intea
a senator in Congress from Alabama (to till the
vacancy occ:isioned by the death of Uenry Cham-
bers), ser^'ing from April 10, 1S20, until I>ecember
21, iei2«.
Pickering, Timothy, was Xmm at Salem. Mns-
auchusetls. .July 17. 1745; received a classical educa-
tion, gr.iduatiiig at Ilanard College in niU; studied
law; was .idinitted to the bar, anil commenced |irac-
(ice at Salem: t<jok an active part in pre-Hevohition-
ury movement*; was app<>iiite<l in 1775 ii judge of
the Court of ("ommon Pleas for Essex County, and
sole judge of the Provincial Maritime Court; entered
the Revolutionary amiy as colonel of the Essex regi-
ment, serving in New Jersey; was appointed l>y
Washington "adjutant-general May 24, 1777; was
elected by Congress, August 5, 1780, quartcrm.ister-
genera! (iis the successor of (Jciieral Greene); was
appointeil by President Washington to conduct
several negotiations with the Indian nations 171)0-
171)4; mui appointed by General Wiishington i>ost-
ma8ter-gcner;il Novc-mber 7, 1701, secretary of war
.January 2, 17i>4. and secretary of state December 10,
171)5. holding the last position until he was removed
by Pn'sidi-nt John Ailams May 111. 1.800; settled on a
fann In the b.ickwoods of Pennsylvania; relumed In
1802 tn M;issiii'liiisetta; was defeated as a candidiita
for the Eiglilh Congress by Jacob Crowninshield,
who received 120 majority; w.is elected a ITiiited-
States senator from Massaciuisetts (in place of
Dwight Fi>ster, resigned), and re-elected, serving
from October 17. 180:5, to March ;i, 1811; was de-
teate<l as a candid.ito for re-election as senator by
J. V. Varimm In Isll; was chosen by the legisla-
ture a member of the Executive Council; was elected
a representative from Massachusetts in the Thir-
teenth Congress as a Fedenilist, receiving 2,240
voles against 103 votes for all other candidates; was
re-electi'd to the B'oiu-teenth Congress, receiving a
large majoritv over a Democratic op|)onent. serving
from May 24'. 1813, to Manrh ;J, 1817; retired U) his
fann at Wenhain, Massachusetts, which he culti-
vated with his own hands; w.as the founder and
the first [iresideut of the Essex-county Agricultural
Society ; dieii at Salem, Massiichusetts, J.inuary 20,
182i). His " Life" was published l)y Ids son, Octjv-
viiis I'ickcring. in 1807.
Pickman, Benjamin, was bom in 17<J3; re-
ceived a classical education, graduating at Cam-
bridge in 1784; travelled in Europe; on his return,
sltidied law; was admitted to the bar, but soon
abandoned the profession, and devoted himself to
mercantile jiursuits; was a member of the State
Hou.s»? of Representatives hi 1800; was for several
years a member of the State Senate; was a member
of the Executive Council In 1807; was elected a rep-
resentative from Massachusetts in the Eleventh
Congress. serN-ing from May 22, 1805), to March 3,
1811; Wivs a delegate to the Constitutional Conven-
tion of 1820; died at Salem, Massachusetts, August
14, 1843.
Pierce, Charles W., was bom in N'ew York In
18'iy; removed to Illinois; served in the Union army
a? II lieiiteimnt of Illinois volunteer infantry; re-
mained in Alabama, and settled at Demo|>oliR: was
elecleil n reiu-esontative from Alabama in tlie For-
tletli t'ongn.-ss, servin-; from July 21, IWW, to Maruh
3, IffHt.
Pieroe, Franklin, wn« bom at Hillsboroucli.
New Hampsliirc, November 2;3, IfVH; received a
classical education, grodnatim; at liondoin C'ollece
In 18"<!4; studied law; was admitted to the bar In
]R27, and commenced practice at Hillsborough : was
ft member of the Stale House of Kepresentatives
lSint-lH:W, 8er%Mnt; the last two years as speaker;
was elected a reiiresentativc from New Hampshire iu
the Twenty-thint Congress as a Democrat on a gen-
eral ticivet, receiving 2.t,(iofl votes against 0,688 votes
for Anfhonv Colby. Whig, and 1,875 vot«8 for John
Oould, anti-Mason; was re-elected to the Twenty-
fourth Con.;;ress, serving from December 2, 1833, to
March 3, ISi"; was elected a United-States senator
from New Hamjishire, serving from September 4,
18:17, to 1H42, when he resigned; resumed practice
at ConconI, New Hampshire; declined the ]>05itioii
of attoniey-generul of the United States offered him
by President Polk in 1.S40; 8<Tved in the Mexican
war an colonel of the Ninth Infantry; was commis-
sioned brigadier-general in March, 1847, and re-
liiaineil in Mexico until the close of the war; was
president of the State Constitutional Convention In
IH.'ii); was elected President of the United States,
receiving 2.>4 electoral votes against 42 for General
Winlield Scott, serving from March 4, 1S.>{, to M.-irch
3. 18.>7; visited Europe in 1858-1800; lived in retire-
ment at Concord, New Hampshire, where he died
Ootolwr 6, 18(i9. Ilis biography was written by
Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Pierce, Henry Lillie, was bom at Stonghton,
Mass.achusells, August -^i, 1825; received a thorough
Englisli education; is a m.inufacturcr; was a mem-
ber of the House of Ileprcsentativesof Massachusetts
in 18(10-ll-(W; was an alderman of the city of Boston
in 1S7II and 1871 ; was mavor of Boston in 1873; was
elected a representative from Massachusetts in tlir
Forty-third Congress as a ne|mblicaii (to lill the
vacancy caused by the death of William Whiting).
having no organizeil opposition, and was re-elected
to the Forty-fourth Congress, receiving 8.011 voles
against 4.027 votes for B. Dean, Democrat, serving
frr)m December 1. 1873, to March 3, 1877; declined a
reniinilualion; was again mayor of Boston in 1S78.
Pierce, Joseph, was elected a representative
from New llampsliire iu the Seventh Congrt-ss. serv-
ing from Decetnber 7, 18U1, to 1802, when he re-
Blgn<'d.
Pierce, William, was bom In Georgia; served
iu tlie Itevnlutionary war as aiilo-de-camp to General
Nalhan.'U'l Greene, .-uid was presented with a sword
by Congress; was a delegate from Georgia to the
Continental Congr»?Rs 1780-1787; was a delegate from
Georgia to the Convention which framed the Federal
Constitution. He publisbe<l his imi>ressioDS of Con-
gress in a .Savannah newspaper, now in the Force
Collection in the lil>nini- of Congress.
Pierson, Isaac, was bom in Essex County,
New Jei-sey, August 15. 1770; received a classical
education, graduating at Princeton College in 17811;
Studied medicine, graduating from the College of
Sur^ieons ami Phvsicians at New York, and praclise<l
at Orange. New .iersey. for upwards of forty years;
was elected a representative from New Jersey in the
Twentieth Congress, receiving nearly 5,(KX) majority,
ami was re-elected to the Twentieth Congrt>ss, serv-
ing from December 3, 1827, to March 3, 1831; died
of apoplexy at Orange, New Jersey, Sept«mber 22,
1833.
Pierson, Jeremiah H., was bom in Essex
County, New .Jersey; removed to New York, and
settled at Karaapo; was elected a representative
from New York in the Seventeenth CongreM aa ft
Democrat, serving from December 3, 1821, to March
3. 1823.
Pierson, Job, was ham in New York in 1791}
resided at Schughlicoke ; was elected a represent atua
from New York in the Twenty-second Congrc5» as *
Jackson Democrat; was re-elected to the Tv^cntJf•
third Congress, serving from Deceml>er 5, ISJl, to
March 3. ISJo.
Pierson, John J,, resided at Mercer: wa»
electeii a representative from Peuiisylvaiiia in llM
Twenty-fourth Congivss (in place of John Bauk^
resigned ), serving from December 6, 1 8.30, tn Miifd
3, 18.!7. ^^
Pike, Austin P., was horn October 1«, 1810;
received an academic education; sluUied Inw, an(
was admitted to tlie bar of Merrimack County in
July, 1845. and practiseil at Frauklin; was a uieuilxsr
of the New-Hompphiri! House of Eepr<'S«-ntative» in
l^M. 1851, 1852, 1805, ond 1800, and S|K-aker of tht
Ilotisc the last two years ; was a memli'-r of tlie New
Htmipshire Senate in 18.i7 and 18.58. and pr«;sideut «
tlie Senate the last year; w.-is citaimian of the
Hepublicau Slate Committee in 1858 and ISM': vat
delegate to tlie Philailelphia Convention wliicli nonh
in.ited General Fremont in 18.V). and was elected
repri'sentalive from New Hampshire in the Forty-
thinl Congress as a Kepublican, receiving li),''.il
votes against 10,773 votes for Samuel N. Bell, Dennv
crat, serving from Decemlier 1, 1873, to Slanh :i,
1875: was defeated as the Kepublican candidate for
the Forty-fourth Congress, receiving I2,9;W volM
against 13,084 votes for Samuel N. Bell, Democrat.
E*ike, Frederick A., was born at Calais, Maine,
December l>, 1817; received a classical education;
studied law : was admitted to the bar in 1840, sod
commenced practice at Ctlais; edite<I "TheCaliil
Advertiser" one year from April 14, 1841; was i
member of the State legislature of iloJiie for several
years, serving one year aa speaker of the House; wai
State attorney for Washington Cotiuty; was elected
a representative from Maine in the Thirty-seventh
Congress as a Renulilican, receiving 0,420 roirf
i»gainst 7,708 votes for Bradbury, Democrat; was re-
elected to the Tliirty-<>iglith Congress, receiving WMH
votes against 8,217 votes for J. ^^^llte, DenKwral;
was re-electe<l to the Thirty-ninth Congress, rweiv-
ing I2,5t)0 votes against 8,8fl6 voles for J. While.
D»-mocral; and was re-elected to the Fortieth Coti-
gress, receiving 12,351 votes against 7,1173 votes for
Crosby, Democrat, serving from July 4. 18l»I, to
March 3, 180!); was again a member of the Sllitf
House of I!epresentaliv<'9; was defeated as the Lib-
eral Republican candidate for the Forty-third Coti-
fress, receiving 10.1118 votes against 14,181 vote* for
lugene Hale. Kepublican.
Pike, James, was born at Salisbur>-, Mawscbu-
selts. Novemlwr. 1818; received a cl.issical educ»lifta;
studied theology, graduating at the Wesleyun I'lii-
versity. Connecticut; was a minister in the Metlio<l-
ist-Episcopai Churcli 1841-1854; was elected » Trf-
resentative from New Hampshire in the Thirtj-
fourth Congress as an American, receivitig li,t\i
votes against 9,750 votes for G. W. Kitteiidcc. Detli-
ocrat. and was re-elected to the Thirty-tilth Cod-
gress, receiving 12,242 votes against 11,2<)0 voles fur
(;. W. KItteritige. Democrat, ?cr^■ing from Deceiiil*'
3, 185.5, to March 3, 1850; since the expiration of bu
term, has been an active member of the New-Bimp-
shire Methodist Conference, and presiding elder <>f
tlie Dover District.
Pile, William A., was bom near Indianaiioiiii
Indiana, Febni.iry 11, 1820; received an aaaeaic
education; studied theology, and was a clenginiii
of the Methodist-Episcopal Church, and a nieoilxr
of the Missouri C<mference; joined the Union »nD»
as chaplain of tlie Missouri volunteers in 1801; tjwk
command of a light battery in 18*32; was plsoed in
conirnand of a regiment of infantry, and WM pro-
moted to the rank of brigadier-general, sernof
throughout the war for tlie suppression of tlw Kr
STATISTICAL 81CETCHE3.
676
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I
belHon; was elected a representative from Missouri
in the Forlietli Congress as a Republican, rwi'iving
6,72.S votes Oiininst 11,510 votes for Uocan, Consorva-
Uve, senin« frinn Marcli 4, lSil7, to March S. IWIH;
was defeated «» the Republican candidate for the
Forty-first Coujiress, receiving t),5.'>8 votes against
O.T.ii votes for Kn»stU9 Wells. Democrat; was ap-
pointed by Pn-sidi-nt Grant jjoveninr of New Mex-
ico, ser^'in:; ISiill-lSTO; was n])poinieil minister resi-
dent at Venezuela May ii. IS71. and resigned In 1S74.
Pilsbury, Timothy, was bom at Newbury,
Massaeliuselts, April l:i. I'fil; received a public-
school education; was clerk In a store; went to sea
as sailor and i\» mate, and was captain of a brig on a
cruise to Euroi>e: removed to Maine; was a member
of the 8tate legislature of Maine and rif the Execu-
tive Council; was defeated as a candidate for Con-
frress In the Eastport. Uistrici; removed to Ohio,
thence to Louisiana, and thence to Brazonia, Texas:
■was a mcml)er of tiie House of Representatives, and
then of the Senate of the republic of Texas; was
elected a repn-senlative from Tex.is, on the admis-
sion of that .Stale, in the Twenty-ninth Cimgress, as
a Calhoun Democrat, receiving; 43 majority; and was
re-elected to the Thirtieth Consress, scrvhig from
June 10, IfMfl, to March 3, ltHO;Vas defeated as the
Calhoun-Deraocral candidate for the Thirty-first
Coneress. receiving 2.13.} votes against 4.120 votes
for Volney E. Uoward, Democrat. 2,700 voles for
■Williamson. Democrat, ami 721 votes for Hugh Mc-
Leod, Democrat; died near Danville, Texas, Novem-
Ijer ^i, 18.V.
Pincbback, Percy Bysshe Shelley, was
born in CJiiorgi* M.iy 10, ISH; was taken when
young lo New Orleans: received a good English
education at ttilmore's High School, Cincinnati;
was a delegate to the State Constitutional Conven-
tion of Louisiana in 1887; was a delegate from
Liouisiana in the National Republican Convention at
Chicago in 1806 ; was a member of the State Senate of
Louisiana in 1888; w.is apftoiiited by Pi-esident Grant
registrar of tlie land-o(Bce In Louisiana, but de-
clined; was electod December fl, 1871, lieutenant-
Bovemor of Louisiana (to till the vacancv occasioned
Ijy the death of Lieutenant-Governor liunn); was
acting govi'mor of Louisiana during the impcich-
Inent of (Jovenior Wannnuth in 1K72; was elected a
Uniteil-Slates senator from Louisiana January 1."),
1^3, and was again elected in January, 1874, but he
was not admitted to his seat.
Pinckney, Charles, was lx>m at Charleston,
South '.'arolina, M:iri-li II, 1758; received a cl.issical
education at tlie sclioul of Dr. ()liphant; studied law
with his father. I 'olonel Charles Pinckney. and was
adinitteil to the bnrin 1770; was a member of the Pro-
vincial ieirlslature 177V>-1780; was taken prisoner by
the British in 1780; was a delegate to the Continen-
tal Congress 1777-1778, and again in 1784-1787: was
a memi>er of the Uidted-States Cfinstitutioiud Con-
vention in 1787; was a memlwr of tiie State Conven-
tion by which the l-'ederal Constitntion was ratified
in 1788, and of the State Constitutional Convention
lu 17110; was governor of South Carolina 17.8t>-171>2
and ni>0-l7!IS; was elected a United-States senator
from South Carolina as a Democrat, defejifing Gen-
eral Pickens, and serving from February 10, 1707, to
December 19, 1801; was minister to Spain January
12, 18iX)-May 21, 1805; was a member of the State
legislature 1806; was governor of South Carolina
1806-1808; was a mem"l>er of the State legislature
1810-1814; was elected a representative from South
Carolina in the .Sixteentli Congress as a Democrat,
defeating two Federal opponents, and serving from
Decemlier 0, 1811), to March 3, 1821; he retired to
private life, and died at Charleston. South Carolina,
Fei)niary i6, 1822. He published a pamphlet in
support of Mr. Monroe's election to the presidency,
and his "Travels in Europe."
Pinckney, Henry Laurens, was bom at
Charleston, South Carolina, Septeml>er 24, 17t)4 ; re-
ceived a cla.ssical education, graduating at South-
Camlina College in 1812; studied law with ids
brotlier-ln-law, Robt/rt Y. Ilayiie; w.is admitted to the
bar. and commence<l practice at Cliarleston ; was a
memlx'r of the State House of Kepri'sentalives 1816-
18:12; was mayor of Charleston in lS'i2; wa.s elected
a representative from South Carolina in the Tweuty-
thlrd (Congress as a Whig, ami was re-elected to the
Twenly-fourtli Congress, serving from December 2,
1833. to Marcli 3, 18.'J7; wius again mayor of Charles-
ton in 1839 and 184'i; was collector of the port of
Charleston, and ilied there Feliruary 8, 180;).
Pinckney, Thomas, was born at Charleston,
South l.'ariilina. OcloIiHr 2:5. 1750; received a elassl-
oal ednealion in Eniilunil. iin-idualing at Oxford
Univeisity; studied law at llie Temple at Lmidon;
was .■uluiilted to practice as a barrister; returned to
South Carolina, and commenced practice at Charles-
ton In 1773; served in the Revolutionjiry amiy, at-
taining the rank of major, and was wounded and
taken prisoner at the battle of Gum .Swamp In 178t);
declined the ix)8ilion r,t United-Stat<'S district-judge
offered 1dm iiy President Washington in 1789; waa
governor of .South Carolina 178l>-i702; was minister
to Great Britain January 12, 17i»2-July 28. I7U0; was
mituster to .Spain November 24, 1794-Novemi)er,
nW), negotiating the treaty of San Idelfonso; was
elected a representative from .Soutii Carolina in the
Fifth Congress (in place of William SmiLli, resigned)
OS B Federalist, and was re-elccte<l to the Sixth
Congress, serving from November 23, 1797, to March
.3. 1801; was appointeti major-general at the com-
mencement of the war of 1812, and placed in com-
mand of the Southern Military Division, serving
throughout the war; dieii at Charleston, South Caro-
lina, November 2, 1828.
Pindilll, James, was bom in Virginia: wiis
elected a representative from that State in the Fif-
teenth Congress as a Federalist; was re-elecli'd to
the Sixteentli Congress, serving from December 1,
1817_, to 1820, when lie resigned.
Pinkney, William (grandfather of William
Pinkney Whyte). was l)om at Annapolis, Maryland,
March 17, 17fi4; received a classical education at
King William .Scho<d (now St Jolui's College); left
his father, who was loyal to King George, and be-
came a clerk In an apotliecary's sliop at Baltimore,
where he commenced tlie study of medicine under
Dr. Dorsay; he attracted the attention of Judge
Chase at a debating society, and was persuaded bv
him to study law; was admitted to the liar in 178«,
and commenced practice in Harford County: was a
meml)er of the State Constitutional Convention in
1788, and of the State Hou.se of Delegates in 1780;
was elected a representative from Maryland in the
Second Congress, but olijectlon was made on the
ground of non-residence, and he resigned Novemijer
b, 1701; was a member of the Executive Council of
Maryland 17^2-1790, and again a member of the
House of Delegates in 1795; was one of the commis-
sioners at London under Jay's treaty 171X1-1804; was
attorney-general of Maryland 1805; w.as joint minis-
ter ptenipoteutiary to Great Britain with James
Monroe l.80(i-1807, and minister plenipotentiary 1807-
ISH: returned to the United States in 1811; settled
In Baltimore; was a memlier of the State Senate;
was atloniey-genenil of tlie United States Deceml)er
11, Iftll-Febninry 10, 1814; commanded a battalion
of volunteer rillemen in Stnnsbury's Marylaml Bri-
gade in 1814, and was wounch-d In the i)attle of Bl.v
densbui-g; was elected u representivtlve fnmi Mary-
land in the Fourteenth Congress, serving from
January 8, 1810, to April 2.'5, 1810, when he resigned
on being appointed minister plenipotentiary to the
Two Sisllies; was appointed minister plenipotentiary
to Rujisia March 7, 1816, which position he hcUl
until February 14, 1818; was elected United-,sttttes
senator from Maryland (to fill tlie vacancy occa-
sioned by the death of Alexander C. Hanson), and
took his seat January 4, 162U, serving until iiis ileatb
676
COKGRES8IONAL DIEECTORY.
at Wasliington. caused by over-exertion in arguing a,
casi' licfurc tin- .Snpn-nie Court, February 2"), i8'J2.
Pinson, Riohaxd A., of Pontotoc County, Mis-
siSfcippi, presented to the House of liepresentiitives
on tlie 4tli of .June, IStifl, credentials signed l)y Oov-
enmr Uiimphreys, declaring that he had l)cen elected
to represent Ibe Second District of Mississippi in the
Thirty-sixth Conj^ress.
Piper, William, was elected a representative
from Pennsylvania in the Twelfth Congress as a
Democrat, receiving 4l:{ majority over John Rea,
DeniocriU; was re-<>lect^d to the Thirteenth and
Fourteentli Congresses, serving from November 4,
Dill, to Maroli :< 1S17.
Piper, William A., was lx>rn in Franklin Coun-
ty, Pennsylvania, in 182."> ; volunteered at St. Louis,
Missouri, in lii^i, ami sert'ed in the Mexican war;
removed from St. Louis to California in 184,h, ami,
after the sprin;j of l!*4il, resided in .San Fnuicisco;
engaged in general business; was elected a rei)re-
■entative from Califoniia in the Forty-fourth Cin-
C9 as a Democrat^ receiving 12,417 votes against
1 votes for Ira P. Rankin, Republican, and (i.liK!
rotes for John F. Swift, Indciwndent ; wxs defeated
M the Democratic candidate for the Forty-fifth Con-
gress, receiving Ut.liiW votes against 22,114 vuloa for
Horace Davis, Itemiliilc.an.
Pitcher, Nathaniel, was Iwrn at Litchlield,
Conneclicut, in 1777; removed to Sandy Hill, New
York; was a meral)er of the State Qouse of Repre-
sentatives in 1800, 181,Vlt!(17; was a del^pate to the
State Constitutional Convention of 1I<I21; was elected
lieutenant-governor of New York in 1820, and be-
came acting governor on the death of Governor
Clinton, serving from Felirurary, 1827, to January,
18211; was elected a representative from New York
in the Sixteentti Congress as a Democrat; was re-
elected to the Seventeenth Congress, serving from
December 0, ISli), to March 3, 182;); was again
elected to the Twenty-secon<l Congress, serving from
December 5, 18.')I, to March 2, isil; died at Sandy
Hill, New York, May 2.->, IKW.
Pitkin, Timothy, was bom at Farmington,
Coinu-cticut, in 170.5; received a classical education,
graduating at Yale College in 1785; studied law; was
admitted to the bar, and practised at New U-iven;
was for several successive years a member of llie
State House of Representjitives, serving live sessions
as speaker; was elected a represenlAtive fmm Con-
neclicut In the Ninth Congress as a Kedenilist; was
re-*lected to the Tentli, Eleventh, Twelfth, Thir-
teenth, Fourteenth, ami Fifteenth Congresses, serv-
ing fi-om Dece7uber 2, 18(>5, to March 3, ISIO. He
published "Statistical View of the Commerce of the
United States" 1810. and revised In ISM; and " Po-
litic.il and Civil History of the United Slates 1703-
17117."
Pitman, Charles W., was born in New Jer-
sey; removed to Pennsylvania, and resided at Potts-
vllle; was elected a representative from Pennsylva-
nia in the Thirty-first Congress as a \Vliig, receiving
10,203 votes against 8,182 votes for Docken,-, Demo-
crat, serving from December 3, ItWl), to March 3,
18.")1.
Plaisted, Harris M., was l>oni in Jefferson,
New Hampsliire, Novembi.'r 2. 1828; was brought up
on his father's fiu^m. working summers, and teaching
school winters; graduated at Colby University in
1863, ami at the law-school of the University of
Albany in 18.55; was admitted to the bar, and com-
menccil practice at Uangor, Maine, In IMO; served
In the Union army throughout the war as colonel of
U»e Eleventh Maine Volunteers, and as brigiuller-
general and m.ijor-general by brevet; was a member
of the .State legislature in 18«i7 and 1808: was a dele-
gate from the State at large to the National Repub-
lican Convention at Chicago in 1808; was attorney-
general of Maine in 1873, 1874, and 1875; and was
elected a reprosenutive from Maine In the Forty-
foiuth Congress (to fill the vacancy occasioned by
I the death of Samuel F. Her«ey) as a Republican, R»
! Ciivlng 10,735 votes against U,700 votes for James C,
Mailigan, Dem(.>crat, serving from Decemljer 0, 187-1,
to Marcli 3^877-
Plant, David, was bom at Stratford, Conni
cut; received a classical education, graduating
Yale College in 1804; was a member of the Stal
House of Representatives in 1811) and 1820. serving
speaker; was a member of the State Senate 1S21-
1.823; was lieutenant-governor of Connecticut ISSS-
1827; was elected a representative from Conneeticul
in the Twentieth Congress, serving from December
3, 1827, to March 3, 182«; died at Stratford, Connect-j
icut. Uctolicr 18. IK')1.
Plants, Tobias A., was honi in Benver Coiui-
ty, Pennsylvania, March 17, 1811; was self-educatecl;
taught school ; studied law, and commenced practice
at Poraerov, Ohio; was a member of the State legls-
hiture of Ohio In 1858, 1859, 1860, and 18(51; wu
elected a representative from Ohio in the Thirly-nhith
Congress as a Republican, receiving 12.847 votes
against l),5tU votes for James M. Morris, ttemocrat;
and was re-elected to the Fortietli Congress, receiving
12.810 votes l^ainst 10,752 votes for Follett, Demo*
crat, ser%-ing from December 4, 1805, to March 3,
18t'.i).
Plater, Qeorgre, was bom in Maryland in 1738}
received a cla.ssica! education, graduating at William
and Mary College in 1753; studied law; was admitted
to tlie bar, and practised at Aiuiapolis ; was a del(
gate from Maryland to the Continental Congreiti
1778-1781; was a delegate to the convention which
ratified the Federal Constitution in 17S8. and its
president; was governor of Maryland in 1792; di«d
at AnnaiKilis, Maryland, Februaiy 10, 1702.
Plater, Thomas, was lK>ni at Annapolis. Msry-
land; held several local offices; w,as elected a repre-
sentative from Maryland in tlie Seventh Congrea;
was re-elected to the Eighth Congress, serving from
December 7, 1801, to March 3. l.S.)5.
Piatt, James H,, jun., was bom in St. John's,
Canada, July 13, 18;H7, of parents who were Ameri-
can citizens, and residents of Vermont; received so
academic education; graduatctl from the medical
deptirtment of the University of Vermont in ISW;
in 18*11 entered the Union army as first sergeant of
the Third Vermont Volunteers; became captain of
Company B, Fourtli Vermont Volunteers, and served
on tlie staff of Major-tkineral Sedgwick its acting
chief quartemiasler, Si.xth Army Corps. uiilU tht
death of that otHcer; was taken prls<.iner May ;;<),I!<»1,
and belli until the following December; w.is Ap[K>iiU-
ed lieuteminl-colonel, and assigned to duty us cbicf
quartermaster of the Sixth Corin, and, di>cliniug the
same, was honorably discharged the service; settM
In Petersbun;, Virginia, April 0, 180.5; was ilectol »
mcmlierof the Constitutional Convention of Viixini*
in 1807; served as a memlier of the city council of
Petereburg, and as a member of the Board of Edu-
cation; removed to Norfolk; was elected a represMj-
tative from Virginia in the Forty-first Congress as a
Radical Republican, receiving 10,781 votes agaioit
11.2.55 votes for Gmlwin, Con8er^■alive, and 2,738
votes for Bayne, Indejicndent; Wiis re-elected to lie
Forty-second Congress, receiving 15,5<.I5 votes aeaiiut
10,002 votes for R. B. Boiling, Democrat; and wii
re-electeil to the Forty-third Congress as a Repub-
lican, receiving 15,55:1 votes against 10,328 votes for
B. P. Lee, Democrat, serving irom January 27, 1870,
to March 3, 1875; was defeated as the RepubUesD
candidate for the Forty-fourth Ccmgress, iteelTiHf
13,3(H) votes against 13,521 votes for John Oooit,
jun.. Democrat.
Piatt, Jonas, was bom In Oneida Connty, Nwr
York ; resided at Whitesborough ; wa> ; rejh
resentative from New York in the > :r«*
serving from December 2, 1799, to ii...... ... iM\
was appointed a justice of the Supreme Court «
New York Febmary 23, 1814; died at Peru, Jfe*
York, Joue 10, 1S34.
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STATISTICAL SKETCHES.
BTt
Piatt, Thomas C, wag bom nt Oweeo, \ew
York. July 15, liSiW; rfueived an academic education
at the Owe;'ii Academy; was a mmnl)er of the class
of lSo3 of Yale College. New Haven, but witlidr<,'w
in Ills junior year on account of ill liealtli; folluwi-d
mercantile pursuits after he left college; was presi-
dent of the Tiopa National Bank; w.ia extensividy
cngascd in lumberinij; in Michigan; was cuunty-clerk
of the county of Tio.;a in IKJli, liivllO. and 180i: was
electee! a representative from New York i:i the Forty-
tbinl Congress as a Republican, receiving Ut.UU') votes
against 13,400 votes for M. Goodrich, Lilieral and
DemiK-rat; and was re-elected to the Forty-fourth
CouCTess, receiving ly.TiiU vot<?s against IS.DIS votes
for Jones. DeinDcrat, serving from December 1, 1873,
to Slareh .S. 1S7T.
Piatt, Zephaniah, was bom in Dutchess Coun-
ty.NewYork; received a classical education; studied
law: W.1S admitted to the bar, and practised: was a
delegate from New York to the Continental Congrt.'ss
IT'^U-lTmt; was judge of the court of the district in
whicli he lived until advancing years warned him to
give up active labor; he then retired to his handsome
estate on Lake Champlain, where he founded the
town of Pliitt.il)urg. and died there.
Pleasants, James, was bom In Virginia In
IViiM; received a thorough English education; stud-
ied law; was admitte<l to the bar, and commenced
practice at Goochland Cotirt House; was a member
of the State House of Uopresentativcs in 1790; was
clerk of the House 1803-1811; was elected a repre-
sentative from Virginia in the Twelfth Congress us a
Democrat; was re-tderted to the Thirteenth, Four-
t*enth, and Fifteenth Congresses, 8er\ing from No
vember 4, 1811, to March 3, 1810; was elected a Unit-
ed-vjtates senator from Virginia (in place of John W.
Epi>es, resigned). 8er\-ing from December 14. ISllt, to
March 1. 1822, when he resigned; was a delegate to
the State Constitutional Convention l8iM>-lS;J0; died
hL-ar Goochland Court House, Virginia, November 9,
ISJUl
Plumb, Preston B., was bom in Delaware
Coujity. Ohio. October 12, 18;^7; receive<l a common-
schoi.l education: learned the art of printing, and
afterwards aided in establishing "The Xenia News;"
removed to Kansas in liS.J<l: established "The Empo-
ria News;" was a nieml>er of tlie Leavonworlh Con-
stitutional Convention in 1,Sj9; was adinilleil to the
bar in 1801; was elected to the lower House of the
legislature in 1802; and was chairman of the Judi-
ciarj' CNimmittee, and subsequently reporter of the
Supreme Court; in August of the same year, etitereil
the service as second lieulen.int in the Eleventh
Kjiusas Infantry, and served successively as captain,
major, and lieuttMiant-colonel of that regiment; was
a member and speaker of tlie Kansas House of IIei>-
resentatives in 1*17, and also a mcmlxT in the fol-
lowing year; having relimpiished the practice of the
law on account of failing health, he becime presi-
dent of the Emporia National Rank in Januarj-, 1873;
was elected United-States s<>nator from Kansas as a
R<-pub]ican (to succcihI James M. Han-ey. Repul)-
lican), and took his seat March 4, 1877; his term will
expire March 3. 188:1.
Plumer, Arnold, was bom in Pennsylvania;
refid-'d at Fniiikiin: was elected a n-presentative
from Pennsylvania in llie Twcnty-liflh Congress as a
Democrat, serving from .September 4. 18;17, to March
Z. 1SJ9; was again elected to the Twenty-seventh
Congress, receiving 24'1 majority, serving from May
31. 1841. to March .!. 1843.
Plumer, Qeorgre, was l>orn in Alleghany Coun-
ty. Pennsylvania; rL-sided at Kobbst<iwti ; was elected
a repri'sentativo frtim IVnnsylvanla in the Seven-
teenth Congress as a Democrat; was re-elected to the
Eishteenth Congress, defeating Alexander W. Foster;
was re-elected to the Nineteenth Congress, serving
from December 3. 1821, to March .3, 1827.
Plumer, William (father of William Plumer),
was bom at Newbiiryport, Massachusetts, June 25,
17.50; romove<l with his father to Epplng, New
Hamiishire, In 17(18; received an academic education ;
studied law vrith John Prentiss at Londonderry;
was oilmitted to the bar in 17.87. and commenceu
practice at Epping; fliled several town-offlci-s; was
a meml)er of tlie .State House of Representatives in
I78.j,178.S. 17\X). 1701, ma, 1798, 18(K),and 18i)I. serving
two years as siH-ukcr, .and was president of the State
.Senate in 181i> and 1811 ; was a member of the New-
Hampshire Constitutional Convention in 1791-1792;
was State solicitor for Rockingham County, which
office he resigned when elected" to the United-States
Senate (to fill the vacancy occasioned by tlie resigna-
tion of James Sheafe), serving fr<mi Decern l)er (1. 1802,
until Mareh 3, 1807; was governor of New Hump-
shire 1812-1813 and 1810-1819; was a presidential
elector in 1820, casting his vote for John Quincy
Adams (the only one in op|)ositlon to the re-electiou
of Pr<?8ident Monroe, to whom he ol)jected on account
of his financial recomniendations); devoted the Init
thirty years of his lifi.' to literan,- pursuits, ami died
at Epping, New naraijshire. December 22, IHoO. He
published, during the hisl thirty ycirs of his life, nu-
merous contributions to the pflriodlcal press, signed
"CIncinnatus." an "ApiMjal to the Old Whigs,"
and "An Address to the Clerg>-." Hia life, edited
by Rev. A. P. Peabody, D.D., w.-is published in 1850.
Plumer, William (son of William Plumer), wa«
bom at Epping, New Hami»shire. Oclfiber 9, 1789;
received a classical education, graduating at Cam-
bridge In 1800; studied law with liis fatlier; wa« ad-
mitted to the bar, but was never known as a pnuv
tising lawyer; was repeatedly elected a member of
tlic State laenate or House of Representatives ; was
elected a representative from New Hampshire in the
Sixteenth Congress as a Democrat; was re-elected to
the Seventeenth Congress, and was re-elected to the
Eighteenth Congress, serving from December 0, 1810,
to Mureli 3. 182.5; was a delegate to the State Con-
slitutinual Convention in 18o0; and died, after a brief
attack of ilyseutery (never before baring known a
day's iniiisposition). at Epping. New Hampshire, Sep-
teml)er 18. I8;>4. He published " Youth, or Scenes
from the Past, and other Poems," "Manhoml," &c.,
a series of pfM'ms.
Plummer, Franklin E., was bom In Virginia;
received an ot'ademical education; studie«l law; was
lulmilted to the l)ar, and commenced practice nt
Westville, Mississippi; was elected a representative
from Mississippi in the Twetity-second Congress;
was re-elected to the Twenty-third Congress, serving
from Decemlier S, 18:!1. to "March 3, 1835; became
very i)oor, anil died at Jackson, Mississippi, Septem-
her 24, 1802.
Poe, Washingrton, was elected a representative
from tieorgia in the Twenty-ninth Congress as a
^VTilg, receiving 4,952 votes against 4,81.S' votes for
Chapiiell. Democrat; he never took his seat, but re-
signed "on account of imperative personal engage-
ments."
Poindexter, George, was Ixim In Loudon
Couiily.Virginia, in 1770; studied law; was admitted
to the bar. and commenced practice in tiie Territory
of Mis.sissippl in 1.SJ2; was elected a delegate from
Mississippi Territory in the Tenth Congress as a
Democrat; was re-elected to the Eleventh Congress,
and was re-elected to the Twelfth Congress, serving
from October 20, 1807, to March .3. 1813; wos apjioint-
ed United-.States judge for the Territory; served on
General Jackson's stiUT in the war of 1812; w^ns elect-
ed a re|)resent.itive from Mississippi in the Fifli-enth
Congress, serving from December 1. 1817, to March .'J,
1810; was governor of Mississippi 1819-1821: was ap-
iminted a Uniteil-Srates senator (in place of Rol)ert IL
Adams, decease<l), and sulnequently elected, 8<!rving
from December 0, 1830, to March 3, 1835; removed to
Lexington, Kentucky, where he practised a few years,
anil then retiimiMl to Jackson. Mississippi; fought
a duel with a merehant named Abijah Hunt, and
kUJed him ; died at Jackson, Mississippi, Septumber
678
COXOEESSIOXAL DIRECTOKr.
ft, l^Vi. He published a revised code of the Uws of I
lii<<si?si|ipi.
Poinsett, Joel Roberts, was bom at Charles-
tun. (v.>ut)i Carulina. March 2, 1h9; was takeu to
Xnslaml I'V bi? jurviits when a ohjld, retumine to
C'li.irli'ston in ITSS; w.is etlucatinl at <• •■ ' ' '■ •■-
. nectiout, umlor Prvsivlent Dwicht; 1
him to travel in 17^1 in Europe, » i i
f moUcine and military affairs; was ap|iuinieil l>y
Pr««ii'lent Ma«Uson in '1Sj9 to visit Soatli A'Hprica. !
rLiin the prospects of the rev. ' -
iming to South Carolina, he Wa-
ll.^.;....... Uoustfof Ilcpnsentatives: was a {,.- .^... ...
\ Tneautaoa, and an officer of the General Grand Hoyal
t Aicb Chapter; was electt«I i rppresentative friim
'South CaroUna in the S-
Fedet^iat, defeating Gv' :
•iectcd to the Eishteenili i '
•Htlority over Saroiiel Warren.
" 8,1831, to M;irvh " i-J"
' eomroissioti :
>1I««1bo IsiVl*?^ :
tlfardi
■id » » »
Carolina, IX
'NbtaB OD Mexic<.>.'
MS am
MfCflCflL
Congress as a
>; and was n>-
- • iving Sl'tl
rii IK-cem-
ii.l nn a
lister
: Van
MiTch 7, 1S57.
ification. seces-
-' Slat«aUiuK,
MtbUaked
'nber of e»-
and ORationa on manufactuns, a^cultore, and
Poland, Ijlike P., was bom at WestfonL, Yer-
moDt, November ]. 1815: received an academie edn-
tkOoa; Kodied and pncdaed law; wa» regiNerof
fTCteM«(I.anMUleOoiuity fat lOB and 1840; waa a
■Mmber vi the State OwwlfciHfcaial Coavcttthm o<
TernK<nt in I84.<t: was ppotcatlng iltofwey to 18M
and ti>4,'>: was judse of the SoprsMe Ooart of Ver-
aoot from bHH to ias«. and in 1810 ns made diief
jMte; icerfied in M0t Ike decree of dodor of
Ia«« twom tkt Uaiicnity o< TcniHrt; vaa >|ipnhit-
ed » PniMd-eutfea ■miinr Craai Tenwmt (in ptaee
of Jaeok OaOHBcr, deeeaaed^ Mrrtag from Dmcb-
bOT 4. MOB, to Marcft 3, laST: waa deeted ft NfreM^
tattn tnm TenMUl in the FaftieUi Ooaoew m a
»twMii — . lecriTi^ WJStt re«ea tffkimml^ w>m
forChaae,DeaocrBt: waar»«lMlcdtotkeraiy-aa>
reeeiTiag l&,40rT votes agiriMt &,lSd «M«
t, Denwcral: was re-elected to tke Ftaity-
I Omtii M. meitiug ia,<19 rotes against SJDS
Cor L. S. Partridge. Democnt; and was i»-
I to Ike Forty-tkird Coagress. lecieiiiiig 11,070
9HMta.fl» notes for H. W. Stode. IndepsMd-
•Bt, awl %/tm votes fcr J. W. FteR«. Dwoual,
■errii« (RNft Marek 4. 1887. to Man* 3, UCS: wm
defsfttod as a BtpaMltsn candidate for Ike fottf-
faaotk Cb^^caa, lecaiviM 'Mm rates wainsl 8,95
fcr L. P. Ma—e, Dwtf at; ««• • delcssM ta tka
Xadoaal ntaaklfcja Cwurenihm at rtarlaaall to
ISTtk
I>oUc Jam«B KnOK (brotker ed WiHsM H.
Polk), was boni near Little Soar deck. .Mi^f >li a
hmtf Coutjr, Xortk Owdina. llevcmber X, V»
wtmwitk tJM fstkw to Tl ■■ Ml I to laid^
«< Noitk ftwMni to
lav at XtokTiBe witk Ftefix Grandy;
I totfce tor la laaa. aad i iitomini i i pcm
ef Ik*
itotka _
laiainnatoil
a DfiHit llitliitm ,fams T.
Xorember, 1844. raceiving 170 electanl TOtaa
105 electoral votes for Henry Clay: wtm iaaoganul
March 4. ItMo, and declined a leaomlnation : diol M
NashviUo. Tennessee. June 1&. IMfiL His life, I9
John ti. Jenkins, and a history of his ndratnisaaicai,
were published in \<iO.
Polk, Trasteo, was bom in Sotoex Oovaly,
I)el.iu-are. Mav :;!>. 1811: received a Hssrieil «dMa-
lion, graduating at Yale CoUe^ ia 1831; sUldM It*
at Vale Law School; was admitted to Ike bar te Mt^
and commenced practice at St. Loaia, Missuaii; w
a deiegato to Ike State CoiMtiintiaiuU Cuiwatfaa
in 1^45: was a presideatial elector on IkeCkmaad
Butler ticket in 1.S48: was elected gweemor of Mk-
souri. and inaogorated in Jannaiy, MSi. hot aatk
after resigned : was elected a United-Stoles seoaliv
from Missouri as a Democist, serring triMa Mairk 4,
ls'>7. to Jjnn.trv In, i^n, wkeo ke assn|allnt
Polk, William H. (hniiker of Jaaacs Kan
Folk), was bom in Mamy Coon^, l^twesaae, Mjif
■24. lsi'>: received a dtoiirsl uliii aiiiiii iisihislltft
at the UniTetsity of Teaoeaaee; stndird law; wai
admitted to the bar ia l^B, aad rnmntnmd fnojet
at Columbia; was appoioMd by PtesMeot ^kr
minister to Kapiea, acfriag Xarcb IX Idtf-AnM
81, 184i7; serredto tbeJfefiesawarasm^larcftlM
Third Dtagoooa, serring Aogaat SI, l«47--J«ly M
lSt8: was elected a npceaeBtative fraoi Tiniirnai
in the Thiny-seooad Coapeas as a DeoMcnt, necir-
iiig 4,8U rotes aninst 3,8iS nNca Cor n«m«k
Deaioietat, serring bigaa Deecmkcr 1. I8tu to MMcft
8. 1SS3: WM opmeed to wMstton to 1881; «el M
Ksshville Deoonber 18, 1882.
Pi>Ilanl, Hfloiy M.. vaa kom at PIjwmiIl
Windsor Oonnty. Vermoiii. Jaae 14,1886; nscM
iag In I8BT at tke srleatitfr <nmrwia» of
Monik CnliM ; setredlntfceUntoBaimydndaglhf
war as malar of the BgkCk Wtiknul et TnMst
Tokuuen; Istnted In^mnlketa Ike fall<tf iMk
aad kas sinee Kskhd ftcre, practiiiBg tow; suds*
elected a reyscaeatatiTe bam Mimjail In the Ibny-
aflk Omgrma as a BeiwMeaa. nceiTl^ MLSd
nxe* a9daatIft,8a8vMcs for R. A. Da Bolt, DtW'
ciat. Rrring ftvai Octokm- IS. 1877.
Foltocit. JwBMaa, aas krnn to Ft— ylwah; w
OoOege hi MM; niiliii at Ifikaa; *m a ja^gtd
tke Ccoit of Oomnm Pleas; waa electtd a iiMtto
mill fiiiw riiiiMiliiiils la ikiiTaiali liikanw
(to ftoee af Hcarr Mck. Aseeamrf) M a «Ue
to tke Taimij ateik aad IWda
rtas baa A|dl S, 1-H4. to KaMtt
»«; was elected guaeuM as a Tnioa gtf^Mfaa a
18M. icceMi« SMJHS mtes
iBiSR;
JGttd
wassnskMBd 1
FbHiilrtfkls gn-l8W.
Palatal. I>*aaBl.«to b<« am
ginia. "iirmhii JJT. 1888; iiaUsed 1
Ta-
STATISTICAL SKETCHES.
679
I
I
I
tatlve from Iowa in the Forty-first Congress as
H Republican, receiving 1(1,77.1 voles asjainst (1,'257
votes for lt>issell. Democrat, servinjj from March 4,
18<1», to M:ucli ;{. 1S71.
Pomeroy, Samuel C, was bom In Southamp-
ton, ilaisacliusetls, Jniiuarv 3, 1810; was educated
at Amherst College, Massachusetts; went to New
Vorlv. wlir-n- he resided for some years, and returned
to Mass.ielius«tts, where he held several l<x*:il otliees;
was a member of the legislature of Massachusetts in
1.S52; was an organizer and the chief financial agent
of the New-England Emigrant Aid Society; went to
Kansas, and was Idontilied with its organization ; was
eleeteil United-States senator from Kansiis as a Re-
publi an, an<l took his seat in IStU ; and was re-elected
lit liMT, serving from March i, 1861, to March S,
1873.
Pomeroy, Theodore M., was bom at Cayuga,
Xew York. UecenilK'r :!1, 1^J4; graduated at Hamil-
ton Colleire, New York; studied and practised law;
■was district-attorney of Cayuga County from l^W to
lfy>.l; was a member of iho General Assembly of
New York in li^il; was elected a representative from
New York in the Thirty-seventh Congress as a Re-
publican, receiving 14,4.J7 votes against 7,(1111 votes
lor Boardsley, Democrat; was re-elected to the Thir-
ty-eiglith Congress, receiving 1.3,8:)4 votes aiiUnst
ll.lOii votes for Hadley, Democrat; was re-elected to
the Thirty-ninth Congress, receiving l('i,t>i!7 votes
against 11,832 votes for Cuyler, Democrat; and wa.<*
re-elected to the Fortieth Congress, receiving li),18tt
votes against 11,404 votes for liumphrcvs, Democrat,
B<.Tving from .luly 4, 18!J1, to March 3, isfiO.
Pond, Betljamin, was a native of the State of
New York; received a public-school education; was
a member of the State House of Representatives
ISOli-iyiO; was elected a representative from New
Turk in the Twelfth Congress as a Democrat, with-
out opposition, serving from November 4, 1811, to
llarch :i, 1813; was again elected to the Fourteen tli
Congn-ss. hut died before taking hie seat, at Schroon
Lake, New York, June 14, 1815.
PooL John, w;is bom in Pasquotank County,
North (Carolina, June Iti, 1820; pnuiuated at tlje
University of North Carolina in 1847; is a practising
lawyer; w.os eleclf?d to the Stale Senate In ISoO, re-
eleelcd in 1S>8, ancl again in 18(M, and again In WiTi;
■was a member of the State Cotislitulional Conven-
tion In 18(i.'>; was the Whig candidate for governor
of the State in 18i>ii; was elected United-States
senator from North C.irolina in lH\n; and wiis re-
elected in 1808, and iiuallticMl and took Ills si«at in
July, IStJS, serving from July KJ, ISO^, to March 3,
1875.
Pope, John, waa bon> in Prince William Coun-
ty, Virginia, in 177"; having lost an ann by accident,
he St \id led law; w;is admilled to the bar, ami com-
menced practice at Springlield, Kentucky; was for
several years a member of the Stale House of Repn--
aentallves; Wiis a (iresiilcritial electonm the Jefferstm
ticket in IS'll; wiis elected a Unitcd-Stat<» senator
from Kentucky as a DeniiK-rat, sen-ing from October
Sn, 18 i7, to March ;). 18i;l; was appointed Territorial
governor of .\rkansas is^ll-is:}.'); returned to Spring-
field: was eh'Cteil a reprt-sentalive from Keutueky in
the Twenty-fifth Congress as a Democrat, defi'.iting
U.irdin, Whig; was re-elected to the Twenty-sixth
Congress, r^eceiving 200 majority over Robert C
Palmer. VTliig; wius re-electod to the Twenty-seventh
Congress. s«.'r%ing from Se)ilember 4, 1*^7, to March
8, 18+5: w.TS defeated as (be Independent candidate
for llio Twenty-eighth Congress, receiving 2,S3S
Votes against 4,872 voles for Stone, Democrat, and
8,701 votes for Grigsby, Wlilg; died at Springlield,
Kentucky, July 1;;, 1845.
Pope, Nathaniel, was bnm at Louisville, Ken-
tucky, in 1784: received a classical education, gradu-
ating at Transylvania Univcrslly; studleil the French
language, and law; was admlitcd to the bar, and
itumeaced practice at St. Genevieve, Missouri, 1804;
was appointed secretory of the Territory of nilnois
in 18iH), and removed to Springlield; was elected a
delegate from Illinois Territory in the Fourteenth
Cons;ress; was re-elected to the Fifteenth Congress,
serving from December 2, 1810, to December 4, 1818;
was apiKiinled United-.States judge for the District
of Illinois in 1818, and occupied that position until
his death at Springlield Jiuie 14, l.s^JO.
Pope, Patrick H., was born in IStlS; resided at
Louisville; w;is electeii a representative fnun Ken-
tucky in the Twenty-third C'ongri'Ss as a Jackson
Democrat, receiving 1.704 votes against l.d'.K) vote*
for H. Crittenden, Cl.ay Democrat. ser\ ing from De-
cember 2. 1833. to March 3. ISio; was <lefeated at
a Demneratic candidaK; for the Twenty-fourth Con-
gress; died at Li>uisville, Kentucky, May 4, 18-11.
Poppleton, Earley P., was'bom in Richland
County. Uhlo, .September 2t», 18;>4; was educated at
the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware; studied
law at Klyria, Ohio, where he commenced practice;
removed in iwll to Delaware, where he residi'd, and
practised his ])rofession; was on the Denicjcratir elec-
toral ticket from the Eighth Congressional Disirii-t
in 18<IS; was elected to the St.tte .Senate of Ohio in
1870 to nil a vacancy; and wa.s elected a ri'prescnt.v
tive fnmi Ohio in the Forty-fourth Congress as a
Democrat, receiving 11,027 votes against ll.lliy voles
for J. W. Robinson. Republican, and l.O-WJ votes for
U.-irrod, Prohibitionist, serving fnun December t),
187 •!, to March 3, 1877; was defeated as the Demo-
cratic candiiiate for the Forty-tifth C'ongress, receiv-
ing 10,175 votes against 15,978 votes for jidin S.
Jones, Iiepnblican, and 308 votes for Levi L. Benson,
Prohibitionist.
Porter, Albert G,, was bom at Lawrencehurg,
Indiana, April a), 162-1; received a classical educa-
tion, graduating at Asbury University in 1843; stud-
led law; was admitted to the bar in 1845, and com-
menced pnictlce at Imliaimpoljs; was e<mncilman
and corjioration attorney; was apixiinted in 18,')3 re-
porter of the Supreme Court of Indiana; was elected
a representative from Indiana in the Thirty-sixth
Congress as a Bepuiillcan, receiving 10,770 votes
against 9,710 votes for M. M. Kay. Democrat; and
was re-elected to the Thirty-seventh Congress, re-
ceiving 13,029 votes against" 11,8.87 votes for R. L.
Walpole, Democrat, serving from December 5, i)>>\).
to March .3, lSt)3; was defeated as presidential eleetiT
on the Hayes ticket in 1870; was appduted by Presi-
dent Hayes first comptroller of the treasui-j- (in place
of R. A. Taylor, dece.asi-d) March 5, 1878.
Porter, Alexander J., was iiorn near Armagh.
Ireland, in 1780; his fallier, who was a clergjinan,
having lieen executed as a raemlier of the Society of
United Irishmen, he was brought to Nashville when
a lad by an uncle; he received a public-school educa-
tion; w.TS a clerk in a store; studied law at night;
was ailmittcd to the bar, and, by advice of General
Jackson, located in Attakap,is. Louisiana; was a
delegate to the Convention which fnimed a State
Cunstitulion ; was a judge of the State Supreme Court
for lifteen years; was e!ecte»l a United-States senator
from Loulsiaiiii as a MTiig {In place of Jost'ph S.
Johnston, deceased), serving from January 0, 1834,
to January o, 18;{7, when he resigned; was again
elected a Unitisl-.siales senator l)y a Democratic legis-
lature, serving from December 4, 1843. to January 13,
1844, when he died of ussiUcatiun of the heart at
Attaliapsis, Louisiana.
Porter, Ausrastua S. (son of Peter Buel Por-
terK W.1S born at (.'iinaiidaigua, New York. January
18, 17118; received a classical education, graduating
at Union College in 1818; studied law; was ad-
mitted to the bar, and cf>mnienced practice at De-
troit, Michigan; was mayor of Detrtdt in 18;J8; was
elected a United-States senator from Michigan as a
VTiug, serving from December 2, KSii), to March 3,
184-j; removed in 1848 to Niagara Falls, the residence
of Ills fivtlier.
Porter, Charles H., was bom in Cairo, New
580
COKGBESSIOXAL DIBECTOBY.
York: received an academic edacntion; waa a atn-
dciit at tbe Law Uaivereity at Albany, New Yoric,
in 1K">2-1853; practiaed law lii Greene County until
lh« spring o( IKII, wiien lie entered the Union anny:
aettlfHl at Xorfolk, Virginia, and was attorney for
Uie Commonwealth tliere frrmi October, l.s<i:{. until
January, 1870, and attorney for the city (or one year;
wa» a memlicr of the Constitutional Convention of
Vircinia in 18tS7 and l&Si; and was elected a repre-
Benfative from Virj{inia in the Forty-first Congress as
a lU'pulilican. receiving 17.311 v<iti-s against lo.OU
votes for Ilnnnicutt. Conservative. Sl.j fur Mulford,
Indep<.'ndent Democrat, ami 2.JI for C'xik, ludi'p<'nd-
enl Colored; was re-elected to the Forty-wcond Con-
Kre*». receiving 1.5,.>>; votes against Ki,tj.)7 votes for A.
Oniway, Democrat, and 5 seattcrini; votes, servina
from January 27, ls"70. to ManOi ;{. lh7-3: was defeated
as the IiuleiMMident candidate for the Forty-third Con-
Kress. receivint; 13 votes a^inst 1.3.;jSKi votes for Wil-
ani n. H. .Slowfill. Republican, and 8,(X}d votes for
P. \V. MrKiimey. Dctnocrat.
Porter, Gilchrist, was bom in Virginia; re-
moved to Missouri, and resided at Bowling Green;
was elected a representative from Miswjuri in the
Thirty-second Congreas aa a VThia, receiving 0,68U
votes against 6,878 votes for Henderson, Democrat,
scrvinij from December 1, 1851, to March 8, 1853;
was defeated as the Whig candidate for the Thirty-
third Congress, receiving 6,224 votes against 7,OIj7
votes for Lamb, Democrat; was again elected to the
Thirly-fonrth Congress, recelving8,110 votes against
0.«77 votes for Coni'"'ck, Democrat, ser^-lng from De-
cember 3, IKJo, to March 3, 1857.
Porter, James, was bom at Willi.'unstown, Mas-
sachusetts; received a classical education, graduating
at Williams College; studied law; w.-is admitted to
tlie bar, ami commenced practice at .Skaneateles, New
York; was a niemlier of the State House of Keprc-
sentatives in 1814 and 1815; was elected a representa-
tive from New York in the Flfteenlli Congress, serv-
ing from Decemiier 1. IS17. to March 3, 1810; was
apiiointed register of the Court of Chancer)- at Albany,
and held the j>i>9ilion until his death at Albany.
Porter, John, was bom in Pennsylvania; was
elected a representative from I'lnn-tylvania In the
Ninth Congress (In place of Mich.iel l><-il). resigned);
was re-eiected to the Tenth and Eleventh Congresses,
serving from DecemlxT 8, l8<J<i. to March ."1, 1.811.
Porter, Peter Buel (father of Anguslus .S. Por-
ter), wiis bom at Sallsburj'. Conneoiirut, in 1773;
received a classical educalion. graduitting at Yale
College in Hl'I; studied law; w.is a<lniiited to the
bar in HU'i, and commenced practice at Canandalgua,
New York; w.is elected a representative from S'ew
York in the Eleventh Congress as a Democrat, and
was re-elected t/> the Twelfth Congress, receiving
l,l(i8 majority, serving from May 22, ISiiy, to Marcli
.3, 1813; served as major-gener.il on the frontier
■luring the war with Great Itrilnin, and distinguished
himself in several battles; was appointed by Presi-
dent Mailison In 181.1 commander-in-chief of the
army, but declined; was again elected to the Four-
teenth Congress, serving from December 4. 1815, to
18KI, when he resigned; was commissioner under the
treaty of Ghent in 181i); was sjcn-tarj- of state of
New York 181&-1810; was apiKiinted by John Quincy
Adams Becretai7 of war, ser\Mng from May 20, 1828,
tp March 0. 182t»; was one of the early pMJectors of
the Erie Canal; died at Niagara Falls, New York,
Man-h 20, 1><U.
Porter, Timothy H., was bom at New Haven,
Connecticut; removed to Olean, New York; was a
member of the State House of Itepresentatives 181(3-
1817. and of the State .Senate 1823; waa elected a
representative from New York in the Nineteentli Con-
gress, serving from December .5, 1.82.5, to March 3,
1827; was again a meml)er of the State Senate 1828-
IS^il, and of the State House of Ilepreaentatives
ia38-1840.
Posey, Thomas, was bora on the banks of the
^Hiiik
Potomac July 9, 1730; received a pabll<--«ehooI
cation ; was county-lieutenant of Spottsyl vania Cooii*
ty, Virginia; p.irticlpated hi the earfr Indiaa
French war, an^ I ■ itevo" ~
receiving the ^i
17113; removal !■■ IV. 11. iiLh> . n lu. .--liinr
four years lieutenant-governor; waa major-gencral
command of the Kentucky levies in IMOO;
to Louisiana; was appointed a Unitetl-Statcs aeitattir
from Louisiana (in place of John Noel Destntiatt,
resigned), serving fr.>ni Deoemlx-r 7. 1812, ti> F«b-
ruary .5, 1813, when his successor tuok his seat; wtt
app<')lnted governor of the lndi.iv t. ..-,-,. „- xr,;
1813; was appointed Indian a^' d
the fiosltion until bis death ai -^ Qi
nois, March 111. 1818.
Post, Jotham., jun., was bom in Xew Tt
received a classical education, graduating at Coli
bia College; was a member of the State House
Representatives mH-lTVl; was elected a rvpreseni
tive from New York in the Thirteenth Conxreas as a
Federahst, serving from May 24, 1813, to ^larcb 3,
181.5.
Poston, Charles D., was bom in Hardin Coi
ty, Kentucky, April 2,>. 1.825: receive.! - ■■' ' ;cb(
education; removed to California ii. .< ei
ployed in the San Francisco custom . , r foi
years; went to Arizona in 1854 to engage in nl
mining; was appointed superintendent of Indii
affairs for Uio Territory; was el. ' Ii-gate
Arizona Territory in the Thirt> ngress as
Republican, seniug from DececuL.,.. i. ....jo.to Marcli'
3, I8<"5.
Potter, Allen, was bom in Saratoga Coimty.
New York, October 2, 1818; received a pnblic-school
cducatioti; removed to Michigan in 1838, and located
at ICahiraazoo in 184.5; has been engaged in mano-
facturins. mercantile pursuits, and banking; vu
elected president of the village in 1850, 1HB3.
and 1872. and president of the local Board of
tlon in 1870 and 1.871; was elected president
Kalamazoo and South-Haven Hailniail Company W
l.H7(); and was elected a repnsentative from Michi-
gan in the Forty-fourth Congress a.s -- ' ' ' •
candidate. iK^minated by the Deniocr
receiving 13.317 votes against 12.278 \ _
C. Burrows, Republican, serring from December tj,
1875, to Marih 3. 1877.
Potter, Clarkson Nott, was bom in Schenec-
tady. New York, in 1825; grjulualed at I'nii-a Col-
lege.(of which liis grandfather. !' ' T''--' ■ '^' "
was president, and his father, 1.
was vict'-president ) in 1.S42; gni
selacr Institute as a civil engineer iu 184>j, lUnl vant
surveyor in Wisconsin; studie<l law in that Si
and. lifter coming to the bar, commeti'
of his profession in New- York City i:
puldic offices, but was engaged in u
cases; was elected a representative from New Yort
In the Forty-tirst Congress as a Democrat, receirinj
10.53:$ votes against 12,703 votes for Bradley, Kepob-
lican ; was re<'lectcd to the Forty-second Congre*
receiving 14.249 votes against 10,0.85 votes for J.
Westervelt, Republican; and was re-elected to tin)
Forty-third Congress as a Democrat, receiving 1.5,11*9
votes against 14,2t)0 votes for E. Flagg. liepiiblicau,
serving^from ilarch 4, 1.S09, to March 3, 1875; %u
again elected to the Forty-fifth Congress, reoeivin?
lii.178 votes against 11,100 votes for Geonw B-
Brandreth, Repul)lican, serving from Octob^ 15,
1877.
Potter, Elisha Reynolds (father of EUshai
Potter, jun.), was bom at Little Itest (now South
Kingston), lUiode Island, November 5, 1704; iru i
blacksmith's apprentice, a fanner, and a soldier, la
early life; studied law, and, after liaving l)eeu ti-
niitted to the bar. practised at South Kingston: «»!
a member of the State House of RepresentativM in
1793. and for thirty years thereafter, with occasloail
break; was elected a representative from RlMidl
i
STATISTICAL SKETCHES.
581
' Island in the Fourth Congress (tn place of Benjamin
Bonnie, resigned) as a Fi'iicralist: was re-elect*-!! to
tlie Fifth CoTigress, serving from December 10, 17110,
to 1797. when lie resigned ; wus again elected to the
Eleventh Congress; was re-elected to tlie Twelfth
Congress, receiving 1(53 majority; was re-elected to
the Thirteenth Congress, serving from Mttv 22, 1808,
to March 2, 181o; \\:\s defejiled aa candidate for
eovemor of lUiode Island in 1818; died at iSouth
Kingston, Rhode Island, September 20, liSM.
Potter, Elisha R., jun. (son of Ellsha R.
Potter), was boni at Kingston, Rhode Ishuid, Juuo
20, 1811; receivwl a classicul education, gradualing
at Uarvard University in 1K50; was for several years
a member of tlie State House of Iiepre8<'ntaiives;
was State odjutant'generai in \f^i5 and 183(1; was
elected a rei)reseuti\tive from Rhode Island in the
Twenty-eighth Congress ns a ^\^lig, receiving 1,U0(5
majority, serving from December 4, 184;$, to March
^vS, 1840;" was State commissioner of public schools,
^■■er\-ing from May, lS4it, to October. 18.54, when he
^■resigned that he might devote himself exclusively to
Ills profession. Has published "The Early Uistory
of Narraganset," "Paper Money in lUioilo Island,"
and sevenU mjsjiv! on public schools and suffrage.
Potter, Ehnery D,, wjis born in Ohio; i.lU(liod
^_law; wjis admitted to the bar, and commenced proc-
^■tice at Toledo; was elected a repn'sentative from
^Kohio in the Twenty-eighth Congress as a Democrat,
^■receiving 4.874 voles against ;!,850 votes for Tilden,
^BWhig, ser\'ing from December 4. 184:i, to March 3,
^BlS4.5; was again elected to the Thirty-Hrst Congress,
^■receiving 7,()29 votes against 4.24(1 votes for Fitcoh,
^^Free-tjoiler, serving from December 3, 184U, to March
3, ISol; was appointed by l^resident Uuclianan
Unit»?d-State8 judgo for the Territory of Utali.
Potter, John F., was boni at Augusta, Slaine,
May 11, 1817; receiveil an acidcmio.U education;
^vMudied law; was admitte<l to the bar in 18;j7, and
^■Bonunenoed practice at East Troy, Wisconsin ; was a
HBtaember of the State House of Representatives in
'■ 185<J; was elected a representative from Wisconsin in
the Thirty-fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving
^13,111 rotes against 12.814 votes for Hodley, Demo-
rat; was re-elected to the Thirty-sixth Congress,
eceiving 14,428 votes against 1 1,171 votes for Browii,
Democrat; and was re-elected to the Thirty-seventh
[Congress, receiving 10.1i)7 voles against 13,508 votes
for Arnold, Democrat, serving from December 7,
llS07, to March 3, \S(Vi; was defeate<i ns the Kepub-
IliCJUt candidate for the Thirty-eighth Congrvss, re-
l^iving 12,18«! votes against 14,;j;{4 votes for IJrown,
democrat; was appointed governor of Ncbriiska
iTerritory by President Lincoln, but doclined, and he
Mros then appointed consul-general of the United
IStates fnr the British I'rovinces in North America.
Potter, Robert, was Imni in Granville, North
ICai'olina: entered the United-.Stjites navy as a raid-
laliipnian Match 2, ISlo, and resigned March 2(J,
1S21; studied law; was admitted to the bar, and
ommenccil practice at Halifax, JCortb Cartdina ;
ras a member of the House of Commons of Norlli
■Carolina in 182(1; was elected a representative in
Ithe Twcnty-tirst C(mgress as a Jackson Democrat,
Iterring from December 7. 1820, until Miircli ;5, ISJI ;
noved by jealousy, he committed a brutal maim on
[two male relatives of his wife August 28, ]S;J1, for
rhich he was sentenced to six months* imprisonment
land the pavTnent of one thousand doll.^^s' fine; re-
laoveil lo Texas, where he was killed in a disrepn-
rtable private quarrel.
Potter, Samuel J., was bom in Rhode Island
In 170(1; was a prcsideutial elector in 17!t2 and in
I 17r»7: was elected a UMited-<Stales senatorfrom Rliode
^Klsland. seniug from October 17, 1803, to October 1,
^■18!)4, when he die<i.
Potter, William W., was bom in 1790; re-
sided at bellefonle; was elected a representative
^ from Pennsylvania in the Twenty-fifth Congress as a
^U)emucrat, receiving 0,882 votes against 0,703 votes
for Williamson, Wliig, serving from September 4,
18:17, to March 3, l^iU; was n?-elected to the Twenty-
sixth Congress, n^ceiving (l,.517 votes against 0,it>3
votes for William Irvin, VVhIg, but died before tak-
ing his seat, at Ucllefonte, OcioIht 28, 18:50.
Pottle, Emory B., was l«;im at Na]ile«. Xi'W
York; received a liberal education; studied law ; was
admitted lo t!ie bar, and practised at Naples: was a
meuiber of the State House of liepresenlatlves in
1847; was elected a representative from New York
in the Thirty-fifth Congress as a Republican, nrciiv-
ing 1),.'5(>8 votes against 3,8(17 votes for Ogden, Demo-
crat, and 4,21! V'tes for Oliver, -Vmerican: was re-
elected to the Thirty-sixth Congri;ss. receiving 8..')'..'8
votes against 7,173 votes for Ogilen. Democrat, sen-
iug from December 7, 1857, to March 3, 1801.
Potts, David, jtm., was burn in Chester Coun-
ty, Pennsylvania, in 1703; resided at Pottstown; was
elected a repri-sentativc from I'ennsylvania In the
Twenty-second Congress as a Wliig and anii-Masi.n;
w.TS rv.M;locted to the Twenty-thinl Congress: «iis
re-elected to the Twenty-fourth Congress, receiving
l.-lLo votes ogiUnst 1,(K:8 votes for John Morgan,
Democrat ; was re-elected lo the Twenty-fifth Con- ^
gress, serving from December 5, 1831, to March 3,
18:51); died at Pottstown, Pennsylvania, January 17,
1N13.
Potts, Richard, was bom in M.irj-land: was a
delegate to the Conlin<'ntal Congress in 1781 and
1782; was elected a United-.States sen.ilor from Miiiy-
tand (In place of Charles Carroll, resigned), serving
from l-'obruary 4, 1703, to Marvh 1, 1700, whe:i lie
resicrnerl.
Pound, Thad C, was Inim »t Elk. Pennsyl-
vania, December (i, 183:5; received an .academic ■■liu-
calion at Milton Academy, Wisconsin, and Kushf.Md,
Alleghany County, New York; removed tu Rock
(;>iunty, Wisconsin, in May, lisM, and eug.iged in
the manufacture cf luml)er anil the mercantile lufi-
ness, being president of the Union Lnnibering C'ln-
pany, and of the Clilppewa Falls miil Western Rail-
way; W!is a member of the Legislative Assembly of
Wisconsin in 18(i-l. 1800, 1807, and 1800, serving ihe
last year as Si>eaker })ro taiipvre : was lleutennnt-gov-
ernor of Wisconsin 1870 and 18(1; W8» a delegJite to
the Republican National Convention at Philadelphia
In 1872; and was elected a representative fnim Wis-
consin in the Forty-fifth Congress as a Republican,
receiving 14,8:58 votes against 13,800 votes fortieorge
W. Cato, Democrat, serving from OctolR'r l.'i, 1877.
Powel, Samuel, was elected a representative
from Tennessee in the Fourteenth Congress, seizing
from December •), 1815, to Man!h ;5, 1817.
Powell, Alfred H., was bom in Loudon County,
Virginia. March ti, 1781; received a classical educa-
tion, graduating at Princeton College; studieil law
at Alexandria, Virginia; was ndmitled to the bar in
181M), and commenced practice at Winchester; w-as
for several years n member of the State House if
Representatives; was elected a re])rescntative from
Virginia in the Nineteenth Congress, serving from
December B, 1825, to March 3, 1827: was a delegate
(o the State Constitutional Convention of 183(J; was
stricken down by apoplexy while arguing » ease
before the Chancery Court at Winchester, Virginia,
in 18:51.
Powell, Cuthbert, was tiom at Alexandria,
Virgiida, in 177il; was mayor of Alexandria; re-
moved to Loudon County; was elected a repre-
sentative from Virginia in the Twenty- seventh
Congress as a Whig, ser\ing from May 31. 1841. to
March 3, 1843; died at Langollen, Virginia, May 8,
1841).
Powell, Joseph, was bom at Towanda, Penn-
sylvania, June 2:5, 1828; received a common-schoid
and academic eilucation; businefs in early life that
of merchant, subsequently adding that of banker
and coal-f)i>erator; had ni^ver held public ofiice until
elected a representative in Congress from a district
previously Kepublicou, and rcpreaeuted by Uou. D.
582
CONGBES8IOKAL DIRECTOBY.
Wilraot, Hon. G. A. Grow, ami lion. U. Morcur; he
was fleeted a rcprt'sciitative from Vennsyliariia in
the Forty-fourth t'oiigroKS as a Uennwrat, n-cciving
li!.183 votes Jigaiiist 12,082 votes for Laporte. Repub-
lican, ger\-iii^ fpim Decemt>er (J, 1875, to Mapch 3,
lti"T: was ilefeateci as llie Doinoeralic candidatu
for the Forty-tifth Congress, receiviiie 14.958 votes
against 10.1/54 votes for Edward Overton, jun.,
liijjublican.
Powell, Lajsarus W., was born In Henderson
County, Kciituclvy, October tl, 1S12; received a clas-
sical education, jrraduaJiiijj at .St. Joseph's College,
Bardstowu, in ISii; sliiclied law at the Transylvania
University; was admitted to the Imr in ISio, and
commenced pnu^lice at Henderson, carrying on his
plantation at the same time; was a memljer of the
State House of Representatives in IS30; was a
pn>9idential elector on the Polk and Dallas ticket in
1S44; was governor of Kentucky IH51-18.')5; was
elected a United-.States senator from Kentucky us a
Democrat, se^^'ing from December 5, liSoV. to March
3, ISttS; was a delegate to the National Union Con-
vention at Philadelphia in 18(10; died on his fann,
near Henderson. Kentucky. .luly 5, 1807.
Powell, Levin, was boni in Loudon County,
Virginia, in iTX; si-rved throuvrh the Il<-volutionar}'
war as an otiicer of the Virginia line, and rose to
the rank of lieutenant-colonel; was a delegate to the
Stale Convention which ratified the Federal Consti-
tution; was n candidate for Congress, and it was
recorded in the iiewspni)ers that " General Washing-
ton, on the day of election, mounted his old iron-
gray charger, and rode ten miles to the county
court-house to vote for his brave bnjther-soldier,
Lieutenant-Colonel Powell, who is happily elected;"
he served in the Sixth Congress as a Federalist,
sening from December 2, 1700, to March .3, 1801;
declined a re-election; died at Bedford, Pennsyl-
vania, August fi, 1810.
Powell, Patilus, was bom in Virginia; resided
at Amherst Court House; was elected a representa-
tive from Virginia in the Thirty-first Congress as a
Democrat, receiving S,!.'?!! votes against 3,029 votes
for Goggin, Whig; was re-elected to the Thirty-
second Congress, receiving 2,857 votes ag:iinst 2,695
voles forGo;!gin, Whig; was re-elected to the Thirty-
third Congress, n-ceiving 4,751 votes against 3,912
votes for Mosely, Whig; was re-elected to the Thirty-
fourth Coii'jress. receiving 3,y:J4 votes against 3,ntH!
votes for Ligon, American; was re-electe<J to the
Thirly-fiflh Congn-s?. receiving no ojiposition, sen--
iug from Deceuiher 3, 1840, to Marcli 3, 18-51t; w.is
defeated as tlie De.raocratlc candidate for the Thirty-
sixth Congress, receiving 3,4,5:{ votes against 6,003
votes for Leake, Independent Democrat.
Powers, Qershom, resided at Auburn; was
elected a representative fr<mi New York in the
Twentv-lirsit Congress as a Jackson Democrat, serv-
inc fmm UecemlH'r 7, 1820. to March 3, l.'tjl.
Powers, LleweDjni, was born at Pittsficid,
Maine, in IS38; w.-vs educated at Colby University,
anil at the law deiiannicnt of Albany University;
wa-s a<lniitted to the bar in 1801, and commenced
(iractice at Houlton ; was pros<!CUting or county
attorney 18(U-1.S71; was collector of customs for the
district of Aroostook 1808-1872; was a member of
the State House of Representatives in 1.874-187I!; and
was elected a representative from Maine in llie Forty-
tifth Congress as a Republic.in, n.'ceiving I2.88(» votes
against lO.fKiO voles for John P. Donwortli, Deuio-
eful, .md 008 votes for Lyndon Oak, Moral Reformer,
serv iug from October 15, 1877.
Poydras, Julian, was bom in Louisiana; was
the founiler and benefactor of the Female Orj'han
Asvlum at New Orleans; was elected a delegate from
Orleans Territorv in the Eleventh ('ongrcss, serving
fr.im May 31, 18<il>, to Marcli .3, 1811; died June 25,
1824. at Point foiiiM-'e, Louisiana.
Pratt, Daniel D., was born at Palenno, Maine,
October 20, 1813; was token to the SUte of New
r.
York by his parents when a lad; en" -■■'' H — i--
College, and graduated in 18:}! ; n-tii
in 1.8:12; taught school; went to i
1><U\ wrote in the office of the secreiar* »'■( »«»l
and studied law in the mean time ; setile<l .nt !>
rt in 18;i<t, and commenced practi.
ler of the legislature of Indiana in
was elected a representative to the 1 -i
gress in 1808 liy a majority of 2,2.s7. ami. befoi
taking his seat, was elected United-Stales seuat<if
from Indiana as a Republican (to succeed Thomu A.
Hendricks, Democrat), serving fmm March 4. 1
to March 3, 1875; was app<jlnted by V~ -'- ' ~
commissioner of internal revenue, sc
15, 1875, to August 1, 1870; he died ^ _
Indiana, very suddenly, of heart-disease, June
1877.
Pratt, Henry O., was bom at Foxcr '
Febniary II. 18:iH; was educated at Fo.v.
emy in that Slate; studied law, and -.t -
the law department of Har\-ard Univ' i tv :
to Iowa in 1802: served as a private in ili.'
suppress the liebellion; commenced the practice
law at Charles City In 180-1; was electwl to lli*
Iowa House of Representatives in 186;'
elected in 1871; and was elected a rep!
from Iowa in the Forty-third Congress a.s .
lican, receiving 1.5,015 votes against 4,.574 rotes (or
A. Y. Lusch, Liberal Republiciui: was re-elected to
the Forty-fourth Congre.<s, receiving 10,725 vote*
against 0,089 votes for Bowman, anti-Monopolift,
serving from December 1, 1873, to March 3, 1S77;
w;is ortlained as a minister in the Methodist-EpiKO-
pal Cliuruh.
Pratt, James T., was bom at Middletnwn. Con-
necticut, in 1805; devoted himself to agricujtuial
pursuits on a fann at Sandy Hill ; w.os elected a rep-
resentative from Connecticut in the Thirl y-tlurdCou-
grcss as a Democrat, serving from Di' ' - ' '"'"
to March 3, 1855; was defeated as t
candidate for the Thirty-fourth Coiij
7.S52 votes against 8,519 votes for^Clark, Kuu»-
Nothing.
Pratt, Thomas Q., was bom at Washlogtw,
District of Columbia, in 1805; received an seadeni-
teal educ'ition; studied l<%w; was admitted to the
bar, and commenced practice at Upper Marlboroush;
was a member of the State House of RepresentatiicJ
for several years, and a State senator for six ycarj;
was governor of Maryland 1.^44-1847; was elected »
United-States senator from Maryl.-ind (in place of
Rcverdy Johnson, resigned), serving from ,faiiiiai7
14, 1K.W, to March 3, 18.57; was a delegate to the
National Democratic Convention at Chicago m 1S(I4;
died at Balllmore, Maryland, after a severe illoea
.tnd nmcli sufTering, from a disease of the heart,
November 9, 1800.
Pratt, Zadock, was bom at Stephentown, N»»
York, October 30, 1790; received a public-school
education; engaged in tanning leather in the C«ts-
kili Mountains, where he established a town callal
Plaltsviile; was a member of the State Senate in
1830; was a presidential elector on the Van Boien
ticket in 1830; was elected a representative from
New York in the Twenty-fifth Congress as a Demo-
crat, serving from September 4, 1,S)7. to March S,
18,39; was it^ain elected to the Twenty-eighth Cl>l^
cress, receiving 0,007 votes against 5,772 votes for
I'alen, Wliig, and 20 votes for Bishop, AtKilitioiilit,
serving from December 4, 1S43, to March .3, \^'<
w.'is a presidential elector on the Pierce llckclta
1852; was a delegate to tlie National Democr»tlc
Convention at Baltimore in 1852; was the prcsiihui!
of several societies and associations; died at lieifcn,
New Jersey, April 0. 1871.
Prentiss, John H., was bom at Woices'tf.
Massachusetts, .\pril 17, 1784; learned the art of
prinliiig; removed to Cfx)p<?rstown. New York, »iiil
pul>liBhe«l "The Freeman's Journal" tlien; ISOv
ieM9; was elected a representative from New York
STATISTICAL SKETCHES.
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in the Twenty-Aftb Congrciis m a Democrat, and was
re-«lccted to the Twenty-sixth Congresn. receiving
4,724 votes against 4,210 votes for William U.
Averill, Whig, serving from Septemlier 4. l.S:!7, to
March 3. 1841 ; died at Cooix>rstowu, New York,
Jnne 20. ISiU.
Prentisa, Samuel, w.is bom at Stonington, Con-
necticut, JJarcli .'il, 1782; removed with his father to
Worcester, Massachust'lts, and subsequentlv to North-
field, where he corameiioed the study of law; com-
pleted his legal studies at Brattloliorough, Vermont,
with John W. miicl; ; was iidniitte<l to the bar in 1HI2.
and commenced practice at JXontpelier in 180:5: w.is
• member of the State House of Kifpreseritatives : de-
clined the otBce of associati! juKtice of the Supreme
Court, and in 1S50 permitted himself to lie elected
chief justice of that court; was elected a Uuiied-
States senator from Vermont as a Whig, serving
from December ij, 1S;}1. to April 11, 1842, when he
resigned; wsu ajipointed in 1842 judge of tiie I'nited-
States District Court in Vennont, which office he
held until his death at Montpelier, Vermont, Jaiiu-
aiT lo. 1S')7.
Prentiss, Sergeant Smith, was bom at Port-
land. Maine, September :Jii. 18<IS; received a classical
ednciition, graduating at Bowdoln College in 182(i;
studied law at Gorh;im; n'muved to Mississippi as a
tutor in the family of Mrs. Shields, near Natchez;
was admitted to the bar, and commenced practice at
Vicksburg; was a member of the SUite House of
Kepresenfatives in 183o; was elected a representative
from Mississippi in the Twcnty-lifth Congn'ss as a
Whig, receiving 7,161 votes, but the election was set
aside by the House, and at the second election he
received 12,240 votes, defeating his Democratic op-
ponent, serving from May .3(), 18:}8, to March 3, 18.*tt);
resumed practice; removed in 1845 to Louisiana,
where he sustained a brilliant reputation as a l.iwyer
and an orator; dieil at Longwood, near Natchez,
Mississippi, July 1, 1850.
Preston, Francis (father of William Campbell
Preston), was bom in Virginia in 1770; was elected a
represent.itive from Virginia in the Third Congress;
was re-elected to the Fourth Congress, sor>'ing from
December 2, 1703, to March 3, 1707; died May 2(1,
18:».
Preston, Jacob A., was bom in Manrland;
resided at I'errjniansville; was elected a representa-
tive from Marybuid in the Twenty-eighth Congress
as a Whig, ser^•ing fR>m December 4, 184.3, to March
8, IW.').
Preston, William, was bom near Louisville,
Kentucky, October 1(1, 1810; received a classical
education, graduating at St. Joseph's College. Ken-
tncky: stuaied law; was admitted to the bar, and
commenced practice at Louisville; served in the
Mexican war as lieutenant-colonel of Kentucky vol-
unteers; was a delegate to the State Constitutional
Convention; was a member of the State House of
Bepresentatives 1850-l)>jl ; was a presidential elector
on the Scott ticket in 1852; was elected a representa-
tive from Kentucky lu the Thirty-second Congress
(in place of Humphrey Marshall, resi.L^ied) as a
Wliig; was re-elected to the Tlilrty-tliird Congress,
receiving (J,(!Oe votes against 4,847 votes for S. S.
English," Democrat, serving from December 0, 1852,
tn M.-^rcli 3, 186.5; was appointed by President Bu-
cbaiinn minister to Sjjain, serving fnim December
Jo, 1858, to May 24, 1801 ; returnhig home, he en-
tereil the Coniederate army as brigadier-general
April 18. 1802; was promoted to the rank of major-
genenil January 1, 18(i5. and assigned to the coinra.ind
nf the division of Major-General Polignac after his
etum to France; was transferred in October, 1803,
to the command of a division In Longstreet's corps.
Army of the Tennessee, compose<l of the brigades of
Gracie. Twiggs, and Kellv: wiui a member of the
SUt.- n^'use of Rct)reseiilr\tives in 1808.
Prestjon, William Ballard, was bom in Mont-
gomery Coanty, Virginia; was elected a representa-
tive from Yitgluia in the Thirtieth Congress as a
Whig, receiving .S,fl71 votes against 3,44:) votes for
Chapman, Democrat, serving from December 0, 1847,
to March :J, 18411; was appointed by President Tay-
lor secretary of tlie navy, serving from March 8, 1841>,
to July 22. 1850; was a delegate from Virginia to the
I'rifVisionai Confederate Congress which a.ssembled
at liichmond in July, 1801; was a senator from Vir-
ginia in the First Confederate Congress February- 22,
i8«;j. until his death at his resideuce at Blackburg,
Virginia, NovemlM^r 14, l.Si2.
Preston, William Campbell (son of Fnincis
Preston), was bom at Philadelpliia (while his father
was there as a representative from Virginia | Id'cem-
tx-r 27, 1704; received a classical education, gradu-
nlhig at the College of South Carolina in l.>12;
studied law under William Wirt at Ivichniond;
travelled at home and abroad; was admitted to the
bar in 1820, and in 1822 commenced praeliee at Co-
lumbia, South Carolina; was a member of the State
legislature, and a trustee of the (.'oliege of South Car-
olina; was elected a Unlted-.States senator from
Soutli Carolina as a Calhoun Nullitier. serving frooi
December 2, 18:13, until Decendicr. 1842, when he
resigned, and resumed practice ; was president of the
College of South Carolina 1840-1851, and again a
trustee 1851-1857; and died at Columbia, South
Carolina. May 22, 1800. He pubiisbeil a "Eulogy
on Hugh S. Legare," with several orations and ad-
dresses on literary and bistoriral subjects.
Price, Hiram, w;ia bom in Washington County,
Pennsylvania, January 10, 1814; received a business
education; is president of the State Bank (f lowo;
was paymostifr-general of Iowa in 1801 ; was a repre-
sent.itive from Iowa in tlie Thirty-eighth Congress
as a Republican, receiving 12,43:1 votes against 8,II3U
votes for Thayer, Democrat; was rt.'-elected to the
Thirty-ninth Congress, receiving 10..571 votes against
8.822 votes for George H. Parker, Deincxrat; «a8
re-elected to the Fortieth Congress as a Kepublicau,
receiving 10,275 votes against 0,220 votes for Cook,
Democrat, serving from December 7, 1803, to March
3, 1800; was again elected to the Forty-lifth Con-
gress, receiving 10,4;}0 votes against 14,083 votes for
J. n. Murphy, Democrat, serving from October 10,
1877.
Price, Rodman M., was bom in Sussex
County, New Jersey, Novembi'r 6. 1810; received a
claesical education, which was coni[iieted at Prince-
ton College, but illness prevented his graduation;
studied law, and was admitted to the Ijar; was «p-
[Hilnted jmrser in the navy in 1840, and was .stationed
at San Francisco when grild was discovered in CaU-
fomia; was navy agent at San Francisco in 1848. and
exercised judicial functions under the American
(lag; was elected a representative from New ,Iersey
in the Thirty-second C'ongress as a Democrat, receiv-
ing 8,280 rotes against 8,140 votes for Kyerson,
Whig, sening from December 1, 1851, to JIarch 3,
185:i; was defeated as the Democratic candidate for
the Thirty-third Congress, receiving 7,400 votes
against 7,ti:W votes for Pennington, Whig; w.is gov-
ernor of New Jersey 1854-18.57 ; was a delegate to
the Pence Congress at Washington in 1801.
Price, Samuel, was l»orn in Faui|uier County,
Virginia; rcceivedapubllc-schooleducation; studied
law ; was lulmitted to the bar, and practised at Lcw-
tsburg; was clerk of the County Court of Nicholas
County in 18:J1, and St.ite's attorney of that county
In 18:>J; was a delegate to the legislature from
Nicholas and Fayette bounties 18:J4-1S50 ; was Com-
inonwealth's attorney for Braxton County from 1830
to 1850; was a delegate to the legisiatun' from
Greenbrier County from 1847 to 1852, except for one
year; was a delegate to the Constitutional Conven-
tion of 185t>-1861 and of 1801; was elected llcuten-
ant-govenii>r of Virginia in 18(i:l, and continued
until the close of the war; was a delcg.ito to the
Constitutional Convention of West Virginia lu 1872,
and president thereof; was elected circuit-judge in
18A5, but not commiRstoned by the governor, aa he
could not tuke the test-oath ; wa« appointed to the
UnUed-Statts Sonatf (to fill the viu'ancy caused by
the death of Allf ii Taylor Caperton) ux a Democrat,
sen-iiii: from Dccrnibor 4, 1870, to January 31, 1877.
Price, SterlinGTi was l>om in Prince Edwanl
County, Virginia, In Septemljer, 1809; received an
academical education; removed to Missouri, and
settled at Keytesvillo; was a prominent Freemason;
was elected a n'presentative from Miesouri in the
Twenty-ninth Cont;rc8s as a Democrat, scr^ine from
Decem"l)er 1, 1S45, to .\ugust 12, 184(5, when lie re-
siipii'd to take command of a regiment of volunteer
cavalry for the Mexican war; distinguished himself,
and was miMle brigadier-general ; was governor of
Missouri 185!i-1857; took part in the oi^anization of
Kansas; was elected State bank commissioner: or-
ganizeil in ISrtl an armed force, called the Missouri
Slate Guard, which he commanded; was received
into the Confederate forces, March 0, 180a. as major-
general commanding the Missouri Stale Guard:
commanded the Confederate Mllitar)- District of
Arkansas, and afterwards the Confederate Army of
the West ; whs placed in 18(>4 In command of a
division cnmixised of the brigades of Drayton,
Chunrhill, Tappan, and Parsons: distinfjuisheil liim-
self in several engagements; went to Mexico at the
close of the war, and organized a bureau of immigra-
tion, but returned to Missouri; and died at St. Louis
September 2(>, 18(17.
Price, Thomas L., resided at Lexington; was
elected a representative from Missouri in the Thirty-
seventh Congress (In place of John W. Iteid, ex-
pelled) as a Democrat, serving from January 21,
1802, to March 3, IW}; was defeated as the t)em-
ocralic candidate for the Thirty-eighth Con-jress,
receiving ■l,.i.'i;j votes against 4,t):30 votes for Mct'lur^,
Emancipationist; was a delegate to the National
Democratic Convention at Chicago in 1804; died at
Lexinpjton. Missouri, July 15, 1870.
Price, William P., waslxini January 20, 1835:
was placed at the printer's Inwle when ten yc.irs of
age, and bccume master of the art; entered Kiinnan
L'niversity at Greenville, South Carolina, in 18r4. but
left, without graduating, to take editorial charge of
a newspaper: studied law; was admittc<l to the bar
In 18.5(5 at Charleston ; practised law at Greenville,
South Carolina; was a meml)er of the legislature of
South Carolina in 18(54, 18<J5, and 180(5; retnnioil to
Georgia in 1800: was a member of the legislature
of Georgia in 18(58; was elected a representative from
Georgia in the Forty-first Congress as a Democrat,
receiving 10,3.'}3 votes against 3,1 13 votes for Wimpey,
Republican, and l,2l»S votes for Findlay, Independent
Kepulplican; and was re-<!lecf«d to the Forty-swioivd
Con:.fress as a Democrat, receiving U).3:is votes
against 3,011 votes for Wimpey, Kepu1>liean. and 82.")
votes for Boyd, independent Demt)crat, serving from
Febnian,' 24, 1871, to March 3, 1873.
Pridmore, A. L., was Ixim In Scott County,
Virginia, Juno 27, 18:57: was brought np on a farm;
by his own exertions, alternately teaching and going
to school, he attained a fair English e<liication; in
August, 1S<H, he raised a company of volunteer In-
f.intry, and served as its captain until June. I.'^rt2,
when he was promoted major of the Twenty-first
Battalion of Virginia Infaiitr)-; was again promote*!
in DecemlKT, 18(12, lieutenant-colonel of infantry,
and in Octol)er, 18(53, colonel of cavalry, and com-
manded the Sixty-fourth Virginia Cavalry until the
close of the war; was elected a member of the Vir-
ginia House of Delegates in March, 1806, but the
close of the war prevented hiui from taking his seat;
commenced the study of law in 18(55; was admitted
to the bar, and hiis since practised at Jonesville; was
a mcmlKT of the Virginia State Senate 18"1-18".'»;
and was elected a repn-sentative from Virginia in the
Forty-fifth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 1.5.127
votes against 4.701 votes for Geoi^e T. Egbert, Re-
publican, sen Ing from October 15, 1877.
Prince, Charles H., was bom at Buckfield, Ox-
ford County, Maine, May 0. 18:57; was reared ou lib
father's farm, attending the public school in tlw]
winters; engaged in mercantile pursuits; entered thai
Union anny as captain; was cashier of the Freed-'l
man's Braneli Bank at Augusta, Georgia; was Siatel
sujierintendent of freedmen's schools ; was a del^l
gate to the State Constitutional Convention: waiJ
elected a representative from Georgia in the FortiethJ
Congress .as a Republican, serving irom July 25, IfWii, ]
to starch 3, 13C.0.
Prince, Oliver H., was liom In VircinU; r>i
ceived an academical education; studied law: Tfll
admitted to the bai, and eommence<l -
con, Georgia; was elected a Uniti'i
from Georgia (in place of TlioTna.^ W. > .ug
serving from DecemlK-rl. 1828, lo Ma
lust at sea in the steamer "llumc" ' ■
He published a "Digest of the Laws of treorgia."
Prince, William, was electetl a repre*«iitath»
from Indiana in the Eigbteenth Congress. lervinf
from Deci'inber 1, 1823, to 18i4, when he died it
Priiic-ton. Iniliana.
Prindle, Elizur H., was bom at Newton. Con-
neclic\it. May il. 1S2'J; received an academic wluci-
tion; studietl law, and practised; was district-attnr-
ney of Chenango County, New York, in I'-'Hi. IfWl,
and 18<;2; was a member of the State A-
New York in ISCkJ; was a nieml>er of tin- ~
stitutional Convention in 18(17-18(58; and \i
a rcpreseiitiitive from New York in the Forty-secoml
Coiigrcfs as a Republican, nvelvlng 1(5,7.j2 vntti ;
against 14.389 votes for J. Juliand. Democrat, serriug
from March 4, 1.871, to March 3, 1873.
Pringle, Benjamin, was bom at Richfield, yuw
York, November t>, 1807; received an academical ,
education; studied law; was adiuittcd to tlip hat.
and practised for several years, but reliniiiushwl thi»
priifessir)!! on being made president of the BajUt cf
Genesee at Batavia; was judge of the Genesee-eoim-
ty courts for one year; was elected a representative
from New York in the Thirty-third Congr»?s! as a
Whig, receiving 0,380 votes against H.iKJiJ votes fnr
Sherinan. Wliig; and was re-elected lo the Tliirty-
foitrth Congress, receiving 0,510 voles against 2.4S3
votes for Belden, Democrat, and 3,820 votes for Laiilng,
Democrat, serving from DeceuilierS. l.So3, to Mmvli
3, 18.")7; was a ineml>cr of the State House of Rejire-
sentatives in 18(5:3; was appointed by Pivsidcut Lin-
coln a judge of the Court of Arbitration at Cape
Town under the treaty with Grc.it Britain.
Profit, George H., resided at Petershiirp, In-
diana; was elected a representative from IndiaiiJi in
the Twenty-sixth Congress as a W"hig. rx'c '
votes against fi,170 votes for R(;l>ert 1)
Democrat; and was re-elected to theTweii..
Congress, serving from Deceml)er 2, 1830, to March
3. 1-S4;3; transferred his p<)litical allegiance to Prai-
<leiit Tyler; was appointed by President Tyler inlDi»-
ter to Brazil June 7, 1848, and returned August 10,
18.I4, the Senate not h.aving coiifirme<l his apiwinl-
ment; died at Louisville, Kentuckr, Septembers,
1847.
Prosser, William F., was bom at Wlllisui*
port, Pennsylvania, March 16, 18.'54; received » oonj-
mon-school education; studied law, but never prac-
ti.wd; went across the plains to California in l"ii<;
engaged In mining an<l trading; served as lleiitcniiit
1 in llie vnbniteer Indian service In 1858 and IS'* "H
the northern coast of that State; was the tir?t caihII-
dale of the Republican party for any ofiice in Trinity
County, California, where he was nominati-d ferth*
legislaiure in 18(K), and. in a county stronuly D"'ni<>-
cratic, eanio within 200 votes of an clectjim; >vlirn
the war of the Rebellion broke out, in 18151, he i*-
tumeil from California, and unlisted as a privat* in
the "Anderson troop:'' sensed through the ww in
the Anny of the Cumberland; participated in slraint
all of its battles; was captured, paroled, and n-
changed in 1802; served as quartennASter of ilx
6TATISTICAX. SKETCHES.
585
I
Fifteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry until that rcgiraeiit
left Louisville for Nashville in December, 1862,
when he was jilaced in curnmanil of one of Its cum-
paaies, and in that capacity took jmrt in the battle
of Stone River; shortly after was transferred to tlie
Second Tennessee Cavt-ilry, of wliich he was adjutant
during its orgiinlziition ; was commissioned major in
Harcli, istl:). lieutenant-colonel in March, lS(i4, and
colonel in .June, 18(!o; in tlie latter part of liwM com-
manded a briga<lc of cavalry then serving in the dis-
trict of North Alabama: at the close of the war he
purchased tlie fiinn near Niishvillo. which lie culti-
vates, and where hi? resides: in 1S<17 he was elected to
the lower House of the legislature l)y the Kepublican
party of Daviilson County; was elected 8i)caker j>ro
t«mi>ore in Feliruary, 1800, pendin;j the investigation
of certain charges against the sfieaker of the Bouse
'Bflprewntatlves; in December, 1S<J7, he was clect-
OWof the directors of the Tennessee and Pacific
llroad Company; in March, 18(18, he was appointed
one of the directors on the part of the State for tlie
Edgeiield and Kentucky Bailroa<I; and was elected a
representative from Tennessee in the Forty-first Con-
gress as a Republican, ifcelving a vote of 5,804,
which was largely reduced by the intimidation and
violence made use of by the rebel element of the
district, a:,'ainst 2,(i55 votes for Motley, Doinocrat,
1,817 votes for Mercer, Independent Repulilic.in, and
SO votes for Garrett, serving from March 4, 1800, to
Uarch 3, 1871; was defe.ited as the Republican can-
didate fur the Forty-seeonil C(mgres8, receiving 5,428
ViMes against 7,0ul votes for Edtvard I. Uollady, Dera-
,, and ;i.5£> votes for Bailie Peyton, Independent
ocratic Consenative.
Pruyn, John V. L., was bom at Albany, New
York, in 181 1 ; w;is educated at tlie Albany Acad-
emy; received a de;jree at Rutgers College; studied
law; was admitted to the bar in 18:J2, and commenced
practice at Albany; was appointed master in cluin-
coryby Oovenior Marcy; was appointed a regent of
the StAte University in 1844, ,ind In 1802 became
chancellor of the university, and president of tlie
board of regents (a position wliich lie held to the
time of his death ) ; was a member of the State Senate
in 18<U; was elected a representative from New York
in the Thirty-eiglith Congress (to (ill the vacancy
occasiooed by the rcsi^piation of Erastus Coming)
u a Democrat, serving from December 7, li^tJ3, to
March 3, 1805; was again elected to the Fortieth
Congress, receiving 15^920 votes aijainst 14,972 votes
for J. n. Ramsey, Republican, sen-lug from March 4,
1807, to March 3, 1S09; died at Clifton Springs, New
Tork. November 21, 1877.
Pryor, Roger A., Wiis bom in Dinwiddle Coun-
ty, Virginia, July 11), 1828; received a classical edu-
cation, gniduatiiig at IIam(Hl<'ii->Sidney College in
1845; studied law; was ndniilled to ilie liar, and
commenced practice at PetiTsburg, but abandoned it
ou account of ill health; eommeiiced writing fur the
press; w:is on the editorial staff of " The Washington
Union" in 1852, and of "The Richmond En<]UJrer"
In 1855; wiis appointed by President Pierce in 1855
■pecial commissioner to Greece; cstablislietl "The
Sotith " in IS57. and, after it had failed, was on the
•tAff of "The Washington States;" was elected n
representative from Virjdnia in tlie Tliirty-sixth
Congress (In place of William O. Goode, deceased),
•er>-ing from Decemlier 7, 1850, to March 3. 1801:
■erved in the Reliellion os brigadier-general from
April 1«, 1S02, until July l!i. 18(!2, when he resigned;
was a representative from Virginia in the Conteder-
■ ate House of Representatives; was captured by the
Union troops hi Novemtwr, 1804. and imprisoned In
Fort Lafayette, but soon afterwards released ; he has
8iib»ei|ii<'ntlv ])rartisi'd law in New- York City.
Pugh, George Sllia, was born at Ciiiclnnail,
Ohio. November 28, 1SJ2: ri'ceived a classical eiiuca-
tion. gn-uluating at Miami University in 184<l; stud-
^^ led law; was admitted to the bar in 1843, and com-
^Baeuced pmctice at Cincinnati, Ohio; eerred In the
I
Mexican war as c.iptain of the Fourth Ohio Volun-
teers and OS aide-de-camp to General Lane ; returning
to Cincinnati in 1*48, he became the partner of
George U. Pendleton; was a meiulier of the State
legislature In 1848 and 1840; was city solicitor in
18.">0; was State attomey-generol in ISol; was elected
a United-States senator from Ohio as a Democrat,
serving from December 3. 1855, to March 3, 1801;
was defeated as the Democratic canilidato for lleu-
tenant-govcmor in 1863; was nominated at llie hi'tt«l
of the Democratic electoral ticket of Ohio in 1804,
but declined to 8er>'e; was defeated as the Democratic
candidate for the Tliirty-nliith Congress, receiving
7,404 votes against 0,S»3 votes for B<.'njamiii Eggles-
ton. Unionist: was a delegate to the State Constltu-
tionai Convention, but withdrew from its delibera-
tions, and afterwards devoted himself entirely to
Ills profession: died at Cinclimati of an attack of
gout July 10. 1870.
Pugh', J. Howard, was bom in Chester County,
Pennsylvania, June 23, 1S27; received an academic
education; studied medicine, and graduated at the
University of Pennsylvania in 1S52; commenced the
practice of me<licine in Huiiington in 18.54, where he
11,18 since resideil ; is prosid"nt of the Mcclmnlcs' Na-
tional Bank of Burlington, to which imsltion he was
elected In 1800; was elecii'd a representative from
New Jersey iu the Forty-fifth Congress as a Repub-
lican, receiving 10,015 votes against 15.4S5 votea for
Hezekiah B. Sinith, Democrat, serving from Octol)er
19, 1877.
Pugh, James L., was bom in Burke County,
Georgia, in 1820; received an academic.il education;
studied law; was admitted to the bar, and com-
menced practice in Alabama; was elected a repre-
sentative from Alabama in tlie Thirty-«lxth Congress
!us a Democrat, receiving im opposition, serving from
December 5, 1850, to January 21, 18<il, when lie re-
tired from the House, his State having seceded from
the Union; was a member from Alabama of the
House of Representatives in the First and Second
Coiifeiierate Congresses, serving from February 22,
18(52. to the surrender in 18tl4.
Pugh, John, was liorn at nilltown. Pennsyl-
vania ; was elected a representative from Pennsyl-
vania in the Ninth Congp'ss; was re-elected to the
Tenth Congress, serving from Decemtier 2, 1805, to
March .3, 1800.
Purely, Smith M., was bom in Chenango
County, New York; resided at Norwich; was elected
a representative fnmi New York in the Twenty-
eiglilli Coni;ress as a Democrat, receiving 8.500 votes
against 7,5i)7 votes for Hunt, Whig, and 175 votes for
Avery, Abolitionist, seiTlng fromDecemlxir 4, 1843,
to March 3, 1845.
Purman, 'William J., was bom In Centre
Ciuinty, Pemisylvauia, ,\iiril 11, 184t); R'ceived a
liberal education, .iml studied law at Lock IJaveo,
Pennsylvania; entered the Union anny as a private,
and served on special duty at the War Department
until transferred to Florida In 1805; was elected a
member of the Constitutional Convention In 1808;
was elected to the State Senate in 1808; was secre-
tary of state in 1808; was judge of Jackson County
Court in 18«58-18O0; was n>-elected to the State Sen-
ate in 1800 for a temi of fmir years; was chairman of
tho Florida and Alatjaina Annexation Commission In
18*50-1870; was assessor of United-States internal
revenue for the district of Florida in 1870-1872; wos
chairaian of the Repulilican State Executive Coni-
niitteo in 1871-1872; was elected a representative
from Florida in the Forty-tliird Congress iis a Re-
publican, receiving 17,5.37 votes against 1.5,811 votes
for C. W. Jones, Demociitt; was re-elected to the
Forty-fourth Congress as a Republican, receiving
0,7 10 votes against 8.018 votes for John A. Hender-
son. Democrat; was defeated as the Republican
candidate for the Fortv-fifth Congress, receiving
12.023 votes against 13,l<i3 votes for Robert U. M.
Davidson, Conservative Democrat.
586
COKOBESSIOKAL DIBECTOBT.
PorviaDoe, Samuel A., was tx>m at Bntler,
Pennsylvania, November 8, 1809; was a student at
Washington College, but did not graduate; studied
law; was admitted to the bar, ana practised at But-
ler; was a delegate to the Constitatlonal ConTentlon
in 1830; was a member of the State House of Bep-
resentatives in 1838 and 1830; was a presidential
elector on the Taylor and Fillmore ticket in 1848;
was elected a representative from Pennsylvania in
the Thirty-fourth Congress as a Whig, receiving 5,926
votes against 3,832 votes for Palmer, Democrat;
was re-elected to the Thirty-fifth Congress, receiving
6,840 votes against 4,854 votes for Gibson, Democrat,
serving from December 3, 1856, to March 3, 1850.
PUFTiaJlce, S£linuel D., was bom in North
Carolina; was elected a representative from North
Carolina in the Eighth Congress, serving from Octo-
ber 17, 1803, to March 3, 1805.
Puryeax, BiohEurd C, was bom at Mecklen-
burg, Virginia, February 0, 1801: received a good
En^ish education; engaged in farming and mer-
chMidising; removed to HuntsviUe, North Carolina;
was elected in 1838 to the State House of Represen-
tatives, in 1840 to the State Senate, and again in
1844, 1846, and 1852, to the House; was elected a
representative from North Carolina in the Thirty-
third Congress as a Whig, receiving 6,173 votes
against 5,788 votes for Boyd, Democrat; was re-elect-
ed to the Thirty-fourth Congress as an American, re-
ceiving 6,610 votes against 6,150 votes for Scales,
Democrat, serving from December 5, 1853, to March
3, 1867; was defeated as the American candidate for
the Thirty-fifth Congress, receiving 6,050 votes
against 7,070 votes for Scales, Democrat; was a dele-
gate from North Carolina to the Confederate Pro-
visional Congress which assembled at Richmond
In July, 1861.
Putnam, Harvey, was bom in Genesee Coun-
ty, New Tork, in 17B3 ; received a public-school edu-
cation; studied law; was admitted to the bar, and
commenced practice at Attica: was elected a repre-
sentative from New York in tne Twenty-fifth Con-
gress (in place of William Patterson, deceased) as a
Whig, serving from December 3, 1838, to March 3,
1839; was a member of the State Senate 1843-1846;
was again elected to the Thirtieth Congress; was
re-elected to the Thirty-first Con^ss, receiving
6,489 votes against 2,730 votes for Smith, Van Burcn
Democrat, and 2,675 votes for WlUett, Cass Demo-
crat, serving from December 6, 1847, to March 3,
1851 ; died at Attica, New Tork, September 21,
1855.
Quarlea, Janies M., was bora in Louisa Coun-
ty, Virginia, February 8, 1823; removed with his
father to Kentucky in 1833; received an academical
education; studied law; was admitted to the bar,
and commenced practice; removed to Clarksville,
Tennessee; was State attorney for the Tenth Ju-
dicial District; was elected a representative from
Tennessee in the Thirty-sixth Congress as a National
American, receiving 0,994 votes against 0,230 votes
for Menees, Democrat, serving from December 6,
1859, to March 3, 1861.
Quarles, Tunatall, was bom in Virginia; re-
moved to Kentucky; was county-judge; was elected
a representative from Kentucky in the Fifteenth
Congress ; was re-elected to the Sixteenth Congress,
serving from December 1, 1817, to 1820, when he re-
signed; removed to Cape Girardeau, Missouri, where
he was receiver of public moneys in the United-
States land-office.
Quincy, Josiah, was bom at Boston, Massachu-
setts, February 4, 1772; received a classical educa-
tion, graduating at Harvard College in 1790; studied
law with William Tudor; was admitted to the bar,
and commenced practice at Boston ; was successively
defeated as the Federal candidate for the Seventh
and Eighth Congresses, the successful candidate for
the Seventh and Eighth Congresses being William
Eustis, Democrat; was elected a representative from
Massachusetts in the Ninth Congress as a Federalist:
was re-elected to the Tenth Congress; was re-elected
to the Eleventh Congress, receiving 2,904 votes
against 1,806 votes for Jarvis, Democrat; was re-
elected to the Twelfth Congress, serving from De-
cember 2, 1805, to March 3, 1813; declined a re-elec-
tion; was elected a member of the State Senale
1813-1820, and. In 1821 and 1822, of the State House
of Representatives, serving the last year as speaker;
was a delegate to the State Constitutional Conventioa
of 1820; was judge of the Municipal Court of Boston
in 1822; was mayor of Boston 1823-1829, when he
failed to obtain a re-election ; was president of Har-
vard College 1829-1845; died at his country-hoose at
Quincy July 1, 1864. He published a " Memoir of
Josiah Quincy, Jun.," " History of Harvard Uni-
versity " (two voltmies), " Speeches in Congress, and
Orations," " Life of J. Q. Adams," " History of
the Boston Athenssum," " Essays on the Soiling of
Cattle," " Memoir of James Grahame," " Journals
and Memoir of Major Samuel Shaw," " Municiiial
History of Boston," and Centennial Address on the
two hundreth anniversary of Boston.
Quinn, Terence J., was bom at Albany, Xew
York, October 16, 1830; was educated at public
schools and at the Albany Academy; was by pro-
fession a brewer; was an alderman 1860-1SS3 and
1869-1871; volunteered with the Twenty-fifth Regi-
ment New-York State Militia as second lieutenant
for the defence of Washington in April, 1801, and
again in 1862, when the regiment was sent to Suffolk,
Virginia; was a member of the State legislature for
the session of 1874; and was elected a representative
from New York in the Forty-fifth Congress as a
Democrat, receiving 17,497 votes against 10,587 votes
for Hamilton Harris, Riepublican, serving from Octo-
ber 15, 1877, untU he died at Albany, June 18, 1878,
from a cold contracted at Washington.
Quitman, John Anthony, was bom at Bhin»-
beck. New York, September 1, 1799; received a clas-
sical education; studied theology with his father.
Rev. Dr. Quitman; studied law at Philadelphia; wss
professor of law in Mount-Airy College, Pennsyl-
vania, in 1818; removed to Ohio in 1820, locating at
Chillicothe, and afterwards at Delaware, where he
practised law, and was initiated in Freemasonry; re-
moved in 1821 to Natchez, Mississippi, where he
married, and soon became distinguished in his pro-
fession; was grand master of Masons of Mississippi
1820-1838, 1846-1840; was a member of the House of
Representatives in the State legislature in 1627; was
appointed chancellor of the State in 1830, and, when
a change in the constitution rendered that office
elective in 1832, was elected for six years; resigned
in 1835 on being elected to the State Senate, «1iich
chose him president, and thus made him ex officio
governor for a time; visited England in 1839 in
behalf of the Mississippi Railroad, of which he was
the president; was appointed judge of the High
Court of Appeals in 1840; served in the Mexican
war as brigadier and as major general, especially
distinguishing himself at Monterey and Chapultepec;
was chosen presidential elector on the Cass and
Butler ticket in 1848; received the thirty-third de-
gree of Masonry at Charleston, South Carolina, in
1848; was governor of Mississippi In 1850-1851; was
elected to the Thirty-fourth Congress as a Democrat,
receiving 0,658 votes against 4,490 votes for Hillver,
Know-Nothing; and was re-elected to the Thirty-
fifth Congress as a Democrat without opposition,
serving from December 1, 1856, until his death at
" Monmouth," his plantation in Mississippi, July 17,
1858. His "Life and Correspondence^' was pub-
lished by J. F. H. Clalrbome in two volumes.
Radford, WilUam, was bom at Poughkeepsie,
New York, June 24,1814; received a public-school
education ; removed to New York in 1820, and en-
gaged in mercantile pursuits; was elected a represen-
tanve from New York in the Thirty-eighth Congress
as a Democrat, receiving 8,878 votes against 7,821
Btes fnr Halght, Bepublicon. and 2,578 tor Suffi>rin,
IniI('|>iMi(lfnl; was ry-t^lcctod to tlie Thirty-ninth
Coniiress, rccciviiie llJ.'iJW votes iigainst liJ.ils votes
for Larkin, ICepubUcau, serving ifi-oin Decfmt>or 7,
lSft3. to March 3. ISO"; was <1. fi-ateil as the Denio-
cra'.ii- Ciiiidiilati- for thy Fortlrth C'oninvss. r(?roiving
0.B57 votes astiinsl 12,;ilJ votes for. William H. Kol>
crtsnii. Repuliliciui; died at Vonkers, Xew York,
Jaiiimry IS, I81.1.
Rainey, Joseph H., was bom at Gcorsetown,
Sou'.h (Carolina (wlioro both of Ids parents were
ilavcs, lint, by their lndu8tr>',oi>lained their freedom).
June:;!. l*)i: allhoui^li del):'.rri'd by law from at-
tendin'.; sehmd. he a*:quired a crnid education, and
further iinpnived his mind by obsonation and travel ;
bis father was a biirlH.T, and he followed that occu-
natiuii at Charleslou till 1.-4I2, when, hnvini; l>eeii
forced to work i>n the fortilicalions of the Confed-
erates, he escaped to the West Indies, where Uo re-
mained until the close of the war, when he n;turned
to his native town; he was eleeteii a delegate to the
State ConstitutioniJ Convention of ISOM, oiid was a
member of the State Senate of Soutii Carolina in
KmJ, resiftning when elected a representative from
South Carolina in the Forty-first Congress .%s a Ue-
pabliean (to till the vacancy caused by the non-reeep-
tion of B. F. Whittemore) by a majority of 17.UV5
votes over Dudley. Conser\-ative; was re-elected to
the Forty-second Congress, receivin'i 2().221 votes
against 11,628 votes for C. W. Dudley, Democrat;
was re-elected to the Forty-third Congress, receiving
19,7i">5 vot«8, being all that were cast; was re-elected
to the Forty-fourth Congress, receiving ll,37i) votes
against 13,5Dii votes for Samuel Lee, Republican;
w'as re-elected to the Forty-tifth Congress, receiving
18,1SI votes against lO.ijOl votes for J. S. Richaixl-
soii. Democrat. ser%ing from March 4, 1800.
Ramsay, David (bmtlter of Nathaniel Raiusay}.
was liini in Pennsyh aula April 2. l"4tt; n.'celved a
classical education, graduating at Princeton College
in I'll'); wiis for two years tutor la a Maryland fam-
ily; studied medicine; was nditilttcd to practice, and
located at Charleston, Soutli Carolina, in 1773; was
a member of the .Stale House of Representatives
177i>-178:J; soi-ved in the Hevolutlomiry army as a
surgeiiu, and was at the siege of Savannah; was cai>-
lurcd at the fall of Charlistoi\ in May, 17Si), and Im-
prisoned foreleven months at St. Augusline. Florida;
was a delegate from Soulli Carolina to the Continen-
tal Congress 1783-178fl; was for several years a inem-
lier of the State .Senate, and its president; he was
mortally wounded by a maniac, and died two d.-iya
afterward, at Charleston, South Carolina, Mays, 1815.
He published " History of the Revolution in .South
Carolina '' (two volumes), " History of tlie American
Revolution" (two volumes), " Life of Washington,"
" History of South Carolina," " Memoirs of Martha
L, Ramsay," " Means of Presi'rt'iug Health in
Charleston," " History of the Independent Church
in Charleston, South Carolin.i. from its Origin to
1814,"' "Universal History Americinized" (eight
volumes), an " Oration on the Accinisition of Loulsi-
«n;i." and " Eulogiuin on Dr. Rush."
Ramsay, Natbaoiiel (brother of David Ram-
say), was l)orn in Lancxsler County, Pennsylvania;
received a classie.ii e<lucati(>ii, gradnaling iit New-
Jersey College in 171)7; entered the Revolutionary
army, and coramandeii n Maryland regiment, at the
heatl of which he dislinguislied liimself in the battle
of Monmouth; was made prisoiuT at Charleston,
South Carfdin.i, and confined at St. Augusline; was
adele'^rnte from Maryland to the Continental Congress
1785-1787; died October 25, 1817.
Ramsay, Robert, was imrn in Pennsylvania;
receivi'd a public-school eihication; resided at Harts-
Ville: was elected a representative from Pennsvl-
" lia in the Twenty-third C(mgress as a Whig.
Ting from December 2. ISJK). to March 3, 18;55;
.•)£ain elected to the Twenty-seventh Congress,
ving 4,047 votes against 4,033 votes for Davis,
Democrat, serving from May 51, 1941, to March 3,
i>i;j.
Ramsey, Alexander, was born near Harris-
bur^. Pennsylvania. September 8, 1815; studied at
Laf.iyetle College. Easton, Pennsylvania; was secre-
tary of the Electoral College of Pennsylvania in 1S40;
was clerk of the State House of Repn'sentalives In
1841 ; W!us elected a representative from Pennsylvania
in Iho Twenty-eighth Congress as a Whig, receiving
5111 majority over David Umberger, Democrat; was
re-elected to the Twenty-ninth Congress, receiving
7,015 votes against 7,401 votes for A, Holmes, serv-
ing from December 4, 18+1, to March 3, 1S47; was
appointed Territorial governor of Minnesota In 1840,
holiling ofllee until 1853; was mayor of St. Paul,
Minnesota, in iN'w; was governor of Minnesota 18.50-
I81I;}; »vas elected a United-,States senator from Min-
nesota as a Ri'publicau (to succeed Henry M, Rice,
Democrat); and was re-elected, ser<ing from Decem-
ber 7, 1-^'>:J, to March 3, 1875.
Ramsey, William, was bom at Sterrett's Gap,
Pennsylvania, September 7, 177S»; received a public-
school education; held the ofBcc of counfy-<'le.rk;
sludietl law; was admitted to the bar, and eom-
nienced practice at Carlisle; was elected a represen-
tative from Pennsylvania in the Twentieth Congress
as a Jackson Democrat; w.is ren-leetwl to the
Twenty-first Congress, sening frv)in December 3,
18;.'7. 10 March 3, 1831; died at Carlisle, Pennsyl-
vania. September 5. 1831.
REimsey, William 8,, was bom at Carlisle,
Pennsylvania, .June 12, 1810; received a classical
education, which was completed at Dickinson Col-
lege, but, his health failing, he did not graduate; went
abroad, and was an allaclii to the Amciican legation
at London, Mr. Stevenson being the minister; was
elected a representative from Pennsylvania in the
Twenty-sixth Congress as a Van Buri'n Democrat,
receiving 5.572 votes against 4, 144 votes for Fivderick
Watts, Whig, serving from December 2, 1.S30, to
October 17, 1840; he was re-elected to the Twenty-
seventh Congress, and a few weeks afterwards com-
mitted suicide at Bamum's Hotel, Baltimore, by
shooting himself In the right eye, Oct<d)er 17, 1840.
Randall, AlexEinder, was bt)m in Maryland;
resided at Annapolis; was elected a representative
fn>m Maryliiiid in the Twenty-seventh Congn-ss as a
Wiiig, receiving 7,7n3 votes against T.Cwi? votes for
Mumiv, Opposition, serving from May 31, 1841, to
March :i, 1S43.
RandaU, Benjamin, w.-is bom in Ma.ssachn-
sells in 1781); ri'ceivi'i! a classical education, gradu-
ating at Bowdoln (College in 18*10; studied law; was
.admitted to the bar In 1.S14, and commenced practice
at IJatli. Maine (then M-issachuselts); was a member
of the .Stale Senate i]i 1K33; was elected a representa-
tive from Maine In the Twenty-sixth Congress as a
Whig, defealing John D. McCrate, Democrat; was
re-etfcted to Ihe Twenty-seventh Congress, receiving
1,2IX) majority over Joseph Scwall, Van Buren Dem-
ocrat, serving from Deeemlier 2, 183!). to March 3,
184;}; was appointed by President Taylor collector of
customs for the port of Bath, and held the office at
the time of his deatli. October 14, 1,S57.
RandEill, Samuel J,, was bora at Philadelphia
October Id, 1S28; received an academic education:
engaged in mercantile pursuits; was a member of
the city councils of Pliiladelphia four years; was a
memlier of the State Senate of Pennsylvaniu in l.SSjJ
and 1850; was elected a rej)rcsentative from Pennsyl-
vania in the TInrty-eighth Congress as a Democrat,
H'ceiving 7.720 voles against 0,273 votes for Webb,
Republican; was re-elected to the Thirty-ninth Con-
gress, reci'iving 0,704 votes against 7,742 votes for
Hutler, Republican; was re-elected to the Fortieth
Congress, receiving 12,102 votes against 7,728 votes
for Gibbons, Republican; was re-elected to the Forty-
first Cnngi-ess, receiving 14,745 votes against 8,4ii8
votes for Berry, Republican; was re-elected to the
Forty-second Congress, receiving 10,853 votes against
588
CONGBESSIONAI* DIKECTOEY.
6,7(V5 vot<'s for B. Huckell, Republican ; was re-elected
to the Forty-thinl Congress, rec<'iviiig 10.1:W votes
against 8,8+5 votes for U. F. Houston, Hcpublican;
was re-elected to the Forly-lourtli Congress, receiv-
ing P,70:} votes against 7,0G0 votes for David F.
Houston, Republican, and was chosen sjieaker at the
liisl session: and w:is re-<?lected to the Forty-fifth
Congress, receiving 11,751 votes against n.HSD voles for
Benjamin L. Bnrr)-, Republican, and was chosen
8i>eaker of the House, serving from December 7,
Randall, Willieini H., wm bom Jn Kentucky;
r<!cci\i<l an aeadeniical education; studied law; was
admitti'd to the bar in 1S:16, and commenced pmclice
at Loiiflon, Kentucky; was. by amxiintmeut, clerk of
the circuit and county courts of Laurel County ISJft-
ISol, and one year by election after the adoption of
the new constitution; was elected a representative
from Kentucky in the Thirty-eighth Congress as a
Republican, receiving 7,8illS votes against lOtl votes
for lira^Ui-y, Democrat ; w.is re-elected to the Thirty-
ninth Congress, receiving 10,6ii4 votes against S.iiii
voles for Garrard, Democrat, serving from December
7, 1H(«, to March 3. 18<)7.
Randolph, Edmund, was bom In Virginin
August lu, 1~X\; received an academic^il education:
studied law; w,is ailinittcd to the bar. and com-
menee<l practice at Williamsburg; entered the Revo-
lutionary anny as aideile-camp to Washington in
1775; was attorney-general of V'lrginia July, 1770;
was a delegate from Virginia to the Continental
Congress 177!)-1782; was governor of Vinrinia 17.S*J-
1788; was a member of the Convention that framed
the Federal Constitution: was ajipointeil by Wash-
ington attorney-general of the United Stat<'s Septem-
ber 2(i,17S9; was transferred to the State Department
as secretary of state Janu.iry 2, 171U; was inviled to
resign in August, 17U5, having lost tlie conddence of
the {'resident in consequence of an intrigiu- with tlie
administration; died in Fri'derick County, Virginia,
September 12, l.Sl;J. He published " A Vindication "
of bis resignation.
Randolph, James P., was bom In Middlesex
County, New Jersey, June 20, 1701 ; received a pub-
lic-schix)l education; le.imed the art of printing; was
editor of "The New-Brunswick Freduniad " 1812-
1642; was a member of the Stale House of Represen-
tatives; was clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of
Middlesex County ; was elected a pepresentiitivo from
New Jersey in the Twentieth Congress (In place of
George llolccmitte, deceased); was re-<^lected to the
Twenty-first and Twenty-second Congresses, serving
from Deceml>er 1, 1828, to March 2, 18:W; was presi-
dent of a bank at New Brunswick for ten years; died
at Jersev City, New Jersey, March 10, 1871.
Randolph, James H., was bom In Jefferson
County, Tennessee, October 19, 1825; was educated
at Holston Coll<'ge. Newmarket. Tennessee; read
law, and commence<i practice in 1851); was elected to
the .Stale legislature for 1S57 and IS-W. and Rffaiti in
18<30-18<)1; was elected to the Senate In 1803; w.is
elected judge of the .Second Judicial Circuit of Ten-
nessee in 1800, and re-elected after the Constitutional
Convention in 1870, wbieli office be held until lie
reiigned to become a candidate for tlif Forty-fifth
Congivss as a Republican, receiving I2.;i4(l votes
against 11,215 votes for William McFarlniid, Demo-
crat, sen-ing from October 15, 1877.
Randolph, John, was bom In CJiesterfleld
County, Virgitiia, June 2, 177.3; received a classical
education, and remained a short time at Princeton,
Columbia, and William and Mary Colleges; studied
law with Edmund Randolph, and w.ts admitted to
the bar; was elected a representative fmm Virginia
In the Sixth Congress as a State-rights Democrat,
and ser\-ed from December 2, 1709, to March 3, 18l:i;
was an anti-Madison candidate for election as a n'i>-
reseutativo in the Thirteenth Comiress, but was
defeated by John W. Eppe*, War Democrat, a son-
in-law of Thomas Jefferson ; wa« again elected to the I
Fourteenth Congress, defeating John W. Eppes by
32 majority, serving from December 4, 1815, to Man:li
.3, 1817 ; was again defeated for re-election to the Fif.
teentb Congress by Archibald Austin, Democrat;
was again elected to the Sixteenth C^ougress, defesi-
ing Archibald Austin by 4lKi majority ; was re-electnl
to the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Congresses: wa»
traiisferrsd in I.fio to the Senate to (ill the v
by tiie apiKilntment of James Uarlxjur as sec:
war; wiis defeated as a candidate for re-elcci
tlie Senate in 1827 by John Tyler, but was retiinm
as a re|)resentative to the Twentieth Congress, ami
served until .March 3. 1820; was a member of tb«
Virginia Constitutional Convention; was appointwl
liy Presirleut Jackson minister to Russia M.iy Lil,
18;J(i, mid served until September 10, l.S;JO, when 14
returned home; he died at Philadelphia M.iv iii
183:!. His life was written by Garloud in 185<ji. suit
by P.irton in 1807.
Randolph, Joseph Fite, was 1>oni in Xe»
Jersv'y in 18t)3; received a public-school education:
8tudic<l law; was admitted to the bar in 182."). «a J
commenced practice at Freehold; was appciinuil
prosecuting-attomey for Monmouth County; wa»
elected a representative from New Jersey in lb*
Twenly-fiflh Congress as a Whig; was re-e'lectiii t»
the Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh Congrvstrt,
serving from Septemt-er 4, It^n, to March ii, l.SW;
resided his two last tenns at New Brunswick; was •
memb<!r of the State Constitutional Convention in
1844; was a judge of the State Supreme Court IiJli-
18.52; removed to Trenton, and practi»i.<d there: re-
moved to Jersey Cily, and died there, after a long
illness, M.irch 2(1. 1873.
Randolph, Peyton, was bofn near Williauu-
burg, Virginia, 1723: n-eirlved a classical olucatlon;
studied law; was admitted to the bar, and was sp-
pointed king's colonial utlomey iu 1760; was n mem-
ix'r of the Virginia Ibpuse of Burgesses for many
years, and was sevenii times elected ita speaker: WM^
a prominent Freemason; was a member of the Vir-
ginia Convention of 1773, and was elected its pr«si-
dent; was appointed a delegate to the First Conti-
nental Congifeiss, which met al Philadelphia .Sf|item-
bcr 6, 1774, and was elected its president, but wa
forced to resign the next mojith on account of ill
health : was re-appointed to the Second Corigresf,
which met at Phlladelpliia May 10, 1775, but »i«
again forced to resign in a few days on aec<.'unt of ill
health, and return to Virginia; resuming his strat iD
the fall, be died suddenly of lui apoplectic fit Oclolw
22,1775; his remains were brought from PhiMel-
phia to Williamsburg by Edmtmd Randolph, hii
nephew, and deposited in the family vault in tlie
college chai>el with suitable ceremonies.
Randolph, Theodore P. (son of James F.
|{;mdolph, member of Congress from 1820 to 1S32),
wns born at New Bninswlck, New Jersey, June H,
1S2IJ;, received an ordinary education at Rut«w»
Unini'mar School ; was by occupation a inercliwil,
iron and coal producer, and president of the Morris
and Essex Railroad; was elected to the House of A*-
sembly of the State legislature in 18.50, to ilieSi'Mte
of New Jersey in 1802 (short temi), and re-elected m
1803 (full tenn); was elected governor of the Stste
of New Jersey in l.SflO, serving until 1872; wM •
delegate to the National Democratic Conventiensol
18<M and 1872, and is now the New-Jersey iuenil)cr«f
the National Democratic Committee, and ch«in»«n
of the Executive Committee of tliat body ; was elecisl
United-States senator from New Jersey as n D<!IB'>-
crat (to succeed John P. Stockton, Democrat I, K>i
look his se:il March 4, 1875. His term of gcrrice will
expire March 3, 1881.
Randolph, Thomas Mann (son-hi-Uw "'
Thoiujis .leflferson), was bom in Virginia; rBceivcl*
liberal eduealion; was appointi'd by 1' ' 'I»'li-
son colonel of the Twentieth Infant t I'll"
March 3, ISLS, to March 13. 1814; w...- , i Kf-
reseutative from Virginia in the Eighth Congnai <*
i
btatlsticjVL sketches.
689
l<Dcinocrat; was re-elected to the Ninth Congress,
trving from October 17. 1803, to Jliirth 3, Isi.iT: was
ovcmor iif Virginin 1S1S>-1822; died at Monticcllo
Juw :!0, 18iS.
Rankin, Christopher, was bom In Washington
County, Pciinsylvaiilii; received iin acailemical edu-
cation: removed Ui Natchez. Mississippi : held k-v-
eral local offices; was elected a representative from
Mississippi In tlie Sixlwnth Con'iress, defeating
Cowles Mead: was re-elected to the .Soventi'eiith
Congress, defeating George Poindcxler; was re-elect-
ed to the Eighteenth Congress, defeating C^orge
Poindexter: was re-elected to the Nineteenth Con-
gress, serving from Ueeeinber 0, 1810, to March 14,
IKid. when he died at Washington City.
Ransier, Alonzo J., was boni at Charleston,
Sooth Cuinlliia. in January, ls:i4; was self-udueated ;
was employed as shipping-clerk in 1850 by a leading
merchant, who was tried for violation of law hi
" hiring a colored clerk," and lined one cent with
costs: was one of the forenm.sl in the work of recon-
structi<in in ISd."); was a metnlwr of a convention of
tlie friends of c<]ual rights in October, li^io, at
Charleston, and was deputed to present the memorial
there framed to Congress; was elect<Ml a member of
the Slate Constitntionol Convention of 1808; was
elected a menilwr of the House of IJeprcsentalives in
tJie State legislature in 18(11'; Wiis chosen chairman
of the Slate Uepubliean fjentral Committee, which
position he held until 1872; was elected a presi-
dential elector on the Grant and Colfax ticket in
1808; was elected lieuteiiant-gnvemor of South Caro-
lina in 1870 by a large majority: was pre.siilent of
the Southom-Stat«s Convention at Columbia In 1871;
was chosen a delegate to, and was a vice-president
of. the Philadelphia Convention which nominatc'd
Grant and Wilson in 1872; and was elected a repre-
sentative from South Candina in the Forty-third Con-
'gress as a Itepuldicui, n^ceiving 20.Uil votes against
P,541i votes for W. (Jurncy, Independent l!cpul>lican,
■•eningfrom Deceml)er 1, Is";}, to March H, 187.5.
Ransom, Matt W., was bom in Wam-n Coun-
ty. North Carolina, in 1820; received an academic
educ^itiim; gr.-uiuatcd fnnn the University of North
Carolina in 1847; studied law, and was ailniittetl to
the baron graduating in ltvl7; is a lawyer and jiianter;
was eleeled attorney-general of North Carolina in
lilj. and resigned in 18.')5; was a niend>er of the
legislature of North C.irolina in I.<j8, 1.850, and 18ilO;
was a peace commissioner from the State of North
Carolina to the Congress (,f .Southern St.ites at Mont-
gomery, Alabama, in 18<il ; entereii the Ciinf<*derate
army, serving as lientenant-culunel, colonel, liriga-
dier-tcneral. and niajor-seniTal, and surrendercit at
Appi^mattox; was elwtcd Cnited-Slates senator from
North Carolina as a Democrat in January, 1872: took
his seat AiJrii 24, 1872, and w;is re-elected in 1870;
his trrri of service will expire in ISSU.
Rantoul, Robert, jun,, was bom at Beverly,
^f'^-'ohusi^tts. Au'^ust 1.!, |S(»5; received a classical
ion, graduating at Ilarvanl (College in 1820;
■ I law under John Pickerliii; and Leverett
biilti>nst,ill; was admitted to the bar in 1827, and
commenced practice at South Heading; removed to
Gloucester in I8;}.'{; was a niemlier of the State House
of Keprcsentativcs 18.J:}-I8:i7: was a|i[iointed a inem-
Ijer of the Massachusetts BoanI of IS;J7: removed
to Bfiston in 1838; was appointed liy President Polk
collector of the port of Boston in 184:1, but the ap-
pointment was not confinned by the Senate; was
appointed Uniled-Stat«8 district-atloniey for Massa-
chusetts in 1845, and resigned in 1840; was elected
to the UniteiUStales Senate as a Coalition Uemo-
£rttt (to fill a vacancy occiisioned by the resignation
B Daniel Webster), serving from February 22, 1851,
B March 3, 1851; and was elected a representative
Bom Miissacliusetts to the Tliirly-sccond Congress
as a Coalition Democrat on tlie second ballot, serving
dm December 1, 1851. until be died at Washington,
■ a brief attitck of fever, August 7, 1S52.
Rapier, James T., was bom in Florence, Alal
bania. in lisld; w.is educated in Canada; Is a planter;
was ap|H)inted a notary-public by the govi'rnor of
Alabama in 18<I0: was a niemlwr of the first Hepuli-
lican Convention held in Alabama, and was noe of
the committee that framed the platform of the party:
represented Lauderdale County in the Constitutional
Convention held at Montgomery in l.')07: was noml-
u.itcd for secretary of state in 1870, but defeated
with the rest of the ticket; w;is appointed assessor
of iuiemol revenue for the second ccdlcctlon-district
of Alabama in 1871 ; was ap|)ointed .Stale commis-
siouer to the Vienna Exposition in 1873 by tlie gov-
ernor of .Vi.abama; was elected a representative from
Alabama in the Forty-third Congress as a Kepub-
lican, receiving 10,1(X) votes i^inst lO.OtK) votes for
C. W. Oates. Democrat, serving from December 1,
1873. to March .3, 1875; and was defeated as the Re-
public.in candidate for the Forty-fourth Congress, re-
ceiving 10.124 votes agiunsl 20,180 votes for Jere-
miah N. Williams. Democrat.
Rariden, James, was bom in Kentucky; re-
ceived a puiilic-school education; studied law; was
admitted to the bar, and commenced practice atCen-
treville. Indhana; was a member of the State Senate
and HoiLse of Hcpresentativcs; was a delegate to the
State Constitutional Coni'ention; was elected a rep-
resentative from Indi.ina in the Twenty-lifth Con-
gress as a Whig, defeating Jonathan McCarty; wa»
ro-clectetl to the Twenty-sixth Congress, serving from
September 4. 18.S7, to March 3, 1841 ; died at Cam-
bridge Cily, Indiana.
Rathtibun, Qeorge, was bom in New Yorli ;
resided at Auburn; was elected a representative from
New York in the Twenty-eighth Congi-ess as a Dem-
ocrat, receiving 7.177 votes against 6,080 votes for
Morgan, Wliig. and 480 voles for Cuyler, AlHilitiun-
Ist: was re-elected to the Twenty-nlntli Congress,
rt-ceiving 7.511 votes against 7,1.S0 votes for Richanl-
son, Whi:;. and 021 votes for Stayles, Abolitionist,
serving from DccembiT 4, 184:3, to March 3, 1847.
Raum, Green B., was bom at Golcomla, Illi-
nois, December 3, 1820; received a comnion-scliool
etlucntion; studied law; was admitted to the bar,
and commenced practice at Uarrisburg; entered the
senicc as major, and rose to the rank of brigadier-
general in the Union army during the war for the
suppression of the KebcIUon; was elected a represen-
tative from Illinois in the Fortieth Congn?ss as a
liepublican. serving from M.ircli 4. 18t'i7. to March 3,
ISCiil; was defeated as the Republican candidate for
the Forty-first Congress, receiving 14,201 votes against
I4,7ll4 votes for Jolin M. Creljs, Democrat; was ap-
[«)inted by President Grant commissioner of internal
revi'iine August 2. 1870.
Ray, John, was elected a representative from
Louisiana in the Thirty-ninth Congress, and pre-
sented his credentials December 10. 1805, but w.as not
admitted.
Ray, "Williani H., was bom in Dutchess Coun-
ty. New York. Decemlier 14, 1812; his parents re-
moved to tiiieida County, New York, in 1813, and
again in the fall of ISIW to Illinois; received a com-
mon-school education; commenced business as a
merchant in lw:J7, and engaged in banking 18<i5; was
appointed by Governor Oglesby in 18110 as one of the
Boani of Ei|Uuiizers at its first meeting; and was
electcil a representative from Illinois in tlie Forty-
tbinl Congress as a Republican, receiving 1.3, 188 votes
against U.tiiiO votes for W. H. Neece, Democrat,
9er>'ing from Decemtier 1, 1873, to March 3, 1876.
Raymond, Henry ,J., was bom at Lima, New
York, Jaiiuai y 24. 1820; was reared on a farm; at-
tended the public schools in the winters; became a
teacher, and fitted himself for college; graduated at
the University of Vemiont in 1840; removed to New-
York City, where he was successively connected with
" Tlie New-Yorker," " The New-York Tribune." and
"The New- York Courier and Enquirer;" w.is a
member of the State House of Ptepresentallves lu
690
CONGBESSIONAI. DIBECTOBT.
1860; establUhed "The New-York Times" In 1861;
was elected lieutenant-governor of New York In 1856;
was a delegate to the National Republican Conven-
tion at Chicago in 1860; wjs elected a representative
from New York in the Thirty-ninth Congress as a
Bepublican, receiving 7,315 votes against 0,929 votes
for Ward, Democrat, 1,047 votes for Norton, Demo-
crat, and 1,347 votes for Hawkins, Independent, serv-
ing from December 4, 1865, to March 3, 1807; was
a delegate to the National Republican Convention
at Philadelphia in 1866; died of apoplexy at New-
York City June 18, 1869. He published a "Life
of Daniel Webster," " History of the Administration
of President Lincoln," and "Life, Public Services,
and State Papers of Abraham Lincoln," besides
many magazine articles and political essays.
Rayner, Kenneth, was bom in Bertie County,
North Carolina, in 1808; was educated at the Tar-
borough Academy; studied law, and was admitted
to the bar, but never practised ; removed to Hereford
County; was a member of the State House of Repre-
sentatives in 1835, 1836, 18;i8, 1839, 1840, 1848. and
1851; was elected a representative from North Caro-
lina in the Twenty-sixth Congress as a Whig, receiv-
ing 2,635 votes against 2,009 votes for Samuel T.
Sawyer, Democrat; was re-elected to the Twenty-
seventh Congress; was re-elected to the Twenty-
eighth Congress, receiving 3,731 votes against 2,883
votes for Hoore, Democrat, serving from December
2, 1839, to March 3, 1845; was a presidential elector
on the Taylor and Fillmore ticket in 1849; wrote
"The Life and Services of Andrew Johnson" in
1866; removed to Mississippi; was appointed by
President Grant in 1874 a judge of the Court of
Commissioners of Alabama Claims; was appointed
by President Hayes in 1877 solicitor of the treasury.
Bes^ David, was bom in Ripley County, Indi-
ana, January 19, 1831 ; received an academic educa-
tion: removed to Missouri in 1842; studied law; was
admitted to the bar in 1862, and practised at Savan-
nah, Missouri; was elected a representative from
Missouri in the Forty-fourth Congress as a Demo-
crat, receiving 11,953 votes against 10,395 votes for
P. A. Thompson, Republican ; was re-elected to the
Porty-flfth Congress, receiving 12,593 votes against
10,3fe votes for Benjamin F. Loan, Republican, serv-
insf rom December 6, 1875.
Rea, John, was bom in Pennsylvania in 1765;
served in the Itevolutionary army; was several times
a member of the State House of Representatives;
was elected a representative from Pennsylvania in
the Eighth Congress as a Democrat; was re-elected
to the Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh Congresses,
serving from October 17, 1803, to March 3, 1811;
was defeated as a candidate for the Twelfth Con-
gress; was again elected to the Thirteenth Congress,
serving from May 24, 1813, to March 2, 1815; died at
Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, February 6, 1829.
Read, Almon H., was born at Shelbum, Ver-
mont, June 12, 1793; received a classical education,
graduating at Williamstown College; studied law;
was admitted to the bar, and commenced practice at
Montrose, Pennsylvania; was a member of the State
House of Representatives, and of the State Senate ;
was State treasurer in 1840; was elected a representa-
tive from Pennsylvania in the Twenty-seventh Con-
gress (in place of David Dimmock, jun., deceased)
as a Democrat ; was re-elected to the Twenty-eighth
CJtijitrcss, i-ecelving 31R raajurlty, scrvlii!; from Man-h
1'*, Ht2, 10 .luiie il, 1644, when lie died at Mori I rose,
Peniisylvunia.
Bead, ^^Q^^HJa|^^tt|ll County, Ma^*-
Ul4| te^H^^^^H^^^PHH^Mm] cd n
; was
in the
a (leli>-
t 17711,
fftre to
the Federal Constitutional Convention; was ameni-
ber of the State House of Representatives in 17TU aud
1780; was a judge of the Court of Appeals iu admi-
ralty cases in 1782; was elected a United-Stales sen-
ator from Delaware, serving from March 4. 1780. b>
March 2, 1793; was chief justice of Delaware from
1793 to his death at New Castle, Delaware, bi-piem-
ber 21, 1798. Published " Ai^uments on the liritish
Debts." His " Life and Correspondence" was pub-
lished br William Thompson Read.
ReEkd, J., was a delegate from Pennsylvania to
the Continental Congress ni 1787 aud 1788.
Read, Jacob, was bom in South Carolina in
1752; received a liberal education; studied law in
England, and, on his return, practi^ atCharlfsion;
served in the Revolutionary army as colonel of South-
Carolina volunteers; was a member of the State
House of Representatives; was a delegate from
South Carolina to the Coutineutal Congress 17twi-
1786; was elected a United-States senator fivim .South
Carolina as a Federalist, serving from December 7,
1705, to March 3, 1801 ; was appointed by President
John Adams judge of the United-States court for
the district of South Carolina, serving from 18 il un-
til bis death at Charleston, South Carolina, July 17,
1810.
Read, Nathan, was bom in Salem, Massachu-
setts, in 1763; received a classical education, gnidnat-
ing at Harvard College in 1781 ; studied medicine,
and for several years kept an apotliecary's sliop at
Salem; invented several mechimical contrivances,
among them the applioation of steam to propelling
boats, before Fulton had successfully experimented;
was elected a representative from Massachusetts in
the Sixth Congress (in place of Samuel Sewall.
resigned) as a Federalist, receiving a majority of
214 votes over Jacob Crowninshield, Democrat ; was
re-elected to the Seventh Congress, again defeating
Jacob Crowninshield, Democrat, serving from No-
vember 25, 1800, to March 3, 1803; removed to the
vicinity of Belfast, Maine, where he cultivated a
large tract of land; was appointed a judge of the
Court of Common Pleas; died near Belfast, Mame,
January 21, 1849.
Read, Thomas B., was bom in Kentucky; re-
ceived a liberal education ; studied law; was admitted
to the bar, and practised at Lexington; removed to
Mississippi, and practised at Natchez; was elected i
United-States senator from Mississippi (in place of
David Holmes, resigned), serving from March 11,
1820, to March 3, 1827 ; was re-elected, but died sud-
denly while at Lexington, Kentucky, on his way to
Washington, before having taken his seat, November
26, 1829.
Read, William B., was bom in Hatdin County,
Kentucky, December 14, 1829; was educated in Har-
din County; studied law; was admitted to the bar in
1849, aud practised at Hodgensvilie ; was appointed
visitor to the Military Academy at West Point in
1856; was elected to the State Senate of Kentucky
for four years in 1857, and again in 1801 ; was the
Democratic candidate for Ueuteiumt-governor in 11^
on what was known as the Wicklifle ticket, and vas
defeated; was a delegate to the National Democratic
Conventions at Charleston and at Baltimore in 1%U,
and at Chicago in 1864; was elected to the House of
Representatives of the legislature of Kentucky in
1867, and served two years; and was elected a repR-
sentative from Kentucky in the Forty-second Con-
gress as a Democrat, receiving 9,314 votes against
3,831 votes for J. M. Fidler, Republican; was t«-
eJected to the Forty-third Congress, receiving 8.6x1
votes against 548 votes for Hobson, Republican,
serving from March 4. 1871, to March 3, 1875.
Reade, Edwin Q., was bom in Orange Coimty,
North Carolina, November 13, 1812; received an
academical education; studied law; was admitted to
the bar in 1836, and commenced practice at Roxbor-
ough. North Carolina; was elected a representative
from North CaroUna in the Thir^-^unh Coograis
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STATISTICAL SKETCHES.
591
I
u an American, receiving 6,752 votes aiiAlnst 3,447
▼otes for Kerr, Deiimcrat. si-rvina; fMm Dwi-mlier ;I,
1855, to March 3. li>>V; v,:w a dele^nti' to Ihe Kooon-
struction Convention %vhicli met at Knleigli in ISIih.
and was cliosen Its president.
Beading, John B., was born In Philadelpliia
County, P'.'nTisylvaiiia, >iovenit>er I, 1S20; recvivt'd a
lil)ernlediication: stuijicil medicine; graduated from
tlie JefTersdii Medical College, and cuiuraonced prac-
tice; was elected a representative from Pennsylvania
in the Forty-first Conirress as ,1 Democrat, receiving
18,ltK> votes" against y.f.lbii votes for Caleb X. Taylor,
Republican, ser\im; from March 4, ISO, to Decem-
ber 5, 1S70, wlien, liis election having iK-en success-
fully contested, his comiictitor took the wat: was
defeate<l as the Democratic candidate for the Forty-
second Congress, receiving 11,401 votes against ll,5til
votes for AJfreti C. Harraer, Kepuliiicau.
Beady, Charles, was boni at Keadj-ville, Ten-
nessee, Deci'nib<'r 22, 1K!I2; received a chissical edu-
cation, graduating at Greenville College, and ni'Ci-iv-
ing the degree of A.M. from the Nashville Universi-
ty; studied law; was admitted to the bar, and prac-
Use<l ; was a raemt)er of the State Ilouse of Represen-
tatives In 1S:}5; wius elected a representative from
Tennessee in the Thirty-third Congress as a Whig,
receiving 6,143 votes agaiyst 4,.'577 votes for Barry,
Democrat; was re-elected to the Thirty-fourtli Con-
gress, receiving 7,0(i9 votes against HIJ votes for
Keoble, Democrat; was re-elected to the Thirty-fifth
Congress, receiving 0,151 votes against <''>,85 1 votes for
Guild, Democrat, serving from Ilecember 5, IS-M. to
March ;}, ISo!); was defeated asthe Indepenilent can-
didate for the Thirty-sixth Congress, receiving u,H44
votes against U,7U) votes for llatton. Opposition;
■WM an active supporter of the Southern Confederacy.
Beagan, Jonn H., was bom In Sevier County,
Tenness<'e, October 8, l.'^18; received a c<immon-
Bchool and limited collcgi.ate education, but did not
gradn.ite; is a lawyer and farmer; settleil in the re-
public of Texas in May, IKW; was a deputy-surveyor
of the public lands 18;«i-I843; was elected c.iptain of
a company, and justice of Uie peace, in 1842; was
elected colonel of militia, and probate judge, in 184(3;
was elected to the State liouseof Representatives for
two years in 1S47; was elected jud;e of the Disirtct
Court for six years in 18-32; re8igne<l, and was re-
elected for six years in IS'xJ; was elected a represen-
tative from Texas in the Thirly-fiftli Congress as a
Democnit, receiving 15,700 votes against 10,085 votes
for Evans, American; was re-elected to the Thirty-
sixth Contrress, receiving 2<X505 votes against ;i,.>il
votes for Vf. U. Ochiltree, serving from December 7,
1857, to March 3, WH ; was elected to the Secession
Convent ion of Texas in i&M ; wsis elected with others
by that convention deputy to the Provisional Con-
gress of the Confederacy; was app<iinted jmstmaster-
general of the Provisional Government of tlir dm-
federacy March U, 18(11; was re-ap|Kiinted on tin;
permanent organization of the Confederate Govern-
ment in 1802, and occupied tlie position until the
close of the w.ar; was also appointed acting secretary
of the treasury of the Confederate Oiverninent for a
short time preceding the close of the war; and was
elected a representative from Texas in the Forty-
fourth Congress as a Democrat, receiving almut
4,000 majority over William Chambers, Republican;
Mid was re-electeil to the Forty-fifth Congress, re-
ceiving 13,007 votes against 0,410 votes for .S. W.
Coo[>er. Republican, serving from December 0, 1S7.J. f
Beding, John B., was bom at Haverhill, New [
Hampshire; received a public-school ednc.ition; was
electe<l a representative from New Ilampahire in the !
Twenty-seventh Congress as n Democrat; was re-
elected to the Twcnty-elglith Congrt-ss, serving from
May 31, 1841, to March 3, 1845; was naval store-
keeper at Portsmouth 18RJ-I858; was mayor of Ports-
mouth ; was a member of the State House of Repre-
sentatives.
Beed, Charles M., wai bom in Pemisylvanla;
received a publIc-scho<)l education; engaged in the
navigatiiin of tlie lakes, and became an extensive
ste.imboa; proprieti r; was elected a re[iresentallve
from Pennsylvania in the Twenty-eighth Congress as
a Whig, serving from December 4, 1843, to JIarch 3,
184."); died lit Drie, Pennsylvani.i, I)ecember 10, I.S71.
Reed, Edward C, was bom at Fitzwilliam,
New Hampshire, March 8, 170;1; received a classical
education, gniduating at Dartmoutli College iu 1812:
studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1814, and
commenced practice at Homer. New York; was
elected a representative from New York in the
Twenty-second Congress as a Jackson Democrat,
serving from December 5, 18.51, to March 2, 18;{.'l.
Reed, Isaac, was ixim at Waldoltorough, Maine,
In 181(1; received a public-sclnwl education; devoted
himself to mercantile pursuits; was for six years a
memlier of the State House of Representatives; was
defeated as a candidate for the Thirly-s<'Cond Con-
gress, but subsetpiently was elected a representative
from Maine in the Thirty-second Congnss (in jiiace
of Charles Andrews, deceased) as a Whig, receiving
6,052 Votes against all others, serving from June
25. 1852, to March 3, IS-Vl; was State treasurer in
1850.
Beed, John (father of John Reed), was bom in
Plymouth County, .Massachusetts, in 1751; received
a classical education, graduating at Yale College In
1772; was onbiiiied in 178<), and settled at West
Bridgewater, Massachusetts; was elected a n.'presen-
tative from Massachusetts in the Fourth Congress
as a Federalist; was elt!CI<-d to the Fifth and Sixth
Congresses, 8er>-ing fr«>m December 7, 1705. to March
3, ISol; died at West Bridgewater, Massachusetts,
Febniary 12, 1.S31.
Beed, John (son of John Reed), was born at
Bridgewater, Massachusetts, in 1781; received a
cliisslcal etlucalion, graduating at Brown University
ill 1803; was a tutor in thai institution for two years;
studied law with Hon. William Baylies; was ad-
mitted to tlie bar, and commenced practice at Yar-
mouth; wag electetl a n-presentalive from Masso-
chu.selts in the Tlilrtcenth Congress as a Federalist;
was n'-eiectod to the Fourteenth Congress, serving
from May 24, 181,3, to March 3, 1817; was successive-
ly elected from the Seventeenth to the Twenty-sixth
Congress as a \Miig, serving from December 3,
1821, to March .3, 1841; was known as "the life
member;" was lieutenant-governor of Massachu-
setts ]84i>-1.8Sl; died at Bridgewater, Massachusetts,
of no particular disorder, but of a gradual decay of
vital jHiwer, November 25, 1800.
Beed, Joseph, was bom at Trenton. New Jersey,
August 27, 1741; received a cia.s.sical education,
graduating at Princeton College in 1757; went abroad,
and studied law at the Temple in Lonilon; returned
in 1802. and commenced pnictlce at Trenton; was ajv
pointi'd deputy-secretary of New Jersey lu 1707; took
an aclive part in pre-Revolutionary movements; was
pn'Eideut of the Penn.«yKania Conx-ention in Janu-
ary, 1775; in July, 1775, at (he solicitation of Wiish-
liigton, he resigned a lucrulive practice, and aecora-
paiiied him to Canil>ridgo as his aide-<leH';imp and
military secretary; served iliiring the campaign of
1770; was apiioiuted In 1770 chief justice of IViinsyl-
vania, and brigadier-gem'ral in the Revolutionary
army; he declined both oliices, but participated .as a
volunteer in the battles of Brandywine, Monmouth,
and Gennantown ; was a delegate from Pennsyl-
vania to the Continental Congress 1777-1778; was
president of the Stale of Pennsylvania 177.S-1781;
resumed his profession at the close of 17'^1 ; visited
England in 17s4 for his health, and, returning, died at
Philmlelpliia .March 5, 1785.
Beed, Philip, was born in Kent County, Mary-
land; riveived an academical education; served as
captain in the Revolutionary anny; was elected a
United-States senator from Maryland (in place of
Robert Wright, resigned), serving from December 20,
1800, to March 3, 1813; commanded a regiment of
592
CONGEESSIOXAL DIEBCTOBr.
home cujirds. which repelled nt Moorflelds, Maryliuid,
a superior fon-e uf Britiib seamen under Sir Peter
P.iiker. who was killed; waa elected a representative
from MaPb'land in the Fifteenth Consrcss, serving
from December 1, 1817, to March 3. ISlO; was agniu
elecK'fl to the Seventeenth Congress {having success-
fully contested the election of Jeremiah C'ausden).
servinc; from March 20. 1822, to March :). 1823; died
at Hnntiugrille, Kent County, Maryland, Xovember
2, is-.u
Reed, Robert R., was bom in Pennsylvania;
receiveil a jllicral education; studied medicine, and
practised at Washinifton ; was a member of the UtaUs
House of l{epr('8<>ntatives; was elected a representa-
tive from Pennsylvania in the Thirty-first Congress as
a Wliig, receiving 0,417 votes against C.'MK votes for
VV. IIopldnB, Jackson Democrat, and MO votes Free-
Soil, serving fmra December 3, 1840, to March 3,
ISjI: died at llarrisbui^, Pennsylvania, December
15, l!^T4.
Reed, Thomas B., was bom at Portland
October IS, IS.?.); grailuated at Bowdoin College,
Maine, in ISflJ; studied law; was acting assistant
payn>astcr. United->Statcs navy, from April 1((, 1804,
to November 4. 186.^; was admitted to the bar in
LstWi, and commenced practice at Portland ; w;i8 a
member of the State House of llepresentatives in
ISOS-ISGO, and of the State Senate in 1870; was at-
torney-general of Maine In 1870-1872; and was elect-
ed a representative from Maine in the Forty-fifth
Congress as a Republican, receiving l(t,2;J5 votes
against 1.").143 votes for Jcdni M. Goodwin, Democrat,
•ervin;; from October 1.^. 1877.
Reed, William, wa-s bom at Marblehead, Mas-
sacluipptts. In 1777; engai;etl in mercantile pursuits;
was eloetcd a representative from Massachusetts in
the Twelfth Conctress as a Federalist, and was re-
elected li the Thirteenth Congress, defeating Crown-
iiishieid, Democrat, serving from November 4, 181 1,
until March 3, 1^15; was prominently connected
with several religious assiK-iations, to which ho be-
qiic^'^thed large legacies; and <lled very suddenly,
while attending a Babballi-s<'hool meeting at Marble-
head. Mnssachiiselts. Febru.ir\- 18, 1837.
Reeder, Andrew H., was bom near Trenton.
New Jcrs^oy, August 0, 1807; received a thorough
English education; studied law; was admiiteil to the
bar. and practised at Enston, Pennsylvania; invari-
ably refused office until he was appointed in 1H54
covernor of Kansas; he wo* removed in July, ISiw,
but was unanimously elected by the people of Kansas
as their delegate to Congress, and afterw.-irds, under
the Topeka Constitution, as United-States senotor
from Kansas; Congress refused to ratify tills consti-
tution, and he was not atlmittcd; died at Easton,
Pennsylv.ini^i, July 5, 18<M.
Reese, David A., was bom in .South Carolina;
reniuved to Georgia, and resided at Monticello; was
electi-il a representative from Georgia in the Twenty-
third Congress as a Whig, receiving 3.002 votes
against 3.8S:} votes for Sallold. Democrat, serving
from Deceml)er .5, 1S53. to Man.-h 3, 1855.
Reeves, Henry A., was born at Sag Harbor.
Suffolk County, New York, December?. IH.'B; gradu-
ated at Union College, SchenecUidy, New Tork, in
1)*»2; read law, and w.is admitted, to the bar, but
never practised; bec.-ime e<litor of " The Ilepublican
Watchman" at Greenport In 18.'>S; was elected a
representative from New York In the Forty-first Con-
gress as a Democrat, receiving 13,338 voles against
il,lt4o votes for Wood, licpublicoii, serving from
March 4, 1800, to March .3, 1871.
Reid, David Settle, was bom in Rockingham
County. North Carolina, April 19, 1813; studletllaw;
was admitted to the bar in 1843, and commenced
practice; was a member of the State Senate 18^)5-
1840; was elected a representative from North Caro-
lina to the Twenty-eighth Congress as a Democrat,
receiving 4,l(i5 voles against 3,827 votes for Mitchell,
Whig; aud was re-elected to the Tweaty-niiith Con-
gress, receiving 8,630 votes against 2.S5S to_
Keid, Whig, serving from December 4, 18^3, i
March 3, 1847; was nominated for governor of :
Carolina as a Democrat in 1848, and was def^ratc
receiving 41,48't votes against 42,.'!fii» votes for Manly^
Wliig; was elected go\-emor in ISjO as a I'
rweiVing 44,845 votes agJiinst 42.071 vote*
Whig; and Wivs re-elected in 18.52, recei^ :,-,~_4 1
votes against 42,003 votes for Kerr. Whig, serving
1851-1855; was elected United-States senator at »
Democrat (in the place of W. P. Maninira. Whig),J
and ser%ed from December 4, 18ii4. until March i,\
l.S-ii); was a delegate to the Peace Cor- -■ ' " "
Reid, John W., was bom at 1
ginia, June 14, 1821; received a publi
tion; removed to Missouri in 184t); studi,
admitted to the bar in 1844, and coramenci
sen'cd in the Mexican war as captain of a i'
in Colonel Douiph.in's regiment of mounted
teers; resumed practice; was two ye.Tr>i ^ i>i. '
the State House of Keprescntatives; v.
resentative from Missouri in the Thin
grwss as a Democrat, receiving ll.lKA* vot<s againstj
10,4:52 votes for Mitchell, Opposition, and senej
during the first session from July 4, 1801, to A
0, LStll; entered the Confederate 8er\ice, and was ex-
pelled, for " having taken up anns against the gov-
emment of the United States," on the first day of tl
second session, Deceralier 2, 18fi2.
Reid, Robert Raymond, was bom in
fort District. South Carolina, in 1780; removwl eari;
in life to Augusta, Georgia; studied law; was
mitled to the bar, and practised; was elected a repre-
sentative from Georgia in the Fifteenth Congress lln
place of John Forsyth, elected senator) as a Demo-
crat; was re-elected to the .Sixteenth and Sovcnte«ndi
Congresses, ser\ing from Febmar,' 18, 1810. In Marcll
3, 1823; was elected mayor of Auyusta at the expin-
tlon of his congressional tenn; wa^ r> iti.i.-.. .>f ths
.Superior Court of Georgia; w:»s app' iresi-
dent Jack-son In 1832 United-States jci .• dif-
trict of E.ist Florida; was appciinted by I'rc&ideDt
Van Buron governor of the Territory of Florldi,
serving l.S*50-1841: was a delegate to the convention
which framed a State Constitution for Florida, and
its president; died near TiUlaliassee, Florida, July
1, \i<U.
Reilly, James B., was bom in Schaylkiil C<!«n-
ly, Pennsylvania, August 12, 1845; was educated >t
the Pottsvilie High School, graduating June 1, 18K;
studied law; was admitted to the In- ' -v II,
1800, and commenced practice at 1 *i«
elected district-attorney of Schuylkill ' . ' loUc
bcrS, 1871, and served until January 1, 1^76, iiavlug
been elected, while holding th,it i>osition, a rqii»-
sentatlve from Pennsylvania in the Forty-foiirtli Con-
gress as a Democrat, receiving 8,(t00 votes jvgainjl
8,0B(( votes for Theodore G.irretson, ai ■' ' I ' ■•'■•s fof
W. M. Randall, Indeiiendent Dein ■ «-
elected to the Forty-fifth Congress, f .■'M
votes against 10,020 votes for Nutting, iiepublicsn,
scning from December 0, 1875.
Reilly, John, was bom at Abnerville. Whtal-
field Township, Indiana County, Pennsylvani.t, Ffb-
niary 22, I8;»; received a comnion-scluxil eiliication;
entered the service of the Pennsylvania Railroad, in
the engineer corps, April 10, 18.>1, and filled varioiu
minor situations until April 1, 18(}.=), when he «»»
appointed su()erlntendent of transportation, whidi
position he held at the time of his election to Con-
gress, but resigned on taking his scat; was president
of the board of city commissioners of Altoona in WS
and 1873; w.os president of the Bv'H's Gap iiailroiil
Company during Its construction In 1.872 and ISW;
is connected with several manufacturing iiiduJtries
of Pennsylvania; and was elected a represenUti"
from Pciuisylvania in the Forty-fourth Congress u t
Democrat, receiving 11,727 votes against 10,rj8UT0Ua
for Samuel S. Blair, Republicao, serving from De-
cember 0, 1875, to March 3, 1817; was
was dcfeat«d al M
STATISTICAL SKETCHES.
593
the Demopratic candidate for the Forty-fifth Con-
Sress. rerHviii? 14,148 votes OKaiiist 14,tj(}8 votes for
acol) MilltT Camiibell. ISepiibiicau.
Reilly, Wilson, was bom in Pennsylvania; re-
ceived a imlilir-scliool edvication; leanied the hat-
ter's trade; studied law, and was admitted to the l>ar;
was elected a n'prescntntive from Pennsylvania in
I the Thirty-tiflli Congress as a Democrat, reoeiving
111.224 votes against i),71S votes for Pumroy, Repul)-
liean, serving from December 7. 1857, to March 3,
185lt; was defeated as the Democratic candidate for
the Thirty-sixth C"oIl.?re'^s. receiving l).(.it>l votes
against il,:HS votes forSlcPherson, Kepublican.
Reily, Luther, was Iwm in Pennsylvania; re-
ceived an aeademio eilucatioii; studied medicine, and
practised at Uarrisburp; was elected a representative
from Pennsylvania in the Twenty-lifth Congress as a
Van Buren Di'moerat, defeating Harris, Whig, and
serving from September 4, IfvJ", to March 3, 1830;
died at Harrislmrs, PeniiBylvania, in 1S.30.
Relfe, James H., was Ixini in Virginia, and, at
an early age, removed with his parents to Washing-
>ton County, Missouri; studied medicine, and com-
menced practice at Caledonia. Missouri ; was elected
a representative from Missouri in the Twcnty-<Mglitli
Coneren as a Democrat; was re-cleoted to the Twen-
ty-ninth Congress, serving from December 4, 1843, to
March S, 1847.
Rancher, Abraham, was bom In Wake Coun-
ty, North Carolina; received a liberal education,
graduating at the University of North Carolina in
1S22; studied law, ami practised In Chatham County;
wus elected a representative from North Carolina to
the Twenty-first Congress as a Whig, and continu-
1 ously re-elected until the Twenty-fifth Congress inclu-
jalve, serving from December 7, 1820, until Marcli :},
[ 18:^9; w.is again re-elected to the Twenty-seventh
[Congress as a Wliig, serving from May 31, 1841, until
L March 3. 184;J; wa-s appointed by President Tyler
\cliar;/f il'qfiiire^ to Portugal, and served from Sep-
rtemher 22. 1843, until November 18, 1847; was ajv
pointed by President Buchanan governor of the Ter-
I rilorj- of New Mexico, and saned 18.57-1861.
Bevels, Hiram R., was liom in FayetteviUe.
I North CiimliiKi. Scpti'nilK-r 1. 1822; desiring to obtain
Ian education, which was denied in his native State
[to those of African descent, he removed to Indiana;
[spent some time at the tiuaker Seminar)* in Union
[County: entered the Jleilnxlist ministry: afterwards
I received further instructions at the Clarke-county
r Seminary, when he lM;c;imp preacher, teuclicr, and
I lecturer among his jieoplc in the States of Indiana,
Illinois, Ohio, and Missouri; at the lireaking-out of
the war, he was ministering at Baltimore; lie assisted
iu the organisation of the tirst two coloreil regiments
tn Maryl.ind and Missouri; during a portion of lS(i;i
and lSo4 lie taught scliool in St. Louis, then went to
[ Vicksburg, and assisted the provost-marshal in man-
I aging the ireedmen affairs; f()llowe<l on the heels of
I the army to Jackson; organized churches, and lec-
Itured; sjient the next two years in Kansas and Mis-
laouri in prea<"hing and lecturing on moral and reli-
felous subjects; relumed to Mississippi, and settled at
I Natchez; was chosen presiding elder of tiie Methodist
Iclmreh. and a member of tlie city council; .ind was
[elected a Unite<l-.St4ites senator from Mississippi as a
[Republican, serving fr im Kehi-n.-iry 2.'), 187(1, to March
1S71 ; was pastor of a Meth(Mli8t-E[>iscopal church
1st Holly Springs, Mississippi; removed to Indiana.
' where he was p.isior of tlie Alricau Meth<Hlist-Epis-
copal cliurcli nt liiclimonil,
k Reynolds, Arthur B., of Tlshemlngo County.
Mississippi, presented to the House of Keiiresenta-
tives on the 4th of June. 18(W1, credentials signed by
Governor Humphreys, declaring that he had I)een
elected to represent the Fii-st District of Mississippi in
the Thirty-sixlli Congress.
Reynolds, Edwin R., was bora at Fort Ann,
New Vork. Februarj' 1(4, ISlrt; was a student at
Urowu Umvenity, but withdrew at the end of the
second year, and received the degree of M.A. at
Hobart College, Geneva. New York; was principal cf
the Albion Academy, Orleans County. New York, for
six years; was county superintendent of common
8chof)ls for Orleans County in 1S4^1IS43; stuilied law
at Albion with Uons. A. Fl. Cole and D. H. Cole: was
admitted to the bar In 184;j, ami practised at .\lbion;
was a justice of the peace 184^18.'}4; was elected a
representative from New York in the Thirty-sixth
Congress (in place of Silas M. Burroughs, dece.tsed)
OS a Republican, receiving 8,709 votes against ii.Sdl
votes for L. J. Peck, Democrat, serving from Decem-
l)er T}, i8<X), to Marcli 3. 1801 ; was elected judge and
siUTttgato of Orleans County in 18(^1, serving" until
January 1, 1868; was a delegate to Uie National Lll>-
eral Republican Convention at CinclmiatI May 9,
1872. and supported Horace Greeley; continued the
praelicii of law. interesting himself also In agricnl-
tiinil jiursuits.
Reynolds, Gideon, was bom in New York ; re-
sided .it HoosicU ; was elected a representative from
New York in the Thirtieth Congress as a Wliig; and
waa re-elected to the Thirty-first Congress as a Wliig
ami-Rent cnmlidate supported by Democrats, receiv-
ing fl.(>5.') votes against .■i.862 votes tor Warren, Whig,
serving fmm Dcci'MiIht 6. 1847, to Man.'h 3, 1801.
Reynolds, James B., resided at Clarksville,
Tennessee; was elected a representative from Ten-
nessee in the Fourteenth Congress, serving from De-
cember 4, 1815, to March 3, 1817; was again elected
to the Eigliteenth Congress, receiving 1,1(X> majority
over .S. Brewer, serving from Decemlier 1, 182i3, to
March ii, 182.J.
Reynolds, John, was bom in Montgomery
Countv, Pennsylvania, February 26, 1788; when he
was afiout six months old, his parents removed to
Tennessee, and in ISIK) they removed thence to the
vicinity of Kaskaski^i, Illinois; he was reared on a
l)aekwood8 farm, but acquired a classical education;
studied l.iw; was admitted to the bar in 1812, and
commenced practice atCniiokia; serving in a com-
pany orguni7.e<l for the defence of the frontier, he
liecame known as " Tlie Old Ranger;" was elected
a justice of the Illinois Supreme Court in ISlS; was
a member of the State House of Representatives in
1827, 1828, and 1820; was elected governor of Illinois
in 18,'31, and in 18;32 took the field as commander of
the State militia in the Block Hawk war; was ap-
pointed a representative in tlie Twenty-third Con-
trress as a Democrat (to fill the vacancy occasioned
by tbe death of (.'h.irlis ."ilude), and elected to the
Tweiity-f^mrlli Con;:ress. serving from December 1,
1834, until March :i, 1.SJ7; was defeated as the Van
Buri'ii candidate for the Twenty-fifth Congress, re-
ceiving 3,116 votes against 3.2t)2 votes for A. W.
Snyiler, Democrat, and 2,018 votes for Gatewood,
Whig; was again elected to the Twenty-sixth Con-
gress by upwards of 2,(XKJ majority over J. Ilogan,
Whig, Bcr\'lng from December 2, 1830, until March
3, li^l; was re-elected to tlie Tweuty-seventh Con-
gress, serving f»m August 3, 1841, until March 3,
1843; was active in securing tlie building of railroads
(uh! macadamized roads; visited Europe in 18.'W; was
again a member of the State House of Kepresenta-
lives in 1846 anil 1S.V2, serving the last tenn as spe.ik-
cr: died at Belleville, Illinois, May 8, 1805. He
published the " Pioneer History of Illinois." "John
Kelly," " My Own Times," and a numlier of sketches
of travel.
Reynolds, John H., was bom at Morcau, Sara-
toga County, New York, June 21, 1810; received an
acifiemlcul education; studied law with Mr. Beekman
at Kiiuierhook; was admitted to the bar in 1843, and
commi'iiccd practice at Albany; was appointed by
President Pierce postmaster at Albany in 18-'>3, and
was removed because of his adhesion to .St«?phen
A. Douglas; was elected a representative from New
York in the Thirty-sixth Congress as an Independ-
ent Republican, receiving OJyll voles ag.'iinst 8,371
votes for Coming, Democrat, and 20U votes fot
694
COJJOnESSIONAL DIKECTORY.
Livingston, American, serving from December 5,
ISOO. to Marcli 3, l«tU ; returned to liis practice; was
apiioiiited by Governor L)ix a judge of llie t'ommis-
sioii nf ApiM-als of the State, wUicU position lie held
until the expiration of the court uy consiitutional
limitation on the first day of July, lb75; died at his
conntr)- n-siilence at Klntlerhook SeptemlHT i4, 1876.
Beynolds, Joseph, wns born in New York:
resided al Virgil; was a memlier of the State House
(if liepresi-ntaiives in li*]!); was elected a reprcsen-
lalive from New York in the Twenty-fourili Con-
gress as a Democrat, serving from December 7, li^US,
to March ^, 1S.37.
Bhea, John, wivs bom in 175.3; removed to Ten-
nessee, and locale<l at Sullivan ; was elected a reprc-
seutativi; from Tennessee in the Eighth Congivss as a
Democrat; was re-elected to the Ninth, Tenth, Elev-
enth, Twelfth, and Thirteenth Congresses, serving
from October 17, 1803, to March 2, ISl.i ; was ai'polnted
In ISIO United-States commissioner to treat with the
Choctaw Nation ; was again elected to the Fifteenth,
Sixteenth and Seventeenlli Congresses, serving from
DoceiulHir 1, 1817, to March 3, 1823; died May 27,
1*52.
Rhett, Robert Barnwell, was bom at Beau-
fort, South Carolina, December 24, 1800; receive<l an
acailemical education; sludie<I law; was adiuitted to
the bar In 1824, and commenced practice at Beau-
fort: up to this time he had been known by his
family name of Smith, but he dropped it, and as-
sumed the name of an ancestor, Rbett; was at-
toniey-general of South Carolina; was elected a
repnisentative from South Carolina in the Twenty-
fifth Congress as a Democrat; was re-elected to
the Twenty-sixth, Tweutj'-seventh, Twenty-eighth,
Twenly-uiiith, and Thirtieth CongreMes, serving
from .September 4, 18:i7, to March 3, 1840; was elect-
ed a United-States senator from S<mth Carolina (in
place of John C. Calhoun, deceased), ser\'lng from
January fi, 1851, to 1:>;2, wlien he resigned, upon tlie
death of his wife; was a leatling delegate to the
South-Carolina Secession Convention iii 1801, and
wrote the address giving the reasons for separation:
was n delegate from Mississippi to tlie ProvisioniiJ
Confederate Congress at Montgomery IStil, and
chainuan of the committee which reported tlie Con-
federate Constitution; became the owner of "The
Charleston Mercury," which wjis edited by his son,
Robert Uaniwell Uiiett, jun. ; removed to St. James
Parish, Louisiana, and died there September 14,
lS7(i.
Rioaud, James B., was bom at Baltimore,
Marjlnnd, Fi'l)ruary 11. 1808; received a classical
education, gnuitialing at Wii-shington College, Mary-
land; studied law; was admitted to the liar, anil
commrnced practice at Cliestertown, Maryland; was
a memlier of the State House of Keprcsentalives in
1834, and of the Stale Senate 1836-1844; w.is a presi-
dential elector on the Harrison ticket in IS-'JO, and
agaui on the Clay ticket in 1844; was elected a repre-
senUative from Maryland in the TUirly-foin-l li t'oii-
gress as an American, receiving 8,470 voles against
0,6CW votes for Shower, Dem(x;rat; was re-elected
to the Thirty-fifth Congress, receiving 8,7U1 votes
against 7,li;>'5 votes for McUenry, Democrat, serving
from December 3, 165.5, to March 3, IKTii); was aji-
pointed judgi- of the Circuit Court; died at Chester-
town. JIaryiand, January 24, 18fK3.
Rice, Alexander "Hamilton, w.as bnni at
Newton, M.assachusetts, August ;!0, 1818; received a
business training in his father's paper-mill, and at
the siuiie time a classical education, graduating at
Union College in 1844; entered into the paper busi-
ness at Boston ; was a member of the city council in
1.8.M; was mayor of Boston in 1850 and 1857; was
elected a repn'sentative inmi Massachuselts in the
Thirty-sixth Congress as a Republican, receiving
4,507 voles against 3,511 votes for Waldron, Demo-
crat, and 1,.3W! votes for Tliompson, American; was
w-elecied to the Thirty-seventh Congress, receiving
7,2fl2 votes against n,<Vl.1 votes for Biselow.
crat: was re-elected to tlie Thirty-eighth Con;;
r<'ceiviiig5,tH-4 votes against .5,1120 votes for SleciierJ|
Democr.-it; was re-elected to the Thirty-iiiuth Cna
gress, receiving 11,711 votes against 5..8»M votes foi
Sleeper, Democrat, serving from Deccnilier 0, 18ij|
to March 3, 18(37; was governor of MassacliuseU
l.'!7i>-ls78.
Rice, Americus V., was bom at r
Kicliland (now Ashland) County. Ohio.
I,H, ]S;i">; was educated at the common seh
Autioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio; gr.ulu.ited i
Union College, Schenectady, New York, in ISiyj; w«
a law student until April 12, 18(11, when he eiilitt<9
as a private soldier in the Union army; w;i9 pn
mote(l to second lieutenant and captain in the Twe
ty-first Ohio Volunteers, and served in West Vir
ginia until the exiiiration of his tenn <jf enli«tmeu|
ill August, 1801 ; immediately rp.ised a company, am
parts of others, for the Fifty-seventh Ohio Volua
leers, and was sucessively promoted to captain, lieu
tenant-cidonel, and colonel of that regiment, and
brigadier-general of United-States volunteers; «]
discharged the service January, IStMi, and becaju
manager of the private banking-house of C. H. Hio
it Co., Ottawa, Ohio; was a delegate to the Demo
cratic National Convention at Baltimore in 1672^
was elected a representative from (;liio in the For
fourth Congress as a Democrat, receiving lT,i^
votes against 8,279 votes for Lytic, Repuldiciuij
and was re-elected to tlie Forty-liflh Coiigrcjs,
celvlng 20,.543 votes against 12,045 votes for Long
Reriublicaii, sening from December 0, 1S75,
Rice, Benjamin F., was l>orn al East Ou
Cattaraugus Cuuniy, New York, May 2.'^.
ceived an academic education; studied ain
law; w.as a meinlier of the Kentucky le-;i
Is5,'>-l.s5(5; W.T8 elected presidential elector in lo
for the Sixth Congrc8slon,al District of K(!ntucky;|
removed to Minnesota In 1880; entered the Uuioof
nnny as a private in 1-801; was promoted to cdplaiu]
in the Third Minnesota Infantry Volunteers,,
served Ihrce years: settled at Little Kock InT
practised law until 1808; took a leading
organizing the Republican party in the Stale of _ ,
kaiisas in the early part of lS(j7; was ehairinaii of I
tlie State Central Committee, and conducted a 8U^
eessful canvass in tlirei- successive elect ions: ivu
elected Unite<I-States senator from Arkoiisat u t
Kepiiblicnn, 8er\-ing from June 3, 180$, to March D,
187.1.
Rice, Edward Y., was bom in Logan County,
Kentucky, February 8, 1821.); was educated at coiu-
mun schools and at .Shurtleff College; stndiol siid
practised law; was elected in 1847 county-reconlcr
of Moiitconiery County, Illinois; was a memlier of
the legislature of the State of Illinois in 184&-lSi5i);
was elected judge of the County Court of Moal-
comery County, and served two years: was appoiuliHl
innster in chancery for that county from isjiluiilil
18,')7, when he was elected judce of the Eightrentb
Circuit of Illinois, to which ofliice he was nMilecied
ill l.HOl, and again re-elected in 1.807; was a memhijr
of the Constitutional Convention of the State of
Illinois In 1800-1870; and was elected a repre^enl*-
livo from Illinois in the Forty-second Congress si »
Denioeral, leteiving 13,1103 votes aguiiisl 12,088 votH
for .}. W. Kitchell, Republican, serving from Ma/cb
4, 1871, to March S. lS7:i i
Rioe^ Henry M,, was bom at WaitsSeld, Xtr-
monl, November 21), ISlO; received a public-»ch<>"l '
education : went West as an assistant in nunking p)^-
eniment surveys; resided in the Terr-' -'■" -■' Inn J
and VVisconsin and Minnesota; w;is a Ken- |
nett Mackenzie in 18.38, and in 1841.) " lap
pointed post-sutler at Fort Atkinson, which he hai '
about two years; In 1843 he cominmiced IrsJing
with the Winnebago Indians in connection witli ibf
American Fur Company, which occupation lie f'l'-
lowed till the removal of these Indi.ans to I^ng
STATISTICAL SKETCHES,
595
, Ih
We, one hundred and forty Tniles above St. Paul;
diirin<; tlie rf iiioval of the Winnebjujioes liP was ap-
lioiiiti'il to trpftt with the Cliipppwas for the tract of
land occupii?d by the f.iniier Irilu.'; he also procured
tlie rfiMnval of the ('hi(>pewas from Lake Superior
,to fh« Mi^issippi, thug tlirowiug their trade into the
pper Mississippi Valley, instead of through Detroit
and Siiut Ste. Marie; Was elected a delegate from
Minnesota Territory In the Thirty-third Coiij^ess as
* Deiiiocrat ; was rf?-elected to the Thirty-fourth
iCoiiffress. servinu: from December 5, 1853, to March
8, lS,"i7; was elected a United-States senator from
Uiiiiiesola, serviiie from May 12, 1858, to March .3,
1863: was elected treasurer of Kanisay County in
187S.
Rice, John B., was b<im at Easton, Maryland.
In 18 HI; received a common-school education; went
on the stage at Xew Yorl« in 18:19, when he playe<l
Ihe character of the uncle in "George Baniweli;"
Jiaving achieved success in his profession, he married
'ary Anne Warren, an actress of acktiowlcilged
mbllily. who was a sister of the celebrated comedian,
William Warren of Boston: removed to Chicago,
Illinois; was an actor and manager of a theatn-; re-
tired from the sti\ge in 1857; waa elected mayor of
Chica);o in ISfiS, and re-elected in 18(17; and was
elected a representative from Maryland in the Korty-
third Congress as a Republican, receiving 12.8711 votes
•gainst 8,^ votes for Otis, Liberal, serving from
^ imber 1, 1873, to December 10, 1874, when he
died at Norfolk, Virginia.
Rice, John H., waa bom at Mount Vernon,
Maine. February 5. 1810; received a public-school
ucation; held sever.il local ofllces at Augusta 18;12-
devoting his leisure-hours to the study of law;
' as a staff-officer during tlie North-eastern
ary troubles; was apjiointed doputy-ehcriff of
,ta(|Uis County in 1842; was interested in
lumbering operations: was admitted to the bar in
1848. atid commenced practice; was a State attorney
by successive elections 1852-1800; was elected a rep-
resentative from Maine in the Thirty-eeventh Con-
os a Republican, receiving 12,314 votes against
,983 votes for HIake, Democrat; was re-elected to
lie Thirty-t'ighth Congress, receiving 8,113 votes
■gikinst 3.07(1 votes for Boynton, Democrat, and
" 2ti0 votes for Uaynes, Union Democrat; was re-
elected to the Thiriy-ninth Congress, receiving 10.802
Votes against t!.98;i voles for Miullgan, Demricrat,
rving from July 4, 18(11, to March .3, 1807; was ap-
'inted by President Johnson collector of customs at
Ihe jKirt of Bangor. M.aine. sen'iiig 1807-1871 ; en-
fgageti in the prosecution of claims and legal liiisiness
Fat wr.i.<hinKtoii Citv.
Rice, John M., was bom in Floyd County.
Kentucky; resided at Louisa: was a member of the
State House of Representatives in 18.'»ll and 1SI17;
was elected a representative from Kentuclcy in the
Forty-first Congress as a Democrat, receiving 10,510
^^Totes against (1,(02 voles fur Zoiglcr, Reimblican;
^■•nd w:is re-elected to the Forty-second Congress,
^■receiving (•..544 vol"S against 0.242 votes for 0. M.
Thomas^ Repubiicin, serving from March 4, 1809,
to March 3. 1873.
Rice, Thomas, w.is bom in Massachusetts; re-
, (jeived a cliissical edui'ation. graduating at Harvard
K College in 1701; studied law; was admitted to the
bar, ami commenced pr.ictice; was elected a repre-
lentative from Miu'sachusetts in the Fourteenth Con-
Jress: and was re-elect<?d to the Fiftetmth Congress,
ten lug from December 4, 1815, to March 3, 1810;
di.-il In 1854.
Rioe, William W., was bom at Deertield,
ila».«.icliusetls. March 7, 1820; was fitted for college
at Gorh.ini Acailemy, Maine; graduated at Bowdoin
,Colle!;e in l.SKi; wiis preceptor in Leicester Aciuie-
ilassachusetta, for four years; studied law at
(Worcester with Hon. Emory Washburn and Hon.
rje F. Ho.-ir; was admitted to the bar, and prac-
etl since at Worcester; was appointed judge of
I Insolvency for the county of Worcester In 18.58; was
I mayor of the city of Worcester In 1800; was district-
attorney for the Middle District of Massacintsotts
180i)-l874; w;is a member of the .State House of Rep-
resentatives in 1875; and wa.selecteil a representative
from Massachusetts in tlic Forty-tifth Congress as a
Republican, receiving 13,.8t)0 votes agaiiiKt 10,248
votes for (ieorgc F. verrv, DentiKrat, serving from
October 15. 1877.
Rich, Charles, was bom in Hampshire County,
Massachiisetls, in 1771; removed to Vermont, aiul
.settled at Shoreham: w.is elected a representative
from Vermont In the Thirteenth Congress as a
Democrat, serving frtmi May 24, 1813. to Mareli 2,
1815; was again elected to the Fifteenth Congress;
was ro-clected to the .Sixteenth Congre.sson agenenil
ticket, receiving 1:1,0.15 votes agtiinst il.lKil voles for
W. A. Griswold; wa.i re-elected lo the Seventeenth
Congress, and was re-elect<?d to the Eighteenth Con-
gress, receiving 1,455 votes against I,;i50 votes for
ilungerford, serving from December 1. 1817, to Octo-
ber 15. 1824. when he died at Shorelwun. Vennont.
Richard, Qabriel, was bom at Saintes, Frunce.
Octolier 15, 1704; received a classical education,
graduating at the College of Angers; studied the-
ology, and received orders at a Roman-Catholic
seminary at Paris in 1790; immigrated to the United
States in 1708; w.ns professor of nyatliematics in St.
Mary's College. Maryland; w.is sent by Bishop Car-
roll as a missionary to Kaskaokia, Illinois; in 171)8
he went to Detroit, Michigan, where lie published (on
a printing-pri'ss which had lx>en donate<I to him at
Boston) n periodical in the French language, enti-
tled " Essais dii Michigan," and some Rorauii-I'atho-
lic books; it became his duty to excoininunicate one
of his parishioners who had been divorced from his
wife, and who prosecuted Father Richard for defama-
tion of character, obtaining a venlict of one thou-
sand dollars; this money Father Richard (muld not
pay, and was consefiueiitly Imprisoned in the com-
mon jail; but the [H>ople of Slichigan elected him
their Territorial delegate to Congress, and he went
from prison to the Capitol. s<>rviiig in the Eighteenth
Congress from December 1, 1823, to March 3, 1826;
returning to Detn)it. he officiated as grand vicar of
the bishop of Ohio: died at Detroit, Michigan, of
cholera, Seiiteinbor n, 1,8:12.
Richards, Jacob, was elected a representative
frvim Pennsylvania ill tlie Eighth Congress; was re-
electeil to Ihe Ninth and Tenth Congresses, serving
from October 17. 180:1, to March .3, 1809.
Richards, John, was elected a representative
from Peiiiisylvaiiia in Ihe F<mrth Congress, having
successfully contested the election of James Morris,
serving from January 18, 1700, lo Mareh 3, 1707.
Richards, John, was bom in New York; re-
sidei! at Johnsbiirg; was elected a representative
from New York in the Eighteenth Congress, serving
from DecemlxT 1. 182.3. to March 3, 1.82.5.
Richards, Mark, was bom at New Haven,
Connecticut: removed lo Vennont; was for eight
years a member of the St.-vte House of Representa-
tives; was high sheriff of his county for five years;
was a presidential elector on the Madison ticket in
1813; was elected a representative from Vermont in
the Fifteentli Congress as a Democrat; was re-elected
to the Sixteenth Congress, rectdvlng 1.3,518 voles
iwainst 0,.s7l) voles for R C. Mallory. serving from
Deceinlwr 1, 1817, to Mareh 3, 1821; was lieutenant-
governor of Vemiont in 18:10.
Richards, Matthias, was bom In 1767; re-
ceived an .ncademical edncjition; studied law; was
admitted to the liar, and practised; was a judge of
Berks County, Pennsylvania. 17.S<-1707; waa el<H:t-
ed a n^prescntative from Ponnsylvaiiia in the Tenth
Congress; was re-elected to the Eleventh Congn^ss.
serving from October 20, 1807, to March 8, 1811;
died in 18:50.
Richardson, John Peter, was bom at Hick-
ory Hill. South Carolina, April 14, 1801; received a
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dassicaj education. era<luating at South-Carolina
College in l^'lft: stu(Jif<l l.iw: was admitted to the
tiar, and commenced jiractice at Fulton, South Caro-
lina: was a memlwr of the .Slate House of Rf-pn-sen-
talives; was judge of the Circuit Court; was electetl
a representative from South Carolina in tlie Twenty-
fourth Congress I in place of llichard T. Manning,
deeease<l| as a State-rights Democrat, and was re-
• Iri.'t.xi to the Twenty-fifth CoriBresa, »er\-ing from
UeceniWer 10, lyjjfl, to Mari-h 3, TsJl); was governor
of South Carolina lS4i>-Is42: was » delegate to the
State Conventions of Kri and 1*X); died at Fulton,
Soiiih Carolina, Janu:iry'J4, 1864.
Richardson, J. S., contested the seat of Joseph
n. Kainoy "1 the First District of South Carolina In
the Forty-lifth Conirrcss.
Richardson, John Smith, was bom on his
family plantation in Sumu-r District, Srmtb Carr>lina,
April 11, 1777; received a claasicol education, gradu-
ating at the Charleston College: studied law with
John Julius Pringl>!; was ulmilted to the l>ar Octo-
l>er 3i>, 17$ft), and commenced practice in his native
district; waa several years a member of the State
House of Representatires; w.'is electeil att/>niey-gen-
eral of the Slate in December, 1810; was elected
judze December 18, 1818; was elected a representative
from Soutli Carolina in the Seventeenth Congress. Init
declined on account of his private business, which
required Iiis presence in South Carolina; became
pre!ideut of the Law Court of Appeals in 1841. and
president of the Court of Errors in 184<J; defende<l
himself successfully in 1847 against an attempt to
legislate him out of office on account of his inability
to |ierforra his judicial duties, and died at Charles-
ton, South Carolina, May H, lavt.
Richardson, Joseph, was bom at Dillerica,
MiU'SachiLsetls. Felmiary 1, J778; received a clasi^ical
education, graduating at Dartmnuth College in ISifJ:
studied llieo|<)gy, and was licen»e<l tf> pn-ach in LSUS;
wa' onlained over the First Parish in llinghani July
£. l-^-W: was a delegate? to the State Constitutional
I <iiivi.'ntion In 182i.t; was a meral>er of the State
House of Representatives in 1821 and 1822, and of
the State Senate In 1828, 1834, and 1S2«; km elected
a represenlAtive from SCaasachnseti* in the Twentieth
Congress: was re-elected to the Twenty-first Con-
gress, serving from December .3. 1827. to March 3,
18.31 : died at Hint^ham, iLassochusetts, September
2.5, 1^71. Published a numijer of school-books.
Richardson, William A., w.is Iwni in Fay-
ette County, Kentucky, in Hll: received a classical
education, graduating at Transylvania University:
studied law: was utlmllted to the bar, and commenced
pr;u;ticc at Husliville, Illinois, but afierwards re-
muvetl to Quincy: was a memljcr of the State House
of liepresentatives in 183<i. and of the State Senate in
1*W; was again a meml)er of the State Uotise of
Representatives in 1H44, and sjieuker of the House;
was a presidential elector on the Polk ticket in 1844:
serveil in the Mexican war as captain in Hardin's
regiment of Illinois volunteers, ami was promoted to
lie major for his gallant conduct at Buena Vista
Febniary 2tJ, 1847; was elecl<.'d a ivpresentative from
Illinois In the Thirtieth Congress as a Democrat;
w;is re-elected to the Thirty-first Congress; was re-
elected to IheTliirty-seeond Congress, receiving 8,009
voles against 7,11)7 votes for Browning, \njig: was
re-eleeteid to the Thirty-third Congress, receiving
11.018 votes against 8,44:j votes for Browning, \\Tiig;
und was re-eTecte<l to the Thirty-fourth Congress,
receiving 8,!»:tt votes against 8,122 votes for Wil-
liams, Ki'publican, serv-fng from Decemlier 0, 1847,
to .Vugust 25, ISoil, when he resigned; was apiioiuted
by President Bueh.inan governor of Nebraska, serv-
ing 1857-13.58, when he resigned; was elected a
United-States senator from Illinois (in place of
Stejihen A. Douslas. decease<l) a.s a Democrat, serv-
ing from J.-inuary :5ii, is«j;j. to March .3, 1805; died of
pandyjis at QuincVjlllinois, Decemtjer 27, 1875.
Richardson, William Marchant, was born
arly
at Pelham, JTew Hampshire^ Janii.i •
ceived a classical education, grxlua
College in 17V7; studied law; was .......
bar, and commenced practice at Grotoa,
setts; was elected a representative tnxa
setts in the Twelfth Congress as a Fedcnli
was re-elected tii the Thirteenth Cooereas.
Hale, War Dem<KTat, by over 1,000 liiAJonty,
owing to the op|)osition tr) the war. every
candidate in Ma&sachusftts was defeated; he rc^
signed after the second session, serviog fmm Jaait-
ary 22, 1812, until April IS. HI 4: removed to Pocl»-
roouth In 1814, and was i juMtice ot
New Hamiisbire in I8Pl. '.• dnties of
the office until he died at t h-m.-i. " ' '—
March 23. INW. He publislie.! " I
shire Justice" and "The To«-n < >;
siderable portion of the first and second voiumes of
the New-Hampshire Reports was his work; nearly
all the cases of the third, fourth, ami iifili were '
nished by him; and of the matter for, perhaps, U
volumes more, heiirepared a large sharv.
Richmond^ Hiram L., w:is bom in Chaui
qua County, New York, May 17, 1810; received
good academic education: studied medicine tirs
years with his father, Lawtoii Richmond; then ca-
tered Alleghany College as a student, where he re-
mained two years; studied law under Hon. David
Derickson of Meadrille; was ulniilted to the bar in
February, 1838, and, in April thereafter, eiiteml
u|K>n the duties of his profession at Meadville: was
elected a representative from Pennsylvania in Uie
Forty-third Congress as a Republican, reo«i*tag
20,704 vote* against 18.627 votes for S. GriOa,
Democrat, serving from Deceral>er 1, 1873, to Uaith
3, 1875.
Richmond, Jonathan, was bom at Bristol,
Massaohusells. in 1774; received a public-school eiin-
cation: removed to Western New York i '
settleil at Aurora, Cayueii County; was ■
United-States intenial revenue; was ■ '
scntative from New Y'ork in the Six
serving from Decemlier 0. ISll), t"
died at Aurora, New York. July 2t>. l!S>>.
Riddle, Albert Qallatin, was Uim at Mnruwn.
Massachusetts, May 28. isiii; his f:r'
Newburj-. in the Western iSeserve •
was reared on a pioneer farm, r^
school education, and was one year a
Academy: studied law with Groveni^ ■
was admitte<l to the bar In May. 1840, ai
in Geauga County until 1850, when he
Cleveland : was electe<l pr.?
Geauga County in 184(t, 1S42, m
a meiiilwr of the St.ite legislatui . . ;
in 1841); was elected a representative fr-
the Thirty-seventh Congress as a ICadical I.
receiving 11,1'27 votes against o.:J43 votes tor XJ-
Williams, Democrat, seizing from July 4. 1861, l«
March ;l. IWW: was consul "at ^' ■ ■•■ ' ■ '
fewniontlis; located at Wash i!
tisod; was special assistant att'i:
cute the safe-burglars' case. He pul>li»bf-il " 8tu<tciil'
and Lawyers," a voliune of " Law Li'cturcs," »iiJ
diree novels. — " Burt Ridgely," "The Portiail,"
and "Alice Br.ind."'
Riddle, George Read, was bom at New Csstls,
Delaware, in 1S17; received a liberal edacatioa;
studied civil engineering, and was engaged fortoow
years in locating and constructing railroads lU'i
canals; studied iaw; was admitted to the bar. sud
commenced practice at Wilmington, D' 1 "
1848; was deputy attomey-gener.il for ~
County 1848-1850; was a commissioner
retrace "Mason and Dixon's Line;" wasadelegsw
to several National Democratic Conventions: »«
elected a representative from Delawii 1 Tl.irty-
second Congress aa a Democrat, rec> i \olci
against 5.926 votes for Rodney, Whig; »»5 n-cltjcted
to the Thirty-third Congress, receiving 6,flH ToW
STATISTICAL SKETCHES.
597
»
against 6,630 vot«8 for Honsfon, Wliig, serving from
ifecembcr 1, IWl, to Mart-li 3, IS-V); was defpalcd as
the Democratic cuulidato for llie Tliirty-fourth Con-
gress, receiving 0,%i4 votes ai'uinst fi,8'i() votes for
Ciillen, American; wiis elect<!il n United-States scn-
fttor from IK-lnwarc (in pb.cc of James A. Bayanl.
resigned), s<>rvini; from Kebruiirv 2, 1804, tti Marcli
29, ISO", when he died at Washiii^on City.
Riddle, Haywood Yancey, was iiom at Van
Bureii, Uanleninn Cnutily, Tennessee, June 20, 1S:W;
was educated at Union University, MurfreeslMjmugli,
Tennessee, and graduated at Uie liead of liis class in
July, 1854; was elected adjunct prof essor of mathe-
matics and tankages in the Siime college, but re-
signed, after lifteen months, to enter the law-school
of Cuml>erland University at Lebanon in 1830,
■where he graduate<l in June, 1857: Wiis admitted
to the bar at Rlpli-y. Mississippi, in 1S57. but moved
]n 1SS8 to .Smith Co\inty, Tennessee, where he had
married, and eii^.i<;eil in agricultural pursuits; entereil
the Confederate army as a private in 1801, and serve<l
tliroujih the war, the l.Tst year of it on the stiiff of
Brigadier-Generals Marcus J. Wright and W. W.
Mackall ; moved to Lebancm in 181)5 to practL'>e law,
but was employed in the office of the couiity-clerU
for five years, and then received the apiwintmeut for
six years in 187' •. but resigned, wlien elected ii repre-
sentative from Tennessee in the Forty-f<iurlli Vnn-
gress as a Demi>crat, Docemlx-r 14, 1S75 (to till the
' vacancy cau8e<i by tlie death of .S. M. Kite), receiving
6.371 votes against I.:Wtlvoles for W. M. Wooilcock,
Kepublican, and O'M votes for A. E. Garrett, Demo-
crat (a f;\tality. unprecedented in tlie history of the
government, liad attended the congressmen elected
to the Forty-fourth Congress from this district; J<din
W. He.ad was elected on the first Tuesday in Novem-
ber, 1H74, and died in a few days afterward; Samuel
M. File W.1S eli!Cted December Bl, 1874, ami died
^.October ^i. 1875; neither lived to take lUs seat); he
I re-elected to the Forty-lifth Congress as a Derao-
, receiving 11,957 votes against S,M,5 votes for R.
A. Cox, Democrat, and l,4-'i7 votes for R F. Patton,
Bepublican, serving from December 6, 1875.
Bidgeley, Henry Moore, wtis bom in 1778;
received an ucadeinical eiiuiMtiou; stuilied law; was
admitted to the bar, and commenced practice at
I Dover; was elected a representative from Delaware
in the Twelfth Congress as a Federalist, receiving 17
I majority over Kichard C. Dale, Democrat; was re-
elected to tlie Thirteenth Congress, receiving 4,118
votes against 3,211 vut^s for Hall, Democrat, serving
[ from N'ovember 4, isi I, to Mari'li '^, isio; was elected
j a United-.Statcs senator fruiii Delaware (In jilace of
[Nicholas Van Dvke, deceased), sening from .lanuarv
'23, ISL'7, to March H, 18211; died at Dover, Del.iware,
Augnst 7. 1*47.
Ridgely, Richard, was a delegate from Mary-
land ti> the CoMliiiental Congress fMm 1785 to 178(1.
Ridgeway, Robert, wiis a native of Virginia:
received a classical education; edited "Thellich-
r luond Whig;" claimed a seat as a representative
I from Virginia in the Fortietli Congress, but w.is not
! admitted ; was re-elected to tlie Forty-first Congress
aa a Conserv.itive. receiving I'1.73i voles against
1^.751 viites for Curtis, Hepulilican; died at Cool
Well. Amherst County. Virginia, Octol>pr 17. 1809.
Rid?way, James, resiiled at Columbus, (Ihio:
.held several Iwtal Dttices; was elected a representative
I from Ohio in the Twenty-fifth Cmigress as a Wliig,
sonin'i from September 4, lJ>i7. to March :'i, lR:i9.
Rid^way, Joseph, was born on Staten Island,
IXew \ork. May ('•, 1783; received a piililk--seliool
education; learned the house-caqH'nter's trade; re-
moved to Ca)*uga County, New York, in 1811, and
engagi'd in tlie manufacture of fauning-mills; re-
moval again to Columbus, Ohio, wliere be established
an iron-f 'Minder)', wliirh became a large railroail-
car tnanofnct'iry; was a memt>er of tiie State House
of Representatives 18'28-1S:JJ; was elected a represen-
tative frum Ohio in the Twenty-aixth Conj^ss aa a
I
Whig; was re-elected totheTwenty-seventli Congress,
serving from neeenil)er 2, 18:59, to March ;J. 1843.
RiggS, JettlT R., was iKirn in Morris County,
New Jersey, June 2t>, 18<I9; received an academic
etiucation; studied medicine, and graduated from
the New-York Medical College; made a voyage
around the world; practised medicine from 18;j2
until l.S4tt, sening two years in the Stale llou*e of
Representatives; went to California In 1840, and was
In charge of the hospital at Sutter's Fort tlierc; re-
turned to Paterson; was a ineml)er of the State
Senate of New Jersey In 18.'>.>- 1.8.58; was elwled a
represi'iitative from New Jersey in the Tlilr'.y-Blxth
Congress as a Republic.an, n.-ceiving 8,8;j7 votes
against 8,154 votes for J. Huyler, IVmocral; died at
DmkesviUe. New Jersey, Novemlwr 6, 1809.
Rigga, Lewis, was bom in Cortland County,
New York; received a public-school education; was
elected a n'presentative from New York in the
Twenty-seventh Congress as a Democrat, receiving
I(l.:5ii;) votes against M.iiS votes for James Dunn.
Whig, serving from May 31, 1841, to March :1. 184:!.
RiJcer, Samuel, was bom on Long Island, New
York; reieived a public-school edticalioii: was a
memlier of the .Slate Uouse of Representatives in
1784: w.os elected a representative from New York in
the Eighth Congress (in place of John .Smith, elected
senator), starving from November 5, 1804, to JIarch 3,
l.'iDo; was again elected to the Tenth Coiigri'ss, serv-
ing from OcIoIkt 20. 1.807, to .March 3. ISOU.
Ringgold, Samuel, was Ixim in Maryland; re-
Cfived a piiblio-scliDol education; n'8ide<l at Hagers-
lowii; wiisanieniliiTtif the State .Senate: wa-seleoled
a representalive from Maryland in the Eleventh Con-
gress (ill place of Roger Nelson, resigned) as a Dem-
ocrat; wnt re-elected to the Twelfth and Thirteenth
Congresses, serving from December 7, 1810, to March
2. 1815; was re-t^lccted lo tlie Fifteenth Congivss;
was re-elected to the Sixteenth Congress, serving
from Deceml>er 1, 1817, to M.trch :l, 1821; died at
Hagerstown, Maryland, October 18, 1820.
Ripley, Eleazar Wheelook, was boni at
Hanover. New Hampshire, in 17>*2; received a classi-
cal education, gratluating at Dartmouth College in
1800; stuilied law: was admitted to the bar, and
commeneeil practice at Waterville, Massachusetts
(afterwanls Maine); was a member of the Statu
House of Representatives in 1807 and in 1811; re-
move<l to Portland in 1812; was elected a member of
the State .Senate; served in the war of 1812 as colo-
nel, brigadier-general, and major-gener.tl. distin-
guishing himself in the battles of Chippewa, Niagara.
and Erie; was retained in the service, ami superin-
tended the erei'Mon c)f fortifications at the South-
west until he ri;»igiied in 1820, residing at Jackson,
Louisiana; Wiis a luember of tlie Stale .Senate; was
elected a representative frtmi Louisiana in the Twen-
ty-fourth Congress as a Jackson Democrat, receiving
1 , 105 Votes against 899 votes for ClL-ivin. 4;U votes for
Bradfonl. and 2.57 votes for Woodruff; was re-elected
to the Twenty-fifth Congress, receiving 50f) majority,
serving from Decemtier 7, 1S;}5, to March 3. 18;M>;
declined a nveleclion: tlie murder of his only son at
the Fanning massacre, and the breaking-out of one
of bis old wounds, h.istened bis death, which took
place at Jackson, Ijoiiislana, Marcli 2, 1.839.
Ripley, James W., was Iwni in Massachusetts
(afterwanls Maine); receiveil a liberal eilucatiou'
studied law ; was admitted to the bar, ami commenced
practice at FryeUurg; served as an officer of Maine
volunteers in the war of 1812; was for four years a
memtwr of tlie State House of Representatives: was
elected a representative from Maine in the Nineteenth
Congress (in place of Enoch Lincoln, resigned) as a
I»emocrat; was re-elected to the Twentieth and
Twenty-first Congresses, 8er\-ing from December,
1820. to March 12, 1830, when he resigne<l on account
of his delicate hcidth; was appointed collector of
customs for the Possamaquoddy district of Maiue;
died June 17, 1835.
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CONGBESSIOyAL DIBECTOBr.
Ripley, ThomEis C, was Itom at Sehaglitlcoke,
Ni'W York; wns eloetLMl ii rcprt'seiitjilivp Iroin New
York in tin- Twfiiiy-iiiiitli Conijryss (in jtlace of
Riclmnl P. llurrick. iUvwislmI), serving from Decem-
l.i-r 7, 11*40. I'l Miiroh :J. I.S47.
Rialey, £lijah, Wiis born In Conncctieut in I'.SO:
reniiiveij u>('li;iutau<|ua('()nnty. New York; lifld scv-
iTiil liH-al ofliccs: was cleoleil a n.«pnwnliitive from
New York in lln: Tliirty-lirst Congress n8 a Whig,
n-ofiving ti.lt-kJ votes agiiinst S,(Mlt voU-s for C'haffi'i'.
Oiiss DnnivKTat, and :i,:WL' votes for (.■olni;in, Viui
B'lren Democrat, serving from Uocember .'J, 1H40, to
Miiri-b 8, ISjI ; iliol at Fredoiiia, New York, Jauuary
», 1S70.
Ritchie, David, was bom at Canonsburg, Penn-
sylvania, August lit, IS12: received a elassioal edii-
ealion, grailualing at .lelTcrson College in 1829; slud-
ied law; was lulmitted to the liar in 18-So. and eom-
menced practice at I'iltslmrg; was elected a n-jire-
sentative from Pennsylvania in tlie Tliirly-thinl
Congress as a Whig, mceiving 4.il3'.i votes against
4,.V3J votos for Shannon. Democrat; was re-elected to
the Thirty-founh Congress, receiving 5.70>) votes
,'igainsl.i,7 14 votes for Schiller, Deniocr.at; and was re-
elected to the Thirty-lifth Congress as a liepuhlicnn,
receiving 7,(174 votes against .'),i)44 votejt for McCand-
less. Democrat, serving from December .5, ISSJj. to
March ;). 1.S50; was coiinty-jiidge for one year; died
at Pittsburg. Pennsylvania, .January 24, 1S«I7.
Ritchie, John, was iHirn in Frederick City.
Maryland, .\ugust 12. ISll; was educ4ite(l mainly at
the Frederick Academy; commenced the study of
medicine, but relinquisliecl it for tU.it of law. at-
lemling duiing Ida course the law-school of Uarvanl
College, Mussachusetts; was admilt<»d to the bar in
Oct^jiier, 18.V1, and commenced practice at Frederick
Citv; was pn;sideiitittl elector in 1W50 on the lireck-
Inridge and Lane ticket; in 18(17 was elected Ut serve
for tour years as Stale's attonioy for Frederick
County from the 1st of January ensuing, which
office he held when he was elected a representative
from Maryland in the Forty-second Congress as a
Democrat, receiving 14,.'J04 vote^ against 12,4Ki[ votes
for J. E. Smith, Ri-publican, serving fr<mi M.ircli 4.
l!^71, to March 3, 187.S; was defeated as tlio Demo-
cratic candidate for the Forty-third Congress, receiv-
ing 12.54o votes against 14,258 votes for Lloyd
Lfiwndes, Republican,
Ritchie, Thomas, wn.s bom In Pennsylvania;
removed to Ohio, and located at Somerset; was
elected a representative from Ohio in the Thirtieth
Congress as a Democrat, serving fnun December (3,
1»47, to March 3, 1H41); was again elected to the
Thirl v-lhird Cimgress, n^ceiving 0,087 votes against
• 1,(1.41 Votes for Welch. Whig, and .323 votes for Tuck-
er. Alxjlitioidst, serving from Decemter 5, 18.W, to
March 3. lK.")j.
Ritter, Bvurwell C, was born in Barren Coun-
ty, Kentucky, January 0. 1810; received an academi-
cal education; engaged in agrlculturnl pursuits; was
a meml«"r of the .Slate House of Kepresentatlves In
lim't and IS-W; was elected a representative from
Kentucky in the Thirty-ninth Congress as a Con-
servative, receiving (!.II74 votes against 5.780 votes for
Teaman. ll<."publiean, serving from December 4,
isili. to March 3, l.*.)7.
Ritter, John, wa« bom at Exeter, PenDsylvania,
Feliruary tl. 177S1; received a public-school education;
enlered the printing-otflce of the '• Headlnger Adier"*
in 17U7. when llie sectmd number was issued, his
f.ither being half-owner; in 18112 he purcha-scd his
father's interest, and he continued to conduct the
paper until his death; w;i8 a member of the State
Constltulionid Convention of 18:115; was elected a
repn-seiitative from Pimnsylvania in the Twenty-
eighth Congress as a Democrat, receiving :J,W1 votes
against 1.747 voles for Ilchn, Whig; and was re-
elected to the Twentv-ninth Congress, serving fri)ra
December 4, l*4;i, to M.irch 3, 1847; died at Reading,
Pennsylvania, November 24, 1851.
Rivers, Thomas, was bora in Tennecc.w
silled at Somerville; was elected a n; ^1
from Tennessee in the Thirty-fourth Con-
.\iuerican, receiving G..S(10 vole* against :>.i •'■ \ ii«
for Currin. Democrat, ser^'ing from Deceml)er
18.V). to March 3. 1S.-|7.
Rives, Francis E., wns Ixmi in Virginia:
sided al Littleton: was elected a ropresentalivi' fn
Virginia in the Twenty-fifth Congress as a Deniocr
receiving (M) majority over Dr. Goodwin. Whi'j;
re-elected to the Twenty-sixllt ''
281 majority over .James W. 1'
from September 4. 1*57, to M:ii
lieing a candidate for re-electiun ; ilied ut Lilt
NovemlKjr .30. 18(11.
Rive3, William Cabell, w:i» bom In X«K
CiKinly. Virginia. May 4, 17»3; reiH-ivcd a clfts^io
edueation, gradiuiting at William and M.ary Colle_
studied law under Tliomiu .felTerson; was admitta
to the bar. and commenced practice; served ia th
home-guard in 1814 and 1815; was a dele
the State Convenlion iu 18lit; wns a memlierl
Slate House of Representaiivea in 1817. 181S.T
and 1822; was elected a representative from VirginH
in the Eighteenth Congress as a Democnit; w.is
elected to the Nineteenth and TwentielliCongrcK
serving from December 1. 1823, to March 3. ISa
was appointed by Presiilent J.ickson miiuster
France, serving from April IS. 182t». toSeptcmlK-r;
18:32. and negotiating the Indemnity Treaty of Ju
4. 18.31; was electciJ a U!dted-.Statos sen;it"r fMJ
Virginia (in place of Litlleton W. T.irewell.
aigni'd) as a Van Bunm Conservative, 8t"r>ing fpm
Jmmary 4. 18;!3, to 1.834, when be rvsigned
than oliey inslnictions: went before the peop'
was defeated in the legislature liy 4 votes; wal
elected a senator (in luace of John Tyler, rc«
and was twice re-elected, serving from 5Ia
183II, to March .3, 1.845; was again appointed i
to France, serving from July 2<i, 1841i, to May '.
1853; was a delegate from Virginia to tbe Provision
Confederate Congress which iissembled at Bichmorul
ill July, 1801; was a rf?presentative in tbe First amtj
Second Confederate Congresses, serving from Kelim-
ary22, 1801, to 1.8«J4; died near Cbarlottesville. Vir-
ginia, April 2(J, 180g. Hi'publisheil " Life and Tiuia
of James Madison" (three volumes), "Essays ou
Agriculture." "Life of John Hamiidcn," "Ethics gf
Christianity," and " Discourse on tlio Uses and Im-
portance of History."
Roane, John, was bora in Virginia in 1754: Tt-
ceived a cla-vdcal education; was a pn^sidential titc-
tor on the Washington ticket; was forseverjil yeiiti
nienilHT of tbe State House of Representatives; w»n
deieg.-ite to the St.ite Constitufion.il Convention: m
elected a representative from Virginia in the Eleventh
Congn-.ss as a Democrat; was re-elected to ilw
Twelfth and Thirieentb Congresses, serving from
May 22, 1800, to March 2, 1815; was aeuu elccrsd t"
the Twentieth Congress; w;is re-elected to theTwuo-
ty-first Congress, sening from DeccmlKT 3, l^. W
.Triarch 3, 18:U; was again eleclwl to the TwenlJ-
fourtb Congress, serving from De<-cmlier 7, 1833, to
March 3, 18:17: died at his residence in King Williua
County. Vinrinia, Noveml)er 15, 1S:}8.
Roane, John, was l>orn in Virginia, and vts t
ri'presenlalive fnmi that State in the Eleventli nuJ
Twelfth Congresses, serving from May 22, 18(11', I"
.March 3. 181:3.
Roane, John J., was bom in Virginia; wf
elwted arepresont.itivefrom Virginia in the TirtnlT-
second Congress, sen'ing from Decemlwt 5, Ittfl, to
Mar(!h 2, l.^«.
Roane, William H., was bom In Virgiui* to
1788; received an aciulemical ediicar' ■ • ■ ^ •it1'>'
a meinlwr of the State Executive ' • '
memlKT of tbe State House of Repiuj • '-'
elected a representative from Virginia iu tiie four-
teenth Congress as a Democrat, serving from Pweitt-
ber 4, 1816, to March 3, 1817; was elected k UDil«<l-
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States tenator frfun Viniinia (In place of Rlchnnl E.
PaikiT. rtPiiTiictl), Ri'rviiij; fn>m SL-ptoinlier 4, 1S37, to
Waroli n. ls-11; died at Tree IliU, iieur Uicluiionil,
Viiuh.ia. M:iy U. 1X45.
Robbins, Asher, was bom at Weathcreficld,
Connecticut, in Sepleuiber, 1757; received n olussical
education, ^riiduating al Vale College In 1782; was
a tutor in Providence College (afterwards Brown
Universily). 17S;/-17S8; studied law at Newport with
Attorney-General William Clianninf;; was admitted
to the hiir, and commenced practice at Proviilencc.
hut removed in 17(lo to Newport; was appointed
l'nitwl->Stales distriit-attoniey in 1812; was a mem-
ber of the Stale lefjislaturp 1818-1S23; was elected a
Senator fmni Khode Inland as a Whig (In place of
Jamrs D'Wolf, resiijned), and re-elected, serving
fr<>m DecemlKT.'), 1S20, to March 3, IKJW; was ujiain
elected a luemlicr of the State leijislature, servlni! for
•evcral yMrs; and died from the effects of a fall on
the ice at New-port. Rlioilo Island, February".), 1I-45.
Robbins, George R., was bom near .lUlentown,
Wonniomb County, New Jersey, Nepteraber24, 1SS12;
received a medical (Mlucalion, graduating at the Jef-
ferson Medical College. Philadelphia, In 1837, and
practised at Hamilton Square; was elected a repre-
■entative from New Jersey in the Thirty-fourth Con-
gress as a Whig, receiving ll)..'i3l) votes against 7,700
rotes for Hue, Uemoerat; and was re-elected to the
Thirty-tifth Congress, receiving 11,723 votes against
10,692 votes for Wall, Democrat, serving from De-
cember .S. 1S155, to March a, 186«.
Robbins, John, w.is born in the villa^ of
Bustleion (now the Twenty-third Ward of the city of
Philadelphia) ; received an onlinary school education,
and \v;is sulMequenlly at the boarding-Bchool of John
Gummere, the eminent mathematician and astrono-
mer, at Burlington, New Jersey; was raised on tim
farm of his father, and became practically acquainted
Kith agricultural jmrsuits; when a young man he
established himself at Kensington (now the Eigb-
l<'eath W.ird of the city of Philadelphia) as a manii-
Licturer of steel, and afterword beciime interested in
a mill for rolling liar-iron and steel, but hi' retired
from Ills brancli of business in 1S50; he was eleet<-d a
representative from Pennsylvania In the Thirty-first
t'ongrt-ss as a Democrat, receiving 0,Olil votes against
6,2oJ voles for John .S. Lillell, Whig: was re-<'lectcil
the Thirty-second Congress, receiving 0.173 votes
ust4,.5.Vl votes forLittell, Whig; and was re-elect-
to Ihe Thirty-third Congress, receiving 5,15,17 votes
l^iust J.^jiyi vot<>s for .Sanderson. Wliig, serving from
December 3, 184l), to March 3, 18J5, and declined a
re-election in 18.54; he filled many local oificcs, .imong
them several connected with what is now the Board
of Education, the municipal goveninient of K«n-
Blngton. luid the Kensington Bank; was an ins|>eclor
6f Moyamensing Prison, a guardian of the iKKir at
Blockley Almshouse, a director of Girard College, a
manager of ihe House of Correction, and, for Iwenly-
flve ye,Trs, a nianacer of the House of liefuge ; and
was elected to the Forty-fourth Congress as a Demo-
crat, receiving 10,228 votes against" 7,S79 votes for
Leoniuxl Myers, Republican, and i).IJil.5 voles for
Alfred C. Harmer, Rijpulilican, serving from Dccem-
iK-r 13. 1^7-1. to March 3, IS77.
Robbins, William M., was bom In Randolph
County. Norlh (Carolina, and is almiit forty-live years
of age: was educated at Trinity College, North Caro-
lina, and liandolph-Macon College, Yii-gliiia, at
■which latter ho graduated in 1851 with the first dis-
tinction; Is by profession a lawyer; was an officer in
the Confederate anuy during the whole w.ir, partici-
pating in nearly all the battles in Virginia, Maryland,
and Pennsylvania, from Bull Run to Appomattox;
as elected to the Senate of North Caroliua in 1808,
*nd re-elected in 1h70; was a presidential elector on
the Seymour and Blair ticket in 18tl8, and carried his
district by a raajurity, although the State was lost;
was elected a representative from North Carolina in
lite Forty-third Congress as a Conservative Demo-
crat by a majority of upward of 1,000 over D. M.
Furches. Republican; was re-electeil to Ihe Forty-
fourth Congress, receiving a m.'ijority of 4,373 votes
over C. L. Cook, Republican; and was re-<dected to
the Forty-liflh Congress, receiving 13,724 votes
against ti,!>ll) votes for Thomas J. Uuia, llepublican,
seivinn from October 15, 1877.
Roberdeau, Daniel, was bom on the Isle of
France in 1727; received a thorough niercaritiie edu-
cati(m; entered into the lumber-trade; built a fort
at Wyoming, Penn.sylvania, which was de8troye<i by
the Indians; was elected a delegate from Pennsyl-
vania to the Continent.ll Congress, sen-lng 1777-1771';
was colonel of aPhiladel[ihla regiment of volunteers;
died at Winchester, Viniini.i, June ■>, 17VW.
Roberts, Anthony E., w.is iMim in Chester
Couiily. Peiinsylviinia. October, 18iG; rt'ceived a piib-
lic-scho<ji education; removed when a lad with his
parents to Laucasler, where lie Iwcame a clerk in a
store; w.is sheriff of Lancaster County 1831I-1S42;
w:is appointed by President Taylor I'niied-States
marshal of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania,
serving L^lO-lSo:} ; was elected a reurcsentalive from
Petinsylvanin in the Thirty-fourth Congress as a
Wliig, receiving 6,561 votes against 5..37I voles fir
Hiester. Democrat; was re-elected to the Thirty-tifth
Congress, receiving 10,001 votes against 8,;)2i) votes
for liiestcr. Democrat, serving from December 3,
IS-Vi, to .March ."?, I«)0.
Roberts, Charles B., was liom at Uniontown,
Mai-yl.uid, April I'J, 1n42; graduated at Calvert Col-
lege, New Windsor, Maryland, in 1>>C>1\ studied law,
and was admitted to the bar in 1864; was a presi-
dential elector on the Seymour mid Blair ticket in
181^1; and was elected a representative from llary-
laiid in the Forty-fourth Congress as a Di'mocnit,
receiving 10,082 votes against 8,238 votes for Job:i
T. Ensor, Republican; was re-elected to the Forty-
iiftii Congress, r<.'ceiving 15,0:i3 votes against ll,t)8-l
votes for .1. Morrison Harris, Republican, serving
from December (!, 1875.
Roberts, Edward 'W., w.-w bom near Nash-
ville, Teiine8.see, June 13, 1823; removed in 182."»
with his parents to Ibcr^'illc Parish, Louisiana; was
educated at country schools, and the preparalory de-
partment of Centenary College, Louisiana; entered
Augusta College. Kentucky, in 1842, and then i nieied
Ihe Nashville University, Tennessee, leaving, before
gratluating, in 1844; commenced the study of law in
184.0; served in tlie war with Mexico in 1840 as order-
ly sergeant of the Second Louisiana Volunteers, a
six-months regiment; was a member of Ihe Stale
House of Repri'sentatives in l.'^7-1840; entered the
law de))artnieiit of the University of Louisiana, and
graduated in I.H50; practised law in Iberville Parish;
was again elected to the State Hmise of Ropi'e.scnla-
tlves in IS-Oa; w.is elected State auditor of public ac-
counts in 1S57, re-elifted in b-^IS, and held the offlco
until 1862; entered the Confederate service in March,
1862. as captain of a company which he had raised
for the Twenty-seventh Louisiana Infantry: partici-
pated in the bombardments, engagements. an<l siege
at Vicksburg from Jlay 18. 18(!2, to the surrender,
and also served in the battle of Baton Rouge August
r>, 1802. as volunteer aide to General Ruggles : was
captured at Vicksburg July 4, I8<j3, and the regiment
was not afterwards in active si^rvice; after the war,
resumed the practice of l,iw al Baton Rouge; was
elected a representative from Louisiana in the Forty-
fiftli Congress as a Conservative Denux-rat. receiving
Itt/yji) votes against 11,147 votes for Charles E. Nash,
Republican, serving from October 15, 1877.
Roberts, Ellis H., was bom at Utica, New
York, Scpteinlier :J0, 1827; xvas trained a printer;
graduated at Yale College, Connecticut, in 1850; !«;-
e.-uiie in 1S5I editor and proprietor of " The Utica
Morning IleraUl : " s.al in tlie N.itional Repnblicuu
Coiiveiijioii of 1864, and w.as elected to that of 1868;
was a luemUer of the legislature of the State of New
York lu 1867; was elected a represeutative from
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COKGBES8IOKAL DIBECTORT.
New York in the Forty-second Congress us a Repub-
lican, receivinij I:;,322 votes against lO.tl'X) votes for
A. B. Weaver, Democrat ; and was re-eleelfd to the
Forty-lhird Con'jTCss. ivceiving 13.2;^ votes against
10,481 voles for R. U. Sherra;ui, Lil)eral and Dcnio-
cnit, si'r%ing from Marcli 4, 1871, to Mfircli 3, 1H7');
resuini'd tlie i-ditorial eontrol of "Tlie Ulica Moni-
injj lli-nld;" was defeated sis the Rcpulilican candi-
d.tte for llie Forty-fourth Congress, reL-ei\inB 10,49(1
voles R'^ainst n,$)22 votes for Scott Lord, Democrat.
Roberts, Jonathan, w.is boni in 1771; received
n jiublii'-schonl education; was a member of the
Pennsylvania State Senate ami House of Represcn-
t.itive.f ; w:ia elec'U"! a reprcsent-ative from Pennsyl-
vania in tlic Twelfth Consiress; was re-elected to the
Thirleenth Congress, serving from November 4, 1811,
t'l February 28, 1814, when, having Iteen elected a
United-States senator (in place of Michael Leib, re-
signed), he took his seal in the Senate, serving until
March :i, 1821; was appointed by Presiilent Han-is.in
collector of customs at the port of Philadelplii.a. and
\y.is removed by President Tyler; died at Phila-
delphia .July 7. 1S>4.
Roberts, Robert W., was bom in Delaware;
removed to Scott County, Mississippi, and located at
Hillsborough; w.as elected a representative from
Mississippi in the Twenty-eighth Congress as a
Democr.at; was rc-^dected to the Twenty-ninth Con-
gress, serving from December 4, 1843, to M.ircU 3,
1S47.
Roberts, William Randal, was born in Cork
County, Ireland, Keliruary tl, 18;J0; arrived in thi'
United States in .July, 1849; received an academic
education; was en.{iu(ed in mercantile pursuits in
New York for nearly twenty years, and retired from
business in 1801), and never sought for or held a po-
litical office until he was olecte<l a representative
from New York in tlie Forty-second Congress as a
Democrat, reccivin'; lt,50<l votes against 2.21.'> voles
for.). A. Brig^s. Itepulilican, and 159 votes for Oil)-
l)ons, Republican; and was RMdected to the Forty-
tliird Congress as a Democrat, receiving 20,281 votes
against b.^'M votes f[ir M. Stewart. Republicau, serv-
ing from March 4. 1871, to Marcli Z, 1875.
Robei^on, Q-eorge, w.is born in Mercer Coun-
ty, Kentucky, 5loveml)er 18, 1790; received a clas-
sical education, graduating at Transylvania Uni-
versity; studied law; was admitted to the bar in
1809, and commenced practice at Lancaster; was
elected a representative from Kentucky in the Fif-
teenth Congress; was re-elected to the Sixteenth
Congress, sen'ing from December 1, 1S17, to March
3, 1821 ; was a member of the State House of Reii-
resentatives 1822-1827, serving the last four years as
siiuaker; was elected State secretary of state in 1828;
was chief justice of the State of Kentucky 1829-lty;J;
resumed the practice of law at Lexington, and died
there May III. 1874.
Robertson, John, wils bom in Virginia; re-
Bldeil at Kichniond ; was elected a representative from
Virginia in the Tweniy-third Congress (in place of
Andrew Stevenson, resigned) as a Whig, receiving
(389 votes against Ji'Jl votes for W. H. Roane, Demo-
crat; was re-elected to the Twenty-fourth Congress,
receiving 895 majority overW. II. Koane, Democrat;
and was re-elected to the Twenty-tifth Congress, re-
ceiving no opposition, serving from Decembers, 1834,
to March 3, 1839; declined being a candidate for re-
election.
Robertson, Thomas Bollingr. "'as •>"ni at
Richmoiiil, Virginia, in 177'<; received a classical
education, graduating at William and Mary College
in m07: was appointed United-States district-judge
for Louisiana, and rcimoved U) New Orlejins; was
elected the first representative from Louisiana in the
Twelfth (Congress as a Democrat, receiving 87.') ma-
jority; was re-<!lected to the Thirteenth Congress,
receiving 8H() majority; was re-elected to the Four-
teenth Congress, receiving 699 votes against 152 votes
for J. B. Prcvost; and was re-elected to the Fifteenth
Congress. ser%-ing from December 23, 1812, to 181
when he resigned.
Robertson, Thomas J., was bom in F.iirfiel
County, South Carolina, August it. 182:1; rt-ccivcd
classical education, graduating at the Soulh-Cnmlim
College; engaged in planting: was alde-i!
Governor Aliston of South Carolina in l.S"'
during the Reltcllion was a fearleiss :'n>l ■
Union man, and never in any way coini :
position as a loyal citizen of ilie Unii' 'I Mi
a member of the State (N>n8titutioual Couven
aiaembled under the reconstrueiion arts of t ojigrci
and, on the lirst meeting of the I ' 1
jiresent (.'onstilulion. was elecl;
United-States senator from Sou;:. '
publican to till an unexpin-d term: and was re-«Ii
ed. serving fnim Juiv 10, Isd,*!. to March 3. I'^TT.
Robertson, William H., was l>om ^.
New York, Octoljer In, l.s2:i; receivcil an I
educ.ntion; studied and pnu'iised law; w.o :> . ^
ber of the State Assembly of New Y<irk in 184!i am
ISiJO; was a member of the .State Senate of Ne'
York in 18.54 and 18.56; was judge of Westchesti
County, New York, for twelve ye.irs: wa^ a pn
dential elector in 186..); was elected a
from New York in the Fortieth C^'i
pulilican. receiving 12,012 votes agiii..-. ...
for R'ldford, Democrat, Bcr\ing from March 4, Ii
to Marcli 3, 18*19.
Robie, Reuben, was bom in Vermont :
moved to .SteiilMjii County, New York, and settled
Bath; was elected a representative fn>m New York ii
the Thirty-second Congress as a I)emix;rat. rvci-iiini
,H.:>r,s votes against 7,-'>38 voles for Church, Wbi,
serving from Decenil)er 1, ISil. to March ."J. 1853.
Robinson, Christopher, was bom in Rhwli
Island; received a classical education, grnduatina; at
Brown University in 1825; studied law; was ad-
mitted to the l)ar, and commencijd pnictice: \rnt
elected State attorney-general; was elected n n-fiiv.
sentative from Rhode Island in the Tliirty-»ixill
Congress as an American Republican, receiving 3,t>A
votes against 2,054 votes for Davis, Repujiliciui.
serving from December 5, 1850, to March 3, 1801;
was defeated as the Itepublican camlidate for tie
Thirty-seventh Congress, receiving 0,05<>v.ir' .-....•
11.1108 Votes for Sheffield. Unionist; was o]'
President Lincoln minister to Peru, seni: -
1861-NovemI)er 28. I.-^OS.
Robinson, Bdwaxd, was bom In 1756: re-
ceived a public-school etiucation; was a shlp-maiin
and merchant at Thom.iston. Maine; was for tin
ye.irs a member of the Maine Senate: w-... .'...■•rd »
rciiresentative from Maine in the Tv 'on-
gress (in place of Jon.ithaii Ciiley, ■ lU »
Whig, receiving 4,203 votes against 3,.j:i"i votes fof
Jolin T. McCrate, Democrat, 204 votes for W. i.
Farley. Independent Wliig, i:}4 votes for .Josgih
.Sewefl. Independent Democrat, and 77 votes for Ed-
win Smith. Conser\ative, serving from April 8S,
18.38, to M.'irch 3. 18:19; was a pn'sldential electeroa
the Harrison ticket in 1840; died at Ttiotnaston.
Maine. Februarv 20. 1857.
Robinson, iJeorge D., was bom at Lexini^
Miissacliusetis, January 21, 18;i4: prepan-d for col-
lege at Hopkins Classical School. Cambridge. MaMtr
chiuetts; graduated at Har\'ard College in 18.'>((: vu
principal teacher at the Chicopee High School ISOtl-
18(55; studied law with Hon. C'harlrs ItoMnson, juj>.;
was ailniitted to tlie bar at (" ' Mossacbn-
setts; eoinmencetl practice at ( l.'^'K); wM
a memljer of the Miussacliusett.-- ii I' '"xen-
tativcs in 1874, and of the State Sen umi
was elected a representaitive from M - In
the Fort v-fifth Congress as a Reptii >t"?
11,922 vo'tes against 9,700 voles for i ' bv
pin. Democrat, serving fnun fletobi:r
Robinson, James C, was bom 'in-
ty, Illinois, in 1-22; studied law. ana ■'«^
to the bar In 1834; served us a private in ihelkxlr
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can war; was elected a representative from Illinois
in tlie Tliirty-sixtli (.'ongross ns a Uoniocrat, lectiv-
ing i;J.5S8 voU'S aguinst 11,700 vutos for ()glc»l)y,
Bepuliliuui : was re-elected to tlie Tliirty-scveiitli
CouKrPss, ri<c«iviiiK ]y,iW votes agiiinst 10,20S votes
for Cuuniiigham, itepuhllt-an; was re-elected to the
Thirty-cighlli Congress, receiving 13,(.U4 voles against
6,5:^1 voles for Uicks, Ropubliciin. serving from Ue-
Ceml>er5, 1S.V.), to MiircU .i, 184Jj; was iijiain elected
to tlie Forty -second C'ouijress as a Deinjcrat, reeeiv-
Uig lU.iiT:^ voU's against 12,-l-k> votes for J. Alerriani,
Republican, and 1,175 votes for Minicr, I'roliibilion-
1st; anil was rc-electiil to tlie Forly-thinl Cungrcss,
receiving; I'i,^^ votes against 12,811 votes for M. H.
C'hanil"'rl:un, liepublicati, serving from March 4,
1671, to Munh a, l.'s7J.
Roblnsoii, Jaxnes W., w.-^ bom in I'nion
County, Ohio, Nnvomlivr 2.S, 1S20; graduau>d at Jef-
leraou t'olkve, Pennsylvania, in l.'yi.S, and at the
Cinciuimli Law Collejto in l.S-Jl, and practised law at
JJar)sville; was elected a member of the House of
Kepfcsoutatives in the legislature of Oliio in 1858,
liJOi), atid 1S54: and was elected a representative
from Ohio in the Forty-third Congress as a Kepulv
liuau. receiving ld,o7J votes ag:iinst l.'),14-.> votes for
G. W. Mnrjjan, Uemocrat. and T2\) votes for C. W.
Townsend, Vrohibitionist, sening from December 1.
1673, t.» M.irch •{, l.'>75; was defeated as the Itepub-
lican e:uididatc for tiie Forty-fourth Congress, re-
ceiving ll.lUlt votes agivinst 11,027 votes for Farley
I". Poi>,.Ielon. Democrat, and 1,045 votes for llivrrod,
Prohi! i'ionist.
Robinson, John L., was bom in Kentucky;
received a good English education; removed to Rush
County, Indiana, and loriteil at Ilushville: w:ls
elected a representative from Indiana in the Thir-
C'ongress as a Democrat, receiving 7,l»ii8 votes
_ t 7,422 votes for P. A. Uacklemau, VVhig; was
re-elected to the Thirty-Urst Congress, receiving
8,180 votes against 7,343 votes for l;<jbinson, ^Vhig;
was re-elected to the Thirty-second Congress, receiv-
ing 8,242 votes against tt,173 votes for Watts, Whig,
serving from Decemljer 6, 1S47, to March 3, 185;j;
was appointed in 1853 by President Buchanan United-
States marshal for the Southern District of Indiana.
and held the position until his death at KushviUe
March 21, im).
Robinson, John M., was bom in 1793; received
a public-school education; studied law; w.ts admitted
to the bar, and commenced practice at Canni, Illi-
nols; was a judj;e of the State Supremo Court;
was elecleil a Uniied-^tates sen.itor from Illinois (in
place of .lohn McLean, deceased) as a Democrat.
Serving from .lanuary 4. Is-U. to March 3, 1*41; died
at Ottawa, Illinois. April 2«. 184:j.
Robinson, Jonathan (brother of Sfoses Robin-
son), was born at Uardwick, Ma5sachns(.>tts, in 174,');
received an academical education; studied law; was
admitted to the bar, and commenced practice at Ben-
nington, Vermont; was chief justice of Vermont
1801-18 17; was elected United-States senator finm
Vermont (in place of Israel Smith, resigned), serving
from October 20. l«t)7, to March 2, 1815; died at Ben-
uinzton, Vennont. Xovember 3, 1811),
Robinson, MUton 8., was bom at Versailles,
Indiana, April 20, 1832; received a common-school
educ.ition; studied l.iw with his father at tirecns-
burg, Indiana, and coiiunenred practice at Amlerson
In 1851 ; w,is a presidential elector on the Itepublican
ticket in 185li; w.is appointed director of the North-
ern Imliana Stale Prison in 1801, but resigned •iftcr
a brief tenn of service; entered the Union army in
September, 1801, as lientenanl-colonel of the Forty-
SeventJi Indi-ina Volunteer Infantry; w,'is pnmioted
colonel of the Seventy-lifih Indiana Volunteer In-
fantry in 1HH2, and was snliseiuently brevetted briga-
dier-general; was elected St.-tle senator lStkS-1870;
was a delegate U> the National Republican Conven-
tion at Philadelphia in 1S72; and was elected a rep-
xeeentativu from Indiana in the Forty-fourth Cou-
gnjss as a Republican, receiving 12.471 votes against
12.017 votes for Edmond Johnson, Inllation Dfitio-
crat: and was re-elected to the Forty-lifth Congress,
receiving 17,403 votes against 17,127 votes for Cham-
bers, Democrat, s<Tviiig from December II, 1875.
Robinson, Moses (brother of Jonathan Robin-
son), was bom at Ilanlwick, Massiu;luisett8, March
2'!, 1741; re<;eived a classical education; removed to
Vermont with his father; studied law. and practised;
Wiis chief justice of V^cmiont in 1778; was governor
of Vermont 178il-17lH); was electeil a UidleiUSlates
senator from Vennont as a Democrat, serving from
October 24, 1701, to March, 17ll>i, when he resigned;
died i.t Bennington, Vennont, May 2(1, 1813.
Robinson, Orville, was Itorn in New York; re-
sided at Mexico; was a member of the State House
of Representatives in 1.>."M. 18;>0, and 1837; was
elected a representative from New York In the
Twenty-eighth Congress ns a Democrat, receiving
7,811) votes against (i,.')!l8 votes for Duer, Wlilg, and
iiM Voles for Jackson, Abolitionist, serving fmm De-
cember 4, Ity;}, to March .3, 1845; Wiis again elected
a member of the State House of Keprescntalives lu
lS.'>»i.
Robinson, Thomas, Jun., was bom In Sussex
County, Delaware: was elected a n-preseutative from
Delaware in the Twenty-sixth Congress, ilefealing
Miileg.in, serving from December 2, 1^^.J'.), to March .3,
1841 ; died at Oeorgelown, Delaware, after an illness
of four years, October 28, 1843.
Robinson, William E., was bom near Cooks-
town, Ireland, May (i, 1814; immignited to this
country in 18:W; gr.-uloated at Yale College, Con-
necticut, and was a student at the Yale Law School;
Wius a writer for " The New-York Tribune"' over the
signature of " Richelieu, " and for other journals;
was eilitor of "The People;" practised law; was
United-States assessor of internal revenue from 1862
until 1807; was elected a representative from New
York in the Fortieth Congress ;i8 a Democrat, receiv-
ing 12,034 voles against lo,8i):j votes for Chittenden,
Republican, serving from March 4, 1807, to March 3,
mw.
Robison, David P., was bom in Pennsyl-
vania; resided at Chambersburgj w.-is elected a rep-
resentative from Pennsylvania m the Thirty-fourth
Congress as a VVhig, receiving 9,641 votes against
9.025 votes for Ueilly, Democrat, serving from De-
cemU-r 3, ISVi, to March 3, 1S")7.
Rochester, WUliam B,, was bom In Washing-
ton County, Maryhuid; received an academical edu-
cation; studied law; w.i8 lulmilted to Uie bar, and
commenced practice at Bath, New York; was elected
a representative from New York in the Seventeenth
Congress, serving from D<>cembcr3, 1821, to March 3,
1.S23; was appointed a .State circuit-judge .\pril 21,
bSM, but resigned in 1830, and was defeated as can-
didate for governor, receiving 90,135 votes against
91). 785 votes for De VVitt Clinton: lie was lost when
the stemner " Pulaski " was wrecked off tlie coust of
North Carolina, -Inue 15, 183.8. "
Rockhill, William, was bom in New Jersey;
removed to Indiana, and settled at Fort Wayne; was
elected a representative from Indiana in the Tliirtieth
Congress as a Democrat, receiving 0,017 votes against
0,441 votes for Ewing, VVhig, serving from December
0, 1.847, to March 3, 1849.
Rockwell, John A., was bom at Norwich,
Coimeelicut. in 1804; received a classical education,
graduating at Yale College in 1822; studied law; was
lulmittcd to the bar, and conmienced practice at Nor-
wich; was twice elected a member of the St.-ite .Sen-
ate; was judge of the County Court; was elected a
representative from Connecticut in the Twenty-ninth
Con5;resa as a Wliig, receiving 5,734 votes against
5,3V*1 votes for Cntlin, Democrat; was m-electeU to
the Thirtieth Congress, receiving 0,112 votes against
5,578 votes for Billings, Democrat, and 054 votes
Abolition and scattering, serving from Decembrr 1,
1IH5, to March 8, 1840; was defeated as the VVhig
AiM
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candidate for the Thirty-first Congress, receiving
6,0S>2 votes BgJiiuBt (5,140 \olc8 for f'levelaml, Demo-
crat; practised in the Court of Claims at Washing-
ton. District of Columbia, where he died of apoplexy
Felinmry 10. I8fil.
Roclrwell, Julius, was bom at Colebrook. Con-
iif'clicut, April 'M, liSOo; received a ciiissicai educa-
tion, pniduating at Yale College in 1820; stiKlied law
at the New-Haven Law School; Wiis admitted to the
bur in 1820. and commenced practice at Pittsfield,
M,i»suchusetts, in 18:30; was a memlier of the State
House of Itciiresentativcs 1894 to 1838, serving the
last three years as spealcer; was a State h-ank com-
missioner 1S;>S-1,H40; W.1S elected a represt-ntativo
from Massachusetts in the Twenty-ci'j;hth Congress
as a Whig; was re-electe<l to the Twenty-ninth Con-
gress; was re-elected U* the Thirtietli Congress, re-
ceiving 5.714 votes against 4,138 votes for livington,
Democrat, and Oli votes scattering; was re-«'iected to
the Thirty-first Congress, receiving 5,.S6.') votes against
3.220 votes for Plunkelt, Democrat, and 2.325 votes
for SedgAvick. Democrat, serving from Feliniary 2,
1844, to March 3, ISol ; was a delegate to Uie State
Constitutional Convention in 18.53; was appointed a
United-Slates senator from Miissachusetts (in place
of Edward Everett, resigned), serving from Juno 15,
18IU, to February 10, I860, when Uenrj' Wilson, liav-
ing been electe(l, took his seat; was a presidential
elector on the Fillmore ticket in 1850; was iu;aln a
member of the State House of Representatives in
1858: was appointed a judge of the Superior Court
of Mass.ichnsctts in 1850.
Rodman, William, was bom at Bensaleni,
Peniisylvnnia, Octolier7, IT-iT; received a liberal edu-
cation; served in the Revolutionary war; commanded
a company during the Wliiskcy Insurrection in West-
em IVnnsylvnnia; was for many years a member of
the State legislanire; was elected a repri'sentiitlve
from Pennsylvania in the Twelftli Congress, serving
from Novemlier 4. 1811, to M.irch 3. 1813; died at
Bensalem, Pennsylvania, July 27, 1824.
Rodney, Caesar (uncle "of Crosar A. Rodney),
was burn at Dover, Delaware, in 1730; H;ceived a
liberal education; studied law, and was admitted to
the bar; was appointed high sheriff of Kent Coiuity
In 1758, and, at the end of his tenu of service, was
creat<'d a justice of the peace and a judge of the
lower courts; was a member of the State House of
Representatives in 1702; was a delegate from Mary-
h-uid to the Stamp-Act Congress in 17(55; was again a
memlx"r of the Stale House of Representatives, serv-
ing as speaker for several years; was a delegate to
the Continental Congress in 1774; entered the Revo-
lutionary army (although he h-id lost his right eye
from cancer, and was troubled with ostlima), and
commanded a regiment of minute-men in 1775 ; was
again elected a del^ate to the Continental Congress,
»er\-ing 1777-1778; was also brigadier-general com-
manding the Delaware line ; was again elected a dele-
gate to the Continental Congress, out, before he took
liis seat, ho was chosen president of Delaware, serv-
ing 1778^1782: died in 1784.
Rodney, Ceesar A. (nephew of Ctesar Rodney),
wivs born in Delaware: receive*! a liljenil education;
studied law; w:is admitted to the bar. and practised
at Wilmington, ]>elaware; was an active Freem.ison;
was elected a representative from Delaware in tlie
Eighth Congress as a Democrat, 8«^^'ing from Octo-
ber 17, 18o;^. to March 3, 1805; was appointed by
President Jefferson attorney-genenil of the United
States, and continued by President Mailison. serving
from Janu.-uy 20, 1807, to December 11, 1811; com-
manded a battalion of Delaware voliuiteers, wldch
marched to the defence of Baltimore in 1812; was
sent to South America by President Monroe as one
of the commissioners to investi^to and report on the
propriety of recognizing the independence of the
Spanish-American republics, which he advocat<!d on
his return; was again elected to the Seventeenth
Congress, serriug &um December 3, 1821, to Jaatiory
24, 1822, when, having been elected a Uni'
senator from Delaware, lie took his seat v
ate, ser\ing until January 27, 182:3, when lii
having been commissioned minister pleniix>l«:ii(i;
to Buenos Ayres; he died at his post June 14. IgSl."
Rodney,"Daniel, was bom in I). ' ,1
was a prc'sidentia! elector in 18<)fl; v i^r
Delaware 1S14-1S17; received the i:!i .i.te
Delaware for Vice-President in 1821 ; was elected
rei)rc8entative from Delaware in the Serenteenl
Congress (in place of Cicsar A. Rodney, elected «en .
tor), serving trom December 2. 1822. to" Marrh .3, lS;3j
was appointed a United-States senator from Dola
(in plane of Nicholas Van Dyke, deceasi-dj
from D(!cember 4, 182(3, to January 2:3, lSi7
tlio elecKKi successor of Mr. Van Dyke took his seat;
died Septemb)?r 2, 1840.
Rodney, George B., was bom at Xcw Castle,
Delaware, in 18ii:j; received a classical ednratioi
graduating at Princeton College in 1820; w^as elect
a representative from Delaware in the Twenty-ser-
enib Congi-ess as a Whig; was re-t!lected to th«|
Twenty-eighth Congress, receiving 5,407 votes againi
5.458 votes for Jones, Democrat, serving from Ma;
Ml, 1841. to March 3. 1845; was a delegate to th(
Pcice Congress at Washington in 18(il.
Rodney, Thomas, was bom in Delaware; was
delegate from Delaware to the Continental Cnn^
1781-1783 .ind 1785-1787; was appointed in 1803. byl
l^resident Jefferson. United-States judge for thi* Ter^,
rilory of Mississippi ; Iwcanie a laud-owner it\ Jeffetw
scm County, where the town of Ko<lney was named ill
honor of him: ilied there in 1811.
Rogers, Andrew J., was bom at Harahttig.
New Jersey. July 1, 1828; received a public-school
education; taught school, during which time h«
studied law; w.-vs admitted to the bar in l.-vi2, anil
commenced practice; was electe<l a representative
from New Jersey in the Thirty -eighth Congress as k
Demficrat, receiving 12,701 votus against 10.021 vat«
for Linn, Republican ; was re-elected to ilie Tliirty-
ninth Congress, receiving 14,050 votes against 12,17J
voles for Little, Republican, serving from Deccmbtr
7, 1863, to March 3, 18(57.
Rogers, Anthony A. C, was bom in Sumnef
County, Tennessee, Febraary 14, 1821 ; received »
limited education in a country school until he nas
fifteen years old, when he was employe<] as clerk is >
dry-goods store until the ago of twenty-two, after
wiiich he was largely engaged in mercantile pursuiti,
being one of the most prosp<!rous merchants in the
South- West ; ho removed to Arkansas in 1854. and in
18(51 was tiio candidate of the Union men for dl!l^
gate to the State Convention, where he earnestly op-
posed secession ; he was arrested for his loyally to the
General CTOvemment, imprisoned, and forced to give
bonds to answer the charge of "treason against the
Confederate Government ; '' he was elected to tlic Tlll^
ty-eighth Congress in 1804 by the loyal men of bis
district; w:i8 not pennitted to take liis seat, liis Suu
not having liecn legally reconstnictcd ; and he woi
elected a representative from Arkansn.« in the Forty-
first Congress as the "People's candi'! ■' ■ '.uro
ho had been for years identilied with ioan
jiarty), receiving 0,518 votes against .,. — ; . -s (or
Elliot, Republican, serving from March 4, 1809, l«
March 3, 1871; wiis defeated as the Democratic c»n-
didate for the Forty-second Congress, receiving 3,357
votes against 12,742 votes for Oliver P. Snyder, Be-
pnblican.
Rogers, Charles, was bom in New York; re-
ceived a public-school education; resided at SaivlT
Ilill; was a member of the State House of Repr*seii-
tatives In 1833 and 18:37; was elected a repre»»ntiiU«
from New York in the Twenty H>igliil ' ■•■!»»
Whig, receiving (1,14:3 votes agaiiisl ' t<f
Hunter, Democrat, luid 248 voles for >..■■■?.-. Alioll-
tiouist, serving from December 4, 1S4S, to Moith 3,
184,5.
Rogers, Edward, was bom in Connecticai In
I
STATrsTIC^VL SKETCHES.
G03
I
IT'T; i-ei-eived an acmleinicftl eiliienfion; RtuiiW'il liiw; i
Wiis luliuiiK/il to thi.' Uii'. iiiiil coiiinn'iii.'eil |>rnctic<.' ut
il*lisim. New York; was for inany years county-
Jiii1;j;l' ior Mitilison County; was I'li-otod n represKMila-
live from New York in tlie Twenly-sixtli l'oii«rf?8
■s It Uemocritt. n-ceiviu;,' U.'HK) voles ai;ninst 0,015
TOIL'S for Victory Uinlseye. Willi, iwnriiig from Ue-
ivraber. is;}it, l4> Mnrcli ;J, 1&41 : died .it Gulway, N'ew
Vork, M:iy 2:i. IsoV.
Rogers, James, was bom in South Ciirolina;
received .1 elussieal oducition, ^n^uating at Soutli-
(.'aroliii:i C'oliei;e in 1S|;J; studieil law; was lulmilled
U) the bur, and commenced practice at Yorkville;
wus eleeteil a representative from .South Carolina in
the Twenty-fourth Coiign-ss as a Union UenicM-ral,
receiving 4.il:i votes against 4,(Ov< voles for W. K.
Clowney, Nullilicr, sening from D'-cembor 7, l.<}5,
to Man-h 3, 1837; was defeated by t'lowiiey as a can-
didate for the Twenty-fifth Consri'ss; removed to
M.iybinnton, South Camlina; WiUi a^in eli-eled to
the Twenty-sixth Conjfress; was re-<'lected to the
Twenlv-seventh Conuress, serving from December 2.
lS.i!t. u> March :i. IS+J.
Rogers, John, was bom In Maryland; was a
delegate from that Stale to the Conlinental Congress
177-'>-IT7tt; was chancellor of Maryland ; died at Aii-
uancdls Uetolxjr 7. 1780.
Rogers, John, was born at Caldwell, New York.
May 1). l.si;j; received a public-«ch(M»l education; was
B manufacturer, merchant, and (jeneral-bnsiness
man; declined public office except to sen'e as sujier-
visor of the town of Blackbrook, where he r..'sided
Jor nine or ten years; waselei-led a n.'pn»entative
Irom New York in the Forty-«<'cond Congress as a
Democrat, receiving W,44-J votes ai^ainst 0,272 voles
(or Williiims, Kepulilicau, serving from March 4,
lti71. to March >i, 187.S.
Rogers, Sion H., waa bom In Wake County,
North Carolina, SeptemlKT .'l'^, 1S2.5; received a olns-
•ical education, ^radiialin'; at Ihe North-C.-irolina
University in l!^; studied law: was admitted to
the bar in 1S4>*, and commenced practice at Kalelgh;
was elected a repi-eneutative fn)m North Camlina in
the Thirty-third CoiiRress as a WIiIr, r''ceiving
4.201 votes against 4,I;U votes for Venable, Deraiv
crat, serviTi^ from DecemlKT 5, 185;1, to March y,
18.J-J: served in the Confederate anny as colonel of
Ihe Forly-sevenlh North-Carolina Infantry; was
«;;ain elected lo the Forty-second Coui^-ss. serving
trbm .May 2:1, 1S72, Ui March 3, 1H73; was defeated as
the DemcK'rafic candidate for the Forty-third Con-
cress, receiving 1.),14<I votes a^inst 13,.S7U votes for
William A. Smith, Republican; died at Kaleigh,
North Carolina, August 14, 1874.
Rogers, Thomias J., was Imm at Waterford,
Ireland, in 1781; immigrated to Ihe United States in
17S4: learned the art of printing, and for many years
published and edited a polilfcal newspaper; was
elected a representiilive fnmi Penn.^ylvania in the
'iUeenth Congress (in jdace of .John koss, resigned)
]♦ Democrat; was re-4;lecled to the Sixt<?cnlh, Sev-
ntli, and Eighteenth CongressM, s<'rving from
March 24, 1S18, to April 2(?, 1S24, when he resigned,
having been appointed register and rcconler of (leeds
for Northampton Countv, I'ennsylv.ania; died at New-
York City Di'cetnber7,"lK;{2.
Rollins, Edward H., was boni at Somersworth
(now llollinford). New Hainpsbire. October ;i, ls;i4;
received an acailemicediic:»tion. and engaged in mer-
cautile pursuits; was chninnan »f the ){epub1ican
State Committee of New H.iin[ishire at its original
onjanization, and for many .inceeeiling years; w:us a
member of the State legislature in lisiVJ, 18.5<1, and
l4t.^7, serving tlie last two years as speaker of the
Bousi'; was chaimian of the New-Hampshire delega-
Uun at the National Kcpublican Convention at Cbl-
in INO I which nominated Lincoln and natnlin;
^'Cleil a represonlatlvo from New Ilainiwliire in
Tliirty-seventli Congn'ss as a Kepublican, receiv-
ing 10,7t)3 voles against U,7U1 voles for Bell, Demo-
crat; was re-elected to the Tliirty-eighlh Congress,
receiving lil..Jll.'i votes against 0,01111 votes for John H.
George, Deiuix-rat; and was re-elected to the Thirty-
ninth Congress, receiving 10,084 votes against 8,81(4
voti-s for Clark, Democrat, serving from .July 4, 18t!l,
to Marcli 3, ISiiT; was elected a United-States senator
fnjni Ni'W Hampshire, serving from March 4. I.s77.
Rollins, James Sidney, was bom in Madison
Ctmnty, Kentucky. April lU. 1812; received a clas-
sical education, graduating at the University of Indi-
ana in ISS); studied law; was admitted to the bar,
and commenced praclice in Uoone County, Missouri ;
was a member of the Stale House of Hep'resenlatlvcs
1840-1844, of tlie State Senate l*l(J-I8oO, and again
of the House I8ii4-I.8,")fl; was defeated as the Wiig
candidate for governor In IS.")"; w.is elected a repre-
sentative fn:im Missouri in tlie Tliirty-seventh Con-
gress as n Conservative, receiving 11,101 votes against
10,906 votes for Henderson. Democrat ; was re-<!Tecte<l
to the Thirty-eighth Congress, receiving 7,700 votes
against 2.707 votes for Krekel, Emancipalionisl, serv-
ing from July 4. 18()1. to March :!, 18(5.).
Roman, J. Dixon, was boni in Maryland; re-
ceived an academical education; studied law; was
mlmltted to the bar, and conimeiicfil practice at
H.agerstown ; w.is president of the U;igerstowii Bank;
was elected a representative from Maryland in the
Thirtieth Congress as a Whig, receiving 7,I3iJ votes
against 11,818 votes for Shriver, Democrat, serving
from Deceml)cr 0, 1S47, to March 3, 1849; was a
jjresidential elector on the Taylor and Fillmore ticket
in 1840, and on the Uuchanan and Breckinridge
ticket in ]8.)7; died near nogerstowu, Maryland,
January 10, 18(17.
Romero, Trinidad, was bom at Santa Fe, New
Mexico, June 15, 1*15; received a conimon-s<-hool
education; became Interested in merchandise anil
stock-raising; was a meinlierof the Territorial House
of Representatives in IStU; was elected probate judge
of San Miguel County in 18(17, serving until he re-
signeil; ancl was elected a delegate from the Territory
of New Mexico in the Forly-lifth Congress .as a Re-
publican, receiving 0,.j01 votes against 7,418 votes for
I'edro Valdez, Democrat, serving from October 16,
1877.
Roosevelt, James I., was bom at New York
Decenil>er 14. 170(1; received a cliissical education,
graduating at Columbia College in 181.5; studied law
with Peter Augustus Jay; was admitted to the bar
in 1818, and commenced practice at New Y'ork; waa
a Tnember of tlie common council in 1S28-1S;J0; re-
tunied in ISJl, and resumed practice; was a commis-
sioner of the almshouse and several other charitable
institutions: w.as a memlM>r of the State House of
Repnfsentatives in 1S3.5, and again in 1840 ; waa
elected a reprcseutativo from New York in the Tvven-
ty-seventh Congi-ess as a Democrat, receiving 22,010
votes against 20,000 votes for M(jscs U. Grinnell,
Whig, serving from May 31, 1841, to March .'J, 1843;
declined a renomination in consequence of faiutly
l>ert?avements, nml nmde a second visit to Euro|ie;
devoted five or .<ix years to the cultivation of his fariu
in Westchester County, New York, for his health;
was elected in IS'jl justice of the .Supremo Court for
the New- York District, and sened until ISjO, occu-
pying one year, cjr nfficin, a seat in tlie Cipurt of Ap-
peals; was appointed by President Buchanan United-
States attorney for the Soulhem District of New
York; retired to private" life; had a fall in his room,
by which the neck of the thigh-bone was broken;
and (lii'cl soon afterwanls at New Y'ork, April !i, 1873.
Roosevelt, Robert B., was l>om in the ciiy of
Now York in 18:.'ii; was educated as a lawyer, and
practised at the b.ir of New York for twenty years;
was aprK)lntcd commissioner of fisheries for ihe State
of New York in 18tW, a position he still holds; has
eilited '•The New-Y'ork Cillien " since 18(5,8; and waa
elected a representative from New York in the Forty-
second Congress as a Democrat, receiving 10,702 votes
against 5,501 votes for M. T. McMoUou, Independent
604
CONGRESSIONAL DIEECTOBT.
Democrat, and 700 votes for Leggatt. Republican,
ierving from March 4, 1871. to Miirch 3, lti73. Has
pnblislic'il "Game-Fish of the North,'' "Superior
Fishinft," "Game-Birds of the Nortli," "Five Acres
Too Much," and other works.
Root, Erastua, was bom at Hebron, Connecti-
cut. M:ircb 10, I77:i; received a classical education,
graduating at Dartmouth College iu 17U3; studied
law; was admitted to the bar, and commenced prac-
tice .it Delhi. New York; was ainpral>erof the State
House of Representatives 17US-l!S02; w.-is elected a
representative from New York in the Eighth Con-
gress as a IX'mocrnt, serving from Octolier 17, 18l>S,
to March 3, ISil.'i: w:is again elected to the Eleventh
Congress, serving fr<jm May 22, ISiiO, to March 3,
1811; wiw a member of the State Senate lS12-181.j;
w.19 again elected to the Fourteenth Congress (h.iving
successfully contested the election of John Adams),
serving from December 13. ISl."). to March .3. 1S17;
■was a'.;ain a member of the Stale House of Repre-
sentatives 1H1M-1S22; was elected lieutenant-governor
in 1.S22. but was badly defeated by General Talmadge
lu the exciting canvass of 1S23; was again a nienilwr
of the House in WW; was again elected to the Twen-
ty-set'onil (Vingress, serving from Decembers, 18-'!1,
to M.*rcli 2. IS*!; w^tsilefcated as the Whig candidate
to the Twenty-sixth Conaress, receivirig 4.284 votes
against 5,072 votes for JuJson Allen, Democrat; was
major-general of militia; was again a member of the
State Senate 1*40-1844; died very suddenly at New-
Tork City, while on his way to visit the family of his
son-in-law at Washington, December 24, ISVX
Root, Jesse, was born at Coventry, Conuecti-
cxit, .January, 1737; n-ceived a classical education,
gradu.-vling at Princeton College in 17.j(i; studied the-
ology, and preache<l. but turned his attention to the
law; was lulmitted to the bar in 17(1.3, and cimmieiiccd
Sractico at Hartford, Connecticut; took pari in the
Evolution as lienteuant-colonel ; was a delegate from
Connecticut to the Continental Congress 1778-17*);
was ap])ointed a judge of the Superior Court in 1780.
and its chief justice Tu 17IX), serving until he resigned
in 18ii7; was a member of the Stale House of Repre-
sentatives; died at Coventrj', Connecticut, April 5,
1822. He published " Reports of Cases adjudged in
the Court of Errors of Connecticut," iu two vo!-
tunes.
Root, Joseph M., was bom at Brutus, New
York. October 7, 1817; received a thorough English
eduuktion; studied law at Auburn; was admitted to
the bar in 1820, and commenced practice at Norwalk,
Ohio; was prosccuting-attoniey of Huron County;
was a member of the Slate .Simate In 1840; was
electe*! a repn-scntative from Ohio in the Twenty-
ninth Congress as an Independent Whig; was re-
elected to the Thirtieth Congress; w.is iXMjlected to
the Thirly-lirst Congress, receiving .S.4;34 votes
against 0.077 votes for Stone, Democrat, sening from
December 1, 1845, to March 3, 18.51; resumed prac-
tice at Norwalk.
Roots, Logan H., w.^s bom in Perry County,
Illinois, March 20, 1841; was principal of the liigh
school at Duquoiu the winter previous to reaching
his majority, and sra<luati<l with the tirst honors of
his class at the Iliinuis State Normal University in
1802; at once thereafter took an active part in re-
cruiting the Eighty-first Illinois Volunteers; was
soon commissioned, and sorted until promoted by
an ajipointment as a staff-oflicer of Uaite<l-St«tes
volunl^-ers. under which he w.-4s cliicf dt'pot-commis-
sary for the combined armies conuiianded by General
Shemiiin on the "maich to the sea;" served in
other responsible positions until the close of the war
in 1S0.J; then settled in Arkansas, and engageil in
cotl<m-planling and trading; upon the passage of the
reconstruct i<m acts in 1807, took a bold and promi-
nent ixwition in favor of the reconstruction of the
State; was electeil a representative from Arkans.is
In the Fortieth Congress by a large m.ajorily, and was
the youngest member of that body ; was elected to
the Forty-first Congress as a Republican, rec«l
7,151 votes against 0,<jS4 votes for Cameron. I)em<
crat, serving from June 24, IStiS, to March :1. I»71j
was defeated as tlie Rupuldican cindidate for tl
Forty-second Congress, receiving 7.7+8 votes a^aIui
0.318 v.)tes for James M. Hauks, Demo<-r.a.
Rose, Rabert L., was boni at Geii>'va, Ne*
York. October 12, 18)4; devoted himself to agiic aj.
tiu-iii pursuits, and cultivated a farm at Allen's Hill
was for many years town supervisor; was eleon>d i
representative from New York in the Thirtieth Co
gress as a Clay Democrat ; was re-elect»i<l to tka
riiirty-first Congress, receiving 7.81" ■ • ■> .■■:■.(>
4.0.')0 votes for Garlingho. Van Buret i
2.100 votes for Parburt, C.iss Democi.'
December 0. 1847. to March 3, ISoO.
Rose, Robert S., was born in Henrico Couiityj
Virginia, in 1772; removed to New York. J >
at (Jeneva; w.is a member of the Stale Uim,
resenlatives in ISU, 1820. .wd 1821; wa.-.
n.'presentative from New York in the Eigli
Congress; was re-elected to the Niueternth Co
serving from Deceml»er 1. 1823, to March 3,
was agaiu elected to the Twenty-tirst Congress, serv-
ing from December 7, 1820. to March 3. I8.il ; died a(
Waterlc.i, New York. November 24. l.'Nio.
Ross, David, was bom in Maryland, and was
delegate from that Stale to the Contiuental CongnM
I7.-0-17S7.
Ross, Edmund G., was bom at Ashlaml, Ohio,
December 7. 18a!; learned the art of priming at
Huron. Oliio. and. after having Ix-en forvmau
" The Milwaukee Sentinel." went to Kansas at the
coinmenc-ment of the tixmldes there, and Ucam*
editor of " The Kansas Tribune," at that time lh«
only free-State pjiper in tlie Territory, all others bav
ing been ilestroyed; was a member of the C>in»titu-
tional Convention of 18.J9 which framed the pn'senl
constitution of the Slate; entepM the Union army
.IS a private soldier, and was promoted to the rank of
major in the war for the sui)pres8ion of the Rebnlliou;
was appointed United-States senator from K.ins4s<t
a Republican (to till the vacancy occasioned by tlw
death of James H. Lane, deceased), serving frutu
Jujj- 25, 1800. to March 4. 1871.
Ross, George, w.is bom at New Cistle, Dela-
ware, in 173J; received an acidemicil eiliaMliim;
studied law; was admitted to the bar lu 17.'il. ui'l
conuncuced practice at L.'utcaster, Pennsylviuiiii;
was a member of the Colonial House of Represtfiita-
lives in 17ti8; was a delegate from PeniisylvanU to
the Continental Congress 1774-1777; took an ailivo
part in re-organizing the govemment of Penitwl-
vania; was a|ipointcd, in April, 1770, judge of llw
Court of Admiralty for Pennsylvania; died at Lu-
caster, Pennsylvania, from an att.ick of the guot,
July 10, 1770.
Ross, Henry H.. was bom in f--' "■■mty,
New York; receiveu a classical edii' 'At-
ing at Columbia College, N#>v York, iii .litil
law; was admitted to the bar, and coniiuente<l pnc-
tice at Essex, New York; was elected a reprc»>'iil*-
live from New York in the Nineteenth Congrejsswi
Whig, serving from Decemlier .5. 1825. to ilan-iii
1827; was county-judge of Essex County in 1S47 4IHI
1848; was presidential elector on the Taylor uxl
Fillmore ticket in 1848; died at Essex, New Tork,
September 13. 18<12.
Ross, James, was bom In York County, Penn-
sylvania, July 12, 1702; received an n- ; ■ ■ . -'>-,|u-
calion; taught school at Canonstnii_ ii«
at Philadelphia; Wiis adinitte<l to the I auJ
commenced pnictice at Philadelphia; wns n deJi^^
to the State Constitutional Convention "f ITWl' wj»
defeatcfl as the Federal candidate f r "1
Pennsylvania in 1709 by Thomas M "">■
erat; was elected a United-States sen.i:-. ., '•.jin-
sylvania as a Kcdenilist, serving fmm April 24. JiW-
to March 3, 180;1; died at his residence, uearPOf-
bui^, Pennsylvania, November 27, 1847.
8TATT8TICAL SKETCHES.
605
Ro39, John, was elected a representative from
Poiiiisvlvftiiia in tlic Eleventh Conisress, sm irit; from
May 22, l^ifX to Mareh M, 1:^11 ; was again elected to
the Fourteenth Congress; was re-elected to tlie Fif-
teenth Coiit^ress, serving from Decemlier 4, islo. to
February 24, liSlS. when he n'siffin'd, bavitii; accepted
ll)e appointment o( pn-sidenl-judjjo of the judicial
district in whicli lie resided.
Ross, Lewis W., was l>orn in Seneca County,
Xew Vork, December 8, lM:i; was educated at the
Illinois Collcije; studied and practised law; was n
luember of the State leuriglature of Illinois in IS4(),
IStl, 1844. and 1845; was a pn>gi<lential elector In
1848; was a member of tlie Conslitutional Conven-
tion of Illinois in 18(51; was elected a representative
from Illinois in the Thirty-eighth Congix-ss iis a
Democrat, receiving 13.3S)1 votes against no opposi-
tion; was r(M!lected to the Thirty-ninth Concress,
receiving 15,21W votes against 12.2:11) votes for Fuller-
ton. Republican; wjis re-elected to the Fortieth Con-
f'ess, receiving lo,4f)i) votes against 14,721 votes for
llHK'iicolt, serving from December 7, 18(W, to March
3, im.
Ro3S, Miles, was bom' in Raritan Township,
Middlesex County, New Jersey, April 30, 1828; re-
ceived a practical English education; was for many
rears engaged with his father in the vessel business,
but bec'ime a wholesale coal-merchant, and also
largely interested in vessel property; tilled nearly all
of the local positions of his neighborhood ; was for
two years a memlier of the State legislature of New
Jers«.'y; wag elected a represenLilive from New Jer-
sey in the Forty-fourth Congress as a Democrat,
receiving 15,882 votes against 18,ri21) votes f;>r Amos
Clark, jun., Kepublicau; and was re-elected to the
Forty-fiiflh Congn^ss, receiving 18,525 votes against
I5,;^jli voles for Atlicrton, Republican, serving from
Decemlwr ft. 1875.
Ross, Sobieski, was born at Couflerspnrt, Penn-
sylvania, .May li!. 1S'J8; was educjited ns a surveyor
and civil engineer, but Ijecame eng;f;ed in settling a
large body of laml in sever il of the northern coun-
ties of Pennsylvania; W:is also a farmer; W.1S elected
a representative from Pennsylvania in the Forty-
third Congress as a liepublican, receiving 17,ii41
TOtes against 14.027 voles lor II. Sherwood. Domo
cral: and was re-elecled to the Forty-fourth Connress,
receiving ID.OtJl) votes against U,331 votes for II. W.
Early, Democrat, sei'ving from December 1, 187:1, to
March 3, 1877; lost his health, and, after having Ix-en
despondent for some months, shot himself through
the heart In the bam near his dwelling at Couders-
port. Pennsvlvania. October 25, 1877.
Ross, Thomas, was born hi Pennsylvania; re-
ceived a classic;\l education, graduating at Princeton
ColJegi- in 1825; resldeil at Doylestowii ; was elected
a repH'sentalive from Pennsylvania In the Thirty-
flrsl Congress as a Democrat, receiving S.O-l;! voles
agttinst 1. 722 votes for Taylor, \Vlilg: w-iis re-elected
to the Thirty-second Congress, receiving 7,508 votes
against 7.328 votes for Taylor. Wliig, serving from
December 3. lS4ii. to March 3. laiS.
Ross, Thomas R., w;is boni In 1780; received
ail academictl education; studied l.tw; w.is admitted
to the bar, .and commenced [iractice at Lebanon,
Ohio; was elected a repre^fnt.itive from Ohio in the
Sixteenth Congress, receiving 2.8(!4 votes against
I.(W3 votes for J. 11. Pi.in. anil 1,287 voles for Ethan
Stone; was re-elected to the S<."venteenth and Eigh-
teenth Congresses, sening from December i*. ISI!',
to March 3, 1825; retired from iiractico in 184t), and
engajj;ed in agricultiiral pursuits; lost his eyesight
In 18IK1; died on his fann, near Lebanon, Ohio, Jtuie
2.S. 181)0.
Rousseau, Lovell H., was bom near .Stanford,
Kentucky, August 4, 1818: received a public-school
education; studied law; was admitted to the bar in
1H41, .and commenced practice at Bloomlteld. Indiana;
was a member of the .Stale lloe.se of Representatives
lii 1H44 aud 1345 ; served in the Mexican war as cap-
tain in the Second Indiana Regiment, and dis-
tinguished himself at Uuena Vista; was elected to
the State Senate of Indiana; returned to Kentucky,
and commenced practice at Louisville; was a mem-
ber of the State Senate of Kentucky; entered the
Union army, and served prominently in the Army
of the Cuiul)erland ; commaiuied his brigade in it
oil the mareh to N.ashville, and led it at Pittsburg
Lamliug; shari'd its rough fortuues at Perry ville;
won a division at Stone Itiver; was in the Tulla-
houia campaign In the movement on Chattanooga,
anil at Chickamauga: was elected a representatTve
from Kentuclsy in the Thirty-iiinlli Congress as a
Republican, defeating Robert Mallory, Denioe-rat,
si-rving from December 4. 18tiO, to Jiily 21, 180«,
when he n-signcd, having iwrsoiially assaulted Rep-
resentative Urinnell of Iowa in the Capitol; was
subsequently re-elected at a new election, and took
his seat Decembers, IStKl, serving to March :}, l.S(t7;
was apiKilnted by President Johnson l)rig!«iier-een-
eral in the regular army assigned to duty at .Vlaska;
he visiteil s line friends at New Orleans before start-
ing, and his conduct led General Sheridan, who was
in command there, to make complaint against him ;
returned from Alaska to testify in the impeachment
trial, and w.is subse']uently lusslgned to the command
from wliieh Slieridan was removed; died at New
Orleuns Jamiaiy 7. 18(10.
Rowan, John, was bom in Pennsylvania in
1773: removed, when young, to Louisville, Kentucky,
where he studied law; was admitted to the bar, and
practised ; w::s si'cretary of the Stale of Kentucky in
1804; was elected a representative fn)in Kentucky
ill the Tenth Congress, serving from January 0, 180l»,
l\) March 3, IHOO; was judge of the Court of Apiieals
in 181U; was grand oratf>rof tlie grand lodge of Free-
in.osons of Kentucky in 182(); was elected a Unlted-
.Stntes senator from Kentucky, scrying from Decem-
ber 5. 1825. to March ii, 18;J1 ; w.-is minister to Naples
fn>in Januarj- :i. 1848, to January I, 1S")0; died at
Louisville, Kentucky. July 13. I8.W.
Rowe, Peter, w.as liorn in New Tork; resided at
Scheni'ctaily; was elected a representative from New
York in the Thirty-third Congress as a Democrat,
receiving Kf.Olil votes against 10.U57 votes for Miller,
Wilis, serving from December 5, 1853, to March 3,
18.">5.
Royoe, Homer B., was bom at Berkshire,
Vermont, in isU); received a pulilic-school educa-
tion; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1842,
and commenced practice at Berkshire, Vennont;
was a member of the State House of Representatives
in 184(1 and 1847; was State prnsecutiug-attorney in
184.^: was a .State senator in 184'.>-1851; was elected
a representative from Vermont in the Thirty-fifth
Congress as a Republican, receiving 0.110 votes
agiiinst 3.134 votes for Bingham, Democrat; was
re-elccteil to the Tliirty-sixlh Congress, receiving
7.418 votes against 3,280 votes for Bingham. Demo-
crat, serving from December 7. ls!i7, to March 8,
18(11 ; is a judge of the Supreme Court of Vcmiont.
Ruffin, Thomas, was born in Edgecombe Coun-
ty. North Carolina; received a classical education,
graduating at Chapel-UllI University; studied law;
wus Bilinitted to the bar, and commenced practice at
Uoldsburovigh; was circuit-attorney lS.H-1848; was
elecled a njpresentative from North Carolina in the
Tliirty-thinl Congress as a Democrat, receiving 5,812
votes against 2,053 votes for Loftiu, Indepeiulcnt
Democrat; was re-elected to the Thirty-fourth Con-
g-ess, receiving 0,730 votes against 3,4(J4 votes for
alham, American; was re-elected to the Thirty-
lifth Congress, receiving 0,010 voles against itlO scat-
tering votes; was re-elected to the Thirty-sixth Con-
gre»s7 receiving 4,382 votes against 470 scattering
votes, serving from December 5, 1863, to March 3,
1801 : rctire<f from the House on the secession of
North Carolina; was a delegate to the Provisional
Congress of the Confederate States which met at
Richmond in July, 1801 ; served in the Confederate
606
COyOKESSIOX^VL DrKECTOEY.
army. anfJ died, ns the result of a wiuind received
Kime days previous, at Alexjindria, Virginia, Octo-
ber a I*«.
Ruggles, Benjamin, wm bom in Windham
Ciiiiiiiy, Coiinpciitut. in 1703; reeeivwd an acailemical
education: tauchi sohool; studied law; wasaduiltted
to the bar, and o •mnience<l practlw at Marietta.
Ohio, remnving aftor\vanla to St. Clalrsvilli-: was a
dfVote<l tnembiT of the Masonic fraternity; was
elected in ISln president-judfre of the Court of Com-
mon I'leas for iheTliini Judici.il Cireuil : wui elected
a l'iiiled-.Slates senator from Ohio as a Democrat,
and twice re-elected, servinp from March 4, ISl.'i. to
March 2, 18:};i; was a pn/.«iilential elccttir on the
Harrison ticket in 1830; died at St. Clairsville, Ohio.
Sem<'ml>er i. lftJ7.
Ruggles, Charles H., was bom in Litchfleld
County. Connecticut, in ITW; receivefl an academi-
cal education; studieiJ law: was a<lmitted to the bar,
and commenced practice at Kitigstni, New York;
was a memlwrof the State House of Representatives
in 1S20; was elected a representative from Xew York
in the Seventeenth Con({re«s, servinij from Decemlx-r
8. 1821, to March 3, 182:1; wa.« a ju<li;e of the Dutch-
e»s-counly Circuit Court; was i^.iin a memlier of
the Sliite House of Kt'prescntativcs; w;us electt-d a
judge of the Court of Appeals Xovember 8, 1S3.'J.
and resigned Auf^ist 3(i. ltS5; died at Poughkecp-
sic, New York, June 1(1, l.StlS.
Ruggles, John, was Ixira at WeslMronph. Mas-
s.-ichusetts. in 17tW; received a classical education,
gnuiu/itiiisat Bro^vn University in 1813; studied law:
w.-is admitted to the bar, and cunimencetl i>ractice in
1S15 at Skowhegan, Maine, b\it removed to Thomas^
ton in 1818; was a memtwr of the Slate House of Re\>-
resentativesisaj-iwjl, and speaker of the House lS2o-
182t*. and again in lt<11 ; he resigned the SfK'akership
In ISll to accept the position of judgi- of the District
Court of Maine (made vacant by the election of Judge
8. E. Smith as povenior); wa«electe<l a United-States
senatiir from Maine (in the place of Peles Sprague,
resigned) as a Democrat, »er^'ing froiu Febniary 0,
l.S;lo, to Mardi !}, 1841; retiring from political life,
he en^iitted actively in the duties iif his profession :
and dii il at Thom:istiin. Maine. June 2'i, 1874.
Ruggles, Nathaniel, w.xs Imm in Massachu-
seil.s ill nui; reeeived a classical education, gradu-
ating at Harvard dillege in 1781; was elected a rep-
resentative from M.-issachuselts in the Thirtoentli
Congress ns a Federalist, defeating .Seaver, War can-
didate; w.TS re-elect*>d to the Fourteenth and Fif-
tei'Uth Congresses, g.^rving from May 24, IsbJ. to
Man'h 3. 18111; died at Roxbury, Massachusetts, De-
cciiihcr l!i, I8I!l.
Rumsey, Benjamin, was bom in Maryland;
and was a delegate from that State in the Contiuen-
lal Conm^ess 17.S')-17ST.
Ramsey, David, jun., was bom In New York;
resided at Bath; held several offlces in Steuben
County; Witf elected a re])reseutatlve from Xew
York in the Thirtieth Congress as a Whig; was
reH'lected to the Thirty-first Congress, receiviiig 7.282
votes against 5,lt:5S votes for Urover, Van Bureu
Democrat, and 2,1182 votes for An^'el. Ciiss Democrat,
sen-iiiu fnim D'-i"nil.(T li, 1S47, to March 3, is-il.
Ramsey, Edward, was boni in Kentucky; re-
sided at Greenville: was elected a representative from
Kentucky In the Tweuty-lifth Congress as a Whig,
defeating Jones, Democrat, serving from Septeml>er
4, 18:17, to Marrh 3. 18;«>.
Runk, John, w.-is bom in Xew Jersey; resided
at Kiniovood ; w:is presidential elector in 1M40 on the
Harrison and Tyler ticket; was clecteil a representa-
tive from Xew .Jersey in the Twenty-ninth Congress
as a Whig, receiving 8.1142 votes against 8.VI20 votes
for Isaac ft. Farlee, Democrat (who contested the
seat, but the House refused to give it to him by the
speaker's casting vote), serving from December 1,
1845. to March 3, 1847.
Rush, BenJEUnin, was bom on Po<juestion Creek,
near Philadelphia, December 24, 17'*- -^-"i'-^i i
cliissical education, graduating at 1':
in 17<KI; went abroad, and studied ni<'
burgh, London, and Paris, returning t<j i<.>iiiiii<;iii>i
practice at Philadelphia in August. I7t'.U: bri.|
sevond professorships in the Phila.l ' " 1
College; took an active part iii pi
movements; wsis a delegate from 1'. >
the Continental Congress 177tJ-1777 ; enten-d tlia
Revulutionary armyas surgeon-gener.iJ of the Middle
Di'partment; was made physician-genfral in July,
1777. and resignetl In February, 177.^; was a delegxit
to the State Conventions which adopteil the FedenU
Ciinstitution and framed a .State C^nstituiion : iri»
eminently successful in his treatment of the yelluw-
fcver at "Phil.ndMphia in 17li3; was tre;U!ur»T" of tht
United-States Mint at Philadelphia from ITT^ iinrll
his death at that city April IS), 1>*1;{. H- 1
"Medical Inquiries and Observations" (
umes). "Diseases of the Mind," and l-fwA
Tracts," besidi-s numerous essays aitd medical pa-
[M'rs.
Rusk, Jeremiah M., was born i- "
County. Ohio. June 17, l.''>;{'); received a pi. I
eilncation; removed to Vernon County, \> i
in IS.Vt: held s<'veral county-olhces; was a
of the Wiscimsin St.ate leidslature of t-''-- u
missioned major of the T'wenty-fiftb '
unteers in July. 1802; was B<.>on after,
to the colonelcy ; served with Genenil .Slicnii.iu fnno
the siege of Vicksburg until mustered out at the cl««
of the war, and was brevetted brigadiers • ' •
meritori'ius services at the l)att|p of .S.tI
w.as elected bank comptroller of Wiscoiisii.
18*t7, and re-cleciod for 18t!,^]8<j(t; w.-vi olecte<l a rep-
resentative from Wisconsin in the Forty-second Con-
gress as a Republican, receiving l.">,ii42 vni.
r»..5l4 votes for A. Meggett, IK'inocrat; wa^
to the Forty-third Congn-ss. receivio ■ ' .•.,-■
against 8,.')47 votes for S. Jlarston, 1 ami
was re-electeil to the Forty-fourth (' 'W-
ing l:J,(5.'!7 votes against l;i,i;U votes for Fultun. Dem-
ocrat, serving from March 4, 1871, to March 3. liul.
Rusk, Thomas J., was Ixim In South Canilin»;
rereived an aiMdemii-al educatiuu; studied law; tin
admitted to the li.ar. and commenced practice m
CJeorgia; removed to Texas in 18:15; was a delegate
to the convention that declaroil tlic inde[iendence at
Texas in March. 1S3(J; was the first seen'tajy of wu
of the new republic; was in the battle of San Jacinto,
and took eonun:in<I after General Sam. Houston >ri»
wonndeil, retaining it until Octidjer, 1S'{(1. when he
resumed his duties as secretary of «.'r \i .- rlijif
justice of the Supreme Court of Texa^ «il
a delegate tr), and president of, the < AM
eonlinned the annexation of Texas t.i tbr Liiilpi
States in 1845; was electeil a Unit('d-,Si.'iies senaiiir
from Texas as a Democnit, sening fnuu M.irchiO.
1840, to July 2!'. 1S"»0, when he committe<l suicide tt
X.aciigdoches. Texas.
Russ, John, was l)om at Ipswich. Mnssachtuetll,
in 17i'>4; receivcil a public-school education; remoteJ
to Cmnectlcut. and located at Hartford: was eleclol
a representative fnm Connecticut in the Sixtvenlb
Congn-ss as a Democrat; was re-elee'-i •■- ti... s^v-
euteenth Congn-.ss, Ber^-ing from De<'i-: ', to
Siareh 3, 182:5; died at Hartford, Con .lane
22, 18.32.
Russell, David, was bom in M3ssaclins«ttt In
1S0(J; received a public-school education: stnilled
law; was admitted to the bar, and comnu-nceil pnir-
tice at Salem, X<'w York; was a member of the State
House of Representatives in 181(1 and 18:10; was di»-
triet-attomey for the Xorthem Judicial District nl
Xew York; was elected a rt'prcsentative fpim Nfw
York in the Twenty-fourth Congn-.ss as a Whic; w*i
re-elected to the Twenty-fifth Congo.',"' : • Wl-
ed to the Twcnty-slxih Congress, i i.>W
votes against 2,(ni votes for Jidin W ;iin..
Democrat, serving from December 7, Ibdo, lu Uutix
STATISTICAL SKETCHES.
607
8, ISti; died at Salem, ITew York, Ifovember iS4,
1S61.
Bussell, James M., was bom at York, Penn-
sylvania, November 10, 17d(J; received an academical
education; studied law; was admitted to ttie bar,
and commenced practice at Bedford, Pennsylvania;
was elected a' representative f I'om Pennsylvania in
the Twenty-seventh Congress (in place of Joseph
Lawrence, deceased) as a Whig, serving from Janu-
ary 3, 1842, to March 3, 18*3; died at Bedford, Penn-
Bylvania, December 20, 1870.
Bussell, Jeremiah, was bom at Sangerties,
New York, in 1778; received a public-school educa-
tion; was a presidential elector on the Van Baren
ticket in 1830 ; was elected a representative from New
York in the Twenty-eighth Congress as a Democrat,
receiving 7,376 votes against 6,430 votes for Elting,
Whig, serving from December 4, 1843, to March 3,
1^5; was defeated as the Democratic candidate for
the Twenty-ninth Congress; died at Saugerties, New
York, in 1807.
Bassell, John, was Ixim in New York; resided
at Cooperstown, Otsego County; was elected a repre-
sentative from New York in the Ninth Congress;
was re-elected to the Tenth Congress, serving from
December 2, 1805, to March 3, 1SJ9.
Russell, JonathEin, was bom at Providence,
Rhode Island, in 1771 ; received a classical education,
graduating at Brown University in 1701 ; studied law,
and was »lmitted to the bar, but did not practise,
and engaged in mercantile pursuits; was minister to
Sweden and Norway January 18, 1814-October 16,
1818; was a commissioner to negotiate a treaty of
peace with Ghent 1814 ; on his return home, settled
at Mcndon, Massachusetts, and took an active part in
palitics ; was elected a representative from Massachu-
setts in the Seventeenth Congress as a Democrat, de-
feating Benjamin Adams, Federalist, serving from
December 3, 1821, to March 3, 1823; died at Milton,
Massachusetts, February 16, 1832.
Baasell, Joseph, was bom in New York; re-
sided at Warrensburg; was elected a representative
from New York in the Twenty-ninth Congress as a
Democrat, receiving 5,441 votes against 4,759 votes
for Moore, Whig, serving from December 1, 1845, to
March 3, 1347 ; was again elected to the Thirty-sec-
ond Congress, receiving 5,500 votes against 5,324 votes
for Tabor, Whig, serving from December 1, 1851, to
March 3, 1853.
Russell, Samuel S., was bom in Pennsylvania;
resided at Bedford ; was elected a representative from
Pennsylvania in the Thirty-third Congress as a Whig,
receiving 9,216 votes against 8,845 votes for Danner,
Democrat, serving from December 5, 1853, to Marcti
3, 1855.
Russell, William, was bom in Ireland; immi-
grated to Ohio; resideti at West Union; was elected
a representative from Ohio in the Twentieth Congress
as a Jackson Democrat; was re-elected to the Twen-
ty-first and Twenty-second Congresses, serving from
December 3, 1827, to March 2, 1833; was defeated as
a candidate for the Twenty-third Congress; removed
to Portsmouth, Ohio ; was again elected to the Twen-
ty-seventh Congress as a Wnis, serving from May 81,
1841, to March 3, 1843; died at PorUmouth, Ohio,
October 2, 1346.
Russell, William F., was bom at Saugerties,
New York; received a public-school education; en-
gaged in mercantile pursuits at Saugerties ; was elect-
ed a representative from New York in the Thirty-
fifth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 6,878 votes
against 5,902 votes for Fream, American, and 4,912
votes for Brodhead, Republican, serving from Decem-
ber 7, 1857. to March 3, 1859.
Rust, Albert, was bom in Ylrginla; received an
academic education; studied law; was admitted to
the bar, and practised at El Dorado, Arkansas ; was
elected a representative from Arkansas in the Thirty-
fourth Congress as a Democrat, receiving no regular
oppoflition, aerving from December 8, ISX, to March
3, 1857; was defeated as the DemocAitic candidate
for the Thirty-fifth Congress; was again elected to
the Thirty-sixth Congress, receiving 16,302 votes
against 3,104 votes for Jones, Independent, and 3,452
votes for Drew, Independent, serving from December
5, 1859, to March 3, 1861 ; served in the Confederate
army as brigadier-Keneral ; died April 3, 1870.
Rutherford, John, was bom at New York in
1760; received a classical education, graduating at
New-Jersey College in 1776; studied law; was admit-
ted to the bar, and commenced practice at Edgerston,
New Jersey ; was a presidential elector in 1798, 1813,
and 1821 ; was elected a United-States senator from
New Jersey, serving from Octebcr 24, 1791, to Febru-
ary, 1798, when he resigned on account of ill health,
and devoted himself to the cultivation of his large
landed estates; died at Edgerston, New Jersey, Feo-
ruary 23, 1840.
Rutherford, Robert, was a native of Virginia;
was elected a representative from Virginia iu tlie
Third Congress; was reelected to the Fourth Con-
gress, defeating General Daniel Morgan, serving from
December 2, 1793, to March 3, 1797 ; was a candidate
for re-election to the Fifth Congress, but was defeat-
ed by General Morgan, the House of Representatives
sustaining a report from the Committee on Elections
against his claim to the seat December 7, 1797.
Rutledge, Edward, was l>om at Charleston,
South Carolina, November, 1749; received an aca-
demical education; went to London in 1769, where
he studied law at the Temple; returned to Cliarles-
ton, where he commenced practice in 1773; was a
delegate from South Carolina to the Continental
Congress 1774-1777; was appointed a member of the
first Board of War in June, 1776; served in the Revo-
lutionary war as captain of a company of volunteer
artillery; was taken prisoner by the British when
they occupied Charleston, and confined at St. Augus-
tine for a year before he was exchanged; resided
near Philadelphia until the British evacuated Charles-
ton In 1782, when he retumed to his home, and re-
sumed his practice; was elected governor of South
Carolina in 1798, and held the office until his death,
of gout, Janu^ 23, 1800.
Rutledge, John (father of John Rutledge, jun.),
was bom iu Ireland in 1739; received a classical edu-
cation; studied law at the Temple at London, and
commenced practice at Charleston in 1701; was a
delegate from South Carolina to the Provincial Con-
gress at New York in 1706; was a delegate to the
Continental Congress 1774-1777; was elected presi-
dent of South Carolina 1776-1778, and governor 1779-
1782; was again elected a delegate to Congress 1782-
1783; was elected one of the State chancellors in 1784 ;
was a member of the State Convention to ratify the
Federal Constitution; received the electoral vote of
South Carolina for Vice-President in 1789; was ap-
pointed associate justice of the Supreme Court by
President Washington, and confirmed by the Senate
September 24, 1789, and resigned in 1791 ; was elect-
ed chief justice of South Carolina in 1790, and re-
signed in 1795, having been appointed by President
Washington ctiief justice of the Supreme Court of
the United States, but the Senate refused to confirm
the nomination December 15, 1795; wlille on his way
to hold the Circuit Court of North Carolina, he was
taken sick December 1, and lost his reason, which
had not been restored when he died in July, 1800.
Rutledge, John, Jun. (son of John Rutledge),
was bom in South Carolina in 1766 ; received a lib-
eral education; studied law with his father, and
practised at Charleston, South Carolina: was elected
a representative from South Carolina in the Fifth
Congress as a Federalist; was re-elected to the Sixth
and Seventh Congresses, serviug from May 15, 1797,
to March 3, 1803; died at PUladelphia September
1, 1819.
Ryall, D. B., was Iwm at Trenton, New Jer-
sey; received an academical education; studied law;
was admitted to the bar, and commenced practice at
608
C0NOBBS8I0KAI. SIBECTOBY.
Freehold, Kew Jeney; was elected a representatlTe
from New Jersey in the Twenty-sixth Congress as a
Democrat (an attempt made to contest his seat was
unsuccessful), serving from March 10, 1840, to March
3, 1841.
Byan, Thomas, was bom at Oxford, New York,
November 25, 1837; lived In Bradford County, Penn-
sylvania, from infancy until 1866, when he removed
to Tupeka, Kansas, where he afterwards resided ; re-
ceived an academic education ; entered the volunteer
army of the United States in 1SC2, and was mustered
out as a captain in the fall of 1864 on account of
wounds received in the battle of the Wilderness ; was
admitted to the practice of law in 1861 ; was county-
attorney in Kansas for eight successive years; was
assistant United-States attorney for Kansas from
1873 to 1877 ; and was elected a representative from
Kansas in the Forty-iifth Congress as a BepubLican,
receiving 25,171 votes against 11,634 votes for Samuel
J. Crawford, Democrat, serving from Octoljer 15, 1877.
Sabin, Alvab, was lx>m at Greorgia, Yermont,
Octot>er 23, 1793; received a classical education;
studied theology; was for ten years a member of the
State House uf Uepresentatives ; was secretary of state
for Vermont in 1841 ; was elected a representative
from Vermont in the Thirty-third Congress as a Whig,
receiving 5,706 votes against 3,803 votes for Heywood,
Democrat, and 204 votes for Kasson, Free-Soiler;
was re-elected to the Thirty-fourth Congress, receiv-
ing 7,802 votes against 3,608 votes for Heywood,
Democrat, and 33 scattering, serving from Decem-
ber 5, 1853, to March 8, 1867.
Sabine, Lorenzo, was bom at Lisbon, New
Hampshire, February 28, 1803; received a public-
school education; engaged in mercantile pursuits at
Eastport, Maine; served three years in the State
House of Representatives of Maine ; removed to Mas-
sachusetts; was a special agent oi the treasury de-
partment; was elected a representative from Massa-
chusetts in the Thirty-second Congress (in place of
Benjamin Thompson, deceased) as a Whig, serving
from December 28, 1852, to March 3, 1S53; resided
lu Boston, where he died April 14, 1877. He pub-
lished "Life of Commodore Preble," " The Ameri-
can Loyalist," "Report on the Fisheries," "Notes
on Duels and Duelling," and numerous historical
and other essays published in the magazines and
newspapers.
Saiokett, William A., was bom in New York;
resided at Seneca Falls ; was elected a representative
from New York in the Thirty-iirst Congress as a
Whig, receiving 5,845 votes against 5,260 votes for
Bascom, Democrat, and 1,820 for Bigelow, Cass Dem-
ocrat ; and was re-elected to the Thirty-second Con-
gress, receiving 0,305 votes against 5,814 votes for
Smith, Democrat, serving from December 3, 1849, to
March 3, 18-53.
Saee, Ebenezer, was bom in Connecticut; re-
ceived a classical education, graduating at Yale Col-
lege iu 1778 ; removed to New York, and settled at
Sag Harbor; was elected a representative from New
York in the Eleventh Congress as a Democrat; was
re-elected to the Twelfth Congress, receiving a ma-
jority of 3,130 votes ; was re-elected to the Thirteenth
Congress, serving from May 22, 1800, to March 2,
1815; Claimed to have been again elected to the Six-
teenth Congress, and took his seat, but the House
gave it to James Guyon, jun., so that he only served
from December 6, 1819, to January 14, 1820; died
at Sag Harbor, New York, January 20, 1834.
BagB) BusselL was bom in Oneida County, New
York, August 4, 1816; received a public-school edu-
cation ; engaged in mercantile pursuits at Troy, New
York; was an alderman of that city 1841-1848; was
for some years treasurer of Rensselaer County; was
elected a representative from New York in the Thir-
ty-third Congress as a Whig, receiving 6,583 votes
i^inst 6,186 votes for Seymonr, Democrat, and 149
votes for Sherman, Free-Soiler; was re-elected to the
Thirty-fourth Congress, receiving 6,964 votes ag^iinst
2,076 votes for Clum, Democrat, and 1,071 for Cook,
Democrat, serving from December 6, 1853, to Much
3, 1857.
Sailly, Peter, was bom in Lorraine, France;
immigrated to the united States iu 1783, and located
at Plattsburg, New York, where he engaged in bael-
ness; was elected a representative from New York in
the Ninth Congress as a Democrat, serving from De-
cember 2, 1805, to March 3, 1807; was appointed by
President Jefferson collector of customs at Platts-
burg in 1807, and held the office until he died there
Mav 2, 1826.
SaltoDstall, Leverett, was bora at Haverhill,
Massachusetts, June 13, 1783; received a classical
education, graduating at Harvard Collt^e in 1E02;
studied law ; was admitted to the bar, and commenced
practice at Salem in 1805; was defeated as the Whig
candidate from the Essex South District in 1820; was
a member of the State Senate in 1831 ; was mayor of
Salem <1836-1838; was a presidential elector on the
Webster ticket in 1837; was elected a representative
from Massachusetts in the Twenty-fifth Congress (iu
place of Stephen C. Phillips, resigned) as a \Vhig;
was re-elected to the Twenty-sixth and Twenty-sev-
enth Congresses, serving from December 6, 1838, to
March 3, 1843; was an active member of the Massa-
chusetts Historical Society, the American Academy
of Arts and Sciences, and Other literary ajad histori-
cal associations; died at Salem, Hassaehuaetts, Hay
8, 1845. He published an " Historical Sketch of fi%-
verhlU."
Sammons. Thomas, was bom In Montgomery
County, New York; received a public-school ednca-
tion; served as an officer in the Revolutionary irar;
was elected a representative from New York in the
Eighth Congress as a Democrat ; was re-elected to
the Ninth Congress, serving from October 17, 18C3,
to March 3, 1807; was defeated as the Democratic
candidate for the Tenth Congress by Peter S«rart;
was again elected in the Eleventh Congress; was re-
elected to the Twelfth Congress, serving from May
22, 1809, to March 3, 1813; dfied at Johnstown, New
York.
Sample, Samuel C, was bom in Maryland;
removed to Indiana, and settled at South Bend; was
elected a representative from Indiana in the Twenty-
eighth Congress as a Whig, receiving 5,G93 votes
against 6,379 votes for Chamberlain, Democrat, and
127 for Bigelow, Abolitionist, serving from December
4, 1843, to March 3, 1845.
Sampson. Esekiel S., was bom in Hnron
County, Ohio, December 6, 1831 ; received his early
education at public schools, later at a private school
at Mount Pleasant, Iowa, and at Knox College, Illi-
nois; studied law; was admitted to the bar, and com-
menced practice at Sigoumey, Iowa, in 1856; was
prosecuting-attomey in 1856-1858; entered the Union
army as captain in the Fifth Iowa Infantry in 1861,
and was lieutenant-colonel in the same regiment when
mustered out in 1864; was a member of the State
Senate of Iowa in 1866; was judge of the Sixth Dis-
trict of Iowa from January, 1867, until January,
1875; was elected a representative from Iowa in the
Forty-fourth Congress as a Republican, receiving
12,461 votes against 9,746 votes for E. N. Gates, anti-
Monopolist; and was re-elected to the Forty^fth
CongKss, receiving 18,778 votes against 14.719 votes
for H. B. Hendershott, Democrat, serving from De-
cember 6, 1875.
Sampson, Zabdiel, was bom at Plymptoo,
Massachusetts; received a classical education, gradu-
ating at Brown University in 1803; studied law; was
adimtted to the bar, and commenced practice at
Pl}rmpton; was elected a representative from Massa-
chusetts in the Fifteenth Congress as a Democrat;
was re-elected to the Sixteenth Congress, serving
from December 1, 1817, to May 16, 1820, when he re-
signed, having been appointed collector of costoms
at Plymouth, Massachusetts; remained in that office
untU he died at Flymoath July 19, 1828.
STATISTICAL SKETCHES.
609
Samuel, Green B., was l)om In Shenandoah
Jounly. Vii-itiiiia, in LSW; receivej a thorough flns-
dca] t'ducatiou; stiidieil law; was aihuitted to the bar
1827, and became a successful practitioner; was
ilectccl a ropresciitjitive from Virginia in the Tweuty-
Ixth Congress as a Demix'nit, ser\-ing from Deccin-
>er 2. ISJ'ii. to Marcli 3, 1841 ; rotumcd to his profes-
ion; was a memlx^ of the State Reform Conven-
ioD of lAlft: was elected a judge of tlie Circuit
Jourt in 1850, and of tlie Court of Ap]>eals in 18S3;
^^ie<l at Kiclnnond, Virginia, January 5, 1S.J9.
Sandford, John, was bom in New York; re-
tded at Amsterdam; was elected a representative
om New York in tlie Twenly-*evcnth t^ongress as a
emtK-rat. receiving 6,:'rll votes against 4,732 votes
or Marcellus Weston, Whig, serving from May 31,
841, to March 3, 1S4.1; was a member of the ^>tate
^lenate in 1851 ; died at Amsterdam, New York, Oc-
Blwr 7, I8.i7.
Sandford, Thomas, was bom In Westmoreland
Jouiity. Virginia, in 17ii2; received n thorough Eng-
tsb eilucjition; removed to Kentucky in 171*2. and
Dcat«d at Covington; was a delegate to the State
JoDstitutional C<mvention of 1708; wa« a member of
De .Slate House of Kepn.-sentatives; was elected a
eprescntative from Kentucky in the Eighth Con-
*«rcss: was re-elected to the Ninth Congress, serving
fnmi October 17, 180.S. to March .3, 1807; was drowned
in the Ohio River December 10, 1808.
Sandidge, John M., was bom in Franldin
County, GeoPttia, January 7. 1817; was reared on
a (ilantatinn; removed to Louisiana, and devoted
himself to agricultural pursuits; was a member of
tlie State House of Ri-presentatives 1846-1865, serving
llie last two years as speaker; was a delegate to the
Slate Constitutional Convention in 1852; was elected
a representative from Louisiana in the Thirty-founlj
Congress as a Democrat, receiving 8,042 votes against
0,4«!1 votes for L<(wis, American; was re-elected to
the Tliirly-tifth Congress, recei\1ng 9,063 votes
against h.-Mt votes for Sparks, American, serving
from Deceml>er 3. l&V), to March 3, 1850.
Sands, Joshua, was bom in Queen's County,
New York, in 1758; resided at Brooklyn; took an
active part in the i)re-Revolutionary struggle, and
was a niemljer of the Brooklyn Home Guards in
nib; was a member of the State Senate 17y2-1791';
was appointed by President Jcdm Adams collector of
customs at New York in 1797: was elected a repre-
sentative from \ew York in tlie Eiglith Congress as
a Federalist, serving from October 17, 18n.S, to March
3. 1805; was again elected to the Nineteentli Con-
press, serving from December 5, 1825, to March 3,
1827; died In Queen's County, New York, September
13, 1835.
Sanford, James T,, was iKim in Virginia; re-
moved 10 Tennessee, and located at Columbia; was
eb'Cteil a represenl.itive from Tennessee In the Eigh-
teenth Congress, receiving t>,310 votes against 1,184
Vrttes for O. C. Merrill, serving from Decemlwr 1.
Il^-JH. to March 3, 18*25; he liberally endowed Jackson
O .liege.
Sanford, Jonah, w,is bom In New York: re-
sideil lit Oswego; w.^s a member of the State House
(■•: '■ • - !ilative« in 1S27 and 1830; was elected a
r ivo from New York in the Twenty-first
C - u the place of Silas Wright, jun., who had
declined to take bis seat) as a .Jackson Democrat,
serving from May 1, 18:W, to March 8, 1831.
Sanford, Natnan, was boni at Bridgehamp-
ton. Long Island, Novemt>er 5, 1770; received an
academical education: studied law; was admitted to
the bar In 17l>0, and commenced practice at New
Y'orU; was Cnited-»Statc8 commissioner in bank-
ruptcy in 1802; was United-Slates attorney for the
district of New York 180.3-1810; was a in'enilier of
the Strife House of Repn'senlatives in 181.5, and
chos<-ii speak>'r; was a niemlxT of the .State Senate
1812-1815; was elected a United-.St«tes senator from
Mew York na a Democrat, sun-ing from Deceatber 4,
1816, to March 3, 1821 ; was a delegate to the State
Constitutional Convention in 1821; was chancellor of
the .State of New York from .\ugust 1, 1823, until he
resigneil In January, 1820; was again elected a sena-
tor. ser%ing from January 31. 1820, to Marcli 3, 1^1 ;
died at Bridgehanipton, New York, October 7. 1838.
Sanford, Stephen, was bom in Montgomery
County. New York, May 26, 1820; was educated at
.\inslerdam Academy, Georgetown College, and
Poughkeepsie Collegiate Institute; was exicnsively
engaged in the business of car]>et-m.innfacturing;
never held political office before his election as rep-
resentative from New York in the Forty-first Con-
gress as a Republican, receiving 10,(111 votes against
14,608 votes for White, Democrat, serving from
March 4. 18<!0, to March 3, 1871.
Sapp, William Fletcher, was bom at Dan-
ville, Ohio, Novemljcr 23, 1824; received an aca<lemi-
cal education ; studied law at Sloiint Venioii, Ohio,
with Columlms Delano and W. R. Sapp; was admitted
to the bar In June, 18,50, and commenced practice at
Mount Venion; was elected prosecuting-attoniey of
Knox County In 1854, and re-elected in 18.56; removed
in 1800 to Omaha, Nebraska; was appointed in 1S61
adjutant-general of Nebraska Territory, and was sub-
sequently elected a member of the Territorial Legis-
lalive Council; entered the Union array in 1862 as
lieutenant-colonel of the Second Nebraska Cavalry,
and ser^-ed until it was mustered out; removed to
Council Bluffs, Iowa, where he has since practised
law; was a meintwr of the .State House of Itepresen-
tatives in 1865; was appointed by President Grant
Uniletl-States district-attorney for the district of
Iowa in 1800, serving until 1873; and was elected a
representative from Iowa in the Forty-fifth Congress
as a Republican, rcceivuig 10,3.58 votes against 15,236
votes for Lemuel R, Bolter, Democratic and Green-
back candidate, senina from October 16, 1877.
Sapp, William R., was Uim in Ohio; received
a pulJic-sehool e<lucation; resided at Mount Vernon;
was elected a re])resentative from Ohio in the Thirty-
thinl Congress as a Whig, receiving 0,140 votes against
0,100 vote.s for William Winnell, Democrat, and 2,0.50
votes for Riirhards, Democrat ; was re-elected to the
Tliirty-Fourth Congress, receiving 0,371 votes against
0,51(i voles for Dunbar, Democrat, seri'ing from De-
cember 5, 18.53, to March S. 18.57.
Sarsent, Aaron A., was bom at Newburyport,
MassacTiusells, September 28, 1827; was a printer
and editor in early life; removed to California in
1849 J studied law, and came to the bar in 18-54; was
district-attorney of Nevada County, California, in
1855 and 18.50; received the degree of M.A. from the
College of California in 1805; was elected a repre-
sentative from California In the Thirty-seventh Con-
gress as a Republican, serving from July 4. 1861. to
March 3, 1803 ; was again elected to the Forty-flist
Congress; was re-elected to the Forty-second Con-
r!ss, receiving 18.005 votes against 15,378 votes for
W. Coffroth. Democrat, serving from March 4,
1800, to March 3, 1873; and was subsequently elected
United-States senator from California as o Repub-
lican (to succeed C. Cole, Republican), serving trom
March 4, 1873. Uis term of office will expire March
3, IS71I,
Saulsbury, Eli (brother of Willard Saulsbury),
was born In Kent County, Delaware, Deceiuljer 20,
1817; atteniled common and select scliools, and an
irregular course at Dickinson College; studied law;
was ailmilted to the bar, and practised at Dover;
was a raemlM^r of the State legisljiture of Delaware
in 18.53 and 1854; was elected United-States senator
from Delaware as a Democrat (to succeed Willard
Saulsbury, Democrat), and was re-elected, serving
fn»m March 4, 1871. His temi of service will expire
March 3, 1883.
Saulsbury, Willfird (brother of Eli Saulsbury),
was born in Kent County, Delaware, June 2, 1820;
was educated at Delaware College, Delaware, and at
Dickinson College, Pennsylvania; studied and prao
610
OONGBESSIONAI. DIBECTOBT.
tised law; was elected United-States senator from
Delaware as a Democrat (to succeed Martin W.
Bates); and was re-elected in 1805, serriug from
Uarch 4, 1850, to March 3, 1871.
Saunders, Alvin, was bom in Fleming County,
Kentucky, July 12, 1817; received a common-school
and academic education; removed to Mount Pleas-
ant, Iowa (then a part of Wisconsin Territory), in
183() ; was postmaster at that place for seren years,
during which time he studied law with Isaac Van
Allen (then United-States district-attorney for Iowa),
but never entered upon its practice, preferring to
engage in mercantile and banking pursuits ; was a
member of the Constitutional Convention under
which Iowa was admitted into the Union as a State;
was a member of the State Senate for eight years;
was a member of the first Republican Convention
ever held in Iowa; was a delegate to the Republican
Kational Convention at Chicago which nominated
Lincoln and Hamlin in 1860; was one of the commis-
sioners appointed by Congress to organize the Pacific
Railroad Company; was appointed governor of the
Territory of Nebraska by President Lincoln in 1861,
and held the ofilce until the State was admitted into
the Union in 1867; was a delegate to the Republican
National Convention at Chicago in 1868 which nomi-
nated Grant and Colfax ; was elected United-States
senator from Nebraska as a Republican (to succeed
Phineas W. Hitehcock, Republican), and took his
seat March 6, 1877. His term of service will expire
March 3, 1883.
Saunders, Bomtilus Mitohell, was bom in
Caswell County, North Carolina, March, 1701; re-
ceived a classical education, and was two years at the
University of North Carolina; went to Tennessee;
studied law under Hu^h Lawton White, and was
admitted to the bar In 1812; returned to North Caro-
lina; commenced practice, and was elected to the
House of Commons of that State in 181&, 1817, and
1810, serving the last year as speaker; was elected a
representative in the Seventeenth Congress as a
Democrat; was re-elected to the Eighteenth and
Nineteenth Congresses without opposition, serving
from December 3, 1821, until March 3, 1827, when he
declined a re-election; was appointed attorney-gen-
eral of North Carolina in 1828; was appointed by
President Jackson on a commission for the dis-
tribution of the claims paid by France in 1833; was
elected judge of the Superior Courts of North Caro-
lina in 18^35, and resigned in 1840 on accepting the
Democratic nomination for governor, but was defeat-
ed, receiving 35,883 votes against 44,170 votes for John
M. Moreheiid, Whig; was again elected to the Twen-
ty-seventh Congress, and re-elected to the Twenty-
eighth Congress as a Democrat, serving from May 31,
1841, to March 3, 1843; was appointed by President
Polk minister to Spain, and served from February
25, 1846, until Septeml)er24, 1840; was again elected,
on his return, a member of the State House of Rep-
resentatives; died at Raleigh, North Carolina, April
21, 1837.
Savage, John, was bom in New York in 1780;
resided at Salem ; was a member of the State House
of Representatives in 1814; was elected a representa-
tive from New York in the Fourteenth Congress as
a Democrat ; was re-elected to the Fifteenth Congress,
serving from December 4, 1816, to March 3, 1810;
was United-States district-attorney; was State comp-
troller Febraary 12, 1821-February 18, 1823; was chief
Justice of the State Supreme Court January 20, 1823-
August, 1837; was United-States aasisUuit treasurer
at New York; was a presidential elector on the Polk
and Dallas ticket in 1845; died at Utica, New York,
October 10, 1863.
Savage, John H., was bora in Warren Coun-
ty, Tennessee; received a public-school education;
served as a private in the Tennessee volunteers on
the Texas frontier before he was of age, and also saw
three months* service in Florida against the Seminoles :
•tutted law; was admitted to the bar, and commenced
practice at Smlthvllle, Tenneasse; was appointe<1 by
President Polk major of the Fourteenth United-
States Infantry, and served through the Mexican
war, receiving promotion as lieutenant-colonel, and
commanding the regiment after the death of Colonel
Graham until the close of the war; was elected a
representative from Tennessee in the Thirty-first
Congress as a Democrat, receiving 4,713 votes against
3,777 votes for- Turney, Democrat, and 1,230 votes
for Rogers, Whig; was re-elected to the Thirty-
second Congress, receiving 6,816 votes against 4.352
votes for Goodpasture, Whig, serving from December
3, 1840, to March 3, 1853; declined being a candidate
to the Thirty-third Congress; was again elected to
the Thirty-fourth Congress, receiving 6,016 votes
!^inst 3,5(>3 votes for Cullom, American; was re-
elected to the Thirty-fifth Congress, receiving 6,435
votes against 6,232 votes for Pickett, American, serv-
ing from December 3, 1865, to March 3, 1850.
Savtige, John Simpson, was bom in Cler-
mont County, Ohio, October 3i), 1841; studied law;
was admitted to the bar in 1863, and practised at
Wilmington; never held any public office; and was
elected a representative from Ohio in the Forty-
fourth Con^ss as a Democrat, receiving 12.1^
votes against 11,810 votes for John Q. Smith. Re-
publican, serving from December 6, l§i3, to Marrb
3, 1877; was defeated as the Republican candidate
for the Forty-fifth Congress, receiving 16,008 votes
against 16,540 votes for Miles Gkudner, Republican.
Sawtelle, Cullen, was bom at Norridgewock,
Maine ; received a classical education, graduating at
Bowdoin College in 1826; studied law; was admit-
ted to the bar in 1829, and commenced practice at
Norridgewock; was rwister of probate 1830-183$;
was a member of the State Senate 1843, 1844; was
elected a representative from Maine in the Twenty-
ninth Congress as a Democrat, serving from December
1, 1845, to March 3, 1847; was again elected to the
Thirty-first Congress, receiving 5,875 votes a^ainat
8,589 votes for Cobum, Whig, 2,063 votes for
Fleteher, Democrat, and 849 for Veazie, Democrat,
serving from December S, 1849, to March 3, 1831;
removed to New-York City.
Sawyer, Frederick A., was bom In Bolton,
Massachusetts, December 12, 1822; received a classi-
cal education, graduating at Harvutl College in 1^;
was successively employed as a teacher in Granliner,
Wiscasset, Lowell, Nashua, South Reading, and
Boston, leaving the Brimmer School in the last-
named city in April, 1850, to accept an invitation to
become principal of the State Normal School forcirls
in Charleston, South Carolina; this position be oe]d
until September, 1864, when his persistent loyalty
rendered him so obnoxious to the rebels that they
give him a passport for himself and his family
through the lines to the post of Port Royal, then in
the possession of the Federal forces ; in May. Ii365,
he was appointed collector of internal revenue for
the Second District of South Carolina, the first civil
appointment made in the State after the Rebellion;
he was elected a member of the State Constitutional
Convention, but was not able to participate in the
proceedings of that body; was elected United-Sutes
senator from South Carolina July 10, 1868; took his
seat July 22, 1868, and served until March 3, 1873;
was appointed assistant secretary of the treasury,
serving from March 8, 1S73, to August 1, 1876.
Sawyw, Lemuel (nncle of Samuel T. Sawyer),
was bora in Camden County, North Carolina, in
1777; was educated at Flatbush, New York: studied
law ; was admitted to tbe bar, and commenced practice
at Elizabeth, North Carolina; was a member of the
State House of Representatives in 1800, 1801; was a
presidential elector on the Jefferson ticket in 19l>t;
was elected a representative from North Carolina in
the Tenth Congress as a Democrat; was re-elected
to the Elevenu and Twelfth Congresses, serving
from October 26, 1807, ontU March 3, 1813; «-as
again elected to the Fifteenth Congress; was re-
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ted to the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Congresses.
rvinc frtiin UecembiT 1. ISIT, until March 3, 1H2S;
rus iK'feated as ti cantliilato for the Eighteenth C<m-
fS». rrfviving ii.l'ii> voles aaiiinst i,4(i7 votes for
Ufp'd M. ftiitlin; Wiis aiiain elected to the Nine-
teenth Congress, and was re-elected to the Twentieth
Ci'nCTess, seninj; f roni Decenilx.'r 5, 1825, until March
3. 182t<; was defeated jis a candiilate for the Twenty-
first Congress by William B. .Sliejiard, who received
877 majority: removed to Washington, District of
Colnmlda. in IsVK and tiecanie a dei)artruent-clerk;
died at W.v^hington of heart-disease January K. 1SV2.
Sawyer, Philetus, was horn In Wliiting. Ver-
mont. fSe|)tenilier J2. 1811); received a piiWlc-school
and liusiness education; went to Wisconsin in 1847.
and ensaijed in the lumlier business; was a meml>er
of the .State leirfslature of Wisconsin in 18.')7 and
IStll; was mayor of (.)»hIiosli in 18<W .and 18<W; was
elected a representative from Wisconsin in the Thir-
ty-ninth Conjfress as a Hepublican, receiving 13,218
votes acainst 10.274 votes for Bouck, Democrat; was
re-elected to the Fortietti Coniiress. receiving 14,;541
voles against ll.:}47 votes for Slorgan L. Martin.
Democrat ; was re-elected to the Forty-flrst Congr'-'ss.
receiving 10,422 votes against 1.1.234 votes for Vilas,
Democrat; was re-»dected to the Forty-second Con-
gross as a Republican, receiving 17,258 votes against
11,S22 votes for J. Stringham, Democrat; ana was
re-elected to tlie Fortv-thinl Congress, serving from
DecenilM-r 4, 1S(V;, to March 3, 1875.
Sawyer, Samuel T. (a nephew of Lemuel Saw-
yer), was bohi in Chowan County, North Carolina,
in 18<X); studied law; was admitted to the bar, and
practised at EdenUm; was a member of the .state
House of Representatives 182fl-1832; was electe<l a
Eresenlative from North Carolina in the Twenty-
li Congress as a Democrat, receiving 211 votes
^ inst 1.7iXt votes for G. C. Moore, Whig, serving
from Sepleml)er 4, 1837, to March 3, 1839; was de-
feated as the Democratic c.indidutc for the Twenty-
sixth Cimgress by Kenneth Itaynor, Wiig, who re-
ceived tWl majority; removed to Norfolk, Virginia,
where he edited "The Norfolk Argus;" was ap-
piinted by President Pierce collector of customs al
Norfidk; died at New .Jersey Novemlier 211, 1805.
SaAWyer, William, was liorn in Ohio; resided
at .St. Mar>''s; wius elected a representative from Ohio
in the Twenty-ninth Congress as a Democrat; was
re-elected to the Thirtieth Congress, 8er>ing from
December 1. 1S45. to March 3. 1849.
Say, Benjamin, Wiis bom in Pennsylvania; was
elected a representative from Pennsylvania in the
Tenth Congress (in place of Joseph Clay, resigneil);
was re-elected to the Eleventh Congress, serving from
Xovenil)er Hi. 18lif<, to WW, when he resigned.
Sayler, Henry B., was br)ni in Montgomen-
County. Ohio. March 31, 18;Jfl; his father removed
to Clinton County. Indiana, in August. 1836; re-
ceived a common-school e<lucation ; studied law in
Preble County, Ohio; was admitted to the bar in
ISoii; enlisted in the army, and was mustered as lieu-
tenaiif ; was pn)raoted as captain and major of the
One Hundred and Eigliteenth Regiment Indiana
Volunteer Infantrj" held no other public office imti!
he was elected a representative from Ohio in the
Fortv-lhird Congress as a Republican, receiving
17,*}4 votes against 15,1411 votes for E. Van Long,
Democrat, serving from Dcccmlxir 1, 1873, to March
8, 1875.
Sayler, Milton, was l)om at Lewlsburg, Preble
County. Ohio. Novemlier 4. IMl; graduated at
Miami University in 18.52. and afterward at the Cin-
cinnati Law SelifM)l; practised law at Cincinnati;
w-.as a member of the .Slate legislature of Ohio in
18<t2 and 1S<W. and of ibe city council of ("incinnati
in ]St)4 and 1S<15; was electe<l a representative from
Ohio in the Forty-third Congress as a Democrat,
receiving 12,474 votes against 8,005 votes for B.
Eggleston, Republican; was re-elected to the Fort y-
lourtb Congress, receiving 11,5G0 votes against 7,252
I votes for Green, Hemibllcin ; was elected speaker
pro trmimrr of tlie House June 24, 187tl; was re-
elected to the Forty-lifth Congn-ss, receiving 14.144
votes against 13.474 votes for Force, Republican,
I serving from De<-emtier 1, 1873.
I Scales, Alfred Moore, was bom in Rooking-
' ham County. North Carolina. Noveml*r 2*1, 1827; is
' not a graduate, but receive«l a classical education al
I the Caldwell Institute in Greenslmrough, and at the
I rniverslly of North Carolina ; studied law ; wils ad-
mitted to the tiar in 1851. and practised at (ireens-
borough; w.ts elected county-attorney of Itocking-
ham County; was a member of the legislature of
North Carofina in 1852, 1SJ:1, and in I8nt). 1857; was
elected a re])reRent.itive from North Carolimi in the
Thirty-tiflh Congress as a IK-mocRtt. receiving 7,(170
votes against 0.!»5ii votes for Pnryear, American,
serving from December 7, 1S.')7. to March 3, IS51I; vol-
unteered al the beginning of tlie late civil war as a
private in the (.Njufederate army; was afterward pro-
moted, .and siTved as captain, colonel, and brigadier-
general during tlie war; was agijiii elected a repre-
sentative from Ni>rth Carolina in the Forty-fourth
Congress, receiving 10,52t> votes against 8,000 votes
for W. F. Henderson, Republican; was re-elected to
the Forty-fifth Congress, receiving I3,24G votes
against ll.i.Xll votes for J.-unes E. Boyd, Republican,
sen'ing from Dt!cember (J, 1K75.
Scammon, John F., was horn at Saco. Musn^
chust'tLH (afterwanls Maine). October 24. ITSil; re-
eeiveil a public-school edue.ition; engaged In mer-
cantile pursuits; was s member of the .State House
of Representatives in 1817, 182(), ami 1821 ; was col-
lector of customs at Saco 182l»-1841; was elected k
representative from Maine in the Twenty-ninth Con-
gross as a Democrat, sening from Decemlicr 1, 1845,
to Hnrch 3, 1847; was a niemU'r of the Suite Senate
in 1856 ; died at Saco. Maine, May 2:^. 1858.
Sohell, Richard, was bom at Rhinebeck, New
York, in May, ISIO; was engaged in mercantile pur-
suits there; removed to New Vork in 18-'J4, and
entered into the wholesale drj-goods business; was a
member of the .Stite .Senate of New York In 1.867;
was t'lpct<"d a representative from New York in the
Fi>rty-tliird Congress (In place of David B. Mellish,
deceased) as a Democrat, receiving 12,.5ti2 votes
against 5,047 voles for John Ilarrly, Independent
Democrat, 8er%'ing from Decemljer 7, 1874, to March
3. 1875.
Schenck, Abraham H., was )>om in Dutchesa
County, New York, in 1777 ; received u tliorough Eng-
lish education; was a member of the .State House of
Representatives 18(.l4-180tl; was elected a representa-
tive from New York In the Fourteenth Congress as a
Democrat, ser^-ing from Decemb<'r 4, 1815, to March
3, 1817; eng;iged in the manufacture of cotton-gomis
after ihe passage of the non-intercourse acts; died
at Fishkill, New York. Felmiary 20. 18;ll.
Schenck, Ferdinand S., was boni in Middlesex
County. New Jersey. February II. 171*); received a
public-«cliool education; studied medicine; was li-
censed, and pniclised at Six-miie Run; was a mem-
ber of the .State House of Representatives 1820-1831 ;
was elected a representative fnim New Jersey In the
Twentv-third Congress as a .Jackson Democrat on a
general ticket, receiving 24,278 votes against 23,780
votes for Cloudlet. Clay iJemocrat ; wiis re-elected to
the Twenty-fourtli Congress, receiving 3.065 voles
against 2,224 votes for liis opponent, serving from
I>«-ceml)er 2, 18*{, to March 3, 1837; was a member
of the Slate Constitutional Convention in 1844; was
for eight yesirs a judge of the Court of Appeals; died
at Camden. New Jersev, May 17, 18«X).
Schenck, Robert C, was boni at Franklin,
Ohio, October 4. 1800; griuluateii at Miami I'niver-
slly; studied law with the Hon. Thom.is Corwin at
I^'banou. and practised many years at Dayton; was
a member of the Ohio legislature in 1841 and 1842;
was elected a representative from Ohio in the Twen-
ty-eighth Congress as a Whig, receiving 7,870 votes
612
C0NGEBS8I0NAL DIKECTOKT.
■gainst 5,571 votes for Lowe, Democrat, and 408
votes for Htbbin, Abolitionist; was re-elected to
the Twenty-ninth, Thirtieth, and Thirty-first Con-
gresses, serving from December 4, 1843, to March 3,
1851 ; was appointed in 1851 envoy extraordinary and
minister plenipotentiary to Brazil, and was also ac-
credited in 1802 envoy extraordinary to Uruguay,
the Argentine Confederation, and Paraguay, nego-
tiating important treaties with those nations; en-
tered the Union army in 1861 under an appoint-
ment by President Lincoln as brigadier-general; was
promoted to be major-general, to take rank from
August 30, 1862 (the date of the battle of Groveton,
or second Bull Run), for Iiis conduct in that action,
in wliich he was severely wounded, and continued in
military service until he took liis seat in Congress
in December, 1863; was elected a representative from
Ohio in the Thirty-eighth Congress as a RepnbUcan,
receivingl3,027 votes against 11,770 votes for Vallan-
digham. Democrat; was re-elected to the Thirty-ninth
ConCTess, receiving 14,371 votes against 11,605 votes
for Houlc, Democrat; was re-elected to the Fortieth
Coi^ress, receiving 15,027 votes against 13,960 votes
for Ward, Democrat ; and was re-elected to the Forty-
first Congress, receiving 16,293 votes against 15,818
votes for Yallandigham, serving from December 7,
1863, to March 3, 1871 ; was appointed by President
Grant minister to Great Britain, serving 1870-1876.
Sohenuerhom, Abraham M., was bom in
New York ; resided at Rochester ; was a member of the
State House of Representatives in 1848 ; was elected a
representative from New York in the Thirty-first
Congress as a Whig, receiving 6,611 votes against
4,746 votes for Selden, Democrat, and 1,367 votes for
Smith, Cass Democrat ; was re-elected to the Thirty-
second Congress, receiving 6,036 votes against 5,623
votes for Buchanan, Democrat, serving from Decem-
ber 3, 1849, to March 3, 1863 ; died at Rochester, New
York, August 22, 1855.
Sohleiober, Qustave, was bom at Darmstadt,
Germany, November 19, 1823; was educated at the
University of Giessen, In the Grand Duchy of Hesse-
Darmstadt; was engaiged as a civil engineer in the
construction of several European railroads; immi-
grated to Texas in 1847, and, after passing some time
on the frontiers, located at San Antonio in 1S50; was
a member of the State House of Representatives in
1853 and 1854, and of the State Senate 1839-1861;
and was elected a representative from Texas in the
Forty-fourth Congress as a Democrat, defeating Jere-
miah G.ilvan, Republican; and was re-elected to the
Forty-fifth Congress, receiving 11.951 votes against
2,711 votes for J. P. Newcomb, Republican, serving
from December 6, 1875.
Schley, William, was bom at Frederick City,
Maryland, December 15, 1786; received an academi-
cal education; studied law; was admitted to the bar
in 1812, and commenced practice at Augusta. Georgia;
was elected a judge of the Superior Court in 1S25 ;
was a memlier of the State House of Representatives
in 18;W; was elected a representative from Georgia in
the Twenty-third Congress as a Democrat on general
ticket, receiving 21,551 votes against 15.441 votes for
Newnan, serving from DecemlJer 2, 18.*}, to March 3,
1835; Was governor of Georgia 1835-1837; was presi-
dent of the Medical College of Georgia: died at Au-
gusta, niM>r,;i.i, November 20, 1S58. He published a
'• Digest of till- English Statutes.*'
Schoolcraft, John L., was bom at Albany,
jKewYork: rvci'ivtHi a public-school education; en-
_ d ill mercaiilile pursuiu; travelled in Europe
th Thurlow Weed; was elected a representative
trom N<a York in ih« Thirty-first Congress as a Whig.
'jreceiviua 7,2i'7 v,.ies against 8,876 votes forBouton,
*^enu>cr.it, ami 2,315 votes for Wood. Van Buren
nit : and wiis re-elected to the Thirty-second
, recviviiiK 7,032 votes against 6,746 votes for
, Deramnit, serving from December 3, 1849,
h 8. l«vV<; di«d at St. Catherine's, Canada
Ma)- a, 180&
Sohoomnaker. Comelina C, was bom In
Ulster County, New York; resided at Sbawaugunk;
was a member of tiic State House of Representatives
1777-1790; was elected a representative from New
York in the Second Congress, serving from October
24, 1791, to March 3, 1793; was again a member uf
the State House of Representatives in 1796.
Schoomnaker, Marius, was bom at Kingston,
New York, and resided there; was elected a represen-
tative from New York In the Thirty-eecond Congress
as a Whig, receiving 7,851 votes against 7,135 votes
for Allabeu, Democrat, serving from December 1,
1851, to March 3, 1863.
Sohumaker, John Q., was born at Claverack,
Columbia County, New York, June 27. 1826, uf Ger-
man parentage; received an academical education at
home, and In Lenox, Massachusetts; studied law, and
was admitted to the bar in 1847; in 1853 be settled in
Brooklyn, where be practised ; in 1856 he was elected
district-attorney for Kin^s County; in 1862 and I8f>t
he was elected corporation counsel for the city of
Brooklyn ; was a delegate to the Chicago Convention
of 1864; was a member of the State Constitutional
Conventions of 1862 and 1867; was elected a repre-
sentative from New York in the Forty-first Confess
as a Democrat, receiving 24,418 votes against 12,492
votes for Bellows, RepubUcan, serving from March 4,
1869, to March 3, 1871; was again elected to the
Forty-third Congress as a Democrat and Liberal, re-
ceiving 13,366 votes against 8,376 votes for A. J.
Perry, RepubUcan, and 1,031 votes for W. S. Robin-
son, Independent Democrat; was re-eiected to the
Forty-fourth Congress, receiving 15,123 votes against
6,662 votes for Wood, Republican, serving from De-
cember 1, 1873, to March 3, 1877.
Sohuneman, Martin Q., was bom in Ulster
County, New York, and resided there ; was elected a
representative from New York in the Ninth Congress,
serving from December 2, 1805, to March 3, 180 <.
Sohureman. James, was bom in New Jersey
in 1757; receiveu a classical education, graduating at
Rutgers College in 1775 ; served in the Bevolutimiary
army as captain of volunteers; was a del^ate from
New Jersey to the Continental Congress 1786-17t'7;
was elected a representative from New Jersey in the
First Congress as a Federalist, serving from March 4.
1789, to March 3, 1791 ; was again elected to the Fifth
Congress, serving from May 15, 1797, to March 3,
1799; was elected a United-States senator from New
Jersey (in place of John Rutherford, resigned), serv-
ing from Deceml)er 3, 1709, to Febraary 6. li^Ol, when
he resigned ; was mayor of the city of New Bmns-
wick; was again elected a representative to the Thir-
teenth Congress, serving from May 24, 1813, to March
2, 1815; died at New Brunswick, New Jersey, Janu-
ary 23, 1824.
Sohurz, Ceurl, was bom at Liblar, near Coli^ne,
Germany, March 2, 1829; was educated at the colle-
giate institution at Cologne, and afterwards at the
University of Bonn; was editor of a paper identifitnl
with the Revolution of 1848; took part in the defence
of Rastadt, after which he fled to Switzerland ; sub-
sequently resided in Paris and London, where he was
a teacher and correspondent for three years; immi-
grated to tliis country in 1852; was a del^ate to the
Chicago Convention of 1860, taking a leading part in
its proceedings; was selected by President Lincoln
in 1801 as minister to Spain, which position he soon
resigned; was appointed a brigadier-general of vol-
unteers, and waa present at the second battle of Bull
Run, at the battles of Chancellotwille, Gettysburg,
and Chattanooga; after the war he waa appointed a
commissioner to visit the Southern States, aoA report
upon the aflfaira of the Freedmen's Bureui; in 1863
and 1866 be was a Washington correapondent for
"The New- York Tribune;" was subsequently con-
nected with the press of Detroit and St. JLouis; was a
delegate to the Chicago Conventimi ot 1868; and was
elected United-States senator from Missouri as a B#-
poblicaB (to succeed John B. BeiidenoD), serving
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Dm March 4, 1800, to March 3, 1875; visited Europe,
nd, on his return iti 187ti, look an active part in su]y-
ort of the RopnbllcBn ticket; was a]>pointed by
esiilenl Hiiyes Bccretary of the interior, serving
from M^n-li 12, 1877.
Schuyler, Philip, was honi at All)any, New
York. Novifinbor i2, 17'!-!; received a gmxi English
iucation; served as captain and commissary in the
j-al colonial troops in 175.'>-17<'>3; was a delegate
om New York to the Contliiejital Congress I'iVt-
(Ti; Wiia apiKiinted inajor-gcneral, and plaoe<l in
nraand of the Nordiern Kovolutionary army in
rio. bnt became involved in Tnilit.iry disputes, and
signed in 1771'; was ng:un a delegate to llie Con-
Denlnl Congr^-ss 177H-17S1 ; was elected a United-
utos senator from New York .is a Ftilenilist. ser\'-
fmm Sfarch 4, 178'.), to Mareli 3. 1701 ; was acain
111 uator, serving from May 1."), 171*7, to Janu-
nlien he resigned: died at All)anv, New
. inber 1^1. mu. His "Life and Time*"
was piilillslied by Hcnson J. Lossing.
Schuyler, fhilip J., was bom in Dutchess
County, New York, in 17iW; resideil at Rhincbeck;
wns elected a representative from New York In the
"Kfteenth Congn-ss, 8er\-ing from December 1, 1817,
" March 3, 1810; died at New York February 21,
[Schwartz, John, was bom in Berks County,
'Bnnsylvania, October 27, 170:); received a public-
Tjool education; was reared on a farm; served in
! war of 1S12 lus a lieutenant of volunteers; en-
aged in mercantile pursuits 1600-1820, after which
gave his whole attention to agriculture; was
elected a representative from PennBylvania in tlie
Thirty-sixtli Congress as an anti-Irf^compttin Demo-
crat, receiving 7,321 votes against 7.302 votes for
Jones, Democrat, serving from December 5, 1850, to
June aj, 1800, when he died at Reading, Pennsyl-
vania.
Scofleld, Olenni W., was bom in Chautauqua
County. New Vork. March II. 1817; graduated at.
Kamilton College. New York, in 1840; studied law,
■id has since practised tliat profession, except when
^termiiled l>y official duties; was a member of the
Slate Assembly of Pennsylvania In 18.V» and 1851 ;
was a memlierof the .Stale Senate in 18.")7. 18.W, and
18.50: was temporarily appr)inted pn^sident-judge of
the Eighteenth Judicial District of Pennsylvania in
■BUI ; was elected a representative from Pennsyl-
Htttin in the Thirty-eighth Congress as a Republican.
Tecciving H.0.J4 votes against 0,4<i2 votes for Coiirt.-
hotiRht," Democrat; was re-elected to the Thirty-
[jnlh CoiitfriMs. receiving ll.tWl votes against 0,!ii4
e» fi'T IJigler, Democrat; wus re-elected to the
rlteth Congress, receiving 15,107 votes oKoinst
1,481 votes for Scott, Democrat; was re-elected
the Forty-lirst Congress, receiving 10,003 votes
inst 14.365 voU-'S for Hrown. Democrat ; was re-
i;ted to the Forty-second Congress, receiving
1035 votes against 12.451 votes for .S. Marvin.
I>emo<-mt: ami was re-elected to the Forty-third
Congress as one of tlie three congressmen at large
M a Kepiiblican, receiving 3.58,(113 voU'S against
SI4.II1.I votes for H. U. Wriiiht. Democnil, serving
Blu DeeenilM-r 7. ls<l;j. to Slarcli 3. 1875; was ap-
iited by President Grant register of the treasury
11377.
[Bcott, Charles L., was bom at Richmond. Vir-
January 2.J. 1827: received a classical educ.-v-
on. criidii:iiing at William and Mary College;!
studied law with his father: w;i» admitted to the I
%T. and commenced pnictice at Jtichmotid; went to
klifomia in 1849. and workml in the mines until I
51. wlien he resumed the practice of law atSonora; I
elected a representative from California In the '
iirty-lifili Congress as a Demiicrat; was re-elected '
I the Tliirtv-sixtli Congress, serving from December
7, 18.57. to Marrh 3. 18<ii.
Soott, Gustavus, was Imm in Maryland; was
■igely engaged in agrictiltural pursuitsj waa a dele-
gate from Maryland to the Continental Congress
1784-17.S5.
Soott, Harvey D., was bom in Ohio; received
a public-school education ; reiuoved to Indiana, aiiil
settled at Terre Haute; was elected a representative
from Indiana in the Thirty-fourtli ('on','ro.»5 as a
Kepiiblican. n.'ceiving 0,51') votes .igainst 8..'>.si) votes
for Davis, Democrat, serving from Decumlier 3, 1855,
to Marc-h 3, 1N57.
Scott, •Tohn, was bom in Hanover County, Vir-
giiii.o, in 17.82; received a classical education, gradu-
ating at Princeton College in 18<J5; studied law; was
admitted to the bar, and couunenceii pnictice at St.
Cienevieve. Missouri, In 18<J0; was elected a delegate
from Misi>ouri Territory in the Fourteinith Congn-ss,
sening from December 2. 181U, to January 13, 1817.
when his seat was declared vacant ; was again elected
a <lele'jate to the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Congresses,
sen-ing from Decemljcr 1. 1817. to March 3. 1821;
Missouri having been admitted as a 8tate, he was
elected a representative in the Seventeenth Con-
gress; was re-elected to the Eighteenth Congress,
receiving 400 m.ijorily over Strother; was re-elected
to the Nineteenth Congress, serving from Decemiier
3. 1821. to March 3. 1.S27; died dt St. Genevieve,
Missouri, October 1, 18()1.
Scott, John (father of John Scott), was bom
in Huntingdon County. Pennsylvania; was u large
landholder; was elected a representative from Penn-
sylvania in the Twentv-llrsl Congress, serving from
December 7. 1820, to M'arcb .3, 18;J1.
Scott, John (son of Johti .Scott), was bora at
Alexandria. Pennsylvania. July 14. 1.S24; received a
comTn'm-scliiH)) eiliicition; studied law; was ad-
mitted to the bar in 1840, and has practised at Hun-
tingdon. Pennsylvania ; was prosecuting-attorney
from 1840 to 1840; was a meml)er of the boanl of
revenue commissioners in 1851 ; was a memlier of
the State legislature in 1802; was elected a Uniled-
.Stati'S senator from Pennsylvania as a Republican
(tf) succeed Charles R. Buckalcw, Democrat), senuig
from March 4, 1800, to March 4, 1876; removed to
Pittsburg; was chosen, December 30, 1,877. general
solicitor of the Pennsylvania liailroail Company.
Scott, John G., was lH)rn at Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, December 20, 1810; received a public-
school education; went West when seventeen years
of age, and became Interested in tlie development
of Iron Mountain, Missouri; wos defeated as the
Democratic candidate for the Thirty-eighth Congress,
receiving 2.7.58 votes against 2.705 votes for John W.
Noell. Emancipationist, and IIM voles for Lawson,
tiidependent; Mr. Noell dying, Mr. Scott was elected
a representative from Missouri in the 'ITurty-eiglilh
Congress us a Democrat, receiving 3,550 votes against
3,t)7U voti'S for Lindsay. Union candidate, and 444
voles for liiigy. Independent Democrul.
Scott, John Morin, was iHn-n in the city of
New York ; was State secretary of state March 13,
1778-OctotK'r 2;l, 1780; was a delegate from New
York to tlie Continental Congress 1780-17.83.
Soott, Thomas, was born in Pennsylvania;
belli several local offices; was elected a representative
from Pennsylvania in the First Congress, serving
from March' 4, 178'J, to March 3, 1701: was ttgaiii
elected to the Third Congress, serving from Decem-
ber 2. ntrt. to Sfarch 3, 17lk5.
Scranton, George W., was born at Madison,
Connectirut, May 11, 1811; received an academic
education; removed in 1828 to Belvidere. New Jer-
sey, where he was a teamster, and afterwards a clerk;
in 1830 he became a manufacturer of iron, and in
l.'>4ll be coimnenced smelting ore with anthracite coal
at Slocum, Pennsylvania, which soon became the
city of Scnuiton ; he was president of tlie Ltti.kaw:uiiia
and Western and of the Cayuga and Su8«|uchanna
Railroad Companies; was a \Vhlg; was elected to the
Thirty-sUth Congress as a Protective Republican,
receiving 10,020 vot«8 against 0,180 votes for McRey-
uulds. Democrat; was renjlected to the Thirty-e«v-
614
CONGEESSIOXAL DIEECTORT.
«'nih ConEreM, neelvlng 11,710 votes against 11,034
viites for Itundiill, Democrat; and died at Scrantuu
Murcli 24, IWl.
Scudder, Henry J., was burn at Xorthiwrl,
New York, in ISii; received a chissiciil cdiicatiuii.
griidtiatiiiii at Trinity f^olli.'ge, iliirtfonl, C'lHiaucti-
cul, in 1S4<1; studii-il iaw; Wiis lulniitted to the t)ar
in Is+S ami coiuiiieuced pnicticc in NfW Yorl»; was
eleclod a representative from Now York in the Forty-
third CoiiRress as a Hepublican, receiving 13,f<77 votes
afrainst 11.7117 vntos for J. W. Covert, Ueinocrat,
serving from Deci'mln-r 1, 1S73, to Marcii 3, 1(<7').
Scudder, Isaa,C W., was bom at Elizabeth in
ISIS; studiiid law in the ntiieeof his fatiier; removed
to Jersey City, and eoinineneetl praetiee there; hiis
twice Ijeen pn)9ecutor of the Court of Coniinon Pleas
for Hudson County ; and wai" electei] a n.'presentalive
from New Jersey in tlie Korty-thlrd (Congress as a
Republican, receiving Vi.'.U i votes aiiainsl V,hK> votes
for X. 1). Tavlor. Democrat, serving from December
1, 1873. to Sliirdi a. I,s7.>.
Scudder, John A., was l)om in New Jersey In
1707; rfjceived an acudeinic education: studied medi-
cine, and practised ; w.is elected a representative fmtn
New Jersey in the Eleventh C'ougress (in place of
James Cox, deceaseil), serving fmm Deceral)er 3,
ISIO, to March 3, |K11; removed to Kentucky, ami
sulisequenily to Indiana, where he died November 0,
l.s;!i>.
Scudder, Nathaniel, was horn In New Jersey;
received a cliissii-al ediication. gradualing at Prince-
ton College in 1751 ; wim for 8<!veral years a member
of the State House of K<']ire9entatives; was a dele-
gate from New Jersey to the Continental Congress
1777-1774); was killed in a skinnisli with an invading
))arty of tlie British at Shrewsbury, New Jersey, Oc-
tober l.j, 17H1.
Scudder, Treadwell, w!«s bom at Islip, New
Vorl;; was eleeteil a representative from New Yi>rk
in the Fifteenth Congress, soning from December 1,
1S17. to March 3, IHH); was a member of the Slate
House of l!cpre»i>ntatives in ltl28.
Scudder, Zeno, was born at Barnstable, Mas-
sachusetts, August 18, 18(J7; Teceiveil an aca<leinical
education; studied law; was admitted to the bar,
and comnu-nced pnu-tice at Barnst:dile; wsis a mem-
t>er of the Stjite House of Ueprescntatlves and of the
.Slate Senate; was elected a repreMMitativc from Mas-
sachusetts in the Thirty-second Congress as a Whig
on the sttcond ballnl, receiving 2.8iii) votes iigaiiist
1,324 voles for Fessenden, Democrat, and 054 votes
for Hart, Free-Soiler; was re-elected to the Thirty-
third Congress on the second ballot, receiving 5,01)5
votes against 1,801 votes for Rodney French, Demo-
crat, aiid 1,005 votes for John Peirce, Free-Soller,
serring from December 1, IS.M, to March 1, 1S54,
when he resigned on acxrount of ill health; held sev-
eral local offices; died at Uiirustable, Massachusetts,
June 2i3, 1857.
Scurry, Bicbardson, was bom in Tennessee;
removed to Texas, and liK-ated at Charlesvllle; was
elected a representative from Texiis in tlio Thirty-
seconil Congress, serving from December 1, 1851, to
Miinli 3. 18.-i;j.
Seaman, Henry J., was bom in New York;
resided at Itichmond, Staten Island; was elected a
representative from New York In the Twenty-ninth
Congress as an American, receiving 0,104 votes
iittaiiisi 5,t53ti votes for Miir|)hy, Democrat, and 02
for Wliiling, Abolitionist, serving from December 1,
18»'>. to .March 3. 1H47.
Searing, John A., was l>om at North Hemp-
stead, New York, May 14, 1805; received a public-
school education; w:is reared as a farmer; was elected
sherilf of tjueen's County in 184K; was a member of
the .Slate House of IJcpresentalives in 18.53, but was
defeated for re-election by S. N. Snedeker, Native
.Vmericau; was eleeted a representative from New
York in the Thirty-fifth Congress as a Democrat, re-
ceiving 8,060 voles against 5,802 votes fur Jeuuiitgs,
American, and 6,440 votes for Lord. Repu
serving from Deo.mlter 7, 1S.57, to ifarch
kept a hotel at Miniiei:)la, which he suir-nnteri
connection with his large farm: dieu at MiuSS
aftiT a lingering illness caused by cancer in
stomach, May It, 1870.
Searle, James, was bom at NewY'ork 1730; :
ceivi.-il an English education, and went to Mmli'in
where he entered the counting-nHint of his I>r<>ib4
as a clerk; rctumed home in" ITiWi, and selited
Philailelphia: was one of the managers of the I'nite
.States lottery 177r>-1778; was fur a slmi-t time
member of the Navy Board : was a didi-iriiii- Ir
Pennsylv,ijiia to the Continental Congress 177^-17
I was sent to Euro|ie to negotiate n loan f'T 'lie Sl»
of Pennsylvania in 1780. but was un^'
turned in 1782: died at Phihulelphi '
Seaver, Ebenezer, wa^i bom m u.
sachuf-elts. Januarv- s. 170;'>: received a c;
cation, giailiiating at Uan.aid ("ollege in i
member of the .State House of Represeiilatlvi's 17
1802; was elected a representative fn>in Mnssiu
setts in tlie Eiglith Congress as u Di-t'
successively re-elected to the Ninth, i
and Twelfth Congresses, sening fr ■.,.
180:3, until Marcii 3, 1.813: was iiefeate<l as a^
date for re-election to the Thirteenth Cong
War Democrat, rei'eiving 2,002 votes ogaluB
votes for N. Huggles, Peace Federalist; was ml
ber of the Mass.ic)iusetts Constitutional Conv
of 1820; and died at Koxbury, Massachusetts, Ma
1, 1844.
Sebastian, William K., was bom at Vernon
Tennessee; received a classical education, grodu
iiig at Columbia College, TennesstH:; studie
was admitted to the bar, and commenced pra
Heleiui, Arkansas; was prosecuting-attomey S
18;J7; was circuit-judge 1.84i>1842, and was ap
chief judge in 1840; wiis elected a United-
senator from Arkansas (in place of Chester Asblr
deceased) as a Democrat, serving from May 31, lii
to March 3, 1801 ; his term would not have
iiiilil March 3, 180.5, but, as he did not apixsari
.Senate, he was expelled, with the . •^•■
senators, July 11, 18<il; it was sub^^.■
that he w.as a loyal Union man, o|)po^
he remained quietly at Helena unlil the Fnl^irUJ
troops occupied that jilace, and in 1804 removeil to^
Memphis, Tennessee, where he died May 20. l^il
The Senate subsei|uentiy revoked the n'solutiim li
cvpulsioii, and paid his full salary to his cliildien.
Seddon, James Alexander, was boni it
Fredericksburg, Virginia; received a classiad eduo-
lion, graduating at the University of Virginia In
18:J5; was a merchant, and inti'rcste<l in ogriculratv;
was elected a representative from Vircir. i ■■ "' '
Tweiity-ninlh Congress as a Democrat, 8<':
Decemlier 1, 1845, to March 3, 1S47: was a^ ■
ed to the Tliirty-tirst Congress as a Democrat, need-
ing 2.844 votes against 2,458 votes for John M. Btilts,
AVhig, luid 317 votes for C. C. Lee, Whig. senioK
from December 3, ItHl), to March 3, 1851 ; declinnl
Ijeing a candidate for re-<'lecti(m ; was a member of
the Peace Commission of l.stil ; was a delegate fpjm
Virginia to the Provisional Confederate Coiw**
whicli assembled at Kichmond in July, 1801; m
the fourth Confederate secretary of war; dlwi in
Goochland Countv. Vir:;inia.
Sedgwick, Charles B., wiis Imm at Pompey,
New 'iork, Maa-h, 1815; received an acadcmicJ
education; studied law; was admitted to lho_b»t,
and commenced practice at Syracuse, New York;
w.as elected a representative from New York in iho
Thirty-sixth Congress as a Repuldicau, receiving H, ITS
votes .against 0.207 voles for Taylor. Democrat, sail
04-8 for Noxon. Independent Democrat: and WM rf
elected to the Thirty-seventh Congress, recdriiii?
11,175 votes against O.iJiSS votes for 'raft, Democrat,
and 1,233 votes for Hay, Democrat, serring triM
December fi, 1859, to March 3, 1863,
i
i
STATISTICAL SKETCHES.
615
Bedswick, Theodore, was born at West Hart-
[Jonl. C'oiiiit'cticut, May tt, 174(5; reAiveJ a classical
' etlucatiou (hut without jinuJuatiug) at Yale College:
comiiienci'il the gtuily of iltvluily, but abantloiieJ it
for the law; was aiiinillt'd to the bar in 177tl. and
tcoramfiH'cd prai;tice at (jrcat Barriustoii, reinoviiig to
Shoflli'ld; soni'd in tho llevolutionar)' expedition to
Canoila in 177(i as aide-de-camp to General Thomas;
was (or several years a moiiiber of the Colonial and
subsequently the Stale House of Representatives;
WM a delepite from Massachusetts to the Continental
Congress 17Sr>-17S<l; waselectcd a repri?senl;itivefroui
Massachusetts in the First Congri'ss as a Federalist;
was re-elocted to the Second, Thinl, and Fourth
Congresses, serving from Juno 15, 17HI), to Deccmlier
r6, 17U(I, when he took his seat as a United->States
•enator (in place of Georee Cabot, resi(nied|, ser\'inn
until Miirch S. l7tlH; was president pro temi>ore of
the Senate; was a delegate to the State Coiiventi<m
that adopte<l the Federal Constitution in nSH; was
agalii elected a representative to the Sixth Concress,
and was elected speaker of the House, serving from
» December 2, 1800, to March 3. 1801; was a judue of
the Superior Court of Massachusetts uutil his death
at B(.st.m.Tanu.in,'24, 18i:J.
Seeley, John E., was bom at Ovid, New York,
August 1, IMii; gniilualed at Yale College, Couuecti-
Leut, in l!>io; studied law, and was admitted to the
Bbar in 1S40; was electcil county-judge and surrogate
mot Seneca County in IfSol, and served as such four
■ years; was presidential elector in 18*10, and also in
■ i8<)4; and was elected a representative from \cw
■York in the Forty-sccoud Congress as a Republican,
Prec«iviug 15.;i7U votes against 12,134 votes for Dauiels,
Democrat, serving from March 4, 1871, to March 8,
1873.
ISeelye, Julius H., was boni at Bethel, Con-
necticut, Septenil)er 14, 1824; graduated at Ainherst
College; siudied theology at Auburn (New York)
Theologncal Seminary, and also at the Universities of
Halle and Berlin ; w.is ortlained and installed pastxir
of the First Keforme<l Dutch Church at Schenectady,
New York, in 18.»:J, where he remained until 1858,
l^when he accepted the professorship of mental and
moral philosophy in Amherst College, which lie still
lield at the time of his election to the Forty-fourth
iJongress; was a tnistee of the Clarke Institute for
3eai Mutes, of the Smith College for Women, and of
Ithe Mount-Uolyoke Female Seminary, and was one
of the board of three visitors intrusted with the
JVMslght of the Andover Theological Seminary;
leveled a representative fnmi Massachusetts in
Forty-fourth Congress without a uoniination
1 any p<.ilitical party, receiving 7,773 votes against
',.353 votes for Charles A. Stevens, Republican, and
8.473 voles for Henn,' C. Hill, Denxicrat, serving from
December (1, 1875, to March 3, 1877; declined a re-
_ nomination, and resumed his duties as professor in
■Amherst College.
■ Segar, Joseph E., was bom in King William
BCouuty, Virginia, June 1, 1801; received a public-
BKbool education; was elected in 1836 n member
"of the Slate House of Representatives, and was for a
numlMTof years annually re-elected; was elected a
repp'sentative from Virginia in the Thirty-seventh
Congress as a Unionist, serving from May 6, 1802, to
March 3, I'^iW; was elected United-States 8enat.or
Pfrom Virginia (in the place of T>emuel J. Bowden,
dece.ise<l), and presented his credentials in Dticera-
bcr, 18<i4, but was not admitted to a seat; was ap-
pointed arbitrator on tho part of the United .States
before the United-Stales and Spanish Claims Con-
Igention August 1, 1877; was defeated as the Bcpub-
pican candidate for the Forty-ftfth Congress, receiving
14.980 votes against 10,885 votes for John Goodey,
jiin.. IVinixTftt.
Selden, Dudley, practis«Hl law In New York;
Iteld several local ottices; was elected a representa-
ivc from New York in the Twenty-thinl Congress
a Democrat, serving from December 2, 1S33, to
July 1, 1834, when he resigned; died at Paris, France,
November 7, 18:J5.
Selye, Lewis, was bom at Chlttcnango, New
York, July U, 18(W; received a public-school educa-
tion: was engaged In niiiuufactures, and identified
with ibe progress of tlie city of ICix-hester, where he
held several local and county offices; was electt^d a
representative from New York in the Fortieth Con-
gress as an Indei>endent Republican, receiving 12,701
votes against 10,757 votes for Hart, Republicun,
1 serving from March 4. 1807, to March 3, 1800.
I Senitaes, Benedict I., w:is born in Charles
County. Mar>laud, November 1. 1780; received a
classical education; studied medicine, graduating at
the Baltimore Medical Schiwl in 1811; commenced
practice at Piscataway, Maryland, but, after some
yc.irs, relluquished it, and devoted himself to agricul-
tural pursuits; wasamemberof the State House of
ISepri'sentatives in 1825, 1827, and 1828; w:i9 elected
a repi-eseutatlvo from Maryland in the Tweiily-Urst
Congress as a Clay Deniocrut, receiving SiK) majority
over John O. Wecms; and was re-electeil to the
Twenty-second Congress without opposition, serving
from December?, 1820, to March 2, 18-!.'i: w.is again
a member of the State House of Representatives iu
1842 and 1.S43.
Semple, James, was bom in Kentucky in 1.800;
removed to Illinois in 1827; was a member of the
State House of Representatives 182-S-IS3.j; was attor-
ae.v-general of Illinois in ISiiJ; w:vs cliarf/^- d'uflutres
to Columbia October 14, lS.I7-Aprll 1, 18-J2; was
elected one of the judges of the Supreme Court of
Illinois in 1842; was appointed a Uniled-.states
senator from Illinois (in place of S.amuel McKoberts,
decciised) as a Democrat, and subsequently electe*l,
serving from December 4, 1843, to Man,-h :i, 1847;
diet! at Elsah Landing, Illinois, January 27, 1807.
Saner, James B., was bom at Fredericksburg,
Virginia, May 18, 18u7; received an academic educa-
tion; attended lectures at the University of Vinjinia
as a State student, and graduated in several of its
schools; studied law at tho Lexington (Virginia)
Law SchiK>l under Judge J. W. Brockenbrough, anil
was admitted to the bar In 1800; practises his pro-
fession; was sergeant of the city of Fn-dericksbui-g
lSii-'i-l>i05, and army correspondent of the Southern
Associated Press with General Lt-'e's army during the
late war; since 1805, editor of " The Fredericksburg
(Virginia) Ledger;" was a delegate from Virginia
to the National Republican Convention at Phib-idel-
piiia iu 1872; and was elected a rpprosentative from
Virginia in the Forty-third Congress as a Reiiublican,
receiving lO.OSo votes against 10,312 votes for E. M.
Braxton, Democrat, serving from December 1, 1873,
to March 3. 1875.
Seney, Joshua, was bom In Maryland ; received
a thorough English education from a private tutor:
was a delegate from Maryland in the Contineutal
Congress 1787-1788; was elected a reiircscntative from
Maryland In the First Congress; was re-<'lecte<l to
the .Second Congress, ser\ing from March 4. 1780, to
May 1, 1702, when ho resigned; was a presidential
elector in 17t>2, voting for Washington and Adams.
Senter, WUliam T., was born in Granger
County, Tennessee, in 1802; resiiled at Pantlier
Springs; was elected a representative from Tennes-
see in the Twenty-eighth Congress as a Wiig, serv-
ing from December 4, 1843. to March 3, 184.^; died
at Panther Springs, Tennessee, ,\u:iust 28, 1840.
Serg^eant, John (son of Jonathan Dickinson
Sergeant), was bom at Pliilailelphia, Penii.<iylvunia,
December 5, 1770; received a classical education,
graduating at Princeton College in 1705; was des-
tined for mercantile pursuits, but abandoned Ihein
for tlio law; was admitted to the bar In July, nw,
and practised at Pliilaihlphia for more than half a
century; was appoiiiterl by I'n.'sident Jefferson com-
niissionorof bankruptcy in 1801; was deputy attorney-
general of Peiuisylvania; was elected a representa-
live from Peuusylvaiiia In the Fuurteeutli Congress
i
616
CONGBESSIONAL DIBECTORY.
ru a Federalist; was re-elected to the Fifteenth, Six-
teenth, and Seventeenth Uoiigressea, serving from
Deceml)er4, 1S15, to March 3, 1823; was appointe<i,
March 4. 1S28, one of the two envoys extratirdinary
to the Pnnama Congress: was again elected to the
Twentietli Concrress. serving from December S, lS"/7,
to March 3. ISii); was defeated as the Whig candi-
date f'jr Vice-President on the ticket with Henry
Clay in 1832, receivini; 40 electoral votes against 180
cleeloral voles for Marlin Van Buren, 30 electoral
votes for William Williins, 11 electoral votes for
IleurT lycc, ami 7 electoral votes for Amos Elmaker:
was a^iain elected to the Thirty-fifth, Thirty-sixth,
and Thirty-seventh Congresses, serving from Sep-
tember 4, 1837. to September 15, 1841, when he re-
signeKl : was offered the mission to England by Presi-
dent Uarrisiin. and declined; was apiwinted by
Secretary Marcy arbitrator to determine a long-i)end-
ing controversy l)etween the United States and the
SlAte of New Jersey; died at Philadelphia, Xoveni-
^r 23, lHr)2. Ilis " Sjelect Speeches " were published
t Philailelphia in l.s3:d.
Sergeant, Jonathan Dickinson (father of
John .S'Ti;v-.ujt). was born at Newark, New Jersey, In
1740; received a classical education, graduating at
New-Jersey College in 1702; studied law; was ad-
mitted to the bar, and commenced practice at New-
ark, New Jersey: was a delegate from New Jersey to
the Continental Congress lt70-1777; was appointed
attorney-general of Pennsylvania in July, 1777, and
rcmovwl to Philadelphia, where he afterwards re-
sided; contnu?ted the yellow-fever while actively
engaged as a member of the Board of Health, and
died at Philadelphia October 26, 17»3.
Sessions, waiter L., was bom In Brandon,
Vennoiit; receive»l a common-school and academic
education; studied law, and has practised the pro-
fession; was commissluncr of schools for several
yeaiB; was a member of the Assembly of the State of
New Tork In 1853 and in 1854; was a member of the
SUte Senate of New York In 1859 and In 18t)5; and
was elected a representative from New York in the
Forty-second Congress as a Republican, receiving
10,170 votes against 9,703 votes for Murray, Demo-
crat ; was re-eicctod to the Forty-third Congress, re-
ceiving 12.)>22 votes against 9,573 votes for C. I).
Murrav. DemiKxal, serving from March 4, 1871, to
March" 3. 1875.
Settle, Thomas, was bom In Rockingham Coun-
ty, North Cajiilina, about 1791; studied law; was ad-
liutted t-o the bar, and practised at Wentworth ; was
a member of the State House of Representatives in
1816, 1831-1828, serving the last year as speaker; was
elected n representative from North Carolina in the
Fifteenth Congress as a Democnt; and was re-elect-
ed to the Sixteenth Congress, serving from Decem-
ber 1, 1817, until March 3, 1821, when he declined
re-electiou; was elwted a judge of the Sup<?rior
CourU of I^w and Equity In 1832; and died in
Bockingham County, North Carolina, Angust 5, 1*57.
Severance, Lilther, was bom at Montague,
Masaachusetts, October a8. 17S)7; removed with his
father to Cazenovia. New York; received a public-
school e»lucalion, and worked on the farm until his
seventeenth year, when he was apprenticed to Jona-
than Bruce, at Peterlxjrough, to leam the art of
S rioting; after h.aving served his apprenticeship of
ve years, he worked as a journeyman in the office
of "The Philadelphia Aurora," and 8ubse<incntly
in the office of " The Washington National Intelli-
gencer;" in the fall of 1823 he went by invitation
to August.i, Maine, where he established and pub-
lished *• The Kennetx'c Journal " in partnership with
Rtissell Eaton; he was a member of the Slate Housp
of Representatives of Maine in 1829, of the State
Senate In !><:« and 183<J, and again of the House In
1889 and 184<3; was elected a representative from
Maine in the Twenty-eishth Congress as a Whig,
receiving on the first trial 4,611 votes against 3,981
Totes for Samuel Wells, Democrat, and 1,123 votes
for Seth May, A^lltlonlst, and on the wcrni.l tritl i
majority of 617 over both of them ; was r
the Twenty-ninth Congress, receiving '.
against 6,411 votes for W. B. S. JI
and l,i:ij votes for Seth May, Alx
from December 4, 1843, until M.iri
one of the vice-pn-sideiits of the
Convention at Philadelphia which >
lor an<I Fillmore in 1M48; ^^
Taylor United-Stales coiii!
Islamls, and served from Au:iii-i, i
turned in April, 1S>4; died of con.*
gusta, Maine, January 25, 18,».
sketch of him was published by Jnuics !>. Bli
who succeeded him as editor of " The Kenneb
Journal."
Sevier, Ambrose H., was bom In Tennw
in 1802; received a publie-scluK>l e«liii- '••■'■ -""
law; was admitted to tlie bar, an.!
Missouri, settled at Little ItiKk, A
memlier of the Territorial House of I:
and of the Territorial Senate; was el 14
fniin Arkans.is Territor)- in the T
a Will;;, receiving 4<t! votes niaj-
re-electeil to the Twenty-first, i
Twenty-third Congresses, sening from Deceu
1827, to March .3, 18:>5; was elecU'd on'> "-'f fht
United-States senators from the .St;ii
as a Democrat, and was ro-elected, &•
ceml)er5. 18:36, to Ml- ■' •■ •-'- ■ '
was appointed by Pn
the rank of minister ji .
ing from March 14, l(v48, to June 4, 184.?; reuir
to Little Rock, Arkansas, and died there Dco-mb
21. 184.8.
Sevier, John (whose father's siinuune was S
vier), wa-s l)om in tlie valley of tlv <i.-- 1--
giuia, in 1745; received a scanty ■
the Holston River in North Car'
in 1769; became a noted Itidian '
Revolutionary war, distliicriiishi
Moimtain in 1780; ca
defeated the Creek :■
was a general in the 1 : ^ ...
was governor of Tennessee I7;i0-1-"*>1. ; »«
elected a representative from Nor i In
the First Congress as a Democra\
June 10, 1790, to March 3, 1791 ; wa.*
sentative from Tennessee In the Tv.
was rc-electe<i Ui the Tliineenth ('•■
from November 4, 1811, to March 2. .
pointed by PKsident Monroe one of the commii-
sioners to locate the boundaries of the Cnek Terri-
tor)'. and died, while performin;; that service, at Fort
Decatur. AlaK-vin-o, Sepiemtx'r 24, 181.5.
Sewall, Charles S.. " - '-■- ^'"- M117-
l.aiiil; was elected a r>'i>reS' i In
the Twenty-second Cnngr»-- .- E,
Mitchell, decejised), serving from Docbuilier a, ISS,
to March 2. 1R:«.
Sewall, Samtiel, was Iwm at I' " '
chiisctt.t. Do-emlwr 11, 17.57; reoen
education, graduating at Harvani <
studied law; was admitte<l to the "n-
meuc-ed practice at Marblehe.Td, M».«- *»•
elected a representative from Massiv :h»
Fifth Congress: was re-elect^ to • ' la-
gress, seri'ing from May 15, 1797, Iw ^>-.l.^>•l.i.< I'V
18<i0, when he resigned to accept tta« poeiiiinj 'd
judge of the Supreme Court of Haasaehnsetts: «•
appointed chief justice of that court in 1813; ill")
while holding court at Wiscasset, M^LSsachuMftu
(now Maine), June 8, 1814.
Se'ward, James L., was twni in G«<irgia; re-
ceived .-in acailemical educatioTi • «>ii.!....i Uw; »B§
adinitte<l to the bar, and com- ■ yrtixx It
Thorn asville, Georgia; was am ibe iut*
legislature I83&-1842; was eleclnti u re]>r««mtaUr*
from Georgia In the Thirty-thinl Congrrt* tf »
Democrat, receiving 4,439 votes agaiiwt 4tSK rM*
STATISTICAL SKETCHES.
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for Barton. Wliig; wna re-e1ecte<l to the Thirty-fourth
Coneress. receiving 0.17(l voIob amiinst 4,541 votes
for Vnniadoe, Ainericiin ; »ns re-elected to the Thir-
ty-fifth ConKr<.'S8, receiving 5,870 votes against 5,003
TOtes for Barton, Aincricin, ami SOS votes for Gaul-
den, Indorx-iiileiit Ucimvcrat, serving from December
5, ]^^:{, tip March :!. ISTiO.
Seward, Williaxn H., was bom at Florida,
New York, May 10. ISil; received a classical eduea-
lion, pnulu.ilin^ at Union College in 1820; studied
law: was aihiiittcd to the liar in 1822, and com-
menced jimcticn «» Auburn in 1823; was a member
of 111' " ' '\ ' 'f -"nic Convention which met
at I'l r 11, 1830; was a member
of 111. .-...;.- :■ . -.!-18;}4; was defeated as the
Whig candidate for governor in ISU; was Kovemor
of the State of New York 18.'?»-1842; was elected a
United-States st^nator from New York as a Wliig,
and re-elected, ser\-ing from March 4, 1S49, until he
ifMigiied to enter the cihinet of President Lincoln
•ecretary of state March 5, 1801, serving until
H. 1809; he travelled ammid the world in
1870-1871; and died at Auburn, New York, October
10, 18?2. ne published the " Life and Public S<!r-
Tlces of John t^uincy Adams;" and his own "Life
uid Speeches" was published by George E. Baker.
Sewell, James, was elected as a ivpresentative
from M.iryl.-ind in the Twenty-seventh Congress (In
the (ilnce of James S. Willi.ims, decea.se<I), luid
served from January 1, 184;?. to March 3, 1S4.3.
Sexton, Leonidas, was bom at Riishville, In-
diana, May 19, 1827; received a classical education,
gmdualint; at Jefferson College, Canoiishurg, Penii-
•ylTania, in 1847: studied law at Rushville with A.
W. Hul)i)aril, and .it the Cincinnati Law School in
the winter of 184S-184<.t, while William Groesbeck,
William Green, and Charles Telford were the [iro-
fessors; was admitted to the bar in 1850, and prac-
tised at Rushville; was a member of the State House
of Repr<>sentatives In 1850; was lieutenant-governor
of Indiana from January, 1873, to Januan,-, 1877;
and was elected a representative from Indiana in
the Foity-Iifth Congress as a Republican, receiv-
ing 14,102 votes against 14,507 votes for Lewis J.
Woolen. Democrat, and 378 votes for William L.
Bright, Independent Greenback, Serving from Octo-
ber !.■), 1K77.
Seybert, Adam, was bom at Philadelphia in
1773; received a classical education, and devoted
himself to chemistry and mineralogy; visited Europe
fa_ 1793, and studi"o<l at London, Edinburgh, and
Gottinp?n ; was elected a representative from Penn-
sylvania In the Eleventh Congress (in place of
Bcnjaniin Say, n'signed) as a Democrat; was re-
elected to the Twelfth Congress, receiving 6,270
votes against 4,34;) votes for Thomas Truxt on; was
re-<?locied to the Thirteenth Congress, serving frt.im
Kovemlier 27, 18(Kl. to March 2, 1815; was again
electt'd to tlie Fifteenth Congress, serving from De-
cember I, 1K17, Ui March 3, 18U>; revisited Europe,
and died at Paris Mav 2, 1825. He published " .Sta-
tistical Annals of the United States 1780 to 181.8," a
Dis'crintion on Putrefaction of the Blood." " Ex-
perini>'ni-i on Land and Sea Air," and several papers
In the Transactions of the American Philosophical
Society.
Sejhnotir, David Lowrey, was bom at
■Welherslield, Connecticut. December 2, 18():); n?-
ive<l a cl.issical education, graduating at Yale Col-
in 1820: was a tutor at Yale Collep? 182.'*-I8:j0;
ed law; was admitted to the Imr, and practised
Troy, New York; was a member of the .State
ouse of Reprt.'sentatives in 18,30; was elected a
ipreseiilatlve from New York in the Twenty-eighth
ner-'SS as a Dem<x'rat, receiving 5,410 votes against
votes for Stevens. m. Whig, and 70 voles for
eldon. Abolitionist, serving from December 4,
to March 3. 1845; vrxs again electe<l to the ;
;y-8woiiil Congress, receiving .1,811 votes against I
iSM Votes for Sage, Whig, serving from December 1, I
IRil, to March 8, 18.53; died at Lanesborongh, Mag-
S!icluisetl.«, Octoljcr 11, VMil.
Seymovir, Horatio, was bom at Litchlield,
Connecticut, May 31, 1778; received a classical edu-
cation, graduating at Yale College in 1797; studied
law at the Litchfield Law School; w.is mlinitted to
the bar, and commenced pniclice at Middli'lmry,
Vermont; was judge of probate and a inciMbcr of
the SLite Council; was elected a l.'iiited-.Slate»
senator from Vermont as a Cluy Dein<H?rat, serving
from Deceml>er 3, 1821, to March 2, 1833; died at
Middlebury November 21, 18."i7.
SeymouTj Origen S., was bom at Litchfield,
Connecticut, in isii4; received an academical educa-
tion; studied law; was admitted to the bar. and
commenced practice at Litchfield; was a member <rf
the State House of Repn-sentatives and Its B]H'aker
in 1850; wo* elected a representative from Cimnectl-
cut In the Thirty-second Congress as a Democrat,
receiving 8,t(.3:3 votes against s.485 votes for Butler,
Whig; was re-elected to the Thirty-thinI Congress,
serving from Decemlwr 1. 1851. to March 3, 1865;
was a judge of the Superior Conrt of Connecticut
for eiglit years.
Sejrmour, Thomas H., was l>om at Hart ford.
Connecticut, in I8(S; received a cLissIcnl eiliKMiion,
graduating at Middlelowii Military Acaileiuy: .sluciieil
law; was admitted to the bar. and commenced prac-
tice at HartfonI; was an editor; was judge of pro-
bate; was elected a representative from Connecticut
in the Twenty-eighth Congress as a Democrat, serv-
ing from Deceml)er4, 1.84.3. to March 3. 1.845: served
in the Mexican war as major of the New-Enu'land
regiment, which he commanded, after the fall of
Colonel Ransom, until the close of the war; wms a
presidential elector on the Piertre and King ticki't in
1A)2; was governor of the State of Connecticut 1850-
1853; was appointed by President Pierce minister
to Russia, serving Mav 24, 185.3-Jnlv 17, 18.58; died
at Hartford. Connecticut. Septeml)er8, 1808.
Seymour, William, w.is bom In Connecticnt ;
removed to New York, and located at Bingh.amton;
was elected a representative from New York in the
Twentv-fourth Congress as a Democrat, serving from
December 7. 1835, to March 3, 1837.
Shafer, Jacob K., was bom in Rockingham
County, Viriiinia, Deceml)er 20, 1823; was edui'ated
at Wasiiiiigton College, Virginia; graduated in the
taw-school of Judge Lucas P. Thompson, in Stanton,
in IfMO; in 1840 removed to Stockton, California; In
1850 was elected district^^ittomey of the Fifth Ju-
dicial District of California; in 18.52 was elected
mayor of Stockton; in 18.);i was elected judge of
San Joaquin County, California, and continued in
office until 1802, when he removed to Washington
(now Idaho) Territory, and was electwl ilelegate
from Idaho In the Forty-first Congress as a Demo-
cr.it over Butler, Republican, and May, Indei>enilent
Democnit (majority over Butler, 884), serving from
March 4, ISOO, to Aiarch 3. 1871.
Shallenberger, WUliam S., was bom at
Mount PIciLsant, Westmoreland Coiuity. Pennsyl-
vania, November 24, ls:lO; was educated at public
Bchfxds and at Lewisburg University; engaged in
mercantile pursuits; entered the Union army in
1.8ii:i in the One Hundreit and Fortieth Regiment of
Pennsylvania Voluiiicors. and was soon ufterwanl
appointed adjutant of the regiment; was wounded
in the battles of ChancellonTville, Gettysburg, and
(he Wilderness, and was mustered out of service in
October, 1804, on account of disability from wounds
received : w.is chairman of the Beaver-crmnty Repub-
lican Committee in 1872 and 1874; and was elected a
representative from Pennsylvania in the Forty-fifth
Congress as o Republican, receiving 13,151 votes
agaiiist 10,048 votes for R. B. McComI). Democrat
and Greenback, and KKl votes for J. D. Glcim, Tem-
perance, serving from October 15, 1877.
Shanklin, George S., was bom In Kentucky,
and resided at NtcuolasvUle; waa a presidential
618
CONOBESSIONAL DIEECTOBr.
elector on the HcClellan and Pendleton ticket In
1804; was elected a repretenlatiTe from Kentucky in
the Thirty-niutb Congress aa a Democrat, receiving
7.0iH votes a^iaiiiBt 3,04-1 vote* for Speed S. Fry,
Reimlilican, serving ir\iui December 4, ISflo, to March
3, 18<'.".
Shanks, John P. C, was bom at Martinsbuig,
Virginia, June 17, 18;i<l; received an acaileioic edu-
cation; studied law, and commenced its practice in
Indiana; was a member of the legislature of Indiana
iu ls>4; served in the I'uion anuv on G<,'neral Fre-
mont's staflf; raised the Seventh liejiimcnt Indiana
Volunteer Cavalry, and commanded it until placed
iu command of a brigade of cavalry' : was brevetted
major-general February 14, l$6o, and mustered out
service September 22, ISOo: was elected a repre-
tttative from Indiana in the Thirty-seventh Con-
gress as a Republican, receiving l;J,8.S6 votes against
11,78<3 votes for jVsbury .Steele, Democrat, serving
from July 4, ISUl, to March 3, ISO:]; was again
elected to the Fortieth Congress, receiving lS,14o
votes against 15,208 votes for Snow ; was re-elected
to the Forty-first Congress, receiving 16,597 votes
against 14,o5o votes for Lowry, Democrat; was re-
elected to the Forty-second Congress, receiving
13,71>J votes against 13,39<5 votes for Colerick, Demo-
crat: and was re-elected to the Forly-tliird Congress
as a Republican, receiving 17,115 votes against 17,082
votes for J. E. Xefl, Democrat, serving from March
4, 18r>7, to March 3, 1875; practised law at Washing-
ton City.
Shannon, Thomas, resided at Bamesville,
Ohio; was a member of the State l^slature; was
elected a representative fMm Ohio in tlio Nineteenth
C'ongr>?ss (iu place of David Jennings, resigned),
serving from December 4, 1S20, to March .3, 1827.
Shannon, Thomas B., was bom in Westmore-
land County, IVimsylvania, in 18Sf7; received a
puWic-ichooi education; removed iu 1844 to Illinois,
and thence in 184!) to California; was engaged in
mercantile pursuits 1S54-1801; was for four years a
member of the State legislature; was elected a rep-
reseniative from California in the Thirty-eighth Con-
gress as a RcpubUcon, serving from December 7, IStfcJ,
to March 3, 1803; was appointed collector of customs
at the port of San Francisco.
Shannon, "Wilson, was bom in Belmont Coun-
ty, Ohio, Februarj' 24, 1802; received a classical
education, graduating at Transylvania College, Ken-
tucky; studied law; was adniiltcd to tlie bar, and
commenoed practice at St. Cloirsville, Ohio; was
State prosecuting-attomey in ISi'i; was governor of
Ohio in 18:18-1840; was defeated as the I)cmocratic
candidate for governor by Thomas Corwiu, 'Whig,
who hud 19,000 majority: was again governor of
Ohio 1842-1844: was minister to Mc^co April 9,
1844-M;iy 14, 1845; was i-lccted a representative
from Ohio in the Thirty-tliird Congress as a Demo-
crat, receiving 7,142 votes against 0,064 votes for
Holllstcr, ^Vhig, serving from Decemlwr 5, 1853, to
March 3. la'vi; was governor of Kansas 1855-1^;
died at Stanatead. Canada. Septemi>er 1, 1877.
Sharon, William, wjis born at Smithtield, Ohio,
Januani' U, 1821; was raised on a fiinn; entered
Athens College in 1842, and R-mained there two
years; studied law with Edwin M. Stanton; was
admitted to the bar at St. Louis, and commenced
practice; his healtli failing, he engaged in mercantile
pursuits at Carrollton, Illinois; in 1849 he removed
to C.ilifornia, and commenced business at Sacra-
mento; in 1850 he went to San Francisco, where he
_ openited in real estate ; in 18M removed to Nevada
the manager of a branch of the Bank of Cali-
omia, and became largely interested iu mines; was
'elected a United-States senator from Nevada as a
Republican (to 8Uccc<'d W. M. Stewart. Republican).
His term of service will expire March 3, 1881.
Sharp, Solomon P., was bom in Virginia in
1780; removed to Kentucky when a child; received a
public-school education; studied law; was admitted
•--'Ulh
^
'amllns,
di«<l in '
to the bar in 1790, and commeaced pntetiee;
era! years a member of the State Hoase of Bepment*-
lives; was attorney-general of K<»ntn''kv: wasolecied*
representative from Kent II < ^ ' Con-
gress as a Democrat ; was I' -^.'ulh
Congress, serving from Moi> .
1817; was assassinated when a
House of Representatives in >
the murderer escaped detection, altl.
tnre offered a reward of $:5,000 for I. -
Sharpe, Peter, wm bom ai "
a pulilif-fcliool education: wx*
Uuuse of Representatives lSl-1
to the State Constitulicmal Coii'
elected a representative from >
teenth Congress, serving from lXo«-uiU.r 1, IkS,
March 3, 1825 ; was a delegate to the National Ti
Convention held In 1827.
Sharpe, "William, was iKJTO in Cecil County,
Mar}'Iaud, December 13, 1742: received a classical
education; studied law; was admitted to the bar. and
commenced practice at Mecklenburg. North Camllns,
in 170;3: was active In pre-Revulutioi
was a delegate from North Can.lina ■
tal Congress 1779-1782; soned iii
against the Southern Indians as '
General Rutherford, and was one of : i
ers to negotiate a treatv with them in 1777 ,
Iredell County, North Carolina, in .Trilv, 1818,
Shaw, Aaron, was i>oni in '
York, in ISU : received a pui
studied law; was admitted to the
practice at Lawrenceville: wa-s St;i
the Fourth Judicial Circuit; was a
State House of Representatives 1S4»-1.S'>J; viis
ed a representative from Illinois in the Thirty
Congress as a Democrat, receiving 12,(HM votes
9,878 vote* for Brownwell, Republican, serving"
Deccml)er 7, 1857, to March 3, 185!».
Shaw, Henry, was bom in Windham County,
Vemiont, in 1788; received an academical iMliicition;
studied law with Judge Foot at iVlbauy, New York;
was adiaitted to the bar, and commenced pnctioe jl
Lonesborougb, Mass.ichusctt8, in 1^'": ■• ne of
the pioneers in the introduction of m ' - inW
Western Massachusetts; was elected ■:itire
from Massachusetts iu the Fifteeni! - at
Democrat; was re-elected to the Six:' .rtm,
serving from December 1, 1S17, to M.irclj :;. i^:l: i«-
dined a renomination; was a nienilKT of the State
House of Representatives for eighteen year»: wu »
presidential elector in l&iJ; rtmioved in ISl.'; loX*w-
York City, where he was a member of the B<iird of
Educ.ition and of tlie common council ; was a io«m-
iK'r of the State House of Representatives in 18S3;
removed in 1854 to Newbury, where he resided until
witlun a few months of his death at Peekskill, Xev
York, October 17, 1857.
Shaw, Henry M., was bom at Newport, Rhodt
Island, November 20, 1819; received an aondfuilcal
education; studied medicine; gradur rai-
versity of Peuisylvania, and commci ■■ i!
Indian Town, North Carolina; was • .■ • •j . ■•[)(v^
sentative from North Candina iu tin' Tbirty-lliirl
Congress as a Democrat, receiving 4,8:>j votos ogaiuit
4,7'W votes for Outlaw, Whig, serving from Di-cvmlxr
5, 1853, to March 3, 1853; was again elect-il to the
Thirty-fifth Congress, receiving 5,2^i : :un«t
5,255 votes for Smith, American, si Dc-
ceml)er 7, 1SS7. to March 3, liyjv': "■ ' l-incl
in. (he Confederate army, and - near New
Berne, North CiiroUna, Februai
Shaw, Samuel, wos bom at !
chusetts, Deceinlier, 176!3; rcceivcil
education; was takeu to Putney. V'
lad; studied medicine, ami cotnmii
Castlcton,V^ermont, in 17yt»; ho w.as .
the sedition law for his denunciali-
Adams, and imprisoned, but was I
people; was a member of the State iluu^ uf licfse* |
I
,j^
STATISTICAL SKETCHES.
619
•cntatlves in HfO; wna a mcmlx>r of the State Coun-
cil: Hjis I'li.'iii'il a n'pre.s«ntatin.' from Vennonl in
tlie Ti'iitli Coiiuioss (in pliioe of Jumrs WithiTall. r«-
^■•ignctl) as a Ueinocrat; was iv-clcoteil to tbc Elev-
^|«ntb Cun;rrfss, roceiviug 1,100 ninjurlty ; was re-elect-
^^Ctl to tlic Twelftli Congress, reoeivitig 1,275 majority,
■ Berving from Noveml)or 8, ISOS, to Mart'li 3, Isl3;
^■■errt'd in tlio nnnyaa post and liospitai snrg«on April
■ 6, 18i;J-UeoemlH'r;», 1818; died at Clarendon, Ver-
H mont, OctotiT L*-.'. 1S27.
Shaw, Tristam, was bom at Exeter, \ew
Hainpsliin.-. in 17S7: n'ceivod an a^'ademic education;
(was u councillor for lI'X^lviuKliain County; was elect-
ed a n'i>rusenla(ive from New Hunipshire in the
Twcnty-sixtb Congress as a Democrat; was re-elected
to the Twenlv-sevcntli Ojngress. serving from De-
cember 2. lAJJl, to Miirch C l.***!; died at Exeter,
Kew Uttinpshire. March 14, ItUJj.
Bheafe, James, was bom in 1755; received a
pulilii-Miiool education; engaged in shipping and
nicrc.inlile pursuits with great success; was elected
■ a representative from New Hampshire in the Sixth
■Congress as a Federalist, receiving I.IBJS votes against
642 Vi>te« for Woodbui7 Laiigdon, Democrat, serving
from Drcemlicr 2, 177i>, to }[arch 3, IW.ll ; was elected
» Uniii'd-SUites senator from New Hampshire as a
I Federalist, sen'ing from December 7, lf<)l. to 1802,
'When he resigned; was defeated as tlic Feileral can-
didate for governor in 181() by William Plwmer, Dem-
ocrat: died lit Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in lS2tl.
Sheakley, Jaanes, was bom at Sheakieyvillc.
Pennsylvania, April 24, 18:J(); received a libenil edu-
cation; was raised on a farm; removed to California
iu 1851. and spent three yejirs in tlie gold-mines; re-
tumeil to Peiuisylvania in 1854, and engaged in mer-
cantile pursuits, and after 18<Vi was largely interested
in tUe production and shipment of i>etmlcum ; and
was elected a representative from Pennsylvania in
the Forty-fourth Congress as a Democrat, receiving
12,S1<) votes against 12,7i7 votes for J. G. White, Re-
, publican, serving from Decemlicr 0, 187o, to March 3,
11877.
Sheats, Charles Christopher, was lK>m in
Talker County, April 10, 1839; received a common-
chool education; was elected a member of the Se-
Ice-ssioii Convention in 18<K), and was one of the scv-
|enloen who atiSolutely refused t<i sign the ordinance
of se]iaraliou; was elected to llie lower House of
Jie (ieueral Assembly of Alal>ania in 180], and was
BXl>clled for his adherence to Unifiiusm in 18(>2; was
Itndicted for tnason to the Confeileratc Grjvernmenl
I and imprisoned in 18(^2, but could not obtain a trial,
»nd was kept in close confinenvnt ujitil after the
Bl''>se of the war; was elected a ineinber of the Con-
■titutiomil Convention in 18(J."); was a caiidlilate for
"ongi-ess in 180.'), but was defeated, as there were
'nur Union candidates; was admitted to the bar in
fl8«J7, and pnictised; was a presidential elector on the
"Jranl ticket in 1808; was a[iii<iinl<'d consul at Elsi-
|4lore, Denmark, in 18(59, which position he occupied
mUl he was elected a representative from Aliibania
the Forly-lJiird Congress as a Kepublican for the
State at large, receiving 89,8((8 votes, serving from
December 1. 1873, to March 3, 187.'3.
Sheffer, Daniel, w.as bom in Pennsylvania; re-
Isided al York; was elected a representative from
[Pennsylvania in tlie Tweuty-lifth Congress as a
emocrat, serving from September 4, 1837, to March
F8, 1839.
Sheffey, Daniel, was bora at Frederick, Mary-
land, in 1770; was bred a slioemaker in his father's
^■■hop. but became proficient in astrouomica) and
^■mathematical studies; arriving al mauhnod, he
^■valked into Virginia, cirryiiig bis tools, and linally
^Biocated at Abbeville; studied law under Alexander
^■Smytli; was a<Imitted t4> the bar, and soon enjoyed
^Ba lucrative practice; was elect<>d from Auensla
^pConnly to the House of Delegates; was eleclod a
^reprt!3cnlativcfrom Virginia to the Klcvenlh, Twelfth,
ThJxtcentU, luid Fourttieutli Congresses as a Federal-
ist, serving from May 22, 1800, to March .3, 1817;
died in .\u2usta County. Viruinio. Deceml«>r .'!, 18.Tf».
Sheffield, WUliain P., was bom at New Shore-
ham (Block Island), Rhode Island. August 30, 1820;
received an academical education ; studied law at
Hartford College ; was admitted to the bar in 1844,
and Commenced practice at New Sliorcham ; was a
delegate to State Constitutional Conventions in 1841
and 1.842; was a member of the State House of Hcp-
resentatives in 1.84.0; removed to Tiverton, and was
a mcmberof the State House of Itepre.seii tat Ives from
that place 1&49-18.')3; removed to Newport, which
city he represented in the State House of Kepreseu-
tatives l.Si7-18iil; was elected a representative from
Rhode Island in the Tiiirly-seventh Congress iis a
Union candidate, receiving 0,908 votes against O.iVjO
votes for Robinson, Republican, serving from July 4,
1801, to March 3, 18(U; was again elected, for many
successive years, a member of tlie State House of
Representatives; was apix)inted in 1801 one of the
commissioners to revise the .State laws.
Sheldon, Lionel A., was bom in Otsego Coun-
ty, New York, August 30, LS^Jl; was taken by his
parents, when he was four years of age, to Olilo,
where he was raised on a farm, attending the district-
school during the winter months, and .it times, when
he l)ecinne older, te.iching school himself: graduated
.It OlH-rlin College, Ohio; studied law at Elyria, Ohio,
and Poughkeepsie, New York; was admitted to the
bar In 18.>3, and commenced pnictice al Elyria; was
elected judge of probate, and served one term, but
declined a nomination; was a delegate to the Repub-
lican Convention at Pliil.idclphia in liSotS, .'inil voted
tliere for the uumiuation of John C. Fr<!mont; was
commissioned brigadier-general of militia by Gov-
ernor Chase, and took an active part in raising voliui-
teers at, the begiimingof the war; entered the Union
army in Aug\i3t, 1861, aa captain of cavalry; was
soon after chosen major of the Second Ohio Cavalry,
and subsequently iH'came, by transfer, lieutenant-
colonel of the Forty-S(K!ond Ohio Infantry, wliich
regiment he ofterwanls commanded; he served in
West Virginia, Kentucky, and East Temiessee, and
In November, 1802, when his regiment had been
placed under General Shemian at Memphis, he was
placed in command of u brigade whicli p.arti<iiiatecl
prominently in tlio battles of Chickasaw U.iyou and
Arkansas Post; in 1803 he w.as placed in coriimand
of the Second Brigade of the Ninth Division of the
Thirteenth Army Corps, which was the first to land
on the east side of the Mi.ssisslppl. and which was
engaged in the battle of Port Gibson (where he was
wounded), and tlie l)attles wiiich resulted in the ca])-
ture of Vickslmrg, and snbseijuent skinnishes; after
the war he settletl in New Orleans, where he engaged
in the practice of his profession; and he was elected
a rp|)resent.itive fnjm Louisiana in the Forty-first
Congress as a Republican, receiving 8,751 votes agahist
0,lXi8 votes for Hunt, Democrat; was re-elecled to
the Forty-second Congress, receiving 13.220 votes
against 8,123 votes for A. Bailey, Democrat; and
WHS re-elected to the Forty-third Congress, receiving
12,290 votes against 12,225 votes for E. Lawrence,
Democrat, serving from April 8, 1800, to March 3,
1«75.
Sheldon, Porter, was bom at Victor, Now
Yorlt, Sopteml)er 20, 1831 ; received an academic edu-
cation; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in
1854; pmctised his profession al Randolph, New
York, until I8.)7, when he removed to Rockforvl, Illi-
nois, where lie continued the practice of his profes-
sion until 1805, when he returned to Chauta'.niua in
his native State; in ISOI he was a member of the
Constitutional Convention of Illinois; and he was
elected a representative from New York in the For-
ty-Brst Congress as a R«?nublican, receiving 15,410
votes against 8,+5;J votes for Beggs, Democrat, serv-
ing from March 4, ISO'.i, to .March 3, l^ll.
ShellabEurger, Samuel, was bonj in Clarke
Coimty, Ohio, December 10, 1817 ; received a classical
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COJJGRESSIOITAI. DmECTOEY.
education, graduating in l.^tl at the Miami Univer-
sity; studied law; was admitted to the har, and prac-
tised at S|)ringliold, Ohio; was a member of the State
House of iiepresentatives in 1852 and IS'*} ; was elected
a rejireiientativn from Ohio In the Thirty-seventh Con-
gress as a Ri-pulilicaii, receivini; lO.tyi votes ajtainst
7,831 votes for J. S. HarriSDn, Democrat, and 2;i2
votes for K. P. Tyffer, American, serving from July
4, 1801, to March 3, IWW; was defeatetl as the Repulv
lican candidate ffir the Tl)irty-eightli Congress, re-
ceiving IK.KXl votes against 10,372 votes JEor .S. S.
Cox, Uf-mocral; w.is ngain elected to the Tliirty-
nliilh Congress, receiving 12,758 votes against 9.387
votes f or S. tS. Cojc, Democrat; was re-elected to the
Fortieth Congress, receiving 13,(VS0 votes against
]|,5J0 votes for Miller, Democrat, serving from De-
comber 4, 1863. to March Z, IWH); was appointed by
Presiilenl Grant minister to I'orlugal, serving from
April 21, IsiiD, to December 31, ls<lll; was again
elected to tlie Forty-second Congress, receiving 13.48S
votes against 12.(ii50 votes for H. ,1. Jewett. serving
from March 4, 1871, to March 5, 1873; practised law
at Wasliiiigton City.
Shelley, Cbaxles M., was bom in Sullivan
County, TftHiessee, Deeemlwr 28, ISOU; removed to
Alabama with his father in 18,3(1; received but a lim-
ited education; was brought up to the trade of an
architect and builder, and has ever since followed
that business; ho entered the Confederate service in
Fcbnniry, isiil, as lieuten.ant, and was stationeil first
at Fort Morgan, and was aften\'ar(ls attached lo the
Fiftli Alabama itegimeiit ; after further service ho
was commissioned tirigadier-general, and served un-
der Generals Joseph £. Johnston and llood; after
the war he returned to his occupation, and now re-
sides in Selma, Dallas County, Alabama; he was
olecliMi a representative from Alabama in the Forty-
fiftli Congress as a Democrat, receiving 0,085 votes
against 8,075 votes for Jerc Haralson, Republican,
and 7,2-30 votes for James T. Rapier, Republican,
serving from Octolwr 15, 1877.
Shepard, Charles, was twm at New Berne,
Nortli <,)at-oli na, Deeembtir 5. 1807 ; received a classical
education, gmduatinp at Chapel Hill in 1827; was
elected a rr-presenlative from North Carolina in tin-
Twenty-fifth Congress as a Democrat; was re-elfjcted
to the Twentv-si.xth Congress, receiving 261 majority
over 13lildle, \Vliig, serving from Septeml)er4, 1S;37,
Xi> March 3, 18-11 ; died at >rew Berne, North Carolina,
Oclr.l)er31, I8*j.
Shepard, William Biddle, was bom in New
Berne, North C.trolina, in nW\ received a classical
education, graduating at the University of North
Carolina; studied law; was admitted lo tlie bar. and
commenced practice at Elizabeth City; was elected
a representative from North Carolina in the Twen-
tieth Congress as a Whig, and successively re-«'lected
to the Twenty-first, Twenty-second, and Tweniy-
third Congresses, and to tlie Twenty-fuurlh Congress,
receiving 2,.')34 votes against 42S» votes for Pipkin,
Democrat, serving from Decemljer 3, 1827, until
March 3, 18;?7, when he declined n re-election; was
a meml>er of the tSlnto Senate of North Carolina 18.38-
1S48; and died at Elizabeth City, North C.irolina,
June 20, IKVi.
Shepherd, William, was bom in Massachu-
setts Dci-t-inlK-r 1, 1737; served In tlie Revolutionary
army as captain, distinguishing himself at tlie en-
gagements at Fort William Heiiry anil Crown Point,
and was appointed a brigadier-general in 1783; was
elected a n'presentative fr>im Mass.acliusetts in the
Fifth Congress; was re-elected to the Sixth anil Sev-
enth Congre.wes, serving from May 15, 1707. to March
3, 18')3: was major-general of militia; died at West-
field. Mnssacbiisetts. November 11. 1817.
Shepley, Ether, was liom at Groton. Mass-t-
chusetts, Noveml>er2, 1789; received a classical edu-
cation, graduating at Dartmouth College in 1811;
studied law at Soulii Berwick; was admitted to the
bur, and commenced practice in Saco (then in Mas- 1
sachusetts, now in Maine) ; was a member of I'l" *"•?!•
House of RepresentJitives in 1819; was a • «
the Convention which frametl the Cons- ■(
Maine in 1820; was United-States attorney fur
district of Maine 1821-18:3.3; removed to PortUi
was elected a United-States senator !'
a Democrat, serving fmm Deci'mtn'r J.
3, 18;j<i, when he resigned, having 1m i . :. _ . ^
tice of the Supreme Court of Maine, and sot
quently chief justice, which latter pcisition he hi
until iKW; was ap|iointed in ISVl sole commi;
to revise the statutes of JIaine: difd at Pui
Maine, January 15, 1877. He published "1
vised Statutes of Maine," and, while on the
furnished the materials for tweuty-six volii
Rejiorts.
Sheplor. Matthias, was Iwra in Pennsvlnin'
removed to Ohio, loiMting at Bethleliem; "
a representative from Ohio in the Twent\
gross as u Van Buren Di'raocrat, serriug i
temlier4, 1837. to Murcli .1, 18:!;).
Sheppard, Augusttis H., was bom at RocI
fonl. North Carolina; received an academic e<J(
tioii; stndieil law; was admitted to the bar.
commenced practice in , Surry County; wa--
of the House of Commons of Nortli Caroli
1823, 1824, 1825, and 1820; was elect.-.l .
tlve in the Twentieth Congress, and •
elected to the Twenty-first, Twenty-^-
third. Twenty-fourth, and Twenty-fifth (Jul
serving from December 7. 1829, until March
was a candidate for re-election in 18-39 as a
was defeated, receiving 3,696 votes again
votes for John Hill, Democrat; was again el
the Twenty-seventh Congress as aWliig, servingfl
May 31, 1841, until March 3, 1S4J!: was again d.
to till- Thirtietli (Jongress .as a Wliig, receiving
votes against 2,(i,34 votes for Clemmons, Dci
and was re-elected to the Thirty-first '^■^
Whig, receiving 4,403 votes against
Keene, Democrat, serving from De> . 1817,
until March 3. 1851.
Sherbtime, John Samuel, was Imm at Ports-
mouth, New Hampshire, in 1757; re<.' ' ' 'I
education, gnidnating at Dartmouth i
studied law; attended the Cambridtit
was aiimitted lo llie bar, and comin<!iicod practice «t
Portsmouth; sened as l>rigade-major on the st -fT "f
GeniTai Whipple (who commanded a iirig^ii
Hampshire troops in the Rhoile-Island .
and lost a leg at the battle of Butt's Hill
1778; was electe«l a representative from N
sliire to iPt Third Congress, and was n- ■
the Fourth Congress, serving from Decmnl^rr i,
179.3, until March 3, 1707; was appointed bv ff-U
dent Jefferson UniUKl-.States attorney for il
of New Hampshire, serving 1801-18«>4, an
States judge for the district of New 11,1.14...., ■,
serving from May, 18<>i, until he tiled, at Port&moutli,
New Hampshir*!, August 2, 1S;J0.
Shereoine, Upton, was elected a roprescnt*-
tlve from Marvland in tlie Second Congress, ferriug
from Orti)lK-r 24. 1791. to March 2. 179:3.
Sheridan, Q«orge A., was Imm at MUlliutT.
Massachusetts, February 22, 18-M1; r-'''-!!.,! .1 ifiwj
English education; removed to IIIIih : th«
Union amiy as captain of the Eiglit> ■ .neis
Vohinteers; went to Louisiana in 18(H^; «as ilecltd
sheriiT of Carroll Parish in 18<i7; was appuintd ti-
jutant-general of Louisiana in.liVIO; w.-is elected »
re|>risentative at large from Louisiana in thr Kortl-
tliird (Jongress as a Lilieml, defeating 1'. B. .S. I'inri)-
back, who contested the seat, but tlie House utiirdi"!
it to Mr. Sheridan in tlie dosing hours I'f the ses'itfti;
visited Mexico; took an active part in the pR'si'ien-
tiul cinnpaign of 1870; delivered a eulogy on Senstor
Morton throughout Indiana in aid of a monumonl ti)
his memoi-y; was a|)pointe<l by President Hayes ifl
1878 recorder of deeds for the District of Coliimbiii.
Sherman, John, was bom at Lancaster, uliio,
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STATISTICAL SKETCHES.
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I
May 10, 1823; repeive<l an aawlemic education;
•Uldicd law with his bmiher, Charles T. Sherruan. al
Hanstirlil; was adiuitloil to the bar in 1M4, and
Conwiiriiced priu'tice In p;irtnership with his brother
at Miiuslicld; wiu a del>-Rate tu the Whlti National
Convcntiong of 1848 and ISSi; was elected a. repre-
•entative from Ohio in the Thirty-fourth Congref-s as
« Kepuliliean. receiving 8,<il7 votes against o,7(i4
Totea for Limlley, Democrat; wa« re-elected to the
Thirly-lift.h Conioess, receivini; 1),02<1 voles against
7,1X15 votes for IJruinback, Democrat; was re-elected
to the Thirty-sixth Congress, receiving lt,4iH votes
•eainst T.iNfi voU's for Patrick, Democrat; was re-
erected to the Thirty-seventh Congress, receiving
11.4l'>( voles aiiainst S.5()4 votes for Biirns. Dcmiocrat,
serving from December 3. IS")5, to Mareli ;l. isoi;
was elected a United-States senator from Ohio to
iucceed George E. Pugb, Democrat (S. P. Chase,
trho had previously been elected, having l)e<;n ap-
pointed secretary (jf the treasury), and was twice
re-elected, ser\-inpfrom March, IS<)I, to March .*. 1877,
■When he resigned; was appoint4>d secretur>' of the
treasury by President Uayes, serving from March 9,
1877.
Sherman, J. W., was bom in New York; was
elected a repn-senlative from New York in the
Tliirty-flfth Congress as a Kepublican, receiving
1.3,8ti7 votes against 5,0;52 votes for Kichmond. Dem-
ocrat, and 2J!iS votes for Cixiley, American, serving
from Deceinlx'r 7, 1857, to JIarcli 3, LSTjO.
Sherman, Roger, was bom at Newton, Massa-
chiisetis, April 1!), 1721; received a public-»cho<.d
education; learoe<l the shoemaker's trade, and wi^nt
lo New Milford, Connecticut, to work at it, carrjing
liis tools on his back; engaged in mercantile pur-
suits; studied law; was ailmiitcd to the bar in I7o4,
and commenced practiee; was appointed judge of the
Court of Common Pleas; removed to New ifaven in
17(il; was a memlier of the Colonial Assembly: was
judge of the Court of Common Pleas in 17tw. and re-
ina{ne<) on tlie bench until 17i^0; wjis a deleKi\te from
Connecticut to the Continental Congress 1774-17S4:
was a delegate to the Federal (^onslitulional Conven-
tion of 17^7; w.TS elected a representative from Con-
necticut in the First Congress, serving from March 4.
17!*0. to March 3, 171*1; Wiiselccled a l'nited-.States sen-
ator from Connecticut (in place of William .S. John-
Son, resigned), serving from Octol>er 24, 1701, to July
2;J, 17113. when he died at New H.iven, Connecticut.
Sherman, Socrates N., was bom in Vermont;
removed to New York, and located at Og<lensburg;
Was elected a representative from New York in the
Thirty-seventh Congnjss as a Republican, receiving
lli,i:}4 votes against 7,4.">(l votes for Foote. bemf>crat,
seiTring from July 4, ISiil, to March 3, 1H13.
Sherrill, Eliakim, w.w bom in New York;
reo.'ived a public-school education; reside<l at Shan-
■ dakin; was elected a representative from New York
In the Thirtieth Congress as a Whig, sening from
December IS. 1R47. to Man'h 3. 1S4U.
Sherrod, William C, was bom at Couriland,
Alabama, August 17, 1S3.J; prepared for college at
^L Edgefield. North Carolina; w.-vs e<lucated at Chapel-
^fBill College, Nortli Carolina; was a cotton-planter;
was a member of the National Democratic Conven-
tion held at Charleston in 18*10; served in the State
legislature of Alabama in l.Sji*-18(.i<l; was an officer
In the Confederate anny during the war; and was
elected a representative from Alabama in the Forty-
flrst Congress as a Democrat, receiving 4,932 votes
against a.ftlfi votes for liinds. Republican, serving
fnmi December 7. 18411). to March 3. 1H71.
Sherwood, Henry, was bom in Bridgeport.
» Connecticut. October 1), 1817; has devoted himself
exclusively to the practice of law during the past
twenty-four years; and was electe<l a representative
from Pennsylvania in the Forty-second Congress as a
DerafK-rat, receiving 13,2(15 votes against 13,178 votes
itor W. H. Armstrong, Hepublican, serving from
(arch 4, 1871, to March 3, 1873.
Sherwood, Isaac B., was hom in Dutchess
County, New York. August 1:1, I83.i; was eilncated
at the Hiiclson-Iliver institute, Claverack, New York,
and at Aniii>oh College, Ohio; studied law at the
Cleveland Law Institute; located iu 18.J7 at Ury.in,
his present residence, where he established a Raiiioal
paper. "The Williams-countv Gazette;" in livitt he
was elected probate judge of XVilliams County, which
office he rt^signed to enter the Union army as a
private in the Fourteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry
April 18, 18(11 ; after serving In the ranks for four
months in West Virginia, and participating In several
skinnishes, he was commissioned lieutenant iu I he One
Hundred and Eleventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry ; was
appointe<l adjutant; Ber\ed in that capacity through
the Uuell campaign in Kentucky In 18(i'^; wa.« |iro-
moted to be major February 1, isiki; participated in
the campaign ag.iinst John Morgan, and in the East
Tennessee campaign under General Bumside; was
promoted to Iw lieuteinint-colonel February 12, l.MM,
and commaniled his regiment to the close of Ihe war
in numerous battles, receiving a brevet of lirigailler-
general for gallant and meritorious sen'ices; he edit-
ed "Tlie Toledo Commercial," and for six months
afterward was an editorial writer on " The Cleve-
land Leiuler;" he was elected secretary of state for
Ohio in 18*18, and re-elected In 187i); and he was
elected a representative from Ohio in the Forty-third
Congress as a Hepublican, receiving 13,471 votes
against 12,4(X1 votes for Frank H. Iliml, Democrat,
serving frv)m December 1, 1873, to March 3, 187.'>.
Sherwood, Samuel, was bom in New York;
received an academical education; studied law; was
admitted to the bar, and commenced practice at
Delhi, New York; was elected a representative from
New York in the Thirteenth Congress as a Federalist,
serving from May 24, 1813, to March 2, 1815; removed
to New York in 1833, and died tliere Novemlier 8,
lS<i2.
Sherwood, Samuel B., was bom In Connect-
icut in 17i>7; received a classical wlucation, gnidu-
atinij at YaJe College in 1780; studied law; was
.-ulmitted to the bar, and practised at Saugatuck,
Connecticut; was a member of the State House of
liepresentatlves; was elected a representative from
Cimneclicut in Ihe Fifteenth Congress, serving from
December 1. 1817, to March 3. ISlD; died at Kaugo-
tuck, Connecticut, April 27, 18:i3.
Shiel, George K.., was bom in Ireland; immi-
grateil lo tlie United States, and located in Ori'gon;
was elected a niprescntative from Oregon iu the
Thirty-seventh Congress as a Democrat, sening from
July 4. 1801, to March .1, 18(!3,
Shields, Benjamin G., resided at Demopolls,
Alaliania ; w.is elected a representative from Alabama
in the Twenty-seventh Congress as a Whig, serving
from May 31, llWl, to March 8, 1*13; was vlmrtii
W ajfaireti at Venezuela March 14, 1846-Jauuary 7,
IS-W.
Shields, Ebenezer J., w.is iwm in Georgia;
rt'tiioved to Tennessee, and located at Pulaski; was
elected a representative from Tennessee in the
Twenty-fourth Congress as aWlilg; was re-elected
to the Twenty-fifth Congress, serving from December
7. 18:jr>, to March 3, 1839; died at Pulaski, Tennessee,
May 2<). 1S40.
Shields, James, resided at Dick's Mills, Ohio;
was a member of Ihe State House of Representatives;
was elecleil a representative from Ohio In tlie Twenty-
first Congress as a Jackson Democrat, receiving l,70O
majority over John Woods, serving from December?,
182S», to March 3, 1831 ; died at Dick's Mills, Ohio,
Jiilv- 17, 1831.
Shields, James, was bom in Tyrone County,
Irelaud, in 1810; inunigrated to the Uidted States in
1826; studied law; was a<lmltted tx> the bar in 1832,
and commenced practice at Kaskaskia, Illinois; was
a member of the State House of Representatives in
18-30; was State auditor in 1830; was judge of the
Supreme Court iii 1843; was commissioner of llie
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CONGBESSIOKAL DIEECTOEY.
General Land Office April in, 1845-J,inuary 0, 1S4~:
was appfiinti'il by Prcsiilent Polk briariuliiT-aeneral of
volunteers July 1, 1840, .iml served tlin:>U!:lioiu tlio
Mexican war, receiving severe wounds in the battles
of Cerro Gordo and Cliapult<'pec ; was brevettcd
major-^neral, ami mustereii out of service July 20,
1M8; was elected a United-States senator from Illi-
nois as a Demicnit, s<;r\-in^ from Decomlx>r 3. 1^0.
to March 3, 1S>5; remnved to Minnes<jta; was elect-
ed a United-States senator from Mirinesita, serxing
from May 12, I85>*, to March a, 1^">0; removed to
California : was appointed brigadier-general in the
Union army Au'just IP, 18<!1, and commanded a
division in Uantcs's army in the Shenandoah Valley.
where he i^ained the battle of Winchester March 2J.
ISIW. havinu: receive<I a severe wound in the skinnish
the preoidin;; day; ri-nioved to Missouri, and settled
on a f.arm in Carroll County; was appointed a<ljutant-
genenil of the State in 1K77: was defeated in 1!?78 as
acamlidatc for doorkeeper of the House of Ilepresen-
tative.s. Cong^reis subserjuentiy recognized his ser-
vices by incrcTsing his i>eu9ion to one hiuidred dollars
a month.
Sbinn, William N., was bom in Xew Jersey;
was reared on a fann, and wa-s a farmer at Mount
Holly; was eleet«<i a representative fnjm Xew Jer-
sey in the Twenty-third Congress as a Jackson
Democrat on a general ticket, receinng 24,.3.S:5 votes
against i5,;510 votes for Sonthsird, Clay Democrat ;
and was re-electe<l to the Twenty-fourth Congress,
receivinu I,3iX) majority, serving from December 2,
1S;«. to March 3, 1S:!7.
Shipherd, Zebulon R.. was bom in Washing-
ton County, New York, and resided at Granville:
was elected a rf."prescntative from New York in the
Thirtwnth Congress as a FedenUisl, serving from
May 24, 1813, to March 2, 1813; died at Morioh, New
York.
Shippen, William, was bom in Pennsylv.inla:
received a cla-ssical cdnention, gradnatini; at Prince-
ton College in IT.Vt; studied medicine at Eilinburgh,
Scotland, and, on his return to Philailciphia, he de-
livered the first course of lectures on anatomy in the
United States; was a founder of the Medical .School
of Phil.idelphia, in which he w.is the lirst professor
of anatomy; was commissioned in 1777 medical di-
rector-general of tlie Continental anuy; was a dele-
giile fr>in Pennsvlvania to the Continental Congress
177H-17SO; die.l at Phihulelphia Xovember 4, IROl,
Shober, Francis E., was bom in Salem. North
irolin.-i, M.arch li, lt\i\; received an academic edu-
_ lion both in his native Slate and Pennsylvania;
'■graduated at the University of North Carolina in
June. liNjl ; studied law, ancl was admitted to the bar
in 1S')4; was elected to the lower branch of the Oen-
enil Assembly of North Carolina in l.s02 and 18*U,
and to the Slate Senate in 1SB5; was elected a repre-
sentative from North Carolina in the Forty-first Con-
gress as a Uemocnit, receiving 12.1112 votes gainst
ll,liX} votes for Boyden, Republican; and was re-
elected to the Forty-second Congress as a Democrat
by a lan;e majority, serving from March 4, 18<M), to
Mareh.'l, 1R7I.
Shoemaker, Lazanis D., was bom at King-
ston. Pennsylvania. Novemljer 5. 1819; received a
cbissicai education, graiiualing at Yale College In
liWtl; studied law; was admitted to the bar, and
commenced practice at Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania;
was a member of the Slate Senate lS(iO-1808; was
elected a representative from Pennsylvania in the
Forty-second ConL;ress as a Republican, receiving
13,279 votes against 12,050 votes for J. B. McCollom,
Democrat; arid was re-elected to the Forty-third
Congress, receiving 17,551 votes against 10,881 votes
for 6. Woodward, Democrat, serving from March 4,
1871, to March 3. 1875.
Shorter, EU S., was bom at Monticello, Georgia,
March 15. ISA'!; received a classical education, gradu-
al Ing at Yale College in 1843; studied law; was ad-
mitted to the bar, and commenced practice at Euf aula,
but relinquished his professjn: wsi
clecle<l a representative from A: • ;irty-
fourtb Congress as a Democrat, r ^ .otet
against 5,520 voles for Alford, Am « te-
elected to the Tliirty-flflh Congress . BnU
Patterson, an Inde|H.-ndeut candidatij, •cnoig
Deeeml)er;J, l>i55, to March U, 1850.
Shower, Jacob, w:is bom iu Maryland; resU(
at Manchester; wnf elecled a representative (coa
Maryland in the Thirty-thinl Con -r-ss k ai
pendent, receiving 7,240 votes a.
Wethered. Whig, serving from i
Mardi 3. 1S.V..
Sibley, Henry H. (son of Solomon Sibley
born at Detn,>it, Michigan. Februar) . '>^" •
an English education; passed his ■.
frontier as an Indian trader iu tie
.Vmerican Fur Company: was elv
from Wisconsin Territorj- in the
gress, servii\g from January 15, I^'
1841); was elected a delegate from >:
lory in the Thirty-first Congress; «..- .
the Thirty-second Congress, defeating A. M. Mil
serving from December 3, LSli), loMirfl,
was the first governor of the State •
18)8; served in tlie Union army as i .
of volunteers, and was brevctted maJMi-^.ii.
a visitor to the Military Academy at West Point la'
1807.
Sibley, Jonas, was bom at Sutton, Hassacbi
setts, March 7, 1702; received a cla»»ie:il «(ui
hel<l some of the principal town-offio -
thirty-five successive years; was a i if
State Uouse of Representatives of 51
l.S0O-182:i (seventeen successive year
by the Douse to fill a vacancy oci u
Senate by death in 1819; was a presldiiitial eli
on the Monroe ticket in lS2iJ; was elerfi-.|
scntative from Massachusetts in the l"'
gress as a Democrat, defeating B. Ail
and scr\'ing from December 1, I82o, i-
was defeated as a candidate for v ■ •■ ■ -
four successive trials; died at Suttou. -Ni."?~.i
Felini.iry I'l, 18:11.
Sibley, Mark H., was bom at Great Barringtoo,
Ma.ss.icbuseits. in IIM; received an :\- ' ! Mn-
cation: studied law; wosadniitied t^' l^H.
and commenceil practice at Canainl , , . .u »
member of the State House of Ropreseut»tivcs 1S34-
18;J5; was elected a representative fnitn Xew Tort
in the Twenty-fifth Con:iress as a ^V^n tpiui
S<'i>teml>er 4, 1837, to March 3, 18;30; ufwr
of the State .Senate in 1841; was a c... ,,,-ju.ii< la
1847; died at Canamlaigua, Xew Y'ork, Seplemtwri).
1852.
Sibley, Solomon (father of Henry n. SiUeyl,
was Ijom at .Sutton. Massachusetts. Ooi«iI>t 7. ITW|
received a chissical education ; M ■ - *1-
mitted to the bar in 17U5, and cm •• »l
Marietta, Ohio, removing soon I' I lo
Detroit In 1707; was elected a ■•'m
Michigan Territorj- in the Six; - (iu
place of William W. Woodbridgc, re^iijiie.i); *iU re-
elected to the Seventeenth Congress, recoiring i
plurality over Judge Woodward and V- '" '" '■
serving from November 20, 1820, ti'
was appointed juilge of the State Siii „
1824, and occupied the position until dealnoss torwi
him to resign in 1836; died at D«»lruit, Michi^iaii,
April 4. 1.840.
Sickles, Daniel E., w-as bom In New York,
October, 1821; received a publie-SJ-Ii" ■' -' ■■■ ■■
learned the art of jirinting; studied 1
ted to the bar in isij, and commence<l 1
York; was a memlier of the State lluusv of Keiifc-
sentatives in 1847, and of the St.itJ» S<-inie in 1W5;
was appointe<l by Pn.'siilent Pier. f 1,-si-
tion to London, Mr. Buchanan sier;
was elected a representative froi:; Jn .. i ;i ibe
Thirty-fifth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 5,7W
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I
Bgalnst 2.005 votes for Ihiganne, American,
and J,12ii votes for I'clton, Rppuliliciin; was n'-clect-
ed to the Thirty-sixth ConiJrross, rewlviiis: o.l77 votos
ft^nst 3,01') voti'3 for Willi.iinsoii, Kcpulilioan. and
2.i<74 votes for Walbridgi?, Independent Democrat,
»ervinv; from Deceml)er 7. 18.17, to M.irrli 3. ISiil; on
the 28lh of FebniAry, 1S^1>, he killed Philip Ilarton
Key at Wosliington City for having had criminal
connection with his wife, and was tried for murder,
and acquitted; eutcred the Union anny in ISOl as
colonel of the New- York Excelsior Kedment, and
served through the war, losing a leg at tlie battle of
Gettysburg July 2, l.SiW, and w.i.i placed on the R>-
tired list as major-general April 14, 1*19; was ap-
pointeil by President Johnson minister to the
Nelherlandg, but declined; was a delegate from
New York to the National Republican Convention
at Chicago in ISftS; was appointed by President
Gmnt minister to Si>ain, serving May 15, 18(Kt-
Deoember 2i>, 1S7.'!; returned to New York.
Bickles, Nicholas, wiis bom at Kinderhook.
New York ; reside<l at Kingston ; was elected a reii-
re8<jn1ative from New York in the Twenty-fourth
CoiiiiTess as a Democrat, receiving 2,44<> votes ag.iinst
ifiW voi«8 for Barringur, AVlilg, scning fnnn De-
coml>er7, 1S.3.J, to Slarch 3, 1837; died at Kingston,
New York, May 1.3, If^i.
Sill, Thomas H., was bom in Connecticut;
received an academical education; studied law; was
admitted to the bar, and commenced practice at
Erie, Pennsylvania, in 1812; was a delegate to the
State Constitutional Convention; was elected a
representative from Pennsylvania in the Nineteenth
ress (in place of P.itrick Farrelly, deceased)
• Wiig, serving from April 3, 1820, to March 3,
was again elected to the Twenty-first Congress,
•erving froin December 7, 1820, to March 3. 1831;
was a presidential elector on the Taylor and Fillmore
ticket in 184.S.
Silsbee, Nathaniel, was bom In Essex County,
Massachusetts, in l"7.'l: received an academical edu-
cation; engaried in mercantile pursuits; was elected
B representative from Massachusetts in the Fifteenth
Congress as a Democrat, defeating Mr. Stephens,
Federalist, by 7 votes: was nj-elected to the Sixteenth
Congress, defe.iting Timothy Pickering, serving from
December 1, isl", to March 3. 1821; declineii a re-
election; w.Ts a memljer of the State House of Repre-
•entativcs hi 1621, and of the State Senate in 182.3-
1825; was elected a United-States senator as a Demo-
crat (in place of James Llofd, resigned), and was
re-elected, serving from Deoember 4, 182(1, to March
3, 18.Tj; died at Salem, Miissachusctts, Julv 1, 185<).
Silvester, Peter, w:is bom in New York ; was
a memiiprof the .Albany Committee of Safety in 1774;
was a del(!gate to the New- York Provincial Congress
Way 8, 1775, to May 13, 177(1; was elected a represen-
tative fmm New York in the First Congress, ser\ing
from March 4, 178it, to March 3, 1791 ; w.is a raeralMn-
of the State Senate 1797-1800; died at Kinderhook,
New York. Jaiiuary- :», 1845,
Simkins, Eldred, was bom at " the Cedar
Fields," Edgefield District, South Carolina, August
SO. 1779; received a classical education at Dr. Wad-
del's Williniton Academy; was three years at the
Litchfield (Connecticut) Law School; then studied
with Ch.incellor De Saussure; was admitted to the
bar at Charleston in 1805, and commenced practice
at Edgetiold Court House in 1806; was repeatedly
sent to the State legislature from his native district;
was elected a representative from South Cimlina in
the Fiftt'enth Congress (ivi the successor of John C.
Calhoun, who had accepted a position in Mr. Mon-
roe's cabinet), defeating Edmund Bacon and Wiitiam
Butler; and was re-elected to the Sixteenth Congress,
•erving from Febnmry s, 1818. to March 3, 1821; de-
clined a re-election, resiening in favor of his partner,
George McDuffie, and divided his time between his
profession and his planting interests; and died on his
plantation in 1832.
Simmons, George A., was bom in New
Uaiiipshire in 1791; ri-eeived a classical education,
graduating at Dartmouth College in 1810; studied
law; was admitted to the bar, and commenced prac-
tice at Keeseville, New York; was elected u repre-
sentative from New York in the Thirty-third Con-
gress as a Whig, receiving 7,IK»3 voles against 0,852
votes for Ireland, Demoen»t; and was re-«'lected to
the Thirty-fourtli Congress, ri'ceiving 5..');!;J votes
against 3.0(i2 votes for Bailey, American, ancl 1,752
votes for Thomas, Democrat, serving from December
5. l.SW, to March 3. 1857; died at Keese%ille, New
York. October 27. 1.857.
Simmons, James Fowler, was bom at Little
Conii)tori. Itliiide Island, Sei>tcmU!r 10. 17115; received
a thiirough English e<liic;ilioM; became a fanner and
a manufacturer; was a member of the State House
of Representatives 182S-1.S41; was elected a United-
States senator from Rhode Island as a Wliig, serving
from May 31, 1841, to M.irch 3, 1847; was again
elected a senator, serving from Deccmlier 7, l'<>7, to
Decemlter, 1SJ2, whett he resigned ; died at Johnson,
Uhiide Island, July 10. 1.804.
Simms, William B., was bom in Kentucky-
resided at Paris; was elected a representative from
Kentucky In the Tliirty-sixth Congress as a Demo-
crat, receiving 0.(W2 votes against 6,805 votes for
Ilarlan, Opjxisition, serving tnm December 5, 1850,
to March 3, 1801.
Simons, Samuel, was bom at Bridgeport, Con-
necticut, in 1777; received an academic eiducation;
studied medicine, and practised at Bridgeport; was
elected a representative from Connecticut in the
Twenty-eighth Congn'ss as a Democrat, ser\'ing from
December 4, 1843, to March 3, 1845; died at IJridge-
port, Connecticut, Janu;iry 10, 1847.
Simonton, William, was bom at Hummels-
town, Pemisylvania; held several local offices: was
elected a representative from Pennsylvania in the
Twenty-sixth Congress as a \Vliig; was re-elected to
the Twenty-seventh Congress, receiving 2,04O votes
against 2,131 votes for Hummel, Whig, serving from
December 2, 1830, to March 3, 1843; died at South
Hanover. Pennsylvania, May 1.8, 1846.
Simpson, John, was elected a representative
from Kentucky in the Thirteenth Congress, but did,
not lake his seat, as he raised a company of volun-'
teers. whicli he commandetl, for the expedition under
General Winchester, and was massacred at the River
Raisin January 22, 1813.
Simpson, "Richard P., was born in South Car-
olina; received a classical education, gnuluating at
the University of .South Carolina in 1810; studied law;
was admitted to the bar, and pnictised at Pendleton;
was a meml>er of the State .Senate; was elected a
representative from .South Carolina in the Twenty-
eighth Congress as a Democrat; was re-elected to the
Twentv-ninth and niirtieth Congresses, serving from
December 4, 1K4:J, to Marcli 3, 184(t.
Sims, Alexander Dromgoole, was iwrn in
Brunswick County. Virgliiiu, June U. INOli; received
a classical education at Chapel-IIill College, and at
Union College, Schenectady, where lie graduated:
reniov»l to Darlington Court House, South Carolina,
in 1820, to take charge of the aciulemy there; studied
law while teaching; was admitted to the bar in 1828,
and comiueiiced practice at Darlington; was a mem-
ber of tlie State House of Representatives 1840-1844;
was elected a n?presentatlve from .South Carolina in
the Twenty-ninth Congress as a State-rights Demo-
crat, defeating John McQueen; was re-elected to the
Thirtieth Congress by .39 majority, serving from D©-
cenib'T 1, 184o, until his death at Kingstree, South
Carolina, whither he had gone to meet his couslltu-
entSj November 10, 1848.
Smis, Leonard H., was bom in North Caro-
lina; removed to Missouri, and located at Spring-
field ; was elected a representative from Missouri fii
the Twenty-ninth Congress as a Democrat, serving
from December 1, 1845, to March 3, 1847.
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C0NQKE8SI0NAL DIBECTOBY.
Singleton, Otho R., was boni In Jessainlne
County, Kcntui'ky, October 14, 1814; received a
classic;)! (>(hiciitioii, g^r.iduatin); al SI. JoBuph's Col-
lejft', Uardstinvn, Ki-ntuoky; studied law. and pradu-
Kti'd at the I^xington Law.Scliool, and practiswl law;
was a lurmbor of the .stale liouse of Kciiresontatives
two yuars, and of the .Slate Senate six years; was a
I)re«idciilial elector on the Pierce and King ticket in
18oi!; was elected n representative from Mississippi
in the Thirty-tliird Congress as a Democrat, receiving
6,307 votes agaiiiBt 0,009 votes for McClung, Wliig,
serving from Decemljer 5, 1853, to March 3, 18oj;
was liefeated as the Ueiuocratic candidate to the
Thirty-fourth Conifress, receiving ,'),72t» votes against
5,5107 votes for William A. Lake, Know-Xothing; was
re-elected to the Thirty-fifth Congress, receiving 6,27U
voles against o,i:ll) vot<^s for Lake, Aniericiui; w,is re-
elected to Ihe Thirty-si.\lh Congress, receiving 8,040
votes aj^rainsl 2,370 votes for Smith, Oi)position, nv
tiriiig Jiumary 12, 1861; was a representative from
llississippi in the Confederate Congress from 1801
until 1S(C); served in the Confeilerate army as aldo-
de-camp to General Robert E. Lee; was elected to
Ihe Forty-fourth Congress as a Democrat, receiving a
majority of 0,I>V2 vot«s over Jason Niles, Republican;
and was re-clecled to the Forty-ftftii Congress, receiv-
ing 111.130 voles against 4,.">47 voles for W. M. Han-
cock, Republican. s<'rving from October 13, 1877.
Singleton, Thomas D., was Iwrn in South
Carolina; was elected a representative from that
•State in the Twenty-third Congress as a Nullifier,
defeating Thomas R. Mitchell, Union Democrat;
died, before l.ikiiit; bis s.'al, in the fall of 1.8.3,3.
Sinnickson, Clement H., was bom in Salem
County, New Jersey, September 10, 1834 ; gradimtetl
from Union College, Schenectadv, New York, in
1.S05; studied law with William L. Dayton at Tren-
ton; was a<lniilled to the Ihu- in 185-S, and has since
praetiseil at Salem; entenMl the Union army in l.SOl
as lieutenant, and was elected captain in the Fourth
New-Jersey Volunteer Infantry, in which he served
for the period of its enlistment; and was elected a
repri'sentative from New Jersey in the Forty-fourth
Couuress as a Republican, receiving 14.209 votes
against 1.3.019 votes for C. All)ertson, Democrat; was
re-elected to the Forty-llflh Congress, receiving 17,302
' votes against 15,472 votes for Siminerman, Demo-
crat, serving from December 0, 187.^
Sinnickson, Thomas, was twm In Salem
County, New Jersey, in 174,5; received a classical
education, Imt turned his attention to mercantile
pursuits; served in the Revolutionary w.'ir as cap-
tain ; was for many years a nieralK'r of the Provin-
cial Council, and afterwards of the State House of
Representatives; was prtjsldlng judge of the Court
of Common Pleas; was elected a rei)re8entative from
New Jersey in the First Congi'ess, serving from
March 4, 1789, to March 3, 1791; was again elected
to the Fifth Congress, serving from May 15, 1797, to
March 3, 17!»t»; died al Salem, New Jersey, May 15,
1817.
Sinnickson, Thomas, was bom at Salem, New
Jei'sey. Decemlwr 13, 1780; received a public-school
e<lueation; engaged in mercantile pursuits; was a
member of tlie State House of Representatives for
several yeors; was for twenty years a judge of the
Court of Common Pleas; was a judge of the Court
of Errors and Appeals; was elected a representative
from New Jersey in the Twentieth Conjfress (in place
of Hedge Thompson. deccase<I), ser%'ing from De-
cember 1, 1828, to March 3, 1820; died at Salem,
New Jersey.
Sitgreaves, Charles, was bom at Easton,
Pennsylvania, April 22, 1.803; went to New Jersey
in 1800; received a classical education; studied and
practised law; was in the New-Jersey State military
service from 1828 to 1^38; was a meml)er of the As-
sembly of New Jersey in 1831 and 1S;}3; was a mem-
ber of the Legislative Council in 18:34 and 18.35; was
a member of the State Senate of New Jersey ia 1851,
1852, 1853, and 1864; was elected b r«>nro«oni»»i^
from New Jersey in the Thirty-niir
ceiving 10,942 votes ag.-ilnst 12.080 !• ~ ,,
ton, Republican; and was re-elected lu the l'«^
Congress as a Democrat, receiviiu: 15.7U8
against 12,9,55 votes for Davidson, R
ing from Ueecmber 4, istjo, to JI.u .
president of the Phillipsburj,; Nation.!. _.
the Beividere and Delaware Railroail Coiupaiiy; die
at Phillipsburg, Pennsylvania, March 17, I^Tm'.
Sitgreaves, John, was b<jrn at New IJ.
Carolina; stuilled law; was admitted to lli
practised; entered the Revolutionnr
and was aide-<ie-camp to Governor '
battle of Camden; was a member of
Congress 1784-1785; was a member of liio liouse (
Commons of North Carolina in 178*!-178!i; was sp
pointed by President Jefferson United-,States districwl
judge for North Carolina in 1789, and held the p
sitlon until he died at Halifax, North Carolina,
March 4, 18i>2.
Sitgreaves, Samuel, was bom at Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania; received an academical educatiooj
studied law; was ailmitted to the bar, and c<
menced practice at Easton. Pennsylvania; i
gate to the State Consli I ulional Convent i
was elected a representative from Penn^^. .u
the Fourth Congress as o Federalist; w^as re-electfd.
to the Fifth Congress, serving from Ueccralier T,
1795, to 1798, when he resigned, having been a{>
)H.>inted by President Ad.\ms a commissioner to treil
with Great Britain; died at Phlhidelphia Aprils,
1S24.
Skelton. Charles, was bom in Pennsylvanis:
removed to New Jersey, and resided at Trenton; w«i
elected a representative from New .I'tx-v in th*
Thirty-second Congress as a Deni. ■
0,2.59 votes against "8,;J5H voles fori
was re-elected to the Thirty-third i • i._..
lug 10,229 votes against »,2:J8 votes for Bn.wn. AVhlft
serving? from December 1, 1851, to Mari'h 3. KVi.
Skinner, Richard, was liom at Litdiileld. Cos-
neclicut. May :30. 1788; was educated at the Litch-
iield Law .School; was adnutted to the bar in lAH
and practised at Manchester, Vermont; w.-is Stale
attorney for Bennington County in 1801; was jnJg*
of probate 1800-1812; was elected a reprvsenialire
from Vermont in the Tliirteenth Citictit'" »» i
Democrat, serving from May 24. 181 hi,
|S15; was associate judge "of tlie > mi'
Court in 1815, and chiif justice in 1> ' ru-
ber of the State House of Represen ' iu
speaker In 1818; was governor of \ -a)-
1.823; was again chief justice of the Stale &ii|ir(nif
Court 1824-1820; died at Manchester, Vermont, ihj
23, IS33.
Skinner, Thomson J., Jun., was iwm la
Massachusetts; was elected a repri"""' ■''>•■ from
Massachusetts in the Fourth Congr, ■■ o<
Theodore Sedgwick, resigned) as a 1 *M
re-elected to the Fifth Congress, serviuK lioin Jauu-
ary 27, 1707, to March 3, 1709; was nttain rIcctcJ
to the Eighth Congress, serving from "Oclolier 17,
I.80;3, to MiU-ch 3, 1804; was appointed by I'naident
Jefferson commissioner of loans.
Slade, Charles, received a public-school edacv
tion; resided at Carlyle, Illinois; held several loCll
offices; was elected a representative from IlUnoiiia
the Twenty-third Congress as a Democrat, servttu
from December 2, 1833, to July, 18:54, when he diw,
on Ills way home, in Knox County, Indiana, after SB
illness of only twenty-four hours.
Slade, William, was bom at Cornwall, Ve^
mom. May 9, 1781.1; received A classiciU education,
graduating at Middleburv College In ISO"; siudinl
law; was admitted to tfie bar in 1810, and com-
menced practice al Miildlebury; was n nre.sidentUI
elector on the Madison ticket in 1812; published wiii
edite<l "The Columbian Patriot" 1814-1816; wm
secretary of state 1815-1S23; was judge of the Addl-
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on-cnnnty Court, and subsequently progecutirt)?-
|attorncy for Adilisim ('oniity; Wiis ii clerk in tln!
epartiaent of ^State at Washinurton 18i!3-ll<;iy: was
BlecttHl a representative from Vermont in the Twen-
|ty-«econ(l (.'onijross ns a Wilis; was r<M>leoled to the
iTwenty-lluril.'Tn-enty-fonrth, Tn-eiity-lifth. Twenty-
■ixth. and Twenty-seventh Congresses, servinc: frfira
~)eceml>er 5. ISJl, to March 3, i8-t); Wiis elected re-
nrter of the dei^isions of the State .Supreme Court;
ros governor of VennonI ]f<44-lt>-W; was secretary
of the National Boanl of Pngmlnr Education; died
kt Middk'bury, Vennont, January IS, 185(l.
Slater, James H., was horn in Saiiicamon Coun-
ty, Illinois, in ISl'II; received a limited comnion-
, 0chool education; studied law; was admitted to the
" ar, and practises; was elected a member of the
llower House of the Territorial legislature in lSo7
IJtnd l.y>8, and then a member of the lower House of
"lie first State lejfislature; was elected in 18<K1 dis-
trict-attoraey for the Fifth Judicial District of Ore-
Igon, and served two years; and was elected a rcpre-
atative from Oregon in the Korty-second ('onpress
19 Democrat, receiving 1 1 .."iSS votes against ll.iMo
for J. CJ. Wilson, Uepubllcaii, serving from
Jarcli 4, IrsTl, to March 3, H73.
Slaymaker, Amos, was bom in the London
I Lauds, IVnnsylvania, March 11, 1755; received a
L|iabUc-school education: served In the Revolutlon-
Iftry army as a private; became a farmer; was elected
I representative from Pennsylvania in the Thirteenth
pConin^ss (in place of James Whitehill, resignetl),
■enins from Uecember 12, 1814, to March 2, 1816;
died at .S.ilisbnrv, Pennsylvania, Ju7ie 12, 1*17.
Slemons, William F., was bom in Weakley
County, Tennessee. March 15, ISW; was e<lucated at
Bethel College ; removed to yirkansas in 1>H,52; stud-
ied law; wa.s admitte<l to the bar in 1855, and prac-
tised until IHOl; was a niemlHT of the Arkaiwu
State Convention In 18*11; entered the Confedenite
anuy in July, 18<il. and served through the war,
aftt^r which he n'sumed llie prat^tice of law; was
elected district-attorney in 18(W, and rcconstract<'d
out of oHice in 18(i8; and was elected a representative
tfrom Arkansas in the Forty-fourth Congress as a
fDemocrat, rweiving I2,I(5t> votes against 10,485 votes
[for John M. Clayton, Republican; and was re-elected
■to the Forty-lifth Con-jress. n.-cciving \f>.'>l\i\ votes
|*gninst 14,150 voles for O. P. Snyder, Republican,
snini; from December t$, 1875.
SUdell, John, was born in NewTork In 1793;
ceived an academical education; studied law; was
(admitted to the bar, and C(unraenced practice at New
•leans; wa-s lTuit«d-JSlate» district-attorney in 182J*-
*3; was elected a rcprescDtativc from Louisiana in
be Twenty-<;ighth Congress as a State-rights Demo-
was re-elected to the Twentj'-nlnth Congress,
erring frfim December 4, 1843, folnovembor 10, 1845,
rhen he resigned, haring been appointed by Presi-
lent Polk minister to Mexico, but, the Mexican t»ov-
liment refusing to receive hini, he n-tumed Jnnu-
■y ati, 1S47; was elected a United-States senator
rem Louisiana (In place of Pierre Soultf, resigned),
nd was re-elected, sen-ing from December 5, 1853,
> February 4, 1801, when he retire<1 from the Senate;
se:it as commissioner to France by the Confed-
irate Goveniment, and arrested at Havana on the
Miglish mail-steamer '•Trent " Novemlx-r 8, 18(11, by
ICaptaiii Wilkes, commanding the LInited-.States frig-
|»l^ '"San Jacinto;" was bmught to the Unitwl .States,
conflned in Fort Warren, Boston Harbor, but
on released on the reclamation of the British Gov-
riment; he sailed for Kngland January 1, 18(i2, and
sid<nl in France and Kn^land until he died at Lon-
ion July 20, 1S71.
Slingerlsmd, John I,, was bom in Albany
Dounly. New York. MaR'li I, 1804; receive<l a public-
1 education; engaged in agricultural pursuits at
ethlehem, near Albany; w.os a member of the .State
of Representatives in 184.'*; was elected a reii-
atative from A'ew York in the TUlrliuth Congress
as a Whig, serving from DecemhcT 0, lft47, to March
;*, 1840; died at Albany Octolier 211, 18tll.
Sloan, Andrew, was bom at McDonongh, Geor-
gia, June 10, 1845; was educated at MarshallCollege,
Georgia, and ot Bethany College, West Virginia,
^ whicli he left before graduating; read l,iw without
'any tutor, and w,is admitted to the l«ir in April.
I 18iW; wiis elected In May, IStMl. county-solicitor of
Henry County, Georgia, and resigned in the fall of
18(KJ; removeil to Savanuali; was apiminled deputy-
collector of customs; resigned in the spring of 18(17,
and n'SUmed the pr.ictlceof law; entere<l the United-
Slates district-attorney's office at Savannah as on
assistant ; was aftcr^vard regularly appointed as
United-States district-attorney, and held the posi-
tion until he resigned in the spring of 1872, acting
at tlie same time as local counsel for the Unlteil
States in n.'g.ird to the cotton claims, and also under
tlie Mbced Commission on British and Aiuerican
claims; was nominated as the Republican candidate
for Congress, and was elected a representative from
Georgio on the 5tli of NoveinlH»r, 1872, but Morgan
Rnwis was returned as representative elect, and ol)-
tained the seat; contested the seat, attending to his
own case before the House Committee on Elections,
and was admitted on the 24th of March, 1874, it hav-
ing been decided that he had received 10,221 votes
.igainst 8,321 votes for Morgan Rawls, Democrat, serv-
ing to March 8, 1875.
Sloan, A. Scott, was bom at Morrisville, New-
York, in 1820; received an academical education;
studied law ; was admitted to the bar, and commenced
practice at Morrisville; was elected clerk of SLidison
County In 1847; removed to Beaver Dam, Wisconsin,
In 1854; was a member of the Wisconsin House of
Representatives in 1850; was appointe<l n judge of
the Circuit Court in 1858; was elected a representa-
tive from Wisconsin In the Thirty-seventh Congress
as a Republican, receiving .14,002 votes against 28,980
votes for Larrabee, Democrat, serving from July 4,
1801, to March 3, 180:3.
Sloan, Ithamar C, wsis born in Madison Coun-
ty, New York; n-eeived a public-scluxil education;
studied law ; was admitted to the bar, and commenced
practice at Janesville, Wisconsin, In 1854; wtis elect-
ed district-attorney in 1.S58 and 1800; was elected n
representative from Wisconsin in the Thirly-<.'iKhlli
Congress as a Republican, receiving 13.3"i4 votes
r'nst 11,050 votes for GutTy, Union; and was re-
ted to the Thirty-ninth Congress, receiving 15,538
votes against 10,l>15 v»tes for tJeorgo B. Smilli, Dem-
ocrat, serving from December 7, 1803, to March 3,
1807.
Sloan, James, was l)om In New Jersey, and re-
sideil in Gloucester County ; was elected a represen-
tative from New Jersey In the Eighth Congress; was
re-elected to the Ninth and Tenth Congresses, ser^--
ing from OctolR'r 17, 1803, to March 8, 1800; died in
tJIouoester County, Kcw Jersey, in November, 1811.
Sloane, John, was bom at York, Pennsylvania,
in 1770; removed to Ohio early in life; was a mem-
ber of the State House of Representatives 1804-1800,
serving the last tw<i years as s|M.'aker; was United-
States receiver of public moneys at Canton 1808-1810,
and afterwards at Woostcr 1810-1810; was elected a
representative from Ohio in the Sixteenth Congrejs;
W.1S re-elected to the Seveutecnth, Eightceiilli, .Niiie-
leeiilh, and Twentieth Congresses, serving from De-
cember e. 1810, to March 8, 1829; was clerk of the
Court of Common Pleas for seven years; w,ts secre-
tiiry of state for Ohio three years; was apiwiinted by
President Fillmore treasurer of the United States,
serving from November '27, 1850, to April 1, 1853;
died at Wooster. Ohio, May 15, 1850.
Sloane, Jonathan, was born in Massaclinsetts;
removed to Ohio, anrlwltled at iiavenna; was elect-
ed n representative from Ohio in the Twenly-thinl
Congress as a Whig: was re-elected to the Twenty-
fourth Congress, serving from Uecenil^er 2, 1833, to
March 3, 1837.
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CONOBESSIOKAL BIBECTOBT.
SloouzQ. Henry W., wa» bom at BelpU, New
Tork, September 24, 1827 ; graduated at West-Point
Academy in 1852; on receiving the appointment
of second lieutenant, he was assigned to duty in
Florida, where he spent about one year; and from
1853 to 1856, as a first lieutenant, he was on duty at
Fort Moultrie, on leaving which he resigned his com-
mission ; studied law, and was engaged in its practice
at Syracuse from 1850 to 1801 ; in 1859 he was elected
to the State legislature, and from 1859 to 1801 he
was insti-uctor of artillery in the New-Yorlc militia;
entered the Union army, when the Rebellion com-
menced, as colonel of the Twenty-seventh Regiment
of New- York Volunteers, and, before the close of 1861,
was made a brigadier-general of volunteers; in 18G2
he was appointed a major-general, and served till the
end of hostilities ; in 1805 he was the Democratic can-
didate for secretary of state of Xew York, but was
defeated, after which he settled at Brooklyn in the
practice of law; in 1808 he was chosen a presidential
elector; he was elected a representative from New
York in the Forty-first Ckingress as a Democrat, re-
ceiving 16,598 votes against 13,734 votes for Booth,
Republican ; was re-elected to the Forty-second Con-
fress as a Democrat, receiving 13,799 votes against
,023 votes for E. B. Webster, Republican, and 3,248
votes for R. M. Whiting, jun.. Independent Reput>-
Ucan, serving from March 4, 1860, to March 3, 1873.
Slooumb, Jesse, was bom in North Carolina in
1782; was elected a representative from North Caro-
lina in the Fifteenth Congress as a Federalist; was
re-elected to the Sixteenui Congress, serving from
December 1, 1817, to December 20, 1820, when he
died of pleurisy, after t«n days' illness, at Washington
City.
Bloss, Joseph H., was bom at SomerviUe, Ala-
bama, October 12, 1826; received an academic educa-
tion at Florence, Alabama; studied law at Athens,
Tennessee; settled at Edwardsville, Illinois, in 1849;
was a member of the legislature of Ulinois in 1858-
1859; at the commencement of hostilities in 1861, re-
turned to Alabama, and joined the Confederate army,
in which he served until the close of the war; was
elected mayor of Tuscumbia soon after the war, and
continued in that office (except a short time when
he was suspended by the United-States officer com-
manding in that department) until 1870, when he
was elected a representative from Alabama in the
Forty-second Congress as a Conservative Democrat,
receiving 0,221 votes against 4,008 votes for J. H.
Hasterton, Republican; was re-elected to the Forty-
thirtl Congress, serving from March 4, 1871, to March
8, 1875; was defeated as the Independent Democratic
candidate for the Forty-fourth Congress, receiving
0,172 votes against 15,048 votes for G. W. Hewitt,
Democrat.
Small, William B., was bom at Limington,
Maine; received an academic education ; studied law;
was admitted to the bar, and commenced practice at
New Market, New Hampshire, In 1840; served two
terms as solicitor of Rockingham County; left the
Democratic party when Fort Sumter was tired upon;
was a member cf the State Senate in 1870 ; was elected
a representative from New Hampshire in the Forty-
third Congress, serving from December 1, 1873, to
March 8, 1875; was injured by a fall on the railroad-
track at Rochester, and died a few weeks afterwards
at New Market, New Hampshire, April 7, 1875.
Smalls. Robert, was bom at Beaufort, South
Carolina, April 5, 183i9; being a slave, was debarred
by statute from attending school, but educated him-
self with such limited advantages as he could secure;
removed to Charleston in 1851 ; worked as a rigger,
and led a seafaring life; became connected in 1861
with "The Planter," a steamer plying in Charleston
Harbor a* a transport, whic#he took over Charles-
ton Bar in May, 1862, and delivered her and bis
services to the commander of the United-States
blockading squadron; was SMwinted pilot in the
Unlted.States navy, and served In that enfttity oa
the monitor "Keokuk" in the attack on Fort Smn-
ter; served as pilot in the quartermaster's depart-
ment, and was promoted as captain for gallant and
meritorious conduct December 1, 1863, and placed in
command of " The Planter," serving until she was
put out of commission in 1800; was elected a member
of the State Constitutional Convention of 1868; was
elected a member of the State House of Represen-
tatives in 1808, and of the State Senate (to lUI a va-
cancy) in 1870, and re-elected in 1872; and was
elected a representative from South Carolina in the
Forty-fourth Congress as a Republican, receiving
17,752 votes against 4,401 votes for J. P. M. Epping,
Republican; and was re-elected to the Forty-fifth
Congress, receiving 19,954 votes against 18,510 votes
for 6. D. Tillman, Democrat, serving from Decemlier
6, 1873.
Smart, Bphraim EZ., was bom at Prospect,
Massachusetts (now Searsport, Maine), in 1813; re-
ceived an academical education; studied law; was
admitted to the bar, and commenced practice st
Camden; was appointed postmaster in 1838; was a
member of the State Senate in 1841 and 1842; re-
moved to Missouri in 1843, and practised there, but
returned to Camden in 1845, and was again appointed
postmaster; was elected a representative from Maine
in the Thirtieth Congress as a Democrat, receiving
4,548 votes i^ainst 3,852 votes for Johnson, Whig,
serving from December 6, 1847, to March -3, 1841);
was again elected to the Thirty-second Congress, re-
ceiving 6,011 votes against 6,205 votes for Tteoi^iiut
Cushing, Whig, and 62 scattering, serving from De-
cember 1, 1851, to March 3, 1853; was collector of
customs at Belfast 1863-1858; established "The
Maine Free Press" June 15, 1864, and was its editor
until 1857 ; returned to Camden ; was again a member
of the State House of Representatives in 1858, and
of the State Senate in 1862; removed to Biddeford
in 1869, and established "The Maine Democrat,"
which he edited for a short time; and subsequently
returned to Camden, where he died.
Smart, James S,, was bom, June 14, 1842, in
the city of Baltimore, Maryland; received an aca-
demic education, graduating from JeSerson College,
Pennsylvania, in 1863; entered the army in January,
1864, as first lieutenant Sixteenth New-Y'ork Heavy
Artillery; served in the Army of the James until the
second expedition to Fort Fisher; was promoted to
a captaincy, and dischai^d in August, lisOS: iu
November of the same year took charge of "The
Washington-county Post," published at Cambridge,
New Y^ork, and is still connected with that paper;
was elected a representative from New Tork In the
Forty-third Congress as a Republican, receiving 17.8:i3
votes i^inst 13,352 yotes for A. Thayer, D^ocnt,
serving from December 1, 1873, to March 3, 1875.
Smelt, DeimiSj was bom in Georgia ; was elect-
ed a representative from Georgia in the Ninth Con-
gress (in place of Joseph Bryan, resigned); was
re-elected to the Tenth and Eleventh Congresses,
serving from December 26, 1806, to March 3, 1811.
Smilie, John, was bom in Ireland in 1742;
immigrated when a lad to Pennsylrania; was elected
a representative from Pennsylvania in the Third
Congress, serving from December 2, 17S8, to March
3, 1705; was a presidential elector in 1707; was again
elected to the Sixth Congress as a Democrat, and
re.elected to the Seventh, Kighth, Ninth, Tenth,
Eleventh, and Twelfth Congresses, serving from De-
cember 2, 1790, to March 3, 1813; died at Washing-
ton City December 30, 18ia
Smith, Albert, was bom, at Hanover, Misssr
chusetts, January 3, 1703; leceiTed a classical edu-
cation, gradualjng at Brown University in 1813;
studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1816, and
commenced practice at Portland in 1817; was a
member of the Massachusetts House of Represents^
tives in 1S20; was a postmaster for sevenU rears;
vras United-States marshal for the district of Maine
1880-1838; was eleeted a refoeaeiitMiTC from Maine ia
STATISTICAL SKETCHES.
62T
he Twentv-«ixfh Coiiftress as a Demoorut, serving
fn>in Bcct'fnlKT -J. Itttit. lo Manli :i. I^41;. was <U»-
ipXeati-il «is the Dciiiftcratic oaiKlidiito foi- Ihc Tweiity-
■Bevenlli Coiii»ress by William Pitt FesBCiulon. Whit,
Rrho ri'Cfiveil 2iKi majority; waa api^iiritcd UniU'U-
Statvs conimlssioiier to lay out the S'orth-eastem
bounilarv iimii'r the Asliburton Troatv, serving 184:;-
1847: (Ii<-"l lit Bt.sl..ii May L'fl, imi.
Smith, Albert, was iHini in New York; resided
at liitiaviii; was a ni<-inl)er of the State Uouse of
Reprt'sentjiiiTes in ISJi; was electe<l a rt^presenta-
live fMm New York in tho Twenty-eighth Congress
as a Whig, receiving 4.844 voles against 3,8H4 votes
for Cixiiey. Demoorat. and 350 votes for Chapin,
AlKilitioniRt; and was re-elected to the Twenty-
niiitli t-'ongress. receiving H,.")0(t votes against 4.i;i.'j
votes for I'handler, Democnit, and 73<l vot«s for
MfKav, American, serving from December 4, 1B4;3,
to March :1, 1847.
Smith, A. HeiT, was Ixim in Manor Township,
Laiic'islfT Coiinly, IVnnsylv.inin, March 7, 1815;
graduated at Dickinson College in 1840; studied law
with John R. Montgomery at Lancaster; was admit-
ted to the bar in 1842, and lias since followed his
prtifession ; wjis elected to the House of Kcpn-sen-
tatives of the State of Pennsylvania in lH4;i, and
re-elected in 1844; in 1.S4.5 was elected to the State
Senate: was elected a reiiresenlative from Pennsyl-
vania in the Forty-third Congress as a Kepublican,
receiving UJM votes against 8,539 votes for H. M.
North, Democrat; was re-elected to the Forty-fonrth
Congress as a Republican, receiving 10,506 votes
asainst 6,220 votes for Patton, Democrat; was re-
elected to tho Korty-liftli Congress, receiving 17,419
votes against 0,.j74 votes for George Nauman, Demo-
crat, serving from December 1, 1873.
Smith, Arthur, was born In Isle-of-Wight
Coiuity, Virginia. November 1,5, 1785; received a
classical education. gra«iuating at William and Mary
College; 8tii<lie<l law. but never practised; served in
Uie war of 1812 at the defence of Norfolk; was a
member of the State Privy Council; was a member
of the State House of Representatives; was elected a
representative from Virginia in the Seventeenth
Congress, defeating John C. Gray by 341 majority:
w.is re-elected to t^ie Eighteenth Congn-ss. receiving
1,000 votes aiainst 1.277 votes for Estill. ser\ing
from Deeeralier '.i, 1821, to March .S, 1825; died at
Smithstield. Vir"inl,i, March 30. 1.853.
Smith, Ballard, was elected a representative
from Virginia in the Fourteenth Congress as a
Democrat: was re-electe<l to the Fifteenth and Six-
teenth Congresses, serving from December 4, 1815,
to March :j, Is;.'].
Smith, Bernard, was bom at Norristown, New
Jersey, in 177<5; received an academic education;
held an office at W'ashington City; was sent to Eu-
rojie as bearer of despatches; was postmaster at New
nrnnswick; was elected a representative from New
.Jersey in the .Sixteenth Congress, Ber\'ing from
Deceinl)er i.i, 1819. to March 3, 1821; was ajiiiointert
register of the land-oflice at Little Rf>ck. and sulv
agent to tho Quapaw Indians; waa private accR'tary
lo Governor Izzard ; died at Little Rock, Arkansas,
July Ifi. 18.15.
Eimith, Caleb Blood, was twm at Boston, Mas-
sacluisetts. April 10. 18<J8; removed .witli his parents
to Ohio In 1814; was eiluoated at the Miami Uni-
versity; studied law; w.is admitted to the bar, and
commenei'd practice at Connoraville. Indiana; found-
ed and edited "The Indi.ana . Sentinel " in iaS2; was
tm member of tho .State House of Representatives
toSil-lSii!. sorviiii; the last year as 8|K'aker; was
f!ntnd m:ister of Freemasons in Ohio In 18;!7; was
elected a ri'j>resent4ilive frf^n Indiana in the Twcnty-
eitrbth Congress as a W^hig, receiving 4.007 votes
■gainst :J,442 votes for C. H. Test, Democrat; was
riM lecled to the Twenty-ninth Congress; was re-
elected to the Thirtieth Congress, receiving 4,088
vut«s against 3,540 votes for Tost, Democrat, serving
from December 4, 184^,, to March 3, 1840; was a
presidential elector on the Hamson and Tyler ticket
in 1841; was ap|Hiinted by President Taylor a member
of the coniniission for investigating tlie claims of
American citizens against Mexico; removed to Cin-
cinnati, where he practised his profession; was a
presidential elector on the Fri^mont ticket in 185tl;
was appointed by Presiilent Lincoln secretary of the
interior, aerving from March 5. 18(11, until Deeetn-
ber, 18i!2. when he resigned, having been appointed
United-States judge for the tlistrict of Indiana; died
at Indianapolis, Indiana, J.inuary 8, 1804.
Smith, Charles, was elecle<l a representative
from Louisiana in tho Thirty-ninth Congress, but
dill not take his seat.
Smith, Daniel, was one of the earliest settlors
in Tennessi'e; was appointed by President Washing-
ton secretary of tho territory south of the Ohio River
J.Himary 7, 1700; was a getieral of militia; was ap-
pointed a United-States senator from Tennessee (iu
place of Andrew Jackson, resigned), serving from
December 3. 1798. to March 3, 1700; was elected a
senator from Tennessee, serving from December 2,
18ii;'i. to 18(10. when he resigned: died in July, 1818.
Smith, Delazon, was l)oni at New Berlin, New
York: received a classical education, graduating at
the nberlin Collegiate Institute of Ohio in l.s;j7;
studied law. and was admitted to the bar. but l)e-
came editor of " Tlic True Jeffersonian " at RiM.dies-
ter. New York, and sulis<«]uuntly of "' The Western
Empire" at Dayton, Ohio; was apiminted by Presi-
dent Tyler special commiaaioncr to Quito; removed
to Iowa Territory in 1840, and became a licensed
Methodist-Episcopal preacher; removed from there
to Oregon Territory in I8.'j2; w.as a memlH-r of tho
Territorisil House of Representatives in 18."»4- 185(5;
was a delegate to the convention that framed a .State
Constitution in 1857; was electe<1 one of tlie first
United-States senators from Oregon as a Democrat,
serving from Febniary 14. 18.')0, to Man-h ."J, 1850;
died at Portland, On'goii. Novemlier 17, 1800.
Smith, Ed'ward Henry, wiis \mm at Smith-
town, Long Island, in IsOil; received a public-school
educ.ilion; waa reared a farmer, and engaged in agri-
cultural pursuits; was elected a rejjresentatlve from
New York in the Tliirty-.soventh Coiign'ss as a
Fusion candidate, receiving 11.8,82 votes against
1(),(V!1 votes for Carter, Republican, servitig from
July 4, 1801. to March 3. 1803.
Smith, Francis O. J., was bom In Maine
(then a part of M:is8achusett8); received an wademic
education; studied law; w.is admitted to the bar,
and commenced practice at Portland; w.is a memiier
of the State House of Representatives in 18:51 ; was a
member of the State Senate in 183.3, and its presi-
dent: was elected a representative from Maine in the
Twenty-lliird Congress as a Democrat, defeating
Si'wall and Worthiiigton, both Democrats; was re-
elected to the Twenty-fourth Congn;ss, receiving 304
majority; and was re-elected to the Twcnty-lifth
Congress, 8er>ing frf)m December 2, 1833, to March
3, 18;JU; was defeated as t!ie Whig candidate for the
Twenty-sixth Congress by Albert Smith, Democrat;
was deteate<l as the flrlilg candidate for clerk of the
House in the Twenty-seventh Congress, although tho
Whig candidate for speaker of the House w.is ciiosen ;
was prominently engaged in introducing electric tele-
graidis: dieil at Deering, Maitie, in 1870.
Smith, Gteorge, was elected a representative
from Pennsylvania in the Eleventh Congress; was
re-elected tothe Twelfth Congress, serving from May
22, l.S<«>. to Man-h 3, 1813.
Smith, George L., was bom in Hillsborough
County, New Hampshire, Deceml>er 11. 1840; received
a collegiate education; 8er>'cd in the Union army;
settled in Louisiana at the close of the war. and en-
gaged in mercantile business; was elected a member
of the General Assembly of Louisiana in 1870 and
1871, and re-electe<l in 1872; was proprietor of "The
Shreveport South- Western Telegram;" is president
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COXGKESSIONAL SIBBCTOBT.
of the ShreyepoTt SaTinga Bank and Trust Company;
was elected a representative from Louisiana in the
Forty-third Congress as a Republican (to fill the
vacancy caused oy the death of Samuel Peters, mem-
ber elect) without opposition, receiving 13,807 votes,
and took his seat December 4, 1873, serving to Marcli
3, 1875.
Smith, Gherrit, was bom at Utlca, Xew York,
March 6, 1797; received a classical education, gradu-
ating-at Hamilton College in 1818; studied law, but
did not then enter into general practice, his time
being taken up with the management of the large
landed estate which he inherited; he identified him-
self with the Antislavery party in 1853, and was then
admitted to the bar; was elected a representative
from New York in the Thirty-third Congress as an
Ultra Abolitionist, receiving 8,049 votes against 0,206
votes for Hough, Democrat, and 5,620 votes for
Ten Eycic, Whig, serving from December 5, 1853, to
1854, when he resigned; his mind was somewhat
troubled after the arrest of John Brown; he died at
New York December 28, 1874. He published " Ser-
mons and Speeches," "Theologies," "Nature the
Base of a Free Theology," " The Beligion of Eev
son," and many political and antislavery tracts and
speeches.
Smith, Qreen Clay (son of John Speed Smith),
was bom at Bichmond, Kentucl^, July 2, 1830; re-
ceived a classical education, graduating at Transyl-
vania University in 1849; studied law; was admitted
to the bar in 1852, and commenced practice ; was a
school commissioner 1863-1857; served in the Mexi-
can war as second lieutenant in Humphrey Marshall's
Kentucky Mounted Volunteers June, 1846-July, 1847;
entered the Union army in 1861 as colonel of the
Fourth Kentucky Cavalry; was appointed brigadier-
general in 1802, and major-general in 1863; was
elected a representative from Kentucky in the Thirty-
eighth Congress as a Union candidate, receiving 6,936
votes against 2,283 votes for Menzies, Democrat, and
1,970 votes for Leathers, Democrat; and was re-elect-,
ed to the Thirty-ninth Congress, receiving 7,666 votes
against 6,421 votes for A. H. Ward, Democrat, serv-
ing from December 7, 1863, to 1868, when he re-
signed, having been appointed by President Johnson
governor of Montana, which position he filled until
ISOV); became a preacher in the Baptist Church.
Smith, H. Boaxdman, was bom at Whiting-
bam, Vermont, August 18, 1826; graduated at Wil-
liams College, Massachusetts, in 1847 ; studied law, and
practises; was appointed by the governor of New York
judge of the Chemune-county courts in September,
18.J9, and, in the following November, was elect-
ed to the same office; and was elected a representa-
tive from New York in the Forty-second Congress as
a Kepublican, receiving 16,276 votes against 13,352
votes for liobinson, Democrat; was re-elected to the
Forty-third Congress, receiving 13,284 votes against
10,4^1 votes for R. U. Sherman, Liberal and Demo-
crat, serving from March 4,' 1871, to March 3, 1875.
Smith, Isaao, vras bom in New Jersey ; received
a chtssical education, graduating at Princeton Col-
lege in 1755; was a tutor in that college ; studied law;
was admitted to the bar, and commenced practice;
was elected a representative from New Jersey in the
Fourth Congress as a Federalist, serving from Decem-
ber 7, 1795, to March 3, 1797; was appointed by
Presideot Wasliington a commissioner to negotiate a
treaty with the Seikeca Indians ; was a judge of the
Superior Court of New Jersey; died in 1807.
Smith, Isaao, was bom in Pennsylvania; was
elected a representative from Pennsylvania In the
Thirteenth Congress as a Democrat, serving from
May 24, 1813, to March 2, 1815.
Smith, Israel, was born in Connecticut April 4,
175U; received a classical education, graduating at
Yale College in 1781; studied law; was admitted
to the bar, and commenced practice at Rupert, Ver-
mont, remoring subsequently to Rutland; was a
member of the State House of .B^reie&tatlves; was
a dele^te to the oonvention that adopted the Fedenl
Constitution in 1791; was elected a representatiTe
from Vermont in the Second Congress as a Democrat;
was re-elected to the Third and Fourth Congresses,
serving from October 24, 1791, to March 2, 1793; was
appointed chief justice of Uie Supreme Conrt in 17117;
was again elected to the Seventh Congress, serving
from December 7, 1801, to March 3, 1803; was elected
a United-States senator from Vermont, serving from
October 17, 1803, to 1807, when he resigned to serve
as governor of Vermont 1807-1808; was a presiden-
tial elector in 1809; died at Rutbind, Vermont, De-
cember 2, 1810.
Smith, James, was bom in Ireland in 1730;
came to the United States with his father in 17:!9;
received a public-school education; studied lav;
was admitted to the bar, and commenced practice at
Shippenport, but afterward removed to York; was
active in pre-Revolutionary movements, and in 1 1 14
raised the first volunteer company in Pennsylvania
for the purpose of resisting Great Britain; was a del-
egate to the Pennsylvania Convention of January,
1775; was a member of the Continental Congress
1776-1778; was a member of the State House of Kep-
resentatives in 1780; died at York, Pennsylvania,
July 11, 1806. He published an "Essay on the Con-
stitutional Power of Great Britain over the Cokmies
in America."
Smith, James S., was bom in Orange County,
North Carolina; studied medicine, and practised at
Hillsborough; was elected a representaUve in the
Fifteenth and Sixteenth Congresses as a Democrat,
serving from Decemlier 1, 1817, to March 3, 1821;
was a member of the House of Commons of North
Carolina in 1821.
Smith, Jedediah K., was bom in New Hamp-
shire in 1770; received an academical education;
studied law; was admitted to the bar, and practised;
was elected a representative from New Hampshire in
the Tenth Congress, serving from October 2t}, 1S)'>7,
to March 3, 1809 ; was judge of the Court of Common
Pleas for Hillsborough County; was a State coun-
cillor; died in 1828.
Smith, Jeremiah, was t>om at Peterborongh,
New Hampshire, November 29, 1759; served in the
Revolutionary army, and was wounded iu the battle
of Bennington ; received a classical education;
graduated at Rutgers College, New Jersey, in 17S0;
studied law ; was admitted to the bar, and com-
menced practice at Dover, New Hampshire; wa
elected a representative from New Hampshire in
the Second Congress as a Federalist; was re-elected
to the Third, Fourth, and Fifth Congresses, serving
from October 24, 1791, to 1797, when he resigned:
was United-States attorney for the district of" New
Hampshire 1798-1800; was appointed by President
John Adams judge of the United-States Circuit
Court, but did not accept the office; was a presi-
dential elector in 1809; was governor of New Hamp-
shire 1809-1810; was for several years chief justice
of the State Superior Court; died at Dover, Septem-
ber 21, 1842. He pubUshed " Sketch of Judge Caleb
Ellis.''
Smith, John, was bom at Brookhaven, New
York ; was a member of the State House of Repre-
sentatives 1734-1799; was elected a representative
from New York jn the Fifth Congress (In the place
of Jonathan N. Haven, deceased) as a Democrat,
receiving 1,599 votes against 1,098 votes for S. Wood,
F^eralut, and 150 scattering; was re-elected to the
Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Congresses, serving from
Febraary 6, 1799, to Febmaty 23, 1801, when he took
his seat as a United-States senator from New York (in
place of De Witt Clinton, reoimed ), serving to March
3, 1813; was appointed by President Madison in
1813 United-States marshal for the district of New
York; died at Brookhaven, New York, August 9,
1816.
Smith, John, was bom in Virginia; waa elected
a i^resentatiTe ixom Viiginia in -the SeTenth Con-
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OS a Democrat; was re-elected lo the Eighth,
Xluth, Teiilh, Eleventh, Twelfth, and Thirte<nith
CongreMeg, serving from December 7, ISOl, to March
3, ISIS ; died in March, 1830.
Smith, John, was bora in 1735; was elected one
of the Hrst Uniled-Stutes geuatdre from Ohio as a
Demticrat, serving fmm .Vpril il, I.Sil.3, to Ffbruary
23, ISUS, when he resiiJineil; he had been charged
witli having been connected with Burr and Blen-
iierliasset, and a motion was made in the Senate to
expel him. but it (ailed by one vote, and he then re-
signed; died July 10. 1810.
Smith, John, was bom at Barre. Massachusptfs,
August 14, 17>iU; n'ceived ii iniblif-Bcliool educatum;
removed wht'n a boy to St. Albans, Vennnnt; 8tudie<l
law; was admitted to the bar in liSlO. iind commenced
practice; was St.Ht«"s allomi'y for Franklin County
1820-1S32; was a mcmlwr of the General Assembly
for nine snccissivc years, serving as speaker in 1K51,
1S32, and ISiW; was elected a representative from
Vermont in tlie Tweuty-siith Conoxess as a Demo-
crat l)y4(J0 majority, sen-ing from December 2, IS-'JO,
to March :i, IKll ; was a candidate for re-election.
but was defeated by Augustus Young. Whig, who re-
ceived Liiij majority; resumed practice, and a few
yeara afterwards l)ccamc interested in railroad pro-
jects; died at St. Albans, Vermont, November 20,
1S3S.
Smith, John A., was bom at Hillslx>rougb,
Ohio, Septenilier 2;l. 181-1; gnuliuifed at Miami Uni-
Tersitv; studied and practised law; was a member of
the Ohio legislature in 1841 and 1S42; w.is a mt'ml)cr
of llie State Constitutional Convention of Ohio in
1851; was elected a representative from Ohio in the
Forty-first Congress as a Republican ; was re-<-'lected
to the Forty-second Congress, receiving 12,1D0 votes
a^nst 11,827 votes for .1. W. Denver, Democrat, and
320 votes for Loudon. Inde[>endent candidate, serv-
ing from March 4, I8HSI. to March 3, 1873.
Smith, John Ambler, was bom at Village
View, near Diuwidilie Court House, Virginia, Sep-
tember £), 1847; w:is educated at David Turners
high school at Iliclimond. Virginia; studied law;
was adrailted to tlie bar in 1R17. and practises his
profession : was appointed in 1S«!,H commissioner in
chancery of the courts of Kichmond, and was ("om-
luonwe<h attorney of Charles-City and New-Kent
Ckiunties for one year; was elected fo the .State
Senate of Virginia us a Republican in ISSOU. and was
elected a representative from Virginia in the Forty-
tJiird Congress as a Republican, receiving 1.'}.0S2
votes against r2,ril4 voles for (•. D. Wise, Democrat,
scrviiii; in>m Decemlx-r I. 1873, to March 3, 1875;
practised law at W.a-ihini^on City.
Smith, John Cotton, waJs Iwm at Sharon,
Connecticut. Febriian,' 12. 17l>5; received a classical
education, griuluating at Yale College in 17S;J:
studied l.iw; was admitted to the V>ar in 1780. and
commenced practice at Sharon; Wiis a member of
flie State House of Representatives 17l«. 171N1-18U0,
•eiring the last year as siieaker: was elected a rcj)-
resentative from Connecticut in the Sixth Congress
(in place of Jonathan Bnu'e. resigned) as a Federalist ;
was re-elected lo the Seventh, Ki;;hth, and Ninth
Congresses, serving fmm November 17, 18iK), to Au-
cust. 18<Hi. when he resigned; w.is a lucnibcr of the
ftortliem -Society of Anti<iuarians in Conenhjigen.
and of the Connecticut Historical Society; was one
ef the original vice-presidents of the American Bible
Society; was a judge of the Supreme Court In 18iK».
lieutenant-governor in islii, ami govern<ir of Con-
necticut in'lHl.l-l.si.s: died at Sliaron, Connecticut,
DecemU-r 7, 184.'>. His " Kulogy." l)y Rev. W. W. i
Andrews. Iw-fore the C'onnecticul Ilistorlcal Society, j
was pnblisle-d in 1847.
Smith, John Q., was boni In Warren County. I
Ohio, Novfinlierii, 1S24; was educate<l at the com-
Mwn schools; is a farmer; was a member of the I
■Rate Senate of Ohio in IHtio-lwil. and 1872-1873;
iraa a member of the Ohio House of Keptcseutatives I
in 1802 and 180.3; and w.is elected a representative
fnim Ohio in the Forty-third Congres's as a Repub-
lican, n^ceivlng 14.(>2)» votes a^insl 13.7i)0 votes (or
John W. Sohn. Liberal, serving from December 1,
1873, fo March 3, 1875.
Smith, John Speed (father of Green Clay
.Smith), was born in Jessamine County, Kentucky,
July 31, 171)2; received a public-school cilucation;
served in the campaigns against the Indians umbT
General Harrison, whose aide-<le-camp he was at
the battle of the Thames in 1813; was a member of
the State House of Representatives in ISlll; was
elected a representative from Kentucky in the Seven-
teenth Congress OS a Deinocral, receiving 1.031
majority over Stephen Richardson, servuig from
Di'cember 3, 1821, to March .3, 1823; serveil several
tenns as a memlier of the Slate House of Repre-
sentatives, .and was speaker in 1827; was ap|H>inied
by I'ri'sideiit Jai;kson United-.State8 attorney for the
district of Kentucky; was (or several ye.-ii-s Slate
8U|H!rintendent of public works of Kentucky; died
at Richmond. Kentucky, June 0, lSo4.
Smith, John T., was bom at Phil.idelphia,
Pennsylvania; was elected a representative from
Pennsylvania in the Twenty-eighth Congress as a
Democrat. P'ceiving 8ijl majority, serving (n>m De-
cember 4. I'vli. to March 3. 184.').
Smith, Jonathan B., was b<im at Philadel-
phia: n'ceive<l a classical education, graduating at
Princeton College in 1700; was a delegate from
Pennsylvania to the Continental Guugfess 1777-
177S.
Smith, Joseph S., was bom in Fayette County,
Pennsylvania. Juno 2iJ, 1824; received a common-
school education; studied and practi!!e<l law; in 18.')5
he was prosecuting-attomey of the Third JudiciiU
District of Washington Territory; was afterwanls
elected to the legislature, and was speaker of the
House of Representatives of tliat Territory: under
President Buchaniurs administration, was Unitcd-
.States district-attorney for Washington Territory for
two years, but resigned on his removal to Oregon ;
w.os electeil a representative from OreK»in in the
Forty-first Congress as a Democrat, receiving 11.780
votes against lO.S.'^t) votes for Logan, Republican,
serving from March 4, 18»11), to March ;j, 1871.
Smith, Josiah, was bom at Pembroke, Mnssa-
clius<'lts, in 174o; received a classical education,
graduating at Harvard College in 1774; studied law;
was admitted to the bar, and commenced prac-
tice; was a member of the .SLite House of Represen-
tatives; was elected a representative fiimi Massa-
chusetts in the Seventh Congress, serving from
December 7, 18tll, tti March 3, 18»»;l; returning from
Washington, he took the small-pox wliile passing
through New York, and died after his arrival at
hr.me, .March 28, 1803.
Smith, Melancthon, was bom at New York :
was a delegate from New York lo the Continental
Congre-ss I'i^V-nf^S; was a member of the State House
of Rei)resentatives 171*2.
Smith, Merriwether, was bom In Essex Coun-
ty, Virginia; rc^ceived an academical education; was
for many yejirs a meml)er of the Colonial, and subse-
quently tlie State, House of Ileprcs^^ntatives; was a
(lelegate to the Revolutionary Conventions of 1775 and
1770; was a delegate to the State Convention that
adopted the Federal Constitution; was a delegate
from Virginia to the Continental Congress 1778-1782;
died at an advanced iige.
Smith, Nathan, w.-is bom at Roxbury, Con-
neclicut. in 1770: received a classical e<lucation;
studied law at the Litchfield LawScho<jl; was admit-
ted to the bar. and prsictised at New Haven; was a
member of the State House of Representatives for
several years; w.as .State's attorney for New-Haven
County: was a delegate to the Hartfcjrd Convention
of Fedendists in 1.814; was United-States attorney
for the district of Connecticut; waselecti-d a Uidted-
St«tcs senator from Comiecticut as a Whig, sen'iug
680
CONGRESSIONAL DmECTOBT.
frcmi Decenil>er S, 1833, to December 6, 1035, when
lie (lieil M WiisliinKloii.
Smith, Nathaniel, was bom at Woodbiiry,
Conin-cliiiit. .l;ii)U!iry H, 17112; rrcehod :i publlf-
Bcliodl iMliiculioii; stiiflioj law; was ailiiiitlo<l to the
bar ill 17S0, nii'l cinniiiciiceil prariicp at, Woodbury;
wus n niemhcr iit diKcreiit tinios of the btati* Senate
aiiil lloutp of UoprrsiMiliitivis; was elected a repre-
sentiilivo from Connecticut in tli>- Fourth (.'onarcn*
as a Federalist: was re-tdccled to ihc Fifth Congrcs's.
w-rving from l)creinlnT 7, 171i5. to March :}, J7'.ill;
was a jmlgc of the Su|ircme Court of Connecticut
17(11-18111; died ut Wwxlbur)-, Connecticut, March
l>, 1S22.
Smith, O'Brien, was elected a representative
from South Carolina in the Ninth ConjircBS. serving
from iJicemlierJ. m^o, to Man'h :5. 1807.
Smith, Oliver Hampton, was born near Tren-
ton, New Jersey. t.)ct oIkt 2^ , 17!M; removed to Indi-
ana in 1817; received a public-school education:
studied law; was admitted to the bar, and commenced
Sraclice at Indianapolis; was a mcmlier of the State
[ouse of I{<'pres<'iit»tivc8 in 1822; was prowi'culini;-
attorney for the Third .Judicial District in 1H24 ami
182.'); was elected a representative from Indiana in
the Twentieth Congress as a .Jackson Uemocrat. re-
ceiving 1,371 majority over Katclill Uoon, Clay Dem-
ocrat, serving from December :i, 1827, to March 3.
18251; was defeated by Kjitclifl liwai as a caudidate
tov the Twentieth Congress; was elecK'd a L'nited-
I Stales senator from Indiana ;is a \Vliig, semn^ from
September 4. IK;{7. to Miirch 3, 1*4:J; d.'cllncd'ln 184")
to bo the Whig candidate for K"venior of Indiana;
died at Indianapolis, Indiana, M.irch It), 184i). lie
publislie<i " Kecolleciions of Congressional Life."
Smith, Perry, was boni at Washington, Con-
necticut: received a classical education; studieil law
at the Litchtield LmIw School: w.as admitted to the
bar in 1807, and commenced practic*.- at New Milford,
Connecticut; was for four years a member of the
Stale House of Representatives ; was judge of probate
for Litchtield County for two years; w.is elected a
L'niled-States senator from Coiuiecticut as a Demo-
crat, serving from Septemlier 4, 18:i7, to March 3,
184:i; died at New Milfonl, Connecticut, In 1852.
Smith, R. Barnwell, was elected a representa-
tive from South Carolina in the Thirty-seventh Con-
gress. He had his niunc changed in September,
1S;J7, by the Court of Equity, to 1{. Barnwell Itliett,
to inherit a legacy, to the jiossession of which thi-
assinnption of the name of Rhelt was made obli-
gatory.
Smith, Richard, was a delegate from New Jer-
sey to the Continental Congress 1774-17711.
Smith, Robert, was bom at Peterborough. New
naihpbhire. .lune 12, 1S<)2; received a public-school
education; was reared on a fanii; removed to Alton,
Illinois, in 1S;}2; was a memlwr of the State House
of Keprescntjitives 1830-1840; was onrolling-<derk of
that House 1840-1.S43; was elected a representative
from Illinois in the Twenty-eighth Congress as a
Democrat, receiving 1,778 majority; was re-elected
to the Twenty-ninth Congress, receiving 4.()t'>l ma-
jority; was re-elected to the Tliirlieth Congress, re-
ceiving 1,1*1)1 majorily over Trumbull, regularly nom-
inated Democrat, sening fr<mi December 4. 184.3. to
March .3, 184(t; was again elected to the Thirty-lift h
Congress, receiving 11,2111 votes against 7..')12" voles
for Lansing. Hepublican, sen-ing from December 7,
1S.J7. to March 3, 1S.M); served in the Union anuy as
paym.aster; died at Altoti, Illinois, December 21,
1807.
Smith, Samtiel, was bom In L.inc^ster Coun-
ty, I'emisylv.mla, .July 27, 17.'>2; received a public-
school education; entered his father's counting-room
at IJaltimore, and in 1771 visiteii Europe as a super-
cargo of one of his father's vessels; served gallantly
in the Kevolutionary w.ar as ciptain. major, and
colonel, receiving several wounds; Wfts a member of
the Stale legislattire; was elected a represeutativc
'B--*
from Maryland Iti thcTlilrd Congress n$ n TlfTnivnt"
and was re-elected to the Foiirtt. I
.Seventh Congresses, wrving from 1
to Mairh 3, 18<i;!; was elei'led a I'm
from Maryland, serving from iki'
Maix-h 2, isl.^; coiumanded the ^1 >
the successful defence of Ilallini-
.tgain electiil a represi'iitative (in pl '
Moon;, resigned). Serving from {•"■■l.i lury 4. i. li>, uij
DeceniU'r 17, 1822, when he iurain t>M>k. bis »rit a^
Senator (in place of William !' ' '
serving to Man-h 2, 183:5; in !
the citizens of Daltimore to ori.
down a mob which bad (MissesAiou ut die city; irii
electe<l mayor of lialtunore. and died there rrrjrtud-
denly April 'JS. lK3ii.
Smith, Samuel, w.as elected a rciiresenlative
from IVunsylvania in the Ninth Cr.'-'r-r — ■ v.t« n^
electcil to the Tenth and Eleventh ' -. wr;-
ing from December 2. lS<t.>, to Jlanli
Smith, Samuel, was lK>ni at 1'.
New Hampshire, in 1707; received a !•
education: was reared on a farm; '
factuiiTof paper: was elected a n ]
New Hampshire In the Thirteenth ' . -
" Peace " ticket headed by Daniel Wet>»t.
18,.W1) votes ag.ainst l.j,i)27 votes for J. Ji i
Democrat, serving from M.iy 24. 181:1. to il;u> li ;,
181o; died ut Peterborough, New Uouipshire, Janu-
ary 17, 1842.
Smith, Samuel A., was Ixmi in Pennsykinia;
resided at Doylestown; was elected a neprest'ntatiii!
from Pennsylvania in the Twenty-first CongnjMss i
Jackson Democrat ; wos re-elected to the Twrnlj-
second Congress, serving from December 7, 1829, la
March 2. 18.3:!.
Smith, Samuel A., was liom in Monroe Ciiuii-
ty, Tennessee. June 20, 1822; was reared on a farm;
received a public-school education; taught sch'xJ
while he studied law; was admitted t<.i the lar In
lS4o, and commence<i practice at Charleston, Ttai-
nossee; was State's attorney for the Tliinl Judicial
Circuit 184o-lS4*t; was a delegate to the National
Democratic Convention at Battituore in 1848: wo
defeated as a presidential elector on the Cass bivI
ISutlcr ticket in 184S, and on the Pierce ar.d Ki;r.'
ticket in 1852; was electeil a reprcseii'
Tennessee in the Tliirty-third Congrcs.'^
crat. receiving 7,7*'»3 votes against 0,18(1 V'
Dyke, ^\^lig; was re-elected to the Thirty
grcss. n.'ceiving 7,872 voli» against 7,:jJl
Ajidcrson, American; was ro-elected to llie I'Lirn-
fifth Congress, receiving 7,002 votes agiaiist l;.^^<•
votes for ileiskell, American, serv ing from Decciul»r
5, l.Si!»;i, to March 3, 1859; was appointed by I'n/»i-
ilent Buchanan commissioner of the Generil L»ml
Office, scrv ilig from January 18, 1800, to February 12,
18<V). when he n^signed.
Smith, Thomas, was bom in Scotland; immi-
grated to the United .States at an early age. ami
located at Bedford, Pennsylvania, February !>. I'lS;
W.1S deputy-surveyor, prothonotary. clerk of tbt- vi-
sions, and county-recorder; served in ib" !:•><:-
tioiiiiry war as colonel of militia; was a
the .Stale Constitutional Convention in :
inemlier of the Slate House of Kepj •
a mcmlN?r of the Continental Con
W.1S president-judge of his judicial o -
17114; was judge of the Sui)r<;nie Court ■
vauia 17D4-I801); died at Bedford, IVl,
June Hi, 18011.
Smith, Thomas, was elected a representatlw
from Pennsylvania in the Fourteenth C' I '
Federalist, receiving 802 majority, senin.
cenibcr 4, 1815. to March 3, 1817.
Smith, Thomas, was bom in Peni
1S(.)0; removed to Indiana when a boy; v
ticed to a tanner at Kising .Sun; received a puUu-
scliool education; removed to Versailles, Indiuui;
was a member of the State Senate; has elected •
STATISTICAL SKETCHES.
631
kreprpsentatlve from Indiana In the Twenty-sixth
|Cougress as a Democrat. sLTviiig from Di'ci.-nilj«r 2,
ISly. to Marcli 3, 1841 ; wiis ilefealtrd us the Ueuii>-
atic cutiilidate for the Twenty-sevonth t'oiiftri'ss;
kvaa again olect<Ml to the Tweuly-eiglith C'onijrL'ss,
ITeceiviug T.O'Jl rotes against U,7ii(i votes for Mntson,
IWUig; was re-elected to the Twenty-ninth Congress,
►•erring from l)t?eeml>er 4, 1S4;J, to Marcli 3. liiUt.
Smith, Trtiman, was liom at Iloxburj-, Con-
^nccticiit, Noveinlier :i7. 17111 ; received a classical
olucation, gniduating at Yale College in 1»<1.');
stmlieil law: was admitted to the bar in 1818, and
» commenced practice at Litchlield, Connecticut ; was
ft member of tlie Stat43 IIousc of liepresentatives in
1831. 1*12, and 1*14; was elected a representative
from Connecticut in the Twenty-sixth Congress as a
Whig, ruceiving 3.0S8 votes against 3,52(1 votes for
Charles U. Phelps, Democrat; was re-electeil to the
Twent) -seventh Congress, receiving 838 majority,
ing from December 2, 1831>, to March 3, IS+J;
a pr>>sidential elector on the Clay and Frcling-
ticliet ill 1844; was again elected to the
enty-niuth Congress; was ren'lectcd to the Tliir-
Itieth Congress, serving from December 1, 184."), to
'arch 3, 184S»; was elected a United-.Slate8 senator
m Connecticut, serving from December 3, 1S4!I. to
pril 11, 1854, when he resi<;ned; removed to New
Tork; wu« appointwl by President Lincoln Judice of
the Slave-triido Court under the treaty with Great
Britain of 18<'1', and held the p<jsition until the court
Vras alxilitiheil.
Smith, Williiun, was bom In Maryland In
1730; was an anient supporter of the Revolution;
■was II delegate to the Continental Congress from
Uarylaiid 1777-1778; was elected a representalivo
from Maryland in the First Congress as a Federalist,
eiTing from March 4, 17^9, to March 3. 17U1; was
.ppointed by President Washington auditor of the
treasury July It). 17!U-Noveinber 28, 17111; was a
K residential elector on the Washington ticket in 1792;
led at, Haltiinore March 27, 1814.
Smith, William, was boni in South Carolina;
pceivid a cl.isslcal edncatiou; was elected a repre-
entutive from the Pinckney District of South Caroli-
a as a Federalist in the First Congress; and was
^^^-elected to the Second, Third, Fourth, and Fifth
Coniiresses, serving from May 25, 178il. to July 10,
ni>7. when he resigned, having been appointed miii-
" Iter to Portugal, sening until Septcnibcr 0, 18<(1;
ie<l on Ills plantation in South Carolina in 1812.
pc published " A Comparativ<' View of the Consti-
tutiiins of the States and of the United States," a
lamphlet against the protensicuis of Jefferson to the
iresidcncy, and an address to his constituents. His
|)ee<hes and letters to his constituents were rejmb-
Ushed ill London In 1705.
Sm.ith, William, wiis b<.>m In North Caro-
lina In 17iI2. but migrated to Tork District, .South
Carolina, when very young and poor; received a
classical education, gra<luating at the Mount-Zion
"College, Winnsborough; studied law; was atlmitled
tlia bar at Charleston January 0, 1784, and com-
enced practice in York District; was for several
rs a member of the State Uouse of Keprcsenta-
iives, and a State senator 1806-1808, when he was
elected judge; was electe<l a representative from
South Carolina in the Fifth Congress as a Democrat,
•er\'iiig from May 15, 171*7. to March 3, 171KI; was
elected a I'nited-States senator (to fill a vi«:ancy
occasioned by the resignation of John T.iylor) as a
Democrat, and was re-elected in 1817, serving from
January 10, 1817, to March .3, 1823; was the Union
ndidatc for re-election, but was defeated by R. Y.
^ayne, Nullifier; was again elected a senator (to lill
vacancy occasioneil by the death of John (JailhirdI,
■crving fniin 182(! to Slarrli 3, IS'il ; was the Union
eanilldate for re-i^lection, but w.ts defeated by S. D.
Miller, Nullifier; he was twice elected president pro
tempore of the Senate; he was offered and declined
Ulie appointment of jiidge of the Supreme Court of
the TJnited States; In 1820 lie received the seven
electoral votes of Georgia for Vice-President; differ-
ing with Mr. Calhomi on the r|Uestioii of ntillilica-
tloii, he removed to Uuntsville. Alabama, In IKI;]; he
declined the appointment of as.soelate justice of the
Supreme Court of the United Stales tendered lilni by
President J.ickson In WW; he was a member of the
State legislature of Alabama IS-S-VhSIl); owning
protitable plantations in Abbam.-i, Mississippi, ainl
Louisian.a, he was a millionnaire; and he died at
Uuntsvill.' June JiJ. 18-10.
Smith, William, was boni at Chesterfield. Vir-
ginia; resided at Louisburg; was elected a represen-
tative from Virginia in the .Seventeenth Congress,
receiving 282 majority over Jmiies Wilson; was re-
elected to the Eighteenth Congress, receiving 100
majority over Leftwich; an<l was re-elecl<'d to the
Nineteenth Congress, receiving 85 majority over
Thomas Marshall, serving from December 3, 1821, to
March 3, 1827.
Smith, William, was Imni In King George
County, Virginia, September 0. 1707; received an
academic education: studied law; was admitted to
the bar, and commenced practice at Culjjcprier Court
Ilotise; established a line of mail-coailies from
Wusbington City to Milledgeville, Georgia; was a
meiaber of the State legislature in 18.'K1 mid In 18'10;
was elected a representative from Virginia in the
Twenty-seventh Congress (having sncces^fully con-
tested the election of Linn Banks) as a Deim crat,
ser\'lng from December «. 1841. to March 3, 1843;
was governor of Virginia 1845-184t>; was again elect-
ed to the Thirty-third Congress, receiving 4,223 lotes
Tinst 3,031 votes for .Snowden, Whig; was re-elect-
to the Thirty-fourth Congress, receiving no ojipiv
sition; was re-elected to the Thirty-fifth Congress,
receivhig h,'M2 votes against !},W1 votes for Snowden,
Ajnerican; was re-elected to the niirty-sLxth Con-
gress, receiving 5,147 votes against 4.845 votes for
Tlioni.TS, Opposition, and 4;50 votes for ShackclfonI,
Independent Democnit, serving from DecemU'r o,
185;!, to March 3, 1801; was a repres<'ntativc from
Virginia in tlie First Confederate Congress, serving
from February 22, 1802, to August 12, 186:5, when ho
resicned to accept a brigadier-general's commission
in the Confederate anny; was promoted to the nuik
of major-general August 13, 1803, and resigned De-
cember 31, 1803; was governor of Virginia frijm
January 1, 1804, until the overthrow of the Confed-
eracy.
Smith, William Alexander, was bom in
Warren County, North Carolina, January' 0, 1828;
received a public-school education; was a fanner;
was a member of the Secession Convention of North
Carolina in 1801, of the State li!gislature in ISi'A, of
the Constitutional Convention in 18i 5, of the State
•Senate in 187"; was elected president of the North-
Canjlliia Railroad in 1808, and of the Yadkin-
Ulver Railroad; was elected a representative from
North Carolina in the Forty-third Congress as a
Republican, receiving 13,871) voles against 1:3,140
votes for S. H. Rogers, Democrat, sening from
December 1, ls73. to March 3. 1.875.
Smith, William E., was born at Augusta,
Geonjia. March 14, 1829; received an academical
education; studied law; was admitted to the bar in
May, 1848, under a special act of the legislature, and
practised; wjis also a planter; was electid ordinary
of Dougherty County, Georgia, In I8.'i3; was elected
solicitor-general of the South-west Circuit in 1858,
and the same year was apptiinted by Governor Brown
to fili the unexpired term of John VV. Evans; was
nominated as the candidate of the Union party In
Dougherty County for the State Convention in 1800,
but declined in favor of Lott Warren ; entered the
Coiifederati! anny as a volunteer in the Fourth
Georgia Volunteers after the State seceded; was
elected captain in April, 18<i2; lost a leg in the de-
fence of lUchmond at King's School House June 25,
1802; was elected to the Coufederato Congress iu
632
COKOBESSIOKAI. DIBB0TQB7.
1863; was tendered the office of circalt-judge in 1874
by Gtovemor Smith, but declined ; was elected a rep-
resentative from (Jeorgia In the Forty-fourth Con-
gress as a Democrat, receiving 12,108 votes against
9,789 votes for R. H. Whiteley, Bepnbiican; was
re-elected to the Forty-flfth Congress, receiving
13,027 votes against 8,015 votes for R. H. Whiteley,
Eenublican^serving from Deceml)er 6, 1875.
Smith, William J., was bom at Birmingham,
England, September 24, 1823; came to the United
States when very young; received a good public-
school education; learned the painter's trade in Go-
shen, Orange County, New York; removed to the
South in 1846; joined a Tennessee regiment at the
commencement of the war with Mexico, and served
until its close; was engaged in painting at Memphis
for ten years, and then went into the horticultural
business in Hardeman County; at the commence-
ment of the Rebellion he was persecuted and arrested
on account of his devotion to the Union cause, and,
after his release, he acted as guide for the Federal
troops ; he enlisted as a private in the First West-
Tennessee Cavalry, afterwards re-organized as the
Sixth Tennessee Cavalry, and was promoted through
the different grades until he became brevet brigadier-
Smeral; was a member of the State Constitutional
onvention; was a member of the S^te House of
Representatives, serving for two years and a half,
and was then elected to the State Senate; was elect-
ed a representative from Tennessee in the Forty-
first Congress, receiving 6,303 legal votes against
4,082 votes for Leftwich, Democrat, and 2,439 votes
for Nunn, Independent Republican, serving from
March 4, 1869, to March 3, 1871.
Smith, William N. H., was bom at Mnrfrees-
borough. North Carolina, September 24, 1812; re-
ceived a classical education, graduating at Yale Col-
lege in 1834; studied law in Kew Haven for two
years; was admitted to the bar iu 1839, and com-
menced practice at Murfreesborough, North Carolina;
was a member of the State House of Representatives
of North Carolina in 1840, and of the State Senate
in 1848; was chosen, while a senator, solicitor of the
First Judicial District of North Carolina, and held the
position for nine years ; was defeated by 38 votes as
the Whig candidate for Congress; was again elected
to the State House of Representatives in 1858, but
resigned when elected a representative from North
Carolina in the Thirty-sixth Congress as a State-
rights American, receiving 0,045 votes against 5,631
votes for Shaw, Democrat, serving from December 5,
1859, until March 3, 1861; was a representative from
North Carolina in the First Confederate Congress;
was a member of the Democratic National Conven-
tion of 1808 which nominated Seymour and Blair;
was appointed chief justice of the Supreme Court of
North Carolina Januair 10, 1878.
Smith, William Kuasell, was bom at Tusca-
loosa, Alabama ; received a classical education, and
was at the University of Alabama, but did not gradu-
ate; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1834,
and commenced practice at Grreensborough, Alabama;
commanded a company of volunteers in the hostili-
ties against the Creek Indians in 1836; removed to
Tuscaloosa in 1838; edited "The Monitor," and vros
elected mayor in 1889; was elected to the State
House of Biepresentatives in 1842 and 1848, and was
defi-Mii'iI ii3 a oaiiJiiliilo fur tlio State Senate in 1843;
removed to Fayette Coutitj- ; was elected brigadier-
general of militia, anil ju<1^? of the Seventh Judicial
Circuit : was Hleeteil a rnprfsentative from Alabama
■"> the Tliirly-»pfi>n<! f'on^iss as a Union Whig, re-
iving i.Wii votes a!jaiiist 4,114 votes for John
Win, DemticTat; was "re-iMfi. ted to the Thirty-third
pgn-ss as » Democrat, iT'ci-iving 8,021 votes against
04 voteB for S, Mdory, Dmiiocrat, and 2,744 votes
•Hale, Whig; wsa n^-eloeted to the Thirty-fourth
bfiress ne a National Aiiierican, receiving 6,089
ie> agftitiaL 3,:341 viit(.'» for S. Mix)re, Democrat, serv-
tg from Oecember 1, 1831, to March 8, 1857; was de-
feated as a candidate for the Thirty-fifth Congress by
Sydenham Moore; was a member of the State Con-
vention of 1861, and an active opponent of secession;
was elected a representative in the Confederate Con-
gress in 1861, and re-elected in 1803; was president of
the University of Alal>ama for several years after the
war, and then devoted himself to his profession and
to literary pursuits. He is the author of " Smith's
Alabama Justice," " Smith's Digest of the Opiuioos
of the Supreme Court," and several poetical works.
Smith, William Stephens, was bora in New
York in 1756; received a classical education, gradu-
ating at New-Jersey Collie in 1774; enteral the
Revolutionary army as aide-de-camp to General Sul-
livan in 1770; was lieutenant^olonel of the Thir-
teenth Massachusetts Infantry from November, 1778,
to March, 1779; was for a short time on the staff of
General Steuben, and then aide-de-camp to General
Washington until the close of the war; was appoint-
ed by President Washington secretary of legation at
London ; was surveyor of the port of New York ; was
a member of the State House of Representatives;
was elected a representative from New York in the
Thirteenth Congress, serving from May 24, 1813, to
March 2, 1816; died at Lebanon, New York, Jane
10, 1816.
Smith, Worthington C, was bom at St. Al-
bans, Vermont, April 23, 1823; graduated at the
University of Vermont; studied, but did not practise,
law; was largely interested in the manufacture and
sale of iron; was a memt)er of the State House of
Representatives of Vermont in 1863 ; was a member
of the State Senate of Vermont in 1804 and 1865,
and was its presiding officer pro tempore during the
last term ; was elected a representative from Vermont
in the Fortieth Congress as a Republican, receiving
5,730 votes against 2,794 votes for Aldis, Republican,
and 2,080 votes forBrigham, Democrat; was re-elect-
ed to the Forty-first Congress, receiving 11,105 votes
against 4,337 votes for Brigham, Democrat; and was
re-elected to the Forty-second Congress, receiving
9,116 votes against 3,047 votes for H. Oillett, Demo-
crat, serving from March 4, 1807, to March 3, 1873.
Smithers, Nathaniel B., was bom at Dover,
Delaware, Octobers, 1818; received a classical edu-
cation, graduating at I^ifayette College, Peimsyl-
vanla, in 18.30; studied law; was admitted to the bar
in 1840, and commenced practice at Dover; was
clerk of the State House of Representatives in 1845
and 1847; was appointed, in January, 1868, secretary
of state for Delaware, but resigned in a few months;
was elected a representative from Delaware in the
Thirty-eighth Congress as a Republican, receiving
8,220 votes against 13 votes for Brown, Democrat,
serving from December 7, 1803, to March 3, 1885;
was a delegate to the National Republican Conven-
Uon at Baltimore in 1864.
Smyth, Alexander, was bora on the Island of
Rathlin, Ireland, in 1706; immigrated to the United
States in 1775, and located in Bourtetonrt County, Vir-
ginia; received an academic education; studied law;
was admitted to the bar in May, 1789, and com-
menced practice at Abingdon; removed in 1792 to
Wythe County; was a membd* of the State Honse
of Representatives in 1792, 1796, 1800, 1804-1808;
was appointed ^ President Jefferson colonel of a
Unitea-States rife regiment, which he commanded
at the Sonth-West until 1811, when he was ordered
to Washington to prepare a system of discipline for
the army; was appointed inspector-general in ISIS,
and ordered to the Canadian frontier, where he
failed in an invasion of Canada, and left the army;
resumed his practice; was appointed a member of
the State Board of Public Works; was again elected
to the State House of Representatives: was elected a
representative from Virginia in the Fifteenth Con-
gress as a Democrat, receiving 1,443 votes against
711 votes for Estill; was re-elected to the Sixteenth,
Seventeenth, and EiKhteenth Congresses, serving
from December 1, ISif, to March. 8, 182&; waa again
r
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683
elected to the Twentieth CongreM. receiving 2,604
voles agaiust 991 voles for Sharp; anil was rt'-elected
to Uie Twenty-first Conj^ress, servini: from December
3, 1827, to April 17. lajo, when he <"lic<l at Wi«.Iiintt-
ton City. lie published " lU'srulations for Unitetl-
Statf'S Infantry," and "Remarks on the Apoca-
lypse."
Smyth, Gteorge W., wa» bom In North Caro-
lina; removed to Texas, and located at Jasper; was
elected a represenUitive from Texas in the Thirty-
third C(mjfre*» as a Uemoerat, receiving no oppo-
sition, serving from December •'>, 1853, to March 3,
1855.
Smyth, William, was bom in Tyrone County,
near Loniionderry, In'land, January 3, 1S24; re-
ceived an acidumie education ; came to Pennsylvania
in 1S3S; taught school; was clerk in a store; re-
moved to Iowa in 1H44; studied law in Iowa City;
commenced practice in Slariuii in lSi7; was aiv
pointed prosecuting-atloniey of Linn County in
184t>; was elected and re-elected continuously with-
out opposilinu to tlie same office as a Democrat until
the fall of IK-V}, when, on the death of Judsie Carle-
ton, he was appointed juda;e of ilie District Court
f'lr Ihe Fourlh Judicial Uislriet, Iowa; was elected
judse of tlie sanie in the spring of l!v)4 wilhmit o|j-
posiiion ; n'sijnied ui the spring of IKT^, and resumcil
the practice of law at Marion; m ISoS was apiioiutcd
by the legislaliirv chainufui of thu commission to
revise and codify the laws of the State (the work of
the commission, with some legifslativc aniindments.
Is the revision of IsdO); w.is appointed in l.S<> I chair-
man of the commission of le^al intjuirv for the State
for six years; in ISdl was appointed by the legisla-
ture one of the four commissioners to act in con-
junction with Oovemor Kirkwoo<l in the manage-
ent and dirtntliou of the sale of the w.ir and
efence-fund bonds of the .State ; w:is coimflissioned
plouel of the Tliirly-tirsl Regiment Iowa Infantry
ig^ist 10, iytl2; resigned DccemlKT 15, ItKU, on ac-
punt of re<luce«l command, and resumed the practice
law at Marion; was elected a representative from
pwa in the Forly-hrst Congress as a Republican,
eiving 1)^,7.1^ voles against l;i.U27 votes forlA'fflng-
ell, Democnil, serving from March 4, 16di), to Marcli
1871.
Snapp, 'Henry, was born hi Livingston County,
New YorU, June ;i'i, I.SZJ; w.i8 educated in Rochester,
and in Uomur. Illinois, after his removal U) Illinois
in 18*3; studied law in Joliet; was admilt4-d to the
bar ui 184;!, and j)ractise<i twenty-five years; was
electe<i to tha Senate of Illinois in 1S6II, and served
until he was nominated for Congress in the f.ill of
1S71; was elected a representative from Illinois in
the Forty-second Congress as a He|)ublican by 3,0<)0
majority over L. Lel.md, Democrat, serving from De-
cember!. IsTl. lo March 3, 1S".S.
Sneed, William H., was bom in Tennessee;
resided at Knoxviile: was elected a rcpresenl.itive
from Tennessee in the Thirty-fourth Congress iis an
American, receiving (!,-J4d votes against 5.3l!7 voles
for C'unnniiis, Democrat, serving from December 3,
1S55, to March 3. lS.-,7.
Snodgraas, John Fryall, was bom in Berke-
ley Cminly, Viniiuia, JIarch '2, 1804; received an
■cadeniicai education; studiitd l.tw; was odmitte^I to
tbe bai- in 184^3, and commenced practice at I'nrkers-
burg; was a delegate to the State Constitutional
Convention of 18.jIi; was elected a niiiresentative
from Virginia in the Thirty-third Congress as a
Democrat, receiving 4,712 votes against 2.5iKI votes
for .Slerritt, Whig, serving from lJecemI)er 5, 1853,
to June 5, 18.'>4. wlien he died at Farkersburg while
pleading a c.-ise in court.
Snow. WUliam D., was bom In the State of
New Yiirk; puMislied "The Rochester Tribune" at
Eochesler, New York, ls52-18.">4; removed to Arkan-
las, and was electetl a United-States senator from
that State in 1804 under the proclamation of Presi-
Heot Johnson; his credentials were present«d at tb«
special session In March, 1805; when .in attempt waa
made, in February, IStJd, to have them considered,
they were laid on the table by a vote of 2t» aye«
against 17 nays, four senators being absent.
Snow, William W., was biim in Mnssachu-
sells; removed to New York, and loi-ated at Onennta;
was elected a re[)resentativi> from New York in tho
Thirty-second Congress as a Democrat, n'ceiving
7.004 Votes against 7,008 votes for Chase, Wliig, serv-
ing from December 1, 1851, lo March 3, IR'i;!.
Snyder, Adam W., was bom in IHOl; n-slded
at lieileville, Illinois; was ffir several years a member
of Ihe Illinois House of Represent.itlves; WJis elected
a representative from Illinois in the Tweufy-lifth
Ciingress as a Van Unren Democrat, receiving 3,110
votes against 3.202 votes for Reynolds, Democrat,
and 2,018 votes for Gatewood. Whig, serving from
Scptemtjer 4, 18.37, to Miu-ch 3. 18.30; w,-is defeabil as
the Democratic candidate for the Twi'uly-sixtli Con-
gress by tiatewood, Whig; was nominaleil us the
Democratic candiilate for governor of lUinnis, but
died, before thi; election. May 14, 1842, at Bellevillp.
Snyder, John, was born in Pennsylvania; re-
folded at Selinsgrove; was elected a representative
from Pennsylvania in tlie Twenty-seventh Congress
as a Democrat, serving from May 31, 1641, lo March
3, 184:5.
Snyder, Oliver P., was bom in Mis.souri No-
vember 13, ls;};l; n-ecived an academic education;
removed to Arkansas in 185;!: was engaged fur sev-
eral years in scientific and literary pursuits, and bad
charge of an Institution of learning; Bludie<l and
practised law; was a member of the General iVssem-
blyof Arkansas in 1S<U niul 1805; was elected in 1807
as delegate to the Slate Constitutional Convention;
was chosen In 1808 as presidential elector on the Re-
Ijutilican ticket; was elected in 1S<18 a member of the
Slate .Senate for four years; w.os appointed in 18(13
one of tliree commissioners to revise and r<.'-arraiige
the Btatutes of Arkansas; declined congressional
nominations Id 1805 and IStiS. and was elected a rep-
resentotive from Arkansas in the Forty-second ( 'on-
gn'ss as a Republican, receiving 12.742 votes against
8,357 voles for A. A. C. Rogers. Democrat ; was re-
elected to the Forty-third f'oiigress, defeating Mr. L.
Bell, Democrat, serving from M:irch 4, 1871, to March
3, 1875.
Sellers, Aug:ustus B., was bom in Maryland;
nwided at Prince Frederick: w.is elected a repn'sen-
tativo from Maryland in Ihe Twenly-siiventh Con-
gress 08 a Whig, serving from May :<1, 1841, to March
3, 1843; was again elected lo the Tliirty-lldrd Con-
gress, receiWiig 3,815 votes against 2,438 votes for
.Jenifer, Independent, serving from December 5, 1833,
to March 3, l.SVi; was a presidential elector on the
Fillmore and Donelaon ticlcet in 1850.
Somes, Daniel B., was bom in New Hampshire ;
ri'iiioved to Biddeford. Maine; was a manufacturer;
was mayor of BiddefonI 1.S5.V-18.17: was president or
the Biddeford City Bank 18.50-1.S38; was elected a
representative from Maine in the Tliirty-sixth Con-
gress as a Republican, receiving 10,.'j52 votes against
O.HOO votes for Ira T. Drew. Democrat, serving from
ItrceJiiber 5, 1859, to March 3, 18<il; reninved to
Washington City, and become a claim-agent and
patctit-attornev.
Soule. Nathan, was bom in New York ; resided
at Fort Plain; was a memljer of the Stale Ilouse of
liepres<'nlatives in 18:37; w.is elected a representative
from New York in the Twenty-second Congress as a
Jaeksi)n Democrat, sen-iug from December 5, 18:31,
to .Miirch 2. 18:3:3.
Soul6, Pierre, was iiom at Castillon, France, in
1801; was sent to the Jesuits' College at Toulouse
lo prepare for the priesthood, but refused to (jrweed
with his studies, and was sent to an academy at Bor-
deaux ; became engaged in revolutionary movetnents;
went lo Paris, where" he taught, and became an ed-
itor; was sentenced to a fine and imprisonment for
publishijig revolutionary articles; escaped (o the
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United States, and reached Xew Orleans In 1825:
studied English and local law, and was admitted to
the bar; was elected a United-States senator from
Ltmisinna (in place of Alexander Uurrow. deceased),
si.Tvins; from Febniary 3, 1S4", to March 3. 1947; was
again elected a senator, serving from December 3,
lbi4'.>, to March 0, ItSo-S, when he resigned; was ap-
pointed by President Pierce mini8t«r to Spain, serv-
ing from April 7, \So3, to January 1, lH.j.j; was ar-
rcstcil nt Xcw Orleans in 18(32, and imprisoned at
Fort Lafayette, obtaining his release on condition
that be would not return to the South until the sup-
pression of the Ri.'bellion; died at Xew Orleans
March 21), 1870.
Southaxd, Henry (father of Siunuel L. South-
ard), was born on Long Island Oclolier, 174t); when
he was eight years of age, his father remore<l with
him to Basklnpri<lce, New Jersey; was reared on a
farm, and, lis a drtv-laborer, earned the money to
purcba^e a homestead; took an active (Mirt in the
Revolutionary war; was for nine yean a member of
the State House of Keiiresentativea; was elected a
representative fi-ijm New Jersey in the Seventh Con-
gress as a Democrat ; w.is re-elected l« the Eighth,
Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh Congresses on a general
ticket, receiving on the last trial lS,7t*5 votes against
14,702 votes for his Whig opponent, ser%-ing from De-
cember 7, jyOl, Vi March ;J, 1811; was again elected
Ki the Fourteenth Congress; was re-elected to the
Fifteenth and .Sixleeiilli Congresses, serving from
December 4, 1815, to March 3, 1821 ; died at Bosking-
rldK", New Jersey, June 2, 1W2.
Southard. Isaao, was Iwm In New Jersey; re-
sided at Somerville; was elecletl a representative
from New Jersey in the Twenty-second Congress as
a Clay Democrat, serving from December 5, 1831, to
March 2, 18:J3.
Southard, Milton I., was bom In Licking
County, Ohio; received a collegiate education, grad-
uating at Denison University, at Granville, Ohio, in
1801; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 188:1,
and has been engaged in tlio practice continuously
since; was electe<l prosecuting-attomey for Muskin-
gum County in 18C7, re-elected in 1809, and again in
1871; was elected a representative from Ohio in the
Forty-third Congress as a Democrat, receiving 15,1(10
Totes against 12,0:l,S votes for L. P. Marsh, Hepublican ;
was re-elected to the Forty-fourth Congress, receiving
l,"5,fl02 votes against l),(l.'j'l votes for N. Uanihill, Ue-
publican, and 292 votes fortJertner, Temperance; was
re-electod to the Forty-fifth Congress, receiving 17.7UO
votes against 14,012 votes for J. H. Bamhill, Repub-
lican, serving from December 1, 1873.
Southard, Samuel L. (son of Henry South-
ar<l), wiis bom at Uaskingridge, Now Jersey, June
9, 1787; received a classical education, gnuluating at
Princeton CoUegi' in 1804: studied law while a tutor
in the family of John Taliaferro of Virginia; was ad-
mitted to the bar there, and commenced practice at
Kensington, New Jersey; was appointed in 1814 law-
reporter by the State legislature; was a menil>erof
the State House of Representatives in 181S, and, in a
week after taking his seat, was appointed an associate
justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey; waa a
presidential elector in 182<); was elected a United-
States senator from New Jersey (in place of Jainea
J. Wilson, resigned) as a Wiig, serving from Febm-
ary 10. 1821, to March 3, 182;i; was secretary of the
navy September 10, I82:j-SIarch 3, 1829, during
which time he was acting secretary of the treasury
Mun-h 7, 182o-July 1, 1825, and also acted for a short
period as secretary of war; was appointed In 1829
attorney-general of New Jersey; was governor of
New Jersey in 18:32; was again eloct<;d a United-
States senator, serving from Docemt>cr 2, 1833. to
May.'!, 1842, when ho resigned; died at Fredericks-
burg, Virginia, Juno 20, 1842. He pulOished "Re-
ports of the Supreme Court of New Jersey 1816-1820,"
with a number ofpoliiical and literary addresses.
Southgate, William W., was boru in Ken-
tucky; resldo-d at Covington; was a member of tli*
State House of Representatives; was elected a renrs
sentative from Kentucky in the Twenrv-fifth Con-
gress as a AVliig, receiving ."iVJ i: ''beljs
and Trimble, boih Democrats. - :>lem-
ber4, 1S.J7, to March3, li<}U; wa.i .. ,
or on the Harrison and Tyler ticket
the Clay and Frellnghuysen ticket i .i
Covington. Kentucky, Dec«-mlx^r 2(!. 1S44.
Spaight, Richard Dobbs (father of Richard
Dobus Spaight), was bom in Craven County. Nonb
Carolina; was sent to Ireland, where he commenc«4
his academic studies, and completed them at \ht\
University of Glasgow; returned home in 1778. joinel
the Continental army as aide-de-camp to Generil
Caswell, and was at the battle of Cauiden in 1" '
was a member of the House of Commons of N
Carolina in 1781-1780 and 1792, and was a
to the Continental Congress in 1782-17n4, se
both capacities; was a delegate to the con
which framed the Constitution of the United S(
in 1787; was governor of North Carolina In
was elected a representative in the Fi ' '
a Democrat (to till the vacancy o<'
death of Nathan Bryan); and was t-
Sixth Congress, serving from Decer ',
March 3, 1801; was elected to the >
North Carolina in 1801; w:is challenged I'V J<
Stanly ; the parties met on Snnd.ay afternoon, i
on the exchange of the fourth lire. Governor .S(ialebt
received a wound in the right side, of which hedir''
in twenty-thr<;e hours, September 0, 18<)2.
Spaight, Richard Dobbs (son of Rlcbanl
Dobbs .Spaight), was l«)ni at New Berne. North Car-
olina, in 17iW; received a classical education, gradu-
ating at the University of North Carolina in 18I5{
studied law; was admitted to the bar. and praclitedj
at New Berne; was a member of the House of Coj
mons of North Carolina in 1819, and of the Si
Senate in 1820-1822; was elected a representative la
the Eighteenth Congress, and served tmm I).'(«>nihef
1, 1823, until March 3, 182.'5; was a meiiM
State Senate in 1824, and served contiiiii
1834; was governor of North Carolina in 1 .,.-.;;
devoted himself to agricultural pursuits, and declined
all official [xisitions until he died Noveml>er 2. ISSO.
Spalding, Ruf us P., was bom at West Tisbury,
Mass;ichusetls, May 3, 1798; wont with his parent*
to Coimccticul when young; graduated at YaJ«
College; studied law, and commenced its practio4
in Trumbull County, Ohio; was a meml)er of tiit,
State legislature of Ohio In 1S3&-1840, and again
1841-1842, serving the last term as speaker of dM
House ; was elected judge of the Supreme Coiirt of
Ohio In 1849, and held the [Kisition until the ne«
State Constitution was adoptwl, when he rcsumetl
practice at Cleveland, where he now n>side*: win
elected a representative from Ohio in the Thirty-
eighth Congress as a Republican, receiving 9,293
votes against 4,183 votes for Paige, Democnit; wm
re-elected to the Thlrtv-ninth Congress, receiving
14,472 votes against O.tWl votes for J. H. Wsde,
Democrat; and was re-elected to the Fortieth Con-
gress as a Republican, receiving 14,479 votes agalntt
7,874 votes for Pavne, Democrat, serving from De-
cember 7, 180:3. to March 3, 1800.
Spalding, Thomas, was elected a representa-
tive from Georgia in the Ninth Congress (having
successfully contested the election of Cowle? MeaJ).
8er\ing from December 25, 1805, to 18(X), when h«
resigned.
Spangler, David, resided at Coshocton. Oblo;
was elected a representative from Ohio In tlw
Twenty-thinl Congress as a Whig; was re<'lectfii
to the Twenty-fourth Congress, Sf'rving from Decen-
l>er 2, 1833, to March 3, 1837; died at C'o9hocloI^
Ohio, October 18, ISoO.
Spangler, Jacob, was bom In nt5S; received I
public-school education; was elected a rcpr«scnt»-
tive from Pennaylvania in the Fifteenth Congreu M
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635
• WlilK. serving fnira December I. 1817, to April 2n,
ISIS \vln.-ii lie rt'siftiu'il; was surveyor-ijoiiiTuI of
Pir:iiisjrlv:iiiia; died ul York, Peimsylvauiii, June 17,
11**;.
Sparks, William A. J., wa» bom near New
IAIIuiiy, iudiauii, November lit, 182S; his part-iits
TDinoved lo Illinois in IS^MI. and shortly ihi'reiiitcr
died; he, in early boyhood. depen<lent upm his own
exeriions, liilxired nii n faiui, unil at inlcrvalB at-
tended countr)-sthoi)ls: subseiiueiitly tauKlil school,
and graduated nt AleKendrec College, Illinois, in
lekVl; stndicd law; was admitted to tlie biir in ISSl,
and fuhse'iuenliy praotised. exei'pt when engaged in
otUcinl duties : was appointed by President Pierce
In IS'j.) I'nited-Slales land-receiver for the Edwards-
Tille I Illinois) land-otHii-, and held that ollicu until
1857; was elected u presidential elector in INJU; was
elected to the State Uouse of Representatives of
Illinois IS"!!! and 1IS.'>7, and lo the State Senate (from
the Foiirlh Senatorial Dislrict) 1S<|;> and 1S«H; was a
del(?Kale lo the Xntionul IJennK'iatic Conventiou at
Jfew York In 18<tt(: anil was elected u representative
from Illinois in Ihe Forty-fourth Congress us a Deni-
IK'ntt. rt'ceivin); !S,72:5 voles against 7.UM2 voles for
James S. Martin, licpubllcan, and 4,033 votes for
Xtolla D. Henry, Independent Ileformer; vru» re-
elected to the Korty-liflh Congress, receiving 14,501
'Totes against r-',7(;:5 voles for E. M. Ashcrafl, Repulv
tlcaiLSt-mnu: from Octotwr l.'j, 1877.
Spaulding, Elbridge Or., was bom at Summer
Hill. .Vew York, February 24. ISOU; received an
acadcuiical education; studied law at Balavia and
at Attica, eup]H)rtinK himself by tenching and legal
Iwritins; was ndmitUHl to the bar in U-30, and coni-
Ineiiri'd praclice at UulTalo; was appointed cily-clerk
In iNi-'J; was elected aldcmian in l.sll, and mayor of
Buff.'ilo in 1S47; was a member of the State House
of Ki'prcsenlativcs In 184*1; w^os elected n rcpresenta-
tive fi-ora New Y'ork in the Thirty-lirat Coniiress as a
Whiir. receiving 7, '522 votes a'iajnst 3.4(rt vote.<i for
Clinton. Democrat, and 2,;Wi7 votes for W.idsworth,
D(tm'>crat, serving from December 3, 1840, to March
8. 18.")!; was treasurer of tlio State of N>w Y'ork
l.S'>4-Ki.'); took an active part In orgiuiizing the
Kepiiiilican party; wa» for several years a member
of till' .state Central Committee, and in IStX) was an
aotlvi- mtfuilior of the Con^iressional ExecuUvo Oom-
nillU'o during the Lincoln canipaicrn; was again
eleeud to the Tliirly-sixth Coniiress aa a Union
candidate, receiving 12,427 votes against 7,5;ro voles
for Uatch. Democrat; and was re-elected to the
Thirly-seventh Congress as a Hepublican, receiving
12,25<i votes against 10,047 votes for Haven, Demo-
crat, serving from December !>, I8.")0, to JIarcli ;i.
IStW: returning to UutTalo, he orgjiulEed in INU llie
Fanners' aud MiH-hanics' National liank of ItufTalo,
of which he has since been the president. lie pulv
HhIkmI "History of the Legal-Tender Paper Money
is»ui'il durin;; Iho Gn-at lU-bellion."
Speed, Thomas, w;is elected a representative
from Kentucky in the Fifteenth Congress, defeating
Lane.ister and Crutcher, serving from December 1,
lt<17. to March 3, ISIO.
Speer, Robert Milton, was bom in Caosville,
ni'Kingdon County, IVnnsylvania, Septeuiljer 8,
I> >; %va« educated at Cufsville Seminary: studied
l.i.\ ; was ailinitted 1<i the bar in 1H.'>0, and has since
J practised at Huntingdon; was assistant clerk of the
ilotise of Representatives of the legislature of Penn-
sylvania during the session of 18<«; and was olecteil
a representative from Pennsylvania in the Forty-
si'iond Congress as a Democrat, receiving 10,.'fcJ5
vo;,s against lu,324 votes for D. J. Morrell. Hepul)-
iji'.ui: and w.is re-electvd to the Forty-thinl Con-
gress, receiving 12,011 votes against 11,422 votes for
A. A. Barker. Republican, serving from March 4,
1S7I. lo Mareli 3. 1.S7.5.
Speer, Thomas J., whs bom in Monroe County,
Georgia. Aiiirust 31, l»o7; received an academic edu-
cation ; is a mercliBut aud planter ; wa« elected justice
of the p<'acc In 1801. and re-elected In 18(15; was ap-
poiiitcil collector of Cimfederati! toxes for Pike County
in ,liine, 1NI3, aud served in that capacity until tlie
cessation of hostilities; was elected justice of the
Interior Court for Pike County in 1805, and served
until July, IiSls; was elected to the Constiiuiiouol
Convention of Georgia in 18(57-1808; was elected to
the Slate Senate ot Georgia In lfO.S, serving until
Di'i'<Mulier, l.■^7l); and. while a mi'mlier. was elected a
representative from Georgia in tlie Forty-second
Congress as a Republican, receiving 1:5,714 volea
against 12,700 votes for Lawton, Democrat, serving
frt>in March 4, 1871, to August liy, 1872, when he
died.
Speight, Jesse, was bom in Greene County,
North Carolina. Seiitember 22, HsCi: rccei\ed a
public-scliool eilucation; was a rni;nilH>rof the State
Uouse of Representatives in 1822, and of the Stale
Senate 1S23-1827, sening several vears as s|H-aker;
was elected a r»-pn'sentative from S'orth Carolina in
the Twenty-first Congress as u Democrat, ilelcal-
ing McLi'od; was re-elected lo the Twenty-second,
Twenry-ihinl, and Twenty-fourth Congresses, serv-
ing fn'^m December 7. 1820, to March 3, 18.37; tv-
raovcd to Plymouth, Mississippi; was elected to the
State House of Representulives, and chosen S|ieaker
of the House; was elected n L'nited-.States siMialor
from Mi.ssissippi ns a Democrat, starving from Decem-
ber 1, 184.">, to Jlay 6, 1847, when he died at Coluiu-
bns, Mississipiii.
Spence, John S., was bom in MaryLind; re-
sided at Uerlin; was elected a represtMitallve from
Maryl.'ind in the Eighteenth Congress as a Democrat,
receiving 2,003 votes against 1.328 votes for Jntnes
Murray, serving from Deccmlx-rl, 1823, to March 3,
1825; was again elected to the Twenty-second Con-
gress, serving from Decemia-r 5, 18:51, to Match 2,
183:5; was elected a United->Slales sen.itor from
Maryland (in |)lace of Robert H. Goldsborough,
deceased), serving from January 11, 1837, to October
20. 1840, when he died.
Spence, Thomas A., waa bom at Cambridge,
Murjiand. Februorj- 20, ISIO; rccelveti a classical
education, graduating at Y'ale College In 1820 ;
studied law; was .tdmitted to the bar, and |)nic-
tisi.Ml at Snow Hill, Maryland; was district-judge in
his circuit for some years ; was elected a ivpre^'nla-
tivo from MarN'land in llie Twenty-eighth f'oicMvss
as a Whig, servuig from December 4, 1843, lo March
3, 1845; was apiwinted by Postmaster-General Cress-
well assistant at lorney-general for the Post-ollice
Departinenl, serving from 1872 to May, 1877; was a
special agent of the Post-oflice Department; dieil at
Wasliington City Novemlier 10, 1877.
Spencer, Ambrose, was born at Siilisbury,
Connecticut, Decemljer l;5, 1705; received a cliissicai
(Klucatlon, ijartiuiiy at Y'ale, but graduating at Har-
vard College in 17N1; studied law; was admitted to
the bar, and conmienccd practice ut Hudson, New
Y'ork; was a memlier of the .State House of Repie-
sentalives in 170:5, and of the State Senate llVo-
170S; was assistant attorney-general in 1700, and
.state attorney-general in 1802; was chosen judge in
I8i>4; was a pn>sidenlial elector in 1800; was chief
justice of the Slate Supreme Court 1810-182:5; re-
tired from Ihe bench, and n^sumed pnictice; was
elected a representative from New Y'ork in the
Twenty-first Congress aa a Democrat, ser* ing from
December 7. 1829, to March 3, IS-'ll; was mayor of
Albany for one term; retired in 18:5!) to a farm near
Albany, and engaged In agricultural [lursuits: was
president of the National Whig Convention at Balti-
more iji 1844; died at Lyons, N(5w Y'ork, March 13,
1(>1.8.
Spencer, Elijah, was bom In Columbia County.
New Y'ork: was a nieuibcr of the State House of
Representatives in 1810; was elected a representative
from New Y'ork In the Seventeenth Coup-ess, serving
from Decemlier3, 1821, to March 3, 18;;3.
Spenoer, George E., was bom la JeSeraou
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Connty, New York, November 1, 1830; was educated
Bt Montreal College, Canada; was adtuUled to the
bar in Iowa in JS'>7; wa» secretary of the Iowa Sen-
ate of 18.'>0; entered the army as captnin. assistant
adjutant-general of volunteers, in 18<J2; recruited
and raised the First Alabama t'avalni'. United-Stales
Volunteers, in ItWl; ooinmnnded a brigade of cavalry
on Slienniin's grand march; was brevetleil bripidier-
genenU fur "gallantry on the field;" resipned posi-
tion in the nmiy July 4, lytl.'}; was app(.iint<'d n-jiisler
in bankruptcy for the Fourth District of Alabama In
May. ixti'i; ho was elected I'nited-States senator
from Alabama as a Kepublican, and took his seat
July 25, 1H68, and was re-electe<l in 1S72. Ills term
of office will expire March 3, 1879.
Spencer, Jaines B., was bom in New York;
rosiiktl :it Fort Covinnlon; served as captain in the
war of 1M2; was a memt)er of the State House of
Representatives in 18:51 and IWi; was elected a rejj-
reeenlativc from New York in the Twenty-liflh
Congress as a Democrat, servinc from September 4,
18.'n, to March 8. 1839; was maui'strale. county-judge,
and Indian agent; died at Fort Covington, New
York. .^Inroh 1«, li<48.
Spencer, John Canfleld, was bom at Hud-
son, New York, Januarys, 1787; received a classical
education, gnulualing at Union College in ISOU; stud-
ied law; was admitted to the bar in 1809, and com-
menced practice at Canandaieua; was made master
in chancery in 1811; served In the war of 1812 as
brigade judce-.tdvocate; was apiioint«d postmaster
of Canandaigua in 1814; was assistant attorney-
general for the western part of New York in 1815;
was elected a rt;prescntative from New York in the
Fifteentli Congress as a Democrat, serving from De-
cember 1, 1H17, to Marcli 3, 1819; was a member of
the State House of I?e|)rcsentatives 1820-1821. serv-
ing the first year as six'aker; was a member of the
Slate .Senate 1824-1828; became prominently con-
nected with the antl-Mnsouic movement, and was
appointed by Governor Van Buren si^ecial attorney
to prosecute, if they could be found, those connected
with the alleged abduction of Morgan; was again a
member of the State House of llepresentatives in
1832; was secretary of state, and superintendent of
common schools, 18;}9-1840; was appointwl by Presi-
dent Tyler secretary of war October 12, 1841; was
transferred to the Treasury DejMirtment March 3, 1843,
but opposed the annexation of Texa.s. and ^e8i■^^ied
May 2. 1S44; edite<l the Kevised Statutes of the State
of S'cw York; died at Albany, New York, May 18,
18.V..
Spencer, Joseph, was l>om at East Haddam.
Connecticut, in 1714; was judge of probate in 1753;
served as major and lieutenant-colonel in the French
w.or 17.'i8; was a nienil)er of the Connecticut Council
1770; was appointed brigadier-general in the Conti-
nental army .June 22, 1775, and major-general August
9, m<5; resigned June 14, 1778, iHjcause Ctmgress had
ordered an investigation into his military conduct in
Kliode Island in 1777; was a delegate from Connecti-
cut to the Continental Congn-ss 1779; was elected a
member of the Connecticut Coimcil in 1780; and was
annually re-elected until he died at East Hoddau,
Connecticut, January 13, 1789.
Spencer, Richard, was bom in Maryland; re-
sided at Easton; was elected a representative from
Maryland in the Twenty-lirst Congress as a Clay
Derai'crat, sening from December 7, 1829, to March
3, 1S31.
Spencer, "William B., was Iwm in Catahoula
Parish. Louisiana, February 5. TSJo; received a clas-
sical education, graduating at Centenary College, and
in the law department of the University of Louisiana;
was admitted to the bar in 1J>57, and practised at
Harrisonburg, Louisiana, until 18<11 ; entered the
Confederate luiuy as captain of iiil'antry, and served
Uironghout the war; resumc<l the [>mctice of law,
after the war, at Vidalia, Concordia Parish, Lou-
isiana; was elected a represeutaliTe from Louisiana
in the Forty-fourth Congraw aa a Democrat, recti*,
ing a majority of 1,315 votes over Fr.< : " il(.
ptiblican. The Returning Board of I. •.»-
ever, returned Morey as electetl. a • t
until May 31, 1876. when the II
declareil Sp<'ncer to have been il..._. ..w..,, .^.i-i ix
nos accordingly sworn in June 6, 1870, saving to
Jaiuiary 8, 1877, when he resigned.
Spink, Cyrus, was elected a represeniatjr*
from Ohio in the Thirty-sixth Congress as a Iteptlt-
llcan. receiving 9,438 votes against 7.318 votes fur
■I. P. Jeffries, Democrat, but died before taking hit
seal.
Spink, S. L., wa.s bom at Whitehall, New York,
March 20. 18.}l; received an acailcuiic education at
Castleton, Vermont ; taught school for several yean
in New England, New York, and Mar>~land: studied
law, and was admitted to practice at DurlingtAO,
Iowa, in 18o<i; removed to Paris, Illinois, in I.HW,
and Ijecame editor and publisher of "The Prairie
Beacon,'- a radical Ilcpublican newspaper; was elect,
ed to the State legislature in lSti4; io 1.^66 was ap-
pointed secretary of Dakota Territorj', his commissioD
being signed by President Lincoln on the aXtemuoD
before he was as.sassinated; was re-app'i-'- ■' ' • Prvv
idem Johnson, and conlinnc<l by the .V' mu-
ar>-, 18<1<5; continued to dlBchart;e the •; :lut
office up to March 4, 18011; was elected it delr^ste
from Dakota in the Forty-first Con^'ri'ss as a Repub-
lican nominee, receiving 1.379 vol • 'tt4 voles
for Todd, Democrat, iMti voUs y. Inde-
pendent Democrat, (ioS voles for L IndepeuJ-
eut, and 581 votes for Kidder, Pi-opli's cauilidat«,
sen in^ from March 4, I8t9, to March :i, 1871.
Spinner, Francis E., was born at Uenuao
Flats. New York, January 21, 18t>2; received a clas-
sical education from his father, the Rev. ncrr.Siiin-
ner; was cashier of the Mohawk-Valley Bank lor
twenty years; entered the St.itc volunteer militia *s
lieutenant, and was successively promoted to tin- rank
of major-general; was auditor of accounts in the
naval oCico of the New- York Custom House iSiS-
HS49; was elected a representative from New Yi'rk in
the Thirty-fourth Congress as an Ami'' ■• ''.lao
crat, receiving 7,018 votes against ii. Un
i\Jexander, Whig, and 3,414 votes for i f'ro-
slavcry Democrat; was re-elected to the Tbinv-nftli
Congress as a Republican, receiving 14.7ir2 vote*
against U,115 votes for Dodge, Union \\" ' ' i.m-
ocrat; wns re-elected to the Thirty-sixi - oi
a Kcpublican, receiving 12,582 votes .slJ
votes for Goodrich. Democrat, ami grT\ ■ ■} i •: De-
cembers, 18iio, until March 3. 1801; w:>^ t| i" :m«l
by President Lincoln treasurer of the United Statrt
March 10, ISOl; was successively re-upp<jint''d by
Presidents Johnson and Grant, and resigned July 1,
1875; retired to private life, passing his wiiilfrs si
Florida.
Sprague, Peleg, was bom in Rochester, Mass*.
chuHclis, Deceuibor 10, 17-50; entered a store as clerk,
but afte^^vard8 acquired a classical education, pado-
ating at Dartmouth College in 1781^; sludiol U«
with Benjamin West rif CharlestoW7i, and was ad.
mined to the biir in 1787; comnicmvd i)ractice at
Danmouth (now New Bedford), but simiu remo\ed to
Keene, New Hampshire, where he established him-
self; was appointed solicitor (or Cheshire County in
1794; was elected a representative from New Uan)|»
shire in tlie Fifth Coii;;ress (in place of Jen luiah
.Smith, resigned) ou the second trial, defeating Wiiod-
bury Langifou, serving fmm Deceiulier 1.5, 1797. until
March 3, 1799; declined a re-electiou ou account ot
his lietilth, and died in 1800.
Sprague, Peleg, was bom at Dnxbury, Massa-
chusetis. in 17W2; received a classical educ.Uion,
graduating at Ilananl College in 1N12; stutlicil law;
was a<lmitteil to the bar. and prsictised at Aumista,
then at Hallowell; was a memlier of the State tloaiw
of Repres«'ntative8 in 1821 and 1.822; was eleci«-d »
representative Xrom Maine in the Nineteeaih Coo*
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I
greta as a Whig; wm nM-locted to the Twcntli.'lh
CuDyress, serviii!! from D.'i't'iiibiT .'i, 1M25, to Mareli
3, 1S20; was elected a Uiiited-tiUtes senator from
\Cainp, wrvliiK from December ", 1H2JI, to Jamiary
1, ISIJo, when he resigned: removed to Boston, ami
Sractised tliere: was n presidenlial elector on the
larriBon and Tyler ticket in IMO; was United-ijtates
juilge for the district of MassacbiiBetls lS41-l>t(15;
w:t» livins in Boston July 1, !t>"t>.
Sprague, William (uncle of William Sprague),
was iKirn at Cranston, Khode Island, in ISOO; re-
ceive<l a ^i>o<l English education; enRajzeii in mer-
cantile and nianuiacturini; pursuits; was for many
years a menilK-r of the .State House of Hepri'scnla-
th'es; was elected a representative from KluHfe Is-
land In the Twenty-fourth Concross as a Democrat,
serving from December ", INV), to March 3, 1.S37:
declined a re-election ; was governor of Khode Island
ill ISWand 18M0; was elected a United-States senator
from Rhode Island (in place of Xathau F. Dixon,
deceased), senin;; from Febru.iry IS, li*4:J, to Janu-
ary 17. 11+44, when he resigned; wna a presidential
elector on the Taylor and Fillmore ticket in ISIS;
diftd at Pro\idence, Rhode Island, October 10, 1S50.
Sprague, William, was born in Rliode Island;
removed to Michigan, and liwaUnl at KalaiUiU'X);
was elected a n-pn-'sentative from Michigan in tlie
Thirty-dret Congress as a Frfe-,Soi ler, seninp from
December 3, 1!>1«, to March 3, 1651; died soon aiter-
wards at Kalamazoo.
Sprague, William (nephew of William
Sprague), was bom at Cranston, Rhode Islanil, Sep-
temlier 12, 18.'pO; received an academic education;
became largely interested in manufiicturiug iiursiiits;
was elect*-'d governor of Rhode Island in l.stU, and,
having raiseil several regiment* for the Uni>'n army,
served with them as brigmlicr-general in the early
part of the war for the suppression of the Rebellion;
W.1S electwl a United-States senator fn/m Rhode
Island as a Republican to succeed J.-uues F. .'^im-
mons (but, that senator resigning before the c!ti>ira-
tion of his term, the seat was occupied meanwliile liy
Samuel G. Aniold. Conservative) ; he was twice re-
elected, serving from March 4, IWti, to March ;5, l.s7."i:
resumed the control of his manufacturing establish-
ment*.
Sprague, William P., was born In Morgan
County, Ohio. May 21, 1S27; n'ct'iveil a comnion-
■chool education; engaged in mercantile pursiuts
when quite young, and continued in active business
until IS<U; was the first president of the First Na-
tional Rank of McConnellsville; was a meml^r of
the State Senate of Ohio in 18(K»-1801 and l.stl2-l.SiW;
and was elected a repn-sentntive from Ohio in the
Forty-second (.'ongress as a Republican, receiving
ll.atii vote* ikgainst 10,547 votes for J. Carlwriclit,
Democrat, and 148 voles tor I. Parker, Pnihibitiou-
isl; and was re-elected to the Forty-third Congress,
receiving 14.45;) votes against 11.0.52 votes for C. L.
Poonuan. Liberal Ropubliciin, serving from March 4,
1.S71, to ManOi :l. ls75.
Sprigg, James C, was \mm In Maryland; re-
ceived an academical education; removed to Ken-
tucky, and lix'aled at Shelbyville; was elected a rep-
resentative from Kentucky in the Twenty-seventh
Congress, defeating Field, serving from May 31, 1S41,
to Jlarch 3, 1K43.
Sprigg, Michael C, was l>oni in Maryland; re-
•iiled at Krosiburg; Wius for several years a member
of the State House of Rciiresentatives; was president
of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal; was a presiden-
tial elector on the Monroi; ticket in 1821); was elected
a representative from Maryland In the Twentletli
Congress, receiving 41'! majority over John Lee: was
re-<'lected to llie Twentv-Hrst Congrcsn. serving from
December 3, 1S27. to March 3, 18:J1 ; died at Climber-
land. Marylanci. Deieniber 28, 1845.
Sprigg, Richard, was bom in Maryland; was
elected a representative from Maryland in the Fourth
CongnM (la place of Gabriel Durall, resigued) ; was
re-elected to the Fifth Congress, serving from Uajrd,
171H1, to MuR-h 3. 171)'.': was again elected to the Sev-
enth Congress, serving from December 7, 1801, to
March 3. ISo:;.
Sprigg, Thomas, was bom in Maryland ; waa
elected a i-epresentative from Maryland in the Third
Confess; was re-elected to the Fourth Congress,
serving from December 2. 1711:1, to March .3, \T.f1.
Springer, William M., wjls bom in Sullivan
County. Indiana, May 30, \f<U>: nmioved to Illinois
with his parents in 1848; graduated at the Indiana
Mute University. Bloomington, in 1.S.58; studied law,
and was admitted to the bar in ISoD; w.is secretary
of the .State Constitutional Cf)nvention of Illinois In
1.8<i2; was a mcmlier of the State legislatiirr? of Illi-
nois in 1871-1.S72: and was elected a representiitive
from Illinois in the Forty-fourth Congress as a Dem-
ocrat, receiving ll),()23 votes against 0.027 votes for
.\jidrew .Simpson, Republican, and 2,417 votes for
Jonathan B. Turner, Independent Republican; and
was n.'-tdecled to the Forty-lifth Congress, receiving
17,4<«» votes against 13,714 votes for Diivid L. Phil-
lips, Repuldican, 8e^^■ing from October 10, 1877.
Sprucmoe, Presley, was bom In Delaware In
1785; resided at .Smyrna; engaged in mercantile pur-
suits; was a meinlier of the .State Senate, and its
president ; was elected a United-States senator from
Delaw.nre as a Wliig, sen-ing from December li, 1847,
to March 3, 18.53 ; died at Smyrna, Delaware, Febru-
ary 13. I80;j.
StaJlworth, James A., was bom in Conecuh
County, Alaliama, April 7, 1822; received a classical
education; studied law; was admitted to the bar,
and commenceil practice; was a meml)erof the Slate
House of liepresentatlves in l.'<45, and again in 1847;
was elected solicitor of the .Second Judicial Circuit
of Alab.ima in 1.S4U, and rc-elccled in 1853; was an
unsuccessful Domocrntic candidate for Congress In
1.855: was elected a representative from Alabama in
the Thirty-fifth Congress as a Democrat, receiving
2,720 m.ijority over McC.iskill, Kiiow-Nothing: and
w;is re-i'lected to the Thirty-sixth Congrr'ss as a Dem-
•HTat by 3,Of^5 majority, serving from I>ecembcr 1,
l.<37, until his wilbdrawal January 21, 1801, after the
secession of Alabama; died at Evergreen, Alabama,
in 1802.
Stanard, Edwin O., w.is bom at Newport, New
Hampshire. Jaiuiarj- .5, 1832; at the age of four years,
rsmoved to the Territory of Iowa with his parents,
living on a farm, and receiving little more than a
common-school education, until, at the age of twenty,
he went to .St. Louis to seek his fortune; taught school
lhn:e winters in Illinois, opp<isiie St. Louis, and
attended school in the city during the siimiiier; In
1855 graduated at a commercial coilege, and obtained
a clerkship in a commission-house; in 185(i oiiened a
comniissiim-hou.se on his own account, and In a few
years oiieiied branch houses in Chicigo and New
Orleans: in 1.8t'i5 went also into the milling business
at St. Louis, and is now exclusively engaged in that
business; was elected lieutenant-governor of the
State of Missouri on the Republican ticket in 18(18,
and sened two years; and was elected a representa-
tive from Missouri in the Forty-third Congr»;ss as a
Regular Republic.in, receiving 5,271 votes against
5,121) votes for W. M. Grosvenor. Liberal Republican
and Dem.->crat, serving from December 1, 1873, to
March 3. 1875.
Stanberry, William, was Imrn In Essex Coun-
ty, New Jersey; was elected a representative from
Ohio in tlie Twentieth Congress as a Jackson Demo-
crat, and re-elected to the Twenty-first and Twenty-
second Congresses, serving from December 3, 1827,
until March 2, IXii; he addressed a communication
to Mr. Si)eaker Stevensrin April 14, 1832, stating that
he was w.iylaid in the street the night previous, "at-
tacked, knfx;ked down l)y a bludgeon, and Bt<verely
liruised and wounded, by Samuel Houston, late of
Tennessee, for words spoken in debate,"' for nhich
General Houston was brought before the bar of the
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House, and reprimanded ; died at Newark, Ohio, I
January 21, 1872.
Standifer, James, was elected a represontatire
from Tennessee in the Eighteenth Congress as a
Whig, serving from December 1, 1823, to March 3,
1823; was again elected In the Twenty-first Congress;
was re-elected to the Twenty-second Congress; was
re-elected to the Twenty-third Congress, defeating
James L. Greene ; was re-elected to the Twenty-fourtli
Congress, ser^ing from December 7, 1829, to March
8, 1&17; was re-elected to the Twenty-fifth Congress,
but died suddenly (when on his way to Washington
to tal<e his seat) near Kingston, Tennessee, August
24, 1837.
Stsindiford, Elisha D.| was bom in Jefferson
County, Kentuclty, December 28, 1831; received a
common-school education ; stutlied medicine, anil
Cuated in 1853; was a banker, manufacturer, and
ler; was elected to the State Senate of Kentucky
In l!J63 and in 1871 ; and was elected a representative
from Kentucky in the Forty-third Congress as u
Democrat, receiving 11,170 votes a";alnst 5,033 votes
for W. P. Boone, Republican, serving from Decem-
ber 1, 1873, to Marcli 3, 1875; was elected president
of the Louisville, Nashville, and Great Southern
Bailroad, and carried on a farm of 1,400 acres near
Louisville.
Stanford, Richard, was bom In North Caro-
lina in 1708; was elected a representative from North
Carolina in the Fifth Congress as a Democrat; and
was re-elected to the Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth,
Tenth, Eleventh, Twelfth, Thirteenth, and Four-
teenth Congresses, serving from May 15, 1797, to
April 9, 1816, when he died at Gteorgetown, District
of Columbia.
Stanly, Edward, was bom at New Berne, North
Carolina; was a student at the Middletown Military
Academy; studied law, and was admitted to practice ;
was elected to the House of Commons of the State
legislature in 1844, 1840, and 1848, 8e^^•ing the last
term as speaker; was attorney-general of North Caro-
lina in 1M7; was elected as a Whig to the Twenty-
fifth Congress, and re-elected to the Twenty-sixtlj
and Twenty-seventh Congresses, serving from Sep-
tember 4. 18;)7, to March .3, 1843; was again elected
to the Thirty-flrst Congress, receiving 4,087 votes
a-^ainst 4,940 votes for W. K. Lane, Democrat ; was re-
elected to the Thirty-second Congress, receiving 5,23f}
votes against 4,936 votes for Thomas Kufiln, Democrat ,
serving from December 3, 1840, to March 3, 1853; re-
moved to California, where he devoted himself to
the law; w.is recalled from there by President Lin-
coln in 1802 to act as military governor of North
Carolina; after a few months' service he resigned,
and returned to California; died at San Francisco
July 20, 1872.
Stanly, John, was bom in North Carolina;
was a member of the House of Commons from New
Berne in 1798, 1709; was elected a representative in
the Seventh Congress, serving from December 7,
1801, until March 8, 1803; fought a duel with his
predecessor in Congress (Governor Spalght), and
mortally wounded him on the fourth fire, September
■ft, 1832; was pardoned by Governor Williams in 1803;
was again elected a representative in the Eleventh
Congress, serving from May 22, 1809, until March 3,
1811; was again a member of the House of Commons
of North Carolina in 1812, 1813, 1814, 1815, 1818.
1810, 1823, 1825, and 1820, serving several times as
■ 8i)ettkcr; he was stricken with paralysis in 1820, and
died at New Beme, North Carolina, August 3, 1834.
Stanton, Benjamin, was bom at Mount Pleas-
ant, Jefferson County, Ohio, June 4, 1809 ; was reared
on a farm until he was seventeen years of age, and
then apprenticed to a tailor until he was twenty-one ;
studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1834, and
commenced practice at Bellefontalne ; was a member
of the State Senate in 1841 ; resigned in 1842, but
was re-elected the same year: was a delegate to the
State Ckmstitutional Convention ; wu elected a repre-
sentotlve from Oliio in the Thirty-second Ct»Bgre»
as a Will g, receiving y.IIO votes ngjinft S.lf't Yo!i"t
for John A. Cfirtvtn, Democrat, eeniog from De.
eemher 1, Itsil, to J^.^^(^b 3, 1S53; was jigafti elecled
to the Thirtj'-fourth CougrL'ss as a Ilt'pubiiiMU. re-
ceiving n,O0O votes against g,:HO vfitt-s fur Dia),
Democrat; was re-elected to tlje Thirty-fifth Con-
press, rcceiTJiif; 9,7r)(i vtites against O.-ilO voles for
Kuniile, Democrat, and \.'2:][t vijtt'S for Glover, Ameri-
can ; wns re-elected to the Tliipty-sisth Congre**, re-
wiving 8,710 votes against oS& votes for vV. Huh.
bard, Democrat, scrvfng from December 3, 1S55, to
March 3, ItS-il; was iSuutunant-govemor of Ohio in
im-2.
Stanton, Frederick P. (hrotlier of Eidianl H,
,Stant<iii), was burn in (he District of Columbia;
worki'd with his father, who was a bricklayer; iv-
ceived by Iiis own cxfrtioni a classical education,
groduutlug at Columbia College; taught. si.'hool;
Rtudiral law; was admitted to the bar, suid practised
at M(?tt)p!ll!, Tennessee ; was elected a representative
from Tennessee iii the Tiveiity-ninth Congref^ aj i
Democrat; Wiva re-t'loi: ttil to the Thlrtifth'Congrcsa;
was re-elected to the Thirty-first Congress. ree;'iring
ti.L'aO votes .igninst 5,799 Votes for J. \V'. Harris,
Wliig; was reelected to the Thirty-second CoiigreM.
receiving 0,4(6 votes against (J, 142 votes for Cole-
man, Whig; was re-elected to the Thirty-third Con-
gress, receiving 5,13(5 votes against 5,120 votes for
Yergcr, Whig, serving from December J, 1.'^, lo
March 3, 1855; waa appointed governor of Kansas,
sen-in^ 18.78-1801 ; rt^tumed to AVashington, and en-
gased in the jiractice of law.
Stanton, Joseph, w.-« bom at Ch.irle«ton,
Rhode Island, July 19, 1739; served as second liea-
tenant In the Rhode-Island regiment raised for the
exijedltton against Canada in 1750; was a tnemiicrnf
the General Assembly of RIkkIo Island 1708-1774;
was a member of the Cominittec of Safety January
28, 1775 ; was colonel of a Ilhode-lsland regiment in
1770; was a delegate to the State Convention of
1790 which ailopted the Federal Constitution; was
clceted a United-States senator from Rliode Islaml
as a Democrat, seri'ing from June 25, HtHl, to March
2, niKt; was again a meml)er of the State nfiujc fi(
Representatives 17)M-lt*U0; was elected a repreH'iita-
tive from Rhode Island in the Seventh Congre^a m »
Democrat on tlie second trial, receiving 849 majoritj
over Thomas Noyes, Federalist ; was re-elected to the
Eighth Congress,' defeating Elisha R, Potter; wss re-
elected to tlie Ninth Congress, recdving 1,000 voles
of the 1,007 votes east, serving from December T.
18fil, to March 3, 1S07; diwl at Charleston, Rhode
Island.
Stanton, RiohardH, (brother of Ft*dei1ckP.
Stanton), was bom at .Alexandria, VIrijinia, Septem-
1m? r 0, 1812; received an academic education; studied
Inw ; W.IS admitted to the bar, and commenced ptne-
tlce at Mnysville, Kentuckj-; was appointed pLst-
master, but' waa removed when Genonil Taylor be-
c-ime I'resident; was elected a representative frnm
Kentucky in the Thirty-first Congress as a DeDH>-
crrat, receiving 7.7154 votes against 7,4tlO votes for
John P. Gaines, Taylor Whig; was rP-clect«l to the
Thirty-second Congress, receiving 7,tU9 votes ngaiLSt
ii.022 votes for Marshall, Whig; was re-elected to the
Thirty-thiril Congress, receiving 7,5S3 votes against
7,070 "voles for Hodge, Whig, serving from December
3, 184B, to March 3, 1SS5&; was a pre-iiidential elector
oh the Buchanan ticket in 18.W; was State attorney
for his iudicial district in 1858; was a delegate w
the National Dennjcratie Convention at New York in
1808; was elected district-judge, serving 18(S-1874.
He published " The Revised Statutes of Keutueky "
and "A Code of Practiec."
Starin, John H., was bom at SaTOmonsviii'-.
Fulton County (then a pn'" ' " -jl::otnfry). "Si-^
York, August 27, 182S; r<>i ■ .uiunlv wtm <
tion; commenced the siiu)^_^^^^y||||^l4_]M,'.
established and cotidn
STATISTICAL SKETCHES.
689
I
iwlneM ftt Fiiltonvllle, Xcw York, from IS+'j to 1858;
from liS4*< to 1^)2 was iHjsttnft-ster al Fultoiiville; from
1850 1(1 ihe I'rescut tiiiu- has het'ii largciy cnfptijcd in
le tratisixjrlation bii8iiiv»s through Xew-Yirk City
aiul harlior, ntul the Wiilere of Loiig-IslauJ Sound,
■with its ncre^sorios of vt-ssel-building. ifcc. ; is at pP'S-
ent a ilir>T|iir of tlie North-llivur Hauls, Xew-Yorit
City, iiml tli« Sfohawli-RivcT National BanU; is ci"i*»l-
ly and persuniiliy iutorostod in aifrifuliun- and stock-
ing; was elfcte(i a repreM-nlativo from New York in
the Forty-tifth Congress us a Republican, receiving
ll»,l-t2 votes ajiainst 18,t»89 votes for Nicholas H.
Decker. Deniocral. sening from October llj, 1877.
Stark, Benjamin, was born at New Orleans.
Ii<Hiisi:.na. .June 2(1. l.SiO; received an acaik'niical
educ:i;ion at New London. Connecticut; entered a
Counting-house at New York, and Iwcame a mer-
chant; "removed to Oregon in IS+i, and engaued in
commercial oiM-nitioiis with Die S.indwach Islands;
relinquished tiiule in XtW); studieil law; was ad-
luitlcd to the l>ar in ls.il, aud commenced practice
at Portland; was a member of the Territorial House
of Rf[jresontative8 in 1852, and of the State House
of Re(in-sentatives in l.S*l(); was appointed a Unitcd-
KBtatcs senator from Oregon (in place of Edward D.
HBnker, decejised) lu a IJemocnit. serving from Febru-
■kry 27, H-(i2, to December 1, 1802, when his successor
Btook his seat; was a delegate from Oregon to the Na-
Htiunal Democnilie Convention al Cliicoifo in 18<U,
an<l at N<'w York in ]8i>8; removed to Conneeticut.
Starkweather, David A., was boni in Con-
necticut; received an academical education; studied
law; was nilmilted to the bar. and commenced prac-
Icc at t.'anton, Oliio; was elected a representative
om Ohio in the Twenty-sixth Congress as a Demo-
t. serving from December 2. 18:39, to March 3,
3841; was aigoin elected to the Twenty-ninth Con-
s, serving from Decemlier 1, lSi.5, to March 3,
&47; w:i« defeated as the Democratic candidate for
the Tliinielh Congn-ss by S, Lalim, Independent
jmocral; was a presidential elector on the Cass
:»lid Uutler ticket in 1848; was appointed by Presi-
cut Pierce minister to Chili, serviug June 2l>, ISiU-
August lid, iSoT.
Sttu-kweatber, George A., was horn in Con-
Jjiecticut; removed to Cooperstowni. New York; was
elected a represenljtive from New York in the Thir-
tieth Congri-ss, serving from December 0, 1847, to
ilarch .;. ]s4i>.
Starkweather, Henry H., was bom at Pres-
ton, Connecticut, April 'M, 1820: was educated prin-
cipally in the public sch^Kils; studied law; was ad-
mitted to the bar, and practise*!; was a member of
the Connecticut legislature in 1850; was a delegate
to the National Itepublic.-ui Convention that nom-
inated Mr. Lincoln in IStkt, and General Grant in
18(tej; was appointed in 1801 jwstmosler at Nonvich
by President Lincoln, and iu 1805 he was re-a])-
pointeil by President Johnson, but after the latter
made his speech of Febru.iry 22, 1800, ho sent in his
resignation; he was elected a representotive from
Connecticut in the Fortieth Congress as a Kopub-
lican. receiving ti,72-} voles against 7,827 votes for
Martin, Demiwrat; was re-elected to the Forty-first
Congress, n-oelving 11,122 votes against 0,853 voles
for Converse, Democrat; was elected to tlie Forty-
second Congress, receiving 8,037 votes against 7,472
votes for J. \V. Steilmati. Democrat; was re-electe<I
to the Forty-third Coiiirress, receiving 7,754 voles
against 0.<KJO votes for Hill. Democrat, and 709 votes
for Palmer. Prohibitionist; was re-elected to the
Forty-fourth Congress as a Republican, receiving
t».(KKi votes against 8.035 votes for L. F. S. Foster,
Uemucrat, and .575 votes for Palmer, Prohibitionist,
s«2rving from March 4, 1807, to January 28, 1876,
when he died at Washington City.
Starr, John F., was liom at Pliiladelphio, Penn-
■ylv.-inla. in 1818: receiveil a public-school educa-
tion; removed to Camden, New Jersey, in 1844; was
engaged iu mercauUiu pursuits j was elected a repre-
' sentatlve from New .lersey In the Thirty-eighth
Congress as a Republican, receiving lt,4Ul votes
against 8,001 votes for Stratton, Democrat; wps
re-elected to the Thirty-ninth Congress, receiving
12,01i;J votes against 10,1»1 votes for Dickinson, Dem-
ocrat, serving from December 7, 1803, to Marcli 3,
1807.
St. Clair, Arthvir, wa.s bom at Thurso, Scot-
land, in 17^)4: R'ceived a classical education at the
liniversity of Kdinburgh: studied medicine with
John llunter; immigrated to America in 1758 with
the IJritish trooiw; was with General Amherst at (he
capture of Louisburg, ami fJeneral Wolfe at the con-
quest of Quebec; resigned his commission in 1702;
settled in Westmon-land t'ounty, Pennsylvania, In
1764, and erecte<l flour and .«aw mills; was aiipolnted
justice of the Court of Common Pleas and ilistrict-
surveyor in 1770; was couitnl»^sioned colonel of
militia in 177-5, and s<>nt to Fort Pitt to tre.it with
the Indians; was onleretl to Canada In 1770. and
promoted major-genend ; distinguished himself in
the leading battles of the Itevf.lution; was a clelegate
from Pennsylvania to the Continental Cimgress l^TSS-
1787, Ber\ing the last year os president; w:is ap-
pointed governor of the North-west Territory lu
1788; located and named the city of Cincinnati;
was appointed general-in-chief of the army in 1791,
and resignwl in 1TJ2; was. in the latter years of his
life, dependent upon pensions voted him by Con-
grx'ss and by Pennsylvania; died at Greensburg,
Pennsylvania. August 81, 1818. He published a
" Namtive of the Campaign of 1701 ; " aud a memoir
of liis life was nubllsbed by A. T. Goodman.
Steams, Asahel, was bom at Lunetiburg,
Massjichusctts. June 17, 1774; received a classical
education, graduatin<' at Harvard College in 1797;
studied law; was admitted to the bar, and cora-
nienced practice at Chelm.sford, M.issachusetls; was
for w-ver.ll years State attorney for Middlesex Coun-
ty; was a member of the American Academy of Arts
and Sciences; was defeated as the Federal candidate
for Conirn?s8 in the Middlesex District In 1812 by
W. M. Richardson, who was the only Democnitic
candidate elected in the State; was elected a rep-
resentative from Massachusetts in the Fourteenth
Congress as a Fedenilist, serring from Januarv 15,
1810. lo March S. 1817; wa.s professor of law at har-
vard College 1817-18211, when he resigned; was the
author of a work on " Real Actions," and one of
the commissioners for codifying the laws of Massa-
chusetts: died at Cambridge, Massachusetts, Febm-
ary 5. I8:».
Stebbins, Henry Q., was bom at New York
in 1812; received a public-ticliool education; became
a banker; w.is colonel of the Twelfth Regiment New-
York National Guard; was a pork commissioner, a
director of the New- York Academy of Music, .-uid
president of the Dramatic Fund Association; was
j elected a representative from New York in the
I Thirty-eighth ("ongress as a Democrat, receiving
; 9.9i)8 voles against 7,759 votes for McComiick, Re-
publican, serving from December 7, 1803, lo (jcto-
i)er. 1804. when he resigned.
! Btedman, William, was tram in Massachusetts
in 1705; received a classlejil mlucation, graduating at
Harvanl College in 1781; studied law; was admitted
to the bar In 1787, and practised ; was for several
vears clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court at
Worcester; was a memlxr of the State House of
Representatives in 1802; was elected a reprcs<.>ntatlve
from M:issachusetts in the Eighth Congress ob a
Federalist: was re-elected to the Ninth, Tenth, and
Eleventh Congnjsses. serving from October 17. 1803,
to 18111, when he resigned; died at Newburj-port,
Mussni-husctts, in 1831.
Steele, John, was bom In Salisbunr, North Caro-
lina, November 1, 1704; received a pubfic-scliool edu-
cation; engaged in mercantile pursuits, and then
became a successful farmer; was a member of the
Sut« House uf RepresenUtives In 1787, 1788, 1794,
640
CONOBBSSIOKAL DIBECTOBT.
1706, 1806, 1811-1813; was a member of the con-
vention which met at Hillsborough to consider the
Federal Constitution in 1788; was elected a repre-
sentative in the First Congress as a Federalist; was
re-elected to the Second Congress, serving from April
19, 1790, until March 2, 1703; was appointed in 1806
on the commission to adjust the boundaries between
North and South Carolina; was appointed by Presi-
dent Washington first comptroller of the treasury
July 1, 1796; was re-appointed by President John
Adams, and resigned I>ecember 16, 1802, although
solicited by President Jefferson to remain; was again
elected to the State House of Representatives, but
died at Salisbury, North Carolina, on the same day,
Aiignst 14, 1815.
Steele, John B., was bom at Delhi, New
York, March 28, 1814; received a classical educa-
tion, graduating at Williams College, Massachusetts ;
studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1839, and
commenced practice at Cooperstown, New York;
was district-attorney for Otsego County; removed
In 1847 to Kingston; was elected in 1860 special
judge of Ulster County; was elected a representa-
tive from New York In the Thirty-seventh Congress
as a Democrat, receiving 0,938 votes against 0,789
votes for Sylvester, Republican; was re-elected to
the Thirty-eighth Congress, receiving 10,268 votes
against 8,422 votes for Cornell, Republican, serving
from July 4, 1861, to March 8, 1865; was thrown
from a carriage and killed at Kingston, New York,
September 24, 1866.
Steele, John N., was bom in Maryland; re-
sided at Vienna; was elected a representative from
Maryland in the Twenty-third Congress (in place of
Littleton P. Dennis, deceased) as a Whig, receiving
1,017 majority over Stewart, Democrat; was re-
elected to the Twenty-fourth Congress, serving
from 18,S4 to March 8. 1837.
Steele, Walter Leak, was bom at Steele's
Mills (now Little's Mills), Richmond County, North
Carolina, April 18, 1823; was educated partly at
Randolph-Macon CoUese, at Wake-Forest College,
and then at the University of North Carolina, where
he graduated in 1S44; was elected a member of the
State House of Commons in 1846, 1848, 18.)0, and
1854, and of the State Senate in 1852 and 1858; is a
member of the legal profession; was a delegate to
the National Democratic Conventions at Charleston
and Baltimore in 1860; was the secretary of the
State Convention of 1861 which passed Uie ordi-
nance of secession ; was the Democratic candidate for
presidential elector in the Sixth District in 1872; and
was elected a representative from North Carolina in
the Forty-fifth Congress as a Democrat, receiving
17,256 votes against 10,283 votes for Allen Jordan,
Republican, serving from October 15, 1877.
Steele, William Q., was bom in Sometset
County, New Jersey, December 17, 1820; received
an academical education; engaged In mercantile
pursuits and banking; was a State director of the
Camden and Amboy Railroad, and of the Delaware
and Raritan Canal; was elected a representative
from New Jersey in the Thirty-seventh Congress
as a Democrat, receiving 12,813 votes against 10,438
votes for Berthoud, Republican; was re-elected to
the Thirty-eighth Congress, receiving 15,708 votes
against 9,093 votes for Brownson, Republican, serv-
ing from July 4. 1861, to March 8, 1865.
Steele, WiUiam R., was bom in New-York
City July 24, 1842; received an academic education;
studied law, and practises the profession ; served in
the Union army as private and commissioned officer
during the late war; was a staS-offlcer of Major-
Generals John Sedgwick, O. O. Howard, John Gib-
bon, and Alexander S. Webb, of the Army of the
Potomac; was elected a member of the Le^lative
Council of Wyoming Territory in the fall of 1871,
resigning the said position the 4th of March, 1873;
and was elected a delegate from Wyoming Territory
iA tb» J'ortyrthicd Congresa ■■ k Democrat, t«ceivlng
a majority of about 800 votes overW. T. jMies,
Republican; was re-elected to the Forty-fourth Con-
fess by a majority of 602 votes over Joseph H.
Carey, Republican, serving from December 6, 1872,
to March 8, 1877.
Steenrod, Lewis, was bom in Yirginia; re-
sided at Wheeling; was elected a representative
from Virginia in the Twenty-sixth Congress as a
Democrat, receiving 2,667 votes against 2,112 vota
for Thomas Hamond, Whig; was re-elected to the
Twenty-seventh Congress; was re-elected to the
Twenty-eighth Congress, receiving no opposition,
serving from December 2, IS^, to March 3, 1845.
Stenger, William S., was bom at London,
Penusylvama, February 13, 1840; graduated at
Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, Penn-
sylvania, in July, 1868; studied law; was admitted
to the bar in August, 1860, at Chambeisburg, where
he has since practised; was district-attorney of
Franklin County from 1862 to 1871, having been
twice re-elected; and was elected a representative
from Pennsylvania in the Forty-fourth Congress as
a Democrat, receiving 12,804 votes against 11,781
votes for Langhom Wister, Republican; and was
re-elected to the Forty-fifth Congress, receiving
15,301 votes against 15,232 votes for Thaddeus M.
Mahon, Republican, serving from December 6, 1873.
Stephens, Abrabam P., was bom in New
York; resided at Nyack; was elected a representa-
tive crom New York in the Thirty-second Congress
as a Democrat, receiving 4,861 votes against 4,372
votes for Gumee, Whig, serviug from Deoemlier 1,
1861, to March 8, 1853.
Stephens, Alexander Hamilton, was bom
in that part of Wilkes County, Georgia, which now
forms a part of Taliaferro County, Feomary 11, 1812;
graduated at the University of G«oi^a, at Athens,
in 1832; taught school eighteen months; was ad-
mitted to the bar at Crawfordsville in 1834; was a
member of the House of Representatives of the
Georgia l^slature from Taliaferro County in 1836-
1841, and was a member of the State Senate from
Taliaferro County in 1842; was run as a presidential
elector for the State at large in Georgia on the
Douglas and Johnson ticket in 1860; was elected to
the Secession Convention of Georgia in 1861; op-
posed and voted against the ordinance of secession
in that body, but gave it his support after it had
been passed by the convention against his judgment
as to its policy; was elected by that convention to
the Confederate Congress which met at Montgomery,
Alabama, Febroary4, 1861, and was chosen Vice-
President under the Provisional Government by
that Congress; was elected Vice-President of the
Confederate States for the term of six yeara, under
what was termed " the permanent government," in
November, 1861 ; visited the State of Virginia on a
mission under the Confederate Government in April,
1861, upon the invitation of tliat State; was one of
the commissioners on the part of the Confederate
Government at t\^e Hampton-Roads conference in
February, 1805; was elected a representative from
Georgia in the Twenty-eighth Congress as a Whig, re-
ceiving 88,051 votes against 36,001 votes for James
H. Stark, Democrat; was re-elected to the Twenty-
ninth Congress, receiving 4,208 votes against 3,152
votes for Jones, Democrat; was re-elected to the
"niirtleth Congress, receiving 3,507 votes against
2,078 votes for Turner, Democrat; was re-elected
to the Thirty-fint Congress, receiving 4,010 vote*
against 2,602 votes for Day, Democrat; was re-elected
to the Thirty-second Congress, receiving 4,744 votes
aninst 1,955 votes for Lewis, Democrat; was re-
elected to the Thirty-third Congress, receiving 5,(t34
votes against 8,444 votes for Jones, Democrat; was
re-elected to the Thirty-foorth Congress as a Demo-
crat, receiving 6,808 votes axainst 8,078 vote* for
Lamar, American; was re-elected to the Thirty-
fifth Congress, receiving 6,161 votes against 4.096
votes far Hillw, AmmUaa, aerrtng from i>aeamber
STATISTICAL SKETCHES.
641
1W3. to March 3, la'iO. when lie decliiieil a re-
Becticin; was clecti-d a I'liitcil-Statos senator in
W by ihe (irsl lei;iiilalure convened under the new
iitutlon, but was not allowed lo take his sent;
elected to the Forty-third Congress (to (ill the
cancy occasioned by the death o( Amlirose R.
TrighH, and was rc-el<'ct<'d to tlie Furty-fnurth
^ouKTcss as a straiRlit-out Jefferson Deumcral. re-
eivlug 6,S'i'2 votes lutainst 12 votes for Uarrison.
epublican; was re-i'iecled to the Forly-tifth Con-
receivinp 14. 171 voles against 1,^73 votes for
tennelle, ser^im: from ()rtol>er 15, 1S77.
Stephens, Philander, was born In Pennsylva-
Dia in 17S.S; resided at Mniitrose; was elected a rep-
seiilalive from Pennsylvania in the Twenty-ftrst
k^initress as a Jaclison IJcmocrat ; was re-elected to
|je twenty-second ConRn-ss. serving from December
J, 18L11, to "March 2, lArf; died at Springfleld, Penn-
j-l%-ania. July >*, 1S42.
Stephenson, Benjamin, was bom in Ken-
iicky; removLiI in lN>ltto Itaiidolph County. Illinois
Territory; was hiyli sheriff of Ihe county; served as
Dlonel of militia in the war of 1812; was elected a
.elcgale from Illinois Territoiy In the Thirteenth
Dongress (in place of .Shadrack bond, resinned); was
e-clected to the Fourteenth Congrt^ss, serving tmm
foveniber 14, 1814, to March 3, 1817; was appointed
eceiver of public money at Edwordsville, Illinois,
id dieil there.
Stephenson, James, was horn at Gettysburg,
Pennsylvania, March 20. 17tM; removed when young
lo Virginia, and located at Marlinslmrg; served
under ticneral i>l. Clair in his Indian e.v]x.'dili(in as
captain of volunteer riHemcn; became brigiuie-in-
Rltector; was a member of the State House of Rcpn--
sentati ves ; was electeil a representative from Virginia
in the Eighth Congress as a Federalist, serving from
Octob<T 17, 1803, to M.irch 3. 18*5; w.is again elected
to the Eleventh Congress, serving from May 22, 18)11,
to March 3, 1811; was again elecunl to the Seven-
teenth Congress (in place of Thomas Van Swearingen,
deceased ) ; was re-elected to the Eightt^cnth Congress,
serving from December 2, 182*2, to March 3, 1825;
Eied ai Miirlinslmrg, Virginia, August 7, ISi'J.
Sterigere, John B., was bom in Pennsylvania;
ssided at U|)[ht Dublin, and subsequently at Mor-
slowu; was elected a represeutatlvo from Pennsyl-
li>ia in the Twentieth Congress as a Jackson Demo-
crat, defeating Philip .S. Markley, Adams Democrat;
was re-elected to the Twenty-lirst Congress, serving
Irom Di>i'emt>er 3, IS'27. to March 3, 1831.
Sterling, Ansel, was iKini in New-London Coiin-
tv. Ciinuecticul; reBiik'<l at .Sharon; was elected a
r.|ipsentative frrnn Connecticut in the Seventeenth
Coii'.;re8s; was re-elected to the Eighteenth Congress,
■lervin!.' fr.mi December 3, 1821, to March 3, 1825.
■ Sterling, Mioah, w.as Iwrn at Lyme, Connecti-
^Cul, ill 17S1; received a classical education, graduat-
ing at Vale College in 18<>4; studied law ;it llie Litch-
lield Law Schixil; was admitted to Ihe bar, and com-
menced practice at Adams, removing the next year
to Watertown, New Vork; was elected a representa-
tive from New York in the .Seventeenth Congress,
serving from DccomlM'r 3. 1821. to March ». 1823;
died at Watertown. New York, April 10. 1844.
Sterrett, Samuel, was born in Maryland in
17'xi: residi'd at IJ.iltiinnre; was elected a representa-
tive frf)ra Marvland in the Second Con.gress, ser\iiig
from OctolMT 24, 1701, to March 2, 1703; died at Biil-
tiinore. Maryland. July 12. 18:W.
Stetson, Charles, was bom at New Ipswich,
New Hampshire, November 7, 1801; removed with
liis parents to Hampden. Maine, in 1802; received a
classical education, graduating at Yale College in
182;J: studUvl law; was adiuilted to the bar, and
practised at Ham|Mlen nnlil 18;J3, when he removed
to Bang'ir; was appointed judge of the H.-ingor Mn-
nicip.ll Court in ls;}4, ami clerk of the IViiobscol-
county courts in l*Jtl; was elected a member of the
ttute cuuncU 181o-Iti48; was elected a representative
from Maine In the Thirty-first Congress as a Demo-
crat, receiving 5,04»."> votes against 4.402 voles for
Washburn, Wliig, and 2,m3 voles for Curtis, Demo-
crai. serving from Decembers, 1849, to March 3, 1851.
Stetson, Lemuel, was bom in New York ; re-
ceived an acadeuiical education; studied law; was
ailmitled to the bar, and ci.nmienced practice at
Keesevillo; was a meral>er of the State Uuuse of
Kepresentatives 183.7. 18;W, and 1842; was elected a
representative from New York in the Twenty-eighth
Congress as a Democrat, receiving 4,<>;5.5 voles" against
4,01*2 votes for McDonald, Whig, and IH-i voles for
Parkhursl, Abolitionist, ser%'lng from Deceml)er 4,
IS+l. to March 3, 1845; was county-judge of Clinton
('onnty 1S47-1851; was again a member of the State
House of IJepresentalives in 1862.
Stevens, Aaron F., was l)ora at Dcrry, New
Hampshire, August 0. 1810; received an academic
education; studied and practised law; was a mem-
lier of the legislature of the State of New Uamp-
sliirt^ in \><4», ia>4. 185(1. and 18.17; was county-soli-
citor fnmi l*v>0 until 1801; entered the Unionaniiy
ill 1881 as major of the First New-Hamixsliire Volun-
teers; was afterwards colonel of the Thirteenth New-
Hampshire Volunteers, commaiuiant of a brigade,
and brigadier-general by brevet; and w.is elected a
representative from New Hampshire in the Fortieth
Congress as a Republican, receiving 11,200 votes
against 10,305 vot«* for Harrington, Democrat; was
re-elected to the Forty-first Congress, rtKieiving 1 1 ,;}.'J8
votes against 0,740 votes for Harrington, Democrat,
serving from March 4, 1867, to March 3, 1871; was
again a member of the State House of Representa-
tives,
Stevens, Bradford N., was bom at Boscawen
(now Webster), New Hampshire, January 3, 1813;
after the usual academic course, he studied one year
in Le I'c'tit Seminain? at Montreal, and gniduated at
Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, in 18;J5; was
an educator six years in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, and
New- Vork City; n.-moved in 1843 to IJun'au County,
Illinois, where ho was a merchant and fanner, aiid
took an active part in the prnmotion of internal im-
provemi'nts: w.is chaimian of the board of suiwrvi-
sors of Bureau Cnunfy in 1808; was elected a rep-
resentative from Illiniiis in the Forty-secoiul Congress
as an Independent Democrat, receiving ll..')70 votes
against O.IKW votes forEljon C. Digersoll, Republican,
and 803 votes for Ives, Temperance, serving from
March 4, 1871, to March 3, 1873.
Stevens, Charles A., was elected a represen-
tative from Massachusetts in the Forty-third Con-
gress (in pl.TCe of Alvah Crocker, deceased) as a Re-
publican, serving from January 27, 1875, to March 3,
1876.
Stevens, Hestor L., was lx)m at Lima, New
Ytirk, Dcliiber, 18ip;l; received An academical educa-
tion; studied law; was admit teil to Ihe bar, and
commenced practice at Rochester, wlien> he also was
connected with the press; removed to Michigan, and
located at Pontine; was elected a representative from
Michigan in the Tliirly-third Congress iis a Democrat,
receiving 10,74<J votes against 8.1>is voles for Bnulley,
Whig, and 1,048 votes for Calkins. Free-Soiler. serv-
ing from December 5, 185;$. to March 3, 18.")5: died at
Georgetown, District of Columbia, May 7, 18<M.
Stevens, Hiram S., was born at Weston, Ver-
mont, in 1.S;12; received a common-school education
there; removed to New Mexico In 1S51, .md In 185(1
located in that part of New Mexico no\Y known as
Ariiiona; was a member of the Territorial legislature
of Arizona 1808-1873; and was elected a delegate
from Ariztma In the Forty-fourth Congress as an In-
iletiendent candidate, receiving 1,442 votes ogninst
1.070 votes for C. C. Bean, and 638 votes for Jolin
Smith; and was re-electefl to the Forty-fifth Con-
gress, receiving 1,412 votes against 1.070 votes for
Bean, Inde|>endent, and 038 votes for Smith, Inde-
pendent, serNing from October 15, 1877.
Stevens, Isaao Ingalls, was bom at North
642
CONCnESSIONAL DIKECTOBT.
Andover. Massachusetts, in 1818; received amilitarr |
education, fp^duutiiig first in Ills class Ht Wi'st Point j
In 18;;0: entering the corps of engineers, he served on ,
the staff of General Scott in Mexico, ilistiiitriiishinf; I
himself in several engaaemenls; was iiii assistant in
the co!i*t survey; resigueiJ in 18-VJ, having been ap-
poiiite<l iiy President Pierce governor of Washington
Territory, which office he held until he resigned in
August, ISoT; wivs wounded In a n-ncounter with
( liiif Justice Sanders; was elected n delegate from
Wasliiuglon Territory in the Thirty-fifth Congress as
a Democrat; was re-elected to the Thirty-sixth Con-
gress, serving trom Deceml»;r 7, 1857, to March .1.
ISOI ; entered the Union army as colonel of tlie
Seventy-ninth New-York Highlanders July ;W, 1801 ;
was appointed brigiulier-general of volunteers Se|>-
temher ;i8, 1S*;1 ; served under Sherman in the Port-
Koyal cxpeilition; was aj)pointed major-gi-neral July
4, i8<U, and commanded a division under Creneral
Pojie; was mortally wounded at the sec ind Bull-
Hun battle while carrjing the flag of one of his rc'ci-
ments. and cheering it forward; died at Chantiila,
Virginia. September fl. ls<12. He published "Cam-
paign of thi; liio tininde and Mexico, with Reraurlcs
on ihe Ki'ccnt Work of Major IJipley," and a survey
of the route for the North Pacilic liailroad.
Stevens, James, was bom at Fairfield, Con-
necticut, in 17(58; was elected a r<>]iresentative from
Connecticut in the Sixteenth Congress as a Demo-
crat, sefving from December (I, iSlt). U> March 3.
18:il; was appointed postmaster at Stamford, Con-
necticut, in 18'J2; died ut Stamford, Connecticut,
April 10, 18:55.
Btevens, Thaddeus, was bom at Peacham,
Venuont, April 4, 170"J; graduated at Dartmouth
College, and removcil to Pennsylvania in 1814; while
teacher in an academy, he studied law, and was ad-
inilted to the bar; was a member of the State legis-
laluie of Pennsylvania in 18:53, 18:14, 18:55, 1837, and
1841 ; was a member of the State Constitutional Con-
vention In 18:58 ; was appointed a canal commission-
er in 18:58; removed to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in
1842; was elected a representative from Pennsyl-
vania in the Thirty-first Congress as a Whig, receiv-
ing 11,505 votes against 5,4<U votes for Shaeffer,
Democrat ; was re-elected to the Thirty-second Con-
gress, receiving 5,7U1 votes against 4,IN11) votes for
Sluhlenbcp^ Demix-rat, serving from Deccml)er 3,
1841), to March 1, I.SjS; was again elected to the
Thirty-sixth Con.;ress as a Republican, receiving
P,5l:! votes against 0,341 votes for Hopkins, Uemiv
crat; was re-i'lected to the Tlilrty-seventh Congress,
receiving lJ,tMU votes against 470 votes scattering;
wiis re-elected to the Thirty-eighth Congress, receiv-
ing 11,174 votes afptinst i!,(J50 votes for Steinson,
Democrat; was re-elected to the Thirty-ninth Con-
gress, receiving 1 1,814 votes against 7,344 voles for
North, Democrat; wa» re-elected to the Fortieth
Congress, receiving 14,208 votes against 8,075 votes
for lievnolds. Democrat, serving from December 5,
185(1, to August 11, 18t)8, when he died at Washing-
ton City.
Stevenson, Adlai E., was bora in Cliristlan
County, Kentucky, Uctoljer 23, 1835; w;is educated
at Centre College. Danville, Kentticky; studied law
In llloomington, Kentucky, with Willi.ims and Pack-
ard, and was ndmitUid to the bar May 1, 18,58; re-
moved to Woodford County, Illinois, Avhore he com-
menced practice; was master in chancery IStil-lJ^tWi,
and .State's attorney for the Twenty-third Judicial
District 18(M-18fi8; removed to Bloomington Janu-
ary I, 180y, and commenced practice there; and was
elected a representative from Illinois in the Forty-
fourth Congress as the candidate of the " Indei>end-
enl Ueform Party," receiving 11,135 votes against
O.iWS votes for Jolin McNulta, Kepublican, s<;rving
from December (1, 1875, to March 3, 1877,
Stevenson, Andrew (father of John W. Ste-
venson), was born in Culpepper County, Vltijinia,
In 1784: received a classical education; studied law;
1
was admitted to the bar, and nracllsod nf Pirhmoiid.
Vir;:inia; was a memlx-r of the S --of
Kepresentatives 1.S>4-1S20, serviiu: -
siK-»ker: «^ls electeii a reprcsen' '
in Ihe Eighteenth <^)ngreRs .is i
eii'cted to the Nineteenth, Tw;
Twenty-second, anil Twenty-thinI » ■
ing from December 1, 1H23, to June i;
resigned, having served as sjieaker
minister to Gr<?at Britain March 1>
'iLl, 1.S41 ; devoted himself to n_-^
was rector of the University ft
died at " Blenlieim,"' Alliemarl'
January i5, 1857.
Stevenson, James 8., wss lK>m in York Con&tJ
ty. I'ennsylvania; n'Sided .i ' ■ . le
a representative from P'l
teenth Congress: wiis rci. , .. . ,.
Congri-ss, serving from Decemlwr 5, I.'^;i5. to
3. 1829; died at i'ittsburg, Pemisvlvoiiia. Octob
1.831.
Stevenson, Job E., was bom in Roas Countyd
Ohio, Febniary 10, 1.8.31; received an irregubu" coJ-^
legiate education: studied law. and practised;
soliciu^r of Cbillicothe in 185U, ISO*), 18<;i, and 18821
was a memlier of the Ohio Senate frrmi Koe»
Highland Counties in 18(13, 18*54. and 18»VS; waa
feated as the Republican candidate for Congress i
Ihe Twelfth District of Ohio in 18(14; removed
Cincinnati in l'<(!5, and eontiir' ■■' •' ■■■ •
law; and was elected a represr
the Forty-first Congress as a 1 .
4117 majority over Siunuel F. (!iiry, luUep
Workingmen's candidate and adopted Deo
and was re-elected to the Forty-second Cong
ceiving 11.21*4 votes against 7,7-15 votes for S.
Democrat, serving from March 4, 1801*, to Match 3j
187:5.
Stevenson, John W. (son of Andrew Sterei^
son), was boni at Richmond, Virginia, May j'
and received his early education flierc ; attend
University of Virginia, aini J ' ■ '' ' '
law in Virginia; went to K
county-iittorney; was a r. ; :
ture of Kentucky for several years; was a men
of the State Constitutional Convention which 1
the present Constitution; was one of the
who fnuucd a civil and criminal code of pr
was a presidential elector in 1852 and in 185(3
State at large; was elected a representative
Kentucky in the Thirty-fifth Congress as a Demo ,
crat, receiving 8,748 vote* against 4,185 votes fori
Kankin, American; was re-elected to the Thirty,
sixth Congress, receiving 0,2!>j voti ■ " "'
votes for Jones, Opposition, servini; ■
7, 1.857. to March 3, 1801; was ei-r
governor of Kentucky in 1IS(57; was ■
lu 1.8(18: was elected United-States »< 1 1
tucky as a DemiK'rat (to succeed T. C. McCrcfjf),
Democrat), serving from March 4, 1871, to March 3,
1877.
Stewart, Andrew, was bom in Fayette County,
Pennsylvania, June 17l»2; received a public-school
educati(>n; studied law; was ndmitte«l to the bar hi
1815, and commenced practice at Uniontown; wsi
appointed by Pn-sident Moiuxie United-States atlo^
iiey for the Western District of Pennsylvania: WM
for three years a memlier of the SlAte House of
Representatives; was elected a representative frtiia
Pennsylvania in the Seventeenth Congress as a Jack-
son Democrat; was re-elected to th_e Eighteenth, J
Nineteenth, and Twentieth Congress<;s, serving frv-mj
Decembers, 1821, to March .'t. Is2t); was agairT elect- 1
ed to the Twenty-second Congress; was re-elected to
the Twenty-thinl Congre*8, serving from December
5, 1S:)1, to March 3, 1835; was defeated for the Tweiv-
ty-fourth Congress by Andrew Buchanan, WTiig; was ^i
again elected to the Twenty-eighth (''ongress: ws^^H
re-elected to the Twenty-ninth and Thirtieth Coo^H
gresses, serving from Decemlier 4, 184:5. to March 3^
I
STATISTICAL SKETCHEa.
643
IfMO; elieil At Unlontown, Pennsylvania, July 16,
187J.
Stewart, Archibald, was a delegate from New
Jersey t.> the Continental Congress 1784-1785, to fill
, ft vncanry.
Stewart, Archibald, was iwini in Virtfinin;
rf^siilixl nl M'lUiil Airv: was elected a representative
[ fr<im VirLjiiiiii in the Twenty-tiflU Congress as a
IX'ini>crat, dcfeatinj; Nullianiel II. Claiborne, serv-
ing fnim SeptenilK-r 4, IfStt, to Mareli 3, lH;«t; was
I deteateil as (he Deini>cratie eandidate for the Twenty-
I sixth Cnnirress liy W. L. (Jogirin, Wliig.
Stewart, David, was dorn in Maryland; re-
• ceived a classiiMJ eiliioalion; studied law; was ad-
I milted to the \>nr, and practised; was apprdnted a
United-States senator fnim Marjland (in place of
I Beveniy Johnson, resiipied), ser\'inc; from Decemlier
\B. lS4n, to Januar}- 14. 1S50. when his suceessor took
' his seat ; died at Baltimore, Maryland, October 5,
Stewart, Jacob H., was Ixjm at Clermont.
Columbia County, New York, January l.'), lS2!t; re-
' moved when very young with his parents to Peeks-
Ikill, New York; received an academic educatitm
at the Peelcskill Academy; studied medicine, and
graduated at I lie University Medic.il CoUeyre of New-
York City March, 1851; practised his profession
Bt Peeksklll, and at St. Paul. Miiuiesota. to which he
removed in April, 1855; was a memlier of the .state
Ben.Hte of Mlimesota of 18-^1850; was surgeon-gen-
eral of Minnesota 1857 to IS'W; was appointed sur-
geon of the First Minnesota Volunteer Inf.intry
April 17, 18(51; was taken prisoner at the first battle
of Bull Run, paroled, and allowed to care for his
wounded at Sudley-Church Hospital until they were
able to be removed to Uichmond, when he was jxT-
mitted to return home without exch.inge "for volun-
tarily remaining on the battle-field in (he discharge
of his duty;" was mayor of St. Paul in 18(>4, 18(18,
1872. 187;!, and 1874; was surgeon of the Board of
I Enrolment 18tH and 1805; w.as postmaster of St.
Paul 18(15 to 1870; was president of the Minnesota
State Medic.-Jl Society 1875 and 1870; was elected a
rcpreseiit.itive from Minnesota to the Forty-fifth
Con-jress as a Kei)ul)lican, receiving 2:i,8'2;j" votes
against 2i).727 votes for W. W. McNair, Democrat,
■eniiii; from Oct'ibcr 15, 1877.
Stewart, James, was born In North Carolina
In 177-1; was eleeteil a representative from North
Carolina in the Fifteenth Cougress, serving from
January 21. ISl'^. to March ."J, 18H); died in North
Caroli:iri Ki'liniarj- :5, 1842.
Stewart, Jaines A., was Ixjm in Dorchester
[County. Maryland, November 24, 1803; received an
tkcadeinical education; studied law; was admitted to
Jthe bar, and commenced practice at Caniliridge,
IlIaiTland: was a memlMT of the State House of
IEepr<?sentatives: was a circuit-court judge; was
lelectecl a n^presenlative from Maryland in the Thlr-
Ity-fourth Congress as a Democrat, receiving (l,17.'l
rotes against 5.8iW votes for Dennis, American; was
Ite-elected to the Thirty-fifth Congrcs.s, receiving 0,339
iTotes against (i.I(i-'i votes for Townsend, American;
I was r(»-elected to the Thirty-si.\th Con;;rt?s8, receiving
|6.rti4 votes acainst (l..'J84 votes for Cox, Opposition,
l•e^^■in^ from D>'ceml)er3, 1*55, to March 8, ISOl,
Stewart, John, was elected a representative
oin Pennsylvania in the Sixth Congress (in place of
iThonias Hartley, deceased); was re-elected to the
IS'-vendi and Eighth Congresses, semng from Febni-
|»r>- .'t. 1*11. to March 3. 18(J,5.
Stewart, John, w.xs bom at Chatham, Connect-
Kiil, In 17115; received a public-school i-ducation;
was reared on a farm, and was a jiractlcal farmer;
Lw!i» for several years a member of the State House
|«f Kepresenlatives; w.is judge of the Middlesex-
iity Court; wil« elected a representative from
meetlcut in the Twenlv-i'ii'hth Congress, serving
r>n» December 4, 1843, to Marcb 3, 1845; died at
Sfantham, Connecticut, Sept«mber 10, 1800.
Stewart, Thomas E., was bom In New-Tork
City .SeptomlKT 22, IS24; received an academic edu-
cation; studied and practised law; was comtuissioncr
of common schools in 18,54; was a IJepublican mem-
ber of the State Assembly of New York in 1804 and
1805; was nominated by the Conserv.ative Repub-
licans to the Fortieth Congress. ;uid was electid a rep-
resentative from New York by them and the Demo-
crats, receiving Vt,4.i2 votes against (I.IXV) votes for
Sijoneer, Radical Republican, and 711 \0te9 for Ste-
venson, Independent Democrat, serving from March
4, 1807, to March 3, ISO!).
Stewart, William, was bom at Mercer. Penn-
sylviiniji. Scptemlier Ki. isil; receiviMl a classical ed-
ucation, graduating at Jefferson College ; studie<l law;
was admitted to the bar in 1835, aiul conuncnced
practice at Mercer, Pennsylvania ; was for three
years a memlier of the .State .Senate; was elected a
i-epresentatlve from Pennsylvania in the Thirty-fifth
Congress as a Republican, receiving 8,.''r52 votes
•agaiiist 5,407 votes for Cuniiiiigliam, Democrat; was
rt'-elected to the Thirty-sixth Ongre-ss, receiving
0,721 votes against 3,777'votes for John N. Jlelruffln,
Democrat, serving from December?. 1857, to March 3,
1*11.
Stewart, William M., was bom in Wayne
Counlv, New York, August li, 1827; was a student at
Yale College; went to Callfoniia, where he wius en-
gaged in mining; studied and practised law, serving
as State attorney and attorney-general; removing to
that portion of Utah now Nevada, he was elected
to the Territorial legislature In l.*'(.!I ; was elected a
member of the convenlion whicli framed the ("onsti-
tution of Nevada in 18<W; was elected United-States
senator from Nevada as a Republican on the adoption
of the State Constitution, and w,i« re-elected, 8er^•ing
from December 4, 18<55, to Mon^ 8, 1875; resumed
practice at San Francisco.
Stiles, John D., was born In Luzerne Coimty,
Pennsylvania, January 15, ISiJ; received an aca-
ilcniic educ.ition: studied law, and was admitted to
the bar In 1844; In 1853 he was elected district-attor-
ney for Lehigh County, and held the office for three
years; w.as a delegate to the National Convention
which nominated Mr. Buchanan for President In
18.50, to the Chicago Couvention in 1804, to the
Philadelphia National Union Convention in 1800,
and to the Democratic Convimtion in 18<i8 which
nominated Seymour and Blair; was elected a repre-
sentative froni Pennsylvania in the Thirty-sevi-nth
Congress (for the unexpired term of his friend T. B.
Cooper, deceased) as a Democrat, receiving 581 ma^
jority; was re-elei-'led to the Thirty-eighth Congress,
receiving 11,310 votes against 8,()()2 votes for Krause,
Unionist, 8<?rving from 1801 to MiiR'U 3, 18<»5: was
again elected to the Forty-first Congress as a Demo-
crat, receiving 15.247 votes ngaln.st 12,508 votes for
Breitenbach, Republican, serving from 1800 to March
3. 18-1.
Stiles, William H., was bom at Savanimb,
Georgia; received an academical education; studied
law : was admitted to the bar. and commenceij prac-
tice at Savannah ; w,is solicitor-general for the East-
ern District of fJeorgia 18;i'5-ls;jo ; was elected a rep-
resentative from Ocorgia In the Twenty-eighth C<m-
gress OS a Democrat, receiving So.KM Votes against
32,!I8() votes for A. H. CUappell, Whig, serving from
December 4, 1843, to March 3, 1.846; was appointed
bv President Polk charij6 to Austria, aniJ served
A"pril 10, 184.5-October 3, 1841); served in the Confed-
erate anny with the rank of colonel; died at Savan-
nah, ffcorgia, Decemlier 10, 1805.
Stillwell, Thomas L., was bom at Stillwell,
Ohio, August 2ti, 18;(il; received a classical education
at Oxford and Collc>ge Uill; studied l,iw; w.is ad-
mitted to the bar In 1852, and commenced practice
at Anderson, Indiana; was a member of the Stale
House of Representatives in 18.10; engaged in liank-
ing; was an officer In the Union army ^>^ one year;
was el«cted » repreaentative from Indiana iu Uie
64-1
CONGBESSIOXAL DIEECTOBY.
Tbirt}'-nlnth CongrcM aa a RepabUcan, receiving
15,023 votes against 13.383 votes fur James F. Mc-
. Dowell, Democrat, serving from Dect'mU'r 4, lf«l5,
to Miirrli 3, 1S07; was apiHiintcd by Presiilciit Ji>Ln-
eim niinieter reaidt-nl at Vener.uiflu, servin;; Aujiust
3J, lW!"-June 3.1, INiH; was killed l).v J. E. Corwiu at
Anili!i-son, Iinli.iii.i, .lanuary 14, 1S"4.
St, John, Charles, wiis boni in Orange County,
New York. October 8, 1818; received n conjuioii-sclicKil
e<lucation; is a merchimt, niunulactiirer, ami luml>er-
luan; and was eleotiMl a reiiroseritative from Xt-w
Ynrk in tbe Forty-second Congress as a Kepultlicau,
receiving U,"i47 votes against lii,747 votes for Slier-
man, Democrat; and was re-elected to tbe Forty-third
Congress, receiving ll,.s4:J votes against 14,2(J'J votes
f(jr K. Klagg, Republican, serving from March 4, 1871,
to JIai-cb 3, 187").
St. John, Daniel B., was born at Sharon. Con-
uectiiut. October 8, 1808; received a public-school
education; removed t-o New York; became a mer-
chant's clerk at Montlcello, and followed mercantile
pursuits until 1847; was elected a repr<-'sentative from
S'ew York in the Thirtieth Concrcss as a Whig, serv-
ing from December <l, 1847, to Maieh .3, 1849; was a
member of the State llous*? of Ucpn.'srntalives in IHiy ;
was superintendent of the .State Hanking Department
April 15, IsOl-April 4, 1854; was again a member of
the State House of IJepresentativesin 1859 and 1800;
otigaged in agricultural purstiiu near Newbury, New-
York.
St. John, Henry, was bom In New York; re-
moved to Ohio, and located at Tiffin ; was elected a
representative from Ohio in the Twenty-eighth Con-
gress as a Democrat, receiving 4,;J07 votes against Hi
voles for Uobiuson, Abolitionist; wa-s re-elected to
the Twentv-ninth Congress, serving from Deceml>er
4. 1*1.3. to MarehS. 1847.
St. Martin, Louis, was bom In Louisiana; re-
sided at New Orleans; was elected a representative
from Louisiana in the Thirty-second Congress as a
Democrat, receiving 3,li)ll votes against 2,7(1.3 votes
for Uagan, Whig, serving from December 1, 1851, to
March 3, 18.53; was again elected to the Thirty-ninth
Coiii^ess, and his credetitials were presented Decem-
ber 111. 18t!5. Imt he was not admitted.
Stockton, John P. (grandson of Richard .Stock-
ton, and son of Kichard Stot^klon), was lK>m in Prince-
ton, New Jersey, August 2, 182ii: was graduated at
Princeton College In 1843; was licenseil to practise
law in 184(1; whs called to the bar in 1841t; was ap-
jiiilnled a commissioner to revise the laws of New
Jersey; was subsiMpiently re|>ortcr to the Court of
Chancery, and published three volumes of e<iuity re-
p^irLs which bear his name; was ap[iolnted in t8,5<S
minister n>sident at Rome, and was recalled at his
own request in 18(>1 : was elected l'nited-.States sena-
tor from New Jersey in isitt for the term ending in
1^71 ; after holding the position for more than a year,
his election Wiis declared by the Senate to have l«?en
informal, and hu was unseated, and returned to New
Jersey and the practice of his profession; was again
el'jtted senator as a Democrat (in the place of Fred-
erick T. Frelinghuvsen, Republican ), servine from
March 4, iWJ, to .March 3, 187.5; w.is elected by the
Senate of New Jersey State attoniey-general March
8 J. 1S77.
Stockton, Richard (grandfather of John P.
.Stockton, and father of Richard Stockton), was bom at
I'niK'tion. Ni'w Jersey. October 1. 1730; recived a
cliissical education, graduating at I'rinceton College
in 1748; studied law with Richard Ogden; was ad-
mitted to the bar In 1754, and commenced practice at
I'rinceton, New Jersey: visited England in 1700;
was appointed an executive councillor of the prov-
ince of New Jersey in 1708; was appointed a judfie
of the .Supreme Court of New Jersey in 1774; was a
delegate from New Jersey to the Continental Con-
gress 1770-1777; was sent on a mission to tlie North-
ern anny, and fell Into the hands of a party of royal-
ists, wlio subjected liim to such ill luage that he
nerer recovere*!, but died near Princeton, N«
sey. February as. 1781.
Stockton, Richard (son of Richard Stnrktn
and father of John P. Stocktim and Kolii'{
ton), was born at Princeton. New Jer»<
i7tl4; received a ciasslc-il editcatinr- -
Nassau Hall in 177t>; studied law « i
not at Newark; was admitted to thi- '
commencetl practice at Princeton. New Jer
a presidential elector on the W.-«shing1on and ]
ticket in 17!r2; w;«s elected a I'lii ted -States
from New Jersey (in place of Kicdcriik Frelii
sen, resigned) as a Federalist, servini: from De
6. 17rtO. to March ;l, 171KI; d.-cliiied being a e;u
for rendeetlon ; w.is elected a representative!
New Jersey in the Thirteenth Contrress as a Fed«
ist, serving from May 24, 181.3. to March 2, Islo; i
dinetl being a candidate for n'-<di'«.tion ; was ap
ed in 1825 one of the conmiifsiuners on the pi
.State of New Jersey to iiegotl.ite the settle!
the territorial cimtroversy with tlie Stale of JTe
York, and the very able argument appended to
rejxirt of the New-Jersey commissioners was tlw
production of his pen; died at Princeton March 7,
182.8.
Stockton, Robert Field (son of Richard
St<H5kton), was born at Princeton, New Jersey, in
171(5; studied at Princeton College; entered" the
irnited.States navy as midshipman S*>pi»'mtH»r 1,
181 1, and rose to the rank of ■
highest; was seriously injured '
lai>5e gun onboard of "The 1.,,,.
28, 1844; was sent to the Pacilic i
1845; and in 1840 conquered Califor.
a civil government there; returning Itonie. he
signed liis commission; was elected a Unit<.d-Si
senator from New Jersey as a lieuiocral. 8cr*-4i
from December 1, 1851, to January lo, l.s53,
he resigned; was president of the Detawa
Raritan Canal Company; died at Prinwti
Jersey, Oclol)er 7. 1800. His "Life and .S|>wi
was published at New York.
Stoddard, Ebenezer, vraa bom at West Wo
stock. Connecticut. May 0. I'tMi: rcr'- '
eilucation, gradu.itiiis at Drown Vi.
studied law; wa.s admitted to th>'
meiiced practice at Woodstock, Connecticut; w^as tur
several ycjirs a member of the State leei'liifirr; wsi
for one year lieutenant-governor; W:i-
resentalive from Connecticut In the .''
gress; was re-elected to the Eigbi'
serving from Deccml>er 3, 1821. to
dictl at Woodstock, Connecticut, An
Stoddart, John T., was liom i
ty. Maryland, in 17iW; received aclii-
uniduallng at I'rinceton College in l>i'i:
cer of Maryland volunteers in tlie war of i
member i>f llie State House of liepresenl.;;. -
elected a rc|)resenlalive from Maryland In the '
ty-thinl Congress as a Jackson Democrat.
2iX) majority over Daniel Jenifer, Whit;. s«'rriug i
December 2, 18:1.3, to March 3. 1.835; dictl in Char1es|
County, iliiryland. July Ht. 1870.
Stokely, Samuel, was Umi in Ohio; recdv
an academical education: studied law; wosadmittt
to the bar, and commenced practice at SteubenrillOb
Ohiii; was a mcml>er of the .State House of Repi»- '
sentalives; was elected a it:pn.'S»Mit»tive from Ohio
in the Twenty-seventh Congress as a Whig, serving
from May yi,'l841. to March 3, 184;l.
Stokes, Montford, was bom in North (.'»n>
lina in 1700; received an academic education; wit
for several years clerk of the Superior Court, aod
subsequently of the State Senate; was elected a
United-.States senator from North Carolina (lo placs
of James Turner, resigned) as a Democrat, and win
re-elected, serving from DecemU^r 10. I ~"
3, 1823; was a member of the Stat-
and of the State House of Repres<'ii
mid 1S30; was goveruur of Nurda Carulmii lo;;.;-]]
STATISTICAL SKETCHES.
645
ripned to accept the position of commiwloner to
apt'rinleii<] the reniovnl of the Iniliiins west of Ihn
"3ssissippi River; und wiis subseiiuenlly app<.>iiiloil
' President Jackson Indian ageut for Arkansas Ter-
ory. when? lie died in 1>*42.
Stokes, William B., was bom in Chatlmm
County, North Carolina, Septemlwr 1), 1814; receivoil
pnbiic-school education; engnjtud in ap'iculturaj
irsuils; was a nicmbor of the State Uouse of Kep-
entatives in 1841( and 1850, and of the State Senate
In 1S52; was elect<Hl a representative from Tennessee
In the Thirty-sixth Congress as a Whig, receiving
0,(i3-"J votes .against CIW votes fur Savaije, Democrat,
serving from December 5, IsV.I, to Man-h 3, 18(11 ;
^^tercd the Union army in the spring of 1802 as raa-
^fcr of Tennessee volunteers : w,-)S promoted colonel.
^ 1'"
^■brst
Hbseo
tcl ser%'ed until honorably disrharc;ed in tlie spring
iDen
■■671
Kg
I' a
ElSliii: was subsequently brevettcd major-genera
gallant aud meriu^rious services; was again
tectcd to the Thirty-ninth Congress as a Union
Bepnbliean. receiving 4.404 vote* against 2,540 votes
for Faulkner, Democrat, and 845 votes for Uood,
Secessionist; Wiis re-elected to the Fortieth Congress,
receiving 8.i>23 votes against 1.014 votes for Fleming,
Democrat; w,is re-<'lectcd to the Forty-first Congress,
receiving 0,415 votes against 2,ti;i5 votes for tJarreit,
_Iiemocrat, ser%'ing from July 24. IWJO, to March :l,
"71; was defealeU B8 the Rcpulilican cin<lidate for
He Forty-second Congress, receiving 4, Mil rotes
against 0.(175 v.ites for A. E. Garrett, Democnit.
Stone, Alfred P., was engaged in mercantile
pursuits at C.ilunil^us. Ohio; w:is elected a repri-sen-
lative from Ohio in the Twenty-eighlli Congress (to
fill a vac.incy caused by the di^atb of Fleinan Allen
Moore) as a Democr.il, serving from December 2,
1S44. to March !!, 1(^5; was appointed by Governor
Chase in 18.50 acting treasurer of the State of Ohio
(to till a vacancy caused by the suspension of Treas-
urer Gibson for frauds); was appointed by Secretary
Chase, in 18(12, collector of internal revenue for the
Columbus District of Ohio; Wiis detected in contra-
band-cotton speculatli)n8. and was found to be a de-
faulter; and conunitted suicide by talking poison on
grave of his two children at Columbus, Ohio,
kugiist 1, 1805.
Stone, David, was bom at Hope, North Caro-
lina. February 17, 17711; received a classical educa-
tion, gr.vlu.iling at I'rincolon College in 1788; studied
law under \V. it. Davis, and was admitted to the bar
in nitJ); was elected to the .State House of Re]irp8cn-
tatives in I71)1-17VM, 1811. and 1812; w.is judgt- of the
Supreme Court of North C.irulina 171(.>-17t)8; was
electefl a n.'present.itive from North Carolina in the
Sixth Congress as a Democrat; was a United-States
senator, serving 1S(I1-18U(1, when he r<'signe«l to a<'-
cept a judgesliip in the State Supreme Court; was
governor of N'-rth Carolina 1S()S-181'); was re-elect-
ed United-States senator in ISi:!, but, differing with
President Madi<ion on war measures, he was censured
bv the le'iisiature of North Carolina, and resigned;
he died at n"i»". North Carolina, October 7, 1818.
Stone, Frederick (grandson of Thomas Stone),
born in Charles County, Maryland, Febniary 7,
W; was educBte<l at .St. John's College, Annapo-
stiidieil and pntelised law: was app<iinti-<| liy the
legislature one of tlie C'lmmissioiiers to simplify ami
»briilge the rules of ple.iding, practice, and coiivey-
pcing in the Stale courts in 18.52; wsis a memlitT nf
Stale legislature in 18(14 and 1805; was elected
fTepresentalive from Marjland in the Fortieth C'on-
»s as a I)enii«rat, receiving 8.708 votes agi«iiist
^01)2 votes for Albert, liepublic.-m : and was re-elected
to the Forly-tirst Congress as a Democrat, receiving
10.H2S votes Buainst 2,.544 voles for AllM'rt, Kepubli-
cati. serving from Man'h 4, 18(.i7, to March !1, 1871.
Stone, James W., was bom in Kentucky In
181-j: resided at Taylnrsville; was elected a represen-
tative from Kenliicky in the Twenty-eighth Congress
^s a Democrat, rei'eiving 4..872 votes against 3,701
^■tes for Grigaby, Whig, and 2,338 votes for Pope,
Independent, serving from December 4. TU.^, to
March;}, 1845; wius again elected to the Thirty-sec-
ond Congress, receiving .5,84:5 votes against 5,480
voles for faill, Whig, serving from Decemb<'r 1. 1851,
to March 3. 185:); died at Tayiorsvillo. Kentucky,
October l.J, 18.54.
Stone, JohnW., was bom at Wadsworth, Ohio,
July 18, 1SJ8; receiveil an acmleinic education; re-
move<l to Allegan County, Michigan, in 18.5(1; ecmi-
mence<l the study of law in 1S50; was elected county-
clerk of Allegan County in 1><0(); was admitted to the
bar in January, 1862; was ri'-eiected counfy-<'lerk in
1802; was elected prosecuting-attoniey in 1804, and
re-elected twice, holding the otlice six year'*; was
elected president of Allegan Village in I87l'; was
elected circuit-judge of the Twentieth Jiulicial Cir-
cuit of Michigan in April, 1873, which office he
held until November 1, 1874, when he resigned, and
n-rnoved to Grand Rapids to enter upon the practice
of law; has contliuied in the practice <if the profes-
sion ever since; w.as electeil a representative from
Micbig;in In the F"rty-fifth Congress as a Kcpulv
lican. receiving 21.'.K>S votes against 18..540 votes for
Myron Ilarris, Democratic and Greenl)ack candidate,
and .5;) votes fur a Temperance candidate, serving
from October 15, 1877.
Stone, Joseph C., was bom at AVestpoit, New
York, July :J0, 1.820; reuiuved to the Terriinry of
Iowa in 1844; received a limited eilucalion at the
public schools; studied medicine, graduatlne at the
medical department of the SL Louis Unrversity,
Missiinri, in 18.54; enlisted as a private soldier in the
First Iowa Cavalrj- in Junc,"l8(il ; was made adju-
tant of the regiment; was pnjinoted captain and
.assistant adjutant-general of volunteers in ls<!2; was
promoted and tirevetted in 18tV4-18tl5. and served to
the close of the war; has since practised his profes-
sion; was elected a representative from Iowa in the
Forty-fifth Congress as a Republican, n'ceiving 17.188
votes against 14.814 votes for Wesley C. Ilobbs. Demo-
crat, and several biuulred votes for the Greenback
candidate, serving from October 15, 1877.
Stone, Michael Jenifer (brother of Thomas
Stone), Wiis iMjrn in Charles Coimty, Maryland, alwut
17.50; nx-eived an academical education; was elected
a representative from Maryl.and in the First Con-
gress, serving from June 8, 1780. to March ;i, 1701;
was for many years judge of the Charles-county
Court ; died on his estate in Charles County ill 1812.
Stone, Thomas (brother of Michael Jenifer
Stone, and grandfather of Kn-derick Stone), was bom
.It I'ointon Manor, Charles County, JIarjIand, In
174:3; received an academical education; studied law
at Annajiolis under Thomas Johnson; was admitted
to the bar in 17(J4, and commenced practice at Fred-
erick Town, Maryland, removing In 1771 to Charles
County; was several times a member of the State
Senate; was a delegate from Maryland to the Conti-
nental Congress l'n.>-l77U and 1784-1785; was ap-
pointed a delegate to the conventiim which framed
the Fedi'ral Constitution early in 1787, but domestic
circumstances com|>elled him to decline; died at Port
Tobacco. Maryland. Octolier 5, 1787.
Stone, William, was \k}u\ in Tennessee; resided
at D<.'lplii; was elected a representative from Ten-
nessee in the Twenty-Ufth Congress (to till the va-
cancy caused by the dMih of James Standifer) as a
Whig, defeating four other Whigs and two Demo-
crats, serving from October 0, 1837, to March 3,
18:!0.
Stone, William H., was bom at Schanuqunk,
New Yorii, Novenilier 7, 1828; received a common-
school education; removed to St. Louis August 31,
1848, and suliscquently resided there as an iron-
manufacturer; was president of the St, Louis Uot-
Pressed Nut and Bolt Company; was a memlier
of the Twenty-fiixth (Jenerai Assembly of Missoiu'i
from the Eleventii W.ard of St. Louis County; was
a member of the St. Louis Board o( Water Comniis-
siouers froio June 6, 1871, to November 16, 1873,
646
CONGRESSIONAL DraECTOBY.
When he resigned to take his leat in the House of
Iteprc'sentatlves, having been elocleil n rp|ir<'S».'iito-
tive from Missouri in tlie Fiirty-Ihird ConKn-ss as n
Doniocral, rewiving 5,171) volvs ugitinfil 4,Hrii» votes
for J. M. Ililliiii, Kc'ijubiican, ami l..')li2 votfs fur
J. J. McUriilc, Iiiilcpt-ndi-nt Uemocral; was vc-
elccU'd lo tho Forty-fourth Cuapmsi, receiving 7.17o
voles against 5.r>iki voles fur Itobcrt F. Winijalt-.
Republican, serving from December 1, 1873, to March
3, 1877.
Storer, Bellamy, was Iwrn at PortlanJ, M,iine,
March \K Hit*; rfct-'ivod a classical educaliun, gnidu-
aling at Bowd"iii C'cdleac; studied law; was ad-
mittetj to the bur, and commenced giraclice At Ciii-
ciimati, Ohio, in 1S17; was elected a rcpresontative
from Ohio in the Twenty-fuurih Congress as a Whig,
receiving lot) majority over Lytic, Democrat, serving
I from Uucember 7, ISao, to Starch 3, 1S:J7; declined a
I renoinination ; was a i>ri'sidenlial elector on the Clay
ticket in 1844; served three lenns as judge of the
SuiK-rlor Court for the district of Cincinnati, re-
tiring in 1872; was a i)rofcssor in the Cincinnati
Law College; died at Cincinnati, Ohio, June 1,
ISTo.
Storer, Clement, was bom at Eemiebuuk,
Midiic, in 17(M); received an actdemical education ;
studied medicine at Porlsmouth, Sew Hampshire,
under Ur. Animi R. Cutter, and afterwards in
£uro|)<\ and commenced practice at Portsmouth;
held successively coumiissions, from that of captain
to that of m.ijor-gcncral, in the militia; was rejieat-
edly chosen a member of Ihe State legislature, serving
one year as siie;iker; •fras elected a rei)reflentative
from New Hampshire in the Tenth Congress, serving
from OctoUsr 2(1, 1807, until March 3, ISOit; was
elpcieil to the United-iStatea Senate (lo lill the
vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Jeremiah
Miison), and served from December 1, 1817, until
Man.'h 3, 1810; was high shoriCf of the county o£
l{iM:liingham 1818-1824; and die<l at Portsmouth,
New lliuiipshire, November 21, 1830.
Storm, John B., was bom in Monroe County,
reiinsylv.inia, September ly, 18U8; received a col-
legiate education, and gnuluatcd at Dickinson Col-
lege in July, 1801; studied law, ojid was adiuitted to
tlie bar in 1803; was apijointed supcriulcndcnl of
public schools in 18<J2, and was twice re-clecicd to
that office; and was elected a rcprescntalivc from
Pennsylvania in Ihe Forty-second Congress as a
Democrat, receiving 12,."w4 vi>t('S against 5,2(<9 votes
for Davis, I{epublican,and 2,:J,'J7 votes for Klinehans,
Inile|)tindcul ; and was re-elected to Ihe Forty-third
Congress, receiving 10,808 votes against 10,oOU voles
for A. 11. Howell, Hepublican, serving from March 4,
1871, lo March 3, 1875.
Storra, Henry R,, was born at Middletown,
Connecticut^ in \Ki; received a classical e<tucation.
graduating at Vale College in 18<)4; slu<lii'<l law;
was udmitted to the bar, and commenced practice
at Ulica, New York; was elected a representative
from New York in the Fiftcentli Congress as a Fed-
eralist; was re-elected to the SLxleenlh Congress,
•erving from December 0, 1811), until March 3. "1821 ;
VU again elected to the Eightcunlh Congress, and
in» successively re-elected lo the Nineteenth, Twen-
tieth, and Twenty-first Cougressi's, serving from
Deccnil)er 1, 182:1, until March 3, ISiJl; alter leaving
Congress, he ivmoved to New York, where ho became
I a prominent practitioner al the bar; while on a visit
to f'diiiiecticut. he died fliiddenly of angina jxjctoris
at New Haven July 21i, 1N17.
Storrs, William Lucius, was bom at Middle-
town, Connecticut, March 2o, 170.'i; received a clas-
kical education, graduating at Vale College in 1814;
studied law at Whitestown, New York; was admitted
to the bar in 1817, and commenced practice at
Middletown, where he resided until 184U; was a
memlier of the State Assembly in 1827, 1828, 182«,
and 1834, serving as speaker in 18^34; was elected a
repruseutativo from Connecticut la the Twenty-first
Congresa, and was re-elected to the Twrnt
Congress, serving from Decemlier 7. ! 1 1 ]
I 3, 18*1; was again elet'ted to the '1 '
gress as a Whig by 1;14 majority, •^>■l^.llx i
cember 2, 18;JS), until June, IMo, when he
to. accept the api)Ointmenl of associate jiuIl
Court of Errors; in 1840 he was up|H>iiitctl profes
of law at Yale College, serving until li.-17: In 1
he was appointed chief justice of the Ci>nrt of Emu
holding the imsition until his death ut UailfordJi
2.'), 1.801.
Story, Joseph, wax lH>m at SUrblrhead. M.-i(S>-
chuselts, September 18, 1771': grailiialed al Hnrv
College in 17U8; studied law with Chief Just
Scwall of Morblehead; wiu) admitted to lbi> h»cj
July, 1801, and commenced practice at SiUi
elected as a Demw-i-at lo the House of Id
tatives of Ma'sacliusotts in 1-- ■" '-"•■^t
elected to the Tenth Congrc--
as .in anti-War Democrat (til i
by the death of Jacob Crowulnshieldj, and
from December 20, 18^^S. uiilil .March «. IW-H. di
iug a rcnnuiination: wii*
of Kepresi-ntalives I'f M;i^ -i|
chosen speaker; wasapp> i... .. . . . ... Mi
associate justice of the Supi-eme Court, whic
held until his death: w.ts appointed! Dane pn'fi
in the Harvanl Law Schoui in 182S, when h'
moved from Salem to Cambiidge; received thedi
of doctor of laws from Harv.ard. I!' ■ ■ ' '
mouth Colleges: died at Canibriii
1845. Ue puliliihed '•Commentarii, 'i\
tution of the United States," and other law wi
His decisions till nianv volumes, and he was a
tributur to several leading reviews.
Stoughton, Williain L., was bom at Ne»
York March 20, 1827; receiveil an :--'l ■■ >■■'■•■ ^.
tion; studied law, and was admit i
18.j1 ; was prosecuting-attonicy in
appointed l)y President Lincoln United-Stales tiii-
trict-uttomcy for the district of Michigiui in Maivti,
1801, and resigned the same year in onler to CLlif
the Union army; served during the war as a coliiml
and brigadier-giuieral, and w.is (iromoted lo the raiik
of major-general by brevet for gallant and meriiiic-
ouB Services; was elected altorney-generil f^r i''
Slate of Michigan for 1807 and 180.S; n
representative from Michig.in in Ihe For;
gress OS a Republican, receiving 2o.ltXi n
17,;J1)(S votes for Chamberlain, Deiuoci
elected to the Forty-second Congress, rcci: :
votes against i:t,92:l votes for Uenry ChanilierlMi,
Democrat, serving from Murdi 4, IStjO, to Mardi 3,
1873.
Stout, T.ftnBing, was ham at Pamehs, New
York, March 27, l.'^2S; nceived a public-"'-. '-
cation; taught school; worked on a fiii'
law; was admitted to the bar in IS'il,
menced practice in California; was a memliT:r «l llie
Stale House of Represeiilatives In ISotl; rrninvMi lu
Oregon in 18.57, and practised at Pori'
elected judge of the Multnomah-coiuii
18.08; w:is elected a n-prcsentative frotn
Uie Tliirly-sixth Congress us a DennKT..
5,070 votes against o,031 votes for Loi^.:
I lean, serving from December ii, 18."ii>, io Mmdi .s
ISOI ; was a member of the Stale House of Ki-pi*-
sentatives; died at Portland, Oregon, In 1870.
Stover, John H., was born at Aarousbwvi
Centre County, Pennsylv,inia, April l'4. is?."; re-
ceived a public-school education; - ; WJ»
admitted to the biir in 1857, and con !'"t''^
at Aiironsburg; was elected disi:
Centre County in 18."i8; entered lb.
IHOl as a private, tuid was at once
and then major, of ihe One Hin
Pennsylvania Volunteers; wascomiii
of the One Uundrcil and Eighty-fourth 1 ■
Voliuiteers, participating in all the bn:
Army of the Potomac, and witnessing the eumuun
STATISTICAL SRETCIIE8.
647
at Ai'potnallox Court House: removed after the war
to iiissouri, loestiiiK at Versailles; was electeii s
repiTseiitalive from Missouri in the Fortieth Coii-
gre(8 (ill place of Joseph W. HcCluiy. resigned) as
a Kepuhlican, serving from Deceml>er 7, l!*J8, to
March 3, lsi!l>.
Stow, Silaa, wiis bom in Lewis County. Xew
York; resided at l.owville; was elected a re|ireseiita-
I live from New Yoric in tlie Twelfth Congri'ss 08 a
Democrat, serAuig from November 4, Ibll, to March
8, 1M3.
Stowell, "William H. H., was bora at Windsor,
I Vermont. July liii, IMH; was educated at the gram-
mar and higii srhools of Boston, Massachusetts;
encaged in nierc.intile business ; settled in Vircinia
in Hay, lSti<5, and was appointed collector of internal
leveuue for the Fourth District in May. ISOSl; and
was elected a representative from Virginia in the
Forty-second Congress as a Kepublican, receiving
13.20.J votes agtiinsl «.980 votes for \V. L. Owen,
Conservative; was re-cleeled to the Forty-third Con-
KTcas, receiving l.j,;jl)3 vot<>8 against 8.c'<tt< voles for
P. W. McKeimey, Uemocnit, and 13 votes for C. H.
Porter, Independent; was re-elected to the Forty-
^1 founh Congress, receiving 14,&83 voles against «,2<)1
^B votes for W. H. Mann, Uemocrat, and 3*^ votes for
^" Charl<:3 11. Porter, Independent, serving from March
4, 1,H71. (o March :i, Itill.
Stower, John G., was bom at Madison, New
»Tork; received a goo<l English education; was
elected a representative from New York in the
Twentieth Congress as a Jackson Democrat, serv-
ing irom December 3, lt<:i7, to March 3, li<2tt; was
a me.ulK'r of the .Stale Senate 1833-1834; died at
Hamilton, New York.
Strader, Peter W., was bom In Warren
• County, New Jersey, November (5, 1.S18; his parents
Immignilcd to South-western Ohio in the spring <i{
ISIO; receivwl a common-school education up to
twelve years of age; passed three years in a prinl-
iug-oflice; was clerk, engineer, and captain on the
^^Oiiio and Mississippi Rivers from November, l.s;i.5,
^g to June, 1K48. then general lieket-agent of Little
Miami Railnjad to Febntary, 18»>7 ; and was elected
a representative from Ohio in the Forty-first Con-
• gress as a Uemocrat, receiving 10,4,S3 votes against
1U,2~;2 votes for Kggleston, Kepublican, serving from
March 4, 1SIV,». to March 3. I.v71.
Strait, Horace B., was bom in Potter County,
Pennsylvania. January 20, 1830; received a common-
school education; removed to Indiana in 18.")4. and
from tliere to Minnesota in KsVi; entered the Union
^ army in 1.HJ2 ns captain in the Ninth Minnesota
^■Infantry; was promoted to major of said regiment
^Blii 18(14, and was serving at the close of the war as
^■luapector-general on the staff of General McArthur;
^vwas electe<l mayor of Shakopee in 1870, and re-
^felectmi in 1871 and 1872; was one of the tnisiees u(
Hthe Minnesota Hospital for the Insane since IS^KI;
^B after the close of tliu war. engaged in mercantile,
manufacturing. an<l banking business, and was presi-
dent of tlie First Nalion.il Bank of Shakopee; was
^elected a repnrsentalive from Minnesota in the Forty-
Mrd Congress as a Republican, receiving I.>.;J17 votes
linat 10,83."> votes fur C. (iraham, Democnil ; w;is rc-
ected to the Forty-fourth Congress, receiving 13.742
Dtes against 13,521 votes for K. St. Julien Cox,
[Democrat; and was re-elected to the Forty-fifth
Congress, receiving H),7.3(» votes against 14.',I1H> votes
for K. T. Wilder. Democrat, serving from December
1. 1.ST3.
IBtronaban, J. S. T., w.ts bom on Long Island,
Uew York; received a public-school education; was
elected a representative, from New York in the Thir-
ty-fourlh Congress as a Whig. n>ceiving 7.l''-7 votes
against 7.023 votes for Taylor, Democrat, and 3() voles
for Jackson. Democrat, ser>'ing from December 3,
1S>). to March 3. 1S".7.
Strange, Robert, was bom in Virginia Septera-
^Lber :!0, 1790; received a classical education, which
was compU^ted at Hamp«len-Sldney College; studied
law; W.I* admittetl to the bar. and commenced prac-
tice at Fayetteville, North Canjlina: w:is a memlior
of the Statu House of Representatives in 1821, 18i:2,
1823. and li^2(\{ was a judge of the .Superior (-'ourt of
North Carolina 182(1- 18:lij; was elected a United-
States senator from North Carolina as a Democrat
(to nil the v.icancy caused by the resignation of Wil-
lie P. Mangum. who hud declined to ot)ey instruc-
tions given him by the State legislature), and ser^'ed
from December 15, 18JWJ. until 1840, when he in turn
declined to obey the instructions of the North-Caro-
lina legislature (the pi.ditical complesion cf which
had K'eome changed), and n.-signcd, Mr. Mangimi
being at once elected as his successor; was solicitor
for the B'lfth Judicial District r.t North Carolina; and
died at Fayetteville, North Carolina, February 10,
18.>t. He published, for private circulation, a novel
entitled " Eoneguski, or Tlie Cherokee Chief," which
presened many of the traditions of the section in
which he resideil.
Stratton, Charles C, was born in Now Jersey
in 171W; was a member of the State House ef Keure-
senlatives; wsis electetl a n'presentative from New
Jersey in the Twenty-fifth Congri'ss a» a Whig, sen-
ing from .SeptemlK-r 4, l.S';7. ti' March :!, 1K.;ip; was
elected to the Twcnty-si.xth Congress us a \\niig, and
received his credentials bearing the "broad seal" of
New .Tersey, but was not admitted; was again elected
to the Twenty-seventh Congress, serving from May
31, 1841, to M.irch 3. 1843; retind to his f.inn in
Gloucester County, and devoted himself to agricul-
turnl pursuits; died at Swedenborough, New Jersey,
March ::o, 185l>.
Stratton, John, was bom In Virginia; was a
menilwr of the State House of Representatives; was
elected a representative from Virginia in tlie Seventh
Congress, serving from December 7, 1801, to March 3,
18o:i.
Stratton. John L. N., was liom at Mount
Holly, New Jersey, in 1817; received a classical edu-
cation, graduating at Princeton College in 183U;
studied Taw; was admitted to the bar in iiW, and
commenced practice at Mount Holly; was eleclcil u
representative from New Jersey in the Thirly-sixtli
Congress i\a a liepublicnn, receiving 11,471 votes
against 8,707 votes tor Wall, Democrat; and w:i« re-
erected to the Thirty-seventh Ciuigress, receiving
l:;,5,S2 votes against 12,154 votes for Green, Demo-
crat, serving from December 5, ISIiO. to March 3,
ISGiJ; was a delegate to the National Loyalists' Cou-
vention at Philadelphia in 18()8.
Stratton, Natnan T., was bom in New Jersey;
resided at Mullica Hill; was elected a representative
from New Jersey in the Tliirty-eccond Clongress as a
Democrat, receiving 8,475 votes against .').824 \oles
for Whitney, Whig; was re-elected to the Thirty-
third Congress, receiving 7,185 votes against (1,810
votes for Boyle, Wliig, serving from December 1,
1851. to March 3. 1855.
Straub, Christian M., was bom In Pennsyl-
vania; resirlcd at Poltsville; was elected a represen-
tative from I'i:nnsylvauia in llie Thirty-third Con-
gress as a Democrat, serving from Decemlier 5, 1853,
to March 3, 18."i.j.
Strawbridge, James D., was bom in Montom
County. Pennsylvimi.i, in 1824; received an academic
education at Danville, Pennsylvania; entered Prince-
ton College in 1841, and graduated in 1844; gradu-
ated ill medicine at the University of Peunsylvunia
in 18-17; practised medicine at Danville until the
commencement of tlie war; entered the army as a
brigade-surgeon of volunteers, anil served through-
out the war; was captured, while mediciU ilin'ctorof
the Eighteenth Array Corps, in front of Richmond,
and remained three months in Libby Prison; re-
suitieil the practice of medicine after the close of the
war, anil continued in pi-actice until lie was elected a
representative from Pennsylvania in the Forly-third
Congress as a BepubUcan, receiving 13,071) votes
648
OONGBESSIOJfAL DIKECTOET.
against lS,al3 rotes for B. K. Rliocles. Democrat,
servini; from DeccmU'r 1, 1S73. to March 3. 1H75.
Street, Randall S., wu boni at Catskill, New
York, in ll)^); received an aca4letiiical education:
Bliiilied Inw; was admitted to the bar, and com-
inenciNl iimoliee at PoiiRhkwpsie; was ap|ioiote<l
State attorney for his judicial district in 1810. and
rc-aDlH>inled in 1^13; served in the war of 1812 as
major and licutcnant'Ooionel of militia; was elected
a representative from New York in the Sixteenth
Consr«'8S OS a Ueniocrat. servinif from Uecemlier t),
1-ilW. to Man-h 3, ISil; removed in lS'j;j to Monti-
cello. New Vork. where he pmctised until he died
there Novi-mbor 21, ltS41.
Strickland, Randolph, was bom at Danville.
Steuben County, New York. Febniary 4, 1823; re-
ceived a common-school education; eiij^gcd in teach-
iug; removed to Michigan in 1^4; studied law; was
adniitti'd to the bar in ISI'.I. and immeiliJitely com-
njenced practice; was elected prosecuting-atlorney
in Clinton County in 1N52. 1854, ll*5<l, 1858. and 18(i2;
was a member of the State Senate In 1861 and 1802;
was provost-marshal from April 24, 18(W), until Uc-
toK'r 1.'). 18<lo; was a member of the State Central
K<-publican Committee in 18ti7 and 1808; w.is a dele-
gate to the National Conventions in 1850 and 1x18;
and was elected a representative from Michigan in
the Forty-first Congress as a Kepiiblican, recciring
20.115 voles atnunst 18.720 for Newton, Democrat,
serviiii; frtmi .March 4. 18HU, U. March 3, 1871.
Strohm, John, was born at Fulton Township,
Pennsylvania. October 111, HHS; received a public-
school education; taug:ht school for six yearv; lo-
cated at New Providence. Peunsylvaida; was a mem-
ber of the State House of Representatives 1831-183^},
and of the State Senate 1834-1811 ; was elected a rep-
resentative from Ponnsylv.inia in the Twenty-ninth
Congress as a WIiIl;; and was re-clefled to the Thir-
tieth Coiic;re!i8, serving from December 1, 1845, to
March 3. 1840.
Strong, Caleb, was liom at Northampton, Mas-
sachusetts. January 0. 1745: receive<) a classical edu-
cation, graduatint; at Hiurard College in I7t(4;
studieil law, and was lulmitted to the bar. but did not
commence practice until 17l»2: was one of the Com-
niillee of Correspondence and Safety in 1774-1775;
was a member of the State House of Keiiresenlativcs
n7ti-1778; was a member of the Constitutional (Con-
vention in 177*'; was a State councillor or a State
senator 1780-178(1; was a member of the National
Convention which framed the Constitution of the
United States in 1787; was a memt)er of the Massa-
chusetts State Convention which ratified the Consti-
tution of the United Stati'S 1787-17SS; was elected to
the United-States Senate as a Federalist, and re-
elected. Ber^■inf: from March 4, 1780, until 17iHi, when
he reslpied: was covernor of MassachnsiMts 1k<k>-
180T. and again 1812-1810; was a presidential elector
in 18(X); and died at Northampton, HMsachusetts,
November 7. 1810.
Btrongr, James, was l)orn at Windham, Connect-
icut, in 17s;l; received a classical education, irradu-
atiuK at the University of Vennont in 18(Kl; removed
to New York, and locate<l at Hudson ; was electetl a
representative from New Yi>rk in the Sixteenth Con-
gress as a Fe<lenilist^ ser^'iiiK from Deceml>er 0, IHIU,
to March 3. 1821 ; wav o^Mtln elected to the Kii;Iiteenth
Conijress; was re-elected tj> the Ninetecntli. Twen-
tieth, and Twentv-lirst Consn^'sses, serrinif from De-
ceratier 1. 182:1. U> March 3, 1831; died at Chester,
New Jersey, .\uansi 8, 1847.
Btrongr, Jedediah, wos bom in Connecticut;
was a dele:;ale from Connecticut to the Coutinental
Congress 1782-1784.
Strong, Julius L., was l>om at Bolton. Cou-
necticut. Noveniliers. 1828; entered Union College,
but left in his senior year, and entered the National
Law .School at Uallston Spa; studied law with Mar-
tin Welles; was admitted to the bar in IfSJJ, and
practised at Hartford; was a member of the l^isla-
tnre of Cotmecticnt In 1852 and 1853; and i
a representative from Coiuiecticut in the For
Congress os a Republican, receiving 11.620
against 10.883 votes for Dixon, Democrat; and
re-elected to the Forty-second Concress. rec«
11.077 votes against ll.tilil ' • • - '■-
rich, serving from .ipril 0.
when he died at Hartford, i
illm-ss.
Strong, Selah B., was bom at BrrM>ktift'v«n4^
Long Island. May 1. 1702; received a ■ "
tion. graduating at Yale College in 18 1
wns mimitteil to the bar in I"!' ■
Brookliaven; was State's attor:
ty; was elected a representativi
the Tweuly-eiglith Cougres* a-s a Dtiii
5,4tl;i votes ag.liiist 3,">A votes for Kin
votes for Williaiuson, .Vbolitioni-'
cember 4. 184.3. to March ;{. 18r
Supreme Court tor the Second J u. .
7. 1847-June 7. 1840.
Strong, Solomon, was bom In Ma«.TOi-hn»
in 177l»: was a member of the .State Hous-' ■
sentatives 1812-1813; was elected a n'i>r
from Massachusetts In the Four — '■ ' - i
FediTalisi; w,i8 re-electe<l to tli'
serving from Dccemlwr 4, 181',
W.18 judge of the' Court of Common Pleaa ibln
was again a member of the State House of Rep
tativis 1843 and 1844: died .Si'ptember 10. 1S5U.
Strong, Stephen, was bom in Connecticut;!
removed to New York, and located at Owego: wtal
elected a representative from New York in the Tweo»]
ty-iiinth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 0.6(;9|
votes against 8,813 votes for Sweet, Whig, and 439I
votes for Avery. American, serving from DecemberJ
1, 1845. to March 3. 1847.
Strong, Theron R., was bom In Connecticut;]
removed to New York, and located at Palmyra; wsi
a member of the State House of Representatives in]
1-S42; was elected a representative frtjm New York in]
the Twenty-sixtli Congress as a Democrat. receivin| ]
5.824 votes against 6,tl7J votes for John M. Holler,
Whig, serving from December 2. 1830, to M.irch S,i
1841.
Strong, William, was Iwjm in Windham Coun-j
ty, Connecticut; studied law; was admitted to tlMi
bar, and commenced practice In Vermont; was fori
eight years a member of the State House of Rej^'T
resentafives ; was elected a repreientative frwn (
Vennont in the Twelfth Congress as a Democrsi, I
receiving 441 majurlty; and was re-elected to ths]
Thirt«'enth Congn'ss, sc^^■ing from November 4, 1811, ,
to March 2, 1815; was again elected to the Sixtventh
Congress on a general ticket, receiving 13,174 voti*
against tt..582 votes for John Peck, serving from De-
cember 0, 1810, to Mar>;h :i. 1821; w.-is fi>r eiL-ht yvtn
sheriflf, and suljseouenlly judge of the County Court.
Strong. William, was Iwra at Somers. Con-
necticut. May 0, 1808; n^ceived a classical education,
graduating at Yale College in 1828; studied law. sup-
porting himself by tottcliin2 school in ConnecticuJ
I and in Now York; was a<lr ' • •' ' ir at Phil*
delphia in IxiJ, and practi- w,i5 •■K-l-
ed a representative from i n the Tliir^
tietli Congress as a Democnit; was re-elected to the
Thirty-first Congress, receiving 8,452 vote« n-.m!')'*
4,014 votes for Adams, Whiu, serving from
a, 1&17, to March 3. 1861 ; w;is elected in 1."
of the Supremo Court of Pennsylv:una ;
years; resigned in 18«i.8. and resiimol pni.
appointed by I'resident Grant, in 1870, a jus-
Supreme Court of the United-States.
Strother, George F., was iiom in Cnlpeppw
County. Virginia; received an ;ii ' ' ■• lucaimn;
stuilietl law; was admitted to ih' •niiueiii'eJ
practice at Culj)ep[)er Court H'.. ,;,,i.il s
representative from Virginia in the ■ on-
gress as a Democrat, defeating Join ionl;
was re-elected to the Sixteenth Congruw, defestial
I
STATISTICAL SKETCHES.
649
1 Jo)u> Shocklefonl, serving from December I, 1817, to
. Febnmr)' 10. IS'JO, when lie n-sigiied. having twi-n
apixiinteil by I'rtsident Hcmrue receiver of publiu
moueys 111 si. Louis. Missouri.
Stfother, James French, was bora in Cul-
pepprT County, Virginia, Si-picmber 4, 1811; received
au acuili'iuicai eiluciiiion; studied law; was admitted
to the bar, and fomraenced practice at Culpepper
Court House; was for ten years a member of the
State House of Hcpresont^itives, serviug as speaker
111! 1M7-I)>li^; was a delegate to the State Constitu-
tional Convention of liSo'J; was elected a representa-
tive from Virginia in the Thirty-second Conprcss as
a Whig, receiving 2,3 i7 votes aipunst l,8ii8 votes for
Morton, Democrat, sening from December 1, 1801,
to March S, 1858; died in Culpepper County, Vir-
ginia. Seiitcml>er 21, 1800.
StroUSd, Myer, wus bom in Germany, Decem-
ber lit, 1S2.'>: immigrated to the Unilc<l States with
his fatlicr in 18;J2. and settled at Pottsville; received
an academical education; studied law, and was ad-
mitted to the bar; edited " Tlie North-American
Farmer" .it Philadelphia IS-J-^LS'ia; commenced prsic-
tico at Pottsville in 18.VJ; w.-is elect<!d a representative
from Pennsylvania In Ihe Thirty-eighth Congress as
a Demoor.it, receiving it,2:l9 votes against 8,.->18 votes
for Campliell, It'publican; was re-elected to the
Thlrty-ninlh Congress, receiving 11,154 votes against
10,07y votes for Kislier, liepubliean, serving from De-
• ccmber 7, IMiW, to March :i. 1807; died at Pottsville,
Penmylvania, February 11, 1878.
Strudwick, William, was bom in North Car-
olina: was i/lecled a repreMMilativo from North Caro-
■ lina iu the Fourth Coiegress (in place of Absalom
Tat<.)m, resigtie<l), serving from December 13, 1798,
to March 3, i7l>7.
Stuart, Alexander H. H., was Iwm at Stann-
ton, Virgiiii.i. .\pril 2, l'«17; received a classic.il edu-
cation, gnuluating at William and Mary (Ndlege;
studied law; was admitted to the bar iu 1828, and
commenced practice at Staunton; was a meml>er of
tlie Stale House of liepresentatives in 1830-1SJ8; was
elocttMl a representative from Virginia in the Twen-
^L ty-sevenlh Congress as a Whig, serving from May 31,
^P 1*841, to March 3, 1S43; was a presidential elector on
^ tlio Clay licliet in 1844, and on the Taylor ticket in
1848; was appointed by President Fillmore secretary
of the interior, serving from September 12, 1850, to
» March 3, 18.53; was a delegale to the National Con-
Tention whicli nominatcil Mr. Fillmore President in
186(J; W.1S a member of tlie State Senate 1857-18til;
was a <Ielegate to the National Union Convention
atPhil.idvIphia in 18tW; claimed a seat in the Thirty-
ninth Congress as a representative from Virginia,
but W.1S not admitted.
Stuart, Andrew, was Ixim in Pennsylvania;
removi'il t^i Ohio, and located at .Steubenville; was
Iclecteil a repreaenlalive from Ohio in the Thirty-thinI
Congress lus a Democrat. ivceiving7.42;jv«tes against
0,88o voles for lirewer. Whig, and 1,22(J votes for Lee,
Free-Soiler, serving fn>m December 5, 1853, to March
«, 1855.
Stuart, Archibald, was bom in Virginia; re-
sided at Mount Airy; w;is elected a representative
^B from Virginia in ihe Twenty-fifth Congress as a
BTThlg, defeating N, H. Ciairbome, Van Buren Dem-
Hocrat.
^1 Stuart, Charles E., was bnm in Columbia
B Count(V, New Vork, Noveint>er 25, 1811); studied law;
waa admitted to the bar. anil commenced practice
M Kalamazoo, Micliiiian : w.is a member of the .Stale
House of Represenlalives 1841-184ti; was elected a
»iq)re»entalive from Michigan In the Thirtieth Con-
gress as a Democnit, serving from December tt, 1847,
to March 3, 1S41); was defeated as tlie Democratic
candidate for the Tbirty-lirsl Congress by the coin-
binctl Whig and Free-soil vote; was ag.iin electeil to
the Thiriy-sccond Congress, receiving ll.l»23 voles
•giUnst li,5:>8 vot4?8 for Williams, Whig an<i Free-
Soiler, serving from Deceml>or 1. 1801, to March 3,
1853; was elected a United-States senator from
Michigan, serving from March 4, 1853, to March 3,
1S50.
Stuart, David, was bom in New York; re-
moved to Michigan, and located at Detroit; wag
elected a representative from Michigan in the Thirty-
thinI Congress as a Democrat, receiving 10,125 Viitea
against V.'-iT) votes for Howard, Whig, and IM»5 votes
for Dexter, Free-Soiler, serving from December 5,
1853, to March 3, 18.55.
Stuart, John T,, was bom In Fayette County,
Kentucky, November 10, 1807; received a classical
ediieation, gr.iduating at Centre College. Kentucky,
in 1820; studied law; w:»s admitted to the l>ar. and
commenced practice at Siiringflcld, Illinois; served
as n private in the Black Hawk war of 1.'<;12; was a
member of the State House of Representatives in
1S;12 and 18;W; was elected a rcprejientative from
Illinois in the Twenty-sixth Congress as a \Milg,
receiving 18,406 votes .igainst 18,;{;17 votes for
Stephen A. Douglas, Democrat ; was re-elected to
the Twenty-sevenlli Congn>s8, serving from Deeem-
lM?r2, 1830, to March 3, 184:^; was a memlM-r of the
State Senate 184t:^1852; was again electeil to the
Thirty-eighth Congress as a Demwrat, receiving
12,a>8 votes against 11,44;^ voU-s for Swetl. llenub-
lican, serving from December 7, 1803, to Maroli 3,
lt<t>5.
Stuart, Philip, was bom in Mar>-Iand; received
a good English educotion; served in the Kevolulion-
ar>' army, distinguisliing himself at the battle of
Eutaw; wius elected a represeutalivo from Maryland
In tlie Twelfth Congress as a Fedendist; was re-
elected to the Thirteenth. Fourteenth, and Fif-
teenth Congresses, serving from November 4. IhH,
to March 3, 1819; was au officer of Maryland voliui-
teers during the British invo-sion; remained in
Washington City after the expiration of his terra
of congressional ser^'ice, and died there August 14,
1830.
Sttirgeon, Daniel, was bom in Pennsylvania
October 27, 1789; resided at Uniontown; Wiis elected
a United-States senator from Pennsylvania as a
Democrat, and re-elected, ser\-ing from December 2,
18:59. to March 3, 1851 ; w;i«. appointed by President
Pierce United-States treasurer at Philadelphia; died
July 3, 1878.
BttU'gis, Jonathan, was bom at Fairfield, Con-
necticut, August 23, 1740; received a classical edu-
cation, graduating at Yale College In 1769; studied
law; was admitted to the bar, and practised at
Fairfield; w.is actively engaged in pn>-Revolution.iry
movements; was elected a representative from Con-
necticut In the First Congress; was re-elected to the
Second Congress, serving from March 4, 1789, to
M.irch 2, 1793; was a ju<lge of the State .Supreme
Court I79;}-1S05; was a pn-sidential elector In 1797
and ISOo; tiled at Fairfield, Connecticut, October 4,
1819.
Stur^is, Lewis Burr, was bom at Fairfield,
Connecticut, in 17U2; received a classical education,
graduating at Yale College in 1782; was elected a
representative from Connecticut in the Ninth Con-
gress as a Federalist; w.is re-elected to the Tenth,
Eleventh, Twelfth, Thirteenth, and Fourteenth Con-
greases, serving from Dec*-mber 2, 180S, to March 3,
1817; he removed to Ohio, and located at Norwalk,
where he died March .10. 1844.
Sullivan, Qeorge (son of John Sullivan), waa
bom at Durham. New Hampshire, August 29. 1771 ;
ncciverl a classical education, graduating at Har-
vard College in 1790; studied law under Judge .Steele
at Durham; was at1mitte<l to the bar, and commenced
practice at Exeter in 179;); was a member of the
State House of Repres«"ntatives in 1805; was attorney-
general of New Hampshirt' 180.5-l.StK): was elected a
represent.itive from New Hampshire in the Twelfth
Congress, serving from Xovemlx.'r 4. 1811, until March
8. 1(113: was again a member of the .State Hous<' of
Kepreseutativea in 1813, and a member of the State
650
CONGRESSIONAL DIBECTOBr.
8enat« in 1814 and 1815; was again attorney-general
ISK'-lfiST); anil dieil June 14, l(j38.
Bullivan, JaxDes (brolhor of John Sullivan),
was lioru at Bcnvifk, Mnssiicliusetts (now Maine),
April 22, 1744; recfivod an ncademical education;
studied law: was admitted to the bar, and com-
menced practice at Biddeford; wa» king's attorney |
for the county of York; look an active part in pre-
Rpvolutiouary movements; was a meinlior of the
Provincial Conj^'ss of Massachuaetis in 1775; was
judge of tlie .Su|)erior Court in 177tJ; was a delegate
from Massacliusetta to the Continental Congress in
17y2; was judge of probate for 8ulTolk County;
was State attorney-general 171H)-llHi)7; was governor
of Massachusetts 1W7-1KIW; died at Boston, Decem-
ber 10, 1R08. He publlslied "Observations on the
Government of tlie United States,'" "The Path to
BIclies. or Dissertation on Banks." " Histoiy of
Maine," " luipiirtial Review of the Causes, &c., of
llie French Revolution," " Correspondence with
Colonel Pickering," " History of Land-Titles In
Massachusetts," '' Dissertation on tlie Constitu-
tional Liberty of the Press," and " A History of tlie
Penobscot Indians." His " Life," with selections
from his writiugs, w.is published by his grandson,
Thomas C. Amorv.
Sullivan, Joiin (brr»ther of James Sullivan, and
father of IJcorge Sullivan), was t>om at Dover, New
Hampsliire, February 17, 1741; was educated by his
fatlier, .John O'Sullivan, who w;is a school-teacher;
studied law ; was admitted to the bar, and commenced
practice at Durhiuu ; was commissioned as major of
volunteers in 1772, aud wiis at tlio c:ipture of Fort
William and Mary in 1774 by the revolutionists;
was elected a clelegato to the Continental Constress
in 1774. and was re-olected iii IT!'); vrns appointed
by Congress a brigiulier-general Juno '22. 1775, and a
major-general July 21t. 177il, serving with distinction
until he resinned in 1779; was again elested a dele-
gate to the Continental Congress in 17m:), and was
i-e-elecled in 1781; was attomey-gcnenil of New
Hampshire 1782-1730, and jiresident of that State in
178ti-1787; was president of the State Convention
that ratified the Constitution of the United Slates,
and also speaker of the State House of Uepn'senta-
tives iti 17SS; was a presidential elector, voting for
Wasliington and Adams in 178t), and in March of
that year was again eU>cted president of the State of
New Hampshire; was appointed l)y Prt'sident Wiisli-
ington judge of the United-States District Court for
New Hamitshiro, and occupied that position until
his death at Durham, New Hampshire, January 2.°!,
17H.'i.
Stimiliers, Gheorge ^^., was born In Fairfax
County. Virginia; was taken early in life to Kana-
wha County, in the western part of th.it State; re-
ceived a good education; studied law; was admitted
to tlie bar in 1827, and cx)mmenccd practice at Kan.a-
wha Court House; was a niemlwr of the State House
of Representatives 18:3i>-lH40; was elected a ropri3-
sentative from ViiTjinia in the Twenty-seventh Con-
gress as a \Vliig; was re-elected to tlie Twenty-
eiglitli Congress, receiving ;l,271 votes against 2,042
vot«i for Hays. Democrat, sen-ing from May 31, 1841,
to Marcli i, 184-"); w.os a ilidi'gato to the State Con-
stitution.al Convention of ISoO; was defeated in 1861
as the Whig candidate for governor of Virginia; was
judge of the Eighteenth Judicial Circuit of Penn-
sylvania May, 1852-July, l.SJS; was a delegate from
Virginia to the Peace Congress at Washington in
18<.li : piild much attention to agricultural pursuits.
Sumner, Charles, was born at Boston, M.-wsa-
cbusett^, January tl, 1811; received a classical edu-
cation, griuluallng at Hon'ard Cnllego in ls;ii);
studied law, graduating at the Camoridgc Law
Scbmjl in Is;i4; was admitted to the bar, and cnm-
menceil practice In Boston; was apixjintMl reporter
of the Unlted-St.iJes Circuit Coiu^; lectured at the
Cambridge Law School 18;1">-18:J7; travelled In Eu'
rope 1837-1S40; was elected a United-States senator
from Massaclmsetts, after a prolonged contest, by t\
coalition of Democrats and Kree-Soilers (to succeed |
Daniel Webster, Wlilg); was re-elected in 1S">7. i
re-elected in 18»J.'J, and again re-elected in 18'IS"
ing from December 1, Itiil, until his death at 1
iiigton City of angina pectoris March 11. 1S74, ■^
the exception of a prolonged abwnce from liis
while suCfering from an assault made on him at hil
desk In the Senate Chamber May 22, ISW, by Preston
S. Brooks, a representative from South Carolina : 1m
revisited Eun:)pe in 18.'j7. and again in 1S72. He puta
lished au edition of Dunlap "t^n Adtnlnilly." thr
volumes of "Circuit-Court Reporih," an e.lit"
Reese's "Chancery Reports,"' and a larue iiuinU
speeches and orations. Collections of lii« 8[^
were publlslied in liiiii) and In 18.50; and bis cumplc
works, revised by liimself, were in pri'ss when
died. Memoirs of him were published by Edward '
Plen-e, Ell.is N'.tsiiii. C. Edwards Lester, and otlifrs,
Sumter, Thomas, was boni in Virgii'i ' i" it
renioveil early In iile to South Carolina; ■
tlie war against the Cherokees, and at ii-
companieil Ocono9tol,ih, or "the Emiienir,"
England, returning in 17iW; was colonel of one
the Urst Continental regiments raised In ,"s. ■-■' ''
Una, and distinguished liimself by his t '
attacks on the British and Tories iintil I' (J
the war; was promoted to the rank of brieadiei
general In 1780, and was voted the thanks n) Coi
grcss in January, 1781; was a nienilM-r of the St»l
Couvention of South Carolina which met to rat:
the Constitution of the United States, and vol
against it on the ground thitt the States were ni
stjtflclently shielded by It from Fedenil iisurpjition
was elected a representative from South CaA>li:
to the First and Second Congresses. 8«!r<ing froi
May 25, 17811, until March 2. 17K); was again elected
to the Fifth and Sixth Congresses, serving from
May 15, 17i>7, to March 3, 1801: was elected
United-States senator from Simth Carolina as
Democrat (in place of Charles Pinckney. resigned,,
serving from December 10, 1801, to Mareh a, 1809]
took bXa seat again November '27, 180)>, and re«ign'
in 1810; died at South Mount, near Strasburg. Son:
Carolina. June 1. lH;i2.
Stunter, Thomas D., was Imm In Pennsyl
vania; removed to South Carolina ; resided
Slatesburg; was elected a reprt'sentalive Imi
South Carolina in the Twenty-sixth Congress M
Democrat; was re-elected to the TweriK-s«'veiilll<
Confess, serving from December 2, li^H>, lo Mardi
3, 184.").
Sutherland, Jabez Q., was bom in Onondiga
County, New York, October 0, 1825; received an
academical education; stmlied law; was otlmiited U
the bar in 1848, and practised ; w.is pros<?cutiM-
attorney of Saginaw County in 1>M8-1849; was » del-
egate to the State Constitutional Conventions of l(i50
and 1807; was a member of the House of Rcprejen-
tatlves of the State legislature in 185:3; was elected
circuit-judge in 1803, and re-elected In 18iiU; lod
was elected a representative from Michigan in tlis
Forty-second Congnsss as a DeracK-rat, riHieiving Il),8l8
votes against 14,879 votes for John F. Driggs, Be-
publican, serving from March 4, 1871, to March 3,
1873.
Sutherland, Joel B., was bom at Fbtljidelphis;
was elected a representative from !'•
the "Twentieth Congress as a Jacl^
was re-elected to the Twenty-firei t. ..,.,-.
ing 1.108 majority; wjis re-elected Ui the T'
second Congress; was re-elected to the Tweni
Congress, receiving 2,30(J votes against l.V'Ui »"*«•
for .(.imes Gowen. Clay Democrat : was re-«'lcct«J 10
the Twenty-fourth Congress, n."' ' " ■ ■■•-
over James Gowen. Wlilg, seni
18-27. to March .3, 18:J7; was d.,. .'. . .,
citndidate for the Twenty-fifth Congress, reoeKiujJ
1,7(U votes against 2,200 votes for Paynter, DCDO
crat; died at Philadelphia November Ui, ISOL
STATISTICiVL SKETCHES.
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Sutherland, Joeiah, was born in New York;
r'.'siili'il at Kudsiin: was I'lcctpil a roprcsiMitative from
Nfw York ill Ilii> Tliiny-socoiul t'oujj^-ss as a Denio-
crat, ruceiving (t,072 vutvs agiiiast o,il44) vuUs for
Cowles. Wiig, nerving from l)ec«mlx>r 1, l&\, to
""lircli :!. isoo.
Swan, John, wiis l>oni in Norlli Carolina, and
II ili'li';;utf from that Stale to the Continental
Coii^Ti'ss 1TS7-17SS.
Swan, Samuel, was bom in Soinersot County,
New Ji'rst'.v, in 1771: wiis elected ft representative
from XoH" Jersey in Ibu Seventeenth ConKress; was
re-eleeled to the Eiyhleenlli, Nineteenth. Twentieth,
and Twcnly-tirsl Congresses, svriini; from Deeemlwr
3, If'.'l, to 'March 3, ISJl ; died at Brunswick, New
Jersey, Aiignst 24. 1844.
Swann, Thomas, was bom at Alexandria, Vir-
ginia; educated at l^oluinbian Collew. and the Uni-
versity of Virginia; studied law with his father at
■Wiishiiigton, .-uid was appointed secretary of the
Neupoliiioi Commission: in l!^>4 he settled in Uaili-
moru, and two years aflenvard was cliosen a director
of the Uullimoro and Ohii> Haiiroad Company; In
11^7 he was chosen its iiresideut. resisting in 1853;
was also jiresident of the North-westeni Virpnia
RjiilT'iad C^ompany; after a sojourn in Kuro|K', he
was in ISoO elected mayor of Baltimore, and re-
elected in 1858; in lSti4 lie was elected governor of
Maryi.uid ; in 18<XI he was elected United-Slates sena-
tor, but declined to leave the executive chair; he was
elecleil a representative from Maryland in the Forty-
first Congress as a Ueraocrjil. receiving i;J,li.-)(} votes
against 5,tSil7 votes for King, Heimblican; w-hs re-
eTccled to the Forty-sccoml Congiess, receiving 15,l;i7
vol«8 against 10,414 votes for \V'. Booth, Kepublicin;
was re-elected to the Forty-third (.'ongress, receiving
rj,14s votes against 10,8^(1 votes for E. Griswold, lie-
pulilican; was re-elected to the Forty-fourth Coii-
gross as a Democrat, receiving 10.244 votes against
C.^ilO votes for John K. Cos, Republican; and was
elected to the Forty-fifth ('ongress, receiving Vi.'i^A)
votes against 12,728 vot4.'$ for J. H. Butler, Kepub-
lican. serving from March 4, 18<t0.
Swanwiok, John, was elected a representa-
tive (rum Pennsylvania in llie Fourth Congress; was
re-elected to the Fifth Congress, sending from De-
cembrr 7. 1710, to 17i>8. when he died.
Swart, Peter, was born at Schoharie, New York;
was a member of the .State House of Bepresentatives
171>8-17!tU; was elected a representalivo from New-
York in the Tenth Congress, defeating Thomas Siim-
uioiis. serving; from Oct^ilH'r 2(i. 1H1J7, to March 3,
1S01»: was a meinlwr of the State Senate? lt<17-1820.
Sweiiringen, Henry, w:ia born in Pennsylva-
nia; removed to Dliio. and located at Smithlieid;
was cIc'-IcmI a representative from Ohio in the Twen-
ty-fiftli Congn'ss (in place of Daniel Kilgore, who
bad r-si;;neil. and ap|>ealed to his constituents) as a
Ueiu^KM-at, defe.iiing U. Kilgore, Whig; was re-elected
to the Twenty-sixtli Congress, receiving no opiKisilion,
serving fruni December •'!, 1S:3S to March 3, 1841.
Sweoringen, Thomas V., w;is born in Jefter-
Bon County. Virginia; was electeil a representiilive
from Vir;;inia in the Sixteentli Coiigresii, defeating
Edward Colston; and was re-<'lected to the Seven-
teenth Congress, defeating B. Bailey liy 1,147 voles,
•crving from Decemlier 0, IJtlll, to .Juue 7, 1822,
when ill.' died at Shepberdslown, Virginia,
Sweat, Lorenzo D. M., was born at Parson-
viilc. Maine, M:iy 21), lt<lS; received a classical edu-
cation, graduating at Bowdoin College in ls;j7;
studied law at the Harvard Law School ; was a<i-
mitleil lo the bar in ISIU, and pniclised for two years
at New Orleans, Louisiana; reluming lo Portland,
lie was city solicitor in ISfjd and 18'jU; was a mem-
ber of the Slate Seiuite in 11^)2; was elected a reprt<-
ijientative from Maine in the Tliirty-eiglith Congress
a Democrat, receiving 10,:a2 votes agaiusl 10,211.5
rrates for John N. Goodwin, Kepubllcau, serving"
from December 7, 1803, to March 3, 1805; was de-
feated .18 the Democratic candidate for the Tlilrty-
nimh Congress, receiving 12.57s voles against 1.5,00(5
votes for Jolin Lynch, Union Bepublican; was again
defeated for the Fortieth Congri.'ss, receiving ir,(io3
votes .igainst l.'j.OU votes for John Lynch; was a
ilelegati- from Maine to the National Union Conven-
tion at Pliil.iclelnliia in 1*38.
Sweeney, W. N., was liom in Kentucky May
5, ll>U; reeeivetl an lu-ailemical education; studlcu
law; was admitted to thabar, and commenced prac-
tice: w;it electe<l a representative from Kenlueky in
the Forlv-lirst Congress, serving from March 4, IWIB,
lo March ;i. 1.S71.
Sweeny, George, was bom in Pennsylvania;
reinovi'd to Ohio, nnil located at Uucyrus ; was elected
a representative fn.im Ohio in Iho Twenty-si.xth Con-
gress as a Democrat; was re-elected to the Twenty-
seventh Congress, serving from December 'i, 1838,
lo .March 3, 184:}.
Sweetser, Charles, was bom in Vermont; re-
moved to Ohio, and located at Delaware; was elected
a representative from Ohio in the Thirty-first Con-
gress as a Democrat, receiving 8,4<*>4 votes against
8,4;te< votes for Duncan. Whig; was re-elected to
the Thirty-second Coii'jress, receiving 8,570 votes
against S.412 votes for Gallowav. Whig, serving from
December 3, ISIO. lo March 3, i.S'i3.
Swift, Benjamin, was Imru at j\jnenla, New
York, April 5, 17'>1; received an academic;d educ;i-
tion; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 18U0,
.and conmienced pniclice at Bennington, removing
subsequently lo Manchester, and then to St. Alban's;
was a member of the St;ite Ilouse of Re|)resentativc»
ill 1813, 1.S14, 1,S25, and 1820; was elected a represen-
tative from Vennont in the Twentieth Congn'ss as a
Whig; was re-elected to the Tweuly-first Congress,
serving from December 3, 1S27, to March 3, 1831 ;
was elected a United-States senator from Vermont,
serving from December 2, 18.15, to March 3, 18:10;
retlreu to his farm, and, while apparently enjoying
good health, fell In a field, and died November 11,
1847.
Swift, Zephaniah, was bom at Warcham, Mas-
sachusetts, in 175'.i; received a classical eilucalion,
gnidualing at Yale College in 1778; studied law; was
admitted to the bar, and commenced pniclice at
Windham, Connecticut; was elected a representative
from Conneclicul in the Tliird Congress, and re-
elected to the Fourth Congress, serving from Decem-
ber 2, 1703. to March 3, 1707; w.-is socrctjiry lo the
French mission in 1800: was appointed in 1801 a
judge of the Supreme Court, and its chief justice
1S(KJ-1810; he was a member of the Uartford Con-
vention of New-Kngland Federalists; was a menilier
of the State IIousc of Representatives ; was one of a
cnnimisfion to revise Ihe laws of Connecticut; and
dieii at Warren. Ohio, S<'ptembcr 27, 182:i. He pul)-
lisbed "A Digest of the Laws of Connecticut" (in
two volumes)^ an "Orallon on Domestic Slavery."
a "Sy.ttcm of the Laws of Conneclictil," and a
" Treatise on Hills of Kxcliange."
Switzler, William Franklin, was bom In
Fayette County. Kentucky. Man'h 111, 1810; removed
wiili liis father to Missouri in 182(1; received an aca-
demical education; sludicdlaw; wiis admitted to the
bar in 1841, and conmienced practice at Columbia;
established "The Columbia Patriot" In 1841, and
"The Missouri Slalesman " in 18+1: was a member
of Ibe State House of Kepresentalives in 1840, 1848,
and 18.VJ; was a delegate to the Democratic National
Convention at Baltimore in 18<X); was apiiointed ia
ls(j2 military secretary of st.-ito for Arkansas under
the military governor, John S. Phel|«; was appoint-
ed by President Lincoln in liMKi provost-marshal in
Missouri; was a delegate to the Missouri Constim-
lioiial Convention of 1805; claimed lo have been
electe<l lo the Fortieth Congress, and the commiltee
on elections recognized his claim, Imt the House re-
fused to receive him, oud gave the seat to George W.
Anderson.
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COXGBESSIOXAI. DIBBCTOBT.
Swoope, Jacob, vu bom in VirTiiiia: was
elecu-d • reproentadTe fimn Vlr^priiiia in ttie Eler-
entl» Congnaa a» a FedenUUt, defcatine Srniih. r>e»-
ocnl. wninK fn-'m May 22, iw*, to M^r !.
Swope, Seunuel F., wa» born r y;
ntUed ai FaluuuUi; waa elected a rvyn-^m^itfe
from Kentucky in the Thlity-foortli Congreia a* an
Aincrii'aii. rvcelTing 7.4S0 rot«a aeainst 0.991 Totca
fiT ' mocrat, aeiTlng from December 3, 136b,
to . • ^>7.
Syites, George, ww iKim In X«^ Jomer; n-
«><]i-<l at Mrxin; li'illr; w.t» .:l<-<-ie<! :i repr««;nlaCiTe
Irum Xe« Jvni^r ui lh<; T»eniv->i '■•'■ •■■•■■-'« a«
A DeoMierai; wa» ic-elwt«i] to 'h
CoBffreaa, serring from I>ecember - rib
«, 1^7.
Sykes, Jamee, >raa bom near Dover. Delaware :
w.-. '.'cTolotlonary measures: was
a ■ "ntal Congress in ITTT-l ( (S.
Sy..^wi^., i -Uii", waa bom at Kimlerfaook.
}tew Vork: reoeired an academic education; was
«lect<-<l a repreaeotative from Sew York in the Firat
Cougteta; and was re-elected to the Second Congreas,
•MTfoe from April 22. 1789, to March 2. 17M:i.
Bylvester, Peter H., was bom at Kinderfaook.
Kv» V'irk. Ffl'ruarj 17, 18'p7: receivf-d a classical
eduiatlMn. grailiiating at Union College in 1887;
Btuditxl law; was admitted to the bar In 1830, and
commenced practice at Coxsackie, Xew Vork; was
elect<^i a represeatativc from Xew York in the
Tliirtit.'tli Congreas as a Whi^: was re-elected to the
Thirty-first Congress, receiving 6,621 votes against
8,i<e} votes for Omey, Democrat, and 3,*i8 votes for
Beekinau, Van Buren Democrat, serving from De-
eeml»r li, 1847, to March 3. l!«l.
Symnies, John Cleves, was bom on Long
Island July 21. 17-12; w;i.« chairman of the Commit-
tee of SafL-ty of Sussex foiinty in 1774: was a di.-K'-
gatc t*. the State Provincial Congress, and one of the
committee of ten which framed the first Stale Consti-
tution; was a memlxrr of the Legislative Council:
serveil in the Kevolulionary army, and distjngalshed
himiM-lf in covering the retreat of Washington at
Spriii^tlold, and at the battle of Monmouth: was
Cniof justice of the State Supr«?mc Court 1777-1787:
was a delegate from Xcw Jerwy to the Continental
Congress 1785-17)*}; removed to the Xorth-west Ter-
ritory, settling at North Bend, below Cincinnati,
where be and his associates had bought a large tract
of land known as the "Hiami Pnrdiase;" this en-
terprise involved him in pectmiary difficulties, from
which he never recovered, though they left no stain
up«in his character: In 17W he was appointed by
Congress one of the three judges of the North-west
Tcrritorj-, and held the place till Ohio became a
State; one of his daughters was the wife of Presi-
dent Harrison; he died at Cincinnati February 26,
1814, and was buried at North Bend in the same
cemetery that enclose* the tomb of President Rar-
rison.
Sypher, Jay Hale, was bom in Pennsylvania
Jnly22. li<17: receivol a collegiate education ; studied
law, and was admitted to the bar; enten-d the Union
army as a private, and rose thrt)ut:h all the (trades to
that of brigadier-general, which he held when nius-
tervd out of service at the close of the war. November
25, lAi^o; located in Louisiana in January, WVi; was
a delegate to the National Kepublican Convention at
Chicago which nominated (Tranl and Colfax; was
elected a representative from Loulfinna in the For-
tieth t^'ongress as n Kepublic.-iii by ;!,lJiX) in;iji >rity : was
rc-elecle<r to the Korty-tirst Congress by .1,4iKt major-
ity over St. Mariin, Democrat; was re-elected to the
Forty-second Congress by a majority of 5,5iiil over
■Walker, Democrat: and was n?-elected to the Forty-
thinl Congress as a Kepublican, receiving 12.2!ifi
votes against 12.225 votes for E. Lawrence, I)emi>
crnt. --.Tvinir from July IS, istw, to March 'i, 187.5.
Taber, Stephen, was bom at Dover, New York,
Harch 7, 1821; received an academical education;
removed to Qaeen't Ccnmty, «liet« 1m
agrlenltaral pursuit*; was a membwr al
legialsitare of New Tofk in IWO and ISSl :
a repreaeotative from New York la tke Tbiny-ninlk
Congress as a Democrat, rent vine 12,233 vtMe* asaiw*
10,083 votes for G. W. Corli*, BepabiicHi; mm •«»
elected to the Fbrtieth OongreM, lewhlag ia,AS
votes against 0.302 rote* for Ghaaoo, BepaUen,
serving from D(^'enii<^r 4. IStO, to Sfaicii 3. 1«B».
Taber, Thomas, 2d, was bom at Ovver, New
York. May V.i, 17^: received a pubUe-adwioI eilaea-
tion: was a practical farmer; was a member of the
Stale House of Keprfsentatives in 1S30; wa* doeted
a representative from New York in tlie Twentitdi
Congress (in place of Thomas J. Oakley, inlyml)
as a Denwcrat, serving from December 1. VSt^ to
March 3, 1820; died at Dorver, New York, Hardi 31.
Wf2.
Taffe, John, was bom at IndionapoBa, laAana,
January :^>, li<27; received an acadenuc (daeatioa;
studied law, and practised at IndianapoKs; reMovcd
to Nebraska in ISSO; was chosen a utemb^ at Ike
lower branch of the Territorial legislatiue in 1^8
and I85U; was elected to the tipper branch or c«iaMil
in 18(ir>, and was r>^ -idem of that body: cs-
tere<l the militar 1802, and aer*ed Mlera
months as major : . ~ .-ond Nebraalca Cmntiri
was elected a representative from Nebraska in tM
Fortieth Congreas a* a RepnMic?in H 7*J majority
m k, Democr 1 <-d to th* Plor-
l\ .-ress. recei'- < meainm MM
vui. c- ...1 . oppleton, Df.i.i- ■ '—■'ri to Hi*
Forty-second Congieas as r>«eiv!af
12.:if5 votes against 7.W7 vr.'. >i:». Dem-
ocrat, serving from Match 4, 1607, to Marclt S, I8!t;
was appointed secretarv of Colorado in m&.
Ta^gart, Samuet was bom at LoodoaAcRy.
Ne» ll,ttiit«hir<>. M.irch 24. 17>1: received a dMslcal
educition. graduating at Dartmouth CViOegefai ITI4;
studied theology; was ordained in 1777 ■« paalurer
the church at Coleraine, Masaachusetta, and filled
the position until 1818; was elected a representailre
from Massachusetts in the Eighth Cbngresa as a Fed-
eralist; was re-elected to the Ninr? ''' •• »" ith.
Twelfth, Thirteenth, and Four- -*«,
serving from C>ctober 17, IWXJ, to _^; ... .... lied
at Coleraine, Maasachiuetts, April 'A l'si5. Ur pub-
lished a numl)er of religious and politieal jwrnptilets.
Tait, Charles, was bom in !■ Vii<.
ginia, in 17t!8; received an aca^ in;
studied law; was admitted to iliir »»•. .>: "Ti-
menccd practice in Georgia; was a jadg>-
Superior Court of Oeotpa; was elected a 1 t, ..i-
States senator from Georgia (in place of John Mil-
ledge, resigned) as a Democrnf. servins from I»«'^-ein-
ber 2S, 1800, to March 3. I- -^n
Conntv. Alabama; wasa jn: irt
of AlaKima 1820-I>«t; died ... . : ... Al»
bania. rtctobor 7. 1h;J.5.
Talbot, Isham, was bom in Bedford Cotmiy,
Virginia. In 177.3; received an acailemlcal educatiua;
studietl law; was admitted to the bar, and ci>ia-
raenced practice at Frinkfort. Kentucky; was t
memUjr of the State Senate l.'*l2-isl">; was e|<«rt«d
a United-States senator from Kentucky (In plai-e of
Jesse Bledsoe, resigne<l), serving from February 1,
1815, to March 3, li:S19; waa again electcl a sciutfor
(in place of William Logan, resigned ). serrtng iroin
November 27, 1830, to March 3, lf*2.>: died D«»r
Frankfort, Kentucky, September 25. isn.
Talbot, Silas, was bom in Hhode blan>l In
1751 : received a public-school education : ei«tet<nl Ih*
Revolutionary army as captain In a {tli<Mle-I'Un<l
regiment; was at the siege of Boston; accompanird
the anny to New York, where he so annovml lbs
British shipping in the h.-»rl)<>r that Congress ordowt
his prfimotion to the rank of major: wn' «-..iit„i».| in
the defence of Fort Mifflin in 1777; n -'^
tant services to General Sullivan in i . "»■
porting the Continental troop* from the Uiuu loud to
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th0 upper end «{ Rhmie Island ; captured the British
H(»tiiip-I>»ltery "Piyot'" off NfW|Kjrt, and r>-ceivi>d
mr hiA braver}' the commission of lieutenant-eulonel;
armed bis prize, and, with tlie armed sluop " Argu,"
cruised off New England, CHpiiiring; a ninnlwr of
prizes; was eoiiimiBsicmed captain in the Continental
imvy Septemlwr 17, 17711; WiLs captured by a British
fleet in 17H<.l, and imprisoned in England until he
was exchanijed in 17S1 ; after the war, he pnreliased
the (.tintiseated estate of Sir William Johnson in
Montgomery County. New York; was a memljcr of
the State liouse o{ IJepreseiitatives 17i)2-17'.>;3: was
elected a representative from New York in the
Third Congress as a Federalist, serving from De-
cember 2, 17U;1, to llarcii ;}, 17113; was recnunnis-
Bioned by President Washington captain in the
United-.States uavy : superintended the building of
the frifjite "Constitution," which he commanded
on the West-India station in 171H1; resigned in Sep-
Iciuber, IH'.K); resided in New- York City, and died
Uiere .Tune ;ji). 1M:J. The "Life of Silas Talbot"
was published l)v U. T. Tuckemian.
Talbott, Albert Q., was h«m in Kentucky;
resided at Danville; was elected a representative
from Kentucky in the Thirty-fourth Congress as a
Democrat, receiving O.-'iSO votes against 11,.j70 votes
for Fox, American; wiis re-el(>cled to the Thirty-fiflh
Congress, receiving 7,i/25 votes against fl,.S()l voles
for Anderson, American, serving from December 3,
1S55, to March S. lK"jll.
Taliaferro, Benjamin, was bom in Virginia in
1750; scr\ed in the Hevolutinnary army in the ritle
corps commanded by General Morgan; was in the
battles of Saratoga and Monmouth, anil at the siege
of Savannah: was taken prisoner by the British at
the surrender of Charleston ; settled in tJeorgia; was
a meml)erof the Stnto Semite; was a delegate to the
Conslitulional Convention of 17118; was elected a
representative from tieorgia in tlie Sixth Congress;
was re-<'|i'cled to ihe Seventh Congress, serving from
December 2, 17111. to iS'.ri, when he resii^ed; was
judge of Ihe Su|)erior Court; died in Wilkes County,
Georgia, September 3. IWl.
Taliaferro, John, was l»om in Spoitsylvania
County, Virginia, in 17(18; was elected a representa-
tive from Virginia in tlie Seventh Congress as a
Democrat, serving from DecenjiHT 7, 1801. to March
3. 18.j;J; was a presidential elector on the Jetlerson
ticket in 18ii.>; was again elected U} the Twelfth
Congress (having successfully contested the election
of John 1'. Ilungerford), 8(.^r^•ing from Deceml)er2,
1811. to March -i, 181;J; was a presidential elector on
the Monroe ticket in 1821 ; was again eiect<Ml to the
Eighteenth Congress (in place of William Leo Ball,
deceiwi'<i). and was re-elected to the Nineteenth.
Twenlii-tli. and Twcntv-first Congresses, serving
from April 8. 182J, to March ,3, 18:jl; was again
elected to the Twenty-fourth. Twenty-dfth, Twentj--
sixth. and Twenty-seventh (^"ongresses, serving I'nnn
December 7, 18.'{5. to March 3. I.s4:!; was librarian of
the Treasury Department at Washington lS.X)-l(<iy;
died at "Hagley" (his residence iu King George
County. Virgini;i) August 12, ISW.
Taliaferro, Robert W., was elected a repre-
sentative from Louisiana in the Thirty-eighth Con-
gress as a Uepublican; a majority of the Conuuittee
on Elections reported that he was entitled to a seat,
but such was tlie ojiposilion that no vote was taken
on the resolution, although on the last day of the
■ession he was voted !f2.0(XI for compensation, mile-
age, and I'xnenses.
Tallmaage, Benjamin (father of Frederick
Augusius T;illniad^;e|, was born at .Setauket, Long
Island, New York. iVbnuiryao, 1754; was thoroughly
educated by his father, who was a clergyman; look
charge of a sehixil at Wethersfield, Connecticut; en-
tered the Revolutionary army as lieutenant in a Con-
necticut regiment, and soon rose to the rank of
colonel; dislinguishitd liimself throughout the war,
and was for some years ou duty at Washington's
I headquarters, having ch.11^ of the secret corre-
spondence; after the war, he engaged in mercantile
I pursuits at Litclilield, Connecticut ; lield several local
I offices ; was elected a representative from Connecti-
I cut in the Seventh Congress as a Federalist ; was re-
! elected to the Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh,
Twelth, Thirteenth, and Fourteenth Congresses,
serving from December 7, 1801, to March ;t, 1817;
died ai Litchfii'ld, Conneclicul, March 17, ISio.
Tallmadge, Frederick Augustus (son of
Benjamin Tullmadge), was born at Litchtield, Con-
necticut, August 21t, 17i)2; received a classical educa-
tion, graduaiing at Yale College in 1811; studied law
at the Litclilield Law School; was admitted to the
bar. and commenced practice at New York in 1813;
commanded a troop of volunteer cavalry on Long
Island during the closing months of the war with
Greikt Britain; was assistant aldennan 18:U, and
alderman ISJil; was State senator 18:i7-184(). and a
|K>rlinii of that time president of the Senate; was
recortler of the city of New York 1841-184il; was
elected a representative from New York to the
Thirtieth Congress as a Whig, receiving 4,205 votes
against 1.801) votes for David Bro<lericK. Democrat,
ser\'ing from Decenilier 0, 1847, until March 3, 1840;
was again recorder of the city of New York 1848-
1851; w.TS sui)eriiitendent of the metropolitan police
lS57-18t)2; was clerk of the Now- York t^ourt of Ap-
IMials lM)2-lS)w; and died at Litchtield, Connecticut,
ScptcmlKT 17, IStll).
Tallmadge, James, jun., was bom at Stam-
ford, New York. January 2.8, 1778; received a classical
education, graduating at Brown University in 1708:
studied law ; was admitted to the bar, and commenced
practice, but devoted much of his time to agricultu-
ral pursuits; 8cr\'ed in Ihe war of 1812 as commander
of n company of home guards ; was elected a represen-
t.ilive from New York in the Fifteenth Congress as a
Democrat, ser^•ing from Deeemlier 1, 1817, to March
3, 18111; declinwl a re-election; was a deiegale to the
Stale Constitutional Convention of 1821; was a mem-
ber of the .State House of Iiei»resentatives iu 1824;
was lieutenant-governor of New Y'ork 182i>-lS27;
visited Hussia, and secured the intriKluction of
United-States cotton-spinning miichinery into that
countrv'; was one of tlie founders of the American
Institute at New York, and its president during the
last twenty years of his life; was one of the founders
of the New-York City University, and for some jears
presiilent of its council: died suddenly at New-York
Cilv September 20, I8:i;l.
TaUmadge, Nathaniel P., was bom at Chat-
ham. New York, Febniary 8. 1705; receive<l a classi-
cal education, graduating at Union College; studied
l.iw; was admitted to the bar in 1818, and com-
menced practice ut Poughkecpsie ; was a raeml>er of
the State House of Kepresentatives iu 1828, ami of
the State Senate in 183;)-1833; w.is elected a Unit*d-
.states senator from New Y'ork as a Conservative
Democrat, serving from December 2, 18;i"., to June
17, 1844, when he resigned; was appointed by Presi-
deut Tyler governor of the Territory of Wisconsin,
and removed by President Polk, serving 1844-1840;
resumed practice; and died at Battle Creek, Michi-
gan, November 2, 18()4.
Tallman, Peleg, was bom at Tiverton, Rhode
Island, ill 1704; received a public-school education;
served in the Kevolulionary war when a lad on the
privateer " Trumbull;'' lost an arm iu a naval en-
gagiMuent in 1780; was captured and imprisoned in
Englanil and Ireland in 1781-1783; entered the mer-
chant service, and became a merchant at Bath,
Massachusetts (afterwards Maine); was elected a
representative from Massachusetts in the Twelfth
Congress as a Democrat, but refused to support the
war, serving from November 4, 1811, to March :J,
18i:i, and declining a re-election; was a meml)erof
the State Senate of Maine 1821, 1822; died at Bath,
Maine, November 2, 1804.
Tannehill, Adamson, was bom in Frederick
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Comity. Marylnnd, In 1752; ppcoived n public-school
edncatinii; served in the Revohilionnn- war as cap-
tain of rifl«?nn'n; removed to Pennsylvania, and
commenced tlie cultivation of a small fann near
Plttsbun;; was a justice of the p<.'ace: opncise<l the
Whiskey Insurrect Ion ; was hriirad ler-gcneral of I'enn-
nylvania volunteei-s in the I.'nili'd-Stales ser\ice from
ScptenilKT 25 to December 31, 1^12; was elected a
representative from Pennsylvania in the Thirteenth
Congrvss as a Democrat, sen-inc; from Miiy i4, l!^i:i,
to >Iarch 2, 1815; died ne.ir Pittsburg, Pennsylvania,
Julv 7, 1S17.
Tanner, Adolphus H., was bom at Cfninvllle,
New York. May Si, ISil: received a publie-scliool edu-
cation: studied law; was ndnii(t''d to the bar in IS'>4,
and commenced pr,nclic(! at Whiteliall, New Vork;
in 1S02 he entered the Union anny as a captain,
and, as lieutenant-colonel of the One Hundred and
Twenty-lliird He;;inient of New-York Volunteer In-
fantry, serveil until the close of the war. — first in
the Armv of the Potomac, and subse<nie:itly tltrou?!!-
out the Atlanta campaign and that of the Carolinas;
lie was elected a representative from New Y'ork in
the Korty-firsI Consn-ss as a Keimblican, receiving
17,054 votes a'^ainst 1-1.<M1 votes for Osgood. Demo-
crat, servinj; frfim March 4. 1S<111, to March :1. 1S71.
Tappan, Benjamin, was bom at Northampton,
M.TSsachusetts. ilay 25, 177'!; received a public-school
education : was apprenticed to learn the art i>t copper-
plate ent:ravlns and jirintinj:; gave some attention to
IHjrtrail-painting; 8ludie<l law; was admitted to the
>ar, and commenced pnictice at Steubenville, Ohio:
was electcl to the State House of Representatives of
Ohio in 180:i; served as aide-de-camp to General
Wadsworth In the war of 1812; w.is a judge of the
County Court, and then, for seven years, presiding
Jiidi^e of the Fifth Ohio Circuit Court i1 Common
Pleas; was aiipolnlcd by President J.ick«on United-
Stales judge for the district of Ohio in 1S.3;1; was
elected to the United-.States Senate from f)liio as a
Democrat, defeating Thom.ns Ewini;, Whig, and serv-
ing from DecemlK'f 2, 1*19, until March ft, 1S45; be-
came a decided antisl.ivery man; died at Stenben-
vlllo. Ohio. April 12, isrn.
Tappan, Mason W., was born at Newport,
New ll.iinjishire; received an academical education;
Studied law; w.ia admitted to the bar, and com-
meuced practice at Bradford, New Ilampshiro; was
a nwmber of the .State Honso of Representatives
18.5!t-18.55; was elected a ri'presentalive from New
Ilampshire In the Thirty-f'iurth Congress as an
American, receiving 12.121t votes against t<.r>.5() votes
for MorrJMMi. Democrat; wils re-elected to the Thir-
ty-fifth (^ingress as a Republican, receiving lO,*^^
votes against 9,lHfj votes for Morrison, Democrat;
was re-elected to the Thirty-sixth Congress, receiv-
ing 11.2SS votes against 1M.22H votes for John H.
Ge-rge, Democrat, sening from December 3. 18.55,
to M.irch ;5. 18(>I ; sened in the Union army as colo-
nel of the First New-Hampshire Volunteer Infantry
April 21>, bstll-.August «. ISill.
Tarbox, John Kemble, was bom In that poi^
(Ion of Methnen now comprised within the limits of
the city of Lawrence May n, IWS; was fitted for
college In the public schools and acadernv, but was
oldigcd to relinquish a collegiate course by delicate
health; studied law; was admitted to tlie bar in
ISdO. and has since practised atLawn.-nce; was for
a time, while pursuing lii? leijal studies, political
CfUtor of "The Lawrence .Scntniel," a Democratic
Journal; sen-ed in the Union amiy during the war
as a line-officer of the Fourth Regiment Massachu-
setts Volunteers; was a memlx>r of the State House
of Representatives in 1S08, 1870, and 1871, and of
the State .Senate in l'"<72; was mayor tpf Lawrence
in 187:1, 1874; was elected a representative from
Massachusetts in the Forty-fourth Congress as a
Democrat, receiving 8,071> voles against 7,415 votes
for James C. Ayer, Republican, serving from Decem-
ber 0, 1»T5, to March 3, 1877; vas defeated aa the
Democratic candidate for the Porty-flftli Congress^
receiving )i.:nu votes against 12,lOO"voti"S for wnjft*
miu F. iiutler. Republican.
Tarr, Chrietian, was bom at Baltimore. Mary-
land: reiuoveil lo Peunsvlvanla; was elected a rrp.'
resentative fnmi Pennsylvania in the KiftAfiilh Con-
grpps; was re-eleded to llie Sixleenih Congress,
serving from Decemlifr 1. 1S17. to JIarcli S, 1821.
Tate, Magrnus, resideil in Berkeley Cuiuity,
Virginia: was elected a representatix e frriiii Vlrgilili
in the Fourteenth Congress as a Feileralist, serving
from I)ecembi'r4. lsi5."io March .S. |.h17.
Tatnall, Edward F., was bom at 8 ■
Getirgia; was electe<I a representative fni
in the .S"venteenlh Ciuignss: was re-elei i.
Eighteenth and Nineteenth Congre'ws witln'ut m^
position, serving from I)eceml)er ;!, 1821, U> March 3,
1827.
Tatnall, Josiah, was bom at Bonaventnre, ftcofw
gia: receiveii an academical education at N.is.<an,
New Providence, but. on'the breaking out of l;rvolu-
tionary hostilities, he r"tume<l to (Jeorgia without the
knowledge of his parents, and at the age of eiLditeen
joiiie<l the command of General Wayne; was colonel
of a regiment of Stale troops raised In 17f>.'i for pro-
tection against the Indians; was for si'veral vtars a
member of the State House of Hepresent.Tlivcs; was
elected a United-States senator from Oeorja (in
l)lnce of James Jackson, resigned), seninc from
.Vpril 12, 171X1, to March ;l, 17iM»; was api-riinted
brigadier-general of State troofa in 18(X); died at
Na.«sau, New Providence. ,Iune (I, I8lfl.
Tattim, Absalom, was elected a representative
from North Carolina In the Fourth Congress, serving
from December 7. 171)5, to 17W. when he resigned.
Taul, Micah, was bom In Virginia; ri-moved lo
Kentucky; was electi?<l a representative fn>m Ken-
tucky in the Fourteenth Concrcss. receiving a larg?
majority over Mr. Montgomery, serving from De-
cember 4, 1S15, to March 3, 1817.
Taylor, Alexemder Wilson, was horn In In-
diana County, Pennsylvania, March 22, 1815; wm
educated at the Indiana Acodcmy. and nt JefJ.-rson
College. Waslilnglon Cfiunty. Peimsvl\ 'col-
lege in the s[iring of 1.'^;^(J to till iin . I u
clerk In the sur^i-yor-genemrs olhci .lr»-
nia: studied law at the law-school in i . nn-
8ylv.-inia, and in the office of Judge Wl itii,
Pennsylvania; was admilted to the liiir in 1841,
and )>factised; In 1845 was elected pmthonotary anil
clerk of tlie several courts of Indiana County, and
was re-elected in 1?^^: was a member of the li-:l?l»-
ture of Pennsylvania In 18.51) and istm: was elcctfil
a representative from Pennsvlvania in the i'ottt-
third Congress as a Republlc.in. receiving 18,(84
votes against 1.3,280 votes for H. D. Foslei-. Denie-
cnil, serving from DocemlHjr 1, 1873, to M.irvli Si
1875.
Taylor, Caleb N., was bom in Bucks Connir,
Pennsylvania, July 27, 1813; received an ocaderalc
education; engage<l in agricnltiiral pursuits; wi»
elected a representative from Pennsylvania In llie
Fortieth Congress as a Republican, r. ■ •'.'.'JW
votes against 11„8»H) votes for lioss. 1- ■ tv-
ing frotn Man-h 4. 18<i7. to March .1. . . . .r re-
elected to Ihe Forty-first Congress (having «ice«»-
fully contested the election of Jrdin R. Readlngli
sening from D(>ceml>er 5. 1870, to Manii 3. IS71.
Taylor, George, was Ixim in Ireland hi 1718;
received a eood educ.ition; immigrate. I • •' • ^ited
.Stales in I7-K1; became a (ia5--l,iborpr in > W
Durh.am, Pennsylvania, and In time w:i- rof
iron-works in Nortliumlwrland County; w:i» atiiem-
l)er of the Colonial House of Repr»«entativ»~ ITU-
17119; was appointed colonel of m •of
the County Coui't, in 1770; wasn' ' ihs
Provincial House of Representali.. .•. i.. .,,-. ...ui
delegate to the C<jntinental Congress from IVnrsrl-
vanla In 1776-1777; ncgotiate<l treaties of |>eaec«1lli
several Indian tribes while ho was a delegate In Coo>
STATISTICAL SKETCHES.
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n>mnvp(l to Easton. Delaware, and died there {
I'linuiry 'Si. 1.781.
Taylor, George, was b<>m nt Wheelinii. Vlr- 1
_ ni», October, I'.l. 1S2(I; rwelved an ocjulemicnl
education; studied me<llcine, and 8ubsi.-<|uciitly luw:
vras admitted Ui tbe bar iii 1S40, and coimucticed |
practice in Indiana: rt.'imrved to Alabnma in ll*+4,
•nd in 1!S48 reranveil to Brooltlyn, New York, wliere j
ho practised ; was elected a ivpresentative from New '
Yorlc In the Tliirty-tifth CoiiaireM as a Detnocrat, I
ri'ceivinR S,501 votes against 5,800 votes for Stniiia-
Lan, Hepublican, and 5,47il votes for Wood. Aincri-
uii. scrriini from Deepml>er 7. 18.'J7. to March 3.
ls,'i'.l; WHS defeated as the Democratic c.i!ididate
'or lUe TUirty-eixlh Concnvsi, receiving 4,078 votes
H^iist U.47.> votes for Humphrey, Opposition, and
ft,'o81 vote* for Litchtield, Independent Democrat;
lesumi'd practice at Wasliington City. He piibilshed
' Indications of the Creator," and several essays
]>oii educational topics,
Tdjrlor, John, was bom in Orange County,
Vir-ilni'i: was a planter, and did much Ujwarrls ad-
T.vicing the science of agriculture; was appointed
Uliilcd-Stales senator as a Democrat (in place of
Kichard Henry Le>', resigned): took his seat Decem-
ber 12. I7'.>2; was elccfiMl for six years from March 4,
1711:1. and resigned In I7U4; was a presidential elector
"ii 17II7; wa« B;-!ain appointed a senator (in place of
Stevens T. Mason, deeeast-d). ser\Mnri from Octolier
17, l.SWJ. to December la. 1H03, when A. U. Venable
took Ills seat; was elected a senator (in place of James
rieasants, rcsitnietl), defeatin.'i H. St, George Tucker
and John TyliT, and sening from Dccemlji.'r:JO,lS:rJ.
until )iis death in Caroline County, Virginia, August
20, 1824. He published "An Enquiry into the Prin-
ciples of the Government of the United States,"
"Agricultural Essays, by 'iVriitor,' " "Construction
Construed," " Tyranny Unmasked," "New Views of
tlie Constitution of the Uniu^d States," and several
essays on |M)lilical and agricultur.il subjects.
Taylor, John, was Ixini at Columbia, South
Carolina, May 14, 177U; received a classical education,
graduating at Princeton College in 171K); eoramenceil
the study of law in January, 1791, with Charles
Cotesworlh I'inckney, at Charleston : was admitted
to the bar in June, 17l*o, and entered into practice at
Columbia, but w;is more particularly devoted to
planting; was elected a repn-sentalive from South
Carolina in the Tenth Congress; was re-elected to
toe Eleventh Congress, serving from October 2(1. 1837,
to December 31, 1810, when, having been elected a
XJnited-.StJites senator (in place of Thom.is Sumter,
resigned}, he t(xjk his seat in the Senate, ser\'ing
nntfl 181U. when he resigned; was again elected a
representative in the Fourteenth Congress, serving
from 1811) to March 3, 1817; was defeated as a can-
didate for the Fifteenth Congress by Eiias Earle:
was defeated as a c.'indi<late for the Seventeenth
Congress by William Lowinlcs; was a State s<'nator
in 1822: was govemi>r of South Carolina 182tl-1828;
and died at his residence on Taylor's Hill, Coliunbia,
South ('arolina, February 2^3, 18:J2.
Taylor, John J., was born in Massachusetts;
removed to New York, and settled atOwego; was
electi'd u p-presentative from New York in the Thir-
ty-thini Congn'ss as a Democrat, receiving H.420
Voles a'jainsi 8,410 votes for Cook, Wliig, serving
from Del-ember 6, 18.>S, to March 3, 1856.
Taylor, John L., was bom In Stafford County.
Virginia, March 7, 18.l.j; received an academical ed-
ucation; studied liiw at Washington City; was ad-
initte<l to the bar in 1S2H, and commenced practice at
Chillicothe, Ohio, in 182t»; was elected a representa-
tive from Ohio In the Thirtieth Congress as a Whig,
receiving :314 majority over the Democratic candidate ;
was re-elected to the Thirly-lirsl Congress, receiving
7,440 voles against 0,(124 votes for Cleveland, Demo-
crat; was re-elected to the Thirty-seconil Congress,
receiving 5,850 votes Against 5,.32i votes for McCor-
mick, Democrat; waa re-elected to the Thirty-third
CoHTnjss. n!celv1ng7.0.')3 votes against 0.7')3 votes for
Sherer, Democrat, serving from December 0, 1847, to
March 3, 18o.j; was appointed a clerk in the Interif^r
Department at Washington In 1870; and died gud-
denly ut his desk September «, 1870.
Taylor, John W., was iKirn in .Saratoga Couti-
ty. New York, in 1784; received a chissiral education,
graduating at Union ColleL;e in ISttJ; studied law at
Albany; was ntbnitted to the bar In bSDO, and com-
menced practice At Dallston Spa; was a member of
the State legislature 1812-181:1; w,is elected a repre-
sentative fpjiu New York in the Thirteenth Congress
as ,1 Democrat, and was successively re-elected to the
Fourteenth. Fifteenth. Sixteenth, Seventeenth, Eigh-
teenth, Nineteenth, Twentieth, Twenty-first, and
Twenty-second Congresses, serving from May 24, 1813,
to March 2, 1833; w!»a s^iealcer of the House during
the second session of the Sixteenth Congress (Mr.
Speaker Clay having found it iin|)osslble "to attend
until after the holidays), and also of the Nineteenth
Congress; removed in September, I.h-1:(. to Cleveland,
Ohio, where he resumed practice; an<l died Sei)tein-
ber 18, I8;>|,
Taylor, Jonathan, was Ijom in Connecticut;
removed to Ohio, and settled at Newark; was elected
a representative from Ohio in the Twenty-sixth Con-
gress as a Democrat, serving from Decciiiber 2, 1831',
to March 3, 1841.
Taylor, Joseph W., was bom In Cumberland
County, Kentucky, in 1.820; received a classical eilu-
cation, graduating at Princeton College. Kentucky;
removed to Alab.ama In 1*18; studied law with Judge
H. I. Thornton in Greene Count;:, and pnictised for
several years; was presidential elector on the Clay
and Frelinghuysen ticket in 1844; was a meralier of
the State House of He present at! vcs in 1845 and 1847,
and of the .Slate Senate in 1856; was elected a repre-
sentative from Alabama to the Thirty-ninth Con-
gress, and his credentials were presented on the 7th
of February, ISOO, but he was refu.sed a seat; was
chosen president of the board of trustees of the
.Soulhem University; was editor of "The Tuscaloosa
Times,"
Taylor, Miles, was lM>m in New York ; received
an iicademieal education; studied law: was admitted
to the b.ar. and commenced practice at Donaidsiinville,
Louisiana; was elected a representiitive from Louisi-
ana in the Thirty-fourth Congress as a Democrat,
receiving U.ISO voles against 5.811 votes for Hunt,
AmericAn; was re-elected to the Tliirty-lifth Con-
gress, receiving 4,0.)0 votes ag.iinsi 4,8112 votes for
IJurke. American: was re-elected to the Thirty-sixth
Congress, receiving 5,1108 votes against 4,4.''/"i votes
for Nichols, Opposition, serving from December 3,
1855, to Febmary 5, 1801, when he retired from the
House.
Taylor, Nathaniel Q,, was \mm in Carter
County, Tennessee, December 20, 1810; received a
classical education, graduating at Princeton College
in 1840; «tudie<l l.iw; was admitted to the bar in
184:1. and commenced practice; Inicame a preacher in
the MethrMlisI-Episcopal Church South; w.ts a pri'sl-
dential elector on the Scott ticket In 18.V1; was elect-
ed n representative from Tennessee in the Thirty-
third Congress {in pl.tco of Urookins C.impbcll, de-
ceased) as a Whig, receiving 017 majority, serving
from March 80, 1854, to March 3, 1855; was a presi-
dential elector on the Bell and Everett ticket in l.SOO;
wos again elected to the Thirty-ninth Congress, re-
ceiving 5,230 votes against 4.4tl0 votes for Miller, and
1,I12<I votes for Itandolph. sening from July 24, 1800,
to March 3. 1.807; was apiwlntcd by President John-
son commissioner of Indian affairs, serving from
March 20, 1807, to April 21, 1800.
Taylor, Nelson, was bom at .South Norwalk,
Connecticut. June 8, 1821; received a public-school
education; studied law; was admitte<f to the bar,
and commenced practice at New York; sen-ed in the
Mexican war as captain in the First New- York Vol-
imteer Infantry Aiigtut 1, 1840- August 1, 1848; was
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ft member of the State Senate of California in 1840;
was president of the board of trustees of tlie State
lusiuic Asylum I!^t30-lS:3(); was sheriff of San Jon^
quill f'ouii'ty in 1S53; returned to New Yorlc; served
ill tho Union army as colonel of the Seventy-second
New-York Volunteer Infantry; was promoted to be
brigadier-general in 18<12; was elected a representa-
tive from New York in the Thirty-ninth Congreiis as
a Democrat, recemng lt,272 votes' aeainsl 4,'JtM\ votes
for Miielay, Mozart l)em(x;rat, and y.'.iiil votes for
Ellerv. KciHiblicau, 8er\-ing from December 4, IStio,
to Miirrh :5, lSti7.
Taylor, Robert, was boni in Virginia; resided
at OmiKje Court House: was elected a representative
from Virffinia in the Ninete<>nth Congress, senint;
from Urci'mber .'i. 1825, t^i March 3, 1827.
Taylor, Waller, was born in Lunenburg Coun-
ty, Virtiinia; received a public-school education; re-
moved to Indiana, and located at Viiiceiines; was
Territorial jud^e in 18iJ<!; served as aide-de-camp to
General Harrison in the war of 1812, and was with
him at the battle of Tippecanoe; was elected a Unit-
ed-Slates senator from Indiana as a Democrat, and
re-elected, serving from December 12, 1810, to March
3. 1825; died in Lunenburg, Virglula, August 26,
182(1.
Taylor, William, was bom in Connecticut in
1703; nmioved with his parents to Onondaga County,
New York, when quite young; received a piiblic-
schonl education; studied medicine; was licensed to
iiraclise. and was a practising physician at Manilas,
New York; was elected a representative from New
York in the Twenty-thir^ Congress as a Democrat:
w.HS re-elected to the Twenty-fourth and Twanty-flfth
Congn'sses, serving from December 2, IS*}, to March
.3, l.Sl'.l; was a member of the State House of Repre-
setilativos In 1841 and 1*42; died at Manlius, New
York. Sejitoraber (i. 184H.
Taylor, 'William, was bom at Alexandria, Vir-
ginia: received an acmlemical education; sliidicd
law; was admitted to the bar. and commenced prac-
lice in Rockingham County, Vii^ginia; was idected a
representative from Virginia in the Twenty-<'ighth
Conpress as a Democrat, n-ceivng l,l»83 votes i^iainsl
1,:147 votes for A. II. U. Stuart. Wlii'.;; was re-elected
to the Twenty-ninth roiigress, serving from Decem-
l>er 4, 18^13. to .lanuar)' 17. 184tl. when ho died very
mddenly at Washington City.
Taylor, William P., was Iwm at Fre<Iericks-
burg. Vintinia; was elecled a reprt'senlalive from
Virginia in the Twenty-thinl Congress as a Whig,
receiving Wil votes against 070 votes for .John Ro.ano,
Democrat, and 1.S2 fur Upshur, Independent, serving
from December 2, 18;W. to March 3, 1*1') ; was de-
feated as the WTiig candidate for the Twenty-fourtii
Congress by .John Roane, Democrat.
Taaewell, Henry, wi-' ''orn in Bninswick Coun-
ty, Virginia, in 175o; recelve<l a classical education.
iduaiting at William and Mary College ; stuilied law ;
admitted to the bar in 1773, and commenced
praclice; was a member of the Provincial House of
liur^esses in 1775; was a delegate to the State Con-
stitutional Convention of 1770; was elected judge in
1785, and judge of the High Court of Ajipeals in \lWi;
was elected a United->States senator from Virginia
iin place of John Taylor, resigned), serring from
)ccember 29, 1714, to Januar}' 24, 1790, whea ho
died at riiilndebiliia.
Tazewell, Littleton Walker, was bom at
Willi.imsburg. Virginia, December 17. 1774; n^ceived
a classical education, graduating at William and
Marj- College in 1701; studied law with John Wick-
ham at Richmond; was admitted to the b,ir, and
cnminenced pnictice at Williamsburg in 1706; was a
member of the State House of Representatives in
1708; removed to Norfolk, Virginia, in 1801; was
elected a representative frtmi Virginia in tho Sbcth
Congress (in place of John Marshall, resigned) as a
Detnocrat, semng from November 20, 1800, to March
3, ISOl; was one of the commisaiouers of claims
under the treaty with Spain ceding Florida In I'
was offered the mission to Great Britain by Pre«l
dent Jackson in 1820. and declined it; was elect
a United-States senator from Virginia (in |il.-u-e
.John Taylor, deceased), serving from Decemlier il
1824, to July 10, 1832, when he resigned; died
Norfolk, Viixinia, May 0, 180O. He published •
Review of the Negotiations l>etween the ITnit'
States and Great Britain." A discourse on bis
by Hugh B. (Irisby was published in 1800.
Teese, Frederick H., was iioni at Newari
New Jersey. Oetolier 21. 1823; received a chissio^
education, graduating at Princeton College in 18411]
studied law; was admitted to the bar in ls4(I. am
commenced practice at Newark; was a nuTuljer
the State House of Representatives In 180i>-I84ll. oi:
was elected speaker that year; was appointed pi
siding judge of the Court of Ci>mmon Plr;i-
(!-"ounty in 18I.V4, and was n--a[ipoiiite<l in I |
was elected a representative from New Ji-
Forty-fourtli C'ongress as a Democrat, receiving
votes against 13,768 votes for Marcus L. Wa
publican, sening from December 0, 1876, to
3, 1877.
Telfair, Edward (father of Thomas Telfair;
was boni In .Scotland in 17:15; received a classl
education at Kirkcudbright Grammar t>clio<il; inmi:
gi-ated to the Province of Virginia in 1735 as tl:
factor of a mercantile house in Glasgow ; rcniovwl
Halifax, North Carolina, and in 1700 i - ' " '
himself as a commission merchant at >
Georgia; took an active part in pre-Rev /
movements; was a delegate to the Continental Con<
gress in 1777-1770 and hi 1780-1783; was one of t
commissioners in 1783 to negotiate a tn-aty ivith thi
Chenjkees; died at Savannah, Georgia, SeptemI
17. 1M07.
Telfair, Thomas (son of Edward T«lfair), wi
born at Savaiin:ih, Georgia; n.<ceiied a classical «!di
cation, graduating at PrilicetJin College in IK^
studied law; was admitted to the bar. and praci
.at Savannah; w.is electe<l a repn ^
Georgia in the Thirteenth Congres.s i
Democrat; was re-elected to tlie Fw....^
gross, serving from May 24, 1813, to March 3, 181t
dioil at Savannali, Georgia, April 2, 1818.
Teller, Henry i/t., was bom in Alleghan;
County. New York. May 23, 1830; studiet] law; w:
admitted to the bar in New York, and hiis
practised; removed to Illinois in 18-58, anil
there to Colorado In IHOI; never lieM ..rti.-. u.i
was elected to the United-States Seii^ •■ atl
mission of Colorailo as a State) as a 1. u am
took his seat Deceml)er 4, 1870; and was rt-<;lecl
Decemlier 11, 1870. Ills term of servlco will expii
March 3. 18,83. ,
Teller, Isaao, was bom in Dutchess CounI
New York, in 1708; received a public-school etlui
tion : w.as elected a representative from Now York ii
tlie Thirty-third Congress (in place of Gilbert Uc;
resigned) as a Whig, serving from Decern Iwr 4, If
to March 3, 18-55; died at Mattawan, New YorlCi
April 30, 1808, while riding in a wagon, and tho hona
tliat he was driving went on for several miles before
it was discovered that the driver was dead.
Temple, William, was Ixjni in Queen
County, Maryland, February 2."*, 1815: nH?eive<l
academical education; engaged in ii
suits at Smyrna, Delaware; was a : f t}i4
State House of Representatives in i ,* 1 w
chosen s|>eaker; by the death of the governor ani
the president of the Senate, he became artin? ^nr*
ernorof Delawsu^; wasaiuemljerof theS'
1846-1854; was elected a representative i
ware in the Thirty-eighth Congress t-
receiving S.OiMi votes ag.Tinst 8,014 i
P. Fisliir. Republloan: died Ixffore t _
at .Smynia, Delaware, August 8, lb»J3,
Ten Eyck, Egbert, wjjb bora in i
County, Mvw lark, April 18, ITTU; received a cUt-
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esT
•loal education, graduating at Williams College:
I stiidipd law at Albany; wita admittcil to the bar, and
I Coniinpiu.'ed prnctico »t Wattrtomi. New York: wns
I a momlKT uf the Stale Hmise of Kepresenlatives In
)l$ll:2-181,S, servine the last year as speaker: was a
[delegate to the Consthittional Convention of 1882;
[was elected a representative from New York in the
Eighteenth ("onijn'SR: was re-elected to the Nine-
[teenlli Congress, seninK from Decemlier 1. If23, t^)
[March a, 1827: was judge of the .leflerson-county
courts; dic<l at Watertown, New York, April 11,
Ten Eyck; John C, was bom at Freehold.
I New .Icrscy. March 12, 1IS14: received an academi4-al
education from private tutors; studied law; was
admitted to the bar in 1S.35, and commenced pmclici-
at Ml Hint Uolly, New ,Tersey; was prosecuting-attor-
Jiey for Burlington County 183S>-1H11I: was a lielegale
to the Stale Constitutional Conventiim in 1S44; was
eleeied a United-.StaIes senator from New Jersey as
a Bepubllcan, serving frr)in Ucccmljer 5, 1859, to
Maith 3, ls<ij.
^_ Tenney, Samuel, was bom at Bj-fleld Parish,
^« Uewburj, Massachusetts: received a classical educa-
^Btlon. griuluating at Harvard College in 1772; studie<l
^B inedleiiiH with Dr. Kittredge at Andovcr; was li-
^P censed, and commenced practice at Exeter, New
^^ Hampshire: served as surgeon in the Revolutionary
army; if-turiied to Exeter, and was judge of jirobate
for i{oirkit\gham County; was elected a representa-
tive from New Hampshire in the Sixth Congress (in
place of William (Jordon, resigned): was re-elected
to the .Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Congresses, serv-
ing from Decemt)er 8, 18(.K). to Marcli 3, l!*i.j; was a
^_ member of the American Ac.idemy of Arts and .Sci-
^■ences; dle<i at Exeter, New Hampshire. Febninry fi,
^V liSlO. He published a number of political, scientllic,
and agricultural essays.
Terrill, William, was bom at Sparta, Georgia;
Ireci'ivi'i! a tliorongli English education; was fur
e<'vi'riil yt-ars a menilicr of the .State House of Itepre-
•eiittitives; w:w elected a reprcscnl:\tive from Georgia
In the Fifteenth Congress as a Democrat; was re-
elected to the Sixteenth Omgress. serving from
December 1, 1817, to March .S, 1821; declineil a re-
election; took a great interest in the promotion of
a^ciilfural science; donated in 1S.W twenty tlion-
satid dollars for the foundation of tlie Terrill profcss-
or«hi]) of ogricnllnre in the University of Creorgia;
dii-l at Spni-ta. Cieorgla, July 4, 1835.
Terry, Nathaniel, w«s bom at Enfield, Con-
necticut, in 17*18; received a classical education,
grailuating at Y»\e College in 1780; held several
State and local offlci's; was elected a representative
from Connecticut In the Fifteenth Congress, serving
from December 1, 1M7, to March .'5, 1810; died at
New Haven, Connecticut, June 14, 1844.
Terry, William, w.is born In Amherst County,
Vir^nia, August 14, 1S24; received a classical edii-
Ication. graduating at the University of Virgiiiiii in
[184.n: taught school; studied law; "was ndinittcd to
Mhe bar. and commenced practice at Wytlieville in
IBepletnber, 1851 ; was for some elRliteea months one
lof the editors and proprietors of '' The Telegraph ; "
Itras in tlie military service of Virginia in the " John
lBr'>wn raid " in 18.")1): entered the Confederate army
Mn April, 1861. as lieutenant in the Fourtii Virginia
llnfaiitry, "Stonewall Brigade;" ser\'ed daring the
Iwar, and by successive promotions attained the rank
lof brigadier-general March 2<), ]8tt4; was nominated
llor CoiigTi'SS in 1n!8. but, lieing under jiolitical dis-
Ikbilities, he afterward wltlidrew; w.ns elected a repre-
Isentative from Virginia in tin? Forty-second Congress
fas a Conservative, receiving 10,:l)t8 votes against
L,.9S4 votes for F. McMiillin. IndefK-tident Deniocnit,
jid .'l,Ste:2 votes for H. W. Hughes, Republican, 8er>-
llng from March 4, 1871, to March :?, 1S78; was again
lelected to the Forty-fourth Congress us a Conserva-
tive, receiving 8,i>52 votes against 1,821 votes for
I. W. ileudcrlite, Uci>ublicaii, aud 0,70J votes for
F. McMullin, Independent, serving from December
6, 1875, to March .S, 1877.
Test, John, was bom at Salem, New Jersey;
received a public-school education; studied l.iw;
was admitted to the bar, and commenced practice
at Brookvillc, Indiana; was elected a representative
fi^)m Indiana in the Eighteenth Congress as a Clay
Democrat; was re-elected to the Nineteenth Con-
gress, serving from DecemlK-r 1, 182S, to March 8,
1827; was ilefeatcdas the Clay Democratic candidate
for the Twentieth Congress by Oliver H. Smith,
.lackson Democrat, who received 1,S71 votes; W!«
again elected to the Twentv'-first Congress as a
Whig, defeating Jonathan McCarty, Democrat, serv-
ing from December 7, 1S2!). to March .1, ISll ; was
pnjsidiiig judae of an Iniliaiia Circuit Court; re-
moved to M<d)ilc, Alabama, where he practised;
died near Cambridge C^ity, Indiana, Octol)erll, 1849.
Thacher, George, was bom at Yannouth, Maa-
saehusults (jifterwards Maine), April 12, 17.54; re-
ceived a classical education, graduating at Harvard
College in 1770; studied law; was admitted to the
bar in 1778, and commenced practice at York, re-
moving to Biddcford In 1782; was a delegate from
Massachusetts to the Continental Congress i7.'>7-I78S;
was elected a representative from the Maine District
of Massachusetts in the First Congress, and was
successively re-elected to the Second, Third. Fourth,
Fifth, and Sixtli Congresses, serving fnim March 4,
1780, to March 3. 1801; was a judge of the Supreme
Court of Massachusirtts, and afterwanis of Maine,
1800-1824; was a delegate to the Constitutional Con-
vention of Maine In 1810; and died at Biddcford,
Maine, April r,, 1824.
Thacher, Samuel, was bom at Cambridge,
Mnssachusetfs, July 1, 177(1; received a classical edu-
cition, gnidualing at Han'ard College in 179-'i; stud-
ied law; was admitted to the bar In 17l>7, and com-
menced practice at New Gloucester, in that portion
of Massachusetts which was afterwanis Maine: re-
niovi'd to Warren in 18<X': was a inemlier of the
State House of Hepresentativi'S in 1801-1811; w,is
elected a representative from Massachusetts in the
Seventh Congress (in place of .Silas Lee, resigned),
receiving 81.5" votes against ('i(!8 votes for Kinsley;
was re-elected to the Eighth Consress, serving from
Dc<-emt>er fi, 1.802. to March :1. Is(k5; was sheriff of
Lincoln County 1814-1821 ; was a member of the
State House of Representatives of Maine In 1824;
removed to Bangor, Maine, in 1866, and died there
July 10, 1872.
Thayer, Elli, was bom at Mendon, Massachu-
setts, June 11. 1810; received a chissical education,
Sraduating at Bro^vn I'niverslly Iti IS-W; became the
principal of the Worcester (Massachusetts) Academy,
and in 18.51 founded the collegiate institute for girls
known as the " Oread Institute; " was a member of
tlie State House of Bepn-sentatives 18.53-18.54; or-
ganized the emigration of anlislavery men into
Kansas under the auspices of the Emlnrant^iUd
.S(K'icty; was elected a n'presentative from Massa-
chusetts in the Thirty-fiflli Congress as a Repul>licau,
receiving 8.020 votes against 4,414 votes for A. Do
Witt, American, 2,087 votes for WomJ, Democrjit, and
202 votes for Thurston, American : was re-elected
to the Thirty-sixth Congress, receiving 7,280 votes
against 2.002 votes for Wood. Democrat, and .SI votes
scattering, sening from DeccmlH?r 7, 1857. to March
3, 1861; was defeated as the Repul)lican catulidatc
for the Thirty-seventh Congress, receiving 7,tV19
votes at;ainst 0,74.5 votes forG. F. Bailey, Republican,
and 100 votes for S. W. A. Stevens.
Thayer, John M., was Imrn at Bellinpliam,
Massachusetts, January 24, 1820; received a classical
education, graduating at Brown University. Rhode
Island; studied law; went to Nebraska in 18.54; was
el<!cted major-general. In which capacity he orgaidzed
and commanded two expeditions a'jalnst liostih- In-
dians; was a member of the Constilulional Conven-
tion of Nebraska; was a member of the upper branch
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of the Territorial legislattire In IPflO; entered the
Union anny as colonel of the First NcliraskH Voluu-
Iccrs in 1861 ; was appointed brigrtdlor-jjfuoi'al, iiml
brevi'ttcdmiijor-genenil "for (list iiiffuishi'd services;"
W.19 eleeteil a Unileil-Stales sennlor fmin Xeliraskiiiis
a Hopulilicaii. serving from M.ircli 4, 18(17. to Marcli 4,
1871; was nppoliit<;J leovcmor of Wyoiniiii^ Tenitor)-
by President Gninl in 1675, and suiK-rsedeil by Presi-
dent llayes in I87S.
Thayer, M. Russell, was bom at Petersburg,
Virginia, .lanuary ;i7, lt>l!l; received a classical edu-
cation, grailuating at the University of Peniisylvauia
in ls4<J; studied law; was adinitu-d to the bar in
ISli, and commenced practice at Philadelphia; was
app'tinted in IWii by the governor of Pennsylvania a
commissioner to revise the revenue laws of that
Stale; was clect<!d a reprcscntalive from Pennsyl-
vania in the Thirty -eighth Consress as a Kepublican,
receiviii){ 0,IJii5 votes against lt,54;J vot<>8 for Carri-
f:an, Democrat; was re-elected to the Thirty-ninth
yonffress, receiving 11,IX)7 votes against liJ,7'.i9 votes
for Koss, Democrat, serving from llecember 7. 18iW,
to March .'1, 1807; declining a re-election, he was
apijoiiited a judge of the IJistrict Court of Pliila-
deiphia in 18i)7, and in 18(i8 was electe»l by the
jxiopie a judge of the same court tor fen years; was
appointed by the President of the United States a
member of the board of visitors to the Military
Aca<lemy: In 1874, under the new constitution of
Peiinsylvaida. he was appointed president-judge of
the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia.
Theaker, Thomas C, was born in York Coun-
ty, Peunsvlvunia, February 1, 1812; received an
aca^lenncai educal ion ; n-raoved to Bridgeport, Ohio,
in ls;J'.»; was a machinist, and constructor of flour-
mills; was elected a representative from Ohio in
the Thirty-sixth Congress as a Hcpublican. receiving
7..311 vot«s against 7,2U> votes for B. F. .Sprig','S,
Democrat, serving fr^)m December G, 18.5il, to March
3, 18(il; was defeated as the Republican candi-
date for the Thirty-seventh Congress, receiving
8,.>10 votes against O.UOO votes for Morris, Democrat ;
was apiKiinted one of a board of commissioners to
investigate the workings of the Patent Office; was
appointed by President .Johnson commissioner of
patents, serving August 17, 18«l.>-June tl, 1808.
Thibodeatix, Baimon G., was born in Louisi-
ana: was reared as a sugar-planter; was elected a
r-ipn-sentalivu from Louisiana in the Twenty-ninth
Congress as a Whig; was re-elected to the Thirtieth
C<:ini;ress, serving from December 1, 1845, to March
3. 1S4V); die<l In the parish of Terrebonne, Louisiana,
March 11. 18iW>.
Thomas, Benjamin 8., was bom at Boston,
Miissacbusi'tts, Ki-liruary i'i. ISIU; removed to
Worcester in isili; received a classical education,
Bradua»ing at Umwii University in IsiKi; 8luilie4
law; was admitted to the bar in 18.'J;5, and eoiu-
jnenced practice at Worcester; was a member of
the State Uouse of Representatives in 1842; was
judge of probate 1»44--I):v4.s; was a presidential
elector on the Taylor and Fillmore ticket in 1.H4.H;
was a judge of the Stale Supreme Court 18.W-18."*!);
removed to Boston, where lie practised, residing at
West Koxbury; w.vi elected a representative from
Massachusetts in the Thirty-seventh Congress us a
(.'onsei-v.itive Unionist, n'ceiving 2,774 votes again.>!t
.3t»5 scattering votes, serving from .July 4, 1801, to
ALtrch 3, 1W13; resumed practice at Boston. He
publisliefl "Law of Towns and Town-Officers,"
"Suggestions upon the Personal-Liberty Law."
Thomas, Charles R., was boni in Carteret
County, North Carolina, Kebraary 7, 1827: received
a classical education, graduating at the University
of North C'arf)lina in June, 18411; studied and prac-
tised law; was elected one of the judges of the
Siipifrior Court in April, 1808, and resigned on bis
election as a representative from North Carolina in
the Korty-secoTui Congress as a Republican, receiving
•bout 2,\kx) majority over L. W. Humphrey, Demo-
cmt; was re-elected to the Forfy-thinl Cob_.
receiving 2J.H72 votes against ll.li27 votes for
chen, nemocral, serving fn>iu M^n.-h 4, 1871,
.March :), 1875.
Thomas, Christopher Y., was bom in the
county of PittsylVi-.nia. Vir;^iiiiu, March ^24. ISltti
rec<-ived an academical inluattion: studied law; wi
admitted to the bar in Jiuie, 1844, and practised
Martinsville; was elected in IS.VJ to the State St-i
of Virginia for a term of four year*; w.i» elected
1807 a nieralM'r of the Constitutional Convention
Virginia, held under the reconstruction acts: wa
elected in 1809 to the Stale legiilature of Vineinfi
for a term of two years, which included two regull
sessions tuid one extra session ; and was elected a rvj
resentative fmm Virginia in the Forty-third Congr
as a Uepublicaii. receiving H,421 voles against n.;
votes for Alexander M. Davis, Democrat, serving 1
March 5, 1874, to March 3, 1875; was defeated
the Republican candidate for the Forty-fourth Con
gress, receiving 7,72:1 votes against 10,221 votes f((
George C. Cabell, Democrat,
Thomas, David, was bom In V.'
County, New York; residi'd at .Salem; ^^
ber of the .State Uouse of Kepresentative,-- .
was elected a representative from New Y'lirbJ
Seventh Congress as a Democrat; was iv-cle
the Eighth, Ninth, and Tenth Coimresscs, sef
from December 7. 1301, to May 1, 1S(>8, when he
si'jcned; w;is treasurer of the State of New Y'ori
Febniary 18, 1812-February 10, 18i:J.
Thomas. Dorsey B., was born in Tennesaeej
claimed to have bet'ii elected a repn'Sentative fi
Tennessee in the Thirty-ninth Congress: but
House g-.ivo the seat to Samuel M. Arnell, jiaTii
Thomas $1,0.58.80 on condition that he took the sau
oath as a member, except as regitrded the duties i
the office.
Thomas, Francis, w^os born in Frederick Coa
ty, Maryland, February U. 17iHI; receive<l a dassia
education, graduating ot St. John's College, Ann
lis; studied law; was ailmitled to the bar, and cen
Kience<l practice at Fnmkville; was a nieml)erof ili
State House of Repn;sentatives in 1.S22, 1S27.
182U. seniiig the last year as speaker: was elecleil 4j
representative from Maryland in the Twenty-secoiatl
Congress as a Democrat; was re-elected to the
Twenty-third, Twenty-fourth, Twenty-fifth, uvl
Twenty-sixth CongR'sses, serving from Decemlicr
5. ls;ll". to March H. 1841 ; w.is president of the
Chesaix.'ake and Ohio Canal Company in 1830 iumI
1840; was elected governor of Maryland, Berring]
1841-1844, fighting a duel during the canvass trilh |
William Price, and liecoming soon afterwanis In-
volved in a ilomestic ditlicully which culminat'd In i
a divorce; was a delegate to the St. ite Cott'-
Convention iti 18.50; was ag.iin elected to i
seventh Congress as a Union Republicaii,
l;5,*12 votes against 320 votes scattering; wa* r«-
elected to the Thirty-eighth Congress, receiving
12,118 votes against 138 votes scattering; wm n-
eleeted to the Thirty-ninth Congress, receiving
11.. -ill!) votes against 7.551 votes for Syester, Demo-
crat: was re-elected to the Fortieth Congress, Pf-
ceiving 11,252 votes against 0,2;J') votes for M»ul»by,
Demoi'rat, serving from July 4, 1801, to March s,
1800; was apfxiuitol by President tJraiit colleclorof
internal revenue, serving from April, 1870, until he
was apiMiinted minister to Pent, serving (mm March
25, 1872, to July 0, 1875; retireil to his farm iir*r
Frankland, where he was killwl by a locuinoti"
while he was- walking on the railnjad-track Januarr
22. 1870.
Thom.a8, Isaac, was elected a representatlvt
from Tennessee in the Fourteenth Congress, serving
from llecemlKT 4. 1815. to March ;l, 1817.
Thomas, Ja.mes Houston, was lK>m In IreJell
Coiuity, North Carolina, SepteJnber 22, IKlS; t»-
reiveil a classical education, graduating at Columl'i*
College, Tennessee, in 1830; studied law; was tii-
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DlMod (o the liar, and eomniencefl practice nt Colum-
|l)i:i, Teiirn'isfi': was attoriicy-Ki'neral i)f Tciincssci;
f3ty>''-lS4j; lioiMiiie the law-parliicr of Jiuiics K. Tolk:
(fas fleclt'il a representative from Tennessee in the
|Thirticth Coii;iress ns a Democrat; was re-elected to
ilie Thirty-first Conjiress, receivingO.W'l votes against
],)<fj votes for Buchanan, Whiu, serviiifi from De-
emher (5. 1S47. to Man'li 3, l<ii : was defeated as
the Democratic eandiilate for the Thirly-^eoond Con-
ess, receiving 3.ii72 votes aitalnst 4,hV2 votes for
foil;. Whig; was again elected to the Thirty-sixth
ICongress. receiving li.U23 votes against no opposition,
emnp from DeecnilTer 5. 185!), to March 3. 18()1.
Thomas, Jesse B., <vas one of the pioneers of
the We^t ; was elerted a ilelegate from Indiana Ter-
itorj- (which included Illinois) in the Tenth Congress
Hiti place of Benjamin Parke, resigned), serving from
^ccemlier 1, ISo-S. to March 3, lSO(t; was appointed
iidse of the L'nited-i^tates Court for the North-
re.stern Judicial District ; was elected one of the first
Tnilcd-Mates sen.itors from Illinois, serving from
)uceml)er 4, 1818. to March 3, 182(1; removed to
fount Venion. Ohio; committed suicide in a fit of
aental aberration by severing the jugular vein with
|a razor Fehniary 3, 1x50.
Thomas, John C, was elected a representative
Inim Marvland in the Sixth Congress, scning from
Dec.Mnlier 2, nw, to March 3. 1S()1.
Thomas, John L,, Jun., was bom at Balti-
more, Muryland, May 'M, 1835; received an academi-
cal education; studied law; was admitted to the bar
in 18.t(1, and commenced practice at Baltimore; was
|city-solicitor of Baltimore 1861-1803; was elected
3tule attorney in 180:J; was a delegate to the State
IConstitutlonal Convention in 1803; was elected a
■Tpprescntative from Maryland in the Thirty-ninth
ICongress as a Repuldican. receiving 0,541 votes
»inst 4,102 votes for Stevenson Archer, Democrat,
[•erving from December 4, 18i!5, to March 3, 18(17;
'as defeated as the Itepuhlican candidate for the
Fortieth Congrf.'ss, receivins; 5,014 votes against 7,0lll
rnt«8 for Stevenson Archer, Democrat; was aiv
minted collector of customs at the port of Balti-
more.
Thomas, Philemon, was born in North Caro-
lina in 17i)4; received a public-school education; n'-
moved to Kentticky. wlieri' he wius ainenitier of the
State House of Itepresentatives; was liader of the
partT of Americans which seltled on the banks of
tlie Lower-Mississippi Iliver, and in 1810 rose in arms
^■.a^ainst the .Spanish authorities, who exercised au-
^■tbority over what Is now Missis8i|)pt and Louisiana
^B«s a part of the Spanish colony of West Floriila;
^Vtettled at Batoti Rouge; was elected a representativi'
^■troni Louisiana in the Twenty-second Congress; was
^■l<e-«lected to the Twentv-third Congress, serving
^ffrom December 5. 18:11, to March 3, 1835; died at
Baton Houge. I^onisinna. \ovember 18, 1847.
Thomas, Philip Francis, was ixmi in Talbot
, County, M.irvland, Septendier 12, 1810; was educated
1st the public schools, and at Dickinson College;
tudied law; was admitK^l to the bar in 18.31, and
oramenced practice at Easlon, Marjland; was a
liember of the Slate Constitutional Convention in
IIS.')"; w,as a meml>er of the Slate House of Uelegatos
IIti I8;IS, 1843, and 1845; wivs a represenlative in the
"Tweniy-sixth Congress, ser\ing from December 2,
l.S«», iititll March 3. 1841; was juilge of the Eastern-
Shore Land-Office Court of Maryland; was elected
_Bvernorof Maryland in 18^17; was appointed coramls-
plouer of patents Kebruar^- 10, 1800; wius appointed
etretary of the treasitry by President Buchanan
>ceerab<.'r 10, ISfin, and served until .lauuary U,
|8<M ; was elc-eled I'liited-States scnalivr from Slary-
pVi<l, bul was refusi'd a scat February 11), 18tl8; was
Sectod a represenlative in liio Forty-fourth Congress
a Democrat, receiving 12,4U5 votes agiiinsl 10,147
rot'-s for II. II. Ooiiisborough, Uepulilican.
Thomas, Richard, was bom at Philailelphia
1745; served in the Bcvoiutionary war; was elect-
efl a representative from Pennsylvania In the Fourth
Congress; was re-eli'cted to the Fifth and Sixth dm-
gresses. sening from Deccmbi-r 7, 17U5, to March 3,
18(11; died at Pliiladi-lohia in 18:i2.
Thomasson, William P., was bom In Henry
County, Kentucky; received a public-school educa-
tion; studied law; was admitted to the bar when
eighteen years of age. and commenced practice at
Corydon, Indiana; was a meinlier of the Indiana
House of Representatives; removed to Louisville,
Kentucky, in 1841; was elecle<l a representative
from Kentucky in the Twenty-t'ighth Congress as a
Whig, receiving 4,i)00 votes against 4.407 votes for
Lecoraple, Democrat, and 1,152 voK'S for Sprigg, In-
depemlent; was re-elected to the Twenty-nmtli Con-
fess, receiving 513 majority, serving from Di-eemlier
. 184;5, to March 3, 18-17; declined iH-ing a candidate
for re-election ; removed to Chicago, where he prac-
tised until 1801, when he entered the Union nnny as
the colonel of a regiment of Illinois Volunteer In-
fantry.
Thompson, Benjamin, was bom nt Charles-
town, MiMsachuselts, August 5. 171>S; received a
pulilie-school e<lucation ; engaged in merciuitile pur-
suits; was repeatedly placed at the head of each de-
partment of the government of the town of Charles-
town before it was created a city, i>residing over the
h<iard of overseers of the p<K)r, over the committee
of public schools, and over the Ixmrd of selectmen;
was several times a ineml)er of the State House of
Representatives, and twice a member of the State
Senate; was elected a representative from Mass:ichu-
sefls in the Twenty-ninth CVingress as a Whig, re-
ceiving 334 majority over William P.amieter, Demo-
crat, serving from December I. 1845, to March 3,
1847; declined a re-election; was again elected to the
Thirty-second Congress on the ninth succes.sive trial,
defeating John W. Palfrey, Fr<!e-Soller, serving from
December 1. 1851. to .SeptemlKT 24, 1852, when he
died at Charlestown, Ma.ssachusetts.
Thompson, Charles P., w;is boru at Bralntree,
M.issachusetts, July 30, 1827; was educated at the
common schiHils, anil at the Hollis Institute, Brain-
tree; studied law with Benjamin F. Hallett of Bos-
ton; was admitted to tlie bar in 1854. and remained
in Mr. IIallett"s ottice until the spring of 1857, acting
as second assistant United-Slates district-attorney;
since then has practised law in Gloucester; Wiis a
moinlwr of the .State House of Representatives In
1871, 1872; was elected a representative from Mas-
sachusetts in the Forty-fourth Congress as a Demo-
crat, receiving 8,703 votvs against 7,731 votes for
Benjamin F. Butler, Repulilican, serving from De-
ceml.er 0. 1875, to March 3, 1877; was defeated as
Ihe DeniocRitic candidate for the Forty-fifth Con-
gress, receiving 11,(J03 votes against 13,119 Vftes for
(>eon,'e B. Loring, Republican.
TJiompson, Georsfe W., was bom in Ohio in
tSlMl; receivi'd a classical e<lui'ation. graduating at
Jefferson College in l.s20; studied law; was admitted
to the bar, and commenced practice; was apiH>inteil
United-Slates attorney for the district of Virginia in
1S41); was electeil a representative from Virginia in
the Tliirty-secoiid Congress as a Democrat, n-ceiving
4.251 votes iigainsl 3,8.50 votes for Havuiond, Wliig,
serving from DeceiiibiT 1, 1851, to July 30, 1852,
when he resigaeil to accept a scat on the bench of
the Circuit Court, to which he had l)eeti elected, de-
feating Joseph L. Fry. He published " The Living
Forces of the Universe," " Addres.s on Coiimion
Schools," " Right of Virginia lo Ihe Nortli-west
Territory," " Life of Lewis Boyd," and sevend
magazine articles.
Thompson, Hedge, was bom at Salem, New
Jersey; was eleete*! a representative from Xew
Jersey in the Twentieth Congress, ri'ceiving nearly
5,l>^H> majority, serving from Dect-mber 3, 1827, to
Julv 20, 1828, when he died at Salem, New Jersey.
Thompson, Jacob, was bom in Caswell Coun-
ty, North Carolina, May 15, 1810; received a cUtssicAl
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education, graduating at the University of North
Ciiniliim, ami afterwards serving there as tuior;
siiidieil liiw, and was admitted to the liar in I8ii4;
removed to Misaissippi in 1S35: wiis elected a ivpre-
sentiitivc iu the Twenty-sixth Congress a* a lienuv
crat on a general ticket ; re-elected to the Twenty-ser-
entli Congress as a Democrat on a general ticket;
re-<'lected to the Twenty-eighth Congress as an anti-
Hiird-paying Deinocrul on a general ticket ; rr*-elected
to the Twenty-ninth Congress jis a Democrat: re-
elected to the Thirtietli t'ungress as a Democrat,
receiving 7.101 voles against ti,i>.'W votes for Josselyn.
liiilepcndent ; and was rcnjlecleil to the Thirty-lirst
Congress as a Democrat, receiving ((,] DO voles against
Of'AH votes for Bradford, Whig. Ber>-ing from De-
cember 2, 1S.30, tuilil March .% 18.11; dwlined a re-
election; was appointed by President Biichmian
secretarj- of the interior March 0, l^i~, and resigned
.Tanuary s, lljKil; w.ns iippohited by the legislature of
Mississippi a comraiBsioner to urge Xorth Carolina
to secede; was governor of Mississippi IftilL'-lStU;
ser^'ed in the Confederate army as aide-de-camp to
General Beauregard, and insiK-ctor-general for the
department r)f Mississippi ; was a special agent of
the Confederate Goveniment in Canatla.
Thompson, JaJXies, was l>om at Middlesex,
Peijiisylvania. Uetol)er 1, bSOO; received an academi-
cal educjitiou; learned the art of printing; studied
law; was admitted to the b.u- in 1828, and com-
menced practice at Erie, Pennsylvania; was a mem-
ber of the Slate House of Heprr'sentatlves l.S.12-lS;i4,
presiding iluring the last year as speaker; was a
presidential elector on the Van Buren ticket in 1830;
was presiding judge of the Judicial District Court
18^18-1844; was elected a representative fmm Penn-
sylvania in the Twenty-ninth Congn^ss as a Demo-
crat; was re-<dectcHl to the Tliirtieih Coimress; was
ri;-elected to the Thirty-first Congress, receiving 7..i()0
votes against 7.020 votes for Campbell, ^\^lig, and
220 votes for Mnnn, Fn-e-Soller, serving from IJecem-
ber 1. 184">. to March o, 18.11; resumed practice; was
a judge of the Su|ireine Court of Pennsylvania ltM7-
lN')2; w.-is ma<le chief justice of the Supreme Court
of Pennsylvania In 1800.
Thompson, Joel, was boni in Albany County,
New Viirk; removed to .Smyrna; was a member of
the Slate House of Rcpreseniatlves in 17118, ISUit, anil
1804; w.TS elected a n'presentative from New Vork
in the Thirteenth Coniiress as a Federalist, serving
from May 24, 181:?. to Jlarch 2. 181o.
Thompson, John, was boni at Stillwater, New
York; received a public-school education; was for
several years one 4if the officers of Saratoga County;
was elei-tcd a representative from Xew York in the
Sixth Congress as a Democrat, serving from Decem-
ber 2, 17(10, to March 3, 1801; was again elected to
the Tenth and Eleventh Conaivsses, 8er%Mng from
Ociobi-r 211. 1807, to March :j, 1,'SIl.
Thompson, John, was bom at Rhinebeck. Now
York. .Julv 4. 18IKI: received a classical ediiciition at
Union ami Yali! Colleges; studied law: was admitted
to the bar. and commenced practice at Poughkeepsie.
New York; was elected a reprt'sentative from S'ew
York in the Thirty-fifth Congress as a Rejiubllcaii,
receiving 0,247 votes against 7.072 votes for Cham-
iJerlin. Democrat, and Ji.llO votes for Teller. Ameri-
can, serving from December 7, 185T. to March 3. l.SMt.
Thompson, John B., was boni in Kentucky
in 1810; received a good Kngllsh education; studied
l.'\w: Was admitted to the biir, and pr.ictised at Uar-
njdsburg; was elected a nipresenlalive from Ken-
tucky ill the Twenty-sixth Ctpiigress (In place of
Simeon H. Anderson, deceased) as a Whig; was
re-elected to the Twenty-scveuth Congress, ser^'ing
from Deceml>er 7. 184'J. to Jlarch 3. 1.S43; was again
elected to the Thirl letli Congress, receiving (!,77»
voles against 0,010 votes for C. A. Wickliffe, Demo-
crat; was le-clected to the Tliirty-first Congress,
receiving fl.58«) votes, with no opposition, serving
from December 0, 1847, to March 3, 1801 ; was elect-
ed a United-States senator from Kentucky, tent
from March 4, 1853, to Jlarch 3, I80O; died at
rodsburg. Kcntuckj-, Jauuar> 7, 1874.
Thompson, John M., was iMirn in I
County. Pennsylvania, January 4, 1.S;J0: was
catcd at Witlierspoim Institute; studied law
S. A. Purviancc; was admitted to the bar in
and practised at Dutler, Peiinsylvuniu: was a
I tjer of the House of Uepreseutatives of Pi
I vauia in 18.'>0 and 1800, the last veur its f,
! served as major, and subsei|uently as lieu'
[ colonel, of the One Hundred and Thirty-fnurl
ment Pennsylvania Volunteers, and' purti
\ In the battles of the second Bull Run. Antic
and Fredericksburg, lu the last of which he
wounded; was a delegate ut large to the Chi
Convention \Wiich nominated General Grant in 1
was the messenger who conveyed the electoral
of Pennsylvania to Washington: was elected a n.-pi
sentative from Pennsylvania in this Forty-third
gress as n Republican December 22, 1874 (to fill ll
v.icancy occasioned by the death of Ebt^neier "'
Junkin), receiving a majority of 3,.307 votes ov
R. P. Ncvin. Independent, serving from Jaiuuiry
187.1, to March 3, 1875; was again elected to I
Forty-fifth Congress, receiving 18.511 votes again
10.4S0 votes for Jtunes Sheakley, Democrat, serv:
from October 10. IS77.
Thompson, Mark, was elected a representativi
from New Jifrsey in the Fourth Congress; was
elected to tlie Fifth Congress, serving from Decern
7, 17a0, to M.ircb 3, 1700.
Thompson, Philip, was Iwm in Kentucky;
sided at 'iellow B:uik; was elected a representati
from Kentucky in the Elgliteenlh Congress, soni
from December I, 182.3, to March ;], 1820; was klUi
in a duel Februarv 20, ISJO.
Thompson, Philip R., wiis bom in Culpepi
County, Virginia, in 1770; wjis for many years
inemlK'rof the State IIoubo of Itepreseiil.-.
elected a represent alive f rviin Virginia in I !
Congress; was re-elected to the Eighth ami
Congresses, serving from December 7, isnl. to M.irvl
3. l.'^)7; died in Kanawha County, Virginia, July 2;
1.S.07.
Thompson, Richard W., was bom In Calii«|
per County, Virginia, JiineO, 1800; r<.'ceived a gini
classical education; removed to Kcntui-ky in J '
and was a clerk in a small store at Loulsvilie;
moved to Lawrenci' County. Indiana; taught scluxjl;
was a clerk, selling goods by day, and studying h«
by night; was admittcnl to the bar in 1834, and com-
menced priictice at Beilford, Indiana; was a medihM
of the State House of Representati\es iu 18."U njid
183.0, and of the State Senate in 1KJ<5 and is;7; «ra»
a presidential elector on the I' ■■■■!'-■■■ :ind Trier
ticket in 1840; was elected a .ii\e fivjin
Indiana in the Twenty-seventh ' is a Wliic,
serving from May 31, 1841, to Maivli ."., 1843; was
defeated as a Whig eaudidate forpn'sidenti.al clnctof
on the Cl.iy and Frelinshuysen ticket in 1844; w.i4
again elected to the Tliirtieih Congress as a ^Vhiji,
reeeivhig 0,402 votes .igainst 0.224 votes for Wriylil,
Democrat. sersMug from December 0, 1847. to Mutch
3, 1840; declined a reiiomination ; was offen-d tlic
Austrian mission by President Taylor, but declUiiJ
It; was offered the recordership of the General Lanil
Office by President Fillmore, but declined it: was a
delegate to the National Kepuldican Conventioa ol
ISOU at Chicago, where he framed and read the plM-
form; was a presidential elector on the Grant and
Johnson ticket In 1804; was a delegate to the Nv
tlonal Itepublican Convention at Chicago in If^
and at Cincinnati in 1870; was apjiointed by Preti-
deiil Hayes secretary of the navy Maivh 12. 1877.
Thompson, Robert A., was bom at Kanawha,
Court House, Virginia: was elected a r'lirisnt.itlT*
from Virginia in the Tlurtleth Con-r i.-mo-
crat, receiving .3,001 votes against : ^ for
MuCumos, Whig, serving from Decemoer u^ i>ti, to
I
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[arch 3. IMO; was defeated as tlio Democratic can-
lil»t« (or tlie Tliirty-lirst Cotiim'ss, receiving 2,fJ87
jtes ttgainst 2.873 votes for Haymoud, Whig; re-
loved to California, wliero ho was appointed IState
nd commissioner.
Thompson, Thomas W., w.is bom at New-
»iry, M:iiis:u-lui9el(8. in 17''.'i: received a classic.il
lucitidH, gra<luulini; .it Harvard Collepe in 17!<t);
udk>d l.iw; was admitted to tlie l)ar. and practised
; Salisbury, New Hampshire. 171H>-l.si(t, when lie re-
Loved to Conconl. and continued practice until I.S19:
a member of Hie .State House of Kepresentatives
1613, 1S14, and speaker; was elected a Pfpresentative
iva New Hampshire in the Ninth Con^-ss, serving
TO December 2, I."*)'), until March .'J. 1807; was
late treasurer of New Hampshire IS;;!); was ap-
iliited to the Unitwl-States Senate (in flic place of
icliol.19 fJilnian. dece;i8cd); served frotu September
», I.S14, until M.irch :i, 1817; died at Concord, New
timr«hire, in October. ISIO.
Thompson, 'Waddy, was lioni at Pickensville,
Joulh Carolina. Se|itcinl)er S, 171IS; received a cliiEsl-
■ education, graduating at South-Carolina College
1814; studied law; was admitted to the liar in
.810, and comiuencwi practice; was a member of
Sie State legislature; was solicitor for the Western
"/ircuit of South Carolina; w.'is a brigadier-gcneRil
f militia; wiis u presidential elector on the Floyd
cl;et in 183;j; was clecteil a representative frf>m
outh Carolina in the Twenty-fourth Congress as a
(Thig: was re-elected to the Twenty-fifth Congress,
civing MK) m.ijorily over Norris, Democrat; was
;-clected to the Twenty-sixth Congress, receiving
iJtO in.ijority, serving from December 7, ISii, to
larcli H, l.'*4l ; was ai>|H)inted Iw President Tyler
ilnister to Mexico, ser%ing February 10, 1842-March
IS44; died at Tallahiissee, Florida, November 2J,
IftW. lie published " Itecolleclions of Mexico."
Thompson, Wiley, was bom In Amelia Coun-
^, Virginia; removed to (Jeorpia, and located at
Ellicrtoii; was elected a representative frf)m Georgia
. the Seventeenth C<)ngre»8 as a CrawfonI Deraiv
at, defeating Thom.is \V. Cnlib; was re-elected to
le Eighteenth Congress, recefving 10.;i7l votes on a
;nenil ticket; was re-elected to the Nineteenth,
Wentieth, Twenty-first, and Twonty-second Con-
sscs, serving from December 8, 1821, to March 2.
Thompson, William, was bom in Pennsyl-
vania : removed to Iowa, ami located at Mount Pleas-
it: was elected a representative from Iowa in the
' irtieth Congress as a Democrat; was re-elected to
e Thirty-first Congress, defeating .Jesse B. Hrowp,
ig, sen-ing from Decemlicr tl, 1847, to June 20,
165J, when ills S4»at was deelare<l vacant l)y the
ouse; entered the Union anny as captain in tlie
'irst Iowa Cavalry; w.as successively promoteil to
e niiik of major and colonel; was brevettcd lirlga-
er-general. nnii commanded a brigade of cavalry;
It tlie close of the war. was appointed captain of
valrv in the regular army; was placed on the re-
rwl list at his own refjucst.
Thomson, Alexander, was bnm in Franklin
County. Pennsylvania; served an apprenticeship as
a sickle-maker: stuilied Latin with .iudge (Jrier;
studied law with Judge Riddle: was admitted to th<'
Irar, and commenced |)ra<'tice at Chambersburg; was
memlx-r of the State House of Representatives;
08 elected a representative from Pennsylvania in
f EighlcfMith Congress (In place of John Todd,
signed ) ; was re-elected to the Nineteenth Congress,
r«-ing from Di'cemtier d, 1S24, to May 1, 182d, when
le resigned; was city-judge i>f Lancaster, and then
psideiit-judge of the circuit until 18-'!S; was for
me years a professor in the law-school of Marshall
liege; died at Chambersburg suddenly of paraly-
sis Au'^ist 2. 1S4S.
Thomson, John, was tiom in Franklin County,
'cnnsylvania, ill 1777; received an ac;wlemic uduca-
n; studied medicine; was admitted to practice,
and located at New Lisbon. Ohio ; was Tor sereml
years a member of ihe State House of He|iresenta-
tives; was elected a representative from Ohio in tlio
Nineteenth Congress as a Democrat, ser^Mng from
December 5, 182."), to Marcii 3, l,f27; was again elect-
ed to the Twenty-first Congress, defeating John
Sloane; w.-is re-elected lo the Twenty-second, Twen-
ty-third, and Twenty-fourth Congresses, sen-iiigfn)m
Decemlwr 7. lS2i», to March .'3, 18;n; died at New
Lisbon, Ohio. Decern Ix'r 2, IH."i2.
Thomson, John R., was born at Philailelphia,
Pennsylvania, Si-piember .5, 18(H); entered Princetim
College, but left in the junior year to eiig;ige In mer-
cantile pursuits; made a voyage to Clilna in I.*<I7;
established himself .ts a merchant at Canton in 1S20,
and was rnlte<l-StaIes consul at that port 1.*2:J-1S2.*);
returning home, he t>ecame a director of the New-
Jersey Canal Company; was elected a I'liitCiUSlules
senator from New Jersey as a Democrat, and re-
elected, sening from December 5. 1AV3, to SeplemlK>r
12. l.S!2. when he ilied at Trenton, New Jersey.
Thorington, James, was bom in North (^lU'iv
lina; received a chissical education, gnuluating at
the ITnlversity of Alabama; studied law; was ailniit-
ted to the bar, and commenced practice at Davenport.
Iowa; W!is elected a representative from Iowa in llie
Thlrty-fourtli Congress as a Hepublican, re<'eiving
11,424 votes against 0,873 votes for IIei[ipste<l, Demo-
crat, and sening from Decemlier 3, LSVi, to March 3,
I8.")7; was appointeil by President Buchiuian United-
States consul to Asplnwall.
Thornburgh, Jacob M., was bom at 'Newmar-
ket, KuM Toniirssi-e, July 3, 18;!7, and there educat-
ed at Holslon College; studied law; was admitted to
the bar in 18<il, and commenced practice at Knox-
ville; in May, 1802. joined the Feileral army In Ken-
tucky under General George W. Morgan as a private,
and was promoted until he liee.ame colonel of the
Fourth Tennessee Cavalry In June, 18(53; sen-eil
under Generals Hosecrans, Sherman, Thomas, and
f'anl>y until the close of the war, when be returned
to Jefferson tJounty, East Tennessee, and resumed
the practice of law; in 18(57 he reraon.'d to Knoxville;
was appointed by Governor Brownlow nttomey-gon-
eral of the Tbinl Juillclal District of Tennessee, and
was electeil to the same position in 1.8<lli. and again
in 1870; WHS electeil a rcpn'sentative from Tennessee
in the Forty-third Congri'ss as a Republican, receiv-
ing 10,078 votes against 5,(il(> votes for A, Caldwell,
Democrat, and '2,Wiii votes for A. E. Garrett, Inde-
pentl!i»iit; was re-elected to the Forty-fourth Congress,
receiving 8,1118 votes against 7..'!;18 votes for George
W. Mabry, Deraocrat;"was re-elected to the F-irfy-
(ifth Congress, n-ceiving 14,320 votes .against l».ilt't3
votes for W. Cullom, Democrat, serving from De-
cern her 1. 187.3,
Thornton, Anthony, was bom in Bourbon
County. Kentucky, November 0, 1814; riH-eived a
classical education, graduating at Miami University,
Ohio; studied law; was admitted to the bar, and
commenced practice at Shelbyville. Illinois; was a
delegate to the .State Constitiition.il Convention of
1847 and 18'J2; was a member of the State House of
lieprcscutatlves in IS.")!); was elected a representative
from Illinois in the Thirty-ninth Congress as a Dera-
oci-at, serving from December 4, istis, to M.arch 3,
18(1-.
Thornton, Matthew, was iiom in Ireland In
1714; immigrateil to Ameiica when a lad|resided a
few years at Wiscasset, then removed to Worcester,
M.TSSachusetIs, when' he received an academical ed-
ucation; studied medicine; was licensed, and com-
menced practice at Londonderry, New Il.ampshiie;
ser>'ed as surgeon in Pepperell's expedition .-igaiiist
Ixiuisburg in 174.5; was colonel of a regiment of
militia; was a delegate to the convention which di>-
clared tlie Province of New Hampshire to be thence-
forth a sovereign St.ate, and its presiilent; w.as a del-
egate to the Continental Congress 177(5-1778; was
chief justice of the County i^ ilillslMrough 1778-
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1780 ; wn« jud({e of the Supreme Court of New
niiiniMUire 178i'-1782; wiis a iiieintxT of the State
House iif Keprewiitativcs 17SJ, :iiiil of (he Sljite .Sen-
ato 17K-1; was « Sljilo oiiuiicilliir 17S.j; died at New-
hiin'nort, Massiichusell*. .lune '2i. lf*(4.
Tnrockmorton, James W., was Ijom at
Sparlii. Teiiiifssoe, Feliriiaij 1, is-j.'i; his futhor emi-
grated to Texas in 1S4I : stiidieil Inw; was udiidtted
to tlie bur, and pracli»«'<l; was elected to llie State
lej^slatiire of Texas in 1S51, and served continuously
as representative and senator until liSiU; was a
meniljer of the Secession Convention of Texas, and
was one of the seven nienibcrs of tlial body that
voted against the ordinance of secession; scr^'od as
captain and major in the Coufeilerate senlce from
the spring of 1S()1 until November, IWU, when he
was again returned to the Senate: in It^M was ap-
pointed liy tlie governor brigadier-general of State
troops, and commander on the norlh-wesi b(jrd<T of
the State in May, IstU, under aulliorlty nl the Con-
fcderat'C-States (tovemiuent, and also that of tlic
State of Texas; he eonchuled a treaty with all the
wild tribes of Indians on the Texas Imrder, including
the Comanches, Lipans, Cheyennes, and other small
bands; returneil from the plains in the dts<'harge of
this duty in June after the surrender; was a delegate
to the Conslilulional Convention under President
Johnson's proclamation, and was chosen the presid-
ing officer of thatlxMly; was elected governor of the
Stale of Texas for a term of four years; was inaugu-
rale<l August S. ISOI. and removed by order of (Jcn-
eral Sheridan August 0. 18<i7; was elected a represen-
tative from Texas in the Forty-fourtli Cimgress, and
w.18 re-elected to the Forly-liXlh Ciuigress as a Demo-
crat, receiving 24. 1 IS votes against 1,283 votes for J.
C. nigger. Reimblican.
Throop, Enos T., was bom at Johnstown, Xew
York, Auijust 21, 1784; receiveil an academical edu-
cation; studied law; was admitted to the bar, and
rommenccd practice at Aubuni ; was electeil a rep-
resentJilive from New York in the Fourteenth Con-
press as a Democrat, serving from Deciimber 4, 1815.
to June, KSld, when he resigneil on accoiuit of the
dissatisfaction of his constituents with his vote on
the additional-comi)ensation bill; was appointed a
cir<.aiit-judge April 21, 1«2;}; was elected in 1^2y
lieutenaul^govenior on the same ticket with Martin
Van Buren for governor, and, upon the bitter's op-
iMiintment as secretary of slate of the United .States
liy I'resident Jackson, became governor of New York
March 12, lti21»; was elected governor, H('r\lng lS3t>-
18;j2; was api»ointed by President Vim Buren minis-
ter to Naples. siTving from February li. IS;i8. to Jan-
uary 12, 1.S42; piussed the remainder of his life at his
rural home on the border of Owasco Lake, near
Aubiini, New York, where he die<l November 8,
1S74.
Tbruston, Buckner, was bom in Virginia in
170.'J; received a clHssieal education ; removed in early
life to Kentucky; studied law; was admitted to the
bar, .-iiid practised at Frankfort; was appointed Unit-
cd-.States judge for tlie courts of the Territory of
Orleans, hut declined, as he was elected a United-
State? senator from Kentucky as a Democrnt, servhig
from December 2, l'?o.'J, to July 1, I81.1O, when he re-
signed ; was n|ipoiiitcd by President Madison judge
01 the United-Stales Circuit Court of the District of
C(dunibi,i. which oflicc he held until Ids death at
Washington City .Vugust 3i), 1H45.
Thtirman, Allan Q., was born at Lynclibuig,
Virginia, November i:f, I'^Vi: removed to Ohio in
ISl'.i; received an acailemic education; studied law;
Wiis admitteil to the bar in ISi'). and practised at Co-
lumbus, Ohio; was a representative from tJhio in the
Twenty-ninth Congri'ss; was elected a judge of the
Supreme (^ourt of < lliio in is,')! ; was chief justice of
that court liiVJ-lSuli; was the Democnilic candidate
for governor of Ohio in 18ij7: wiis elected United-
Slati-s senator from Ohio as a Democrat (in place of
Benjamin F. Wade, llepublicau) ; took his seat March
4, 1860, and was re-elected in 1974. His t«nil of 1
vice wmH ex[iire ilandi o. 1.S81.
Thurman, John R., was lioni In the city
New York; received a classical education, emdtt
ing at Columbia College in IKlTi; removed to W
County, New York, to take ch:irgc of a large
estate: was elected a reprfscntafivf from Ne
in the Thirty-tirst Congress as a Whig, reeeivi
votes against 3.45.'j voles for Uedding. Democ
2.82.S votes for Lawrence, Van Buren I)iMin<
sening from December '-l. bslii. to March ,"5,
died at Cbi'slerlowii. New York, in IS.M.
ThuretoD, Benjamin B., w:is boiu at Hopki;
ton, Uhode Island, June 21t, lSii4; received u piiblf
scbisjl educ.ilion; was a cb'rk in a store, and Incai
a merchant; was for fourteen years in succession
member of the St.ite Htmse of Uepresentnlivcs: w
a presiilential elector on the Van Buri'U ticket
1S;J7; was lieutenant-govenior in 1S.W: was eb-ctej
representative from Hlioile Island in the Tliirtl
Congress as a Democrat, receiving 2.417 voles agiii;
2,:W« voles for Updike, Whig, and Ho vote* for H;
Abolitionist, and sening fnan DccernlK-r it. 1S47,
March:}, lf*4'.l; wiis dcfeali'il as the t'oulitioii cmi
date for the Thlrty-tirsl Congress. rc«-eiving
votes, and 2,8H2 voles for Dixon, Wliig; wa*
elected to the Thirty-second (.'ongress: was
ed to the Thirty-third Congress, receiving 4.4A9rol
against 4,12 votes for Al<lrich. Whig; was rv'-elcct
to the Tliirty-fourib (^ongri'ss as an American,
eeivlng 4,4.<t votes agiunsi .llH voles scattering, s
ing from December 1, 1^51. to March 3, liS57;
moved to New London, Connecticut.
Thurston, Samuel R., was bom In Mali
received a classical education, griuluatiiig at Bowdol
College in 1843; studied law with K. P. I>uiila[>: wi
admitted to the bar, and commenceil practice at Liia
City. Oregon; was elected a delegate fmm On-goal
Territory in the Thirty-first Congress as a Deroocnit,J
serving from December S, 1841), to March 3. ISSlj
lUed on the steamer " Califoniia," on her
from Panama to San Francisco, April 0, l.'Ol.
Tibbatts, John W., was bom at Lexinqtoi)
Kentucky, in 18tl2; received an academical edtio*
lion; studied law with Judge Barry: was :iiimiti>HlJ
to the bar. and pnictised at Newport, Kentucky; wn
elected a representative from Kentucky in the Twciv-
tyn'ighth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 'l.,'ii'7
votes against (i.KU votes for Wall. Wlii.
elected to the Twenty-ninth Congn-ss. r.
majority over Gaines. Whig, serving from
4, is4;t. to March 3. 1847; served in the Mexican vrif
as colonel of the Sixteenth United-.States Infantry
from March 3. 1847, to Aupiist 10, 1848; died at New-
port. Kentuckv. July S, 1852.
Tibbitts, &eorge, was bom in P - = ' - f'niiii-
ty. New York; received a lliorougl' !'io»-
lion; was a memlxT of the State lioi. . ,. ,'WU-
tatives in 1802; was elected a representative (iwm
New York to the Eiglith Congress, serving fnim Oo
tober 17, 1SI>3, to March 3. 1805; was a meiiiluT d
the State Senate 1815-1818; was again a niemhcr
of the .Stale House of Representatives in 1820; died
at Trov. New York.
Ticnenor, Isaac, was hom at Newark, Nc»
Jersey, February 8, 1754; received a classical cducx-
tion, graduating at Princeton College in 1775; stuilii'4
law at .Schenectiidy, New York, and. while tli'TV.
was appointed assistant commissary -gcnenO. aiid sta-
tioned at Bennington, Vermont, where he was uJ-
mitted to the bar, and commenced pniclicf; wa* »
member of the Vermont House of Prpr-^triitativii*
1781-1784; was State agent to Congi ■
State councillor 1787-17S>2; was a Si .
for .idjusting the controversy with
W.1S a member of the Council of Ceii-
judge of the Stale .Supreme Couil ...
its chief justice 1705-17yi: was elected a L'o
States 8enat<:ir from Vennont (In pUce of Mo
Kobiuaou, resigned) as a Federalist, •erring '
STATISTICAL SKETCIIES.
6G3
I
December fl, 17WI. to Vovomber 10, 1797, wUen ho
resigiieJ; was K^veriior of Vermout 171I7-1HJ7 and
lSil!>-180!t; wiis iiijaiu electeil a seualor, scrviii^: from
Dfot'inbcr -t. l-iUi, tu March 3, It^Ul ; tiled at Bciiiiiug-
ton. Vonnoni, Uoci-iiiIkt 11, l.S'JS.
Tiffin, Edward, was horn at Curlislc Eiii^Iand,
June lU, ITlJiJ; ii!itiii;^rate<l ti> the L'liiteil bliili s in
178(5. and scllled in ("harlestown, Virjinin; stuilieil
medicine, and gnuluat4.-d from th>.' University of
Pennsylyania in Holt; removed tu Chillleulho. Ohio,
In 1703; was a memlxjr uf the Territorial Housu of
Kepresentatives in 17119, and its sjieulcor; was a di?ie-
gate to the convention which Iranied llic State C jd-
•titution in 1802, and its president; was elected a
United-States senator from Ohio as a Democrat,
•oning from Octol)er 20, 1807, to 1S09, when he
resigned; was ap[>oiutcd by President Madison the
first commissioner of tlic General Lund OCice. soniiiH;
from May 7, lyl2, Ui (lelober 11, 1!S14; resi nicd to
accept the position of sur\i'yor-general of the Xorth-
vrestem Territory, which position he held until 1828;
died at Chillieotlie, Ohio, August 9, 1829.
Tift, Nelson, resided at Albany, Georgia: was
elected a leprescntative from Geoniia in the Fortieth
Con'^ress as a Kepublican, receiving l;).(U.3 votes
ftljainst 11,00(1 votes fur Wliitely. Democral, sorung
fror.i July 2.'j, WJfl, to March :i. ISiU.
Tildoil, Daniel R., was born In Connecticut;
received n public-school education; removed to Ohio,
and located at llavenna; was elected n representa-
tive from Ohio in the Twenty-eighth Congress as a
Whig, receiving 0,712 votes against fl.aiD votes for
Lyman, Democrat, and 9SU for Hall, Abolitionist;
was re-elected to the Twenty-ninth Conv^ress, serv-
In.i: from Deceml)er 4, 18-1:5, to March 3, 1(>47.
Tilghman, Matthew, was bom on the Eastern
6hor^ of Maryland; was a delegate from Maryland to
the Continental Congress 1774-1777.
Tillinghast, Joseph L., was bom at Taunton,
MiissacliusL'tls, in 17ill; removed to Rlioile Island in
his boyhiod; received a classic.il education, graduat-
ing a.i Brown University in 1.S19; studied law; was
Rdniifted to the bar, and commenced practice at
Providwice. Rliode Island; was for a number of
years a nicmbc-r of the State llouse of Ueprcsenta-
tives, and several times elected its spesikcr; was
elected a representative from Rhode Island in the
Twenty-fifth Congress as a \Vliig; was re-elected to
the Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh Congresses,
serving from Scptemljer 4. 1.'*:j7, to March '.i, livlJ;
died at Providence, Khode Island, December 30,
ll44.
Tillinfjhast, Thomas, was bom at East Green-
wich. Rhode Island, August 21, 17-12; received an
academical education; was a memlier of the State
House of Representatives in 1772 and 1773; was
commissioned in the Rhode-Island militia in 1771);
held several offices under the Revolutionary authori-
ties; was again a member of the State House of Rcj)-
resentaiivcs 177S-17'-i); was appointed a judge of the
Court of Common Pleas in 1779; was elected n5si>-
ciate justice of the Slate Supreme Court hi 1780,
serving until 171)7; was elected a n'presentative from
Rhode Island in the Fiflli Congress (in place of
Eliski R. Potter, resigned), receiving .03 majority,
BC"r>-ing from November 13, 17C7, to March 3, 1799;
was again elected lo the Seventh Congress, serving
froui December 7. I.IOI. t4i Marc'i 3, ISiW; died at
East Greeiiwicli, Rhode Island, xVugusi 20, 1821.
Tillman, Lewia, was born in Bedford County.
Tenni'ssee, August if, liSlO; received a public-school
education; never stmiied any i)rofesfion; w.n8 a
fanner by occupation ; served a c;impaign as private
azoinst the .Seminole Indians in 183'o; was cleric of
the Cii-euit Court from 1852 lo ISCO; was appointed
clerk an<l m.ister of the Chancery Court in JIarch,
IWJ.J, and has held the ollice until recently; was a
WTiig so long as there was a Whig parly, and after-
Wards a Republican; was one of the signers to the
call put forth in iho fall of 1804 for the couveatioa
that abolished slavery in Teiuiesstie; was elected a
representative from Temicssee in the Forty-Urst Con-
gress as a Republican, receiving 3,7J>o voles against
J,;jil.{ votes forMheafe. Democrat, serving from March
4, \-m;'J. to March 3. 1!-.71.
Tillotson, Thomas, resided in Dutchess Coimty,
New Yorii; was a member oi the .Stale IJoiise of
Ropreseiitatives 17tlS-17UU; was a member of the
.'jiato Seriate 1701-170;>; was elected a reprcs<;ntalivo
from Xew York in the Seventh Congress, but re-
fused to talio his seat.
Tilton, James, was bom in Kent County, Dela-
ware, June 1, 17-1.3; received an al^adelilic,^l I'dnca-
tion: studied medicine: graiiuated at the I'liili'.di'l-
phia Medical .School in 1771, and commeneeil j:n;r|iee
at Dover, Delaware; entered the llevolutionary .inny
in 1773 as surgeon of a Delaware regiment; was com-
missioned siu-geon-general in 1777. and held that
positi ti luilii peace v.as deelan.'d, when ho resutiicd
pr.ic ice at Dover; was a delegate from Delav.-are in
the Continental Congress 17!.'<3-17i<); was repeatislly
a member of the Stale House of Reprcscntallves;
was commissioner of loans 1785-lHvil ; was physician
:md 8uri;eon-gcneral of the United-States army June
13. lil3^June 1.^, 181.1; removed to the vici:;iiy i.f
Wilr.iington. Delaware, where he cultivated a siubU
farm, on which he died May 14, 18;:2. He published
a work on "Military Hospitals." "Answers to
Queries oa the Siate of Husbandry In Delaware,"
and several niricultural aud medical essays.
Tipton, John, wns bom in Sevier County, Teu-
nessi-e, in August, 17S.j; his father h.iviug lii;eti liillod
by the Indians in 1703, he did not even enjoy liie ail-
vaIlti^5es of a public-school education, h.'iving to sup-
port a mother, two sisters, and a half-brolher; i:k
18IJ7 he removed with them to Indiana, where ho
purchased litty acres of land, paying for it by split-
ting mils at lif ty cents a hundred ; was elected e:isi;^.i
of tinil noted frontier company, the " Y'ellov.' Jack-
ets," in 1011, and served v.ith them In the Tiiipc-
canoe campai;jn; was chosen sheriff of Uarrisun
County. Indiana, in 181.1; was elected master uf
Plsgidi Lo<Ige of Freemasons in 1819, ami was (;miid
master of Mswons in Indiana in 1819 and 18;:!); was
elected a member of the House of l!i'prrs<>nlii;ivcs
in the State legislature in 18:.'l; was Uidlid-Statc*
Indian agent with the Miami and PottawaitL.mie
tribes from 1824 until 1831, when ho was elected by
the legislature United-States senator (to lill the va-
cancy occasioned by the death of James Noble) ; was
re-elected for a full term, and served from January
3, 1K32, luitil his death, April 5, DsiO, of pulmonary
ajKiiilexy, at Logansport, Indiana.
Tipton, Thomas P., was bom in Franklin
County, Ohio, August 29, 18.33; removed wlun ten
years of ago to McLean County, Illinois; studied
law, and was admitted to the bar in 1H,")-J; was ^. Lite's
attoniey for the Eighth Judicial Dislrict of Illinois
from J.inuary, 1S<57, to December, 1808; was elected
cireuit-judao of the Eighth Judieir.l Circuit in 1870,
and. on the ro-organization of the Circuit Court under
the new Constitution, was re-elected circuit-judge of
the Fourteenth Judicial Circuit; was elect"d a repre-
sentative fmm Illinois in the I'orty-iiilh Con-rress as
a Repui)liean, receiving lo,2i9 voles against 14,977
votes for Ailltd E. Stevenson, Independent Reformer,
serving from October 15, 1877.
Tipton, Thomas W., v.-as bom at Cadiz. Ohio,
Augunt 5. 1817; graduatcil at Madison College,
Pennsylvania; studied and practiced law; was a
mcuiljcr of the State legislature of Ohio in l.'^.l;
went to Nebraska, and was elected to a Conslitu-
tlonal Convention of Nebraska; w;>s a memlxjr of
the Territorial Council of Nebraska in 18<J0; hav-
ing studied theology, and being eligible to a chap-
laincy, he served in the Union amiy in that cajiacity
during the war for the suppn-sslon of the RelKdlion;
was elected United-States senator from Nebraska, and
re-elected, serving from March 4, 1807, to March 3,
187d.
664
CONOBESSIOXAL DIRECTOBT.
Titus, Obadiali, resided at Washington, New
Tork; was elected a representative from New York
In the Twenty-fiflh Congress as a Democrat, son'ing
from Sfuteraber 4, 1IS37, to March 3. IMl).
Todd, John, was boni at Hartford, Cotinecllcut,
in 17711; w;is elected a representative from Pennsyl-
vania in the !jeventeenth Congress as a Democrat;
was ni-ele('ted to the Eightej.'nth Congress, serving
fltim DeeenilM'r :}, 1821. to March 3, l.S2.'i; W!i» ap-
pointed president-judge of the Court of Common
Pleas (if the Sisteentli Judicial District, and subse-
quently an associate judge of the State .Supreme
Court: ilieil at Bedfoni, Pennsylvania, April 4, ISiii).
Todd, John B. S., was" born at Lexington.
Kentucky, April 4. 1M4: removed with his parents
to Illiuois in 1S27; entered the Militar>' Academy at
West Priiiit in 18:J2. graduatins; in IS^JT; was second
lieutenant of the Sixth Infantry July 1. iHiil. first
lieutenant December 10, 1S:J7, and captain November
& l.'!U3; resigned, and l)ecame an Indian trader; was
elected a delegate from Dakota Territory in the
Thirty-seventh Congress as a Democrat; wa« re-
elected to the Thirty-eighth Congress (baring suc-
cessfully contested the election of William Jayne),
serving from July 4. IMdl, to March 3, ist!,'j; was aji-
pointed a brig.idier-general in the Uiuon army in
1S<)2, and commanded a division in the Army of the
Tetniessee; died at Yankton, Dakota Territory, Jan-
uary 5, 1872.
Todd, Lemuel, was bom July 20, 1817, at Car-
lisle. Pennsylvania, whert' he has resided ever since;
graduated at Dickinson College; studied and prac-
tised law; was elected a representative from Pcnu-
aylvanlft in the Thirty-fourth Congress as a Whig,
receiving 10,472 votes against 8,310 votes for Bon-
liam. Democrat, serving from December 3, liS'V), to
March 3, ISj"; was defeated as the Union candidate
for the Thlrty-flftli Congress, receiving 0,070 votes
against 11,101 vot<.'s for Ahl, Democrat; served
diiritig pan of the itebellion as major of the First
Regiment Pcnnsylvaida Volunteer K«!ser\'e Corps,
and afterwards as inspector-general of Peinisylvania
on Governor Curtin's staff; and was elected a rep-
resentative from Pennsylvaiua in the Forty-third
Congress as one of the tliree congressmen at large
as 8 Republican, receiving 357,748 votes against
811,0-30 votes for R. Vaux, Democrat, serving from
Dee<!mber 1, 1S73, to March 3, 1875.
Toland, George W., was bom at PhiladelpliLa,
Pennsylvania; received a classical education, gradu-
ating at Princeton College in 1810; was elected a iMp-
resentative from Pennsylvania in the Twenty-lifth
Congress as a Wliig, receiving 5,313 votes against
8,078 votes for Morris Longstreth; w.ts re-elected
to the Twenty-sixth Congress, receiving over 2,f)00
majority ; was re-elected to the Twenty-seventh Con-
gress, serving from September 4, 1837, to March 8,
18*J.
Tomkins, Caleb, was bom in Westchester
County, Ni'W York; reside<l at Wliite Plains; was a
member of the .State House of Hepresentjilivcs 18(>4-
ISOIl; WHS elected a representative from New York
in the Fiftt^nth Congress; was re-elected to the
Sixteenth Congress, serving from December 1, 1817,
to March .S, 1821.
Tomkins. Christopher, resided at Glasgow,
Kentucky ; w:ls a lawyer and a judge of the State
Circuit Court; was elected a reprt-suntative from
Kentucky in the Twenty-second Congress ;is a \Vliig,
receiving 10 majority over Elijali Hisc, Democrat;
was re-elected to the Twenty-third Congress, receiv-
ing 1,720 votes against l.ltis voles for Elijah Hise,
Demoi'nit, s<Tving from Di-ecmber 5, 1831, to Marcli
3, 183.J: died at Glasii.iw, Kentucky, in 1845.
Tomkins, Cydnor B., was born in Belmont
County. Oil ill, November 8, 1810; received a classical
education, graiiualing at the Ohio University; was
reared on a farm; studied law; was admitted to the
bar, and commenced practice at McConnellsville;
mu elected a represeutative from Ohio lu the
Thirty-fifth Congress oa a Repobllcan, receiving \
7,248 votes against 6,4<t2 votes for Smith, Democrat;
was re-elected to the Tliirty-sixlh Congress, receiv-
ing 7,077 votes against 0,805 voles for "U. W. Many-
pennv. Democrat, ser>'ing from December 7, 18-j7, to
March 3. 1801.
Tomkins, Daniel D., was born at .S«»arsdale,
New York, June 21, 1774; received n cl.isslcoJ •dn-
eatiiiii, graduating at Colunilria College in 17Wfi:
studiud law; was admitted to the bar in 1707, and
commenced practice at New York; \v:i'- ■ i - ,t<. to
the State Constitutional Convention .is a
meinlter of the Stale House of Kept ■•<< in
1803; was elected a representative from New York i
In tlic Nintli Congress as a Dcm>x!mt. but p>«l!rii«l
before taking his seat to accept an :i|i
the bench of the Supreme ('ourt, ser
2, 18IV4, to June 9, 181)7; was govenioi ■ .
of New York 1807-1817; was elected Vice-President
on the Monroe ticket in 1817, n.-ceiving IXi of the i
217 votes cast; and was re-elected In 1821, receiving j
215 of the 228 votes cast, serving March 4. 1S17-
March 3, 1825; was a delegate U} the State Constitu-
tional Convention of August-November, 1S21. and
its president; was a prominent Freeniasim. and grand ,
master of the Urand Lodge of New York in 1820; j
died on Staten Island. New York. June 11, 182a.
Tomlinson, Gideon, was bom at Stratfonl, ,
Conni'cticut, December 31. 178<t; receive<l a classical
education, graduating at Yale College in \f«ii; stud-
ied law; was admitted to tlie bar, and commenced
pnictice at Faii-tield; was elected a representative
from Connecticut in the Sixteenth Ciingri-ss: was j
re-elected to the Seventeenth. Eighteentb. and Nine- |
teenth Congresses, serving friMu Decen • lO. to
March 3, 1827; was governor r)f €<••.. -^
18:J1, whew he resigned, h.iving l.i. .. ., ^;.d 4
United-States scimtor fwm Connecticut, serving j
fn>in December 5. 1831. to March 3. 1837; died at
Fairlield. Connecticut. October 8. 1854.
Tomlinson, Thomas A., was bom In X«w j
York; resided at Keescville; was a niem>>«r of the
State House of Representatives 18S-Vls;i<J; vu
elected a representative from New^ York in the
Twenty-seventh Congress as a Whig, receiving 5,flli«}
votes against 5,107 votes for Augustus C, Hand,
Democrat, serving from May 31, 1841, to March 8,
1843.
Tompkins, Patrick W., was ' — '- r ■■
tucky; lia<l a scanty English wiucalloi
was admitted to the bar, and comiii'
at Vicksburg, Mississippi; was elected a i
five fmm Mississippi in the Thirtieth Gnu.
Whig, receiving 0,039 votes against i. Ivr
Kot>erts, Democrat, serving from D< ■ 'vl7,
to MiU-ch 3, 1840; removed to Callforiii.. ^■■.■i. .ifUJr
the discovery of gold there, and died at San Fmo-
clsco May 10, I80.H.
Tooinbs, Robert, was bom In Wilkes County,
Georgia, July 2, 1810; received a classical ■■diicaiioD,
graduating at Union College, New York; studied Isw
at the University of V^irginia under Judge Lomai;
was admitted to the bar (by special act of tiie legis-
lature, when a minor) in 1820. anil commenced pr/tc-
tice at Wiishingtim, Wilkes County; was elected a
representative from Georgia in the Twenty-ninth
Congress as a State-rights Whig, receiving 1,121
inajoritv over E. J. Black, Democrat; was re^'lected
to the Thirtieth Congn.'Ss. receiving 1.410 majority
over E. J. Black, Democrat; :uid was re-electtd to
the Thirty-first Congress, receiving 4,232 voles
against 2.551 votes for Lawson; was re-elected to
the Thirty-second Congress, receiving 4.2;fi votM
against 2,5:J8 votes for McMillan, serving from De-
cember 1, 1845, to March 3, 185-'l; was eleln'^l »
ITnited-States senator from Georgia as a Stat<s
rights Democnit, and re-elected, servine from March
4. 185.% to March 3, 1801 ; w.is a deputy to the Pr»-
visional Congress of the Confedcnite States which
aaaembled at MoiUgomery, AJabama, aud adJoiuMd
8TATISTICAI- SKirrCHES,
665
to Richmond; was the first scctxjt.iry of state of
the Confederate Smttis, serving from Fcliruary 21,
1801, t-o July *), 1801, when he resigned to accept a
brigadier-jjenenirs conunisslon in the Confederate
•miy; wiis ossifrtied, March 4, 1803, to the command
bricaile of (ieor^ria ln«>p9 in Lonjtstreefs Coriis,
of Xiirlliom VirRinia: was a delegate to the
Cons(itulii)iial Convention of 1870.
Toucey, Isaac, was Inim »t Newtown, Con-
necliciil, Novcinlier o, 17U<I; received a classical
eilucalion: sindied law al Kewtown with JmlKC
Cliajiniiin; was iidmitied to the bar in 1818, and
comnieiici^d practice at Hartford; was State attor-
ney for llarttord County 1822-18i>; was elected
H represrnlalive from ("onneclicut In the Twenty-
iourth Conuress as a Democrat; was re-electeil to
the Tweuty-lifth Congress, 8er^•inKfrom December 7.
ISiib, to March :}. 18ai»; was defeated as the Demi>
cratic c;indidate for the Twenty-sixlh Congress, re-
ceiving -I.IIW votes ajiainst 5.180 voles for Joseph
Trumbull, Whiji: was again State attorney for Hart-
ford County 184:i-l844; was defeated as Democratic
candidate for governor of Connecticut in 184o by
KogerS. Baldwin: was defeated as Democratic c.in-
didate for governor in 1840 on the fxiptil.ir vote,
but was elected by the leglslatiirc; was defeated as
Itemocnitic canirnlate for governor in 1*47 by Cl.irk
Bissell; W.1S appointed by President Polk attorney-
general of the I'nited St.'ites. serving from June 'Jl,
384S, to March 3, 184'J; was a member of the .'itate
Seimtc In IHW, aii<l of the SSlate House of Kepresen-
tativesin IK}'^; was elected n United-States sen.-itor
from Conneciicul as a Democrat, serving from May
14, ISOa, to March ;3, lS'i7; was ap[ioiuted by Presi-
»deut Buchanan secretary of the navv, senint; from
March tt, ]Si7, to Marcli S, 1801; died at Hartford,
Conneelicut, July :)0, 18t!ll.
Towns, George W., was bom in Wilkes
County, lieor^a. May 4, 1802; was self-e<lncated ;
studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1824. and
coiumcnced practice in Alaliama; nMunied to Geor-
■ ^a lu lH2tl, and located at TiUbottfui; was for several
fears a member of tho Stat* House of Itojiresenta-
tivcs; was elected a representative from (Jeonria in
the Twenty-fourth Congress as a Union Democrat.
treccivins 27,075 voles against 24,602 vcjtes for Now-
ZQuii. Slate-rights, serving from December 7, 1835, to
September 1, ls:jO, when he resigned; was again
elected to the Twenty-lifth Congress, receiving 2t),6<XJ
voles against 28.8vlo votes for Alford, Stato-riglits,
•erving from September 4, 1837, to March 3. 183il;
was again elected to the Twenty-ninth Con;;re*8 (in
Slace of Washington Poe, resigned) as a Democrat,
efealing AmbroSi- Baber. Whig, 8er\'ing from Janu-
YliTy 27, 1840, to March 3, 1817; was governor of
I Georgia 1847-18.51 ; diwl at Macon, Georgia, Julv 13,
;i*>4.
Townsend, Amos, was l)orn in Fayette Coun-
ty, Pennsylvania, in 1831; removed ot an early age
to Ohio, and l«.'came a citizeaof Cleveland; was for
^ft ten years a meml>cr of thi ,.ity council, ser\'ing
^B •even of those years as its president: was a member
^1 of the St.itc Constitutional Convention in ls73: w;is
^^•lected a re]>resentative from Ohio in the Forty-
^■-fifth Congntss as a Heriublican, receiving 17.8UI
^■Totes a^nst 14.021 votes for U. B. Pajme^ Demo-
^f erat, serving from OctolK'r l.'j. 1877.
Tcwnsend, Dwight, was bom in New-York
City in If'JO: wiiji educated at the grammar-school
of Columbia College, New Vork; entered mercantile
life when twenty-one yejirs of age, and retired from
hnsiness in 18<12; was elected a representative from
New York in the Thirty-eighth Congress (to till a
vacancy caused by the resignation of Henry (i. Sl«b-
Ibina), serving from Dcccmlier o, 1804, to March '-i,
lrM5; was elected to the Forty-second Congress as a
Democrat, receiving 12,032 votes against 11,40<J votes
lor C. C. Norvell, liepublican, serving from March 4,
ItitTl, to Marc.h 3, 1K7:).
Townsend, Qeorge, was bom in Queen's Coun-
|i
ty. New York; resided at Oyster Bay ; was elected a
repn'sentalive from New York in the Fourteenth
Congress as a Democrat; was re-electc<l to the Fif-
teenth Congress, serving from December 4, 1816, to
Ma-ih 3, 181».
Townsend, James, was bom In Queen's Coun-
ty, New York: wiis elected a representative from
New York in the ."second Congress, but died at Oys-
ter bay Ix'fore taking bis seat, in May. 1791.
Townsend, Martin I., was bom at Hancock,
Mas.tachusetts. Februar>- 0. 181(1; graduated at Wil-
liams ('ollege. Massacliusetts. In INU, and reniiived
from Williamstown to Tmy. where he hiis pince
resideil; studied law; was admitted to the bar In
183(1, and continues to practise; was district-nttor-
ney for Rensselaer County in 1842-1.'*!.'); was a mem-
ber of the Constitutional Convention for the .St.-ile at
large in 18<>7-18(i8: is now a regent of the University
of the State of New York; wi\s eli^eted a repre-
sentative from New York in the Forty-fourth t.Vin-
gress as a Kepublican. n'ceiving V>,4-i-> votes against
14,i>31 votes for Charles Hughes. Democrat; was re-
electwl to the Forty-fifth Congress, n.'ceiving 10.089
votes against 17,44,8 votes for Koswell A. Parmenter,
Democrat, serving from December 0. 187.5.
Townsend, Norton S., wsis bom in Engl.md;
innnigniled to the United .M-ites, and settled at Avon,
Ohio; held several local ofilces; was elected a repre-
Bcntative from Ohio in the Thirty-second Congress
as n Demrmrat, receiving 0.077 votes against it.230
votes for Won.estcr, Whig, serving from Decenil)er
1. 1H.-,1, to March 3. 18.^3.
Townsend, Washington, was bom In West
Chester, Peiuisylvania, in 1813; received an ae.Hilemic
education; Ixicame a teller in tho Bank of Chester
County, Pennsylvaniii, in 1832; while so empl>>yed,
studied law, and was admitted to tlie bar in 1844 : was
ileimty-attnrney under Attonicys-Geiieral Darragh
and Cooi)er; was made cashier of the bank alH>ve
named in 1841), and resigned in 18.57 to resume the
practice of the law. in which he h.os confiuned ever
since; was a delegate to the Baltimore National
Whig Convention of 1852 and the Chicago National
Kepublican Convention of 1800; was elected a repre-
sentative from Pennsylvaniii in the Forty-first t'on-
gress as a Kepublican. receiving 12.771 votes lujainst
y,48l votes for Monagan, Democrat; was re-elected
to the Forty-second Congr<»ss. receiving 10,408 votes
against 8,2;U votes for J. H. .\skin, Demc->craf: was
re-elected to the Forty-third Congress, receiving
14,t)ll vot(>s against 8.8HI votes for F. Taylor,
Liberal HepublicAti; was re-eh'Cted to the Forty-
fourth Congress as a Kepublican, receiving 0,4,85
votes against O.UIO votes for J. L. Forwoo<l, Demo-
crat, serving from March 4. l>*Oil, to March 3, 1877.
Townshend, Richard W., was bom in Piinco
Oi-orge Cuunty, Maryland. April ;W, IHKJ; went to
Wasliington City when ten years of age. and was
there educated at public and iirivatc schools; w.is a
p.T.;e in the House of Representatives; removed to
Illinois in 1858; taught school in Fayette County;
studied law with S. S. Marsliall at MacLeansborongh ;
was admitted to the bar in 1802. and has since pnvc-
tiseil; was clerk of the Circuit Court of Iliuniltou
County 1803-180.8; was prosecuting-attomev for the
Twelfth Judicial Circuit 1808-1872'; removed in 1873
fn>m MacLeajisborough to Shawnectown. where he
was an otUcer of the Gallatin National Bank; was a
meiiil>er of ihe Democratic State Central Committee
of Illinois 1S04, 18ti5, 1874. and 1875; was a delegate
to Ihe National Democratic Convention at Baltimore
in 1872; was elected a representative from Illinois in
the Forty-fifth Congress as a Democrat, receiving
12,722 votes agjiinst 8,510 votes for Edward Bonham,
Kepublican. and 7.523 votes for W. B. Anderson. In-
deiMMident Kefdrmer. serving friim Octot>er 15, 1877.
Tracy, Albert H., was born at Norwich. Con-
necticut. June 17. 1703; reccive<l a classical educa-
tion; studied medicine with his father; when eigh-
teen years of age he removed to Mew- York State;
666
OONQRE88IONAL DrBECTOBT.
iladled law with his brother at Madison ; waa admit-
ted lo the bar in 1S15, aiid commenced practice at
Buffalo; was elected a representative from New
Yorli in the Sixteenth Congress as a Conservative
Democrat; was re-electeil lo the Seventeenih and
Eighteenth Congresses, serving from December 0,
ISllt, to March 3, 1820; was offered a seat in the
cabinet by President John Qiilncy Adams, and de-
clined it ; was a meml)er of the State Senate lSy(>-
1807 ; was defeated as the Wliiu cjindidate for United-
.Slatcs senator in IfvJO by N. 1'. Talniadge; was offered
a seal in the cabinet by President Tvler. and declined
It; died at Buffalo. New Vorlv, September 12. iy50.
Tracy, Andrew, was bom in Vermont ; received
au ac.'ulemical ed ucatiun ; studied law; wius admitted
to the bar, and commenced practice at Woodstock,
Vermont; was for several years a member of the
Stale House of Representatives, serviut: as spealcer
lS4a-lS4.j. and was also a member of tlie Stale .Sen-
ate; was elected a representative from Vermont in
the Tliirty-lhird Congress as a Wliip, receiving (1,319
votes against :J,201 votes for Kellogg. Democrat,
2,0'J8 votes for Fletcher, Free-Soiler, l.ti'ii) votes for
Henry, Democrat, tW votes for Bartlett, Democrat,
and 2:{0 votes scattering, and serving from Deeem-
l>er Ti, 1853, to March 3, 1855; died at Woodstock,
Vennont, Oetoljer 28, 1S<38.
Tracy, Henry W., was bom in Luxeme Coun-
ty, Pennsylvania, Septemlier 24, 1807; received a
pnl>lie-si'ho(il education; was reared a farmer, but
eng.iged also in mercantile pursuits; was a delegale
to the National Itepublican Convention in 18(10; w.os
a member of the State House of Kepnfscntalives in
1801- .-md 1802; was elected n representative from
Pennsylvania in the Thirty-ci>thth Congress as an In-
deiK'iident Ilepublicnn, njceiving 9,u20\ote8 .igainst
7,7<>:J votes for C"lark. Republican, serving from De-
cember 7, 18tW, to March 3. 18Ia>.
Tracy, PMneas L., was bom at Norwich, Con-
necticut; received a ciassiCiU education, graduating
at Yale College in 1800; removed to New York, and
settled at Balavia; was elected a representative
from New York in tlio Twentieth Congi'e»s as a
Democrat; was re-elected to the Twenty-tirst Con-
gress, receiving 2.481 majority; was re-elected to the
Twenty-second Congress, serving from Deceml>er 3,
1827. to March 2, 1833.
Tracy, Dri, was bom at Franklin, Connecticut;
received a classical education, gnulualing at Yale
College in 1789; removed to New York, and settled
at Oxford; was elected a representative from New
York in the Ninth Congress as a Democrat, serving
from December 2, 1805, to March 3, 1807; was again
elected to the Eleventh Congress, and re-elected to
the Twelfth Congress, serving from May 22, 1809,
to March 3. 1813.
Tracy, Uriah, was bom at Franklin, Connecti-
cut. February 2, 1855; received a classical education,
graduating at Yale College in 1778; studied law; was
admitted to the bar, and commenced practice at
Litchfield: was several years a member of the State
House of Representatives, and speaker of the House
in l~\U; wiis elected a representative from Connect-
icut in the Third Congress as a Federalist; was
re-eleeled to the Fourth Congress, serving from De-
cerab<;r 2, 1793, to December 0, 1790, when, having
been elected a United-Stales senator from Connecti-
cut (in place of Jou.ilhan Trumbull, resigned), he
took his seat in the .Senate, sening until July 19,
1807. when he died at Washington City.
Trafton, Mark, was bom in Maine; received an
acaili'Uiic i'dne;ition; studied theology, and was the
pastor of a church in WeslQeld, Massachusetts; was
elected a representative from Massachusetts in the
Tliirtv-fourtli Congress as an j\jnericaii. receiving
0.010 votes against .S.lXtS votes for J. Z. Goodrich,
Whig, and 2,.583 for W. Griswold and scattering, and
serving from Decemlier 3, 1855, to March 3, 1857;
was defeat«d as the ilmerican candidate for the
Thirty-tUth Congress, receiving 4,282 votes against
0,823 votes for Henry L. Dawes, Repnhliciu), '
4,i>;j3 votes for J. D. Weston, Democrat; resumed h!vl
ministerial labors, and was pastor of a church ati
Mount WolListon.
Train, Charles R., was bom at Framineham. '
Massachusetts, October 18, 1817; received a classical^
education, graduating at Brown I'niversity in 1837H
studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1841. Mid |
commenced practice at Framinghnui; was district]
attorney for six years; was a memtier of the Stat«|
House of Rejircsentativcs in 1847-18+8; was a mem-|
ber of the Executive Council in lSi7-l(vi8; waselerted]
a representative from Massachusetts in the Tliirty-'
sixth Congress as a Republican, receiving O.l'.* votc«|
against 3,514 votes for Butler, Democrat, and
votes for Temple, American; was re-elected to tha
Thirty-seventh Congress, receiving 9.272 votes againsll
2,390 votes for Brown. 2,239 votes for Fan!' l'
391 votes for Abl)Ott, serving from Deceiul'
to March 3, 1803; served in the Union u ij
volunteer aide-de-camp to General McCk-llan:
moved to Boston; was again a meml>er of the Stata]
House of Representatives 18t).'*-1871 ; was attorney
general of Massachusetts 1871-1S7S.
Trapier, Paul, wiis a delegate to the Contiuenta
Congress from South Carolina 1777-1 <i8.
Treadwell, John, was bom at Famiiugton
Connecticut, November 2:1, 1745; received a classic
education, graduating at Yale College in 1767]i
studied law; was admitted to the l).^u-, and comol
menccd practice at Farminglon; w.is a member off
the State House of Represfnt.itivi's 1770-17i^; wnsa
member of the Continental Congress 1785-178«5; was
a member of the State Council 17.S0-1797; was lieu-
tenant-governor of Connecticut in 1798; was judg^^B
of probate 1780-18()9; was active in the promi.'tloi^H
of religious and educational enterprises; died »t^^
Farminttton, Connecticut, August 19, 1823.
Tredway, William M., was bom in Virginia;
resided at Danville; was elected a representative
from Virginia in the Twenty-ninth Congress as a
Democrat, serving from December 1. 1845, to Mi
3, 1847; was defeated as the Democratic candidal
for the Thirtieth Congress, receiving l'>49 vol
iigainst 6M votes for Thomas S. Flonmoy, WHiig.
Tredwell, Thomas (gniiidfaiher"of Thom;
Tredwell Davis), was bom at Sinithtowai, Lung
limd, in 1742; receiveil a classical education, gnuli
ing at Princeton College in 1704; studied law;
a<lmitted to tlie liar, and commenced jiractice
Plattsburg, of which he was one of the original pro-
prietors; was a delegate to the Provisional Congrest
of New York 1774-1775; was a delegate to the Stale
Constitutional Convention of 17713-1777 ; was a raeni»
ber of the State House of Ri-presentatives 1777-1773!
was first judge of the Court of Probate
1787; was a member of the Slate Senate 17)
was a delegate to the State Constitutional Con'
of 1788; was surrogate of Suffolk County 17Sfi-n91;
was elected a representative from New York in the
Second Congress, and re-elected to the Tliird Con-
gress, serving from October 24, 1791, to March 3,
1795; was a delegate to the State Constitutional Ceo-
ventlon of 1801; was a member of the State Senaia
1803-1807; was surrogate of Clinton County 18(/7-
18:n; died at Plattsburg, New York, January SO,
1*52.
Tremain, Lyman, was bom in Dur? . ^'-f
York, June 14, 1819; received an acadi •
lion; studied law; was admitted to the 1 ,
Bud practised at Albany; was elected supenitur M
Durham in 1842; was appointed dt?frii-i-:iiionieyof'
Greene Countj' in 1844; was eifri iwid
surrogate of Greene County in 1 .1 sl-
tomey-generaiof theState of N'" i •
elected in 1SC6 member of the Asseml
of AUiany, and was speaker of lli« A
year 1807; was elected a representative Irmn ^cw
York in the Forty-third Congress from llie Stale »t'
large as a Bepublicau, receiving 438,450 rules i^salost
STATISTICAL 8KETCUES.
667
400,007 votx-s for S. S. Cox, Democrat and LHwr.il,
BeniiiH from IVccmber I. 187-J. to Marcli :!. 1S7,").
ITrezvant, James, was iK>rn in su^sox Coutity.
Virginia: n^ceivod an aciuii-niionl educatiun: sluilied
law; Wiis lulmitted to tliu liar, :ind C(iuimenfi.'d |ir»c-
tice at Jerusali-in, Viritiuia: w.-is altonn'.v U>r lln'
State; was a dclegatv to llip ^taie Constitulioiial
Conventicin of Iffjl); was a meiulxjr of the Slale
Housi! of liopresi'nta!ive«; wil« «-leL-te<l a n^pn-senta-
tive from Virginia in Hie Ninolccnlli Con(;rfSS, dt'foat-
Ing liichard Epi>e«; was n'-eli.'<;le<l to the Tweutiotli
and Twenty-tirsl Congn-ssfs. ser» inp from IKtcinlicr
6. 1^:^'). to Marcli 3. 1S:J1; diud In SuutUanipton
County, Virpnia, .Vpteinlwr •.'. Ifvjl.
Trigg, AbraXD, wiis clirtfd a rc-pres<;ntaliTP
from Viniiriia in tlic Fifth Conjnt'ss; was ro-elfcted
to the Sixth, Seventh, £i|;hl)i, Ninth, and Tenth
Cktiigreaaes, aervhig from May 15, 1707, to March 3,
1»)0.
I Trigg, John, was (rlecte<l a repre«i?ntative from
Virijini:! in the Fifth Conjiress; wjis re-eleeteii to tlie
Sixtli. Si-venlli, and Kiijhlli (.'un'4res,«ci(, «i>rving from
Mav 15. 17!<7. U« -May 17, 1.S04, when he rlied.
Trimble, Csiry A., wiui horn at Uillsborou^h,
Ohio, hepteinlier 1;1, 1^13; received a classical educa-
tion, grailuating at the Ohio University in ISW;
studied meilicine, (rniduatint! from tlie Cincinnati
Medical CoIIcko in l."<i<i; was demonstrator of aiiat-
oniy at the Cincinn.iti JlediwI College 18:17-1841;
^ft bis health failing, he retired from his profession, and
^B-devoted himself to fannimt: was elected a represen-
^B tative from Ohio in the Thirty-.«ixth Congress as a
^B Kepiililican. reecivhiK lOitX^i votes acaiiust 8,043 votes
^K for Miller, Democrat; was re-elected to the Thirty-
^fteeveiilh Coni^n^ss, receiving 11,51)3 votes aRainsl
^BlKtrj.*) vot«s for Hutchinson, Democrat, servini; from
^■-December 5, ISoU, to Maa-h 3, 1HI}:3; was ilefeatdl as
^B the Ki-publican candidate for the Thirty-eighth Con-
^Bgn-ss. rec''ivinc 8,(Xs7 votes against 13,7;il vote."! for
^B >V. IC. Finck, Democrat.
H Trimble, David, was boni in Frederick County,
^■Virginia, in June, 1782: received a classical educa-
^f tiou, gnuluating at William and Mary College;
(tudieil law; was admitted to the bar, and com-
tiienced practice at Mount Sterling; served under
■ Genenil Harrison In the war of Isli!; was elected a
repn-sentalivf from Kentucky in the Fifteenth Con-
gress lis a Democrat, ilefeatin;; CJ<f(irge Stix-ktou; was
n>-elecletl to the Sixteenth Congn;s»: was re-elected
lo the Seventeenth Congress, receiving l.UtU) ma-
tjorily over Thomas Fletcher; was ro-ehvted to llic
Eighteenth and Nineteenth Congresses without op-
position, serving from December 1, 1817, to March 3,
1827.
Trimble, John, was bom In Roano County,
Tennessee, February 7, 1812; waa e<iucateil at the
Nashville University; studied law; was admitted to
tlie bar, and practised at Nashville; w:is nttoruey-
»Bener.U of Tennessee from 18:3i! to 1842; «•,•« a mem-
ber of the State Hou8<! of Itepreseiitatives from
Tciuiessee in 184;l and 1844; Wiis a member of the
State Senate of Tennessee in 184J, 1841!, anil again in
1851). 1800, and 1801, when he resigned, and again
in iBHo, 1800, and 1807, when he resigned; was
I United-States attorney from 1802 to 1804, when ho
resigned; was electeii a representative from Ten-
nessee in the Fortieth Congress as a National
Sepublican, receiving ll,:357 votes against S.Wi votes
for B.iylie I'eytnn, Democrat, and 480 votes for D.
H. M.won. Radical, serving from November 21, 1807,
U> M.irch 3, 18011.
■ Trimble, Lawrence 8., was born at Fleming,
Kentucky, August 20, 182.'): received an aciuleniic
e<lucaiion; studied law; w.is admitteil to the bar,
and practised at Pailueah: was a member of the
State Ic'jislature of Kentucky in 1S51 and 1S52; w.as
jtid;e of the Eijuity and Criminal Court of the First
Jtidieial Circuit of Kentucky l'n>m 18.50 to 180U; was
^-president of the New-C>rleans ami Ohio Kailroad
^•Company from ISOO to October, iSXt; was elected a
representative from Kentucky In the Thirty-uinth
(^'oii'jress as a Demwrat, receiving 5,7411 voles against
3.542 votes for Uradley, Ke|iubliC:ui ; was re-<'lecteil
to the Fortieth Congress, receiving 11,787 votes against
1.780 votes for .Syines, Kepublican; was te-elected
lo the Forty-llrst Congress, receiving 13.0.J8 votes
against 1,731 votes for Marshall, Kepublican, iinil
21IJ scattering, serving from Di^cembcr 4, 1805, to
March 3, lS7l.
Trimble, William A., was iKini at Woodford,
Kentucky, April 4, 178<1; received a clas.s:cal educa-
tion, graduating at Transylvania College; studied
l.iw with Judge Kobert Trimble; was admitted to
the bar in 1811, and commenced practice at Higli-
land, Ohio; served In the war of 1812 as m,aji)r of
Ohio volunteers; was taken prisoner at the sur-
render of Detroit; Wiis adjutant of a regiment com-
manded by his brother in the campaign against the
Pottawattamie Indians; was ap|K)inted major of the
Sixth Cnited-ijlates Infiuilry in 1813; distinguished
himself, and was Si'verely wounded at the sortie of
Fort Erie; was lieutenant-colonel of the First Unitiil-
StatJ'S Infantry from 1814 until he was elected a
Uniteil-States senator from Ohio, serving from Dc-
ceml)erO, ISlll, to December 13, 1821, when he died;
he had attended the conference held with the In-
dians at Fort Chicago and at Green Bay; on the
journey, he so suffered fr<mi the inclemency of the
weather and his war-wounds, that he became ill, re-
maining some time on a sick-bed at Albany; and
then proceeded t<i Washington City, where his
health declined until he died.
Triplett, Philip, was Ixim in Virginia; re-
moved to Kentucky, and settled at Owenshonmgh;
was elected a representative from Kentucky in the
Twenty-sixth Congress as a Wliig, receiving 1,0(X)
majority over Cornelius Burnett. Dem>jcrat ; was re-
elected to the Twenty-seventli Congress, sor^'iug
from December 2. 1S«>. to March 3, 1845.
Trippe, Robert P., w:is liom in Georgia; re-
ceived a cliuisical eilucalion, graduating at Fninkliii
College; studied law; was .idmltted to the bar, and
commenced pYactice at Forsyth ; wjis elected a repre-
sentative from CJeorgia in the Thirty-fourtli Con-
gress as an American, receiving 0,112 votes against
5,210 votes for Smith, Democrat; and was re-elected
to the Thirty-tifth Congress, receiving 5,8i)3 votes
against 5,423 votes for I). J. Bailey, Democrat, ser\"-
ing frotn December 3, 1850, to March 3, 1850; was a
representative from (Jeorgia in the First Confederate
Congress, serving from February 22, lS<t2, to Febru-
ary 22, 1804.
Trotter, P. James, was elected a United-States
senator from Mississippi (in [ilace of John Black, re-
signed) as a Democrat, ser\'ing from February 19,
18:58, to July 10. 1838, when he resigned.
Trotti, S. W., resiiied at Barnwell Court House,
South Carolina; w.is elected a rtipresent.ilive from
South Carolina in the Twenty-seventh Congo'ss (in
place of .Samson H. Butler, resigned), serving from
December 17. 1S42, to March 3, 184:5.
Troup, G«orge Mcintosh, was bom at Mcin-
tosh's BluS, on the Tombigbce Bivcr, Alabama,
SeptenilM-r 8, 1780; received a classicil education,
graduating at Princeton College; studied law; was
.'idniitted to the bar in 1790. and commenced practice
at Sav.iunah, but paid little attention to the profes-
sion ; was a member of the State House of Kepresen-
tatives 1800-1805; was elected a representative from
Georgia In the Tenth Congress as a State-rights
Dcoiocnit on a general ticket; was re-elected to the
Eleventh, Twelfth, ami Thirteenth Congri-.«ses, serv-
iim from OctolKT 20, 18<)7, to March 2, 1815; was
elected n United-States senator from Georgia (in place
of Williimi W. Bibb, resigned) as a State-rights
Democrat, servine frtjm December 12, 1810, to 1810,
when ho resigin.'d ; was again elected a senator, si'rv-
ing from Dec'emlx-r 7, IS2U, to March 2, 1*33; died in
Lawn-ns County, Georgia, May 3, 1856. His "Lifu"
was publislied by £. J. Hordeu.
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C0KGEE88I0XAI- DEBECTOET.
Trout, Michael C, was bom in Pennsylvania;
resiiJed iil Slianm; was elpoleil a representathe fnim
Poniisylvunia in thy Thirty-thlnl CongrcsB lis a
DeinixTaU, receiving 5,3<Ht v6u!9 against 6.340 votes
for Alien, Whig, serving from Doceml)er S. 1853, to
March .3, IS-Viiwaa (lcfeat<7(l as tlie Democratle can-
iliilale for llie Thirty-fovirth Coii^in.'ss, riTciving
5,172 vii!cs a;.'ainst T.8i»< votes for Allison, Wiig.
Tro'wbridge, Rowland E., w^is Uim at El-
mira. New York. June IH. 1H21 ; went to Michit;an
when a lad; grailuati-d at Kenyon College, Oliio; waa
a fanner: was a raeralier of the titate Senate of
Michijjan from ISoll until lS(iO; was eld'ted a ri'pre-
scntative from Mifhigan in the Tliirty-scventh Con-
gress as a Kepiiblican, receiving i3.')7,'< votes against
1S,2,S7 vof<-"» fur Thompson. Democrat, serving from
July 4. 18HI, to March S, 1S63; was a^.iin elected to
the Thirty-ninth Congress, receiving I'J.tU" votes
against ll.Un votes forUaiilwin. Democrat; was re-
efecled to the Fortieth Congress as a Kepuhlican,
iweiving 14, IJiM votes against 11,(H0 Vi>t4?9 for Ban-
croft, Democrat, serving from December 4, ISKte, to
March ;l, l,S(iil.
Trumbo, Andrew, was bom In Montgomery
County (now Bath). Konlncky. St-ptember l;l, 171W;
received a puhlic-school education; at the iige of fif-
teen he went into the county-clerk's office, and after-
wards liecaine clerk ; studied law; was a<lmitt4>d to
the h.-ir in lSi4. and commcnceil practice at Owings-
ville; was elected a representative from Kentneky
in the Tweuty-ninth Congress as a Whig, serving
from December 1. 1S4.'), to March 3, 1S47; was a
Iircsidential elector on the Taylor and Fillmore tick-
et in ItviS.
Trumbull, Jonathan (brjilK-rof .loseph Tniin-
bull, and father of J.isepli Trnnibull, jiin. ), w.is born
at Lebanon. Connecticut. March 211. 174<»; r<>ceivcd
a classical education, grailiniting at Harvard College
In 17.'At: was a member of the Colonl.il legislature
of Connecticut for several years; was apiK>inled by
the Continental Congress paymaster-general of the
Noriheni Military Department in 177,'>, and served
until 1778. when he resigned to settle the accounts
of his brother. Colonel Joseph Tnmibull, conmiis-
sary-general of the United ^States; was appointed by
Gtmeral Washington senior aide-<le-camp in 178<J,
and was a menilwr of his staff tintil the close of the
•war; was electetl to the St.^te House of Representa-
tives, and w:ls chosen itti speaker in 17.'>8-17,S0; was
elected a representative from Coimecticut in the
First Congress as a Federalist ; was re-elected to the
Sec<md Congress, anil chosen speaker of the House
October 24. 17i'l ; w.ts re-elected to the Third Con-
gress; was elected Unite<l-States sunator (in place of
Stephen M. Mitchell, resigned), taking his seat June
8, 17Uo, but resigned when elected in 17tKI liculen-
ant-gnvemor of Connecticut, serving from M.irch 4.
1789; until June 20, I7'.I5; Ijec.imc. by the death of
Governor Wolcott. governor in May. 17118; and was
annually re-elected eleven successive times as a
Fedendist, until bo died of dropsy of the heart Au-
gust 7, 18110.
Trumbull, Joseph (brother of Jonathan Tnim-
bull. ami uncle of Joseph Tninibiill, jnii.), was bom
March 11. 17;i7; received a classical education, grad-
uating at liar^-ard College In H-W; was a delegate
from Connecticut to the Continental Congress 1774-
1775; was commissary-genernl of the Itevolutionnry
army July 111, lio'i-August 2. 1777; was a commis-
sioner for tlie Baird of War Noveml>er 27. 1777-April
IM. In8, when he resigne<l on account of ill health;
died July 23. 1778.
Trimibull, Joseph, jun. (son of Jonathan
Trumbull, ninl nephew nf Joseph Trumbull), w.-is bom
at Lebanon. Connecticut. December 7. 1782: received
a classical education, graduating nl Yale College in
18111; studied law; was admitted to tlie bar iit Wind-
liam in isil.3. and commenced jiractlce at Hartford in
_18(M; rt-tired from his profession in 1828, and be-
tie president of the Hartford Bank; was a mem-
ber of the State House of Rcppesenfatlves In 1832;
was elected a representative from Connecticur in the
Twenty-third Congress (in place of Williajn W. Ells-
worth, resigned) as a Whig, receiving Ifi, 137 vote*
against 15,910 votes for Loomis, Democrat, »»»nin!f
from Deceml)er 1, 1834. to March .3. l.'JJB; '.
elected to the Twenty-sixth Congress: was
to tlie Twenty-seventh Congress, receiving l..."
jority, serving from Decemlwr 2. 18:!0. to March S,
l,S4;i; was again a memb<>r of the State House of
Kepresent.atives in 1848: was governor of Connecti-
cut in 1S41»-18.^I>; was again a member of the State
House of Kepresentativ'S in 1851.
Triunbull, Lyman, w.i» l)om at Colchester,
Connecticut, Octolx-r 12, 1813; studied law; w.i» ad-
mitted to the bar in IJeorgia. and commenced prac-
tice in Illinois: was a memlK-r of the le-^slafure of
Illinois in 1840; was secretary of stale of Illinois in
1841 and 1K42; was justice of the Supreiue Court of
Illinois from 1848 to 18-"i3; was a repreoentafive in
the Thirty-fourth Congress; was elected I'nited-
States senator from Illinois as a Kepul>lic»n (m suc-
ceed James Sliields, Democrat), ami wu« twice r^
elected, sening from Dccemlwr 3, Hvy). to March 3,
1873; resumed the practice of law at Chicago.
Tuck, Amos, was bom at I'ars.iiistield, Maine;
received a oia-isical education, gra<luating at Dart-
mouth College in 18:jS; was a tutor in that institu-
tion; studied law; writs admitted to tbu bar, and
commenced pnictici! at Exeter, New Hampshire: wa»
elected a representative from New Hauipsliire in the
ThiMieth Congress as an Inde[iendeiit, r ' :
."i.niis votes against 4.02.J votes for Jeiim •
cr.it, and 84 scattering; w.is ri'-electcd to th l :
flrst Congress as a Free-,Soiler, receiving 0,1»71 votes
against tJ,i>:J8 voles for Kittridge, Democrat: wn« re-
elected to the Thirty-second Congress as a V"
Free-soil candidate, receiving 7.71)1 vot< -
7,41(1 votes for Kittridge, Op|>osition, servM,^ ,: m:,
December (1, 1847, to March 3, ISVl ; was defeated af
the Whig candidate for the Thirty-third C'on'.;res5,
receiving 8,l>tl2 votes against lO.lijS votes for Kit-
tridge, Democrat; was appointed naval oBiccr of the
port of Boston by President Lincoln.
Tucker, Ebenezer, was l>om at Burllnzion,
New Jersey, in 17-'J8; served in the Revolutionan' war;
was postmaster and collector of customs at Burling-
ton, New Jersey; removed to Tuckert<m; was elected
a representative from New Jersey in the Nlncti-cnth
Congress; was re-elected to the Twentieth CongreM,
receiving 4.89(5 majority, serving from Decemlwr 5,
182,"i, to March .3, 1829; was judge of the Court of
Common Pleas, justice of the Court of the Quarter
Sessions, and judge of the Orphans* Court ; died at
Tiickerton, New Jersey, 8epteml)cr ,'i, 1846.
Tucker, George, was b<irn in Bermuda in 1775;
remi>ved to Virginia; received a classical cilucalioo,
gnuluating at William and Mary C"1! ■•■ !7ir;:
Bluilied law; wasadmltted to the bar, ;• n-ed
)ir»ctice at Lynchburg. Virginia; wa> • r of
tlie State Housj? of Kepresentatlves; was elecietl A
representative from Virginia in the Sixteenth Con-
gress as a Democrat; waa re-elected to the Seven-
teenth and Eighteenth Congresses without opfiosi-
tion, serving from December II, 1819, to >f ■•-.■i. i
1825; was professor of moral philosophy on i
■•conomv in the University of Virginia I -
died at Charlottesville. Virginia, April 111, l.Nil. Uc
published " Letters on the Conspiracy of the Slai^rs
in Virginia," "Letters on the Koanoke Navigation."
"Recollections of Ellen R. Tucker.'" "Essays on
Niitional Policy," "The Valley of the SIi.r,.,i.,l",,.ilu
"Joseph Atterly's Voyiigo to the 51'
Tlioinas Jefferson," " Progress of the I
"Politii'al History of the i'niteil States,
ra.'iB;i/.ine articles and political essays.
Tucker, Henry St. George. ■ ' -
Virginia January ■'■>, 1781; rcceiveil an
ncation; studied law; was admitteil i'
commenced practice at Winchester, Virgiiua;
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elected a representative from Virginia in the Foui^
I tceiiih Con^rt'ss bs aDonmcnit; «iui re-elt'cti'il lo tlie
; Fitteenlb Con^rri'ss, rlcfuiKiiiif Coliuii'l Ciifson. sfniii(j
I Iroin December 4, 1.S15, to March y, J8Ui; was cliiiii-
' cellor uf the Fourth Judicial Uistrlcl, and imfsidenl
of the Virginia Court of AppeiUs; »ae profi-ssor of
law at the University of Vir;;inla 1841-1846; ilied at
ArVinclKSter, Virijinia, August 2S, 1S4S. lie pub-
' lished ■■ Lectures on Constitutional Law," " Lecture*
on Xalunil Law and Government," and "Coninicn-
t»rie« on the Laws of Viruinia."
Tucker, John Raxidolpb, was bom at Winches-
ter DeceniljcrC4, ISjy; reccivetl a classical education,
graduating at the University of Virginia in IMS:
, studied law; was a<lmitted to the bar, and practised
> Bl Lexington; was altonicy-({eneral of Virginia in
I 1.SJ7-1S(15; was professor of equity and public law at
Washington and Lee IJuiversily, Lexington; was
elected a representative from Virginia in the Forly-
lourth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 1((,"(W votes
•gainst i},~tft votes for Johnson, Independent; was
re-elected to the Forty-fifth Congress, receiving 10,4i5
votes against 11,127 votes for George 11. Burch, serv-
intj from December 6, 1875.
Tucker, Starling, was Ixjni in Halifax County,
Ni<rili Carolina; removed U) South Carolina, and
settled at Mountain Shoals; was elected a represen-
talive frtini South Carolina in the Fifteenth Congress,
defeiiling Anderson Crenshaw; was rc-electetl to the
Sixteenth Ctingress, defeating Brown and Pearson ;
was re-elected to the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, Nine-
teenth, Twentieth, and Twenty-first Congresses, sorv-
^ ijig from December 1, 1H17, to March :j. ih;{l ; died at
Mountain Shoals, South Caiolina, February 4, lt>U.
Tucker, Thomas Tudor, was bom at Port
i{oy;il, liermuda, in 1745; WiU* a delegate from South
Carolina to the Continental Congress in 17S7-17S8;
[ was elected a representative from South Carolina
1 in the First Congress; was re-elected to the .Sf-cond
Congress, sen iug from March 4, 178l>, to March ;.',
. 17U;i; was treasurer of the United States from De-
ceml>er 1, ISIO, to his death iit Wiishington City
May 2. 1828. He published "An Oration before the
' South-Carolina Society of the Cincinnati."
Tucker, Tilghman M., was bom In North
Carolina; received an academical education: studied
law; was .vlmitted to tlie bar, and jiracliseil at Co-
lumiins, Mississippi; was a mcmljcr of tlie .State House
of Representatives; was governor of the .State of
Mississippi 1.S41-1S4.3; was elected a representative
from Mississippi in the Twcnty-eighUi Congress as a
I peniocral, serving from December 4, 184;!, to March
8, LSlo; died in Alubiunn April 3l), IS'jO.
Tufts, John Q., was bom near Aurora, Indiana,
July 12, 184U; removed with his parents to Iowa In
1802; was educated at Cornell College, Mount Ver-
non; wjis a fanner; w;is elected a member of the
legislature of Iowa in 18<Ht, 1871. and lS7;i; and was
' elected a representative from Iowa in the Forty-
lourth Congress as a Kepulilicau, receiving 10,7711
I voles against 10,122 votes for J. L. Sheean, anti-
1 Monopolist, serving from December 0, 1875, to March
I 8. 1877.
Turner, Benjamin Sterling, was bom in
I fialifu.x County, Noitli Carolina, March 17, 182.'); w.-ui
raisi-il as a slave, and received no early education,
[ because the laws of that State made it criminal to
, educate slaves; removed to Alabama in 1S:J0, ajid, by
[ clandestine study, obtained a fair education : became
!• dealer in general merchandise; was elected ta-\-
I collector of Dallas Comity in 1807, and councilman
of the city of Selnia in 180i); and w,is elected a repre-
seulalivc from -Vlabania in the Forty-second Congress
as a Kepublican, receiving 18,22*1 votes against 13,4(3(1
, Totes for S. J. (.'ummiiig, Democrat, serving from
March 4. 1871, to March 3, 1873; was defeated as the
L Kepublican candidate for the Forty-third Congress,
[receiving l:;.174 votes against 1.1.007 votes for F. G.
[ Broniberg, Dvniucrut anil Liljerul, and 7,024 votes for
I P. Joseph, Itepublicaa.
Turner, Charles, Jun„ was bom In Massachu-
setts about 17ot>: received a classical eduiiiition, grad-
uating at Harvanl (College; studied theology, ;ind
was pastor of a (larish in Duxbury, Massachusetts;
was elected a representative from Massachusetts in
the Eleventh Congress (having successfully contested
the election of William Uaylies) as a W.ir Democrat;
was re-elected to the Twelfth Congress, serving from
June 28. 180(1, to March 3, 1813; was so unpopular on
account of his sup|K)rt of the war, that, on visiting
Plymouth, in his congressional district, in August,
1812, he Wius mobbed and kicked; was dc>feated as
the DemcK-ratic candidate for the Tliirteenlh Ctin-
gress. receiving 2,040 votes against 2,ll.'<0 votes for
William Baylies, Federalist; Wiis su|ierintcndent of
the United-.States Marine Hospital at Chelsea.
Turner, Daniel (son of James Turner), was born
in Warn-n l.'ounty. North Candina, September 21,
171X1; received an academical education; entered Iho
Military Academy at West Point in 1813. and was
ap[Kiinted lieutenant of ariillei-y in 1814; was sla-
lionetl on Long Island under General Swift, and then
at Plattsburg" under General McComb; after the
war, he was retained on the peace establishment,
but resigned his commission in 1815: was a stu-
dent for two ycare at William and Marj' College,
V^irglnia; wa.s a member of the House of Commons
of North Carolina in 1811», 1820, 1821, 1822, and 182:!;
was elected a repre8ent,itive from North Carolina in
the Twentieth Congress, serving from December 3,
18i7, until March 3, 1820; was prlncipsd of the W.v-
renton Female .Seminarj-.
. Turner, James, was bom in Southampton
County, Virginia, in 170(1; removed with his father
to Bute (now Warren^ County. North Carolina, in
1770; received a public-schcKd e<Iuc.ition; served in
the lievolutionary war as n private in the same com-
pany with Nathaniel Macon; was a member of tlie
Stale House of Hepresi'ntatives 17ii7-lS(Xi, anil of the
State Senate in IStil and 1802; was govcmor of North
Carolina in 1802-18(3v5; was elected Uiuted-States
senator in 1805 as a Democrat, serving from March
4, 1805, until ISltS, when he resigned on account of
ill health; died at Bloomsbury, North Carolina, Jau-
uarv 15, 1824.
"Turner, James, was bom In Mnrjdand; resided
at Wisebnrg; was elected a representative from
Marjlaml in the Twenty-third Congress as u Jackson
Deraoerat. defeating J. T. H. Worthiugton, also a
Jackson Democrat; was re-elected to the Twenty-
fourth Congress, serving from December 2. 18:3.3, to
March 3. 1837: was defeated as a candidate for the
Twenty-lifih (Jongress by J. T. H. Worthington.
Ttirner, Thomas, was bom at Kiclimond, Ken-
tucky. September 10, 1821 ; received a classicid edu-
cation, graduating at Centre College, Danville, in
1840; studicHi law with his father, Hon. Sijuiro
Turner, at nichmond, and at the law department of
Traiisylvaiua University at Lexington, Kentucky,
where he graduated in Man.h, 1842; commenced
practice at Kiclimond; removed in November, 1854,
to Mount Sterling, Kentucky, where he practised;
was ajiiHiinted Commonwealth's attorney in March,
1840. and rt-signed in 1S40; was a member of the
State House of Keprcsentativcs in 1801-180:5; w.is
elected a n.'prescntative from Kentucky in the Forty-
tifth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 13,10.'! votes
against 12, 710 votes for Robert Boyd, BcpubUcan,
seiving from October 15, 1877.
Turner, Thomas J., was bom in Trumbull
County, Ohio. April 5, 1815; received a public-school
educiitiou; removed with his father's family to Butler
County, Pennsylvania, in 1325; worked on a farm, and
as a day-laborer on the Pennsylvania Canal; went
westward in 1833; was for three years in St. Paul's
County, Indiana, and then settled at Freei>on. Illiimis^
WHS justice of the [HMce; studied law; was admitteit
to the bar, and practised; was elected judge of \'n>-
bate in 1842; was ap|X)inted postmaster in 1844; was
choseu State district-attorney ia 11^45; was elected a
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caudldato the necesaaty majority, aod, on a second
trial, Robert Rantoul, jun., was elected; was mayor
of Salem in 1852; was a delegate to tlie State Consti-
tutional Convention In 18<>3; was elected a represen-
tative from Massachusetts in the Thirty-thira Con-
gress, receiving on the first trial S,003 votes against
1,749 votes for John B. Alley, Democrat, 2,531 votes
for George Hood, Free-Soiler, and 1,729 scattering,
which gave no candidate the necessary majority, and
he succeeded on a second trial, receiving 4,265 votes
against 4,090 votes for George Hood, Free-Soiler, and
793 scatterii^, serving from December 5, 1853, to
March 3, 1855; was defeated as the Whig candidate
for the Thirty-fourth Congress, receiving 3,231 votes
against 7,428 votes for Timothy Davis, Enow-Koth-
ing, and 748 votes for N. J. Liord, Democrat; was a
member of the State Senate in 1867 and 1858, and its
president; was again a member of the State Bouse
of Kepresentatives in 1859 and 1860; died at Salem,
Massachusetts, June 15, 1875. He published "Let-
ters on the Logos" 1828, "Lectures on Witchcraft"
1832, "Life of Sir Henry Vane "1835, "Lifeof John
C. Fremont" 1856. He prepared a "Life of Wash-
ington" at the request of the Board of Education of
Massachusetts; its publication was interdicted by
Mr. Sparks, on the gi-oimd of its being an infringe-
ment of his copyright of the " Writings of Washing-
ton," but a large edition was subsequently sold at
London. He edited "The Christian Beview" and
"The Christian Register," and was a prolific con-
tributor to reviews and magazines.
UphaJXL, OreoTge B., was bom in Xew Hamp-
shire in 1769; received a classical education, gradu-
ating at Harvard University in 1789; was for several
years a member of the State House of Representa-
tives, serving as speaker in 1800 and 1815 ; was elect-
ed a representative from New Hampshire in the Sev-
enth Congress, serving from December 7, 1801, to
March 3, 1803; died at Claremont, Kew Hampshire,
February 10, 1848.
Upham, Jabez, was I>om in Massachusetts; re-
ceived a liberal education, graduating at Harvard
College in 1785; studied law; was admitted to the
bar, and commenced practice at Claremont, New
Hampshire; removed to Brookfleld, Massachusetts;
was a member of the State House of Representatives;
was elected a representative from Massachusetts in
the Tenth Congress; was re-elected to the Eleventh
Congress, serving from October 20, 1S;)7, to 1810,
when he resigned ; died at Brookfleld, Massachusetts,
In 1811.
Upham, Nathaniel, was bom at Deerfield,
New Hampshire, June 9, 1774; received an academi-
cal education at Phillips Acsidemy at Exeter; en-
gaged in mercantile ptirsuits; was a member of the
State House of liepresentatives, and also of the Ex-
ecutive Council; was elected a representative from
New Hampshire in the Fifteenth Congress as a Dem-
ocrat; was re-elected to the Sixteenth and Seven-
teenth Congresses, serving from December 1, 1817, to
March 3, 1823; died at Rochester, New Hampshire,
July 10, 1829.
Upham, William, was bom at Leicester, Mas-
sachusetts, in August, 17^; removed with his father
to Vermont in 1802; received a classical education at
the University of Vermont; studied law: was admit-
ted to the bar in 1812, and commenced practice at
Montpelicr, Vermont; was a memlier of the State
House of Representatives in 1827 and 1828; was
State's attorney for Washington County in 1829;
was again a member of the State House of Represen-
tatives in 1830; was elected a United-States senator
from Vermont as a Whig, serving from December 4,
1843, to January 14, 1853, when he died of small-pox,
after ten days' illness, at Washington City.
Upaon, Charles, was bom at Southington, Con-
necticut, March 19, 1821 ; received an academic edu-
cation ; was a student at the Tale-CoUege Law School ;
was admitted to the bar, and practised at Coldwater,
was oounty-derk tot St. Joseph Couuty
in 1840 and 1860; was proseeating-Bttomey In 18S3
and 1864; was a member of the State Senate (^
Michigan in 1866 and 1860; was elected attomer-
general of the SUte in 1861 and 1862; was elected a
i-epresentative from Michigan in the Thirty-eighth
Congress as a Republican, receiving 14,147 votes
against 1 1,385 votes for Tumer,-Uniou ; was re-elected
to the Thirty-ninth Congress, receiving 19,151 votes
against 12,538 votes for Nathaniel A. Balch, Demo-
crat; was re-elected to the Fortieth Congress, receiv-
ing 19,023 votes against 11,228 votes for Severens,
Democrat, serving from December 7, 1863, to March
3, 1869.
Upson, William H., was bom at Worthingtim,
Franklin County, Ohio, January 11, 1823; graduated
at Western-Reserve CoU^^e in 1842; studied law;
was admitted to the bar, and practised at Akron,
Ohio ; was a member of the Senate of Oliio in 1854
and 1856; was elected a representative from Ohio in
the Forty-first Congress as a Republican, receiving
18,359 votes against 11,060 votes for F. F. Backus,
Democrat; and was re-elected to the Forty-seoond
Conm^ss, receiving 11,053 votes against 6,e^ votes
for J. M. Cofilnberry, Democrat, and 448 votes for
Taylor, Prohibitionist, serving from March 4, 1869,
to March 3, 1873.
Upton, Charles Horace, was bom at Belfast,
Maine, August 23, 1812; removed to Virginia, aod
settled at Falls Church; was elected a representative
from Virginia in the Thirty-seventh Congress as a
Republican, defeating S. F. Beach, who unsuccess-
fully contested the seat, serving from July 4, 1881,
to March 8, 1863; died at Geneva, Switzerland, Jnne
17^877.
VaiL Gtoorge, was bom in New Jerser in 1803;
received an academical education; resided at Mor-
ristown; was engaged with his brother (Alfred Vail)
and S. F. Morse in projecting the instruments used
for telegraphic communication; was elected a repre-
sentative from New Jersey in the Thirty-third Con-
gress as a Democrat, receiving 9,247 votes against
0,265 votes for Courseu, Whig; was re-elected to the
Thirty-fourth Congress, receiving 7,£81 votes against
0,810 votes for Osbom, anti-Nebraska, serving from
December S, 1853, to March S, 1867 ; was apiK>inted
l}y President Buclianan consul at Glasgow; died at
Morristown, New Jersey, May 23, 1675.
Vail, Henry, was bom in New York; resided at
Troy ; was elected a representative from New York
in the Twenty-fifth Congress as a Democrat, serving
from September 4, 1887, to March 3, 1838; died at
Troy, New York, June 25, 1833.
valk, William W., was bom in South Caro-
lina; removed to New York, and resided at Flushing;
was elected a representative from New York in the
Thirty-fourth Congress as an American, receiving
3,753 votes against 2,778 votes for Allen, Democrat,
and 2,676 votes for Vail, Whig, serving from Decem-
ber 3, 1856, to March 3, 1867.
Vallandigham, Clement L., was bom at New
Lisbon, Ohio, July 29, 1820; received a classical edu-
cation, studying one year at Jefierson College, Ohio;
removed to Maryland, where he was for two years
the preceptor of an academy at Snow Hill; returned
to Ohio in 1840; studied law; was admitted to the
\^T in 1842, and commenced practice at Dayton, Ohio;
edited "The Dayton Empire" 1847-1849; was a dele-
gate to the National Democratic Convention at Cin-
cinnati in 1866; was elected a representative from
Ohio in the Thirty-fifth Congress (having successful-
ly contested the election of Lewis D. Campbell) as a
Democrat; was re-elected to the Thirty-sixth Con-
ness, receiving 9,903 votes against 9,715 votes for
Campbell, Republican; was reelected to the Thirty-
seventh Congress, receiving 11,062 votes against
10,918 votes for Craighead, Republican, aerring
from May 25, 1866, to March 3, 1803; was defeated
as the Democratic candidate for the Tfairty-ei^th
Congress, receiving 11,779 votes against 13,G27 votes
for Hobert C, Schenck, RepahiicAu; wm arrested by
STATISTICAL SKETCHES.
671
I
I
I
1928-1925; Wiw Rovernor of Virginia 1R25-1827:
elei'tfd II UiiiU'<l-St,ite8 senator fmm Virginia as
,lo-rixlits Deuiocral. Rer\lng from DeccmlKT 3,
1827, to Februar)* 20, INJii, when he resigni'cl on ac-
count of iliflc'rences of opinion witli President Jaclv-
Bon; joined tlie W'liig party, and was elwted Vice-
President on tlie Harrison tioliet In lS4i>: t>ecanie
President, after Hie dealh of President Harrison.
April 4, 1841; was a delegate to tlie Peace Conven-
tion of 18(11, and its president; renonnced liis alle-
giance tollie United .States; was a delegiite lo tlie Pro-
visional Congress of flie Confederate .Stales which
assembled at Kii-liniond in July, 18(il; was elected a
representative from Viriilnia in the First Confed-
emle Congress, but died at Richmond, Virginia,
before taking liis seat, .lanuary 17, 1862. His " Life
and Speeches" was published in 1S44.
Tyner, James N., was bom at Brookville. Indi-
ana, Januiiry 17, I.H2i(; recelvtjd an academic ednra-
tioii; sludied and practised law; Wiis secn'tary of
the Indiana .Senate four consecutive sessions, com-
mencing in 1.SJ7; was a presidential elector in IStiO;
■was sperial iu;ent of the Post-offlee Department from
ISiU to IttV); was elected a representative from In-
diana in the Forty-lirst Congress at a special elec-
tion (occasioned by the election of Hon. D. I). Pratt
to the United-Slates Senate); was rc-electetl to the
Forty-second f'ongress as a Hepubllcan, receiving
lo.lUi votes against l.'J.Ui) votes for J. F. Hender-
•on, Democrat; was ^--elected to the Forty-thinI
Congress as a Republic4in, receiving 11l,7;57 votes
against l(i,70S voles for Whiteside, Democrat; wa«
npimint'tl by President Grant governor of Colorado,
but declined, and accepted tlie ijosillon of Second
assistant postmaster-gcnoral, serving from Febniary
2(>, l!S7o, to July 12, 1S70. and postmaster-general,
Boning from July 12. lS7'i, to March S, ls77; was
appointed by President Hayes first assistant post-
miister-general, serving from March l(i, 1K77.
Tyson, Jacob, was boni in Moutgoraery County,
Pennsylvania, in 17y:J; received. thrt)Ugli his own
exertions, a good education; removed to RIclimond
County, New Vork; was a member of the Stale Sen-
ate in 1H2.''; Wiis elected a representiitive from New
YorU in the Kighleenth Congress, serving from De-
ceml)er 1, lS2-'i, to .M:irch :!, 1.S2.5.
Tyson, Job Roberts, was bom at Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, Febriinry 12, I>*(>4; received an aca-
demical e<lueatiou; taught school; studied law; was
admitted to the Ijar. and commenced practice at
Philadelphia: was a member of the city council and
cif tlie Sl.'ite House of Repn.'sentatlves; took a great
interest in llter.iture and Ihe line arts; was elected a
representative from Pennsylvania In Ihe Thirty-
fourth Congress as a Whig, receiving .'i.O.^l voles
against 3,.)0() votes for Hamilton, Democrat, anil serv-
ing from December 3, ISoo, to March S. 1<J7; died
at Woodlawn Hall June 27. 1S.J8. He puhlislied
" Pennsylvania prior to 174.%" " Essay on tlie Penal
IjQWs of Pennsylvania." "The Lotten' System o(
the United States," and " Memoir of T. C. James,
M.D.." with B«;veral onillons on histtirlcal subjecls.
Udree, Daniel, was bom at Pliilndelphia. Penn-
sylvania; received a public-school education; re-
moved to Berks Cmuily, where he engaged in mer-
canllle pursuits iiiid in the manufaclure of Iron;
■was a member of the State House of Representatives
1791»-lSi).j; was elected a n'prcsentallve fnnn Penn-
Bvlviinia In the Thirteenth Congress as a Democrat
(In place of .John M. Hynemati, resigned), serving
from Deceml)er (1. 1813, to March 2, ISl.'j; was again
elected ti) the .SIstecnIh Congress (in place of Joseph
Heister, resigned), serving from Januarys, 1821, to
March ii, 1S21 ; was again elected to the Seventeenth
Congress (In place of Ludwig Worman, deceased);
was re-<;lect<?d to the Eighteenth Congress, serving
from December 2-'.. 1822, to March 3, 1820; died at
Heading. IVnnsvlvania, July 22, 1828.
Underbill, "W alter, was bom in the citv of
New York; was elected a representative from New
Tork in the Tlilrty-flrst Congress as a Whig, receiv-
ing 5,IV41> votes against .i.OOi) votes for Mai'lay. Cobb
Democrat, and l.OH.'i voles for Uecker, Van Uuren
Democrat, sen'ing from December 3, 1849, to March
3, J8.il.
Underwood, John W. H., was bom In i:ibert
Coniily. Georgia, November 20, 1811!; receivnd an
academical education: studied Invv; was admitted to
the bar In 18:14. and commenced practice at Rome,
(jreorgia; was solicitor-gi.'ueral for the Western Circuit
184;J-~I847; was a delegate to the State Congiltullonal
Coiivcniion of ls6U; was a member of Ihe State
House of Representatives in 1S.")7. and vtas chasen
sjteaker of the House; was elected a representative
from Georgia in the Thiriy-sixth Congress as a Dem-
ocrat, receiving 12.3:M> votes against 2,lil2 votes for
Shacklefonl, 6er^•ing from December ,5, lA5il, to Janu-
arj- 23, 18<11. when he reliriMl from the House, and
espoused Ihe cause of the Southern Confederacy;
after peace was declared in 1804. he resumed practice
at Rome. Georgia.
Underwood, Joseph Bogers, was bom In
Goochland County, Virginia, OctolK'r 24. 1701 ; waa
a«lopted by an uncle, and taken to Kentui'ky in 1808;
n-ccived a classical education, which wiis fiiiit-hed at
llie University of Lexington In 1811; studied law
with Rol>ert VVicklllTe; served in the war of 1812 as
lieutenant of Kentucky volunteere; was wounded
and made prisoner by the Indians at Dudley's defeat
in 1813; on liiB release he was admitted to the bar, and
commenced practice at (ilasgow, Kentucky; was ims-
lee of the town, and connty-attomey: was a memlier
of tlic State House of Representatives 181(V-l81ft:
removed in 182:1 to Bowling Green ; w,^s a presiileiitial
elector on the Clay ticket in 1824; was again a mem-
ber of the .State House of Representatives in 1823
lUid 182<!; was a judge of the State Court of Aiipeals
1.S28, 183.1: was elected a representative from Kcn-
tuck-y in the Twenty-fourth ("oiigress as a Whig,
receiving '181 majority over Elijah Hise, Democrat;
was re-eli'clerl lo Ihe Twenty-fifth Congress, rei'eiving
4ty majority over Elijah Hise, Democrat; was re-
elected lo the Twenty-sixth Congress, receiving .iilSS
votes against 4,2111 voles for Elijah Hise, Democrat;
w.is Te-»!lecled to tlie Twenty-seventh Congiess, re-
ceiving. 1.0(11 votes against S,!) 12 votes for J.W. Irwin,
Democrat, sening from December 7, 18:1,'), to March
:}, 184;); cleclined being a candidate for re-election;
was eli5cled a United-States senator from Kentucky
as a Whig, serving from December 0, 1847, to March
3, l<);t: died at Bowling Green, Kentucky. August
2:5. 18711.
Underwood, Warner L., was bom in Gooch-
land Ciiunty, Virginia, August 7, lSt)8; received a
classical education, gnuluating at the University of
Virginia in 18:50; studied law: was admitted to the
bar. and commenced practice at Bowling Green, Ken-
tucky; was a resident in Texas is;l.'l^l84(.i; was a
member of the State House of Representatives in 1848,
anil of the State Senate in 1810; was elected a repre-
sentative from Kentucky in the niirty-fourth Con-
gress as an American, receiving 7,:502 votes against
.l.-IKl votes for Bates, DenuxTal; was re-elected to
the Thirty-fifth Congress, receiving <l,;l.>0 votes iigainst
il.l.Kl voU-s for Lewis, Democrat, serving from Decem-
ber 3, 18.'>i, to >Iarch 3, 18.50; declined being a candi-
date for re-election.
Upham, ChEirles Wentworth, was l>om at
St. ,l()lin's. New Bninswiok, May 4. 18(J2; receivinl n
classical e<lucallon. graduating at Har^•anl College in
1821; engaged in mercantile pursuits: taught school;
studied theology; w.TS a clergyman at .Salem, Massa-
chusetts, frx>m "December 8, 1824, until Decenilwr 8,
1844, when he rellni|ui8lied the ministry on account of
a l>ronchlul trouble ; was a member of the St.ite House
of Kepresenlatives in 1840 and 1840; was defeatefl as
the Whig C4indldate for the Thlrly-s<!Cond Congress,
receiving 5,8tl2 voti?8 against 4,3il4 votes for Rolieit
S. Rantoul, jun.. Democrat, 2,070 votes for S. E.
Sewall, Frce-Soiler, and 49 scattering, which gave no
6T4
C0KOBES8I0KAL DIBECTOBT.
against 7,426 votes for Erastns R. Hampton, Repub-
lican, servinK from December 1, 1873.
Vanoe, Zebulon B., was bom in Buncombe
County, North Carolina, May 13, 18S0; received a
thorough English education, and was one year at the
University of North Carolina; studied law; was ad-
mitted to the bar in 1853, and commenced practice at
Ashville, North Carolina; was a member of the State
House of Representatives in 1854; was elected a rep-
resentative from North Carolina In the Thirty-fifth
Congress (to fill the vacancy occasioned by the elec-
tion of Thomas L. Clingman as senator) as a State-
rights American, receiving 2,049 majority over Avery,
Democrat; was re-elected to the Thirty-sixth Con-
gress, receiving 8,0s;6 votes against 6,331 votes for
Craige, Democrat, serving from December 7, lb58, to
Harch 3, 1&6I ; was colonel of a North-Carolina regi-
ment which he raised for the Confederate army; was
fovemorof North Carolina 1861-1863; was a mem-
er of the Democratic National Convention of IStiS
which nominated Seymour and Blair.
Van Cortlandt, Philip, was bom at New York,
Septemt)er 1, 1749; received a thorough English edu-
cation, and became a land-surveyor; entered the
Revolutionary army at the commencement of the
war as lieutenautK:olonel ; was commissioned as colo-
nel in 1776; served throughout the war, and was ap-
pointed brigadier-general for his gallant conduct at
Yorktown under General Lafayette ; was a delegate
to the State Convention which adopted the Federal
Constitution in 1788; was a member of the State
House of Representatives in 1788-1790, and of the
State Senate 1791-1793; was elected a representative
from New York in the Third Congress as a Demo-
crat; was re-elected to the Fourth, Fifth, SLsth, Sev-
enth, Eighth, Ninth, and Tenth Congresses, serving
from December 2, 1793, to March 3, 1800; devoted
the remainder of his life to the cultivation of his
farm in Westchester County, New York ; accom-
panied Creneral Lafayette on his tour through the
United States in 1824; died November 5, 1831.
Van Cortlandt, Pierre, jun., was bom In
Westchester County, New York ; was a member of
the State House of Representatives 1793-1795; was
elected a representative from New York in the
Twelfth Congress as a Democrat by a majority of
1,533, serving from November 4, 1811, to March 3,
1813; died at Cortlandt, New York.
Vanderpool, Aaron, was bom at Einderhook,
New York, February 5, 1709; received a classical ed-
ucation; studied law; was admitted to the bar in
1820, and commenced practice at Einderhook ; was a
memi>er of the State House of Representatives in
1826 and 1830: was elected a representative from New
York in the Twenty-third Congress as a Democrat;
■was re-elected to the Twenty-fourth Congress, serv-
ing from December 2, 1833, to March 3, 18;{7 ; was de-
feated as the Democratic candidate for the Twenty-
fifth Congress ; was again elected to the Twenty-sixth
Congress, receiving 9,058 votes against 9,469 votes
for Robert Dorlon, Whig, serving from December 2,
1839, to March 3, 1841 ; removed to New-York City,
and died there July 18, 1870.
Vanderveer, Abraham, was bom in Eing's
County, New York, in 1781 ; was elected a representa-
tive from New York in the Twenty-fifth Congress as
a Democrat, serving from September 4, 1837, to March
8, 1839; died at Brooklyn, New York, July 21, 1830.
Vandever, William, was bom in Maryland;
received a public-school education; removed to Iowa,
and located at Dubuque; was elected a representative
from Iowa in the Thirty-sixth Congress as a Repub-
lican, receiving 25,6U3 votes against 22,764 votes for
Leffingwill. Democrat; was re-elected to the Thirty-
seventh Congress, receiving 36,805 votes against
27,2C6 votes for Samuels, Democrat, serving from
December 5, 1859, to March 3, 1863; served in the
Union army as colonel in 1861.
Van Dyke, John, was bom in New Jersey;
received aa academical education ; studied law ; was
admitted to the bar, and commenced practice at New
Brunswick; was elected a representative from Xew
Jersey in the Thirtieth Congiess as a Whig, receiving
6,34U votes against 5,173 votes for Kirkpatrick, Dem-
ocrat; was re-elected to the Thirty-first Congress,
receiving 7,282 votes against 0,C2;1 votes for Hillianl,
Democrat, serving from Deceml)er 6, 1847, to March
3, 1851; was judge of the Supi«me Court of New
Jersey.
Van Dyke, Nicholas, was bora in Delaware:
was a delegate from Delaware to the Continental
Congress 1777-1782; was a signer of the articles of
Confederation.
Van Dyke, Nicholas, was bom in Delaware;
received a classical education, graduating at Prince-
ton College iu 1788 ; was elected a representative from
Delaware in the Tenth Congress; was re-elected to
the Eleventh Congress, serving from October 26,
18u7, to March 3, 1811; was elected a United-t>tatM
senator from New Jersey, serving from Decemiier 1,
1817, to May 10, 1826, when he died at New Castle,
Delaware.
Van Gaasbeck, Peter, was bom in Ulster
County, New York; was elected a representative
from New York in the Third Congress, serving from
December 2, 1703, to March 3, 1795.
Van Horn, Burt, was bom at New Fane, New
York, October 28, 1823; was raised on a farm; was a
farmer and a manufacturer; was educated at the
Madison University, New York ; was a member of the
State House of Representatives in 1S58-1860; was
elected a representative from New York in the Thir-
ty-seventh Congress as a Republican, receiving S,Cb2
votes against 6,882 votes for Ely, Democrat, serving
from July 4, 1861, to March 3, 1863; was re-elected
to the Thirty-ninth Congress, receiving 12,071 votes
against 0,533 votes for Willett, Democrat; was re-
elected to the Fortieth Congress, receiving 12.204
votes against 0,131 votes for Comstock, Democrat,
serving from December 4, 1S65, to March 3, 18(i0.
Van Horn, Robert T., was bom in Indiana
County, Pennsylvania, May 10, 1824; received a pub-
lic-school education; learned the art of printing:
went to Missouri, where he was mayor and postmat-
ter of Kansas City ; was a member of the State Stnate
of Missouri in 1803, 1804, 1865; served in the Union
army as major and lieutenant-colonel of Missouri
volunteers during the war for the suppression of the
Rel>elIion; was elected a representative from Mis-
souri in the Thirty-ninth Congress as a Radical Re-
publican, receiving 3,408 votes against 3,226 votes for
Norton, Democrat, and 695 votes for King, Democrat;
was re-elected to the Fortieth Congress, receiving
5,891 votes against 4,857 votes for James T. Burch,
Conservative ; was re-elected to the Forty-first Con-
gress, receiving 5,427 votes against 4,560 vot«s for
Shields, Democrat, serving from December 4, 18ti3,
to March 3, 1871.
Van Home, Archibald, was elected a repre-
sentative from Maryland in the Tenth Congress;
was re-elected to the Eleventh Congress, serving
from October 26, 1807, to March 3. 1811.
Van Home, Bspy, was t>om in Lycoming
County, Pennsylvania; was elected a representative
from Pennsylvania in the Nineteenth Congress as i
Democrat; was re-elected to the Twentieth Congress,
serving from December 6. 1825, to March 3, 1829;
died at WilUamsport, Pennsylvania, June 25, IS:^.
Van Home, Isaac, was bom in Pennsylvania;
served as captain in tne Revolutionary war; w»s
elected a representative from Pennsylvania in the
Seventh Congress ; was re-elected to tlie Eighth Con-
gress, serving from December 7, 1801, to March 3,
1805; was appointed receiver of public moneys »t
Zanesville, Ohio.
Van Houton, Isaac B., was bom in Rockland
Countjr, New York; was elected a representative
from New York in the Twenty-third Congress as i
Jackson Democrat, serving from December 2, 1^33,
to March 8, 1835; died at Ciarkeetown, New York.
STATISTICAL SKETCHES.
673
he Union militjiry authorities In 1808 for havlne
prt's»«l Ills ap[)roviil of the Rt'lK-llion, and banislirll
rio thf Confi'derate .Slati's; but he weut from Wil-
Diingtun to Bennutla, and thence to Canada, wherp
he ix-'maiiifd until peace Wiis restored; during his
tiexile he was defeated as Uemocratic candiilate for
pjvemor of Ohio; Wiis a delesate to the National
bemooratic Conventions at C'hin^o in IStU. and at
New York in IHtiH; dieil at Lebanon, Ohio, June 17,
ll*"l. from a wound receiveKl by the accidental dis-
^ iluirge of a pistol while be was arguing a cose In
onrt.
Van Aemam, Henryi was ''om at Marcellus.
few York, Jl.ircli II. ISUt; received an a/.'ailemlc
)due:itJoii; (jradiiated at a medical college, and prac-
1 at Kranlvlinville, New York; w.as a meralHT of
tie .state House of Kcpresentatives In 1W5S; served
1 the Union army as surgeon of the One Hundred
ad Fiffy-founh New-York Volunteers; was elected
esentative from New York in the Thirty-ninth
as a Kopulilican. receivini;; lit.i'ini votes
ttst 7,374 votes for Jonas K. llutton. Democrat;
re-elected to the Kortleth Congress, receiving
l.40.'> votes .iininst 7,291) votes for HIsley, Uemocral,
ervinn from iVceniber 4. IStiJ, to March 3, 1*50.
Van Allen, James Q., was boni in Rensselaer
lounty, New York; received a public-school cduca-
ion; was a member of the .state House of Hepresen-
ivc» in ISOl; was elected a representative from
Jew York in the Tenth Constress, serving from
>cfol)er 2<i. 1K)7. to M.irrh 3, IrtlH).
Van Allen, John B., was born in Rensselaer
County, New York; received an academical tiduca-
ftion; resided at Troy: was elected a representative
"rom New York in the Third Congress; wjis re-elected
1 the Fourth and Fifth Con;jrresses, serving from De-
erat>er 7, 1703, to Slarcli 3, 171HI; was a member of
lie State House of Representatives 1800-1801.
Vtm Auken, Daniel M., was bom in Pike
ICounty, Tennsylvania, January l!j, 182ft: graduali-il
^t Union College, New York; studied law; was ail-
tiitted to the bar, and practised at Milford, Penn-
jrlvania; Wiis prosecuting-attomey for Pike CJounty,
Pennsylvania, from lR->) until IsMt; was elected a
epresentative from Pennsylvania In the Fortieth
Congress as a Democrat. recciviuK l.).li;»7 votes
zainst t'.llil votes for Lilley. Republican; was re-
ifectod to the Forty-tirst Congn.'ss, receiving 17,028
otos against li),:!23 votes for Torrey, Republican,
prving fr.im March 4, 1867, to March 3, 1871.
Van Buren, John, was born In Ulster County,
few York: reci-ived an academical education; stud-
cd law; wiis admitted to the bar, and practiseil at
Kingston, New York; wsis ele<;ted a representative
rom New York In the Twenty-seventh Cotigrcss as
. Deniocrnl. receiving 0.0i)7 votes against .5,0:10 voles
Dr Benjamin R. Bevfer, WTiig, serving from M.iy 31,
' 1.S11. to Miu-ch :?, 18-lo; died at Kingston, New Y'ork,
January 1(1, ISoo.
Van Buren, Martin, w.as bom At Kinderhook,
New York, Dwember 5, 1782; was rijarinl on his
father's farm; received an academical education;
tudied law; was admitted to the bar In 1803, and
omnienced pnu-tlce at Kinderhook, removing to
"Buds m in l.Si/l); was a member of the State .Senate
1SI:;-1S20; w.as attorney-general rif the St.ate of New
York Februarj- 17, ISl.j-July 8, ISUt; was a delegate
Bin the .State Constitutional Convention in 1821; was
^^Mected a Unit4!d-Stales senator from New York as a
^K)emocrat, and re-<dected, serving from December 3,
^■821. to December 20, 1828. wiien he resisned to
^"Sccept the office of governor of the .Stale of New
Yorli; this position he resigned on the 12th of
March. 1820, having been appointed by President
Kuckson secretary of'stale of the United States; this
osition he resigned August I, 16:J1, having been
ppolnted by President .lackson ndnister to Great
Intaiii, but the Seiuile rejected his nomination, and
e took leave March 10, lji!2; was elected Vice-Presi-
dent on the Jackson ticket in 1S32, receivhig 160 of
the 277 electoral votes east; was elected President In
18;l(l, receiving 170 of the 204 electoral votes cast,
serving March 4, 1837-3Iarch 3, 1841 ; was defeated
as the Democratic candidate for President In 1840,
receiving tiO electoral votes against 2;J4 elertor.J
votes forW. H. Harrison, WTiig; was the candidate
of the Aniislavery party for President In 1848; visit-
ed Eunii)e in 18.'j.'{-18iW; died at Kinderhook, New
York, Julv 24, 1802. He wrote " Inquin,- into the
Origin auff Course of Political Parties in the United
States," publislied by his sons iifter his death. Lives
of bim were written by VV. Holland, M. Dawson, D.
Crockett, and others.
Vance, John, was l»om in Pennsylvania; re-
moved to Ohio, and resided at l'rl>ana; 'wiis elected
a representative from Ohio in the .Seventeenth Con-
gress, serving from December 3, 1821, to March 3,
182:?.
Vanoe, John L., was bom at OoUipoIIs, Ohio,
July 10, 18:10; was educated in the common sdiools,
in a printing-office, and at the Gullia Academy;
studied law: graduated at the law-school of the
Cincinnati College In April, 1801; was admitted to
the bar, and practised at (rallipolis; enlen-d tho
Union army In April. 1801, and served in tlie various
grades from cajit.iln to commandant of his regiment
until December, ISiM; was a delegate to the National
Democratic Convention at Baltimore In 1872: estab-
lished "The Gallipolis Bulletin" in 1807; was elect-
ed a representative from Ohio in the Forty-fourth
Congress as a Democrat, receiving 12,4Ji7 voles
against 10,400 votes for H. S. Buniy, Republican,
serving from December 0, 1875, to Starch .'?, 1877;
wiw defeated as the Democratic candidate lor thO
Forty-fifth Congress, receiving 14,0.39 votes against
1.5,213 votes for Henry H. Neat, Republican.
Vance, Joseph, w.-»s bom in Washington Coun-
ty, Pennsylvania, March 21, 17SH; received a public-
school education; engi^ed In mercanllie pursuits
and eattle-brccfling; was oni; of the earliest settlers
in f)bio, settling at Urbana; was several limes a
member of the State House of Representatives; was
a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1820;
was elected a representative from Ohio in the Eigh-
teenth (.'ongress as a Democrat: was re-eleeted lo
the Nineteentli, Twentieth, Twenty-first, Twenty-
second, and Twenty-third Congresses, ser^•ing from
December 1, 1823, to March 3, 18.3.5; w.as governor
<^f Ohio in 18.30; was again elected to the Twenty-
eighth Congress as a Whig, receiving 7.510 votes
agaiiist 4,.'>52 votes for Hunt, Democrat; w.as re-
elected to the Twenty-ninth Congress, sen'ing from
I>ecemf>er 4, 184.1, to March .3, 1847; was a delegate
to tlie \Vlilg National Convention of 1848; died on
his farm neiir Urbana, Oliio, August 20, IS-M.
Vance. Robert B., was bom in Buncombe
County, North Carolina; resiiled at Niiahville. Nash
County; was elected a representative from North
Carolina in tho Eighteenth Congress as a Cnnvfortl
Democrat, receiving the same number of votes as
Felix Walker. Jackson Democrat (the election then
ilovolved U[wm the sheriffs of the four counties cfim-
posing tho congressional district, of whose votes Mr.
Vance received .3, and Mr. Walker 1), serving from
December 1. 1823. to March 3, 1825.
Vance, Robert Brank, was bom in Buncombe
County. North Carolina, April 24, 1828; r«?eeived a
public-school education: w.'vs by occupation a farmer;
was clerk of the Court of Pleas and (Quarter .Sessions
from 1848 to 18.50; was elected captain of a company
in the Confederate service In istll ; was twice elected
colonel of the Twenty-ninth North-Carfjiina Regiment,
and was appointed brigadier-general In kM13; was
elected a representative from North Carolina in the
Fortv-thlrd Congress as a Democnitic Conservative,
riHciVing 11.3)0 rotes against 8.04.5 votes for W. G.
Candler, Republican; was re-<'lecled to the Forty-
fourth {'ongress, receiving 11.127 votes •against ti,8s7
votes for P. Durham, Independent: was re-elected
to Uie Forty-fifth Congress, rwctving 10,tJ08 votes
676
COXOBESSIOKAL DIBBCTOBT.
coin; entered the Union army in 1861 as a private;
was commissioned as first lieutenant in tlte Third
Ohio Yolunteers; was quartermaster of the Eigh-
teenth Ohio Volunteers, and was colonel of the
Ninety-second Ohio Yolnnteers, with which he
served in the Army of the Cumberland until pn>s-
trated by pneiuuonia at Kashrille; was elected a
representative from Ohio in the Forty-fourth Con-
gress as a Republican, receiving 11,655 votes against
10,656 votes for Wyley H. Oldham, Democrat, and
30D votes for M. Alderman, Prohibitionist; was re-
elected to the Forty-fifth Congress, receiving 14,6^
votes against 14,110 votes for Poston, Democrat,
serving from December 6, 1875.
Van Winkle, Peter G., was bom at Kew-
Tork City September 7, 1808; received an academic
education; studied law; was admitted to the bar,
and commenced practice at Parkersburg (in what is
now West Virginia) in 1835; was a practising lawyer
until 1852, when he became treasurer, and subse-
quently president, of a railroad company; was a
member of the Virginia State Constitutional Con-
vention in 1850; was a member of the Wheeling Re-
organizing Convention in 1861 ; was a delegate to the
Convention which framed the Constitution of the
State of West Virginia; was a member of the legis-
lature of West Virginia in 1863; was elected United-
States senator from West Virginia as a Union man,
and served fram December 7, 1863, to March 4, 1869;
he died at Parkersburg, West Virginia, of a ner-
vous prostration, aggravated by dropsy of the chest,
September 7, 1808.
Van Wyok, Charles H., was bom at Pough-
keepsie KTovemtier, 1824; graduated at Rutgers Col-
lege, Kew Jersey; studied and practised law; was
district-attorney of Sullivan County from 1860 to
1S56; entered the Union army as colopel of the
Tenth Legion, or Fifty-sixth New- York Volunteers,
and commanded it during the war for the suppres-
sion of the Rebellion, receiving the rank of brigadier-
general ; was elected a representative from New York
in the Thirty-sixth Congress, receiving 6,681 votes
against 5,532 votes for Niven, Democrat, and 1,587
votes for Friend, American; was re-elected to the
Thirty-seventh Congress, receiving 8,311 votes against
8,103 votes for St. John, Fusionist, serving from De-
cember 5, 1859, to March 3, 1863; was again elected
to the Fortieth Congress, receiving 10,191 votes
against 9,933 votes for Anderson, Democrat; and
was elected to the Forty-first Congress as a Repub-
lican (the House deciding that he received more votes
than George W. Greene, Democrat, who claimed the
seat), servin" from March 4, 1867, to March 3, 1871;
removed to Nebraska, and engaged iu agricultural
operations; was a member of the State Senate in
187S.
Van Wyck, William W„ was bom In Dutch-
ess County, New York; resided at Fishkill; was
elected a representative from New York in the
Seventeenth Congress as a Democrat; was re-elected
to the Eighteenth Congress, serving from December
8, ISiil, to March 3, 1825.
Vamum, James Mitohell (a brother of Joseph
Bradley Vamum), was bom at Dracut, MassachU'
setts, in 1749; received a classical education, graduat-
ing at Rhode-Island College in 1769; studied law;
was admitted to the bar, and commenced practice at
East Greenwich, Rhode Island; was chosen com-
mander of the Kentish Guards in 1774, and colonel
of the First Khode-Island Infantry in 1789 ; was trans-
ferred to the Continental service in 1776, and promotr
ed to the rank of brigadier-general in 1777; directed
the defence of Fort Mifflin; was at the winter en.,
campment at Valley Forge, and at the battle of
Monmouth, resignljig in 1779; was elected a dele-
fate from Rhode Island in the Continental Congress
780-1782. and again in 1786-1787; was appointed a
judge of the United-States Court in the North-west
Territory: removed in June, 1788, to Marietta, Ohio,
and died there January 10, 1780,
Vamtun, John, was hom in Enex Connty,
Massachusetts, in 1783; received a classical educa-
tion, graduating at Harvard University; stndifd
law; was admitted to the bar, and commenced
practice at Haverhill, Massachusetts; was. elected a
representative from Massachusetts in the Nineteenth
Congress; was re-elected to the Twentieth and
Twenty-first Congresses, serving from December 5,
1825, to March 3, 1831 ; removed to Nile*, Michigan,
where he died July 23, 1836.
Vamum, Joseph Bradley (brother of James
Mitchell Vamum), was bom at Dracut, Massachu-
setts, in 1759; received a public-school education;
served as brigadier-general in the Revolutionary war;
was a meml>er of the State Senate, House of Repre-
sentatives, and council ; was elected a representative
from -Massachusetts in the Fourth Congress; was
re-elected to the Fifth, Sixth. Seventh, Eighth,
Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh Congresses, serving
from December 7, 1795, to March 3, 1811, serving
the last two terms as speaker; was elected a United-
States senator from Massachusetts, defeating Timo-
thy Pickering, serving from November 4, 1811. to
March 8, 1817; was a delegate to the State Constitu-
tional Convention of 1820; was major-general of
militia; died suddenly at Dracnt, Mamchusetts,
September 11, 1821.
vaughan, William W., was elected a repre-
sentative from Tennessee in the Forty-second Con-
gress as a Democrat, receiving 13,900 votes against
5,346 votes for W. J. Smith, Republican, and S.iSO
votes for E. Shaw, Independent Republican, serving
from March 4, 1871, to March 3, 1873; died at Mem-
phis, Tennessee, August 10, 1878.
Veeder, William D., was bom at Guilderland,
Albany County, New York, May 19, 1S35; received
an academical education; studied law at Alliany
with Peter Caggerand Nicholas Hill; was admittL-d
to the bar in March, 1858, and commenced practice
at Brooklyn ; was a member of the State Assembly
in 1865 and 1866; was a member of the Democratic
State Committee 1875-1877; was a member of the
New- York State Constitutional Convention 1867-
1868; was surrogate of King's County, New York,
1867-1877; was elected a representative from New
York iu the Forty-fifth Congress as a Democrat, re-
ceiving 17,916 votes against 10,630 votes for Jama
Cavauagh, Republican.
Venable, Abraham B., vras bom in Virginia;
received a classical education, graduatuig at Prince-
ton College in 1780; was elected a representative
from Virginia hi the Second Congress; was re-
elected to the Third, Fourth, and Fifth Congresses,
serving from October 24, 1791, to March 3, 1799;
was elected a United-States senator from Virginia
(in place of Stevens T. Mason, deceased), serving
from Deceml)er 13, 1803, to June 7, 1804, when he
resigned; perished with about seventy others in
the conflagration of the theatre at Richmond, Vir-
ginia, December 26, 1811.
Venable, Abraham Watkins, was bom in
Prince Edward County, Virginia, October 17, 1799;
received a classical education, graduating at Hamp-
den-Sidney College in 1816; studied medicine fur
two years, and then went to Princeton, where ha
graduated in 1816; studied law; was admitted to
the bar in 1821, and commenced practice; was a
presidential elector in 1832 on the Jackson and
Van Buren ticket, and again in 1832 on the Van
Bureu and Johnson ticket; was elected a represei-
tative from North Carolina in the Thirtieth Con-
gress as a Democrat, receiving 4,688 votes against
4,435 votes for John Kerr, Whig; was re-elected
to the Tlilrty-first Congress, receiving 6,026 votes
against 4,316 votes for H. K. Nash, Whig; and was
re-elected to the Thirty-second Congress, receiving
3,616 votes against 2,620 votes for Graves, Oppo-
sition, serving from December 6, 1847, to March 3,
1853 ; was a presidential elector in 1800 on the Breck-
imidge and Lane ticket] waa a delegate from Nortli
STATISTICAL SKETCHES.
675
Varnieter, John J., wns bom In Ohio: resided
riki'iiiii ; waselei'ted u rt'iirt-si'iitativc from Ohio in
ie 'rwoMiy-ciuiith C'oiigii-ss iis a Whig, reeeiviii:To,:l4-)
oil's Oj^iii-il 0,142 volcB for Lucas. Dcinocral, and
ixi viiti s for Stewnrt, Abolitionist, s«ning from De-
leniln-r 4. l-^:), to March 3, li<4.i.
Van Ness, John P., wus horn at Ghent, New
ork, 177'!: r«'civ<.'d a clnssical pducntion; was a
•tiidi'nt a1 Columhia Colh't;!'; stiidit'd law; was nd-
itled to the bar, but never practised; was eleiMed a
presontntivo from New York in the Seventh Con-
ss as n Democrat, and took liis seat l>eecml>er 7,
Wl ; lie was married, in May, 18i.)2, to Marcia Bums,
he heiress of Washinijton (.'ity. and goon afterwards
:eei>ted from President Jetlt'rson the cmnmission of
ajor <if the uniformed militia of the Dislrict of
Columbia, for which the Ilom-e of Representalives
dpclare<l his seat forfeiteil January 17, 180S: he
then wade Washington City his home; w.is elected
mayor; was president of the liank of t he Metropolis,
knii lilli'd other locil positions; died at Washington
City Jlarcli 7, IfUd.
Van Rensselaer, Henry (son of Stephen Van
nsselaer), was bom at Albnny, New York, in 1811 ;
ceived a military education ai the West-Point Mili-
ry Academy, graduating in 1S;!1 ; was commissioned
irevet ?e<!<)n<l lieutenant of the Fifth Uniteil-St.ites
Infantry July I, ISSl. and resigned Jainiary 27. 1*12;
as elected a representative from New York in the
wcnty-seveuth Congrejss as a Whig, receiving 0,258
■otes against ri,i>4S votes for Preston King, Demo-
te serving from May 31, ll;m, to March .3, lft4;J;
r>'cd in the Union amiy as a colonel and inspector-
iieral, a portion of the time on the staff of Licuten-
it-General Scutt; died at Cincinnati, Ohio, March
Van Kensselaer, Jeremiah (brother of Ste-
phen Van Kensselaer), was born in 1741 ; received on
academical education, gT'Uluating at Princeton Col-
lege in 17.jS; was an active supporter of lievolution-
y measures; was elected a representative from
ew York in tlie First Congress, serving from M.iy
178!', to Man-h 3, 1791; was a presidential elector
:i IfUll ; was lientenant-sovernor of New York ISOl-
&H: died at Albany, New York. Febraary 22, !822.
Van Rensselaer, Killian K.., wiis bom at Al-
bany, New York, in 17'kl; received a thorough Eng-
lish education; was elected a reitresentative from
ew York in the Seventh Congress H» a Democrat ;
as re-elected to the Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, and
Elei-enth Congresses, serving from December 7. 1S<)1,
to March 3, l^fll: died at Albany, Now York, June
18, v:-Ar,.
Van Rensselaer, Solomon, was bom in
Penpselner County, New York, in 1774; reeeiv(;d a
irouuh English education; entered tlie Uniled-
tates army as comet of cavalry March 14, 17112;
.was promoted to be capt.iin, and woumled through
;he lungs at the battle of Miami .\ugU5t 20, l7i>4;
■was pr .moled to be m.ijor January 8, 17110, and wa-s
mustered out in June, I.SIK; was .idjutant-iieneral of
>'ew York in 1801. IPlt), and 1813; »er\'e<l in llie war
of 1812 aa lieutenant-colonel of New- York volun-
teers, and was dangerously wounded in the assault
on Queeenslon Heights (lelolier I."l, 1S12; waa elect-
|«cl a ^'l)^•senlative from New York in llie Sixteenth
onpress as a Federalist ; was re-elected to the Seven-
nth Congress, 8er\-lng from December tl, ISIO, to
amiary 14, 1822, when he resigned to accept the
istmasicrsliip at Albany, which he held until he
iw-is removed liy President Van Biiren in 1830; died
near .\lbany April 2:!. ls."i;>.
Van Rensselaer, Stephen (brother of Jere-
miah Van Kensselaer, and fallier of Henry Van
:cnsseliier). was liom at New York November, 17(H ;
ived a clnssical cduc-ition. graduating at Han ani
ollege in 1782; was a member of tlie New-York
enate ndl-nftj; was lieutenant-governor of New
York 17P5-18')1; served in the war of 1812 as major-
general of volunteen on the frontier; was a canal
I commissioner from .\pril 17, 1810, until his death,
Ser%Mng the last fourteen years .ns president of I he
canal i>oard; was ele<;tpd a represenlalive from New
York in the Seventeeiilli Congress (in place of Solo-
mon Van Hensselaer, reslgnetl) as an Ailams man;
was re-elected to the Eigbteenlli, Nineteenth, and
Twentieth Congresses, serving from March 12, 1822,
to March ;!. IK^ti; died at Albany January 2i'., l.'-;30.
Vansant, Joshua, was bom at D^Utiinore. Mary-
land, in l.Si>4: receiveil a puljlie-selnHjl eiliicniion;
was for m.-iny years in the hat business; w.is a sena-
torial elector in 1SJ<!; was |N>stmaster of Baltimore
16.3!)-1841 ; was a member of the State Housv' of Jfep-
resentatives in ls4.'): was a memlx-r of a8|ieeial water
commission in 18."i2; was elected a representative
from Marjiand in the Tbirty-thinl Congress as a
Democrat, receiving .'i.S7tl votes against .">,(J«ll vtites
for Preston, Whig, and serving fnmi December 6,
1853, imtil Uareli 3, ISVi; was several limes a di-
rector on the Baltimore and Ohio Kailroad in behalf
of the city and of the state: was four times appoint-
ed finance commissioner of Baltimore: was a mem-
ber (if the .Slate Constitutional Convention of Mary-
land in ls<17; was elected mayor of Baltimore in 1871,
and re-elected in ls7,'J; wus apiKdnted city comptroller
of Baltimore in 187(1.
Van Trump, Philadelph, was bom at Lan-
caster, Ohio, .N'ovemlier l.'i, ISIO; receivc<l a [lublic-
school education; learned the art of printing, ami
edited " Tlie Lancaster Gazette and Enrpiirer; '' w.is
a delegate to the National Whig Convention which
nominated Scott ami (iruhain in iS.>2; was a candi-
d.nte for senatorial elector on the Fillmore ticket fur
Ohio In 1850; was president of the Bell and Everett
.State t'onvention in 18(i0; was the DenuKrratic can-
didate for supreme judge of Ohio in the years 18ty,
1804, and 18<15; sen-ed as judge of the Court <.f
Common Pleas from 1802 to 18*50; was elected a
representative from Ohio in the Fortieth Congress aa
a Democrat, receiving 14,540 votes against ll,;i:Mt
votes for Jones, Republican; was re-elected to the
Forty-first Congress, receiving l(!,2ti7 votes against
11,374 votes for Tiimey, liepulilicun; was re-elected
to the Forty-8eeon<I Congress, serving from March 4,
1807, to March 3, 1873,
Van Valkenburgh, Robert B., was bom In
Steuben County, New York. .Septemlier 4, 1S21; re-
ceived an academical education; studied law; was
admitted to the bar, and commenced pnu'tice at
Biith, New York; was a member of tlie State House
of Itepresentativcs l!$J2, 1857, and 18.58; was placed
in cmmand of the State rccruiting-dc-jKit at Kmira
in 1801, and orgauizeti seventeen regiments for llio
war; w.is elected a n'presenlotive from New York
in the Thirty-seventh Congress as a Bepublican, re-
ceiving 13,107 votes against 8,.'j07 votes for Walker,
Democrat ; was re-elected to the Thirty-ciglith Con-
gress, receiving 14,827 votes against ll),774 votes for
Hathaway, Democrat, serving from July 4, 1801, to
Mareli 3, 1805; took the tield as colonel of the One
Hundred and Seventh Regiment of New- York Vid-
unteers while a member of Congress, and corn-
maniled it at the liattle of Aiitietum; was acting
commissioner of Indian affairs in the suninger of
1805; was apjiointed by President Johnson minister
U> Japan, serving Januai7 1><, ISOO-Novembcr U,
18<1».
Vtm Vorhes, Nelson H., was bom in Wash-
ington ('oiuiiy. Pennsylvania, January 2:3, 1822; re-
moved to Atliens County, Ohio, In 18;J2; worked on
a farm; entered tiie printing-ofilce of his father in
liiJO. and sen'cd a six-years' apprenticeship, tjuiiiify-
ing himself for publishing a newspaper, v.hicli he
did until lisOl; was a memlier of the St.ite House ot
Kepresentatives 1850-1872, during four year* of
which lie was speaker; was elected probate judge In
IS.54, but soon afterward resigned; was the \\lilg
candidate for Congn?S8 in 18.'>.8, and was defeated by
277 votes; was ft delegate to the National Republican
Convention at Chicago which uoininated Mx, Liu-
678
COKOBESSIOiTAL DIBEOTOKT.
against 16,966 votes for S. Dinsmore, War Democrat;
was re-elected to the Fourteeuth Congress, serving
from Hay 24, 1813, to March 3, 1S17; was chief jus-
tice of the Court of Common Plejis for the Western
Circuit; died at Walpole, New Hampshire, October
28J841.
Vroom, Peter D., was bom in Somerset County,
New Jersey, in 1791 ? received a classical education,
graduating at Columbia College, New York, iu 1806;
studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1813, and
practised succcssireljr in Morris, Susses, Hunterdon,
and Somerset Counties ; was a member of the State
House of Beprcsentatives iu 18:iO, 1827, and 1829;
was elected governor of New Jci-sey as a Jackson
Democrat in 18:^, 1831 ; was defeated as the Demo-
cratic candidate for governor by S. L. Southard,
Whig, in 18;W, but again elected in 183:}-183rt; was
appointed by President Van Uurcn in 1133S a commis-
sioner to adjust the claims of the Indians in Missis-
sippi ; claimed to have a certificate of election to the
Twenty-fifth Congress with the "broad seal" of the
State, but was not admitted to a scat; was elected a
representative from New Jersey in the Twenty-sixth
Congress as a Democrat, and, tiiter much discussion,
he was admitted to a seat, serving from March 10,
1843, to March 3, 1841; was a delegate to the State
Constitutional Convention in 1844; was a presiden-
tial elector on the Pierce and King ticket in 18o2 ;
was appointed by Governor Fort in 1853 to the chief
justiceship of the State Supreme Court, but declined
it; was appointed by President Pierce minister to
Prussia, serving from May 24, 1833, to August 10,
1857 ; was a delegate from New Jersey to the Peace
Convention at Washington in 1801 ; was appointed a
commissioner of the State sinking fimd in 1864 ; was
a presidential elector on the Seymour ticket in 1868 ;
died at Trenton, New Jersey, November 18, 1873.
Ho published five volumes of "Reports of the Su-
preme Court of New Jersey."
Waddell, Alfred Moore, was bom at Hills-
borough, North Carolina, September 10, 1834; was
educated at Bingham's School and Caldwell Institute
at Hillsborough, and graduated at the University of
North Carolina in 1853; studied law, and practised
at Wilmington ; was clerk of a Court of Ecjuity from
1858 until if'Ol ; was a delegate to the National Con-
servative Convention at liultimore in 1860 which
nominated Eoll and Everett ; owned and edited " The
Wilmington Daily Herald " from May, 1800, to May,
1801; served in the Confederate army as lieutenant-
colonel of cavalry; was elected a representative from
North Carolina in the Forty-second Congress as a
Democrat by a majority of 351 over O. H. Dockery,
Bepublican; was re-elected to the Forty-third Con-
gress, receiving 14,280 votes against 13,557 votes for
N. McKay, Bepublican; was re-elected to the Forty-
fourth Congress, receiving 15,.572 votes against 14,285
votes for Neil McKay, Bepublican ; was re-elected to
the Forty-fifth Congress as a Democrat, receiving
17,.5:j4 votes against 15,706 votes for W. P. Canada,
Republican, srrving from March 4, 1871.
Weida, Benjamin F., was bom in Feeding
Hills Parish (near Springfield), Massachusetts, Oc-
tober 27, 1800; received a public-school education;
went to Ohio, where he was a school-teacher and
farmer while studying law; after commencing prac-
tice, he hold several local offices in Ashtabula Coun-
ty, Ohio; was a member of the State Senate of Ohio
from 1837 to 183S; was president of the Third Judi-
cial Circuit of Ohio in 1847; was elected to the Unit-
ed-States Senate as a Republican (to succeed Thomas
Ewing, Whig) ; took his seat December 1, 1851 ; was
re-elected iu 1857, and again re-elected in 1863, serv-
inguntil March 4, 1809.
XVade, Edward, was bom at West Springfield,
Massachusetts, November 22, 1803; received a public-
school education; removed with his father to Ashta-
bula County, Ohio, in 1821; studied law; was admit-
ted to the bar in 1827, and commenced practice at
Jefferson, Oliio; removed in 1882 to Union vilie, and
in 1837 to Cleveland; was elected a representatlre
from Ohio in the Thirty-third Congress as a Free-«nil
candidate, receiving 5,274 votes against 4,046 votes
for Case, Whig, and 3,715 votes for Wilson, Demo-
crat ; was re-elected to the Thirty-fourth Congress as a
Bepublican, receiving 7,690 votes against 3.U79 votts
for Wilder, Democrat; and was re-elected to the
Thirty-fifth Congress, receiring 9,431 votes against
4,467 votes for Hilliard, Democrat; and was pe^lett-
ed to the Thirty-sixth Congress, receiving 8,557 votes
against 4,597 votes for Gray, Democrat, and 9i) votes
for Kelly, Independent, serving from December 5,
1853, to March 3, 1801; died at Cleveland, Ohio, Au-
gust 7, 1862.
Wadleigh, Bainbridge, was bom at Bradford,
New Hampshire, January 4, 1831 ; received an ooa-
demical education; studied law; was admitted to the
bar in Febmary, 1850, and practised at Milford; was
a member of the State House of Bepresentatives in
1855, 1856, 1859, 1860, 1869, 1870, 1871, and 1872; was
elected a United-States senator from New Hampshire
as a Republican (to succeed J. W. Patterson, Bepab-
lican), and took his seat March 4, 1873. His term of
service will expire March 3, 1879.
Wadsworth, James, was bom in Durham,
Connecticut, July 6, 1730; received a classical edu-
cation, graduating at Tale Collie in 1748; was
town-clerk of Durham 1756-1786; was colonel and
brigadier-general of Connecticut militia in 1776, and
second major-general in 1777; was ordered to New
Haven to defend the towns on the coast in 1777, and
was for some time a member of the State Committee
of Safety ; was for some years a justice, and then the
presiding justice, of the New-Haven County Court of
Common Pleas; was a del^ate from Connecticut to
the Continental Congress 1783-1786; was a member
of the Executive Council 1785-1790; died at Dortiam,
Connecticut, September 22^ 1817.
Wadswortn, Jeremiah, was bom at Hartford,
Connecticut, in 1743; was the originator of numer-
ous plans for the improvement of his native town,
and held a number of local offices; was commis-
sary-general of the Continental army during the
greater part of the war of the Bevolation; was a
delegate to the Continental Congress in 1786-1788;
was elected a representative from Connecticut in the
First Congress as a Federalist; was re-elected to the
Second and Third Congresses, serving from March 4,
1780, to March 3, 1795; died at Hartford, Connecti-
cut. April 30, 1804.
Wadsworth, Pelesr, was bom at Duxbuir,
Massachusetts, May 6, 17&; received a classical edu-
cation, graduating at Harvard University in 1769;
taught school at Plymouth with Alexander Scam-
meil, and engaged hi commercial pursuits; served
throughout the Revolutionary war; removed to Fort-
land in 1784, and became a land agent and surveyor;
was a member of the State Senate ia 1792; was
elected a representative from that portion of Massa-
chusetts which was afterwards Maine in the Tfaiid
Congress; was re-elected to the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth,
Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Congresses, serving
from December 2, 1793, to March 3, 1807; removed
in the fall of 1807 to Oxford County, Maine, to sur-
vey and improve a large tract of land granted to bun
by government for his services; died at Hinun, Ox-
ford County, Maine, November 18, 1820.
Wadsworth, William H., was bom at Mayv
ville, Kentucky, July 4, 1821 ; received a classical
education at the Augusta College of Kentucky;
studied law; was admitted to the bar, and com-
menced practice at Maysville, Kentucky; was a
member of the State Senate in 18.53 and 1855; was a
presidential elector on the Bell and Everett ticket;
was elected a representative from Kentucky in the
Thirty-seventh Congress as a Democrat, receiTin;;
12,130 votes against 3,850 votes for Williams, Seces-
sionist ; was re-elected to the Thirty-eighth Cong^es^
receiving 6,638 votes against 567 votes for Brown,
Democrat, serving from July 4, 1861, to March 3,
STATISTICAL SKETCHES.
677
kto the adjourned session of the Provislnnal
Btc Coiii^rcss wliicb met at IMchmoml in
1901; died al lirowusville, JJorth Carolina,
l^ruarv 24, InTO.
Terplanck, Daniel C. (father of GuHan C.
' "Vprpljiiick), was horn in Duu-liess County, New
York, in 17<I1; received au acodomicnl educatii^n;
resided at Fishkill; was elected a reprcseutalivc
from New York in the Ei:;hth Congress; was re-
elected to the Ninth luid Ti-ntli Congrei»e«, serving
from October 17, ISiW, to Miireh 3. lK«t; was lirst
judjre of tlie Court of Common Pleas for Dutchess
County March 11, 1828-Janunry 10, 18;J0; interested
himself in a-'Tricullu^<^; died at his country-seat near
Fishkill Mircli 211, 1S:M.
Verplanck, Oulian C. (8>'n of Duniel C. Ver-
plnuek), w:i» hum al New Yoik Aiiirusti I"*!: re-
ceived a classical education, graduating at Colum-
' bia College in 1801; studied Uw; was admitted to
the bar; travelli'd extensively in Europe; returneil
liomc, and commeiuM^d pr.ii'lico; was a tneniher of
the State House of Heprescntatives 18ii>-lS;i2; was
professor of the evidences of Christianity in the
Prolest,int E[)iscop.nl Theolojric.nl Seminary at New-
York City; was elected a representative from New
York ill the Nineteenth ConLrrcf^s as a Jackson
Demoerat; was re-elected to the Twentieth, Twiuly-
lirsl, and Twenty-second Confiresses, serving frcin
Ueeeinlior 0, 18i"), to March 2, IMi't; was defeated as
the Whic; candidate for m.iyor of New York in 1*34;
T.'os a member of the State Senate 183S-1S-11 ; was f jr
B.irnc years president of the, lioanl cf Commissioners
I of Eini-rration, one of the vestr>inen of Trinity
<hureh, one of the ijoveniors of the City Ilospiltd,
»!id vice-ehancellor r.f the StJite I'nivciTiity; he died
,nt New-York City March IS, ISTO. lie published
' The Early Euroi>eun Friends of Ameriea," " Essays
I on the Evidences of llevealed l!eli;;ioa," "Oration
I on the Law of Literary Property," •' The Talisman,"
" Discourses on V'aiioiis .Subjects," and an edition of
j Shr.kspcare's plays, with notes.
Verxeo, Jolin P., was bom at Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, in ISll); received a puhlic-siihool
'education; was an imn-mr.nufacturer; was for sis
[ years a member of the Philadelpliia city couticil,
' Ber^•iIl5 four years as presidiuf; ofiicer; was elected a
I repn'sciit.itive from Pennsylvania in the Thirty-sixth
f ... . H jis a Republicun, receivin;^ lliDlT votes
. y4 votes for Landy, Uemocr.it; and was
I t.i the Thirty-seventh Congress, receiving
• fi,Uil votes against H.lliHl votes for KUtie, Democrat,
I lind 35'J \oU-s for Hamilton, I'idonist, serving from
I December ."). I' JO. i > March 3. liStlS.
Vibbard, Chauncy, w.ns born at Oalway, Sara-
j toca County, New Yurie, November 11, l.'*ll; re-
jeciTPd a common-school educition; w.-is a elcrk in a
[•tore; entered thes,.Tvico of the Utica and Scheijec-
j t.uly Kaihoiid .ms elcrk in a ticket-oliiee, and became
superintendent if the road; was superintendent of
[tiie New-Yurk Ccnt;al l\,-ulroad; was clecteil a rep-
[reseiitative from New i'ork in the Thirty-seventh
j ConTTC-ss as a Democrat, recei\ ing li.',(dl> votes
against ll.iKii; votes for Slix. Hepublican, serving
tirom July 4. ISJl. to March :). 18(W.
Vickera, George, wiis l>orn in Chestertown,
I Kent County, Maryluncl, November 11), )8Jl ; received
[en a.:-ademie mliie.Uion; bi?canie a clerk in the coun-
lly-clerk's oiiice; studied law; was admitted tfi the
[tar in 1Sj2, and pMclised at Chestertown; was a
4clc^;aie tj the Whig National Convention at Balii-
laiore i;i ]So2; decli.'ied the oppointino:it of judpe
espcctively tendered l>y Governors Hicks an<l BnwI-
ard; v.ni a;;iKdnted majoi^rcncrul of militia in
IlSOl by the fonuer; wjis a presidential elector on the
IWcClellan ticket in IWW; was a meralx-r of the State
Jcnate of Maryland in P*iO and 1' 07: was eue i f thi;
iTice-pPsiilents nf the Uiuon C'inrentiou held in
IPhiladelphia in lytW; was elected I'nilcd-States sena-
torfroni Maryl.ind .-is a Conscr\n!ive Ilemocnit (to lill
Uie vacancy created by the rejection of Pldiip Fran-
cis Thomas), serving from Marcli 0, 18t!S, to March 3,
Videl, Michel, was b.jm at Lanptiedoc, France;
received an ac;id(nnc;d education; Iminl ;rated to the
republic of Texas ; was subsequently a writer tor
joumids in New Orleans, New Y'ork, and <,>uebec;
est.-iblished "The St. Landry Pro;;res8" hi 1SJ7; wp.g
a delegate to the State Coiistiiulional Convention of
18(1.S; wiis electe<l a representative from Loidsiaiia in
the Fortietli Con!;ress, serving from July l.s. INig, to
March -i, 18ti!); was apjiointed cjusuI at Tripoli.
Vining, John, was a rlelegate from Del.i\\i%re to
the Contineiitid Con.'rrcss 17K4-1780: was elected a
representative from Delaware in the First Congress;
was re-elected f.i the Secdid Congress, seri in;; from
M.iy (>, 17s'.>, t'l M.irch 2, 171U; wiis elected a Inited-
Statcjs senator from Delav.are, serving from Deeem-
l>er 2, 17»;1, to JInreh II. 171.'S, when he resigned.
Vinton, Samuel F., v.as lH:m at .South Had-
ley, Massachusetts, .September 25, l'\f2; received a
classical education, graduating at VVillianis Ctdlege,
in Massachusetts, in l.'-14; stuiliod law; was admitted
to the bar in ISHi. luid comnicMieed practice at Galli-
polis; was elected a repre.sonliitive from Ohio in the
Kigliteenth Comrress as a Whig, and was re-elected
to the Nineteenth, Twentieti, Twenty-lirst, Twenty-
second, Twenty-third, and Twenty-fourth Con^Tcsses,
servuig from December 1, 1G23, to March i. IXYi;
was a presidential elector on the Harrison ticket;
was again elected to the Twcnty-<>iglith Congii>-s as
a Wliig, receiving 4,l;W votes against y,2(!U voles for
Clevehuid, Democrat, and 21^ votes for Uuckin^iam,
linionist; was re-cleetcd to the Twenty-ninth and
Thirtieth Congresses; wasre-electtHl totheThirty-IirEt
Congn'ss, receivhig .1,700 votes ag^ii;st 4,410 "votes
for Tucker, Democrat, serving from December 4, ls4:},
to March 3, 1801; was appointed a eommissioner by
President Lincoln to appniise the slaves emuncii'ated
in the District cf Columbia in 18C2; died at VVash-
incton City in May, m(!2.
Voorheea, Daniel W., was h<im in Fotnuain
County, Indiana, September 20, 1.S2S; rcceivnl a
classical education, graduating at the Indiana Asbury
University in 1.S40; studied law; was admitted to the
bar in 1861, and commenceil practice at Crawfords-
ville, Indiana, in ll:i>l ; was defeated as the Demo-
cratic eaniUdatc for the Thirty-tiflh Congrt-ss, receiv-
ing ll,b72 votes against ll..'if.2 votes for James Wil-
son, Itepubllcan; was appointed by President Bu-
chanan United-States attorney for the district of
Indiana l(ro8-l.*<00; went to Virginia in 1.S51) as coun-
sel for John E. Cook, one of John Brown's nuders;
was elected a representative from Indiana in the
Thirty-seventh Congress as a Democrat, receiving
12,.'>ij votes against IL.^K! votes for Thomas H. Nel-
son, Republiciin ; was re-idected to the Thirty-eighth
Congress, receiving 12,4,")7 votea against 0,1'70 votes
for H. D. .Scott, llepubliean; was re-elected to the
Thirty-ninth Congress, receiving 12,.S80 votes against
12,190 votes for Washbuni, KepubliciUi, ser\iiig from
.Inly 4, 18ijl, to Februarj- 2.'!. IHOil, when his cicetioa
wna succes.'fidly contested, and his seat given to
Henry D. Wa«hl>um ; was again elected to tile Forty-
tirst Congress, and wsis re-elected to the Forty-second
Congress, receiving 17,27.'* votes .igainst IC^W votes
for Uuim, liepublican, ser^•ing from Marcli 4, KW,
to March JJ, 187;}; was appointed a United-StJites sen-
ator from Indiana (in place of Oliver P. Morton, de-
ce,ised), serving from November 12, 1877. His term
of iifhce will expire with the next meeting of the
legislature of Indiana.
vose, Roger, was bom In New Hampshire in
170;i; n'ceivcd a classical education, graduating at
Harvard University in 17!l!>; studied law ; w:'_s admit-
ted to the bar, and coimuenccd pr.ictice at Walpole,
New Hampshire; was a meml)er of the State Senate
and House i;f ISepresentatives; was elected a repre-
sentative from New Harapshin' in the Thirteenth
Congress .is a Federalist on the " Peace ticket,"
headed by Daniel Webster, receifing 18,011 votes
680
OQNOBSSSIOKAIi BIREOIOET.
^)polnted by President Pierce commiasioner of
pensions, serving from March 17, 1853, to June 5,
1856, when he was elected by the legislature of Con-
necticut a judge of the Supreme Court
Waldron, Henry, was bom at Albany, New
York, October 11, 1819; graduated at Kutgers Col-
lege, New Jersey, in 1830; removed to Uiciiigan in
18:^7, and engaged in business pursuits ; was a mem-
ber of the Michigan legislature in 1843; was elected
a representative from Michigan in the Thirty-fourth
Congress as a Kepublican, receiving ll,od5 votes
against 8,113 votes for Moble, Democrat; was re-
elected to the Thirty-fifth Congress, receiving 16,467
votes against 10,064 votes for Barry, Democrat ; was
re-elected to the Thirty-sixth Congress, receiving
14,6o3 votes against 10,l;J7 votes for Stacy, Democrat ;
was re-elected to the Forty-second Congress as a
Bepublican, receiving 18,348 votes against 17,447
votes for N. B. Eldridge, Democrat; was re-elected
to the Forty-third Congress, receiving 17,427 votes
against 10,542 votes for A. Mahan, Liberal ; and was
re-elected to the Forty-fourth Congress, receiving
14,611 votes against 14,054 votes for John J. Robin-
son, Democrat.
'Walea, Oteorge S., was bom in Wyndham
County, Vermont; received an academical educa^
tion; was a member of the State House of Repre-
sentatives 1818-1B24, serving the last two years as
speaicer; was elected a representative from Vermont
in the Nineteenth Congress, receiving 1,580 majority;
was re-elected to the Twentieth Congress, serving
from December 5, 1825, to March 3, 1820; was judge
of probate for Hartford County 1848-1848.
Wales, John, resided at Wilmington, Dela-
ware; was elected a United-States senator from
Delaware (in place of John M. Clayton, resigned) as
a Whig, serving from February 26, 1849, to March 3,
1851; died at Wilmington, Delaware, December 8,
1863.
Walker, ATn«y»^i was bom at Woodstock, Con-
necticut, May 4, 1790; received a public-school edu-
cation at North Brooicfleid, Massachusetts, where he
afterwards resided; engaged in mercantile pursuits
at Boston 1825-1840; became a zealous reformer;
was professor of political economy at Ol)erlin Col-
lege 1842-1849; was a delegate to the International
Peace Convention in 1843, and again in 1849; was a
member of the State House of Representatives from
North Brookfleld in 1840, and State senator in 1850:
was secretary of state of Massachusetts in 1851 and
1853; was a member of the State Constitutional
Convention in 1853; was elected a representative in
the Thirty-seventh Congress as a Republican (to fill
the vacancy caused by the death of G. F. Bailey),
serving from Deccml>er 1, 1862, until March 3, 1863;
was lecturer on political economy at Amherst Col-
lege 1861-1875; was a presidential elector on the
Lmcoin and Hamlin ticket in 1860; was delegate to
the Philadelphia Loyaliste' Convention in 1866; died
at North Brookiield, Massachusetu, October 29, 1876.
He published " The Science of Wealth," a financial
text-book, with numerous official documents, lec-
ture and orations.
Walker, Benjamin, was bom at Utica, New
York ; was elected a representative from New York
iu the Seventh Congress as a Democrat, receiving
4,204 votes against 2,216 votes for Jacob Eaker,
Federalist, serving from December 7, 1801, to March
8, 1803.
Walker, Charles C. B., was bom at Drews-
TiUe, New Hampshire, June 27, 1824; received an
academic education; removed to Coming, New
York, in 1848; was elected supervisor of Coming,
and was postmaster there 1856-1860; was a delegate
to the National Democratic Convention at Charles-
ton in ISOO; served as an assistant quartermaster-
general at the camp at Elmira in 1861 ; was a delegate
to the National Democratic Convention at Baltimore
in 1872; was a member of the State Democratic Cen-
tral Committee of New York from 1852 untU 1874;
and was elected a representative from New York in
the Forty-fourth Congress as a Democrat, receiving
17,020 votes against 14,128 votes for Hakes. Repnl>-
lican, serving from December 6, 1875, to March 3,
1877.
Walker, David, was bom in Kentucky; was
elected a representative from Kentucky iu the Fif-
teenth Con^ss, defeating Solomon P. Sharpe: was
re-elected to the Sixteenth Congress, ser\-ingr from
December 1, 1817, to March 1, 1820, when he died at
Wasliington City, having previously sent a request to
Congress that his death should not be officially no-
ticed, — a request which was complied with.
Walker, Felix, was born in Hampshire Coun-
ty, Virginia, July 10, 1763; removed to North Caro-
lina, where he became a friend of Daniel Booue. with
whom he explored Kentucky in 1774-1775: settled in
Tryon (afterwards Rutherford) County, North Caro-
lina; was a member of the State House of Represen-
tatives in 1799-1806; was elected a representative
from North Carolina in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth,
and Seventeenth Congresses, serving from December
1, 1817, until March 3, 1823; was defeate<l fur re-
election to the Eighteenth Congress by R. B. Vance;
removed to Tennessee, and thence to Mississippi,
where he died in 1863.
Walker, Francis, was elected a representative
from Vii-ginia in the Third Congress, sening from
December 2, 1793, to March 3, 1796.
Walker, Freeman, resided at Augusta. Geor-
gia ; was elected a United-States senator from
Georgia (in place of John Forsyth, resigned) as a
Democrat, serving from December 13, 1819, to
August 8, 1821, when he resigned; died at Au-
gusta, Georgia, September 23, 1827.
Walker, Georere, was bom in Kentucky: was
appointed a United-States senator from Kentucky
(in place of George M. Bibb, resigned), serving from
October 10, 1814, to Febmary 2, 1815, when the sen-
ator elected by the legislature took his seat.
Walker, Gilbmrc Carlton, was bom at Bing-
hamton. New York, August 1, 1832; was educated
at Binghamton Academy, Williams College, Mass.v
chusetts, and Hamilton College, New York, graduat-
ing from the latter institution in July, 1854; studied
law ; was admitted to tlie bar in September, 1855, and
practised in New York and Chicago until 1864, when
he removed to Norfolk, Virginia, and engaged in
the business of banking; was elected, ia July, 1860,
governor of Ylisinia over H. H. Wells, Republican,
by a majority of over 18,000, and retired from that
office in January, 1874; was grand master of Ma-
sons in Viiigiuia; was elected a representative from
Virginia in the Forty-fourth Congress as a Con-
servative, receiving 13,323 votes against 10,710 votes
for Rush Burgess, Republican; and was re-elected to
the Forty-fifth Congress, receiving 15,636 votes against
18,^ votes for C. S. Mills, Bepublican, serving from
December 6, 1876.
Walker, Isaac P., resided at Milwaukee; was
elected a United-States senator from Wisconsin as a
Democrat, serving from June 26, 1648, to Mardi
3, 1855.
Walker, John, was bom in Virginia; was ap-
pointed a United-States senator from Virginia (in
Slace of William Grayson, deceased), serving from
[ay 4, 1790, to December 6, 1790, when the senator
elected by the legislature took his seat.
Walker, John Williains, received a classical
education, (^aduating at Princeton College in 1806;
studied law; was admitted to the bar, and practised
at Hunts vlUe, Alabama; was elected one of the first
United^tates senators from Alabama, serving from
December 14, 1819, to December, 1822, when he re-
signed on account of ill health ; died at HuntsviUe,
Alabama, April 11, 1823.
Walker, Percy, was bom near Huntsville, Ala-
bama; received an academical education; studied
medicine, graduating In 1835 from the medical de-
partment of the University of Pennsylvania, and
BTATISTICAL SKETCHES.
6T9
' WM appointed a commissioner under the
Claims ronvention of July 4, 1808, betweea the
Uuilyd States and Sluxico.
'Wagener, David D., was bom at Eostou, Penn-
sylvania!; roi('ivi.-d a puhlic-si'liool education; en-
gagi'd in mt'rx'niilile pursuits; was for many years
president nf the Eastoii Banlv; was elcotod a reprc-
Suutaiivc from Pennsylvania in the Twenty-third
Congress as a Dennx-rat; was re-elected to the
Twenty-fourth, Twenly-fiflh, ami Twenty-sixth Cnn-
gres»eg, serving from December 2, ISHS, to Sliuxh :),
'Waggamann, George A., w'as bom in n(t:i;
was a imu'tisint; lawyer at New Urleaiis. and also in-
terested in sii::ar-plaulin«; Wiis secretarj" of state of
the Stale of Louisiana under three successive gov-
ernors; was elected a United-States senator from
Louisiana (in plat-e of EdwanI Livingston, resiijned)
as a Wliij;, serving from January :i, ISW, to March .'1.
1835; died at New Orleans March 23, ll>«, from the
effects of a wound received in a dtiel.
Wagner, Peter J., was born in New York: re-
sided at Kort riain; was elected a representative
from New York in the Twenty-sixth Congress as a
\Vliig. receiving 4,401 votes against 4,441 votes for
David F. Sacia, Democrat, serving from December 2,
lS:5!t. to March :^. Is41.
"Wait, John Turner, was bom at New London,
Conne<'ticut. Auu'ust 27, lt?ll; received a mercantile
training in early life, and afterwards was two years
at Trinity College, Hartford; studied Law; was ad-
mitted to the bar in lf>W. and practised at Norwich;
was State's attorney for the county of New London
in l>42-li;^4 and in Itmi-1H.>J; has Iwcn president
of the Bar Association of that county from its or-
ganization in 1!<"4 to the present time; was an un-
successful candidate for lieutenant-governor on the
Democratic ticket in Is,"j4-l,'i'i7, receiving each year
the highest vote on the ticket; was the first elector
at larse as a War Democrat in 1804 on the Lincoln
and Johnson ticket; was a member of the SLste .Sen-
ate in 181).') and liSOO, serving the last year as president
jiro tnnfiore ; was a meml>er of the State llouse of
hepr.'sentatives in 1807, 1S71, and 18T), sening as
6|H'alier the first year, and subseiiuently dwlining
that position; was an unsuccessful candidate for
lieutenant-governor on the Republican ticket In 1874,
receiving the highest vote on the ticket; was elected
to the Forty-fourth Congress (to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of lion. H. 11. Starkweather);
was re-elected to the Forty-lif th Congress as a licpuli-
licaii. receiving 11.2Si! votes iigainst li,.>'Vi votes for
Thomas il. Waller, Democrat, and 176 votes for
Elisha Q. Palmer, Prohibitionist, sorving from April
12, 1X76.
W akeman, Abraham, was bom at Fairfield.
Connerticut. May ;!1, 1^21; reeeiveil an academical
educatiim by his own industry; studied law in Her-
idmer County. New York; removed to New-York
City in 184i);'was .admitted to the bar in 1847, and
commenced practice there; was a member of the
State House of Representatives In 1850 and 1831;
was an alilenuan of the city of New York li<>4-18.T<J;
was elected a representative from New York in the
Thirty-fourth Congress as an ^Vmerican, receiving
4,80.") votes ag.iinsi 2,'.IO[l votes for Curtis, Democrat,
anil l.i.KHi for Fellows, Democrat, serving from De-
cember;}, 1K.\), to March 3, 1857.
Wakeman, Setb, wjis bom at FranlUin. Ver-
mont, January 1.). IMl; studied law. and practised
at Batavia, New York; was district-attomey of Gene-
see < 'ounty. New Y'ork, frfnu LSol to 1857; was a
nienilier of the Assembly of the State of New York
185<>-1857; was a member of the State Constitutional
Convi-ntion of New York in l.Sil7-18<5S; and was
elected a representative from New York in the
F<jrtv-second Congress .as a Republican, receiving
12.l:>4 votes against »,ii:{!t votes for J. G. .Shepard,
Democrat, serving from March 4, 1871, to March 3,
1873.
Walbridge, David S., was bom at Benning-
ton. Vennoiit, July 3.J, 1802; reciived a public-
school education: Wiis a famier, a men-hant, and a
miller; removed to Michigan in 1842, and se'tled at
Kalamazoo; waselircted a representative from Micld-
gan in the Thirty-fourth Congress as a Rfpublican,
receiving 12,8il0 votes against 10.17.'^ votes fc^r Clark,
Democrat; was re-elected to the Thirty-tifth Con-
gress, receiving 23.i)51J votes agninst lO.it-PJ votes for
Littlejolin. Democrat, serving from December 8,
18.M, to March 3, 1851); died at Kalamazoo, Michigan,
June l.i. 1'<IkS.
Walbridge, Henry 8., resided at Iihaca, New
York ; was elected a re[jresentativ(." from New York
in the Tliirty-secvnd Congress as a Whig, n-eeiving
7,70:> voti'S avtainst 7.407 votes for llalsey. r)emocrat,
serving from December 1, ISil, to March ;l, I8.>.i,
Walbridge, Hiram, was l)oni at Ithaca, New
York. Febrii.iry 2. ISiil; removrd with liis parents
in l.-vJd to Toledo, Ohio; n-eelveil ati ai'adeuiieal edu-
cation; studied luw with M. H. Tildun: was admitted
to the i)ar in 1.842, and prai'tised at Toledo; rcmovetl
to New York in 1.S47, and engaved in commercial
pursuits; was elected a rcpr^'sentativc from New
York in the Thlrty-tliinl Congress as a Democrtit,
receiving 5,814 votes ;igainst 4.7'.>7 votes for liowen,
Whig, sening from December 5, 18-J3, to Jlanii 3,
185.) ; was a devoted friend of the Union during the
war for the suppression of the Itelielilon; w.is vice-
president of a National Commercial Convention at
Chicago, and subsequently presided over similar con-
ventions at Detroit and Louisville; wjis defeated as
the Union candidate for the Thirty-eighth Congress,
receiving 4.535 votes against 7,1^28 votes for Benja-
min Wood, Democrat; retircil from busim^s; died
at the Astor Uouse, New-York City, af.er a painful
sumical o|x'nition for the stone, December (1, lii7t(,
"Walden, Hiram, was born at ICnllaiid, Ver-
mont, August 211, 1800; received a pul'llj-.s<iiord
education; removed with his father to New York,
and located at Wright, Scoharle C'ounty; tx'carae ii
wool-earder and cloth-dresser; was interested in tho
militia, and became, by gradual promotion, a m.ijor-
general ; w.as a member of the .State House of i;e[>r<.'-
sent«tives in 18;W; was snpi'rvisor of tho County of
Scoharie in 1842; wa.s elected a representative from
New York In the Thirty-first Congress as a Demo-
crat, receiving 0,03(J votes gainst t),3;W votes for
.Smith, Whig, and 2,7;'7 votes for Hammond, Van
Bnren Democrat, serving from Deceml)er 3, 18-iy, to
Martii 3. 1H.J1.
W^alden, Madison M., was l)om in Adams
County, Ohio, October tl, bsJO; was educated at n
district-school and the Denmark Academy; attended
for one year the Iowa Wcsleyan Uidversity; gradu-
ate«l at the Wesleyan University at Delaware. Ohio,
in 18oW; served in the Union amiy from May. 18(}1,
to May, 1805, as captain In the Sixth Iowa Itifantry
and Eighth Iowa Cavalr>-; was in charge of a news-
pajier at Centreville, Iowa; was a member of tho
State Uouse of Representatives in llSOi and 1807;
was a member of the State .Senate in 18<tS and 1800;
was lieutenant-governor of Iowa in 1)>7U; and was
elected a representative from Iowa in the Forty-
second Congress as a Republican, reviving UMlOo
votes against 14.883 votes for W. T. Smith, Demo-
crat, serving from Man'h4. 1871. to March .3, 1873.
"Waldo, Loren P., was l»om at Canterbury,
Connecticut, Febru.arj- 2, 18;J2; received a public-
school education; studied law; w.is .ailmittcd to the
bar in September, 1825, and commeiiec^d (jrailice at
Tolland Court House, Connecticut ; was State's attor-
ney for Tolland County 18:17-1849; wa-s two years
judge of the Court of Proiiatc, and six years a mem-
ber of the St.ate legislature: was elected a represen-
tative from Connecticut in the Thirly-lirst Congress
as a Deni'ierat, receiving 7.4-14 votes against 7.827
voU-8 for fMiapman, Whig, and 28 scattering, serv-
ing from December 3, lS4i(, to March 3, 1»51;
was commissioner of the State school fund; waa
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OONOBESSIONAX. DIBEOTOBT.
March 3, 1863, and was renomlnat«d In 1862, but
defeated, the district having been changed ; entered
the Union army in 1863 as paymaster, and served
tintil the close of the war; was a presidential elector
In 1872 on the Grant and Wilson ticket, and was
again elected to the Forty-fourth Congress as a Re-
publican, receiving0,847 votes against 8,538 votes for
George W. Miller, Democrat, serving from December
6, 1875, to March 3, 1877.
Wallaoe, William A., was bom in Hunting-
don County, Pennsylvania, November 28, 1827; re-
ceived an academic education; read law; was ad-
mitted to the bar In September, 1847, and has
Sractised ever since; was a member of the State
enate of Pennsylvania 1862-1871, having been
elected five times in succession, and was speaker of
the Senate in 1871 ; was a member of the National
Democratic Convention of 1864, and senatorial dele-
gate and chairman of the Pennsylvania delegation
In the National Democratic Convention of 1872 ; was
chairman of the Democratic State Committee of
Pennsylvania for five years; was in 1874 a member
of the commission to suggest amendments to the
Constitution of Pennsylvania ; was elected United-
States senator from Pennsylvania as a Democrat (to
succeed John Scott, Republican), and took his seat
March 4, 1875. His term of service will expire
March 3, 1881.
Wallaoe, William H., was bom in Miami
County, Ohio, July 17, 1811 ; was reared in Indiana,
where he received a public-school education; re-
moved to Iowa in 1837; was a member of the State
House of Representatives and its speaker; was ap-
pointed by President Taylor receiver of public
moneys at Fairfield, Iowa; removed to Washington
Territory in 1853; was for several years a member of
the Territorial legislature; was appointed by Presi-
dent Lincoln governor of Washington Territory in
1861 ; was elected a delegate from Washington Ter-
ritory in the Thirty-seventh Congress as a Repub-
lican, serving from July 4, 1861, to March 3, 1863;
was appointed by President Lincoln in 1863 the first
governor of Idaho Territory jwas elected a delegate
from Idaho Territory in the Thirty-eighth Congress,
serving from December 7, 1863, to March 3, 1866 ;
was a delegate to the National Union Convention at
Philadelphia in 1866.
Walley, Samuel H., was bom at Boston, Mas-
sachusetts, August 31, IS'Jo; received a classical edu-
cation, graduating at Harvard University in 1826;
studied law, and was admitted to the bar, but never
practised much; was treasurer of the Seaman's
(afteneards the Suffolk) Savings Bank 1833-1853,
and subsequently one of its vice-presidents ; was for
eight years a member of the State House of Repre-
sentatives, and was speaker of the House in 1S45-
1846 ; was auditor of the American Board of Foreign
Missions 1S47-1867; was elected a representative
from Massachusetts in the Thirty-third Congress as
a Whig, receiving 4,290 votes against 1,745 votes for
L. A. Dowley, Democrat, 1,028 votes for Charles M.
Ellis, Free-Soiler, and 30 scattering, serving from
December 6, 1853, to March 3, 1855 ; was defeated as
the Whig candidate for the Thirty-fourth Congress,
receiving 2,760 votes against 4,912 votes for L. B.
Comins, Know-Nothlng, and 026 votes for L. R.
Spinney, Democrat; was defeated as the Whig can-
didate for governor in 1855 by Henry J. Gardner,
Know-Kothmg, who also defeated Rockwell, Repub-
lican, and Beach, Democrat; was the treasurer of
several railroads: was bank commissioner, and in
1839 became president of the Revere Bank ; died at
the Rocldand House, Nantasket Beach, where he
was spending the summer months, August 27,
1877.
Walling, Ansel T., was bom in Otsego Coun-
ty, New York, January 10, 1824; removed at the age
of nine years with an elder brother to Erie County,
Pennsylvania; received a common-school and aca-
demic education; learned the art of printing i&
"The Erie Observer" oflloe; removed to Ohio In
1843; was editor and publisher of " The Mahoning
Index" in the Cass and Butler campaign, and of
"The Coshocton Democrat" 1850-1854; was cleric
in the legislature of Ohio 1851-1852; was admitted
to the bar in 1852: removed to Iowa, and was editor
and publisher of '' The Keokuk Daily Times " 1S55-
1858; was a delegate to the National Democntie
Convention from Iowa in 1856; returned to Oliioin
1861, and in 1863 resumed the practice of law at
Circleville ; was elected to the State Senate of Ohio
in 1865, and to the State House of Representatires
in 1867, serving as speaker pro tempore ; and was
elected a representative from Ohio in the Forty-
fourth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 13,580 votes
against 0,^ votes for David Taylor, jun., Repub-
lican, serving from December 6, 1875, to March 3,
1877.
Walls, Josiah T., was bom at Winchester,
Virginia, December 30, 1842; received a common-
school education; was a planter; was elected a
member of the State Constitutional Convention in
1868; was elected a member of the State House of
Representatives in 1868; was elected to the State
Senate 1869-1872; claimed to have been elected a
representative from the State at large to the Forty-
second Congress as a Republican, but the election
was contested by his competitor, Silas L. Ni black,
who took the seat January 29, 1873; was re-elected
for the State at large, receiving 17,503 votes against
15,881 votes for Niblack, Democrat; and was re-
elected to the Forty-fourth Congress, receiving 8,548
votes against 8,178 votes for Jesse J. Finley, Demo-
crat.
Wain, Robert, was bom at Philadelphia, Penn-
sylvania, in 1765; received a public-school educa-
tion; engaged in mercantile pursuits; was elected a
representative from Pennsylvania in the Fifth Con-
gress (in place of John Swan wick, deceased) as a
Federalist, receiving 820 votes against 320 votes for
Samuel Miles, Democrat ; was re-elected to the SixUi
Congress, receiving 825 votes against 361 votes for
Samuel Miles, Democrat, serving from December 3,
1798, to March 3, 1801; died January 24, 1836.
"Walsh, Miohael, was bom at Yougbal, Ire-
land, March 7, 1810; immigrated when a boy to
Baltimore with his father, who was a graduate of
Trinity Collie, Dublin, and who gave him a good
education; learned the trade of lithographic printer:
remove«l to New York, where he became a political
wire-puller; was a member of the State House ot
Representatives in 1839; established in 1S40 a politi-
cal journal called " The Knickerbocker," which was
stopped, after two years' existence, by his conviction
and imprisonment for the publication of aUliel; on
his release he established another political Journal,
called " The Subterranean," which was a scurriloiu
sheet, and did not live long; was president of a
poUtical club known as "The Spartan Association;"
was elected a representative fiitim New York in the
Thirty-third Congress as a DemocratjTeceiving 4,808
votes against 2,664 votes for Hawes, Whig, and 1,712
votes for Kelly, Democrat, serving from Decembers,
1853, to March 3, 1856;. was sent by SecreUry Marcy
on confidential errands to England and Mexico for
the Department of State ; was found dead in the area
of a public-house In New York March 17, 1859. A
volume of his speeches was published by "The
Spartan Association " in 1843.
Walsh, Thomas Tates, was bom at Balti-
more, Maryland; was elected a representative from
Maryland in the Thirty-second Congress as a Whig,
receiving 6,683 votes against 6,453 votes for W.
Pinckney Whyte, Democrat, serving from December
1, 1851, to March 3, 1853; was defeated as the Whig
candidate for the Thirty-third Congress, receiving
6,440 votes against 6,792 votes for Henry May,
Democrat.
Walsh, William, was bom in Ireland May U,
1828; immigrated to Viiglnla in 1812; was educated
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commenced pniotico at Mobile, Alabama; was a lieu-
tenant of Alahaiua volunteers duriug the caui|>aigii
against tlie Creek Iiiiliaus; studied law; was a mem-
ber of the State Uuuse of llepreseutativc* in IfSJJlt;
was adniitied to the bur in 1842, and cumuieii'.'ed )>rHe-
tice at Jl'ibile: w.x'i Stale's attorney for the Sixth
Judicial District for four years; wits a^'aiu a meuilM.T
of the Slate House of Keprescntatives in 1847 and in
l!<53: w:is elected a representative from Alaliama
ill the Thirty-fourth Coiijiress as an Ainericiin, re-
ceiving i.JtW votes ii'^ninst 4,C>Si) voles for StallworlJi,
Democrat, ser\'in}: from Decembers, It**), to March
it, IHoT: ileelini'd n n'noniinutiou.
Walker, Robert J., was bom at Northumber-
land. IV.nnsylvaiiia, July iSi, 1S(>1; received a clas-
sical educttUoii, B^nulnating at the University of I'eiin-
sylvauia in IHl'J; stuiiicd law with his father; was
admitted to the bar, and ecmnncnced praetii'e al
I'ittsbun;, Peiinsylvaiiia, in ISiil; removed to Mis-
sissippi In 1k:^<I, and lociited at Madisonville; Wiis
appointed a United-States senator from Mississijipi
(no successor to George Poindextcr having been
elected) as a Democrat; and was re-ele<!ted, sening
from February 2:i, i(tK), to March 5, llr>ld, when he
resigned; v. iiiTed by President Polk secretary
of the tit' ;if; from March 0, ISlo, to March
3, ISiy; \i- i.ind; was a|)pointed by Pn'sident
Buchanan governor of Kansas in ltSo7, but soon
resigned; was api>ointed by President Lincoln in
18<J;TtiiiaMcial iuieiit to Europe; was the counsel for
the Itiissian troveniment when Alaska w.is sold to the
United .'states; hod an extensive practice before the
tiupreme Court; and died at VVasliington City No-
veiulHT II, IS(l!l.
Walker, WilUam A., was txirn in New IIam|>-
Bbire; n-ceived a pulilic-school education; removed
to New-York t'ity; wiu elected a representative from
New York in the Thirty-third Coniiress as a Denic»-
crat, receiving .'>,8til voles against 4,7(i2 votes for
Boberts, Wliig, and lyy scattering, sen'ing from D»-
«:mb4:r 5, 185.i, to March 3, liSM; died at New York
Deceiiiln'r IS, INU.
Wall, Oarret D. (f.ither of Junes W. Wall),
was born in Monmouth County, New Jersey. March
10, n8:i; received an acadcmii'al education; sluilied
law at Trenton; was lulmitted to the bar in 18<)7, and
commenced pruetico at Uurlingtun, New Jersey;
was clerk of^ the Supreme Court 1S13-1817; was
State <iuartennaster-genenil 1X16-18:17; was a mem-
ber of the Slate House of liepresenUitives in l.vJ7;
■was United-States attorney for Ihi? district of New
Jersey in l.'52(); vr\a elected the same year as gov-
ernor of till' .Stiile of New Jersey, but declined; was
elected » United-Stales senator from New Jersey as
a Democrat, serving from December 7, ISi'i, to March
i, ISIl ; was judge of the Court of Errors and Ap-
peals ISiti-lSJ'.i; dii.-d al liurlingt<m. New Jersey,
of dropsy on tlie chest. November ii, 186*).
Wall, James W. (son of Garret D. Wall), was
born al Trenton, New Jersey, in 1S2<J; received a
classical education, graduating al the College of New
jersey al New Brunswick in 18^9; stuilied law witli
Sauiel Uaini'«; was admitted to the bar in 184i', and
commenced prai'tice al Trenton; was commissioner
of biuilini|>lcy; removed to llurlington in 1847; was
mayor of Burlington in l!^6l); visited Europe in 18.!>4;
he took strong grounds in lUitl against coercing the
South, and was impris<med for some time in Kort
Lafayette; was eleclol a United-States senator from
New Jers<.'y (in place of John R. Thomson, de-
ceased) as a Democrat, serving fr<^>m .Tanuary 21. 18<U,
to March 3, 18'^; died at Elizabeth, New Jersey,
June 9, 1872. He published "Foreign Etchings, or
Visits to the Old World's Ple^tsant Places,'' and was
a freouent coiitiilmtor to Democratic newspar»ei'8.
'Wall, William, was born at Phib-uleliihia,
Pennsylvania, March '20, 18iJl; received a public-
BChfKileilucalion; served a seven-years' apiirenlice-
Bhip to the trade of ropcmaker; removed to King's
County, Lung Island, in l)i£i, and was so successful
in his business that he retired with a fortune In
185(1; held a number of local ollices; was a commis-
sioner of the Uruokiyn Water- Worl« ; was electe«l a
representative from New York in the Tliirty-sevenlh
Congress as a Kepubliciui. receiving lt,S77 votes
against ii.811 voles for Taylor. D»-mo<'rat, and ;!,085
voles for Do fly. Inile|R-ndent Demo<?rat, sening (rom
July 4, |8('>1, to March :j, 180:1; died at Brooklyn,
New York, April 20. 1872.
■Wallace, Alexander S., was bom in Tork
County, South Ciirolina, Deceiidier;lO, 1810; received
a common-schiiol eilucatiiin; was a planter; was ap-
pointed a magistrate in bSlS, and w;is successively
re-ap|H)inted until 186:); waselei'ted a memlxT of the
legislature of South Carolina in 1862 as a Union can-
iliilate in opposition to the secession movement of
IS'Jl, and n'-elected in IS').!, 18.>4. 1866, 18."i8, iind ISflO;
anil was a Uniou candidate in 18(Jt), but was defi'aleu
liy the .Secessit mists; was again elected in IWI.'i as a
Uniou candidate: was appointed internal-rev rune
collector of tlie Thinl Dislrict of South Carolina in
July, 18(M, which oBlce he held until he was elected
to Congress; was elected a reprcsent.itive from South
Carolina in the Forty-tirst Congress as a Hepublican;
was re-<-lecteil to the Forty-second Congress, rceiv-
ing lli,04tl votes against i;!.422 votes for 1. G. Mc Kis-
sick, Democrat; was re-*'lected to the Fortj-thinl
Congress, receiving 14..W) voles again.st 12,K7'.t voles
for B. F. Perry, Democrat; and was re-electeil to the
Forty-fourth Congress. riTeiving 10,462 votes iiguiiist
14, -146 Votes lor Joseph B, Kershaw, Democrat, serv-
ing fmm March 4. 18<>SI, tn March .1, 1877.
Wallace, Daniel, was Iwm In Union County,
South Carolina; was elected a r«n)resenlalive from
.South Camlina in the Thirtieth Congress (in place
of James A. Black, deceased), receiving .S.;j(i() votes
against :J,044 votes for 11. II. Thompson, and 2,irt>7
voles for F. W. Davie: was re-elocled to the Tliirty-
(irst fJongress, receiving no opposition ; was re-elccled
to the Thirty-second Congress, serving from June
12, 1848. to March \i. 185:1.
Wallace, Da'Vid, w-as bom at Philadeliihla,
Pennsylvania, April 4, 17Wt; removed with his pa-
rents lo Ohio; receive<l a military eilucal ion, gradu-
ating from the West-Point Military Academy in 18'J<);
was assistant professor of niatliem.itics there January.
1820-February, 1821; was commissioned brevet sec-
ond lieutenant In the Second Artillery July I, 1821,
and resigned June 1, 1822; removed to Iiidiana|H>lis,
Indiana; studied law; was admilled to the bar. and
practised; was a member I'f the Slate Ilouse of Kep-
rescntatives in 18:10 and in bSW; was governor of
Indiana 18;i7-1840; was elected a representative from
Indiana in the Twenty-seventh Congress as a Whig,
serving from May :il, 1841. to March 3, 1.843; was
defeated as the Whig candidate for the Twenty-
seventh Congress, receiviug 11.314 votes ag.ainst l.'.iin
votes for W. J. Brown. Democrat; was Stale prose-
cuting-attoniey; was a delegate lo the State Consti-
tutional Convention ; was elected in 186d juilge of the
Court of Common Pleas at Indianapolis, Indiana,
where he died .September 6. 1801).
Wallace, James (whose name generally ap-
jieared in the Journ.al of the IIous<-. against his
protest, as James M. W.illace), was born in rjauphin
County, Pennsylvania; was elected a rcpresenmtiva
from Pcnnsylvaniii in the Fourteenth Congress; was
re-elected to tlie Fifteenth and Sixteenth Congri'sses,
serviiig from December 4. 1815, to March 3, 1821.
Wallace, John W., was bom at Beaver Falls,
Pennsylvania. December 20. 1818; receivcil a clas-
sical education; studied medicine, and graduated at
Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, in 1840;
liH-uled at Darlington, Pennsylvania, but removed in
Is.'iO lo New Castle, and soon ac<iuired an extensivo
practice; served as a delegate to several slate and
national conventions; was elected a repn'scntaliTe
from Pennsylvania in the Thirty-seventh Congri'ss as
a Itepubiican, receiving 7.il:li) votes against I>,l02 votes
for Uulsteiu, Democrat, serving from July 4, 1801, to
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Thirteenth Congress as a Peace candidate, receiving
in Boston 1,527 votes against 20 scattering votes;
and was re-elected to the Fourteenth Congress, serv-
ing from May 24, 1813, until March 3, 1817; was
chief justice of the Court of Common Pleas 1820-
1839; was a member of the State legislature of Mas-
sachusetts ; and died at Boston October 7, 1847.
Ward, Eilijah, was bom at Sing Sing, New
Tork, September 15, 1818; received an academic
education, and subsequently completed his studies
under private instructors; studied law with Hon. W.
W. Campbell; was admitted to the bar in 1843, and
commenced practice; was judge-advocate-gcneral of
the State from 1853 until 1855; was a member of the
National Democratic Convention at Cincinnati in
1856; was elected a representative from New Torlc
in the Thirty-fifth Congress as a Democrat, receiving
6,531 votes against 4,^1 votes for 6. .Bnggs, Native
American, and 4,100 votes for James W. Nye, Ee-
publican, serving from December 7, 1857, to March
3, 18.59; was defeated as the Democratic candidate
for the Thirty-sixth Congress, receiving 6,591 votes
against 8,.306 votes for G. Bri^s (the Republican
candidate, Augustus F. Dow, having withdrawn) ; was
^ain elected to the Thirty-seventh Congress, receiv-
ing 10,814 votes against 8,417 votes for A. F. Dow,
Republican; was re-elected to the Thirty-eightli
Congress, reoeiving 6,942 votes against 4,839 votes
for F. A. Conlcling, Republican, and 996 votes for
O. Blunt, Independent, serving from July 4, 1861, to
March 3, 1805; was defeated as the Democratic can-
didate for tlie Thirty-ninth Congress, receiving 6,929
votes against 7,315 votes for H. J. Raymond, Union
Republican, 1,647 votes for E. P. Morton, Mozart
Democrat, and 1,347 votes for Rush C. Hawkins, In-
dependent Unionist; visited Europe in May-October,
1865, and again in August, 1866-^eptember, 1868;
was again elected to the Forty-fourth Congress as a
Democrat, receiving 10,113 votes against 9,232 votes
for John D. Lawson, Republican (the district giving
at the same time a majority of 280 votes for General
John A. Dlx, the Republican candidate for gov-
ernor), serving from December 6, 1875, to March 8,
1877; was defeated as the Democratic candidate for
the Forty-fifth Congress, receiving 12,408 votes
against 13,221 votes for A. G. McCook, Democrat.
He published two reports on " The Commercial Ro-
latious between the United States and the British
Provinces." A biographical sketch of him was pub-
lished by Robert Hadfield.
Ward, Hamilton, was bom at Salisbury, New
York, July 3, 1829; received a liberal education;
studied law, and commenced practice at Belmont;
was district-attorney for Alleghany County several
years; was engaged in 1862, under an appointment
from the governor, in raising troops for the Union
army; was elected a representative from New York
In the Thirty-ninth Congress as a Republican, receiv-
ing 16,045 votes against 11,176 votes for McNett,
Democrat; was re-elected to the Fortieth Congress
as a Republican, receiving 17,750 votes against 11,435
votes for Collins, Democrat; and was re-elected to
the Forty-first Congress, receiving 18,647 votes
against 13,180 votes for Gardiner, Democrat, serving
from December 4, 186.5, to March 3, 1871.
Ward, Jasper D., resided at Chicago; was
elected a representative from Illinois in the Forty-
third Congress as a Republican, receiving 12,183
votes against 8,873 votes for C. H. Harrison, Demo-
crat and Lilieral, serving from December 1, 1873, to
March 3, 1875; was defeated as the Republican can-
didate for the Forty-fourth Congress, receiving 9,181
votes against 9,189 votes for Carter H. Harrison,
Democrat.
Ward, Jonathan, was bom in Westchester
County, New York; was elected a representative
from New York In the Fourteenth Congress as a
Democrat, serving from December 4, 1815, to March
8, 1817.
. Ward, Marcus L., waa bom at Newark, New
Jersey, November 0, 1812; received a privatfrwhool
education; was for many years engaged in manufac-
turing pursuits; was a Whig in politics until the
breaking-up of that party, when he assisted in ths
formation of the Republican party; was a delc^te
to the Republican Convention at Chicago in ISflO,
and also to the Baltimore Convention in 1864; was
an elector at large on the Lincoln and Johnson tick-
et; was defeated as the Republican nominee for gov-
ernor of New Jersev in 1862 ; was again noniinst«d
in 1865 for that oMce, and elected for the term of
three years; was a member of the National Repub-
lican Committee, and succeeded Hon. Henry J. Ray-
mond as its chairman; and was elected a represen-
tative from New Jersey in the Forty-thinI Conffress
as a Republican, receiving 16,061 votes against 10,4(3
votes for J. M. Randall, Liberal Republican, serrine
from December 1, 1873, to March 3. 1875; was offered
the place of commissioner of Indian affairs Decent-
ber, 1875, but declined it.
Ward, Matthias, was i)om in Elbert County,
Greorgia; was reared in Madison County, Alabama;
received a classical education ; taught school for two
years; studied law; was admitted to the bar; re-
moved to the republic of Texas; was a member of
the Texan Congress, and, after the incorporation of
Texas into the Union, of the State Senate; was a
delegate from Texas to the two National Democratic
Conventions which nominated Fierce and Buchanan
for the presidency; was appointed a United-States
senator from Texas (in place of J. Pinckne y Hender-
son, deceased) as a State-rights Democrat, serving
from December 6, 1858, to January 4, 1860, when the
senator elected by the legislature took his seat; died
at Raleigh, North Carolina, October 13, 1861.
Ward, Samuel, was bom at Newport, Rhode
Island, May 27, 1725 ; was reared as a fanner, and
settled at Westerly, Rhode Island; was a mem her of
the Provincial House of Representatives 1756-1759;
was chief justice of Rhode Island In 1761 ; was gov-
ernor of Rhode Island 1762 and 1765-1767; was one
of the founders of Rhode-Island Collie, afterward
Brown University; was zealous in the pre-Revoln-
tionary movements ; was a delegate from Rhode
Island to the First Continental Congress 1774-1775;
died at Philadelphia of small-pox March 25, 1776.
His life, by Professor Gammell, was published in
Sparks's " American Biography."
Ward, Thomas, was bom in New Jersey in
1766; was elected a representative from New Jersey
in the Thirteenth Congress as a Democrat] was re-
elected to the Fourteenth Congress, servrne from
May 24, 1813, to March 3, 1817; dUfed at Newark, New
Jersey, February 4, 1842.
Ward, William, was bom at Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, January 1, 1837 ; was educated at
Oirard Collie, Philadelphia : learned the art of
printing In the office of "The Delaware-county
Republican" at Chester, serving there four years;
studied law; was admitted to Uie l>ar in August.
1850, and has since been engaged in the practice of
law, conveyancing, land-business, and hanking; has
been a member of the city council of Chester, and
city solicitor, but has never held any other public
offices ; was elected to the Forty-fifth Congress as a
Republican, receiving 16,220 votes against 0,717 votes
for William D. Hartman, Democrat, serving from
October 15, 1877.
Ward, Williain T., was bom In Kentucky;
resided at Greensburg; was elected a representative
from Kentucky in the Thirty-second Congress as a
Whig, receiving no opposition, serving from Decem-
ber!, 1851, to March 8, 1853.
Wardell, Dcmiel, was bom at Bristol, Rhode
Island, May 28, 1791 ; received a classical education,
graduating at Brown University in 1811 ; removed to
Rome, New York; studied law; was admitted to the
bar in 1815, and commenced practice at Maiinsville,
New York ; was appointed in 1824 a judge of the
Court of Common Fleas for Jeffenoa County ; was a
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ai Bfouiit St. M.ir)''s College, Emniettsburs. Mary-
liuicl, wliioli confoiTi'il tliu (l<"sre<' <if LL.I). cm liiiu
In 1S74: sluilit;,! l:i\v imrtly at Bullsinn Sp;i, Xrw
York; was ailiuilU-il to llip liiir in Mr^iiiilii i.i IS-V),
aiitt commeiiccil practiw at Cmiiherlainl. MarjInnJ.
ill Feljnmnr, 18.VJ: w.is cIiuslmi » presidLMitiiil elector
oil the Dc'iiiocralic ticket in IHiJi) ami 187.'; was n
TiiiMiilwr i.f tlio .Sl.ili- Conslitiiliim:;! roiivi'iilioii of
IsttT; aud was eloctoil a r<'|in>seiilatlve from Mary-
laud ill the Forly-fiiiiriU Coiiitiess as a Ui?muoral.,
reociviiij; 12,1174 votvs against lU.SlHl votea for Lloyd
Lowndes, jun., ricpuljlican ; was nM'IfCted to tlio
Forty-lifth CnngrcRS, rocrivinu ir>,7i7 votou aifainst
15,71:! voli'g for Li'wis E. McConias. I!epnl>licaii,
Bcrviiis from llfoemlK-r tl, lS"o.
Waiton, Charles W., was bom at Mexico,
Maim-. DecmbiT D, isll): rt'ceiv-'d a pulilic-si'hool
cdiK-alion: learned the art of priming; studied law;
iras admitted to the bar in ISki. ami comiueiiced
pnu'ti.-e at M'-'xicii; was attorm'y for Oxford County
1S47-1'N)1: removed to Aulnirii in ls5o; was attorney
for Aiulroscoggiii County lJ<)7-lb<0'); was elected a
represi-iitativc from Maine In the Thirty-seventh
Conjiivss as a Republican, receivin:^ ri.S^NI votes
against 10.102 voles for Keconl, Ueinocral, sonlng
from July 4, 1801, to May 2«1, 18i;2, when he resigned,
havinj; been a|)poiiited by the governor a judge of
the .Slate Supremo Court.
Walton, Ezeklal B., was bom at Mnnlpelier,
Vermont. February 17. 1.S12: received a publie-s<-h(«)l
educalion; learned the art of jirinliiiK; studied law;
became the editor of "The Vermont Watchman"
at Montpellcr, Vermont; was a memlxT of the Stiit«
House of Hepresentalives; was elected a representa-
tive from Vermont in the Thirty-lifth Conitre.ss as n
Kepubliriui, receiving lu,30t< votes against ;i.242 votes
for Needhnm, Democrat ; was re-t-lected to the Thlrty-
alxlh Conj^ress, receivlnij 0.015 votes against 3,577
votes for Eastman, Democrat; and was re-<5lect<'d to
the Thirty-seventh Conyn'ss. receiving; 10,208 voles
against ii,'iSi) voles for Wilcox. Democrat, servinf;
from Deci'inbcr 7, 1857, to Maix-h 3, 1803; resumes!
bis editorial labors; was a delegate from Vermont to
the N.itional Republican Conveatioii at riiiladelphia
in 18iU, and has taken an active part in the politics
of Vermont.
Walton, Qeorge, was bom in Frederick Coun-
ty, Virginia, in 1740; received a public-school educa-
tion: was apprenticed to a carpenter; studied law:
was admitteil to the bar in 1 <74, and commenced
practice at Augusta; was prominent in pre-Kevolu-
llonaiy movements; was a delegate from tJeorgla to
the Cuntiiiental Congress February, 177f»-Oclober
1781: w;ia colonel of a ie.;iinent of militia wbieli
aided in the defence of Savannah in December, 1778,
when he was dangerously wounded lu the thigh,
tiiken pri9<iner, and not released until September.
1770; Wits governor of Georgia 1770; was chief jus-
tice of Georgia in 1783; was a delegate to the con-
vention for framing a Federal Constitution in 1787,
Init declined taking his seat; was again governor in
1780; was again chief justice lu nitl; was appointed
a Ilnite<l-Wtates senator from Georgia (in placi- of
James Ja<;k8on, resigned), serving from December
18, 1705, 11.1 April 12, I'VKI, when the senator elected
bv the legislature took his scat; died at Augusta,
GJeoruia. February 2. 1804.
W'Uton, Matthew, was elected a repreieiita-
live f.oiu Kentucky in the Eighth Congress; waa re-
elected to the Ninth Congress. ser\-ing from Octol)er
17, 18.);J, to March 3, isn't;- was a presidential elector
In 18'i0; died January 18. 1810.
Waiworth, Reuben Hyde, w.os bom at
Bo/.nih. Connecticut, October 20, 1780, but removed
in 17115 with his father's family to Hoosick, New
York; was reari-d on a farm, and received a public-
Bciiool education; studied law with Hon. John Hns-
Bell at Troy; was admillJ^d to the bar in 18ij;i. and
comineiiceii practice at Plattsburg in 1811; was aj)-
polnted justice of the peace, and master in chancery;
served in the war against Great Britain as brigade-
major; was elected a representative from New York
in the Seventeenth Congri'ss .-is a Dem<x;ral. receiving
I.2IKI majority, 5er^ing from December 3. 1S21, l6
M.trch 3. 182;;; was apiHiinted judge of the FcMirlh
Circuit; was appointed chancellor'of the Stale of
New York in 1X28; was nominated by President
Tyler in 1844 to tie a justice of the Supreme Court of
the United Slates, but the Senate pfusi-d to ronHi'm
the nomination: left the bench in 184.^. when tlje
office of ch:uieellor was abolished, and n.-sumed prac-
tice; died at Saratoga, New York, November 28,
1S<I7.
Ward, Aaron, was born at Sing Shis, New York,
July h, 171>i; received an academical education;
commenced llie study of law; w;is appoinled lieuten-
ant in the Twenty-ninth l'nlted-.Stales infantry May
20, 1K13, and promoted Ui be captain May 0, 1814;
st'rved on the frontier; resigned at the close of the
war; resumed his legal Bludles with Mr. Van Derlen
of Oxford; was admitted to the bar, nnd eoinmenced
pnactice at Sing.Sing; was appoinled ilistrict-allomey
for Westchester County: was successively eonimis-
sioneil .18 colonel, brigadier-general, and iiiajor-gon-
eral of militia; w.is elected a n-prescntative from
New York in the NInlcenlh Congress as a Democrat;
was re-elected to the Twentieth Congress, serving
from Decembers, 1825, to Marcli .3, 1820; was again
elected to the Twenty-second, Twenty-third, and
Twenty-fourth Congn;sses, serving from December
5, 18:J1, to Man'h .3,18:37; was again elected to the
Twenty-seventh Congress, receiving 5,049 votea
against 4.035 votes for Nicholas Cruger, Whig, serv-
ing frfjm May 31, 1841, to March 3, 1843; was a dele-
gate to the Stale Constitutional Convention in l.'^I;
visited Europe in l.S').'i-lS54; was defeated as the
Democratic candidate for secretary of state of New
York in 1855; died at Georgetown. District of Colum-
bia. March 2. 1807. lie publishe<l a volume of travels
entitled "Around the I'vnimids."
Ward, Andrew H., was bom in tlaiTison
County. Kentucky; was deflated as the Conscr\'iv-
live candidate for repivscntative in the Thirly-nintli
Congress, receiving 0,421 votes against 7.000 votes
for Green Clay Smith, Unionist; Mr. Smith resign-
ing, he was elected a representative from Kentucky
in the Thirty-ninth Congrt'ss at a special election,
receiving 8,7;15 votes against 1,052 votes for It. B.
Cari'enter, Unionist, servhig from Deceml)cr .3, 1800,
to Marcli 3, 1807.
Ward, Artemaa (father of Artemas Ward), waa
born at .Shrewsbury. Massachusetts, November 27,
1727; received a ela.xslcal education, graduating at
Harvard C'ollese in 174.8; was appointed a justice of
the pe.ice in 1752: sen-ed in the Provincial army in
the war against Canada, attaining the rank of lieu-
tenant-colonel; was a member of the Massachusetts
House of Representatives; was commissioned briga-
dier-genenil by the I'rovincial Congress of Massacliu-
sells October 27, 1774; w.is commissioned maior-gt?n-
eral by the Continental Congi'ess June 17, 1775, but
resigned In A[iril, 1770; was chief justice of the Court
of Comnion Pleas for Worcester County; was a State
councillor In 1777; was a delegate to the Continciit-al
Congress in 1770-1781, but was prevented by ill
health from taking his seat; was a memlx-rof the
State House of Itepresenlalives in 1770-1701, and In
1785 was speaker of the House ; was elected n repre-
sentative from Massachusetts in the Second Congress
as a Federalist, and re-elected to the Third Cmignjss,
serving fnun October 4, 1701, until March .1, 1705;
after suffering from the gravel many years, he died
at Shrewsbury, Massiicliusefts, Octolwr 27, 1800.
W^ard, Artemas (son of General Artemas
Ward), wi« Ixirn at Shrewsbury, Massachus<'tts,
January li. 1702; n-eclved o classical education,
graduating at H.ir^ani College in 178:1: studied law;
was adniilled to the bar, and practised at .Shrews-
bury unlil l.'SOO, when he removed to Boston; waa
elected a representative from Massachusetts in the
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C0NGBES8IONAI. DIEECTOKr.
Thirteenth Conscr<?«3 &s a Ponce caiididnlv, reteiviiig
in Biisloii 1,527 votes aiininst 2t) scattfrinp votes;
aiid was re-elected to the yourteenth (.'oiiirri'ss, siTV-
Inc from May 24, 1813, until March 3,1^17; was
chief justice of the Court of Common Pleas 1S2(»-
18;3H; was a mi'mher of the Stale legislature of Mus-
Baoliusi'lls; ami (iied at Boston Ootolx-r 7. 1S47.
'Ward, EHiJah, was Iwm at SiiiB Sing, Kew
York. Scpicmber 15, ISIH: received an aojideinlc
education, and suliseqncntl.v completed hi« studies
under private instructors; studied law with lion. W.
W. Campbell ; was admitted to the bar in 1S4;1, and
coramenced |iniclice; was judge-ailvocnte-iii'neral of
the State from l!S53 until li>Vi\ was a mcnit>er of the
National Democratic Convention at Cincinnati in
185(i; W1U1 elected a representative from JCew York
in the Tliirty-tiftli Coniircss as a Democrat, receiving
0,,531 voles npainst 4,4(11 votes for G. Brij;i.'S, Xative
American, and 4,W) votes for James \V. Xye, Ke-
publicati, serving fnim Docemlx-r 7, 1857, to March
3, 1S.'<1); was defeated as the Democratic candidate
for the Thirty-sixth Confress, receiving (i..jlil votes
against S,.3(K) votes for (r. Briggs (the IJepuWican
candidate, Augustus F. Dow, having withdrawn); was
again elected to the Thirty-seventh Congress, receiv-
ing 10,814 votes against S.417 votes for A. F. Dow,
Republican; was re-elected to the Tliirty-eighth
Congress, receiving (i,042 votes against 4,811!) votes
for F. A. Conkling, Republican, and IKMl votes for
O. Blunt, Independent, serving from .luly 4, 18(J1, to
Mnn^h 3, 18i>5; w;«i defeated as the Democratic can-
diiliite for the Thirty-ninth Congress, receiving 0,(*U!l
Votes against 7,315 votes for U. J. Riymond, ruifm
Kepublican, 1,(147 voles for E. P. Morton, Mozart
Democrat, and 1,347 votes for Rush C. Hawkins, In-
dependent Unionist; visited Europe in May-October,
18(15, and again In August, IstKJ-Scpteniber. 18(W:
w.Ts again elected t<i the Forly-fourlli Cfingn-HS as a
Democrat, receiving 10,113 votes against (t,',i32 votes
for . I oh n D. Lawsoii, Republican (the district giving
at the siuue time a majority of 280 voles for General
John A. Dix, the Republican candidate for gov-
ernor), serving from December 0, 1875, to March 3,
1877; was defeated as the Democratic candidate for
Uie Forty-lifth Congress, receiving 12,408 votes
wjainst 13,221 votes for A. (i. McCook, Democrat,
He published two reports on " The Commercial Re-
lations between Uie United ,Slates and the British
Pnivinces." A biographical sketch of him was pub-
lished by Robert Iladlield.
Ward, Hamilton, was iHini at Salishnry, New
York, .July 3, 1S21); rec(.'ived a liberal educaticm:
studied law, and commenced practice at Belmont:
was distrlcl-attoniey for Alleghany County several
years; was engage(i in 18(12, (iinder an appointment
from the governor, in raising troops for the Union
army; w.ts elected a representative fnmi New York
In the Thlrtv-ninth Cimgress as a Republican, n>cciv-
Ing lli,ii4o "votes against 11,170 voles fur McXctt,
Democrat ; wjis re-elected to the Fortieth Congress
as n Republican, receiving 17,750 votes against 11.435
votes for Collins, Democrat; and was re-elected to
the Forty-tiral Congress, receiving 18,(147 voti.-s
■gttiiisl 13.180 votes for Ganliner, Demcicrat, serving
ln>tn December 4, 18<i5. to ilarch 3, 1871.
Ward, Jasper D., resided at Chicago; was
elected a representative from Illinois in the Forty-
Uiird Congress as a Republican, receiving 12,183
votes against 8,873 votes for C. H. Harrison. Demo-
crat ami Liberal, serving from Deceml)er 1, 1873, to
March ;!, 1875; was defeated as the Republican can-
didale for the Forty-fourth Congress, receiving tl,181
votes against 9,11^ vot«s for Cartar H. IlarriBon,
Democrat,
Ward, Jonathan, was bom in Westchester
Comity. New York; was elected a representative
from S'ew York in the Fourteenth Congress as a
Democrat, Ber\lng from December 4, 1815, to March
8, 1H17.
Ward, Marcus L., was boru at Newark, New
Jersey, NovemlHT 9, 1812; received a private-school
education; wiis for many years engaged in maiuifac-
turing pursuits; was a VVhig in politics until the
breaking-up of that party, when be ansistol in tbe
formation of tlie Republican party; was a delegate
to the Rejiublican Convention at Chicago in 18*50,
and also to the Baltimore Convention in 18(U; was
an eiecUir at large on the Lincoln and Johnson tick-
et ; was defeated as the Republican nominee for gov-
ernor of New Jersey In 1802; was agaiu nominat^'d
in 1805 for that office, and electe<l for the tenn of
three years; w.-is a member of the Nall>>n»l Ri-pub-
lican Committee, and succeeded Hon. Uenry J. Ray-
mond as its ('haimiun: and was elected a reprewii-
tative from New Jerwv in the Forty-third Ciuigros
as a Republican, receiving 10,0(il votes against 10,4(13
voles for J. M. Randall, LilK-ral Republican, serving
from December 1, 1873, to March 3. 1875: was ofTcn-3
the place of commissioner of Indian affairs Decem-
Iht. 1875, Imt declined it.
Ward, Matthias, was Iwm in Elbert County,
Georgia; was reared in Madiiiou Count v. AliitMinia;
received a classical education: tauglit scliiwd for two
years; studied law; was admitted to the liar: re-
moved to the republic of Texas; was a nirmlierof
the Texan Congress, and, after the incoriioration of
Texas into the Union, of the .Stuto Senate ; w.is a
delegate from Texas to tlu! two National Democratic
Conventions which nominated Pierce and Iluch.'uiun
for the presidency; was np|>oiiitei| a United-Slates
senator from Texas (in jilace of J. Pinckney Ileiidrr-
9on, rieco.ised) as a Slate-rights Deni — '• ing
fmm December 0, IS5s, ir) Jnnuiiry 4, I ilie
senator elected by the ligislature tiKilv i ; . lied
at Raleigh, North Carolina, Octol>cr 13, Wil.
Ward, Samuel, was bom at Newport, Rhode
Island. May 27, 1725; was reared as a farmer, and
settled at Westerly, Rhode Island; was a menilKTof
the Provincial Hous*? of Representatives 17."i(l-1750;
was chief justice of Rhode Islniid in 1701; wiis gov-
ernor of Rhode Island 1702 and 17(i.5-17ti7; was one
of the founders of Rhode-Island College, afterward
Brown University; was zealous in the pre-Rerolu-
tionary movements ; w.is a delegate frt-m Rhfide
Island to the First Continental Congress 1774-1775:
died at Philadelphia of small-pox March 2.'>, 17711.
His life, by Professor Gammcll, was pubUshed in
Sparks's "American Biogniphy."
Ward, Thomas, was born In New JeTWy In
1705; WHS elected a repn'sentative fn>ra New Jeney
in the Tldrteenth Congri'ss as a Democrat: was re-
elected to the Fourt»;enth Congress, si'rving trutn
.May !U, 181:3, to March 3, 1817; died at Newark, New
Jersey, February 4, 1842.
Ward, William, was bom at PhiK-ulelphl*,
Pennsylvania, January 1, 1837 ; was educated at
Girard Collt^e, Philiulolphia ; learned the art of
printing in the oflicc of "Tl»e Delaware-county
hepubllcan" at Chester, serving there four years';
studied law; was admitted to the Imr in Ausust,
1850, and has since been engaged in (ho practice of
law, conveyancing, iand-biisiue^s, and banking: has
l)een a niemlier of tlie city council of Chester, ami
city sohcitor, but h.Ts never held any other public
offices; was elected to the Forty-fifth Ci'ngn-ss »s a
Republican, receiving 15,220 votes against 0,717 votes
for William D. Haftman, Democrat, serving ftum
October 15, 1S77.
Ward, William T., was bom In Kentuekjr;
resiiled at Greensburg; was elected a r^ iilve
from Kentucky in tbe TlJrty-second i i a
Whis, receiving no opposition, serving; i..;.. . .em-
ber 1. 18.")!. to March 3, 1*53.
Wardell, Daniel, was bom at Bristol, Blind*
Islaml, May 28, 1701 ; received a classiexl e<lnc-'ili<>n,
graduating at Brown Uidversity in 1811: remo\ed to
Rome, New York: studied law; was adutiiled in the
li.ar in 181.5, and commenced practice at Muiinf^ullr,
New York; was apjKilnled In 1824 n judge of Ihe
Court of Common Pleas for JefEenon County ; was a
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member of the State House of Representatives 1R31-
IWT; was a prominent P'reema-wn ; was elected a
representative from New Vurk in Hie Twenty-sceond
ConjcrcBS as a Jackson Ui'inocrat; was rr-eleclwl to
the Twenly-third and Twrnty-finirlh dn'^resse^,
servins from Uecemlier '>, IS'Jl, to Miin-h :i. IS;J7: re-
niovi'il ill 1S(K) to Kome. New York, wliere lie died
Miirili 27, 1S7.S.
Ware, Nicholas, was bom in Riebinond Coun-
ty, tifor^ia ; received a elussicid eduealioii: studied
law; was a<]niilte<l to llie Imr. and |iniellspd at Au-
Kusla, Georgia; w:«i elected a United-.St:itfs senator
from tieorgia (in place of Freeman Walker. resiyntMl),
and wius le-elecled. servini; from IJecenilHT M. isi'l,
to .ScptenilKT 7, 1>S;;-J. when lie died at New- York
Cilv.
Warfleld, Henry R., was bom in Anne Aran-
del County, Maryland, in 1781; resided at Frederick
Town; was clecti-d a n,-presentative frrmi Maryland
in tlie .Sixteenth Cuneress as a Federalist, defe.iting
George Peter, also a Federalist; was re-elected to tlie
Seventeenth and Eigliteentb Congresses, serving from
Deceml)er U, 1814), to March .i, 1825; in the memorable
contest In the House of R<;pn>sentatives for the pres-
idency, he decided the vote of Mniyland in favor of
John t^uincy Adams, and secured his election; was
found dead in his 1^ at Frederick Town, Maryland,
March 18, ls;M».
Warner, Hiram, was bom in Hampshire Coun-
ty, Miissachusctts. DctoberSJO, ISlfc!; received an aca-
demical education; removed to Georgia when seven-
teen ye.irs of age, and taught school there fi)r three
years; studied law; was adinitlol to the bar in 1825,
and ciimmcnced practice at Knoxville, tJcorgia; was
a member of the State House of Representatives
1828-1831 : was electwl by the lej^islaturo in ^SXi a
judge of the State Superior Court, and was nvelected
in INJO, serving until 184(1; was appointed in 1845 a
judge of the Stale Supreme Court, serving until
18.*^, when he resigned : was elected a representative
from Geoi^a in the Thirty-fourth Congress as a
Democrat, receiving rt.S-*;! voles against ii.Sl.3 votes
for Hill, American, serving from IJecemljer 3, 1855,
to Maivh 3, lS"i7; declined a re-eleclion.
W^arner, Levi, was iKH-n at WethersfieUI. Con-
net'ticut. October 10. 18:51 ; received a public-school
education; studied law at the Yale Law .Schi>ol. and
at the Dane Law .School, Cambridge, Massachusetts:
was admitted to the bar in J.inuary. 18.'>l). and has
■ince Ix'cn engaged in the pmclice of law in Fairfield
Connty, Connecticut; was never a camliilate for or
held any office until elected to the Forty-fourth Con-
gress (to (ill the v.v^ancv caused by the resi-^iation of
W. H. Barnum, electeif senator) ; was re-elected to
the Forly-lifth Congress as a DemmTat. receiving
17,2.t.'< votes against 15,411!) votes for Hobert Hubbard,
Kepiiblican, sening from DwemU'r 5. lS7fi.
W turner, Samuel L., was bom at Wethersfield,
ConniTtictit. in isjii; received an academicd edu-
cation; studied law at the Harvard and Vale Law
Svliools; was admitted to the bar in 185.3, and com-
menced practice at Middletown; was executive sec-
I retary <if state in 185;3; was a member of the State
Housii of Kepresentatives in 18.57; was a delegate to
tlie N'ational Democratic Conventions at Charleston
and Baltimore in I8(t(»; w.as m.ayor of Norwich 1801-
18115 ; was elected a reiiresentaiive from Connecticut
iu the Thirty-ninlh Ctnigress as a Itepublican, n-ceiv-
liig ll,2Jkl votes i^ainst 11,521 votes for Russell, Dcm-
CK-ral. st-rvini; fn^m Deceml>er 4, 18tJ5, to March 3,
18tl7.
W^amer, W^illard, was bom at Granville, Ohio,
Sepleinlier 4, 1821); grailuated at Marietta College,
Ohio, in 184o; entered the Uidon army as major of
the !SHventy-six(h Ohio Volunteer Infantry in 1801;
was pnnnoied to lientenantr^ioloiiel of the same regi-
ment in 18(13; ser^-e<l on General W. T. Sherman's
stall as assistant ins|H>clnr-g(Mieral during the Atlanta
campaign, and until October 20, 18<U; w:is appointed
unteer Infantry in October, 18B4; w.-is brevetted brig-
adier and majr>r-geiieral for gallant and meritnrioui
s«Tvices; was musteretl out in July. 18»15; was elect-
e<l to. and serveil two years in, the Ohio Senate; w»»
electtnl a United-States senator fnjm Alabama as a
Republican, serving from July 2.5, 18«8, to March 3,
1871: ntunied to Ohio.
Warren, Cornelius, was bom in Putnam
t>iiiniy, New York, in 17WI; was elected a represen-
tative friiiii New Y'ork In the Thirtieth CuiiKri'ss us a
Whig, »er\-ing from Decemlier 0, 1847, to March 3,
184U: was not a candidate for re-election; died at
Cold Spring. New York. July 28. 184(1.
Warren, Edwarci A., was bom in Greene
Cimiity. Alabama, May 2, im8; received an ncadem-
ical education; studied law; was admitted to tlie
Ivir, and commenced practice in Mississippi: was a
nieniber of the Mississippi House of Hepre.siutatlvei
iu 1>'45 and 1840: r«'moveil to Camden. Arkaii.sas, in
1S47: was a member of the Arkansas House of Rep-
resentatives in 1848 and 184'.), serving the last year :M
s|>eaker; was State's attorney for the Sixth Judicial
District of Arkansas iu 1850; wits elocte<l a rejiresen-
tative fnmi Arkansas in the Thirfj-tliird Cnngross oa
a Democrat, receiving 3,748 votes against 3.:i()l votes
(or (.'urran. Wliig, serving from December .5. 185;j, to
March 3, 1855; declined being a candidate for re-
election: was again elected to the Thirty-lifth Con-
gress, receiving 11,835 votes against 8,7Jl votes for
Fowler, American, ser»-ing from December 7, 1867,
to March 3, 1859; died in Nevada County, Arkansas,
Julv2. 1«7.5.
Warren, Joseph M., was bom at Troy, New
York, in 1813; received a classical education, gradu-
ating from Washington (now Trinity) College at
Hartfonl, Connecticut, in 18:54; was a manufacturer
and inercliant; was elected mayor of Troy In 1.S52;
ami was elected a representative from New York In
the Forty-second Congress as a Democrat, receiving
17.7s'3 votes against ll.dM) votes for I. T. Davis, Re-
publican, serving from Marcli 4, 1871, to March 3,
1873.
Warren, Lett, was bom In Burke County,
Georgia, Octolier 30, 1707; received a public-schotjl
e<luc!ition: was a clerk in a store; served in the
Seminole war iu 1818 as second lieutenant of volun-
teers; studied law with D. McNeal; was admitted to
the bar in 1821. and commenced practice at Uiiblin,
afterwards removing to Marion; was a inemlter of
tlie State House of Representatives in 1824; was ap-
p:iiiited solicitor-general (to till a vacancy): was
a member of the .State .Senate in 1830; was a','ain a
memlier of the State House of Representatives in
18;51 : was a judge of the Inferior Court of Georgia
1831-18;U; was elected o representative from Georgia
in the Twenty-sixth Congress as a Whig, ivceiving
31,7(55 votes against 30,078 votes for Hillyer. Uemo-
crat; and was re-elected to the Twenty-seventh Con-
gress, receiving 3Jl,2t)7 votes against ;x),37l) votes for
Campbell. Democrat, 8i;r>'ing from December 2, LSJO,
to March 3, 1843 ; was a judge of the Superior Court
i84;;-is>2.
Wairen, W^illiam W^irt, was bom at Brigh-
ton. Maisacliusetts, February 27, 18:54; grailiiated at
Harvard College in 1854; took a degree at tlic Har-
vard Law School ; was admitted to tlie bar in 1,S57,
and engaged in active practice; was appointed by
President Johnson in 1800 as assessor of internal
revenue in the Seventh Massachusetts Revenue Dis-
trict; w.as a delegate to the Democratic National
Convention in 1808; was a member of tlie State
.Senate of Massachusetts in 1870; was elected a rep-
resontative from Massachusetts in the Forty-fourth
Congress as a Democrat, receiving 8,585 votes against
7,801 votes for J. M. S. Willi.ims, Republican, serv-
ing from Decemlier 0. 1875, to March 3. 1877 : was
defeated as the Democratic candidate to the Forty-
llflii Congress, receiving 13,407 votes against 14,245
votes for William Clatliu, Republican.
Washburn, Cadwallaaer Golden (brother of
688
CONGBESSIOKAIi OIBECTOBT.
CoDTention of 1876; wag elected to the Forty-fourth
Congreu as a Democrat (to fill the vacancy occa-
■ioned by the death of Edward Touug Parsons],
receiving 11,087 votes against 677 votes for W. J.
Heady, Independent Democrat, serving from August
12jl876, to March 3, 1877.
Watts, John, was bom In New-York City In
1740; was a member of the State House of Bepre-
sentatives 1791-1703; was elected a representative
from New York in the Tliird Congress, serving from
December 2, 1703, to March 3, 1705.
Watts, John S., was bom in Boone County.
Kentucky, January 19, 1816; received a classical
education, graduating at the University of Indian%;
studied law; was admitted to the bar, and com-
menced practice in Indiana; was a member of the
State House of Representatives, and twice elected a
prosecuting-attomey; was appointed by President
Fillmore in 1851 an associate justice of the United-
States Court in New Mexico; resigned in 1866, and
practised his profession; was elected a delegate from
New-ilexicoTerritory in the Thirty-seventh Congress,
serving from July 4, 1801, to March 3, 1863; took an
active part in recruiting for the Union army during
the war for the suppression of the Rebellion; was
appointed by President Johnson in 1868 chief justice
of the Supreme Court in New Mexico.
Wayne, Anthony, was bom at East Town,
Pennsylvania, in 1746; was a farmer and land-
surveyor; was a member of the Colonial House of
Representatives in 1773; was actively engaged in pre-
Revolutionary measures; entered the Continental
service as colonel iu 1775, and served brilliantly
tiiroughout the Revolutionary war, distinguishing
himself at Three Rivers, Brandywine, Germantown,
Monmouth, Stony Point, and Yorktown ; after peace
was declared, he settled in Georgia upon a tract of
land donated to him by that State as a recompense
for his military services; was a delegate to tlie con-
vention for framing the State Constitution iu 1787 ;
was elected a representative from Creorgia in the
Second Congress, serving from October 24, 1701, to
March 21, 1702, when his seat was contested by
James Jackson, and declared vacant by the House;
a new election was held, but he refused to be a can-
didate, and John Milledge was elected ; entered the
militaiT service of the United States again as major-
general and general-in-chief of the army after the
reverses of General St. Clair; gained a decisive
victory at the battle of the Miami, and concluded a
treaty, August 3, 1705, with the hostile tribes north-
west of the Ohio; died at Presque Isle December 15,
1706; his remains were removed to liis native county
of Chester, Pennsylvania, in 1808. His "Life" was
published by N. H. Moore and by John Armstrong.
H. C. Dawson published "The Assault on Stony
Point;" and his "Orderly-Book" at Tioonderoga
was published by Munsell at Albany in 1859.
Wayne, Isaac, was bom in Warren County,
Pennsylvania; received a public-school education;
was elected a representative from Pennsylvania to
the Eighteenth Congress as a Federalist, serving
from December 1, 182;3, to March 3, 1825.
Wayne, Jeimes Moore, was bom at Savannah,
Georgia, in 1790; received a classical education,
graduating at Princeton College in 1808; studied
law; was admitted to the bar in 1810, and com-
menced practice at Savannah; was for two years a
member of the State House of Representatives ; was
mayor of Savannah in 1823; was a judge of the
Superior Court 1824-1829; was elected a representa-
tive from Greoi^a in the Twenty-first Congress as
a Jackson Democrat on a general ticket; was re-
elected to the Twenty-second Congress; was re-
elected to the Twenty-third Congress, receiving
32,947 votes against 20,048 votes for Owen, anti-
Jackson, serving from December 7, 1820, to January
13, 1835, when he resigned, having been appointed by
President Jackson an associate justice of the United-
States Supreme Court; devoted himaelf especially to
admiralty jurisprudence, and his opinions on points
connected with that subject are cited as high author-
ity; died at Washington City July 6, 1S67.
Weakley, Bobert, was elected a representative
from Tennessee in the Eleventh Congress, serving
from May 22, 1809, to March 3, 1811.
Webster, Daniel, was bora at Salisbury, New
Hampshire, January 18, 1782; receiveil a classical
education, graduating at Dartmouth College in 1601;
studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1805; com-
menced practice at Salisbury, New Huupshlre, and
Portsmouth, in 1807; was elected a representative
from New Hampshire in the Thirteenth Congress as
a Peace advocate, and was re-elected to the Four-
teenth Congress, serving from May 24, 1813, to March
3,1817; removed to Boston in 1816; was a presidential
elector in 1820; was a delegate to the State Constitu-
tional Convention in 1821 ; was elected a representa-
tive from Massachusetts in the Eighteenth Congress,
and was re-elected to the Nineteenth Congress, re-
ceiving in seven wards of Boston 1,086 votes against
one vote for Putnam, servingfrom December 1, 1823, to
March 3, 1827; was elected a United-States senator
from Massachusetts, and was re-elected, servii^ from
December 3, 1827, to February 22, 1841, when he re-
signed ; was appointed secretary of state i>y Presidents
Harrison and Tyler, serving from March 5, 1641, to
May 0, 1843; was again elected a senator, serving
from December 1, 18&, to July 22, 18-%, when he re-
signed, having been appointed secretary of state by
President Fillmore, and serving until his death at
Marshfield, Massachusetts, October 24, 1852. He
published iiis collected works in six volumes in 1851.
Biographical sketches and memoirs of him were
published by Samuel L. Knapp, Charles W. March,
Charles Lanman, George T. Curtis, Peter Harvey,
and others.
Webster, Edwin H., was bom in Hartford
County, Maryland, March 31, 1820; received a clas-
sical education, which was finished at Dicidnsou
College; was a member of the State Senate 1855-
1850; was a presidential elector on the Fillmore and
Donelson ticket iu 1836; was elected a representa-
live from Maryland in the Thirty-sixth Congress as a
Republican, receiving 0,098 votes against 8,443 votes
for McHenry, Democrat; was re-elected to the
Thirty-seventh Congress, receiving 7,251 votes against
120 votes scattering; and was re-elected to the
Thirty-eighth Congress, receiving 7,730 votes aKOinst
no opposition, serving from December 5, ISjO, to
March 3, 1865; was re-elected to the Thirty-ninth
Congress, receiving 0,541 votes against 4,102 votes
for Kimmell, Democrat, but resigned before taking
his seat, havinjz been appointed by President John-
son collector of customs at the port of Baltimore iu
July, 1805.
Webster, Taylor, was horn in Pennsylvania;
removed to Ohio, and resided at Hamilton; was
elected a representative from Ohio in the Twenty-
third Congress as a Jackson Democrat, receivmg
1,(KX) majority; was re-elected to the Twenty^ourth
and Twenty-mth Congresses, serving from December
2, 1833, to March 8, 1839.
Weeks, John W., was bom in Greenland.
New Hampshire, in 1709; received a public-school
education; was apprenticed to the house-carpenter's
trade, and worked at it until the war of 1812. when
he recruited a company for the Eleventh United-
States Infantry, of which he was captain; dis-
tinguishing himself at the battle of Cliippewa, he
was promoted to the rank of major; he was one
of the commission appointed to establish the line
between Maine and New Hampshire; was treasurer
of Coos County 1818-1822, and high sheriff of the
same 1819-1824; was State senator In 1S27 and 1828;
was elected a representative from New Hampshire
in the Twenty-first Congress, and re-elected t« the
Twenty-second Congress, serving from December 7,
1820, until March 2, 1833; died at Lancaster, New
Hampshire, in 186S.
STATISTICAL SKETCIfES.
687
I
I
M; won the battle of Trenton Deconilx?r2t}; won the
battle of Princeton January 3, 1777; lost llie battle
of Brauilywine September 11 ; lost the battle nf Ger-
fnsntown October 4; foiight the drawn battle of
Honraoutb June 28. 1778; won the buttle of York-
town Oetober 10, 1"8'J; resigned his commission
Decemlier 23, 17S:J; was a iK-lefratc to the Convemioii
that framed the Federal Constitution, and its presi-
dent; was elected by the people President of the
United States, and ro-clected, scrvinpfr<;ra April 3i),
17M!I, to Miirch 3, 1797, He published his "Farewell
Address." liis "Life and Corres|)ondcnce " was
n' lished l\v Sparks. Knnisey, Marshall, Bancroft,
ng, Everett, and I'pliam.
Washingrton, Greorge C. (grand-nephew of
George Washincrlon), w.as bom in Westmoreland
County, Virginia, Aucrust 20, 1780; received a clas-
sical education, i^r.idu.itini; at C'ainbrid.';e; studied
1.1W, and WiLS admilteil to the bar, but devoted him-
self to Btrricultural pursuits; was elected a represen-
tative from Miirylund in the Twentieth Consrcs* as
a Whi?; was re-elected to the Twenty-flrst and
Twenty-second Congresses, serving from December
3, 1^27, to March 2, ISHS; withdrew as the Whis
c;indldate for the Twcnty-thinl Conffress in favor nf
Vf. C'St Johnson; was again elected to the Twonty-
f lurth Cou^fress, 8er\in|^ from Decemlier 7, It^o, to
Harch 3, lHy7: w,t8 president of the Chesapeake ami
Olii.i Canr.l Company; died at Georgetown, District
of Columliia, July 17, 1s'>4.
Washinortori, William H,, was bom in Wayne
County, North Carolina, February 7, ISl;}; studied
law >vith Judge (Jiiston; was admitted to the bar in
Aui^ust, ISJJo, and commenced practice at New Heme,
Xurtb Carolina; was elected county and district so-
licilur; was re-clectcd a representative from North
Carolina in the Twenty -seventh Congress as a Wilis,
defeating J. O. Watson, Democrat. ser%ing from Mav
1, 1«41, to Miirch 3, IS-IS; declined a riA-dection to
Congress; w.-is a member of the State House of Rc]>-
resimtativcs In 184.S and 184<1, anil of the Slate Senate
in 1H4S, 1850, and 1852; died at New Berne, North
Carolina, August 12, I'MV).
Watkins, Albert O., was bom in Jefferson
County, Teniies.si'e, Slay 5. 181.S; received a classical
e.Iucation, p-adiiatlng at Ilolstou College, Tennessee;
studied law; was admitted to the bar, and com-
laenced practice at Panther Sprinss, Tennessee; was
a member uf the Stale House of Iteprescntatives in
18-l.J; was a presidential elector on the Taylor and
Fillmore ticket in 1H18; was elected a representative
from Tennessee in the Tlurty-lirst Congr':'s8 as a
Whi'j. receiving S,025 votes o^inst 4,lKljS votes for
Cocke, Wilis; was re-elected to the Thirty-second
CoiiRress, receiving 9,692 votes against 2,]'2o votes
for iluriev,' Democrat, serving from December 3,
J»49, to W'lirc-h 3, 1.S53; was defeated as the Inde-
pendent Whig candidate for the Thirty-tbinl Con-
ercss, reeeivini; 3.088 votes niiainst 5..'J87 votes for
>', O. Taylor, ^Vhig. and 5,.>3;.> votes for B. Camfi-
lieil. Democrat (Camplwll died liefore taking his
seat, and Taylor was elected); was again elected to
the Thirty-fourth Congress as a Democrat, receiving
1,781 voles aaainst 7,511 votes for Taylor, American:
■WI18 re-elected to the Thirty-tifth Congress, receiving
7,047 votes against 7,471 votes for T.iylor, American,
serving from December ;J, 18.55, to March 3, 1850.
Watmough, John Q., was Iwm on tlie banks
of the l{ran<ly"iiie, Delaware, December 0, 1703; re-
ceived a ciiissical education, studying at Princeton
College and at the University of Pennsylvania ;
served in the war of 1812 as lieutenant of artillerj
In the United-States army, and as an aide-de-camp
to General Gaines; was severely wounded at the
defence of Fort Erie in 1814; reslgneil October 1,
1810; was elected a representative from Pennsyl-
vania in the Twenty-second Congress, receiving
1,000 majority over Daniel II. Miller; w.is re-elected
to the Tweifty-third Congress, serving from Dccem-
hnr 5, 1831, to March 3, 1635; was high sherUI of
Philadelphia in IS-lo-lSSfi; was survevor of the port
of Philadelphia 1841-1845; died at Philadelphia No-
vember 20, 1.S01.
Watson, Cooper K., was bom in Ohio: re-
shled at Tillin: wiw elected a representative from
Ohio in tlie ThiHy-fourth Congress as a IJepiibliciin,
receiving 8..1t^l votes against 5,018 votes for Plants,
Democrat, serving from Decembers, 1855, to March
3, 1S.'.7.
Watson, James, was l>om In the city of New
York: was a member of the State House of Hepre-
Beiitativcs In 1701, 1704, 1705, and 171KJ; was n inem-
iK'rof the Slate Senate in 1708; was elected al'nited-
Sjfates senator from New York (in place of John
Sloss Holiart, ivsigned) ns a Democrat, serving from
December 11, 1708. to March 10, 1801, when lie re-
signed to accept the position of United-States navy
acrent at New York, given to him by President
Jeffei-son.
Watson, Lewis P., wns Wm in Crawford
County, Pennsylvania, April 14, 1810; received an
academic educalion; engaged in mercantile pursuits,
and was an extensive operator in iuinlier and in the
production of [x'tndeum; was elected president of
the W.irren Savings Bank at its organi7.,ition in 1870;
w.as elected to the Forty-fifth Congress as a liepub-
lieaii, receiving 15,040 votes against 12,003 votes for
William L. Scott, Democrat,"327 votes for Samuel
Axtell. Prohibition, and 249 votes for C. C. Camp,
Greentiaek, serving from October 15, 1877.
Watterson, Harvey M. (father of Henry
Waltorson). was boni in Bedfrnl County. Tcnnes-
sei?, November 23, 1811; was educated at Columbia
College, Princeton, Kentucky; established in 1831,
and edited for several years, a n"wspapcr at the
county-seat of Bedfonl County; was a memlier of
the State House of Representatives in 1835; was
electcil a representative from Tennessee in the
Twenty-sixth Congress as a Democrat, receiving
4,C:i5 votes against 3,217 votes for Daniel M. Bar-
ringer, WTiig; was re-elected to the Twenty-seventh
Cuiigress, defeating Terrj- H. Cahal, Whig, 8er^ing
from DecemlKT 2, 1830, to March 3, 1843; was ap-
pointed by President Tyler a special diplomatic
agent to Buenos Ayres. Bor^•ing from SeptemN'r 20,
if<4S. to November 15, 1844; returning home in 1845,
he was elected a member of the St.itc Senoto of
Tennessee, and was chosen its president; in 1850-
11^51 was the proprietor and editor of "The Nash-
ville Union;" was a delegate from Tennessee to the
National Democratic Convention at Baltimore In
1.S10, and voted for the noiuimition of .Stephen A.
Douglas; was one of the Doiigl;ui electors at large In
Tennessee; was a delegate to the State Convention
of 1801; removed toVV'nshington after tlie war, and
practised law there.
Watterson, Henry, was bom at Washington
Cily February 10, 1840 (his father, Hon. nar\ey M.
Watterson, being at the time a Democratic represen-
tative in Congress from Tennessee) ; owing to xerious
<lefeet of sight, the son w.is educated chielly by
private tutors; he began at an early age to develop
liti:rary tastes, which led him to adopt the profession
if journalism; his first newspaper employment w.is
on "The Washington States,"' a Democratic pajier,
and he subsequently edited "The Democratic Re-
view;" ho returned to Tennessee in 18tll, and edited
"The Republican Banner" at Nashville; entered
the Confederate service soon after the commencement
of hostilities; edited "The Chattanooga Rebel;"
served as a c.-isual volunteer aide; returned to Nash-
ville nt the close of the war, and revived " The Re-
pulilicnn Boimer;" removed to Louisville in 1807;
purcbaseil the interest of George D. Prentice In
" The Louisville Journal," and liecime editor of
that paper; unite<l with W. N. Haldeman In Mi8 In
ci:nsnli(iating the "Courier" and "Journal," and
))urcliasing the "Democrat," constituting "The
Courier-Journal," of whicli he was the editor: was
temporary chairman of the National Democratic
CONGEESSIDXAI. DIBECTOKT.
'l' "■-'">' ^-»« llf^tenant, capUin, breret tut-' graAuatiag at Harrxri TnirerKtr in 1763; sTTidit-J
_' ' '_ ^''•^■■ui'^^oUinel; was appointed Cnit«i- Law: was utmirur'l :<o abie bar. &im1 eununenord prii-
, ' " ■■ '•'"■j''b« Northern District of Missis- ace at Dot^-^r. N*w Haisp*tiT»': was apfxiinu-il by
' ■ ' ■'■■'; liftid that office for four rears, his rt?lariTe. li^-rrr^^.r ^-iln Wenrworth. n-irisu-r vf
"'"'_ ' * '"•'''■'• ■'*1 In June, 1874; and was ejected pr^bcire for i<rarf rt O-t^it. and held ilie office
' ' ' " * '" ''''"I Mississippi In the Fortr-foorth antii his d-^iii: wj* a Kie^l«i i.4 ibe State Houst- of
• •» ».-. A'tiriltilstratlon Kepublican. receiTina Reprw^'ntiri-o ITT-— 3Tt»': w-a.^ a dt-l«»te fn.ni NVw
• • ' t «c.iiint l2,(joo votes for A. R. Howe, an auapehj* ic ;i:»? <" .oc^izje^'-ai <" ■ nztt^A. sen-in- 177^
' ' ■ ■'' ■'^.' *". serving from December 0, IsTT, to I77V; w*» a Bri_;^»- <4 T2jt ^li^t C .uncil 17>"-17J4-.
; . • ■'■ was a mc3i-'«r -^ 'J:»» scjut a»rai»:e 17>4-1757 ; (Jj«i i:
»« "^.-ii. J'Mm, was bom at New Tork; receireil D»v-r. >»*w »«-—-«-• -■»■ fr.^ o:>iu.iunption. erowiii?
*■ fc- - • V *i .-.I ligation; studied law; was ailmitieti .jot ■< aa irut!-:^ t BSAi^-ftii. Jaxiuarv 10. 17^7.
•^ ■ ./, a:,.l practised at New-York City; was Wecrworai, Jfllli*. was bom at Portv
•^••T--; a r-f/r-t<rritalive from New Tork 'in th^ ai-atii. N>w Jajouifiiif*. n. 1742: was colonel of tlie
. - -«^ vr,.l_0.ii;;r(«s as a Whig, receinns *,-t^ Tl--?! y-?^-Haai.::*Lr» Eeszoea: in I77«; was elect*.!
' '""^ ""'• ••' "•*•' votes for Marvin, Democrat, serr- »rT -_n, --ru^ a iuf^uts <ii Urf 5-iaie House of Kepre-
!'.-- *• -i J><-.-iiilx>r 1, 1851, to March 3, 1^5.i: «iinl fcE.--ir--:jt aiji i <=r veta s-:aJ€ senator; was ap-
* „•' ■ ? ''< N'W York. :• ^:-i a 6-:,*c».-i ff^LBa New Hampshire to the
^ Mir.Jt, John 8., was bom at Dnrham. y»w • ■ .^ -i- •:. .-.r-.-m. la ITTx but did not atlemi;
«ur •• ...'►. in l^(^; studied law; was admi::^l v.- -l-: »: r" «r^ani:.i— i r^rw;**! Iv. is.*.
'.;.• i^. »:,/| {>ractls<-d at Exeter; was for str.^n. "WeBTm-xiiz, Tsppan, was bom at Dover.
7-n a r.-..iul)»T of the State House of HeDrr^^z^- N-pw 5j=i:7*ii-r»- ?»«jiiKc.:«s- r-t IrfC: received a putt
-- » t ! »|«»lcer of the House; filled 8«>v^ni ..-a; --^isi • •- -ciiCic:. c": srs.!^ law with WUUam Bur-
■y" ■■-•; •»» appointed a United-States scoi: r -j. 'i; «.:nra. S^rwjck. Jtriue; was adraittai to
!• -.» S'W Hamirtlilre (to fill the vacancr ca^*ri uk lar ir iii^. anj£ icactised at Great Falls. N^r
*-" ■•■"'^''ith of Moses Norris), serving fpxn Jiji^jjrT ~v.-r--^- -« yeniiK^i ' v- Ijc/wtil in lt!33, and I'.iiii
i:. :</.. u> March 8, 1855; died at Eie:<r. X-iw x.- < i irjniajsli: j«.«ziic. a: it«e Middlesex bar; wiS
»-^* „■• re. In I'^W. -.r—.-L .! .ut ~ maii.a oi^itil <f Lowell l,S:>Wl>41;
V« %Lla, T. M., claimed to have been *i-<v-i x w-j- rp-r-.-c ■;. u«r >;^s« E.-^se «-f Representative* is
*— '^•v-r,r.»tiTe from Louisiana in the Tc^rrt^r-^x-^ I'^-i^^ ant i±ismris ^ ^ hx-f-ahUcaa, In iNJl. 1^>-
' -T'M as a Republican ; a majoritr o< ir.-* '. a- '^"-^ xui ^--o. mat z.:- lie ;*ate Senate in 1S4>. IvJ'.
».■•-'' ---n Elections reported that he was e-" --i !• :•>;. ant >«* : ■»» -.ie Wtii candidate forCoi^zrfs
a fcrai. Mjt iuch was the opnosition that &^ v .-> w-»» n. iirf l-nwd. ~tigr-»~: ja !■<■■*. receiving 5.0^4 i:--*
•-a^^n />n the resolution, although, on the Las: di-r ji aramc t,u:T tnna ix B. F. Butler, and en'vi^i
tlu- «H^l.,n, he was voted |2,0U0 for cucx;«3da^.a_ •x-^ tj jrTii»aE -ai* Beoeasair majority; ar.J s.is
Mi..-^:'. and eraenses. ^irsa-c m'-attt MKrrtuf trtaJ wben only a plunl:-T
WelU, William H., was bom ia IV^rwm-f w« u— t«r-t. -y^-^.^^mz -1.-U1 votes against 4..:i
WW -!.-.-ti>d a United-States senator frcci Z^.:^ntrt -nis a.r .i^sirT ir^s-ja. F^e^-Soiler, aad'&;4 R'itvi-
' -. C'!.u>r of Joshua Clayton, deceased . fcjrruLi rrnn. n^ fcr-=rt xi :aK Snase cd Representatives o: 'If
f--.rjary 4, 17W, to May 6, l!<H. wh«: ire r—i^rurt riiit-L -xuisi inm Kasrb 4. 1SJ3, to March 3. Iv." :
wj* »,-jin elected a senator (in piaee „-< Jui,-* A wwf -iif T"iiir -cuciii::* i-jT pe-election in i<A. ir:
^■i#'l. resiicned), serving ftvm Jsae i.L 1-.;;^ n wi» u ri-ir-u ^v^jmi* ^614 votes against .'^J
Kj-'Ii .{. HIT; dlrni March 11, 1>2>. -v »•« ir :. !_ trac^ Kiiow-Xotliinij, and 47' «.n--
Wendover, Pater H., wa* s rr: »: v^w^T-r-r i-T-:i.r U'-l c 3. -ila cT &i^t's disease of tt-r i^i-
wi* a mrnilK-r of ihcSiate Uoose -t r.- ' - -i •..■_i.— -^ u- ."uiE :ii. >-^
tr. 1""4; was <'Iccte4l a reprvson:A:;-f ~:.2. N- » I ci n «si, A. "^T^ rf H<:4iaes County, Missi-^if- .
i- th'- Fiiurtecnth Congivss as a [V= ..— _- W.E. 7>- tr^-aii-t -i -3tt 2'«9f ■:/ Representatives on i;.t -..i
"►.^'■•-■l to the Firiceuth-iLud i-Lit^-n i • .zir-~- — » r -liur. i-*- s^teaiiajs signed by Governor Hi^-
^-■n .ui from Dcocmlwr 4> 1*1 ji. ;■• Jtir-ji. «. ^-_L lai-—--^ u— laauc •:aai be h^ been elected ton;--
^.-^1 at New York Si'pteml«er 3'., 1-v.*. —ur tir- 5 raira. '^if-t^ ot Mis5issi|^i in the Ti~r~-
Wentworth, John lerani*^ .f ^J'-n Vir- j— i ii.p--».
w-rrh. jun. ). wasbom at Siri'l*-. -i. N--» a-.iiiiT-i.-~ •• -esi. ~^"' "■IIMII. was bom in Plvtr-.j
Mi.'li j. isi."); recoivtil a class; I. f-r-.-i- <z. r-a,;L- ' inr- Xmh a:a«eca. April 8, 1746; rec^!r-; a
a-;-..: .-It Dartmouth ColN-^S' in I ^^" >~- -i "■ "-^ ::^^± u -cji-itL' a: wa« one year at Princ*;. - • -
«»_••: was connectpil with " Tl-' < l -_r Z'-ii,'—^-' i-_7-. jc ; r~»r7-L>Ti at Hairard College in IT -
a» -'li tor and proprietor f>'rr»-r:.r<-r-- i-^ ^-uu— , r..:^;; - ij • t ;r rwv ;^ears; studied divinirv t^
law. cr,iiluatins! fnim ihf Hi.-ik.-w l_v > i. -.. j^ . :-.- t n.-r ic ^^rr^aaaa; besm to preach i: 0"---
wi» ailiuitted to the l>ar ii: IMI: »»■ i. lu-^ --r il ti.jn ii. .^irr.irg-:. 1771. bat soon abandoned tii-- . ~.
til- It-iard of Education in l><n: w» <-- "-». i. ~Tr~- aiii -vnmr3t~i -:ie stady of law at Lancaster: ■= -•
»-rita:ive from Illinois in tb? Twtli:-v— .r; :i • :_:— ^ A.m::--i ^i iii? aw- Ja ITfS. and comnaenced p-. '■-
*» a D-inocrat, n-oi'ivins 7.Vc r .;-« a.r:»:v<- .. :L a" tijrt-=:-w-L Vew Hampshire; was rb *■'-• •
T't»-» for Spring, Whij: was T»-tr^--c t. -ir 7^-^:- i'— iruvr rrcj. V>w Haaapshire to the C"nt.^f -
ty-tiinth. Thirtieth, and ■n.i-Tv-ft-c- •; ^^j^^^-, ».f— _ lj:~«^ i :>-:ircaBe to the convention which f--.i -•
iL; fnjm December 4. 1^.. v- 'iL^-ji. ~ :--" vra- :;- f-,. — ^ ; iisciaiiafu and a rejwesentirjve :~ -
*_-.i::i elected to the Thirry-tt..-v; •, T.r~^ ■- - " ;:.; N-t ii-=r~52_r5 V) t&e First Congress, but b- r~-
7.">-> Votes against 6.4;>7 v,.-,e» :.r itju-_t. V^^ .^^ -Mx--- l~ iaei :^iarae and other offices to wIj I -■
X.14;» votes for Collins, Fr««-> •.i-'t. scr-;;:.i r^.u Z.t— ttjt- -rT--.-i ii-«i at his mral home in Chari«.; ■^--
Cf!nt«er 5, IS.')!}, to March &. !<■.".. wa^ it^.. r c- ?>t l,.;j:r?^a.j-. J^ a7, 1817.
Cliicaso in 1857 and l>*io: wat a o- iroiir u u.- >:.ii- w «ss. Z- Sodman, was bom at Xew 0^-.^Lr
C >iistitutional Convention rj{ 3>*i- wts- i. tf^:z^ S---.t-'-=-»Tr .:•- !>::•: entered the Universiry of f '—-
Fr»?.-mason ; was again eJ«ned f itr T..-^:-.r. l; *.— ii.a n rsai. bat withdrew before crair^-,- -
C"o:i_T>'ss as a Repul-'.iran. 7^.~"-iu; :r-.:.. v t-- *— r-{ n -a* »>r against Mexico with {h* r-e-:
»-:;»i nit 14,277 votes for M "'.m-i-i Zt--r:.:r~i:_*s~~ =r.:ia. — rvnard to California in lS4y. aac ^i. -^--
iiii; from December 4. l-vj^ u Har^i. « >-• t— n -■gang-riA. ^otauits; at the outbreak of ti-^ > *."
c^^ivi'tl thedegreeof LUIt. tr^m. lu-cr :::: ; -i;- ".^ i.- >r_ j.tl wa» profaietor of " The Sat-Fr^.^.s
In l.'>»i7, and subse<jurai.'y aoiiiu--T. »i .••• b ur 7tt-* " ^ar^ar: ~ entoed the Union ainrr **■>- ' -
colloiie, ' *ii— r >. ae .£ Ae Flnt Calif omia Infancrr. aii. ~-'
Wentworth, John, Jan. ^irrarulit::^- c- :^ j=i am&na^ « t uLi in New Mexico, and Fabet'-, .;-■ ~
Wentworth), was bom a: >nnKr«vr r-u. S-"« Jis=n^ .^i^Haaa acki die Sooth-Weat, attaiaed Uk -•:«.
BlUre, July 17, 1745; icocvm: a -laini w^amiCT, hp«k sagoivfeacnil; aettied taapaariis oa Icxa
4
STATISTICAL SKETCHES.
689
Weeks, Joseph, was bom In Massachusetts;
[reniiivifil to New IliUiiiiKliire; tvsideil at HIcUiiioikI ;
|W!is ju(1;je (if l!ip C'liesliiro-county Court 18i7-lS2'il;
vus I'lertfd n n'[)ivscntntivir tmm New Hainiishire in
Jie Tweiity-fourili ('cuigi-css iis a Democrat ; was rc-
felccti'il ti) the Twpnrv-tifih Ccmirress, scn'ing from
i December 7, 1S.V,, to March 3, 183(1.
Weems, John C, was iKim in Calvert County,
^Marylnnil: rcsi'Iecl at Waterloo; was elected a repre-
ent.-itive from Jlnrjlaml in llic Nineteenth Concress
(in place of Ur. Joseph Kent, resitjneil) : was re-elect-
leil to the Twentieth Ooiigress, serving from February
7, 182H. fo Mardi .'t. ISliO.
Weightman, Richard Hanson, was bom in
jMar)iiinil; received a niiliiar)' education at West
Toint lt<ii>-lSJ7. but was ex|R'lled for cutting the
face of a cadet-comrade in a i)ersonal rfncounler;
erred in the Mexican war as captain in the Missouri
iLight-Artillery Volunteers, distinguishing himself at
|the battle of Sacramento; was an additional pay-
lasler in the anny May 10, lS4,S-August 1, 1840; re-
llDOved to Xew Mexico, and was chosen provisionally
pK senator when that Territory unsuccessfully applied
'lor admission as a State in 1S50; killed a Santa-tV
ti-adcr named Xaiibry with the same laiifo with
which he wounded the cadet; w,is elected a delegate
[froni Xcw-Mexico Territory in the Thirty-second
ICongress as a Democrat, 8er\'ing from December 1,
f ISol, to Miirch ,S, \>C>S; was colonel of a regiment of
the Missouri State Guard in 1801.
Welch, Adonija 8., was Iwm at East Bamn-
Lton, Conni-clicut, in 1821; removed to Michigan In
Il830; received a classical education, graduating at
f the University of Michigan in 184(!; studied law, and
was julmitted to the bar. but preferred teaching; vis-
ited California in 1849; on his retnni, was iirincipal
of the Normal Schtxil rif Michigan for four years ; re-
moved to Flori>la in 18<0, and settled at Jacksonville;
was eli'cted a United-.states senator from Florida as
a ICepiililican from July li, 18<}S, to March :J, 18<;0.
I Welch, Frank, was bom in Massachusetts;
Temoved to Nebraska; was gnind master of Free-
masons: w,is elected a n^presentative frr)m Nevada
to the Forly-tifth Congn^ss as a Ilcpublican, receiving
Ri.tWK) votes against 18,2W votes for Jc*e[ih Hnlraan,
Democrat, and SJiSO for Manin Warren, Green-
tacker, seniiKj from October lo, ls77, to his death
•t Norfolk, Nebraska, Sei)tember 4, 1878.
Welch, John, w;is bom in Jefferson County,
Ohio, tlelolu'ri'8, IsOo; received a classical education,
IVhicli was linished at Franklin College; studied law;
was ailniilled to the bar in 18-M, and commenced
pr-ictice at Athens, Ohio; was a member of the Slate
senate in 1840 luid 1847; w.^s elected a representative
from Oliio in the Thirty-second Congress as a Whig,
receiving 5,201 votes against 4,0::'.7 votes for Daniels,
Democrat, and 285 votes for Simpson, Free-.Soiler,
■en'liig from DecembiT 1, IS-jl, to MiU-ch 3, 1S5;3.
Welch, William W., was bom at Norfolk,
I Connecticut, Decemtjcr 10, 1818; received a public-
School education; studied medicine; graduated from
the medical department of Yale College in 18:}8, and
l>ecanii- a practising physician at Norfolk; was a
member of the Suite House of Itepresentatives, and
twice a member of the .St.ate Senate; was elected a
representative from Connecticut in the Thirty-fourth
Congrf'ss iis an American, receiving ('."Ol voles
•gainst 7,702 votes for Noble, Democrat, serving from
DVceraber 3, 18.J5. to March 8, 1S.j7.
Welker, Martin, was boni In Knox County,
Ohio, April lT., ISI'.i; was self-educated; studied aiid
Ipractiscil law; was clerk of the Coiu-l of Common
Fleas for Holmes Counlv from 1840 to 1851 ; was judge
of the Sixth Judicial District from 18i2 to l>^i1; nt-
moved in 1857 lo Wiwsler; was elected lieutenant-
governor of Ohio in 1857, declining a rcnomination ;
■erved three months in the Union army as a st.-ill-
officer, and was afterwards appointed by the gov-
ernor of Oliio judge-ailvocalc-pcuerai, with the rank
of colonel ; was elected a representative from Ohio bi
I:
t
s
the Tliirty-nlnfh Congress as a Republican, receiving
12.844 votes against 'lt»..'J12 votes for George Uliss,
Democrat; was re-elected to the Fortieth Coheiress
as a l{e|>ublican, receiving l:i.4l>4 votes against li,7-*7
votes for Young, Democrat ; anil was re-elected to the
Forty-llrst Congress, receiving 13,.575 votes against
13,113 votes for CritchHeld, Democrat, serving" from
December 4, 1805, to Marcli 3. 1871.
Wellborn, M. J., was born in Georgia; resided
at Columbus ; was elected a representative from
Georgia in the Tliiity-lirst Congress as a Democrat,
receiving 0,025 votes against ((.."Wtel votes for Calhoun,
Whig, ser>'ing from December 3, 1849, to March 3,
I8.M.
"Weller, John B., was bom in Ohio; resiiled
at Hamilton; was elected a representative from Ohio
in the Twenty-sixth Congri'ss as a Democrat: wa»
re-elected to the Twenty-seventh Congress; w.as re-
elected to the Twenty-eighth Congress, receiving
5,5(U( votes against o.:j<J8 votes for Camiibell, Wdg,
serving frini i)ecemher2, I.s:!!), to March S, 1S45; was
a commissioner lo Mexico timler the treaty of Guada-
lupe Hidalgo; removed to California; was elected a
United-States senator from California, serving from
March 17, 1852, to March 3, 1857; was governor of
the State of California 1858-1800; was minister to
Mexico NovemN?r7, 18(H)-May 14, 1801; was a dele-
gate to the National Democratic Convention at Chi-
cago In 1884; died at New Orleans August 7, 1875.
Wells, Alfred, was bom at Dagsborough, Dela-
ware, May 27, 1814; received an academical educa-
tion; studied law; was admitted to the bar, and
comtnenced practice at Ithaca, New York ; was
depuU-clerk, district-attorney, .and judge of Tomp-
kins County; w:is elected a representative from New
York in the Thirty-sixth Congress as a Republican,
receiving 10,131 votes against 9,788 votes for Arnot,
Democrat, and 070 votes for Lawrence, American,
serving from December .'>, 18.')!), to March 3, 1801;
died at Ithaca, Ni'W York, in 1807.
Wells, Daniel, jun., was bom In !t[aine; re-
ceived a publie-.scliool education; remove*! to Wis-
consin, and located at Milwaukee in 1830; l>ecarae
largely engaged in banking and iuniljering ; was
elected a representative friim Wisconsin in the
Thirty-third Congress as a Democrat, receiving 8,.342
votes against 5.731 votes {or Durham, Free-,Soiler,
and 3,870 votes for a Whig; and was re-elected to the
llilrty-fourth Congress, R'ceiving 8,458 votes against
7,020 votes for Spooner, Republican, serving frt)m
December 5, lS.'i3. to March 3, 1S.J7; was a judge of
prol.iate; died at Milwaukee lu 18.58.
Wells, ErastUS, was bom in Jefferson County,
Now York, Dei;eiuber2, 1823; received a publie-schooi
education; at the age of nineteen, being compelled to
rely on his own exertions, he went to St. Louis; he
established the first omnibus-line in that city, and sub-
sequently Inaugurated the first strcet-railro.ad com-
pany; for fifteen years he was a member of the city
council; he was president of the Missouri Railroad
Company, ami a director In several incorporated com-
Iianies; was elected a representative from Missouri in
the Forty-hrst Congress as a Democrat, n-ceiving 9.734
votes against 0,553 votes for Pile, Republican; was
r<?-elected to the Forty-second Congress, receiving
7,<i2t) votes against .'i,444 votes for C. P. Johnson,
Urown Republican, and 1,034 votes for L D. Smith,
McClurg Republican; was re-elected to the Forty-
third Congress, receiving 8,208 votes against 5,8</7
voles for M. A. Uryton, Republican: and was re-
elected to the Forty-fourth Congress, rt-ciuving 8,517
votes against 4,120 votes for D. D. Fisher, Repuli-
licjin, fler\-iiig from March 4, 1809, to March 3, 187",
Wells, (jtlilford Wiley, was bom in Living-
ston Coimtv, New York, February 18, 1840; was e<f-
ucalcd at (ttmesee Wesleyan Seminar)' and (Jenesea
College, Lima, New York; graduated lu law at Co-
lumbia College, Washington, District of C^olumbl.-i,
and practised; Ber\'ed during the war in the Union
anuy from May, 1801, to April, 1805, serving as s«c-
riitf
690
CONQEESSIOXAL DIEECTOKY.
ond lieutenant, first llentcnant, captain, brevet ma-
jor, and licuteiiaut-colonel; was appointed United-
States attorney for llie Xortheni District of Missis-
sippi in June, IH"!); Iicid tliat office for four years.
aiiii was re-appointed in June, 1H74: and was cli-cti'd
a ri-pri'seiitalivf from Mississippi in the Forty-fourtli
('oriirress as an Administration Keputiiicau, receiving
Iv.iHKi voles .i{<;aiiist 12,000 votes for A. K. Howe, an
AuK"* K»'pubiican, serving from DecemlwrO, 1877, to
Marrli 3, 1M77.
Wells, John, was Imni at Now York; received
an acmienilcai education; studied law; was admitted
to tlie l»ar, and pnictised at Kew-Yorl< City; was
elected a reprf-sentutive from Xow York in the
Thirty-8i.>coniI Oongrcss jis a \Vliig, receiving 8,428
v.)ti-8 ait.iiiiot liW) votes for Marvin, Democral. serv-
ing from DeremlKT 1. 1S.J1, to Mivrch 3, 1S53; died
at the city of New York.
'Wells, John S., was bom at Durham, Xew
Ilampsliire, in 1804; studied law; was lulmitted to
the bar, and practised at Exeter; was for several
years a member of the State House of Representa-
livi's, and sjieaker of llie House; lilled several local
positions; was ap[x)inted a United-,Sl,ites senator
from New Uampsliire (to fill the v.-icancy caused
by the death of Moses Nonisj, i>cr\-ing from January
22. 1855, to March A, 1S55; died at Exeter, Xew
Hiinuishire. in ISOO.
Wells, T. M., claimed to have been elected a
representative from Louisiana in the Thirty-ei'^htb
I Congress as a Il<;publican ; a majority of the Com-
mittee on Elections reported that he was entitled to
a scat, but such w.os the opfHjsition tliat no voU; was
taken on the resolution, although, on the last d;iy of
the session, he w.is voted d2,0tM) for compensation,
mileage, and expenses.
Wells, William H., was bom In Delaware;
was elected a rnited-States senator from Delaware
iin place of Joshua Clayton, deceased), serviriK from
fet)ruary 4, 1795), to May 0, 1804, when he resigned;
was ai;.iin elected a senator (in place of James A.
Bavard, resigned), serving from June 10. ISIS, to
M.ircli 3. 1817; died Manh 11, 1829.
Wendover, Peter H., w.-is bom at New York:
was a member of the .Stale House of liepresentatives
In 1>>I>4: w.as elected a representj\tive from Xew York
In the KourtiHinth Congress as a Democrat : was re-
Ivelected to the Fifteenth "and Sixteenth Congresses,
serving from December 4, ISI,'), lo Marcli 3, 1821;
die<l at New York .Septenil)er 20. 1;>14.
Wentworth, John (grandson of John \Vent-
wortli. jun.). was liorn at Saniiwich, New Harapshln.'.
Marcli 5, IHl."); received a classical education, gradu-
ating at Dartmomli College in 183(1: removed to Chi-
cago; was connected with "The Cbic.igo Democrat"
as editor and proprietor for twenty-five years; studied
law, graduating from the Har\'nrd Law .School, ami
was admitted lo the bar in 1841; was a niemlier of
.the Board of Education in 1837; was elected a repre-
lAentative from Illinois in the Twenty-eighth Congress
as a Democrat, receiving 7,,'i52 votes against 5,li:il
votes for Spring. Whig; was n;-elected to the Tweu-
ty-ninlh, Tliirtietb, ,and Tliirty-first Congresses, serv-
ing from December 4. 1843, to M.arch 3, 1851; wjis
again elected to the Thirty-third Congress, receiving
7.538 votes against (1,437 votes for Aldrich. Wliig, and
2,149 votes for Collins, Free-.Soiler. serving from De-
cember .1. 1S.')3, to March 3, 1855; w.is mayor of
Chicago in 1857 anil 18(j0; was a delegate to the State
Constitutional Convention of 18<31; was a le.-iding
Freemason; was again elected to the Thirty-ninth
Congress as a Republican, receiving 18,5.5t votes
against 14,277 votes for McCormick. Democrat, serv-
ing from December 4, 1805. to March 3, liMYJ; re-
ceived the degree of LL.D. from Dartmouth College
in 1867, and subsequently donated $10,000 to the
College.
Wentworth, John, jun. (grandfather of John
Wentworth), was Iwrn at Somersworth, New Hamp-
aUire, July 17, 1745; received a classical education,
grarlaating at Harvard Unircrsitv In ntW; smitie
law; was admitted to the bar. ami e
tice at Dover. New Ham|K<hire: w
his relative. Governor John Wentu
probate for Stralfonl County, aiel
until his death; w;is a memlM;r of tli
Representatives 177t>-178(J; was a del. .• ;■
Hampshire to the Continental Congf -- -■
1779; W.1S a member of the State C"U mil 17S"-m
was a member of the State Senate 1784-1787; 4ieJl
Dover. New Hampshire, from consumption, gnu
out of an atLick of small-pox. January 10, 1787.
Wentworth, Joshua, was iiom at Po
mouth. New Hampshire, in 1742; was colonel of i
First New-Hampshire Begimenr in 177(t: was electfl
several times a member of the "- '" -e of Hep
seut.itives. and four years S; r; was
pointed a delegate from Ni u ;....„, oliire to th
Continentiil Congress In 177H, but did not att
died at Portsmouth October 11), 1801).
Wentworth, Tappan, w;is bom at Dov
New Hampshire. September 24. 18<r2; received aj
lie-school eilucation; stiulied law with Willla
leigh of Soutli Berwick. Maine; wa-s adn
the Ijar in 1820, and practised at Grtuit Falh
Hampshire; removed to Lowell in 18.'¥J, and lo
lield a prominent position at tl>c Middlesex bar:
electeil to the common council of Lowel.
was elected to the .State House of Hepre^
attHiig, and after^vards «s;i '■-■■■■•''■
18(>i, and 18(i4, and to tie
18(1.'), and 1S«(); was the \\ iif,
iti the Lowell District in Iboi, receiving 5,Ut>4 vol)
against 3,317 votes for B. F. Butler, and en
others to prevent the necessary majority;
elected on the secfmd trial, when only a pli
was necessary, receiviiu; 4.411 votes againa
votes for Hemy Wilson, Free-S<>iler, and 824 i
ing: served in the Houso of Ri'presentatives J
Uiiited .States from Marcti 4, 185;{, to Slarch .3. 18
was the Whig candidate for re-<'lcction in le
was defeated, receiving 2.(jl4 votes againatj
voles for C. L. Knapp, ICuow-Notliing, and 4|
tering: died at Boston of Brighfs disease of l'
nevs June 12, 1875.
West, A. W., of Holmes County, Hississipi^
presented to the House of Representatives t>n tlie 4(1
of Jiuie. 18iW, cn?dentials signed by Governor Hu
phreys. declaring that he liad Ix^en elected to nepr
sent the Fourth District of Mississippi in the Tb
si.xth Congress.
West, Benjamin, was bom In Plymoai]
County. Massachusetts, April 8, 174fl; receiT««l
cliissical education; was one year at I'rinceti
lege, and gnuluated at Harvard Collose ia]
taught school for two years; studied dlvinit
his brother at Needham; began to jireach at '
th.am in January. 1771. but soon abandoned the
anil commenced the study of law at Lancast«
admitted to the bar in 1773. and commenced i
at Ch.irlestown. New Hampshire; was cha
delegate from New Hatup-shire to the Contin
C'ongress. a delegate to the convention which fn
the Federal Constitution, and a representative
New Hampshire to the First Congress, but he
lutely declined these and other otiices to which
was elected; died at his rural home in Charleston
New Hiunpshire, July 27. 1817.
West, J. Rodman, was bom at New Orle
September 19, ls;i>; entered the Uuiversity of Pen
sylvania in 1S.00, but withdrew before graduatiu
served in the war against Mexico with llie nmk
captain; emigrated to California in 1-- '-ag«
in commercial pursuits; attheoutbr' mai
the Rebellion was proprietor of "Tlr ..... . ..uicii
Prices Current;" entered the Union .army iis li*-ute
ant-colonel of the First California Infantry, andirfU
arduous services in New Mexico, and subseque
Arkansas and the Sout.h-West, attained the i
brevet major-general ; settled temporarily in
STATISTICAL SKETCHES.
691
i
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I
I
d then removefl t<i Now OrlPans, where, iiftPr
rving as chief depiify United-St.'it*^ iii:irshiil, iiiiil
kuililor of customs, ho was np|Milnte<l a4liuiiiistralor
of improTeraents; wftg elect«.M] n rnite(l->Stati>s.snna-
tor from Louisiana as a Repul)licaii (to su('ci.>e<i John
5. Harrii, Ropiililit'an), son'iug from March 4, lf<71,
to March 3. ls7".
"Weetbrook, John, was Iwrn in Pennsylvania;
Ksided at Uintfinan's Forry ; waa elected a rt'pri>«en-
.tetive from Pennsylvania in the Twenty-seventh
Congress as a Democrat, receiving 2,4110 votes against
l..T8i votes for Welier, Whig, ser\ing from May 31,
1*41, to March 3, 1S4:J.
Westbrook, Theodorio B., was bom in New
York; received an aciideniical education; studied
Imw; was admitted to the bar, and commenced prac-
tice at Kingston, Ulster County; was eleeti'il a reji-
resentative from New York in the Thirty-thinI
Congress as a Democrat, receiving l),titl2 votes against
7,902 votes for Smith, Whig, serving from December
6, iNVi. to Man?h Ij. IS^^.
Westcott, James D., was boni at Alexandria,
iVIrginia, May, 1802; removed with his father to New
Jersey; received an academical education; studied
law; was admitted to the bar in 1824, and commenced
Sractice in New Jersi-y; was a clerk in the Consular
lurcau of the Department of Stjite at Washington ;
was appointed bv President Jackson secretary of the
Territory of Florida is;«>-isa4; was United-States
attorney for the Mid<lle District of Florida ls:M-l,S;W;
■was a memlwr of the Territfirial House of Kepresen-
tatives; was a delegate to the convention for framiii'^
■ State Constitution in ISW and 1*50; wna elected
one of tlie first United-States senators from Florida
BH a Democrat, serving from Decerat>cr 1, IW-'j, to
March R, l^Vltl; was an editorial contributor to " The
New-Vork Ilerald."
Westerlo, Rensselaer (son-in-law of Stephen
Van Keusselai^r), wius born at Albany, New York, in
1T73; received a classical education, graduating at
ColumbiaCollegein 1790; studied law; was a<lmittcd
to the bar, but did not- ])Ricti8e much Iwyoud the
management of the aff.airs of his father-in-law the
ptilroon: was elected a representative from New
York in the Fifteenth Congress as a Federalist, serv-
ing fnnu December 1, 1817, to March 3, ISllI; was an
earnest sujijiorter of the Whig party after its forma-
tion: died at Albaiiv, New York, April 18, ISol.
"Wethered, Jonn, was born in Maryland; re-
sided at Frniiklin; was elected a re|)resentutive from
Maryland in the Twentv-eiihth Congress, serving
ironi IJ. ei-mbcr 4, ls4;J. to March 3, 1.S4.').
Whaley, K.ellian V., was Imni in Onond.aga
County, New York, May 0, 1.S21 ; removed with his
father to Ohio; reo.'ived a public-school education;
removed in 1842 to West Virginia, and engaged in
lurab4Ting; w.is elected a represent.itive from Vir-
ginia in tlie Thirty-seventh Congress as a Kepul>-
Dean. serving from' July 4, 1801, to Man-h 3, 1*W;
served in the Union army; was in command at the
battle of Ouyandotte in November, lS(il; was cnj)-
tured, but made his escape ; was elected a represen-
tative from We.1t Virginia In the Thirty-eighth Con-
fress lis a liepublican, receiving 2,748 votes against
.184 votes for Frost; and was re-elected to the
Thirty-ninth Congress, receiving little opposition,
«er\'ing from December 7, li^W, to March 3, 1867;
^vas a delegate to the National Rejinblican Conven-
tion at Baltimore in 18C4; was appointed collector of
cusloius at Brazos de Santiago, Texas, in 18()8.
Whallon, Reuben, was bom in New Jersey In
1777; remove<l to Split Hock, Essex County, New-
York; was elected a representative from New York
In the Twentv-thinI Congn'ss as a Jackson Demo-
crat, si-rving irom D»!ceinber 2, 1S3.1, to March .S,
Itvl'j; died ut Split Ilock, New York, April I'j, ls43.
TVharton, Jesse, was elected a representative
from Teiiiiessee in the Tenth Congress, »er\iiig from
October 26, 18'i7, to March :3, 1801)"; was appointed a
UaJt'xl-titatcs senator from Tctinesaeo (in place of
G<'orge W. Campbell, resigned), serving from April 0,
1814, to December 4. 181."), when the .lenator elccte«l
by the legislature tiKik his seat : died at Nashville,
Tennes-see. July 23, ls;>}.
Wheaton, Horace, wn* bom In New York;
resided at Pompey; was elected a represent.ilive
from New York In the Twenty-eighth Congrcs? as a
Democrat, receiving t),.>')8 votes against ti,ii24 votes
for Granger, Whig, and 2.J5 votes for .loslyn, Abo-
litionist; and was ri'-elected to the Twenty-ninth
Congress, receiving (t.Ml votes agiiinst 0,4(C) votes for
Noxon, Whig, ami tilKi votes for Sweet, Abolitionist,
serving from DfH'i-nilH-r 4, 1843, to March 3, 1847.
W&eaton, Laban, was bom at Mai-shtield, Mas-
sachusetts, in n.Vl; received a classical education,
graduating at Harvard College in 1774; studied law;
was admitted to the liar, and commencefl practice at
Norton, Massachusetts ; he hsid also studied theology,
but never prciu'hed; was a judge of the Hristol-<^'i)un-
tv courts; was elected a representative from Massa-
dmsotts In the Eleventh Congn*s8 as a Federalist;
w.is re-elected to the Twelfth, I'liirteenth, and Four-
teenth Congressi's, serving from May 22, 18t)(l, to
March .3, 18i7; died at Norton, Massachusetts, March
■Si, 184(5.
Wheeler, Ezra, was bom In Chenango County,
New York, in 1820; reci-lved an academical educa-
tion; studied law; was admltteil to the bar, and com-
menced practice at B<'rlin, Wisc-onsln; Wiis a member
of the St.ite House of Representatives in 1852; w:ui
county-judge 18o4-18«52; was elected a representa-
tive from Wisconsin in the Tliirty-eighth Congress
as a Democrat, receiving ll,ti04 voles against lU.ui.H
votes for Bmwne, Republican, serving from Decem-
ber 7, ma, to March 3, I8(t.'j.
Wheeler, Qrattan H., was bom In New York;
resided at Wheeler, Steuben County; was a member
of the St.ite House of Representatives in 1822, 1824,
and 182(5, and of the State .Sen.ite 1828-18-31; was
elected a representative from New York In the
Twenty-second Congn^ss, serving from Di.'cembcr 5,
1831, to March 2, 1833; died alAVheeler, New York,
in 18.V2.
Wheeler, John, w.is bom at Darby, Connecti-
cut, in 1H23; receiveil a public-school education; re-
moved to New-York City in 18.V5, and engaged in
mercantile pursuits; became a hotel-keeper; was
elected a representative from New York In the Tlilr-
ty-thinl Congress as a Democrat, receiving (l,.'i>l
votes agauist .5,243 votes for Varnuin, Whig, and 8.3
votes for Dodson, Whig; w.is re-elected to the Thir-
ty-fourth Congress, receiving 5,101 votes against
2,5;};) votes for Mur|)hy, IX'inocnit, and 2,2.50 votes
for Marshall, Whig, scniiig from Decembers, 1853,
to March 3, 18.>7.
Wheeler, William A., was bom at Malone,
New York, Juneiin, 1*^111; received an academic edu-
c.ition. and w.is for a year or more a student in the
University of Vemiont in the class of 1842; studied
law with Asa HascnII; was admitted to the bar,
and 'oractised at Malone; was district-attorney of
Franklin County, New York, for several years; was
a ux'mber of the New-York House of Assembly
in 18.VJ and 1851 ; was a mcml)er of the New- York
Senate, and presiilent pro tempnri; of same, in IS-W
and 18.>S); was [iresident of the New- York Constitu-
tional Convention in 18(17-1863; was elected n rei)re-
sentative fmm New York in the Thirty-seventh Con-
gress as a Republican, receiving 10,.'»71 votes ngidnst
7,427 votes for Hand, Di-mocrat ; was r<?-elected to the
Forty-first Congn'ss as a Republican, rf'ceivitig 15,2(12
votes ,igaln8t (5,284 votes for Wallace, Democrat ; was
re-elected to the Forty-second Congress, receiving
13,(M> votes against 5,(591) votes for C-. Mott, Demo-
crat; was re-elected to the Forty-third Congress, re-
ceiving 14,725 votes against (),.5t)5 votes t ir W. P. Cant-
well, Democrat ; and was re-elected to the Forty-fourth
Congress, receiving 12,32:5 votes against 5,.!).53 votes
for Sawyer, Democrat, Ber\'ing from July 4, 18<il, to
March 8, 1877; was elected vice-President of the
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United States on the Hayes ticket tn 1876, receiving
185 electoral votes against 184 electoral votes for
Tliomas A. Hendricks, serving from March 4, 1877.
His term of service will expire March 3, 1881.
Whipple, Thomas, jun., was bom in Berk-
shire County, Massachusetts, in 1788: received an
academical education; studied medicine; was ad-
mitted to practice, and located at Wentwortb, Xew
Hampshire; was elected a representative from New
Hampshire in the Seventeenth Congress; was re-
elected to the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Twentieth
Congresses, serving from December 3, 1821, to March
8, IS'JS; died at Wentworth, New Hampsliire, Janu-
My23, 1835.
Whipple, William, was bom at Kittery, Massa-
chusetts (afterwards Maine), January 14, 1730; was
bred a sailor, and had command of a vessel before he
was twenty-one years of age, engaging in the West-
India, European, and African trade; he brought
large numbers of negro slaves to this country, but,
when fighting for his own independence, emancipated
those belonging to him, and even refused to assist
General Washington in recovering Ona Stains, " the
waiting-woman " of Mrs. Washington, who had left
her mistress, and taken refuge in New Hampshire;
daring the Seven Years' War he retired from sea-
faring life, and engaged in trade at Portsmouth, New
Hampshire, where he acquired a competencv before
the breaking-out of the Revolution; was elected a
delegate to the Continental Congress in 1775, taking
his seat in May; re-elected in 1776, taking his scat
in February, and stj^ing the Declaration of Inde-
pendence In July; and re-elected in 1778, but did
not take his seat until October, as he had led his
brigade into Rhode Island for the defence of that
State ; he declined a re-election to Congress, but was
a member of the State Assembly 1780-1784; resigned
his military commission June 20, 1782; was State
superintendent of finances 1782-1784; was appointed
judge of the State Supreme Court in 1782, and occu-
pied the position until he was obliged to leave the
court in term-time; died of disease of the heart No-
vember 28, 1785.
Whitoomib, James, was bom at Stockbridge,
Vermont, December 1, 1791; received a classical edu-
cation, graduating at Transylvania University; stud-
ied law ; was admitted to the bar, and commenced
practice at Bloomington, Indiana, in 1824; was ap-
pointed prosecuting-attomey of Monroe County In
1820; was a member of the State Senate 1830-1830;
was appointed by President Jackson commissioner
of the General Land Office, serving from October 31,
1836, to July 8, 1841 ; returned to Indiana, and prac-
tised at Terre Haute; was governor of the State of
Indiana 1843-1848; was elected a United-States sen-
ator from Indiana as a Democrat, defeating Caleb B.
Smith, Whig, serving from December 3, 1849, to
October 4, 1852, when he died at the city of New
York.
White, Addison, was bom in Kentucky; re-
sided at Richmond; was elected a representative from
Kentucky to the Thirty-second Congress as a Wliig,
receiving 5,846 votes against 4,1.30 votes for Garland,
Democrat, serving from December 1, 1851, to March
3, 1853.
White, Albert S., was hom at Blooming
Grove, New York, October 24, 1803; received a clas-
sical education, graduating at Union College in 1822;
studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1825, and
commenced practice at Lafayette, Indiana; was for
five years clerk of the Indiana House of Representa-
tives; was elected a representative from Indiana in
the Twenty-tlf th Congress as a Whig, receiving 10,737
votes against 3,.3C9 votes for N. Jackson, Democrat,
serving fn)m September 4, 1837, to March 3, 1839;
was president of several railroads; was elected a
United-States senator from Indiana, serving from
December 2, 1839, to March 3, 1845; declined a re-
election; was again elected a representative in the
Thirty-seventh Congress as a Republican, receiving
13,310 votes against 11,489 votes for Wilson, Demo-
crat, serving from July 4, 1861, to March 3, 1863: waa
a commissioner to adjust claims against the Sioox
Indians; was appointed by President Lincoln in
1864 judge of the United-States Court for tlie dis-
trict of Indiana; died at Stockweil, Indiana, Septem-
ber 4, 1864.
White, Alexander, was bom in Rappahan-
nock County, Virginia, in 1738; took an active part
in pre-Revolutionary movements ; was a delegate from
Viiiginla to the Continental Coi^ress 1786-1788; was
elected a representative from Virginia in ^e First
Congress; was re-elected to the Second Congress,
serving from March 4, 1789, to March 2, 1793; died
at Woodville, Virginia, in September, 18&L
White, Alexander, was bom October 16,
1816, in Franklin, Tennessee; removed to Alabama
when five years of age; was educated at Court-
land and Somerville Academies, and at the Uni-
versity of Tennessee at Nashville, but volunteered
for the Creek and Seminole war in 1836, and con-
sequently did not graduate; studied law with his
father, Hon. John White, one of the Circuit and
Supreme Court judges of Alabama, and practised
upward of twenty-five years; was elected a repre-
sentative from Alabama in the Thirty-second Con-
gress as a Union Wliig, receiving 5,744 votes against
6,371 votes for Samuel F. Rice, State-rights Demo-
crat, serving from December 1, 1861, to March 3,
1853; was a member of the Alabama State Conven-
tion called by Governor Parsons in 1865 to fracme a
new constitution; was a' member of the General
Assembly of Alabama in 1872; was again elected to
the Forty-third Congress as a Republican, receiving
about 90,000 votes as a representative at large, de-
feating Alpheus Baker; was defeated as a Repub-
lican candidate for representative at large in the
Forty-fourth Congress, receiving 90,938 votes against
106,023 votes for B. R. Lewis, Democrat; was ap-
pointed in 1875 an associate justice of the United-
States Court for the Territory of Utah.
White, Allison, was bom in Pennsylvania De-
cember 21, 1816; received a public-school education;
studied law; was admitted to the bar, and com-
menced practice at Lock Haven, Pennsylvania; was
elected a representative from Pennsylvania in the
Thirty-fifth Congress as ^ Democrat, receiving 9,980
votes against 9,450 votes for Irwin, Republican, serv-
ing from December 7, 1857, to March 3, 1859; was
defeated as the Democratic candidate for the Thirty-
sixth Congress, receiving 7,349 votes against 0,238
votes for James T. H^e/Union Republican.
White, Bartow W., was Iwm in Westchester
County, New York ; removed to Fishkiil ; was elected
a representative from New York in the Nineteenth
Congress, serving from December 6, 1825, to March
3, 1827.
White, Benjamin, was bom in Maine; re-
ceived a public-school education; was reared on a
farm, and engaged through life in agricultural pur-
suits at Montville; was a member of the State House
of Representatives in 1841 and 1842; was elected a
representative from Maine in the Twenty-eighth
Congress as a Democrat, serving from J>ecemtjer %
1844, to March 3, 1845.
White, Campb^ P., was bora at New York;
received a public-school education; engi^ed in mer-
cantile pursuits; waa elected a representative froom
New York in the Twenty-first Congress as a Jackson
Democrat, receiving a majority of 377 votes over
Lemuel Sawyer; was re-elected to the Twenty-second
and Twenty-third Congresses, serving from Decem-
tier 7, 1829, to March 3, 1835; was appointed quarter-
master-general of the New- York State militia Jana-
ary24, 1831 ; died at New York Febmaty 12, 1859.
White, Chilton A., was bom at Georgetown,
Ohio, February, 1826; received a public-school edu-
cation; served as a private in the Mexican war:
studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1848, ana
commenced practice at Georgetown, Ohio; was pro*-
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ecuting-attomey for Brown County In 1852 and 1853;
•vas a member of the Stale Senate in 1859 ami 1800;
■was elected a representative from Ohio in the
Thirty-seventh Congress as a Democrat, receiving
10,046 votes against 8,828 votes for Murphy. Repub-
lican; wiig re-fleeted to the Thlrty-eiglith Congress,
receivinc; 10,i187 votes against 0,32:) votes for Briggs,
Bepubiican, 8cr^■ing from July 4, IISOI. to March
8, IStVi; was defeated as the Democmtic candidate
for the Tliirty-ninth Congress, receiving 10,174 vot«s
fc-jainst 10,774 votes for H. W. Claris, Itepublican,
White, David, was bom in 1785; was n lawyer;
pr.K-tlseil at New Castle, Kentucky: was elected a
Tepn'si'nl.itive from Kentucky in the Eighteenth
Congress, serving from December 1, 1823, to March
S. IS-io; died in Franklin County, Kentucky, February
17. 18.3.5.
"White, Edward Douglas, was bom at Nash-
ville. TennessiH": r<.'niovcil with his father to AttAka-
pas Parish, Louisiana; ri,*coived a public-school edu-
cation; studied law; was admitted to the bar, and
commenced pr.ictlce at Don.ildsonvillc; was appolnt-
«U judge at New Orleans, and removed there; was
elected a represenfjitlve from Louisiana in the Twen-
tj'-first Congress as a Wliig, defeating Edward Liv-
iiigston, Dcmocnit; was re-electe.l to the Twenty-
•econd and Twenty-third Congresses, serving froin
Decemlier 7, 18a), to November 15, 18:14, when he
resigned, having been elected governor; he was on
the steamer "Lioness" when she was set on fire
by an exjilosion of gunpowder May 10, 18.33, and
badly burned, besides contracting a pulmonary
from whicli he never recovered; was g.iv-
T of flic State of Louisiana IH'M-bS-W; removed
to Thibodeatutville; w.t-s again e)ect«<l to the Twen-
S ■-sixth Congress by 010 majority; was re-elected to
le Twenty-seventh Congress, receiving 3,802 votfs
I against 1,757 votes for Lennartl, Van Buren Deino-
' crat, serving from December 2, 1839, to March 3,
!(>«; d it'll at New Orleans .Vpril 8, 1817.
White, Francis, w-as born in Virginia; was
Lclcctetl A representative from Virginia in the Thir-
Itcenth Congress, serving from May 24, 181.3, to March
8, 181.5.
White, Harry, was born in Indiana County,
, Pennsylvania, .lanuary 12, ISH; received acollcgiat«
leducation, graduating in 1854; studied law with
iBon. Thomas White; was admitted to the bar in
Ijunc, 18.55: commenced practice at Indiana, Penn-
[•ylvanim and continued until the commencement of
Tlostilitics in 18(11; entered the Union army as m.ijor
fcf tlie Sixtv-sevcnth Pi-nnsylvania Infantry; wjis
[elected, while serving in the army, a State senator,
|>erving In the winter of 18(i2-lWiy; returned to his
^^JTnra.'lnd, and at the battle of Winchester, In June,
l'?ll3, when Lee was on his Gettysburg campaign,
was captured; the fall election of 180.3 rn,nde a tie in
the State Senate without his vote, and active efforts
were ma<le to secure his exchange, but >v1thout suc-
. Cess, the Confederate Oovemment refusing, and sent
llim to solitary confinement at Salisbury, North
ICarolina; before he left Libttey Prison, however, he
■sent his resign.ition as State senator clandestinely to
IPennsylv,inia. •conce.ilpd In a Te.stament, l)y a sur-
rgeon; he remained in prison sixteen months, and
(made his escape, reaching the Federal lines near
^Atlant,!; in October, 1804, he returned to his com-
aand, and 8cr\ed until the end of the war, having
neanwhilc been promoted to the colonelcy of his
iTPgimcnt, and brevcttcd brigndier-general ; was re-
fielected to the State Senate in the fall of 1805 for three
years; was re-elected in 18fJ8 for three years, and in
1871 for three ye.irs, serving as sjtcaker of the Senate
^ n the close of' the terra of 1871 ; was nominated in
'1872 as congressman at large, and delegsite at large
to the Constitutional Convention, but dedineil the
concessional nomination, but Wiis elected to that
convention; practised liis profesfion ; was defeated
as the Kepublican candidate for the Forty-fourth
Congress, receiving 11,10U votes against 11,(^7 votes
for George A. Jonks, Democrat; was elected to trie
Forty-fifth Congress as a Republican, rfceiving 15,130
vot«'s a xainst I3,:!'J7 votes for Geonie A. Jcnks, Dem-
ocrat, serving from October 15, 1877.
White, Hugh, was bom in New York In 1700;
received a puMic-school e<lucation; was reareil on »
farm; w.is engiiged for many yerirs in business at
Cohoes, New York; Wiis the founder of Whitestowu,
Oneida County, New York; was eiectwl a n-presenta-
tive frfim New York in the Twenty-ninth Congrt^ss
.IS a Whig, receiving 8,42-3 votes against 8.124 votes
for Ellis. Deniocnit, and 2.52 votes for Smith: was re-
electeil to the Thirtieth Congress; was re-<.'lected to
thu Thirty-lirst Congress, ri.'ceiving8.1.>-ivotes.Hgaiii'it
4.tiol) rotes for Cainpbcll, Democrat, and :!. !1I2 votes
forCowen, Democrat, serving from December 1, 1815,
to March .3, 1651; died near' Troy, New York, Oeto-
Iwr 0. 1.S70.
White, Hugh Lawson, was born In Iredell
County, North Clirolina, October .30. 177:3; went to
Tennessee with his father, who settled In Knox
County In 1780; received a classical education frrim
Kev. S. Carrick, Judge Roane, and Dr. Patterson of
Philadelphia; studied law under J.imes Ilopkins at
Lancaster, Pennsylvania; w.is admitttil to tin' bur in
17115, and coramehced practi<;e at Knoxvllle, Tennes-
see, in IIW); was judge of the Supreme Court of
Tennessee I801-18')7; was elected to the State .Senate
of Tennessee in 1807 and in 1817; was appointed
United-State's district-attorney in 1808; was re-elect-
ed judge of th(! Supreme Court U">:)0-1815 ; was chosen
president of the .St.ite Bank of Tennessee 1815; was
.ippointed l>y Frcaiilcnt M'inrt)0 on the commission
t) adjust the claims of Americin citizens against
Spain 1820-1824; was clecte<l Unltcfl-States senator
(to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of
.\iidrew Jackson in l.S'iS). and Wiis re-i^leeted in
1827, ser\-liig from December 12, 1.825, until March .3,
18:3.3 ; was chos<-n president of the .Senate jrro Imnjiore
in 18.32; received the electoral votes of Tennessee
and Georgia f.)r Pri.'sldent of the United .States in
1830; was agiiln elected to the Sen.ite In 1830 for six
years, and took his se.it March 4, 1837, but resigneil
Janu.irv' 1:3, 1840, rather th.in obey the instructions of
the legislature of Tennessee; died at Knoxville, Ten-
nessee. April 10, 1840.
W^hite, James, was bom In North Carolina;
removed to Tennessee; was electe<l a delegate from
the territory south of the Ohio River in the Third
Congress, serving from November 18, 17W, to March
3. 1705; W.IS a delegate to the convention which
trained the State Constitution of Tennessee.
White, John (uncle of Jolin D. White), was
born in 1806; received an academical education;
studied law; was admitted to the bar, and practised
at Richmond, Kentucky; was elected n representa-
tive from Kentucky in the Twenty-fourth Congress
as a \Vliig >vitliout opposition; was n?-elected to
the Twenty-fifth, Twenty-sixth, Twenty-seventh,
and Twenty-eighth Congresses without oppoiiillon,
serving from December 7, 1.'135, to Jl:u-ch 3, 1»*-I5;
was speaker of the House during the Twenty-seventh
Congress; w.is judge of the Nineteenth Juilicial Dis-
trict of Kentucky: committed suicide at Richmond,
Kentucky. Septeralier 22, 184.5.
White, John D. (nejihew of John White), was
bom at Manchester, Kentucky. In 1840; graduated
at Kentucky University from the College of Arts,
and then went to the University of Michigan at Ann
Arbor, where he graduated in law; was nominated
assistant presidential elector on the Grant ami Wil-
son ticket In 1^72; travelled through the Paoiflc
States and the Territories, ond was elected a repre-
sentative from Kentucky in the Forty-fourth Con-
gress as a Republican, receiving 8,74-1 votes against
8,145 votes for Cockrill. Democrat, serving from De-
cember 0, 1875, to March .3, 1;?77.
White, Joseph L., was bom at Cherry Valley,
New York; rcceiveil a public-school education; stud-
ied law at UUca; was admitted to the bar, and com-
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menced practice at Madison, Indiana; was elected a
representative from Indiana in the Twenty-seventh
Congress, serving from May 31, 1841, to March 8,
1843; declined l)eing a candidate for re-election, and
removed to New Tork, where he practised liis pro-
fession; he subsequently I>ecame interested in a
patent for the manufacture of India rubber; and,
while on a business visit to Indiana, he was shot by
a drunken man, and died from the wound in Janu-
ary. 1801.
Whi'to, Joseph M., was bom in Franklin
County, Kentucky; received a classical education;
studied law ; was admitted to the bar, and practised
at Pensacola, Florida; wiis elected a delegate from
Florida Territory in the Nineteenth Congress as a
Democrat, defeating Mr. Gadsden; was re-elected to
the Twentieth, Twenty-first, Twenty-second, Twen-
ty-third, and Twenty-fourth Congresses, serving from
December 5, 1825, to March 3, miU ; was defeated as
a candidate for the Twenty-fifth Congress by Charles
Downing; died at St. Louis, Missouri, October 19,
1839.
White, Joseph W., was bom at Cambridge,
Ohio, October 2, 1822 ; received an academical edu-
cation ; studied law ; was admitted to the bar in 1844,
and commenced practice at Cambridge; was elected
a representative from Ohio in the Thirty-eighth Con-
gress as a Democrat, receiving 10,087 votes against
0,320 votes for Briggs, Republican, serving from
December 7, 1863, to March 3, 1865; was defeated
as the Democratic candidate for the Thirty-ninth
Congress, receiving 11,119 votes against 12,377 votes
for J. A. Bingham, Republican.
White, Leonard, was bom at Haverhill, Massa-
chusetts, 1707; received a classical education, gradu-
ating at Harvard College In 1787; was for many
years a member of the State House of Representa-
tives, town-clerk, and treasurer of Haverhill; was
elected a representative from Massacliusetts in the
Twelfth Congress, and served from November 4,
1811, until March 3, 1813; was appointed cashier of
the newly incorporated Merrimack Bank, and held
the position for a quarter of a centu^; died at
Haverhill, Massachusetts, of paralysis, October 10,
1849.
White, M. D., was bom In Clark County, Ohio,
September 8, 1827; removed with his parents to Tip-
pecanoe County, Indiana, in 1829; was raised on a
farm, and, on arriving at the age of twenty-one years,
removed to Crawfordsville ; was educated in common
schools and at Wabash College; studied law, and
commenced practice ; was elected prosecutlng-attor-
ney in 1854, and served two years ; was elected State
senator in 1800, and served four years; and was
elected to the Forty-fifth Congress as a Republican,
receiving 16,990 votes against 15,276 votes for George
McVVilliams, Democrat, and 3,.349 votes for Leroy
Templeton, Independent, serving from October 16,
1877.
White, Phillips, was bom in New Hampshire;
was a delegate from New Hampshire to the Conti-
nental Congress in 1782 and 1783.
White, Phineas, was bom in Hampshire Cotm-
ty, Massachusetts, in 1770; received a classical edu-
cation, graduating at Dartmouth College in 1797;
studied law; was admitted to the bar, and com-
menced practice at Pomfret, Vermont; was register
of probate for Windsor County 1800-1800; was
county-attorney in 1818; was for eight years a mem-
ber of the State Senate or House of Representatives ;
was elected a representative frpm Vermont in the
Seventeenth Congress, serving from December 8,
1821, to March 3, 1823; died at Putney, Vermont, in
1847.
White, Samuel, was bom at Wilmington, Dela-
ware, in 1702; was elected a United-States senator
from Delaware as a Federalist, serving from Decem-
ber 7, 1801, to November 4, 1809, when he died at
Wilmington.
Whitehead, Thomas, was bom at Clifton,
Nelson County, Virginia, December 97, 1S25; at-
tended a grammar-school until he was thirteen years
of age, and then went into mercantile business;
studied law; was admitted to the bar in March, 184P,
and practised at Amherst; was also a farmer, and
the editor of an agricultural newspaper; was ap-
pointed master-commissioner in chancery, and acted
until 1850; was elected attorney for the Common-
wealth for Amherst County in 1866, removed by or-
der of the militarygovemor in 1868, re-elected in IS^t,
and resigned hi Novemlier, 1873; was elected to the
State Senate of Virginia in March. 1865, but never
qualified ; was commissioned first lieutenant of car-
airy by Governor Letcher in May, 1861, elected
captain of cavalry in 1862, and promoted to major of
the Second Viiginia Cavalry in 1865; was nominated
by a convention of the Conservative party of Vir-
ginia, and elected a representative from Virginia in
the Forty-third Congress, receiving 11,401 votes
against 10,779 votes fo; J. F. Johnson, Independent
Conservative, indorsed by Republicans, serving from
December 1, 1878, to March 3, 1875.
Whitehill, James, was bom In Lancaster
County, Pennsylvania; was judge of the Lancaster-
county Court; was a brigadier-general of militia;
was elected a representative from Pennsylvania in
the Thirteenth Congress, serving from May 24, 1813,
to September 1, 1814, when he resigned; died at
Strasburg, Pennsylvania, March 6, 18^
Whitehill, John, was bom in Pennsylvania in
1721; was elected a representative bom Pennsyl-
vania in the Eighth Congress; was re-elected to the
Ninth Congress, serving from October 17, 1903, to
March 3, 1807; died in 1815.
Whiiehil^ Bobeii^ was elected a representa-
tive from Pennsylvania m the Ninth Congress; w^as
re-elected to the Tenth, Eleventh, and Twelfth Con-
gresses, serving from December 2, 1805, to Mareh 3,
1813; died soon after the expiration of his congres-
sional term.
Whitehouse, John O., was bom at Baches
ter, New Hampshire, July 19, 1817; received a pul>-
lic-school education; left his New-England fann~
home in 1835; went to the State of New Yoi^ and
resided at Brooklsm and Pooghkeepsie ; is a meit^iant
and manufacturer; never held a public office until
elected a representative from New York in the Forty-
tliird Congress as a Liberal, receiving 14,860 votes
against 13,932 votes for J. H. Ketcham, Republican;
was re-elected to the Forty-fourth Congress as a Lib-
eral Democrat, receiving 16,181 votes against 11,340
votes for Charles A. Beal, Republican, serving from
December 1, 1878, to March 3, 1877.
Whiteley, Riohard Henry, was bom in Ire-
land December 22, 1830, and immigrated to Georgia in
1836 ; was self-educated, and was engaged in the man-
ufacturing business in Georgia from early boyhood;
studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1860; was
opposed to the secession of the State of Georgia from
the Union in 1861 ; entered the Confederate army in
1861, and surrendered in 1866 ; was elected as a Re-
PttbUcan to the State Constitutional Convention of
Georgia in 1867 ; was the Republican candidate for
Congress in the Second District of Georgia in 1868;
was appointed solicitor-general of the South-western
Circuit in the fall of ISiSS; was elected in February,
1870, by the General Assembly, United-States sena-
tor, but was not admitted to a seat: was elected a
representative from Georgia in the Forty-first Con-
gress as a Republican, andf took his seat after it had
been unsuccessfully contested by Nelson Tift, Demo-
crat; was re-elected to the Forty-second Congress,
receiving 13,441 votes against 12,087 votes for N.
Tift, Democrat; was re-elected to the Forty-thinl
Congress, receiving 9,616 votes against 0,630 votes
for G. J. Wright, Democrat, serving from February
9, 1871, to March 3, 1875; was defeated as the Repub-
lican candidate for the Forty-fourth Congress, receiv-
ing 9,789 votes against 12,108 votes for W. K Smith,
Democrat; was again defeated as the Republican
I
_ Udate for the Forty-flfth Congress, receiving
"8,015 voles against l:j,it27 votes for W. E. Smith,
DciniATftt.
Whiteley, William Q., wiis boni at Newarlv,
Deliitturi'; rcoiMvcil a oliissical ccJncalion. jjnuluatin!;
at Princeton Collt'KH in ISIS; studied law; was ad-
mitted to the bar, and commenced practice at Xew
Castle; was elected a represeulative from Delaw.ire
In tlic Thirty-fifth CiniKress as a Uemocrat, reeeivina;
8,111 votes opilnst il,;tii<i voles for Ciillen. American:
and w;is re-ele<Med to tlie Thirty-sixth (."oniai'ss,
receiving 7,H(W votes against 7,4o2 votes for Morris,
American, serving from December 7, 1857, to March
3, IWl.
Whiteside, Jenkins, wm elected a United-
States senator fnmi Tennessee (In place of Daniel
Smith, resi£n'e<l). ser^-ing from May 26, 1800, to Sep-
temb.T 1, ISll, wlirn he resigned,
W hitesido, John, was elected a repre.ientalive
from I'ennsylvani.^ Iti tlie Fourteenth Congress; wjis
re-elected to tlie Fiflecnth Concress, serving from
December 4. 181,^ to March 3, If'ia
Whitfield, J. W., was bom in Tennessee;
reramed to Kan.s:us, and located at Tecumseli; was
elected a delegate frotu Kansas Territor>- to the
Thirty-tJiiril (Jonsress as a Democrat, receiving 2,258
votes osainst 5(H) votes for all others; was re-elected
to the Thirty-fourth Congress, defeating Andrew 11,
Reeder, serving from Duceml>er 20, 1S54, to March A,
1857.
Whiting, Richard H., was bom at West Hart-
ford, Connecticut, January 17, 182(1; r<K-eived a com-
mon-school education; entered the Union army as
paymaster of volunteers iu 18(52, and resigned in
1860; was apjiointed assessor of Internal revenue
for the Fifth Uislrict of Illinois in February, 1870,
and served until the office of assessor was abolished.
May 20, 187-3; was appointed collector of internal
revenue from May 2(.>, 187;{, for that district, and
serveil until Man-h 4, 1875; and was elected a repre-
sentative from New Yorlt in the Forty-fourth Con-
gress as a Republican, receiving 0,755 votes ajjainst
9,'^ votes for Leonard F. Ross. Democrat and LUkt-
ai, scrvinz from December 0, 1875, to March S, 1877,
Whiting, William, was bom at Concord. Mos-
aachiisetls, Marcli '.i. lsi:t; received a cla.<isical educa-
tion, graduating at Uar\ar(l College in 18J.S; studied
law witli Harrison Loring and at the Cambridge
Law School; w.as admitted to the bar, and com-
menced practice at Uiiston, paying especi.il attention
to patent cjises; wjis ap|xiiutwl by President Lincoln,
in the fall of 1802, solicitor of the War Department,
and tilled the position until he resigned in April,
18(55; was elecled a representative from Massaclni-
setts in the Forty-third Congress as a Kepublican.
but died before taking his seat, at Boston Highlands.
of an alfeclion of tlie heart, .lune 21), 1873, He pul)-
lishetl a large number of editions of " The YVar
Powers of the Ciovemment," and several pamphlets
on historical atid b-jal subjects.
W^ hitman, Ezekial, Wiia bom at East Bridge-
water, MaS8acllU^ell«, March 11. 177(5; rcceivetl a
classical education, gradualirig at Brown University
In 1795; studied law; was admitted to the t>ar, an<l
(x>mmcnced practice at Portland (then in Mass.ochu-
setts, afterwards in Maine); was elected a ivpn^sen-
tative from the Maine District of Massachusetts in
the Eleventh Congress as a Ferleralist, sening from
May 22. ISiX). to March ,'i, 1811 ; was a memlR>r of the
Executive Couiu-il in 1815 and 181fl; was a delegate
to the Convention that framed the State Constituiiou
of Maine; was again elected to the Fifteentli (.Con-
gress, atid re-elected to the Sixteenth Contrress. serv--
fiig from DecemluT 1. 1S17. to March ;5, 1S21: was
elected n repn^seutatlve frfim Maine in the Seven-
teenth Congress, defejvting General Irish, serving
from December :J, 1821. to June 1, 1822. when ho re-
signoil; Wfus d"f(Mted as the Wliig catididale for the
Twenty-sixth Congress, receiving 5,02:5 vntes ag.iinst
6,709 votes for AJbert Smith, Democrat; was a judge
of the Superior Court; was chief justice of Maine
Deremlier Id. 1841-(.)ctol)er 2a, ISIS; returned to
East Uriili;i'wat<'r. Massachusetts. August 1. 1800.
Whitmem, Lemuel, was lioni in (.Connecticut
in 178(»; received a classiial education, gridiialing at
Vale College in 18(X); wits elected a repirxeiitative
from Connecticut In tlie Eighteenth Congress, serving
frtrai December 1, 182.S, to March 3, 1825; died at
Farminitton, Cnnnectieut, Xovember 18, 1841.
Whitmore, George W., was bora in McMinn
County, Tennessee, August 2<5, 1824; received a
commoii-sch<K>l education; was raised on a farm;
removed to Texas in Decemlier, lKt.S; studieil and
practised law ; was a memlier of tin' House of Repre-
sentatives in Texas in 1852 and ISVl and 1858; e»-
[Miused the Union cause; wa* imprisoned by the
rebels on account of his political s<-ntiinents, and
WIIS kept in prison until a board of surgeons pro-
nounced his release necessary; was api/oitilx'd by
Ciovemor U.imilton district-attorney of the Ninth
Judicial District in 18(50; was appointed register iti
bankruptcy in 18(57; and was elected a representative
from Texiis in the Ftiity-first Cotigress as a Repuli-
lican. receiving s,450 votes against 7,4iHl voles for
.\rmstrong, Democrat, and :581 votes ffir Uoughton,
serving from Man-h ;jl, 1870. to March 3, 1871. ~
Whitney. Thomas R., wils bom at XewTork
in 18(H; ilevoteil much of his life to literary pursuits;
was the editor of "The New- York Sunday News;
was a member of the Stale Senati! 1H54-I8.x>; was
elected a representative from New York In the
Thirty-fourth Congress as an American, receiving
3,321 votes against 2,70o votes for Andrews, Whig,
and 2,713 votes for Hamilton. Democrat, 8er^•lng
from December 3, 1855. to March 3, 1857; dieil at
New York April 12, 18.58, He pul>lishe<l " The Am-
buscade, a Poem," and " Tho American Policy
Vindicated,"
Whittemore, Benjamin F., was bom at Mai-
den. Massachusetts, in 1824; received an academical
education; travelled in Eunipe, South America, and
California; studied theology, .ind became a minister
in the Methodist-Episcopal Chinch; served in the
Union anny as chaplain; located in South Carolina
after the war; was a delegate to the Stale Constitu-
tional Convention of 18(57; was the founder and ed-
itor of "Tlio New Era," publisihed at Darlington;
was a mcmlM-r of the Slate Senate; was elected a
reprosi'ntative fmm South Carolina in the Furtieth
(congress; and was re-elected to the Forty-lirst Con-
gress, serving from July 18, 1808, to February 23,
1870. when he resigned; was subseijuentiy re-elected,
but refiLsed admission June 21, 1870.
Whittemore, EHisha, wiis bom in Rocking-
ham County, New Hampshire; received a public-
sehoid education; removed to New York; wiu) elect-
ed a represent.itive from New York in the Nineteenth
Congress, serving from December 5. 1825, ti> March
3. 1S27,
Whitthorne, Washington Curran, was
Ixirn in Marshall County, Tennessi-e, April 10, 1825;
grailualeil at the East-Tennessee University, Knox-
ville, Tennessee, in 184:5; studied law. and has since
practised; was u member of the Stale Senate of
Tennessee in 18.'M), 18.50, 1.S57. ond 1858; was elected
in 18,"/,» to the lower House of the (Jeneral Assembly
of Tennessee, and w.is made [iresiding oHieer Ihei-eof;
was upon the Breckinridge electoral ticket for the
.State at large in 180(J; was a.'<.'<islant adjutant-general
in the provisional amiy of Ten;iessce in 18(51. and
was afterward adjutant-genenil of the .State, which
position he held under (iovemor Harris until the
close of the civil war; his disabilities were removed
by act of Congress, approval July. 1.870. ami be wa»
elected a represeittative fn>m Tennessee in the Forty-
second Congress as a Derawnil, receiving 9,057 votes
against 2,81(1 votes for T, J. Cypert. Republicjin, and
1.420 votes for J. B, Frierson, Republican; was re-
elected to the Korty-thinl Congress, receiving 0..508
votes against (1,84U votes for Gibbs, Republican, and
696
OOKGBESBIOKAIi DIBEOTOBT.
903 Totei for Morris ; was re-elected to the Forty-f onrth
CongresB, receiving 0,072 Totea against 1,773 Totes
for filbbs, Republican: was re-elected to the Forty-
fifth Congress, receiving 12,827 votes against 3,767
votes for Cliit, Bepublican, serring from March 4,
1871.
Whittlesey, ElishcL was bom at Washington,
Connecticut, October 10, 1783; was reared on a ikna ;
received an academical education; studied law; was
admitted to the bar, and commenced practice at
Canfleld, in the " Western Reserve " of Ohio, in 1800;
was for sixteen years prusecuting-attomey; served
ill the war of 1812 as aide-de-camp to General £.
Wadsworth ; was a member of the State House of
Representatives in 1820 and 1821 ; was elected a rep-
resentative from Ohio In the Eighteenth Congress;
was re-elected to the Kineteenth, Twentieth, Twenty-
first, Twenty-second, Twenty-third, Twenty-fourth,
and Twenty-fifth Congresses, servii^ from December
1, 1823, to July 9, 1838, when he resigned; was ap-
pointed by President Harrison sixth auditor of the
treasury, serving from March 17, 1841, to December
10, 18^ was appointed by President Taylor first
auditor of the treasury, serving from May 31, 1849,
until he was removed by President Buchanan March
26, 1857; he was re-appointed by President Lincoln
April 10, 1861, and held the office until he died at
V^shinzton City January 7, 1863.
Whittlesey, Frederick, was bom at Wash-
ington, Connecticut, June 10, 1700 ; received a clas-
sical education, graduating at Yale Collie in 1818;
studied law; was admitted to the bar at Utica, New
York, in 1821, and commenced practice at Rochester
in 1822; was elected a representative from New Yorl:
in the Twenty-second Congress, and was re-elected
to tlie Twenty-third Congress, serving from Decem-
ber 5, 1831, to March 8, 1836; was vice-chancellor of
the Eighth Judicial District of New York 1830-1817;
was appointed a justice of the State Supreme Court
June 30, 1817; was chosen professor of law in Grene-
see College in 1850; died at Rochester, New Yorlc,
September 19, 1851.
Whittlesey, Thomas T., was bom In Con-
necticut; received a liberal education, graduating at
Yale College; studied law; was admitted to the bar,
and practised at Danbury, Connecticut; was elected
to fill a vacancy in the Twenty-fourth Congress
i caused by the death of Zalmon Wildman) as a van
iuren Democrat, receiving 17,688 votes against
14,640 votes for Reuben Booth, WlUg; was re-elected
to the Twenty-fifth Congress, serving from April 28,
1836, to March 3, 1830; was defeated as the Demo-
cratic candidate for the Twenty-sixth Congress, re-
ceiving 3,701 votes against 4,023 votes for Thomas B.
Osborne, Whig.
Whittlesey, WiUiam A., was bom In Con-
necticut; received a classical education, graduating
at Yale College; studied law; was admitted to the
bar, and commenced practice at Marietta, Ohio; was
elected a representative from Ohio in the Thirty-first
Congress as a Democrat, receiving 6,375 votes agninst
6,037 votes for Cutler, Whig, serving from December
3, 1849, to March 3, 1851.
Whyte, William Pinkney, was bom at Bal-
timore August 0, 1824; was educated at Baltimore
College and by private tutors; served for eighteen
months In the oanking-house of George Peabody;
%tudled law at the Harvard Law School, and was ad-
mitted to the Baltimore bar in 1846; was a member
of the legislature of Maryland in 1847-1848; was
judge-advocate of a court-martial at the Naval Acad-
emy in 1848 ; was a Democratic candidate for Con-
gress in a Whig district in 1851, and beaten by 110
votes; was elected comptroller of the State of Mary-
land in 1853, and declined a re-election in 1855; was
again a Democratic candidate for Congress in 1857
against the Know-Nothinr;8, and contested the seat,
but was defeated in the House by a small majority;
refused to claim any pay as a contestant, although
the report of the Committee on Elections was against
the sitting member ; was a delegate to the Democratic
National Convention In 1868; was appointed to the
United-States Senate by the governor of Maryland
(to fill the vacancy occasioned oy the appointment of
Reverdy Johnson as minister to Great Britain); took
his seat July 14, 1868, and served until March 4. 18>^
(Mr. Johnson's successor had been elected by the
legislature in January, 1868); was elected governor
of Maryland for four years in November, 1871, and
resigned the office to enable the legislature to elect
his successor on his having been elected United-State«
senator from Maiyland as a Democrat (to succeed
W. T. Hamilton, Democrat) ; he received the degree
of LL.D. in June, 1874, from the University of Mary-
land ; he took his seat in the Senate March 4, 1875,
and his term of service will expire March 3, 1681.
Wick, William W., was bom at Canonsburg,
Pennsylvania, Febraaiy SS, 1796; received an aca-
demical education ; taught school ; studied medicine
until 1818; then studied law with Thomas Corwin;
was admitted to the bar, and commenced practice in
Fayette County, Indiana, in 1820; was assistant clerk
of the State House of Representatives in 1820, and
assistant secretary of the Senate in 1821 ; was presi-
dent-judge of the Fifth Judicial Circuit in ISSS;
was secretary of the State of Indiana in 1825; was
SUte attorney for the Fifth Judicial Circuit 1820-
1831; was president-judge 1832-1835; was elected a
representative from Indiana in the Twenty-sixth
Congress as a Democrat, serving from Decemlier 2,
1839, to March 3, 1841; was again elected to the
Twenty-ninth Congress; was re-elected to the Thir-
tieth Congress, defeating Nicholas McCarty, serving;
from December 1, 1846, to March 3, 1849; was presi-
dent-judge of the Fifth Judicial Circuit; was ap-
pointed by President Pierce postmaster at Indianap-
olis, serving from 1853 to 1857; was at different
times adjutant-general, quartermaster-general, and
brigadier-general of the State militia; resumed the
practice of law ; died in Franklin County, Indiana,
MaylO, 1868.
Wickes, Eliphalet, was bom in Suffolk Conn^
ty, New York; resided at Hnntlngdon; was elected
a representaUve from New York In the Ninth Con-
gress, serving from December 2, 1806, to March 3,
1807.
Wiokliffe, Charles A., was bom at Bards-
town, Kentucky, June 8, 1788; was educated at the
Bardstown Grammar School; studied law; was ad-
mitted to the bar, and commenced practice at Bards-
town, Kentucky; was a member of the State House
of Representatives in 1812 and 1813; served at the
battle of the Thames as aide-de-camp to General
Caldwell; was a member of the State House of Rep-
resentatives in 1814-1823; was elected a representa-
tive from Kentucky in the Eighteenth Congress as a
Henry Clay Democrat; and was successively re.«lect-
kA to the Nineteenth, Twentieth, Twenty-first, and
Twenty-second Congresses ; was again elected to the
State House of Representatives, of which he was
speaker in 1834; was elected lieutenant^vemor of
Kentucky in 1836, and, on the death of Governor
Clark in 1830, he became governor; was appointed
by President Tyler postmaster-general September 13,
1641, and served until March 6, 1845; was sent by
President Polk on a secret mission to the republic
of Texas in 1846; was a member of the Kentucky
Constitutional Convention of 1846; was a delegate to
the Peace Congress of 1861; was again elected a rep-
resentative from Kentucky in the Thirty-seventh
Congress as a Union Wliig, receiving 8,217 votes
against 2,710 votes for Read, Secessionist, serving
from July 4, 1861, until March 3, 18(33; was a dele-
gate to the National Democratic Convention at Chi-
cago in 1864; died at Bardstown, Kentucky, October
31^1800.
Wickliffe, Robert C, was bom at Bardstown,
Kentucky; received an academical education; stud-
ied law; was admitted to the bar, and commenced
practice at New Orleans, Louisiana; was governor
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of the Slate of Louisiana 185&-I8flO; claimed to have
been elected n representative from Louisiana iu tlie
Thirty-ninth Congrvss: his eredeutiaJs were present-
ed Deicemljer It), 16Cla, but he was nut admitted tu a
•eat
Widgery, "William, was Itom at Phiia<k'lphia,
Pennsylvania, in n>'>.J; received ii public-school edu-
cation; followed llie si'Jis in early life; was lioaten-
of a privttteer during the Revolutionary war;
loved to Portland (then in the Maine District of
Massachusclts); was niemlicrof the tsiate House of
Kepresoiitatives in 17S0, 17111, 171«, 17114, an.l 1707;
was a niemli'T of the Executive Council in ISlXI and
1807; was judjie of the Court of Common Pleas 1813-
1822; was elected a representative from the Maine
District of Jliissucliusetts in the Twelfth Congress
as a War UeunKrat, s<'r\ing from November 4, 1811,
to March ;J, LSIM; when he relumed from Washing-
ton, after liaving voletl in favor of a war, he was
hooted at by an angry crowd as he passed through
Newbur>7>ort; he was defeated as the Democratic
War candidate for the Thirteenth Congress by George
Bra<lliury,Feilerali8t; removed to Boston ; died there
AuL'Uil 7, 1822.
Wigfall, Lewis T., was bom in Virginia;
received a classical education; studied law; was
admiltfil to the bar, ajid commenced practice at
Harshall. Texas; was elected a United-States senator
from Texas as a Democrat (In lill tlw vacancy caused
by the death of James Piiickney ifiMidersoii, which
Matthias Ward had temporarily tilled by app<iint-
ment), serving from January 4, ISlW, until March a,
IStil; not taking his seal at the called session of the
Thlrly-secimd Congress, he was formally exjjelled
July 11, ]8<'d; he participated in the bombardnuinl
of Fort Sumter, and was appointed brigudicr-genenU
in the Confederal!; service Octolier 2(1, 18(11 : n'sigm^d
February 2<), 1802; lie represented Texas in the Pro-
visional Confed'-rate Congress, serving from Febru-
ary 18, 1801, until Febniafy 18, 18(>2; he was senator
In the permanent Confederate Congress, serving
from February 10, 18l>2, until February 18, 18ijt);
after the war he went to London, where he resided
several years, and then lived in Baltimore, where he
was admlltcil to the bar December 1, 187U, and prac-
tised his profesiaion; visiting Texas on a lecturing
tour, he died at (lalvesum Februan,' 14, 1874.
Wigginton, Peter Dinwiddie, waa bom at
Springlield. Illinois, September I), ISW; was dlucated
in private and common ccliools. and at the I'niversi-
ty of Wisconsin; studied law with L. M. Sln>n^ of
Wisconsin; was admitted to the bar, and practised
at Merced; was district-attorney of Merceu County
from Maa-h, 18<}4, to March. 18(iS; and was elected a
representative from California in the Forty-fourth
Congress as a Democrat, receiving 1.5,418 votes
against 1 0.320 votes for S. O. Houghton, Republican,
and 4,87 J voles for J. S. Thompson, Independent,
serving from Deceml>er 0, 1875, to March 3, 1877.
"Wike, Scott, was bom in Meadville, Pennsyl-
vania, April Ii, 1N}4; received a el.issical education,
graduating at Lombard University, Galesburg, Illi-
nois, in 1SJ7; sUiilird law with Judge O. C. Skinner;
■was admitted to the bar in hS'iS; attended the Cam-
bridge Law School, and commenced practice at I'itts-
fleld, Illinois, in 18,50; w.is a member of the legisla-
ture of Illinois 18(>;5-18d7; and was elected to the
Foriy-fourth Congress as a Democrat, receix'ing
11,521) votes againat 7,429 votes for David E. Beatty,
Republican, serving from Decctnberfl, 1875, to March
3, 1877.
Wilber, David, was bom near Quaker's Street,
In Scbeiieclady County, New York, Octobers, 1820;
received a common-school education; commenced
life by working as a farm-laborer; then cultivoted
land on shares, became the owner of real est ale, ojid
TTM largely interested in Ihe linnber-tradc and fann-
eommenced the hop business in 1.S48, which
_ to be an extensive and profitable trade; was
one of the directors of the Second Natiunal Bonk at
Cooperstown, and owned the bank at Oneouta known
as "David Wilber's Bank;" never held, or was a can-
didate for, any political odlce outside of the town in
which he resided, until elected a representative (riim
New York in the Forty-third Congress as a Repub-
lican, receiving 17.-108 votes against lo,171 voles for
U. Sturgis, Democrat, serving from Decemlier 1,
1873. to March 3, 1875.
WilbouT, Isaac, was bom ut Little ComiKon,
Rh'Kle Island; stuilied law; was admitted t<i Ihe bar,
and prneti-sed; wiis elected a represeiilalivo (rom
Rhode Island in the Tenth Congress, serving from
October 20, 1807, to Manh 3, 18(i'J; w;is for many
years chief justice of Rhode Island ; was acttiig gov-
ernor of Rhode Island in 1800.
"Wilcox, Jeduthan, was bom In New Hamp-
shire in 1700; wiLs elcrtiil a representative from New
Hampshire in the Tiiirtoeiitli Congress .is a Federal-
ist, niceiving on a general ticket IH.-n^'voli's a-jninst
15,704 votes for J. Butler, Democrat; was rcHTccted
to the Fourteenth Congress, serving from May 24,
1813, to March 3, 1617; died at Oxford, New U.imi>-
shire. in July. 18:18. '
Wilcox, John A., was bom in North Carolina,
April 18. ISli); removed early in life with his falhor
to Tennessee, where he « as reared and educated ;
removed to Mississippi, and located at' Aberdeen;
vras secretary of the Stale Senate; served in Hie
Mexican war as lieutenant, adjutant, and lieuten-
ant-colonel of the Second Iteginient of Mississippi
Volunteers January, l^<47-July, 1848; was elected a
representative from Mississippi in the Thirty-second
Congress as a Uoiou Whig, receiving 0.027 votes
against 0,201 votes for Fcatherston, Slaie-rlghts
bemocral, serving from December 1, 1851, to Mareb
.'t. 1853; w.is defeated as the Union Whig candidate
for Ihe Thirty-third Congress, receiving 0,8.17 votes
against 7,0:10 votes for W. S. Barry, State-rights
Democrat; removed in the fall of 1.853 to Texas;
wsis a prominent member of the convention which
adopted the ordiniuice of secession; was electcl a
representative from Texas in the First Confederate
Congress, and re-elected to the Second Congress;
but died before taking his seat, at Richmond, Vir-
ginia. Febniarv 7, 1804.
Wilcox, Leonard, was bom in New Hamp-
shire in 1800; r<!eeived a classical education, gradu-
ating at Dartmouth College in 1817; studied law;
was admitted to the bar, and conmienced practice at
Oxfonl; was a member of the Sl.ite House of Repre-
sentatives; was a judge of the Superior Court ; was
appohited a United-States senator from New Hamp-
shire (in place of Franklin Pierce, resigned), and
subsequently elected as a Democrat, serving from
March 7, 1842, to March 3, 184:1; died at Oxford,
New Hampshire, in IS.'jO.
WUde, Richard Henry, was bom at Dublin,
Ireland, September 24, 1780; immigrated to Balti-
more with his father in 171^7; his father dying In
1802, his mother completed the education wlilch she
harl given him, and took him to Augusta, Georgia;
studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1.800, una
commenced practice at Augusta; was appointed
altomey-general of Georgia; was elected a rcprisen-
lalive from Georgia in the F'ourteenth Congress as a
Democrat, serving from Dcceml)cr 4, 1815, to March
3, 1817; was again elected to the Eighteenth Con-
gress (in place of Thomas W. Cobb, resigned), serv-
ing from Fel)ruary 7, lf<25, to March 3, 1825; was
defeated as a candidate for the Nineteenth Congress
by John Forsyth; was again elected to Ihe Twcn-
lii'th Congress, and re-elected to the Twenty-first,
Twenty-second, and Twenty-third Congresses, serv-
ing from Decemt)er 3, 1827, to March 3, 18.15; was
defe.ited as the State-rights candidate for the Twen-
ty-fourth Congress, receiving on a genend ticket
28.108 votes against 81,247 votes for Thomas Glas-
cock, Unionist; visited Europe In 18:15-1,840: re-
turned home, aiKi in 1843 removed to Now Orleans
to act as professor of law iu the UulretBity of Louisi-
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man; died at New Orleans September 24, 17S9. He
pulilislied " Tlie Love, Madnoss, and Imprisonment
of Tasso,"' " Uespc'ria," and many poeius, one of
which, " My Life is lllte the Summer Kose," was
jirais.Mj liy L<ir<l ll\'ron.
Wilder, A, Carter, was horn at Meudon, Mas-
sachiisutls, March 18, 1828; received a public-school
education; n^moved in 1860 to Rochester. New
York; removed in 1857 to Lcavenwortli. Kansas,
where he engaged in mercantile pursuits; was a
dolejiate from Kansas to thi; Natinnal Kcriublioan
Conveutiem at Chicago in I81U); was eleote<l a repre-
sentative from Kansas in the Thirty-eighth Congress
as a Repuhlican, receiving Jl,tl70 votes against 4,*i6fl
votes for Parrott, Democrat, and 11.30 votes for ilat-
tbias, serving from Dec<-mber 7, 18(53, to March 3,
18U5; was a delegate from Kansas to the National
Republican Convention at Baltimore In lSft4; died
at Sun Fnincisco, t'lilifoniia, December 23, 1S75.
Wildman, Zalmon, was boni at Danbury,
Connecticut; received a public-school education;
learned a trade, and became a master mechanic;
was elected a representative from Connecticut In
the Twenty-fourth Congress as a Democrat, serving
from Dece'niher 7, 1835, to December 10, Ifi^io, when
he died at Washington City.
Wildrick, Isaac, was bom in New Jersey ; re-
sided at Blairatowu; was elected a representative
from New Jersey in the Thirty-first Congress as a
Democrat, receiving 0,215 votes against 2,778 votes
for Robertson, Whig; and was re-elected to theThir-
ly-»e<-ond Congress, receiving 0,097 votes against
4,408 votes for Kdsall, Whig, serving from December
8, 1849. to March 3, 1853.
Wiley, J. McCaleb, was bom in Caharras
County, North Carolina, in 18(iil; received a puhlic-
school education; removed with his father to North
Carolina in 182.3; visited Mexico in 18;i3. and 8er>-cd
for three years in the Mexican amiy ; settled in llibb
County, Alabama, in 183U ; was api>olnted register in
chancery in 18;{!t; was one of the I)oartl of visitors
to WestPoint in 1862; was grand master of Masons
in Alub.iraa; was appointed judge of the Kighth
Circuit in 1805; was elected a representative from
Alahama in the Thirty-ninth Congress, but was not
permitted to take his seat; was elected judge of the
Circuit Cmrt in 1871.
Wiley, James S., was bom in Maine; received
a classical e<lucation, graduating at Water\-ille Col-
lege in 18.30; studied law; was admitted to the bar,
and commijnced practice at Dover; was elected a
representative from Maine in the Thirtieth Congress
as a Democrat, receiving 4,817 votes against 3,015
votes for Kingsbury, Whig, and 1,560 votes Abolition
and scattering, serving from December 6, 1847, to
March 3. 1841»;
W'illcin, James W"., was bom in Orange Coun-
ty, New York, in 1702; received a classical ediicjitiim,
naduating at Princeton College in 1785; studied
law; was admitted to the hsvr, and practised at
Goshen; was a member of the .State House of liepre-
sentativcs in 18(Kl; was elected a representjitive fn^ni
New York in the Fourteenth Congress; was re-elected
to the Fifteenth Congress, scrviiig from December 4,
1815, to March 3, 1810; was coiuity-elerk of Orange
County July .S, 1810-February 1.5. 1821; died at
Goshen, New York, Fchruary 23, 184.5.
Wilkin, Bamuel J., was bom in Orange
County, New Y<irk, In 17'.hJ: n?(*lved a classical edu-
cation, graduating at Princeton College in 1812:
studied law; was admitted to the bar, and practisea
at lioshen; was a memlier of the State House of
Representatives in 1824 and 1.825; was elected a
representative from New York in the Twenty-second
Congress as a Demi>crat, serving from December 6,
1S31, to March 2, 18:»; was defcatod us the Whig
candidate for lieutenant-governor on tlie ticket
headed l>v Millard Fillmore in 1844; died at Goshen,
New York, Mareh 11, 1800.
Wilkins, Willieun, was bom at Carlisle, Perm-
sylv,inia, in 1770; received a classical edncatlon,
which was completed at Dickinson College: studied
law with Judge Watts; was admitted to the bar at
Carlisle, and conmicnced practice at Pittsburg in
18(X); was president of the Bank of Piitshur^ and
of the Pittsburg Manufacturing Company; was
brigadier-general of militia; was a member of the
State House of Representatives in 1810; was de-
feated as a candidate for the Twentieth Congrvjs
by James S. Stevenson; was elected a I'nitcd-Jitates
senator from Pennsylvania as a Democrat and anti-
Mason, serving from December 5, IStl, to June 30,
18.34, when he resigiKHl, having been Bppointe<l
minister to Russia; resigni'd, .-uid returned home
Decemlier 24, 18.35; was elected « repn^^entatlve
from Pennsylvania in the Tweir /ie4«
as a Democrat, receiving 4,4;{8 -.237
voles for Craig, Independent, 1.8- : •: .>.eck-
inridge, \Vliig, and 370 votes for Penniman, Abo-
litionist, serving from December 4. 1843, to February
14, 1844, when he resigned, having Ix-en appointed
by President Tyler a member of liis cabinet; was
secretary of war February 1.5, l.S44-March 3, 1845;
was United-States judge for the Western Judicial
District of Pennsylvania; was a Stale senator in
1857; was a meml>er of a "home guard ■" In 1882;
died near Pittsburgh. Pennsylvania. June '£i. I8fi6.
Wilkinson, Morton S., was bom at .Sk.in-
eateles, New Y«rk, January 22. 1819; received a
public-school educatiou : studied law with Beach li;
Underwoixl; was admitted to the bar, and com-
menced practice at Eat<m Kapids. Michigan, in 1843;
removed to St. Paul. Minnesota, in 1847; w.is elected
a member of the first Territorial legislature In 1840;
was appointed one of a board of lyininissioners to
prepar<^ a code of laws for the Territory; removed
to llankato; was elected to tlie Senate of the L'niteil
Stales In 1860 as a Republican (to succeed James
Shields, Democrat); 8er%ed in the .Senate until 1806;
was elected a representative fn.nn M'' 'the
Forty-first Congress as a Republican, 1 .724
votesag.iinstl4.IMfi votes for Bstcheldi-r. i/.-miH.rat,
8er\lng from March 4. 18011, to March 3, 1871.
Willard, Charles W., was born at Lyndon,
Caledonia County, Vermont, June 18, 1827; gradu-
ated at Dartmouth College in 1851 ; studied law, and
was admitted to the bar at Montpelier in I'^'kJ: was
elected secretary of state in l.S.V>-l.SoO, and decline«l
a re-«;le<.'tion ; was elected a .State senator in l.Siitl and
1801; l)ecame the editor, in 1801, of "The Green-
Mountain Freeman;" was elected a representative
from Vermont In the Forty-tiret Congress as a Re-
publican, r<!ceiving 13,1100 votes against 4.;50tJ votes
for J. Cain, Democrat; was r(«-elected to the Forty-
second Congress, recehing 10,470 votes against 3.075
votes for J. Cain, Democrat; and was re-elected to
the Forty-third Congress as a Republican, receiving
14,001 votes against 3,621 votes for H. W. Heaton,
Democrat, serving from March 4, 1800, to March S,
1.875.
Willard, Qeorgfe, was bora at Bo!' ■- t — mont,
March 20, 1824; recelve<l aliltcral edu. ; naa
a pmfesSor for two years in Kalamazi.. ' , wat
editor and publisher of "The Battle-Creek Journal;"
was a member of the Michigan State B«>aril of Edu-
cation from 1.S57 to 18<1:J; was electe.I f the
University of Michigan in bSttl. ami ' (or
eight years in 18tl5; was elected to th> . ^isla-
lure in 1800, and the following year a member of the
State Constitutional Convention, serving in both
bodies OS chairman of the Coimnittee on Education;
was adelegate at large from Michigan to the National
Republican Convention in 1.^72; wa.« ■ ' ' ' ••■pre-
sentative from Michigan in the Forty ;res8
as a Republican, receiving 17,822 votes .^ I '.irtS
votes for J. G. Parkhurst, Democrat; anfl was re-
elected to the Forty-fourth Congress, recnlviiig 13..3T3
votes against 12,174 votes for F. Livennore, I)emi>-
crat, serving from December 1, 1873, to March 3,
1877.
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Willey, Calvin, w»s bom at Ea»t H»ddatn,
Couiirolicul, .S'pCeiiilMT IS. 1770: received an aca-
deraie cdilcatiiiii; studied law with John T. I'cters;
\ras admitted to tlie Imr in 1708, and commenced
priicliet' nl Stafford; was for nine successive years n
inemlwr of tlic .State House of liepresentatives, and
for two years a Slate senator: was appointed post-
master at .Staffonl Springs in 180(1; removed to Tol-
land. Conneelient, in ISOH; w.-is appointed post-
master there, and iield the office until l.**!!); was a
presidential elector on llie Jobn t^niiiry Ailatus
ticket in lKi4; was elected a rtiited-.S tales senator
from Connecticut (in place of James I>anman, who
had been appointed. Itut who was lieclared not en-
titled to his seat), sen'ing from UeceralJcrS), USS.'), to
Uarch ;5. Ifsll; resume<l practice; died at Stafford,
Connecticut, Aa?;u8t a.'i. 1^'iS.
'Willey. Waitman T., was bom in Monongalia
Cotiiily. Virginia, Octolier 18. 1811; griiduateil at
Hadison College, Pennsylvania; studied and prac-
tised law; was clerk of the Monongalia Coiuity
Court, and also of the Circuit Sujierior Court of
Law and Chancery of the s.-une county, from 1841
to 1855; was a delegate to the Constitutional Con-
vention of Virginia in 18.11 ; was a delegate to the
Virginia State Conventiou in IWU; was elected a
Uuiied-States senator from Virginia by the re-
organized Virginia legislature (in pl.ice of J. M.
Mason, withdrawn), and took his seat July 13, 18(11;
was a deli'gate to the convention which adopted the
Conslilution of the .State of West Vin;inia; was
elccte<l to the United-States Senate from AVest Vir-
ginia in 18(5.'); and was re-elected, serving from De-
cember 7, ISia, to March 3, 1B71.
Williams, Alpheus S., was l>om at Saybrook,
Conii'-iticul, Sepleiuber 2(i, IMH; gniduated at Yale
College in IKJI ; was a student in the Vale Law School
tn 18;t:i and 18:W: travelled in Europe in l*i4-18*i; re-
moved to Michigan in 18;«i, and commenced tlie prac-
tice of law; was judge of probate for Wayne County
1.S40-I8M; was alderman of Detroit in It*}, and
reconler of the city in 1844; was proprietor and editor
of ••The Detroit Daily Advertiser" in 184;i-184,8;
was lieutenant-colonel of the First Michigan Volun-
teer Infantry Hegimcnt in the Mexican war 1847-
1848; was postra.-ister of Detroit ly4'.>-18.V3; enleriMl
the Union army liy appointment of the President
as brigadier-general of volunteers in August, 18t)l ;
cimimandi-d the Twelfth Corps in the battles of
South Mounl.iin, Antictam. and Gettysburg, and
tlie Twentieth Corps in the siege of Atlant.1. on
Sherman's " march to the se.i," and in the campaign
of the (^arolinas, and was mustered out of service in
Janu:iry, IStitl; was appointed in August, 18(itl. by
tlje I'resideiit, one of the commissioners to adjust
the military claims of Missouri ; was minister resident
to the republic of Salvador 18(kl-18tSi>; was eleete<I a
representative from Midjijian In the Forty-fourth
Congress on the Dem(x;ratlc and Kefonn tickets,
receiving 10,848 votes against 8.81)2 votes for Moses
W. Field, Kepublican, and 6(5 votes for C. P. Hussell,
TcmpiTancc; was re-tMected to the Forty-fifth dm-
gress. receiving 14,471 votes ag.iinsl 12,417 votes for
Henry M. DufUcId, Itepublican, and 1,7:30 votes for
John V. Renkle, Cireenback candidate, serving from
December li, 1875.
Willisans, Andrew, was bom at Ormstown,
Canada, August 27. 1828; received a common-school
education until lie w.is thrown upon his own re-
•ources at fifteen years of age; arrived in the Uidted
Slates in Oclolier, 184,8; commenced business at
Plattsburg us a manufiiclurer of bloom-iron in 1855;
Uras a merchant ami manufaclurerof inm and lumln'r;
4Kld was elected a repriisentalive fmm New York in the
Porty-foiirtli Congress as a Itepublicaii, receiving
11.2.">1 votes against 8,y.'}tS votes for Arteniiis 13.
Wrfldo, Democrat : was re-elcctecl to the Forty-lifth
Congress, receiving 13.177 voles against 10.240 voles
for Plait, Democrat, s<'r\ing from Deceml)er 0, ls75.
Williams, Beojamin, was bom in North Caro-
lina In 1754: received a tliorough English education;
entered the Revolutionary anny as captain, and »o
distinguished himself at the b.ittle of Guilford that
he was made a colonel ; ser\'ed a immber i 'f years as
a member ni the .Stale House of U<'pr(senlalive5;
w.TS elected a rcprostuitiilive from Nortli Ciindina In
the ThinI Congress, serving fri>m December 2, 1703,
to March 3, 17^5; was governor of North Carolina
17Jn»-lMii2 and 1.807-1808: was a niemher of the
Stat" Senate 1811.8-1800; died in Moore County, North
Carolina. July 20, 1814.
Williams, Charles G., w.is bom at Royalton,
New York, Uetol«r 18, 18211; recciveil an academic
education, and studied law at Rochester in that State;
removetl to Wisconsin in 18o6. and entered upon the
practice of bis profession; was president i.il elector in
1SC.8, ami elected to the State Senate in that ys.ir;
was re-elected to the .Slate Senate in 1870. and t»ice
chosen pri'sident pro tempore of that liody; w«a
electeil a re|>re9entatlve from AVisconsin in the
Forty-third Congress as a Republican, receiving
Ift.tviU votes against 0,38<J votes for L C. Sloan,
Liberal Repiddican; was re-elected to the Fony-
fourtli Congmss, receiving 12,.5(1S votes against 0.5:12
votes for Pratt, Democrat; was re-elected to tho
Forty-lifth Congress, receiving 18.206 votes against
12.478 votes for H. O. Winslow, Democrat, serving
from December 1. 1873.
Williams, Christopher H., was bom in
Tennes.«ee: ivsided at Lexington; was elected a
representative ln>m Tennessee in the Twcnty-tifth
Congress as a Whig, receiving 1.882 majority over
W. C. Dunlap. Democrat; was re-elected to the
Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh Congresses, serv-
ing fri>m September 4. 1.S37, to March 3, 1843; was
again elected to the Thirty-lirst Congress, r<H'elving
no opiH>Bilion; and w.is re-elected to the Thirty-
second Congress, receiving no opposition, serving
from Deceniber 3, 1840, to March 3, 1853.
Williams, David R., w.is lx>rn at Society
nill. South Carolina; received a classical educa-
tion, graduating at Brown University in 1707; stud-
ieil law; was admitted to tho bar, and commenced
practice, carrying on an extensive plantation; was
elected a representative from South Carolina in the
Nluth Congress; and was re-<>lected to the Tenth
Congress, serving fn)m Decemlicr 2, 1805, to Marcli
3, 18<iO; was again elected t<i the Twelfth Congress
as a War Democrat, serving from Novemli<'r4, l.-f|l,
to Marcli .'3, 1S13; was api>ointed brigiidier-general in
the United-States army July 0, 1813. and resigned
April f). 1814: was governor of South Carolina 1814-
181U; was killed by accident at a new bridge Novem-
ber 15. LSJO.
Williams, George H., was bom in Cidumbia
Counly. New York, March 23, 18^23; received an
.ica<lemic education; studied law, and, removing to
Iowa, commenced practice there; was judge of the
First Judicial Distiict of Iowa from 1847 to 1852;
was a presidential elector from Iowa in 1.852; was
apjjointed by President Piert'e chief justice of tho
Territory of Oregon in IXiii. and was re-appointed
by President Uuchamm in 1857, but resigned: was
elected a meniher of the Convention which framed
the Constitution of Oregon in 1858; was elected
United-States senator from Oregon as a Union Re-
publican (to succeed B. F. Hanling. Union Jtepub-
lic:in). serving from December 4. 1)^05. to March 3,
1871; was a member of the High Joint Commission
for the adjustment of diffeien(!es between the United
.States and Great Britain in 1871; was appointed by
President Grant attorney-general of the United
Stales, serving from January 10, 1872, to ilay 15,
1875; on the death of Chief-Justice Chase he w.is
nominated by Pivsident (irant chief justice of the
Supreme Court of tlie United States December 1,
1873, but, the Senate showing no disposition to con-
firm the nomination. It was withdrawn; he resumed
Ihepractice of law at Washington City.
Williams, Henry, was bom at Taunton, Ma»-
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liuseiUs, Tfovemlwr.lSOi; received aii ACMlemlCAl
education; studied law; waa admitted to ibe l>ar,
ojid commenced praciice at Taunton; was elected a
representative from Massachusetts in the Twenty-
slMh Crmffress as a Democrat, receinng 3.30(} votes
against 2,IHW votes for N. B. lionlcn, VThig, s<-n-ing
from Decemlx'r 2, 1S3V>, to March :), IStl ; was de-
feated as the Democratic candidate for the Twenty-
seventh Congress by X. B. Bonlen, Wliig, on the sec-
ond trial; was again elected to the Twenty-eighth
Congress, serving from December 4, 1843, to March
8, 1845; declined beinp a candidate for re-election;
■was a meralier of the .State .Senate for two years, and
of the State House of IJppresentativcs for three years.
WilliaxoB, Hezekiab, was bom at Wocnlstock,
Vermont, in 17(18: received a classical education,
graduating at Dartmouth College In 1S20; studietl
law ; was admitted to the bar, and commenceil prac-
tice at Cistine: was rejjister of jirobate for Hancock
County 1624-18;J8; was a member of the St.ite Senate
183t>-lH41; was elected a representative from Maine
In the Twenty-ninth Congress as a Democrat ; was
re-elected to the 'niirlleth Congres.", receiving 6,(»3:}
votes njjainst 3,74<) votes for J. .S. Pike, \Vbii;, serv-
ing from Decemljer 1, IS4.5, to March 3, lS4i»; died
at Casiine October 24. l.'^otl.
WUliams, Isciac, jun., was bom In Otsego
County, New York; resided at Otsego; was elected
a repr<;seulative from New York In the Thirteenth
Congre.ss (to fill the vacancy caused by the death of
W. Dowse), having successfully contested the election
of John M. Bowers, as a Democrat, sening from
January 24, 1814, to March 2, ISbJ; was again elect-
ed to the Fifteenth Congress, serving from December
1, bSn, t<i March S, 1811); was again elected to the
Eighteenth Congress, serving from December 1, 1823,
to March .'5. isay
Williams, James, was bom at rhiladelphi.i.
Pennsylvania, August 4, 1825; was educated at the
Friends' scIumiI of Philadelphia; removed to Dela-
'waro in 1844, and engaged in agricidturnl pursuits;
■wa« a member of the State legislature of Delaware
in 1850 and 1802, and of the State Senate in 18(W-
1871, sen-lng the last two years as sjieakcr; was a
inentbor of the National Democratic Convention at
Baltimore in 1872; was elected a rcpn-sentative from
Delaware in the Forty-fourth Congress as a Demo-
crat, receiving 12,002 votes against 11,024 votes for
James K. Loiiand, Republican; and was re-elected
to the Forty-fifth Congress, receiving l:l.lliy votes
against 10,5<t2 votes for Levi C. Blrcl, Kepublican,
•erving from December (5^1875.
'Williams, James D., was bom In Pickaway
County, Ohio, January 18, 1808; removed to Knox
County, Indiana, in 1818; waa educated in the log
schoolliouses of the country; Is by occupation a
fanm-r; was a member of the State Ilonse of Hepre-
sentntives of Indiana in 1843, 1847, 18.il, 1S.")0, and
1808; was electe<l to the State Senate in 1858, 1802,
and 1870; was a delegate to the National Democratic
Convention at Baltimore in 1872; was the Demo-
cratic nominee for United-States senator In 1873
against Oliver P. Morton; was elected a represenci-
live from Indiana in the Forty-fourth Congress as a
Democrat, receiving 17,3i>3 votes against li.&4,5 votes
for Levi Ferguson, Kepublican, sening from Decem-
ber 0, 1876, to Decemlier 1, 1870, when lie resigned,
bavini; been elected governor of Indiana.
Williams, James W., was born in Marj-land
In 1787; received a classlciil education; w.is for sev-
eral years a member of the .State House of Beprc-
(enlatives, and had been elected spi-akcr in 1830,
when an attack of paralysis made it necessar)' for
him to resign, incnpacitating him for a time from
public business; was elected a re[)resentativo from
Mfiryland in the Twenty-seventh Congress as a
Derriocrat, defeating J. C. Orrick, and serving from
May 31, 1841, to December 2, 1842. when he wjis
stricken with paralysis while on his way to Wash-
ington iu his carriage, and survived but ashort time.
Williams. Jared, was liom In Montgomery
County, Maryland, March 4, 1706; received a good
English education; engaged in agricultiiml pursuits;
was a member of the State House of I!' ••fa
18H-1S17; was elected a reprcscntai: \ ir-
ginia In the Sixteenth Congress as a J.i. ^c-.,, ^ ciiio-
crat; was re-electeil to the Seventeenth Congn-ss,
receiving 448 majority; was re-elected to the Eigh-
teenth Congress, serving from DccemljerO, 1819, to
March 3. 1.H25; was a presidential elector on the
Jackson and Calhoun ticket in 1820; died near New-
ion, Virginia, after a brii-f illness, Januarv 2. IWl.
XA/illmma^ Jared W., was l>om in N'ew Hamp-
shire; received a classical education, graduating at
Brown University in 1818; studied law; was admit-
ted to the bar, and commenced practice at Lancaster,
New Hampshire; was a member of the St.ite House
of Keprcsentatives in IXH}, 18;il, 1^ "" ■ ' '■• i\a«
a inemlier of the .State Senate in 1 '4;
was elected a repn-sentative fnip i , liire
in the Twenty-fifth Congress as a Ueun icr.il; W!W
re-elected to the Twenty-sixth Congress, serving
from September 4, 18;17, to March 3, 1841 ; was gov-
ernor of New Hampshire l.l-17-184',l; was appointed a
United-iStates senator from New Hampshire (m place
of Charles G. Atherton, dece.-i.oed), serving from De-
cember 12, 18.5;}, to M.ireh 3, 18.>j; died at Lancjister,
New Hampshire, SejJtember 20, 18t)4.
Williams, Jeremiah N., was bom iu BarlKinr
County. Alal>:mi.i, in April, 1820; received a liberal
education, graduating at the University of South
Carolina; studied law; was admitted to the b.ir, and
has since practised; entered the Confederate army
in 1.'<')1 as major, but was obliged to resign on ac-
count of ill liealth; was elected to the State legisla-
turi> of Alabama in 1872, but not pemiiltf.'d to take
his seat; was elected a representative fmm Alabama
in the Forty-fourth Congress as a Democrat, reo'lv-
ing 2iJ,180 votes against 10,124 voles for J. T. Kjipier,
Republican; was re-electeil to the Forty-fifth Con-
gress, receiving 14,080 votes against 3,8tK5 votes for
W. II. Belts, Republican, serving from December 0,
187.3.
Williams, John, was born in Hanover County,
Virginia; served an apprenticeship to the cari>euters
lra<Ic; removed to North Caroliim: studied law. and
commenced practice; w.is seized by the Kegnlators
wliile attending court at Hillsborough in 177". and
severely iH-aten; was one of the first judges under
the State Constitution, serving from 1777 until WM;
was a delegate to the ContinenljU Congress 1777-
1778; died in Granville County, North Carolina, fn
October, 1700.
Williams, John, was bom in Washington
County, New York; served in the Revolutiou.iry
war, attaining the rank of colonel; was a member of
the First Stale Senate in 1777, but was exiK-lled for
misconduct ; was again a member of the State Sen-
ate 1782-1703; was elected a representative fn^m
New York in the Fourth Congress; and was re-
elected to the Fifth Congress, svrvlng from Decem-
ber 7, 170.1, to March 3, 1700.
W^illiams, John (brother of Lewis and Robert
Williams, ami father of Jose])h L. Williiuns), was
boni In Surry County, North Carolina; w.as appointed
captain in the Sixth United-States Infantry April,
1700; resigned in 1800; studied law at Salisbury. North
Carolina; was admitted to the bar in 18<W, and com-
menced practice near Knoxvillc, Tennessee; sencd
in the war of 1812 as colonel of a regiment of Ken-
tucky mounted volunteers, and subsequently of the
Thirty-ninth United-iitates Infantry; served under
General Jackson at New Orleans and in Alabama,
and Ivecame his earnest political adversary'; was
elected a United-States senator from T ^- ■- (in
(ilace of tJeorge W. Campliell, resiu nig
from December 4, 1815, to March 3, 1 ■ ■ j,jk
polnted by President John Qulncy Adams clinr\ii
d'a^airfs to Central America, serving from Decem-
ber 29, 182S, to December 1, 1826; waa a member of
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the State SenBt«; wu offered a teat npon the bench
of the Supreme Court of Tennessee, but declined It;
died near Knoxvllle, Tennessee, August 10, ISil".
Williams, John, was honi at ITlica, \t?w York,
In IJ^iT; ri'uiuvoil to Safkelfs Hiirb<ir, and fn>ni
there to IJochester; was engaijed in raercantile pur-
suits; WAS an alderman nf Rovbcsler in 18<U; was
mayor of Rochester 18.>.'1-1S.")4; was elected n rep-
resent.itive from New York in the Tliirty-fourlh
Congress as an anti-Nebraska Democrat, receiving
5,(W>1' votes against 4,227 votes for Car|)eiiter. Wbit;,
and l.s«)5 votes for Sil>lcy, Dcnioerat, serving from
December 3, 185.'), to March 3, 18.1"; was a major-
?;eneral of militia, and was active in recruitini; troops
or the Union army: w.is city treasurer of Rochester
1871-1875; died at l{oche»ter, New York, March 2<1,
187o.
Williams, John M. S., was bom at Richmond,
Virginia, Au.:ust 14, 1818; was cdueaUid at tin- pul)-
lic schools of Uoston; was a merchant and slilp-iiwn-
er; was n member of the State House of Representa-
tives in 185*), and of the State Senate in 18o8; was a
presidential elector from the Fourth District of Mas-
sachusetts in 18fi8; was elected a representative from
Massachusetts in the Forty-third Congress as a Re-
publican, receiving ll,l)2(t votes against 6,820 votes
for \V. W. Warren, Democrat, serving from Decem-
l)er 1, 1873, to March 3, 1875; was defe.ited as the
Republican candidate for the Forty-fourth Congress,
receiving 7,801 votes against 8,585 vote* for W. W.
Warren, Democrat.
Williams, Jonathan, was bom at Boston, Mas-
sachusetts, in 17.i2; received a public-school educa-
tion; was placed in a counting-house as clerk, and
made several voyages to Europe and the West Indies
as suiiercargo; visiting France in 1777, he was aiv
pointed commercial osient of the United States by
Lis uncle, Benjamin Franklin, and returned to the
Unileil States with him in H.S.'i, locating at Philadel-
phia; was for several years a judge of the Court of
Common Pleas; entered the Unite<i-.Statcs army as
major of engineers February Ui. 1801 ; was inspeotor
of fortific.itions and suix'rintondent of tlie Military
Acivdemy at West Point December 4, 18')1; was licu-
teuant-coloncl of engineers July M, 18)2; resigned
June 20, 1803; was colonel of engineers February 2;J,
1808; resigned July 31, 1812; was elected a represen-
tative from Pennsylvania in the Fourteenth Con-
gress, but died at Pliiladel[diia, before takini^ his
Beat. May 10, 181.5. He published "A Memoir on
the Use of the Thennom'.'ter in Navigation'" 17S)J',
"The Elements of Fortilication"' (a translation)
1901. !»nd " Kosciuszko's Movements for IIorse-Ar-
tillers-" 1808.
W'illiams, Joseph L. (son of John Williams),
was liora iu Tennessee; rijsided atKnoxville; was
elected a ix'prescnt.ative from Tennessee in the
Twenty-fifth Congress as a Wliig, receiving 4.321
votes against 2,0.^3 votes for R. M. Anderson, Whig;
was re-elected to the Twenty-sixth Congress, receiv-
ing .">,1.j3 votes without opposition; was re-elected to
the Twenty-seventh Congress, serving from Septem-
Ijer 4. 18.17, to ilarch 3, 184;!.
Williams, Lemuel, w.is bom in Massachu-
setts: received a ebissical education, graduating at
IIar\ard University in 17'i5; was elected a represen-
tative from Massachusetts in the Slxtli, Seventh, and
Eighth Congresses, serving from December 2, 1799,
to March 3. 1. SOS.
W^illiams, Lewis (bmther of John and Robert
Williams), was boni near Shallow Ford, North Caro-
lina, in 1782; n-'ceiveil a cbissical e<lucatlon, gradu-
ating at the University of North Carolina In 1808;
was a member of the House of Commons of North
Carolina in 1813 and 1814; was elected a representa-
tive in the Fourteenth Congress; was successively
re-elected to thirteen Congresses, ending with the
Twenty-seventh, serving from Decemw-T 4, ISl.'J,
until his death at Washuigton February 23, 1842; he
received, by universal consent, the title uf " the
Father of the House." and, although childless, his
congressional res|>on8ibilitie8, doubtless, often moro
than filled his paternal anxieties.
Williams, Marmaduke, was bom In Caswell
Ci'Unly. N.irtli Carolina, .\pril 6, 1772; received a
classical •.•diication; studied law. and practised; was
a memtwr of the State Senate in 1802; was elected a
representative from North Carolina in the Eighth
Congress as a Democrat (to succeed his bri>fhcr,
Robert Williams, who had been apitoiuterl by Presi-
dent Jefferson governor of Mississippi); was re-elect-
ed to the Ninth and Tentli Coiigri'sses, son lug from
October 17, 18a3. to March .3. 180H; removed to .Madi-
son Comity, Alabama, in 1810, and thence to Tusca-
loosa iu 1818; was a member of the First Constitu-
tional Convention of Alabama in 181ti; was a
candidate for gfivemor in 1810, but wns defeated
by Thomas W. Bibb; was appointed on the commis-
sion to adjust unsettled Terrilorial jiccounts with
Mississippi in 1820; was elected judge of the Tusca-
loosa (!)ounty Court in 18^12, and held tiic position
until disc^uolified by constitutional limitation in
April, 1.842, when he became seventy years of age;
died at Tuscaloosa, Alabama, October 20, 1.860.
Williams, Nathan, was Iwm in Oneida Coun-
ty, New York: n-sided at Utica; was elected a repre-
sentative from New York in the Ninth Congress,
serving from December 2, 1805, to March .3, 1807;
was a memlier of the Slate House of Representatives
in 1818.
W^illiams, Reuel, was bom at H.illowell (now
Augusta), Maine, June 2, 1783; received an academ-
ical education; studied law- was admitted to the
bar in 1802, and commenced practice at Augusta,
Maine ; was a meml>er of the .State House of Repre-
sentatives 1822-1820, of tlie State Senate 1827-1828,
and again of the House 1821>-1.'^32; Wiis elected a
United-States .senator from Maine aa a Democrat (to
fill the vacancy cau.sed by the resignation of Senator
.Shopley), serving from September 4, 1837, to Mareli
.3, 1843; was prominent in the railroad project for
connecting trains between Augusta and Boston, and
was for twelve years manager of the railroad; visited
Washington in Novemtx-r, 1801, as one of tlie com-
missioners of Maine appointed to look after the pub-
lic defences of the State, and obtained from tlie
secretary of war an onlcr that the fort locations
being erected at the mouth of the Penobscot be called
Fort Popham in lionor of the first colony on the
shores of New England, established under George
Popham ; died at Augusta, M.iinc, July 23, 1802.
'Williams, Richard, was Ixim at Flndley, Han-
cock County. Oliii>. November 15, 1830; removed to
Oregon iu 1851; was educated at the Willamette
University; studied law; was admitted to the bar in
1S58, and practised at Portland; was elccteil to the
Forty-fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 15,347
votes against I4,2,39 votes for La Fayette Lane,
Democrat, serving from October 15, 1.877.
W^illicUns, Robert (brother of John and Lewis
Williams), was bom near Shallow Ford, North Caro-
lina; studied law; was admitted to the bar, and
practised; was adjutant-general of North Carolina
duriug the war; made the only perfect collection
extant of tlie acts, public and private, of the Gener-
al Assembly of North Carolina; was elected a repre-
sentative from North Carolina in the Fifth Congress
as a Democrat, and re-elected to the Sixth and
Seventli Congresses, serving from May 15, 17!i7, until
Afarcb 3, 1803; was appointed by President Jefferson
United-Stales laud commissioner for Slississippi iu
1803, and Territorial governor of Mississippi in 1805-
1800; he subsequently removed to Tennessee, and
thence to Louisiana, where he died.
Williams, Sherrod, was bom in Kentucky;
resideil at Monticello; was elected a representative
from Kentucky in the Twenty-fourth Congn'ss as a
Wlilg, defeating Martin Realty, Whig; was re-elected
to the Twenty-fifth Congress, receiving 3,189 votes
against 1,819 votes for McHenry, Democrat, and
702
CONGKESeiONAL DmECTOBY.
1.704 TotPS for Monroe. Whip: was re-<?lecte<l to Ihi? [
Twenty-sixth Congress, Uofeatlng Rodo* Gartli,
Dcmfx-rat. serving from December 7, IKIq, to March
8, 11*41. I
■Williams, Thomas, was lx)m In Westmnre- i
land t'ounty, Pcnnsylvjinla. Au^st 28. ISOt); gmdu- ■
Hied M Dicldnson Collepe. Pcniisylviinia. In ISl'M
Studied and practised law: was n inf-inlifr of the
State Senate in is:}8. 18:i0. 184V, and li<41, and of the
State House of R>'[.r<'«<-!it.i»lves in IMH niid 1H«'>L';
was elected a ni '■•■<• from PennRylvaiiia in
the Tliirt}-ei){htli sa Hcpulilican. reci'iriiii;
B."'-" ' ■ ' -^ ■'■■-•''■■■. ,, .1. 5 for /ieipler. Dcmocnii:
V ho Tliirty-ninth Cnnirros'*. rci-civiiig
II :s| S,124 votes for Kountz, Democrat;
and wu» re-«:le<.led to the Fortieth Conjnvss. receiving
14.107 votes apiinst 10.012 votes for Childs. Demo-
crat, serving from Decemlier 7, If^VJ, to March 3,
18(511.
Williams, Thomas H., was bom in Virtfinia:
removed to Pontoti>c. Mississippi, soon after the
Indians had l>een removed from llint reslon; was n
memlier i^f the State House of Represenfatives: was
api>ointe<l by the governor, and suusefjuently elected
by tlio legislature, as a Democrat, a United-State's
aenator (to fill the vjicnncy occasioned by the nsiLnia-
tlon of James F. Trotter), serving from Deceml«er l;i,
183S. lo March 3. 1*^9.
Williams, Thomas Hill, was bom in North
Carolina; received an academical education; studied
law; was admitted to the bar, and commenced prac-
Ucc; was a clerk in the War Department at Wash-
ington City; was appfiinted by President Jefferson
In IX'X) reiiister of the land-office for the Territory of
Mississippi; was collector of customs at the port of
New Orleans; was n delegate to the Convention
which framed the State Constitution of Mississippi;
Wius elected one of the first United-States senators
from Mississippi ; was re-elected as a Democrsit, serv-
ing fr.jm December 11, 1817, to March 3, 1829; ro-
moved to Tennessee, and died there.
Williams, Thomas Scx)tt, was bom at Weth-
erslielcl. Conrieclicul, June 'M, 1777; received a clas-
sleiil I'duiMtion. praiiualinK at Vale College in 17W:
studied law; was admitted to the bar In 17!i;i. and
commenced practice at Mansfield, removing to Hart-
ford in 1803; was a meml)er of the Stale House of
Representatives In 1813, and was twelve times re-
elected iK-fore I820: w.is elected a representative from
Connecticut in the Fifteenth Congn-ss, serving from
Deceniljerl, 1817. to March 3. I81l»; was appointed
hi 18ai an asscwiate judge of the Supreme Court of
Errors and of the Superior Ccnirt, an<l was appointed
in 18:>4 chief justice, holding the oflice until 1847;
was mayor of ifartfonl Isai-lSiri; was president of
the AnioricHii Tract Society, and a lilieml contribu-
tor to various liencvoleiit institutions, to which he
bi.-<liiealhed nearly *c!<).(MK); died at Uorlford, t'on-
nectieul, Diveniber l.*!, 18<li.
Williams, Thomas W., was bom at Stonlng-
ton, Connecticut, .September 2m. 17?l»: received an
academical education; went to New York, where he
was citrrk in a store; remove<l to New Lc'tidon. where
lie eng.aijed in business; was elected a representative
from Connecticut in the Twenty-sixth Congress as a
Whig, receiving 3,068 votes against 2,078 votes for C.
Billings, Democrat; was re-elected to the Twenty-
seventh Congress, receiving 6<15 ra.ijority. serving
from December 2, 18.10. to March 3, isij; was a
presidential elector on the Taylor and Fillmore ticket
in 1848.
Williams, WiUiam, was bom In Bolton, Con-
necticut, September 0. 1815; received a common-
school education; was a banker and railroad presi-
dent and manager at Buffalo, New York; was a
member of the State legislature in 18<J6 and 1807;
was elected a representative from New York In the
Forty-second Congress as a Democrat, receiving
16,018 votes against 14,415 votes for Bass, Repul^
Ucan, serving fi'om March 4, 1871, to March 3, 1873;
was defeated as the Democratic enndidate for the
Forty-third ('ongress, receiving 12.'^1.'? voles »ptlni«
17.929 votes for L>Tnan K. Bass. Republican.
Williams, William, was bom at '
Connecticut, April IS, I":!! : received a cl;i-
catitm. graduating at Harvanl Univ -
served with the colonial Iroojis in t
anil was at the battle of Lake Geor_ .
nent In the pre-Kevolutionarj- movements: was tor i
number of years a member of the Cob-iiiril I!o"sr t
Representatives, ami Wiis its speaker
deleL'aie from Connecticut to the <
gress 177IJ-1778 and 178;J-1784; was ..
State Convention which adopted tli« ,
fulion; died at Lebanon, Comiectii
1811.
Williams. William, was bom at r»rtl»K
Peinisylvania, M.iy 11. l-'^Jl; received a ■
school education; studied law, and comi
Iiraetice in Indiana; was treasurer of 1.
County in IKW; was director of the Northern Indi-
ana St.-ite Prison in 18<I0; was commissioned by th^l
governor commandant of Camp Allen, with the rank '
of colonel, in 18(!2: was commissioned by the I*resi. 1
dent an additional pajTnaster in tlic '- '• ' ^ratesJ
army in 18tU: was elected a n-prese; n IikJ
diana In the Fortii'th Congress as a i . :i. re-i
oeiving 17,414 votes against lO.ltli votes for Lowry,
Democrat ; was re-elected to the Forty-tirst roTigT»^s,
receiving 10..Vil votes .igainst 14,2-JS \
son. Democrat; was ri'-elected to tl,'
Congress, receiving 14,i:W votes agaii.-. . ,
for H.TScall, Indefiendent Republican, rec
Democratic support, and 2.7Ul> votes for Eilisoi
dependent; ami was re-elected to the Forty-j
Congress for the State at large, receiving M
votes against 188.227 votes for J. 8. \Vii:
Democrat, serving from March 4, 1867, to Majrh :
187.5.
Williams, W^illiam B., w«« bom at Piitsfonl, ]
New York, July 28, 182il; received on ."icademic edu-
cation; studied law, and graduated at the Statv and]
N'iitional Law Schixd at Ballston Spa, New York, in 1
Aiigtisf. 1.8.51; was admitted to the bar in Sr
18.-)1. and coumieneed practice; removed i.
Michigan, In 18.V); was elected judge of i<
ISJd, and re-elected in ISOO, holding the office two
t(?mi8 of four years eacli ; was elected to the Stale
Senateof Michigan in l.8<W and 1S<^S. ^ Itwo,
temis of two years each: was derti > ;»ro 1
Innjiore of the Senate in 18C11; was... i,.., .. liicm- I
her of the ConstltiiiionttI Convention of Micbig.an in '
I.s<i7; was appointed by the governor of the State of J
Michigan in 1871 a memlx-r of the boanl for tbej
sHjiervisory control of the charitable, penal, aixt ]
Ijenelieiorj' Inftitutions of the Slate, which pfisllion
be resigned on liis election as represent.itixe from
Michigan in the I'orty-tliird Congress as a Repub- ]
liean (lit a sj>eci.al election held on the 4th of Novem-
ber, 1873, to fill a vacancy occasioned by Hie de.ith of |
Hon. Wilder D. Foster), reeeivitr: liiut I
(1,4.34 votes for C. C. Comstock. ! i was I
re-i'lected to the Fortv-fourth l.Ml-l.-^. i...n-ingj
1.3.S70 votes against 12,212 voles for Mark I>. Wilber, J
Democrat and Reformer, and S'lO voles for J. A. Mc-1
Kay, Temperance, serving from Decjeoiher 1, 1873, to'l
March 3. 1877.
Williamson, Hugh, wtis bom in West-Notitag-I
ham Tiinnsliip, Pennt^ylvania. December 6, 17{S;'|
received a classical edination, graduating at the I
University of Pennsylvania in 1757; studied di\-1nltv, 1
and was licensed to preach in 17o8, liut resigneil (n I
17H0 on account of ill health : w.is ap|)c>inted profess- ]
or of m.athematics in the University of Pennsylvania J
in 171IO, and held the position until 17C4, whenhe]
rifsigTKMl: went to Eitinburgh to study medicine, and (
wail ticcn.'cd to practise in 1772: reluming to Phila-
delphia, he practised there until 1773, when he re-
turned to England, where he rendered important
services to the revolting colonists; returning, hs
STATISTICAL SKETCHES.
ro3
I
I
I
went to Edenton on a ^-csse) which was avoiding the
Briiish flft't, and was induced to resume jiraolice
there; served ii« surijeiin-peiieriil of the Xorth-( arfK
lina tiuops, distin^ii.'liing himself at the battle of
Camden in ITSO; was a memlier of the House of
Commons of North Carolina in 17S2; was elected to
the Continental Congress in 17S4, ITSi, and 17n); was
a delegate to the Convention which framed the Fed-
eral Constitution in 1787; waa elected a representa-
tive in the First Congress as a Federalist ; was re-
elected to the Second Congress, seniiig from Alarch
19, nuo, until March 2, 171)3; removed to Xew York,
where he had married: dcvoteil himself to literarj'
pursuits, and was associateil with l.)e Witt Clinton
in organizing the Philosophical Society in lsl4: died
suddenly at Xew Vork May 22, 1810. He published
"Observations on the Climate of America," 1811;
"History of North Carolina," 1S12; and a number of
^lapurs on astronomical, scientific, and political sub-
jects.
■Williaxnson, William Diirkee, was bom at
Canterlniry, Coiineclieul, ,Iuly 31, 177il; his father
removed when he was a lad to Amiierst, Massachu-
setts; received a classical education, entering Wil-
liams C<dlege in ISUU, but gra«luating at Brown
University in 18t)4: studied law with Hon. S. F.
Dickinson of Amherst; removed to Bangor, Maine,
in 18117; was admitted to the bar, and commenced
practice; was State attorney for Hancock County
I8()8-1815; was a member of the State Senate of
Mossnchtiselts (Maine then being a part of llie Com-
monwealth) 1810-1820; was a member of tlio first
Scnat4< of Maine tnider its State Constitution in
182U, and, as its president, became (on the resigna-
tion of Governor King) governor; was elected a rep-
resentative frtim Maine In the Seventeenth Con-
gress as a Democrat, seiTlng from December .3,
1821, until March .S, 1823; was Judge of probate 1827-
1840, bank commissioner 183&-1H41, and president
of the Bangor Bank; died at Bangor, Maine, May
27, 1840. He published a " HistoiV of Maine " in
two large octavo volumes, and was a contributor to
different periodicals.
Willie, Asa H., was l)om at Washington, Geor-
gia, Octt>ljer 11, 182(», and Wivs educated at the
acidcmy there; removed to Washington County,
Texas, in February, 1840, luid commenced the stuHy
of law ; was relieved of the disability of nonage by
the legislature of Texas, and admlttetl to the bar in
1848, and commenced the practice of law; was elect-
ed in 18.>2 district-attorney of the Third Judicial
District of Texas; held that office until October.
1;>54, and declined a re-election; served in General
Grigg's brigade of the Confederate army during the
lat<i war; was elected by the people in 1806 one of
the judges of the Supreme Court of Texas, and held
that office until October, is<!7. when he was removed
by the military authorities; was elected a represen-
tative from Texas in the Forty-third Congress from
the State at large as a Democrat, readving 70,180
votes against 47,044 votes for L, D. Evans, Repuli-
lican, serving from December 1, 1S73, to March 3,
1375.
Willing, Thomas, was bom at Philadelphia
December 20, 1741; n-ceived a cliisslcal education,
which was completed at London, where lie read law
in the Temple; returning home, he engaged in mer-
cantile pursuits, and Iwcame the heoJ of the firm
of Willing & Morris, purchasing agents of military
stores for the Continental Congress; was mayor of
Phila<lelphiH: was a judge of the Supreme Court;
was a member of the Colonial House of Uepreseii-
tatiTes: was a delegate to, and president of, the Pro-
visional Congress; was a delegate to the Continental
Congress 1775-177'); was the president of the Bunk
of North iVmerica, the oldest bank in the United
States, chartered by Congress In 1781; died at Phila-
delphia .lanuarj' 10, 1821,
Willis, Albert S., was bom in Shelby County,
Kentucky, Jonuoiy 22, 1813; received his early edu-
cation in common sohr-ob, and grotluatcd at the
Louisville Male High .School in imiO; taught school
for four years; studied law, and graduated at the
Louisville Law School in 180(i. and commenced prao-
tife at Louisville; canvassed the Stale on the Demo-
cratic electoral ticket in 1872; was elected attorney
for Ji'fferson County in 1S70; was re-electeil in 1874,
and served until he was elected to the Forty-fifth
Congress aa a Democrat, receiving lo,040 votes
against 5,507 votes for Walter Evans, Republican,
I senintr from October 15, 1877.
I Willis, Benjamin A., was bom of Quaker par-
cntiige at Kosyln, New Vork, March 24, 1840: gradu-
ated at Union College, Schemciaily. New York, in
1801 ; studied law at the National Law School, I'ougb-
I keepsie, and with William M. Ingroham, Esq., at
[Brooklyn; was admitted to the bar in 1801; com-
menced prnctice, and continued until June, 1,'%2,
when he entered the Union amiy; was captain and
afterwanis m.ijor of the One llundred and Nine-
teenth Kegiment New-York .State Volunteers, and
siibse(|uently colonel of the Twelfth Hegiment New-
York State Volunteers, partlci|>ating in the battles
of Chancellorsville, Gettysbunj, Wanhalc.hee, and
Chattanooga: resumed practice in 18«U; bad never
hold public office when elected a representative from
New York in the Forty-fourth Congress as a Libera]
Republican, indorsed by the Democrats, receiving
10,:i>4 votes against 8,036 votes for Isaiic H. Bailey,
Re[>ublican: was re-elected to the Forty-fifth Con-
gress as a Democrat, receiving 12,510 votes against
12,01)2 votes for Levi P. Morton, Republican, serving
fnnn December 0, 1875.
Willis, Francis, was bom in Frederick County.
Virginia, January 5, 1725; receiveil a public-sehool
education; removed to CJeorgia in 1784; was elected
a representative from Georgia in the Second Con-
gress, serving from October 24, 1701, to March 2,
1703; removed in 1814 to Maury Covuity, Tennessee;
died there Janu.iry 25, 1820.
Willits, Edwin, was bom at Otto, Cattarangus
County, New York, April 24, 1830: removed to
Michigan in September, 1836; graduated at the
Michigan University in June, 1855: located at Mon-
roe in April. 18.J0: studied law with Senator 1. P.
Christiancy; was adniitt<->d to the bar in December,
18-'i7; practised law at Monroe; was elected prosecut-
ing-attomey of Monroe County in 1800, and held the
office till Deceml)er 31, 1862; was elected a mem-
lier of the State Boanl of Education in 1860; was re-
elected in 1800, holding the position twelve years:
was on the commission to revise the Constitution of
the State in 1873; was appointed postmaster ot Mon-
roe, January 1, 186:1, by Abraham Lincoln, and
was removed by Andrew Johnson Oetolx-r 15, 1866;
was editor of "The Monroe Commercial" from
1856 to 1801; was elected to the Forty-fifth Congress
as a Republican, receiving 10.211 votes against lt,024
votes for John J. Robison, Democrat, Granger, and
Greenbacker, serving from October IS, 1877.
Willoughby, Westel, jun., resided at New-
jxirl, Herkimer County, New York; was elected a
representative from New York in the Fourteenth
Congress (having succcssfullv contested the election
of Williuni S. Smith) as a Democrat, serving from
Dceeiiiber 1.'), 1815, to March 3, 1817.
Wilmot, David, was born at Bethany, Pennsyl-
vania, January 20. 1814; received an academical edu-
cation; studied law; was admitted to the bar In 1834,
and commenced practice at Towanda; was elected
a representative from Pennsylvania in the Twenty-
ninlii Congress as a Democrat; was re-elected to the
Thirtieth and Thirty-first Congresses, serving from
December 1, 1845, to March 8, 1861; was presiding
judge of the Thirteenth Judicial District 185»-1^«)1;
was a delegate to the National Republican Conven-
tion in 1^6; was defeated as the Republican candi-
date for governor of Pennsylvania in 1857, receiving
146,130 votes against 188,887 votes for W. F. Packer,
Democrat ; waa a delegate to the National Repub-
704
CONGKESSIONAL DEKBCTORY.
u
Ucan Convention at Chicago in 1860; was elected a
United-States senator from Pennsylvania as a Re-
publican (in place of Simon Cameron, resigned),
serving from March 18, 1861, to March 3, 1863: was
appointed by President Lincoln a judge of the
United-States Court of Claims in 1863; died at To-
wanda, Pennsylvania, March 16, 1868.
Wilshire, William W., was bom September
8, 1830, in Gallatin County, Illinois; was educated
In common schools at Rock Island; studied law, and
was admitted to practice in 1859; entered the Union
army in 1862 as major of the One Hundred and
Twenty-sixth Illinois Infantry ; served until the close
of the war, when he located at Little Rock, Arkan-
sas, as a lawyer; was appointed In 1867 solicitor-
general of the State; was appointed, in July, 1868,
chief justice of the Supreme Court; resigned in
February, 1871, and returned to the bar; was elected
a representative from Arkansas in the Forty-third
Congress as a Republican, receiving 12,644 votes
against 11,409 votes for Thomas M. Gunter, Demo-
crat, but bis seat was contested, and was given to his
opponent, T. M. Gunter, June 16, 1874; was re-
elected to the Forty-fourth Congress as a Conserva-
tive, receiving 11,733 votes against 6,338 votes for
William J. Hynes, Republican, serving from Decem-
ber 6, 1875, to March 8, 1877.
Wilson, Alexander, was bom In Virginia;
was a meml>er of the State House of Representatives;
was a colonel of militia; was elected a representative
from Yiisinia In the Eighth Congress (in place of
Andrew Moore, appointed senator); was re-elected
to the Ninth and Tenth Congresses, serving from
December 4, 1804, to March 3, 1800.
Wilson, Benjamin, was hom In Harrison
County, Virginia (now West Virginia), April 30,
1825; was educated at the North-western Virginia
Academy at Clarksburg; attended the law-school at
Staunton; was aijmitted to the bar in 1848, and has
since practised; was Commonwealth's attorney for
Harrison County 1852-1860; was a member of the
State Constitutional Convention of Virginia in 1801 ;
was presidential elector on the Democratic ticket for
the State, at large in 1808; was a member of the
State Constitutional Convention of West Vii^rfnia in
1871; was one of the delegates from the State at
large to the National Democratic Convention at Bal-
timore in 1872; was elected a representative from
West Virginia in the Forty-fourth Congress as a
Democrat, receiving 12,799 votes against 12,631 votes
for Nathan Goif, jun.. Republican; was re-elected to
the Forty-fifth Congress, receiving 17,902 votes against
10,067 votes for Charles F. Scott, Republican, serv-
Ing from December 6, 1875.
Wilson, Edgrar C (son of Thomas Wilson),
was born at Morgantown, Virginia; was elected a
representative from Virginia In the Twenty-third
Congress as a Wliig, receiving 1,304 votes against
708 votes for W. S. Morgan, Democrat, serving from
December 2, 1833, to March 3, 1836; died at Morgan-
town, Virginia, in May, 1860.
Wilson, Ephraim K. (father of E. K. Wil-
son), of Snow Hill, Maryland, was elected a rep-
resentative from Maryland in the Twentieth Con-
gress, and re-elected to the Twenty-first Congress,
serving from December 3, 1827, to March 3, 1831.
Wilson, Ephraim K. (son of K K. Wilson),
was hom December 22, 1821, at Snow Hill, Mary-
l.inJ; was t-duoaivil iit Union Academy and Wash-
ington Academy, Miiiyland, and graduated at Jefter-
•on Cotle^'e, IVmiFjivBnia, in August, 1841; studied
law at Snow Htll, and practised his profession in his
native Siatu Jnmj It^lS to 1868: was. a member of the
House of DelegAle« ot the legislature of the State of
14«rylatid in 15MT ; wiis a presidential elector on the
lereeand Kins tii'kit in 1852; was elected a repre-
KIMatlve from Muryland In the Forty-third Congress
» a I>-m(>cr!vt. ri'i'i-ivlng 12.464 votes against 11,280
iMta tat T. A. Spoiice, Independent, serving from
Jnoeiuber 1, 1ST;!, t..> March 8, 1876.
Wilson, Euerene M. (son of E. C. Wilson, and
grandson of Thomas Wilson), was bom in Morsan
County, Virelnia, December 25, 18:13; received a clas-
sical education, gi-aduating at JeSerson CoU^e in
1852; studied law; was admitted to the bar, and
commenced practice at Minneapolis, Minnesota, in
1866; was United-States attorney for the district of
Minnesota 1857-1861 ; served in the Union army aa
captain in the First Minnesota Infantry ; was elected
a representative from Minnesota in the Forty-first
Congress as a Democrat, receiving 13.506 votes
against 11,220 votes for I. Donelly, Republican, and
8,596 votes for Andrews, RepubUcan, serving from
March 4, 1809, to March 3, 1871.
Wilson, Henry, was bom in Dauphin County,
Pennsylvania, in 1778; settled at Ailentown; was
elected a representative from Pennsylvania in the
Eighteenth Congress; was re-elected to the Nine-
teenth Congress, serving from December 1, 1823,
until May 22, 1826; died at Ailentown, Pennsylva-
nia, August 13, 1826.
WUson, Henry, was bom at Fannington, New
Hampshire, February 16, 1812; his parents were
named Colbath, and his name was Jeremiah Jane*
Colbath until he was seventeen years of age, when,
by an act of the legislature, he had it changed to
Henry Wilson; he worked on a farm, attending
public schools, and enjoyed the use of a lai^ library
belonging to a lawyer in the vicinity; in DKecember,
1833, he walked to Natick, Massachusetts, where he
learned the trade of shoemakiug, and earned sufS-
cient money to defray his expenses for a time at
Concord Aoulemy; was introduced at Whig meet-
ings in 1840 aa "the Natick Cobbler;" was a
member of the State House of Representatives or
Senate in 1841, 1842, 1844, 1845, 1846, 1850, 1851,
and 1852, presiding over the Senate the last two
years; was in 1848 a delegate to the National Whig
Convention at Philadelpliia, and withdrew; was in
1851 a delegate to the Free Democratic National
Convention at Pittsburg, and its president; was de-
feated as the Free-soil candidate for Congress in
1852, receiving 4,319 votes against 4,411 votes for
Tappan Went worth. Whig; was a delegate to the
Constitutional Convention of 1853; was defeated in
1863 as the Free-soil candidate for governor; was in
1855 a delegate to the National American Convention
at Philadelphia, and withdrew; was elected, by a
coalition of Free-SoUeis, Americans, and Democrats,
a United-States senator from Massachusetts; and
was three times re-elected, serving from February 10,
1865, until he resigned March 3, 1873: from 1840 to
1851 he was connected with the State uniformed
volunteers as major, colonel, and brigadier-general;
In 1861 he raised, and for a time commanded, the
Twenty-second Regiment of Massachusetts Volun-
teers, and, while with the Army of the Potomac, was
appointed an aide-de-camp to General McClellan;
was elected Vice-President of the United States in
1872, receiving 286 electoral votes gainst 68 electoral
votes cast for other candidates; was inau^rated as
president of the Senate March 4, 1873; died in the
Capitol at Washington City November 22, 1876. He
published "A History of the Antislavery Measures
of the Thirty-seventh and Thirty-eighth United-
States Congresses 1860 to 1864," "Military Measures
of the United-States Congress," "Testimonials of
American Statesmen and Jurists to the Truths of
Christianity," "History of the Reconstruction Meas-
ures of the Thirty-ninth and Fortieth Congresses 1865-
1868," " A History of the Rise and FaU of Slavery
in the United States," and " History of the Part which
Congress played in the War to suppress the Bebel-
Uon.^'
Wilson, Isaac, resided in Genesee County, New
York: distinguished himself in the war of 18U aa
captain of a cavalry company which was in some of
the hardest-fought battles on the Canadian frontier;
was a member of the State House of Representatives
161&-1817, and of the State Senate 1818-1821; was
A
STATISTICAL PKETCHE8,
ro5
I
I
I
elected a rppreB<?nh>1ivo fmm New York In the Klgh-
tevnlli Ciiii({r<'!'». wiring fnmi IJ(.tvnit)<»r 1, 1KL.5. lo
Jaiiunry 17. lSi!4, wlicii. bis i-loctifMi liiiviiii; bopii
Buccessfully eoiitosletl by PfimuTiio Ailains, he «itb-
«lrv\v from Ihc House; wns apfioinlcil lirsl judge of
the Court of t'lmiraon Plea* for t^cncsep County,
sorviiip from Kebruury 2, ll^A to Febninry 1, ISlih;
rernovfil tn BntAvia, Illinois, where ho died October
Wilson, James, was bom near St. Andrew's,
Scolliind, ill 174:i: received acolleelnte education at
ICdiiiburKh; immierated to Philailelphia; was n tutor
ill tbe Pliiladelpbia Colli.'se; studied law with John
Dickinson: wa.<i ai|initt<vl to the bar in 1"(!H; prac-
tised at Iti-iidint;, at (.'arlisle, at Anna]><>lis, and then
at Pbilailelpliia; w.is active in pre-licvolutionnry
luoveiuents; was a delegate to the conventions held
in 1774 and 177.'5; was a delegate from reniisylvaiiia
iu the Continental Congress 1775-1778, 1782-178:!,
•nd 17ft5-1787; was counsel for the French Oovem-
Uient 177D-17t*), receiving a fee of ten thousand
livres; was a delejrate from Pennsylvania to the con-
vention which framed the Federal Constitution; was
It delegate to tlie Slat« Convention which adopted
the Federal Constitution; was appointed by Presi-
dent John Adams, in .Septoralwr, 17S1), a justice of
the Supreme Court of the United Slates: In 17!»0wns
appointed professor of l.'iw in tlic I'niversity of Penn-
Bvlvania; died at lidenton. North Carolina, August
is, 171W. He published "An Address to the Citi-
lens of Philadelphia" 17.S4, "Ccmnientarieg on the
Constitulion," with Thomas McKean, London, 171t!;
and his "Works" (in three volumes) were published
after his death, in MH.
Wilaon, James, was bom in AjTshire, Scot-
land, August 1(1, iJvJo; came to America in ISoI; re-
ceived an academic education; became a fanner in
Iowa; was a memljer of the State legislature of Iowa
from IJ^n to 1S73, and wa.s speaker of the llnuse tlie
last two sessions; is a regent of tbe State L'niver5ily
of Iowa; was elected a representative from iowa in
the Forty-lhird Congrt'ss as a Kepublican, receiving
]i)..V!l voles against ".4;J4 votes for J. 13. Irish, dem-
ocrat and Liberal; was re-elected to the Forty-fourth
C'ouirress as a Itcpnbliean, receiving 12,724 votes
against 7,4.S1 votes for Wilkinson, anti-Monopolist,
eerviiig from Decemlier 1, 187'.J, to March H, 1S77.
Wilson, James, was boni in 17"i7; received a
classie.-il education, graduating at Hanard Univer-
«iiy in H"*!'; studied law; wjis admilted to the bar,
and commenced practice at Keene, New Il.impsliire;
was elected a representative from New Hampshire
in tbe F.leventli ConL:ress as a Federalist, serving
Irom M:iy 22, IWJO. to March 3, ISll; died at Keene,
New n.Tnipsbire. .January 4, IfiJO.
Wilson, James, was bom at Fairfield, Pennsyl-
vania, April 2S, I77i>; received a public-school edu-
cation ; was apprenticed lo a cabinet-maker, and
learned his trade; settled at Fairfield; was a justice
of the pe-icc LSI 1-1822; was elected a representative
from Pennsylvania in the Kigliteenth Congjx-.ss as a
Democmt; was re-elected to the Nineteenth and
Twentieth Congresses, serving fronj December 1,
1823, to March 3, 1820; was again a justice of the
peace lS.3t>-lSoO; died at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania,
in Julv, 1S(58.
W^ilson, James, w.is bom in New Hampshire;
recelviMl a classical education, gniduating at Middle-
bun" College in 1M20; studied l.iw; was admilted to
llie bar, and commenced practice at Keene; was for
some years a meml)er of the Stale House of Repre-
B..>nt.itlves, and its spe;iker in IHiS; was a generjil of
militia ; was elected a representative from New
liaiu|)shire in the 'niirtieth Congress as a Whig,
Itjceiving 6,t)2H votes against ."i,()8(l votes for Moulton.
Democmt, and So.^ votes Al>olilion and scatleriug; was
re-elected to the Tliirly-lii-st Congress, receiving 7,7(KI
rotes against 3,778 votes f.>r Vose, Demwrat. and 1.;
ncattering, serving from December 0, Ik47. to .Septcm-
l«!r9, IbSO, when he resigtied; removed to California.
Wilson, James, was bom at Crawfordsvllle,
Imliaiia. April V. 1S22; received a cl.vsical educalicn,
giMiluaiing at Wabash College in lSvl2; studied law;
was ailinitted to the bar iu 1845, and commenced
pnicliee at Crawfordsvllle, Indiana; sened in the
Mexican war as a private in a n-giment of Indiana
volunteer infantry ; was electiil a represt-iitative
from Indiana in the Thlrty-liflh Congress as a Re-
publican, receiving 11. :ii;2 votes against Il,lM2votes
for Voorhees, Democrat ; and was re-tOccted to the
Tliirty-sixlh Congress, receiving ll,(ji8 votes against
10.*'7 voti's for T. W. Ulake, Democrat, serving troin
December 7. 1S17, to March S, VMU; was uppuinleil
by Presi<lent Johnson minister to Venezuela, serv-
ing from May 31, lc<!G, luitil he died at his post
Auunist H, IKiil
Wilson, Jcmes F., was bom at Newark, Ohio,
October 10, IS'^H; received an academical education;
studied law, and commenced lis practice in Iowa;
was a memlier of the Constitutional Convention of
Iowa in ISiiJ; was a meml)cr if tlie State legislature
in 1,S'>7, 18.00, lSi)l, seiTing the last year ns president
of the Senate; was electe<I a representative from
Iowa for the unrxpin'd term of S. R Curtis; was re-
elected to the Tliirty-eighth Congrers as a Ktpub-
lican, receiving 12,7t6 votes against 10,4N) votes for
Iloniish, Democrat; was re-elected to the Thirty-
ninth Congn'ss, receiving 1(1,1177 votes against 0,078
voles for ilornisli, Dewicrat; was re-elected t'l the
Fortieth C'oiigress as a I'nion Keiiublicnn, i-eceiving
UK4t:0 votes against U),!iV> votes for Warren. Ileimb-
lican, sening from Deccmlwr 2, 1801, lo March 3,
18«I0.
W^ilson, James J., was bom in Essex County,
New Jeisry, in I'll'r. received a good English edu-
cation; was for many yi^ars clerk if the Stale House
of Representatives; was the editor of "The Tme
American" at Tix'iiton; was adjutanf-general of the
Stale of New .Jersey; was elected a rnited-.Statcs
senator from New Jersey ns a Democnit, serving
from Deccmlier 4, V}i!>, to 18il, when he resigned;
was appointed by Prt'sidcnt Monroe pi stmnster at
Trenton, New Jersey, in the place rf Charles liice;
was a memlier cf the Slate House of Ri^presentatlves
in 1S22; was seriously injured in December, 1822,
by imagining, in a tit of delirium, that his house was
on lire, and throwing hini5elf fn m a second-story
wimlow; died at Tr<'nt( n, New Jersey, July 2S, lt24.
Wilson, Jeremiah M., w-o« llom in Warren
County. f)hlo, Novenilier Ij, 1828; received an aca-
demic education; studied and practised law; was
judge of tlie Court of Common Pleas from ISOO to
18*l.">, when he resigneil; was elected judge of the
Circuit Court in October, 1>(35, wliich position he
held when elected a representative from Indiana In
the Forty-second CongrefS ns a Republican, receiving
12,501 votes against 12,.'i.J7 votes for D. S. GiHxlhig,
Democmt; was re-elected to the Forty-tliird Con-
gress, receiving 14,400 votes against ]4,ilO votes for
Gooding, Democrat, ser\iiig from March 4, 1&71, to
March :i. 1875.
Wilson, John, was bom in 1777; received a
classical education, graduating at Harvard University
in 1700; studied law; was admitted to the bar, and
commenced iiraclice at lielfast. Maine; was elected a
repret'entative from the Maine ristrict of MiiFsachu-
setts in the Tliirtccnth Congress as a Federalist,
scn'ing from May 24, 1813, to March 2, 1813; was
again elected to the Fifteenth CongrcM, ferving
from January 20, 1818, to March 3, 1810; die<I at
Belfast. Maii:e, July 0, 1848.
Wilson, John, was bom in Tork Dlslrief, Snath
Carolina ; resided at Golilen Grove ; w.is elected a i'ei>-
reseiilalive from South Carolina in tlie Seventeenth,
Eighteenth, and Nlneleenlh Congresses, serving (rem
Decemlier S, 1821, to March 3, 1827; was defeateil r.a
a candidate for the Twentieth Congress by Warrcu
R. Davis, who n-oeivcd 25 majority.
Wilson, John T., was iHirn in Illgliland Coun-
ty, Ohio, April 10, 1811; received a publie-echuol
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COKGRESSIOSAL DIBECTOBY.
e<)iicntlon : was eni^aged daring twenty-foar years \
in morcantile pnrsuiu, ami tlieii retireil to a fann:
Misf-l a conifmriy for the riiion army in INJI, and
stTvi-.l as its caiitaiii; was a member of tin- i>taU.'
Soiiuf of Ohio ill 1S<>J, l>!<i4. ImG, ami 1>^M: «iis
«'lec'c<l a reprt's*i>'a'i*<' from Oliio in thf Fnrtiotti
Ci)ir;ro5» as a Reptililiciii, rrc»rivin'j; 12.7*5 voti-s
a^iri<it O.b 10 vo«e» for Ji™>ri'. iJemocrat : wa« re-
efeclo<l to the Forty-first '\>n:;re»». n-ceiriiig 1;{.H:51
Toll's a-;aiiist ll.Sitt votes for S.vikIs. Democrat: was
n'-"l(i"tej to tlif Forty-setii:]'I ' ■ - — ■■ -;i,.
licjiii. reoeivinx 11. :ii;4 votes ■ .r
R, Li-ft<>, Demornit, sx-rvijig L „ :±-. lo
Miin-li 3. l.s-;i.
Wilson, Nathan, was bom In Waohinston '
County, Xrw York; r»>*iile<l at Salem: ^•.
represunl.itive fn>m New York in the T- ■
III) pl.iee of D;ivi<l Tlvi- ■ - - ' -icj), t-., ...i^ ii....i
Novonilier ", IS (s, to M .>.
"Wilson, Robert. : St. Jc#opb, Mis-
ioiiri; was apiMjinted a L luieu-Mates senator fruro
Mi!(*'juri (in plao<' of W;»I<1" P'>rt'>r .lohnson. ex-
I>e-lle.|( Oita Tniorii- ' .4.1*12,
to DecemlKT 14. ti. who
ha<I lie^n elect«><l X,. -,■„ s. ...... v-j--.. ;.«ok liia
seat.
W^ilson, Stephen P., was bom at Columbia,
Pennsylvania. Septemlier 4. 1821; receiveU an ao»-
demic eiluc.ition ; was ■ teacher; studied and prac-
tised law ; was assessor; was achool-dirmrtor six
years: was a member of the State Senate in 18Si.
ISiu iri.t is<'.^ <--rvingone session after he ha<l been
el-' -~: was a delesrate to the Kepub-
lic.k ivention at Baltimore In ItVM; was
elecU'Al 11 representative from Pcniisylrania in the
Thirtv-nintit Cunsms. receiving ll.ChvJ rotes a^nst
HXtWi votes f - ■"' lore Wright, Democrat: was
re-rln-ted lo ' li CoogTesa as a Republican,
recfiriug U,7 . . _;.iinB»12.<»6Tot« for Wright,
Democrat, senring from December 4, 1886, to March
3.1^60.
Wilson, Thomas (fathorof E. C. VV"il«
pTanilf.-itlitT of K. M. Wil*"!!!, w.is t».m in V
WT ' r..! Ill,- Si.' M -^ .■ I-- . . ... ,,.,.,,.
w..- , n-onvii in the
Ti-- ,TV"i as ;i 1 : Benja-
Bwn Hn-iicr. IX-m K-rat, i-frvini; I'n-iu N>-v<-mber4,
1*11. 1-1 Maro'i 3. )<V-'.: <\if<\ .laninr*- 24. is;ki.
WUs ~ -
Wilaon, Wiliiam, »->
from Pcnn«vl«ani.» in ilir F-
vas re-drct- "
frotn Decrmi
Wilson, V. ..,
C'Xinty. Xt-w llai
e«ln.-Tr--i: rf-m-'v
r-»-lllIl
tram Dccvmber I
Xevark, New II:i
Wasliin^on City.
Win fins, J air.
rili
^ry, was bom at Xays-
~ ^ : bad a i*awhimii aihcinj
K-^tncfcr. and waillani
> "hrk of tbe CMtts
vas elMMil l» ibie
-ate Howein ISBt:
1 judjie ul tiw Court of CoatasoM Pteas
■l«ct«d lo fill tiw racancT l» tke sane
>.« re-el«<c<ed for llie fall fenn ot fine
was <>iect««l a nyuBftatire frosB Ohio
:irsi CkwgrMS as a KepaMican, receirlng
IH.^;^ votes against i;L8TS votes for Tkoaaas, Dc«m-
crat. »errlB« (nam Maivii 4. IMtl, to ICardi 3. 1971.
Winoh«ster, Boyd, was bora la the parish of
MaJBfik
e<i
a'
of
S
«j
In
J*-
Ascension, Louisiaiui. September 2S. lASn
at Centre College. Danril!
University of Virginia at <
at the L.iW University of I
I'viT. and cc>nimeiii'e<l jin
eltvleil to tl--- >«• " V..,. ,..
1)-K57; was u
presi<lenlial :
live from Kintuck) im
Democrat, and «a« t-
CiitlKT-- • " ":;^ I' ', ■ -.' ■ ■ ■■- _ .'.■ ~<
for J.- i..'. .111. - r^,i,.
to Mar' ..
Windom, William, was bom in
foutitv. ojito. M'lv !-i. !»:?T: rft'HvPfl nn
- 1 at (he
: -wluatnl
. ia
WIS
.,1101
nta-
13 1
"nd
'. : -' .4.-'- y(Kr*
1 .M...-.-h 4. 188B,
yr I Iwaii n
Ktmx '
InV.; -
in the lliirty-aixth < iicaa, r-
oeiviiig 21,0111 roles a. <^r»!isin.
Democrat : was re-ele< ' >€►-
Stress; was re-elected • ■*»,
receivi!- • ^ ''-■ ' ■«---!es aa -. -■.-.. "
Demo. r-'-elected to tli
gress. .' i:t.0Q3 roles ag:i:
LambertwH, Democrat : was ne-elcctoJ
Congress, reeeirine l.(.(M| rotes oni:
for J^nes. Democr - i;>polntM^l
of Minnesota in 7 >, to fill
term of IIod. D..... . .-. .Norton. de<
Senate of the Tniteil 8lates. was elr>
States senator as a Republicaa, ami
March 4. l-STl. His term of serrioe expired MajOi
a. In".
Winfleld "'--'-^ ^.,was bora at Ckawfed.
New Ti>rk. reoelTed tm amliiMiiiJ
education : n-as adaittetl l« the Wv
in li^j. and cot ractice at Goshen. Xe«
York: wa«fli"rr; - for OraiMe County 18G(^
la reprtaestatire noM New Toik
'<th Coogreas a* a Be wm Mil at. MceiT-
oi^ 1-.-.'. ■■■iv:> dgainst tfiTi rotea for FtaDstea,
Repablican; was fe-ehcUd to the Thfatj-^iiafh Coe-
gress. receJTlng 0,978 roles a^iaat 11.718 Tolaa for
Mnmy. I>paMican, serving ftaa D«caaher7, 1881^
io^j»rch :{. 1867.
■•^mg, Austin B., was bora in BaaipsUivCoaa-
^vu-UtMetl«, ill ITUI: reeeired a liilliHf Whwl
■' ■ rrmorrvl to Jli-i-i^.f it»l «a> «a* «f
rilsh arttk-rs a wa* elartad •
>:a aik:l>J;ao Tc : tbe XiaMaca*
^«; waa re-elrrted to Ui« Twentieth CoBgrssn
: fr«im Uri-trmbrr >>. 1^25. t» Maich S. ItOfc
ipie. where be held sewtal local
- eWd(4 to tbe Tirenttr ateood Oe»-
-. l>.,^T„l.^r .\. ism to Mafch i.
-hioa as a Sttfe.
latdiatrict; diedal
lathe
IMinaita,
1 oration: waa liaii^
-•-cane a meRhaata'
of tbe State Hooae
was collector of e«st<
MM; wa* eieeud a
the Tweatieth Co^r
eircted to tb» Tweri'
Dereatber S. l>trT. to \
W^insate, Paine,
aathiiacaa. May 14. 17^. r
lioa; gradiuteJ at Ilarrji:
s<itdied ihenkiey: was oidaiDe.,
riiBftnaaihiiiil Cbnreh at Bj<
ff— T^i— Decesaber U, 1981,
aatfl he was iliiiaiswd Jiasch !'>
StiathaBU Xev Haaqwhtue, anti
waa elected to tbe Iloaae of BeytcaeataUvoa ot »•
iLua
waa i«-
STATISTICAL SKETCHES.
ro7
ampsbirc; wus a dcle^atp from Xow noiugisUirc in
;lie (.'iinliiient:il Coii^iiss 17"'7-17.St>; was rlecleil a
iiiteil-^Hn't'S wniiUii' frmu New Uainiiehin-. n'rvinij
om Miiroli 4. 17!S!), Xi> )l:iroli li. 17uj; w.is i.-loc!ciJ a
preseiitativu lr<<iii New Ilainpshiiv in the Third
ioURresa, si'rviiij< from Docembor ^, I'M. to March
17l>5: w:is upiKiinli'il a jiuijie of tin: tjiiporior t'otirt
of Ncwllaiiipshiiv, si^rviiig l7ll.'>-]Slilt; ilivd al Stnith-
ain. N''W ll.iiiii'shirc. Slarcli 7. ISUS.
Winslow, Warren, was injni at Faj-etteville,
Niirlli raroliiia, January 1, 1>*10; reccivud a chissival
education, tau'lualinij at (.'Uapcl-Hill University in
1827; studiod law; \\:\a admitted to tlie liar, and
praoiiBed at Fayulteville; was appointed in lS-'>4. liy
I'residenl Pi<'iTe, n contidcntial agent to Madrid,
bearing despatches eonoerning "TlieDlack Warrior"'
difiicuity ; during his ah!>enoe he was elected a inem-
Ix'r of tlio State Simaie; after his return he was
elected siH-akerof that body, anil, as Buch, he became
acting governor when Governor licirl was elected to
the V'niled-.Statc8 Senate; was elected a reiin*eiita-
tivc from Xorth Carolina in the Thirty-fourth Con-
gress as a Democrat, receiving 6,t>2W votes against
•,8M votes for Ilcid, American; was re-elected to
tlie Thirty-lift.Ii Congress, receiving ti,3:!8 votes
«j!ainst l,4>i7 votes scattering; was re-elected to the
Thirty-sixth Congress, rcccivine 4,180 voles against
1HU votes for McDu&ie, Iiidepeimeiit Democrat, seri'-
Ing from Deceml)er '.i, 1865, to March 3, LSOl; died
al K.ayetteville, Nortli Carolina, Juno 11, 1803.
Winston, John Anthony, was governor of
B>the Stale of Alabama l.S"):!-lsi»7; was cleete<l to the
■ tjniled-St.iles Senate by the legislatun! of Alabama
Vln ItkJii for six years, commencing March 4, lt<07;
and Iiis credentials were jiresented January 30, 16U7,
but he was not admitted to a seat.
Winston, Joseph, was boni in Virginia in
1740; was ilistingnisheil for gallantry in tlie frontier
war with the Indians: removed to .Stokes County,
orth Carolinii, in 1766 ; served in the campaign
■gainst the Cherokee Indians: was major of a
""evolutionary regiment raised to suppress ihe
Tories; commanded the right wing at the battle of
ing's Mountain In C)elobi'r. 17S<.I, ajid had a s%voril
Yotcd to him by the legislature of North Carolina
f<ir his bravery there; was State senator in 17V)0,
17U1. ISOi, !8(P7", and \f<Vi; was elected a representa-
tive fnim >'ortli Carolina in the Thiol Congn-ss,
Iaerving from Decemlwr 2, 171»3. until March 3, 17W;
was again elected to the Eighth Congress; was re-
elected to the Ninth CongreFs. serving from OcK^iber
17, lS(i3, until M.irch 3, 1807; died" near German-
town, North Cariiliiia, in IS14.
"Winter, Elisha J., w.^8 eleeteil a representative
from New Vork in the Thirteenth Congress as a Fed-
eralist, «..rviii^' from May L'4. 1813. to March 2, 1813.
Winthrop, Robert Charles, was bom at
piston. Mass.ichnsells May 12, ISOO; received a
classical education, graduating at Harvard College
ill I-82S; stmlied law wilh Daniel Webster; was ad-
mitted to the b,ir, and practised at Boston; was a
inemlwr of the Stale House of Kcpresentatives 1835-
J84II, serving the last three years as siieaker; wm
elected a represenl.itive from Mass.ichusells in the
Twenty-sixth Congress (in place of Abbtilt Lawrence,
resigned I as a Whig; w.ts re-elected to the Twenty-
■eventh Congress, serving from December 7, 1840,
to May 2.5, 1842, wlien he resigned ; was subsequcutly
re-elected to the Twenty-seventh Congress (in place
of Nathan Appleton. resigned); was re-i-lccted to
the Twenty-eigbth Congress; was re-elected to the
Twenty-ninth Congress; was re-elected to the Thir-
tieth Congress, receiving o.'.ISO votes against 1,(188
voles for Uomer, Democrat, and 1(J84 votes Abolition
and scattering; was re-i'lected to the Thirty-lirst
Congress, receiving 7.72(! votes against 2,:13(1 voles for
» Sumner, Democrat, and 1,400 votes for Ilallett,
t'ass Denioeral, serving fiiim December ."i, 1842, to
July :Ki. 1.S">0, when, having been ap|H>inted a
United-States senator from Massadiusetts (iu {lUcc
of Diiiiiel Welisti-r, n'Signed), he took his si'at In
the Senate, serving to February 7, l.^xil, when tUo
successor to Mr, Webster took his seat: v.-;:.<» siK-afccr
of the Uoiite of l{e|>res<'ntativcs iluring the Thirliotli
Congress and a part of the Thirty-iirst < ongrefs;
is president of Ihe Massiichu-^etts Iiistoric«l Soci-
ety, a trustee of Ihe IValmdy Educational Fund,
and a member of other literary, ri'ligious, and
philanthropic a-ssrwiations. He published "Ad-
dresses and Speeches" J852 and I8.'y7, " Jlenioir < f
Nathan Appleton " ItMIl, " Life anil Letters of John
Winthrop ' (two volumes) 181.7, oml a number cf
publir aildresses.
Wirt, William, was bom at Dladensburg,
Maryland (where Ins father kept a hotel, at which
WaslUngton was a frequent gtiost), NovembiT 8,
1782; received a cl.issical edueuiion; was a |)ri\ato
tutor; siudie<l law; was adndlled to the bar in 1702,
and commenced prai'tice at t'ulpepper Cnurt Hnuso,
Virginia; was clerk of the Uoute i f Delegads 17:4-
1802; was elcctnl chancellor cf the Eastern Distfiet
of Virginia in 1802, but n-signed in 1804, :uid sellled
at Norfolk, where he resumed prnclice; liiovoil bade
to lliclmiond in 18(X1; was elected to the VIrgini.i
House of Delegates in 1807; was apjwlnted I'nited-
.St.ites disiriel-attorney for Vir;iinia by I'residcnt
Madison in 1810; was ap|iointed atlomey-geiicrf-1
of the United Slates by l'ri>Eident Monnje Decem-
ber l.j, 1817, and re-ap|.ointed ly President Adau^a
March 4. 182."), serving through the adtninistr:i-
lion, and leaving behind him tlirce volunii'S of i f-
ticial opinions; removed to lialtimore in 18;J0; was
the biographer of I'alriek Henry, and wrote 8ever::l
other noimlar books; was nominateil for the presi-
dency by the naltiniorc Anti-Masonic Convention in
18:J2, and received seven electoral voles; died at
Washington City February 18, 1834. He published
" Tliu liritish Spy" (a series of descriptive letters
which originally appeared iu " The liichmond Ar-
gus"), "The Life cf Patrick Henry," and n larrro
number of essays whii'h appeared in the Ifichluoiid
newspapers. His "Life," by J. P, Keiuiedy, was
published in 1840.
Wise, Henry Alexander, was born at Drum-
niond Town. Vir:,iiiia, December 3, I8i:il; received ,i
classical education, gradimting at Washington Col-
lege, Peniisylvaida, in ISvJ.i; studied law; was admit-
ted to the bur at Winchester, Virginia, in 1828, and
commenccil [-.ractice at Nashville, Tennessee, rctuni-
Ing in 1830 to his native county of Accomack. Vir-
ginia, where he afterwards praelisc<I: was elected a
rciiresentative from Virginia in the Tbirty-third and
Thirty-fourth Congress' s as a Jackson Denifienit ;
was re-elected to the Twenty-fifth. Twenty-sixth, and
Twenty-seventh Congresses as a \Vldg; was re-elect-
ed to the Twenty-eighth Congress as a Tyler Demo-
crat, defeating Hill Carter. Whig, serving from
December 2, 18:W, to Febmary 1.S, 1844. when he
resigned to accept the mission to DiTUcil; while n
member of the House, he mortally wounded lilehiu'd
Coko of Virginia, who bad been his optmncnl. in a
duel, February 17, 18;10; was instnimental in biing-
lug about Ihe (jlraves-Ciiley duel, in whieh Cilley
was shot dead in 18:i8, and assaulted Edward Stanley
<in the tloor of the House in l.'>l;J; w:ui api>oiiiled liy
President Tyler mini.sler to llrazil, serving February
8, 1844-August 28. 1847; was a presidential elector
on the Cass and llutler ticket in 1848; was a delegate
to the State Conslilutioiial I'onvenlion in 1.850; w.is
a presidential elector on the Pierce oiid King ticket
in I8o2; was governor of the State of Virginia 18.')0-
1800; was a delegate to the St.ite Secession Conven-
lion of February, 1801; entered Ihe Confederate
army as colonel of Wise"* Legion; was appointed,
June 0, 1801, a brigadier-general, and iiesigned to
Ihe command of a brigade com|Kised of four Vlr,;hiuk
regiments of Infantry and two light l>attJ'ries: w,i8
defeated al the battle I'f fiaulcy Urldge and at the
battle of lioanoke Island ; resumed the practice of law
at liicbmoud, Viiginia; died there tjepleiubcr 5, IbTU.
708
CONOBESiBIONAL SIBBCTORT.
Wisner, Henry, was a delegate from New Toric
to the Continental Congreu 177-I-1776; he was pres-
ent, and voted for independence, but his term had
expired before the engrossed parchment copy of the
Declaration was signed.
Witoher, John SM_was bom in Cabell County
(then in Virginia, now West Vii]ginia) July 15, ISiO;
was brought up on a form; received a public-school
education; was in 1861 elected clerk of the Circuit
Court of Cabell County under the restored govern-
ment of Virginia, and served some six montlis, when
he resigned ; entered the Union army as second lieu-
tenant, and rose by degrees, serving in every rank,
to that of colonel of his regiment; was appointed
brevet brigadier-general for gallant and meritorious
services upon the field during the Shenandoah- Val-
ley campaign under Sheridan in 1804, and in the
final campaign around Richmond and Petersbui^,
Virginia, in the spring of 1805, especially at the
battle of Ford'a Station, on the Southside Railroad;
was mustered out of the United-States service on
the 30th of June, 1865 ; was elected to the State legis-
lature in October, 1865; was elected secretary of state
of West Virginia in October, 1866, and served until
March 4, 186U ; was elected a director of the Chesa-
peake and Ohio Railroad In the fall of 1S6S; was
elected a representative from West Virginia in the
Forty-first Congress as a Republican, receiving 0,214
votes against 4,805 rotes for Moore, Democrat, serv-
ing from March 4, 1869, to March 3, 1871; was de-
feated as the Republican candidate for the Forty-
second Congress, reoeiving 1,180 votes against 8,082
votes for Frank Hereford, Democrat
WitheroIL James, was bom in Vermont; le-
eelved an academical education; studied law; was
admitted to the bar, and commenced practice; was a
member of the State House of Representatives 1703-
1S03; was an esKcutive councillor 1803-18.)7: was
elected a r^resentative from Vermont in the Tenth
Congress as a Democrat, serving from October 26,
18J7, to May 1, 18()8, when he resigned. ha\ing-been
appointed by President JcSerson Linitcd-States judge
for the Territory of Michigan, where he resided until
his death.
Withers, Bobert E.. was bom in Campbell
County, Virginia, September 18, lf<il ; graduated in
the medical department of the University of Virginia
in ISll : practised his profession in his native county
until 1858. when he remove*! to Danville, Virginia,
where he prosecuted his practice until the commence-
ment of the civil war; was a Whig in politics, and a
Union man until the passage of the ordinance of
secession by Virginia; entered the Confi'derate army
as major of infantry in April. 1801, and during the
same year was promoted colonel of the Eigliteenth
Virginia Regiment, which he commanded until re-
tired in consequence of numerous disabling wounds,
and appointed to command the post at Danville.
Virginia, which position he held until the close of
the war; removed in Januar>-. 1800. to Lynchburg.
Viiyini-t, and established a daily political 'paper de-
Tote<l to the interests of the Conservative party,
which he continued to edit until 18j8. when he was
nominated for governor by the Conservative Conven-
tion at Riclimond. and canvassed the State hi oppo-
sition to the Underwood Constitution, which the
military authorities refused to submit to a vote of
the people; in 186l» he withdrew in favor of Gilbert
C. Walker, nomiiiatcil for governor by the Liberal
Republicans; he was appr.intwl elector for the State
•t l.irge on the Greeloy liokct in 1S72; was grand
master of Frecmas'ins forthi> ^>tnte of Virginia; In
i-<lii was electetl lieutenant-governor as a Conserra-
tive. receiving 27.5KI majority over his Republican
ct>mpetitor, C. P. R.inisdoII; was elected United-
States «.<nator fiuin Virginia as a Conservative (to
sucvec<l John F. Lewis.^ Republican), and took his
seat Maivh 4, 1873. His term of service will expire
Marrh 3. l«(St|.
Witherspoon, John, «•• bom at TMter,
Scotland, Febraar^ 6, 1723; received a elaesical
education, 'gradnatinjg at the Universitv of Edin-
burgh in 1743; studied theology; was licensed to
preach, and settled at Beith; espoused the cause of
the Pretender, and commanded a company at the
battle of Falkirk, where he was taken prisoner; was
settled In 1757 over a church at Paisley; was invited
in 1707 to the presidency of Princeton College, New
Jersey, and was inaugurated August 17, 17SS : took
an active part in pre-Revolutionary movements;
was a delegate to the New-Jersey Convention for
framing a State Constitution; was a deleave from
New Jersey to the Continental Congress 1776-1T83;
visited England in 1783-17S4 to collect funds for
Princeton College; diefl near Princeton, New Jersey,
November 15, 1794. He published "Essays ou'- Im-
portant Subjects" 1764, "Essay on Money" lY79,
" The Druid " 1781, and a number of religions and
political pamphlets. His works were published in
four volumes at Philadelphia, and in nine volumes
at Edinburgh.
Witherspoon, Robert, was elected a reftre-
sentative from South Carolina in the Eleventh Con-
gress as a Democrat, receiving 893 majority over
Oourdin, Federalist, serving from May 22, 1806, to
March 3, 1811.
Witte, WiUiam Heory, was bom in Morris
County, New Jersey, May 7, 1818, but removed in
early life to Bucks County, Pennsylvania, where
he received a public-school education ; removed in
1840 to Philadelphia, where he engaged in mercantile
pursuits, and the improvement of real estate in the
suburbs; was elected a representative from "Pet^fgyl-
vania in the Thirty-third Congress as a Democrat,
receiving 6,843 votes against 4,S46 votes for Laaabert,
Whig, serving from December 5, 1853, to March S,
1855; was a candidate for the Democratic liomijia-
tlon for governor of Pennsylvania in lS57,lS(xi, and
1803, but was defeated each year by a few votes;
established and edited "The Commonwealtli," a
weekly Democratic newspaper, in 1874; died at
Philadelphia November 24, 1'S76. ■«. ^^
Wolcott, Erastos (brother of Oliver Wolcotf),
was bom at Litchfield, Connecticut, September 21,
1722; served as bri'^adier-general in the war of tb*
Revolution ; was a judge of the State Supreme Court
of Connecticut; was chosen a del^ate from Con-
necticut to the Continental Congress, but did not
serve; died at Litchfield, Connecticut, Septeml>er 14,
179:).
Woloott, Oliver (brother of Edgar Wrfcott),^-
was bom at Windsor, Connecticut, lnovember 26,
1726; received a classical education, graduating at
Yale College in 1747 ; marched to the defence of the
northem frontier of New Tork as captain of a volun-
teer corps; returned to Connecticut, and studied
medicine with Ills brother, Dr. Alexaioder Wolcott ;
was appointed the first sheriff of Litchfield County
in 1751 ; was an assistant executive councillor 177-^
1786; was a ju^e of the Court of Common Pleas
and of the Litchfield-county Probate Court; was**
major^neral of militia; was appointed by the Con-
tinental Congress in 1775 one of the commissioners
to secure the neutrality of the Northem Indian
tribes; was a delegate from Connecticut to the Con-
tinental Congress 1775-1778 and 1780-1784, serving
durini; a portion of the time in the field, and espe-
cially'distinguisliing tiimseif at the battle of Sara-
toga; was lieutenant-goTemorof Connecticut 178ft-
17110; was governor of Connecticut n96-17W7; died
at Litchfield. Coimeeticnt, December 1, 1191.
'Woit, Gfeorge, was bom at Allen Towndilp,
Northampton County, Pennsylvania, Augnst li,
1777; received a classical education; studied law;
was admitted to the bar, and commeneed practice at
Easton, Pennsylvania; was initiated into Freema-
sonrv in Easton Lodge, No. 120: was a m^pber vt
the State House of Repreaentatives; was elected a
representative from Pomsylvaaia in the Eighteenth
Oangreaa (in pbM» «f Tlioinas T. Began, rarigned)
STATISTIC AI. SKETCHES.
ro9
I
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Democrat; was re-electod to tlio Nineteeiitb
anil Twc'Ulielb Cutiffrfsscs, serving; from December
8, 1S24, t'j March ;J, I8'A>: w:i» u{i[x>iiUed first com p-
truUer of the trc^ury of the Uiiiteil Slates, wjvinij
June 18, lSW(i-l''el)riiary 2;l, 18'J"*; w:is n;)pointoil in
1838 collector of customs at the jmrt of PbUatlclphia;
died ill Philiidilfiiiii JIarch 14, ls44).
Wolf, WilliaXQ P., waa l)om in Stark County,
Ohio, lieceralicr 1, ISiU; received n {lublic-sclioiil
education; studied law; rciiiovoil to Iowa in iSoD;
was admitted to the l)ar, ami c jmmonccd |)r:ictice
at Tipton, low.i, in 18511; was superinlendeiit of
fiublic schools: was a member of the iState lejislalure
II liSO-'i and 1S04; entered tlio Union nriny as cai>-
lain of infantry in an Iowa n'jiraenl; was severely
woundeil in the Tcincssce camp.iign; was a|)p<iint(^d
Bssislant asfii'ssor of internal r<!venue in 1S(.C; was
a meml)er of the State .Scnali' in l&l"; was elected
a representative from Iowa in the Forly-lii'St Con-
gress (to till the vacancy niused by the death of
William Sinvtb), serv-ing from UeccmlKjr 0, 1870, to
War.'h :!. 1871.
Wolfe, Simeon K., was bom in Floyd Coun-
ty, Indiana, Feliruary 14, 0^24; his rarly education
was good, but not c •llcjiiale: Kriidiitiled in the law
department of the University of Indiana at Dloom-
Ington in March, 18;>;», and hiis since been engap.'d
in the practice of law; Wiis a presidential elector in
IS-V} for Jiiracs liucbanan: w.is elected to the Slate
Senate of Indiana in ISttli, and served four years;
was a delegat<! to the Chiu'leston and Baltimore
Democratic National Conventions in 1S(X); was colo-
nel of ibc Indiana militia in I'^U; was eililor and
proprietor of "The Curydon Democrat" fnim 1S57
to ISlo; was a candidate for presidential elector for
the State at large on the McClellan ticket in IstJl;
removed in .Septemb,-;r, 187J. from Corydim to New
Albany, his prjsent residence; was elected a roprc-
•entalive from Iiidi.ina in the Forty-third <^"onprc5S
B3 a Democnat. receiving iO,;j')'l votes apiinst 1:>.U.')2
Vot'.'S inr D. W. Vovles, llepuldlcau, serviug from
Decemlx>r ), 187:1, to Mardi :), 1875.
Wood, Abiel, was born at Wiscasset, the Maine
District of Massaibusctts, in lii'^; received a pub-
lic-school education; en|;,i'j;e<l in mere iiilile pursuits;
waa a member of the Massachusetts Ilouse of Ilepnv
Bontatives 18.'t7-1811; was elected u representative
from tlic Maine District of Massa'.-huselts in the
Thirteenth Congress as a Federalist (ilefeating Foot,
War Democrat), serving from May :.'4, isia, to March
2. ISlo; was again a nicml)erof the Mussachusctis
Honse of lU-presentntives in ISKi; was a d<-le;ate to
llio Convention which frr.med the .State Cons'ilntion
of Maine in ISllt; was a .Suite connciUorof Maine in
182) and 1821; died at Uelfast, Maine, Xovemltcr IiI,
IS^J.
Wood, Alan, jun., w,i8 bom at Philmlelphia
July U, ls.i4: r-ei'iied a iilwral academic education;
is largely inlen-strd in ilie manufacture of iron at
Conshohicken and other pliices; is president of the
First National Ua;il; of Ctmsbohocken ; was elected a
r.-prescntative from Pi'nnsylvania in tlic Forty-fourth
Congress n» a l!i-publi(a!i. receiving 12.(tW votes
against 11.4:j2 votes for ICphrahn L. Acker, Demm-rat,
Berviiig from D'.-Ci^inber (">. r-7."<. to March .'J, ls77.
Wood, Amos E., was born at Ellislinrg Coun-
ty. New Vorl;. in 1811); received a public-school edu-
cation; n-raoved with his father in 1825 to Portage
County. Ohio: located pi'nnancntly in I*):! on a
fanu in Sau'lusky l'ou!:ly, which he cleared himself,
and on which lie re»ide<l during the remainder of Ids
life: was for two years a member of the Statu House
of l{epres?nfativcs, and for one yeara meml)erof the
State Se'iato; wvs electe.l arrjinsentative from Ohio
In th" Tisirty-first C )usri'«5 (ti till the vacancy caused
1>)r the death of Itudolpiius Dickinson Ijeforc taking
" i» seat) as a Dwn'KTjit. sening from D''cemlx-'r3.
1*49. to NovemtKT 11), IWJ, wln?n he died at Fort
fWayne. Indiana.
"Wood, Beojamin, waa boru at SbelbyvlUe,
Kentucky, October 1.1, 1820; received a pidi!ic-scSooI
education; removed to the city of New Wrk; pub-
lished and edited "Tlie Daily News;" w.is ideetcd a
r<!presentallve frotn New York iti the Thirty-seveutU
Congri'ss as a Democrat, receivitig '),81>2 voti's a'^ainst
4..'>b."> Votes for Williauison. Uepubllean. :i '7' . 'ei|
for Savage, liidepi'udi'ir. Deiriocr.it : v .1
to the Thii't>-eiglitli ('ongre^s, rcceivlii; ,. . ;i»
against -l.-V!.'! votes for H. VValbridge, lii piillieui:,
serving from .July 4. 1H<11, to March ;{, Ih:."); \v;i» a
member ••{ the Slate .S-niite in 1H<K1 and 18(1".
Wood, Bradford R., was Imm in ConiiwU-
cut; received .111 academlc.ll educatiini; -'■ ' ' i:v,-;
was .idmitted to llie bar. and cummenei' i .it
.Mbaiiy. New York; was elected u r' , i\«
from New York in the Twenty-ninth <.'iii(;nNs n» a
Democrat, receiving 7.ti58 votes agiiiiisl (1.1X17 vol«»
for Wlieaton. Whig,' and US voles for IJarker. .Vbull-
lionist, serving from iJecenilx-r I, I84.'', to Maich J),
lt?47; was appointed by Pi-esidoiil l..ilicolji ininister
to Denmark, serving March 22, ledl-Novcmlicr IS,
1SG5.
Wood, Fernando, was bom of C>uaker parent-
age in the city of Piiil.idelphla June 14, b'<12; liii
father removed to New York in 1.8;i((, when- be after-
wards resided; when nineteen years if age he com-
menced business as a fhipplng-merchant. in which
occupation he was enlli-ely successful, i-ctlrliig with
an ample fortune in 1U5J; was tbn'O limes elected
ranyor of New York, serving in that otlicc daring Ibi!
years 1SV>. l.Hod. 1857, 18(11.' and l^'iii: was eleeteil a
repn senlatlve from New York in the Twenty-sovciitU
Congress as a Demoerat, reetiving 21,7.1) votci
against 2i),K{,< votes for T. Pn-sc lU Hall, Wl-ljc,
ser%'iiig from May 111, 1841, to March S, 1SI3; wn*
again elected to the Tliirty-el;;lilh Congrets, receiv-
ing 8,17lJ votes against ;J.4Mt voK-s for Dufly. Itepuli-
liean, scning fnjui Deccml)er 7, 18U.'!. to March :i,
18(fc); was ar;al.i elected to the Fortieth Congrcfs r.»
an Independent candidate without any nominalioii,
receiving U.tV 5 votes agairsl 7,1)115 lotes fi.r Darling,
Republican; was re-elected to the Forly-llrst Con-
gress 08 a Democrat, receiving 14,(M.s loles againirt
ll,t"87 votes for Thomas, KepuIilicaTi, ami l,75li votr«
for .SavagiN Independent Democrat; was re-<'lccted to
the Forty-second Congress, receiving ]5.l"iJ votn
against ;t,7t)W voles for M. Eliin';cr, Uepublicati. ind
4^78!) votes for W. S. Hillyer, Young Demix-rat and
ICcpublicon ; was ro-elccted to the Forty-third Con-
gress, receiving lU.o2il votes a-;ainst O.tkl votes for
W. A. Darling. I'epubllcan; V, ' • '• •' '.'■ r-
ty-fourth t'ongri-w., receiving ':>i
voles for John Hardy, Indefj' ! , lel
2.1.'51 voles for Kobcrt S. Nev.lou. Ifepublican; wa»
re-elected to the Forly-Iifth (Jongress, rc-eciving 14,iH;)
votes against 8.217 voles for (Jeorge W. Do C'unlia,
Rciiublican, serving from March 4, IHi'.7.
W^ood, John, was born at Philadelphia, Pmui-
sylvania, in IHlii; received a piildii'.sclioiil educa-
tion; engaged in commercial pursuits, devoting liito-
self chielly to the manufacture of iron; wa» elected
(against his wishes) a representative from Pennsyl-
vania In the Thirty-sixth Congress cs n liepublican,
receiving 0,701 voles against 7,200 voles for Jkm-m,
DvmrM'rat, serving from Deoemlwr u, 185(1, to Slaadi
;i, 18(11.
Wood, John J., was ix>rii iu Ilockland Coun-
ty, New Vork; reside*! al Clarkstown: wu* cJccJod a
reprt^sentallve from New York in the Twentieth
Con'^ress a* a Jacknon Democrat, serving Xroiu De-
ceniU'r;!, 1S27, to .\I.ircli :). lH2;t.
W^OOd, John M., was l>oni at Mint.i^iol N.-«r
York, Novemlifr 17, 181;); rr-ceived a ] ■ol
i-ilueatlon: l>ccame a contractor for the ■ ■nx
of niilrooils and olher public works; resiii..d al J'ort-
land, Maine; was a mt-rabcr of llie .Stale House of
Itepresentatives; v. ^ ,' • ' - - • '- iru
Maine in the Tbi ' '-
lican. n-eejiing I).'.- . _ ••■r
bauiuel Wells, Democrat; aiul waa re-etevted to iIm
710
COXGRESSIOXAL DmECTOBY.
Tliirly-fiftli CoiiirrcM, reci.'iviiit; ll.iirj vn(fs njninst
P,77<i votes for J. S. I<illU', Coiililloii. siTviii!; from
Dwi-nilwr .1. 18."), to MiUrli ;5. I'm',!; ilk'd al llust<ji>,
M.i>«;icliiiMlts, Dii-'ThImt i4. iNVt.
Wood, Joseph, was a (l<>li'i;iiie from Georgia to
Ihi' ( oiiiiiii'iiml ( iir.'r<"s 1777-n7!i.
W^ood, Silas, tt.is I'l'i'ii ill SutfolU County, Xi-w
York, ill 17')'.); n-ccivi-il n i.'l;is«ic.il fUiioatirin, griulu-
Atiiis nt I'rinc(!ton Collegi- in 17^^11: stuilieiJ law; vrm
ndrntttoil to the liiir. nnd fomiiinioril practice at
nuiitiii^toii ; was rlccleil a ri-|>n'«.i'iilativ<.' from \cw
Yorl« ill till- Sixli-oiilli ('onijriss as n Demncnil: wa?
reoli'cled to iln.- Si-vcnlciiilli. ICij;lilfoiilli, Nitie-
teeiitli. ami TwiMiti>-"tli f-oir^n'ss'-s. Jicrvinj' from
Dff.'iiilHT ti, IKll). to Mari-li ;l. isjt; illi-d at Huii-
tiiijftlon. New Vork, Man-li 2, ls47. Uv pulilislicKl
"A History 'if Loim Iflaiid."
Woodbridge, Frederick E., was bom at Vcr-
pt'ljiirs. Vc-riiii'iit, Aii'^iiM :;ii, 1M1'<; uiailuati-il at tin-
Uiiivcr>iry of VcniKHit in ISJII; stuilicil law uitli liis
fftllirr, Hon. E. 1). \Voo(lliri<1i;c'; was ailiuitlcil to
the bar, and practised at Vcrfceiiiies; was a iiicmhfr
of the State ITou.v of ItpprcscsitattvfS in li*4lt, 18.')7.
and lAVi'; was many times chosen mayor of the city
of Ver^ennes; was Stale auditor in 18.7), 1S51, and
MVy^; was proseciiIiiii;-ntt<irney in 1S.V1, 1S.'m, IKVt,
1S.)7. and 18.>S; e:i,i;.iycd in railmad maiia!;enient.
and was sever.il vears vien-pre-iilcnt and the active
raana;;er of the Jtulland ami Washingt'm Railroad:
tras a nn'mlM-T of the State Senate of Vermont in
IStJIJ and ISH, and in 1*JI was chosen presidenl prn
leiDjtdvr of that budy; was elected a ivpresentalive
from Vennont in the Tliirty-i'ightli (.'onjjress aa a
lie]iiihlican. rccci\ing ,S..'><iri votes a'^iiinst .X+st! votes
fir White, Uemocrat: was re-<>lceted to the Thirty-
ninth Coiiin'ess. receiving! 1>,447 votes aunlnst 3.071
viilcs for \Vells, Democrat; and was re-elected to the
Forllelh C'onin"ess. receiving li),.')O.S votes against
.n.OlM votes fur Wells. Detnocnit.
Woodbridge, William, was imrn at Xorwich,
'.'oniieclicn!. AiiuiiHt '.i'l, 17X1; n-ceivi'd a piihlic-
Bchool education; r(Amo>ed with Iiis father to Mnri-
I'lta, tihio. in 1701 ; r.'turned to Connecticut; stiidiitl
I.iw at Lilclilield, and was iidniilled tu the li.ir in
IKiHl; was a meinher of the .siiile House of Kepresen-
lAtives in 1SU7; was iiroseculliri-attornoy for New-
London County 18118-1814: was a nicini>er of the
StJjIe Senate 1S0S-1S14; was app<iinle(l in 1814 by
President Mailison secretary of Michii^an Territory,
nnd removed to Detroit: was clecteil a delejjate from
Micliluran Territory in the Sixteenth Consrcss. serv-
ing from December 10, 181'.*. to 18:;(), when he rc-
tij;ned ; was jud^e of the .Sn]K,'rior Court of Michi-
(tan Territory 18j;8-l8.'J2; was a delegate to the State
ronsliliitional Convention in 18.'{5; was a member of
the Slate Senate in 1S.S7; was Rovemor of Michigan
1'>4>-I841; was elected a ITuiled-.States senator from
Slichivtan. serviiii; from M.iv Ml, l^^l. to March :i,
1M7; died al Detr.iit. Michiiiaii, October -'(I. IWIl.
Ills "'Lite" W.18 published by Charles Lanman in
Woodburn, William, w.is boni in W'lcklow
County. Ireland, in 18.'58; liniiii«ratcd to Maryland,
and was a student at .St. Charles College, near Haiti-
more; ri'imveil to California in l-SVi, ami siilise-
<|uenlly to Nevada; sludii-d law; Wiis ailniilted to
the bar in IWl.'). and pr:iclised at Virj;iiiia City; was
rtisirict-attomey for Story County in 1871-1872;
was elected a representJilive from Nevatla in the
Forly-foiirth Con;^ress aa a Kepiiblican. receiving
1>,!{I7 votes a,'aiMSt 8..'>(i7 votes lor Kills, Democrat,
•erviiiff from DeceinUT (!, 187'). to March M, 1877.
Woodbury, Levi, was born at Fr.incislo^vn,
Ken- Hampshire, D'M.'enil>er S'J. H.'^O; received a clns-
sleal eilniMtion. Rradnatini; at Dartmouth College in
1S«»; Miidied law al Judge frtiuid's LitcliHeld Law
School, arid wiili Hon. S. Itana and .Judge Smith of
Exeter; was adi.iitted to the l).-ir in 181-J. and eom-
mencerl pnietice at Franeistown; was chosen clerk
uf tlu3 Stikte Senate in J810; was appointed judge of
the Superior Court of New U.-impshirc in i^\f'
moved to Portsmouth in 1810; was goveri.
Hampshire in 18j;H8;;4: wos a nietulwr oi
House of Kepr<?seutative9 in 182.">. ami was
speaker; was elwted to the Cniled-Siati-* .Sp
a DeiufK-rat. and BenH-d from Decenil"
March M, 18:11 ; was elected State !■
18>!1, but declined; w.'is appointed by 1
sou secretary of tlie navjin April, ISJl; was trunil^
ferred to the Tn-osury Department June 27, 18
and. Iiaving been nT-app<iinted by I'rt-sidetj
Buren, served until Marcli .S, 1841: wils apiH
during this time chief justice of tlie SurM'rl<ir
of New llanipshire, but declined; w.%s again eleitf
to the United-States Senate, and served from Man
4. 1841, until Noveuilier 2(i. 184.1, when (Iiaving de
(■lined the Uritish mission) he w;is appointed h]
I'l-e.-iidenl Polk justice of tlie Supreme Court of "
United Slates (in place of Joseph Slory, d<'cva«e<i;;
the nomination was confirmed by the .Senate Jam
.iry 3, 1.840, and he seni^d until he died at Pon
moutli. New Hainpshire. September 7, 1861.
Woodcock, David, was lK>m in IJerkshlr
County, Ma5.sai'hu8elts; received a pubiic-schixpl edu
cation; removed to Seneca t'ounty. New Vork,
afterwards to Itliaea. Ti)nipkins (^'ouiily. New Yorl
was a member of the Stale House of l{epresent
in 1814-1S1.'»; was elected a ri'presentalive fron
York in the Seventeenth Congress as a Den
serving from December 3, 1821, lo Mareli 3, l^SJ
wa5 again a memlicr of the State House of Uepn-sei
tativcs in l.'ijt!; was again elected to the Twentiet
Congivss (ilefeating CIliHi-s Humphrey), serving froa
December :!. 1827. to March 3, M<M.
Woodford, Stewart L., wm bom nt New-
City .September 3, 1.8:15; w.is educated at Columliin
College t.Jrainmar School; attended Yale and Colum-
bia Colleges, and graduated al Columbia in 1851 ; rcaj
law, and has, since I|S>7, practised his profession in
New-York City; w.is appointed .issistant attonie^f
for the United Stales at New York in LSil ; cnli«l(
in tlie One Hundred and Twenty-sevenih Reglmeal
New-York Volunteers in 18H2; w.-is promoted to
lieulenant-colonolcy of lliat regiment, and sule
quently liecame colonel and brigadier-general; ser
in IheAnnyof the Potomac, then in the Departiu
of the South; was the llrsl Union military ci nuiu.'vnd-l
ant of Charleston, South Carolina, and afterwanl of
Savannah, Georgia; was cliief of staff in tlie Depart-J
ment of tlie South, *c. ; was elected lieulcnant-stir.'l
emor of the State of New York in l,8<Jtl; u - ' • I
presidential elector at large, and was pi
the Klecloral College in 1872; was eli .i.
sentativo from Ohio in the Forty-thinl as *
Republican, receiving 15,171 votes il,."iftl
votes for W. W. Uoodricli, Democrat ami Liberal,
serving from December 1, 1873, to July 1, 1874,
when ho resigned ; ■ was appointed by Prvsiilent
Hayes United-States attorney for the Southern IH»-
trict of New York.
Woodruff, George C, was lK>m at LItcliflelil,
Connecticut, Deci'uiber 1, l.'W); received a clasiical
education, graduating at Yale C'olleg».' in 1825
law; was admitted to liio bar in 1S27; eoinii
pr.ictice at LitchJield ; was |)ostnia»ter al Li
for fourteen years; was a memlier of the Slai*
House of llepresenlatives. and clerk of that limly;
was judge of probate for Litchliidtl County;
elected a representative from Connecticut in
Thirty-seventh Congress as a Demoemt.
11,7;«) votes against ll.(k(S voles for O. S,
publican, serving from July 4, 18<U. !■■
l.StW: was defeated oa the I)«>nii«-ratii- cai
the Tliirtv-eighth Congress, rt-eei»lng b'
against 1 l".24.s votes for "J. H. Uubbai'd, I;.
Woodruff, John, was born at Ilaiii
necllcut, Fel)niary 12, 18211; received a puun.
education; was a menilier of the .Stite legi
in 1854; was elected a representative from Co
cut In the Tlilrty-fourUi Congress as nu AjncrianJI
i
I
»
»
recplvlngO.STrt votps asninst 7.018 votps for Arnold,
Democrat, serviiii; from iJcceiubt-r ,'l, 1S55, to Miin'li
3, 1S57; WHS elected lo the Thirty-sixth Congress,
Benliiu from Ueceinher 5, l&Si, to March 3, 18(31;
was collector of internal revenue for the Second Uis-
trict of f'onneetiiiit; died at New Haven, Connecti-
cut. May L'll, LS'ls.
'Woodruff, Thomas M., was elected a repre-
wntulive fniiu New York in the Twenty-idnth Con-
gress as an American, reoeivin;; U,^14 votes against
H.WKi votes for Leoiiaril. Democrat, and l'73 votes for
Scoli'S, Abolitionist, scning from December 1, 1845,
to Mareli 3. l!a7.
Woods, Henry, was bom In Pennsylvania;
took an active pari in the Hevolulioiiary slni.mfile;
was elected a representative from I'onnsyivania in
the Sixth Congress; and was re-elecleU to the Sev-
enth CcinKress, serving from December 2, 1700, to
March 3, 18(W.
"Woods, John, wtis Ixmi in Dau])hin County,
Pennsylvania, in I'i'M; removed with his father to
Old" when lie was a eliild; received a pul)lic-school
education; studied law; was admitted to the bar in
18111; commenced practice at Hamilton, Ohio; was
elected a representative from Ohio in the Nineteenth
Comoess; was ri'-<'le<'teil lo the Twentieth Coniiress.
serving from December 5, \i<-2o, to March 3. 18l'.);
was the editor and publisher of " The llamillou Iii-
tclliijencer" lSi',»-lK!i;; resumed his profession, and
practised until l.'<4.'>. when he was elected State
auditor; died at Hamilton. Ohio, Jul^- 31. IH.'i.'i.
"Woods, William, was bom in Washincton
County, New Vork, in 171K); was a ineinl)er of the
State ilouse of lieprescnlatives li^i'VlHi.'i; was elect-
ed a represent alive from New Vork iu the Eighteenth
Congress (defeating Oslwrn). serving from December
J, 1NJ3, to Maivh 3, 18ij; died at Bath, New Vork,
August 7. 1SJ7.
Woodson, Samuel H., n'sided at lycxlng-
lon, Kentucky; was eli'cted a reprepentative from
Kentucky in the (Seventeenth Congn-ss, receiving a
majority of 1,((.'J1 votes over Stephen Kichanlson. serv-
ing from Decembers. IWl, to JLindi 3, 1823; was de-
feated us a canilidate for the Eighteenth Congress
by TliomiLS V. Moore.
"Woodson, Samuel H., was born in Jessamine
County, Kentiicliy. OcIoIkt k4. l.sl.j; received a clas-
sical education, cnduatiiig at Centre College; stud-
ied law; was admiltecl to the liar, and commenced
prsidiee at Indeiiendence, Missouri ; wjis a member of
the .Slate House of Ijepri'scnlatives iu lS>'tanil )SJ4;
was a delegate to the .Stale Cunstilntional t'onven-
tion in IS.w; was elircted a representative from Mis-
souri in the Thirty-liflh Congress as an American,
receiving O.tKKl votes against 4,(V-4 vot<?s for Douglas,
Democrat, and 3.7.'i.'i votes for Price, Benton Demo-
crat; was re-elected to the Thirty-sixth Congress,
receiving 7.042 votes against 0.(47 votes for J. W.
Reid, Diniocrat, and 2.(.tJH votes for Smith. Inde|>eiid-
eiit. serving from Dceeinber7. 1S")7, lo March 3. Viti\.
Woodward, Joseph A., was bom in South
Carolina; Resided al Winnsborough; was elected a
representative from South Carolina in the Twenty-
eighth Congress as a State-rights Democrat; was re-
elected to the Twenty-ninth, Thirtieth, Thirly-lirst,
and Thirtv-«ecoiid Con^'ivsses. serving from Decem-
ber 4. l.S4"l, to March ;l. is.51.
Woodward, George W., was bom at Beth-
any. Peiin.iylvania. JIaicli 2<!. IStlft; received an aca-
demic' eilucilion : studied law; was ailmilled to the
bar in lt>!l, ami practised nt Wilkesbarrc; w.as a
delegate lo the State Conslitulional Convention in
1*17 ; w.-is iiresidenl-judge of the Kourlh .Indiclal
District 1H41-1.S.J1 ; was the Democnilic caucus nom-
inee in 1S44 for the rniled-.Stale8 .Senate, but was
defeated by .Simon Cameron; was judge of the
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania lSij2-18<J7 : was
defeated as the Democr.i!ic candidate for governor
in I'^tj by A. G. Curtin, Ilepublican; was elected a
representative from Peunsylvauia iu the Fortieth
Con^ss as a Democrat (in the place of Cliarles
Donison. dccea-sed). receiving 12,tU3 votes agaiii't
12,b78 votes for Kctcham, Kepnbliean; was re-elected
to the Forty-flrst Congress, receiving 10,087 voles
against 14,.S08 votes ior .Strong. KepuTilican, serving
from November 21, 18(!7. to March 3, 1871; wac a
delegate to the National Democratic Convention at
New York in 1868; wiis a delegate to the State Con-
st iiiitional Conventiou ; travelled In Europe, aud
died al Home, in Italy, May 10, 1875.
"Woodward, William, w.is eli.>cted a represen-
tative from Soutli Caniliiia in the Founwntli Con-
gress without opposition, serving from December 4,
181."), to -March ;>, 1817.
Woodworth, James H., was bom at Green-
wich, New Vork, December 4, l.Si>4; received a pub-
lic-school education; lived on u farm until he was
twenty-one years of age; removed to Fabius, New
Vork: taught school for a few months, and then
engaged in mercantile pursuits; removed in 18;;7 to
Eiii', Pennsylvania, and thence in ISW to Chinugo,
Ulinois; was a memln-r of tlie Stale Senate in 18;}!i,
and of the State House of Heprcsentatives in 1842;
was a member of the city govemment of Chicago
184.'i-l,8.'>0, serving two years as mayor; was elected
a representative from 'Illinois in the Tliirty-fourth
Congress as a Itepublicin, receiving 11,027 votes
against 2,.">44 votes for Turner, Democrat, serving
from De<'einbor 3, 1855, to Marcli 3. 1857.
Woodworth, Laurin D., was bom atWind-
li.ini. Dhio. Sejiteniber 10, 18;w; w.is educated at
Windham Academy and Hiraiu College; was admit-
ted to the bar Septemlier lit, 1851i, and practised at
Kavenna, and 8ubse<inently at Voungstown, Ohio, to
whicli place he removed in 1804; he was a major in
the anuy in the w^ar for the Union; w:« elected lo
the Senate of Ohio in 1807, and re-elected in 1800;
was elected a representative from Ohio in the Forty-
third Congress as a Bepublic.in, receiving I.'i,;iOS
votes .igainst 13,106 votes for U. Brown, Democrat,
Prohibitionist, and Liberal: was re-elected to the
Forty-fourth Congress, receiving 11,113 votes against
lo,*i7 votes for Wilson, Democmt, and 44.") votes for
Paine, Prohibitionist, serving from Dccemlicr 1, 1873,
to .March 3, 1.S77.
"Woodworth, "William W., was bom in Con-
neeticul ; removed to New Vorii, and located at Hyde
Park; was elected a representative frtjiu New Vork
in the Twenty-ninth Congress as a Democrat, re-
ceiving 7,340 votes against 0.710 votes for Kaukln,
Whig, ami 35 votes for Kneveis, Abolitioiusl, serving
from December 1, 1845, to March 3, 1847.
Worcester, Samuel T., was born at Hollis,
New Hampshire, August 30, 1804; received a ciassi-
c.il education, graduating at Cambridge University
in 1830; was precentor of tlie Weymouth Academy
]8:};)-1832; studied law; was admitted to the bar in
1834, and commenced practice at Norwalk, Ohio;
was a memlx-r of the Stale Senate 184.S-1840; was a
judge of the Court of Common Ple.-is 1860-1.800; was
elected a representative from Ohio in the Thirty-
seventh Congress as a licpubllcaii, serving from July
4, l.SOl, to March 3, 180;i.
Word, Thomas J., w.-is Imm in Surry County,
North Carolina; was a memt>er of the State House
of Keprcsentatives in 1832; removed to Mississippi,
and settled at Pontotoc; was elected a represcntalivo
in the Twenty-fiflh Congress as u Whig, on n general
ticket with S. S. Prentiss, at a second election, they
receiving 12,249 votes against 11, 3(X) votes for their
Democratic opponents, serving from May 30, 183(5, to
March 3, 18.30.
Worman, Ludwie, was born In Bucks Coun-
ty, Pennsylvania; received a public-school education;
learned the tanner's trade, and liec.ame a dealer in
hides and leather; was elected a representative from
Pennsylvania in the Seventeenth Congress as a Fed-
eralist, serving from December 3, 1821, to September
21, 1S22. wlien he died at Poltstown.
"Wortendyke, Jacob R., was bom at Chestnut
712
COKOBESSIOKAIi DIBKCTOBY.
Bidge, New Jersey, Norember 27, 1818; receWed a
classical education, graduating at Rutgers College in
mSO; was for ten years a teacher cf matbematics
and the classics; studied law; was admitted to the
bar in 180'J, and commenced practice at Jersey City :
was a member of the board of aldermen ; was elected
a representative from New Jersey in the Thirty-fifth
Con!;ro8s as a Democrat, receiving l),OOS) votes against
0,4ivt voles for A. Dodd, Republican, and 5,638 votes
for F. B. Cetts, American, serving from December 7,
1857, to March 3, 1850; died at Jersey City, New Jer-
sey, Novemlier 7, 18'..'8.
W'orthingrton, H. Ot., was bom at Cumberland,
Maryland, Fubniary 0, IbiS; received an academical
education; studied law; was admitted to the bar in
1851, and commenced practice in Tuolumne County,
California; travelled in Central America and Mexico,
and, im his return to California, located at San Fran-
cisco; was a member of the California House of
Representatives in 1801 ; removed in 1802 to Nevada,
locating at Austin; was elected a delegate to the
Thirty-eighth Congress from Nevada Territory, serv-
ing from December 7, 1803, to December 21 , 1864, when
he took his seat as a representative from the new
State of Nevada, serving to March 3, 1806; was ap-
pointed by President Johnson minister to Uruguay
and the Argentine Republic, serving from July 25,
1808, to July 8, 18G0.
Worthington, John T. H., was bom in Mary-
land; was elected a representative from Maryland
in the Twenty-second Congress as a Demccrat, re-
ceiving 2,402 votes against 2,077 votes for Brown,
Wliig, serving from Deceml»er 5, 1S31, to March 2,
18;J3; was defeateil as the Democratic candidate for
the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Congresses by
James Turner, Democrat; was again elected to the
Twenty-fifth (^onticss, defeating James Turner; was
re-elected t') the Twenty-sixth Congress, receiving a
majority of 1.548 votes over James Turner, servlnf;
from September 4, 1837, to March 8, 1841 ; died in
Baltimore County, Maryland, April £7, l&iO.
WorthingtoD, Thomos, was bom in JeCersrn
County, Vinjinia, July 16, 1774; received a thorough
English education : removed to Ohio, and located in
Ross County in 1798; was a delegate to the State Con-
stitutional Convention in 1803 ; was elected one cf the
first XTnited-btates senators fnim Ohio as a Democrat
(defeating Judge Burnet), serving from October 17,
1803, to March 3, 1897; was again elected a senator
(in place of Return Jonathan Meigs, Jan., resigned),
serving from January 8, 1811, to IfM, when he re-
signed; was governor of Ohio 1814-1818; was one of
the original vice-presidents of the American Bible
Society; was a canal cnmmissicner from 1818 until
his death at New-York City June 20, 1827.
Worthington, Thomas C, was bom in Prince
George County, SIcryland; resided at Frederick
Town; was elected a representative from Maryland
in the Nineteenth Congress, serving from December
6, If 25, to March 3, lb27; died at Frederick Town,
Maryland, June 10, 1827.
Wren, Thomas, was bom at KcArthurstown,
Ohio, January 2, 18;:0; received a common-school
education; studied and practised law; was deputy
county-clerk of El Dorado County, California, in
18.'55-1.'n")7 ; was city-attorney cf Austin, Nevada, in
1874-187.>; v.ns a memljcr of the State legisl.iture cf
Nevada in 1(.75 ; v;as elected to the Foity-iif th Con-
gress as a Republican, receiving 10,241 votes against
(i,:}3) votes f .ir A. C. Ellis, Democrat, serving from
October 15, l-^VS.
"Wright, Augustus B., was bom at Wrights-
borou;;h, Georgia, June K", li>13; received a classical
education, v.hich w.is- completed at Franklin Col-
le,;e. but he did not graduate; studied law; was ad-
mitted tD t!io br.r, and commenced practice at Itome,
Geor,;ia; wi.s elected cii-cui;-ju<l;:e in 1842, and was
re-elected, but i-csi-^ncd Ix fore llio exjirationof his
second term; v.a.s elected a rei)rceentative from
Georgia in the Thirty-l^tU Congress as a Democzat,
receiylng 9,060 votes against 6,690 votes for Hooper.
Independent Democrat, serving from Decern ber 7,
1857, to March 3, 1850; was a deputy to the Pro-
visional Congress of the Confederate States which
met at Moii^omery, Alabama, in February, 184!1,
and adjourned to meet at Richmond in July, l.'Cll;
was a representative from Georgia in the Fii«t Con-
federate Congress, serving from February 22, It/C'J,
to February 22, 1864.
Wright, Daniel B., was bom in Tenjiessce:
removed to Mississippi, and located at Salem ; was
elected a representative from Mississippi in ti.e
Thirty-third Congress as a Democrat, receiving 8.'. st
votes against 8.414 votes for Nabcrs, Whig; and y:::s
re-elected to the Thirty-fourth Congrefs, receiving
7,055 votes against 5,071 votes for Taylor, Airerican,
serving from December 5, 1853, to March 3, 1807.
Wright, Edwin R. V., was born at Hoboken,
New Jersey, January 2, 1812; received an ccKdeniiccl
education; learned the art of printing; established
in 1835 "The Jersey Blue " newspaper at HoLcken:
studied law; was admitted to tbc bar in 1830. and
liractised at Hoboken ; was a member of Uic State
Senate in 1843: was district-attorney for Hudson
County 1851-1855; was defeated in U50 as the
Democratic candidate for governor; was elected
a representative from New Jersey in the Thirty-
ninth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 13.3t.U
votes against ll,448'<vote8 for Edgar B. Wakemaii,
Republican, serving from December 4, 18C5, to M.-uxh
3, 1807 ; died at Jersey City, New Jersey, January 10,
1876.
Wright, G-eorge Q-. (brother of Joserh A.
Wright), was bom at Bloomington, Indiana, March
24, 1820; was educated at private schools, and gradu-
ated at the State University of Indiana in 1S3S); read
law with his brother, Joseph A. Wright, at I.'ockville,
Indiana; removed to Iowa in October, 18-H), and
commenced practice; served as prcsecuting-atlomcy
in 1847-1848; waS elected to the State Senate cf
low^a in 1840, and served two terms; in 1854 was
chcsen chief justice cf the Supreme Court cf the
State, and was elected to the same bench by the
people (owing to a change of the State Constitution)
in 1800, and again in 1805; was a professor in the law
department of the State University fcr six vears.
commencing In 1806; was elected a United-States
senator from Iowa as a Republican (to succeed James
B. Howell, Republican, who had been elected to fill
the vacancy occasioned by the resignation cf James
W. Grimes), and served from March 4, 1871, to March
3, 1877.
Wright, Gheorge W., was bom at Concord,
Massachusetts; received a public-school education;
v.'as reared on a farm ; engaged In mercantile pur-
suits in Boston; was connected with "The Boston
Courier;" removed to California in 1848, and located
at San Francisco; was one of the first representa-
tives elected from the State of California as a Demo-
crat, serving from September 11, 1850, to March 3,
1851.
Wright, Hendrick B., was bom at Plymouth,
Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, April 24. 181*; re-
ceived ids primary education at the Wilkt'sbarre
Grammar School; graduated at Dickinson Colle|;o
in 1820; studied law; was admitted totthe bar in
November, 1831, and commenced piT.cf ice at Wilkes-
liarre; was appointed districf-attomey frr Luzenie
County in 1834 by Altomey-General Gccifse M.
Dallas: was a member of the State Ucure cf Rep-
resentatives in 1841, 1842, and 184:1. sen-ing the I.nst
year r.s speaker; was a delegate at lar^e to the
National Democratic Convention at Baltimore ui
1844 v.-hich nominate<I Polk and Dallr.s, ser-.ing as
temporary and permanent chairman; w.-.s ailelogate
to the sul" sequent National Democratic Conventions
which nominated Cass, Fierce. Buchanrji, Doujl-is,
Seymour, and Tilden; was eloctetl a reiresentativo
from Pennsylvania in the Thiriy-thiitl Coigrcss as a
Democrat, jneceiving 7,623 votes Against 7,300 vot«a
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for Fuller, Wliig, serving from Deceiulwr S, 1R53, to
3iarch 3, INVi; wus a^niii elected to tliu Thirl y-
scventU Congress (to fill the vaeancy c;iU8eU by the
death of (ieorite W. Scmntoii). serving froiu July 4,
l^^il, tu Miirch 'i, liS**l: v.ns ai:iuu riected to tlie
Forty-liXth Counross, re<--'- •" - ' '."..JT votes n'jninsl
12.1U1 voles for 11. B. I ubliean, serving
from Octolicr 15, ls"7. 1^ j.-d "A rraetlcal
Tn-ntisf? on Labor" 1871. iiiiil " iiislorical ^Sketches
of Plynioinh County" 1S7:).
Wright, John C, was l>orn at WcthersfieM,
Connii-iriit, 111 nSJ: ree ived an acaileinii.'al eiliic.i-
tioii; le.irued the art of ((rinting; edited "The Troy
Gazette" ot Troy. New York; studied law; waa
(idmitled to the bar, and commenced pnictico at
Steubenville. Ohio: wa9fjrin.iny years a jud.<ie of the
Stale .Supreme Court: was eJueteil a representative
froin Ohio in tUi? lli"' " '' i'ouutoss ns nn Adiuns
Democrat. rcccivliiL' y over J. McLuMpldin;
was re-elecloil t'j tilt -.. iili Congress, receiving
a large majority over Mr. Uebee; was re-elected
to the Tweiiliclh Congress, receiving 2,:il4 votes
a-^iinsl a, l:l'J votes f jr .1. M. (ioodejinw, Jackson
I>emoerat. serving from Ui*ceinl>er 1, 1S2.), to March
3, IH2'J; wiis ilelealed as a Clay Uemoenilic candi-
date for tlio Twenty-first Congress, receivina; 2.2:12
votes against ;J,l-ni votes for J. M. (ioodenow,
Jackson Democrat; was for some years the editor
and proprietjrof "The Cineinnnti Gazette;" wa«
a dele'.;ate to the Peu-e C' ' id at Wrjbington
iuFebniani', listil; anddi ingtnn, before its
final (ulj^iuriinienl, Felini,.! , i .. i ill. He published
"!ju|iri;:ri'--<'oiirt KMKirts of Ohio, I'^ijl-l.sjjj."
Wrigrht, John V., v.-.isbom in McN'airy County,
Tennessee, Jtine 2'*, IM2L<; received an acadeniical
education; s;udied l.iw; was ad:nitted to the bar,
and eomuiotu'e<l practice at Purdy, Tennessee; was
elected a representative from Teinietseo in the
Thirty-fjurt'j C.jn^ress as a Democrat, receivini;
7.1>27 voles a^.-dnsl .'>.JI22 votes for Kendrick,
Aniericiui; w.is re-<dected to the Thirly-fiflli Con-
gress, n-ceivinu; Hfi'i) votes a;{aiiisl 1,0()5 votes for
WcElnith, American; was re-elected to the Thirty-
sixth Cinrross, roccivlnst U,;1SJ votes against 2,711
votes (or Gibbs, Opposilion, sen-lug from December
3, 18.Vi, to March :1, 1_^1.
Wright, Joseph A. (brotlier of George G.
Wrijiht), was born in Pennsylvania April 17, ISIO;
received a el.issical education at the University of
Indiana, aetinf{ as janit.r; i.ludie<l law; was ad-
mitted t<i the bar in 1.S21I, and coniraenecd prjictico
at Kockville. Indiana; was a meiuber o( the State
Uouse of l!,-preienlatives in lt>.i;j, and < f the .State
Senate in l.'H ); was elected n representative from
Indiana in the Twcuty-eijjhtli CoiigreM as a Demo-
crat, ri'C'-ivini; .5.441 votes against 5.4*8 votes for
E. W. McGau.:;liey, Wlii'j;, servin;.; frem December 4,
1*4:J, to Mart-ii :t, 184.5; was difealrd as the Dcmo-
critie candidate for the Twenty-ninth Concress, re-
cejvlnij ll,j|2 votes araiiist il.i^J votes for E. W.
McGaughey, Wnig; was governor of the Slate of
Indiana l.i-ii»-18.'jt; w.ts RfijiointtHl by President
I3uchan.in minister to Pnifsi.o, sorviivi from June 1,
18.j7, to July 1, Ih'^il; was United-States commis-
sioner to the International Exliibilion at ilaniburg
ill ISilJ; was again appointed minister to Prussia by
President IJiicoln, s.-rving frtna June 80, l.*t!0, until
liis death at Berlin, Prussia, May 11, 1807.
Wright, Robert;, was liom In Kent County,
Mar>'land; received a |iul)lie-school education; stud-
leil law; w.:s admitted to ihe bar. and practised at
Queenslown; r.'as elected a Uniled-Slales senator
from M.'irylaud as a Democrat, serving from Decem-
ber 7, l:v)l, to 18:k5, when he resli^ncd; was elected a
representative fmm Marylan<l lu the Eleventh Con-
gress (in place (f John Brown, resigned); and was
re-elected to the Twelfth, Thirteenth, and Four-
teenth Congrerses, serving from December 3, 1810,
to March 3, 1817; was iu;ai:i elected to the Sevcn-
t«entli Congress, servini; from December 3, Uiil, to
March 3, 1833 : waa appointed district-Judge, tiee
Wurrall, resigned ; died at Queenstowii, Maryland,
Septeralier 7, 182IJ.
Wright, Samuel O., was bom in 17S7; was
elected a repn-si iilaiive t'nun New Jersey in the
Tv%enty-ninth Cmgross, but die-l before taking his
sent, near Allentown. New Jersey. July ■M, l.s4i>.
Wright, Silas, jtin., was' bom at .iVndicrst,
{ Massuchus<'lts, May 24, 1705; was reared on his fa-
ther's fiirui at VVeybridge, Venuont; reeeive>l a clas-
sical erlucation, umduating at Middlebury Collegu
in 181.5; studied Taw; was admitted to the bar. and
coininenceil practice at Canton, New York, in ISIO;
was ap|M>intcd surrogate of Kuckland County Febru-
ary 4, 1821-January 1, 1S24: w.is a member of tlio
State S"Miate 1824-1827; was elected a r ive
from Now York in the Twentieth ( ^ a
Democrat, sen- 1 n« from Dcccnilier 3, l^;.. w .'imch
I!, 18:i'.i; successfully contested tbe eleciiiinol' Ircorge
Fisher in the TwiMily-tirst Congress, but rel'u.sed to
take his seat, preferring to act as comptroller u( the
.Stale of New York January 27, l.S21KIanuary 11,
I8;>.>: was elected a United-States senator from New
York (in |)lace of William L. Marey, resigned), serv-
ing from January 14, l.Si'l, to December 1, 1844, when
he resigned, having Iwen electeil governor; wiis gov-
ernor of the StaUf of New York I84-1-1.S4II; was
defi'ated for re-election as governor; retired to his
farm of thirty acres at Canton, which he cultivated
until he died there August 27, 1-47. His '• Life and
Times" was published by Jabez C. Uaimnond in
184.8.
W^ right, Turbett, was a delegate from Mary-
land to the Continental Congress 1781-1782.
Wright, William, w.is bom at Clarkstown,
RocUland t'ounly. New Y'ork, in 17vt4; received a
public-scho<d eduialioii; learned the s.iddlers trade,
anil coininenced business at IJriilgeport in 181.5; re-
moved to Newark in 1.S21; wius mayor of N"wark In
It^JO-l'Ha; was elect cd a represi'iilative from "Jew Jer-
sey in the Twenty-eighth Congress as a Ileni-j- Clay
\\ hig; was re-elected to tlio Twenty-ninth Conei'ese,
sen'ing from December 4, 184;J, to March 3, 1S47;
was defeated In 1847 as the Whig catididale for gov-
ernor of New Jersey, receiving ;K,2.51 votes against
;J4.7:!5 votes for D.aniel Ilaines. Democrat; was
elected a United-States senator from New Jersey
aa a Democrat, sen-ing from 3Iarch 4, 1853, to March
4, 18.5V; was again eli'eted a senator ns a Democrat,
serving from December 7, 1.8i>l, to November 1, IStiO,
when lie died at New.irk, New Ji'rsey.
Wurts, John, was l>om In Morris County, New
Jersey; received a classical education, graduating at
Print-cton College in 1813; resided in Phil.adelphlft;
was elected a representative from Pemisylvania in
the Nineteentli Congress, sening from Dcceraljer 5,
1823, to March 3, 1827; travelled in Europe, and
died at Home, llalv, April 23, ISiil.
W^yncoop, Senry, was born in Penn.sylvania;
was a didegate from Pennsylvania to the Continental
Congress 1781); wim elected a representative from
Pennsylvania in the First Congress, sendng from
March' 4, 17>^l". to March 3, 1701.
Wynn, Richard, w.is born in Virginia; received
a publlc-schixji education; removeu to Georgia,
where he jKirtieipated actively In the Revolutionary
war, entering the army ns lieutenant, ftud attaining
the r.ink of major-general; was elected a representa-
tive from South Carolina in the Third Congress, and
was re-elected to the Fourth Congress, serving from
December 2, 1703, to March 3. 17(»7; w,is again elect-
ed to the Seventli, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, "Elevi-nth,
and Twelfth Congresses, sen ing from December 7,
18 >l, to March 3, 1813; di«l in 1-813.
I 'Wynns, Thomas, was iKirn in Ilertford County,
North Carolina; was a successful planter; was elect-
ed a inemlKT uf the .State House of Uepresentatives
in 1787, and to the .State S<'nate in 17i)>)-1800 inclu-
sive; was a presidential elector in 1801; was elected
a representative from North Carolina in the Seventh
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CONOSESSIONAL DIBECTOBir.
Congress (in place of Charles Johnson, deceased),
ami re-elected to the Eighth and Ninth Congresses,
serving from December 7, 1802, to March H, laoi;
was a brigadier-general of militia; was a presidential
elector in 1»00; died at Winton, North Carolina,
June 3, 1825.
Wsrthe, Qeorge, was bom In Elizabeth-City
County, Virginia, in 1720; his education was princi-
pally directed by liis mother, but the death of both of
bis parents before he became of age, and the uncon-
trolled possession of a large fortune, led him into
dissipated habits; at the age of thirty he reformed;
studied law, and, soon after his admission to the bar,
Iwcame eminent; was a member of the Virginia
House of Burgesses several years previous to the
Itevohition; was a delegate to the Continental Con-
gress in 177'>; was a member of a commission ap-
pointed in 177(1 to revise the laws of Virginia; was
spealcer of the Virginia House of Delegates in 1777,
and, during the same year, judge of the High Court
of Chancery; on the re-organization of the Court of
Equity in 1778 he was appointed sole chancellor,
and held the jiositlon until 1798; was a presidential
elector on the Jefferson ticlcets In 1801 and 1805;
and died June 8, 1800. It was supposed that he was
poisoned ; but tlie person suspected was acquitted by
a jury. He published "Decisions by the High
Court of Chancory."
Tancey, William Lowndes, was bom at
Ogeechee Shoals, Georgia, August 18, 1814; received
an academical education at the North; studied law
at Sparta, Georgia, and Greenville, South Carolina;
was admitted to the bar, and commenced practice at
South Carolina; removed in 1S37 to VVetumpka,
Alabama, where he edited " The VVetumpka Argus ; "
was a meml>erof the State House of Representatives;
was elected a representative from Alabama in the
Twenty-eighth Congress (in place of Dixon H.
Lewis, appointed senator) as a State-rights Demo-
crat, defeating Daniel E. Watrous; was re-elected to
the Twenty-ninth Congress without opposition, serv-
ing from December 2, 1844, to September 1, 1840,
when he resiijned ; removed to Montgomery, where
he formed a law partnci-sbip with John A. Elmore;
was a delegate U> the National Democratic Conven-
tions at Baltimore in 1848, at Cincinnati in 1856, and
at Charleston in 1800; was a presidential elector on
the Buclianan ticket in 1850; was a delegate to the
State Convention of Alabama which met at Mont-
gomery January 7, 1801, and reported the ordinance
of secession, which was adopted January 14, 1801;
was delegated by the Confederate Provisional Grov-
eniment to visit Europe, and ask the recognition of
the Confederate States, sailing from New York In
Harch, 1801; returning in February, 1802, he took
his seat in the First Confederate Congress as a sena-
tor from Alabama, serving from February 22, 1802,
until his death on his plantation near Montgomery,
Alabama, Julv 28, 1863.
Yanoy, Sartlett, was bora In Virginia; re-
ceived a classical education, graduating at the
University of North Carolina; studied law; was
admitted to the bar, and practised; was elected a
representative from North Carolina in the Thir-
teenth Congress; was re-elected t-o the Fourteenth
Congress, servin" from May 24, 1813, until March 3,
1817, during which time he displayed such talents
for presiding that Mr. Speaker Clay often called him
to the chair; was elected a State senator in 1817,
and annually re-elected until his death, generally
presiding as speaker; died in Caswell Coimty, North
Carolina, August 30, 1828.
Yanoy, Joel, resided «t Glasgow, Kentucky;
was elected a representative from Kentucky in the
Twentieth Congress as a Democrat; was re-elected
to the Twentv-tirst CoiiRress, serving from December
3, 1827, to March 3, 18:11.
Yates, Abraham, Jun., was bom at Albany,
New York; w.is a delegate to the First, Second,
Third, and Fourth Provincial Congresses of New
York 1775-1777; was • delegate to the Continental
Congress 1787-1788.
Yates, John B., was bora In New York; re-
sided at Schenectady; was engaged in extensive busi-
ness and financial operations; was senior manager of
the New- York State lotteries during the last yeiira
of their existence; was elected a representative "from
New York in the Fourteenth Congress as a Dcmiv
crat, serving from December 4, 1815, to March 3,
1817; died at Schenectady in 1823.
Y'ates. Peter W., was a delegate from New
York to the Continental Congress 1785-1787.
Yates, Richard, was i3om at Warsaw, Ken-
tucky, January 18, 1818; graduated at Illinois CjI-
iege; studied and practised law; was a representa-
tive in the legislature of Illinois in 1S42, 1»43, 1:44,
1845, 1848, and 1849; was a representative from Illi-
nois in the Thirty-second Cohgress as a Whig, re-
ceiving 7,008 votes against 0,2.>4 votes for Harris,
Democrat; was re-elected to the Thirty-third Con-
gress, receiving 10,1C5 votes against 9,073 votes fur
Calhoun, Democrat, serving from December 1. IsjI,
to March 3, 1835; was defeated as the Republican
candidate for the Thirty-fourth Congress, receivii^
0,890 votes against 10,090 votes for T. L. Harris,
Democrat; was governor of Illinois from 1801 to
1805; was elected a United-States senator as a Union
Republican (to succeed W. A. Richardson, Demo-
crat), serving from December 6. 1865, to March 4,
1871 ; died at St. Louis, Missouri, December, 187:>.
Yeaman, Gtoorge H,, was born in Hardin
County, Kentucky, November 1, 1829; received an
academical education; studied law; was admitted to
the bar in 1852, and commenced practice at Owens-
borough, Kentucky; was judge of Davis County in
1854; was a member of the State House of Repre-
sentatives in 1801 ; was engaged in recruiting a rai-
ment for the Union army in 1802, when he was
elected a representative from Kentucky in the Thir-
ty-seventh Congress (in place of James S. Jackson,
deceased) as a Unionist; was re-elected to the Thirty-
eighth Congress, receiving 8.311 votes against 3,C87
votes for McHenry, Democrat, serving from Decem-
ber 1, 1802, to March 3, 1805; was defeated as the
Union candidate for the Thirty-ninth Congress, re-
ceiving 5,780 votes against 6,974 votes for B. C.
Bitter, Democrat; was appointed by President John-
son minister to Denmark, serving from August 25,
1805, to November 7, 1870.
Yeates, Jesse J., was bom In Hertford County,
North Carolina, May 29, 1829; received a collegiate
education; is a lawyer; was solicitor of Hertford
County 1855-1860; was elected a member of the
House of Commons of North Carolina in 1860 as a
Whig; served in the Confederate army, and was
major of the Thirty-first Regiment North-Carolina
troops; was solicitor of the First Judicial Cimut
of North Carolina 1861-1860; was elected to the State
Constitutional Convention from Hertford County in
1871 ; was elected a representative from North Caro-
lina in the Forty-fourth Congress as a Conservative
Democrat, recei\ing 14,071 votes against 12,590 votes
for Clinton L. Cobb, Republican ; was re-elected to
the Forty-fifth Congress, receiving 15,460 votes agaiust
14,278 votes for D. McD. Lindsay, Republican, serv-
ingf rom December 0, 1875.
Y'ell, Archibald, was bom in Kentucky in
1797; removed to FayetteviUe, Arkansas; was ap-
pointed one of the United-States Territorial judges;
was elected a representative from Arkansas in the
Twenty-fourth Congress as a Van Buren Demewrat ;
was re-elected to the Twenty-fifth Congress (defeat-
ing Ringgold), serving from December B, 1830, to
March 3, 1830; was governor of the State of Arkan-
sas 1840-1844; was again elected to the Twenty-ninth
Congress, serving from December 1, 1845, to July 1,
1840, when he resigned to serve in the Mexican war;
was mustered into service as colonel of the First
Arkansas Volunteer Cavalry, and was killed at its
head at the battle of Buena Vista Febraaiy 23, 1817.
STATISTICAL SKETCHES.
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Yorke, Thomas J., was Iiom iu Xew Jersey;
received a ])ul>lii'-siliool eilucntiou: was elected a
repn'seiilative frt>iii New Jersey in the Twcnty-tiflh
Coii(;n.'5s as a Wliig, serving frtjtn Septpnil;er-J, 1N37,
to Miinli .'J, isoii; was ix-fiiged n sent in tlie Twctuy-
sixili Ciingri'fs. iiltlioiiiili he liiid :i eerlificale cf elec-
lh,u with ilie *" tn-oad fciI " of New Jersey ; was iisain
cleeted to llie Tw.ntv-seventh C'onj^ross, serving from
Mav SI. l.'iil. to MiMvh :), 1843.
"?08t, Jacob S., was burn In Pennsylvania In
Irt'd ; was elected n repix-sentnlive from Peniisylva-
iiiii in the Tweiity-<'iglilli CouEjress as a Deinucral.
reeeivini: 4.!>-ir) votes a'^iinst 4,0-1! votes for Huddle-
son. Whii:; w;is- re-<lecteil to iho Twenty-ninth Ton-
grefs, serving from Ijeeeinber 4, Js4;5. until March .'j,
1.S4T; wiis appoint' d by Pi-esiilent Utiehanan United-
Stales murshMl fur the Ea»teni District of Pennsyl-
vaiiiu; died at Pottsiown, Puiuisylvania, MarcU'7,
ISTi
Young, Augustus, was born at ArlinRlon, Ver-
mont, Jlarch SO, 178-"); received an aeadeniic educa-
tion; studied law; w.ns admitted to the bar In ISIO,
anil eoiumeiiced practice nt St^jw; removed in 1812
U> fraflsbury; was a member of the State House of
JteprcsenlatlVes duiHng twelve successive Bessions,
unil of the State .Senate for three terms; was State's
attorney for Orleans County, and judge of probate;
was elected a representative fmra Vermont iu the
Twc*nty.«evenlh (.'ongress as a Whig, n-cciving 4,1:J4
votes a;^ainsl :i,7Sy votes for John Smith. Democrat,
sen-ing'from M.iy 31, 1841, until March 3, 184;J; de-
clining; a re-election, lio resumed practice, and in
li>47 removeil to .St. Alban's, where ho was for sev-
eral years jud'xe of the Comity Court; In IPSO he was
appointed State naturalist; dieil nt St. Albau's, Ver-
mont, June 17, l.'3o7. He published several scientific
W' ■rks.
Young, Bryan R., wns bom In Kentucky; rc-
sid.d at Llizal-eihiown; was elected n rci)ri'senlatlvc
frti-.n KeiilucKy in the Twenty-ninth Con.'iress, re-
ceiving I'll majority, serving from December 1, lS4o,
to March 3, 1M7.
Young, Casey, was bom in Madison Connly,
Tennessee, but, when a small child, rernovetl with
h:s parents to liyhalia, Mississippi, where he was
raised and educated; in 18-04 he removed to Mem-
phis, Te:nicssee; stuilied law; was admitted to the
bar iii lS5t5, and entered upon the practice of his
jirofession; was a Douglas Demo<'nit, and took an
active part in his support for the presidency In 1800;
wns op]>osed to the civil war, against which ho spoke
and wrote, iinlil the commencement of hostilities;
then entered the Teimessee army as a jiriviite; was
afterward apiviiiited assistant adjutant-general iiiK>n
the stall of fJenor.d William II. rarroll, and w.is
Bubscqiiently assigneil to the command of a regiment,
of cavalry in fleneral Chalmers's division; upon ihe
close of the war he retitmed ti> Memi)lus, and re-
sumed the practice of law, which he has since con-
tinued; W.IS elected a n'presentative from Tennes-
see la the Forty-fourth Congress as a Democrat, re-
ceiving 15,^71 votes again.st 10,241 votes for Barbour
Lewis, licpublican; was re-elected to the Forty-I'ifth
Congrt*?, receiving 12,81)3 voles against ll,lK)(i voles
for William M. Itandolph, Rcpublteaii, serving from
DecemljerO, I'-'75.
Young, Ebenezer, was born at Killlngly, Con-
Jiectic.il, ia 17 4; received a classical education,
gradiialing at Vale College in 1800; was a member
of the .Slate Senate lH'£i-lS'Z'> ; w.is a member of the
State House of Iteprescntalives 1820-1828; was clio-
se.i BjK'alicr; w.'is elected a representative from Con-
lieclicut in the Twenly-lirst Congress as a Wliig;
was re-olccted to the Twenty-socond and Twenty-
third Coiigj-esses. serving from December 7, 182!', to
March 3, 18;1"-; died at West Killlngly, Connecticut,
AU-'Uft I.'!, li-ol.
Young, John, was born at Chelsea, Vermont,
June 12, 18;;2; i-emovcil with liis pnivnis in 18<J(J to
Couvsus, Xew Vork, where Lu received a public-
school education; studied law with Amlircse Den-
nett: was admitted to the bar in ls;.n, and eom-
nicnced practice at Geueseo, New Vork; was a mein-
Ijcr of the .Stale Houec of lieiiresentatives iu ISSl,
1844, and 1845 : w,as elected a rcprc;scntativc from New
York in Ihe Twenty-fourth Congress as a Whig (to
Mil the vaciiney caused by Ihe re6is;iiation of Philo T.
Fuller), fccniiig froiu December (l. Ifi-'HI, to March .'1,
18;}7; declining a le-oleeiion, he nsiimed his prac-
tice; was again elected a repn senlativo from New
York in the Twenty-seventh Congrej-s at a Whig,
serving from M.iy 31. 1841, to March 3, 1S43; was
governor of the .State of New York l.'^47-1841); wns a
delegate to the Whig National Convention of 1848;
was appointed, in July, l.S4<), assistant treasurer of
Ihe rnited States at New York; died in the city cf
New York April 23. 18.02.
Young, John D., was bom In Bath County,
KentueUy, SepleHil er i2, 18';3; was educated in
Bath (. ounly ; studied law, and was licensed to | rac-
tise, but became a farmer: was acting iiiaishal of
Kentucky under President Pierce's admiiiisiiulion;
was elceled judge ef Bath Quarterly Court in 1858;
servcil four years, and was re-elected in IStiti, but re-
signed in 18(37, having received the nomination of
the Dcmocratii- party as a candidate to u seat iu the
Fortieth Congivss: was clecteil, but refused his seat;
was elected a representative from Kentucky in tlie
Forty-thinl Congress as a Democrat, receiving !).(/7j
votes against 8,88o votes for J, M. Bums. IJcpub-
lican, serving from December 1, 1873, to March 3,
187").
Young, Pierce M. B., was bom at Spartan-
burg Court H'luse, Soutli Carolina, in 1838, rind
was taken to Gei;i"!;irt in 1830; studied law, but v.as
educated as a soldier at tlie Military Inslitutc of
Georgia, and at the United-States Military Academy
at West Point; resigned two months before gradu-
ating, in I8(jl, to enter the Confederate-States anny
as second-lieutenant, and surrendered in l.s;."> as ma-
jor-Miieml; was electe<l a represciit.itive from (Jeor-
gia in the Fortieth Congress an a Democrat, receiving
ll,ir>4 votes against 8,054 votes for Adkins, Kepul>
lican; was re-elected to the Forty-lirst Congress;
was ro-elected to the Forty-second Congress, n;ceiv-
ing 14.G74 votes against 5,313 votes for Burnett, lie-
publican ; was re-elected to the Forty-third Congress,
receiving 8,U(i7 votes against 4,-14;} votes for J, F.
Devor, ICepublicau, serving from July 25, 1808, to
March 3. 1875,
Young, Richard M., was one of the first
setllirs nt Qiiiiicy. Illinois; was a prosidenlii':] elector
on Ihe Juekson and Calhoun ticket in 1829; was
electerl a United-States senator fnmi Illinois as a
Denioeral, serving from September 4, 1837, to March
3, 1843; was apixdnted by President Polk commis-
sioner of the General Land Office, serving from Janu-
ary a, 1847, to January 24, 1850 (Abraham Lincoln
having been an unsuccessful applicant for his place,
which was given to J. Butterlield. .ilso of Illinois);
was clerk of the House of neprescntatives in the
Thirty-first Conin'ss (after tlie death of Thomas
.lefferson Campbell), Ber\ing from April 17, 1850, to
December 1. IS-M.
Young, Timothy R., was bom In New Hamp-
sliire: received a cbissieal education, graduating at
Bowdoin Cidlege iu IX'A; removed to Marshall, Illi-
nois; was elected a representative fr<)m Illinois in
the Tliirty-ftrst Congress as a Democrat, serving from
Deeemlwr 3, It^ll, to March 3, 1851,
Young, William S., was bom In Nel.TOn Coun-
ty, Kentucky; resided at niizabcthtown; was elect-
ed a representative from Kcnuicl\y in the Nineteenth
Congress as a Democrat, serving from December 5,
182.n to March 3, 1827.
Yulee, David Levy, was bom at St. Thomas,
In the West Indies, in l8ll ; was called David Levy;
he was taken by his father to Virginia early in life,
and received a classical education; removed to
Florida iu 1824; studied law, and engaged iu plant-
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ing; was elected a delegate from the Territory of
Florida in tl»e Twenty-seventh Congress as a Demo-
crat; was re-elected to the Twenty-eighth Congress,
serving from May 81, 1841, to March 3, 1845 ; changed
his name to David Levy Tulee ; was a delegate to
the State Constitutional Convention; was elected a
United-States senator from Florida as a Democrat,
serving from December 1, 1845, to March K, 1851;
was president of the Atlantic and Gulf Kailroad;
was again elected a senator, serving from Decemlwr
8, 1855, until 1860, when he retired from the Senate
to join the Southern Confederacy ; he was confined
In Fort Pulaski as a prisoner of state in 1805.
Zolliooffer, Felix K., was bom in Maury
County, Tennessee, May It), 1812; received a public-
school education; learned the art of printing; edited
several county newspapers ; was chosen State print-
er of Tennessee in 1835; became editor of "The
Nashville Banner" in 1842; was comptroller of the
State treasury of Tennessee 1845-1849; was a State
senator in 1849; was elected a representative from
Tennessee in the Thirty-third Congress as a State-
rights Whig, receiving 5,808 votes against 5,157 votes
for Allison, Democrat; was re-elected to the Thirty-
fourth Cor^ress, receiving 6,958 votes against 4,857
votes for T'orbett, Democrat; was re-elected to the
Thirty-fifth Congress, receiving 6,088 votes against
6,580 votes for Qoarles, Democrat, serving from De-
cember 5, 1853, to March 3, 1859; was a delegate to
the Peace Convention of 1861; was appointed a
brigadier-general in the Confederate army July 9,
1861 ; was commander of the camp of instruction at
'iS-ousdale, Tennessee; was assigned to theccnunxuid
of the military department of Tennessee Augtist S,
1801 ; was defeated in an engagement at Camp Wild-
cat, Kentucky, October 21, 1861, by General Schoepf,
and at Mill Spring by Greneral Thomas, receiving a
mortal wound in a personal encounter with General
Fry of Kentucky January 19, 1862.
Zubley, John Joacnim, was bom at St. Gail,
Switzerland, August 27, 1724; received a classical
education; studied theology; immigrated to Georgia,
and was ordained as pastor of the First Presbyterian
Church at Savannah in 1760; was a jircminent revo-
lutionist j was a member of the Provincial Congress
of Georgia; was chosen a delegate to the Continentr.l
Congress in 1775, but opposed the Declaration cf In-
dependence, and, having l)een denounced as a traitor
by Judge Chase, resigned; returning to Geonda, bo
was accused of having furnished information to
Sir James Wright, the royal governor, and narrowly
escaped popular resentment; died in the vicinity of
Savannah July 23, 1781.
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